Cookie & Connections
About this Event
Cookies & Connections 🎄🤍
Hosted by Durham Infertility Village
Cookies & Connections is a cozy holiday gathering created for those experiencing infertility to meet, connect and spend time with people who truly understand the journey.
Infertility can feel incredibly isolating, especially during the holidays. This event is about creating a comfortable, judgment-free space where you don’t have to explain what you’re going through. Come as you are, meet new people, share some laughs and enjoy an evening surrounded by a community that gets it. 🤍
🍪 Cookie Exchange
Each guest is asked to bring 4 dozen of their favourite homemade cookies or desserts to share. You’ll make your way around the cookie exchange, choosing treats from the different selections and filling your own take-home box.
Once you know what you’re bringing, you’ll also be invited to submit your recipe. Recipes will be collected into a custom Cookies & Connections recipe book for guests to take home as a keepsake from the evening.
🎀 Decorate Your Cookie Box
Boxes will be provided! Personalize your take-home cookie box with festive ribbons, stickers, markers and other decorations before filling it with treats from the exchange.
🥂 Signature Holiday Drink
Sip on our festive alcohol-free cranberry signature drink while you decorate, mingle and get to know others in the infertility community.
🤍 More Than a Cookie Exchange
The cookies may bring us together, but connection is the heart of the evening.
Whether you’re newly navigating infertility, going through testing, treatments or IVF, experiencing loss, exploring surrogacy or another path to parenthood, or simply needing people who understand—you are welcome here.
There is no pressure to share more than you’re comfortable with. Come to talk, listen, laugh, make a new friend or simply spend an evening where you don’t feel alone in what you’re going through.
Sweet treats. Real people. Meaningful connections.
Welcome to the Village. 🤍
Agenda
🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Welcome to the Village
Info: Come on in, get settled and make yourself at home!
Check in, drop off your 4 dozen cookies or desserts at our exchange table, grab a festive alcohol-free drink and take some time to look around.
Meet other guests, check out the different activity stations and start connecting at your own pace. No awkward icebreakers or pressure — just a cozy space filled with people who understand.
🕑: 01:30 PM - 01:40 PM
A Little Village Welcome
Info: We’ll take a few minutes to officially welcome everyone to the very first Cookies & Connections!
You’ll hear a little about Durham Infertility Village, why this event was created and what you can enjoy throughout the afternoon.
Then it’s back to the fun!
🕑: 01:40 PM - 02:45 PM
Sip • Socialize • Create
Info: This part of the afternoon is yours!
Move around the room, meet someone new, catch up with someone you’ve already connected with or simply enjoy being somewhere you don’t have to explain your infertility journey.
Decorate your take-home cookie box
Stop by our festive photo station
Leave a little love & encouragement for someone in the Village
Add a memory to our Village scrapbook
Explore our different Village activities
Enjoy festive alcohol-free drinks & snacks
Most importantly — connect!
There’s no schedule you have to follow. Participate in as much or as little as you’d like.
🕑: 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM
The Cookie Exchange!
Info: The moment we’ve been waiting for!
Everyone will head over to our cookie and dessert display with their decorated take-home box.
You’ll get to choose from the different treats brought by our guests and create your own assortment to take home.
You arrive with 4 dozen of one favourite treat and leave with a box filled with a little bit of everyone’s favourites.
🕑: 03:15 PM - 03:45 PM
One More Sip & Connection
Info: Cookie boxes are filled, but we’re not finished yet!
Take another photo, finish an activity, grab another drink, exchange contact information with someone you’ve connected with or simply sit and enjoy the last little bit of the afternoon together.
This is your time to soak it all in.
🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:00 PM
Until Next Time, Village
Info: We’ll gather for a little closing and a very big thank you for being part of our first Cookies & Connections.
Before you leave, make sure you have:
Your box of exchanged treats
Your Cookies & Connections Village Recipe Book
Your take-home goodies
And hopefully, a few new connections too.
Come for the cookies. Leave with a village.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 22.63
