Entrepreneurs in Fort Worth will celebrate Women’s History Month with the fourth annual Watch Women Werk event on Sunday, March 22.

“Almost four dozen vendors will be anticipating the crowd. And so come on out. We need you out. We want you to come out and watch us werk,” said Katrina Carpenter, one of the organizers.

Carpenter, who owns Carpenter’s Cafe and Catering, and Mia Moss, the owner of Black Coffee, created Watch Women Werk. They wanted to use platforms to amplify other businesses to celebrate women, community, and collaboration.

An event that started with eight vendors has grown to 44 in 2026.

“We get distracted by the noise and people think that we’re in competition, and we’re actually not. We like to encourage and uplift one another,” Carpenter said.

As Carpenter planned for Sunday’s event, she reflected on the support that happens when women unite. She settled on “Give to Gain” as the theme for this year’s market. She put her thoughts into a poem, then she and Moss made last-minute calls to women they’d met and asked them to be in a new video produced by Visit Fort Worth.

Here’s what Carpenter wrote:

Before we ever learned to lead, someone gave.
Before we found our voice, someone listened.
Before we stepped into purpose, someone made space.
This is how women rise.

Because she gave me encouragement,
I gained confidence.
Because she gave me access,
I gained opportunity.
Because she gave me truth.
I gained clarity.

Because she gave me grace,
I gained healing.

Because she gave me a seat, I gained my voice.

Give mentorship.
Give resources.
Give wisdom.
Give support.
And give love.
And watch what we gain.

Give to gain isn’t about losing ourselves.
It’s about investing in one another.

When women give intentionally, we don’t deplete.
We multiply.
We build stronger businesses, stronger families, stronger communities, like the one we nurture every day at Black Coffee, and stronger versions of ourselves.

At a Collective Hand and Carpenter’s Cafe, we’ve seen this truth again and again.
When women gather, when women pour,
When women create space, something shifts.

Giving isn’t weakness.
It’s strategy.
It’s legacy.
It’s power.

When we give to one woman, we gain a generation.
So this year, we choose to give.
We choose to support.
We choose to mentor.
We choose to show up.

Because when women give, we all gain.

Carpenter also wrote a poem for the 2024 theme of “Hey, Sis.” It, too, was made into a video featuring female entrepreneurs.

The 2026 Watch Women Werk event celebrating Women’s History Month is on Sunday, March 22, from noon to five at Carpenter’s Cafe, 1116 Pennsylvania Avenue, near Fort Worth’s medical district.

“From makers to massage therapists to bakers, other females who cook, other shifts, food truck owners, piercings, tattoos, women in businesses and entrepreneurs from all over Fort Worth will gather here on Sunday,” Carpenter said.