This document summarizes Project Dinner Table, which brings people together around a long dinner table in adventurous locations to build community. It shares local food and drink, and partners with a guest chef and local purveyors. The events feature a charity, entertainment like poetry or music, and aim to inspire conversation. A kitchen cabinet of about 20 members helps organize 5 sample dinners held in 2010 in Las Vegas, pairing food with local history and culture. The goal is to connect people through shared meals and experiences.

2. REVELATION

3. the IDEA takes root

4. road trip in the SPIRIT of research

5. to INSPIRE &
nurture people
one table,
one conversation
& one community
at a time.
sharing the VISION

6. Gather people around one
long dinner table, set in
adventurous locations
outside the 4 walls. Bring
in local purveyors, a guest
chef and give back.
It’s about building
community around the
table and bringing people
back to what is important.
PEOPLE. FOOD. PURPOSE.
from the bowl to the road to the TABLE

7. ABOUT 20 KC MEMBERS IN TOTAL
the KITCHEN CABINET comes to life

8. CHEF
LOCAL PURVEYORS
THE INGREDIENTS

9. CHARITY
VENUE
EQUALS…

10. They Fled Their Homes
Promiscuous, air is air. Nothing
passes through
that doesn’t belong to something else—the hawk’s
unceasing appetite, a saguaro blossom
as it lets go its fifteen foot stem, your own body
moving, always moving—
but to where?
And the desert around us, this brightness
we are not equal to,
yet what we see turns into what we want—to bring
nothing but our bodies to pass through it,
to put our mouths to the dust that there may
yet be hope. That this might be a home.
That we might believe it.
— Joshua Kryah
EQUALS… CULTURE

11. EQUALS… CULTURE

12. EQUALS… TEAMBUILDING

13. EQUALS… CONVERSATION & LIBATIONS

14. DINNER ONE
April 24, 2010
Chef Roy Ellamar
UNCE Orchard
Junior Achievement
Poet Joshua Kryah

15. DINNER TWO
May 22, 2010
Chef Joe Koniski
Heritage Park
History Museum
AB Brew Master George

16. DINNER THREE
June 26, 2010
Chef Michael Napolitano
Cashman Field
Community Counseling Center
Cigar Rolling, DJ & Poet

17. DINNER FOUR
August 7, 2010
Chef Je Braun
El Cortez Walkway
Nevada Cancer Institute
Cigars, Jazz Trio & Dayvid Figler

18. DINNER FIVE
September 11, 2010
MGM Chefs
Historic 5th St. School
Vegas Valley Children’s Book Festival
Journal

19. PROJECT DINNER TABLE
is a platform for people
who want to connect
to their community.
It’s a space for people
to share ideas, create,
engage and have
conversations about
things that mean
something.

20. JOIN US IN THE MOVEMENT
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