Monday Night — Dining on the Commons — 10.11.10
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CONTENTS:
1. About this Monday
2. *
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1. About this Monday
What: More than a potluck, less than a banquet
When: Monday October 11, 2010
Where: 16 Beaver Street
When: 7:00 pm
Who: Free and Open to all*
It started out with an idea to just connect to a few old friends who were in New York taking part in a large scale event:
What about we organize a public conversation asking them to reflect on their local political circumstances and their own efforts and relations to those.
Then there was discussion about the inclusions and exclusions of such events and their sometimes lack of connection to local context. And the desire to organize something that would address those and invite specific encounters with local practitioners and some people visiting this weekend’s summit.
Finally, there was a less sober proposal. And it went something like this: Listen, I planned on having a dinner with some friends I have never met, only shared space inside a book with. Why not make the dinner public, have the 20 or so people who would come, bring something to eat or drink, and we make an evening.
And hence, we arrive to the description which follows:
One of the most frustrating experiences of large gatherings and public events surely has to be the start of a really interesting conversation that had to end too soon. Some people have to go home early, or have other commitments, or there is simply too much going on to have an extended dialogue.
This weekend’s Creative Time mega-art summit, “Revolutions in Public Practice,” will almost definitely produce a great number of these “it would have been nice if that conversation could have continued.”
For this problems we offer a simple but elegant solution: why can’t it?
It is with this in mind that we invite you to 16 Beaver this Monday for continued informal conversation and the sharing of food & drink. Think of it as a peasant seminar: everyone brings something to share and some ideas, and then voila, a temporary commons emerges. And it’s much better than having to worry about restaurant staff who wish you would have left hours ago, or trying to have a conversation in a bar.
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It would be good if people bring elements of food, snacks, vegetables, cooked things, salads, olives, cheese, bread, and questions. Something to drink is also good.