On the evening of Oct. 7, Jamie Ellerton hopes there will be 1,000 dinner parties going on, and that the conversations are merry, multitudinous and municipal.
1,000 Dinners is headed up by another Jaime, Jaime Watt, who heard about something similar that the Chicago Community Trust did for its 99th anniversary.
It’s civic engagement at its most basic, and potentially most profound, bringing people together — the idea is that this won’t necessarily just be friends dining with friends — and talking about the future of the city to boot.
“1,000 Dinners TO is providing everyone in Toronto a chance to bring forward their ideas and be heard in the discussion about our city’s future,” says Ellerton, who’s the project lead. “What we all do for a living is as diverse as where we all come from. Let’s break bread together all across the city and come up with ideas that can make Toronto even better.”
There’s no registration fee, or any other parameters to follow.
“We want to make participating as accessible as possible,” Ellerton says. “Hosts can decide what kind of dinner they can accommodate based on their chosen location and budget.”
So far, 67 hosts have signed up to entertain 165 diners. If you’re interested, you can find out more and sign up
here.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Jamie Ellerton