Decatur Dinners COVID-19 Public Health Response
We have been monitoring updates on COVID-19 from the Centers for Disease Control and the Georgia Department of Health, and have decided to postpone the March 29th Decatur Dinners. Please visit the CDC website for more information on how to stay healthy.
We will be in touch once we are able to reschedule. In the meantime, we encourage you to read some of the articles and take a look at the videos on the What’s Next page of our website.
Please feel free to join our waitlist for our upcoming dinner events!
SHARE A MEAL AND LET’S TALK ABOUT RACE AND EQUITY
NEIGHBORS SIT DOWN, SHARE STORIES AND TALK HONESTLY TO LEARN WHAT DIVIDES US AND WHAT BRINGS US TOGETHER IN THE CITY OF DECATUR.
Join our Decatur Dinners Encore! We’ll gather on Sunday, March 29th at 5pm at the Winter Theater at Agnes Scott College for a performance of the original one person play by Out of Hand Theater. After the performance, guests will depart and go to a designated home to sit down and share a meal and stories and dialogue about race and equity. Every pot luck dinner will have a trained facilitator.
If you missed this experience last year, you’ll want to make sure to join us for this special evening. If you’ve already participated in a dinner in the past, consider being a host or facilitator and please invite your friends to attend.
We invite you to sign up as a guest and you will be placed at a dinner in Decatur. Guests bring sides, desserts or drinks.
Sign up as a Host if you’ve attended a Decatur Dinner before. Hosts will open their homes for a potluck dinner of 8-10 people. We ask that hosts leave spaces at their table for guests that will be placed at their dinner by the organizers. Each dinner will have a trained facilitator. The Decatur Dinner Design Team will provide you with all the materials and supplies and information you need to host an evening of dialogue. Opening your home is the most important step!
You're invited to put your facilitation skills to work in our community. These dinners are focused on race and equity - not the easiest of subjects without skilled facilitation. We need one facilitator per table, for dinners hosted in homes, community spaces and places of worship.
Please consider a donation to cover actors and coordination expenses for the Decatur Dinners. This is a completely volunteer-led program and and we appreciate your support. It's our hope to spread these dinners and the original play to other cities across the country. You can assign your gift to Decatur Dinners. Thank you!
The first Decatur Dinners in August 2019 were a beautiful evening of over a 100 dinner conversations at 70 different locations…and that was only the beginning!
If you missed joining us for our first in the nation event of 100 dinners in one night please sign up for updates and future events.
Join us. Together, we can be brave and create real change around race and equity in Decatur and in our world!
“My Decatur Dinners experience was humbling and encouraging and spirit-rattling… I believe we are a city that is willing to listen, while accepting that we have a ways to go before we understand each other. ”
“My experience with the Decatur Dinners project was very positive. I think we are laying the groundwork for hundreds of conversations to unfold later this year that will have a lasting impact on our city.”
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