Food and Your Forum
We’ve learned it over and over again: food is always a good idea. Despite the additional hassle of procuring, preparing and cleaning, sharing food at your community event adds a dimension of universality. Food is something to enjoy, to discuss, to debate. It is a subtle statement to your audience that they are guests, welcome in your space. It is a literal and symbolic expression of the nourishing community.This month we look at events that are about food, and also event that include food.
We’ve learned it over and over again: food is always a good idea. Despite the additional hassle of procuring, preparing and cleaning, sharing food at your community event adds a dimension of universality. Food is something to enjoy, to discuss, to debate. It is a subtle statement to your audience that they are guests, welcome in your space. It is a literal and symbolic expression of the nourishing community.This month we look at events that are about food, and also event that include food.
The Forum Organizing Project helps you host forums on timely topics. We have compiled a collection of books, films, speakers and study guides around issues of pressing concern.
Check out our current curriculum on Food in the Community
Forums are free and public venues for conversations on the great issues shaping our neighborhood and our planet. Here are some examples of Forums around the country...
Featured Forum: Forums and Food: What Others Have Done
Interested in organizing for change in our post-meltdown economy? Try a Common Security Club
The Common Security Club is a small-group organizing model that offer education, mutual aid techniques, and ideas for action to change our economy. For more information on Clubs, go to www.CommonSecurityClub.org.
The Forum Organizing Project is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies and On the Commons
