Dinner Party 01 explained (sort of)

The theme of Dinner Party 01 was : A Progressive Dinner Party (with a twist) for Single, Eligible, Strangers. The meal would consist of four courses: apertif, starter, main, dessert. Each course would be hosted in a different home. The meal would be documented real time to a blog by the hosts through a variety of medium including text, video, & stop frame.

Synopsis:
1. Four sets of ‘hosts’ in the Dalston vicinity were secured. Each agreed to allow six strangers into their home and serve them one course.
2. Numerous single candidates were approached and finally three girls and three boys agreed to attend a ‘dinner party project’ from 7 – 10.30pm on Saturday night in Dalston.
3. Invitations were posted to the guests with the location of the first course.
4. A blog was created and invitations were emailed to members of the public to attend the dinner party online.
5. Hosts were given a timing plan of when their bit was. The choice of food, music, and amount of social engagement provided was left entirely up to the host. No course had to relate to another.
6. On the night the hosts welcomed the six guests into their home, fed them the course, and then at a specified time sent the guests on to the next destination. The guests had no idea that the party would be shifting premises.
7. As the guests moved to the next destination the hosts were asked to write up their thoughts of the experience and upload them to the blog, along with any video or photos they had captured.
8. After the dessert course all the hosts and guests congregated at the pub at which point the blog was revealed to the guests and the dinner party complete.