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.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
AT THE MOUSTACHE BAR
Janna, Phil, Sian & Robin
Jimmy & Simon Dalston - of We Play Music
Michael & Robin
AFTER DESSERT...WE MEET AT THE PUB... AND THEN
The hosts started congregating at the Marquis of Landsdowne pub at around 10pm to wait for the guests to arrive from their final course. Phil and Janna were there first, post-kebab, securing the area. Sian, Vera and Marg arrived next, having been given the signal that the guests were nearly done. Vera was digging the 70s choonage basslines. Marg was up and down like a meercat watching the window. Sian rung Brad and told him to hurry up.
The guests finally arrived, delivered by Denise, all in high spirits. Marg met Toby, Robin and Christina for the first time. Frivolity prevailed. Emma arrived with a gang who had been following the action from home. Audrey made her way on a bus. Pints and the like were consumed. Denise swapped places with Brad. Vera disappeared into the night with her rucksack full of chef gear. The party made its move further up the road to the Moustache Bar...
Simon and Jimmy of We Play Music were on the decks, (see www.weplaymusic.co.uk ) Not entirely sure what went on so dark and heaving it was... However... we did just make out Catherine and Toby in a corner. [!]
And after that they still wanted more! So we trooped down the road to Brad and Denise's who hosted, once again, this motley crew. Not around a table this time, but flung across the sofa, the floor, and taking turns on the bean bag. Simon and Jimmy rolled. We had the three Beastie Boys tracks. GIRLS. Eugenia and Michael wandered home around 4 [!] ...the rest of us were hoofed out at 5. And there it was!
The guests finally arrived, delivered by Denise, all in high spirits. Marg met Toby, Robin and Christina for the first time. Frivolity prevailed. Emma arrived with a gang who had been following the action from home. Audrey made her way on a bus. Pints and the like were consumed. Denise swapped places with Brad. Vera disappeared into the night with her rucksack full of chef gear. The party made its move further up the road to the Moustache Bar...
Simon and Jimmy of We Play Music were on the decks, (see www.weplaymusic.co.uk ) Not entirely sure what went on so dark and heaving it was... However... we did just make out Catherine and Toby in a corner. [!]
And after that they still wanted more! So we trooped down the road to Brad and Denise's who hosted, once again, this motley crew. Not around a table this time, but flung across the sofa, the floor, and taking turns on the bean bag. Simon and Jimmy rolled. We had the three Beastie Boys tracks. GIRLS. Eugenia and Michael wandered home around 4 [!] ...the rest of us were hoofed out at 5. And there it was!
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