On today’s episode of Around the Table, I continue the conversation about The People’s Supper, with K Scarry, the Director of Partnerships with The Dinner Party Labs, where we explore more about the complexities and transformative possibilities of dinner dialogues and the work The People’s Supper is doing to cultivate spaces of healing and connection.  K is the Director of Partnerships for The Dinner Party Labs. She works with communities to build trust and address rupture across lines of identity or ideological difference, spearheading extensive collaborations with the Mayor’s Offices of New York City and Erie, PA, the United Methodist Church, and dozens of other civic and faith communities. When she’s not at The Dinner Party Labs, she loves to build connection in her own neighborhood, hosting an open community meal in her home each week, and owning a creative vending machine company, where she vends locally made art as a way of elevating and supporting makers from her community. She writes at kescarry.substack.com. 

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K is the Director of Partnerships for The Dinner Party Labs. She works with communities to build trust and address rupture across lines of identity or ideological difference, spearheading extensive collaborations with the Mayor’s Offices of New York City and Erie, PA, the United Methodist Church, and dozens of other civic and faith communities. When she’s not at The Dinner Party Labs, she loves to build connection in her own neighborhood, hosting an open community meal in her home each week, and owning a creative vending machine company, where she vends locally made art as a way of elevating and supporting makers from her community. She writes at kescarry.substack.com. 

Transcript available here.

We acknowledge and respect the lək̓wəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the University of Victoria stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

Around the Table is grateful for the support of a Faculty Fellowship Award from the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society and an Internal Research Grant Award from the University of Victoria. We also appreciate the generous in-kind contributions from community partners, Vancouver Community College and Sharing Farm Society. Podcast editing is provided by New Leonard Media. Music is by Oleksii Kaplunskyi.