Genuine Connections | A GP Dinner for Event Producers & Community Builders

WHAT: Genuine Connections | A GP Dinner for Event Producers & Community Builders at Alchemy Springs

WHERE: Alchemy Springs, 939 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94109

WHEN: 6:00 to 10:00pm on September 13th, 2024

PLEASE NOTE: ATTENDANCE LIMITED TO FIRST 40 PEOPLE WHO SECURE A TICKET HERE. YOU'RE WELCOME TO GIFT OR TRANSFER YOUR SPOT TO A FRIEND IF YOUR PLANS CHANGE. JUST LET US KNOW IN ADVANCE.

Please join us for a dinner to celebrate the community of event producers and community builders in the Bay Area. Guests can purchase Sauna Garden supplement tickets and enjoy the amphitheater sauna, cold plunge and social areas from 4:00 to 6:00.

Expect cocktails at 6:00 and our panel discussion around 6:45 with a family style feast introduced around 7:00, prepared by our professional chef. Non-alcoholic tonics and wines will be thoughtfully paired with the menu.

ATTIRE: Attire is relaxed and informal.

ABOUT ALCHEMY SPRINGS: Located in the heart of San Francisco, Alchemy Springs is a haven where meaningful connections are built through the timeless tradition of social sauna and bathing.

ABOUT GOOD PEOPLE DINNERS: GP Dinners is a community built around meaningful ​conversations and delicious feasts, a moveable social club for those who value authenticity, a better way to connect with each other. We are also an event production business and regularly create tailored dinner series for a wide range of companies and organizations.

Our dinners are hosted at a variety of venues in the Bay Area, at Camp Earnest near Yosemite NP and around the country and the world. Every dinner includes a speaker on a wide range of topics and a chef prepared feast.

Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

ABOUT THE SAUNA GARDEN SUPPLEMENT:

Alchemy Springs Sauna Garden features over 2500 square feet of outdoor thermal spa amenities; including ice baths, the largest freestanding sauna in the country, thermal benches, fire pits and outdoor showers. Our circular ‘event’ sauna can accommodate up to 40 people with immersive sound and lighting for programming such as breathwork and guided meditation.

This is a pop-up experience while we're still in development on our interior construction. We have temporary changing rooms and lockers, and outdoor open-air showers only.

***Please bring your own, robe and sandals and towels(2) for the experience. We have a limited quantity available for rent and/or purchase.

Please note that Alchemy Springs enforces a clothing-required policy. All guests are kindly requested to wear appropriate swimsuits throughout their visit, and use towels when in the sauna.

Above: Anousheh Ansari, CEO of the Ansari X Prize at a previous GP Dinner (with Greg Delory, CEO of Heliospace).

OUR PANELISTS:

To be announced soon.
We will host a panel of event producers and community builders to discuss topics at the forefront of the movement to grow the depth and quality of our fun, trust and connection.

OUR CHEF:

Our friend Nora Vitaliani is executive chef and owner of Just Eat It. She has been cooking in California since 1999 and trained as a pastry chef at The California Culinary Academy. Her resume includes time at a variety of restaurants from Italian-Asian fusion to the best vegan restaurant in the US.

Nora brings this breadth of experience to creating menus of many styles and cuisines. She started Just Eat It! in 2012 and has been nourishing retreats from 20 -300 attendees with her style of California Comfort cuisine ever since.

Below: Chef Spencer Hochman's farro salad.

OUR MENU:

To be announced soon.

Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

Above: Chef Matt Garcia offers up a gorgeous salad with watercress, feta, pickled shallots and watermelon.

Drinks at 6:00, dinner at 7:00. Though a cocktail and some wine will be provided, guests are welcome to bring a bottle of wine to share.

Menu update will come soon to help you choose your bottles. We always make sure vegetarian friends will have plenty to eat. Please contact Raman or Karin in advance if you have any other dietary restrictions.

If you are wondering how you were included in this invitation, or would like to be removed, please contact [email protected]

To sign up for future events, please register at

www.gpdinners.com

To learn more about the former summer camp we've purchased and refurbished near Yosemite, please visit us here. Camp Earnest is available for a campus buyout for groups from 15 to 75 guests at a time.

www.campearnest.com

Host or Publisher Raman Frey