GP Dinner #177 at Willow's Zen Beams in Berkeley

WHAT: GP Dinner #177

WHERE: Willow's Zen Beams, 1640 Ninth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710

WHEN: 6:00 to 10:00pm on July 20th, 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 our 177th dinner on July 20th at Willow's magnificent home in Berkeley. The name was born from the aesthetic of the high-beam house and the Zen calm of her garden and patio.

Expect cocktails at 6:00 and our speaker around 6:45 with a family style feast introduced around 7:00, prepared by our professional chef. Wines will be thoughtfully paired with the menu.

ATTIRE: Attire is relaxed and informal.

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.

Good People 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.

Since 2012 we have hosted over 550 dinners, overnights and retreats. We've produced events in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, New York City, Miami, Austin, London, Singapore and deep in the Nevada desert.

Every event includes speakers on a wide range of topics and chef prepared meals.

In 2021 we established our own retreat venue in the mountains near Yosemite National Park, about 140 miles due east of San Francisco. and has hosted about 55 companies and organizations and counting. These groups are usually technology-driven and impact oriented, often touching on the arts or education, addressing climate change and ecological regeneration or with ambitions to create other kinds of deep systemic change.

Above: One of our previous GP speakers, Douglas Rushkoff, host of the Team Human podcast.

OUR SPEAKER:

To be announced soon.

Above: Previous GP Dinners chef Hiroo Nagahara, the culinary mastermind behind Nomica and The Chairman.

OUR CHEF:

To be announced soon.

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.

Conversations at these dinners are off the record and risk-taking in our dialogues is strongly encouraged. Be respectful, learn from one another, explore new ideas and have some fun.

Cocktails start at 6:00 and our speaker kicks off at 6:45 with a family style feast introduced around 7:00, prepared by our professional chef.

Wines will be thoughtfully paired with the menu.

ATTIRE: Attire is relaxed and informal.

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

www.campearnest.com

Above: A workshop in front of our lodge during The Neighborhood retreat at Camp Earnest.

Please contact us if you'd like to host a group at Camp Earnest in the coming year. Average group size is 30, with a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 50 guests.

Here are some photos of our recent guests, 45 folks from Conservation International who came for a Monday to Friday strategic planning retreat.

Host or Publisher Raman Frey