The Community Dinner - Sit down with a stranger - leave with a friend

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Dinner Founders Nerys Levy and Mildred (Mama Dip) Council
The Twelfth Annual Community Dinner
will be Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 1 PM
McDougle School Cafetorium
900 Old Fayetteville Rd. in Carrboro

The Community Dinner is still on! The snow will come after!

The Community Dinner is a community building event, crossing economic, racial, religious and ethnic barriers and presenting a wealth of wonderful, culturally diverse food and entertainment. A large number of the tickets for the dinner are distributed to people who might not otherwise be able to afford to attend. You can feed a family of four with a $22 donation.

The Community Dinner is not a fundraising event, but rather an awareness raising event, designed to bring people from all walks of life together for an afternoon of great food and entertainment.
 
TICKETS - $8 for adults and $3 for kids (10 and under), on sale now at Mama Dip's Kitchen and the Carrboro Branch Library.

TICKETS ARE CURRENTLY STILL AVAILABLE. Some tickets may be available at the door. Call the Library at 969-3006 after 9:00am on Sunday morning to check for ticket availability. There is limited seating for this event.

This year on stage we have songwriter Gilbert Neal, Joy Williams African Dance, East Baile Latino - Latino Dance Club at East Chapel Hill High School, Prince Miah and the Girl Toyz, an "Eat Local" theater performance, the Cedar Ridge High School Choir, and, in the corrdior, Fred Hagenberger. More info...

Displays in the corridor leading to the Cafetorium offer information from groups partnering with the Dinner, explaining who they are and what they do to make our community a better place.

Again this year, Muriel Williman of Orange County Solid Waste coordinates making the event a Zero Waste Community Event (95% composted or recycled) with all of our dinnerware made from compostable materials.



SEEKING VOLUNTEERS, SUPPORTERS AND DONORS

Fresh FruitWe are always seeking volunteers to help prepare for the dinner, including advance and day of preparations, so keep us in mind if you have some time you can give as we look forward to 2009.

Our committee can always use more members and fresh ideas!

We are also always seeking donations of both food and money to help pay for dinners for the less fortunate in our community. All groups and food donors are recognized above. Individual financial donors are recognized on our Donors page. If you can, make a pledge for our 2009 dinner!



OUR 2009 SPONSORS:
Strowd-Roses Foundation, Mama Dip's Kitchen, The Carolina Inn, Bandidos Mexican Cafe, Mint Indian Restaurant, The Carrboro Citizen, Chapel Hill News, 1360 WCHL, WCOM 103.5 FM, The Carrboro Branch Library, The Cultural Arts Group, UniqueOrn Enterprises & Carrboro.com, Carrboro Free Press, The Town of Carrboro, The Town of Chapel Hill, The Friends of the Pearl and Robert Seymour Center, Community Action Network, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, Chapel Hill Kehillah, St Paul AME Church, The Chapel Hill Museum Shop, Inter Faith Council, The Orange County Department of Human Rights and Relations, Orange County Commission for Economic Development, Preservation Society of Chapel Hill, Orange County Libraries-Cedar Grove Branch, Triangle Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, The Carrboro UPS store, Hillsborough Chamber of Commerce, Townsend, Bertram and Company, Town Planner, Foundation for a Sustainable Community, Balloons and Tunes and Signs Now.

OUR 2009 FOOD DONORS so far:
Mama Dip's Kitchen, The Carolina Inn, Bandido's Mexican Cafe, Mint Indian Restaurant, Jade Palace, Open Eye Cafe, The Chapel Hill Restaurant Group (411 West, Squids, 518 West, Spanky's & Mez), Margaret's Cantina, Il Palio Ristorante, 35 Chinese Restaurant, pies from Ruth Sanford and cakes from Louise Parrish - both of the Carrboro Farmers' Market, desserts from St. Paul AME Church, kugels from members of the Chapel Hill Kehillah, Hadassah, Bonne Soiree Restaurant, University Presbyterian Church, Chapel of the Cross, Mediterranean Deli, Food Lion at Governor's Club, Harris Teeter North, Weaver Street Market, Whole Foods Market, Trader Joes, Great Harvest Bread Company, PYA, Orell, Sysco, Ford Produce, Harris Teeter, and Kroger.



OUR COOKS:

Mama Dip Council

In 2009, Mildred Council, from Mama Dip's Kitchen coordinates the menu and, together with the Carolina Inn, Bandido's Mexican Cafe and Mint Indian Restaurant, will provide the Dinner's main courses.

In addition, many local restaurants and churches donate side dishes and desserts to complete the feast. This gives attendees the opportunity to taste food from our many community partners who contributed dishes, all in one place.



OUR 2009 PERFORMERS:

Fred Hagenberger In the corridor leading to the cafetorium we will have Fred Hagenberger playing the midi accordian. Fred has played for 50 years and performs a broad selection of music types from standards, Latin's, blues to light rock. Pausing a second to listen to any portion of the musical selections being played will prove that Fred is unique and this is just not your grandfather's accordion anymore. Toe tapping and dancing is encouraged.



Ron Stutts Our emcee is Ron Stutts, long-time announcer at
WCHL Radio. Ron has been waking up the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community since the 70s. Wake up with Ron and the WCHL Morning News, from 6 to 9am, Monday through Friday for the latest local stories, weather, sports, traffic, live interviews with the people of our community, and a little touch of irreverance thrown in for good measure. When Ron's not on the air, he's probably getting ready to emcee an event like ours.



Our Spanish language Emcee will be Marisol Silva. She is Membership Program Coordinator at El Centro Latino and a native of Equador. Her job at El Centro Latino is to integrate the Latino community into US society by getting them involved, informing them on the US system, and providing them with educational opportunities which are geared to improving the community's standard of living.



Gilbert Neal Gilbert Neal is one of the most talented songwriter/musicians in the Triangle area. Neal's recently released music video, Median Man, addresses the current influx of poverty and homelessness in our country. Known for his thoughtful and edgy lyrics, Gilbert has written and played music for over twenty years. His two current CDs, Drink the Beast with Me and Our Deepest Apathy, are both available online. Gilbert lives in Hillsborough where he teaches music privately.



Joy Williams Joy Williams is a dancer, choreographer and teacher who recently participated in the American Dance Festival (2007) as a performer with the Chuck Davis African American Dance Ensemble and premiered a solo modern dance work. Her training has taken her to Cuba, Mali, and Colombia (South America) with a Fulbright Scholarship. Currently she is working with the dance department at Duke University and continues to work with Chuck Davis, while offering African dance lessons in Carrboro.



Cedar Ridge High School Choir

Cedar Ridge High School Choir is currently in its 5th year. In the beginning the choir was small, but since the first year their program has grown to about 132 individual students, and they have received excellent and superior ratings at local and national events, and have traveled the country to places like Orlando, FL, Williamsburg, VA, and Atlanta, GA. In addition to the department's many performances this year, the choir will be traveling to New York City for a national music competition. Christopher Hansen is the director and conductor of Cedar Ridge Choirs.



Prince Miah & the Girl Toyz Prince Miah & the Girl Toyz are an all boy pop/rock band consisting of Jeremiah Jacobs (14), Stori Sandbridge-Jacobs (13), Vincent Sandbridge-Jacobs (11) and Christopher Daniel (15). They have played at Cat's Cradle, the Carrboro Music Festival, The Cave and many other area venues, as well as an appearance at The Apollo in New York in December of 2008. Younger siblings Zekeriah, Africa and Destiny will dance.



East Baile Latino East Baile Latino - Latino Dance Club at East Chapel Hill High School was founded in the 2006. A diverse group of students, including Latinos, African-Americans, Caucasians, and Asians, learn and perform Latin Dances such as Merengue, Salsa, Cumbia, and Bachata. East Baile Latino has performed at many local events including the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools 2008-2009 Back-to-School Convocation and the annual Fiesta del Pueblo. East Baile Latino is advised by Karen Galassi-Ferrer.



Our blessing this year will be given by the associate priest Il Dug from the Won-Buddhist Temple.

Running sound this year will be Erich Lieth.



2009 Forms:

Financial contribution (Word file)
Financial contribution (PDF file)
Community Dinner flyer in Spanish (PDF file)
Restaurants and food providers donation (Word file)
Restaurants and food providers donation (PDF file)
Pledge Forms (Word file)
Pledge Forms (PDF file)
Feed a Family of Four (PDF file)




2009 Press:

Sunday dinner celebrates community's diversity - by Nerys Levy - Feb.25, 2009 Chapel Hill News



Past Press:

View the article on the Community Dinner in the Chapel Hill Magazine ♦ View the article on the Community Dinner in the May/June, 2008 issue of Chapel Hill Magazine.

♦ Look for the article on Carrboro and the Community Dinner in the February, 2008 issue of Our State Magazine

Read about the 2008 Dinner:

       ♦ On the menu: Friendship
       Chapel Hill News - March 5, 2008
       ♦ Dinner honors diversity of community
       Chapel Hill News - February 28, 2008
February 2008 Our State Magazine        ♦ Get your tickets for the Community Dinner
       Carrboro Citizen - February 21, 2008

Read about the 2007 Dinner:

       ♦ Chapel Hill Magazine Page 1
       ♦ Chapel Hill Magazine Page 2
       ♦ Chapel Hill News


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