WHAT: GP DINNER #171 | On Personal Liberty

WHERE: Manny's, 3092 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

WHEN: 6:00 to 10:00pm on February 23rd, 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 171st dinner on February 23rd at Manny's in San Francisco's Mission district.

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.

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. To learn more about us, please visit our Founding Principles page.

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

OUR SPEAKER:

Our friend Samah Damanhouri is a political dissident and former activist from Saudi Arabia. She now calls Redwood City home.

In 2014 Samah sought and was granted asylum in the United States, beginning a career that spans technology, media and human rights.

Through Madina Papel she has directed and produced animated films that have been screened at Cardiff Mini Film Festival, San Francisco Frozen Film Festival, Bay Area International Children’s Film Festival, Arab Women Film Festival, Dumbo Film Festivals, Female Eye Film Festivals, And Indie Shorts Award Seoul. Samah has held positions, freelanced and consulted at The Alwan Foundation, Genentech, Apple, HBO, Meta, The Human Rights Foundation, Accenture and more.

Tonight Samah will share the story of her beginnings as an activist in Saudi Arabia, why she was drawn to fight for women’s rights there and how those efforts have played out in the years since.

We will be invited to reflect on our own personal freedoms.

What are we permitted to say and do in our current lives? Where are we constrained, whether by law, tradition or peer scrutiny? How might we all expand our personal liberty and share this with the people around us?

OUR CHEF:

Our friend Tessa Velazquez is a NYC-based chef & writer and co-owner of DC's Baked&Wired, A Baked Joint and la Betty.

Her cooking philosophy is to use local, organic, seasonal, whole ingredients to make homey, energetic and fresh meals. Her goal is for her food to light you up!

She believes that the best moments are created around food. In Spanish culture, this is called the “Sobremesa” - that magical time at the dinner table where the inside jokes are formed, the deep conversation occurs, and the real human connection begins. Tessa cooks to make those moments happen.

You can follow Tessa's newsletter, The Sobremesa. Each week she develops a recipe and shares the story behind it. It’s her hope you’ll take this to your kitchen to share the joy of food with others.

OUR MENU:

GRAZING TABLE:

Local assorted cheeses, homemade dips, crudités, sourdough, salted butter, grain-free crackers, fresh and dried fruit.

TO START:

Creamy cauliflower soup w/harissa, tomato and seared scallions

Winter grapefruit and satsuma salad w/mint and honey dressing

MAINS:

Olive oil poached lemon and herb Mount Lassen trout

Kabocha Squash filled w/coconut cream, quinoa salad and wild chanterelle mushrooms

Charred Broccoli w/black garlic vinaigrette

TO FINISH:

Italian ricotta almond cake w/house made balsamic whipped cream

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

Below: Our fire pit in front of the Good People Lodge at Camp Earnest.

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 ramanfrey@gmail.com

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