Connecting for Change Leadership Dinner Series
A table where diverse sectors meet, cultivating authentic relationships that transcend silos and spark transformative collaboration.
Bridging sectors, igniting solutions.
CONNECT
CATALYZE CHANGE
IGNITE CURIOSITY
Kind Words from Diners
What makes our dinners unique
Authentic Connections Which Catalyze Real Time Collaboration.
DIVERSITY
No more same industry, same sector networking events. We believe diversity is our strength, and we intentionally curate spaces where diverse leaders, experiences and sectors engage in meaningful conversation together.
THIS IS what we believe is the SECRET TO GROWTH, CHANGE AND COLLECTIVE IMPACT.
IDEA SPARKING THEMES, FOOD AND LOCATIONS
We feature local venues making an impact, trying out fresh ideas and experiences of collaborative approaches.
Each dinner features a different local chef who is given creative freedom on showcasing their love for food, their menu, their style. All served in a family style multi course meals.
Each dinner has it's own unique theme with the intention of making collaborative and authentic connections for growth, change and impact.
GIVING BACK
Proceeds from all of our dinners go towards a local charity.
Different charity is featured at each dinner.
We believe that lifting each other up also means putting money into projects and organizations that are making positive impact in our communities. This is why we work with diverse local organizations, from charitable organizations, non for profits, and grassroots community groups.
OUR 2025 Calendar
APRIL 17th
Featuring:
JULY 10th
Featuring:
Globally Inspired Plant Based cuisine by chef: Sarah Garcia
Charitable organization:
13th Round Boxing
Location: Outdoor rooftop patio at 13th Round Boxing
OCTOBER 23rd
Featuring:
Balkan cuisine
Charitable organization: TBD
Location: The Depanneur
Our Pricing Model
Community Plate
This is our accessible plate as well as our non for profit / community rate.
$180
CHEF's PLATE
This is our standard plate.
If you have the capacity we encourage you to purchase our standard rate, as this allows us to produce successful dinners.
$225
Extra Plate
This our pay it forward plate.
In addition to covering your plate, this ticket allows us to offer one free seat at the table for a young person making a difference in our communities.
$330
Even though we work globally, our offices are on the traditional unceded territory of Huron-Wendat, Anishinabek, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and The Mississaugas of the Credit River First Nations. As treaty people on this land, we acknowledge the collective, yet uniquely, and individually distinct responsibility of repairing the harms and preventing further harm caused by the White supremacist, colonial, systems which impact all parts of society, and which are directly responsible for the violent physical and cultural genocide of Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island, and the forced enslavement of people of African decent on these lands.
In our work we are accountable to all care practices that are not entangled with, and structured in punishment, surveillance and control. Care practices which are land based, and built on mutual support. Practices indigenous to all of our ancestors, and stolen from many. In our work we bring the history of our own individual ancestries, as well as the rich genealogy of deep lineage of care present in Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPoC) communities. Communities from which self-determined care has been stolen through the legacy and present day reality of colonialism, supremacy and binary based systems. We actively center the QTBIPOC voices and aim to ensure that we are taking leadership in care by those who experience most harm.