Connecting for Change Leadership Dinner Series
Join us for the April 17th dinner and support Black owned businesses and organizations.
LOCATION PARTNER
Designed to celebrate the diversity of Toronto’s food scene, our space is the perfect backdrop for culinary events, product launches, and pop-ups, as well as a welcoming space for creators, chefs, and storytellers. With an open-concept kitchen upstairs for immersive food experiences and a cozy downstairs office for meetings or behind-the-scenes work, Rily Kitchen is where good food, great company, and unforgettable stories unfold.
CHEF
Funmilade Taiwo (FT) is a private chef at Lamuren Inc, a contemporary Nigerian dining company. FT combines his love for Nigerian flavours with his experiences cooking in Toronto and around the world. Today, he runs a contemporary Nigerian supper club in Toronto, showcasing his passion for Nigerian cuisine, infusing each dish with a rich tapestry of flavors and stories.
CHARITABLE PARTNER
Stolen From Africa is a nationally incorporated non-profit arts education organization based in Toronto, dedicated to empowering youth through cultural education, hip-hop, and community engagement.
Founded in 2004 by Neil Logik Donaldson and formally incorporated in 2010, as a Non Profit organization, co-founded with Alana Lowe. The organization started as a t-shirt brand that sparked conversations about African diaspora heritage, systemic oppression along with a mission to restore cultural and historical integrity.
Today, Stolen From Africa delivers interactive workshops, media projects, and youth programs that foster self-awareness, resilience, and social change.
Pricing options
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.
It allows for one free plate to a young person or community member.
$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.