In our corner of Australia we are in lockdown. We’re missing each other, and we’re missing you. So we’re inviting you to Common Ingredients - A digital dinner party with the world!

We’re talking about Zoom-time in the kitchen and the dining room on Friday 2 October from 19:00 to 21:00 AEST, sharing food and creativity with peers and colleagues far and wide, and having conversations about where we are, how we’re traveling and where we might like to go next. 

All participants are requested to organise some common ingredients from which you can prepare your own meal during the meeting (see the list below).

Across the evening we will facilitate small-group interaction to stimulate connections between members, during which we will situate, cook our meals, and eat together. Interspersed (of course!) with some short creative interventions from local members. 

This is a gathering not just for a local South-Eastern corner of Australia, but for us and beyond, well beyond. Maintaining and deepening our links.

Yes this is dinner time in Melbourne. But also an early dinner in Hong Kong, Taipei or Tokyo? Late lunch in Ekaterinburg? Lunch or brunch across Europe? A very early breakfast in São Paulo or a midnight sack in LA? Wherever you are in the world, if you’re awake and hungry, please join us!

Connect to the session

Max capacity:  100 participants

Things to prepare
 

The culinary connector for Common Ingredients is PESTO. 

What’s your thing when it comes to pesto? Pasta or salad? Toast or Eggs? Pecorino or Reggiano? Rocket?

Each of us will be preparing our own own pesto-driven meal. Simple evening pesto pasta? Pesto scrambled eggs for breakfast? Lunchtime vegetable-pesto panini or pesto chicken salad? And of course we all have our own variants on what makes for the perfect pesto. Go your own way and be prepared to share your secrets over the digital dinner table.

Shopping list

• Jar of pesto (make your own? what’s your variant? regional take?)
• Serve of pasta (or equivalent)
• Parmesan cheese (or equivalent)
• Olive oil (or equivalent)
• Salt, pepper etc
• Bottle of wine (or equivalent) *recommended, really!
• Other items as your heart and tastebuds desire

Common Ingredients starts at 11:00 CEST/19:00 AEST and we will be eating by 12:20 CEST/20:20 AEST, so plenty of time for everyone to cook/prepare their version of the pesto festa in their own kitchen over conversations with your international friends.

Yes we’ll all be cooking while we meet, so clear the bench and check the kitchen WiFi!

This session will be held online as part of the online IETM Multi-location in Melbourne, Australia. For any questions about this session or in the event of a technical issue, please contact directly Xan Colman at xan@aisforatlas.org.au.