The Sacred Table
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The table is wherever, and whenever, we build it.
Sacred Table gatherings take many forms. A dinner in a home. A meal unfolding alongside performance. A table built outdoors. A pop-up in a city we are passing through. A celebration, an artistic commission, or an experiment we have never tried before.
Food is where we begin. What happens around it is what we make together.
Food, Culture, + Performance
For centuries and across cultures, food has accompanied the ways we celebrate, mourn, remember, worship, welcome, resist and make meaning together. Sacred Table draws from this knowing.
Our gatherings bring culinary, performance, visual, literary and spiritual arts into conversation around a meal and a table. The artists, traditions and forms change with each experience. What remains is our curiosity about what becomes possible when these practices are allowed to speak to one another.
We build from what has been carried forward and backward, making room for what we have fetched from the Imagination Space, how we define “future.” Tradition is called forward, and through co-building, we experience transformation and connection in real time, in the Future-Present™.
Live Plating Experiences
We believe the making of food belongs inside the art. The chef’s table is a canvas, ingredients are material, and plating can become performance.
Our Live Plating Experiences bring parts of the culinary process into view. Guests may witness a dish being assembled, altered, finished or created in conversation with what is happening around the table. Performance, movement, sound, story and the energy of the room can enter the process.
Cooking is recognized as an ancient creative practice. At Sacred Table, the culinary artist belongs among the artists, and the act of making food can carry as much meaning as the finished plate.
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Private Tables
Gather your people and we will build the table with you. Private Tables are intimate experiences shaped around a celebration, question, occasion, place, or simply the desire to gather. Food anchors the experience, with story, ritual, performance, art and play entering where they belong.
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Pop-ups + Public Gatherings
Sacred Table moves. We create ticketed dinners, pop-ups, public tables, exhibitions, and gatherings across cities and landscapes. Some are planned well in advance while others emerge because the right people, place and idea find one another. Each becomes its own temporary world.
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Commissions + Collaborations
We work with artists, cultural organizations, nonprofits, festivals, institutions, communities and aligned partners to imagine and build original experiences, exhibitions, and installations. Bring us a place, question, idea or gathering. We enter the Imagination Space together and explore what wants to be made.
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Land + Place-based Experiences
Some tables ask us to leave the four (or more) walls of room entirely to gather on trails, around fires, near water and in landscapes that become participants in the experience. Food, movement, land, story and collective making invite us into different relationships with place and with one another.
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Lab + Experiments
Some ideas need somewhere to become real. Sacred Table creates and participates in labs, residencies and experimental environments where artists, cooks, thinkers and community can test ideas, make together and learn through doing. We enter these spaces as both contributors and learners, sharing what we know while allowing encounter, experimentation and collective practice to change what we know. These spaces allow us to rehearse pieces of the worlds we want to inhabit now.
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What haven't we made yet?
Some of our favorite tables do not have names yet. Come to us with the strange idea, the unfinished question, the place you cannot stop thinking about, or something you are unsure is even possible. We can reach into the Imagination Space together and find out.