EXPERIENTIAL DINNERS — 2024 ARCHIVE
This archive documents the July 2024 dinners at Carnation Contemporary. Each dinner explored different themes—curiosity, the unknown, and the uncanny—through art, dining and shared company.
The dinners accompanied Slipstream, an immersive exhibition by Brittney Connelly, with food prepared by Ellie Quackenbush.
These events have concluded. Reservations and waitlists are closed.
Slipstream Exhibition
When: July 13, 2024, from 5–8
Where: Carnation Contemporary
The exhibition was open to the public with no reservation required
Learn more about Slipstream the exhibition
Opening Dinner
July 12, 2024 from 6:30 -9:30
Act 1:
A small child runs to a well stone in hand,
He peers down its center
darkness glides down its round, hollow shape
Possessed by something unknown
an invitation.
Echo
Echo
Splash
Archived event — July 2024
Mid Month Dinner
July 19, 2024 from 6:30 -9:30
Act 2:
A man reads the paper while sipping a coffee
a woman fusses with the buttons of raincoats on her two small children
a determined wind blows
they are made to watch as the things before them
fly towards the sun
a bus grunts in the periphery,
as a group lines up to board
few catch sight of this spectacle.
Archived event — July 2024
Closing Reception & Dinner
July 26, 2024 from 6:30 -9:30
Act 3:
The lingering scent of the ocean,
residing on a vessel that has long met the shore
it rests on the surface of anyone who comes near.
Those afflicted carry the ocean home.
Archived event — July 2024