Creative Help

topic posted Sun, May 24, 2009 - 4:06 PM by  JM
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Thanks for any ideas you can offer.
My mom is organizing a program, and she needs to come up with a name for it.

She lives in North Carolina, and belongs to a Baptist church. Churches where she lives are very segregated. There are Black churches and White churches. Her idea is to have dinner parties, where 2 couples from a Black church and 2 from a White church meet at someone's house and... well... eat dinner together, as a way to get people from different (otherwise segregated) communities in the city to get to know each other. She envisions a whole series of dinners organized every month, with trading partners.

The name she came up with is "Tables for 8."
That has a nice kind of restaurant ring to it, but the whole "table" thing is loaded, and "8" would freak me out - 8 people for dinner?!! I mean, who wants to stress about numbers when the idea is just some people getting together to (hopefully) chill out?

The local Episcopalian church has a similar program with a much sexier name, "Dinners for Sinners."

Can anybody beat that?
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    Re: Creative Help

    Mon, May 25, 2009 - 10:51 AM
    Discovery Dining (very corporate sounding)
    Feasting With Friends (could also be a title for a vampire movie)
    Sup 'N Cup (why does that sound a little naughty to me)
    Rainbow Rendezvous (sounds more like a cruise line)

    Whatcha think?
    • Re: Creative Help

      Mon, May 25, 2009 - 12:23 PM
      Like Feasting with Friends. Also tell your Mom that's a really really cool idea she has going. I am from NC and know exactly how segregated churches are in that areas.
  • Re: Creative Help

    Wed, May 27, 2009 - 1:06 PM
    Guess who's coming for dinner?

    Eat and Greet? Oh… sorry… Eat -n- Greet

    Mixer Meals? (having trouble with that one… there's got to be a way to say that without losing some of the class…)
    • Re: Creative Help

      Wed, May 27, 2009 - 1:08 PM
      New one… Break Bread Together

      traditional church saying/slogan, but this really leans hard on the word "together" – I'd have put it in italics if I could.
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        Re: Creative Help

        Wed, May 27, 2009 - 2:11 PM
        "Guess who's coming for dinner?"

        - Classic. I wish I had thought of that to say to my mom when she first announced the idea :)

        Actually, "Break Bread Together" isn't bad at all, DA.

        Something with "together" is right on.
    • Re: Creative Help

      Sat, May 30, 2009 - 9:43 PM
      { Eat -n- Greet }

      I like that. If you could arrange to get these couples together together for burgers and fries at an In-n-out, it could be eat-n-greet at in-n-out....
      • Re: Creative Help

        Sat, May 30, 2009 - 10:57 PM
        Or just In-n-Out Eat-n-Greet

        though maybe that has sexual connotations that the biblicals wouldn't like so much...

        Our Weekly Bread? It's a bit weak and a bit of a stretch, but a lot of church folk like the phrase "our daily bread," but since these dinners are daily... (Man, am I addicted to bread or something?)

        Not sure if you said what day it's on: Friday night Fellowship?

        The other side? Because the point is to meet with people on the other side, learn something about the side. Is that too divisive, or just about right?
  • Re: Creative Help

    Wed, May 27, 2009 - 11:13 PM
    Hi JM. In order to unlock friends in reality, I had to disband from Narrative. I've got the name for you...... EXAMPLE. Welcome to program Example.
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      Re: Creative Help

      Sat, May 30, 2009 - 4:04 PM
      "In order to unlock friends in reality, I had to disband from Narrative."

      Um. That, I'm kind of like, what?
      Can you explain that?

      But I do kind of like the name you came up with. I'm mulling that over.
  • Re: Creative Help

    Sat, May 30, 2009 - 9:35 PM
    What about .."Food and Friends". This way there is no sense of segregation, all parties will go into it as a positive experience. All parties are Christian, so there really should be no debate involved. Even if the night separates into men folk and women folk discussions, there is always conversation. the "good book" to Christians doesn't change.
    at the same time I feel a bit weird suggesting this as I am an Atheist!!!

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