Be a part of the Across the Table community and join us for Evanston’s Largest Conversation! At this special community event, you will enjoy a lively cocktail hour with beer from Sketchbook Brewing Company, cocktails crafted by Few Distillery and a delicious four-course dinner!

Evanston’s Largest Conversation will have the flavor of an Across the Table Dinner, combined with the experience of a party. You will be seated at a table with an experienced facilitator where you will enjoy an engaging conversation with your table mates around the topic of your choice. The evening will kick off with a friendly cocktail hour where you will meet your table mates and enjoy drinks created especially for this event by Few Distillery. Whether this is your first Across the Table gathering or your 15th, you will receive a warm, friendly welcome and your evening will be filled with fantastic conversation!

Choose two topic choices from the list below when you register and you will enjoy a conversation at your table with a focus on one of your preferred topics.
What does it mean to be good?
What does it mean to have freedom?
How does our social class impact our identities?
How has your appearance impacted your life?
Is telling the truth always the right thing to do?
When is it enough?

Thank you to the generosity of the sponsors for this event!

All of us at Across the Table are very excited about this dinner we are doing in partnership with the Evanston Police Department.

Join us at Koi on Davis Street for this important and captivating conversation about what it means to have power. There will be space for six offices and six members of the community and this dinner and conversation is to provide a safe and welcoming space for this challenging and illumnating conversation. It will provide officers the with the chance to connect with community members and to share their perspective on their work and all that it entails while it will also enable community members the opportunity to share their feelings about their relationships with law enforcement.

Thank you to Koi for for generosity and donation for this event!

We hope to see you there!

Join us for a delicious pizza fundraiser dinner hosted by Central Pizza Pie to benefit Across the Table!

Central Pizza Pie’s mission is to build community by bringing people together over great pizza and supporting great nonprofits. To read more about Central Pizza Pie, click here.

Bring your friends, your family, your kids and neighbors and be a part of this fun, casual and welcoming gathering at Curt’s Cafe North on Sunday, September 8th.

All proceeds benefit Across the Table! Space is limited so do not wait to get your tickets!

Click here to purchase tickets for this event.

Tickets are $20 per person for pizza, salad, old-time soda fountain drinks and dessert. BYOB/W if you would like!

Come anytime between 5:00 to 7:00 pm. This is not a typical Across the Table dinner- you will be seated with the people of your choice and there will be no facilitated conversation, just a fun gathering of friends, new and old! You will be served pizza at your table, just like what would happen in a restaurant.

Since Central Pizza Pie is generously hosting this event, they are selling the tickets!

Click here to purchase tickets for this event.

Thank you to Central Pizza Pie for your generosity and support!

Join Across the Table and Dear Evanston (www.dearevanston.org) for a delicious dinner in the bright, sunny and modern community space at The Gibbs-Morrison Cultural Center.

The topic of conversation is: What does it mean to have freedom?

This dinner is done in partnership with Dear Evanston. Through the power of storytelling, Dear Evanston examines issues of racism, equity, inclusion, and youth gun violence in Evanston to open dialogue, build bridges, and effect change in our community. Click here to read more about their important work!

Join Across the Table for dinner in the private room at The Peckish Pig!

The topic of conversation will be: What does it mean to be good?
We are often told as kids to “be good!” But what does that mean? How are we influenced by expectations for our gender, race, ethnicity or religion? And if we defy those expectations, does that make us bad?

The menu will be announced soon!

Thank you Peckish Pig for donating your beautiful private room for this event! We appreciate your generosity!

Join Across the Table in the beautiful, sunny space of Saville Flowers to talk about how we think our appearance has impacted our lives and the choices we have been able to make.

How has our appreance influenced who we’ve chosen as friends and partners? How has our appearance impacted the career choices we’ve made? If we had the choice, would we choose to appear differently than we do? How would you change and why?

Dinner will be catered by Kinship and a menu will be announced soon.

Thank you to Saville Flowers for hosting Across the Table once again!

Join Across the Table at Booked, Evanston’s newest independent book store! The space is bright, sunny and new and welcoming.

The topic of conversation is: Is telling the truth always the right thing to do?

From as far back as many of us can remember, we have always been told that we should ALWAYS tell the truth. But is it always the right thing to do? Where does this advice come from? What sorts of situations have required us to stretch the truth, to tell a white lie, or to tell a full blown, total and complete lie? What situations have we told the truth and regretted it?

The menu will be announced soon!

We hope you can join us!

Join Across the Table for our dinner at The Black House at Northwestern University to talk about how money impacts who we are, our relationships and how we choose to live. Of course our access to money and resources affects us every day on a practical level, but how does it impact the people we choose to be close to, the activities we choose to do and the ambitions we have?

The menu will be announced soon!

Who has power and does not? Do you need to be given power by someone else or can you attain it yourself? Are there certain things you need to know to be powerful? Do you need access to specific information, people or institutions? How do we get power if we don’t have it and how should we treat people who do not have it?

Join Across the Table for this important and intense conversation in the indoor space of Five and Dime. Five and Dime is generously donating their space for this event so it will just be us at a table for twelve in their upstairs space.

The dinner will be provided by Lulu’s and the menu will be announced soon!

Thank you to Five and Dime and Lulu’s for their generosity!

We live in a time when many us are striving to be better and while better means different things to different people, many of us find ourselves in a constant loop of trying to be better at our jobs, better parents, better friends, better eaters…we strive to be thinner, stronger, younger, the list goes on!

But when is it enough? When do we feel like we are enough and we’ve reached our potential?

Join Across the Table in the elegant, welcoming and stylish space of Industrious Evanston. To read more about this new co-working space in Downtown Evanston, click here.

Thank you to Industrious for donating your space for this dinner!