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WHAT: Genuine Connections | A GP Dinner for Event Creators, Retreat Leaders & Community Builders at Alchemy Springs
WHERE: Alchemy Springs, 939 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94109
WHEN: 6:00 to 10:00pm on September 13th, 2024
PLEASE NOTE: ATTENDANCE LIMITED TO FIRST 40 PEOPLE WHO SECURE A TICKET HERE. YOU'RE WELCOME TO GIFT OR TRANSFER YOUR SPOT TO A FRIEND IF YOUR PLANS CHANGE. JUST LET US KNOW IN ADVANCE.
Please join us for a dinner to celebrate the community of event creators and community builders in the Bay Area. Guests can purchase Sauna Garden supplement tickets and enjoy the amphitheater sauna, cold plunge and social areas from 4:00 to 6:00.
Expect cocktails at 6:00 and our panel discussion around 6:45 with a family style feast introduced around 7:00, prepared by our professional chef. Non-alcoholic tonics and wines will be thoughtfully paired with the menu.
At this dinner we will collectively:
ATTIRE: Attire is relaxed and informal.
ABOUT ALCHEMY SPRINGS: Located in the heart of San Francisco, Alchemy Springs is a haven where meaningful connections are built through the timeless tradition of social sauna and bathing.
ABOUT GOOD PEOPLE DINNERS: GP Dinners is a community built around meaningful conversations and delicious feasts, a moveable social club for those who value authenticity, a better way to connect with each other. We are also an event production business and regularly create tailored dinner series for a wide range of companies and organizations.
Our dinners are hosted at a variety of venues in the Bay Area, at Camp Earnest near Yosemite NP and around the country and the world. Every dinner includes a speaker on a wide range of topics and a chef prepared feast. To learn more about us, please visit our Founding Principles page.
Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.
ABOUT THE SAUNA GARDEN SUPPLEMENT:
Alchemy Springs Sauna Garden features over 2500 square feet of outdoor thermal spa amenities; including ice baths, the largest freestanding sauna in the country, thermal benches, fire pits and outdoor showers. Our circular ‘event’ sauna can accommodate up to 40 people with immersive sound and lighting for programming such as breathwork and guided meditation.
This is a pop-up experience while we're still in development on our interior construction. We have temporary changing rooms and lockers, and outdoor open-air showers only.
***Please bring your own, robe and sandals and towels(2) for the experience. We have a limited quantity available for rent and/or purchase.
Please note that Alchemy Springs enforces a clothing-required policy. All guests are kindly requested to wear appropriate swimsuits throughout their visit, and use towels when in the sauna.
We will host a panel of event producers and community builders to discuss topics at the forefront of the movement to grow the depth and quality of our fun, trust and connection.
Our friend Maria Sipka is one of 5 co-creators of the Yearn. For Maria and her husband Gary Moon, the Yearn is their love letter to the world where over the course of the year they curate an epic group of 250 heart centered 'conscious curious' humans from their respective fields of advertising, investment banking and beyond to gather around purposeful play.
Maria was also amongst the first to pioneer the creator economy in early 2000 and co-founded Linqia - a leading enterprise technology company headquartered in San Francisco.
At the age of 19, she founded her first company - a content marketing agency that grew to be one of Australia's most respected consultancies, and from there she was part of the founding team at XING - today a $1.4B publicly-traded company.
Additionally, Maria has been recognized as one of the leading women in technology by Forbes and is a contributor to the Forbes Agency Council. Her focus on Social Impact Storytelling is based on the belief that all ideas start with two things, emotional connection, and inspired action.
With over a decade of experience in community building, hospitality, sales, and marketing, Jon currently serves as the Co-Founder & Head of Community at Alchemy Springs.
Some recent highlights of his career include working across Peter Diamandis (PHD) Ventures and the Summit Series organizations. His roles ranged from building Summit's proprietary CRM system to supporting the purchase of Summit Powder Mountain, as well as leading the community team responsible for member curation and sales for Summit Series events.
While based in Eden, Utah, Jon spent his leisure time discovering nearby hot springs and visiting bathhouses across the world. He has visited over fifty bathing establishments in more than ten countries and has extensively studied cross-cultural bathing rituals.
Jon grew up on Long Island, NY, and studied entrepreneurship and marketing at the Kelley School of Business & Hutton Honors College at Indiana University.
When not working, you can find him playing basketball, creating music playlists, doing graphic design, painting, helping startup founders fundraise, visiting bathhouses, studying mindfulness, or performing sleight-of-hand magic.
Our friend Jenny Stefanotti is the Founder and Steward of Denizen. Denizen explores systemic change comprehensively on its eponymous podcast. At the heart of Denizen is an interdisciplinary community of leaders that we have been a part of since its inception. In addition to the podcast, Denizen organizes and curates learning opportunities for its audience and community.
Jenny is a former Googler, Stanford d.school Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School graduate, longtime yogi and mother of three.
OUR CHEF:
Our friend Nora Vitaliani is executive chef and owner of Just Eat It. She has been cooking in California since 1999 and trained as a pastry chef at The California Culinary Academy. Her resume includes time at a variety of restaurants from Italian-Asian fusion to the best vegan restaurant in the US.
Nora brings this breadth of experience to creating menus of many styles and cuisines. She started Just Eat It! in 2012 and has been nourishing retreats from 20 -300 attendees with her style of California Comfort cuisine ever since.
Below: Chef Spencer Hochman's farro salad.
OUR MENU:
TO START
Roasted Hog Island oysters, caramelized sabayon
Porcini and Portabella arancini w/Marin French Cheese Company gorgonzola VG
Morro Bay tuna tartare on Thai rice cakes
MAINS
Cold cream of Knoll Farms artichoke soup, dill, garlic saffron oil VE, DF
Northstar Farms bison tri-tip wellington over creamy Bayview Pasta course polenta
Portobello wellington over creamy Bayview Pasta course polenta VE
Iacopi Farms braised haricots vertes VE
Little Farm rosemary blistered baby tricolor potatoes VE
TO FINISH
Chocolate Napoleon - Chocolate flourless cake sandwiched in chocolate fillo, homemade caramel ice cream & caramel spray VG
Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.
Above: Chef Matt Garcia offers up a gorgeous salad with watercress, feta, pickled shallots and watermelon.
Drinks at 6:00, dinner at 7:00. Though a cocktail and some wine will be provided, guests are welcome to bring a bottle of wine to share.
Menu update will come soon to help you choose your bottles. We always make sure vegetarian friends will have plenty to eat. Please contact Raman or Karin in advance if you have any other dietary restrictions.
If you are wondering how you were included in this invitation, or would like to be removed, please contact ramanfrey@gmail.com
To sign up for future events, please register at
www.gpdinners.com
To learn more about the former summer camp we've purchased and refurbished near Yosemite, please visit us here. Camp Earnest is available for a campus buyout for groups from 15 to 75 guests at a time.
www.campearnest.com