The third annual Decatur’s Dinner Party is sure to be one of the best food events of the season and ticket are selling fast. Decatur’s most talented chefs are joining forces with organic farmers to cook up a feast benefiting Global Growers on Saturday, September 19th from 6-10pm. More than 150 guests and community leaders will dine family-style on the beautiful grounds of the historic Decatur cemetery.
The event will feature a multi-course meal featuring fresh produce, handcrafted cocktails, local beer, and a superb wine selection. Silent and live auctions will offer guests one-of-a-kind experiences and gifts to take home. All proceeds support Global Growers, a nonprofit organization well-known for their two Decatur urban agriculture projects – Decatur’s Kitchen Garden and Umurima (the Burundi Women’s Farm).
Buy your tickets online today!
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For more information, check out the Decatur’s Dinner Party Facebook page or contact Robin Chanin of Global Growers with any questions or to register as a sponsor: robin@globalgrowers.org
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Pictures From the 2014 Event:
I would like to ask the restaurant owners, corporate sponsors and ticket holders how they would feel if, when visiting the resting place of a recently deceased family member, you discover a large party taking place within sight of your loved one’s grave. While you are grieving, you can’t help but notice the glaring lights, loud music, laughter, and amplified voice of an auctioneer. But it is the alcohol consumption that bothers you the most. Disgusted by such a scene, you decide to leave but as you are walking towards your vehicle, you notice the long line of partiers waiting their turn at the three porto-potties. A few decide they can’t wait and step behind the oak trees, just a few feet away from the graves of soldiers who gave their lives during World War II.
The organizers of this event have been asked by some whose family members and friends are buried in the Decatur Cemetery to find a more suitable venue but they refuse to do so. This is a sacred park, the final resting place for thousands of citizens, the great and near great from Decatur but also many from throughout DeKalb County. It should not be a party venue where large amounts of alcohol will be consumed. To the restaurant owners, corporate sponsors, and ticket holders, I ask you reconsider your participation and instead, donate directly to the Global Growers Network.
In my opinion, no true son or daughter of the City of Decatur would attend such an event but if you do, please consider the slippery slope. If the City of Decatur continues to support events like this, what then will be allowed in ten years? Bars and restaurants built on cemetery property? Condos and low income apartments? Twenty years ago, no one could have imagined the influence of alcohol in Decatur but now, for the third year in a row, this will fuel a fundraiser, not for the cemetery but for non-Decatur residents!
Shame on the Decatur politicians, city staff, business leaders and residents who support this discraceful activity.