SK Kerastas and Kim Upstill present

Silent Dinner

This Silent Dinner is a distinctly collective, distinctly individual dinner experience cooked and served for 20 people at bim bom studios, on Friday June 7th. Please arrive between 6:30pm and 6:45pm to begin the meal at 7:00pm.

At the start of the event, guests will be guided to set aside their phones, offered light instruction and text, and invited into silence for the duration of a multi-course vegetarian meal. In creating an environment with less distraction, participants are encouraged to relax into the sensations of eating – the sights, smells, sounds, textures, and tastes. The dinner is a gentle somatic experiment of intimacy and connection— with the present moment, with impermanence, with pleasure, with body, with group and with self. We’re thinking about large-scale parallel play, slow dancing with the inanimate, the slippery, the sticky, and the space that emerges in shared quiet.

The menu will be conceived and cooked by Kim Upstill.

* We have limited capacity to adhere to individual dietary restrictions, but the meal will be nut-free and have non-dairy options.

Organizer Bios

Kim Upstill is an artist, chef, writer and dancer. She cares about sensation and poetics, systemic and creative thinking, and somatic work. She seeks out collaborations that move across disciplines and modes of making / forms of knowing. Kim holds a Masters Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives and works in Chicago.

SK Kerastas (they/them) is the current Executive Director of Links Hall. They are a justice-driven live arts leader, community organizer, and artist rerooted back home in Chicago after 8+ years in the SF Bay Area. They have organized with the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, East Bay Meditation Center, and Dhamma Dena Meditation Center.