STORIES OVER MEALS
No appetite for small talk
Upcoming Events
ABOUT
“Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”
We’d be lying if we said we had a well articulated answer to that question. We do, however, know that what inspires us every day is the magic that is created when humans build genuine connections through stories over shared experiences.
Stories over meals is an initiative by Medha and Vivek, recent MBA graduates from The Wharton School who seek to create this magic through deep conversations over endless helpings of food and bottomless glasses of wine. In the fall of 2019, they began co-organizing Stories over meals for their friends at Wharton. When cities shut down, they moved to zoom. When it was safe to venture out, they organized socially distanced picnics. They tried their best to make it work given the circumstances, making this one of the highlights of their Wharton experience and their favorite way to make new friends. Among several things, what they learned in their MBA was that in the midst of a pandemic, when the world was crumbling, each one of us was hoping to be asked a sincere, thoughtful question to share a sincere, thoughtful story about our lives. They just had to cross the barrier and make it happen. So in their attempt to follow their curiosity about humans and to enable meaningful connections in their respective worlds, launched Stories Over Meals, San Francisco and New York in 2021
HOW DOES IT WORK
Each month we will bring together a group of individuals from varied backgrounds, identities and life experiences over a meal. Each meal will be centered around a story prompt or a question. Some of our previous prompts have been: What would current you tell younger you?, Conquering our fears, What did quarantine remind you of that you're grateful for? Peaks and troughs in life. More often than not, these would be dinners on Fridays/ Saturdays. What prompt we pick or how many will vary based on the group’s and hosts' decisions.
If you are part of the community, you will receive an invitation to each of the Stories Over Meals experience. Based on a randomized name picker, we will choose 6-8 attendees for the meal if we have more sign-ups than spots. To ensure everyone gets the opportunity to join, we would prefer to not have you join more than one experience per month. Once you sign-up, we will share community norms that we expect all our members to follow.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE YOU LOCATED?
San Francisco and Brooklyn
WHERE WOULD THE STORIES OVER MEALS EXPERIENCE BE?
At the home of either the hosts or a volunteer attendee
WHO PAYS FOR THE MEALS?
All attendees do
WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
New friends and memorable conversations
WHO CAN JOIN THE STORIES OVER MEALS FAM?
Anyone and everyone can. However, in order to ensure that everyone who joins has a meaningful experience, we are currently inviting our friends, friends of friends, friends of friends of friends…. to sign up. The world is a small place. We will reach you soon :)
JOIN US
Please only fill this form if you live in San Francisco or New York. We are not accepting submissions for any other city
Share your details here and we will reach out once we open the experience to everyone.
