Present Company
Experience art, food & collective effervescence.
NO PHONES. COME HUNGRY.
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What it is
01/ The box
Your phone goes into a box at the door and comes back at the end.
02/ The PRESENT
Each event is a little different. We can be viewing a painting in a gallery together, listening to a live performance, or hearing from an author.
03/ The table
Then we sit down and eat, and one question travels the whole table, so there is no boring small talk.
Collective effervescence
Durkheim’s term for the energy that emerges when people share an experience with their full attention.
Present Company is an ongoing series within Entermezzo, exploring what happens when we put our phones away and give our full attention to something and to each other.
Art. Sound. Film. Food. Conversation.
Different nights. Same rule: be here.
House rules
Phones in the box
All of them, all evening. If someone needs to reach you, you can give them the host's phone number in case of emergency.
We start on time
Doors are fifteen minutes before the start. After that the looking has begun and the door stays shut.
Come alone if you like
Roughly half of the group does. You will be seated on purpose, not at random.
Tell us what you cannot eat
When you book we will ask about your dietary restrictions, so everyone is happy.
Transferable, not refundable
Inside seven days the food is bought. Send a friend instead and email us the name.
SMALL GROUPS
Never more than 20 people. We want to get into it, and that is difficult when the groups get too big.
