Wednesday, June 18, 2025
HomeNewsOne thousand dinners, limitless ideas

One thousand dinners, limitless ideas

Torontonians to gather around dinner tables to discuss their vision for the city

Published on

Torontonians will gather around dinner tables on Tuesday in homes, restaurants and schools across the city to discuss Toronto’s future.

An event called 1000 Dinners TO invites Toronto residents from all areas of the city to share their ideas on how to make Toronto a better place to live.

The participants will discuss their ideas together over dinner at various locations in the city. One individual can host a dinner event at their home or at a restaurant, and can invite as many as 10 people to join.

According to the event website, anyone can participate in these dinner discussions. Hosts can register their dinner event on the website at no cost.

Already, the event has generated much excitement among Toronto residents. Hosts and participants have posted many tweets to the hash-tag #1000DinnersTO touting the event.

Sarah Jordan, a photographer, tweeted “Looking forward to ideas and solutions from #1000DinnersTO.”

Some schools will hold these dinner discussions as well. Centennial College will host one at their Story Arts Centre campus on Tuesday evening.

Centennial’s discussion will have a larger group in attendance. Donna Lindell, a Centennial Corporate Communications and Public Relations professor, will host, and says around 70 students will attend. She looks forward to hearing students ideas on a particular topic.

“I’m looking forward to getting students together from across different areas of study to discuss re-imagining public spaces,” Lindell said.

Each host will report back to the event’s organizers on the ideas discussed. Event organizers plan to analyze the ideas and share them with Torontonians.  They will also put some of the ideas before the Toronto mayoral candidates at a debate scheduled for Oct. 16.

 

 

 

Learn about Centennial College's School of Communications, Media, Arts and Design

Latest articles

Stampeders crash Argos’ party, hand Toronto 2nd-straight loss

Strong defence and an attack that came alive in the final quarter led the...

RBC Canadian Open fans an advantage to country’s golfers

CALEDON, Ont - Waves upon waves of Canadian fans have come through the gates...

Hughes surges to contention as RBC Open heads to final round

CALEDON, Ont. – Mackenzie Hughes wrapped up Saturday’s third round of the RBC Canadian...

Matthew Anderson soars to new heights on home soil

CALEDON, Ont. - After only his third event, Mississauga native Matthew Anderson made his...

More like this

New theatre project shares real-life stories of former youth from care

A script reading held May 8 at the Young People's Theatre in Toronto was part of an event for the project that celebrated the "little wins" in the lives of young people in and from care, ahead of Children and Youth in Care Day on May 14.

Toronto Public Library’s Photoshop challenge celebrates ‘Buy Canadian’ movement

The Toronto Public Library (TPL), has resurrected the spirit of those wartime posters with a modern twist: They're hosting a challenge for participants to remix historical WWI and WWII posters to reflect the current landscape in Canada.
02:00:04

Canada’s federal party leaders: What are their plans and priorities?

The nation’s political leaders are ready for an election day that will shape Canada's future