Intermission: is a four-course dinner evening, a framework for connection that works like musical chairs where everyone gets a seat. The evening is for relaxing, nourishment, and leaving feeling better than when one arrived. Bold colors fill the room. Guests move between courses, each round surrounded by new people, new conversation, new circumstances.
Crystal bowls with hand-written questions sit at each table as optional entry points of dialogue, questions like "What is a small moment in your regular routine that you love?" or "What is a time you saw ripples of water?" The questions can go deep but don't have to. The answers one brings are correct.
On arrival, each guest's hands are photographed. By the end of the night, those images become a collective portrait of everyone who was in the room. Each guest receives a print of two hands, palms up, as a visual reminder of the evening.
The guest list ensures no single person knows everyone attending. The structure creates conditions where unfamiliarity and shared vulnerability become common ground. People meet people they wouldn't have met otherwise and connect more deeply with those they already know. What happens when the framework minimizes the labor of deciding, so presence becomes possible?
Intermission: builds a temporary commons, a room where people ranging from their late teens into their eighties exchange and connect. The authorship is shared. The planning, the people invited, the energy and presence in the room all shape what the evening becomes. Intermission: is designed around a question: what conditions allow guests who arrive not knowing everyone to feel charged, nourished, and connected.
