Community Plate is thrilled to be participating in this year’s Northeast Storytelling Sharing the Fire Conference in Glens Falls, New York. The theme for this year’s conference is Dynamic Listening: Paths into Deeper Connections and More Powerful Stories.

Community Plate Workshop: Food connects us to the people and places in our lives, and our food stories help us form connections with others. This workshop will explore the power of sharing food stories to create personal connections between teller and listener, build trust, and address social disconnection. Attendees will learn about Community Plate’s philosophy and methodology around sharing food and stories, and the food-focused story prompts that we use to encourage sharing, listening, and facilitate connection. Using prompts, attendees will share their own food stories and discover how we find community and connection through our shared humanity around food and stories.

You must register for the conference in order to attend the workshop.

Facilitator: Karl Schatz is the co-founder and Executive Director of Community Plate, a Maine-based nonprofit dedicated to building community and facilitating connection through the sharing of food and food stories. He is a farmer, storyteller, photographer, and journalist who has worked for Time Magazine and ABC Television. Karl has collaborated with his wife, Margaret Hathaway, on seven books on food, farming, and community, including two volumes of the Maine Community Cookbooks. He lives with his family on Ten Apple Farm in Southern Maine, where he leads goat hikes and tells stories of their life on the farm.