First Gathering
This first meal is inspired by Plato’s Symposium, a text that remains profoundly contemporary and continues to reveal the need to connect through love. Not a sugarcoated love, but that LOVE which sparks thought, desire, conversation, and the risk of being with another.
In an age of immediacy, of the visible and the supposedly shareable, we are drawn back to what cannot be captured at first glance. We turn toward what takes time, what escapes simple explanation. Something that can only be understood by being fully present.
The Symposium asks: What do we mean when we speak of “love”?
A meal where different voices assert themselves, contradict one another, interrupt—gently or in silence. The idea doesn’t impose order, but it governs. It holds, provokes, allows space to grow.
The Symposium seeks to make room. To observe how a bond tightens or loosens when it is met with a direct, unflinching gaze.