People enjoy homemade food and conversation at Community Plate's Story-Sharing Potluck Supper at the Freeport Harraseeket Grange in November.
Potluck dishes await attendants at the November 17 Community Plate event at the Freeport Harraseeket Grange.
Karl Schatz and Margaret Hathaway of Gray, co-founders of the nonprofit Community Plate.
Dinner-goers help themselves to dinner at the Community Plate event at Harraseeket Grange. It was the organization's 25th story-sharing potluck supper in the 18 months since the group was launched.
Carol Kinter of Thomaston listens to a fellow diner. The theme of the evening was "Setting the Table for Gratitude."
Participants enjoy a Community Plate dinner on November 17. In surveys conducted over the past year, 99 percent of respondents said they'd made a connection at the event.
Karl Schatz, co-founder of Community Plate. The wheel next to him is used to pick a prompt to engage others at the evening in conversation, as a way to promote community building.
Community Plate co-founder Margaret Hathaway with Heather Kenvin of Portland. The two drew portraits of one another without looking down at the sketch paper. The activity is one of many at the event aimed at promoting community building.
Community Plate co-founder Margaret Hathaway shares a drawing she did without looking down while she sketched.
Donnie Carroll of Gray shares a story.
Donnie Carroll of Gray shares a story. As co-founder Karl Schatz sees it, the storytelling happens with every interaction guests have, not only during the storytelling portion of the evening.
Guests laugh as they listen to a storyteller. Spectators are, in red, Luisa Wolcott-Breen of California, Thetis Fourli, a Bowdoin College student from Athens, Greece, and Whitney Hess of Falmouth.
From the stage at the Freeport Harraseeket Grange, Nasser and Parivash Rohani of Portland share a story about their eventful ride on the "Lobster Roll Express."
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