{"id":795193,"date":"2019-04-25T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-interfaith-council-hosts-pilot-peoples-supper-event-in-frisco\/"},"modified":"2019-04-25T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T00:16:00","slug":"summit-interfaith-council-hosts-pilot-peoples-supper-event-in-frisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-interfaith-council-hosts-pilot-peoples-supper-event-in-frisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit Interfaith Council hosts pilot People\u2019s Supper event in Frisco"},"content":{"rendered":"
From left, Ramata Kane, and her siblings, Muhammad, and Amadou and their mother, Karla, in background, recieve their meals during the People’s Supper event at the Summit County Community and Senior Center in Frisco on Wednesday evening.Wednesday, April 24, in Frisco.<\/strong>
Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Where did you come from, and where have you found community in Summit County?<\/p>\n

Those were some of the questions driving conversations at The People\u2019s Supper in Frisco on Wednesday evening \u2014 a gathering hosted by the Summit Colorado Interfaith Council meant to bring together a diverse group of people and spur discussions from different pockets of the greater Summit County community.<\/p>\n

More than 25 individuals from various backgrounds joined together in the Loveland Room of the Summit County Community & Senior Center to share personal stories about where they came from, and the communities they\u2019ve built here on the Western Slope.<\/p>\n

The event is inspired by a greater national movement, which is meant to help build interpersonal relationships in communities. For the Interfaith Council, it\u2019s also an opportunity to build momentum following a healthy turnout to the group\u2019s \u201cHate has no home here\u201d gathering in November, an event organized in response to troubling incidents in the area, such as SS bolts and a swastika spray-painted on one of Sheriff Jaime FitzSimons\u2019 campaign signs and homophobic stickers plastered to Gov. Jared Polis\u2019 yard signs in Eagle County.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re about trying to weave together the fabric of our common life again, which has been torn by a lot of our experiences,\u201d Frances McWilliams, a representative with the Interfaith Council, said as the supper began. \u201cWe feel there is tremendous richness in our differences. It\u2019s a human thing that most of us are afraid of differences, but we want to enjoy our differences. Hopefully we can start a new way of connecting here in our county.\u201d<\/p>\n

The supper served as a sort of pilot for the council as it works to expand the program, handpicking individuals around the county from a variety of different races, economic classes, nationalities, religions and ideologies. However, despite the attention to diversity, discussions about politics and religion were largely off the table as the group focused in on much more personal conversations about their families, struggles, upbringings and more.<\/p>\n

For guests, it was a well-appreciated chance to connect with their neighbors. Many showed high levels of vulnerability with complete strangers over plates of lasagna and salad.<\/p>\n

\u201cPutting people together will connect people,\u201d said Harouna Kane. \u201cThere are a lot of people here who just walk around each other. Some people might say hi to each other, and some may not. But things like this connect people more, so when they see each other on the street they\u2019ll be shaking hands and chatting instead of being afraid because you don\u2019t know each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI love being able to see Latin people here mixing in with the Anglo community, and other cultures mixing as well,\u201d added Mateo Lozano. \u201cWe can open up our tables and our hearts, and bring in food to show others our culture. That\u2019s a beautiful thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Organizers with the interfaith council say they hope the event will continue to grow and evolve in the future, and that the group is already working to set up a second People\u2019s Supper that would be open to anyone in the county who wants to participate.<\/p>\n

\u201cStarting with this core of people we want to branch out, opening it up to the wider community,\u201d said Diane Luellen, president of the Interfaith Council. \u201cWe\u2019ll try to maintain representation from all the different parts of the community, and bridge parts of our community so that we can learn about one another and establish connections.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From left, Ramata Kane, and her siblings, Muhammad, and Amadou and their mother, Karla, in background, recieve their meals during the People’s Supper event at the Summit County Community and Senior Center in Frisco on Wednesday evening.Wednesday, April 24, in Frisco.Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com Where did you come from, and where have you found community […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-795193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 23:10:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}