Potluck! (A Smorgasbord of Ideas): a select crop of Chicago’s finest muse for six-minutes each

a collaboration between Mac ‘n Cheese Productions and TeamPete

Potluck! (A Smorgasbord of Ideas) brings together several of Chicago’s best and brightest, funniest and handsomest, wittiest and engaging-est for an evening of rapid fire musings on whatever they choose to muse upon.  In the vein of Pecha KuchaIgnite, and TED Talks, each presenter talks about whatever he/she wants, for six-minutes.

No actual food involved.

Potluck! 3.0, Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

  • Doors open at 7pm; show starts at 7:30pm
  • Join the Twitter conversation!  #IdeaPotluck
  • $10, tickets must be purchased in advance
  • BYOB/BYO-snack if you’d like
  • Mac ‘n Cheese Productions [near Belmont/Ravenswood; address sent upon ticket purchase]

The Dishes -

Natasha Tsoutsouris, Writer and Performer

Mig Reyes, Designer, 37signals, @migreyes

Mark Bazer, Host of The Interview Show, @markbazer

Jason Pritzker

Jill Peters, Chicago’s Social Guinea Pig

Lindsay Muscato, @lmuscato

Jarrad Apperson, Uncommon Ground bartender, @jarradapperson

Carly Mandell

Jessica Murphy, Beer Blogger, @grlslikebeertoo

Rest of lineup announced soon!

 

Curators – Pete, @goteampete // Saya, @sayahillman

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Potluck! 2.0, Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 (photos)

Chris Piatt, Executive producer and Editor-in-chief, The Paper Machete, @thepapermachete
Samantha Irby, Blogger, Bitches Gotta Eat, @wordscience
Rick Desai, Builder of Companies, Lover of Pizza, @rickdesai
Kelsie Huff, Comedian and Founder of the Kates, @kelsiehuff
Sondra Morin, Writer. Poet. Bicyclist. New Englander By Trade, @sondramorin
Dawgelene Sangster, Think Royally, @dawgelene
Heidi Massey, I.C. Stars, @heidiekmassey
Bill Stern, sftwr dev, abrvtn spclst

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Potluck! 1.0, August 24th, 2011 (photos)

Sarah Jindra, Reporter, WBEZ Traffic and Founder, INSPIREme Chicago
Griffin Caprio, Uber-Mench
Heather Van Benthuysen, Teacher
Arnie Niekamp, Head Writer, ‘You Don’t Know Jack’ game
Drex Drexler, Litigation paralegal
Megan Redfearn, Academic and leadership development, Northwestern  University
Marcy Capron, Founder/CEO, Polymathic