The Art of Economying: A Dinner Party
with Tyler Wakefield and Samantha Power of the BioFi Project
Sunday, March 29 from 5-9pm // private home in Brightwood Park, DC
Space is limited; please register in advance here. Address will be provided.

In a world run by billionaires amassing exponential wealth and power, what systemic significance remains in our personal financial and economic decisions? “Vote with your dollars!” 

With energy-hungry and water-thirsty AI data centers sprouting up like flowers after spring rains, what is left to guide our ethics of personal consumption? “Reduce, reuse, recycle!” 

In a world where we’re encouraged to be self-sufficient individuals and de-risk everything, why sacrifice our independence and efficiency for the complexity and messiness of economic interdependence in community? “Be responsible. Save now for retirement!”  

In collaboration with The Nectary, Tyler Wakefield and Samantha Power of the BioFi Project will host an evening of collective inquiry and playful imagination seeking intimate contact with the beauty and goodness that can still be found in community economics, interpersonal finance, and multicapital resourcing. Situating our explorations at the intersection of a resurging bioregional movement and emerging metamodern culture, we will listen to our biologies, ecologies, places, histories, and cultures to re-member dormant inspiration that can ignite economic experiments we conduct as friends, families, neighbors, towns, bioregions, and global communities… perhaps discovering surprising forms of power along the way. 

Come hungry and come curious. A nourishing home-cooked, seasonal meal will be provided to support our musings, meanderings, and perhaps even our promises to one another. Donations to support The Nectary will be invited at the end of our evening. Space is limited. Please register in advance here.