Name: Inviting Connection - A Collaborative Dinner with Mend. and Anne Therese Gennari
Start: 2025-10-11T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-11T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Mend. Sustainable Spa & Retail

Inviting Connection - A Collaborative Dinner with Mend. and Anne Therese Gennari

Inviting Connection will be held Saturday, 10/11, at 81 Main St, Great Barrington, MA, featuring collaborators After Hours, Mend., and Anne Therese Gennari of The Climate Optimist. Join us for a spectacular evening to connect, experience, and enjoy a full zero-waste evening that reinvites you to care for yourself and the planet.
The night includes sound bath meditation from Mend., conversation with Anne Therese Gennari, and a multisensory farm-to-table tasting menu prepared by the team at After Hours. Focusing on reconnecting with the senses, crafted mocktails and herbal blends will be served in place of alcohol. Dinner will include optional sensory experiences including blind tastings, sound baths, and scent alterations.
4-5 PM Guided soundbath and meditation
5-5:30 PM Conversation with Anne Therese Gennari
6-8 PM: Multisensory farm-to-table dinner
More About Event Partners:
After Hours is a community-minded, nomadic restaurant rooted in seasonality and locality. Operating as a nomadic restaurant, we work with local businesses to host the most creative dining experiences and redefine what a restaurant can be.
Anne Therese Gennari is a TEDx speaker, educator, and author of The Climate Optimist Handbook. As a workshop host and communicator, she focuses on shifting the narrative on climate change from one of fear to one of empowerment. The Climate Optimist was created to help people reconnect with their sense of purpose and possibility in the face of the climate crisis. The mission is to inspire action through hope: not by sugarcoating reality, but by encouraging us to face the truth with courage, compassion, and creativity.
Mend. is a fully sustainable, zero-waste spa guided by five pillars: body, mind, planet, spirit, and community. Founded by sisters Erika and Alex, the space was created with the belief that wellness thrives in connection with one another and the earth. The spa welcomes people from many paths to find balance, connection, and care through various healing practices and rituals.