World Food Market 2004
January 19, 2004
Speaking of social capitalism...
Last May, my brother and I were talking about how great it is that Dublin has become so multi-cultural. Both of us had lived overseas for more than a few years, we returned post Celtic Tiger and regularly marvel at the positive changes in this city.
I mentioned the Dun Laoghaire festival of world music as a great day out and began to describe how Dun Laoghaire gets transformed into a kind of Irish Notting Hill Festival at the end of August every year. My brother is a restauranteur, so he asked about the food element in the festival. There was none. This prompted me to call the festival organisers.
A couple of emails, telephone calls, and meetings later, my brother and I had a meeting with the festival organisers last week. The upshot of it is that this year the Dun Laoghaire festival of world music will have a festival of world food, and my brother and I are going to put it on!
Restaurants will be invited to take part, to represent their food type. And where a country's food is not yet represented by a restaurant, we will approach that community's group and invite them to prepare their food for sampling by the 100,000+ visitors to the festival.
My brother has a background in food going back a couple of decades and he was involved in food festivals around Australia. I have promoted many events, and have worked in sponsorship in Australia. This week, we are sending out a request for information to a number of event management companies, we will select a partner to work with, and get things underway for Dun Laoghaire's first Festival of World Food.
Avid readers of this blog can expect updates on the twists and turns of this culinary tale!