Wednesday, September 25th will be the 3rd anniversary celebration of the opening of our Pizza Doors, and every year we throw a Christmas party to celebrate, complete with free pizza to anyone who enters our doors. The details and "why christmas" below.
Who: GoreMade Pizza in partnership with Highland Youth Garden. Click to learn more about why they are awesome. What: Christmas on Wednesday! . A free pizza and fund raising event for Highland Youth Garden in the theme of Christmas. When: Wednesday, September 25th, 2019 from 5-9pm Where: 936 N 4th Street Cols, OH 43201 Why: For our 3rd Anniversary celebration! And why Christmas on Wednesday, you ask? Here's our best descriptor (from a previous blog post). ******************************************* Back when I was just a broke 20something, the eventual super sale of left-over post-easter hams began a tradition. We'd buy a cheap spiral sliced ham and throw it in the freezer. Then, some unsuspecting day in june or july when I had no money and payday wasn't for another week, I'd get the ham out on a monday and invite friends over for "Christmas on Wednesday". I provided the ham, and everyone else brought a side dish. We feasted like kings and forgot how broke we were for one night. Fast forward to our one year anniversary. We were the new kid on the block and wanted to throw an awesome party, only our anniversary was on a wednesday. How do you get a bunch of people to come out and celebrate on a wednesday when most people didn't even know who you were? The answer was simple... FREE PIZZA! And us giving away pizza quickly became a day of giving. We decided to do a fund raiser for a local farm doing community good. Also, Ramona Moon decided to donate our fabulous patio art car that very same week! And with all this giving, it started to feel like christmas. The only logical title for our celebration was CHRISTMAS ON WEDNESDAY! And so a new tradition was born! Read more about that event on a previous blog post. ******************************************* So here we are, coming up on our third anniversary, and the third time we've done this event. I'd like to share a few ways that we've evolved this celebration, and the evolution of some of my view of christmas as well. I'll be the first to admit that I have been in the camp of "Christmas is too commercial" and "I hate obligatory gift giving" ever since I found myself as an adult looking objectively at the ritual. It's always been difficult for me to get into the spirit of christmas with these things clouding my vision. There was a reluctance to decorate, give and just generally enjoy all that comes with the holiday. But one thing about this wacky free-pizza-christmas-in-september-anniversary event is that there are no christmas sales tempting you into things you can't afford. There is no christmas music playing at every turn. There's not even a hint of "christmas in july" out there. There is absolutely no societal weight around this day. It's arbitrary nature makes it completely free of everything except the spirit! Where there once was a scrooge of a pizza guy, there has become a joyful-gift-giving, whistle-while-you-decorate, nog-making chirstmas-spirit-embodying joy of a pizza guy! We've also started reaching out to our local farm community to get topping donations. This year, we've got produce donations coming from Front Axle Farm, Three Creeks Produce Farm and Freshtown farm, as well as donations from the Highland Youth Garden. Along with that, Butcher & Grocer and Ezzo Sausage Company have generously donated some fabulous meats as well. The local food system has really come together this year, and I love how we're using the system to support itself here. Local food, into local pizza. Free pizza into donations. Donations supporting the local food community through education and nourishing and enriching the community where it is needed most! We're giving away free pizza from 5-9pm this year. Some folks from Highland Youth Garden will be there to talk all about their organization, and we'll be collecting cash donations. Our servers have also agreed to donate all tips from the evening for the cause, so if you don't have cash, this is a great way to go. How sweet they are! The youth garden is a wonderful example of what we as a business hold most dear. The joyful creation and support of an inclusive local food network where it is needed most! From their website; The Highland Youth Garden is a .4 acre urban agriculture project giving children the opportunity to learn and grow through gardening. We offer a diverse, hands-on learning environment for children, giving them the space and guidance to grow their own food. We serve approximately 375 students from Highland Elementary Schools and The Educational Academy for Boy and Girls during the school year as well as youth from the neighborhood and as many as 200 young people each week during the summer. This organization is something worth supporting, y'all! Along with free pizza, we will be selling beer, wine and some christmas themed cocktails. Andicus has volunteered to play some christmas (and non-christmas) themed music out on the pizza patio. We've even invited Santa himself to come, although we're not quite sure if he's going to be able to attend (santa's a busy guy, ya know). Come celebrate this absolutely wonderful tradition with us. A Christmas party like no other, months before it gets old! Merry Christmas... on Wednesday! Christmas is in 5 days, folks! xoxo, NickG |
AuthorNick Gore was a corporate peon by day who just made the leap to full time pizza geek. Follow his path to world class Pizzaiolo right here on the GoreMade Pizza blog. Archives
April 2020
Categories
All
|