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EAT & EVOLVE 2024
ANNUAL FUNDRAISER
IN SUPPORT OF THE EVOLVED NETWORK NFP
Monday, October 21,

VIP RECEPTION: 5-5:45pm
MAIN EVENT: 6-9pm

Join us as we come together to learn about The Evolved Network "Way", which begins with companionship and respect of how our kids move through the world in ways that matter to them. Companioning, in The Evolved Network “Way”, means to “be with” someone with respect and care, taking with equal concern where they came from, where they are, and where they are going. Your support enables us to show our kids from our city’s most underserved communities see that their possibilities outweigh their limitations and that through food we can heal, care and love one another, while fighting against social structures that reinforce the opposite.


Meet some of Chicago’s top Chefs while enjoying tastings from their restaurants including:
PARTICIPATING CHEFS
We are honored and so grateful for each of these incredible chefs. Their support of our cause has significantly impacted our early success. We are incredibly lucky that the Chicago Chef scene has our back and has embraced us as their own. We hope the togetherness embodied in this event gets you closer to The Evolved Network’s mission.
  • SARAH STEGNER
    Prairie Grass Cafe
  • DEVON QUINN
    eden
  • PAUL KAHAN
    One off Hospitality
  • GREG WADE
    Publican Quality Bread
  • ROB LEVITT
    Publican Quality Meats
  • CASEY DOODY
    Boka Restaurant Group
  • TIGIST REDA
    Demera
  • CHRISTIAN HUNTER
    Atelier
  • LAMAR MOORE
    Bronzeville Winery
  • DIANA DAVILA
    Mi Tocaya Antojeria
  • BEVERLY KIM
    Parachute, Anelya
  • PAUL VIRANT
    Vie, Petite Vie, Gaijin, Visto Prime
  • D'ANDRE CARTER & HEATHER BUBLICK
    Soul & Smoke
  • ARSHIYA FARHEEN
    Verzenay
  • DARNELL REED
    Luella’s Southern Kitchen
  • SEBASTIAN WHITE
    The Evolved Network
PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS
INAUGURAL AWARDS
We are happy to introduced The Evolved Network's first inaugural awards. The winners will be announced during Eat & Evolve 2024.
William White award
for Fiscal Responsibility and Empowerment
Gwen Barjon award
for Innovation and Creativity
Chef Felipe Hernandez
Celebration of Life Video Tribute
OUR BEST SHOT AT CHANGE IS TOGETHER
Choice highlights our freedom as human beings. In every choice there are possibilities and limitations. The Evolved Network strives to show our kids that their possibilities outweigh their limitations. Food is the perfect teacher for this. Through food we can heal, sustain, connect, nurture, challenge, educate, create, comfort, understand, sit with, fight for, encourage, bring together, care for, inspire, and love.
IT'S THE SMALL THINGS
THAT CAN BE THE MOST MEANINGFUL

Already this year, the Evolved Network has helped more than 300 kids from our city’s most underserved communities see that the possibilities outweigh their limitations. We believe that through food we can heal, care and love one another, while fighting against social structures that reinforce the opposite.


All proceeds support The Evolved Network’s general operations, programming, and capacity for expansion.


Donations are tax-deductible for federal income tax purposes to the fullest extent allowed by law.

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OUR CHEFS SAY
"Sebastian provides a safe space where “our kids” can heal. Using food, farming, and accessibility to expand their perception of choice, their value, and sense of belonging. The Evolved Network is redefining accessibility as not something reactive, but as something that fights oppressive systems and that is sustainable and transformative for our kids. We all can make a difference, an impact by supporting The Evolved Network. We contribute to the success of the lives of “our kids”.

Chef Sarah Stegner

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OUR KIDS SAY:

"Sebastian you should serve what we created in your restaurant, and we better get credit."

-student at Pulaski International


"I really like this salad can you bring us the recipe so I can make it at home with my mom."

-student at The Montessori School of Englewood


"Dear Sebastian, Thank you for teaching me how to make new recipes through out this year. I have enjoyed math more since I transferred. I will definitely plan on using these recipes."

-student at Pulaski International

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OUR FUNDERS SAY:
"This is what strikes me as special about The Evolved Network. When they talk about access to healthy food they mean even more than availability of fresh produce in the neighborhood, or a new grocery store. They mean the kind of tactile experience that makes children curious about a wide range of the foods of the world from the Black diaspora to French Haute Cuisine, and not just curious but participatory. Because the whole thing belongs to them as much as anyone. Knowledge, comfort, familiarity. The vision of The Evolved Network includes raising up young folks who are adept in the kitchen, and who expect healthy, seasonal ingredients. It also includes comfort in restaurants, while traveling, and as a citizen of the world."

Clare Butterfield

Executive Director, Christopher Family Foundation

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OUR TEACHERS SAY:
"Sebastian offers something quite unique and necessary to our students' holistic well-being; an opportunity to make stronger connections to themselves, each other, and their families through cooking. He offers a variety of hands-on culinary experiences tailored to their interests and cultures and takes his time establishing trusting relationships, never forcing the students to engage before they feel ready. He truly meets the kids where they're at and accepts them, which they can sense. The result is that students become gradually more confident not just in the kitchen, but in sharing their perspectives and using their voices. I highly recommend collaborating with Sebastian; your young people will greatly benefit."

~Kat Henry,

CLC Principal Resident and former Special Education teacher at Pulaski International

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HOST COMMITTEE
Eda Davidman
Darren & Rebecca Gest
Felipe Hernandez Family
R Delacy Peters
Amanda Puck
Tracy Rhodes
Carrie Schloss
EVENT SPONSORS
Sponsorship Opportunities Available.
Please contact us via info@theevolvednetwork.org