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A potluck is a communal gathering where each guest or group contributes a different, often homemade, dish of food to be shared. Other names for a "potluck" include: potluck dinner, pitch-in, shared lunch, spread, faith supper, carry-in dinner, [1] covered-dish-supper, [2] fuddle, Jacob's Join, [3] bring a plate, [4] and fellowship meal.
Meeting planners and other meeting professionals may use the term "meeting" to denote an event booked at a hotel, convention center or any other venue dedicated to such gatherings. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Anthropologist Helen B. Schwartzman defines a meeting as "a communicative event involving three or more people who agree to assemble for a purpose ...
Communal work is a gathering for mutually accomplishing a task or for communal fundraising. Communal work provided manual labour to others, especially for major projects such as barn raising, "bees" of various kinds (see § Bee below), log rolling, and subbotniks. Different words have been used to describe such gatherings.
A birthday cake with lit novelty candles Children at a birthday party. A birthday party is a celebration of the anniversary of the birth of the person who is being honored. While there is historical precedent for birthday parties for the rich and powerful throughout history, the tradition extended to middle-class Americans around the nineteenth century and took on more modern norms and ...
A gathering of members, held in the homes of members or rented buildings. Field A geographical region to which workers have been assigned (similar to parishes) Mission A series of larger meetings known as gospel meetings the function of which is proselytizing. Friend, saint Adherent or member, the laity. Collectively "the friends", or "the ...
A tailgate party is a social event held on and around the open tailgate of a vehicle.Tailgating, which primarily takes place in the United States and Canada, often involves consuming alcoholic beverages while barbecuing and grilling food.
The word ball derives from the Latin word ballare, meaning 'to dance', and bal was used to describe a formal dancing party in French in the 12th century. The ballo was an Italian Renaissance word for a type of elaborate court dance, and developed into one for the event at which it was performed.
Grand Entry at the 1983 Omaha Pow-wow Men's traditional dancers, Montana, 2007 Pow-Wow in Wendake, Quebec/Canada, 2014. A powwow (also pow wow or pow-wow) is a gathering with dances held by many Native American and First Nations communities.