KaCSFFS Thanksgiving Saturday!

What: Monthly KaCSFFS Meeting
When: Saturday, November 18, 2017, 6:00 p.m. setup
Where: The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, MO 64111
Food Theme: Thanksgiving Feast

Join our festivities!

Here's part of the 2016 dinner crowd. We'll save a place for you this year, if you'll come!

Please join us on Saturday for the annual KaCSFFS Thanksgiving Feast. It's our best-attended meeting each year (KaXFEN love to eat!),  and it'll be here before you know it.

This year, we're also encouraging like-minded people from sf, fantasy, horror, anime, and similar, speculative-fiction fandoms to come join us at The Writers Place in Kansas City, MO, and bring favorite goodies to share.

The Food
What kind of goodies to share? KaCSFFS provides the turkey, so we do need to know if you're coming! Email us, please, or respond to our Facebook Event. We ask all who come to bring a side or dessert to share potluck-fashion. If there's a special drink you'd like to bring, feel free.

Sides include: Vegetable dishes (except broccoli--sorry! We've learned most KaXFEN won't eat it), bread, potatoes or stuffing, salads or fruit salads, cheese, relish, and suchlike.

Desserts include: Pies, cakes, cookies, tarts, candies, or other such things, to end the meal on a sweet note. Please consider the diabetics among us--consider bringing a sugarless alternative (be sure to label it!).

Glimpses of our "groaning board" and some of our partakers, from our 2015 and 2016 Thanksgiving events. Identifiable, L-R: Ruth Lichtwardt, Ty Gephardt, Paul Burns, Beth Moscato, Marisa Means, David Means.

More snapshots from the Food Department, 2015 edition: Our turkey-carver is James "Dr. Paisley" Murray.

We also hope some maybe bring along a card game or other tabletop game you think might be fun to play after dinner.

PHOTOS: Many thanks to Jan Gephardt and Ty Gephardt, for the photos used in this post--and to all the KaXFEN who allowed them to take their photos for club communications. Feel free to re-post any you like, but PLEASE include attribution and a link back to this post! Thanks.

What will you bring to the Feast?

Join the festivities!

Here's part of the 2016 dinner crowd. We'll save a place for you this year, if you'll come!

In two short weeks on November 18, 2017, it'll be time for the annual KaCSFFS Thanksgiving Feast. It's our best-attended meeting each year (KaXFEN love to eat!),  and it'll be here before you know it.

This year, we're also encouraging like-minded people from sf, fantasy, horror, anime, and similar, speculative-fiction fandoms to come join us at The Writers Place in Kansas City, MO, and bring favorite goodies to share.

Glimpses of our "groaning board" and some of our partakers, from our 2015 and 2016 Thanksgiving events. Identifiable, L-R: Ruth Lichtwardt, Ty Gephardt, Paul Burns, Beth Moscato, Marisa Means, David Means.

More snapshots from the Food Department, 2015 edition: Our turkey-carver is James "Dr. Paisley" Murray.

KaCSFFS provides the turkey, so we do need to know if you're coming! We ask all who come to bring sides or desserts to share potluck-fashion, and maybe also bring along a card game or other tabletop game you think might be fun to play after dinner. We provide tableware, but if there's a special drink you'd like to bring, feel free.

PHOTOS: Many thanks to Jan Gephardt and Ty Gephardt, for the photos used in this post--and to all the KaXFEN who allowed them to take their photos for club communications. Feel free to re-post any you like, but PLEASE include attribution and a link back to this post! Thanks.

2016 KaCSFFS Thanksgiving

The KaCSFFS tradition of having a Thanksgiving dinner together each year was started so no KaXFAN would ever have to go through the season without Thanksgiving dinner (even if it was a bit time-shifted). We made sure of it yet again this year, at The Writers Place. Here are some photos.

We opened with a short business meeting, conducted by Margene Bahm.

While waiting for other diners to take their turn, we enjoyed good conversations.

Feasters began with the drinks and turkey meat.

From there, they moved on to the side dishes.

The dessert table offered a variety to finish things off. 

Then everyone dug in. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

After the meal, one group went upstairs to play a tabletop game. Others sat around and chatted, or participated in an informal beer-tasting. A good time was had by all.

IMAGES: All photos are by Jan S. Gephardt.

Celebrate Thanksgiving with your KaCSFFS friends

What: KaCSFFS Thanksgiving dinner
When: Saturday, November 19, 2016, from 6-9:30 p.m.
Where: The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, MO 64111

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Food: KaCSFFS provides turkeys with trimmings: stuffing and gravy, plus tableware. Members bring the rest! Sign up on the KaXFEN list, or email KaCSFFS. 

Every year, this is one of our best-attended meetings! Everyone is welcome! We shall feast, pass out membership cards (yes, Jimmy, we said membership cards!), and play tabletop games after the food has been devoured. Bring your favorite games, foods, etc., and join the party! 

Here's a glimpse of the 2015 dessert table. Consider bringing something for this year!

Like locusts, we typically leave no leftovers. This was only one of the turkeys in 2015.

There's usually a line, but the line moves pretty fast. It doesn't do, to get between KaXFEN and food.

After supper, let the games begin! We depend on members to bring favorites! Card games are welcome, too!

IMAGES: all photos are by Jan S. Gephardt--all rights reserved.

Annual Thanksgiving Feast set for November 21

What: KaCSFFS Thanksgiving Meeting

Where: The WritersPlace

3607 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, MO 64111

When: Saturday, November 21, 2015

5:30 Board of Directors—open meeting

6:00 Doors open for setup and pre-meeting socializing.
6:30 Let the feasting begin!

Setting up tables and finding spots to sit.

Fandom meets Tradition

Over the decades the potluck KaCSFFS Thanksgiving Meeting has become one of the best-attended meetings of the year. (What can we say? SF fen love to eat!).

We all contribute to the meal.

Bring a salad, side, or dessert (there's a sign-up message on the KaCSFFS Google Group), and beverage of your choice. KaCSFFS provides turkey, as well as tableware, plates, cups, napkins, etc.

Let the feasting begin!

IMAGES: Many thanks to Ty Gephardt and Jan Gephardt for the photos from previous KaCSFFS Thanksgiving Meetings.

KaCSFFS Thanksgiving: November 15, 2014

ALERT: The most recent forecast predicts lesser amounts of snow. The meeting WILL BE HELD as scheduled.

Join us for Food and Fun

Who: All KAXFEN

What: The annual KaCSFFS Thanksgiving party and November meeting 

When: Saturday, November 15, beginning at 7:00 pm, set-up starts at 6:00.

Where:The Writer's Place 

3607 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, MO 64111

Why: The Thanksgiving meeting is traditionally our largest of the year. In addition to the excellent opportunity to hang out with our friends, we have three excellent reasons to come in 2014:

Chair Massages!

Jesse Thomas

A new feature this year will be an offering of chair massages by licensed massage therapist Jesse Thomas. 

Let him help you relax before the holiday rush! He will bring his own massage chair and set up on the landing. Massages are $1 per minute, for a minimum of 10 minutes (He can take cash, checks or credit cards). 

Jesse also is an artist who often works with fantasy themes, and he is an enthusiastic Whovian.

Directories!

All dues-paid members who attend the Thanksgiving meeting may pick up a printed copy of the KaCSFFS Directory (just in time for holiday cards, if you send them). 

The Board approved a budget for them at the October meeting. This will be the first printed Directory since September 2011. If you can’t attend the November meeting but are a dues-paid member and still want one, you may pick up your copy at a later meeting. 

There will literally be one with your name on it.

And of course, the Food!

For the feast, KaCSFFS provides turkey, plates, cups, flatware and napkins. 

It’s up to the members to fill in with beverages and side dishes. 

Please post your food or beverage selection on the KAXFEN list, so we can make sure there’s a nice variety. Thanks very much.

IMAGE CREDITS: Many thanks to the Inhabitant website for the cornucopia photo. We also recommend this site for news and insights on environmental issues, "green" design, and lots more. We acquired the image of Jesse Thomas from his Facebook page. The first image of a table with food is from the Ashlee Marie blog post, "Thanksgiving Table Settings and Food Labels." The second is from the Modern Architecture Decorating Ideas Blog post, "Dining Table with Food."