Help us keep
setting the table.
A Supra is a Georgian feast led by a Tamada. Food and wine cover the table. The Tamada leads a series of toasts, and guests answer with stories, memories, songs, blessings, and their own words. American Supra is First Things Foundation’s work of teaching and practicing Supra in America.
A new table needs a Host willing to open the door and a Tamada ready to lead it. American Supra teaches and forms Tamadas, brings Hosts and Tamadas together, and supports the coordination, travel, and tools that turn an invitation into a real table. Your gift sustains that work and helps put more Supra tables into the world.
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We are guests abroad and hosts at home.
First Things learned abroad to enter another person’s place as a guest. Our field workers live close to local people, learn the language, receive what is offered, and stay long enough to become trusted. The projects that follow begin with people who already know their own place.
At home, we practice the other side of hospitality: opening the table and welcoming others. American Supra brings that practice into American life.
A table can become a beginning.
A Host opens the table and a Tamada guides the toasts. Guests eat, drink, give thanks, remember, tell stories, laugh, grieve, and raise a glass together.
A name becomes a story. The person across from you becomes someone whose joys, burdens, family, and life you begin to know. That knowledge can grow into care and responsibility for one another, as strangers begin to become neighbors.
The work between
the tables.
A good Tamada learns to serve a room: to read the people around the table, give quieter guests room to speak, and know when to speak and when to leave silence. He guides the toasts through gratitude, memory, honor, friendship, and family. That judgment develops through teaching, practice, correction, and time alongside experienced Tamadas at real tables.
American Supra also helps Hosts, Tamadas, restaurants, and local partners find one another and turn an invitation into a gathering. That work begins before the first toast and continues after the last glass is raised.
What your gift supports.
A Host or Partner may pay for the services a particular table receives. Your gift sustains the work beyond that engagement: teaching and forming Tamadas, coordinating people and places, covering travel and logistics when First Things bears them, and maintaining the tools American Supra needs to bring more tables into being.
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already
happening.
Keipi Restaurant (opens a new tab) in Greenville is the Home of the American Supra, where people encounter the tradition around real tables.
Through Art of Tamada (opens a new tab), First Things teaches people the craft of leading those tables well.
Hosts are opening their doors. Tamadas are learning and serving. Restaurants and local partners are making room for Supra in their own communities.
What is learned at one table can be handed on to another.
Set the
next
table.
Another Host opens the door, another Tamada takes his place, and another table fills with food, wine, stories, gratitude, memory, and people who may not have known one another before. Your gift helps set that table.
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