# Event Details - **Event Name**: GP Dinner #194 | Context on Animism - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 10:00 pm - **Event Description**: GP Dinner #194 | Context on AnimismAbout this Event https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/976fdaf0-ee06-11f0-85e6-27bcc0c427f1-rimg-w987-h740-dc79765e-gmir.jpg WHAT: GP Dinner #194 | Context on AnimismWHERE: Jeremy's Loft, 54 Washburn Street, San Francisco, CA 94103WHEN: 6:00 to 10:00pm on February 24th, 2026PLEASE NOTE: ATTENDANCE LIMITED TO FIRST 40 PEOPLE WHO SECURE A TICKET HERE. YOU'RE WELCOME TO GIFT OR TRANSFER YOUR SPOT TO A FRIEND IF YOUR PLANS CHANGE. JUST LET US KNOW IN ADVANCE.Please join us for our 194th dinner on February 24th at Jeremy's Loft in San Francisco.Expect cocktails at 6:00 and our speaker around 6:45 with a family style feast introduced around 7:00, prepared by our professional chef. Wines will be thoughtfully paired with the menu.ATTIRE: Attire is relaxed and informal.About Good People Dinners: GP Dinners is a community built around meaningful ​conversations and delicious feasts, a moveable social club for those who value authenticity, a better way to connect with each other. We are also an event production business and regularly create tailored dinner series for a wide range of companies and organizations.Our dinners are hosted at a variety of venues in the Bay Area, at Camp Earnest near Yosemite NP and around the country and the world. Every dinner includes a speaker on a topic of wide ranging interest and a chef prepared feast. Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/979a4650-ee06-11f0-9e43-d5b27bbded88-rimg-w555-h740-dcd0c6bd-gmir.jpg OUR SPEAKER:On February 24th our friend Context (Joshua Kauffman) will join us for an intimate conversation that will be both playful and revealing.Context will share the inner path which blossomed into his own way of sensing and inhabiting the world. A perceptual ecology was born.  Life itself was revivified, becoming responsive and participatory.How does one arrive at a perceptual frame where nothing is inert and everything bears meaning? How has this animist and panentheist orientation, alongside an open embrace of sensuous and relational life, shaped the agendas of the organizations Context has helped to guide?At the heart of this story is a quiet but consequential shift: what does it mean to relinquish an inherited, illusory sense of isolated human choice-making, and instead attune one’s life to the intelligence, needs, and well-being of living ecosystems? And how might this reorientation become a liberatory practice for all of us, and for the vast web of relationships that sustain and enrich them?For those who don’t yet know Context, his life has moved fluidly among worlds from artist, advisor, graduate-school instructor, to venture capitalist. The consistent thread has been a lifetime devoted to human and planetary health and flourishing.Central to this story is Context’s experience as co-founder of the animist family office Ground Effect, now known as Through this and related work, he brings a rare vantage on directing capital in service of living systems, and supporting new science and ventures in biodiversity and regeneration that invite deeper participation in life’s relational processes.Earlier, Context was part of the founding team of the Quantified Self, a seminal techno-social movement that helped catalyze today’s fervor around biohacking, longevity, and functional medicine. He has also led award-winning design consultancies in places such as Rwanda, Cuba, and Kenya, working across city design, urban mobility, public art, and innovation for development.How does a life transform when one begins to listen with greater amplitude?What lessons in Context’s story might inform our own repatterning of our lives? https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/97cbdda0-ee06-11f0-9e43-d5b27bbded88-rimg-w987-h740-dcddd3c0-gmir.jpg OUR CHEF:Our friend Eric Minnich is a Bay Area-based private chef with Michelin-level training, specializing in fresh, seasonal ingredients.Eric has worked with acclaimed chefs like Traci Des Jardins and Michael Mina and helped open nationally recognized restaurants.With a passion for innovation, he collaborates with food companies to refine their products and leads the creation of unique dining experiences. Eric’s approach to food is simple, elegant and ingredient-driven. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/97ebc1b0-ee06-11f0-9e43-d5b27bbded88-rimg-w987-h740-dc604632-gmir.jpg OUR MENU:To be announced soon.---------------------Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/98136df0-ee06-11f0-9e43-d5b27bbded88-rimg-w987-h740-dcc1c4bb-gmir.jpg Drinks at 6:00, dinner at 7:00. Though a cocktail and some wine will be provided, guests are welcome to bring a bottle of wine to share.Menu update will come soon to help you choose your bottles. We always make sure vegetarian friends will have plenty to eat. Please contact Raman or Karin in advance if you have any other dietary restrictions.If you are wondering how you were included in this invitation, or would like to be removed, please contact ramanfrey@gmail.comTo sign up for future events, please register atwww.gpdinners.comTo learn more about the former summer camp we've purchased and refurbished near Yosemite, please visit us here. Camp Earnest is available for a campus buyout for groups from 15 to 75 guests at a time.www.campearnest.com https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/983bdd80-ee06-11f0-8e8e-5bcd825ff445-rimg-w987-h740-dc161618-gmir.jpg Above: Jaron Lanier speaks at a recent GP Dinner in support of the Gray Area Arts Foundation.Agenda?: 06:00 PM - 07:00 PMHappy Hour and Mingling?: 07:00 PM - 07:30 PMSpeaker's story?: 07:30 PM - 08:30 AMFamily style dinner is served?: 08:30 PM - 09:00 PMDessert is served, Q&A with speaker - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/san-francisco/gp-dinner-194-|-context-on-animism/100001980029105355 - **Event Categories**: food-drinks, art, summer-camps, workshops, health-wellness, kids, business - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 2 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fgp-dinner-194-context-on-animism-tickets-1980029105355 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 135.23, max: 161.9, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: San Francisco - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: 54 Washburn St - **lat**: 37.7751125 - **long**: -122.4144065 - **full address**: 54 Washburn St, 54 Washburn Street, San Francisco, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Raman Frey (https://allevents.in/org/raman-frey/17719260) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/0b70c17484b794f5491e3ca5437c6aa02d1593589e69bab51f594d8c143c6bb5-rimg-w1200-h800-dc191611-gmir.jpg?v=1768037255 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/e187eb14b753f0d3a8f32b539f60e99be26b0880e2344319ecf0d8678b1df7ab-rimg-w400-h400-dc2e1e11-gmir.jpg?v=1768037255 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** 54 Washburn St, 54 Washburn Street, San Francisco, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 135.23 up to 161.9 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Raman Frey - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** food-drinks, art, summer-camps, workshops, health-wellness, kids, business - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about GP Dinner #194 | Context on Animism ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "GP Dinner #194 | Context on Animism", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/0b70c17484b794f5491e3ca5437c6aa02d1593589e69bab51f594d8c143c6bb5-rimg-w1200-h800-dc191611-gmir.jpg?v=1768037255", "startDate": "2026-02-24", "endDate": "2026-02-24", "url": "https://allevents.in/san-francisco/gp-dinner-194-|-context-on-animism/100001980029105355", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "54 Washburn St", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "54 Washburn Street", "postalCode": "94103", "addressLocality": "San Francisco", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "37.7751125", "longitude": "-122.4144065" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "GP Dinner #194 | Context on Animism", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "2026-02-24", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "lowPrice": "135.23", "highPrice": "161.90", "price": "135.23", "url": "https://allevents.in/san-francisco/gp-dinner-194-|-context-on-animism/100001980029105355" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/san-francisco/gp-dinner-194-|-context-on-animism/100001980029105355", "price": "161.90", "name": "General Admission" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/SoldOut", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/san-francisco/gp-dinner-194-|-context-on-animism/100001980029105355", "price": "135.23", "name": "EARLY BIRD" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Raman Frey", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/raman-frey/17719260", "description": "\r\n\r\n\r\n“We would like to build a future that works for everyone, where biodiversity is rebounding, where people see their role as magnanimous stewards of wealth, not just looking for ways to indulge.”\r\nFor the last eighteen years, Raman Frey has started businesses with friends and served as an advisor or board member at a variety of organizations, including YBCA, Epicenter Arts and a host of tech startups. As an event producer, public speaker, moderator and interviewer, Raman thrives off improvisation. He loves real civil discourse amongst people with opposing points of view.\r\nRaman was a founding partner of The Bureau, a benefit corporation, advisory and startup accelerator operating at the intersection of blockchain technologies and ESG (environmental, social and governance) impact.\r\nIn January, 2019, Raman took one month alone in a yurt near Yosemite to write the first draft of his book manuscript, tentatively titled Mount Commerce: Beginnings of Incentive System Design. Incentive System Design is thinking differently and comprehensively about how we shape our own and one anothers’ behaviors and designing systems that guide those behaviors in desired directions, particularly our choices as participants in an economy.  ISD seeks to propagate greater human equality, restrained production and consumption, regeneration and equilibrium in natural systems at scale.  \r\nRaman is also the founder of Good People Dinners, a Bay Area community focused on meaningful conversations, usually over food and drink. These dinners, corporate salons, overnights and retreats bring together professional chefs and fascinating speakers on a wide range of topics. 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