Curtis Gibbs - Meanwhile, Back at Cafe Du Monde...
Channel: capocvideo
Date: 17/10/2017

Community Action Partnership of Orange County (CAPOC) kicked off their Hope for the Holidays with Meanwhile, Back at Café Du Monde... The event is a festive monologue about the 2nd universal language: food. All proceeds went to the OC Food Bank, a program of CAPOC

To support our OC Food Bank, please visit www.OCFoodBank.org/donate

Date: Sunday, October 1, 2017
Location: Old Ranch Country Club
Storyteller: Curtis Gibbs
Title: "What Happened to the Lox and Whitefish: A Hanukah Story"

Storyteller Profile:
Curtis Gibbs, Director of Planning and Fund Development, in his 18 months at CAPOC, has worked on a number of food related initiatives.  While at the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles, he founded and managed the ExperienceLA web and related social media project in partnership with the Los Angeles County Art Commission and the Los Angeles Tourism office (previously known as the LA Convention and Visitor’s Bureau).  This project launched in 2003 was among the first to promote cultural tourism and transit with an emphasis on Los Angeles farmers markets, and is now fully merged into the LA Tourism website.  In his spare time, he would prepare blog pieces for ExperienceLA related to food and music, including the launch of Food Forward in Los Angeles.  Some of his food and farmers market pictures have been published online and in print material, and were used for the launch of the Food Forward website.  Today, Curtis Gibbs, is a reknown “foodie” on social media, and he has been barbequing and smoking meat and fish for decades.  He has travelled to Louisiana over 30 times in the last eleven years, and a visit to New Orleans must always include a visit to Café du Monde.