The following was posted on Facebook by Sarah Manley on 19 March 2015 at 09:32. Despite repeated efforts to get her to start a blog where she can make her excellent writing available to the general public she continues to post them as Facebook Notes. This one is so relevant to an earlier post on Active Voice, “Caviar fantasies and champagne dreams”: The imagined community of #DinerEnBlanc in Kingston, that i had to repost it here…

One thing i’ve noticed in some of the bumph attached to this event is a reference to it as “the start of a social movement”. Would love to hear more about this, was there some kind of social motive or rationale behind the hedonistic display of Diner en Blanc? Anyone know anything?

With this piece Sarah Manley has certainly declared herself a powerful voice for social reformation, perhaps following in the footsteps…