[SILVERS](http://www.thesilvers.dk) brings the knowledge and life experience of active seniors into communities through **dinners and 1:1 conversations**.

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We are a platform where seniors can sign up to **host experiences and share their expertise**, making their wisdom accessible to others.

The Telegraph, UK: “It's like Hygge with a side of life experience. “

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Karen Blincoe PhD, has spent over 30 years working at the highest level of sustainability, education and design. She has pioneered sustainability initiatives such as founding the ICIS Center, and co-founder of Chora 2030 in Denmark, and has been Director of Schumacher College in Devon UK. She published her book: **Achieving Sustainability: The Ultimate Human Challenge in 2022**, and helped shape national agendas.

But what stands out is her presence: Clear, generous and brave as ever.

Looking back on her life, she says: “Everything I was exposed to in childhood - the stories, the nature, the learning environment - became a foundation for a life of education, culture and sustainability.“

But that life did not unfold in a straight line. Karen always followed her intuition, and that led her to places she could never have planned.

**About the Seminar Dinner**

Now she is opening her design home in Hornbæk for a seminar dinner with a focus on sustainability. It is both a lecture and an invitation to honest, human reflections on the essence of sustainability, and how it can shape our lives.

After decades of working with sustainability, Karen is still brave enough to question her core assumptions, asking: Is sustainability even possible?

But this dinner is also about her life's process, how she sees the world, and how you do too.

**Human Tip:** Karen has the ability to make complicated ideas sound simple. You'll leave this evening with a greater understanding of the essence of sustainability, and what is required for its implementation.

**ABOUT SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinner: See expert Karen Blincoe's sustainable world

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Elisabeth has over 40 years of experience working across cultures and building community. She originated from the youth rebellion and was active for many years in the women's movement, and is still a feminist! She has been part of Christiania since 1985, in her blue house that grew out of 3 ‘shacks’. She is a dancer, singer, drummer and teacher of African dance.

Elisabeth has taken over 30 trips to different African countries, and has a close connection to Ghana, where she owns a house outside Accra. Here she helped found the dance group Folkloric Selamta at The Art Center of Ghana and has organised many cultural exchanges between groups in Denmark and Ghana throughout the years.

**About Dinner**

Join Elisabeth for an evening of vegetarian food in her home. Here you will experience what it is like to live in Christiania. She will first show you around her house and garden (when the weather allows!) and invite you to connect with topics that are close to her heart: how it is to live a sustainable life, spiritually and physically.

Elisabeth enjoys hearing from her guests, what you are occupied with right now, and why you have chosen to come. Come with an open mind and all the questions you can think of, to get some new life perspectives from a woman full of wisdom and humour.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinners: Dinner in Elisabeth's Tiny Home in Christiania

Mikael Colville-Andersen has spent over 30 years observing, shaping, and telling stories about cities. As an urban designer and host of *The Life-Sized City*, his work has taken him to more than 100 cities around the world, exploring how cities actually work when they are designed for people, not systems.

Everything Mikael does is driven by the simple idea: cities should make life better for the people who live in them. His career spans urban planning, bicycle culture, design, photography and filmmaking, always rooted in observation, curiosity, and real human behaviour.

In recent years, this work has taken him to Ukraine, where he has volunteered since 2022, applying urban thinking in the middle of war – from tactical urbanism to spaces designed for trauma recovery and care. And navigating it all - and everything else - with his own anxiety disorder, PTSD and ADHD.

Learn more about Mikael here: <https://www.colville-andersen.com/>

**About the Evening**

This is a rare chance to spend an evening with a true change-maker, in an extended Silvers format designed to go deeper.

Mikael welcomes guests into his home for a longer, more relaxed gathering that feels closer to friends coming over than a traditional dinner event. Over dinner and conversation, with time to explore his home, he will share his stories from a life spent observing cities up close. 

Mikael wants the evening to feel like *high-energy hygge*: curious, open, and conversational. There will be space to really get to know one another, ask questions, and let the evening unfold naturally.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with experienced people, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinner: An evening with Mikael Colville-Andersen

Dorte has over 30 years of experience as a scenographer, artist, and storyteller, creating spaces that spark imagination and reflection.

She began her career at Riddersalen with Jytte Abildstrøm and has since designed performances that bring real stories to life — including *The Witch’s Testament*, which honoured the voices of women accused of witchcraft in Denmark.

Curious by nature, Dorte’s interests span crafts, rituals, songs, and the transitions that shape both people and societies. She sees creativity as something far more than art, as a way of making sense of the world.

**About Dinner**

Over a homemade meal at her Frederiksberg home, Dorte will share stories from her life on and off stage, and invite guests to explore how creativity — in any form — can open new ways of thinking, connecting, and moving forward.

Expect a dinner that feels both intimate and imaginative, guided by a thoughtful host who knows how to turn an evening into an experience.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinner: Behind the scenes with Dorte

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Niels Wamberg is a Danish architect, artist, photographer, traveler, and filmmaker, known for his boundless creativity and inspiring spirit. With an honorary membership from Indiana Architects and a passion for cinema that led him to study in New York at the age of 70, Niels is a true visionary.

He created more than 40 documentaries showcasing humanity, architecture and gastronomy around the world. Today, Niels is part Copenhagen's Radio Jazz (which has existed since 1987) and also serves as the chairman of an artist association and creates sculptures.

Niels invites you to his home filled with art, sculptures, photography, and his beloved pipe collection, right in the heart of Copenhagen facing the magnificent Marmorkirken. This is a rare chance to step into the living space of one of Denmark’s most quietly extraordinary creatives and spend an evening surrounded by the objects, stories, and memories that have shaped his life.

**Human tip**: Niels drinks more than 10 espressos a day and loves sharing letters with friends.

Open house: Inside a filmmaker's home with Niels

Gillian was born in Guyana and now lives in Aarhus. She brings both her South American roots and more than 40 years of experience from different continents with her to the dinner table.

Guyana is known as a melting pot of cultures -- indigenous, Indian, African, Chinese and European -- and the country's food reflects that mix. Gillian grew up learning how to make dishes from different traditions, from curries and noodles to pepper pot, the beloved cassava stew of her native heritage.

Gillian has covered many areas in her life: from studies in chemical engineering and teaching to volunteering and advocating for women's health. She is deeply curious about philosophy, politics and the world. Warm and welcoming, Gillian has always loved being a host -- once she dreamed of opening a cafe to share the Caribbean hospitality.

**At noon**

For dinner, she combines a Guyanese-inspired meal with stories from her life: moving to Denmark at 19, building a career in teaching and academia, and dealing with challenges with resilience and curiosity. Gillian is a natural storyteller who loves good conversations, food and togetherness.

**ABOUT SILVERS**

SILVERS is a platform based in Copenhagen that connects guests with the older generation's knowledge of dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creative individuals, executives and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders or simply amazing hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinners: A Taste of Guyana with Gillian

Alison has over 30 years of experience working with people and their environments. After a long career in HR, she shifted her focus into wellbeing and space — training as a Yin Yoga teacher, Reiki Master, and declutter coach. Today, she helps people create homes where energy flows and the space supports the person living in it.

She lives in Limhamn, Malmo in a calm, thoughtfully designed home that she and her husband created together — a space built to feel good to be in.\
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**About Dinner**

This evening is shaped around a simple, personal question: '*Is your home supporting you, or stressing you?'* Over a homemade meal, Alison will invite guests into a conversation about how design impacts your personal energy, and encourage you to reflect on your own home and the rooms you gravitate towards and which rooms you avoid. 

Alison will share her knowledge on how to make space feel restful rather than draining, and how small adjustments can shift how you feel in your own home, and contribute to wellbeing, clarity, and calm.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories. Alison is Malmo's first Silver!

Silvers Dinner: Design and Energy with Alison

Get inspired by the man of many colors in a fantastic and authentic dinner at Henriks Atelier. Immerse yourself in his art, creative spark, and unique lifestyle surrounded by nature.

Henrik built his world in the heart of Christiania - where he has been a working artist for over five decades, creating a place with its own rules. Here he will show you his lifestyle in one of the most interesting societies in the world.

Henrik, a highly regarded creator, has spent over fifty years creating living paintings throughout Denmark, Italy and the world. Known for defying conventions and achieving success, Henrik is an artist who surprises. Discover the essence of a true moment maker!

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinners: In the studio with Henrik Schütze

Mikael Tosti has over 40 years of experience across architecture, music, theatre, and composition. Born in Odense, he later moved to Aarhus (the cultural capital of the time) and became deeply involved in the music scene while studying architecture. 

He discovered how naturally the two fields connect, and began working in theatre production and stage design, using well-known spaces in completely new ways to create ambitious outdoor performances. 

His life continued to revolve around music, theatre, and architecture. He wrote records, toured as part of Danish trio *Tundra* through Latin America, and collaborated with musicians across Cuba, Venezuela, Peru, and Norway. 

In the mid-90s Mikael moved to Copenhagen, where he studied contemporary music composition and continued to experiment – especially with the shift from analog to digital. The shift spawned many questions and led to a PhD thesis which explored the core question for many contemporary creators: “**How do digital tools change our understanding of the material we work with?**” 

It's a relevant question for all of us, whether you're an artist, social worker or entrepreneur. As Mikael says: "When you write music by hand, you have touched every detail, but digitally you can suddenly create works that you only have to get to know afterwards".

Today Mikael also works in analogue and digital as a director in TJAEK, which has contractors and craftsmen as customers.

**About the Dinner**\
Over dinner in his Amagerbrø home, Mikael will explore the idea of a “life’s red thread” – the themes, decisions, and tools that shape who we become. He will share stories from a career that crosses art forms and continents, and open a conversation about intuition, creativity, and how the tools we use influence what we make.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinner: Where Music Meets Architecture with Mikael

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Jacqui has over 30 years experience working with change on many levels – from shifting societal norms and transforming organisational culture to understanding individual behaviours in order to influence them.

Originally from the UK, Jacqui spent much of her career working in global health from Bangladesh, Ghana, Tanzania to Georgia and Moldova to reduce inequalities in health. She has developed and led communication campaigns to create social change and promote behaviours on many issues including HIV, immunisation, gender violence, maternal and child health, and COVID, working at every level: within communities, in the media, with technology, and with governments. More recently Jacqui trained as a coach and works with people to manage and adopt change in their professional work lives.

Jacqui lives with her Danish husband Lars in a historic Christianshavn home, famously known as the *Lagkagehuset* building that inspired the name of the bakery chain. This is where she will host her Silvers Dinner.

**About Dinner**

Over a homemade meal, Jacqui will share her experience of working to create change – and the social and individual impact it can have. She’ll also open a conversation about how norms shape behaviour, and the things we can’t easily change in our environment that are, in turn, changing us.

Jacqui wants this evening to be a relaxed and interesting conversation, a chance to exchange views and reflect together on what drives change in our own lives and societies, and what it means to us.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinners: Creating Change with Jacqui

Mette describes herself as a “world citizen with Danish blood in her veins”, she is an entrepreneur, writer and loves deep conversations that don't follow the mainstream. For over 45 years, Mette has worked across cultures, mentoring others, building communities, and guiding people in self-expression through writing.

She has spent her life moving between countries, collecting experiences, perspectives, and art from every corner of the world. She believes that “home is not a place, but something you carry with you wherever you go. “

**About Dinner**

Serving up an Asian-inspired meal from the places she's lived, Mette invites you into conversation about belonging, change and what it means to build a life across cultures. Come curious about conversation and walk with new perspectives from a Danish woman who has spent her life exploring, thinking, and finding her authentic self.

Mette serves a homemade dish and then gives contestants the chance to explore their life stories in a small writing exercise led by her that showcases all her experience and wisdom she has gained around the world.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinners: Being a World Citizen with Mette

Have you ever been curious about astrology or spirituality, but never quite known where to start? With over 40 years of experience in astrology, teaching, and design Jette has spent her life exploring creativity, transformation, and the deeper patterns that shape who we are.

Jette grew up in Copenhagen, trained as a designer in Kolding, and has worked across theatre, teaching, and community projects – experiences that deepened her understanding of people, culture, and change.

Astrology has been part of Jette’s life since she was 16. Today, she works as a qualified astrologer, specialising in esoteric astrology, an approach that focuses on a person’s higher purpose and inner development, rather than daily events or personality traits.

**About Dinner**

At her dinner, Jette offers a gentle introduction to astrology – what it is, how it works, and how it can open new ways of understanding yourself and the world around you. The evening is personal and interactive: guests are invited to bring their own questions about astrology or their star signs, and Jette will help explore what these might reveal about patterns, purpose, and perspective.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinners: An Introduction to Astrology with Jette

Birgitte has spent her life trying to make things happen. She leads with drive and initiative, turning ideas into reality wherever she goes.

She was the first in her family to attend high school, then university, where she studied music and was introduced to the opera stage. This led to many years on stage as an opera singer in Germany, Denmark and Sweden.

Later Birgitte chose a different kind of life. She left Copenhagen for Falster, attracted by the idea of community, closeness and building something of her own. There she bought an old missionary house and turned it into a small concert hall where she now hosts performances of the music she loves - modern music, chamber music and jazz.

**About Dinner**

People are often curious about how an opera singer ended up in the Danish countryside. This is the story Birgitte wants to share over dinner in her concert hall. She wants to challenge the idea that nothing happens outside Copenhagen, show the life she has built, and inspire others who are curious to choose a different rhythm in their lives.

Expect honest and open conversation, enjoyed with some music!

**About Silvers**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinner: A life in the province with Birgitte

Marianne & Henning has over 30 years of experience in building community. They live in a senior collective in Roskilde, designed and built in 2009 with a focus on architecture and collective life, it has a waiting list of several years to join. It is inspired by research on housing for active seniors in Japan, the Netherlands, Canada and Denmark. It's a community designed and run by the people who live there.

They have been married for over 50 years. Marianne is known in the community for her cooking, especially Italian food, which she has spent years learning and adapting. Their children live in Italy, so she also speaks some Italian. Henning is an education leader who enjoys showing people how the collective works: the shared spaces, the balance of the facilities and the mix of independence and community.

**At dinner**

Before dinner they give a short tour around their community and explain how society works, then sit around the table and share a home-cooked meal and conversations about the main themes from their lives.

They have been hosting company for many decades now, and they like to talk about food, life, and what makes a 50 year marriage work. For them, joy comes from the choices they make and their life priorities.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinners: Collective community living with Marianne and Henning

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Our personality is the axis around which all our behaviour is shaped – influencing how we act, connect, and find motivation throughout life.

With over 40 years of experience in leadership, motivation, and human behaviour, Karin and Bo have built companies, written books, and guided others through growth and change –  always driven by curiosity about what makes us who we are.

The couple first met 50 years ago while working at a telephone company – Karin on the day shift, Bo on the night – crossing paths at 4pm and never parting since! Together they have lived a full and varied life, travelling across six continents, meeting people from all walks of life, and asking questions wherever they go.

**About Dinner**

Over dinner in their Vesterbro home, Karin and Bo invite you to join a conversation about how our personalities shape the way we move through life – the strengths they give us, the challenges they bring, and how understanding ourselves can help us when looking both forward or back.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinner: Understanding Ourselves with Karin & Bo

With over 50 years of experience building community across cultures, Nadia has lived a life shaped by daring – daring to do things her own way, going beyond cultural expectations, and building her own way of belonging in Denmark.

Born in Cairo, Nadia moved to Europe in her early twenties. Along the way she learned Danish in one year, adopted children at a time when it was uncommon in her community, and built a social life from scratch: starting women’s gatherings, sports groups, and language circles.

Nadia is someone who does not wait to be invited in – she creates the space. As she says: **“You can make it in Denmark, but you have to give the first hand.”**

She is living proof of her own philosophy: over 30 years ago, she gathered a small group of women for tennis – and to this day, they still meet every Wednesday to play, share dinner, and talk late into the evening.

For Nadia, curiosity, continuity, and openness are the foundations of a good life. She has always found her own way through challenges and change by daring to be herself – fully, openly, and without apology.

**About Dinner**

In her home in Hellerup, Nadia welcomes 6–8 guests for a homemade Egyptian meal and an evening about daring – and building the life you want.

Nadia is a warm and generous host who loves to ask questions and draw people into conversation. She will share her own turning points and invite guests to reflect on theirs – the times they dared, or the moments they didn’t.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinners: Daring to do it your way with Nadia

Lian's dinners aren't about her, they're about you.

As a guide to storytelling and deep listening circles, Lian creates an atmosphere where people feel deeply connected to themselves, to their own stories, and to each other.

Her circles are built around *connection*: the quiet, human experience of being heard, seen, and understood without judgment.

Lian calls herself a Silver Crone - an elderly woman with lived wisdom and a steady presence. Her role is not to talk about herself, but to keep a space where your voice, your reflections, and your insights can unfold naturally.

No storytelling experience is necessary - just come as you are.

Lian's work is shaped by her Malaysian-Chinese heritage, her sensitivity to human stories, and her background in writing. She is the author of *My Bumpy Ride to Inner Peace, A Listening Grandmother* and is currently completing her third book, *A Forgiving Grandmother - My Path of Alchemy*. 

**About dinner**

Serving a home-cooked Malaysian meal, Lian draws on decades of expertise to invite meaningful conversation around themes such as identity, self-discovery and finding inner peace.

Her conviction is simple: we already have the answers we need, we just need to speak from the heart and be true witnesses. In her dinners, she makes it happen. You will leave with:

• Greater clarity about the reality you are creating\
• Deeper trust in your own voice\
• The experience of being truly heard\
• Meaningful connection with others

Each gathering is shaped by those present. No two evenings are the same.

**ABOUT SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinners: Malaysian Food & Storytelling with Lian

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Henning has over 30 years of experience in education, community building, and active aging. He lives with his wife Marianne in a senior collective in Roskilde - a community they helped shape when it was built in 2009. Designed around shared spaces, collaboration, and neighbourly responsibility, it has since become a model for modern senior living in Denmark, with a growing waiting list each year.

Henning is deeply involved in the collective’s working groups, including the economy committee. He is passionate about how communities function, how people live well together, and how engagement keeps us active throughout life. He loves meeting new people and hearing what they care about, what drives them, and how they understand community in their own lives.

**About Dinner** 

Before the meal, Henning will give a short tour of the collective and explain how the community works — its shared spaces, its routines, and the balance between independence and living with others in mind. Afterwards, you’ll sit down to a homemade meal and a conversation shaped by the themes that matter to him and Marianne: aging with purpose, building meaningful connections, and creating environments where people thrive together.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a platform based in Copenhagen that connects guests with the senior generation's knowledge over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creative individuals, executives and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders or simply amazing hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinner: Active aging with Henning

Garba is a man of the world with over 40 years working in storytelling across cultures. In 1994, Garba founded his own NGO in Copenhagen, known today as Crossing Borders, where he made it his everyday philosophy to use his voice and dialogue to make the world a more connected place. 

If you have ever wondered how to become better at telling your own life story, be sure to participate in this experience, and learn from someone who has told their story on every corner of the world and who makes it their philosophy to tell their story with their words and actions every day.

**About Dinner**

Garba will welcome you in his home, serve a homemade meal, and start telling his own amazing story, then he opens up the storytelling to everyone. Along the way, participants will be able to enjoy food and wine together, connected on a cozy night surrounded by others. Garba lives in Helsingør (a direct train ride from Nørreport).

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Seminar Dinner: Tell your story with Garba

Claire is an artist and lecturer with a background in sustainability, creativity and cross-cultural exchange. Join an evening at her lakeside house on Østerbro, where you will experience Jamaican food and storytelling.

Claire is originally from Jamaica but has lived in Denmark for more than three decades. She has been working with recycled materials for over 40 years, mentoring students and bringing people together through hands-on learning. She loves to experiment and her philosophy is simple: “Nine out of ten times it may not work, but once it does, it's better than you could have imagined. “

She is one of the most creative individuals we have been lucky enough to meet in this project and she is always thinking about what she can invent or create from scratch.

**About Dinner**

The evening features a homemade Jamaican dinner: savoury and sweet toppings on traditional water biscuits for starters, a vegetarian main course, Jamaican coffee and a simple dessert. \
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You'll eat together and connect while Claire plays Jamaican music and shares stories from her life in Jamaica. The atmosphere is informal, curious and marked by Claire's own life experiences and perspective.

**ABOUT SILVERS**

SILVERS is a platform based in Copenhagen that connects guests with the older generation's knowledge of dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creative individuals, executives and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders or simply amazing hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinners: Jamaican Food & Stories with Claire

***Events sell out fast. Sign up to the waiting list for future dates.***

**Uffe Elbæk** is inviting a small group to join him for a themed evening around the topics of his second book *"Tvivl, Håb, og Handling"* (*"Doubt, Hope, and Action")*: drawing from his personal journey across politics, culture, and social innovation. Over the evening, the group explores what it means to act with clarity in uncertain times, on a personal level, and as part of a wider society.

Uffe Elbæk served as *Denmark’s Minister of Culture* and founded both the *Kaospilot* school and the political party *Alternativet*. He is known throughout Denmark for the decades he has spent working as a social entrepreneur and changemaker across Danish society, systems, and innovation. He is a leader, entrepreneur, and educator with a consistent focus on people, creativity, and values in action.

This is not a lecture or a talk. It’s a guided, two-hour conversation around a shared table, where participants will be led by Uffe to reflect, ask questions, and exchange perspectives. Each person plays an active role.

This session takes its starting point from the first chapter of Uffe’s book Doubt, Hope, and Action, using these topics as the main starting point. Uffe will start with sharing his process and reflections, and lead the group dynamic to develop concepts together. No background knowledge is required.

**Note:** The session is part of an ongoing series from SILVERS, designed to bring life experience into shared spaces. 

**About Uffe:** Uffe Elbæk has spent over four decades shaping the cultural and political landscape in Denmark. He founded the Kaospilot school in 1991, now internationally recognised for its radical approach to leadership and entrepreneurship education, and later served as Denmark’s Minister of Culture (2011). In 2013, he launched the political party Alternativet, bringing climate, transparency, and citizen participation to the centre of Danish politics. Uffe is a changemaker, political leader, and innovative thinkier who is known for challenging traditional systems and creating new models for how Denmark leads, organises, and acts: within institutions and in public spaces.

Silvers Seminar Dinner: Horizontal Conversations with Uffe Elbæk

50+ years of cooking and creating across cultures has taught Phuong that a meal is more than nourishment - it’s a way to connect and understand one another.

She grew up in a small village in central Vietnam, where food was at the heart of daily life. From her grandmother who lived off her own vegetables until the age of 90, to her mother who taught her the rituals of respect at the table, Phuong learned early that food is about culture, nutrition, joy, and connection - a medicine for life.

Her journey later took her far from home: to Hanoi, where she ran her own tailoring shop; to Bhutan, where she taught young designers how to turn traditional textiles into modern clothing; and to the Philippines, where she earned a degree in fashion design. Since 2010, she has made Copenhagen her home, continuing her craft while building a new life in Denmark.

**About Dinner**

Phuong loves to host. Over dinner, she invites you to experience the flavours and traditions she grew up with. Together you will prepare authentic Vietnamese spring rolls, while she shares stories of her life across cultures, and experience how food becomes a way to express care, identity, and belonging.

**About SILVERS** 

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinner: Phuong's Vietnamese cuisine

Bo has over 40 years of experience in leadership, motivation and human behavior. He has spent a large part of his career in franchising and business development, including as CFO of McDonald's Denmark.

Bo has always been deeply interested in personality, the axis around which all our behavior is shaped — and which influences how we act, build relationships, and find motivation throughout life.

He and his wife Karen have co-written a book on motivation in which they explore the concept and internal drivers (related to our personality type) and the external drivers (in the form of structures and systems) with the aim of helping managers to have happy employees and increased productivity.

**About Dinner**

Over dinner at their home in Vesterbro, Bo invites you to participate in a conversation about motivation, leadership and how our personalities shape the way we move through life — the strengths they give us, the challenges they bring, and how understanding ourselves can help us when we look both forward and backward.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a platform based in Copenhagen that connects guests with the older generation's knowledge of dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creative individuals, executives and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinner: Motivation and Leadership with Bo

Lisbet and Michael organize a concept dinner for 8 guests at their home in Hørsholm, focusing on hobbies: what we build, make and do when we are fully in flow. 

Lisbet Madsen built her career as a senior consultant and international team leader in global companies including Shell, Unilever and IBM. She worked throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia, advising management teams and leading complex transformation processes. Today she exhibits ceramics and visual arts: a continuation of her desire to create and communicate with precision.

Michael Regnarsen spent nearly two decades at IBM, specializing in systems architecture, requirements analysis, and application development. Known for his structured thinking and long-term approach, he now applies the same principles to the restoration of classic mahogany boats: a practical hobby based on patience, craftsmanship and engineering logic.

**At dinner**

Together they invite 8 guests to their home for an evening built on challenges, curiosity and shared focus: guided by two people who have spent a lifetime planning, executing and finding meaning in both work and craft. Each guest is encouraged to bring a hobby to share, either physically or through words, to spark meaningful exchange and inspiration.

**ABOUT SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinners: Share your Hobby with Lisbet and Michael

The Silvers Community Dinner brings together 25 guests for a cosy evening of food, stories, and conversation. Where you can be part of what we are building and meet the Silvers community, across all ages and backgrounds.

First, Youssra tells her story of migration, her love of food and community, and later the conversation will flow naturally around the table. She will prepare a Levantine feast (dishes she learned from her mother and grandmother), including her signature rice dish Al Kapsa and the beloved dessert Warbat.

You will experience the essence of a Silvers dinner where we share food, senior knowledge, and life experience - but this time in a larger, more social setting: big community dinner style! It's a way to meet new people and connect in meaningful ways.

**About Youssra**\
Youssra grew up in Syria in a home where cooking was at the center of everything. She moved to Denmark as a youngster and spent most of her life working as an English teacher while raising a family - always in the cooking business and always taking care of people.

When she was in her 60s, she decided to follow the thread that had been there all along. She started her own catering business, Youssra's Kitchen, and now cooks full-time from her kitchen, often with music in her ears and the door open.

Youssra has a beautiful way of speaking; she's full of stories about food, migration and resilience, and now she wants to open her kitchen to share them.

**SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.**

Silvers Community Dinner: A Syrian Grandmother's Kitchen

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Birthe has spent over 60 years building her life as a mosaic artist, expert and leader, working with knowledge, creativity and every kind of mosaic material. She spent decades working in leadership, facilitation, and personal development, and now works full time as an acclaimed mosaic artist and creative guide.

Birthe is the founder of *Mosaik Magi* and *Art of Balance*. The mosaic studio she designed in Vanløse is built around her idea that creativity can open life up for people who are stuck. She uses her decades of experience to open up, and guide others.

**About Dinner**

This is a creative silvers dinner hosted by Birthe in her studio where she will share the knowledge she has gained throughout her life. Once a month, she opens up her doors for a home-cooked meal with reflection, storytelling, and a chance to learn from her life’s craft and create your own mosaic, with her expert guidance.

Over dinner, Birthe will share about her own journey, her choices, transitions and the role of creativity in her life, leadership and work. She will then teach her life's expertise: the art of mosaic. Her studio is filled with the creations she has made throughout the years.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinners: Creative evening with Birthe

Marina is an artist, collector, and creative thinker with a background in collage, sustainable art, and unconventional storytelling. She now focuses on sharing everything she has learned through years of working with materials, ideas, and people: in art and in conversation. Marina has spent over 30 years creating provocative collage artworks.

 Her work explores themes of recycling, history, gender politics, taboo, nature, and sexuality, and she is known for her highly detailed, rule-based creative process. She has exhibited her art widely and has hosted conversation salons, creative gatherings, and dinners, always making space for new ideas and perspectives. She describes her approach as ""ordered chaos"": a way of working within limitations while embracing unpredictability, whether in art, in life, or in the way strangers come together around a table.

**About Dinner**

Join for an evening at Marina’s in her home studio in Amager, where you will experience her Haitian art collection, her own art,  conversation, and the kind of gathering where strangers feel like old friends. Marina has more than 30 years of experience working with collage, collecting materials, and bringing people together. She has hosted conversation salons, creative gatherings, and dinners, always making space for other curious people and ideas.

She has a talent for finding connections between people, things, and moments. Marina will host an evening where conversation flows naturally, and maybe, if it feels right, she’ll share her collage art techniques. Her home is filled with magazines, prints, and photographs she has collected over the years, and she might invite you (if you are curious!) to explore and create something of your own.

Come and play, connect, and try something new. Leave with new perspectives, new friends, and an evening well spent. See you!

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinners: Creative gathering with Marina

Alison has over 30 years of experience building a life across cultures. Originally from Scotland, she relocated to Sweden with her family and worked as an HR director helping people to grow and connect. In recent years, she has changed direction - training as a Yin Yoga teacher, Reiki Master and declutter coach - now focusing on creating spaces and lives where energy flows and people can rest from the pace of modern life.

Alison is Malmö's first silver! She will welcome 9 guests to her home for a dinner bringing together food, culture, and conversation — celebrating the warmth of Scottish hospitality and a life lived across borders.

**About Dinner**

Celebrate Burns Night with Alison, to remember  the life and poetry of Robert Burns, the author of many Scots poems. She invites you to her home in Limhamn for an evening of traditional Scottish fayre, music and poetry. Expect haggis, stories and maybe even a few steps of Scottish dancing - all shared in good company around the dinner table.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinners: A Scottish feast with Alison in Malmö

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***Why SILVERS?***

Are you an active senior with a wealth of experience to share? Join us to connect with like-minded individuals, inspire others, and make a difference in your community.

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***Benefits***

1. **Stay curious:** Meet new people and share interests in real life
2. **Share your knowledge:** Host workshops, talks, and activities based on your passions.
3. **Earn money:** Get paid for your time and expertise

**What our Silvers think! 👇**

*- "I joined SILVERS to pass on some of my knowledge, in this case sailing, to people who might be interested. The best part of the experience was the weather, the sailing, the participation, and the interest that the people were showing."* - **Niels** Sailing experience

*- "I like the SILVERS project because I like to meet with younger people, they inspire me to live and to still go on doing new things.  I get inspired by and learn new things and put it in my own context. In this way I can find a new way to work with what I'm passionate about." -* **Hanne** Decoupage Experience

*“I joined SILVERS because I appreciate to meet and exchange with young, dedicated people. Plus it is a lovely way to introduce your work! I like the concept of SILVERS. Keep the track." - **Jesper** Winter Bathing Experience.*

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From 2025, you can come to the “Open House” and meet Jan Utzon in meaningful conversations about creativity and how architecture helps shape our lives.

This two-hour experience takes place in the home that his father, Jørn Utzon, designed for the family in 1950. Here you will have the opportunity to hear his stories and gain insight into the family's rich design heritage. The experience is created for conversation and inspiration, where you can experience his home, his art and hear about his life story. The evening is about sharing inspiration through buildings that matter to us: it's not a lecture, but a chance to create a common starting point for meaningful connections. No architectural knowledge is required.

**Program**

- Take a tour of his home and life experience.
- See his art.
- Enjoy good conversation with Jan Utzon and up to 10 other participants with snacks and beverages included.

**About Jan Utzon**:

Jan is a renowned Danish architect and the son of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jørn Utzon. He was born in Stockholm and raised in Hellebæk. Throughout his career, Jan has worked on prestigious projects worldwide, including the Sydney Opera House, and has designed over 50 buildings in countries such as Angola, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and Congo. He read architecture at the School of Architecture in Sydney (1964—66) and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (1966—1970). Today Jan follows his curiosity and creative spirit. He spends his time creating art, working on special projects and being close to his family. Experience Jan's creative mind through this event!

Open House with Jan Utzon

Jesper is a visual artist with over 40 years of experience working with photography and video. Since 2005, he has created a wide range of video works – from fiction to documentaries – often in collaboration with performers and artists across Europe. He is the co-founder of the international arts festival *Berlin Soup*, held in Berlin, Copenhagen, and Athens.

Today, much of Jesper’s artistic life revolves around *Studio 7*, situated on Amager beach. His favorite shooting hours are Sunrisetime and the blue hour at the end of the day.

You are invited into Jesper’s home and beautiful garden, nearby the beach. Guests will have a chance to see a selection of his video work and hear the stories behind it. 

Jesper is a lifelong learner with a deep love for poetry, art, and conversation – he enjoys engaging with curious people and exchanging thoughts, opinions, and ideas. 

**Human tip**: Jesper loves umbrellas, he owns over 100! They often appear in his work.

Open House: Inside an Artist’s World with Jesper (coming soon..)

Marina is an artist, collector, and creative thinker with over 30 years of experience working with collage, sustainable art, and unconventional storytelling.

Her work explores themes of recycling, history, gender politics, taboo, nature, and sexuality, and she is known for her highly detailed, rule-based creative process. She describes her approach as "ordered chaos": a way of working within limitations while embracing unpredictability, whether in art, or in life.

Her home studio in Amager is filled with her own artworks, her Haitian collection, and the materials she has gathered over decades. Guests will be able to see selected pieces, hear stories from her creative life, and explore the environment that shapes her practice. Afterwards, there will be time to create some collage of your own.

Marina loves connecting with people and creating space for conversation, curiosity, and new ideas. Her home is stacked with magazines, prints, and photographs she has collected over the years. You will get access to all of Marina's materials for the day and bring home your own artwork. 

**Human tip**: Marina ran away to Haiti as a teenager (where her Haitian art collection began!)

Open House: Inside Marina's Creative Space

Mette describes herself as a “world citizen with Danish blood in her veins.” She is an entrepreneur, writer, and facilitator of deep conversations that don’t follow the mainstream. For over 45 years, she has worked across cultures, mentoring others, building communities, and helping people express themselves through writing.

Having lived in many countries, Mette believes that *home is something you carry with you*. Her Frederiksberg apartment reflects this life - filled with art, objects, and stories gathered from a global life.

**About the Open House**

Mette welcomes a small group into her beautiful home for an afternoon of exchange and guided writing. You will tour her home, enjoy cake and coffee, and hear the life story of a world citizen.

Then through a simple writing exercise, Mette will help guests reflect on their own life stories, experiences, and turning points. No writing experience is needed - just curiosity. 

Open House: Inside Mette's World of Stories

Youssra grew up in Syria in a home where cooking was at the center of everything. She moved to Denmark as a youngster and spent most of her life working as an English teacher while raising a family - always in the cooking business and always taking care of people.

When she was in her 60s, she decided to follow the thread that had been there all along. She started her own catering business, Youssra's Kitchen, and now cooks full-time from her kitchen, often with music in her ears and the door open.

Youssra has a beautiful way of speaking; she's full of stories about food, migration and resilience, and now she wants to open her kitchen to share them.

**About Dinner**

First, Youssra tells her story of migration, her love of food and community, and later the conversation will flow naturally around the table. She will prepare a Levantine feast (dishes she learned from her mother and grandmother), including her signature rice dish Al Kapsa and the beloved dessert Warbat.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform that connects guests with the knowledge of the senior generation, over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders, or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.

Silvers Dinner: A Syrian Grandmother's Kitchen 

Lisbet and Michael are two of our most experienced Silvers hosts in Denmark. This summer, they open their home in Båstad, Sweden.

For decades, they worked internationally, including many years at IBM, where long-term thinking, structure and complex problem-solving were part of daily life. Today, that foundation shapes how they approach their crafts.

Lisbet spends her time in the greenhouse, developing paintings and ceramics. She returned to art during Covid and approached it with seriousness and discipline. She now exhibits her work regularly. Curious by nature and impatient to try new things, she continues to challenge herself. Creativity, she says, gives her energy.

Michael works in his nearby workshop restoring classic mahogany boats. He rebuilds them slowly and carefully, often over years. The mindset is familiar: focus, patience, attention to detail. Only the material has changed.

**About Dinner**

Over dinner in their summer house, Lisbet and Michael open a conversation on process and transformation: how experience evolves, how work reshapes itself over time, and what it means to keep developing a craft.

They invite you into the spaces where they now spend their time. You will step into the greenhouse to see paintings and ceramics in progress, and into the workshop where boats are restored piece by piece.

**About SILVERS**

SILVERS is a platform based in Copenhagen that connects guests with the senior generation's knowledge over dinners in their homes. Our Silver hosts include creative individuals, executives and entrepreneurs; others are sailors, community builders or simply great hosts with interesting life stories.