I’d like to try to tap into the wonderful network here to find out where people recommend buying tablecloths for World Cafe-style dialogue — and what type of tablecloths you recommend (fabric, paper, color, etc.). For the regional NCDD event in Portland this weekend, we are holding an evening World Cafe on Friday that is open to the public. Then we’ll be holding our one-day Cascadia Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation all day on Saturday. So we’ll need to use the tablecloths both days. We’re renting 36″ 4-person round cafe tables, which is ideal for World Cafe and should serve us well for the whole program. But renting the tables costs about $9 each (we need 50 for an expected 200 attendees), and it actually costs an additional $10 per table plus additional staff time to also rent linens for the tables. We’ll pay that if we have to, but a quick google search implies that you can actually buy fabric tablecloths for half that price! (And then we could give them to a planning team member to use again.) But I'm not sure what size works well for 36" tables, what companies people recommend, etc. For our past events, I’ve always gotten linens from the venue, so this is new to me. To reciprocate, here are a few links to the places I always work with for our events (best prices, great service, small companies): * PCNametag (name tags and great name tag ribbons): www.pcnametag.com * School Stationers (affordable flip charts, easels, markers and more): http://schoolstationers.stores.yahoo.net/ * PsPrint (high quality full-color printing at the best prices I can find): www.psprint.com Please add a comment here on the NCDD blog asap with your tips if you have experience with this: www.thataway.org/index.php/?p=3131 (Or add a comment to this blog post here on the WC Community.)