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Thank you for submitting your innovative community projects for the DISHES "on the road" experimental experience.  We can't wait to share more information with the world.  Talk details soon!

This summer, DISHES goes on the road. Join us!

Hey Syracuse!

This summer we're experimenting with a new way of sourcing support for innovative and creative public projects. All summer we'll be setting up at different events around town, selling 50-cent ballots to support a variety of community projects.

Will your project be one of them? We hope so! Submit the application on this site by May 15th  for an innovative public project (you can find it on the right-hand toolbar). We'll let you know by May 21st if your project has been selected for the summer-long competition.

We can't wait to hear your ideas! If you have questions, drop us a note: salticitydishes@gmail.com.

just released!

Unfold Magazine on Salt City DISHES

Copyright Robyn Stockdale

Many thanks to Jordan Clifford at Unfold Magazine for her piece about DISHES and the most-recent winners, Salt City Slam! You can read it by clicking here.

"What If..." DISHES won a Mini-Grant?

We are delighted and honored to announce that the Gifford Foundation awarded Salt City DISHES a "What If..." mini-grant, which we'll be using both to fund a summer event (we're thinking June) and our next dinner (slated for October). We are so grateful to the Gifford Foundation for its generosity. The grant marks a new phase of the DISHES effort, and will make it possible for us to accommodate more people at our dinners and therefore possibly grant a second-place award to the runner-up project!

You can find out more information about the Gifford Foundation, or about how to apply for your own "What If..." mini-grant, on the organization's Web site. The Foundation is also holding a "What If..." film series at Art Rage gallery, screening films about community revitalization around the world. Nancy Kelly's documentary "Trust" screens at Art Rage at 5:30 p.m. on April 4.

For more about the series, click here.

Salt City Slam!

Congratulations to Mozart Guerrier and Seneca Wilson of Salt City Slam, the winners of our most recent DISHES event!



With the $1,000 raised by DISHES attendees, Guerrier and Wilson plan to launch a monthly poetry slam at Art Rage Gallery, on the North Side.

Stay tuned for pictures and more highlights from the dinner.

DISHES #3 is tonight!

Menu:

Soup:

Winter Root Vegetable (vegan, gluten free)

Salad:

Roasted Beet Salad with Baked Apple Chips, Feta Cheese and Herb Vinaigrette (vegan without the cheese, gluten free)

Entrees:

Two Bean Vegan Chili (vegan, gluten free)

Vegetable Lasagna with Spinach and Oyster Mushrooms (vegetarian)

Hot Turkey Sandwich with Sumac Gravy, over Columbus Bakery Bread

Beef and Potato Stew

Live music by Andrew Greacen

And of course, the presentations:

Mobile Sauna: A mobile sauna that is free and open to the public.

CINECUSE brings independent filmmakers to Syracuse to shoot a film, over 48 hours, with local filmmakers and actors.

Dog park: Build a fun, social place for people to bring their dogs on the southern edge of Barry Park.

The Erie Canal's Rustiest Bike Circus Tour:

Circus artists bike between Syracuse and Rochester, performing along Erie Boulevard and presenting historically themed circus shows in canal communities along the way.

Salt City Slam: Monthly spoken word/poetry slam competition on the Northside.