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.

Ty Marshall's "Cardiff Giant"

Check out the Post-Standard's article on Ty Marshall, one of our May 1st presenters. Marshall is looking for support for his recreation of the Cardiff Giant, which he hopes to unveil in time for the hoax's 142nd anniversary this October.

Marshall hopes to raise $3000 to make his project possible. You can donate via Kickstarter here.

Good luck, Ty!

Past DISHES presenters

Ami Olson at The Eagle published a really nice write up last week about what happened to past DISHES presenters' projects. You can check out the article here. The article includes updates about Walking on Water, Syracuse Skillshare, Thumbs UPstate Improv Festival, the Syracuse Community Cookbook Series, and Storefront for Syracuse. Thanks, Ami!

We're so delighted that these projects were able to grow their audience and see their projects realized after presenting at DISHES.

Looking to find out more about the first winner of DISHES, SUBPAR? You're in luck, because they will be presenting an update at the next DISHES, on May 1st, about their winning proposal. Just another reason to buy your ticket (when they go on sale on April 15th) to the next DISHES dinner!

Redhouse Art Radio interviews the ladies behind DISHES

The co-founders of Salt City DISHES, Briana, Stasya and Rachel, had a unique opportunity to talk about themselves and the DISHES effort on the monthly podcast "Arts Talk" by Redhouse Art Radio. Give it a listen, let us know what you think and get pumped for the next DISHES - May 1st, 2011.

Arts Talk: A Conversation with the Ladies of Salt City DISHES

The Eagle: Salt City Dishes links artists with community to fund projects

Photo by Maren Guse.

With money tight all around and arts taking an especially hard hit in every budget process, are community generated funding systems like DISHES the future of public art?

Read Ami Olson's full story here.

Post-Standard coverage; menu, more "sponsor spotlights" coming soon

Thanks to the Post-Standard for the write-up. We hope to see you on Sunday!

We have a host of sponsors to spotlight today, among them the local farms that have provided the squash, garlic, carrots, potatoes, onions, and lettuce chefs Luke Szabo and Sarah Pallo are using to cook this Sunday's feast. Check back soon for updates, plus a full menu.

Salt City DISHES article in local paper!

The City Eagle, January 11th, 2011, by Ami Olson

The dish on Salt City DISHES

Community dinners generate microgrants for arts-based community projects

Get in on the ground floor for just ten bucks.

It sounds like a scam, but it isn't – when Salt City DISHES holds its first quarterly dinner Sunday Jan. 23, participants will consider pitches for different community-based arts projects, then vote to fund one of the projects with a microgrant established that night from the dinner admission proceeds.

And the cost to eat, view the pitches, vote and help fund the resulting project? $10. (Or $15; admission is on a pay-what-you-can sliding scale.)

Salt City DISHES, (an acronym for Dining In. Support Happenings. Enliven Syracuse), is based on the similar Brooklyn FEAST program, created by a friend of Salt City DISHES co-founder Rachel Somerstein.

When Somerstein relocated to Syracuse last August, she saw a similar need for funding community improvement projects with a heavy dose of public art.

As of the Jan. 10 deadline for proposals, Somerstein said eight had been submitted and another handful were expected to sneak in.

She wouldn't hint at what the potential projects entailed – they'll be unveiled at the dinner – but did say she had hoped they would be thoughtful and creative, "and they are."

Somerstein said the St. Clare Theater can hold around 130 people, and she hopes to raise around $1,000 to offer to the first DISHES project.

But since it's a microgrant situation, whoever wins the funding will be held accountable for following through on their project.

At the next DISHES dinner in May, whoever wins this month's monies will present their progress. If it isn't finished, and it ought to be, they'll have to explain why – directly to the people who helped fund their work.

The DISHES steering committee includes Somerstein and co-founders Brianna Kohlbrenner and Stasya Panova; Sara Caliva, director of Northside UP; chefs Sarah Pallo and Luke Szabo; filmmaker Courtney Rile; photographer Robyn Stockdale and Jeff York, in charge of music.

DISHES runs from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Sunday Jan. 23 at St. Clare Theater, 840 N. Salina St. Tickets will be available at the door, or in advance at Craft Chemistry, Second Story Café and Sound Garden.

The menu has not been finalized yet but the food (made with donated ingredients) will be prepared two local chefs, while Rhode Island-based folk funk band Brown Bird entertains.

If you have an idea for a DISHES project, but missed the January deadline, send your proposal in early for the May dinner; saltcitydishes@gmail.com.