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Wed
May15

Syracuse Gathers to Eat, Vote, and Innovate

Written by Mary Beth Schwartzwalder • May 15, 2013

Salt City DISHES
1119 N. Townsend Street

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Salt City DISHES took place last Saturday! Our intern Mary Beth Schwartzwalder attended the event for the first time and blogged about it on the DISHES website.

“Growing up in Auburn I spent little time in Syracuse until I moved back to the area last fall and began an internship at Northside Urban Partnership. During my time here, I’ve found this much to be true: we who live and work in Syracuse love our city. This past Saturday I attended DISHES for the first time and couldn’t wait to demolish a Mexican feast and vote for my favorite innovative public project. Under the soft glow of strung lights, the rows of long tables were filled with people who wanted to enrich their city by voting for one of five projects: Salina St. Refreshed, the Cooperative Permaculture Garden, Trees: Symbols of Powerful Experiences, Noexcuses: LOWdowns, and Syracuse in Print.”

Read the full piece at saltcitydishes.blogspot.com

Photo by Allison Gates, allisongates.com

Mon
Sep24

Seeking your ideas!

Written by admin • September 24, 2012

Salt City DISHES has released another request for proposals! This dinner’s theme is water.

Do you have an innovative, community driven idea to share? Interested in spreading the word and winning $1,000 to help fund the project? Email saltcitydishes@gmail.com. See their website for more information.

Thu
Aug09

A Fun-Filled Week!

Written by admin • August 9, 2012

Green Train Summer Graduation
Corner of Wyoming & Marcellus St.

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As we mentioned before, our week has been wonderfully busy. On Wednesday we hosted the Grassroots Grantmakers Conference and celebrated at the Salt City DISHES closing event. Today we facilitated another Health Care Seminar for small businesses through CenterState CEO’s Small Business Assistance Program and tomorrow our 10th Green Train class is graduating!

Check out all the photos and invites by clicking on the links above. And join us tomorrow for graduation at the new ProLiteracy Building (former Case Supply Building) at the corner of Wyoming & Marcellus St. 11 AM, refreshments will be served following the graduation ceremony!

Fri
Jul27

Photo Friday: Salt City Slam

Written by admin • July 27, 2012

Last night, our crew visited the Salt City Slam for an evening of poetry and passion. DISHES had a booth set up, collecting funds for community projects, and a few of our friends and colleagues helped judge the competition. We had a blast and captured some photos. Look for yourself and be sure to join-in on the next one!

The guest poet performs, caught between the antlers of the DISHES stand

The winner of the 4th Slam!

The runner-up: Words.

The DISHES booth complete with the DISHES ladies, Rachel and Bre.

Wed
Jun06

Salt City DISHES hits the pavement

Written by admin • June 6, 2012

A few weeks back we wrote about Salt City DISHES taking its effort on the road to bring innovative, creative and dazzling community-based projects to a site near you. Last weekend “DISHES on the road” debuted at the Funky Flea market. Over 150 people stopped by the booth to read over project proposals, ask questions and cast their vote for $1.

The five projects competing for funds are:

-The 26 Neighborhoods, which pairs filmmakers with residents to create short documentaries about each of Syracuse’s 26 neighborhoods;
-Food Forest Gardening for Culture and Health, an edible forest planted by local residents;
-Kindness Kits and Kitstallation, which equips people with kits to embark on and document random acts of kindness;
-Laugh-a-Cuse, a three-day comedy festival;
-Westcott Night-Light, a solar-powered night-light for installation at the intersection of Westcott and S. Beech Streets.

Want your chance to vote? DISHES will travel to four more events this summer… Art on the Porches (Saturday, June 16), Downtown Farmers’ Market (Tuesday, July 10 and 17), and Artsweek (Saturday, July 28). So, get your dollars ready!

Thu
Apr19

Tonight: The Salt City Slam

Written by Stasya Erickson • April 19, 2012

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Two months ago, Salt City Slam won $1,000 at a DISHES dinner. Their idea was to implement a series of poetry slam events on the Northside. They wanted to do the slams right, paying poets honorariums and renting space from local arts organizations. Through these events they wanted to establish Syracuse as a nationally recognized poetry slam venue and eventually send local poets to compete in national and international slam competitions.

So, tonight’s the night! Starting at 7 p.m. Salt City Slam will host their first poetry event at the ArtRage Gallery. The event is free, open to the public and sure to knock your socks off. Did you see the video of the winners’ encore performance at DISHES? Come watch poetry happen!

Tue
Mar20

Salt City DISHES wins a mini-grant from Gifford!

Written by admin • March 20, 2012

The Salt City DISHES effort was launched in January of 2011. Since then, the event has granted $1,000 each to three different projects, SUBPAR, Bikes for Peace, and Salt City Slam.

This time around, the effort has been awarded its very own mini-grant thanks to the Gifford Foundation‘s “What If…” initiative!

What’s the big deal? Well, DISHES is powered by volunteers on all levels (the co-organizers, the chefs, the photographers, videographers, the door people, donations from local businesses and farms, you name it) and in order for the effort to grow it needed some money to put back into the event itself. The “What If…” mini-grant is going to let DISHES do just that and potentially allow dinners to accommodate more people and even grant a second-place award to the runner-up project!

So, with that, enormous congratulations to DISHES and thank-you-ever-so-much to Gifford. Now let’s put this money to good use, Syracuse!

Salt City Dishes is cosponsored by Northside UP, the 40Below Public Arts Task Force and Craft Chemistry. More photos can be found on the event’s facebook page.

Tue
Feb21

Salt City Slam wins $1,000 at DISHES

Written by admin • February 21, 2012

This past weekend, Northside UP hosted the 3rd Salt City DISHES event. The evening was a great success and granted $1,000 to Salt City Slam, a project that aims to create a monthly poetry slam series here in Syracuse, NY. The winners, Mozart Guerrier and Seneca Wilson, ended the night by performing their poetry in front of the audience.

Photos of the event, along with a video of the winning presentation, will be along later this month.