Project #13: Sonic St. Louis

David Weinberg won $540 and promises that: "The Sloup grant would fund a project called Sonic St. Louis (SSL). I would use the grant money to purchase digital audio recorders and hire a local web designer to build a website. The recorders would be available for the public to borrow to make recordings in and around the city. All of the recordings will be posted online to a sonic map of St. Louis where you can listen to the recording that was made in that location on the map. If for instance, you wanted to record the sound of Soulard barkers hawking produce or a memorable karaoke moment at The #1 Most Fabulous Room you could borrow one of the recorders. Or, if you wanted to interview your great grandmother about her famous gooey butter cake recipe or the time she hurled a rotten tomato at president Coolidge in Forrest Park you could borrow a recorder. If you wanted to hide the recorder in your breast pocket and surreptitiously record an especially juicy secret in order to exact revenge upon your employer/ex-lover/former best friend, I would not pass judgment. In fact, I would lend you a recorder."

We are so amazed by the other proposals this month, and they got such even steven votes, that there may be straggling future posts about their staggering beauty, so keep your eyes peeled, and always feel free to contact us to make connections with anyone you met at sloup... we'll help you track the world down.

We turned one years old today, and we are feeling pretty good. Los Caminos gave us a chocolate cake, and Amanda Goldblatt gave us a birthday card! Labeebee's lentil soup was perfect. Seriously. Do you understand? You know when soup is like perfect? Like mom-perfect and shit? OK. We'll revise this tomorrow. We love you.

NEXT SLOUP: March 27th. The Fountain on Locust makes soup @ Floating Laboratories!!

Soup #13: Labeebee's @ Los Caminos, Birthday Style

Guess what? It's been a year and it's our birthday. Wow. Does our "wow" ring true? We hope so. Please don't miss Sloup #13 and all its tender beauty. Labeebee's Mid-East Cafe is surprising us with a soup from the secret soup society, Black Bear is blessing us with their overabundance of bread, Los Caminos is hosting with their usual effortless killer combo of sophistication and warmth, and you are staying too long too late and you are not surprised when the dance jamz come on real loud. We like presents. presence.

We are serious about your Sloup applications. Make them soap opera face. Make them lose importantly and win gracefully. Make them talk.

After Sloup #12 at CAM, we don't know what to expect. Except goodness.

Help Us Help You

Hey artists with proposals in your hearts,

Spit em out and send em in, but please note: We'd like to receive your one page proposal (including any images) to be sent as a PDF thingy. That way your formatting will hold and we can all smile about it!

Cool! Thanks!

oh... and... this just in: Labeebee's Mid-East Cafe is donating February's soup. If you haven't tried their falefel yet, you're probably just too busy applying to Sloup.

PROJECT #12: A Collaboratory for Edible Ideas

Eric Woods and Kim Wardenburg will:

"collaborate with Carlos Dominguez of Latino Americana Restaurant, as well as Ana Rivera of El Chico Bakery and other participants from the neighborhood, to serve up the "Printmakers' Special"—a taco meal complete with edible, printed tortillas inspired by the people of Cherokee Street!"

They will receive $1210 toward this project. Whaattt? We ran out of Clara of Local Harvest's amaaaazing curried sweet potato soup and sssttttiiilllllll people paid to read the 11 incredible challenging insipring proposals for things that can/will happen in STL and to vote on their favorite.

Thanks for the awesome bread, Black Bear Bakery..mmmm mmm.

And thank you to the Contemporary Art Museum for fostering this explosion of energy in support of the vital arts communities that are crackling right here right now.

SLOUP is officially growing like crazy. Please email us if you want to volunteer to work the next Sloup, and keep submitting these killer proposals. Kill us dead. We will try to provide enough soup. Now we know.

We love you.

Next SLOUP: February 27th, 6 pm @ Los Caminos

Sloup #12 Sunday January 30th - 2-4 pm

Hey Sloupers -

Sorry for the confrusion - This month's Sloup will be in the afternoon (as opposed to the usual evening time)
2-4 pm, this Sunday, January 30th
at the Contemporary Art Museum.

Storm the Contemporary!

Sloup #12 Storm the Contemporary!

Sloup #12 is putting on it's Sunday best because the Contemporary Art Museum St Louis is hosting us this month!!! Also - Local Harvest will be whipping up a sweet potato soup we cannot wait to taste. This month's Sloup will be an afternoon affair from 2-4pm at the Contemporary this Sunday January 30th.

So, you know what you need to do:
Submit your awesome proposal ideas that you have saved away in your brain

and
Attend this awesome Sloup! This will be the biggest one yet!
Admission will be free to the Contemporary with your $10 donation to Sloup.

SLOUP #12: bigger than ever?

Sloup's been growing steady, topping out with 6 proposals and 41 patrons last month at Paper Boat Studios. In the name of keeping up...

#1: Artists, please keep your proposals to one page, including images--pack yr punches!

#2: Sloupers, please bring and donate the bowls you don't use to Sloup! We had a steadily growing bowl collection for a while, then slacked... help us serve every you with a real bowl.