Local Earth: An Urban Grown Event with Plug Projects and Cultivate KC

Local Earth: An Urban Grown event with BREAD! KC and PLUG Projects

Wednesday, June 19, 5–9 p.m.
City Ice Arts Building, 900 E. 21^st St., Kansas City, MO

Join us for a collaborative evening of food and art!

PLUG Projects, a curatorial collaboration of five artists, is curating “Local Earth,” an exhibition in the City Ice Gallery in conjunction with their early summer exhibition, “Rare Earth,” which showcases works of art that examine the environment in innovative ways.

BREAD! KC, a local micro-funding organization, hosts dining events several times a year at which three presenters are given the opportunity to share their proposed projects with the community.  At this event, three farmers and gardeners whose sites are featured on the Urban Grown Tour will be presenting proposals related to the “Rare Earth” theme, and at the end of the dinner attendees will vote for the project they would most like to fund.  The presenter with the most votes will be awarded the funds collected through the entrance fee in order to complete their project.

Dinner will feature locally-sourced meats and fresh produce from Howard’s Organic Fare & Vegetable Patch, and the traveling cocktail club Hawthorne & Julep will be serving farm fresh beverages for purchase. Dinner and presentations will begin at 6:30 p.m., but come early for the City Ice Arts open house and to view the “Local Earth” exhibition between 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are $15 (+$1.37 processing fee) and must be purchased in advance!  Get ‘em here: www.urbangrownbread.eventbrite.com .

 

One-of-a-kind greeting cards to support BREAD! KC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you may know, Outpost Journal, a national, non-profit print publication, has been in Kansas City for the past week, gathering information for their forthcoming Kansas City issue, which should be released this fall.

For this particular issue, Outpost worked with more than 10 local Kansas City arts organizations and individual artists to create one-of-a-kind greeting cards that they disbursed throughout the city.  The greeting cards showcase each artist or arts org’s favorite thing about Kansas City, and pay homage to Hallmark’s historical presence here. Yesterday, the Outpost gang placed each card in a different location across the city.  Read about it on the Pitch Blog here: http://www.pitch.com/FastPitch/archives/2013/04/19/outpost-journals-print-hunt-is-about-to-start

And now, the fun begins!  You get to hunt for these locally designed greeting cards, and for each one you find, Outpost will donate $25 to BREAD! KC!  They’ve even made it really easy by providing us with a map of the places where the cards have been distributed: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=205095234267087823054.0004da41bd24c9a5d9821&msa=0

Happy hunting!

SAVE THE DATE!

Many of you may be wondering where the heck we’ve been this year!?!

For those of you that attended our Second Annual Gala-lalala, you may recall our announcement that BREAD! KC is switching to a quarterly event schedule for 2013, with special events and Liquid Bread appearances scattered throughout the year.  Although this means that we’ll be giving out fewer grants, the positive trade-off is that we’ll be able to bring you bigger and better events that hopefully generate larger grants for the artists!

And speaking of events, we’re excited to announce the date for our first meal of the year…(drumroll, please)… Sunday brunch on April 21st at The Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange, featuring food stylings in collaboration with our dear friend, Chicago-based artist and chef, Eric May.  Details will follow, but you better get it on your calendar now, as space will be limited.  It’s going to be good.

Bread KC’s 2nd Annual Gala-la-la-la

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November 17, 2012

Once a year around Thanksgiving , we at Bread! KC like to look back and reflect upon our growth and the goals we have met, while also looking towards the future. We find this is also a great time to give thanks to all of the amazing people who have helped us come so far by throwing a huge party for them!  For the second year in a row we took over the back room of Harling’s and put on a Gala-la-la-la for the ages, in honor of everyone who has shown support for us in 2013!

This year’s Thanksgiving menu consisted of a mash up of traditional Thanksgiving dishes, prepared with KC BBQ attitude. The menu featured 3  turkeys that our friends at Grill Talk had spent hours smoking before the event;  2 smoked pigs heads (courtesy of The Rieger Hotel Grill and Exchange); cranberry coleslaw; mashed taters; BBQ Beans; green bean casserole with fried onions; caramel apple cheesecake; black-bottomed pumpkin pie; and an assortment of side dishes fresh from the kitchens of our loyal Bread! grantees.

During the private meal we held beforehand for our 2012 hosts, donors and families, a couple of our friends from Oddly Correct and their band, Doing What Apes Can’t, serenaded diners with their funky rock improv tunes.   DJ Fat Sal was also at the turntables helping to make our party bump with some old school  soul styling.

It was a glorious evening of  food, friends, dancing and perfectly priced drinks.  Thanks to everyone that came out!

November collaboration with Artist INC II

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The BREAD! KC crew occasionally likes to switch things up a bit, and on a beautiful Friday night in early November, we were able to do just that through a collaboration with Diane Scott and Artist INC.  Developed for artists of all different kinds, Artist INC is a great local organization that helps creative individuals hone their business skills so that they’re better equipped to sustain their arts practices.  Artist INC II hosted a variety of workshops in fall 2012 for their fellows, which culminated in the finale BREAD! event, held at Beggar’s Table Gallery in the Crossroads.

With the help of former Artist INC fellows Rachelle Gardner and Nick Naughton, we served a clarified root vegetable broth (made from tasty produce from Howard’s Organic Fare & Vegetable Patch) over cheesy jalapeno cornbread with a side salad made with fresh greens, roasted squash, pumpkin seeds, dried cranberries, and a mustard/maple vinaigrette.

After hearing from all 15 fellows, the community was charged with the extremely difficult task of selecting only one to receive the $1,000 grant that would help fund their project.  While attendees enjoyed their apple crisp milkshakes (hat tip, Garry Noland, for the inspiration), the winners were announced: Cory Imig and Amy Kligman of Plug Projects were awarded the funds to help expand and develop their Conduit programming that will accompany and complement future exhibitions at their gallery.

Special thanks to: Diane Scott of Artist INC; Charlotte Street Foundation; Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City; the UMKC Innovation Center; all the amazingly talented Artist INC II fellows; Farm to Market Bread Co.; Craig Howard; Rachelle Gardner; Nick Naughton; Beggar’s Table Gallery .

 

 

Celebrating our 2nd anniversary at The Local Pig

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[Okay, okay.  We know we’ve been a bit slack about updating our website lately, but sit tight…this is the first of many coming your way this week.]

In the event write-up promoting our second anniversary BREAD! KC event, The Pitch claimed that when we want to celebrate, we really celebrate – truer words have ne’er been spoken!  During the planning phase with our dear friends at The Local Pig, we agreed that we wanted this to be the largest BREAD! event to date; thanks to the 200+ people that came out that sunny Sunday in October, it was.

The Local Pig roasted two whole pigs for us, which we paired with a variety of local BBQ sauces, including a special batch from our buddies at Grill Talk.  Farm to Market kept it simple with good ol’ fashioned white bread, and morsel served up dessert in the form of pumpkin spice cookies with maple glaze. Boulevard Brewing Company pulled through yet again and donated a couple kegs.  After all, what is a BBQ without good beer?

Bread chasers included members of the Kansas City Plein Air Coterie (KC PAC), many of whom could be spotted around the East Bottoms with their easels and paintbrushes before the event.  They sought funds for signage, flagging equipment, and other various operational costs while Chad Kepler pitched his plan to start a homebrew kombucha business and provided the entire crowd with samples of his product.  Last, but certainly not least, Nick Ward-Bopp good-heartedly yelled his proposal over the relentless clanking of trains that rolled by just a couple hundred feet away.  Ultimately, the $1,750 BREAD! grant was awarded to Nick and The Jarboe Initiative for the Made in KCMO project: a collaborative, time share, think and make space located in a rehabbed commercial building.

We’re also happy to announce that we *finally* got merchandise, which made its grand debut at this event. A HUGE thank you to Vahalla Studios for printing our shirts and bags – we love ‘em!  You may be thinking to yourself, “that’s all fine and well, but how can I get a hold of one of these shirts or bags so I can declare my support of the project, loud and proud?”  You can find them at our favorite roving retail store, CartWheel; at any of our BREAD! KC events; or you can just shoot us an email at breadkc@gmail.com and we’ll hook you up.  Shirts are $20, bags are $15, and all proceeds support BREAD! KC.

As always, we have lots of people to thank: Miles Maassen, Alex Pope, and the entire crew at The Local Pig; Boulevard Brewing Company; Grill Talk; Brannon Loffi and morsel bakery; Farm to Market Bread Co.; Vahalla Studios; Kevin Jay Kinsella (our loyal money man); all our talented and innovative presenters; and, of course, everyone that joins us in support of building a better community.

BREAD! KC’s 2nd annual Gala-LALALA

At long last, BREAD! KC’s 2nd Annual Gala-lalala is here!

For those of you that attended last year and helped us sell Harling’s out of booze (and pickle juice), we trust you need no further enticement.

For those unlucky few that missed out last year…you’re in for a treat!

Like any worthy Thanksgiving celebration, there will be cornucopious amounts of food (we’re adding a BBQ twist to turkey day favorites) and drink. But be sure to bring your dancing shoes, because DJ Fat Sal will be spinning records all night long (we hear FUNK is good for digestion).$10 minimum donation, please. This is our second big fundraising event for the project, and all funds raised will go towards programming for 2013.

We hope to see you there, for what is sure to be yet another boogie-down, belly-filling, brouhaha of an evening!