MEC Awards !

Bread ! KC among others were Finalist for the Missouri Entrepreneurs Celebration Excellence in Innovation Awards. Great groups like Plug Projects, Lala Studios, and Jane Gotch Dance Studios. Though there was only one winner, we feel good that KC is showing us some love and recognition. Congrats to Jane Gotch  Studios for a great accomplishment and to the other finalist a big thanks and congrats ! 

 

 

 

BREAD! KC at La Cucaracha Press/City Arts Project

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On September 25th, 2011,  The print crew at La Cucaracha Press/City Arts Project hosted a crowd of over sixty people for Bread ! KC’s 10th dinner event and we couldn’t have be more pleased. Our guest chef was Katy Watson from Bistro Kids Farm 2 School Lunch Program, Their mission states “We are a farm 2 school lunch program that provides healthy lunches to school children. We support our local farmers within a 200 mile radius of the schools, buying fresh, organic veggies, fruit and meat whenever possible. We also stress food education to our students as well. Healthy food is a lifestyle and we want to provide our students as well as parents a nutritional education that can last a lifetime.” Watson and the BREAD! Crew made a Pear and Butternut Squash soup, Zucchini Fall Harvest Salad, FTM Pumpernickel and Wheat Rounds, and Peach Cobbler for desert. The Bread Grant generated was a total of $627 dollars given to Cartwheel (cartwheelshop.blogspot.com), which puts our grand total so far at $4,357 dollars !

This BREAD! KC event was a special one because The International Soup Network (which includes us!) was invited to participate in Creative Time’s “Living As Form” exhibition on October 1-2, 2011, in New York City. As a result they decided to host a large Sunday Soup Grant Event in which all the affiliates, including BREAD! KC, were invited to apply. More info about Living As Form here: http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/livingasform/about.htm

The main goal of our participation in the exhibition is to highlight and support the International Soup Network as well as to facilitate the growth of new programs.

Using the crowd at this BREAD! event, we shot a one minute video to apply for our grant through the support of the Network and Creative Time. The micro-granting dinner was hosted in New York on October 1st. They have not released the winner yet but there were eleven applicants. Greatest regards to the winner, we are ecstatic to be involved, supported and creating a larger network.

Thanks again to everyone who came out, ate and voted, Chef Katy Watson, La Cucaracha Press boys for doing our dishes and hosting us/City Arts Project for the kindness and space, Door to Door, FTM Bread Co, and many others.

All photos except four of them are by Paul Ingold.

BREAD ! KC at Plug Projects

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Bread ! KC was kindly hosted by the new and exciting art space Plug Projects (who are also Rocket Grant Recipients)  in the Stockyards District. Our menu is getting more and more local sourced within the Kansas City area, we had delicious peaches donated by Door to Door Organics. The menu consisted of a Peach Stone Soup, Farm To Market Grissini and Sourdough topped with Asiago and Parm, and a Watermelon Mint Drink. The crowd was diverse, intimate and very generous with questions & support. We generated a $270 Bread Grant for Amy Klingman’s trophy Series project which will debut within the year in a exhibition in Kansas City.

Thanks to everyone who came, ate, and voted.

Thanks to Plug for doing our dishes !

all photos taken by Paul Ingold

Bread ! KC at KCAI !

Bread ! KC is happy to announce that our next meal will be October 16th (one day before our birthday-BREAD ! KC’s first dinner was 10/17/2010) at The Kansas City Art institute at 7 Pm. KCAI is at 4415 Warwick Blvd. We are planning a local sourced brown bag dinner so we hope to see you there ! Please RSVP to breadkc@gmail.com

We have currently generated $4,357 in micro-grants in the KC area in 10 meals. We couldn’t do it without many peoples hands and yours KC, so thank you !

 

BREAD ! Sunday Soup-Sept. 25th

Bread ! KC will happen at 6pm, Sunday the 25th at the City Arts Project. Nicholas Naughton’s La Cucuracha Press is hosting us ! Should be a good one.

2015 Campbell St. Kansas City MO 64108

Also, The International Soup Network has been invited to participate in Creative Time’s “Living As Form” exhibition on October 1-2, 2011, in New York City.
Info about Living As Form: http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/livingasform/about.htm

The main goal of our participation in the exhibition is to highlight and support the International Soup Network as well as to facilitate the growth of new programs.

NEW BREAD! KC GRANT APPLICATION!

NEW BREAD! KC GRANT APPLICATION IS NOW AVAILABLE ON OR APPLICATION PAGE! GET IT NOW, FILL IT OUT, THEN EMAIL IT IT TO US AT BREADKC@GMAIL.COM! TELL YOUR FRIENDS TOO!

BREAD! KC & Port Fonda

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July’s Bread ! KC  was a very special and magical moment for the Bread Crew de Food. A major dream of ours came true by working with local KC Chef Patrick Ryan of Port Fonda, not only did he donate his time but all the food for this event as well. Ryan stated “I want to support you guys because your doing awesome things in KC”. We couldn’t be more fortunate to work alongside Ryan, as well as call him a friend. The menu consisted of Cold Gazpacho, Aqua Verde and Tacos all of which were a huge hit!

The grant was a $450 which brings out grand total to $3,450 dollars  in only 9 meals, thank you Kansas City for your continued support. Artist Maria Creyts won the grant to do a residency in Africa . (more under grantees).

We owe many thanks and especially to Jenny Vergara who lent us her home, Patrick Ryan for being Patrick Ryan, Photographer Paul Ingold, Winfred Wright and our Toastess Erin Olm-Shipman.

all photos by Paul Ingold.