SOUPRIZE

2010 9th Street,Charleston IL 61920

20 May, 2023

Description

Attendees pay $10 (cash only) at the door for a bowl of soup and a ballot to vote on 5-minute proposals given by those seeking funds for initiatives that support art, creativity, and community. Votes are tallied and one winner takes the proceeds of each event to fund their creative ideas. Got an idea? SUBMIT A PROPOSAL! Email a one-page pdf proposal no longer than 250 words for your creative or community-oriented project to [email protected] by May 1, 2023, with the subject line: PROPOSAL. Your project must have an outcome or presence in Coles County, though you do not have to reside in Coles County to pitch a project. If you have questions about proposing a project, email them to [email protected] with the subject line: QUESTION. Five projects will be chosen to compete for the SOUPRIZE on Saturday, May 20, 2023. If your project is chosen, you will prepare and pitch a presentation that is 5 minutes or less to the soup-slurping crowd. All those who purchased a ticket at the door will vote on their favorite project, ballots will be counted, and the winner takes the pot. SOUPRIZE is inspired by Sunday Soup and SLOUP—two soup-based, art-loving, micro-granting initiatives in Chicago and St. Louis, respectively. Sunday Soup was a community fundraising meal project initiated by InCUBATE (Abigail Satinsky, Bryce Dwyer, Roman Petruniak, and Matt Joynt) and others in the Chicago art community. It was in operation from 2007–2010 as a grassroots project to generate funds for artist initiatives and community projects through a grant raised by the meal. It inspired over 60 chapters across the world, all doing their own variations of the soup model. One such model was SLOUP in St. Louis, which was active from 2010–2015 and became active again since 2020.