Category Archives: Slideluck

The Creative Influence Launch Party Recap

[Text by Daeha Ko]
[Photos by Gregory Gorin]

What a night! The Creative Influence website launch party at Sandbox Studio’s 7th floor studio in Soho was off to a rocking start last Friday evening. Featured artists and guests freely mingled and listened to tunes by DJ Ella Dee, with beverages provided by Brooklyn Brewery and delicious eats provided by Dune Studios catering. Videos from the Creative Influence website were projected around the space, including interviews with Sagmeister & Walsh, Elie Tahari, Danielle Bernstein, Henry Hargreaves and Totem Creative.

Adding to the festivities was a contest to Instagram the best photo, tagged with @sandboxstudio, for a prize giveaway. Guests were very creative with their submissions.

The Creative Influence.net, produced by Sandbox Studio, showcases video interviews of creative professionals who have made influential contributions in their respective fields. The project is ongoing in seeking out individuals and companies who are creative influencers.

Thanks to everyone for making this event possible, especially to Slideluckers who came out in full force to represent!

Slideluck Salon Series I

[Text and Photos by Casey Kelbaugh]

On a gorgeous Sunday afternoon in May, a few dozen people gathered across the street from the Brooklyn Brewery for the launch of the Slideluck Salon Series. Our first panel discussion of its kind was moderated by the food journalist and trufflista-about-town, Helen Hollyman and was one of the closing events for the Food Book Fair. The topic: the food underground.

We pulled together a panel of instigators and innovators in the underground dining and supper club scene to talk about where they have been and where they are going. The speakers were Brandon Baltzley, author of Nine Lives; Dave Santos, chef at Louro Restaurant; Adam Sirois, co-founder of Underground Eats, Michael Cirino, founder of A Razor, A Shiny Knife, and Danielle Bell and Pablo Osorio, of de Porres.

What followed in Pure Kitchen was a spirited discussion about each of their unique and varied experiences and objectives. No punches were thrown – at least during the panel itself. De Porres created three amazing Peruvian-inspired dishes, including a ceviche that made a number of people cry tears of joy. And all of this was washed down with refreshing Southern Shandys, made with Brooklyn Pilsner.

Guests continued to hang out, nibble on carrots and horseradish cheddar long after the words “Per Se” had crossed the last speaker’s lips. Stuff was learned, collaborations were conceived and connections were made – a fortuitous launch to the Slideluck Salon Series! And damn, what a fine way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Stay tuned for the next iteration.

SLIDELUCK RED WHITE & VIEW II RECAP

[Text by Suchan Vodoor]
[Photos by Yasmina Belkacem]

Neither unseasonable heat nor thundering rain could stop the crowds from heading down to the Lower East Side for an evening of art and adult beverages last night. It was round two in NYC for Red, White & View, the renowned Tel Aviv art party!

The evening started mellow and the first guests to arrive were friends and family of the eclectic group of artists being presented. And after a few hours and a few delicious bottles of Brooklyn Brewery beers, things began to get quite lively at Gallery Bar!

The crowd was treated to a wide variety of work, from photography to video to painting to sculpture. Pieces from Rachel Rossin, Sharon Zobali, Jon Levi, Jennifer Wein, Ella Mashkautzen, and Sandy Cohen were displayed alongside work from honorary hosts Paul Miller (aka, DJ Spooky), David Elan Foox, and Antoine Verglas. Jenny Bapst debuted her new video for “So Exotic” and rumor had it that the Sugarhill Gang dropped by to take in the music of DJ Fame Cohen!

Just like the first Red, White & View, last night’s soiree was a fundraiser for Slideluck. The attendees contributed over $4000 for Slideluck’s Youth Initiative, a partnership with Building Young Minds to take the art of photography to the underprivileged children of NYC. Who knew that all you had to do to support young artists was come down to Losaida and party for an evening?

SLIDELUCK LONDON V RECAP

[Text by Nichon Glerum]
[Photos by Nichon Glerum and Maria Teresa Salvati]

On a cold but sunny Saturday, Slideluck London celebrated its fifth show by throwing a smashing Slideluck event for the grand finale of FORMAT Festival, in Derby’s charming old Chocolate Factory.

Between 6 and 7pm the 200+ (international) guests arrived by car, train, and the special Slideluck London coach. All were welcomed with Format chocolates, Brooklyn Brewery beers and – as more guests arrived- an ever growing number of delicious potluck dishes on the buffet. All indulged themselves on velvety smooth carrot cupcakes, colorful salads, broccoli pies and much much more. Mothersmilk was also on the menu, although only for one very special little guest!! Zac, born only days before the event, is the beautiful newborn of featured artist Fjona Hill.

Then, the guests sat down to watch the slideshows as curated by Monica Allende, photo editor of The Sunday Times Magazine and founder of the pioneering photography section, Spectrum.

Brooklyn Beers kept everyone’s throats chilled, hot water bottles warmed peoples hands, and an overwhelming display of visuals and audio was overflowing the audience.

In the break people could play and have their picture taken in Kitty Walkers industrial cardboard city photobooth.

After part two Director Maria Teresa Salvati announced the winner of the Blurb award, selected by her and Louise Clements, artistic director of Quad and Format festival. Alfonso Almendros is the lucky Slideluck artist that will go home with a £350 Blurb Gift Card!

Then she announced the artists that would be featured in Spectrum, as selected by Monica Allende. Monica was originally going to pick one, but, overwhelmed by the outstanding works, decided to give 7 photographers the chance to shine at this amazing platform. They are: Fan Shisan, Alfonso Almendros, Rafael Arocha, Alexander Aksakov, Arantxa Cedillo, Jean-Marc Caimi & Valentina Piccinni and Bryan Schutmaat.

After the slideshows and a little break, it was time to taste the sound of The Developer: a unique multi-artist residency responding to the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site at John Smedley, especially created for FORMAT13.

As icing on the Slideluck-cake, a raffle was held, in which lucky winners took home prizes not only from sponsors such as Viewbook and Gup magazine, but also 7 beautiful prints kindly donated by participating artists.

All in all, the evening offered a relaxed vibe, with the guests mingling to discuss love, life, art and the universe. Slideluck London was a great succes, thanks to all that were part of it!

A massive thanks to the director Maria Teresa Salvati; the super-efficient and creative producer Nichon Glerum; Pedro Lopez Paz, who helped with all the technical aspects of this edition and was a super hero in organising the coach from London; and Kitty Walker who jumped in to support the whole team wherever needed and who designed built the wonderful cardboard industrial city used for the photo booth. Also, this night would not have been possible without the help of the amazing team of Format: Louise Clements, Federica Chiocchetti, Michael Sargeant, Sebah Chaudhry, Jill Carruthers and all their fantastic volunteers that helped us out. We thank our partners and sponsors Viewbook, GUP magazine, Blurb, Feature Shoot, Format Festival & Quad, Develop Photo, Lily Vanilli, Duckrabbit, and of course Brooklyn Brewery.

SLIDELUCK BARCELONA VII RECAP

[Text by Albert Such]

[Photos by Oscar Ciutat]

Once in a while, quite infrequently, it gets cold and windy in Barcelona…. March 14th was one of those rare days, so the Slideluck and Pati Llimona teams had to take some quick decissions: moving the Slideluck slideshow, and subsequent dinner, from the 15th century patio to the main hall in the Civic Center building.

The shifting of a few signs and the collaboration of our attendees allowed us to start almost on time, and those few minutes of waiting passed rapidly while viewing Gustavo Germano’s touching Ausencias exhibition in Pati Llimona’s lobby.

Once everybody made it to the main hall, we realized that we had a full room… Approximately 100 persons attended the Slideluck, making it the most successful event in the last few years in Barcelona!

The audience enjoyed the 15 pieces that were projected in the slideshow and we moved on to have dinner in the main hall. We enjoyed all the different delicacies that the public brought: pizza, profiteroles, “tortilla de patatas”, and four different types of pasta salad. Pasta salad is probably the staple of any Slideluck potluck!

The stars of the night were, as usual, the bottles of Brooklyn Lager and Brooklyn Post Road Pumpkin Ale that were graciously donated by Brooklyn Brewery, with the collaboration of Crusat, their distributor in Barcelona.

With the delicious food, the beer and the photographs from our friends in “Piel de Foto” that were being exhibited in the foyer, the hours passed rapidly. It was already midnight when the last guests left Pati Llimona.

All in all, it was a good night of photography, food, drinks, and conversations with friends, just as one would expect at a Slideluck…

SLIDELUCK AUSTIN V RECAP

[Text by Ben Sklar, Slideluck Austin Director]
[Photos by and Drew Anthony Smith and Lindsay Hutchens]

The cozy garden space at the CTC International non profit welcomed Slideluck back for another fantastic show in a spectacular outdoor setting by hosting Austin Slideluck V. Rainy weather that worried attendees held off for a perfect evening of laughs and art in the outdoor venue. Plenty of photographers were ready to kick off their shoes and see the show as they were wrapping up the 3 day Texas Photo Roundup conference. Over 250 people made their way to the garden to share amazing dishes and see Slideluck’s fifth Austin showing. The crowd was full of smiling faces and happy potluckers ready to mingle in the laid back vibe. Everyone ate home made dishes as unique as chocolate cameras and devoured pizza from Homeslice while happily indulging in almost 400 cans of Brooklyn Lager.

We were fortunate enough to have Molly Roberts, a native Texan and photo editor of Smithsonian Magazine, curate all the wonderful submitted work. The show highlighted many local artists demonstrating a broad range of talent from abstract iphone photography to portraits of musicians to one favorite pet dog. The first half got the audience to ‘turn up’ while the second half could best be described as ‘Crunk’.

A few lucky guests were awarded with raffle prizes for bringing outstanding dishes that were favorites of the volunteer staff. After the show was complete, raffle prizes given away and plenty of Brooklyn Lager had been drank. The night ended with the smashing of a piñata and the quick gathering of delicious candy.

Austin’s spirited community pulsed all night, Slideluck Potshow Austin V brought out the love for the arts in the city and the creative people who make it home.

SLIDELUCK VANCOUVER RECAP

What a night! Vancouverites came together like never before at the inaugural SLIDELUCK Vancouver to recognize local artists, enjoy new food and celebrate the arts community.

Hosted in the atrium of the historic re-developed Woodwards building, over 150 people joined together to dine on delicious dishes contributed by Save On Meats, Not So Fast Food, Brioche Urban Baking & Catering, Le Tigre Cuisine, Ze Bite and Earnest Ice Cream.

The phrase “I can’t believe it’s finally happening!” was over-heard more than once coming from tables of citizens as diverse as Canada itself. Each person with a cup full of wine or beer from our friends at Brooklyn Brewery.

As the night went on and strangers became friends, the whole crowd buzzed with a sense of joy, appreciation and goodwill. Content with the knowledge by coming out to SLIDELUCK Vancouver, they weren’t just supporting the artists but also the Vancouver community by donating one Save On Meats meal token to our local community partners for each ticket purchased.

As light from the last slideshow faded, music from the live band Warless grew louder, one thing became clear. SLIDELUCK Vancouver is only getting started, and here to stay!

SLIDELUCK SAVANNAH RECAP

[Text by Francis Allen]

[Photos by Cedric Smith]

The line was out the door, down the street and around the corner to get into Savannah’s first SLIDELUCK last Thursday night.

Due to fire capacity, we had to turn folks away but their sadness was averted because they now had an entire casserole to themselves and ice-cold Brooklyn Brewery frosties to wash it down with in the downstairs lounge. Upstairs, in the ballroom of American Legion Post 135, the crowd was wall-to-wall, even more so after the potluck and the B vitamins were flowing thanks to Brooklyn Brewery!

By the end of the evening, despite the firehose of culture that is SLIDELUCK, we were hearing more “youse’s” than “y’all’s” and Troy Wandzel had traded in his crazy sideways cap du jour for a crazy sideways Nets cap. City Hotel served up some old-timey string music and close to 400 Savannahians acknowledged that their lives now consisted of the pre-SLIDELUCK years and everything that happened thereafter. Brooklyn Brewery’s IPA and Pilsner were the clear winners on the night, with the Chocolate Stout coming in a still respectable third—considering it was 70 degrees outside in January and Savannahians’ blood is already thick as cane syrup.

Thank you, Brooklyn Brewery and SLIDELUCK for an evening people will be mumbling about till the next time around!

SLIDELUCK ♥ RED HOOK BENEFIT RECAP

[Text by Casey Kelbaugh]
[Photos by Lexi Namer, Christopher Guess and Kristen Blush]

As the room filled with Hookers it became clear that it was going to be good night. Some looked a little banged-up, but most had their game faces on and were there either to party – or just to forget.

It had been three weeks since Hurricane Sandy had her nasty way with the little corner of King’s County known as Red Hook. Many of the artists, craftsmen, families and small businesses that make up the community were still struggling to get back on their feet. Recalling the incredibly good food and artwork we shared with the neighborhood at Slideluck Red Hook in June 2011, we felt compelled to do what we could to give back.

Slideluck ♥ Red Hook Benefit took shape as a benefit at the White Box exhibition space in the Lower East Side. There were affordable tickets, cheap drinks and a wide range of raffle prizes, such as a recording session at Sweetsounds Studio, a private yoga lesson, artwork, a 5Boro skateboard, subscriptions to Viewbook and Sweets & Bitters, gift cards to Artsicle, Adorama, Fiber Ink Studio, Randolph Beer and Barrio Chino and even a Linus bicycle courtesy of Ride Brooklyn.

Then there were the cakeballs by Flour Shop, the tequila drinks by Tanteo, the grilled cheese sammies by Milk Truck and the little green and black cans full of cold, refreshing Perrier. I think there might have been beer too.

A lot of Slideluckers came out of the woodwork to show their support for this one. As did many cyclists from the Trimble Racing community, joggers from Orchard Street Runners, supporters from some of our sponsors, Undercurrent, Photoshelter and MatchAction, and of course plenty of Hookers.

DJ Many Mansions was on the turntables, Manufacture New York was printing Restore Red Hook t-shirts on the spot, slideshows screened on both floors and a dedicated team of volunteers and Slideluck alums kept things running like a Swiss watch. The first slideshow was of artists that participated in Slideluck Red Hook and the second was coverage of Hurricane Sandy by some amazing local photojournalists, including Mario Tama, Kristen Luce, Peter Van Agtmael and Alan Chin.

The raffle went on so long that everyone that stuck it out won a prize and went home happy. The big winner was Miguel Goodbar, who rode home on his new Linus Roadster.

Over $6,000 was raised on that evening for the Red Hook Initiative and Restore Red Hook. Not bad for six days’ work!

If it weren’t for such amazing staff and volunteers to help clean up, White Box would have had to change their name to Grey Box. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case, and guests and Hookers wandered off into the night, arm in arm.

SLIDELUCK DC VIII RECAP

[Text by Lila Allen]
[Photos by Casey Kelbaugh]

Between the 2012 Presidential Election and FotoWeekDC, the District had quite a ride last week. And what better way to finish the weekend than with the return of Slideluck to D.C.?

Led by director Patrick McMullen, SLIDELUCK DC VIII partnered with FotoWeek to bring in the best talent from the DC area and beyond. Some artists (such as Robb Hill and Ed Pfueller) focused on local culture and history; others, including artists Dominic Bracco and Shannon Jensen, brought us into another world with their heartfelt shots of international conflict and human perseverance.

D.C. has always delivered on their potlucks, and Sunday was no exception. Highlights include chevre-stuffed dates served on a banana leaf tray and a hearty (but healthy!) kale salad with apples. Hopefully we’ll find some room in our stomachs for Thanksgiving next week!

Thanks to our sponsors Brooklyn Brewery and Viewbook, we also had some fantastic door prizes for guests – tours at the Brooklyn Brewery, a Brooklyn Brewery sweatshirt, and Viewbook Pro account subscriptions. Thanks also to Malmaison for hosting us!

D.C., thanks for making it great!