Soup Nights are gatherings of people who want to eat and socialize. Meet new people, talk, watch movies, performances, listen to music or play games. Eat soup. Be happy.
Soup is provided by the host and should reflect current or cultural themes. Feel free to bring bread, wine, beer, cookies, or other edibles to share with everyone. Don't worry about anything fancy or being able to feed everyone.
As more and more people share the world becomes a souperior place.
We would like to see this become a regular event, happening every Thursday. Of course, obstacles could arise, like annoyed roommates, empty bank accounts or, dare I say, lack of interest. But let's be honest, how could you lose interest in soup night?
Also, soup night rulz.
Also! There's a temporary place to add notes, thoughts, ruminations, comments, names, or whatever you want. It's a super-high-tech-realtime-collaboration-revision-keeping-platform called EtherPad. It's essentially a wiki, so edit it and save revisions and delete things... you can't break it.
first thursday, may, follow up
Holy heck people, mobile soup night was amazing. Seriously. Strap a couple of gallons of soup, bowls, spoons and ladles to your back and start feeding people. I don’t really know what else to say about it.
Strangers aren’t always keen on another stranger’s food offerings, by the way. It’s funny how people respond when you offer them free soup. Outside of Clinton Street Theater, and PDX Film Fest, the ask was mostly met with an incredulous pause. At the galleries, people were more accepting. I suppose being in a room with like-minded people makes eating random foodstuffs easier.
And the people! A hearty thanks goes out to all the people who ate soup and conversed. You are the wind benath soup night’s wings.
So let’s recap: Clinton Street Theater and PDX Film Fest (forgot your name, owner dude, but thanks for not kicking us off your stoop! also, word to the blog love!) :: Goldsmith Building, Spectre (a great space, but not sure if it’s a gallery. hey, they ate and loved the soup…) and, of course, Homeschool Art Shop (totally granular! let’s do shows in the sweet-ass garage! you galz rulz!) :: Fontanelle Gallery and Shawn Creeden’s cave! (check out his show if you haven’t, it’s beautiful)
-vinh!
Meredith/SPECTRE
We loved your soup and your cause, Vinh!
Thanks for popping into our office/show space and sharing the goods with us.
Keep in touch please about potential future soup-music collaborations?
-m