STEW is a new joint project spearheaded by the Baltimore Development Cooperative and Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse. The basic idea is simple: once a month, we'll be hosting a dinner at 2640, featuring high-end, locally-sourced, maximally organic and expertely prepared food (including a vegan option). The price for the multi-course dinner will be $10, less than you'd pay for a sandwich elsewhere. Interspersed with the food courses will be presentations of projects and ongoing social justice struggles—and the profits from the dinner will go towards funding these iniatives. This is an open-ended experiment—how can we use food to build a culture of solidarity here in Baltimore? How can we rethink the way we fund our projects? Can we build urban democracy over a collective dinner table?

Space at STEW is limited - we can only cook for so many people! To make sure you'll have a place at the table, you'll need to buy a ticket in advance. These typically go on sale at Red Emma's about two weeks before the dinner - subscribe to the Red Emma's announcement list to find out when tickets become available.

Get in touch: stew@redemmas.org

The Kidz City Collective is dedicated to enabling kids, parents and caretakers to be a part of STEW. If you need childcare, or want to bring your children to STEW but aren't quite sure how to make that happen, please e-mail radkidcare-at-gmail-dot-com AT LEAST one week in advance. The more notice the better.

STEW has been inspired by a number of initiatives, including the "network dinners" organized by the art-activist collective campbaltimore in 2006, Incubate Chicago's Sunday Soup, Brooklyn's FEAST, as well as the amazing dinner that took place at 2640 during the City From Below conference.

Projects funded through STEW

STEW 2

STEW 1

STEW TWO: Menu Preview

« Tickets for STEW TWO now available! | SOLD OUT!! »

18 January 2010

This is subject to change, but here's the rough plan of what we'll all be eating on Friday night....there's still tickets available at Red Emma's as of Monday morning...but they're going fast!

STEW TWO

Friday, January 22nd

7PM @ 2640 St. Paul St.

$10 (suggested)

I.
The Table

Micro Greens and Apples, Peasant Bread, Baltimore Honey, Butter

II.
Open Space

An artist run gallery and performance space in Remington.

III.
The Bowl

Beets, Wintered Vegetable Broth, Thyme

IV.
Baltimore Freeuse

A program at the Mens Center in East Baltimore that provides local community members with the repair and fabrication skills necessary to creatively reuse discarded materials.

V.
The Stew

Root Vegetables and Potato Dumpling

Chicken and Dumpling

VI.
Wide Angle Youth Media

Presents the Who Are You? Youth Media Festival, which aims to give voice to Baltimore City's youth.

VII.
The Afters

French Press and Pour Over Coffee

Salty Oat Cookies

Handmade Ice Cream

Apple Dumpling