hanare×SocailKitchen

Our new project "Sunday Brunch"

Sunday Brunch was created to provide financial support for cultural, artistic, and socially-charged projects through a system centered around community meals. At these meals, held every other month, grant-seekers who have innovative ideas but lack the necessary funds to implement them will meet patrons who want to support interesting projects. Patrons will pay a fee to share a meal together while listening to grant-seekers present their ideas. After hearing the presentations, they will vote on which projects they want to support. The participation fees will be used to provide grants for the top two vote recipients, who will receive the funding on the spot.

There are many excellent ideas in the world that, while not commercially viable, have the potential to be of great value in our lives and transform society. Through Sunday Brunch, we will offer financial support to these kinds of projects in particular. We also hope to avoid the hierarchical donor-recipient relationship that typifies conventional grant procedures by having many people contribute small amounts of money and choose which projects to support.

This model of direct, small-scale, local support through community meals has spread around the world and produced many variations. Not only are these projects questioning existing support systems within cultural, artistic, and social fields, they are also taking steps toward rebuilding direct democracy and fair economic systems. We hope Sunday Brunch in Kyoto becomes another example of this model in action.

Each Sunday Brunch will feature a delicious, experimental menu created by the Social Kitchen chefs and special guests.


Sunday Brunch is conceived by Sakiko Sugawa (hanare), and sponcored by HAPS (Higashiyama Artist Placement Service)

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Starting January 20, 2013
In what we hope will be a memorable event for everyone, we are hosting our first Sunday Brunch. What kinds of ideas will we hear about, and which will we choose? If you want to support innovative projects or propose one of your own, please join us!

Date and time :Sunday, January 20, 2013, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Location :Social Kitchen

Please check out Sunday Brunch's website for more information especially if you are interested in participate in the project both as a "Innovator"and "patron."


Sunday Soup
Sunday Brunch is based on a project called Sunday Soup, which was started in Chicago by InCUBATE (Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and The Everyday). Sunday Soup's model, which provides small-scale funding through community meals, has spread all over the world, and now exists in many variations, defined by the unique characteristics of each location and the goals of the organizers.