Ten years ago, Casey Kelbaugh, now an international NYC-based photographer, held intimate potluck dinners in his Seattle backyard to which he invited friends and fellow photographers to contribute not only food but also slides of new work and outtakes from photography jobs which were presented in impromptu slideshows, with the aim of building community around food and art. Now, ten years later, Casey’s gatherings have gone global. Casey has now produced what he calls Slideluck Potshows (get it? slideshow + potluck dinner = Slideluck Potshow, or SLPS), in more than 40 cities worldwide: in New York, London, São Paolo, Milan, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Chicago, Mexico City, Copenhagen, Washington DC, Toronto, Seville, Rome, Bogotá, Seattle, San Francisco, Madrid, Minneapolis, Stockholm, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, Panama City, Montrèal, New Orleans, and Nairobi, just to name a few, and they have become international sensations, recently reviewed by the New York Times, the NYT Lens blog, and drawing crowds in some venues of upwards of 1,200 people. At long last, SLPS is coming to Baltimore ! It’s about time.
The first ever SLPS Baltimore will be held on Saturday night, May 22, 2010 at The H & H Building, 
produced in partnership with Gallery Four and other galleries and event spaces in the building, located at 405 West Franklin Street (at Eutaw). Here’s how it works: Everyone brings an inspired, preferably homemade appetizer, light-fare entree or dessert to share in a relaxed, pre-show potluck dinner during which everyone eats, talks, and explores the eclectic galleries of The H & H Building, including Gallery Four, Nudashank Gallery, and The Whole Gallery. Then we dim the lights and gather on the fifth floor (in the 5th Dimension) and present a vibrant, diverse, curated multimedia slideshow of original works by Baltimore-area and internationally acclaimed and emerging photographers, photojournalists, sculptors, performance and assorted other artists. Each presentation is a maximum of 5 minutes, most are shorter. Established artists’ work, both local and international, is shown side-by-side with the work of new and emerging artists.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. We invite all submissions of original work in digital form to be included in the curated slideshow. Click here to view the detailed Submission Guidelines. The submission deadline is Sunday, April 25, 2010 at midnight.
PLEASE SAVE THE DATE, SUBMIT YOUR IMAGES TO THE SLIDESHOW, RSVP, invite your friends, and join us on May 22, 2010! Questions? Want updates? baltimore@slideluckpotshow.com. Please also help us spread the word by telling your friends, mentioning SLPS Baltimore on your blogs and in comments on other blogs, linking your webpage to the SLPS Baltimore event page, and by sharing this event on facebook, twitter, myspace, etc.
SLIDELUCK POTSHOW is a NYC-based arts non-profit, operating in many cities globally, that aims to bring people together around food and art, and to give people an interesting, engaging, and fun platform for sharing art with their community.
