Anna May Kirk
Anna May Kirk
Supper Sessions Founder
Anna May Kirk is a multi-disciplinary curator, artist and creative producer based on Gadigal Land. In 2021, Kirk founded Supper Sessions, a grassroots arts funding initiative raising independent grants and opportunities for individuals in the creative industries through fine dining community dinners. The initiative has worked with chefs such as Xinyi Lim (Fire Door, Cafe Freda’s), Anna Ugarte (The Old Fitz, Momofuku), Shamen Suku and Arnold Wong (Cafe Paci) to create multi-course dining experiences. The mission of Supper Sessions is to put funding back in the hands of the creative community in order to champion experimental, critical and timely projects. Functionally these dinners are a way of generating independent funding for creative projects, and implicitly critical as a way of generating conversation about the availability and distribution of resources within the mainstream arts industry. Featuring music, performance and surprise, Supper Sessions is a recurring time for collective joy, community breaking bread and generating support for one another.
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Microgiving
FRI, OCT 20, 12:00 PM
Conference
This panel explores the great range of grant opportunities, focusing on microgiving compared to often-less-efficient macro efforts.
When it comes to making an impact in your community and beyond, it can feel like your efforts are a drop in the ocean. While on the other side, finding funding for your community project, art exhibition, or groundbreaking invention can be an ongoing cycle of red tape and rejection.
Microgiving is changing all of that. It uses small donations from individuals to collectively support a good cause or project.
Join our panel of leaders from three unique Sydney funders who will demonstrate how they are making widespread,sustainable impact using microgiving. Collectively, The Awesome Foundation, Blackbird Foundation, and Supper Sessions have donated over $150,000 in funding to hundreds of local NSW initiatives.
We’ll explore why and how charitable giving via microgiving is exploding - and how it compares to other forms of philanthropy.
Discover the financial benefits that come with incorporating microgiving into your fundraising strategy and the platforms that can help you reach an altruistic community of microgivers.
You may even walk away wanting to apply for - or create - your own grant!