Common Counter: The Sunview Luncheonette

In dialogue with Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN, members of the Brooklyn-based co-operative Sunview Luncheonette will reflect on twelve years of cultivating radical hospitality, community happenings, and an evolving practice of maintenance, mutual aid, and care. The Sunview is an experiment in holding space outside the realm of commerce, against the pressures of capital, real estate, and commodification of culture – and in the face of a fragmented and increasingly isolated social body.

Join us on Thursday, November 21 for cake and a conversation with Sunview members Chad Laird, Amy Ruhl, and Dylan Gauthier.

About The Sunview Luncheonette:

Situated in a stopped-in-time diner and operating as a community hub for art, culture, politics, and poetics, The Sunview Luncheonette is, occasionally: a co-operative, a storefront on pause, an indoor community garden, a member-based social club, a people’s kitchen, a microvenue for art, music, ecology, regionalism, mutual aid, and commoning. The Sunview floats above the second largest known oil spill in US history, just down the street from multiple active EPA Superfund sites. It is resistant to traditional forms of commerce, commodification, and to gentrification. It is above all, an “approach,” and least of all, an “outcome.” It is unknown. It is hopeful. It saves you a seat at the counter. For more info, visit: https://www.thesunview.org.

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Photo: A typical night at the Sunview Luncheonette. Courtesy Dylan Gauthier.