Sing For Your Supper is a participatory dinner by artist Hannah Sullivan, where song is currency and can be exchanged for a hot meal. Sing For Your Supper is inspired by folk song culture, and the value that song and singing has carried within it. 

Each dinner guest sings one song before we share dinner together. All types of song are welcome, there is room for nerves, talking, for starting again. At previous suppers we have had pop tunes, nursery rhymes, folk classics, acapella alt rock. It’s an opportunity to learn a song you love and share it with the table. No instruments. No phones. 

Taking direct inspiration from her experiences of singing and listening in pubs, Hannah aims for the dinner to give a practice space for singing for each other, so we might be better able to join a singing session elsewhere. Your song is a valuable contribution to this table, and any future gathering.

Sing For Your Supper began in the Hannah's home, to then branch out in cafes, cottages and community centres. It was born out of a research project; 'The Song, The Singer and The Listener', funded by The Culture Capital Exchange, in collaboration with Dr Una Mcllvenna, within which time she visited Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland, as part of MAKE artist development programme. To read more about this research see her blog: https://hannahsullivan.co.uk/The-Song-The-Singer-and-The-Listener

‘I feel lucky to have been part of it. It is hard to imagine that there was a time where everyone sang.’ - Sing for your supper guest, Rosy.

‘We didn't know what to expect, just prepared a song and practised...what a wonderful, friendly, warm evening.’ - Sing for your supper guest, Dieter.