June 4 Lunch Beat is introduced in Belgium at the roof of MAS – the newest museum in Antwerp.

”It has become a new hotspot of our city and on top of the museum – 62 meters in the air – we will host a Lunch Beat for 250 dancers whom will enjoy a beautiful panorama over the city while dancing” says Bart Van de Vel, one of the local initiators.

When they heard about it trough social media, the Lunch Beat Antwerp Team immediately fell in love with the idea of Lunch Beat; ”We  want to give a positive vibe to all the working people to help them survive in the city jungle. Forget about all your problems, just dance & enjoy live on a healthy & funny way!” says Van de Vel.

Do you have any advice for others who want to start Lunch Beat in their city?
”Just do it. A lot of people ask me how I managed to convince the city & the museum to participate. Well to be honest, I just asked, told them the story of Lunch Beat & they felt in love too!”

Find event details here!

The Lunch Beat movement was born in Sweden no more then two years ago, in a garage located in the central parts of Stockholm city. On an ordinary weekday, fourteen people danced together during their lunch break and loved it. Since then Lunch Beat has spread organically all across the globe, engaging thousands of participants, by simply offering them a unique and quite different, co-creative lunch experience.

On May 31st the Lunch Beat movement is happy to welcome participants from approx. 15 cities all over Europe to be a part of the most massive Lunch Beat session ever experienced.

The simultaneous events will all be digitally live streamed with Bambuser to this  webpage www.lunchbeat.org open for anyone to watch. Furthermore each and every club will be able to pick and choose which of the streams to project on their own walls.

Together we will create a simultaneous dance floor and a new real time experience of how the language of dance unifies people no matter physical location.

More info about specific locations and venues

With love in the spring sun / m

Johannes is a electronic artist who defies generic boundaries, as he constantly aim towards challenging himself and the crowd with new music, techniques and creative ways of interacting with the sound, he’s for sure someone to keep your eyes at.

The broadcast is produced by Falkevik & Danehav and sponsored by Bambuser.

LunchBeat will also be broadcasted from Malmö and the basement session in Stockholm.

Check out the event:
Lunch Beat Sthlm #16: Saluting Savoring Spring. Cultivating the roots

Lunch Beat @ Musikefterskolen, Langeland, Denmark from Musikefterskolen i Humble on Vimeo.

Some e-mails really makes you smile ear to ear. The one which brought me this film did. It shows the first Lunch Beat session conducted in Denmark at a music school in the remote city called Humble, Langeland. About 130 students and teachers danced together, but the initiator Morten Mosgaard, an educated singer & songwriter who works as a music teacher, decided to keep the event secret until the last minute;

”We introduced the concept by showing a video about the Stockholm Lunch Beat explaining the concept, and the students got all excited to try the concept out! The vibes were absolutely amazing, walking around between eating, smiling and dancing students AND teachers was something I have never experienced before – it was a unique way to bridge the gab between students and teachers.”

And what did the students say?

”The students were very happy about the concept, the smile on their face and the vibes in the room could not be mistaken – they loved it.”

Or to quote a boy in the film;

”It was fucking mad!”

And for you who wonder about the old mans rap in the end of the film;

At the school the students normally receive some information hand outs in the end of each lunch break. At the Lunch Beat event this was no different – except: The mail was handed out through freestyle rap by one of the school director.

Heads up for Humble!

And there it was, like a holy moment of bliss; a post at Oprah’s blog. And that Oprah, along with Time, San Fransisco Gate, and Noisey among others, lately have chosen to feature our humble project, has resulted in some fun start-up requests!

So, as spring finally makes green sprouts crack the curbs all over Europe, we are awaiting which city in the US that will be the first with letting the Lunch Beat movement burst. The race is as of today run by the following five;

• New York
• San José / Sillicon Valley
• Los Angeles
• Portland
• Texas Houston

Do you also want to start up Lunch Beat in your city? Please check the start up guidelines and get in contact for further information!

With love / m

As Lunch Beat keeps on growing, spreading it’s international language of dancing, with dozens of start ups around the globe, the Lunch Beat Crew in Stockholm, has taken the initiative to realize one of the dreams with Lunch Beat, the dream of connecting people within the movement by live streaming to and from simultaneously on-going events.

We believe this to be the next logical step to develop the Lunch Beat community; that we by expanding the physical room and merging the on-going events, create a greater Lunch Beat experience by proving dance as an international language. A language we all know and love.

Do you want to be a part of making this dream comes true? Watch the film and consider to ship in a small donation through the crowd funding project below.

In late January, Lunch Beat Stockholm arranged an exclusive Lunch Beat event in the basement of the Swedish Royal Castle. Small revenue was made from the event, which we now are happy to be able to distribute as the Branch Bank Call #1: The Castle Gold. Please read more about the Branch Bank, take part of the requirements and apply for 100€, 150€ or 300€ by completing the application as announced on The Branch Bank page.

And Hey! Do you also want to help the community grow? Please get in contact for donation options!

With love & excitement /Molly

Lunch Beat is founded and developed as a non-profit project and has the over all aim to remain so. It will always be free to develop and implement Lunch Beat as a non-profit project in your local surroundings as regulated by the Manifesto.

…but we will turn commercial interest into community growth too!

But, in some sense it felt too stupid to automatically reject request from people and organizations that want to arrange Lunch Beat let’s say on a conference, or who want to work with the Lunch Beat brand in other ways. And here the idea of the Lunch Beat Branch Bank was born!

Introducing the Branch Bank

So now, to be able to handle the semi-commercial requests, 5 basic partnership scenarios has been developed. The scenarios all include a donation fee. Money that will be collected in a foundation called the Lunch Beat Branch Bank. The foundation funds will continuously be distributed to new start-ups branches, which are in need of a small funding to get a great start.

Applications for the Branch Bank funds will be announced and accessible for the start-ups on the subpage The Branch Bank, as often as there is “money in the bank”. Here you can also download the 5 basic partnership scenarios if you have an idea about how to take Lunch Beat to the next level.

And actually the Branch Bank Call #1: The Castle Gold, is open now!

Thank you for thinking creatively about how to work with a great movement to make it grow even greater!

And Hey, if you or anyone you know wants to ship in to the foundation, such straight donations will be gladly accepted too!

With love Molly, Andaman Islands, India March 20, 2012

In Göteborg, DJ E-1000 has been raising the temperature at the dance floor since the very start of their Lunch Beat, in the summer of 2011. It now turns out that the talented man has plans for a exiting export…

Just for the ones who doesn’t know, who are you?

I’m a beat-fanatic from Porto, Portugal and have been living in Göteborg, Sweden for 8 years now. I’ve been DJ’ing for 10 years and when I’m not playing music I’m doing my other job: as an architect. My real name is Emilio Brandao and my alias comes from how it sounds in latin languages – E-1000 is pronounced E-mil.

What can people expect when you hit the decks at Lunch Beat Göteborg?

I love clashes – clashes of styles and periods. Therefore my sets are very eclectic and beat-oriented. I often work with mash-ups and love to create new sounds and rhythms. My basis is Funky Breaks/Ghetto Funk/NuFunk, Breakbeat, Drum n’Bass and Dubstep – mixed with old school rhythms such as swing, reggae, jazz and film music.

What is so special with Lunch Beat Göteborg?

I love to play at Lunch Beat because the people who show up here have one important main objective: they want to dance! And that is my biggest motivation: to make people enjoy dancing. Already by coming here, people have taken themselves out of their comfort zone. I want to contribute to an atmosphere that supports that. Therefore I try to challenge others and myself by questioning established ideas about what is ”good music”, and what music is good for dancing. I want to surprise!

And so I heard you have some great plans about starting Lunch Beat Porto!

Yes! I recently started the Facebook group and it grew immensely with 300 members in just a few days! Interest is huge, and that is a good start. I am right now pulling some threads and starting to organize the first event together with people over there. At Easter time I will be in Porto so get ready for some lunch grooves and beats!

Thank you E-1000 for supporting the Lunch Beat movement with providing the west side with creative beats and make our movement grow further!

Listen to a Lunch Beat mix on Soundcloud by E-1000

The year of 2011 was a quite fantastic year for the Lunch Beat movement; the Stockholm clubs got more and more crowded, the Gothenburg branch establish a strong community and the Malmö branch got back on track.

Further more people in another 6 Swedish cities joined the movement by arranging their own Lunch Beat sessions. As a result, the movement was covered in I dare say every Swedish news paper of dignity, as well as on prime time TV and several public radio shows. When the year was coming to an end, the Lunch Beat initiative was rewarded for creative innovation and featured in Sweden’s no.1 public TV channel’s annual summary of noteworthy news during the past 12 months. The word ”Lunch disco” was also officially included in the Swedish language.

That Swedes like to dance on lunch time here by could be stated as a fact, but when browsing through my inbox lately, I am more than happy to be able to summarize the list of international Lunch Beat branches planned for start-up as follows;

• US – Los Angeles
• US – Vermont
• Germany – Berlin
• Germany – Hamburg
• Germany – Osnabrück
• Germany – Munich
• Denmark – Copenhagen
• Austria – Vienna
• Netherlands – Amsterdam
• Portugal – Porto
• Finland – Helsinki
• Finland – Tampere
• Finland – Jyväskylä
• Sweden – Båstad
• Sweden – Lund
• Sweden – Umeå
• Sweden – Ulricehamn

So why am I listing this? Of course because taking new cities with storm takes an army of glowing contributors, and I thought you might be one of them. If you would be interested in joining the Lunch Beat tribe of international initiators, do not hesitate get in touch and I’ll be happy to connect you with your local lunch start up.

With humble love and hopes for a magic year / Molly