New Museum & Friends to Take Over the Bowery for the "Festival of Ideas for the New City"
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The New Museum, the preeminent contemporary art institution in Lower Manhattan, recently announced the full details about the forthcoming “Festival of Ideas for the New City,” set for May 4 – 8 in and around their home base at 235 Bowery. The multifaceted, interdisciplinary event is at once a celebration and an investigation of downtown creative culture as a locus for discourse about the future of the city.
The Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4-8, 2011, is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations, from universities to arts institutions and community groups, working together to affect change. A first for New York, the Festival will harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to shape it. It will take place in multiple venues Downtown and is organized around three central programs: a three-day slate of symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over eighty independent projects and public events. The Festival will serve as a platform for artists, writers, architects, engineers, designers, urban farmers, planners, and thought leaders to exchange ideas, propose solutions, and invite the public to participate.
Courtesy Family & Playlab. Photo by Dean Kaufman.
More details and teaser pics after the jump…
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