Free Store Food is an improvised dinner event held at Free Store, a temporary art installation/storefront on 99 Nassau Street, created by artists Athena Robles & Anna Stein. Aligned with the principals of Free Store, Free Store Food invited friends and Free Store visitors to donate nonperishable, unwanted food items that solely will be used in the creation of a multiple course dinner at the Free Store on Saturday, March 14th. Winners of a raffle entered at the Free Store will join a number of invited artists to partake in this food experiment that hopes to explore the potential of donated food and push it beyond soup kitchen gruel. Free Store Food is organized by Julie Sengle, in collaboration with Alexis Bhagat, Cynthia Bhagat, & David Proterra; with recipe consultation by Ame Gilbert, Harley Spiler & Califia Suntree. Special musical guests Gene Back and Misty Boyce will join us on the night of the event.
Free Store is an exhibition and non-commercial storefront installation in lower Manhattan created by Anna Stein and Athena Robles. Part cultural pop-up shop, part second hand boutique, the project is a networking model of economic sustenance that can be used in cities worldwide.
How Free Store Works:
Free Shopping
Using the barter and exchange system, visitors can give something useful or get something useful at Free Store. Free Store will accept donations of items such as books and clothing, offer these items for the taking, and stock a few items produced inhouse by the artists.
One World Currency
Free Store will distribute World Bills, a global currency that potentially could be used at
any free store in the Global Free Store chain. Contributors to Free Store will receive
World Bills for goods and services donated to the store. They can then use these bills to
trade with other participants or in future free stores in this series.
Special projects and events by curators Felicity Hogan, Edwin Ramoran, Julie Sengle and Herb Tam.
This first Global Free Store will open on Thursday, February 19th and remain open until Sunday, March 22nd.
Exhibition Hours: Thursday–Saturday 12–7PM; Sunday 12–5PM and by appointment
To get there by subway, take the 4, 5, 6, J, M, Z to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall or
Fulton/Broadway-Nassau Street; or A, C, 2, 3 to Broadway-Nassau Street.
Free Store is sponsored in part by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and The
September 11th Fund.
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