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Free Store
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Free Store
Tuesday, March 3 at 7:00pm - Free Store Opening
Free Store
Thursday, February 19 at 6:00pm
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- Free Store Food Dinner 7:16am Mar 6|1 Comment
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- What is Free Store? 5:05am Jan 13
Double A Projects Presents: Free Store We are participating in PLAN B, a group exhibition curated by Krista Saunders at NURTUREart Gallery. Friday September 11, 2009 7-9pm Please come!
Double A Projects Presents: Free Store Free Store is also funded in part by the Puffin Foundation
Double A Projects Presents: Free Store After 5 weeks, over 2000 visitors, 1500+ transactions and worldwide media attention the Free Store is a big hit. Check it out.
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Free Store Food Dinner on Saturday, March 14th from 7-9PM. Note this is by invitation only. You must have entered the raffle and won to attend. What: A sit-down dinner for 18 people using only Free Store food donations & a couple of items hiding in Julie's fridge...
Double A Projects Presents: Free Store
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Double A Projects Presents: Free Store
"badges for life" just came in from across the pond from Mark Pawson, a self-confessed image junkie, photocopier fetishist and afficionado of accessible, affordable, low-tech hi-fi printing
methods. Mark is a one-man production line creating and selling a constant stream of artists books,postcards, badges, multiples and... other essential ephemera. His unique hand-made works straddle the
worlds of pop culture and fine art, and reach a mixed and varied audience.
http://www.mpawson.demon.co.uk/badges.ht
Double A Projects Presents: Free Store
Edwin Ramoran, director of exhibitions and programs at Aljira, a center for contemporary art, will host “First Contact” office hours for artists and curators he has never met in person or who have never before presented a proposal to him. Sign up for a 15-minute one-on-one session with Mr. Ramoran to introduce your wor...k or curatorial proposal and to get professional development advice.
To inquire about appointments,contact doubleaprojects@gmail.com. Please specify your preferred day and we will assign you a time. This sign up is first come first serve.
Days and Times:
Tues., March 3: 2 to 5pm
Sun., March 8: 2 to 5pm
Sun., March 15: 2 to 5pm
FACT SHEET FOR FREE STORE Exhibition:
WHO: Artists Athena Robles and Anna Stein will present Free Store in downtown Manhattan. The project is supported in part by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and The September 11th Fund.
WHAT: Free Store is an exhibition and cultural pop-up shop, functioning through bartering and exchange and allowing visitors to give something useful or get something useful. The store is the first Global Free Store and will accept and offer World Bills, a global currency, for everyday items brought in by the public, such as a map, clothing or a bag. The store will carry one or two stocked items that are produced in-house. Free Store will also feature special projects and events by curators Felicity Hogan, Edwin Ramoran, Julie Sengle and Herb Tam.
WHEN: February 19 to March 22, 2009
Press Preview: Thursday, 2/19, 5–6PM;
Grand Opening Reception: 2/19, 6–9PM
Exhibition Hours: Thursday–Saturday 12–7PM; Sunday 12–5PM and by
appointment. Additional events to be announced
WHERE: 99 Nassau Street, New York, NY (between Fulton & Ann Streets)
Subways: 4, 5, 6, J, M, Z to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall or Fulton/Broadway-Nassau Street; A, C, 2, 3 to Broadway-Nassau Street
WHY: Free Store aims to reinforce and build connections based on trust and mutual exchange among the people of and visitors to Lower Manhattan. The project is designed to be a model of community and financial support that could also be used in other cities around the world.
Double A Projects Presents: Free Store
Exit Art's associate curator Herb Tam will lead a strategic planning session with audience members at the Free Store. In an effort to find a way forward for the New York art environment in the current economic quagmire.
Herb Tam is the associate curator at Exit Art, NY. He was previously the acting associate Curator at ...the Queens Museum of Art, NY and has independently curated exhibitions about Crack cocaine's influence on rap music, the subjectivity of time, and the art object as a prop.
FACT SHEET FOR FREE STORE Exhibition:
WHO: Artists Athena Robles and Anna Stein will present Free Store in downtown Manhattan. The project is supported in part by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and The September 11th Fund.
WHAT: Free Store is an exhibition and cultural pop-up shop, functioning through bartering and exchange and allowing visitors to give something useful or get something useful. The store is the first Global Free Store and will accept and offer World Bills, a global currency, for everyday items brought in by the public, such as a map, clothing or a bag. The store will carry one or two stocked items that are produced in-house. Free Store will also feature special projects and events by curators Felicity Hogan, Edwin Ramoran, Julie Sengle and Herb Tam.
WHEN: February 19 to March 22, 2009
Press Preview: Thursday, 2/19, 5–6PM;
Grand Opening Reception: 2/19, 6–9PM
Exhibition Hours: Thursday–Friday 12–7PM; Saturday-Sunday 12–5PM and by appointment.
WHERE: 99 Nassau Street, New York, NY (between Fulton & Ann Streets)
Subways: 4, 5, 6, J, M, Z to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall or Fulton/Broadway-Nassau Street; A, C, 2, 3 to Broadway-Nassau Street
WHY: Free Store aims to reinforce and build connections based on trust and mutual exchange among the people of and visitors to Lower Manhattan. The project is designed to be a model of community and financial support that could also be used in other cities around the world.
Double A Projects Presents: Free Store
Thurs, Feb. 19. Performance: 6-8pm: Miwa Koizumi, 'NY Flavors Ice Cream Stand' and Artwork: Tattfoo Tan: 'Everyone is an Artist'
Part of the curatorial project by Felicity Hogan, 'All is one, one is all'
Savor Miwa Koizumi's 'NY Flavors Ice Cream Stand' that will be serving neighborhood-flavored ice cream influenced by t...he "tastes and smells from New York City's different tribes." The stand will be on view throughout the exhibition along with Tattfoo Tan's 'Everyone is an Artist' which takes the form of free printed posters with DIY instructions that demystify the artmaking process.
