Peace to FEAST
Susan O’Neill gives a great re-cap of FEAST #10 on peacecorpsworldwide.org
young professionals, hipsters and artists
FEAST! invites a community to dinner and reinvents the financing of art
“People noticed that the art world is really dependent on large corporations that were hurting because of the financial crisis, but [we were] also lamenting that relationship in the first place,” FEAST volunteer Emily Sogn said. “We were thinking about drawing on community resources in the hope that there were a lot of people with similar interests.”
More at dowser.org
Microfunding: A little goes a long way
Article in Fuse Magazine by Amber Landgraff
“The projects described here are only a few examples of a larger movement — there are endless possibilities for models of community-driven support systems.”
Exactly!
FEASTing in Brooklyn
Serious Eats NY comes to FEAST and says: “It is worth noting that they were the best tamales I’ve ever had in New York.”
Rhizome interviews FEAST
Rhizome interviews Jeff Hnilicka about FEAST in their series on art, labor, and politics.
Meet The Helpsters
“[FEAST] in spite of its anti-corporate flavor, is actually a clever capitalist ploy. For the price of a decent meal, he’s selling shares of the community in which his patrons would like to claim beneficent roles.”
They get it! Sexy do-gooders! We’ll take it.
