The Festival of Ideas for the New City is a new initiative in New York bringing Downtown organizations together to collaborate in harnessing the creative power of the community and to explore ideas to shape the future city.
The StreetFest brought together artists, small business and community organizations to showcase their innovations to make future city living more efficient, cleaner and more of it's citizens self-sustainable. Urban gardening, recycling and upcycling, composting, consuming organic foods and products and discovering and utilizing alternative energy sources were major themes of the day.
Artists of various mediums created and educated through their works. Artists participating in the Festival of Ideas also used any available space to display their work.
The Festival of Ideas for the New City StreetFest took place on Saturday, May 7, 2011 along the Bowery.
