The opening was last night, but the store will be open until March 22nd. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Double-A-Projects-Presents-Free-Store/57088891257
Artists Athena Robles and Anna Stein will present Free Store, an exhibition and non-commercial storefront installation, in lower Manhattan.
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 appt
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.
