Recap: The Feast Pavilion at Essex Market Building D

Entrance to The Feast Pavilion. Photo: Lori Greenberg

This past week, the Feast Conference took over part of the city, with a mission of celebrating “ground shaking change,” gathering “remarkable entrepreneurs, radicals, doers and thinkers that bring their talents to the table to make life better.”

Communal table. Photo: Lori Greenberg

After a reception last week at the Museum of Natural History, and a two day conference at Eyebeam, the Feast wrapped up on the Lower East Side at the Essex Market D building (recently the site for the “Imagining the Lowline” exhibit). The Feast Pavilion featured art installations, food vendors, and booths set up by “today’s most remarkable innovators.”

Photo: Lori Greenberg

Exhibitors included Made in the Lower East Side (miLES), Makeshift Magazine, Social Good Store and Center for Urban Pedagogy.

Beautiful room of shadow installations, where visitors could participate. Installation by Sylvia Heisel and Scott Taylor of Post Modern Production. Photo: Lori Greenberg

Aside from trying to find out how to create change, we procured a fantastic brisket and spicy slaw sandwich from pop-up food vendor Mayhem & Stout, sat at the large communal table in the middle of the warehouse, wandered around the art installations and, maybe best of all, got to play “Mind Pong.”

Seeing they were short on volunteers, this reporter, along with a beloved local environmentalist, set up trash bins for recycling and compost. Photo: Lori Greenberg