Just out with friends Ewa and Jason the other night at Lillie’s and they told me about the Festival of Ideas - a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations working together to harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore ideas that will shape it. The Festival will include a three-day slate of symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over eighty independent projects and public events.

Happening in the bowery May 4-7.