Springfield
It was a bright sunny day in Springfield as we pulled into the parking lot off Wilbraham Road where the Mason’s Square Farmers Market is held each Saturday morning. Tasha, the market manager was there to greet us and had arranged for a great spot near the entrance to the market along the Baystate Mason Square […]
Food for Thought Books
We returned to Amherst, this time in downtown to serve food and stir-up some conversation on the streets and within Food for Thought Books (FFT) where we had an excellent panel discussion on local food systems and projects. Our Amherst crowd was composed of a typical cross-section of my current home-town: high school students just […]
Holyoke Neighborhoods
For Nuestras Raices and the Holyoke Food and Fitness Policy Council developing strategies to increase healthy food access is of primary importance. Their vision is for a comprehensive, unified community-based systems-change initiative that creates access for families and children to healthy foods and fitness opportunities and confronts underlying conditions of poverty, blight, and social injustice. For the […]
Northampton
It was a day of intermittent rain and I wondered how we would fair at Northampton’s Tuesday Farmers Market. Luckily the heavier downpours were earlier, and the short bouts of rain brought everyone together under the trailer’s canopies. We had great support for setting up from: Ben James, of Town Farm, a young farmer who […]
Holyoke / La Finca
Nuestras Raices’ 17th annual Harvest Festival in Holyoke was the latest stop for Movable Feast. We were located at the North end of the Maple Grove festival area, just across from the main stage –and a great spot to catch the excellent musicians playing Plena and Musica Jibara, the mountain village music of Puerto Rico. […]
UMass Opening
It was a beautiful first day of Autumn for Movable Feast’s opening just outside the Fine Arts Center on the UMass Amherst campus. After four months of planning and an additional three months of renovation and coordination with our partners in Holyoke and at the University Gallery it was a fantastic event. When we started […]
Schedule
MOVABLE FEAST SCHEDULE / FALL 2010 Thursday 9/23 4:30 – 7:00 PM: UMass Amherst / Haigis Mall University Gallery Opening Event Saturday 9/25 12:00 – 6:00 PM: Holyoke / La Finca: Harvest Festival 24 Jones Ferry Road Tuesday 9/28 1:30 – 6:30 PM Northampton / Tuesday Farmers Market Next to Downtown Parking Garage Sunday 10/3 […]
OpenIDEO Food Challenge
OpenIDEO is an open-source online platform for “creative thinkers”. IDEO, a design and innovation firm, developed OpenIDEO as a way to include a broader range of people in the design process through inspiration, concepting, and evaluation. They do this by posting “challenges” to their website and encouraging people to post ideas. At the end of […]
Precedents
Throughout the process of designing Movable Feast, we have been looking at several art/design projects that deal with food, mobility, or both. Below are descriptions and links to a few of the precedents that have influenced our thinking about the project.
The Trailer
Here are some photos of the trailer that we will be using for the project. It is approximately 6′ wide and 9′ long. We are working on some design elements right now and will post them as soon as they are complete.
Website Launched!
Welcome to a Movable Feast. We will be using this website and blog for updates on the project’s progress and scheduled events.
