Today’s Open Spaces festival by Arts in Bushwick was a solid attempt at generating a greater sense of community and the one day event was packed full of open studios, gallery shows, performances, video screenings, poetry readings and a neighborhood forum for “Bushwick’s diverse stakeholders.”

The cold weather probably cut into the numbers of adventurous art lovers willing to make the trek but there were a good crowd at each space and hosts were particularly generous with cookies, cheese, wine, beer and other goodies to keep spirits high and friendly. I even received a very welcome shot of rice moonshine at English Kills that was spewed out by one of the artworks by Brent Owen called “The Taxpayer” (pictured above).

Check out the full photo slide show of by tour here.

More info about some of the art at my blog.