The intimate East Village supper club Pangea is known for supporting artists of all persuasions, offering an essential safe-place for taking artistic risks, and for its delicious and spirited downtown hospitality. Its role as an incubator for new work, in a city where the cost of living has become prohibitively stratospheric for artists, is seen as vital to preserving the East Village’s identity as a counter-culture hotbed. A favorite haunt of East Village scene makers and artists since opening as Spaghetteria in 1986, Pangea started programming music and performance in 2015.