Honoring CANI’S mission to connect the Islands and its diaspora, Fabric curates a special program that showcases examples of dynamic happenings in the Azorean cultural ecosystem.

Conceived as a dinner performance, participants will be invited to "eat the landscape" of the island, immersed by the sounds of four of the archipelago's most prominent musicians, who have come together as Cavalo Marinho for this one night. Food creative Catarina Ferreira will craft the menu, and architect Nuno Pimenta will design the set.

<sup>🟡 This is a ticketed event with limited capacity. Follow the link on our website for tickets.

📷 Mariana Lopes, 2024</sup>

In collaboration with the Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies - Brown University, Odete will share insights on “Paranoid Archaeology,” a method of speculative writing that she has developed. The artist will show how her works have been created using this methodology, contextualizing it within the field of transgender studies.

Mixing Academia and the Somatic, the artist intends to demonstrate through her work how artists can relate to historiography and the archaeological sciences so as to imagine other possible narratives of the past. She will then delve into her most recent research, where she maps out a history of eunuchs as the gates to a history of gender and the division of labor in the ancient world. A research that takes its form through the methodology demonstrated but also through a hybrid form of poetry and theory. This seminar intends to question: What is the artist's role in writing our history as humankind? And what is the responsibility of creative workers in establishing a critique of academic discourse?

^{🟡 This is a free event with limited capacity, hosted by the Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies and co-sponsored by the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) and the FABRIC Arts Festival.}

How does food connect us with others, with our past, or with the environment? How does it feel on the tongue? prompts questions about how food and its various forms—be it a dish, a recipe, or an image—impact our bodies, memories, feelings, and thoughts. Set around a table, the exhibition sparks conversations about care, proximity, and the shared knowledge embedded in recipes, plants, and personal stories.

<sup>Opening event - Doors open at 5 PM, and entrance is free.
Visiting - Exhibition will be open through OCT 26th - THU/FRI/SAT (12-5 PM)

📷 Inês Brites - du toc, des tics et des trucs, 2024</sup> 

Portuguese festas (festivals) are vibrant celebrations that bring together communities around shared rituals and traditions involving food, music, and all sorts of devotions. They are simultaneously communal, cultural, religious, and profane. There are “Festas” all over the world, each reflecting the unique culture, traditions, and heritage of their respective regions.

Fabric is hosting its own festa, expanding to multiple communities, and transforming the P.A.L. into a collective kitchen and food court with a dance floor in its center. Pedro Mafama would steer the party with his pimba (pop) hits, which reinterpret Portuguese aesthetics while, at the same time, paying attention to and acknowledging African and Islamic influences. Portuguese artist Reina Del Mar will open the dancefloor and the party will continue with Cape Verdean-American creative director & DJ from Providence, Where's Nasty.


^{🟡 This is a ticketed event with limited capacity. Follow the link on our website for tickets.}

What are the opportunities and challenges for project spaces? Do they have the potential for constant evolution? Hosted by OOD-KIN, a project space based in East Providence, RI, dedicated to contemporary art with a focus on pioneering and emerging artists, this talk will bring together curators, mediators, and artists to discuss the tricky magic presented by spaces that offer possibility through innovative models. Moderated by writer and critic Jessica Shearer, the discussion will be followed by open conversation over food.

Attendees will also have a chance to view ODD-KIN's fall group exhibition.

Moderator: Jessica Shearer (Art Writer and Senior Editor at Boston Art Review)
Kate McNamara (Founding Director, ODD-KIN)
Sheida Soleimani (Artist)
Harry Gould Harvey IV, (Co-Founding Director, Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art)
Brittni Ann Harvey, (Co-Founding Director, at Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art)
Jake Tobin (Artist)


^{🟡 Free Admission. Feel free to contribute to our communal table}

World’s Fair Gallery showcases artworks and editions by emerging and established contemporary artists and designers based in Providence, RI. For Fabric it expands its networks to promote a dialogue between Chilean artist Magaly Ponce and Portuguese sculptor and ceramist João Rolaça.

^{🟡 Opening event - Doors open at 6 PM, and entrance is free.}

Between the invented word, glossolalia, Portuguese, and English, this concert by Odete wanders through spells of revenge, love, or even contemplation. The constellations of melodies, beats, and samples point the way to a magical and speculative world, where everything is twisted in intensities, sorrows, and primordial dreams.


^{🟡 This is a ticketed event with limited capacity. Follow the link on our website for tickets.}

Fabric ends with a collective walk on the trails of the Watuppa Reservation in Fall River. This walk will be guided by local experts: Indigenous community members, biologists, chefs, and artists. We learn about the ecosystem we are part of, the dangers it faces, and the preservation efforts we can all contribute to. We conversate and understand the land as something that is not separate from us and learn about the people that always lived on it. We will visit a pollinator garden planted by local artists, Harry and Brittni Gould Harvey, and discuss how art and nature are in many ways, synonymous. A tea will be brewed with ancestral herbs of the land we walk on and sweetened by local honey, this will accompany us keep us warm and connected on our walk.

More information will be posted on this event in the upcoming weeks.

Open Studios is an initiative developed by the Fall River Arts & Culture Coalition (FRACC), designed to invite the city and its creative individuals, spaces, and practices into a collaborative experience. There's no set itinerary, allowing participants to arrange their schedules based on their availability and personal interests. Each location will also curate its own unique activities and offerings.

Greater Fall River Art Association | 80 Belmont St, Fall River, MA 02720
Narrows Center for the Arts | 16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA 02721
Rox Art | 28 Anawan St, Fall River, MA 02721
Shane Landing LCC Studios | 104 Anawan St, Fall River, MA 02721
Smokestack Studios | 192 Anawan St Bldg 6, 5th Floor, Fall River, MA 02721
SoCo Art Labs | 145 Globe St, Fall River 02724

Since 2022, Fabric has invited artists for a year-long residency that includes several moments of encounter, research, and production, resulting in a new commission presented in Fabric’s following edition.

In 2024/2025 the Artist in Residency program includes:

• Chicago-based musician and researcher Daniel Wyche;
• Project Calafonas—Music from the Azorean and Portuguese Diaspora 1970’s-1980’s, led by Azoreans Henrique Ferreira and Diogo Lim;
• Nuno Pimenta in collaboration with RISD Architecture Department