TROPICAL ANTHOLOGY: A DINNER PERFORMANCE
with CAIQUE TIZZI
5 Oct / 7 PM
DINNER
COURTLAND CLUB
Hosted at Providence’s Courtland Club, guests will experience an evening of food, song, and poetry revolving around fruit, plants, spices, and edibles from tropical latitudes. Caique Tizzi is a Sao Paulo-born, Berlin-based artist/chef, whose approach to food and the kitchen is part studio, part laboratory, resulting in striking sculptural food installations, rich in color and texture. Tizzi brings narration and ritual to the table, lending theater to the ordinary act of eating together.

Your admission includes your meal, as well as welcome and closing beverages. Additional drinks will be available a la carte at the event. The dinner moves between indoor and outdoor spaces, and attendees may be seated communally.

This is a ticketed event with limited capacity.
Purchase tickets here!

📍 51 Courtland Street Providence, RI 02909
DJ LYCOX & SURMA
with BABY: BABY; EXPLORES and ISABELLA
6 Oct / 8 PM - 1 AM
CONCERT/DANCE PARTY
MACHINES WITH MAGNETS
Fabric curates a night of live music and DJ sets at Machines With Magnets and welcomes PVD sensation Baby; Baby: Explores, following Portuguese musician Surma, known for her dreamy experimental electronica, leading into a dance party with Isabella and Portuguese-Angolan DJ Lycox from Principe Discos.

8 PM | BABY; BABY: EXPLORES
Concert
9 PM | SURMA
Concert
10 PM | ISABELLA
DJ Set
11 PM | DJ LYCOX
DJ Set

Doors open at 7 PM.
Tickets are available here and at the door, on the day of the event.
📍 400 Main St, Pawtucket, RI 02860

TICKETS HERE


SUPERNATURAL
with JORGE JÁCOME
7 Oct / 6 PM
FILM SCREENING with WINE & CHEESE from PORTUGALIA
METCALF AUDITORIUM at the RISD MUSEUM
Inhabiting the blurred boundaries between documentary and fiction, this is a film that experiments with form — between curiosities, video clips and confessions — which is not surprising since it started out as a spectacle for the stage and not for the screen. Madeira Island’s autochthonous lusciousness is where the possibilities open up to think about everything we consider to be “natural” and whether we should expand the notion to encompass much more complexity.



Free entrance, limited to the capacity of the venue.
Doors open at 6 PM.
Join us in the Chase Center Lobby on South Main for Portuguese wine and cheese before the movie. Directly across the street from the Metcalf Auditorium.

📍 20 North Main Street, Providence, RI 02903
MÁTRIA
with CATARINA GONÇALVES
12 Oct / 6:45 PM
FILM SCREENING
NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM
Mátria is a sensorial journey to the womb of São Miguel Island, where Natália Correia, a Portuguese poet, writer, and congresswoman, was born exactly 100 years ago. Mátria is made in her honor as three women embody her spirit in different ways through an exploration of the female body in different stages of life. A film about mental and physical freedoms, Natália’s timeless poetry entangles both reality and fiction.



The Azores Islands boost a fertile cultural scene and a new generation of artists, collectives, and projects that expand beyond the archipelago. Honoring CANI’S mission to connect the Islands and its diaspora, FABRIC, working in collaboration with the Center for Portuguese Studies & Culture at UMASS Dartmouth, teams up with the New Bedford Whaling Museum and AHA! to curate a special program that showcases two examples of dynamic happenings in the Azorean cultural landscape. Matria screens before a music concert by WE SEA.

Free entrance to both events, registration required here.
Doors open at 6:30 PM.
There will be an intermission between both events.

📍 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA 02740-6398


WE SEA
12 Oct / 7:30 PM
CONCERT
NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM
WE SEA is an Azorean band from São Miguel. They have gained national recognition in recent years with their albums Basbaque (2019) and Cisma (2021). The project references the Azorean music scene of the 80’s and 90’s, which inspires and contaminates their sound, but also the aesthetic of their concerts and videos, often resulting from collaborations with other Azorean artists and thinkers.



The Azores Islands boost a fertile cultural scene and a new generation of artists, collectives, and projects that expand beyond the archipelago. Honoring CANI’S mission to connect the Islands and its diaspora, FABRIC, working in collaboration with the Center for Portuguese Studies & Culture at UMASS Dartmouth, teams up with the New Bedford Whaling Museum and AHA! to curate a special program that showcases two examples of dynamic happenings in the Azorean cultural landscape. WE SEA performs after the "Matria" screening.

Free entrance to both events, registration required here.
Doors open at 6:30 PM. There will be an intermission between both events.

📍 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA 02740-6398
HYPERBALLADS
with ALLYSON VIEIRA, BEATRIZ BRUM, EVA PAPAGARMARITI, GIL FERRÃO, GONÇALO PRETO, HORÁCIO FRUTUOSO, NADIA BELERIQUE, SÓNIA ALMEIDA, YULI YAMAGATA
13 Oct / 5 PM
EXHIBITION
GATHER
Hyperballads is a group exhibition that moves around what we might feel and can’t see, what surpasses us and exists beyond. The show positions us in constant movement, going back and forth through spacetime, gravitating towards and away, in the vicinity or out in the vast, juxtaposing realities and balancing subjectivities. Hyper movements that allow for playing, for announcements and deep listening.

Curated by Jesse James

Opening event
Doors open at 5 PM and entrance is free.
Visiting: 
The exhibition will be open through Nov 11th - Fridays (4 - 6 PM) and Saturdays (2 - 6 PM)

The exhibition inaugurates Fall River’s new cultural endeavor, Gather: a crossroads for design, manufacturing, and contemporary art. During the opening, Michael Silva (one of Providence’s premier bartenders) adds an extra layer to the exhibition, proposing two commissioned cocktails as vessels and hyperlinks to the exhibition.

📍 44 Troy Street, Fall River, MA
ON THE OTHER SIDE: A DINNER PERFORMANCE by SÓNIA ALMEIDA & ANDRÉ E. TEODÓSIO
with CHEF ROBERT ANDREOZZI
13 Oct / 7 PM
DINNER PERFORMANCE
PORTUGALIA MARKETPLACE
Commissioned by Fabric, On the other side is an installation-performance-dinner at Portugalia Marketplace. The exquisite delicacies on the table, mastered by Chef Robert Andreozzi, will go hand in hand with the nonlinear visual works of Sonia Almeida and the somatic sharings of André e. Teodósio.

This is a ticketed event with limited capacity.
Purchase tickets here!

📍489 Bedford St, Fall River, MA 02720

TICKETS HERE

OPEN STUDIOS FALL RIVER
14 Oct / 10 AM - 6 PM
Cultural Ecosystem
Multiple locations
Open Studios is a program envisioned by F.R.A.C.C. that opens up to the city and its creative agents, spaces, and practices. There is no predetermined route, and each one can organize their schedule according to their time and interests. Each venue will organize special activities.

Narrows Center for the Arts | 16 Anawan Street, Fall River, MA 02721
Smokestack Studios | 192 Anawan St., Building 6, 5th floor, Fall River, MA 02721
Greater Fall River Art Association | 80 Belmont Street, Fall River, MA 02720
Little Miss Art | 28 Anawan Street, Fall River, MA 02720
Viva Maker Shop | 333 South Main Street, Fall River, 02721
Craftyish | 28 Anawan Street, Fall River, MA 02720
The Ignition Space | 341 South Main, Fall River, MA 02720
SoCo Art Lab | 145 Globe Street, Fall River, MA 02724
Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery | 777 Elsbree Street, Fall River, MA 02720
Shane Landing LLC Studios | 104 Anawan Street, Fall River, MA 02721
UNFIXED CONCRETE IDEAL
with ANDY GRAYDON, ANSSI TAULU BEN SLOAT, BRIAN UNWIN, CANDICE IVY, GABO CAMNITZER, ISAIAH “PROPHET” RAINES, JENNIFER BARROWS & BRENDAN MCGUIRL, JERRY MISCHAK, JIA-JEN LIN, JIM RICKS, KATARINA BURIN, MARIA LALOU & SKAFTE AYMO-BOOT, RON LAMBERT, TRACEY SNELLING & ARTHUR DEBERT, TRISOMY 9
14 Oct / 1 PM
EXHIBITION
FALL RIVER GOVERNMENT CENTER
This exhibition explores the generative contradictions of concrete’s material qualities and use: its formless fluidity and rigid fixity, as well as its use in building agendas ranging from idealistic, modernist, social spaces, to oppressive and divisive realities. The exhibition was first installed in Boston City Hall (a few blocks from Boston Government Center) and now occupies Fall River Government Center, another Brutalist building of the same era.

Curated by Allyson Vieira and Ben Sloat.

Opening event
Doors open at 1pm and entrance is free.
Visiting
The exhibition will be located in the Government Center atrium through Nov 18th. Guests visiting may do so during the buildings operating hours: M-TH, 8am-4pm and F, 8am-3pm.

📍1 Government Ctr, Fall River, MA 02722
REPOSE
with ALLYSON VIEIRA
14 Oct / 5 PM
PUBLIC ART
BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE - FALL RIVER CAMPUS
In Repose, a new public art project commissioned by FABRIC for the Bristol Community College - Fall River Campus, seemingly shoddily piled sandbags, upon closer look, evoke the bodies of reclining figures lying next to a pond. Sandbags, when hastily stacked in preparation against impending flooding, are intimately associated with disaster preparation. Though they are made of the very materials used as defense in an emergency, Vieira’s bodies appear passive, unconcerned, and languid. Repose could also be read as re-pose: to change one’s position. She asks: What stance do we take in relation to this emergency?

Opening event
Doors open at 5 PM, and entrance is free.
Visiting
The sculpture will be installed at Bristol Community College’s pond through Nov 11th. Visitors may see it during Campus open hours.

📍 777 Elsbree St, Fall River, MA 02720
Gisela João
with THE ZEITERION
14 Oct / 7 PM
Concert
BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE - FALL RIVER CAMPUS
In a first-time collaboration with The Zeiterion, Fall River will host Gisela João, a central figure and one of the most exciting interpreters in contemporary fado music. With a constant presence on national and international stages, electrifying and unforgettable performances, Gisela is an iconic model for contemporary Fado.

This is a ticketed event.
Doors open at 6 PM.

📍 777 Elsbree St, Fall River, MA 02720

TICKETS HERE

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