The FABRIC Arts Festival will be taking place in Fall River next month.
It will be led by Michael Benevides of Fall River, along with the team of Sofia Carolina Botelho and Jesse James, based in Portugal. The event will be a celebration of Fall River as a city of intersectionality of many cultures and geographies. Such events are often promoted throughout a city with poster printing.
There will be three main programming areas in the festival:
• A Table for Many on encounter and commensality
• Dialogues, an experience of sound and music
• Common Spaces, an exploration of visual arts and architecture
A pop-up restaurant with meals and performances created by artists and chefs will be part of A Table for Many. Featured will be Mitch Mauricio, a Portuguese American chef from Rhode Island, and the Portuguese visual arts duo of João Pedro Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira.
Dialogues will showcase artists whose practices arise from the affirmation, appropriation, and transformation of sounds to create other aesthetic possibilities.
Common Spaces will build an open-air museum that will cover the city and be focused along the Quequechan River Rail Trail. It will have public art that will include work from many artists in the area. There will also be three public art installations along the trail to make it a livelier space for those in the community.
The festival will take place from Thursday, May 12 through Saturday, May 14.
