DIAGONAL ANIMAL
5 PM- 7 PM
Fall River Carousel at Battleship Cove
DIAGONAL ANIMAL
Jonathan Saldanha & Catarina Miranda
Artistic Installation
The City Carousel, by the scenic Braga Bridge is the setting for Jonathan Saldanha & Catarina Miranda’s artistic intervention in connection to one of the city’s most joyful landmarks. Be ready to take a ride in the Carousel like you never took before. A scenic machine that reenacts the vortex of a carousel, projecting its acceleration in an arcane phantasmagory. A radial animal inhabits the engine, struggling with its inertia, unleashing an ever flowing movement, partially disorienting and ultimately crepuscular.

$2 donation a ride
Directions: Fall River Carousel at Battleship Cove
FALL RIVER CULTURAL GUIDE MAP
7 PM- 8 PM
The Narrows Center for the Arts
FALL RIVER CULTURAL GUIDE MAP
Fabric Arts Festival, We Love Fall River, Rhode Island School of Art and Design
Guide Launch
An important legacy of the FABRIC Arts Festival in collaboration with WeLoveFallRiver and Rhode Island School of Art and Design will be the production of a new city guide mapping its unique cultural experiences. Made in Fall River lists food, experiences, landmarks, the products, the historical narratives tied to the city’s industrial heritage, and how Fall River relates culturally to the rest of the world as a home to so many migrant communities.
Directions: The Narrows Center for the Arts
EAST ATLANTIC
8 PM - 10 PM
The Narrows Center for the Arts
EAST ATLANTIC
Miguel C. Tavares & José Alberto Gomes
Exhibition
"Everything was reduced to fragments, to restricted frames and nooks of landscape. Anxious, I sift through that first impression of the whole and I do not find it.” Raúl Brandão in The Unknown Islands (As Ilhas Desconhecidas). Inspired by Raul Brandão’s trip to the Azores archipelago in 1924, Miguel C. Tavares and José Alberto Gomes travelled on board Corvo cargo ship for a 10-day journey between Mainland Portugal and the Azores, with stops along the islands of São Miguel, Faial, Terceira, Flores and Pico. East Atlantic is an audiovisual piece in a film-concert format that translates this imagery, with the Azorean archipelago and its island condition in its centre. In a hybrid space between the documentary and the artistic object, the work also intends to represent the dichotomous insular character, both seductive and attractive, as well as prisoner and claustrophobic.
Directions: The Narrows Center for the Arts
TIMESHORES
8 PM- 10 PM
The Narrows Center for the Arts
TIMESHORES
Diana Vidrascu
Exhibition
Diana Vidrascu relies on the tectonic imaginary that informs the archipelago of the Azores and establishes the narrative of an experimental documentary, where she explores a scientific but also fictional timeframe. By intersecting abstract experimentation and narrative documentary, forms and concepts are twisted, working the idea of an alternative chronology. The ocean is transformed into boiling lava and old images are transfigured into new forms, while memory morphs between liquid and solid states to something that is diluted.
Directions: The Narrows Center for the Arts
DIAGONAL ANIMAL
10 AM- 6 PM
Fall River Carousel at Battleship Cove
DIAGONAL ANIMAL
Jonathan Saldanha & Catarina Miranda
Artistic Installation
The City Carousel, by the scenic Braga Bridge is the setting for Jonathan Saldanha & Catarina Miranda’s artistic intervention in connection to one of the city’s most joyful landmarks. Be ready to take a ride in the Carousel like you never took before. A scenic machine that reenacts the vortex of a carousel, projecting its acceleration in an arcane phantasmagory. A radial animal inhabits the engine, struggling with its inertia, unleashing an everflowing movement, partially disorienting and ultimately crepuscular.

$2 donation a ride
Directions: Fall River Carousel at Battleship Cove
TIMESHORES
3 PM - 7 PM
The Narrows Center for the Arts
TIMESHORES
Diana Vidrascu
Exhibition
Diana Vidrascu relies on the tectonic imaginary that informs the archipelago of the Azores and establishes the narrative of an experimental documentary, where she explores a scientific but also fictional timeframe. By intersecting abstract experimentation and narrative documentary, forms and concepts are twisted, working the idea of an alternative chronology. The ocean is transformed into boiling lava and old images are transfigured into new forms, while memory morphs between liquid and solid states to something that is diluted.
Directions: The Narrows Center for the Arts
EAST ATLANTIC
3 PM - 7 PM
The Narrows Center for the Arts
EAST ATLANTIC
Miguel C. Tavares & José Alberto Gomes
Exhibitions
"Everything was reduced to fragments, to restricted frames and nooks of landscape. Anxious, I sift through that first impression of the whole and I do not find it.” Raúl Brandão in The Unknown Islands (As Ilhas Desconhecidas). Inspired by Raul Brandão’s trip to the Azores archipelago in 1924, Miguel C. Tavares and José Alberto Gomes travelled on board Corvo cargo ship for a 10-day journey between Mainland Portugal and the Azores, with stops along the islands of São Miguel, Faial, Terceira, Flores and Pico. East Atlantic is an audiovisual piece in a film-concert format that translates this imagery, with the Azorean archipelago and its island condition in its centre. In a hybrid space between the documentary and the artistic object, the work also intends to represent the dichotomous insular character, both seductive and attractive, as well as prisoner and claustrophobic.
Directions: The Narrows Center for the Arts
AZ- RAP: SONS OF THE WIND
7 PM - 10 PM
The Narrows Center for the Arts
AZ- RAP: SONS OF THE WIND
Diogo Lima / Red Bull
Film
AZ-RAP: Sons of the Wind is a documentary about the hip hop culture of the Azores. The main characters are the artists of the archipelago and some of the faces that build the cultural community of Azores, such as Sandro G., Fred Cabral, Fugitivo, LBC and António Pedro Lopes (co-artistic director of Tremor Festival). The film documents the stories behind some of the local neighborhoods, unveiling its particular cultural expression, as well as pointing out some of the main protagonists of a subculture that is deep in-rooted in the Azores. AZ-RAP: Sons of the Wind reveals insularity as a key inspirational source, documenting some of the historical elements that have shaped this important artistic heritage. The film was produced by Red Bull Media House in 2017.
Directions: The Narrows Center for the Arts

Bring your own Booze and Food!
I DON’T BELONG HERE
7 PM - 10 PM
The Narrows Center for the Arts
I DON’T BELONG HERE
Paulo Abreu
Film
I Don't Belong Here documents the creative process of the theater play that names it. The film follows a group of men and women who, despite Portuguese nationality, lived almost all their life in the USA and Canada, until they are unexpectedly deported to the Azores. A very timely film in today’s politically-charged climate.
Directions: The Narrows Center for the Arts

Bring your own Booze and Food!
DIAGONAL ANIMAL
10 AM - 6 PM
Fall River Carousel at Battleship Cove
DIAGONAL ANIMAL
Jonathan Saldanha & Catarina Miranda
Installation
The City Carousel, by the scenic Braga Bridge is the setting for Jonathan Saldanha & Catarina Miranda’s artistic intervention in connection to one of the city’s most joyful landmarks. Be ready to take a ride in the Carousel like you never took before. A scenic machine that reenacts the vortex of a carousel, projecting its acceleration in an arcane phantasmagory. A radial animal inhabits the engine, struggling with its inertia, unleashing an everflowing movement, partially disorienting and ultimately crepuscular.

$2 donation a ride
Directions: Fall River Carousel at Battleship Cove
EAST ATLANTIC
3 PM - 7 PM
The Narrows Center for the Arts
EAST ATLANTIC
Miguel C. Tavares & José Alberto Gomes
Exhibition
"Everything was reduced to fragments, to restricted frames and nooks of landscape. Anxious, I sift through that first impression of the whole and I do not find it.” Raúl Brandão in The Unknown Islands (As Ilhas Desconhecidas). Inspired by Raul Brandão’s trip to the Azores archipelago in 1924, Miguel C. Tavares and José Alberto Gomes travelled on board Corvo cargo ship for a 10-day journey between Mainland Portugal and the Azores, with stops along the islands of São Miguel, Faial, Terceira, Flores and Pico. East Atlantic is an audiovisual piece in a film-concert format that translates this imagery, with the Azorean archipelago and its island condition in its centre. In a hybrid space between the documentary and the artistic object, the work also intends to represent the dichotomous insular character, both seductive and attractive, as well as prisoner and claustrophobic.
Directions: The Narrows Center for the Arts
TIMESHORES
3 PM - 7 PM
The Narrows Center for the Arts
TIMESHORES
Diana Vidrascu
Exhibition
Diana Vidrascu relies on the tectonic imaginary that informs the archipelago of the Azores and establishes the narrative of an experimental documentary, where she explores a scientific but also fictional timeframe. By intersecting abstract experimentation and narrative documentary, forms and concepts are twisted, working the idea of an alternative chronology. The ocean is transformed into boiling lava and old images are transfigured into new forms, while memory morphs between liquid and solid states to something that is diluted.
Directions: The Narrows Center for the Arts
OPEN STUDIOS
7 PM - 9 PM
Smokestack Studios
OPEN STUDIOS
Several Artists
Open Studios
Smokestack Studios is a collective studio of artists housed in Fall River’s historic Metacomet Mill. The studio was established in 2007 when Rosanne Somerson, Alphonse Mattia, Charlie Swanson, and Eck Follen merged their studios together to form a collective space. Since then, the studio has housed numerous artists working in a variety of mediums and styles. The studio houses individual artist spaces, as well as a shared comprehensive woodshop, metalshop, spray booth, kitchen, and gallery space.

Resident Artists: Rosanne Somerson, Alphonse Mattia, Gail Fredell, Tyler Inman, Grace Kim, Isabel Mattia, Craig Heffern, Don Coxe, Justin Seow, Peter Lutz, Oscar Bedford, Mark Bokelman, Nick Ventola, Alexandra Francis, Nico Rousselet, John Park, Quinton Bley

Directions: Smokestack Studios
MEDEIROS / LUCAS
9 PM
The Eagle Event Center
MEDEIROS / LUCAS
Music
MEDEIROS/LUCAS are two islanders separated in age by thirty years and plotting to set their musical roots into motion. Both come from the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago lost halfway between the old and the new continent, home to sailors, gone whalers and volcanic landscapes.

Medeiros brings the salt of the sea in his voice - a spell casting, mesmerizing, sharp and deep vehicle shaped to convey stories in a piercing and the most touching manner. Lucas creates the settings, adding youth and irreverence forged into the poignant finger picking of his guitars and the technological embroideries of his productions.

They have released a trilogy of records - Mar Aberto (2015), Terra do Corpo (2016), and Sol de Março (2018). Their sound is disarmingly honest, raw at times. It sways melancholia and satire in tribal rhythms and ancient traditions while having both feet standing firmly in the present-day.

Important note: The entrance for MEDEIROS/LUCAS ( friday September 27th, 9:00 pm) show is free of charge, but The Eagle has limited capacity. Therefore, spectators need to pick up their free tickets in advance. Tickets will be available for pickup at 7:00 pm Friday 27 September - The Eagle.

Directions: The Eagle Event Center
DIAGONAL ANIMAL
10 AM - 2 PM
Fall River Carousel at Battleship Cove
DIAGONAL ANIMAL
Jonathan Saldanha & Catarina Miranda
Installation
The City Carousel, by the scenic Braga Bridge is the setting for Jonathan Saldanha & Catarina Miranda’s artistic intervention in connection to one of the city’s most joyful landmarks. Be ready to take a ride in the Carousel like you never took before. A scenic machine that reenacts the vortex of a carousel, projecting its acceleration in an arcane phantasmagory. A radial animal inhabits the engine, struggling with its inertia, unleashing an everflowing movement, partially disorienting and ultimately crepuscular.

$2 donation a ride
Directions: Fall River Carousel at Battleship Cove
NEW FORMATS FOR CULTURAL PROJECTS IN FALL RIVER
11 AM - 12:30 PM
People Incorporated
NEW FORMATS FOR CULTURAL PROJECTS IN FALL RIVER
Talk
In this panel, we present a series of leading cultural figures to address cultural, artistic and creative projects in the Southcoast. We'll hear about their projects and activities and examine them as case studies that show the potential of an artistic project in articulation with a territory. Creativity can transform objects, places and people's lives. How do their projects inspire/ influence and how can we learn from their best practices? This talk is open to audience participation and will question how cultural projects can have a defining role in the City of Fall River.


Moderator: John Vasconcellos, President, Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts
Panelists:
James Lima, Advisor on the Economics of Placemaking
Roger Mandle, Co-founder & Chair, DATMA (Design Art Technology Massachusetts)
Tracy Barbosa, Owner/Artist Duende Glass LLC/Tracy Silva Barbosa Studio


Roger Mandle has spent his life building and caring for major arts institutions. He is now Founder and Chair of the Board of Massachusetts Design Art & Technology Institute, DATMA.org. For 15 years he was President of RISD. Following, he became Executive Director and Chief Museums Officer at the Qatar Museums Authority. He has been Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the National Gallery of Art and Director of the Toledo Museum of Art. He was a member of the Ohio Arts Council and the National Council on the Arts. He is a scholar on Dutch art of the 16th through the 19th century, and has created many international exhibitions. He has served on the boards of numerous cultural institutions. He also has taught at Williams College, Brown University and RISD.

John Vasconcellos has been President of the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts since 2016. A New Bedford native, John’s non-profit work has included executive positions with The Trustees of Reservations, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, the Buzzards Bay Coalition, and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. John’s first career was in banking with Wells Fargo and Chase Manhattan Bank. Currently, John lives in New Bedford and Provincetown with his husband.

Tracy Silva Barbosa began working with glass in 1997 at Mass College of Art in Boston. After graduation, she worked with the world-renowned architectural glass artist, John Lewis, assisting with such glass marvels as the OK City Memorial, and One World Trade, NY. Today, Barbosa is the co-owner of Duende Glass, L.L.C. in New Bedford, MA, and is heavily involved in community art projects. Barbosa’s Azorean heritage, along with her admiration for craftsmanship, greatly influences her artwork. Her artistic process uses painstaking layers of transparent color mixed with various images such as post-industrial architecture, urban sprawl, along with colorful flora and fauna, to create a delicate narrative addressing issues such as age, sensuality, and transcendence.

James Lima has been actively engaged in complex matters of real estate, economic development, and public policy since 1986, with extensive private and public sector experience in the planning and revitalization of urban places at a variety of scales. James founded JLP+D in 2011 after leading redevelopment strategies for numerous large-scale sites as a partner at a major national economic and real estate advisory firm.

Directions: People Incorporated
FALL RIVER: Past | Future
12 PM - 5 PM
Gnome Create
FALL RIVER: Past | Future
Workshop
Come by the Gnome Create Shop on Saturday to silk screen shirts that celebrate Fall River and to share your thoughts about how to make downtown Fall River a more vibrant public space. Bring your own blank shirts to silkscreen or there will be shirts available for purchase.
Directions: Gnome Create
OPEN STUDIOS
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Smokestack Studios
OPEN STUDIOS
Several Artists
Open Studios
Smokestack Studios is a collective studio of artists housed in Fall River’s historic Metacomet Mill. The studio was established in 2007 when Rosanne Somerson, Alphonse Mattia, Charlie Swanson, and Eck Follen merged their studios together to form a collective space. Since then, the studio has housed numerous artists working in a variety of mediums and styles. The studio houses individual artist spaces, as well as a shared comprehensive woodshop, metalshop, spray booth, kitchen, and gallery space.

Resident Artists: Rosanne Somerson, Alphonse Mattia, Gail Fredell, Tyler Inman, Grace Kim,Isabel Mattia, Craig Heffern, Don Coxe, Justin Seow, Peter Lutz, Oscar Bedford, Mark Bokelman, Nick Ventola, Alexandra Francis, Nico Rousselet, John Park, Quinton Bley

Directions: Smokestack Studios
TIMESHORES
2 PM - 7 PM
The Narrows Center for the Arts
TIMESHORES
Diana Vidrascu
Exhibition
Diana Vidrascu relies on the tectonic imaginary that informs the archipelago of the Azores and establishes the narrative of an experimental documentary, where she explores a scientific but also fictional timeframe. By intersecting abstract experimentation and narrative documentary, forms and concepts are twisted, working the idea of an alternative chronology. The ocean is transformed into boiling lava and old images are transfigured into new forms, while memory morphs between liquid and solid states to something that is diluted.
Directions: The Narrows Center for the Arts
EAST ATLANTIC
2 PM - 7 PM
The Narrows Center for the Arts
EAST ATLANTIC
Miguel C. Tavares & José Alberto Gomes
Exhibition
"Everything was reduced to fragments, to restricted frames and nooks of landscape. Anxious, I sift through that first impression of the whole and I do not find it.” Raúl Brandão in The Unknown Islands (As Ilhas Desconhecidas). Inspired by Raul Brandão’s trip to the Azores archipelago in 1924, Miguel C. Tavares and José Alberto Gomes travelled on board Corvo cargo ship for a 10-day journey between Mainland Portugal and the Azores, with stops along the islands of São Miguel, Faial, Terceira, Flores and Pico. East Atlantic is an audiovisual piece in a film-concert format that translates this imagery, with the Azorean archipelago and its island condition in its centre. In a hybrid space between the documentary and the artistic object, the work also intends to represent the dichotomous insular character, both seductive and attractive, as well as prisoner and claustrophobic.
Directions: The Narrows Center for the Arts
ISLAND MAN
4 PM
Purchase Street Stage
ISLAND MAN
Music
Insularity has its ways over identity. Born in São Miguel, Azores, Island Man (the artistic alter ego for Manel Furtado) may have moved to the United States, but his songs have never completely left the imaginary of an island marked by a special sense of belonging. With a unique voice that is drenched in a sweet raspy tone, Island Man drifts between rock and folk with clear American roots, confronting it with that soul essence and heart-felt emotions that are still very Portuguese.
Directions: Purchase Street Stage
UNITED BANDS PROJECT
5 PM
Purchase Street
UNITED BANDS PROJECT
Saint Anthony’s Band, Our Lady of Light Band, Senhora da Conceição Mosteirense Band, Santa Cecilia Band
Music
The Portuguese Philharmonic bands of Fall River have a very rich history of providing music to community. The United Bands Project will unite the Saint Anthony’s Band, Our Lady of Light Band, S.C. Mosteirense Band and Santa Cecilia Band in a special concert that will pay homage to American and Portuguese traditions.
Directions: Purchase Street Stage
NICK SCHIARIZZI
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Purchase Street Stage
NICK SCHIARIZZI
DJ Set
Nick Schiarizzi - (CHERYL, Owl) NYC DJ and video artist extraordinaire. Co-owner of East Village arts space SSHH and Massachusetts native.
Directions: Purchase Street Stage
LULA PENA
6 PM- 7 PM
P.A.L - Fall River
LULA PENA
Music
It only took two albums for the world to understand the special place that Lula Pena claims for herself in world music. A singer-poet, a mysterious woman that hides behind the guitar to best surprise us, an exquisite composer whose music is a living organism. Her music exists in a strange ocean, bordered by continents called folk blues, flamenco, French chanson, fado, bossa nova amongst others, grazing them all and leaving none intact. A unique, deep voice, inspired by multiple references, playing with borders and with the best poetry that gathers a worldwide stream of devoted followers, in a kind of international secret society that awaits every public appearance.

$25. Tickets available here
Directions PAL FALL RIVER
KELSEY LU
7 PM - 8 PM
P.A.L- Fall River
KELSEY LU
Music
When you think about a cello you may be immediately driven to a certain space where melancholy and classicism co-exist. North-Carolina-native Kelsey Lu is a classically trained cellist, however, her approach to the instrument is truly unconventional. As The Guardian states “Kelsey Lu deals in music where the unifying genre is, essentially, beauty.”Having collaborated with many, including Blood Orange, Kelela, Florence + The Machine, Jamie XX, Solange, Kamasi Washington and Sampha, with Blood, her debut album, she unveils a whole new territory for her music. Dream-pop, blues, electronics, classical and ambient music are put together in a very contemporary, definitively L. A. sound, driven by a surreally powerful voice.

Tickets here
Directions PAL FALL RIVER
MAL DEVISA
9:00 PM
Purchase Street Stage
MAL DEVISA
Music
Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Mal Devisa began playing music at age 12 when she and a group of friends started an all-female band Who’da Funk it?. After 5 years of performing, writing and recording, Mal Devisa began to learn bass and save scraps of her forgotten songs. Mal Devisa started soon after, out of slanted basement walls and busted, dusty kick drums. Her sound spans jazz, noise, folk, hip hop, experimental and many other forms. Her lyrics are venomous and then sweet, her rhythms are lightning and whisper into the haunting DIY spaces she stumbles into. With incredible live performances, the project becomes more of a feeling, a moment, a time in space that requires you to get real and lost, with no intention of being found.
Directions: Purchase Street Stage
DOWNTOWN BOYS
10 PM
Purchase Street Stage
DOWNTOWN BOYS
Music
After 2017, it became clear that music had to reconnect with a past of political engaged bands.
Down to the basics is really simple: either you live comfortably with the reigning power structures, or you choose to use your music as a vehicle for the dismantling of oppression and the creation of something better. In this scenario, the position of Providence, RI’s Downtown Boys is very clear: they are here to topple the white-cis-het hegemony and draft a new history. This is how Downtown Boys began, combining revolutionary ideals with boundless energy and contagious, inclusive fun. They’re using the platform and success they've reached as a megaphone for their protest music, amplifying and centering Chicana, queer, and Latino voices in the far-too-whitewashed world of rock.
Directions: Purchase Street Stage