CALAFONAS: Disco, Diaspora, Memory is a lecture-performance that departs from the research behind the compilation Calafonas – Music From The Azores And Portuguese Diaspora. Edited by Discos Milhafre, the LP brings to light the stories of nine musicians of Portuguese-Azorean descent active in North America during the 1970s and 80s, whose music embraced the aesthetics of pop and disco. This overlooked cultural heritage challenges stereotypes that tend to associate Azorean communities exclusively with folk traditions and religious practices.

In this performance, Henrique Ferreira and Diogo Lima expand the scope of their documentary research into a live format that combines archival materials, storytelling, and sound. By weaving together music, moving image, and commentary, they construct a portrait of migration that resonates with broader questions of identity, belonging, and cultural preservation. The project reflects on how roots are transformed through displacement, how popular music can become a space of celebration and affirmation, and how these narratives can help us rethink migration beyond reductive or polarized debates.

More than revisiting a musical era, CALAFONAS: Disco, Diaspora, Memory becomes an occasion to speculate on the present and future of diasporic identities, using sound and memory as starting points for collective reflection.

The presentation will be followed by an open Q&A with the audience. Space is limited, please arrive early.

Artist Bhen Alan invites guests into a space of collective care and transformation through Kamayan—an intimate feast rooted in a longstanding precolonial Filipino tradition. Diners gather around a communal table where food is laid out on banana leaves, inviting conversation, sharing, and the tactile act of eating with one’s hands.
Drawing from queer rituals, diasporic memory, and embodied gestures, the evening unfolds as a living score—where movement, food, drink, and presence intersect. Developed in collaboration with local immigrant mothers and Courtland Club’s bar team, the experience blurs the line between performance, meal, and gathering.
For this occasion, Bhen weaves Portuguese flavors and ingredients into the dishes, creating a dialogue between cultures that reflects migration, memory, and community. Each element—food, drink, performance—becomes a sensorial and relational thread in an unfolding tapestry of care, ritual, and transformation.
Drinks are included in your ticket price. Upon arrival, guests will be welcomed with a cocktail tasting by Laura Ganci of Courtland Club. There will be another cocktail/mocktail after the dinner commences, along with Portuguese wine and SuperBock.
Notes for Allergies: Due to the nature of the dinner, we will not be able to accommodate allergies. However, there are plenty of dairy free, gluten free, nut free, shellfish free and vegetarian options for the evening! There will be printed menus with the most common allergens. We cannot guarantee cross contamination. Thank you in advance for your understanding!

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Post Scarcity Sculpture at FR MoCA gathers four artists and one sound artist in residence, whose practices operate as Futique Agents, working in the field of Art with material residue and technological detritus in a post-prophetic tense. Post scarcity, the conceptual ground of the exhibition, names a politics that imagines an end to artificial scarcity enforced by capital, envisioning a condition where technological development and collective organization liberate human and nonhuman energies from cycles of deprivation. In this exhibition, sculpture is redefined through soldered brass, cast plaster, resin, foam, computational circuits, video systems, and found refuse. The show centers a biomechanical site where the synaptic future and the industrial past converge. These objects function as future antiques, coded with fragments of war material, biological trace, and machinic residue, at once evidentiary and prophetic. Post Scarcity Sculpture frames these works as Futique Agents of a holistic informational shift, revealing how surplus, waste, and neural invention together constitute the emergent matter of social and aesthetic revolution.

Photo Courtesy of the artist, Alex Tum.

In this dinner-performance, Project Calafonas invites the audience to listen, taste, and remember. The event expands on their ongoing research into the soundscapes of the Portuguese-Azorean diaspora in North America, specifically the disco and pop aesthetics of the 1970s and 80s. DJ Milhafre (Henrique Ferreira) will guide a listening party blending archival tracks with contemporary interpretations. The menu, created by Azorean chef Hugo Ferreira (O Calheta, Ponta Delgada), will be executed in collaboration with Mitch Mauricio, a local chef and recurrent partner of the festival. Together, they evoke culinary memories of nights gone by—a festive and reflective gathering where food, sound, and memory become tools to reimagine cultural heritage.

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ODD-KIN is an artist-run space in Providence that supports experimental, queer, and transdisciplinary practices through exhibitions, residencies, and public programming. For FABRIC 2025, it presents a collaboration between Portuguese artist Hugo Brazão and Dirt Palace, a Providence-based publishing and programming platform dedicated to queer publishing as resistance.

The exhibition takes drawing as territory—a space unfolding across materials, surfaces, and printed matter. Brazão presents a new body of work that employs critical fabulation to construct a speculative figure: LoafHead. This hybrid character—part body, part bread—serves as a lens through which to reflect on hesitation, escapism, and denial. Bread, as both material and metaphor, embodies tensions of sustenance and decay, resilience and exhaustion, generosity and scarcity. Through LoafHead, Brazão examines how these tensions resonate within contemporary crises—such as ecological collapse or systemic inequality—while also opening possibilities for renewal and solidarity.

Brazão’s work is presented in dialogue with Dirt Palace’s zines, posters, and printed ephemera, highlighting shared approaches to storytelling, visual resistance, and queer imagination. The event will also include food catered by the artist, adding another layer of hospitality and shared experience within the space.

Developed through a FABRIC Arts Festival residency, this sound installation by Daniel Wyche & Matthew Azevedo uses field recordings from the Azores & New England to explore memory, displacement, and transatlantic migration. The artists capture the acoustic textures of the Atlantic—from the beaches of Povoação to the docks of New Bedford—collecting the sounds of the sea, wind, birds, and human presence. The work closely listens and re-listens, looks and looks again, to the Atlantic not only as a site of passage, but as a living connector between communities, past and present. Long draped fabrics, sensitive to sound and moving with the performance, reflect the countercurrents of distant yet adjacent shores, both linked and divided by and through the North Atlantic. Suspended haptic hammocks invoke the textures of home, of conversation, of shared waters, here and there, and here again. Through a sustained sonic and visual environment, the installation invites reflection on the ambivalence of oceanic crossings: generative and violent, melancholic and bright, intimate and vast.

This is a durational sound piece. Audience members are welcome to arrive and depart freely throughout the session.

A night of music, dance, and celebration at CRIB, a venue dedicated to global sounds and local communities. Headlining the night is Branko, one of Portugal’s most influential producers and the founder of Enchufada. His DJ sets fuse electronic music with rhythms from across the Portuguese-speaking world, channeling the energy of Lisbon’s club scene while drawing connections to diasporic sounds around the globe.

Joining him are Mango & Ginger—Simone and Bianca, a Brazilian-born, LA-based DJ duo celebrated for their electrifying performances and fusion of Afro/Indigenous-Latin heritage with global club sounds. Together, they create a distinct energy that lights up dance floors, bringing joy, connection, and style in equal measure.

Also taking the stage is Where’s Nasty (Jason Almeida), a Cape Verdean-American DJ, creative director, and co-founder of Stay Silent, whose work has been instrumental in shaping Providence’s cultural landscape. From community-centered events like Day Trill to collaborations with institutions like RISD and brands like Converse, his vision continues to bridge music, entrepreneurship, and creative innovation.

Rising alongside him is Slick Vick, a Boston-based DJ known for her high-energy sets and wide-ranging global influences. She has performed across the East Coast and in Cabo Verde, collaborating with major brands and cultural institutions while earning multiple Boston Music Award nominations for DJ of the Year.

This transatlantic gathering builds on FABRIC’s ongoing dialogue between Fall River, Providence, and Lisbon, weaving together artists and audiences across geographies through sound, culture, and celebration.

Doors open at 9:30 PM.

Alicia “Truthseeker” Mitchell will lead a reflective walk through Copicut Woods—a landscape shaped by memory, care, and ancestral presence. Together, we will move through gestures of grounding, listening, and quiet relation with the land and one another.

Along the way, Alicia will share knowledge of native plant medicines found in Copicut, inviting participants to connect with their healing properties. At the close of the walk, guests will be offered seeds to bring home—carrying the medicines, stories, and teachings forward.

This walk offers a space to pause, reconnect, and reflect, while honoring both land and lineage.

What to bring:
Please wear comfortable clothing and shoes suitable for walking outdoors. We recommend bringing water, sun protection, and anything else you may need to feel grounded and at ease.

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