Fabric Arts Festival

Fabric Arts Festival merges Fall River’s past and present narratives and showcases them across the city’s urban structures and dynamics. As it strives to preserve tradition by crossing it with new artistic forms, the festival will draw from the city’s rich cultural and geographic contexts to establish a synergistic dialogue with its territory and local communities, extending an invitation to direct participation to the city’s population and its visitors.

Fabric Arts Festival proposes to engage the city through a unique and multidisciplinary experience, with an arts circuit stretching over a central area of the city with music concerts, site-specific projects and murals.

In the Festival’s first edition, artists are challenged to reinterpret Fall River, filter it through their artistic language, and create a tangible legacy of contemporary art that will transform the city’s physical and cultural spaces with permanent and ephemeral points of interest. A conscious effort is made to preserve Fall River’s industrial heritage, freshen the city’s cultural bond with Portugal, and promote collaboration between local cultural agents and the Festival’s artists.

Program at a Glance

MUSIC: Kelsey Lu, Mal Devisa, Lula Pena, Downtown Boys, MEDEIROS/LUCAS, Manel, The Island Man and the United Bands Project (Saint Anthony’s Band, Our Lady of Light Band, S.C. Mosteirense Band and Santa Cecilia Band)

ART: Alberonero, Braulio Amado & Nick Shiarizzi, Jonathan Saldanha & Catarina Miranda, Elian Chali, WSDIA (WeShouldDoItAll) and René Gagnon

FILM & EXHIBITIONS: Red Bull | Diogo Lima- A-Z Rap: Filhos do Vento (Sons of the Wind),Paulo Abreu: I Don’t Belong Here,  Diana Vidrascu: Timeshores, Miguel C. Tavares & José Alberto Gomes: East Atlantic