Chase Ceglie is a musician and saxophonist from Newport, RI. At Fabric, he performs selections from his upcoming pop album, “Fear and Love, Together”, to be released later this year, and will be the standout American musician of this edition. He is joined by Mikel Arambarri, Andrew Wynsen and Nick Motroni. On the opening day of the festival, a QR code becomes available online and in the real world through stickers spread all over town and in other Massachusetts’ cities.

VIDEO RELEASE (QR CODE)
FREE. ON VIEW VIA PERSONAL MOBILE DEVICES

Most of the Fall River inhabitants are Portuguese descendants and their language has a strong presence in the identity of the city. One of Fall River’s “anthems” is a song by Jorge Ferreira called “Viva Fall River”. The project aims to represent this “anthem” alongside with graphic references composed by various layers that aims to emphasize the multiculturality of this community.

PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION
ON VIEW AT SEVERAL PUBLIC LOCATIONS IN FALL RIVER

Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art is a contemporary art museum located on the ground floor of the present-day Merrow building, one of the historic granite mills located on Bedford Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. FR MoCA hopes to exist in a perpetual state of experimentation, seeking to question how Art institutions can best serve their host communities. We hope to tether together opportunities with global partners to illuminate our post-industrial beacon’s shadows and allocate cultural resources to a city in need. The goal is to create culturally relevant programming in dialog with the global contemporary art world while engaging regional histories and shared experiences. FR MoCA seeks to make decisions based on the city’s excellent and diverse social ecology, providing time and space for the existing communities and future residents of Fall River and the greater south coast region.

Curated By HARRY GOULD HARVEY IV With ALLYSON VIEIRA, BRITTNI ANN HARVEY, FAITH WILDING, FLANNERY SILVA, GREGORY KALLICHE, JEFFREY ALAN SCUDDER, MICHAEL ASSIFF, SHURIYA DAVIS, SUSAN MOHL POWERS, ZACH MARTIN

FREE ADMISSION. LIMITED CAPACITY. DUE DO COVID-19 ALL VISITORS MUST HAVE THEIR MASK AND GUARANTEE MINIMUM PHYSICAL DISTANCE AT ALL TIMES. THE EXHIBITION CAN BE VISITED BY APPOINTMENT UNTIL DECEMBER 12TH

In addition to Group Exhibition #1, an off-site and site-specific installation will take place orchestrated by nomadic exhibition platform - Pretty Days featuring the work of artist John Roebas.

The exhibition can be viewed at www.prettydays.life
 

There are many ghosts In Fall River. Some of these ghosts we know are stories of people. Some of these ghosts are structural and economic. And one ghost carries the namesake of the city: the waterfall which Initially made this location so appealing to settlers. A once magnificent body of nature so powerful and strong - that our first engines and turbines ran off It. Then Fall River’s Industry grew to envelope this being. Never to be seen again. A projection of a waterfall on Fall River’s City Hall to be seen from west-bound traffic on 195, as well as a pedestrian view on the west wall of City Hall. This apparition will offer its benediction of infinite water over the heads of passersby. It is a brief appearance of just one of Fall River’s many ghosts whose name we intone nearly every day.

VIDEO INSTALLATION / PUBLIC ART
ON VIEW FRIDAY & SATURDAY – DUSK TO DAWN

7:30 PM RICARDO ROCHA
8:00 PM LAVOISIER
8:30 PM RAFAEL CARVALHO
9:00 PM FADO BICHA
9:30 PM GASPAR VARELA

This program focuses on a group of Portuguese artists and musicians working in and around forms of Fado and Portuguese traditional songs/instruments that reinterpret principles of identity, history, and belonging. Previously recorded in Lisbon and the Azores, the videos create a circuit of Portuguese music screened at Fall River City Hall building. Fados, Fairies, and Violas presents: Ricardo Rocha, the award-winning and legendary Portuguese guitar player; Rafael Carvalho, viola da terra’s master, the instrument of the two hearts and 12 chords which is synonymous with The Azores; the poetry of Miguel Torga embodied by powerhouse performers and harmony masters, rising duo Lavoisier; groundbreaking queer fado beasts Fado Bicha, whose sense of subversion of the traditional forms and lyrics and fado have given them international attention and reputation; and Gaspar Varela, prodigious 16-year-old Portuguese guitar player, that plays with Madonna and whose efforts take the repertory and imagination of the instrument one step into the future. The videos were originally recorded by Casota Collective at FLAD Foundation in Lisbon and by Cactus Produções, at Palácio Sant’ana, in Ponta Delgada.

FREE ADMISSION. THERE ARE NO REGISTRATION OR RESERVATIONS FOR THE MUSIC SCREENINGS. THERE ARE MULTIPLE VANTAGE POINTS FROM WHICH TO VIEW THE SCREENINGS.
DUE TO COVID-19, ALL PERSONS ARE REQUIRED TO WEAR FACE COVERINGS OR MASKS AND SHOULD REMAIN AT LEAST SIX FEET APART TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE. 

At a time and climate where the topic of immigration penetrates every corner—we find it fitting that the site of FABRIC lands in Fall River, Massachusetts, who’s rich history is steeped in social activism, changing borders, migration and free labor immigrants. Fall River has become a conduit and home to the Portuguese (Azores). It took on the same role for the Irish and French Canadians before that and is becoming more and more inviting to the Puerto Rican community seeking refuge from natural disasters in recent years. We look to FABRIC as an opportunity to create real human interaction through dynamic placemaking and programming. Development of a hub for play, understanding, dialogue, sharing and exchange, and to celebrate our differences and find common ground among our similarities. As we move into different geographic spaces, we wish to ask questions of what it means to be accepted, to be alien, to be local, to belong. We seek to blur ideas of territory in hopes to uplift and find elbow room for self and others. In our current times of social distancing, our conversations have moved increasingly towards the internet realm. Post Discussion seeks to promote and inspire visitors to hold healthy real-world conversations with each other.

FREE ADMISSION. THE INSTALLATION WILL REMAIN AS PART OF THE QUEQUECHAN RIVER TRAIL.

Fall River Watermark is an exploratory walk following the Quequechan River. To experience the walk you will need your mobile device and headphones.

You can experience this project in two forms:

Guided walk: Participants listen & tune their senses to this urban watershed, carrying water from Watuppa Ponds to the river’s confluence at tidal Mt Hope Bay.

or

Self-guided walk: Listen & tune your senses to this urban watershed. Markers placed along the waterway trail & streets of the downtown area invite participants to trace the length of the river while hearing the secrets of this historical river. Audio composed of site-specific
field recordings & historical sounds can be accessed at markers by cell phone. Bring headphones and walk at your own pace along the Quequechan River from its origin at Watuppa Ponds to its confluence with tidal Mt Hope Bay and the Taunton River.


FREE ADMISSION. THE GUIDED WALK HAS LIMITED PARTICIPATION OF 10 PEOPLE.
PLEASE REGISTER AT FABRICFALLRIVER@GMAIL.COM WITH THE FOLLOWING INFO: SUBJECT “FALLRIVERWATERMARK”; NAME AND PHONE NUMBER; SESSION AND PREFERRED SCHEDULE. MEETING LOCATION WILL BE PROVIDED ONCE RESERVATION IS CONFIRM.  

Come walk with me is a series of walks and actions designed by Gustavo Ciríaco to be experienced during the act of strolling. Each walk is organized for 5 audience members at a time and planned to last around 1h and 1h15min. The project was built through an online workshop with volunteers who individually or in group conjured up each an idiosyncratic walk in the city of Fall River’s urban territory.

ALL WALKS HAVE LIMITED PARTICIPATION. PLEASE REGISTER AT FABRICFESTIVALFALLRIVER@GMAIL.COM WITH THE FOLLOWING INFO: SUBJECT “WALKFALLRIVER”; NAME AND PHONE NUMBER; SESSION AND PREFERRED SCHEDULE. THE MEETING POING WILL BE SHARED UPON REGISTRATION.

10 AM WALK #1 - Greetings from Fall River
A walk through old postcards of Fall River GUIDED BY PATTI REGO from We Love Fall River 
In this walk, the public is taken through the city center in a visit through the same spots portrayed by old postcards from Fall River and challenged to take part as figures in making new postcards on the very same locations.

11 AM WALK #2 - See through my Voices, Smell Through my Eyes FULLY BOOKED 
A sensorial deambulation through the nature along the Quequechan River Trail GUIDED BY RHONDA FAZIO
The Quequechan River Trail is considered a fresh breath of Nature in Fall River, cherished by locals as a place for leisure and drifting, as a vivid fauna and flora cohabit in its surrounding wetlands. How far has one to go to be out of somewhere? How do our eyes and ears interact in the selection of the world we perceive? How much fiction there is in the landscape we experience? Using a varied set of perspectives, memories and histories, Rhonda guides us through the landscape we see and the ground we step upon in a synesthetic and poetic deambulation.

11:30 AM WALK #3 As Water Falls FULLY BOOKED 
Re-imagining, re-staging, re-enacting the waterfalls of Fall River GUIDED BY COREY NUFFER
In 1962, part of Fall River’s old city center was demolished to make way for Interstate 195 and the new Government Center. Yet, the city’s urban transformations go away back in its history, much before the sixties, to a time there were many waterfalls in the Quequechan River (‘water that falls, that leaps’ in Wampanoag language). How did these famous waterfalls that named the city of Fall River used to look like? With this curiosity in mind, this walk challenges the participants to imagine these long-gone waterfalls freely. Using any as many means as we might fancy - Corey Nuffer guides us through a playful path inhabited by games, dioramas, building structures, miniatures, graffiti and plenty of imagination.

Come walk with me is a series of walks and actions designed by Gustavo Ciríaco to be experienced during the act of strolling. Each walk is organized for 5 audience members at a time and planned to last around 1h and 1h15min. The project was built through an online workshop with volunteers who individually or in group conjured up each an idiosyncratic walk in the city of Fall River’s urban territory.

ALL WALKS HAVE LIMITED PARTICIPATION. PLEASE REGISTER AT FABRICFESTIVALFALLRIVER@GMAIL.COM WITH THE FOLLOWING INFO: SUBJECT “WALKFALLRIVER”; NAME AND PHONE NUMBER; SESSION AND PREFERRED SCHEDULE. THE MEETING POING WILL BE SHARED UPON REGISTRATION. 

2 PM - WALK #1 - Greetings from Fall River FULLY BOOKED
A walk through old postcards of Fall River GUIDED BY PATTI REGO from We Love Fall River
In this walk, the public is taken through the city center in a visit through the same spots portrayed by old postcards from Fall River and challenged to take part as figures in making new postcards on the very same locations.

2:30 PM - WALK #2 - See through my Voices, Smell Through my Eyes FULLY BOOKED
A sensorial deambulation through the nature along the Quequechan River Rail Trail GUIDED BY RHONDA FAZIO
The Quequechan River Trail is considered a fresh breath of Nature in Fall River, cherished by locals as a place for leisure and drifting, as a vivid fauna and flora cohabit in its surrounding wetlands. How far has one to go to be out of somewhere? How do our eyes and ears interact in the selection of the world we perceive? How much fiction there is in the landscape we experience? Using a varied set of perspectives, memories and histories, Rhonda guides us through the landscape we see and the ground we step upon in a synesthetic and poetic deambulation.

3 PM WALK #3 As Water Falls FULLY BOOKED
Re-imagining, re-staging, re-enacting the waterfalls of Fall River GUIDED BY COREY NUFFER
In 1962, part of Fall River’s old city center was demolished to make way for Interstate 195 and the new Government Center. Yet, the city’s urban transformations go away back in its history, much before the sixties, to a time there were many waterfalls in the Quequechan River (‘water that falls, that leaps’ in Wampanoag language). How did these famous waterfalls that named the city of Fall River used to look like? With this curiosity in mind, this walk challenges the participants to imagine these long-gone waterfalls freely. Using any as many means as we might fancy - Corey Nuffer guides us through a playful path inhabited by games, dioramas, building structures, miniatures, graffiti and plenty of imagination.

Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art is a contemporary art museum located on the ground floor of the present-day Merrow building, one of the historic granite mills located on Bedford Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. FR MoCA hopes to exist in a perpetual state of experimentation, seeking to question how Art institutions can best serve their host communities. We hope to tether together opportunities with global partners to illuminate our post-industrial beacon’s shadows and allocate cultural resources to a city in need. The goal is to create culturally relevant programming in dialog with the global contemporary art world while engaging regional histories and shared experiences. FR MoCA seeks to make decisions based on the city’s excellent and diverse social ecology, providing time and space for the existing communities and future residents of Fall River and the greater south coast region.

Curated By HARRY GOULD HARVEY IV With ALLYSON VIEIRA, BRITTNI ANN HARVEY, FAITH WILDING, FLANNERY SILVA, GREGORY KALLICHE, JEFFREY ALAN SCUDDER, MICHAEL ASSIFF, SHURIYA DAVIS, SUSAN MOHL POWERS, ZACH MARTIN

FREE ADMISSION. LIMITED CAPACITY. DUE DO COVID-19 ALL VISITORS MUST HAVE THEIR MASK AND GUARANTEE MINIMUM PHYSICAL DISTANCE AT ALL TIMES. THE EXHIBITION CAN BE VISITED BY APPOINTMENT UNTIL DECEMBER 12TH 

Fall River Watermark is an exploratory walk following the Quequechan River. To experience the walk you will need your mobile device and headphones.

You can experience this project in two forms:

Guided walk: Participants listen & tune their senses to this urban watershed, carrying water from Watuppa Ponds to the river’s confluence at tidal Mt Hope Bay. FULLY BOOKED

or

Self-guided walk: Listen & tune your senses to this urban watershed. Markers placed along the waterway trail & streets of the downtown area invite participants to trace the length of the river while hearing the secrets of this historical river. Audio composed of site-specific
field recordings & historical sounds can be accessed at markers by cell phone. Bring headphones and walk at your own pace along the Quequechan River from its origin at Watuppa Ponds to its confluence with tidal Mt Hope Bay and the Taunton River.

FREE ADMISSION. THE GUIDED WALK HAS LIMITED PARTICIPATION OF 10 PEOPLE.
PLEASE REGISTER AT FABRICFALLRIVER@GMAIL.COM WITH THE FOLLOWING INFO: SUBJECT “FALLRIVERWATERMARK”; NAME AND PHONE NUMBER; SESSION AND PREFERRED SCHEDULE.

There are many ghosts In Fall River. Some of these ghosts we know are stories of people. Some of these ghosts are structural and economic. And one ghost carries the namesake of the city: the waterfall which Initially made this location so appealing to settlers. A once magnificent body of nature so powerful and strong - that our first engines and turbines ran off It. Then Fall River’s Industry grew to envelope this being. Never to be seen again. A projection of a waterfall on Fall River’s City Hall to be seen from west-bound traffic on 195, as well as a pedestrian view on the west wall of City Hall. This apparition will offer its benediction of infinite water over the heads of passersby. It is a brief appearance of just one of Fall River’s many ghosts whose name we intone nearly every day.

VIDEO INSTALLATION / PUBLIC ART
ON VIEW FRIDAY & SATURDAY – DUSK TO DAWN 

7:30 PM RICARDO ROCHA
8:00 PM LAVOISIER
8:30 PM RAFAEL CARVALHO
9:00 PM FADO BICHA
9:30 PM GASPAR VARELA

This program focuses on a group of Portuguese artists and musicians working in and around forms of Fado and Portuguese traditional songs/instruments that reinterpret principles of identity, history, and belonging. Previously recorded in Lisbon and the Azores, the videos create a circuit of Portuguese music screened at Fall River City Hall building. Fados, Fairies, and Violas presents: Ricardo Rocha, the award-winning and legendary Portuguese guitar player; Rafael Carvalho, viola da terra’s master, the instrument of the two hearts and 12 chords which is synonymous with The Azores; the poetry of Miguel Torga embodied by powerhouse performers and harmony masters, rising duo Lavoisier; groundbreaking queer fado beasts Fado Bicha, whose sense of subversion of the traditional forms and lyrics and fado have given them international attention and reputation; and Gaspar Varela, prodigious 16-year-old Portuguese guitar player, that plays with Madonna and whose efforts take the repertory and imagination of the instrument one step into the future. The videos were originally recorded by Casota Collective at FLAD Foundation in Lisbon and by Cactus Produções, at Palácio Sant’ana, in Ponta Delgada.

FREE ADMISSION. THERE ARE NO REGISTRATION OR RESERVATIONS FOR THE MUSIC SCREENINGS. THERE ARE MULTIPLE VANTAGE POINTS FROM WHICH TO VIEW THE SCREENINGS. 
DUE TO COVID-19, ALL PERSONS ARE REQUIRED TO WEAR FACE COVERINGS OR MASKS AND SHOULD REMAIN AT LEAST SIX FEET APART TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE.