Grant Recipient

Melissa Nussbaum Freeman | Red Sage Stories

Artist: 
Melissa Nussbaum Freeman | Red Sage Stories, Jamaica Plain, MA
Project Title: 
The Table/La Mesa: The Welcome Project
Fiscal Year Awarded: 
2017
Program: 
Creative City Grant
Grant Amount: 
$10,000
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June 15, 2017 | Performance | 6:00 PM
Dudley Café | 15 Warren St, Roxbury, MA 02119

June 19, 2017 | Performance | 6:00 PM
The Strand Theater | 543 Columbia Rd, Boston, MA 02125

June 24, 2017 | Performance | 11:00 AM -12:30 PM
Nightingale Community Garden | 512 Park St, Dorchester, MA 02124

June 28, 2017 | ​Performance at the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Annual Meeting | 5:30 PM
St. Patrick's Church | 10 Magazine St, Roxbury, MA 02119

The Table/La Mesa: The Welcome Project is a multi-faceted performative social engagement that invites community members to take a literal seat at a table – to share tea, a treat, and their own story related to being welcomed. The community ensemble Red Sage Stories, directed by Melissa Nussbaum Freeman, will then devise 30-45 min performances about being welcomed to be performed at these Table sites and at the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative’s annual meeting. At a time when racist and xenophobic acts are headlines, The Table/La Mesa offers an inclusive experience of being heartily welcomed in unlikely places. 

Photo: Melissa Nussbaum Freeman