A CLEARING: A Maine Arts Community and Tender Table present an evening immersed in food, storytelling, and art. Join us for delicious food and stories by Asha Tamarisa and Cassandra Loftlin, and artwork by Chelsea Ellis, Kelsey Halliday Johnson, EA Kane, Maia Snow, Stephen Straton, Jessica Townes George, and Lavennz Ooi.

This collaboration—supported by the Kindling Fund, a grant administered by SPACE on behalf of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program—is a part of A CLEARING’s overarching project A POSSIBLE PRACTICE. A POSSIBLE PRACTICE is an evolving cycle that asks artists to create in conversation with a theme, take part in site-specific art installations throughout Maine, and contribute to a genre-bending artists’ book. This season’s theme—the poem “Etymology of Butch” by Kristin Chang—explores ideas of consumption, lineage, and fluidity of being and form.

This first-time collaboration with Tender Table, an organization with similar interests in amplifying WOC, expands on this approach by inviting you to experience intimate storytelling and home cooked food that is rooted in memory, identity, and community. Hosted in Cong Tu Bot, this evening savors the delicious contrast that rises when art enters a non-traditional art space and non-restaurant encounters stir a restaurant space live.