Tender Table Food & Poetry Fair

Congress Square Park, Portland, ME

Photo Credit: Coco McCracken

This was a celebration of Black and Brown joy, featuring food and drinks by Dream Sweets, Onggi, Penny’s BBQ Chicken, Siblings; poetry by Samaa Abdurraqib, Sarah Williams, Signature MiMi, Black Trans Girl in Maine; music by Kafari; Beautiful Blackbird, a reading corner by Indigo Arts Alliance; an arts corner by Love Lab Studio.

This event was sponsored by Friends of Congress Square Park, the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Portland Food Co-Op, and SPACE Gallery, in partnership with the Lunder Institute for American Art.