🥁Announcing.. FRESH! 🍉
A free event featuring a curated lineup of emerging local talent and crafts vendors, and grassroots organizations.
🗓️ When: October 19, 12pm-4pm
📍 Where: Sylvester Baxter Riverfront Park, Somerville – Assembly Row
🎶 What to expect: Music, art, community, and a beautiful fall day on the Mystic River ☀️
Come through, bring your chairs and bring your people!
Performances by:
Are you an emerging arts vendor?
Click the flyer below to apply to vend at FABA Fresh!
This event is supported by a grant from the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and by Assembly Connect.
Behind the scenes: FABA Season 1
Photo by Keira Cronin
FABA’s mission is to serve local artists and strengthen greater Boston’s creative sector through producing artist-centered technical assistance and events.
FABA Season 1 (2023-2024) provided high production value video content to artists who may not otherwise be able to access. Artists received music videos, promotional content, and strategic videos to support fundraising efforts. In addition to video services, FABA producers provided video strategy consultation on how to use video content for social media marketing, fundraising efforts, and to use in grant applications.
In Season 1, the FABA program:
Provided videos to 100% BIPOC artists living in neighborhoods most impacted by COVID
Hired virtually 100% women and genderqueer or gender-expansive crew
Provided 21 BIPOC and/or women and/or gender-expansive creative workers with work opportunities
Created paid work opportunities totaling approximately $20.5k for creative labor to produce videos
FABA is expanding its programming to include creative event productions that provide paid opportunities for featured and performing artists as well as behind-the-scenes creative workers, such as audio and lighting technicians, photographers, videographers, and more.
In 2025, FABA produced its Season 1 Film Screening & Celebration event at the Civic Pavilion in Boston, MA to celebrate and uplift the artists and crew who made Season 1 possible.
FABA Season 1 Crew
For Artists By Artists
Season 1 (2022–2024)
Season 1 Screening Event & Celebration (2025)
Made possible by the Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture
PROGRAM FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
Stephanie Houten
CREATIVE PRODUCER (DEVELOPMENT)
Laurel Kulow
PRODUCER
Alecia Jean Orsini Lebeda
PROGRAM CO-DIRECTOR / PRODUCER
Keira Cronin
SOCIAL MEDIA / MARKETING MANAGER
Keira Cronin
GRAPHIC DESIGNER (2025)
Hayley Carloni
GRAPHIC DESIGNER & SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER (2023)
Rachel Domond
AYANA MACK PRODUCTION
TALENT
Ayana Mack
PRODUCER
Stephanie Houten
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Stephanie Houten
DIRECTOR
Keira Cronin
GAFFER
Melanie Nesteruk
KEY GRIP
Gabi Davis
SOUND MIXER
Yvonne Corbett
ASSISTANT CAMERA
Liliana Senecal
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Jamie DiCicco
ASSISTANT PRODUCER
Briana Figarella
TALENT
Ayana Mack
Brett Wulfson
AFROBEATS DANCE BOSTON PRODUCTION
TALENT
Lakeisha St Joy
Vick Adinkra
Patrice Miller
PRODUCER
Alecia Jean Orsini Lebeda
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Stephanie Houten
DIRECTOR
Keira Cronin
GAFFER
Gabi Davis
GRIP
Chrissie Pucci
SET DRESSING
Miatta Shafore
SOUND MIXER
Yvonne Corbett
ASSISTANT CAMERA
Hunter Anderson
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Patricia Louidor
MUSIC BY
Clint Billiams
LOCATIONS
Boston Dance Studios
Urbanity
BILLY DEAN THOMAS PRODUCTION
TALENT
Billy Dean Thomas
PRODUCER
Alecia Jean Orsini Lebeda
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Stephanie Houten
DIRECTOR
Keira Cronin
GAFFER
Melanie Nesteruk
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Aleksandra Miklowski
ASSISTANT CAMERA
Hunter Anderson
COSTUME
Villada Michelle
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Aisling McDermott
PUNKY THE SINGER PRODUCTION
TALENT
Punky the Singer
PRODUCER
Alecia Jean Orsini Lebeda
DIRECTOR / DP
Stephanie Houten
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR / ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Carly Byers
BTS VIDEOGRAPHY & PHOTOGRAPHY
Keira Cronin
GAFFER
Melanie Nesteruk
KEY GRIP
Gabi Davis
GRIP
Chrissie Pucci
FIRST ASSISTANT CAMERA / B CAMERA OPERATOR
Hunter Anderson
SECOND ASSISTANT CAMERA / A CAMERA OPERATOR
Piyu Somani
C CAMERA OPERATOR
Danielle Bryant
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Abby Spencer
ART PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Savanna Genskow
LIVE AUDIO ENGINEER
J’andre Jhavone Rackyard
MAKEUP ARTIST
Kayla Jones
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Patricia Louidor
STUDIO PROVIDED BY
Another Age Productions
SPECIAL THANKS
Julia Ryan
Samantha Rose Hale
Kara Elliott-Ortega
Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
Luke Blackadar
Another Age Productions
Jessica Estelle Huggins
Tyler McWilliams
Andrew Eldridge
Talamas
Scott Lebeda
Nick Sabia
Hunts Photo & Video Melrose
Nick Kolinsky
High Output
Rule Boston Camera
Secret Society of Black Creatives
Nerissa Williams
Women in Film & Video New England
