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Spurse Event Schedule

Cambridge’s hottest new restaurant doesn’t take reservations nor will it accept cash, check, or charge at the end of the meal. Would-be diners at Spurse’s provisional restaurant The Public Table should come prepared to roll up their shirtsleeves and partake in the full experience of creating a distinctive cultural cuisine. Spurse is the last of three artists participating in Public Art/Moving Site, a traveling tri-state public art project.

The Public Table is a six-week provisional restaurant that designates food as a site for public art. To accomplish this project Spurse will lead public gleaning walks, costless cuisine servings, and educational demonstrations, exploring of the culture, practices, and role of food within the Cambridge community.

Weekly Events

The Public Table, 290 Main St. (Kendall Square)

Gleaning Walks	Mondays & Tuesdays	1:00pm start time
Research Days	Wednesdays	start time TBD
Servings	Thursdays & Fridays	5:00pm start time

April TBD	TBD
Event:	Collaborations with Food For Free
Activities:	Gleanings & Servings
Locations:	TBD

Thursday, May 4th

5:00-8:00pm

Event:	Opening Reception for Spurse's The Public Table
Location:	The Public Table, 290 Main St.(Kendall Square)

Sunday, May 7th	12:00-9:00pm
Event:	Bitter Melon Honoring Day
Location:	The Public Table, 290 Main St.(Kendall Square)
Bitter Melon Cook-off	12:00-4:30pm
NBMC Annual Meeting	4:30-5:30pm
Goya Celebration Banquet	5:30-9:00pm

Bitter Melon Cook-off 12:00-4:30pm
Cook-off: 5 visiting chefs create unique Bitter Melon dishs before your eyes!
Recipe Call-in: Bitter Melon enthusiasts from around the globe will call in and guide the NBMC in how to prepare their favorite Bitter Melon recipes.
Bitter Melon Roulette: Pick one of hundreds of identical dumplings. If yours contains Bitter Melon, you will be crowned Goya King or Goya Queen and will be granted a place of honor at the Goya Celebration Banquet
NBMC Mascot: The National Bitter Melon Council's Mascot will be appearing at the site and throughout Cambridge all day.

NBMC Annual Meeting 4:30-5:30pm
Join the staff, board and friends of the NBMC (National Bitter Melon Council) for its Annual Meeting, where we will celebrate our past year's accomplishments and give a taste of the exciting events to come in the summer of 2006. Presentation will include a review of Bitter Melon Week 2005 and Bitter/Sweet Taste Test, and sneak-previews of our 2006 New Product Initiative: Developing Alternative Applications for Bitter Melon, 2006 Research Initiative: Investigating the Quality of Bitter Melon, and the Council's 2006 New Market Initiative: Building a Consumer Constituency for Bitter Melon.

Goya Celebration Banquet 5:30-9:00pm
Gather for an evening of food, drink, and song to celebrate Goya Honoring Day. The banquet will include 10 different courses of Bitter Melon, from drinks to soup to a dessert and aperitif! *Space is limited! Contact the NBMC to reserve a seat at the banquet table info@bittermelon.org

Goya Honoring Day is hosted by Spurse and the Cambridge Arts Council as part of The Public Table, a provisional restaurant of The Collective for the Finding of the Commons, a project of the CAC initiative Public Art/Moving Site. All projects of the NBMC are generously supported by the LEF Foundation and the Berwick Research Institute.

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Public Art/Moving Site is an innovative traveling public art project that stretches the concept of “site”. Artists DeWitt Godfrey, Michael Oatman, and Spurse are creating installations and companion exhibitions presented as a public art series in three New England communities: Cambridge, MA; New Haven, CT; and Bellows Falls, VT.

Public Art/Moving Site is a collaboration of the Cambridge Arts Council, Rockingham Arts Museum Project in Bellows Falls, VT and Artspace in New Haven, CT, and is made possible by support from the City of Cambridge, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Greater New Haven Arts Council, the Vermont Arts Council, and by the Expeditions Program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, which receives major support from the National Endowment for the Arts with additional support from the State Arts Agencies of New England and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

For more information on Artspace in New Haven, CT please visit: www.artspacenh.org.

For more information on Rockingham Arts Museum Project in Bellows Falls, VT please visit: www.ramp-vt.org.

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