“No Tables, No Chairs” Festival

Art on the Atlanta BeltLine’s 15th exhibition season will welcome back Mausiki Scales & the Common Ground Collective for its 10th installment of “No Tables, No Chairs.”

Since 2011, the Collective and friends have “electrified” the Atlanta BeltLine with its day-long parade, concert and artist market. The funk-filled festival invites families to engage on a journey through the pulsating rhythms of the African Diaspora.

“‘No Tables, No Chairs’ marries the spirit of the HBCU marching band with New Orleans second line jazz and blues. It’s an amalgam of different styles of the African diaspora and the through line between those styles. Our objective is to erase the distance between the performer and the community, while honoring the ancestral traditions that connect Africa to her diaspora,” said event creator Mausiki Scales.

Festival-goers will also have the opportunity to enjoy a food and artisan market with family-friendly art-making booths, presented in partnership with the Pittsburgh Community Market and the Atlanta Food Truck Park. More information can be found at art.beltline.org. Event is free and open to the public.