Join us at Capri Marfa for a FREE Community Dinner by Chef Nico Albert Williams, celebrating the opening of FLAGS OF OUR MOTHERS. This community-driven meal draws on ancestral practices and will highlight Indigenous ingredients. 

Nico Albert Williams (ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) is a storyteller, chef, gardener, forager, and educator of Indigenous foodways. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness, an intertribal nonprofit in Tulsa, Oklahoma, dedicated to supporting Native community health through connections to land, traditional foodways, and ancestral practices.

A 2021 Greater Tulsa Indian Affairs Commission Dream Keeper’s Award recipient and 2022 Cherokee Phoenix Seven Feathers Award honoree, she also serves as a culinary diplomat for the U.S. Department of State Arts Envoy program.  Her work has also been featured on Food Network, USA Today, Hulu, BBC, Cherokee Nation’s OsiyoTV, Smithsonian Institute, King Arthur Baking Co, and PBS among others. In her free time, she is in the Indigenous sludge metal band Medicine Horse with her husband, Kyle Williams Sr (Ponca, Otoe-Missouria, Ioway).

This meal is free and open to all. Seating is limited and a ticket is required. Pick up your ticket at the USO or Ballroom Marfa Shop, or email info@ballroommarfa.org.