Always Welcome: A Social Arts Salon

Mallorie

Always Welcome is a Social Arts Salon where you don't have to be afraid to get it right to be welcomed. Hosted by Mallorie Kris Greene Kristoffersen, performance ethnographer, teaching artist, and 9th-generation Howard County, Maryland native, each episode uses lived experience and lived stories as the vessel for fostering new connections and deeper shared meanings. From conversations with family to field research across Howard County, this is an investigation into what it means to be human in a culturally complex, constantly evolving world. Pull up a chair. You are always welcome here. 

Episodes

  1. Always Welcome: It Begins

    Jun 6

    Always Welcome: It Begins

    This is where it starts. In the first full episode of Always Welcome: A Social Arts Salon, Mallorie Kris Greene Kristoffersen arrives with her whole self -- the skin on her face, the voice that got too loud, the whisper she conditioned herself into, and the invitation back to full volume. This episode is dedicated to her grandmother, Sylvia Ann Cofield, and to all the conversations we never got to have with the people we love. Part life journey. Part community investigation. Rooted in Howard County, Maryland. If you have ever felt like you were living your life at a whisper, this one is for you. always-welcome.org | alwayswelcomesalon@gmail.com Supported by a FY26 Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Grant.   always-welcome.org | alwayswelcomesalon@gmail.com

    7 min
  2. Welcome to Always Welcome: A Social Arts Salon

    Season 1, Episode 1 Trailer

    Welcome to Always Welcome: A Social Arts Salon

    Pull up a chair -- or take a walk with me. Always Welcome is a community podcast rooted in Howard County, Maryland. Each episode, host Mallorie Kris Greene Kristoffersen journeys across the county connecting with social practitioners, business owners, and local residents -- asking the question at the heart of it all: what does belonging and community mean for you? Recorded at Lake Elkhorn, Columbia, MD. Supported by a FY26 Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Grant.   always-welcome.org | alwayswelcomesalon@gmail.com

    2 min

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Always Welcome is a Social Arts Salon where you don't have to be afraid to get it right to be welcomed. Hosted by Mallorie Kris Greene Kristoffersen, performance ethnographer, teaching artist, and 9th-generation Howard County, Maryland native, each episode uses lived experience and lived stories as the vessel for fostering new connections and deeper shared meanings. From conversations with family to field research across Howard County, this is an investigation into what it means to be human in a culturally complex, constantly evolving world. Pull up a chair. You are always welcome here. 

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