Esposito’s Opioid Spoon Project Makes Weekend New England Stops

CONCORD, NH — An activist and artist is in the middle of a multi-state tour to raise awareness about the opioid crisis and give support to families and friends who have lost people they love to addiction. Domenic Esposito’s 800 lbs. metal opioid spoon sculpture is meant to be a form of protest but also a way of allowing people to heal. Esposito noted on his website that the sculpture was created “to memorialize those who have lost their opioid addiction battles” and the tour was designed “to provide individuals in each location with the opportunity to personally sign the spoon to honor the memory of loved ones lost.”

The tour is in its second week. It will make stops this weekend in Wallingford, CT, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, 2019, at the PNA Park, 171 North Plains Industrial Highway and from 3 to 5 p.m. in Providence, RI, at Burnside Park, 593 Eddy St.

On Sunday, May 19, it will be at the Playstead Field at Franklin Park in Jamaica Plain, MA, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and in Concord, NH, from 3 to 5 p.m., at the Kimball Jenkins School of Art, 266 N. Main St.

The tour, which started on May 11, 2019, will run through June 6.

Last weekend, the spoon made a stop in Cambridge, MA. In February, Esposito told Coventry RI Patch that the spoon was "a dark, macabre symbol for my family" since his brother was addicted and repeatedly relapsed.

For more information, visit theopioidspoonproject.com/the-honor-tour.