On September 26th, 2004, Malian (im)migrant communities of New York City gathered to celebrate their country's 44th year of independence. The production of this event resulted from the coordinated work of individuals who operated between local and national spheres in New York City and Mali to create a therapeutic space for their itinerant compatriots. The spatial framing of the event itself, in the open air of Harlem's main thoroughfare, provided a stable, albeit impermanent, environment to encompass the varied play of local and national memories, hopes, fears, and desires engendered by the Malian-American public. In this paper, I will step into the socioaesthetic spaces of these itinerant Mande communities as they move between, play off, and negotiate the boundaries of community and nation, patron and client, homeland and host-country. Such celebratory moments of spatial performance produce restorative, psychosocial links between distant homes and proximate hosts. These salutary pathways, in turn, facilitate intersubjective encounters in which relationships to home and host are discursively interrogated, negotiated, and performed. By observing and engaging with the social and aesthetic performances of my interlocutors within the interstitial space of diasporic celebration, I will follow the generative processes through which dislocated Selves temporarily inhabit and transform the landscapes, institutions, people, and politics of heterogeneous urban societies to support and sustain the well being of their communities. It is here, within this metropolitan ecumene that a recuperative third space emerges between the dialectic of local tradition and global modernity, between African origins and American destinations.