The Providence Athenaeum presents “Volumes of Forgotten Lore” a musical program inspired by poet Sarah Helen Whitman, written by Anna Ghublikian.

Inspired by the life and work of Sarah Helen Whitman, a literary legend of Providence and one-time fianceé of Edgar Allan Poe, Volumes of Forgotten Lore is a libretto born in the archives of the John Hay Library at Brown University. A mix of Whitman’s and Ghublikian’s words, Volumes of Forgotten Lore is an imaginative narrative that transcends time and space by engaging the spirits of yesterday with the bodies of today. It does not resolve any questions or reveal any truths, but rather reminds us that we will be haunted by these ghosts “evermore.”

Singing and musicians; there are two vocalists plus guitar, bass, cello, violin and keyboard.

7pm, Monday, April 22, Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit Street

Nicely done City Hall — this is a handsome tree, densely spangled with lots of richly colored lights. No bare patches. Glad we didn’t scrimp on this; we need to look like the city we hope to become.

Time to start getting in the mood.  KD Lang from “Pee-wee’s Christmas Special.”

Yellow Peril Gallery is pleased to present HITODAMA, a new series of sculptures, paintings, and mixed media installations by Gage Prentiss, from December 13, 2012 to January 13, 2013. The opening reception is Thursday, December 13, from 6PM to 9PM.

Hitodama is a Japanese word meaning “disembodied spirit” or “will o wisp.” The works in this series are an evolution of imagery from the complacency or confinement of our fragile mortal shells, to the freedom and fears associated with liberation from them.

“I use the symbolism of the body as a shrine, the vehicle of the soul as a moth and the path to enlightenment as the free roaming and illusive hitodama flame,” Prentiss explains. “Ultimately, we chase our life to its end and new beginning in beautiful and ugly ways. Like moths we fly forever towards a light in the darkness, not knowing what its end result will be.”

Based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Prentiss suggests using “Modern Figurative Surrealism” as the category for his art, which explores the figure and its ability to communicate with a strong visual language of its own. A trip to Italy to tour ancient sites for their historic, religious and artistic importance in 1994 inspired him to become a sculptor.

“I wanted to communicate my own faith and desire. I wanted my own questions and answers to find their way into the future after my own death, as Michelangelo had done for me,” he noted. “When you make art you give physical substance to an idea, belief or experience that would otherwise remain a phantom of the mind, a memory that can only be accessed by the thinker. Art, to me, is a self portrait that shares the parts of a person that exist beneath the skin, an intimate dialogue between object and viewer.”

Prentiss received his B.F.A. in Sculpture / Art History from Boston University in 1999 and has exhibited throughout the New England region since then. HITODAMA is his first solo exhibition in Providence, Rhode Island.

GAGE PRENTISS
HITODAMA

December 13, 2012 – January 13, 2013

Opening Reception:
Thursday, December 13, 2012, 6PM – 9PM

Gallery Hours:
Thursday + Friday, 3PM – 8PM
Saturday + Sunday, 12PM – 5PM
Other days by appointment.

(12.9) Head over to What Cheer Antiques and Vintage on Sunday for their 13th annual Christmas Party.

What Cheer’s having a Party to Celebrate the Holidays and 13 Years in Business! we’ll have Snacks + Ice Cold ‘Gansett Tall-Boys on hand + a Special Sale to Bring you Good Cheer.

all Used Stuff will be 20% Off + New Stuff will be 10% Off.

it’s been both a hard and great year for What Cheer? beginning with learning we lost our lease back in January – we wish this on nobody, but after finding the perfect new spot on Thayer Street, we’ve dug in for many more years. come help us celebrate!

Noon to 5pm, Sunday, December 9, What Cheer, 180 Angell Street (corner of Thayer)

Still looking for holiday presents? Fret no more! Come get the perfect gift for the holidays at the AS220 Industries Holiday sale this Saturday, 12-4pm, at Performance Space, 115 Empire, featuring items made by AS220 residents, staff, members of the Youth Program, and Industries’ members.

Shop, eat, drink, and listen to Irish music all in one place with no entry fee!

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NOV 29 | Lecture: Maureen Cummins, Artist as Archivist. Free and open to the Public. John Carter Brown Library on the Brown University Main Green, MacMillan Reading Room, 6:00 p.m. Refreshments served.

Maureen Cummins will give a slide presentation of her work over the past two decades, which has involved the production of over thirty limited edition artist books. The artist will describe, with accompanying images, her working process, which has evolved from pirating the flea markets and dumpsters of New York City to working in numerous archives as an artist-in-residence. Cummins will also speak briefly about her initial delvings into the John Carter Brown Library collection.

For more information, visit the Watts Program Blog.

This event is part of the Charles H. Watts II History and Culture of the Book Program.

Open life drawing $6 every Tuesday at 6pm, AS220’s Performance Space, 115 Empire! Buy a beer and draw-see your work improve!

normally during the holidays we run a huge sale. this year we decided to do something different. we will be donating 40% of all sales between today and Christmas to Girls Rock! Rhode Island. if you don’t know this awesome program, you should look it up: www.girlsrockri.org

please take a minute and look through the webstore. check something new out and help out an awesome program!! (for RI locals, for free hand delivery choose “pick up in store”. to pay with cash or credit card in person, choose “cash/money order”)

www.torjohnsonrecords.com

Contracts confuse you? Perplexed by copyright? Someone saying mean things about you? Bring your questions for Attorney Spatt to the Free Legal Workshop for Writers, Thursday, November 15, 4-6pm, Performance Space, 115 Empire Street.

Writers may have to deal with a number of legal issues in the course of their career involving copyrights, defamation, and the rights of privacy and publicity. Contracts often require knowledge of these issues as well as issues of publishing; agents; options; collaborations and the various rights that can be preserved or lost in a these contracts. Learn the basics of how to protect your rights as a writer, how not to step on the rights of others, and how to avoid a lawsuit when you do.

David Spatt is a 30-year practicing New York and Rhode Island Arts/Entertainment Attorney, an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at Johnson & Wales, the co-author of the Artist’s Friendly Legal Guide, and past-adjunct Sports & Entertainment Law professor at Roger Williams University School of Law. As founder of Ocean State Lawyers for the Arts, he created the artslaw.org website and has provided thousands of hours in legal services, lectures and workshops to Rhode Island artists and arts organizations, including AS220.

In Downcity wants to buy you a presents this holiday season – In Downcity Secret Santa.

From Friday, November 23rd to Monday, December 31st In Downcity will pick a winner each week and buy that person their gift of choice. How will they know what you want? After shopping at any of the participating Downcity stores – Queen of Hearts, Modern Love, Homestyle, Craftland, WHARF, Clover, Noon Designs, Eno Fine Wines, Symposium Books, and  Providence Optical, share with In Downcity what you want, here on their blog indowncity.com.

Enter as many times as you want, and In Downcity has started their own wish-list if you need some inspriation. Happy shopping!

10:00 am to 4:00 pm each day free and open to the public on the campus of Brown University!  A roomful of vendors with booths chock full of vintage goodness!  We’ll have men’s and women’s vintage clothing, accessories, boots, hats, gloves, bags, etc.  We have vintage and repurposed original jewelry.  We have books, vinyl records, vintage lighting, electronics, and industrial goods!  Our housewares include mid century enamelware, linens, colorful mod containers and more!  Antique and vintage buttons, fabrics and patterns abound.  We have Victorian antiques to 80’s bodywear!  Something for everyone!

When: Saturday, November 10th and Sunday November 11th 10:00 am – 4:00 pm daily

Where: Faunce Hall, lower level, Brown University (enter at the arch at Brown & Waterman)

Admission: Free!

How to get there: RIPTA to Thayer St/Tunnel stop; walk one block.  Metered and timed on street parking Saturday and free on street parking Sunday.

What to bring: Cash, Credit Cards, gift list, friends, family, coffee (for vendors)

Watch our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Urban-Vintage-Bazaar/266734040027846?ref=tn_tnmn for live updates and photos from the event!  Take a look at our blog at www.urbanvintagebazaar.blogspot.com for a full list of vendors and photos of the goods!

Don’t miss seeing Lauren Scott’s vibrant oil paintings of dream landscapes, pop culture icons (4 foot painting of Snooki, anyone?) and sewn together memories this month at Peregrine Gallery.

Opening Reception, November 15th 6-8pm, Peregrine Gallery, 150 Waterman St, Providence, RI

www.peregrinegallery.com

JOEY KILRAIN / MADE IN OLNEYVILLE / FLAT FILES
COLLECT: ART + DESIGN CONCEPT

November 9 – December 30, 2012

Launch Party:
Friday, November 9, 2012, 7PM – 10PM

Store Hours:
Thursday + Friday, 3PM – 8PM, Saturday + Sunday, 12PM – 5PM

Yellow Peril Gallery is pleased to present COLLECT, an art and design concept store for the curated lifestyle in Olneyville, launching Friday, November 9, 2012, in #102 Satellite Space at The Plant, a 2,500 square foot space devoted to new artistic explorations in Providence, RI.

In addition to dedicated gallery space for art exhibitions, COLLECT will feature works on paper for sale and a special section devoted to a local art and design scene. The concept store will be comprised of three carefully curated sections to enhance the shopping experience for art and design lovers: Exhibition, Flat Files and Made.

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If you loved us last year, you’ll love us TWICE as much this year as we added more vendors and a second day of VINTAGE!  Saturday, November 10th and Sunday, November 11th, 10 – 4 each day!  On the campus of Brown University and free and open to the public!

We are all vintage and include men’s and women’s vintage clothing and accessories; hats; boots; coats; sweaters, and much more!; jewelry, books, vinyl records, mid century housewares, industrial lighting, antiques and collectibles…the list goes on…  Something for everyone… you cannot miss this one!  14 Vendors in extra large spaces in one room for two days.

Urban Vintage Bazaar

Sat Nov. 10th & Sun Nov 11th

Faunce Hall, Brown University (enter at the arch)

Brown and Waterman Streets

East Side, Providence, Rhode Island

10:00 – 4:00 each day

Free Admission. Free Sunday parking.

Follow us on Facebook at Urban Vintage Bazaar

Check out our blog at www.urbanvintagebazaar.blogspot.com

The Steel Yard invites you to a workshop with financial guru E. Larson Gunness. Focusing on financial management for artists, this workshop is based on Larson’s book ‘Peace, Love, and Financial Planning; an illustrated guide to money.’

The workshop will be held in the Steel Yard office, located at 27 Sims Ave, Providence, RI, and is free of charge.

Overview of Workshops
As an artist, you need to deal with many of the same issues faced by other small business owners.  While you may want to just focus on your creative work, the need to deal with money is unavoidable.  Do you want to know more about how to manage finances?  Is the topic of money one that you avoid, even though you know you shouldn’t?  Do you just want to be in control of money in your life and work?  Do you want to understand how to approach the relationship between debt and savings/investment?

If any of these questions resonate for you, you’ll benefit from this workshop.

Bio
E. Larson Gunness in a creative entrepreneur who lives in Barrington, RI with his wife and two children. The Peace, Love, and Financial Planning project brings together the two halves of his brain by blending his creative practice and professional skills in the field of personal finance. In his business career, he has 14 years of experience in the financial sector (with Smith Barney, Fidelity Investments, and for the past 6 years at the helm of his own firm).

For more info, click here: http://thesteelyard.org/events/calendar/2012/11/7/226