Celebe Food Revolution Day on May19!

Urban Greens and CrossFit Providence collaborate to promote real food and healthy living!

Saturday, May 19, 10:30am-Noon, join the Providence Food and Fitness Revolution in accordance with Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Day and in partnership with Urban Greens Food Co-Op @ CrossFit Providence!

• Learn Exercises you can do at home, in a 30-minute Lecture in Motion on the fundamentals of CrossFit training by certified CrossFit coaches.
• Appropriate for all fitness levels!
• Learn about Healthy Food Choices by Joining our 30 minute Nutrition Discussion!
• Try some healthy and tasty snacks from local food producers!
• Free Kids Activities during the workshop so parents can take part!

  

The bike tours are back!  Gallery Night Providence launches the 2012 bike tours with photographer and avid cyclist Peter Goldberg and artist Lani Stark.  The tour starts at 5:30 and leaves from Two Regency Plaza on Washington Street in downtown Providence.  They will visit several galleries including the Krause Gallery and the Bell Gallery.  Bring your helmets!  Don’t want to bike?  Regular Gallery Night tours run all evening starting at 5:30 pm.  For more, check out gallerynight.info or call us at 401 490-2042.

The Screening of Martin Scorsese and The Band's 'The Last Waltz'

Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 7:00 PM

Barrington Public Library
281 County Road
Barrington, RI

Free admission

Q&A to follow the film with Providence Monthly film critic and Martin
Scorsese historian Scott Duhamel

Also: a performance by reknowned singer-songwriter Mark Cutler in
tribute to recently departed Levon Helm of The Band 

Directed by Martin Scorsese

Beginning with a title card stating ‘This film should be played loud,’
‘The Last Waltz’ has been hailed as the greatest rock concert movie ever
made - and maybe the best rock movie, period.

Starring The Band (Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel
and Robbie Robertson) joined by more than a dozen special guests,
including Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Joni
Mitchell, Van Morrison, Dr. John, The Staple Singers, Ringo Starr, Muddy
Waters, Ronnie Hawkins, Paul Butterfield, Ron Wood, and Neil Young.

‘The Last Waltz’ was The Band’s farewell concert appearance, held and
filmed on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Bill Graham’s
Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

The film features concert performances, additional live performance
scenes shot on a studio soundstage, and in-depth interviews by Scorsese
with members of The Band.

A Grammy-nominated triple-LP soundtrack recording was issued along with
the film in 1978.

some random candids of attendees, speakers and performers at today’s rally at the State House

What do a Brown physics professor, GTECH’s chairman, and an Episcopal priest all have in common?

Lives That Speak April 19

Each will share their thoughts on living with a bold sense of purpose at TEDxMosesBrownSchool, Lives That Speak, on April 19, 2012 at Moses Brown School in Providence.

The event is offered free and open to the public, in an afternoon and evening session, with required registration at www.tedxmosesbrown.com

TEDx Moses Brown School is shaped by the theme Lives that Speak, a reference to George Fox, the founder of Quakerism and his call to live daringly and with a bold sense of purpose. Set in one of the oldest and finest secondary schools in the country, where student-centered classrooms and a foundation in Friends’ values encourage each child to discover his or her voice and individual promise.

For more information about TED, visit www.ted.com. To learn more about TEDxMosesBrownSchool, and for a complete list of speakers, event updates, and to register visit www.tedxmosesbrown.com

In the spirit of “ideas worth spreading,” TED has created TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxMosesBrownSchool, where x = independently organized TED event.

At TEDxMosesBrownSchool, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.

For more information, email tedx@mosesbrown.org

TOR JOHNSON RECORDS 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW

May 12th

7pm $8

@AS220

115 Empire St

Saint Jude

Another Dead Juliet (reunion)

Hulk Out (reunion)

Pretty Faces (reunion)

Now Denial

Furnace

yavinfive

Weak Teeth

Tor Johnson Records Presents:
Sunday April 22nd
9pm $5
@ AS220

Masthead - loud fuzzy awesome rock

Best Practices - indie rock on speed

Gertrude Atherton - 3 awesome ladies playing riff laden rock

Come learn about performance with us at AS220’s 95 Empire, a black box theatre and theatre arts school. April brings new classes in improv, acting, playwriting and new drop-in dance classes.

www.as220.us/learn_theatre_arts

For anyone who has ever watched an improv performance and thought, “I could do that,” or, “I want to do that,” Intro to Improv with Melissa Bowler is the place to begin. The class will use improv games and exercises to help students develop basic techniques of characterization, game composition, and scene building. This eight-week course meets on Sundays from 11 – 2 PM beginning April 15^th. For those who want to test the water before committing to eight weeks, there is a two hour Intro to Improv Workshop with Melissa on April 1^st to give students a taste of what it’s like to make it up on the spot. Workshop students will receive a discount when signing up for the eight-week class. Melissa Bowler is an actor and playwright who has been performing improve since 2002 and is known for her work with Improv Jones, Thibowla Virus, The Wilbury Group, and The Empire Revue.

Mark Peckham will offer Scene Study for the intermediate to advanced actor on Monday nights from 6:30 – 9:30 PM beginning April 16^th. This is an opportunity for actors to explore the moment-to-moment reality of the scene and develop techniques for making active, positive choices in connection with a scene partner. Students will work in pairs in and outside of class on scenes of their choosing. Mark has worked extensively as guest artist, acting teacher and theatre instructor with Providence College, RISD, Perishable Theatre, and 2nd Story Theatre.A member of Actor’s Equity, Mark has appeared at Trinity Rep, The Gamm, Perishable Theatre, Virginia Stage and many Boston area theatres.

Providence playwright Amanda Weir will guide writers in a workshop style eight-week Playwriting class as they take up the task of entering the playwright’s domain through writing exercises, as well as readings of contemporary plays. Meeting Sundays from 4 -7 PM beginning April 22nd, each student will have completed one ten-minute play ready for production.

April is also the beginning of new weekly drop in dance and fitness classes in 95 Empire’s 3^rd floor dance studio – no registration required. Perishable favorites, Wednesday night Intermediate Modern Dance continues from 6:30 – 8 PM and Sunday Intermediate Ballet from 12:30 – 2 PM, are already up and running will continue. Joining the line-up beginning April 16 are: Intermediate/Advanced Modern Dance Monday from 7:30 – 9 PM with Jessica Howard, Intermediate Modern Dance Tuesday from 9:30 – 11 AM and Intermediate Jazz Thursday from 6:30 – 9 PM with Peter Deffet, and Kickboxing on Tuesday from 5 – 6 PM with Cristina DiChiera. Yoga classes will begin being offered in the space in late May and June.

For more information and to register for classes, visit www.as220.us/learn_theatre_arts or contact education coordinator Leigh Hendrix at Hendrix@as220.org.

Bonfire Girls Productions is aiming to promote underrepresented artists while bringing back a bit of old school Providence flavor for a one night only “happening” art event.

We are looking for emerging artists to create costumes and/or works on paper based on the theme predator and prey.  Costumes will represent the theme and the artist will arrange who will be wearing them.  Works on paper must measure 5’ x 5’ no larger. For example, you can do one large drawing, a series of drawings or prints, a diptych collage, or a collection of photographs, but all must take up an area of 5’ x 5’

Don’t worry if you’ve never had a show before, we are still interested in hearing from you about your ideas for this great opportunity for a fun evening where the focus is on pure artist promotion instead of a gallery split.

Please email BGP either a link to your website with images of your work or include 3 low resolution pictures (72dpi) as well as your idea for the predator and prey theme.  Also let us know if you are interested in doing costumes, works on paper, or both.

Email: bonfiregirlsproductions@gmail.com

Deadline: April 6, 2012

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – At 5:30pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2012, Brown/Ziggurat Press will host a reading and book signing in the John Hay Library for BREATHTAKEN, a long poem by CD Wright with visual accompaniments by Walter Feldman. Following the reading, there will be a reception in the foyer during which visitors can view displayed books, and purchase copies for Walter Feldman and CD Wright to sign. This event is free and open to the public.

As Feldman explains “BREATHTAKEN is a dark and moving poem, appropriate to my way of making images.” BREATHTAKEN is a Brooke Hunt Mitchell Distinguished Artist Series book, presented in an accordion style, housed in a stunning cover, and featuring original block prints on archival paper. It is published in a numbered edition of 75, and is offered for purchase at $150 plus tax. Purchases of the book support the continuation of work through Brown/Ziggurat Press. If you are unable to attend and would like to purchase a book, contact Friends of the Library at FOL@brown.edu or (401) 863-2163. A short interview with Walter Feldman and a sampling of his previous work in collage and printmaking is available here.

CD Wright was born in 1949, in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She received a BA from Memphis State College (now the University of Memphis) and an MFA from the University of Arkansas. She teaches at Brown University, and has published numerous volumes of poetry as well as two literary state maps. She has received several awards including the 2011 Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Poetry Center Book Award, the Witter Bynner Prize, and a Whiting Award; as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and the Bunting Institute. In 1994 she was named Poet Laureate of Rhode Island.

Walter Feldman was born in 1925 in Lynn, Massachusetts. He received a BFA and MFA  from Yale School of Fine Arts, after which he served as an Instructor of Painting. In 1953 he was appointed to the art faculty at Brown University. He has received numerous awards including a senior Fulbright Fellowship, gold medal in Milan’s “Mostra  International,”  and a George A. and Eliza Gardener Howard Fellowship. His artist’s books are in over 150 public collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Albert and Victoria Museum. Feldman inaugurated the Ziggurat Press in 1985 with a book of poems by James Schevill. He acquired a Vandercook press and published a series of books of poetry printed from metal type and relief blocks that he created. In 1995 he was appointed John Hay Professor of Bibliography. In 2007 he retired from teaching and gave his press to Brown. It is now in use in the Art of the Book classes he inaugurated. He continues to work in painting, printmaking and is presently working on a suite of drawings relating to music.

Saturday April 7, from 9 to midnight.  Located at 75 South St in Providence’s jewelry/knowledge district. The Throttles play high-energy rock and roll, propulsive dance and spastic improvisation.  Listening is like a good cardio workout, stay hydrated.  For those who don’t know Nick-A-Nee’s, they serve a great stuffie, and they love your dog. Woof. Like all good things in life, this show is FREE.

The Wilbury Group announces the world premiere of “Destefano on the Air!” a brand new radio play by Providence playwright Cyrus Leddy, directed by Robert Casey Jr. in the performance space at 95 Empire Street (the performance space formerly known as Perishable Theater) April 12 to 22.

Featuring playwright Cyrus Leddy (resident sound designer with The Wilbury Group and curator behind Providence’s ever popular late-night radio series Breathing Tube) in his first starring role, the team behind Destefano on the Air! includes Providence theatre favorites Joe Ouellette, Clare Blackmer, and Brien Lang, as well as Wilbury Group newcomers Mark Gray (Oedipus Rex at Poorman Productions) and Kerry Callery (Festen at The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre), making for one of our most hilarious collaborations to date. Under the direction of Robert Casey Jr. (Exit the King, We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!), Destefano on the Air! pushes the boundaries of the traditional radio play from the foley artists’ opening to the final curtain.

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Doctor Dean and his bud, Rajiv Kumar, kicked off ShapeUpRI at the Providence Public Library this Saturday. I wish he had won the nomination in 2004. Things might have been different. Here’s quotes from a politician who was too plain-spoken for these times…

Governor Howard Dean Continues to Talk Sense