Providence Community Library, the Friends of Knight Memorial Library and Trees 2020 are excited to present two free environmentally-themed films tonight at the Knight Memorial Library, starting at 6pm. The Man Who Planted Trees (30 minutes animated) This film tells the story of a shepherd who repairs the ruined ecosystem of a secluded valley by …
Pioneering German sound artist Christina Kubisch visits Brown as part of the MEME program’s visiting artist series. She will hold two events which are free and open to the public: Weds, 9/29 8pm Grant Recitial Hall, behind Orwig Music Building, Hope and Young Orchard Streets — Screening of her new film WAVE CATCHER (2010) about …
The Steel Yard consistently provides entertainment you just can’t get anywhere else. Following a ribbon cutting to celebrate its officially completed environmental clean-up, the yard will host this unique competition. Teams of artists and fabricators compete in the 3rd annual head-to-head sculpture competition. Four teams — three rounds — one IRON CHEF! After the main …
Check out the ‘Works on Paper’ exhibit art AS220 and maybe take a piece home. On exhibit at AS220’s Main Gallery on Empire Street through September, 200 prints and works on paper hang in a massive, exuberant, salon-style showcase of work from a exceptionally diverse spectrum of artists. 200 tickets are available for the chance …
The Paul Krot Community Darkroom at AS220 and the Providence Public Library are proud to present a public exhibition of photographic prints made from rare glass negatives found in the library’s Special Collections Department. The exhibition, funded by a grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, will bring iconic images of local life …
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An atmospheric new photography exhibit showcases ‘The Ten Most Endangered Properties’ list generated annually by the Providence Preservation Society. Many of the area’s most talented photographers are represented here. Some images shimmer like spectral apparitions in unrecognizable dreamscapes; others already have a vintage look, like photos found in a box in the attic. This photo …
On Saturday, September 25 and Sunday, September 26 from 11 am and 5 pm, over 80 artists will be welcoming the public into their studios during open studios : pawtucket. Their studios are located in five historic mill buildings in Pawtucket — Blackstone Studios, Riverfront Lofts, Lorraine Mill, Hope Artiste Village, and the Mill at 545 Pawtucket Avenue. …
I don’t know what this is but I intend to find out. Pictures from the Hay: Celebrating the John Hay Library at 100 — the new exhibit at the David Winton Bell Gallery — is a celebration of the Hay Library Centennial. Pictures from the Hay is organized around subject areas that reflect some of …
This September, Edward Albee’s masterpiece Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? comes to Perishable Theatre at 95 Empire Street. Originally produced in 1962, and now a staple of American literature, the most widely known of Albee’s plays examines everything from love, marriage, our illusions of happiness and the seemingly inevitable deterioration of the American dream. Independently …
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Art installation/book/art/music type thing, COMEX OR BECAMUS will be debuting at Machines With Magnets on Saturday, August 28th. Barton, a RISD graduate, and Anagnostis, a URI graduate, have spent the last year and a half constructing COMEX OR BECAMUS, a large-scale multimedia art installation and literary publication. This collaboration represents the Providence artists’ ambition, criticism, …
One week till Foo Fest and that’s the deadline for the Fairey mural on Aborn Street. It looks to us like artist Johan Bjurman will finish on schedule, but the pace for the last week has been grueling. Just think of those hot muggy days we had. David Scharfenberg has a swell profile on Mr. …
The theme this year is ‘Back to Nature’. Head over to Monohasset Mill and the Steel Yard for music and interactive art. See the Flower Tower, the Churning of the Ocean, Nesty Tacos, the Blue Passage! And the Honey Bunny Rangers will be glad to tell you where to go. Entertainment includes, DJ Rupture, Triangle …
THE MANTON AVENUE PROJECT proudly presents seven stupendous plays from our Dialogue Program, acted and directed by fabulous MAP Kid/Adult duos!!! Four performances only! Thursday July 29th thru Saturday July 31st at 7pm Sunday August 1st at 3pm Tickets are free, but reservations are encouraged. Call 401.331.7007. More info at the Manton Avenue Project.
I’m happy to see that Shepard Fairey’s mural on the side of the Pell Chafee Theatre includes one of the endangered Atlantic Mills Towers; it will of course be sad if the mural outlasts the actual tower. The theater itself fronts on Empire Street, but head over to Cuban Revolution on Aborn Street to see …
Take part in Gallery Night Providence’s 14th season, Thursday 5pm to 9pm, . . . a fun-filled cultural extravaganza. Twenty-one galleries, museums, and historic sites; convenient parking lots; live music; refreshments; art buses; celebrity guides and it’s all FREE! New this season are the different tour themes with celebrity hosts — try emerging/contemporary, a bicycle …
Come hear our next Mayor, Angel Taveras, give a public address on arts and the creative economy in Providence. Don’t know Angel yet? Angel was raised by his single mom on the South Side of Providence and went from Head Start to Harvard through the Providence school system. An attorney and former Housing Court judge, Angel’s …
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