Providence Community Library welcomes Ryder Windham, author of over sixty Star Wars books, to Rochambeau Library on Saturday, May 15th. Ryder will present rare photos and illustrations related to Empire, and discuss vintage Star Wars toys, comic books, and comic strips. Ryder will also be signing books and we will be giving away signed souvenirs. […]
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There is graffiti and there is street art, and you will know the difference by the end of the opening credits of the new movie at the Cable Car Cinema. Exit Through the Gift Shop is the work of British street artist Banksy who remains disguised and anonymous throughout the film; he is not however
Providence Community Library will be presenting a free book discussion and signing with local best-selling author Ann Hood, on Friday, May 7th at the Mount Pleasant Library. Ann will be reading from her latest work, The Red Thread, with a discussion and signing to follow. For more info call 272.0106 or contact ddvorchak@provcomlib.org. 3pm, Friday,
‘1839!’ is the new photography exhibition being mounted by a group of talented students soon to graduate from Rhode Island College. The word ‘photograph’ was coined in 1839 and these artists — Leah Edelman Brier, Andrew Davis, Kayla Hood, Sam Kashuk, AnnMarie Nethercote, and Elena Scotti — vividly demonstrate the variety of forms and techniques
Head over to the Main Green (between Waterman, Prospect, George Streets) of the Brown campus on Saturday for an all-day art installation thing. Let’s assume that it is free and open to the public. GREEN SCREEN is a seven-hour exhibition/event of site-specific, interactive sculpture, installations and performances which will be held in the central hub
Providence Community Library and The Friends of Rochambeau invite you to an evening of jazz and blues with Tish Adams and The Mike Miller Swingtet. This is a free event and it will take place at Rochambeau Library, 708 Hope Street in Providence, on Thursday, April 29th at 7pm. The Mike Miller Swingtet consists of
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The RISD Museum of Art wants you to get into drawing. The Big Draw at The RISD Museum is a celebration of drawing for all. Bring your imagination and come make your mark! Join us for engaging drawing activities on the walls, in the galleries, and beyond. Let your drawing come out of the box.
Providence Community Library will be presenting two free bike-themed films this Wednesday for Earth Week at Knight Memorial Library. Join us in watching “Return of the Scorcher” and “Critical Mass“, both by director Ted White. Providence Bike Coalition will be on hand with information about biking in Providence and to answer any related questions that
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Please join Providence Community Library and Valerie Tutson for an afternoon of storytelling at the Knight Memorial Library. Valerie has been telling stories in schools, churches, libraries, festivals and conferences since 1991. She draws her stories from around the world with an emphasis on African traditions. Her repertoire includes stories and songs she learned in
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Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, currently housed at RISD, is moving to Harvard University. The Silk Road project was founded in 1998 to promote artistic collaboration between artists located along the historic Silk Road. Through the relationship with RISD, the Silk Road Project has offered public performances, hosted annual residencies and even collaborated with Providence’s FirstWorks
Origami poems are actually a collection of one to five original poems which are “bound” in a “book” that requires one page of paper to make. This idea began as a class prompt given to a group of poets by Barbara Schweitzer. It was her idea of creating and spreading these books of poetry à
Tonight marks the third Creatives+Cocktails event of 2010. Join the Industrial Designers Society of America [IDSA] Rhode Island, AIGA RI, and AMA at the Wild Colonial. Why should you come? Because it will be fun. You’ll meet some new people, reconnect with familiar faces, and maybe learn something new. Even if you don’t consider yourself
Saturday, April 3rd is International Pillow Fight Day. While I’m not 100% sure I buy the story that spontaneous pillow fights represent some rejection of our capitalist, consumerist culture, I can’t deny the coolness of massive pillow fights occurring simultaneously around the world. This year’s pillow fights will occur from Boston to Beirut. Even The New
Sorry for the late notice — the site was down earlier when I tried to post: Friday, 4/2, 5-7pm Part Thirteen: RISD Museum’s Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Jan Howard and Aurea founding members Consuelo Sherba, Chuck Sherba, and Nigel Gore in a conversation about Rilke as muse and mixing art forms. Jan Howard’s
The silent auction runs through 5pm Sunday. Fifty-five artists have donated 70 artworks for this silent auction. Winning bidders donate directly to a Chilean relief organization, and go home with a work of art. Artists include Andrew Moon Bain, Boris Bally, Jennifer Daltry, Erik Gould, Corey Grayhorse, Jungil Hong, Josie Morway, and Frank Mullin. (Seen
Maya Allison, curator of recently-shuttered gallery 5 Traverse, is teaming up with photographers Frank Mullin and Magaly Ponce for a silent auction and exhibition to benefit victims of the earthquakes and tsunami that have recently affected Chile, where rural areas were deeply devastated and where winter is coming. The pieces being auctioned come from a