(2.28) This is a real life event. This Sunday, the WaterFire Arts Center will be hosting an afternoon of art and magic as two disciplines collide: a tribute arts exhibition in honor of Rhode Island sculptor Howard Ben Tré paired with the multidisciplinary performance of the Balliamo Dance Collective. But wait, there’s more: The exhibit […]
(8.22) The Wilbury Theatre Group and WaterFire Providence announce Decameron, Providence: New Stories for a New Era. A co-production between the two organizations, and featuring dozens of performing artists and community groups over a two-week period, Decameron Providence is inspired by the framing story of the 1352 classic by Giovanni Boccaccio in which ten citizens of
(8.1) Some events will be streamed, but some can be enjoyed in real life! FringePVD, the Providence Fringe Festival, has traditionally brought hundreds of theatre, music, dance, and multimedia performing artists to the Olneyville neighborhood. But this year everything is different: With many of the usual performance spaces closed, most of the festival will be
(2.29) Leap into the squared circle! Once a month the Black Box Theater at AS220 hosts a bona fide hometown beatdown. This month’s installment? Cloudy with a Chance of Pain. From Providence Wrestle Party owner/operator Sully Banger: Part theatre, part basement punk gig, part improv, part comedy, part combat sport, part cabaret, and always completely
(2.5) Ayana Evans will perform “If You Can Make it Through the Night” this Wednesday at the List Art Building. Ayana Evans’ performances address issues of body image and social judgement, often including feats of endurance performed in high heels and eye catching outfits that represent the perseverance required by women in our society. In
(9.13) Fans of Taylor Mac already know about the upcoming performance at The Vets on Saturday, but a few ancillary events are on tap that look very entertaining, and they are free and open to the public. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist and Tony-nominated theater artist chronicles an unseen history of America through a
(8.15) Meet Ayana M. Evans. She is one of two performance artists (also, Marsha Parrilla) featured in the Grand Gallery from 6pm-7:30pm this Thursday night. I have no idea what either one will be doing, but I don’t think you will be bored. And it’s free. The RISD Third Thursday events are designed to help
(7.27) The fifth annual Providence Fringe Festival kicks off on Monday, July 22, with a free opening party at the Wilbury Group Theatre, featuring Zoink Zulag and the Galactic Shag, Scruffy Aristocrats, and the Providence Ukulele Armada. The festival closes Saturday, July 27, at the WaterFire Arts Center. Local tastemaker, lexicographer, and editor of Law
(5.17) Head over to the Southside Cultural Center this Friday for the Verdant Vibes Spring Festival — with Luminarium Dance Company and Diary of Clouds — a multimedia performance combining acoustic and electronic music, movement, and visual art selected from their free call for scores. String quintets+, homemade instruments, graphic scores, electronics, experimental performance, and
(4.27) This Saturday evening the Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council in the Arcade will host musician Alec K. Redfearn and poet Jason O’Toole in Poetry, Magick, and Modular Synth, a unique spoken word/music performance. Cake is a possibility. (Facebook event.) Two original voices of the underground music and arts scene come together with spoken word
(4.16) Close-up magician Joshua Jay brings his Tragic Magic — followed by a Q&A — to the List Auditorium this Tuesday evening. For fans lucky enough to be free during the day, Jay will be hosting a magic confab at the Rockefeller Library on Prospect Street at 3pm. Office Hours with a Magician: At 3
(2.15) The experimental Kukuruz Quartet presents a concert for four “prepared” pianos, or instruments whose sounds have been altered by miscellaneous objects wedged between the strings. Piano wedgies! The program features rarely-played compositions by Julius Eastman and new works by Brown-affiliated artists Erik DeLuca, Alexander Dupuis and more. The Kukuruz Quartet is equally at home
(8.4) The following guide to the Providence Fringe Festival comes courtesy of Wilbury superfan, and friend of The Dose, Renee Bessette. There are many moving parts to this week-long festival and Renee is just the person to make sense of it all. An opening night reception will be held Monday at the Wilbury Theatre’s new
(12.4) And now for something completely different. Avant music ensemble Verdant Vibes presents “new electro/acoustic music and multimedia by composers from around the world . . . lots of grooving, epic, sublime new music, with electronics, video, improv, etc. at the Hope Artiste Village.” This will be a Nutcracker-free zone for those with seasonal allergies.
The Providence Y2K16 International Live Looping Festival will be a three day event starting on Friday, September 30th, at AS220. Over thirty local, national, and international live looping artists will be creating music in multiple genres for all audiences, all ages. We are raising money to launch the festival, support the artists’ stay in our
(8.20) Time for DOT AIR 2016, the annual experimental music festival from the Machines With Magnets people in Pawtucket. Artists — with a blend of sound, performance, and visuals — include: Hailu Mergia – Ethiopian keyboard and accordion luminary, Hailu Mergia, was a major star in 1970s, presiding over Ethiopia’s leading instrumental ensemble, Walias Band,