(7.30) Those wondering why the music schedule looks so thin this week — blame the Providence Fringe Festival for taking over the venues. Founded in 2014 by The Wilbury Theatre Group, the Fringe Festival is open to anyone who wants to produce their own show. Wilbury has scheduled five days of performance, storytelling, dance, music, and […]
(9.18) Minister of Music Stephen Martorella extends an invitation to a unique event at the First Baptist Church in America, The Rhode Island Chapter of The American Guild of Organists in conjunction with The First Baptist Church in America Presents multi-media artist David Jordan and concert organist Dr. Jeannine Jordan who share the fascinating story
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(9.15) Magic Lantern Cinema presents ‘Flicker Pulse,’ an evening with Bruce McClure and Alexander Dupuis. The art of Bruce McClure is sometimes called, with a nod to the sixties, “expanded cinema.” A more apt expression might in fact be “reduced cinema,” or cinema stripped to its most elementary components: light, sound, a room full of
(9.9) This woman has great energy . . . and multiple personalities (see picture). The Providence Community Library (PCL) invites you to StoryCorps with Valerie Tutson of the Rhode Island Black Storytellers. It’s Storycorps – but with a twist! Valerie Tutson of Rhode Island Black Storytellers will record three, 20-minute interviews before a live audience
A much anticipated sound installation opens today at Machines With Magnets. Scøtt Reber, of long-standing Providence noise/sound-art project Work/Death, has mounted an installation in conjunction with DOT AIR Experimental Music Festival in the MWM gallery. The piece will be activated for viewing and listening, and punctuated with a special one-hour Work/Death radiophonic performance, “ephemeral transmissions.”
(8.15) The second annual experimental music festival known as DOT AIR takes place Saturday in and around Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket. (Last year it was under the bridge.) Facebook event. DOT AIR is an experimental music festival celebrating sonic and performative experimentation that grows out of the skeletal remains of the American Industrial Revolution.
(8.10) Performance arts incubator, Everett, presents excerpts from their work-in-progress, Prisoner’s Song, followed by a talk-back with the performers. Prisoner’s Song is an original performance for shadow puppets, projection, voice and percussion created by visual artist Erik Ruin, singer/composer Gelsey Bell and director Rick Burkhardt. The show takes a fragmentary approach to the experience of
(3.15) Head over to Machines With Magnets Sunday for Interrupt III Satellite for readings and performances by: RRLew, Matt Underwood, V Manuscript, Willa Van Nostrand, Akiko Hatakeyama, Reed Gaines, Viszk (n carolina), Laura Warman (w mass) With live video/soundscaping all night by MARALIE (VALISE). This event is held in collaboration with Interrupt 3, a discussion
Everett Company will premiere ‘Freedom Project’ at Brown University’s Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. Freedom Project is a multimedia physical theater piece that interweaves gripping personal stories, evocative imagery, and athletic choreography in an examination of mass incarceration in America. With material drawn from extensive research, as well as personal experience, the Everett Company
(12.5) No-wave, post-punk musician and avant garde spoken word artist Lydia Lunch will perform Horribly True Confessions, a text based multimedia performance with Weasel Walter on live drums, this Friday at Machines With Magnets. HORRIBLY TRUE CONFESSIONS combines the dynamic spoken word histrionics of Lydia Lunch, one of the genres most controversial performers with the
(9.10) Catch the final performance of the Arctic Theatre Royal hosted by AS220 as part of their NightVisions series. (Facebook event page.) The Wonder Show presents The Arctic Theatre Royal, a magic lantern show featuring images and text sourced from the Athenaeum’s Special Collections. During the 19th century, Arctic exploration captivated the public imagination. Images
(9.3) Head down to Grant’s Block Wednesday for PITCH, an evening of performance and experimental film presented by AS220’s NightVision Series. PITCH features new works by Planchette, Magical Approach — Ken Linehand and Brittany Gravely, and Glenna Van Nostrand and Willa Van Nostrand will debut their new work. (Facebook event page.) Our new performance, “Bodies
(8.19) The Wonder Show presents an evening of spectacle, The Arctic Theatre Royal, a magic lantern show featuring images and text sourced from the Providence Athenaeum’s Special Collections. Original moving panorama and lantern slides with views of sublime, yet awful grandeur. Don’t miss this special opportunity to venture into that distant and mysterious region: THE
Providence can thank the Wilbury Group for its first ever Fringe Festival. Channing Gray at the ProJo has the details. In the past few months, the Wilbury Theatre Group’s Josh Short and friends have rounded up some 50 area performers, who this week will present everything from music, dance and theater, to a guy painting
(6.15) More at the Bell Gallery as part of the ‘Going Nowhere’ exhibition — follow artist Peter Glantz as he leads an experimental tour of the show. Please join us on Saturday June 14th and Sunday 15th for performances of Peter Glantz’s Cosmic Top Secret. Conceived as part of the Bell Gallery’s current exhibition, ‘Going
(3.6) The Creative Arts Council presents a multi-media performance by Brian Kelly, Brown Class of ’79. After leaving Brown, Kelly became part of the highly publicized art and alternative music worlds of New York in the 1980s and 1990s. For many years he worked with Julian Schnabel, managing production of his sculpture, painting, and film