This Sunday is the finale for BarPlays: plays set in bars placed in bars. After that it will be one more cool thing in the long, glorious history of the Providence bar and performance scene. So, if you want to be able to someday tell all the kids and newcomers about this ‘cool thing they […]
Celebrate community at the first ever WBNA Block Party hosted by neighbors of Chapin Avenue & Sycamore Street. WBRU will be broadcasting live from the event! Listen to live music on two stages (rock & roll, hip-hop and acoustic) with Symmetry, Detroit Rebellion and many more. DJ Handsome Pete spinning all your favorite block party
Yay, one of these. Hot Mess is a collection of contemporary dances choreographed by Layla Mrozowski. Often satirical and always charming/tender/visually provocative, Layla’s works emphasize image and utilize pedestrian movement while challenging gender norms and exploiting perceptual relativity. . . Part model, part flight attendant, part Rockette and part sci-fi character/engineered woman, she embodies the
Tomorrow is PrideFest from noon to 8pm, and South Water Street will be closed to traffic all day. There is always good food and music, and booths where you sign up for things. According to the weatherman, it is supposed to be a super summery day — hot and sunny — so I’m sure everyone
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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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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,
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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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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Attention Dick fans, for an evening of expertly executed weirdness check out Saturday’s show — The Preserving Machine — at AS220. A multimedia performance based on the Philip K. Dick story of the same name… sheet music is transformed into animals in an effort to enable it to survive the coming dark ages… music/sound/projections by
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
Join us at Smith Hill Library on Wednesday, April 7th at 6pm, as Kate reads from her new book “Town” and Read and Rap Youth read from their upcoming poetry book! Kate Schapira is the author of TOWN (Factory School, Heretical Texts, 2010) and several chapbooks from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Cy Gist Press,
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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
This post was submitted yesterday — not sure by whom, but it’s a good opportunity to mention the Southeast New England Film, Music, and Arts Festival, which runs from April 7-11. — PDD The images are crudely drawn: helicopters attacking villages. Armed troops burning homes and shooting children as planes roar through the sky. Bodies
Find true love at JERKUS CIRCUS this Saturday, March 20 at the AS220! Comedy, Burlesque, and Freaks! Voted best Neo Vaudeville by the Boston Phoenix in ’09. Produced, Created, and Hosted by the World Famous Steamy Bohemians.
Through a mistake on my website — it now says my CD release show is February 6th in the Phoenix. It is actually tonight at Tazza at 9pm. We’re gonna have a lot of fun, with Roz Raskin, Anjel and Amber Newman, WHO DEM??!!, the amazing BSS Dance Troupe, Mentalist William Brierly, a Local Fashion
Attention creative types. Submissions and applications are being accepted for participation in this really cool. . . thing. ‘System of Meaning’ (who brought you Pleasure Dome and The Music of Erich Zann in the Penal Colony) is looking for collaborators. Sculptors, painters, architects, musicians, and actors are all welcome to participate in The Passion of