Head over to the opening reception for the 31st annual Foundry Artists Holiday Show at the Pawtucket Armory today at 5pm. Show runs through December 15th with 65 participating artists. . . . admission is free, but we will be collecting food for the Rhode Island Food Bank, with a drop off box at our …
Forty artists will be showing at Mad Dog Artist Studios & Gallery in the second annual ‘Holiday Open Studio and Art Sale’ from December 5th to December 15th. This festive event will kick-off with an evening opening reception on Thursday, December 5th at 5pm. Light refreshments and wine will be served. The sale will run …
Yikes, the new play at the Gamm is getting raves. “Good People” should play particularly well to local audiences (assuming they get the accents right). When Margie Walsh, a single mother with a severely disabled adult daughter, loses her job at a South Boston dollar store, she looks to her high-school-boyfriend-turned-successful-doctor for a new job. …
(11.10) Craftopia returns to Hope Artiste Village Sunday. Fast becoming both tradition, and the area’s premier one-day craft show, Craftopia has built a reputation for its festive atmosphere and the quality of its vendors. Craftopia showcases the fun, funky and top-notch work of artisans from around New England, an eclectic mix of art and craft, …
The Pawtucket Wintertime Farmers Market, located in Hope Artiste Village, opens on Saturday, November 2nd for the 2013-2014 season. The Saturday Market will be open from 9am to 1pm, and will run from November 2nd through May 10th. The Wednesday Market, open from 4pm to 7pm, will be held from November 6th through January 29th. …
(10.12) Head over to Machines With Magnets Saturday for a wild dance party/contest called ‘SOUL CLAP.’ DJ Jonathan Toubin’s Soul Clap & Dance-Off comes to Providence’s Machines With Magnets October 12. With Toubin will be guest selector Ty Jesso (Soul Power), who will also kick things off with a 9:30 P.M. performance. Judges for the …
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Visit Slater Mill for a paranormal investigation through three historic buildings: Slater Mill (1793), Wilkinson Mill (1810) and Sylvanus Brown House (1758). The popular ghost tours are led by Slater Mill Museum interpreters and twin-brothers Carl L. Johnson and Keith E. Johnson, both well-regarded authorities on the paranormal. The Johnsons have been seen on the …
(9.14) Rocktucket Block Party runs rain or shine with: DirtyDurdie, Atlantic Thrills, Girls, Guns and Glory, Kris Hansen, Ants in the Cellar, Big Shug, Apathy, Case Closed, Tem Blessed, Block McCloud, Swann Notty, Chachi Carvalho, and more. Music, beer garden, food trucks, and art show. Free, 11:30am to 11pm, Saturday, September 14th, 200-250 Main Street, …
(9.14) So your kid wants to be a gargoyle. Hold on, don’t panic . . . and whatever you do, don’t try to talk him into law school. But what is your next step? TEN31 Productions of Pawtucket — best known for the gargoyles, oracles, and living statues at WaterFire — will be holding the …
The Ladies Rock Camp can change your life. If you want to hang with a whole bunch of other awesome folks, learn an instrument, join a band, write a song, and perform it live — all in just 3 days — Ladies Rock Camp is for you! November 8th-10th at Jamstage in Pawtucket! No musical …
Previews start Thursday for a double bill of one-act plays by Caryl Churchill: A Number directed by Judith Swift, and Far Away directed by Tony Estrella. How would it feel to discover that you were just one of a number of identical copies of yourself? Acclaimed English playwright Caryl Churchill ponders this disturbing question and …
(9.8) View artists living and working in their natural habitat . . . mill buildings. The XOS Exchange Street Open Studios is part of the Pawtucket Arts Festival. Look for these signs hanging at the four locations. More than 50 artists and designers in 4 renovated mill buildings in the Exchange Street neighborhood of Pawtucket …
The Armory Arts Center hosts the 2nd annual Arts Marketplace this Saturday and Sunday. . . . an exhibition and sale focusing on fine art and craft by regional artists. The Arts Marketplace is a juried show whose mission is to present the best of contemporary fine art and American-made crafts. The Drill Hall is …
(8.30) The PawSox host the Syracuse Chiefs Friday with Clay Buchholz (9-0 with a 1.71 ERA in 12 starts for Boston this season) making a rehab start as he continues his comeback from a neck strain that has kept him on the disabled list and out of the Red Sox rotation since June 9. More …
Melissa McCarthy sports a Pawtucket Red Sox T-shirt in the new movie “The Heat” (filmed last year in Boston). According to the PawSox MLB blog, Eric Petterson, the PawSox team store manager, said that back in June or July [2012] the film’s production company placed an order for approximately one dozen ’47 Brand “bottle green …
New exhibition at the Candita Clayton Gallery in Pawtucket — “Indeterminate Growth: Paintings download photoshop cs5 by Shawn Gilheeney and Buck Hastings.” Shawn Gilheeney is owner of Providence Painted Signs (Lang’s Bowlarama, Frog and Toad, Flan y Ajo, Julian’s Omnibus). From the February interview with ‘We Design Studios.’ Providence Painted Signs is comprised of Buck …