A special night at at Poly-Phonics featuring… Tem Blessed & Busted Fro Chachi Carvahlo, Riders Against the Storm, Durdie Furby, First Be, Peter Arteaga and more… March 3rd, 2008 Providence Black Rep 276 Westminister Street 9 pm, $7.00
The folks over at the Partnership for Creative Industrial Space are psyched about the hearing on their Ordinance tomorrow: The Industrial Commercial Buildings District (ICBD) Tenant Relocation Ordinance is scheduled for Public Hearing Monday, March 3, 2008 at 6:00 pm in Providence City Hall. This ordinance – a call to developers of rehabilitation projects to
Drawn & Quarterly artist and New Yorker contributor Adrian Tomine will offer a presentation of his cartooning career, in the RISD Auditorium on Friday, February 29 at 7pm. A book signing of his latest graphic novel Shortcomings will immediately follow. Shortcomings will be on sale in the Auditorium lobby prior to the presentation. This event
Well! Classes for February filled up so fast I didn’t really have time to post the schedule, but March is well on it’s way and there’s still room in most of the classes!! I’m only going to post the classes that have space left, but you can see what you’re missing out on in the
The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts invites you to attend the RISCA Fellowship Exhibition Writers Night on Friday, Feb 15, from 6:30-8:00pm at Machines With Magnets Gallery in Pawtucket. The evening will include readings by Poetry Fellowship Award Winner Nehassiaiu DeGannes, Fiction Fellowship Award Winner Brian Sousa, Fiction Fellowship Merit Award Winner Bruce
A cabaret-style evening of performance art created by people who work in the sex industry, to dispel the myth that they are anything short of artists, innovaters and geniuses! Performances range from music to burlesque to spoken word and everything in between. This is a nationally acclaimed show featuring worldclass performances- don’t miss it! Sex
Two-thirds of the Daily Dose used to live in the heck-hole at right. Best of times and worst of times and all that, leaving us with great fondness and resentment of the tape-art that adorned our walls and ceilings and floors and sometimes bodies. We’re happier with the medium now, for the apartment’s tortuous demise
join us TODAY january 26th, from 5pm-9pm at the AS220 Community Print Shop for our POST HOLIDAY CRAFT PARTY PARTY REDUX (a wholesome crafty get-together). Make some post-holiday presents and cards or tigers or whatever using pom-poms and glitter and pipe cleaner ’cause you haven’t since shortly after you were a fetus!!! “F” ART LETS
From the Lots Of Noise listings, this baffling-yet-awesome sounding show at the Stairwell Gallery, their description in full: Join us for an evening of far-reaching, 3D mind music from the worm pit to the electric chair. Math Balance Volumes comes all the way from the UK (Chocolate Monk men) and Weyes Bluhd from Philadelphia. The
Throw a better pool party!!!! We could’ve had a more fun time at Mirabar on any random Tuesday night. In fact, we did — this week. And is music too much to ask for? Even some ABBA would’ve sufficed — certainly better than the argon buzz of the GTECH logo that loomed over the ‘festivities.’
Max keeps tearing it up, and is now a published poet. Too bad we don’t care much for poetry, or Little Compton.
This is out of a Steel Yard press release that I should’ve posted a few days ago: The Steel Yard’s Olneyville Trash Cans find a Home The Steel Yard announced today that artist Lu Heintz’s sculptural trash cans will be installed in Olneyville, the neighborhood for which they were initially intended. The industrial arts-focused non-profit
I finally made it by for last month’s MF. It was okay — I think I’ll give it another go this week, but it was a bit — how to say this tactfully… stuffier than I’d hoped for. Music Friday 6:15pm The second Friday of every month the Museum’s Main Gallery transforms into a funky
Stolen from Matt: Rhode Island hip-hop artist Chachi Carvalho will be performing live on BET’s 106 & Park this Wednesday at 6:00pm. Watch and vote!! Chachi was recently voted one of the “Top 51 MYSPACE RAPPERS” of 2007 by VIBE MAGAZINE. You can regularly check him out emceeing the open mic sessions on Monday nights
Dale Chihuly, he of the crazy glass sculptures, will be opening up the new RISD Museum in September. Renowned artist Dale Chihuly [RISD MFA ’68, Ceramics] will create a special site-specific installation as the inaugural exhibition for the new special exhibition gallery in the Chace Center. Chihuly at RISD will be complemented by an exhibition
Friday, December 7th – Providence City Arts 10th Annual All That Glitters Gala 10th Anniversary Celebration and Online Auction! Music by Eight to the Bar…Fine Foods by Freakin’ Nana’s…..Silent and Live Auction…Entertainment Galore with Ten 31 Productions and Big Nazo!!! Held at the American Locomotive Works 555 Valley St. Join the auction fun and online