| Gallery Night Providence |
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October 16, 5pm - 9pm, Art Bus Departs From Citizens Plaza, Free And Open To The Public. A fun-filled cultural extravaganza. Twenty-one galleries, museums, and historic sites; eight convenient parking lots; live music; refreshments; art buses; celebrity guides and it's all free! For more information please click here. |
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| Downtown Neighborhood Charette |
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October 27 - October 30, 222 Richmond Street, Suite 200, Free And Open To The Public. Have an idea for the future of Downtown? Providence Tomorrow is hosting a neighborhood charette. For more information and a complete schedule please click here.
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| Sports, Music & Memorabilia Art Show |
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Gallery Night Reception October 16, 5pm - 9pm, Exhibit Runs Through October, Knight Gallery, 170 Ives Street, Free And Open To The Public. The latest October event at Knight Gallery will be quite unusual, as it will feature a mix of local artwork, signed sports memorabilia and big name movie posters. For more information please click here. |
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| If These Walls Could Talk Lecture Series |
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October 16, Lecture Begins @ 6:30pm, Museum Open 5pm - 9pm, John Brown House Museum, 52 Power Street, Free And Open To The Public. RI Historical Society docent Michael Carroll will highlight pieces of furniture in the RIHS collection to explain how a furniture buyer's desire, and sometimes their pocketbook, influenced the final design of their purchase. For more information please click here. |
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| Shari Weschler Rubeck |
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Gallery Night Reception October 16, 5pm - 9pm, Exhibit Runs Through November 15, Gallery 17 Peck, 303 Atwells Avenue, Free And Open To The Public. Shari's skillfully executed paintings continue to carve a distinctive presence among her contemporaries and peers, alike, within their stable of premier artists. For more information please click here. |
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| Kate Sanders-Fleming: Simple Movements |
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Opening Reception October 18, 4pm - 7pm, Exhibit Runs Through November 8, Gail Cahalan Gallery, 200 Allens Avenue, Free And Open To The Public. Kate Sanders-Fleming's representational paintings offer brief accounts of life, displaying slice-of-moments in Providence through an original, expressive interpretation. For more information please click here. |
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| A Taste Of Autumn |
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Gallery Night Reception October 16, 5pm - 9pm, Chabot Fine Art Gallery, 379 Atwells Avenue, Free And Open To The Public. Join them for A Taste of Autumn while listening to a discussion on how the works displayed at Chabot Fine Art Gallery incorporate contemporary and European styles of great artists. For more information please click here. |
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| Abondanza: Italian Heritage - Looking Back At The Old Country |
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Gallery Night Reception October 16, 5pm - 9pm, Exhibit Runs Through October 31, URI Feinstein Providence Campus Gallery, 80 Washington Street, 1st and 2nd Floor Lobby, Free And Open To The Public. The exhibit will feature mixed media works in oil, pastel, watercolor, print making, photography and glass from local Italian and Italian-American Artists inspired by their journeys back to the regions in Italy where their families originated. For more information please click here. |
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| Our Loyal Companions: Animals In Art |
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Gallery Night Reception October 16, 5pm - 9pm, Exhibit Runs Through November 8, Royal Gallery Of Fine Art, 298 Atwells Avenue, Free And Open To The Public. This exhibition features paintings by artists in the collection that are inspired by their love of animals. Artists include Ben Austrian, Mary Jane Q. Cross, Margo Takian, Al-Mandalawi, Owise Sanajlih and others. For more information please click here. |
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| The Colors Of Italy |
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Gallery Night Reception October 16, 5pm - 9pm, Exhibit Runs Through November 8, Gallery Z, 259 Atwells Avenue, Free And Open To The Public. This exhibition is a retrospective of travel photography by Stephan Brigidi, featuring works in silver-gelatin fiber and ciba-chrome. Both color as well as black and white images will be included. For more information please click here.
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| FirstWorks Festival: Upcoming Events |
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Compagnie Heddy Maalem: The Rite of Spring
October 21, 7pm, Providence Performing Arts Center, 220 Weybosset Street, Tickets Are $18 - $38. Music is set ablaze as fourteen utterly distinct dancers from Mali, Benin, Nigeria and Senegal come together for Heddy Maalem's explosive interpretation of The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps). For more information please click here. |
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| Bread & Puppet Theater |
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October 16 - 17, 8pm, Met School, Black Box Theater, 325 Public Street, Tickets Are $10. Bread & Puppet presents a dumb show performed on two small stages. Dumb shows speak with pictures instead of words. The eye's understanding of the pictures goes by its own rules and does not comply with our word-oriented logic. For more information please click here. |
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| Rhode Island Philharmonic |
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October 18, 8pm, VMA Arts And Cultural Center, 1 Avenue Of The Arts, Tickets Are $36 - $67. Music Director Larry Rachleff and the Orchestra collaborate with renowned baritone Donnie Ray Albert in a performance of Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer. For more information please click here. |
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| Festival Ballett Presents: Giselle |
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October 24 & 25 @ 7:30pm, October 26 @ 2:30pm, VMA Arts & Cultural Center, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Tickets Are $20 - $65. Giselle is a story about love, betrayal and forgiveness and features Mindaugas Bauzys. Bauzys is a former Boston Ballet soloist and now Festival Ball Providence principal dancer. For more information please click here. |
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| Fine Furnishings & Fine Craft Show |
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October 24 & 25 From 10am - 6pm, October 26 From 10am - 5pm, RI Convention Center, One Sabin Street, $10 Each Day Or $15 For Any Two Days. Homeowners, art lovers, fine craft collectors, interior designers and architects will discover an incredible resource for the finest in handcrafted furniture, decorative accessories, fine craft and original art. For more information please click here. |
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| BUG: Final Weekend |
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Runs Through October 19, Providence Black Repertory Company, 276 Westminster Street, Tickets Are $20 For Adults, $10 For Children And Seniors. A handsome drifter. A lonely waitress. A cheap motel. But what's that crawling across the bed? Reality slowly blurs and suspense turns to horror, as this darkly comic thriller explores the line between conspiracy theory and actual conspiracy. For more information please click here. |
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| RI International Horror Film Festival |
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October 23 - 26, Various Times & Locations Downtown, Screenings Are $10 Each. The Rhode island International Horror Film Festival will screen some of the world's greatest independent fright films. Films presented will be from across the globe and represent a broad range of cinematic styles and approaches to the genre. For more information and a complete schedule please click here. |
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| Greater Kennedy Plaza |
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Week of October 16 - October 22:
EVENTS
Thursday, October 16 - Market Bazaar - 11am To 6pm.
Check out lovely antiques, art and more. Join us each week!
Thursday, October 16 - Community Stage - 5pm - 6pm.
Check out the sounds of Miles Stenhouse Road To Ruin in Burnside Park.
Friday, October 17 - Farmer's Market - 11am To 2pm. Shop for tasty harvests from RI farms here along the sidewalk at Burnside Park. Choose from a selection of foods fresh from the fields and meet the people who grow your meal!
Tuesday, October 21 - Public Square Tuesday, 11am - 3:30pm.
Come on down to find out what volunteer opportunities local non-profit agencies have to offer and grab a Del's lemonade while you're there!
For more information on all the great things going on in Kennedy Plaza please click here. |
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| Fundraisers For The Arts |
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Luminaria & Candlelight Guided Historic Tour
October 17, 6pm - 9pm, North Burial Grounds, 5 Branch Avenue, Tickets Are $5. Bring your family and friends to this Luminaria & Candlelight Guided Historic Tour and enjoy the view of 1800 candles which will light the pathway of this Historic Tour highlighting the graves of RI person's of historic distinction. All proceeds go to replace headstones and care-taking of American Civil War veterans. For more information please click here.
Adult Literacy Fundraiser
October 19, 5pm - 8pm, The Hi Hat, One Davol Square, Tickets Are $15. Dance to Carlos de Leon and the UN Band with others who support adult literacy. For more information please click here.
2008 Fall Art Auction
October 25, 5pm - 9pm, Knight Gallery, 170 Ives Street, Tickets Are $15 In Advance, $20 At The Door. This event will feature a live auction with works donated from local artists and a catered buffet by Blanchard Farms. All proceeds benefit AIDS Project R.I. For more information please click here. |
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| Artist Opportunities |
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RI Foundation Arts In Academics Grant. This fund supports educational projects that integrate art disciplines into other core academic subjects to benefit Rhode Island public school students. Application deadline: October 31, 2008. For more information and to download an application please click here.
Call For Entries: Letters About Literature. The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, in partnership with Target Stores and in cooperation with affiliate state centers for the book, invites readers in grades 4 through 12 to enter Letters About Literature, a national reading-writing contest. To enter, readers write a personal letter to an author explaining how that author's work changed the reader's way of thinking about the world or themselves. The deadline is December 6. For more information please cli ck here.
Call For High School Singers. The Junior Providence Singers, a choral training and performance program for high school singers, will hold 2009 season auditions by appointment on October 21, October 28, November 11, and November 18 at the Carter Center in East Providence. Auditions will cover vocal range, pitch matching, and musical aptitude. For more information please call 401-751-5700.
Call For Actors. December 16 & 17, 6pm - 9pm, Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway. Rise On Broadway is pleased to announce auditions for their production of West Side Story. Those auditioning will need to prepare 2 musical pieces, 1 being from the production. Please be prepared to do a cold reading as well as a dance routine with our choreographer. Please dress accordingly and bring dance footwear and headshots. For more information please Laura at 508-344-5128 or click here.
Call For French Speaking Organizations. November 6, 6:30pm, Alliance Française de Providence, 88 Meeting Street. The Rhode Island League of French Speaking Organizations is searching for Organizations/communities in Rhode Island who speak French. For more information please call 401-272-6243. |
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