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This Week from the Providence Dept. of Art, Culture + Tourism - November 6, 2008
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Lynne McCormack - Director
We Need Your Feedback On Arts And Culture

Mayor David N. Cicilline invites you to advise the City of Providence as we plan for the future of arts and culture. Please complete a quick online survey. Your opinions and advice are important to us.

The survey is designed to collect information for both the Providence cultural plan and the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts statewide arts plan.

To take the survey please click here.

For more information about Creative Providence and other opportunities to get involved in the planning, please click here.


The Gnomes CD Release Party

November 8, 7:30pm, The Mediator, 50 Rounds Avenue, Tickets Are $10. Guaranteed to get you moving and grooving, the Gnomes play an energetic eclectic blend of world music. For more information please click here.


Live Bait

November 7, 10pm, Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street, Tickets Are $5. Come to Live Bait and tell your story or watch others tell theirs. This month's theme is "I Don't Wanna". If you have a related story, come to the show and sign up, then tell your story like you're telling your friends. For more information please click here.


27m: An Interactive Sound Installation

November 7, 1pm - 6pm, November 8, 12pm - 4pm, AS220 Sidewalk, 115 Empire Street, Free And Open To The Public. Internationally celebrated artist Ilona Nemeth will bring her audio piece, 27 Meters to the sidewalk outside AS220. Originally shown in Brno, Czech Republic in 2004, this piece contains six monologues of different people. For more information please click here.


Threadless Select Series

Opening Reception November 6, 7pm - 9pm, RISD Chase Center, 20 North Main Street, Free And Open To The Public. RISD has recently partnered with online tee shirt company Threadless to launch the first guest curated Threadless Select Series. Rhode Island School of Design President John Maeda selected the artists and theme, "Newness." For more information please click here.


African Heritage Day

November 15, 2:30pm - 4pm, Providence Public Library, Central Auditorium, 3rd Floor, 150 Empire Street, Free And Open To The Public. African Heritage Day will feature live music and dance from RI's own Moremi Cultural Group, a discussion lead by award-winning Ghanaian playwright Ama Ata Aidoo and an art exhibit. For more information please click here.


Hamlet

November 13 -15 @ 7:30pm, November 15 & 16 @ 2pm, Citizens Bank Theater, Pell Chafee Performance Center, 87 Empire Street, Tickets Are $5. The Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium presents Shakespeare's timeless tale of murder, passion, treachery and revenge. For more information please click here.


Holiday Selection

Opening Reception November 7, 5pm - 9pm, Chabot Fine Art Gallery, 379 Atwells Avenue, Free And Open To The Public. Select your gift from their exciting holiday collection that was specifically chosen for holiday gift giving. For more information please click here.


Industrial Collage Of Steve Klevas

November 6 - November 20, Knight Gallery, 170 Ives Street, Free And Open To The Public. Steve creates his laser collages using recycled materials, various adhesives and assorted media. For more information please click here.


Elizabeth King: The Size Of Things In The Minds Eye

Opening Reception November 7, 5:30pm , Exhibit Runs Through December 21, Brown University, List Art Center, 64 College Street, Free And Open To The Public. Elizabeth King's uncanny self-portraits are meticulously crafted in porcelain, wood, and bronze, and are often exhibited with stop-frame film animation. For more information please click here.





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FirstWorks: Final Weekend

Providence Singers With Boston Modern Orchestra Project: Jonah and the Whale
November 7 @ 8pm, November 9 @ 2pm, Blessed Sacrament Church, 179 Academy Avenue, Tickets Are $22 - $26. Sounds of sea chanteys, a whale's melody performed by three trombones, work songs and 14th century English poetry tell the all-ages story of Jonah. For more information please click here.

Momix: Best Of Momix
November 8, 8pm, Providence Performing Arts Center, 220 Weybosset Street, Tickets Are $28 - $48. Is it illusion or reality? With spectacle that defies gravity, Momix makes you gaze in awe and wonder as its dance-movement-magicians fool the naked eye using light, shadow, humor, and the human body. For more information please click here.


Rhode Island College Presents: Steven Mayer

November 9, 2:30pm, RI College, Sapinsley Hall, 600 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Tickets Are $25. Pianist Steven Mayer will perform works from the European classical repertoire alongside American compositions in a RIC Performing Arts Series presentation. For more information please click here.


Museum Concerts Of RI Presents: Harmonious Blacksmith

November 9, 3:30pm, St. Martin's Church, 50 Orchard Avenue, Tickets Are $23 For Adults, $20 For Seniors & $8 For Students. This month's Museum Concert will feature acclaimed tenor Aaron Sheehan joining the ensemble for an afternoon of delightful melancholy. For more information please click here.


Shining Through Broken Glass: A Kristallnacht Concert

November 9, 7pm, VMA Arts And Cultural Center, 1 Avenue Of The Arts, Tickets Are $25 - $100. Noted actor and producer Leonard Nimoy will narrate a concert to commemorate Kristallnacht in a one-night only performance. For more information please click here.


RI Philharmonic Orchestra

Rush Hour Series
November 13, 6:30pm, VMA Arts And Cultural Center, 1 Avenue Of The Arts, Tickets Are $37 - $45.
Music Director Larry Rachleff and Host Patrice Wood are joined by Pianist Jeremy Denk for the first Rush Hour performance of the season. For more information please click here.

Suite Tributes
November 15, 8pm, VMA Arts And Cultural Center, 1 Avenue Of The Arts, Tickets Are $29 - $69.
Music Director Larry Rachleff and the Orchestra welcome the acclaimed pianist Jeremy Denk for a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, op. 58. For more information please click here.


A Beluga Whale Walked Into A Bar: The Really Bad Joke Plays

November 14 @ 7pm, November 15 @ 3pm & 7pm, November 16 @ 3pm, The Media and Arts Center At Met Public, 325 Public Street, Free And Open To The Public, Reservations Strongly Encouraged. The Manton Avenue Project presents simply spectacular plays as part of their Play-It-Again Program. All plays are written by kids submerged in weekly playwriting classes and acted out by adult actors while the kids view their masterpiece from a writer's desk on-stage. It's a sight not to be missed and, better yet, it's free! Don't miss out, to make a reservation please call 401-331-7007.

For more information please click here.


Brown University Theatre Presents: The Changeling

November 13 - 15 @ 8pm, November 16 @ 2pm, Stuart Theatre, 77 Waterman Street, Tickets Are $17 For Adults, $7 For Students. A Jacobean tragedy with darkly comic overtones, The Changeling dramatizes the wages of romantic love and destructive passion. For more information please click here.


Fusionworks Dance Company

Traditional Show November 14 @ 8pm, Unwrapped Show November 15 @ 8pm, Sapinsley Hall, Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Tickets Are $20 - $30. Each concert will feature the diverse works of Deb Meunier including Vesperae and In Lieu of the Next Goddess. The Unwrapped performance includes a behind-the-scenes look at the performance's choreography, costumes, music and even technical information. For more information please click here.


Fundraisers For The Arts

ExZOOberant Holiday Auction
Online Only, October 27 - December 8
Auction items range from vacation getaways, one-of-a-kind Zoo experiences, sports memorabilia to other fantastic donated items guaranteed to delight and surprise. All proceeds go to Roger Williams Park Zoo to support education and conservation programs. For more information please click here.

Sweet Suite Soiree
November 7, 5:30pm - 10pm, Residences At The Westin, 1 Exchange Street, Tickets Are $45.
Enjoy an evening of music by Tim O'Keefe & Ted James, a photography installation, stations & passed appetizers by Aspire and much more. Proceeds from your tax deductible contribution supports the programs and services of the Arts & Business Council of RI. For more information please click here.

Home Across Lands
November 19, 7pm, The Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Tickets Are $35.
Home Across Lands chronicles the inspiring work of International Institute Rhode Island staff and volunteers as they guide and empower a group of courageous Kunaman refugees making the transition from a life of despair in the Shimelba Refugee Camp in Ethiopia, Africa to a life of hope in their new home in Providence. All procedes benefit the International Institute of Rhode Island. For more information please click here.


Artist Opportunities

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 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 call Laura at 508-344-5128 or click here.

Call For Actors. November 18, 6:30pm - 9pm, Beneficient Church, 300 Weybosset Street. Until The Violence Stops: Providence is a week-long festival raising awareness and funds to bring the issue of violence against women and girls center stage in our city. For more information please click here or call 401-714-2388.


To submit an event for the Newsletter, please email Michael Christofaro at least 2 weeks prior to the event.


Department of Art, Culture + Tourism City of Providence

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