15,000 limited edition BUY ART buttons have arrived - how many will you acquire?

To obtain yours and collect all five BUY ART buttons designed with artwork of five Providence artists, simply BUY ART at our city's galleries, retailers, artisan sales and cultural organizations. Whether you buy something for $5, 50 or 500... a picture or a performance, this program rewards you for supporting our cultural marketplace.

Mayor David N. Cicilline and the City of Providence Department of Art, Culture + Tourism are pleased to bring shoppers this fun twist on art advocacy. Check out participating BUY ART places to shop online. BUY ART invites all Providence venues that sell art to get involved - sign up information is online. For more information please click here.

November 29, 7:30pm, St. Joseph's Church, 92 Hope Street, Tickets Are $22 In Advance, $25 At The Door, Discounts Available. RICCO kicks off the holiday season with its signature performance of Messiah, featuring Diana McVey, Hillary Nicholson, Brian Cheney & Donald Wilkinson. For more information please click here.

December 2 - December 7, Providence Performing Arts Center, 220 Weybosset Street, Tickets Are $41 - $68. The one that you want is back! Grease, Time Magazine's 2007 pick for "#1 musical of the year," is rockin' across the country in this new production direct from Broadway. For more information please click here.

December 3, 7:30pm, VMA Arts & Cultural Center, 1 Avenue Of The Arts, Tickets Are $58 - $82. Celebrate the spirit of the season with the "18th century rock band" that has become one of the most popular and best-selling acts in the last 30 years. For more information please click here.

December 4 - 6 @ 8pm, December 7 @ 2pm, Brown University, Leeds Theatre, 77 Waterman, Tickets Are $17 For Adults, $12 For Seniors, $7 For Students. Based on real events in 1940's Nigeria, Death and the King's Horseman is a heartbreaking drama of family, responsibility, and the erosion of culture. For more information please click here.

December 5 - January 11, Trinity Repertory Company, 201 Washington Street, Tickets Are $15 - $60. Client meetings, pastry, romantic advice and personal calls, it's business-as-usual at the Northeast Office. Or is it? This hilarious new play bristles with humor before pulling the rug right out from underneath you. For more information please click here.

December 7, 2pm, Tree Lighting At 5pm, Federal Hill, Free And Open To The Public. Enjoy holiday fun and cheer with a horse and buggy ride, free Christmas drinks & snacks, shopping, a tree lighting and much more. For more information please click here.

December 12 - 14, Providence Performing Arts Center, 220 Weybosset Street, Tickets Are $18 - $83. No other December event delivers the awe-inspiring spectacle of this stunning production, which features Tchaikovsky's magnificent score, glittering costumes, and breath-taking dancing. For more information please click here.

New Year's Eve, Downtown Providence, Tickets Are $10 In Advance, $15 Day Of. Bright Night Providence, an artist-run arts oriented New Year's Eve Celebration that has become Rhode Island's largest New Year's Eve Party, will have tickets on sale December 1. The festival features over 150 performers in a number of venues downtown, afternoon children's activities, and some of Rhode Island's best actors, singers, dancers, musicians, storytellers, magicians, acrobats, and clowns. For more information please click here.

Call For Volunteers. Bright Night Providence, RI's largest New Year's Eve Celebration, is seeking over 100 volunteers to help make this year's New Year's Eve Celebration safe and fun for everyone. Volunteers will work 3-4 hour shifts on New Year's Eve, giving information to patrons, checking wristbands, putting up posters and doing other work to make sure that the festival runs smoothly. Also, limited opportunities for volunteering in the weeks before New Year's Eve and in the weeks after the festival are available. For more information please click here or email volunteering@brightnight.org.

Call For Applicants. RI Citizens for the Arts, the statewide advocacy organization for the arts and creative communities, is seeking a dynamic Executive Director to partner with the Board of Directors to achieve its mission of supporting a vibrant arts community for the benefit of all Rhode Islanders. For more information please click here.

Call For Film Entries. The Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) is now accepting entries for its 13th Annual Film Festival to be held August 4-9th, 2009 at venues throughout the state of Rhode Island. The deadline to apply is January 15. 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 click here.

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 two musical pieces, one being from the production. Please be prepared to do a cold reading as well as a dance routine with their 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 Proposals. Providence Art Windows seeks art and art installation proposals for 10 windows in Downtown Providence for the 2009 season. Site-specific is preferred, pre-existing accepted; 2D or 3D. The deadline to apply is December 12. Please mail 8-10 jpegs (600x900) on disk(if video, 3 min. max on dvd), printed 1 page proposal, image list and resume, and SASE to: Rebecca Siemering, PAW Director, 545 Pawtucket Avenue, Box 206, Pawtucket, RI, 02860. For more information please email Rebecca rebecca.siemering@gmail.com.

Call For Singers. Every Wednesday, 7pm - 9pm, 88 Meeting Street. The Alliance Française choral group is seeking new singers. Conducted by Jacqueline Devillers, the new season will includ beautiful French popular songs. If you know how to say "Bonjour" et "Bon appétit" you know everything to join them!! For more information please call 401-272-6243.