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This Week from the Providence Dept. of Art, Culture + Tourism - January 14, 2009
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
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Inauguration Watch Celebration |
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Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch invites you to the Providence Performing Arts Center to view Barack Obama being sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. |
January 20, Doors @ 10:30am
Prov Performing Arts Center
220 Weybosset Street
Free To The Public
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Trinity Repertory Company |
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Trinity Rep is pleased to announce that they have collected $59,754 in cash donations to the RI Community Food Bank in addition to their annual canned food drive held at the theater. |
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Trinity Repertory Company
201 Washington Street
Providence, RI 02903
401-351-4242
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Providence Preservation Society |
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The Providence Preservation Society is proud to announce its Annual Meeting & Preservation Lecture featuring Donovan D. Rypkema, author on Economics of Historical Preservation. |
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January 22, 5:30pm
Providence Public Library
150 Empire Street
Free To The Public
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Royal Gallery |
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Classical Realism characterizes a love for the visible world and an outstanding level of artistic skill featuring selected work by Brian MacNeil, Jane Puerini. |
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Through February 13
Royal Gallery
298 Atwells Avenue
Free To The Public
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Providence Art Club |
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The Dodge House Gallery will feature New Year: New Members while Maxwell Mays will feature Two Photographers and Six Countries. |
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Through January 24
Providence Art Club
11 Thomas Street
Free To The Public
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Bert Gallery |
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The featured exhibit at Bert Gallery to kick off the new year will be Old World Charm: Watercolors by Hezekiah A. Dyer. |
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Through March 6
Bert Gallery
540 South Water Street
Free To The Public
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Chazan Gallery |
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The Chazan Gallery at Wheeler is presenting Tangles and Snarls featuring new work by artists Kim Salerno and Jane Hesser. |
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January 16 - February 5
Chazan Gallery At Wheeler
228 Angell Street
Free To The Public
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Celebrating their Red Heart selection, each work in the collection will have a touch of red to signify the romantic season of love. |
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Opening January 15 - 5pm To 9pm
Chabot Gallery
379 Atwells Avenue
Free To The Public
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The Gallery at Providence City Hall will be featuring photography of local artists by local artists throughout the month. |
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Runs Through January
Providence City Hall
25 Dorrance Street
Free To The Public
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Gallery Z |
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This exhibit, Musical Instruments, highlights the skill of Lutherie, individuals who practice the art of building stringed instruments. |
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Through January 31
Gallery Z
259 Atwells Avenue
Free To The Public
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Genesis Center Series |
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Common Threads is a four-week series that raises awareness among displaced populations in war using various audio/visual methods. |
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1st Event January 22, 6:30pm
Center For Intergrative Tech
169 Weybosset Street
Donations Welcome
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BankRI Gallery |
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The BankRI Turks Head Gallery's exhibit for the new year is titled Watercolors by Susan Kaspari. Please check the website for other lstings. |
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Through February 4
BankRI Turks Head Gallery
One Turks Head Place
Free To The Public
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Gallery 17 Peck |
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Daniel Kelley's gift is capturing the feeling, spirit and emotion of women on canvas as exemplified in this new exhibit She's My Valentine. |
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January 15 - February 14
Gallery 17 Peck
303 Atwells Avenue
Free To The Public
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This exhibit in the Fleet Library
at RISD, Bedazzled, examines the questions surrounding
the relationship of art and camouflage. |
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January 26 - March 29
Fleet Library @ RISD
15 Westminster Street
Free To The Public
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The Third Annual Scholastic Art Awards exhibit showcases the winning entries from students grades 7-12 who participated in
this program. |
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January 18 - 30
RI College
600 Mount Plesant Avenue
Free To The Public
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New Urban Arts |
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New Urban Arts will be exhibiting Mid Year Makings: an exhibition of works in progress that celebrates imagination, curiosity and collaboration. |
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Opening January 30, 5pm - 8pm
New Urban Arts
743 Westminster Street
Free To The Public
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Firehouse 13 is pleased to announce their February show Roil and Flush featuring new works by Anna Shapiro and Will Machin. |
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February 4 - 28
Firehose 13
41 Central Street
Free To The Public
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Following a popular showing of the exhibition Chihuly at RISD, one chandelier will permanently become a part of the RISD Museum collection. |
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Installation January 18
RISD Museum
20 North Main Street
Museum Admission $10
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Work-In-Progress |
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Perishable Theatre resident artists Tom Hurdle and Rick Massimo are showing excerpts of their works-in-development. |
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January 17 & 18
Perishable Theatre
95 Empire Street
Suggested Donation $5
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The RI Black Storytellers invite you to join them for some of the best cultural arts programming across the city. |
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January 18 - 25
Various Locations Downtown
Ticket Prices Vary By Event
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There Are A Couple'a Ways This Could End is written by kids, for everyone. Call 331-7007 for reservations. |
January 23 - 25
Media & Arts Center
Met Public - 325 Public St.
Free - Reservations Suggested
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Waiting For Lefty |
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A group of taxi drivers debate a labor strike while they wait for their most respected member, Lefty, to arrive. |
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February 6 - 8
Angell Blackfriars Theatre
549 River Avenue
Tickets Are $11
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“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up, like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?” |
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January 30 - March 8
Trinity Repertory Company
201 Washington Street
Tickets Are $20 - $60
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An unnamed African country. A civil war. A student, a thief, and a soldier. Who would you trust with your life? |
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February 5 - March 8
Providence Black Rep
276 Westminster Street
Tickets Are $20
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deca*go*go |
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Elemental Theatre is thrilled to present the World Premiere of Avide Robinatt’s deca*go*go: The Exquisite Corpse Plays. |
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January 22 - February 1
Perishable Theatre
95 Empire Street
Tickets Are $15
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LA VOCE: Theatre That Speaks, a new theatre company, presents The Most Massive Woman Wins by Madeleine George. |
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January 30, 7:30pm
URI Paff Auditorium
80 Washington Street
Free To The Public
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Enjoy the late night puppet salon that has lasted longer than some marriages at this puppet slam mini-tour. |
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January 16, 10pm
Perishable Theatre
95 Empire Street
Tickets Are $15
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A Thousand & One Nights |
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The fantastical tale of a woman who each night wins her life and the heart of the powerful Persian sultan with 1001 stories. |
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February 6 - 8
VMA Arts & Cultural Center
1 Avenue Of The Arts
Tickets Are $20 - $65
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Happy Days |
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Reintroduces one of America's best loved families, the Cunninghams, and the days of 1959 Milwaukee. |
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January 23 - 25
Prov Performing Arts Center
220 Weybosset Street
Tickets Are $33 - $60
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Fiddler On The Roof |
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No other musical has so magically woven music, dance, poignancy and laughter into such an unforgettable experience. |
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February 10 - 15
Prov Performing Arts Center
220 Weybosset Street
Tickets Are $43 - $70
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Toddler Time |
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Bring your toddler or preschooler to the Zoo to beat cabin fever and learn more about our wild world together! |
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Select Fridays In January
Roger Williams Park Zoo
1000 Elmwood Avenue
Free With Zoo Admission
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Sunday Family Workshop |
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These workshops, for families with kids ages 5 to 12 years, combine gallery and studio experience. |
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January 18, 3pm - 4:30pm
RISD Museum
20 North Main Street
Tickets Are $15
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
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The Civil Rights Movement comes to life through songs and stories as performers portray activists Rosa Parks and many more. |
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January 19, 11am - 3pm
Providence Children's Museum
1000 South Street
Museum Admission $7.50
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Museum Concerts |
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Ensemble Lipzodes transports
us to the magical world of Guatemala more than four centuries ago. |
January 18, 3:30pm
St. Martin's Church
50 Orchard Avenue
Tickets Are $8 - $23
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Singer Art Garfunkel has made an indelible mark on the music world and will perform hits with the RI Philharmonic. |
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January 17, 8pm
Prov Performing Arts Center
220 Weybosset Street
Tickets Are $40 - $75
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In this RI Philharmonic rehearsal, the conductor's miked so that the audience can hear his remarks to the orchestra. |
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January 23, 5:30pm
VMA Arts + Cultural Center
1 Avenue Of The Arts
Tickets Are $27
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RI Philharmonic |
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Virtuosic violinist Jennifer Koh graces the Philharmonic stage with Music Director Larry Rachleff and the Orchestra. |
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January 24, 8pm
VMA Arts + Cultural Center
1 Avenue Of The Arts
Tickets Are $36 - $67
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Providence Public Library |
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Joe's Backyard Band plays their unique blend of rootsy kid music for grown-ups and grown-up music for kids. |
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January 22, 7pm - 8:45pm
Providence Public Library
708 Hope Street
Free To The Public
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Providence String Quartet |
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The Providence String Quartet and the Community MusicWorks Players perform music by Dmitri Shostakovich. |
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January 25, 4pm - 5:30pm
Temple Beth-El
70 Orchard Avenue
Free To The Public
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Trinity Repertory Company |
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Trinity Repertory Company is pleased to announce that it has made 5,000 $20 tickets available for the rest of its 2008-2009 season. |
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Performance Dates Vary
Trinity Repertory Company
201 Washington Street
Available In Person/Online
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Bringing RI middle school students, teachers and artists together in the true spirit of a community arts program. Open to RI middle schools only. |
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Performance Dates Vary
Prov Performing Arts Center
220 Weybosset Street
Tickets Are Free
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Festival Ballet is offering special three-show subscriptions for their current season starting at only $36. Please call 353-1129 for more information. |
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Performance Dates Vary
VMA Arts + Cultural Center
1 Avenue Of The Arts
Package Prices Vary
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Celebrate Providence! 2009 Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative Proposals Now Being Accepted
The Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative awards funds to non-profit organizations to create and perform high quality programs designed to respond to the unique characteristics of neighborhoods and foster a sense of community pride. Organizations interested in participating must be located in Providence to be eligible for the grants and the programming must take place in the neighborhoods and public spaces of Providence between July 1 and September 1, 2009. Funding will range from $500 to $4000 per project and only one proposal will be accepted from an organization. Applications must be sent to the Department of Art, Culture + Tourism at Providence City Hall, 25 Dorrance Street, Room 111, by January 30 at 4 p.m. To download an application please click here.
Call For Providence Based Artists
Providence's new BUY ART campaign is designed to thank all shoppers who buy art and to help promote Providence based art merchants + artists. If you are based in Providence, sell art and wish to participate please email Michael Christofaro with your name, website address, brief description of the work you produce, address (internal use only), phone number (internal use only) and email address (internal use only).
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 Female Filmmakers
The LunaFest Film Festival is looking for one local female filmmaker to fill the final short film slot of the reel of this year's LunaFest films. From amateur filmmakers, to film students, to aspiring indie stars, they look for filmmakers and producers with unique films by...for...about women. Deadline for submission is January 30. Films accepted can be shorts, documentaries, fiction or narritives, films should not exceed 20 minutes, each entry must be submitted on a seperate DVD with a label, with each submission please include your name/address/telephone number/film title/completed entry forum/$20 application fee made out to the Breast Cancer Fund (no fee for international applicants and the student fee is $15) Please mail submissions to: LunaFest, c/o Michele Chaudhry, 12 Opal Street, Cranston, RI, 02905.
For more information please call 419-0363.
Call For Improv
January 14 & 23 @ 9pm, The Spot On Thayer, 286 Thayer Street
Bring You Own Improv (BYOI), a short-form improv troupe now in its second season, will be holding auditions. Auditioneers are encouraged to come to one or both of the auditions. Please bring water and wear comfortable clothing. Any auditioneers who attend will get into the January 23 show @ 11pm for free. If you want to audition, please click here to contact BYOI through their website with your name, email address and phone number so they know you will be attending and to accomidate seating.
Perishable Theatre Classes Now Enrolling
Perishable Theatre Arts School announces classes for the 2008 Winter Quarter, Starting dates from January 26 - February 4. All classes meet at Perishable Theatre on 95 Empire Street in Downtown Providence. For more information call Perishable Theatre Arts School, 401.331.2695 ext. 102. For full class descriptions and course tuition please click here.
Draw & Paint With Munir Muhammed
February 7 - April 11, 134 Matthewson Street, Tuition Is $220
Study line, shape, light, shade, human figures, attire, landscapes, color, blending and murals with artist Munir Mohammed in ten 3-hour Saturday classes. Please click here to email for more information or to register PPAC ARTS Scholarships 2009
Twenty-Five scholarships valued at up to $500 each will be awarded to qualified RI students ages 11 - 14 to attend local, summer arts education programs. Applications are available here and must be submitted by March 6. For more information please call 401-421-2997.
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To submit an Arts event for the Newsletter, please email Michael Christofaro at least two weeks prior to the event.
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City of Providence Department of Art, Culture + Tourism / 25 Dorrance Street / Room 111 / Providence / RI / 02903 / 401.421.2489 | |
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