Amy Beth Parravano as her signature character AmyTheMime has been entertaining audiences past few decades. The performance includes balloon sculptures and encourages audience participation. Fun for kids of all ages!
Rhode Island Computer Museum, in cooperation with DESIGN WEEK RI and 195 District Park, is excited to announce Fabrication Fest, a celebration of design and fabrication on November 4th, 2023 (Rescheduled from 9/22). The focus of the event is on those places where design and fabrication meet. Everything from traditional methods of making things to digital fabrication with machines will be showcased at this show-and-tell event. Fabrication Fest takes place outdoors and will be free and open to the public.
The Third Annual Wicked Walk: A Trick-Or-Treat Experience is a free public event that provides a safe, accessible, & high-quality immersive environment for youth & families to celebrate Halloween.
Thousands of Attendees explore enchanting interactive themed Halloween Doors and StoryWalk adorning the MVL Memorial Bridge. While delighting in a Trick or Treat at each door, families will also enjoy Halloween crafts, activities, & a captivating Ghost Haunt Adventure Walk in the 195 District Park.
PVD World Music Series features traditional and fusion global sounds and dance performed by performers from all over the world who call Providence and New England home. The concerts, as in previous years, feature indigenous music histories and customs that have been passed down orally from generation to generation for thousands of years with special focus on traditional African and African Diaspora music and dance performances. The concerts provide an opportunity to learn more about the colorful arts of Africa and its diaspora.
There will be rotating food trucks each event including the likes of: Jah Patty, Spanglish, Mings and Farm to Table. Cold beer and non-alcoholic drinks will be available at the Guild Beer Garden.
Take a seat and lose yourself in a foam of short experimental films featuring Portal Rental’s energetic music, live-action footage, stop-motion animation, and puppetry.
Free! Duration: 8 minutes. The portal can hold 4-6 visitors at a time.
PVD World Music Series features traditional and fusion global sounds and dance performed by performers from all over the world who call Providence and New England home. The concerts, as in previous years, feature indigenous music histories and customs that have been passed down orally from generation to generation for thousands of years with special focus on traditional African and African Diaspora music and dance performances. The concerts provide an opportunity to learn more about the colorful arts of Africa and its diaspora.
There will be rotating food trucks each event including the likes of: Jah Patty, Spanglish, Mings and Farm to Table. Cold beer and non-alcoholic drinks will be available at the Guild Beer Garden. In addition to the food and music, during May and June, the concerts will take place next to an artisan market curated by Field of Artisans.
WaterFire Providence announces Starts At Sunset, a new community gathering on the Michael S. Van Leesten Memorial Pedestrian Bridge and 195 District Park sponsored by the Providence Tourism Council. This unique activation invites artists and observers to experience a night of immersive placemaking with living tableaus set against the backdrop of a picturesque sunset. WaterFire volunteers will be illuminating the bridge with the glow of five braziers.
On August 7th Community Libraries of Providence will host a celebration of Guatemalan nature and culture, as they conclude this Summer's Bibliodiversity program.
From 6-8 PM Ricky will lead a surf-related craft time, and at 8 PM the sun will go down, it’s SHOWTIME! with special guests, puppets, games, dancing, and surprises! See you then! Fun and free for the whole family.
PVD World Music Series features traditional and fusion global sounds and dance performed by performers from all over the world who call Providence and New England home. The concerts, as in previous years, feature indigenous music histories and customs that have been passed down orally from generation to generation for thousands of years with special focus on traditional African and African Diaspora music and dance performances. The concerts provide an opportunity to learn more about the colorful arts of Africa and its diaspora.
There will be rotating food trucks each event including the likes of: Jah Patty, Spanglish, Mings and Farm to Table. Cold beer and non-alcoholic drinks will be available at the Guild Beer Garden. In addition to the food and music, during May and June, the concerts will take place next to an artisan market curated by Field of Artisans.
Join Emily Baroody of Sol & Sound RI as she leads you through a serene Sound Bath Meditation in a beautiful park setting. Relax and embark on an inward journey, guided by the soothing sounds of crystal singing bowls, koshi chimes, and other transformative sound healing instruments.
PCFF is delighted to present five evening screenings in a beautiful park, under the stars and down by the bay. Each Thursday evening's reel has a theme that connects the international short films to our community here. The (free) popcorn will be poppin' as you set up your picnic blankets and chairs for the show, and the Guild Beer Garden will be open until 8:00 PM. Start times and other up-to-date info will be on their website at PCFFRI.ORG.
PVD World Music Series features traditional and fusion global sounds and dance performed by performers from all over the world who call Providence and New England home. The concerts, as in previous years, feature indigenous music histories and customs that have been passed down orally from generation to generation for thousands of years with special focus on traditional African and African Diaspora music and dance performances. The concerts provide an opportunity to learn more about the colorful arts of Africa and its diaspora.
There will be rotating food trucks each event including the likes of: Jah Patty, Spanglish, Mings and Farm to Table. Cold beer and non-alcoholic drinks will be available at the Guild Beer Garden. In addition to the food and music, during May and June, the concerts will take place next to an artisan market curated by Field of Artisans.
Born from the pandemic, The Providence Drum Troupe are an interactive group of dynamic musicians, a wide-range of dancers, acrobats, visual artists, puppetry and more from near and far who create funky beats with positive energy, demonstrating that living in harmony with one another is not an antiquated notion.
The Providence Drum Troupe are a whirlwind of creative energy, full of antics and a joyous sense of community.
Join them at 6:00 pm every other Tuesday in Providence Innovation District Park and on the Michael Van Leesten Memorial Bridge for a free performance!
PVD World Music Series features traditional and fusion global sounds and dance performed by performers from all over the world who call Providence and New England home. The concerts, as in previous years, feature indigenous music histories and customs that have been passed down orally from generation to generation for thousands of years with special focus on traditional African and African Diaspora music and dance performances. The concerts provide an opportunity to learn more about the colorful arts of Africa and its diaspora.
There will be rotating food trucks each event including the likes of: Jah Patty, Spanglish, Mings and Farm to Table. Cold beer and non-alcoholic drinks will be available at the Guild Beer Garden. In addition to the food and music, during May and June, the concerts will take place next to an artisan market curated by Field of Artisans.
Take in the beautiful outdoors while practicing an all-levels vinyasa yoga class. Free and Open to the public, happening Mondays at 5:30 from May 29th, September 4th.
PVD World Music Series features traditional and fusion global sounds and dance performed by performers from all over the world who call Providence and New England home. The concerts, as in previous years, feature indigenous music histories and customs that have been passed down orally from generation to generation for thousands of years with special focus on traditional African and African Diaspora music and dance performances. The concerts provide an opportunity to learn more about the colorful arts of Africa and its diaspora.
There will be rotating food trucks each event including the likes of: Jah Patty, Spanglish, Mings and Farm to Table. Cold beer and non-alcoholic drinks will be available at the Guild Beer Garden. In addition to the food and music, during May and June, the concerts will take place next to an artisan market curated by Field of Artisans.
On Saturday, January 28th head downtown to “Ice Jam” to partake in some post-holiday cheer to help stave off the cold weather blues!
From 1:00 – 8:30 pm, District Park and the Michael Van Leesten Memorial Bridge will be illuminated and activated with ice sculptures, lighting installations, and inflatable art courtesy of Pneuhaus studios. Families will be able to go on a journey through District Park to discover frozen friends on the Winter Wonder Walk and read a seasonal story while crossing the pedestrian bridge. The Guild PVD Beer Garden and partnering food trucks will be serving delicious food and drink offerings to enjoy in the “warm-up tent.” Join some of your favorite pals from The Rainbow Beard Show inside the tent and be ready for cozy hangs by a cardboard fire, comforting songs to make you want to rock (in your chair), and an ice-themed craft project to create! Stroll on over to the neighboring Aloft Hotel for a killer acoustic performance by Rhode Island Native, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, Nolan Leite. Also featuring a pop-up art show by local Providence artist, Niko Tolentino, and signature icy cocktails. All happening at W XYZ lounge inside the Aloft Hotel from 4:00 – 8:00 pm.
Join the I-195 Redevelopment District staff and its consultants to learn more about opportunities to operate the food service portions of the future pavilion in the Providence Innovation District Park. This will be a remote webinar held on Zoom that is open to the public but is focused on those who are interested in operating the facility.
Grammy winner Oumou Sangare, the songbird of Wassulu, will be touring the U.S & Canada next month presenting her new album "Timbuktu" with her whole group.
We are delighted to have her here in Providence on October 30 for a free concert in District Park!
Sidy Maiga will be opening the afternoon with The Bridge Where We Meet.
Fall is here and the Rhode Island Black Film Festival celebrates an October tradition at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) HOMECOMING. The Rhode Island Black Film Festival (RIBFF) marks this tradition with “BLACK CLASSICS UNDER THE STARS”, Saturday, October 15, 5:30 p.m. at the Innovation District Park, 120 Peck Street in Providence.
Drumline is a 2002 American coming-of-age teen comedy-drama film directed by Charles Stone III. The screenplay, which was inspired by the Southwest Dekalb High School Drumline, was written by Tina Gordon Chism and Shawn Schepps. The film follows a young drummer from New York, played by Nick Cannon, who enters the fictional Atlanta A&T University and bumps heads with the leader of his new school's drum section. Zoe Saldana, Leonard Roberts and Orlando Jones also co-star.
Join Puzlkind Jigsaw Puzzles & The Vox Hunters for our Inaugural Puzzical Chairs & Pie at Innovation District Park.
Featuring some of the world's best storytellers for adults, children and families.
Bring a blanket or lawn chair, a picnic,
and bring all your friends and the whole family.
Connect, shop and get inspired at a weekly art market curated and produced by Field of Artisans. May 12th Field of Artisans will be at the Providence Innovation District Park, setup alongside the The Guild PVD Beer Garden. The artisan lineup will be ever changing. Expect to meet someone new and discover new work each week. Interested artisans can apply at: www.fieldofartisans.com/sell
Fabrication Fest offers two days of exploration, creativity, and curiosity focused on design and fabrication. Accessible to everyone from novices to experts, this event will inspire attendees to build design and fabrication skills through fun and inventiveness.
This two-day celebration of design and fabrication focuses on those places where design and fabrication meet. Everything from traditional methods of making things to digital fabrication with machines will be showcased at this show-and-tell.
RIOT's 3rd Annual Battle of the Patriarchy Show is here!
We're bringing our whole community together at the Providence Innovation District Park for a music-sharing and public education event welcoming people of all genders to show up for gender justice and reproductive rights for all! It's all happening on Saturday, September 10, from 2 - 6 PM!!
Join your favorite Rainbow Beard friends for an early morning exploration of change. There will be crafts, games, stories, music, dancing, and a show! It's a new kind of Rainbow Beard experience, all happening under a big tent in the middle of Providence's Innovation District Park, right next to the Pedestrian Bridge!
Also - it's free and family-friendly!
We bring marimbas and xylophones of varying sizes to public spaces. These instruments, with wind-chime-like sounds, lend themselves to spontaneous music making. Passers-by are invited to join in creating music. No experience necessary, just a little guidance. It is a gentle approach to inviting the public into making music.
Free performance by PVD World Music at the Guild PVD beer garden next to the pedestrian bridge in the park. The show starts at 5:30 pm!
This Saturday, August 20th we'll have a performance by Classic Vibe. Classic Vibe plays reggae music of all kinds. From the classics of Bob Marley to the new sounds of Dancehall and Soca.
Providence Geeks is BACK!
Wednesday, August 17 5-8:30pm
Providence Innovation District Park
FREE ADMISSION
After a too-long hiatus, it's time that we return with another family-friendly version of Providence Geeks. We'll be featuring hands-on activities powered by NESmaker, the Rhode Island Computer Museum, and BlocksCAD.
Films begin at 8:00 pm on the Dyer Street side of Providence Innovation District Park.
8:00 pm - WAABER WAABER | Rich Webber | United Kingdom
8:03 pm - Autumn Leaves | Wojciech Ostrycharz | Poland
8:06 pm - Sync | United States
8:08 pm - Hi! How are you? | Gaïa Grandin-Mendzylewski | France
8:14 pm - Boys Night in Sidera Institute | Adam Musa Othman | United States
8:21 pm - Step by step | Fanny PAOLI | France
8:28 pm - LA SIXTINA | Juan Camilo Fonnegra | Colombia
8:36 pm - La grogne | Alisi Telengut | Canada |
8:46 pm - The Soloists | ABDOLLAHINIA Mehrnaz | France
8:54 pm - She Dreams At Sunrise | Camrus Johnson | United States
9:05 pm - A Girl meets A Boy and A Robot | Watanabe Shinichiro | China
Films begin at 8:00 pm on the Dyer Street side of Providence Innovation District Park.
WORLDS COLLIDING - SHORTS PACKAGE
8:00 pm - Ghosts
Ghosts is a new short film by (LA)HORDE with the Ballet national de Marseille soundtracked by Rone and scripted Spike Jonze, filmed in the Palais Longchamp in Marseille. When the Fine Arts Museum closes, figures take over the deserted place, embrace and tear each other, as if to recover their body, until their encounter with the night guard.
8:08 PM - Chico Virtual
A boy must come to terms with the harsh reality of his immigrant status when his brother alarmingly doesn't come home.
8:22 pm - Shreveport Son
A young man reunites with a childhood friend during the last hours of his life.
8:37 pm - Employee of the Month
Ibinabo, a young husband and father-to-be, lives an unremarkable but exemplary life. He strives to prove himself to his boss, but gets caught up in the horrors of the October 2020 protests against police brutality.
8:56 pm - A Letter To Black Men
A young man learns to navigate his way through an ever-changing London borough, as he rekindles his relationship with a long-time friend of his late father.
9:16 pm - Yae: Blind Samurai Woman
In the mountains of the Edo Period Japan, when a blind woman's samurai father is killed by a young samurai avenging his own father's death, she agrees to be escorted to the nearest village, but she's not as helpless as she appears.
Films begin at 8:00 pm on the Dyer Street side of Providence Innovation District Park.
8:00 PM - Candidato 34
Bryan Russell is the first person in the world with Down syndrome to ever run for public office. CANDIDATO 34 is a documentary short that follows Bryan and his campaign team during the 2020 congressional election in Peru as he attempts to convince a reluctant public that he is capable of being a congressman, and an important voice for change.
8:34 pm - The Sentence of Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson is the longest serving non-violent offender in the history of Michigan and he is finally up for clemency. In 1994, he was arrested for selling three pounds of marijuana to a close friend turned police informant and was sentenced to 40 to 60 years in prison and has been there ever since. After 25 years, three appeals, and two denied applications for clemency it seems like Michael may finally have a chance at freedom
9:03 pm - Small Hours
Inspired by the photo book format, this short documentary focuses on summer seasonal workers on a small island.
Through first impressions and personal moments the viewer gets a sense of the feeling of summer when it's contained. A time that is at once very concentrated with possibility and excitement is contrasted with the growing pains of first time jobs and what happens when you truly let go of life off the island.
9:09 pm - When We Dance
On February 24, 2022 Vladimir Putin and his Russian army invaded Ukraine, beginning an ongoing conflict that has cost thousands of lives and created ripple effects throughout the world - particularly in the international competitive ballroom dancing community. Composed significantly of Ukrainian and Russian dancers, the world of top elite dancers has been thrown into turmoil from the war. Told through interviews and a narrative dance piece that highlights the shared humanity that connects us all, this film explores the personal, often heartbreaking, stories of the war from a handful of the world's top ranked Ukrainian and Russian ballroom dancers. As the war rages on, it is our duty to share the atrocities of what is happening in Ukraine and, in doing so, help foster a solution to bring this bloody conflict to an end.
Back for its third year, PVD World Music’s Annual African Film and Arts Festival returns to Providence for five days from September 14 to 18, 2022, shining a spotlight on contemporary films and filmmakers from Africa and the African Diaspora. It will also include traditional African music and dance performances and offer opportunities to learn more about the vibrant arts of the African continent.
Join Jala Studio: Yoga & Art for a one-hour, all levels outdoor yoga class Sundays from 9-10 am. We’ll enjoy the beauty of our special outdoor park space, next to the river and close to the pedestrian bridge.
