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Take part in a free, outdoor workout series.
Two-day festival with entertainment by Portuguese musical artists, Portuguese food, and traditional folklore.
Private Event Rental
The Guild PVD Beer Garden is open for Memorial Day!
New England Artists Rani MacNeal and Sarah Jane Lapp offer a Puzzical Path to Peace.
Feel the beat, move your body!
Private Event Rental: Outdoor Educational Workshop
Create lasting memories and enjoy giant bubbles!
Observe the night sky through high-powered telescopes!
Embrace the crisp winter air and join a fun and playful outdoor yoga class.
Celebrate New Year's Eve in Providence!
Be the Solution to Pollution, in collaboration with Creative Reuse Center of Rhode Island, hosts a volunteer clean-up in the park.
The fourth 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.
Join The Rainbow Beard Show for a program that includes crafts games, puppets, special guests, and a dance party!
Join The Rainbow Beard Show for a program that includes crafts games, puppets, special guests, and a dance party!
Interact with vehicles and their drivers at this free, family-friendly event.
Get to know Rhode Island’s design community with a festive fall networking activity.
Join Seydou Coulibaly, Moussa traore, and Assi Coulibaly for a community workshop in West African dance.
Free brass band performance by Young Fellaz Brass Band
Celebrating Rhode Island's unique oyster culture at the 10th Annual Ocean State Oyster Festival.
A free, open to the public yoga session on the east side of the park.
Taste, sip and savor with us!
Maker Faire Providence features hands-on making, building & hacking, crafting, garage technology, arts and creativity for sale, robots, and more.
Aerialist acrobatic performances in the park
Come celebrate the culture and traditions of Cape Verde!
DAY TRILL features performances from national and regional DJ talent, art activations, and food trucks.
Meet your fellow exploreres, play lawn games, enjoy some live music, and see if you have the lucky key that will open the treasure chest.
Join the Rainbow Beard Show for a children's program that includes craft time, games, puppets, special guests, and a dance party!
Celebrate the end of summer with an all ages concert featuring local, queer, and bipoc musicians playing original music.
Come out and watch some of the best short films in New England.
Rhode Island Black Film Festival presents Randy Ashe & Company Live Jazz and a movie featuring your favorite black cast and directors.
A showcase of culturally diverse DJ sets
Join the Rainbow Beard Show for a children's program that includes craft time, games, puppets, special guests, and a dance party!
New England's largest and most prestigious festival — Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival™ (RIIFF) — will take place in 195 District Park on August 8-10, 2024.
Help make an art installation to show future flood levels due to sea level rise.
The Summer Salsa Blast, an exhilarating outdoor event that celebrates community spirit with free admission. Immerse yourself in the vibrant atmosphere, indulge in delectable offerings from local food vendors, and move to the rhythm of fantastic music - a perfect blend of fun, flavor, and dance for everyone to enjoy!
Join Endicott Dance Academy for a 2-hour event featuring 30-minute beginner-friendly West Coast Swing lessons, alternating with 15-minute open practice sessions.
Free and open to the public yoga session on the east side of the park.
For four special nights this summer PCFF will be presenting four thematic reels of short films selected from this year's festival. Grab your picnic baskets and lawn chairs to join us under the stars.
Interact with Amy the Mime in the park.
Let’s celebrate our culture, no bem selebra nos kultura!
Cape Verdean culture is a mixture of African and European culture. Cape Verde has, above all, a vast spectrum of music that effects the diverse origins of the Cape Verdean population.
Participants are matched with an initial puzzle partner to assemble an original Sarah Jane Lapp 24-piece jigsaw puzzle for the duration of a song. When the song changes, partners change, too! Delicious hand pies provided. LGBTQIA2S+ welcome.
A day long free and open to the public celebration to conjoin people of the African Diaspora (Americas, Caribbean, and Africa) through art and culture. Juneteenth is a day for honoring the “freedom” of all people living in the United States. The Juneteenth RI Festival fosters unity and takes on the challenge of bringing together people of different cultures and backgrounds and provides an experience that will band us together for generations.
Join (Bar)re Bell and Yoga for a 45min Barre class overlooking the pedestrian bridge followed by a cocktail/mocktail provided by Plant City.
The film screening of Price of Admission and discussion in honor of Juneteenth and the history of black baseball in Rhode Island will take place June 19, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM.
Michelle Kaminsky brings specially designed xylophones and marimbas of varying sizes to the park as a pop-up invitation to play instruments and collaborate with musicians.
Rhode Island’s Annual PrideFest Celebration & Illuminated Night Parade will be held in beautiful Downtown Providence on Saturday, June 15, 2024. Venture down to the main stage, providing entertainment for festival-goers all day with a variety of local, regional, and national acts.
PrideFest is one of Rhode Island’s biggest festivals, and for one day you won’t find another event that attracts 50,000+ festival-goers.
The 2024 Day of Portugal celebration in Rhode Island is a two-day cultural festival celebrating the language, history, cuisine, folklore dance, music, and culture of the Portuguese, culminating in a display of cultural floats at the RI Day of Portugal Parade.
Join Providence Flea in their new location at 195 District Park from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM every Sunday from June 2, 2024, through September 15, 2024.
Join Jala Studio: Yoga & Art for a free one-hour, all-levels outdoor yoga class taking place on the east side of 195 District Park, Wednesdays from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM.
The class will be focused around celebrating summer and the gifts of the natural world. Join us! Please bring your own mat, water bottle, insect repellent, and any props you need to enjoy your experience.
ORCA, Honey Comb Studio, Be the Solution to Pollution, and RICARES are hosting a riverwalk cleanup event in Providence, RI.
Wanna see a Play in a Day? Come to the show on May 9, at 6:00 PM.
The show will star the ASTRO after-school program, along with a special guest.
Would you like to be in the show? Or watch your kids and someone else’s kids rehearse the Play in a Day nearby? While you enjoy a cold beer from The PVD Guild from 5:00 PM until 6:00 PM SHOWTIME.
Join us for a series of free hula hoop classes hosted by Jessie Jewels. Located in the Bally's Event Lawn adjacent to The Guild Beer Garden.
The Guild is hosting local musicians on Friday evenings in the PVD Beer Garden. Updates on their lineup can be found on their website: https://www.theguildpvd.com/#events
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.
Join the Providence Drum Troupe in 195 District Park from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM every Tuesday from April 30, 2024 to October 29, 2024.
From January 19 to February 20, 195 District Park will be part of Lumina, a month-long light and art installation connecting the Providence Rink Bank Newport City Center and the park via a light-adorned Dorrance Street and featuring several exciting activities throughout the month.
Making its Rhode Island debut, Prismatica transforms the park into a kaleidoscope of color and sound. Twenty-five prisms invite visitors to engage with the rotating forms while soft bell tones blanket the serene riverfront park.
