| Drums, Dance, and Flow Jam Color Theory
An Immersive Dance Experience at the REVEL Factory
FREE ADMISSION
The REVEL FACTORY
249 Roosevelt Ave, Pawtucket
Friday, September 22
7 – 10 PM
Imagine an immersive environment where you can express yourself through music and movement without fear of judgment or prejudice. Drums for One and All and Jessie Jewels Hoops have teamed up to form Drum, Dance & Flow Jam where participants can do just that. The team has been hosting similar events throughout Rhode Island and Eastern Massachusetts for 15+ years. Color Theory is a new project the team has been creating specifically for the Pawtucket Arts Festival to explore community created transient art.
That???s right you are the art! When you walk into Revel Factory you will be transported into a world of sights, sounds and color. Everyone is a participant! Whether you come to drum or dance you will encounter different opportunities as you move throughout the space to be part of the art. You will have the option to use a drum or instrument to create the soundtrack for the evening. If you choose to dance there will be interactive opportunities with the environment to become part of the visual landscape for the evening. Drums, percussion instruments, dance scarves/ribbons, flow toys (hoops, poi) will be available to borrow. No musical or dance experience is needed!
Learn more at: https://pawtucketartsfestival.org/2017-events/
TEN31 Open Studio and Creation Observation
A Exploration of TEN31’s Creative Process
FREE ADMISSION
The REVEL FACTORY
249 Roosevelt Ave, Pawtucket
Saturday, September 23
9 AM – 3 PM
Come on down to TEN31 Productions new studio and see their offices, workshop, costume shop, and new event space. Get a tour of the space and even take a Circus Dynamics Workshop between 10 AM and 12:30 PM.
At 11:30 AM there will be a presentation on how TEN31 Productions finds inspiration followed by a guided tour of the studio.
Learn more at: https://pawtucketartsfestival.org/2017-events/
REVEL Factory Presents
Circus Dynamics
An Opportunity to Brush Up on Your Circus Skills
FREE ADMISSION
The REVEL FACTORY
249 Roosevelt Ave, Pawtucket
Saturday, September 23
10 AM – 2 PM
Looking to learn some fun new tricks?!????Let the REVEL Factory’s Circus Dynamics show you the way!
This fun hands on workshop teaches you the basics of a handful of circus skills while providing a safe nurturing environment to try new things.????This program is another in the Intro Series for REVEL Factory, TEN31???s new Non Profit.????This workshop is open to all ages.
Learn more at: https://pawtucketartsfestival.org/2017-events/
XOS Exchange Street
Open Studios
Two Days to Learn About Artists’ Work in Artists’ Studios and Homes
FREE ADMISSION
Armory Arts District
172 Exchange Street, Pawtucket
Saturday, September 23 – Sunday, September 24
11 AM – 5 PM
Visit over 35 artists in studios and work/live lofts in 3 fabulously renovated mill buildings just steps from each other in Pawtucket???s Armory Arts District???s in the of Exchange Street neighborhood.
View a wide array of????quality artwork including paintings, sculpture, fine prints, photography, fine crafts, wearable art, jewelry, graphic and textile design, and more in some of the spaces in which the works of art were created.
Watch artists demonstrating their creative processes or showing work in progress. Chat with the artists about their concepts and techniques. Sales of artwork are tax-free. Easy to get to from Exit 29, I-95, then follow signs.
Learn more at: https://www.facebook.com/XOSExchangeStreetOpenStudios/
Pawtucket Celebrates Poetry
A Celebration of Local Poets
FREE ADMISSION
orget-Me-Not Gallery
67 Park Place, Pawtucket
Sunday, September 24
2 – 4 PM
The Pawtucket Arts Festival, The Samaritans of Rhode Island and Galway Kinnell Poetry Contest coordinator, Patti McAlpine invite you to attend the third annual Pawtucket Poetry Celebration on Park Place.
This Arts Festival event will take place Sunday, September 24, 2017 from 2 to 4 PM at the Forget-Me-Not Gallery, 67 Park Place, Pawtucket, RI.
Supported by a grant from the Pawtucket Arts Panel in conjunction with the recent Galway Kinnell Poetry Contest, three winning poets and three honorable mentions will read their winning poems.
Other featured poets include Tina Cane, State Poet Laureate; Seth Tourjee, Frequency Writing Director and Christopher Kondrich, RI poet and last year finalist.
The Winners
First place: Marybeth Rua-Larson of Somerset, MA, ???West Second Oswego, 1986???
Second place: Bill Carpenter, Chepachet, RI, ???Ghosts and Where to Find Them???
Third place: Mark Jay Brewin, Jr. Northampton, MA, ???Helium???
Honorable mentions: Beatrice Lazarus, Cranston, RI; Laura Foley, South Pmfret, VT and Barry Bayon, North Kingstown, RI.
Learn more at: https://galwaykinnellpoetrycontest.wordpress.com/2017/09/17/winners-and-third-annual-pawtucket-poetry-celebration/
City of Pawtucket Photo Contest
A Collection Images of Daily Life in Pawtucket
Blackstone Valley Visitor’s Center
175 Main Street, Pawtucket
Sunday, September 24
4 PM
This annual contest provides an opportunity to bring awareness to daily life, historic locations and the ever-changing landscape of Pawtucket through the lens of a camera. The entire 5th grade population from the 10 elementary public schools in the City of Pawtucket participated in a photo workshop this past spring, and their final photo projects are part of this contest. These schools included: Elizabeth Baldwin, M. V. Cunningham, Flora S. Curtis, Curvin-McCabe, Fallon Memorial, Nathanael Greene, Agnes E. Little, Potter-Burns, Francis J. Varieur, and Henry J. Winters Elementary Schools. The contest was open to residents and non-residents alike, but the photo must have been taken in Pawtucket.
All photos will be on display at the Blackstone Valley Visitor???s Center during the City of Pawtucket???s Arts Festival throughout the month of September. Mayor???s Choice Award will receive $100 cash prize, First Place will receive $75.00 cash prize, 2nd Place will receive $50.00 cash prize with remaining winners receiving gift certificates. All winning photos will be used in the City of Pawtucket???s 2018 Calendar.
Winners will be announced by Mayor Donald R. Grebien on Sunday, September 24th at 4:00pm at a public reception where they may meet the contest judges at the Blackstone Valley Visitor???s Center, 175 Main Street, Pawtucket.
Learn more at: https://pawtucketartsfestival.org/2017-events/
PSD Chinese Moon
Festival Celebration
A Celebration of Traditional Chinese Music, Dance, and Martial Arts
FREE ADMISSION
Tolman High School Auditorium
150 Exchange Street, Pawtucket
Monday, September 25
6 – 8 PM
Join PSD for a traditional Chinese music, dance, and martial arts performance by the Zhejiang University Wenqin Art Troupe from Hangzhou, China with opening performances by students in Pawtucket School Department???s Chinese language program. The event is supported by the Confucius Institute at the University of Rhode Island in celebration of their 10th anniversary
Learn more at: https://pawtucketartsfestival.org/2017-events/
… Ongoing Events …
The Importance of Being Earnest
Written by Oscar Wilde, Directed by Fred Sullivan, Jr.
The GAMM
172 Exchange Street, Pawtucket
Thursday, September 14 – Saturday, October 14
7 – 9 PM
Tickets: $23, $34, $42
Get $10 off when you use the code PAF
The Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical masterpiece with rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters, The Important of Being Earnest is Wilde???s last and most celebrated play. In late Victorian London, companions-in-cavorting Jack Worthing and Algernon ???Algy??? Moncrieff have fallen in love with two ladies who have their hearts set on marrying a man named Ernest. In pursuit of romance, both men concoct an elaborate deception. When Algy???s aunt, the formidable Lady Bracknell, starts sleuthing about for the truth, an outlandish surprise is revealed. Wilde???s buoyant comedy of manners will keep you anticipating a fresh twist of plot from one moment to the next.
Tickets are on sale now and are certain to sell out for this dazzling performance.
Get your tickets at: http://www.gammtheatre.org/
Four Americans in Cuba
A Photography Exhibition
FREE ADMISSION
Machines with Magnets Gallery
400 Main Street, Pawtucket RI 02860
Friday, September 15 – Friday, October 20
Gallery Open Wednesdays and Fridays
1 – 6 PM
???Four Americans in Cuba??? features work from four Rhode Island Photographers who have traveled to Cuba multiple times starting in 2013. The exhibition takes a look inside, focusing on daily life, and speaks to the human condition and the pace of change. Drawing on the shared experience, this exhibition focuses on the people of Cuba and sparks a dialogue on the necessity of change and the resilience of the Cuban People. The exhibition, presented at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, attempts to present a more nuanced view of the current Cuba and includes a soundtrack that mixes contemporary Cuban music from musicians playing in Havana clubs and restaurants with the more iconic sounds of the Buena Vista Social Club. Opening and closing receptions and artist talks will also feature classic and prohibition-era Cuban cocktails at the bar, including the El Presidente, Adalor (the Bellini???s predecessor), La Floridita Daquiri No. 4, and Hotel Nacional.
Learn more at: http://www.machineswithmagnets.com/venue-about
Crossing Borders
A focused group exhibition curated by Judith Tolnick Champa + Jocelyn Foye
FREE ADMISSION
Periphery Space Gallery
80 Fountain Street, Pawtucket
September 9 – October 14
Gallery Open Tuesday – Saturday
10 AM – 4 P
This globally involved exhibition will appropriately debut within the cultural melting pot of Rhode Island, a historic and ongoing site of immigration.
Arguably it is male, rather than female artists who are the most visible practitioners to emerge internationally during the recent immigration and asylum seeking period. Rather than enforce a new space of marginalization, this exhibition underscores the crossing of borders by women artists, while it teases out and exposes the obligations and burdens that artists of all genders may express in leaving their original countries and communities. To paraphrase critic Kaelen Wilson-Goldie writing recently on art made within Assad???s Syria ??? and art for its migrants and refugees beyond ??? the exhibition also will engage ???complexities of identity and experience that complicate the binaries of insider and outsider that are often exploited to make people fearful of others.??? (Bookforum, April/May 2017, 42-43).
Crossing Borders is not overtly about displacement. Instead, it emphasizes the need to develop a secure, confident, personal art language through which to express conditions of movement and change, externally imposed and/or internally generated. As issues of gender, history and cultural practice are addressed through the exhibition, traditional and experimental media both are parlayed deftly in the process, from painting and embroidery through readymades and fascinating mixed-media variations. In addition to animated conversations between diverse contemporary media, shifts of scale are dynamic, ranging from an 11-foot composition to a small-scale animation.
Learn more at:??http://www.peripheryspace.com/
Rhode Island
Watercolor Society Presents
‘Art in Autumn’
A Little Picture Show Exhibition
FREE ADMISSION
Slater Park
831 Armistice Boulevard, Pawtucket
September 9 – October 13
Gallery Open Wednesday – Saturday
10 AM – 4 PM
The Rhode Island Watercolor Society Presents: Art in Autumn,????Little Picture Show Opening.
Art in Autumn will feature hundreds of 5??7 original artworks made by Rhode Island Watercolor Society Members. Each original piece will be sold at the low cost of $40 including a mat. This will allow for many members of the public to be able to afford highly quality original artwork done by local artists.
Learn more at: http://www.rhodeislandwatercolorsociety.wildapricot.org/ |
