Spoken Word: The Three Amigos
On Sat, March 7 at 3pm, a band of laureates will gather to share their love of words with audiences at the Audubon Environmental Education Center at 1401 Hope St in Bristol […]
Events:
Howard Gardiner Cushing: A Harmony of Line and Color
July 12 - December 31Liz Collins
Motherlode.
July 19, 2025 - January 1, 2026ERIC-PAUL RIEGE
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September 3 - December 7Mill Town Art
September 13 - November 29A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026Revelations! Education: Behind The Curtain – In Words and Images
Reception: Sept 17, 4:30 – 7pm.
September 15 - December 11The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026Festive Fine Arts & Artisans Holiday Marketplace
November 1 - December 23The Galileo Project: Works by Nancy Bockbrader, Doug Bosch, and Richard Whitten
Opening Reception, Thursday, November 6, 4-7pm.
November 6 - December 5DENNY MOERS / BC CRANE / JONATHAN SHARLIN
Reception: Thursday, November 20, 5 – 8 pm.
November 20 - December 10
Funda Fest Returns to RI
It’s story time once again as Rhode Island Black Storytellers puts on their 17th annual family festival, Funda Fest. FUNDA, meaning to teach and to learn in Zulu and KiSwahili, is […]
Only Blue Body — A Poetic Journal
The book reads like a poetic journal, as if a different day in the life of one person Rosalynde Vas Dias’s book Only Blue Body proved to be an amazing […]
Featured Poet: Nancy S. Foley, aka MC Hugs
Nancy S. Foley is a holistic mental health counselor with a private practice in Providence who also works at Tomas & Associates in North Smithfield. She is the present host […]
Ryk McIntyre Is Thankful
Love and support shown for a poet in need I don’t know about you, but when I have a friend in the hospital, I visit if I can. Ryk McIntyre […]
Funda Turns Sweet 16
Rhode Island Black Storytellers’ (RIBS) annual event welcomes in its 16thyear as the state’s premier, longest-running and only black storytelling festival: Funda Fest I have been on both sides of […]
Lovers and Automatic Weapons, a Meditation Mixtape
I tell my friends all the time: don’t ask for my opinion if you really don’t want it. I have been called the Dutch Uncle, the one who holds no […]
Charlotte Abotsi Awes at Providence Poetry Slam
When I first saw this young lady perform, I went to New Urban Arts (NUA) to see a fellow “Word!” family member perform for the youth at NUA. The Providence […]
The Providence Poetry Slam Team
For years the Providence Poetry Slam has sent a team to the competition, the only slam team in Rhode Island to compete and represent the city at the National Poetry […]
Look Beneath the Surface to Find Summer Spoken Word Workshops
Every summer, the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services offers summer reading workshops and performances under a specific theme for children, teens and adults in libraries across the […]