Tender Cargo: How can garments speak a person’s pain?
“What does it mean to wear one’s pain?” asks a new exhibit by textile artist Taleen Batalian at the WaterFire Arts Center though November 20. Inspired by her parent’s memories […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
ComicCon recap: RI ComicCon 2022 provides a feast for the popculturally curious and true believers
There’s no way to do a comprehensive overview of an event as big as RI ComicCon, so here’s a sampler of impressions from some of the Motif team. Overall, […]
George Marshall, Founder of Flickers and RI International Film Festival, passes: George conveyed his love of cinema to generations of viewers and makers
The spectacle of the big screen, the joy of a story well told and heartstrings left barely intact: George Marshall loved all these things, and that was reflected throughout his […]
Movies Galore and Gore and More: SENE and Vortex provide on-screen thrills this month
October will see the return of New England’s SENE Fest to RI for its 14th iteration, across the multiple screening rooms of The Artists’ Exchange in Cranston from Oct 13 […]
The Blackstone Commons Anthology Seeks Writing
Writers: Here’s a nugget of inspiration and a publishing opportunity we were made aware of by Patti McAlpine at one of Motif’s recent Spoken Word and Poetry (SWAP) meets (a […]
Local nightlife: Music Club Guide
If you’re new to little Rhody, you’ll find there’s an abundance of local nightlife – but around here, it’s sometimes hard to figure out where to find it. Google maps […]
48 Hour Film Project To Reveal Winning Films
You have to be a little crazy to try to write, plan, cast, shoot and edit a short film in just two days. Yet 16 teams of people who are […]
A Stage of Twilight Goes Gentle
Death. As the saying goes, it’s one of the few things inevitably shared by all humans. Yet when it’s pending, we often don’t know how to deal with it – […]
Live contest rules for the Bartenders Ball on August 1, 2022
If it’s not August 1 yet when you’re reading this, you can still sign up here to reserve a spot: Most of the competitions will still have a couple of […]
About that Facebook Comment…
Hi Folks- We want to address a comment that was made by one of our team members to Josh from The American Band last week. It was completely inappropriate and […]