Collective Creativity: An interview with Contessa Brown
Cafe S.O.U.L is an open mic night created by the incomparable Contessa Brown and Janne’t Brown, affectionately known as Momma Brown. I recently sat down with Contessa Brown to talk […]
Events:
A Changing Reflection
This exhibition demonstrates Silver, Metalwork, and Jewelry in the 19th–21st Centuries.
February 4, 2022 - September 30, 2023Social Fabric: Textiles and Contemporary Issues
Featured artists include: Jim Arendt, Elizabeth Duffy, Brooke Erin Goldstein, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Letitia Huckaby, Tamara Kostianovsky, Dinh Q. Lê, Aubrey Longley-Cook, Veronica Mays, Alison Saar, Emma Welty, Nafis M. White,
December 3, 2022 @ 8:00 am - June 11, 2023 @ 5:00 pmPaintings by Gregory Ricci
December 9, 2022 - April 13, 2023Superimposed
January 25 - June 4Outsider Art: Harnessing Color
This exhibition joins six art spaces from the East Coast that support artists with disabilities: Artists’ Exchange, Center for Creative Works, Downtown Designs Gallery, Spindleworks, Out of the Box Studio
January 27 - April 1Grateful Dead
The Vintage Posters, 1966-1995.
January 27 - March 31Whodunit? An Improvised Murder Mystery
This time, it’s the French Revolution and the nobility are stabbing each other in the back…literally. Every week is different, so you – and the cast – never know what
February 4 - April 1Elisabeth Subrin’s The Listening Takes
February 9 - June 4Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I will not bend an inch
February 17 - August 4Red Series
by Jade Sisti
March 1 - March 31Greg Piccolo & Heavy Juice
Blues music
March 24 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmDar Williams
Singer-Songwriter
March 24 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmThe Eliminator Band
ZZ Top Tribute
March 24 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmKim Trusty
A soulful and multifaceted vocalist, songwriter and guitarist
March 24 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmTenors Of Rock
Featuring music from Queen, The Eagles, Bon Jovi, AC/DC & More
March 24 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pmNick Bosse
Country, southern rock, and bluegrass-inspired singer-songwriter
March 24 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pmJohnny Hoy and the Bluefish
Martha’s Vineyard best blues band celebrates Spring Fever with our annual Island Dance Party.
March 25 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmRyan Montbleau Band
An American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
March 25 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmMax Creek 50
An American rock band
March 25 @ 9:00 pm - March 26 @ 12:00 amPaul Virzi
New York-born comedian is a Comedy Central regular with not one but two podcasts of his own.
March 30 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Cinderella: Unauthorized
The cross-dressing prince knocked on the cottage door intent on finding the other foot of the splendid slipper it felt so good on his foot and showed off his pedicure […]
Making Magic: An interview with Ricardo Pitts-Wiley
Mixed Magic Theatre is a non-profit organization in Pawtucket with a mission to create more literate and arts-active communities. Mixed Magic often combines expressive artistic forms, such as poetry, acting, singing, dancing […]
Dear Black Brotha: Part Deux
For the longest time I was not your ally Because of a lie of anotha brotha You are you brother’s keeper, But, not his keeper of debts and wrongdoing I […]
All Lives Matter
All Livesdon’t get foundhungon four different occasionsfrom treesin 2020 Americaand ruled a suicide All Livesdon’t utter the wordsI can’t breatheover their last breathwhile in police custody All Livesare not handcuffedby […]
#Juneteenth
When it happenedthere was no Negroatop of blazing saddlepreceded by smoking dust cloudsfrom burnt trail.The wind carried no screams of the decree. The war had been over three years.I was […]
America, Noun
America A-M-E-R-I-C-A, America Noun From the Italian Amerigo which itself is from the German Amalric or Heimrich meaning “work ruler” or “home ruler” America Noun From the English America meaning […]
#LovedOnes
They say If it’s not on FacebookIt didn’t happenEven though I am not seeing itI’m pretty sure it’s happening We keep sayingNever againUntil the next hash tagDigitally memorializesThe next Black […]
Numinous materfamilias
She has the silent strength of hope, like in a hurricane The quiet voice that guides your fears from reality The kind of strength that stretches bends and twists like […]
She always knew the I love you was meant for her
Like it was an arrow sent directly to her My mother my best friend my everything My mama my mommy my person The last one to sit down at the […]
