Spend your Saturday at the PVD Artisans Market! Local artists and artisans will be there selling handmade art and fine crafts, featuring paintings, jewelry, glass, accessories, mixed media and more. Also experience Hope Street Farmers Market, offering prepared foods on food trucks along with fresh fruits and veggies by local farmers. Shop consciously and enjoy … Continue reading “PVD Artisans Market”
A FARMERS-MAKERS MARKETPLACE WHERE LOCALS AND VISITORS COME FOR BREAKFAST, STAY FOR LUNCH, AND LEAVE WITH DINNER. Find an unmatched variety of specialty foods and beverages all summer long with a cast of 48 Rhode Island and Massachusetts-based vendors including 30 Hope & Main members. Schoolyard Market features a unique, interactive experience where market-goers can sample … Continue reading “Schoolyard Market”
Providence offers many options for buying local and fresh. Check out our recommendations below. For a complete list of farmers markets and more informations about buying local, visit Farm Fresh Food. Healthy Foods Healthy Families Program Farm Fresh Food’s Healthy Foods, Healthy Families program has been empowering low-income Rhode Island families with the tools to shop … Continue reading “Our Recommendations: Farmer’s Markets and Local Produce”
A Farmers-Makers Market celebrating all things grown and produced in Rhode Island. Our market is dedicated to educating the community about what is cultivated, caught, and crafted in Rhode Island, enabling eaters to better understand and manage their personal relationship to local food. Shop an abundance of local vegetables and fruits, meats and fish, as … Continue reading “Schoolyard Market”
September 21st is the International Day of Peace and the RI Peace Flag Project is celebrating with events all month long. The Pawtucket Arts Festival is also going on this month and this weekend they are presenting the the Slater Mill Fall Festival a family friendly event featuring music, magic, and more. This will also be the last weekend to check out the Providence Flea at their Summer location on South Water Street in Providence and while some of the of the summertime farmers markets are winding down there are plenty to choose from.
Enjoy the wonderful weather as Summer winds down in Rhode Island. The summer time farmers markets are still going strong (see below for a full listing). Spamalot continues all week at the Theatre By the Sea, as do the Audible Spaces sound art installations at Brown University’s David Winton Bell Gallery. On Wednesday there will be a Mini Maker Faire Town Hall meeting at AS220. Tuesday and Thursday you can go on a Guided Architectural tour hosted by the Providence Public Library. This weekend you can enjoy the second to last Providence Flea; visit Grant’s Block for a open air, open mic with Providence Hoot; or check out a gallery opening reception at the Providence Art Club.
There are a lot of great things going on around town the week. A plethora of H. P. Lovecraft themed events; a night of synth rock and a night of dreamy pop music at the Columbus Theatre; it’s a circus at the RISD Museum; a guided architectural library tour; a Providence Roller Derby bout; and more farmers market that you shake an organic, gluten-free stick at. On top of all that there is a fun-filled lighting of WaterFire on Saturday, featuring: capoeira performances; a welcoming of new Teach for America RI teachers; and the Clear Currents: Paddle WaterFire illuminated koi fish return to showcase the majesty and natural beauty of Providence’s waterways.
August 9th’s full WaterFire lighting is on its way! Lighting will occur shortly after sunset and the event will continue until just past midnight. If you’re looking for other things to do during your stay in Providence, you’re in luck! In addition to being a WaterFire weekend (with the return of the WaterFire Ballroom for the first time in two years), this week is the week of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, providing Providence with a sense of global culture and art. Mixed between fantastic film showings are farmers markets, flea markets, family storytime, opera, and an event you’ve been waiting all summer for: Foo Fest!
This week you can spend an evening being inspired by Rhode Island’s creative, attend an annual luncheon, hear a lecture on the state of the arts in academia, attend an artists’ reception, enjoy a concert series, and sample farmers markets!
This week you can look forward to the Providence Children’s Film Festival’s opening night, a unique show by the Martha Redbone Roots Project, a spoken word performance, an inspiring play written by fifth-graders, and of course the Pawtucket wintertime farmers market.
We’ve got a poetry reading, classical music, funk music, a great photographic story-telling exhibition about life in Olneyville, an experimental lighting installation in the Grace Cemetery on Broad Street, and of course the Pawtucket wintertime farmers market.
Events going on in and around Providence this weekend. Art & Culture Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story – Newportfilm Outdoors Join us for this week’s newportFILM Outdoors screening… BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY. Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr was known as the world’s most beautiful woman – Snow White and Cat Woman were both based on her … Continue reading “Our Recommendations for the Weekend of 6/29 – 7/2”
