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Local Artist and Wildlife Rehabilitator Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced its latest cohort of fellows last month, awarding the prestigious distinction to 223 artists, scholars, and scientists. Providence-based artist Sheida Soleimani was recognized for her contribution to the field of photography. Soleimani is no stranger to prestigious recognition. [...]
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May
May
Look at this Stuff, Isn’t It Neat? The Creative Reuse Center of RI Provides Access to Affordable Reclaimed Art Materials
The Creative Reuse Center RI (CRC) is turning the old adage “one person’s trash is another’s treasure” into a community movement. The CRC opened in the fall of 2022 as a nonprofit on a mission to save reusable materials from the landfill and provide them [...]
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May
May
Genesis Center’s Culinary Hub of Providence: Where Training and Table Meet
Lunch at CHOP has slowed to a comfortable hum. The delicious smell of coffee, baked goods and rich spices drifts from the kitchen. Through the tall windows of the Providence Public Library’s ground floor, light falls across the room. CHOP (an acronym for Culinary Hub [...]
13
May
May
Floral, Juicy, Complex: Specialty Coffee is Transforming the Way Providence Enjoys its Favorite Caffeinated Drink
Providence is a city that undoubtedly loves coffee. Aside from the ubiquitous Dunkins and a certain Seattle-based chain, the city has a plethora of independently-owned cafes. Customers may be noticing more of these cafes touting more premium coffees that are single-origin or feature more intriguing [...]
06
May
May
The Bridge Back to You: A Foodie Romance Set in Providence
Published last month, Providence novelist Riss M. Neilson’s The Bridge Back to You is a second-chance romance with a Providence setting and a compelling foodie angle. While romance readers will find plenty to enjoy in these pages, the novel also touches on larger themes like [...]
01
May
May
Two Providence Students Selected as 2026 Rhode Island Youth Poetry Ambassadors
Every year since 2018, former Rhode Island Poet Laureate Tina Cane has collaborated with the Rhode Island Center for the Book to select a Youth Poetry Ambassador from among the state’s high schools. In addition to winning a cash prize, youth poetry ambassadors have their [...]
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Apr
Apr
Primary Trust at Trinity Rep Finds the Extraordinary Inside an Ordinary Life
Trinity Rep’s production of Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust, directed with gentle precision by resident company member Tatyana-Marie Carlo, offers a softly illuminated evening of theatre, one that locates grace in the smallest human gestures. Led by a deeply felt performance from Taavon Gamble as Kenneth, [...]
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Apr
Apr
PVD World Music Opens for Eighth Season, Despite Federal Policy on Arts Funding and Immigration
Beginning this year, the Trump Administration fully or partially suspended issuing visas to 40 countries and territories, with 26 of them located in Africa. At the same time, Trump’s federal government is slashing federal arts programs or redirecting funding towards a conservative agenda. One of [...]
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Apr
Apr
The Wilbury’s “The Comeuppance” Delivers Meaningful, Urgent Theatre
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “The Comeuppance” is a darkly comic, post-pandemic reunion drama that cuts with the precision of a scalpel and the force of a gut punch. In The Wilbury Theatre Group’s riveting production, five former high school outsiders gather on a front porch in suburban [...]
03
Apr
Apr
Watching Controversy from the Other Wall: Providence Mural Community Reflects on Role of Public Art
A 43-foot tall, 38-foot wide mural on the side of Downtown bar The Dark Lady shows an outline of a blond woman framed by blue geometric shapes. Just one eye is finished—the rest of the face remains a beige and blue outline. The bottom of [...]
03
Apr
Apr
