AfroSonic Jump @ State Lounge - Friday, March 12th

Your very own AfroSonic Collective DJs come all together for the first time as a collective since Sound Session to all throw down their music for this Jump Party @ State, bringing a unique night of deep afro-soul musik!

We will be jamming all together this time around, celebrating over 2 years of our collective uniting and contributing to bring Providence the only night of underground soulful music. The last JUMP party sold out at midnight so make sure your there early and don’t forget to pick up a t-shirt, we will have them for sale. We look forward to seeing everyone there.

10-2AM/$5/21+

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Artsmash RI Review: Edward II at RIC

ARTSMASH RI Review
By: Marianna Messina

Rhode Island College mounts a bold Edward II

Directed by Frank Toti

With Christopher Marlowe's complex history play Edward II, one always has to ask, what brings this 14th century king so low that he would be deposed and silently executed? … Marlowe's Edward is clearly "amorous" towards his minion Gaveston, promoting the man far beyond his station. But Marlowe so compresses the historical Edward's 20-year descent that we are urged to look for character flaws, even beyond this love and favoritism for a low-born Frenchman. Our search for answers demands a lot from the actor playing Edward. Preceded in the role of Edward II by great English actors the likes of Derek Jacobi and Steven Waddington, Rhode Island College's Jeff Church not only holds his own, but owns this character. Church's lucid handling of Marlowe's poetic language is matched by his nuanced expressiveness. He gives us petulance streaked with irony. His flourishes show Edward's gleeful relish of tactical victories (however few). We can't help but like and believe in this Edward. In a scene where Edward learns of his beloved Gaveston's death, Church's evocative physicality throws light on the key questions of the play. He staggers, his hands curling inward like claws as if overruled by some irreconcilable force. And then his whole body folds into a helpless, fetal ball that marks his inner retreat. Such vulnerability could surely lead a king to a great fall.

Read the full review and watch a video preview at Artsmash RI.

Live/Whirled: The Interactive Music Series Presents Rio-Whirled, a Fundraiser for Perishable Theatre - Sunday March 7th

Live/Whirled: The Interactive Music Series Presents Rio-Whirled with Marilynn Mai
A Fundraiser for Perishable Theatre, 5pm

The Live/Whirled Series founder and internationally-acclaimed mandolinist & bandolimist will perform a Brazilian program with special musical guests. The
concert is a CD release for Marilynn’s most recent recording, Meu Bandolim, recorded in Rio & RI with all-Brazilian musicians. The concert will feature choro, samba, bossa nova and some of Marilynn’s original Rio-inspired compositions.

“Act 2” will involve audience & performers in creating a matrix of Rio images, sounds, and words in the context of an interactive percussion jam. Bring an instrument or play one of ours to celebrate the joy of Rio!

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Jose Docen @ Local 121 - Wednesday, March 10th

The Speakeasy Music Series Presents
Jose Docen at Local 121

8pm/$6
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O Trio featuring Dan Moretti @ Local 121 - Friday, March 5th

The Speakeasy Music Series Presents 0 Trio
featuring Dan Moreti at Local 121

9pm/$10
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Raina Rose @ Local 121 - Wednesday, March 3rd

The Speakeasy Music Series Presents Raina Rose at Local 121
AJ Roach opens

8pm/$5
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George Kaplan on BSR's Live Block

Brown Student Radio presents George Kaplan, this Thursday at 9 PM on Live Block. The gritty St. Paul folk musician explores both conventional and innovative folk idioms with a sometimes darker-than-usual interpretation. Check it out at bsrlive.com and on 88.1 FM WELH Providence.

The Elan Trotman Quartet @ Cuban Revolution - Saturday, February 27th

Cuban Revolution Presents: An Evening with The Elan Trotman Quartet

By now you have heard that Cuban Revolution has partnered with the Black Rep’s Artist Director Donald King to bring live music to the restaurant located on Valley Street. The music series has already begun to great success!

Saturday Feb 27
Time 9-12
Cover: FREE

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AfroSonic Collective @ Forbidden City - Friday, February 26th

AfroSonic Collective Presents DJs Mike Delick and Blackdove
at Forbidden City (224 Atwells Ave)

18+/$5
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Nick de Paris and Dupe/ House Label special this Friday 2-19 @ State

This is going to be a Night filled with some of the HOTTEST house music that has been released throughout the years. With some of Dupe & Nick DeParis Favorite Music Labels being highlighted!

This night will feature music from labels such as HED KANDI, DEFECTED, MINISTRY OF SOUND, SOULFURIC, SALTED, STRICTLY RYTHM, JELLYBEAN, SUBLIMINAL, FAYA COMBO and much much more!

Dj Dupe and Nick DeParis will bringing you back to the golden days of driving, soulful and uplifting House, think the releases of late 90s-early 2000s, all these classics and anthems that brought House to another level

Two of the Afrosonic Collectives favorites DJ's are getting together to make this event a special one for you.

NO COVER

STATE ULTRA LOUNGE
1 Throop Alley
PROVIDENCE, RI

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Live Bait: True Stories From Real People

Things don’t always turn out the way we would like. There are things we might have done differently, things we should have said, things we shouldn’t have said. But what if you had a second chance? A do-over? What would you do differently? Or maybe you did have a second chance. What did you do? Did it work? You want to talk about it?

If you have a story that is in any way, shape, or form connected to our March theme, “Second Chances,” then come on down to LIVE BAIT and tell it. Or just come and watch others share theirs. All you have to do is sign up at the door and if we pick your name out of our hat, come up and tell your story. It’s that easy.

Skyjelly on BSR

Brown Student Radio presents Skyjelly, this Thursday at 9 PM on Live Block. Rick Lescault returns to show off his guitar/noise/vocal looping project for the second time, and we expect him to once again artfully weave a thread of rock thrilling both the ear and the mind. Check it out at bsrlive.com and on 88.1 FM WELH Providence.
Student and Community Radio Serving the Curious Listener
(www.myspace.com/skyjellymusic - www.bsrlive.com)

Call for Artists: 2010 Providence Art Festival

The Providence Art Festival is accepting all forms of arts for consideration. All entries will be reviewed by judges. Notification of acceptance will be mailed or emailed by May, 5th 2010.

There will be a limit to artists within any given category. Exhibit space provided will be approximately 10 x 10. No electricity will be provided, no generators allowed. All exhibits must be professionally presented. There will be no rain date. Please be prepared to bring your own tent if inclement weather is forecast. All participants must provide a valid RI Sales Tax permit on June 12th ( copies not acceptable) or you may purchase a temporary permit at the show.

For more information and to submit an application, click here.

Shannon Corey @ Local 121 - Friday, February 26th

The Speakeasy Music Series at Local 121
Presents Shannon Corey

9pm/$8
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The Becky Chace Band @ Local 121 - Friday, February 19th

The Speakeasy Music Series at Local 121
Presents The Becky Chace Band

9pm/$5
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Wendy Colonna @ Local 121 - Wednesday, February 17th

The Speakeasy Music Series at Local 121
Presents Wendy Colonna
with Allysen Callery

8pm/$10
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Live! On Stage Jonathan Richman featuring Tommy Larkins @ Firehouse 13 - Friday, February 19th

Live! on Stage Jonathan Richman
featuring Tommy Larkins on the drums!

Doors 8pm/Show 9pm
$15/ All ages
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So Sol @ Firehouse 13 - Saturday, February 13th

So Sol at Firehouse 13
with John Garrett

Doors 8:30pm/$7
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ARTSMASH RI Review: "Twelfth Night" at Trinity Rep

ARTSMASH RI Review:
"Twelfth Night" at Trinity Rep
by Marianna Messina

"...At Trinity Rep, the actors can obviously handle Shakespearean language on auto-pilot, giving them leave to add spice. As the bawdy, drunken Sir Toby, Fred Sullivan adds physicality and notches up the nose-thumb as the kinsman who won't go away. Annie Worden's Olivia pursues Cesario with a randy coquettishness, once her wardrobe evolves from widow's black to saucy red velvet and satin (elegance by costume designer William Lane). Joe Wilson, Jr., tinges the lovelorn Orsino with melodrama. And Brian McEleney (both acting and directing) has perfected Malvolio -- pinched face, upright posture and faux voce blueblood. ..."

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IMAGO FEM twenty ten @ West Side Arts - March 12th to March 28th

IMAGO FEM twenty ten at West Side Arts

IMAGO FEM is an art show dedicated to the issues of abuse and injustice
against women, participating to raise awareness for V-DAY.
V-DAY is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls.
V-DAY is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise
money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-DAY
generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls,including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery.

March 12th to March 28th
Opening Receptions March 12th, 6-10pm
Gallery Hours: Thursdays and Fridays, 12-4pm

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ARTSMASH RI Review: Festival's Ballet's "Up Close on Hope"

ARTSMASH RI
Review of Festival Ballet's "Up Close on Hope"
by Marianna Messina

Showing February 13, 27 & 28

Besides being ambitious and diverse, Modern and Classical, Festival Ballet's program of 8 dances, "Up Close on Hope," will do you like a rich meal packed into a lunch break. With five world premieres, rugged calisthenics ranging from classical grand jetes to modern back lifts, and all tucked into the you-can-hear-them-breathe intimacy of the Festival Ballet space -- each dance in this program should be seen twice and savored in a silence before applause. In the striking modern dance Beyond Words set to whimsical music by Radiohead (Tess Bernard choreography), a couple enters: Kristina D'Onofrio lifted by and hugging into Roger Fonnegra. And then D'Onofrio spills onto the floor in what seems like a disgorgement of impulses. Her moves describe both a pushing out from and a cocooning into the relationship. Fonnegra's on his knees looking dismayed; D'Onofrio's circling him, gaping, as side lighting accents them with highlights and outlines them in shadow (Benn Scheff, lighting). In one striking lift, D'Onofrio hooks her knee around Fonnegra's support arm. The piece complements a piece in the program's second half, a pas de deux from Antony Tudor's The Leaves Are Fading. In this pas de deux, the relationship is entirely supportive. Mark Harootian is there to catch Lauren Kennedy's backward falls and ground her flights of abandon.

For the full review, click here.

Second Hand Emotion VALENTINES FASHION SHOW!!!

Paint It Pink and Waste Not Want Not Present:

SECOND HAND EMOTION: A WNWN Valentine's Day Fashion Show!

Hosted by Miss KITTY LITTER and Miss REBA, featuring:

TRIANGLE FOREST, DJ DAMIAN DAVID, and BULLET! Hybrid Electro-Dance Party with Resident DJ 11:11!

Also, ARTIST'S FLEA MARKET: Buy the work of featured artists from Waste Not/Want Not, RISD, and more DIRECTLY FROM THE ARTIST, including that of:

Alley Denning, Brittany Mroczek, Chelsea Carlton, Danielle Lange, Diana Joy, Joan Wyand, Joseph Aaron Segal, Kelly Eident, Muffy Brandt, Nikki Nadeau, Sarah Clover, Zoe Latt, Desiree DesVergres, Sarah Kern, and more!

7:00 PM: Doors and Artist Flea Market (lasts all night)
9:00 PM: Fashion Show (w/ the sexiest models you've ever seen!)
10:30 PM: TRIANGLE FOREST and BULLET! Dance Party f/ DJ 11:11
*Open 'til 2:00 AM!*

Contact: paint.it.pink.please@gmail.com or wnwnprovidence.org for more.

FACEBOOK EVENT

Clean Clothes by RiverzEdge

RiverzEdge Arts Project is a youth development program giving educationally and economically disenfranchised youth (ages 12-24) in nothern Rhode Island paid employment in the arts and a voice in the community. Based in Woonsocket, one of RI's poorest communities, RiverzEdge engages teens in a lifestyle of creative expression, disciplined effort, and economic self-reliance.

Clean Clothes is a youth led, environmentally friendly and socially progressive clothing line started by RiverzEdge. Check out the screen printed t-shirts on their Etsty site, www.etsy.com/RiverzEdge.

Click here for more information.

Craftopia @ Rhody Craft 100 - Sunday, April 11, 2010

Rhody Craft 100 is excited to announce our very first show: CRAFTOPIA - A World of Indie Art & Craft! Applications are now being accepted. If you or someone you know is a maker of fabulous handmade items, we want to hear from you!

When:
Sunday, April 11, 2010, 10 am to 5 pm

Where:
Hope Artiste Village
1005 Main Street
Pawtucket, RI

Key Dates:
Deadline for entries is February 19, 2010.
Notification date is March 5, 2010.

Click here for an application and for more information.

Ladderlegs Live on BSR

Brown Student Radio presents Ladderlegs, this Thursday at 9 PM on Live Block. The Lowell, Mass, band (whose sound has been lovingly described as "spazzy indie-blues-cum-punk-wtf") will be playing a live set on the radio waves and the intertubes, and then we'll let them spin some records they like and talk about their deepest secrets. Check it out at bsrlive.com and on 88.1 FM WELH Providence.
Student and Community Radio Serving the Curious Listener

Password of the Day @ Rhody Craft 100

One Day Workshops for Writers and Actors @ Perishable Theatre

One Day Workshops for Writers and Actors at Perishable Theatre
Saturdays, February 27th to March 27th. Enroll today!

Does Providence's lively performing arts scene inspire you-or even make you a little jealous?
Get in on the action! From February 27 on through March, Perishable Theatre offers one day workshops to get you out of the audience. All classes meet at Perishable Theatre 95 Empire Street, Downtown Providence. For more information call 401.331.2695 ext 102. For full class descriptions and course tuition, visit www.perishable.org.

All one day workshops cost only $50!
Feb. 27th, 3-6pm: Live Bait: The Class
March 6th, 1-4pm: I've Written A Play - Now What?
March 13th, 1-4pm: What Do I Do With My Hands?
March 20th, 1-4pm: Produce Your Play
March 27th, 1-4pm: Acting With your Inner Clown

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401 HipHop Presents Elevation @ Firehouse 13 - Friday, February 12th

401HipHop.com Presents Elevation
Open Mic / Hip Hop Showcase (every 2nd Friday of the Month)

Friday February 12th
Doors Open @ 9pm | $7 Cover | All Ages

Featuring:
PDP (Poorly Drawn People)
J-Strest & Infomite as Ready Ink featuring DJ Al Bums among others

Music by DJ Sterby Rock
Hosted by Rock Solid

@ The FireHouse XIII
41 Central Street Providence, RI 02907

Open Mic.
Show up early to Sign Up! Each Emcee (or group) gets one beat (max 4 mins).
You can bring your original beats on CD. First Come First Serve Basis.

Live Podcast Recording.
We record the whole show (audio) and turn it into the Official Elevation Podcast
It is featured on 401hiphop.com, iTunes, and the Zune Marketplace.

Late Night Cypher. (Midnight till 1am)
Come for the Open Mic. Stay for the Cypher. It's a more free flowing emcee session.
Freestyling in encouraged but not mandatory. The Cypher happens over all origin beats from the ...

Producer Showcase.
Come check out the hottest producers in the area rocking out live on the MPC.

Indie-Dance Party with Gregor Mittersinker & Tim O'Keefe @ Local 121 - Saturday, February 6th

Indie-Dance Party returns after taking January off.

Come and check out Gregor Mittersinker & Tim O'Keefe mix a variety of Indie-Dance, Blog House, and home-grown remixes at Indie-Dance Party.

Every First Saturday of the Month at Local 121.

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

11pm - 2am
Free

Click Here for the Facebook Event page.

LIVE BAIT: TRUE STORIES FROM REAL PEOPLE

Late-night programming at Perishable Theatre:
LIVE BAIT: TRUE STORIES FROM REAL PEOPLE
Friday, February 5th at 10pm. All seats $5
At Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street, Providence, RI 02903

These are tough times. For some of us, maybe most, times have always been tough. We have to be physically tough, mentally tough, and emotionally tough just to get through our day. Sometimes we’re tough on ourselves, sometimes on the ones we love. But how tough is too tough? How tough is Tough Enough?

If you have a story that is in any way, shape, or form connected to our February theme, “Tough Enough,” then come on down to LIVE BAIT and tell it. Or just come and watch others share theirs. All you have to do is sign up at the door and if we pick your name out of our hat, come up and tell your story. It’s that easy. No notes, no rants, just tell your story like you’re telling your friends over a couple of drinks. There is a five-six minute time limit; please respect it or we might get tough.

Everyone is encouraged, performers and non-performers alike. Don’t miss this Rhode Island Monthly Best of RI winner for “Best Storytelling for Grown-ups,” Providence Phoenix Best of 2009 Editors’ Pick for “Best Excuse to Yammer On and On” and Motif Magazine Theatre Award winner for “Best Audience Participation Show.”

LIVE BAIT is hosted by Phil Goldman. With musical accompaniment and original “theme” song by Jerry Gregoire.

10:00pm Friday, February 5th, 2009
Tickets $5.00 – no reservations taken
Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire St., Providence, RI
(401)331-2695 x101 for box office information
Check out Live Bait: True Stories from Real People at