Upcoming events.
Providence Movie Club presents: Moulin Rouge
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return..................and also to go to Movie Club! We're doing another screening at AS220 Black Box, and this time it's the poppy, maximalist musical Moulin Rouge! Directed by Baz Luhrmann, it follows an English poet, Christian (Ewan McGregor), who falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge, cabaret actress and courtesan, Satine (Nicole Kidman).
Join us on Wednesday, May 1st for a 7:00pm screening of Moulin Rouge at the AS220 Black Box theater. Arrive inside at 6:45pm, and we'll start the movie around 7:00ish. For anyone interested, we can go to the AS220 bar afterwards to keep hanging out. For more info on the group, visit meetup.com/providence-movie-club.
Tickets: $10
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Nothing Lasts Forever: Russian Punks in Georgia film premiere
In September 2022, six months into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia ordered a partial mobilization of reservists. As a result, many members of Russia’s punk scene, who received mobilization orders, fled the country to the Republic of Georgia. Leaving their families, venues, gear, and bands behind, they resettled in the capital city, Tbilisi. Once there, they founded new venues, new bands, and entered into the existing scene as a path toward acclimation and readjustment. Nothing Lasts Forever: Russian Punks in Georgia, is a full-length documentary film about that story. The film premiere will be followed by a brief Q and A and open discussion with the director, Alexander Herbert.
Israelism - Film screening and Q&A
Two young American Jews - Simone Zimmerman and Eitan - are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs. Eitan joins the Israeli military. Simone supports Israel on ‘the other battlefield:’ America’s college campuses. When they witness Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people with their own eyes, they are horrified and heartbroken – the Jewish institutions that raised them not only lied, but built their Jewish identity around that lie.
They join the movement of young American Jews battling the old guard over Israel’s centrality in American Judaism, and demanding freedom for the Palestinian people. Their stories reveal a generational divide in the American Jewish community as more young Jews question the narratives their synagogues and Hebrew school teachers taught them as children.
The film also features voices like Jacqui, a Jewish educator who believes “Judaism is Israel and Israel is Judaism”, and former Anti-Defamation League President Abe Foxman, who claims voices like Simone and Eitan’s represent a small minority. Thought leaders like Peter Beinart, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Noura Erakat, Cornel West and Noam Chomsky also weigh in.
Directed by two first-time Jewish filmmakers who share a similar story to the film’s protagonists, Israelism is produced by Peabody-winner and 4-time Emmy-nominee Daniel J. Chalfen (Bad Axe, Boycott), as well as Palestinian-American producer Nadia Saah, who has led strategy on films such as the Oscar Nominated Omar and 5 Broken Cameras. Israelism is also executive Produced by 2-time Emmy-winner Brian A. Kates (Marvelous Ms. Maisel, Succession) and edited by Emmy-winner Tony Hale (The Story of Plastic), Israelism uniquely explores how Jewish attitudes towards Israel are changing dramatically, with massive consequences for the region and for Judaism itself.
The Dirty Birds & Friends
The Dirty Bird & Friends Show” features the Adult Comedy Puppet act that has taken the New England comedy scene by storm!
This show includes a cast of comedians/actors, the DBS Band, singers, dancers, as well as a cast of hilarious puppets and costume characters throughout the show!
The Dirty Birds are the work of comedy duo and identical twin brothers who voice and puppeteer the main antagonists: “DVS and Will Bace”. Their hilarious banter between each other and the crowd makes for a memorable experience that is unlike anything else around!
See what all the cawing is about! Don't miss this one of kind experience with the Dirty Birds & Friends!
Interlace Teaching Artist Grant Application Support Session
The Teaching Artist Grant (TAG) provides financial support to artists who have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically Indigenous and African heritage teaching artists. This grant fund is co-administered by The Interlace Grant Fund and AS220, with funding support provided by City of Providence Department of Art, Culture, and Tourism. This is the second of two rounds of TAG funding.
There will be application support sessions held at AS220 on Fridays April 12, 19, and 26 from 1 - 3PM at our Main Stage and Gallery - 115 Empire Street.
Applications are due on May 1st, more information here.
Providence Tourism Council Grant Info Session & Reception
Join us for a grant funding info session and networking reception for community partners, leaders and grantees.
We'll provide an overview of the PTC's offerings, walk through the grant application process and discuss review criteria.
Our partners from the Arts, Culture, and Tourism Department will also share info about resources provided by the city for event programming and City Services.
Connect with others working to promote our Creative Capital and increase the impact of your programs in partnership with the PTC.
Time for networking over beverages and light bites will be provided.
Free registration here.
Book tour: Richard Becker - Palestine, Israel & US Empire
Author & organizer Richard Becker discusses the crucial connections between the history of Palestine, its occupation by Israel, and the role of U.S. imperialism and its motivations. Understanding the relationship between our fight for Palestine and the struggles we wage here in the heart of the empire is crucial to sustaining our commitment to working-class liberation everywhere.
Prov Slam Open Mic featuring Alison C. Rollins
This Thursday April 18! Join us for an open mic featuring Alison C. Rollins! Alison has a new book coming out, so let's help her celebrate!
The open mic is open to all artists of all genres, and all ages! Doors open and sign-up sheet is posted at 7pm. Admission is $5 donation or pay what you can.
MORE ABOUT OUR FEATURE
Alison C. Rollins (born and raised in St. Louis city) holds a Master of Fine Arts from Brown University, a Master of Library and Information Science from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a Bachelor of Science from Howard University. Her next poetry collection, Black Bell, is out this April from Copper Canyon Press. Rollins was named a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellow and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature fellow in 2019. In 2021, her essay "Dispatch from the Racial Mountain" was selected by contest judge Kiese Laymon as the winner of the Gulf Coast prize in nonfiction. Her work, across genres, has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Iowa Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow, she was a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. Rollins has been awarded support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and is a recipient of the 2018 Rona Jaffe Writers' Award. A 2020 Pushcart Prize winner, her debut poetry collection Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press, 2019) was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. Rollins has held faculty as well as librarian appointments at various institutions including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Colorado College, and Pacific Northwest College of Art. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Home Island Home Is Land Virtual Artist Talk
Please join us for a virtual conversation with the artists, Edwige Charlot and Noél Puéllo, from the ‘Homeisland, Home is Land’ exhibition, moderated by scholar-artist and historian George Aumoithe, PhD, on Thursday, April 11th from 6-7:30pm EST.
ASL Interpretation will be available and captioning provided by Zoom.
‘Homeisland, Home is Land’ is on at AS220 Project Space in Providence, RI through April 27, 2024, located at 93 Mathewson Street, Providence, RI 02903 / Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday 12-5 pm.
Homeisland, Home is Land - Works by Edwige Charlot feat. Noél Puéllo
Homeisland, Home is Land explores the complexities of diasporic experience through the art of Edwige Charlot and Noél Puéllo. This exhibition delves into themes of dislocation, rupture, and the enduring power of collective memory through a transdisciplinary printmaking practice.
Providence Poetry Slam
Join us next week on Thursday April 4 for our first show of National Poetry Month! An open mic plus an open qualifier poetry slam. Come out and see who will have a shot at being on our 2024 ProvSlam team!
Doors open and sign up sheets are posted at 7pm.
Admission is $5 donation or pay what you can. No one is turned away for lack of funds.
Open Mic is open to all artists of all genres and all ages. Bring your poems, stories, music, prose, let's hear it!
The poetry slam is open to poets of all ages. Please have 2-3 poems prepared. Poems must be at or under 3 minutes in length. Check out the FAQ on our website for more info http://www.provslam.org/slam-faq
Ben Miller's Stand Up Science
A show that's equal measures hilarious, educational, and deeply personal. Scientist turned stand-up comedian Ben Miller takes you on a journey that explores everything from chairs to the thermodynamics with wit and humor that makes these topics both approachable and delightful. And you probably like that sort of thing, nerd.
Come see this show after its completely sold-out run at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Ben Miller is an NYC-based comedian who has been working for the past seven years and in that time he's performed at all the top clubs in the city such as Broadway Comedy Club, Stand Up NY, Dangerfield's, Carolines, and The Stand. He was once ranked as the top roast battler in NYC. He also has a degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Columbia University. He's worked with electron microscopes, been a teacher on a science bus, 3D printed cookies and diffused a few bar fights while on stage. His jokes are sharp and self-deprecating, and he was once called “one of NYC’s best pound-for-pound joke writers” which isn’t saying much considering how little he weighs. In 2023, he was an Artist in Residence at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, the first ever stand-up comedian selected by the National Parks Arts Foundation.
The show is recommended for ages 14+.
PVD Movie Club
Alright, alright, alright. We're heading to the AS220 Black Box for another March event. This time, Movie Club will be screening Richard Linklater's iconic 1993 film, Dazed and Confused!
Dazed and Confused follows a variety of teenagers on the last day of school in Austin, Texas in 1976. The film has no single protagonist or central conflict, rather following interconnected plot threads among different social groups and characters, such as rising ninth graders undergoing hazing rituals, a football star's refusal to sign a clean living pledge for his coach, and various characters hanging out at a pool hall.
Join us on Tuesday, March 26th for a 7:00pm screening of Dazed and Confused at AS220 Black Box. Arrive inside at 6:45pm, and we'll start the movie around 7:00ish. For anyone interested, we can go someplace afterwards to keep hanging out. I'll wait to pick a place until I see that night's crowd.
This will also be a ticketed event at $10 a pop. Feel free to drop a comment or chat if you're looking for the group on the day of. The Black Box is located at 95 Empire Street in downtown Providence, next to the AS220 Bar.
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Providence Poetry Slam Open Mic featuring Beau Williams!
Join us on Thursday March 21 for an open mic and feature by poet Beau Williams!
OPEN MIC: open to all artists of all genres, and all ages! Bring your songs, poems, and prose! You'll have 5 minutes MAX on the mic, please be considerate of time! Think 2 short poems (2 minutes each) or 1 long poem or song.
ShePVDFestival
This International Women's Day, get ready to witness the extraordinary talent of Rhode Island's women-identifying artists at ShePVD, a groundbreaking free community event set to ignite AS220’s Main Stage at 7:00pm on March 8, 2024.
Contact and follow us at ShePVDFestival on Instagram and Facebook.
This is a free community event funded by grants through the Providence Department of Arts, Culture & Tourism, the Providence Tourism Council, with fiscal sponsorship provided by the Wilbury Theater Group, and support from Gather RI.
Providence Poetry Slam Open Mic and Open Qualifier Poetry Slam
Join us on Thursday March 7 at AS220 main stage for an open mic and an open all-ages qualifier poetry slam!
Doors open and signup sheets posted at 7pm.
Admission is $5 suggested donation: no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
The open mic is open to all artists of all ages and all genres. Bring your poems, but also your prose, stories, flash fiction, songs, and music! Please respect the time: performers have 4-5 minutes max on stage. Lets make sure everyone has a chance to express themselves.
The poetry slam is open to poets of all ages. Please have 2 to 3 poems prepared. The poems should be AT OR UNDER 3 minutes in length: beyond that you may get a time penalty. Youth poets automatically advance to further rounds. Top 2 adult poets advance to finals stage. First place poet gets a cash prize!