All Pawtucket All The Time

 Date: Thursday, March 25th
Time: 6 pm
Place: Pawtucket Public Library Auditorium
No registration is required
Help bring in Poetry Month one week early with the library’s very first open mike night poetry slam! Come in with your friends and perform your own memorized or written poems. This is a “first come first sign-up” event.
 Host Jay Chattelle currently manages [...]

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STATE HOUSE – Rep. Mary Ann Shallcross Smith has been appointed to the House Finance Committee by Speaker Gordon D. Fox. The Finance Committee is considered one of the most influential assignments in the House, since that committee is largely responsible for shaping the state budget and all other bills that have a potential financial [...]

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 Seating is very limited.  Reserve your seats today. 
“Society in Transformation: Dissent and the Velvet
PAWTUCKET, RI (March 9, 2010) –The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) is pleased to present an exciting series of educational and cultural events for the community celebrating the theater’s upcoming production of Tom Stoppard’s epic play Rock ‘n’ Roll. Inspired by Stoppard’s [...]

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 “Saved by the Belles”: A Performance Highlighting the Women of Linden Place Mansion
 
Bristol, RI – Three women played major roles in preserving Linden Place Mansion throughout its 200-year history and in honor of Women’s History Month, these women will be celebrated in Saved by the Belles, a series of living history performances, on Sunday, March 14, [...]

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Date: Tuesday, March 16th
Time: 3:30 pm
Place: Pawtucket Public Library Main Level in the Deborah Cook Sayles Building.
No RSVP is required
An open Invitation to the Pawtucket Community
The Friends of the Pawtucket Public Library cordially invite one and all to a ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the reopening of the newly painted main level of the Deborah Cook [...]

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WHEN MAHALIA SINGS
Written and Directed by Jonathan T. M. Pitts-Wiley Mixed Magic Theatre
 Mixed Magic Theatre of Pawtucket, RI is proud to announce the coming production of When Mahalia Sings, a musically infused play, about the life and works of the “Queen of Gospel Music,” Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972). Mahalia Jackson was one of the greatest [...]

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Marc Tiberiis II, a senior here at JMW, won the English Speaking Union Shakespeare Competition on February 7th.  His performance of Shylock’s monologue from The Merchant of Venice, mesmerized his audience. His rendition of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 102 was also captivating.
Competing against 19 other competitors from schools such as Moses Brown, Wheeler, and Providence Country Day, [...]

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Winter/Spring Film Series Food, Inc.           
When: Wednesday, March 10th 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
Where: The Meeting House, 3850 Main Road
   Tiverton Four Corners, RI 02878
Admission: Free and Open to the Public
The Four Corners Arts Center is pleased to present Food, Inc., as part of our ongoing Winter/Spring film series.   This event is free and open to the public.  Please visit [...]

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Arts Council ‘Open For Business’ Despite Possible Budget Cuts
The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts announced it will hold a series of grant workshops throughout the state for individual artists, non-profit organizations and schools interested in submitting grant applications for the Council’s April 1 application deadline. These grant workshops are free and open to [...]

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Author and legendary local broadcaster Glenn Laxton spoke at the Friends of the Pawtucket Public Library Annual meeting on Saturday, March 06, 2010 about his newly published  book Hidden History of Rhode Island at the Pawtucket Public Library. The Friends of the Pawtucket Public Library was founded in 1962 and is a group of individuals, [...]

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