Following a two-week closure caused by the sudden collapse of 1/3 of its café ceiling, The Providence Black Repertory Company will host a Re-Opening Celebration on Friday, January 11th beginning at 5 p.m. until closing.

July 15th – 21st.

The Providence Black Repertory Company and The City of Providence, David N. Cicilline, Mayor are pleased to announce New England’s premier genre-defying summer music festival, Providence SoundSession ’07.

Consideration of Providence Tomorrow: The Interim Comprehensive Plan

The public meeting formerly scheduled for tonight has been “delayed several days as a result of family illnesses. Because of quorum issues resulting from the illnesses, the new date of the public hearing will be Tuesday, May 8th at 5:30 p.m.”

Mayor Cicilline Invites you to his FY2008 Budget Presentation

Tuesday, May 1 at 7:00 p.m. at Providence City Hall

A Gathering on “Beauty”

at The RISD Museum

Sunday, May 6, 1:30 pm

(free with museum admission)

This month-long sidebar festival celebrates international documentary filmmaking and runs through May 2nd at various locations throughout the state, including: the University of Rhode Island, Feinstein Campus, Providence; the Columbus Theater Arts Center, Providence; Roger Williams University, Bristol; the Westerly Public Library, Westerly; and the Courthouse Center for the Arts, West Kingston.

June 29 – July 30, 2007

Featured Festival Weekend July 12 – 15

Part carnival and part conference, ProvFlux brings together artists, theorists, urban adventurers and the general public to share their visions of what the city can be, and to take action to make it a reality.

Friday, May 18, 10pm at Perishable Theater

Giant faces from political campaign signs come alive to ponder Election Day 2006.

Monday, February 26, 2007

4:00 Historic District Commission, 400 Westminster Street (4th floor)

6:30 School Board, 797 Westminster Street

Special meeting where the Board will vote to decide whether to close the West Broadway Elementary School.

WBRU 95.5, BSR 88.1, Brown University’s Department of American Civilization, and the John Nicholas Brown Center present

From Gaspipes to Websites: Radio at Brown 1936-2006

An exhibit celebrating 70 years of Brown college radio.

What do you do at the library? Read? Research? Look for new movies or music? Seek out reference materials? Check your e-mail? Use the printers? Or is it where you meet your neighbors? Have meetings? Or just go because it's safe, it's free, and it's one of the only places you can go where you're not subject to endless advertising?

Tim Devin is looking for participants for his project, "The Last Time I Saw..." This project involves gathering area residents’ memories and associations with places in the city of Providence.

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The first big series of forums are taking place THIS WEEK (October 10 – 13th)