FirstWorks

Happy 20th birthday, @FirstWorksRI! A pleasure to celebrate with you this evening, and to reflect on two decades of enriching RI’s culture and economic vitality.

Providence's favorite outdoor arts festival is BACK! Join us September 8-10 to celebrate the Creative Capital and its artists, curators, vendors and people. With amazing headlining performances and a WaterFire spectacular, you won't want to miss it! See you there.

Hip-hop Dance Pioneers The @WonderTwinsIntl Bring Their Moves to Providence G - link.medium.com/ifaXczpaNxb via @Medium @FirstWorksRI

What’s going on in #RhodeIsland this week? We’ve got squid burgers ( not just a @SpongeBob thing) pinball, @teddythompson, #Dunkin ice carving & more. Check my @Globe_RI column for deets. 😎⚓️💯 bostonglobe.com/2023/02/23/met…

Montréal’s @lepatinlibre will dazzle Providence with international artistry on ice! Join FirstWorks for three free performances on Thursday, December 1 as part of the Three Nights of Lights festival. For more information --> bit.ly/3X182KR @BankNewportCC @ProvidenceRI

Over 100 high school students from Pawtucket & Providence experienced multi-modal learning through an in-school master class & lecture-demonstration led by @BTJAZCo members. Students & their teachers expressed deep appreciation for having this opportunity.

The brunch had Bill T. Jones, Janet Wong & our @BAIBrownU partners at Brown University's Granoff Center for the Creative & Visual Arts. Audience members expressed their feelings & perceptions towards the performance, speaking on subjects like race, poverty, & arts within schools.

ICYMI: @BTJAZCo's residency, co-presented with Brown Arts Institute Over 250 audience members stayed on after Friday's performance of "What Problem?" for a deep Artist-Up Close conversation which continued on Saturday morning at a Town Hall and brunch. MORE ⬇️

Here are some amazing photos from the performance last Friday at @TheVetsRI, co-presented with @BAIBrownU. Photo credit: Erin X. Smithers

We are still in awe over this night... Over 1,000 audience members experienced this moving performance featuring spoken word, powerful vocals and dance. Our 26 community participants joined @BTJAZCo to help frame the question: "What Problem?" MORE ⬇️

"The struggle is to define what the problem is – & to allow the questions to have big, destabilizing, & more honest answers." @BTJAZCo & our community participants put on an amazing performance 11/4 at @TheVetsRI. Read Debra Cash's review in @theartsfuse bit.ly/3E6wJNp

The @@BTJAZCo is performing on Friday night at The Vets, as part of a residency produced by @FirstWorksRI and the @BAIBrownU. We'll also hear from four artists who share their perspectives on the midterm election. More from James Baumgartner here - thepublicsradio.org/episode/what-p…

Listen to FirstWorks' Kathleen Pletcher's interview with Artscape's James Baumgartner on @ThePublicsRadio ahead of the collaborative and moving performance of "What Problem?" by @BTJAZCo happening tomorrow, 11/4 @TheVetsRI. thepublicsradio.org/episode/what-p…

Bringing opportunities like this to RI students is FirstWorks Arts Education in action! We hope you will join us to see three students from JMW School join over 20 local community members to perform with @BTJAZCo tomorrow @TheVetsRI! Visit firstworks.org for info & tix

The Town Hall conversation and brunch is happening at the Granoff Center for the Arts – Martinos Auditorium, @BrownUniversity on 11/5. This is a FREE event, but reservations are required. Please RSVP here --> firstworks.org/event/bill-t-j…

Join director & choreographer Bill T. Jones & Janet Wong, Associate Artistic Director of @BTJAZCo as they discuss the company’s latest work, “What Problem?” & their collaboration w/ 26 local community participants for this Friday's Providence performance of the work at @TheVetsRI

FirstWorks & @BAIBrownU bring to you "What Problem?" by two-time Tony Award winner @BTJAZCo this Friday 11/4 @TheVetsRI. We're thrilled to have the company in residence this week rehearsing with 26 community participants & leading educational events. 🎟 bit.ly/3fqs93V

This conversation was made possible in part by a grant from Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.

Facilitated by Avery Willis Hoffman, Artistic Director of the Brown Arts Institute & Kathleen Pletcher, Executive Artistic Director of FirstWorks; panelists include Lisa Biggs, David Henry and Stéphanie Larrieux. Listen to the conversation here --> firstworks.org/creative-conve…

@BAIBrownU & FirstWorks co-host a Creative Conversation exploring the humanist themes of @BTJAZCo's “What Problem?” as one of a constellation of events surrounding the live performance of the work in Providence, Rhode Island by the company and 26 local community members. MORE ⬇️