Newport Public Education Foundation screening ‘Counted Out’ at Rogers on Nov. 2, with a new math initiative to be announced
The documentary, about who gets access to math and what that means for democracy, screens free on the eve of the election. Spanish subtitles, discussion to follow
All-trans drag cast headlines TRANSylvania Halloween brunch at Stoneacre on Oct. 25
Newport OUT’s Sunday brunch features Ladda Nurv, Ninny Nothin, Rickey Diamonds and ZonLegacyPhoenix, with a two-course prix fixe. Tickets are $60
35th Bowen’s Wharf Seafood Festival returns Saturday and Sunday, rain or shine
Free admission, more than two dozen food vendors and six bands across two days under the striped tents, with bar proceeds benefiting Child & Family
Historian to discuss Irish Famine immigrants held in North American quarantine stations, Oct. 20 in Middletown
Loretto Horrigan Leary’s talk for the Museum of Newport Irish History covers Grosse Île, Deer Island and Staten Island, where many who fled the Great Hunger died before ever reaching the mainland
Violinist Geneva Lewis brings the Goldberg Variations to Rough Point on Nov. 7
Puddingstone Music’s salon series pairs Sitkovetsky’s string-trio arrangement of Bach with live dance in the Doris Duke house. Tickets are $75
Pumpkin Regatta at Newport Shipyard pushed to Oct. 23 because of weather
The fiberglass-pumpkin race benefiting Sail Newport moves back a week; same 4-to-7 p.m. window, same $25 entry
Jamestown cartoonist Will Henry talks ‘Wallace the Brave’ at CCRI on Thursday
The free hour at the Knight Campus library in Warwick includes a live drawing, a Q&A and book signing. Bring your copies
The Elms reopens Nov. 16 with projection, sound and scent woven through the Gilded Age mansion
The Preservation Society calls the multimillion-dollar project, three years in the making with Emmy-winning studio Digital Kitchen, the first multi-sensory house museum experience in the country. The house has been closed since Aug. 10
Nashville duo Golden Everything records live at Chepstow for Newport Mansions’ “Sessions” series
The Americana husband-and-wife act performed four songs — two of them unreleased — in a single take, captured on one microphone in the Bellevue Avenue mansion
IYRS seeking vendors for its Dec. 5 Artisan Holiday Market
The market and a Friday community party make up Holly Jolly Weekend on the school’s waterfront campus; vendor spaces are limited
Salve students curate a national juried exhibition on deviance, opening Oct. 22
Fourteen artists in the Hamilton Gallery through Nov. 22, with a free opening reception and a student-led symposium Oct. 28
The Vanderbilt hosts its annual Halloween soirée, themed “Ghosts of the Atlantic: Drowned Pirates Ball” on Oct. 30
Think candlelight, ghostly sailors, restless sea captains and Gilded Age socialites, all drawing inspiration from Newport’s long relationship with the sea.
Comic – Sour Grapes: Birthday
Sour Grapes is a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world.
Redwood exhibition argues Robert Duncanson’s landscapes mapped routes to freedom
Twenty-eight paintings are on view through January, with a talk Oct. 8 by Executive Director Benedict Leca and collector Michael Meyer
Messiah at Rosecliff returns in December, part of six Newport Classical holiday concerts
Cantus, a chamber Messiah and the orchestra Frisson fill two December weekends; tickets go on sale Oct. 6
Tenth Concert of Remembrance brings a 20-piece orchestra and choirs from two states to St. George’s Chapel
The Oct. 25 candlelight concert closes with Peter Berton’s “A Poet’s Requiem”; admission is by donation, with all proceeds going to international humanitarian aid
Middletown library adds books in nine languages and its first video game collection
A $7,500 state grant paid for 425 world language titles and 58 games, all available now with a library card
“Lore” creator Aaron Mahnke to speak at Rosecliff on Rhode Island’s vampire panic
The Oct. 15 lecture covers the 1892 exhumation of Mercy Brown in Exeter; costumes welcome, prop weapons are not
New exhibit at the Vernon House explores the life of Cato Vernon, a Black Revolutionary War soldier who lived there
“The Cato Vernon Freedom Library” opens Oct. 3 and runs seven weeks, free, with talks, sewing circles and performances throughout
Chazz Palminteri had $200 left when he wrote “A Bronx Tale.” He’s still performing it 35 years later.
The one-man version — all 18 characters — comes to Cranston’s Park Theatre on Oct. 2
Comic – Sour Grapes: Lefty
Sour Grapes is a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world.
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