Arts & Culture

If you’re still looking for that special holiday present for a music lover, give the gift of jazz – a memorable trip to the 2017 Newport Jazz Festival® presented by Natixis Global Asset Management August 4 – 6.  Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. is making gift-giving easier by offering flexible (Flex) tickets priced at just $59.00 while supplies […]

The Newport Art Museum’s annual Winter Speaker Series returns Saturday, January 7 at 2pm for its 89th season. The series will include seven lectures on a variety of topics and will run Saturdays at 2pm, January 7 – February 25 (no talk on February 18th), in the Museum’s Griswold House at 76 Bellevue Avenue, Newport. […]

At a celebration of Island Moving Co’s Newport Nutcracker at Rosecliff’s 15th Anniversary season, Kathryn Farrington, Vice President of Marketing at Discover Newport, presented Artistic Director Miki Ohlsen with the agency’s Hospitality Champion Award. The award recognizes Ohlsen’s outstanding contributions to the hospitality industry of Newport & Bristol county.  “I am honored and thrilled that […]

The Jane Pickens Theater and Event Center has announced that they will host a special-event screening on December 8th of Dust and Thunder: Mumford & Sons Live from South Africa, a music spectacular documenting the final concert stop of their widely attended world tour.  The footage, shot and edited by award-winning director/cinematographer Dick Carruthers, showcases […]

The movie that took Aquidneck Island by storm in March, April and May of 2016 will make its World Premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in January. The final pieces of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival feature film program fall into place yesterday, as Sundance Institute announced the lineup for Premieres, Documentary Premieres, Midnight, […]

Salve Regina University’s student-run dance organization, the SRU Dance Club, will be presenting its fall performance, “Final Song,” on Dec. 9-10 in the Rodgers Recreation Center. This fall show will feature 22 dances with styles varying from hip hop, jazz, tap, contemporary and Irish step. Performances will be held Friday, Dec.9 and Saturday, Dec. 10. […]

The Newport Art Museum will be accepting work for jurying for the Newport Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition, January 20 (2 – 6 pm), January 21 (10 am – 4 pm) and January 22 (12 – 4 pm) in the Museum’s Cushing Gallery at 76 Bellevue Avenue, Newport. Artists submitting to the exhibition may pre-register and pre-pay their entry fee at newportartmuseum.org. Those […]

The 2017 Newport Folk Festival is nearly eight months away and not a single artist has been announced for the three-day festival, yet people trust producers enough to buy almost every single ticket that was available today when tickets went on sale. Tickets for the 2017 Newport Folk Festival went on sale at 10 a.m. on […]

Three screenings of the environmental documentary, A Plastic Ocean, reached over 1100 Aquidneck Island student in newportFILM’s biggest, most inclusive educational outreach effort yet. The collaborative effort, which included 7 different public and private Aquidneck Island schools, was made in support of the latest initiative by Clean Ocean Access to spearhead a “Ban the Bag” […]

In December 1774, the Rhode Island Assembly voted to move almost all of the cannons in Newport’s Fort George to Providence in order to, as the governor stated, “prevent their falling into the hands of the King.” The Assembly also formed a new “Train of Artillery,” a military company assigned to use those cannon to […]

Buddy The Elf, Clark Griswold and The Bolshoi’s version of The Nutcracker are all coming soon to the big screen in Newport, RI. Along with their great regular programming, Jane Pickens Theater and Event Center will host the following three Christmas classics in December. On a non-related Christmas programming note, don’t miss Concert Film: “Mumford […]

Here’s what’s happening for live music, comedy and entertainment in and around Newport, RI on Thanksgiving Eve, enjoy yourself and be safe! Buskers: Open mic night with Mike Warner from 9pm to 1am. No cover. Facebook event – Wednesday- Open Mic- Buskers Pub Fastnet: Pub Trivia at 9pm. No cover. Jimmy’s Saloom: Ocean Mic at 9pm. No […]

If you want to go to the 2017 Newport Folk Festival, purchasing tickets at 10 a.m. on November 30th will be your best and probably only shot. With the announcement from Newport Folk Festival  via social media and e-mail today, NFF also announced that their is a new ticket provider and payment plan option; We […]

Aquidneck Land Trust (ALT) is excited to announce that the Sixteen on Center Art Contest drawings are on our Facebook page and ready for your ‘likes’.  There will be a total of three student winners of the art contest that will be delineated by category: Kindergarten – 4th; 5th – 8th and; 9th – 12th.  […]