Arts & Culture

 Island Moving Company (IMC), Newport’s Contemporary Ballet announces performance dates for two new productions at the newly restored Newport Congregational Church. An evening repertory show titled “The Nature of Light” and children’s matinee shows of “Alice In Wonderland” will be performed between October 17 – 20. The Nature of Light will feature new work by Island […]

FALL SEASON FOR CRUISE SHIPS — We’re all excited!    Newport is preparing for the annual arrival of more than 50 cruise ships to Newport Harbor over the next few weeks. Tens of thousands of visitors from around the world will step ashore to see and experience one of the world’s great historic seaports. We as […]

provided by Newport Gallery Organization Newport Galleries Night 2019 is underway and the season is in high gear at our member galleries, museums and cultural institutions with September Newport Gallery Night on Thursday, September 12th from 4:00 pm until 8:00 pm.  Our popular FREE Summer Guided Walking Art Tours continue for September Newport Gallery Night. […]

Join the Benefactors of the Arts September 6-8th for self-guided tours of some of the most beautiful, prestigious gardens and properties in historic Newport.  The tour features nine gorgeous gardens that are dotted On & Off Bellevue Avenue, the Drive and the Kay/Catherine neighborhoods.   These private gardens are shared with the community to help raise funds for the […]

A VISIT THE NEWPORT TOWER MUSEUM: In a city boasting spectacular Gilded Age mansions and large historical museums, the Newport Tower Museum (152 Mill Street, Newport) is one of the most interesting. Museum founder and prolific author, Jim Egan, greets guests and shares his unique journey researching and finally discovering who [and why] the Newport […]

via Discover Newport “Harbor Lights Newport,” a new event presented by Discover Newport and the Newport Maritime Alliance, promises to “enlighten” visitors and residents alike in just a few weeks. Boat owners, marinas and waterfront businesses have been invited to participate in this event Sept. 20-21 by illuminating their vessels, docks, yacht clubs, shops and […]

A reality tv star and the lead vocalist of a popular 90’s rock band are coming to Newport to perform before August is over. Brody Jenner – August 23rd at Dockside Jenner returns to Newport after a performance at Dockside in 2018. For a special edition of Dockside Friday’s on August 23rd, Brody Jenner, Devin […]

On Saturday, August 24th and Sunday, August 25th the Fort Adams Trust is hosting a Civil War Living History Reenactment within the walls of Historic Fort Adams.  This two day event includes Civil War living history activities bringing the sights and sounds of the Civil War into the heart of Newport Harbor. Historic Fort Adams is located […]

A READING OF GEORGE WASHINGTON’S LETTER TO THE HEBREW CONGREGATION AT NEWPORT:  This Sunday will mark the 72nd annual reading of this famous letter. The reading will take place at 1:00 pm at Touro Synagogue (72 Touro Street, Newport). This event is scheduled from 1 pm to 2 pm. Reception in Patriots Park following the […]

In September 2019, the Alliance Française of Newport will offer three opportunities for learning about French language and culture: Beginning French, Intermediate French and “The Salon,” a special Advanced Conversation Group. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. The deadline for Registration is September 5th. Beginning and Intermediate Classes will begin on Tuesday, September 10th and end […]

The Newport Photographers’ Guild next season is just a month away and plans are taking shape! The Newport Photographers’ Guild was established in 1987 by a group of Newport camera enthusiasts.  Today, at over 85 members from all over RI, the Guild is enriched by photographers of all levels with the Edward King House serving […]

SECOND SUNDAY:  Check out the ever-interesting Prescott Farm just up the road in Middletown (2009 W. Main Road, Middletown, RI;401/846-4152 x123) with its nature trails, historic windmill (c. 1812), numerous historic homes, and interactive programs. Open this Sunday 12 noon until 3:00 pm. Purchased by Doris Duke in 1969, the 47.8- acre farm, a property […]

The Friends of Music at St. John’s has announced Aztec Two-Step 2.0 featuring Rex Fowler, Dodie Pettit & Friends, will perform at their Music on the Lawn series on Thursday, Aug. 8, at The Zabriskie Memorial Church of Saint John the Evangelist, 61 Washington St. Music on the Lawn is St. John’s annual summer music […]

via Newport Art Museum The Newport Art Museum invites the community to participate in its week-long art-making celebration and one-day silent and live auction, Wet Paint, on Saturday, August 17, 2019. Proceeds from the event benefit the Museum’s exhibitions, outreach, education and historic preservation. Hundreds of artworks, many “still wet,” created by artists of all ages and media will be […]

Newport’s Contemporary Ballet, Island Moving Company (IMC) will hold auditions for children’s roles in this year’s production of Newport Nutcracker at Rosecliff on Saturday, September 14th at IMC’s studios at 3 Charles Street in Newport, RI.  Auditions will be from 1:30 – 3:30pm for children ages 7-11 and from 4:00 – 6:00pm for children 12+. […]

MUSIC: The city is still enjoying the positive vibes from last weekend’s Newport Folk Festival. But excitement is building as the world’s jazz aficionados converge on the City-by-the-Sea this weekend for the 65th Annual Newport Jazz Festival! A full schedule of music and parties is scheduled around this world-class event. If you missed getting festival […]

The Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival, one of the East Coast’s most sophisticated culinary events, returns for its 14th year, September 19 – 22, 2019. The Marble House lawn will once again be the spectacular setting for the much-anticipated two-day Grand Tasting on Saturday, September 21 and Sunday, September 22, which offers guests the chance to […]

Newport Art Museum’s Art After Dark is back on Thursday, August 8 from 5 – 8 pm. Each Art After Dark has unique programming for the whole family. This event joins the ranks of the many events and educational programs the Museum currently offers in its galleries at 76 Bellevue Avenue, Newport. Art After Dark is supported by BankNewport, Matouk and Narragansett Brewery as well as donations to the Museum’s Annual […]

The following are upcoming programs and events that adults can enjoy at the Tiverton Public Library this August. Thursday, August 1st, 3:30-4:30 CreaTiv Crafts Join us on the first Thursday of every month for some fun and creativity. This month, in honor of our summer theme, “A Universe of Stories,” we will make constellation luminaries! All […]

The Japan-America Society and Black Ships Festival of Rhode Island will host the 36th Annual Black Ships Festival on Friday, August 9th through the 11th. A delegation from Yokosuka, Japan will be joining, led mayor Katsuaki Kamiji along with renown artist, Mrs. Kayoko Tusuchiya from the Newport Sister City Shimoda, Japan.  The Festival Opening Ceremonies […]

By Newport Art Museum The Newport Art Museum will be accepting work for jurying for the The Newport Annual Exhibition, which will be on view January 25 – April 26, 2020. Artists may submit their work through online submission platform Slideroom, which will be available at newportartmuseum.org, between August 12, 2019 at 10am and September 20 at 5pm. […]

Newport is busy! We are deep into summer now and so much is going on as the weatherman predicts a hot weekend ahead. On the water, the week-long 175th Anniversary Regatta hosted by the New York Yacht Club (Harbour Court) continues through July 20th.  Racing is taking place on Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound.  […]

Newport Historical Society announced today that this summer they are expanding the popular History Space initiative with a series of costumed interpretation programs at the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House, with expert historical interpreter Seán O’Brien. On dedicated dates in August and September, O’Brien will discuss specific themes relating to colonial Newport while sharing details about early life […]

There are many events in Newport throughout the summer social season, but there’s one weekend event that has a distinguished reputation for luxury and style amongst the busy party schedule. That event is The Newport Show, a weekend of luxurious shopping while raising funds for its co-beneficiaries. Established in 2007, The Newport Show (previously the […]

A busy fun-filled weekend is ahead, filled with Japanese cultural and music events, plus appearances by some of the world’s best tennis players, a World Championship 12 Metre Regatta on the Bay, and Cars & Coffee at The Elms. The details follow here. THE 61ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE NEWPORT-SHIMODA TWINNING CELEBRATION  This annual event takes […]

Producer Jeffrey Seller and the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) announce a digital lottery for HAMILTON tickets will begin in conjunction with the show’s first performance (July 23) in Providence at PPAC. Forty (40) tickets will be sold for every performance for $10 each. The digital lottery will open at 11:00 AM ET on Sunday, July 21 […]

George Wein is known the world over as producer and co-founder of the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals, but it is playing the piano that first stole his heart nearly nine decades ago. Newport Festivals Foundation (NFF) announced today that they will present George Wein in One More Once, a free Bridgefest concert in celebration of his life […]

Discover the best, biggest and most popular events happening in and around Newport, Rhode Island this July! For a full listing of events, visit our Events Calendar Newport Independence Day Festivities – July 4 Enjoy a wide variety of events throughout Newport from 9 am to 1:30 pm including a reading of the Declaration of Independence, […]

Newport Art Museum’s Art After Dark is back on Thursday, July 11 from 5 – 8 pm. Each Art After Dark has unique programming for the whole family. This event joins the ranks of the many events and educational programs the Museum currently offers in its galleries at 76 Bellevue Avenue, Newport. Art After Dark is supported by BankNewport, Matouk and Narragansett Brewery as well as donations to the […]

Norman Bird Sanctuary invites the community for the unique opportunity to experience the world-renowned “Lost Bird Project” sculptures accompanied by artist Todd McGrain at Artists in Paradise on Saturday, July 20th. The five bronze sculptures, each memorializing an extinct North American bird, arrived at Norman Bird Sanctuary last September as part of the organization’s pilot […]

via Island Moving Company Island Moving Company, Newport’s Contemporary Ballet will present its tenth annual summer dance festival July 14-21, 2019 on an outdoor stage on the gorgeous seaside lawn of St. Michael’s Country Day School in Newport, RI.  The Newport Dance Festival (formerly known as Great Friends Dance Festival) will feature a unique lineup […]

Discover all that’s happening, new, and to do in and around Newport this first week of July/Fourth of July week! Monday, July 1st Mission opens in Middletown on Monday, July 1stSummer farmers market opening in Miantonomi Park on July 1st City & Government Calendar 6:30 pm – City of Newport Planning Board Meeting7 pm – […]

FRIDAY NIGHT: On the 50th anniversary of the grand opening of the Newport Pell Bridge – June 28, 1969 – the City-by-the-Sea will celebrate with a big party at Fort Adams on Friday, June 28th, beginning at 6pm. The party will continue until 10pm. Visitors and residents will enjoy a free concert by the aptly […]

Six Aquidneck Island home gardens will be featured in URI’s Gardening With the Masters 2019 Garden Tour on Saturday and Sunday, June 29 and 30. The biennial event is the only time when graduates of the URI Master Gardener Program put their own properties on display to support the program’s educational mission. While the tour […]

From Rosé with the Roses, to Jazz on the Lawn, the Newport Restoration Foundation has something for everyone this summer! Rough Point Museum, Whitehorne House Museum, and Prescott Farm will offer a variety of free and ticketed programs for all ages and interests. Mark your calendars for upcoming special events including: Rosé with the RosesJuly […]

The third season of St. Mary’s award-winning “Return to Camelot” performances begin Tuesday, July 9 and continue each Tuesday through October from 2-3pm. Visitors can re-live that historic day in Newport, Rhode Island when Jacqueline Bouvier married then Senator John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1953 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church on Spring Street.  Guests will enjoy vintage film […]

The annual Nuit Blanche summer gala for Island Moving Company will benefit the nonprofit organization’s professional dance company, pre-professional after-school dance training program, and in-school educational programs. Approximately 400 guests will enjoy this year’s “Nuit Blanche: Au Cinema” at Ronald Lee Fleming’s New York Times featured Bellevue House on July 5th. Barbara Caldwell and Ellen […]

Navy Band Northeast’s Brass Quintet will perform a free chamber concert at the Portsmouth Historical Society on Friday, June 28 at 6:30 PM.  The program takes listeners on a musical journey around the world, and includes patriotic favorites as well as contemporary arrangements of popular music sure to delight audiences of all ages.   Established in […]

Tonight, the Newport Historical Society launches a new annual recognition and makes the first History Starts Here Award to “Story in the Public Square.” This TV show is hosted by Jim Ludes, Executive Director of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University, and G. Wayne Miller, senior staff writer at The Providence Journal. This event […]

via Salve Regina University Four faculty authors in Salve Regina’s creative writing degree program, The Newport MFA, will present readings and “craft talks,” both of which are free and open to the public. Each author will host a public reading from his or her work, followed by a book signing. And, for the first time, […]

This weekend we’ll focus on hosting our neighbors and friends and all those who live in Newport County with free admission to the Newport Mansions and other similar sites.  There will be Secret Garden Tours in the Point neighborhood of Newport all weekend. We’ll also turn out to watch the 165th Annual Regatta from the […]

Trinity Church’s Annual Strawberry Festival returns to Queen Anne Square from 11 am to 5 pm on Saturday, June 15th. The 7th Annual Festival promises a day of fun for the whole family with a curated Artisan Craft Fair, live music, tours of Trinity Church, fresh strawberries, strawberry shortcakes, and more. The event is rain […]

Discover all that’s happening, new, and to do in and around Newport this first week of June! Monday, June 10th City to host workshop on ‘Spring Project – Traffic Studies’ on June 10th 4:45 pm – Non-Fiction at Jane Pickens Theater6 pm – A Clean Energy Forum: an energy conversation on Aquidneck Island at Newport Public Library7 pm – […]

Newport County residents and employees of the hospitality industry are invited to visit many great local attractions from Saturday, June 15 through Monday, June 17, 2019. A total of 19 attractions/organizations are participating, including three in Bristol. Visitors showing proof of residency (driver’s license or other identification with an address) or proof of hospitality employment […]

newportFILM announced today via an email to subscribers an impressive lineup of world-class documentaries for their 10th annual summer series newportFILM Outdoors. newportFILM Outdoors allows those in attendance to experience award-winning documentaries, live music, interviews with filmmakers and subjects, fabulous food, and lots of community spirit amongst Aquidneck Island’s beautiful outdoor spaces. Most newportFILM Outdoors events […]

Newport Art Museum’s Art After Dark is back on Thursday, June 13 from 5 – 8 pm. In celebration of the Museum’s current exhibition “Avant Gardens,” Art After Dark in June will explore our relationship to and interaction with our environment through “Kicking and Screening”, an evening of short experimental dances created specifically for film. These curated films explore the diverse cultural backgrounds, environments, […]

We have another exciting weekend (& week!) ahead of us.  Tell your guests and visitors about the first big cup race of the season and a pair of special car events at the island’s two fabulous car museums.   CARS-CARS-CARS: The Audrain Automobile Museum and Marble House host the month’s first CARS & COFFEE on […]

Jane Pickens Theater has been chosen as one of a small group of cinemas around the world to screen Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story on Tuesday June 11th, the night before it releases on Netflix. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 […]

Trinity Repertory Company and Rhode Island Latino Arts will present Much Ado About Nothing (Tanta Bulla… ¿Y Pa’ Qué?) at Miantonomi Park, 120 Hillside Avenue, Newport, on July 8, 2019 at 7 p.m. The rain date is July 15.  “The production is a 90 minute Spanish/English adaptation of William Shakespeare’s comedy of manners,” according to a press […]

The Preservation Society of Newport County announced today that the 2019 Newport Flower Show, themed Audubon: Artistic Adventures, will take place at Rosecliff from Friday, June 21 through Sunday, June 23, 2019. America’s premier summer flower show will celebrate bird expert and painter John James Audubon (1785-1851), who declared that he only came alive when “in the field” of […]

A great summer sporting season in Newport is set to begin with International Polo and Collegiate Baseball! POLO: Since the founding of America’s first polo club in Newport in 1876, polo has been associated with this city and has enjoyed an international reputation as the premiere club on Aquidneck Island. This Saturday (June 1st), the […]

Here’s a look at some of the biggest events happening in June 2019 – expect some of the biggest crowds this month to gather at the following events. Of course, these 20+ events are just the tip of all the great things that are happening in our area this month. Be sure to watch our Things […]