Things To Do

Source: The Preservation Society of Newport County Starting March 1, The Preservation Society of Newport County will close The Breakers for three months and reopen Marble House to visitors for the first time in nearly a year. Marble House will be the only Preservation Society property open until April 16, when Green Animals Topiary Garden […]

The Newport Performing Arts Center (NPAC) continues its free online music series with a performance by classical guitarist Victor Main this Wednesday, February 24 at 8 p.m.  Main is an award-winning classical guitarist, composer, and educator based in Cranston, Rhode Island. Victor is the guitarist in residence at Pumphouse Music Works in Peace Dale, and […]

Common Fence Music will present William Cepeda, cultural icon of Puerto Rico, four time Grammy Nominee, and composer, in a Facebook Live concert on Sunday, March 14 at 7 p.m. Cepeda is a member of the world renowned Cepeda family, and one of Puerto Rico’s most distinguished Afro-Puerto Rican folkloric. The event is free, and […]

Explore the heart of historic Newport and learn about the city’s rich history on a Saturday walking tour. Newport History Tours, the Newport Historical Society’s walking tour program, will offer tours presented by an expert tour guide. The schedule is as follows:  Saturday March 6, 2021 at 1pm: Home to craftsmen, merchants, religious dissenters and […]

Source: Common Fence Music An Introduction to African-Inspired Chair Dancing and Drumming is a free offering and open to seniors, the adult disabled, those recovering from an ailment, or those just wanting to stretch and participate in an engaging cultural journey. Class size will be limited to 25 individuals on a first-come, first-served basis. The […]

Classical music will return to Newport this July! Newport Musical Festival’s newly appointed executive director Gillian Friedman Fox announced today during a live virtual video conversation that the 2021 Music Festival will be happening in July! In accordance with state and local guidelines, Newport Music Festival will host seventeen outdoor converts with limited total capacity […]

Island Moving Company (IMC), Newport’s classically trained contemporary ballet company, announces performance dates and tickets on sale for its spring repertory production of TOGETHER IN THIS DREAM- Dancing Through the Digital Divide.  Live streaming performances are scheduled for March 5 and 6 at 7:30 pm, and recorded encore performances will be made available through On Demand […]

Community College of Rhode Island Adjunct Art Professor Brian O’Malley is exploring the world’s reliance on digital communication during the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on our relationships through a unique multimedia exhibit at the Newport Art Museum. Digital Breath: Video and Sound Art in the Age of Global Connectivity is on display from now through […]

This February vacation, the Newport Art Museum has partnered with the Rhode Island Black Storytellers to incorporate storytelling inspired by artworks in the Museum’s permanent collection into their first online Funda Story Camp! This event will take place virtually on Zoom every day during vacation week: Monday, February 15, 2021 – Friday, February 19, 2021, 10 -11 am EST.According to […]

The Newport Art Museum is inviting the public to join themfor a live 2-hour workshop n the art of Chinese brush painting with accomplished artist and educator, Yuemei Zhang. The event will take place virtually on Zoom on February 26, 2021, from 6:00 – 8:00 pm EST. Ms. Zhang will explain the traditional materials used, the elements of composition and […]

The Newport String Project has announced details for their third virtual concert in their new series Hidden Newport. This performance, premiering on February 28th at 2pm on YouTube, features the Newport Congregational Church, the only surviving comprehensive architectural interior by the renowned American artist John La Farge, who was inspired by geometric patterns of Byzantine, Moorish and Persian […]

SOURCE: Story In The Public Square Storytelling has the ability to touch listeners and viewers in a way that the cold hard facts of exposition never can. 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, and produced in association with Rhode Island PBS, Story […]

The Museum of Newport Irish History recently announced the third talk in its 19th Annual Michael F. Crowley Lecture Series, to be presented virtually via Zoom, on Wednesday, February 10 at 6:00 p.m. Guest speaker, Erik J. Chaput, PhD, will present a talk entitled: “Politics, Bigotry and Nativism: Rhode Island’s Catholic Irish in the 1842 Dorr Rebellion.” According […]

The Newport String Project will present the second concert in their series Hidden Newport, showcasing some of Newport’s most beautiful and unusual locations through virtual chamber music concerts. This performance, premiering on February 7th at 2 pm on YouTube, spotlights the Belmont Chapel, situated in the heart of the Island Cemetery. While its Gothic profile is a familiar […]