WaterFire Staff Stories: Bess Butterworth
…WaterFire provided comfort in that it made me feel like I was immediately part of a community and was welcomed by the entire city. I can’t emphasize enough just how…
…WaterFire provided comfort in that it made me feel like I was immediately part of a community and was welcomed by the entire city. I can’t emphasize enough just how…
…Company, Anchor & Hope Wine, Granny Squibb’s, Yacht Club Soda, and TroopToptails with ISCO (The Industrious Spirit Company). TroopTop Thursdays are supported by our next door neighbors at US Rubber…
…often described as elemental public art, as symbolic sacred activity that rekindles the spirit of community. As a philosopher, I also find that our festival of fire and water invites…
Listen to Wannton’s story In the mid-1990s, while I was a staff photographer at The Providence Journal, I became acquainted with a Haitian church community in Providence. When the members…
…he was a pastor in the community, and that recently at Walmart he’d come up to her and said, “Anybody told you they love you today?” Days later I contacted…
…but also have the compassion and the determination to make change in their lives and communities, and eventually society and the world.” Brittany admitted that – like her family, and…
…come together and remember not just who we are but the dream of who we can be. Oskar Eustis was the Artistic Director of Trinity Repertory Company from 1994 -2005….
Providence would not be America’s premier renaissance city without its commitment to the arts. The term “renaissance” traditionally refers to advances in scholarship, literature, science, the arts, and to the…
…folks, you mean?” I ask. “No, the whi – Black folks didn’t have nothing!” says L.C. “They’d be trying to find something themselves. “They come from slavery time,” he continues,…
…Full Lighting – 7th Annual WaterFire Salute to Veterans part of the #Art4Impact Community Heroes Series Sponsored in part by National Grid, Starwood Energy Group, and the Providence VA Medical…