For the fourth year, FirstWorks is proud to partner with Mayor Jorge O. Elorza and the City of Providence’s Department of Art, Culture + Tourism on PVDFest, Providence’s signature arts festival, June 7-10. Experience unforgettable performances, interactive art installations, incredible food and more with your friends and family during this free four-day festival.
There are so many ways to get involved in PVDFest – read on for just a few!
FirstWorks artist highlight: The Umbrella Project
With legendary movement illusionists, Pilobolus!
Saturday, June 9 at 8:30, 9:30 and 10:30 PM, 101 Washington Street
Join us for one of this year’s most dazzling signature PVDFest spectacles! Festival-goers of all ages are invited to join a large-scale, participatory live-art experiment with Pilobolus and light up the night sky using colorful LED umbrellas developed in collaboration with MIT. Discover how you can participate in the brilliantly illuminated magic on the PVDFest blog.
Friday, June 8 at sunset, 40 Snow Street
Care to dance? This year at PVDFest we’re attempting to make history with the world’s largest choreographed Bachata. We need to get over 370 couples dancing at once! Couples, singles, and groups are invited to come downtown at sunset on Friday, June 8 to pair off for an elegant evening Bachata. Judges from the Guinness Book of World Records will be on hand to count the couples.
Like to dance but don’t know the moves? No problem! There will be on-site lessons from Carlos Gonzales (Mambo Pa Ti) and Martin Rivera-Baldera (FusionCultureRI / Studio One RI). Tapping into their vast experience sharing dancing techniques with diverse audiences, Carlos Gonzales and Martin Rivera-Baldera will guide a crowd of festival attendees through the necessary steps to dance to Bachata music.
Photos, from top: Revelers at PVDFest – photo by Scott Lapham
Pilobolus – The Umbrella Project – photo by CC Photo Journal
Dancing at PVDFest – photo by Ehsun Mirza
PVDFest Volunteers – photo by Erin X. Smithers
