09/22/2011 to 10/02/2011 Venues throughout Providence
Pixilerations [v.8]
Join the new media revolution!
Now in its eighth year, PIXILERATIONS continues to amaze Providence audiences with groundbreaking multimedia installations, performances and film/video screenings. In an era of Twitter-inflamed revolutions, biotech ethics wars and YouTube-generated museum exhibitions, this year's festival explores new territory with the provocative question, "Where, and what, is New Media Art today?"
EXHIBITIONS:
Sept. 22-Oct. 2:
Sol Koffler Gallery @ RISD
169 Weybosset St.
& Granoff Center for the Creative Arts @ Brown University
154 Angell St.
"Drawing the visions and talents of local, national, and international artists to Providence." -Golocal Prov
10/01/2011 8pm Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Brooklyn Rider In concert
This adventurous, genre-defying string quartet combines a wildly eclectic repertoire with a gripping performance style that draws critical acclaim from classical, world and rock critics alike. For FirstWorks, the unparalleled musicianship of these four virtuosos (handpicked for Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble) showcases a brilliant new original work and illuminates new renditions of scores by master composers Beethoven, Mozart, John Zorn and Phillip Glass.
"This isn't your grandfather's string quartet" NPR
10/02/2011 4pm Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Brooklyn Rider Educate your ear
Join the virtuoso musicians of Brooklyn Rider string quartet and FirstWorks for an informal opportunity to connect musical dots between Beethoven & Roma (gypsy) music, Brazil & Roumania, and the genesis of a "first work".
"One of the wonders of contemporary music" Los Angeles Times
10/22/2011 8pm The Vets
Delusion by Laurie Anderson
One of America's most renowned and daring creative pioneers,
Laurie Anderson returns to FirstWorks with a multimedia performance combining violin,electronic puppetry, music and visuals. At the heart of "Delusion" is the belief that words can create the world, as well as make it disappear. Laurie Anderson's meditation on life, language and memory will sweep you away in a stunning collage of imagery, electronic soundscape and spoken vignette.
Commissioned by VANCOUVER 2010 CULTURAL OLYMPIAD, Vancouver; BARBICANBITE10, London.
With additional support from BAM for the 2010 Next Wave Festival; Cal Performances UC Berkeley; Stanford Lively Arts, Stanford University, generously supported by Sarah Ratchye and Ed Frank.
Additional production support and residency provided by the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Renssalaer.
"Every visual image is a bolt of wonderment!" -Los Angeles Times
10/23/2011 9:30am RISD Chace Center Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium
Coffee and Conversation with Laurie Anderson
Join FirstWorks for a continental breakfast followed by an artist-up-close Q&A with Laurie Anderson herself. Share your questions and responses to Saturday night's performance of "Delusion" with Laurie and our engaged community of FirstWorks Festival audience members.
"The reigning performance artist of her time" The Boston Globe
10/28/2011 8pm Roots Cultural Center - 276 Westminster Street
Balla Kouyaté and World Vision
Move your feet to the beat with the West African rhythms of one of the world's greatest balafon players. This renowned storyteller and his ensemble fuse the rich music of Mali with jazz, blues and Caribbean sounds. Balla has been featured on Yo-Yo Ma's latest release as well as Angelique Kidjo's "Oyo". The signature ancestral sounds of World Vision are at once exotic and universal.
"Balafon master Kouyaté passes down a legacy" -The Boston Globe
10/29/2011 8pm Providence Performing Arts Center
Momix Botanica
Lose yourself in a forest of fantasy as the shape shifting dancers of MOMIX celebrate Mother Nature like never before. Welcome to Botanica, an artful extravaganza of movement, circus, athleticism and magical effects. Creatures real and mythical materialize through dazzling projections and larger-than-life puppets designed by Michael Curry, the Tony Award-winning designer of The Lion King. This primeval world forms a magical tableau where MOMIX's impossibly nimble dancer-illusionists redefine gravity. Experience Botanica and take leave of your senses in a garden of blooms.
Co-produced with Providence Performing Arts Center
"Eye-popping and mind-boggling...everything looks magical." -The New York Times
11/06/2011 4pm RISD Auditorium - Please note new date & time
Caravanserai Powerhouse Drumming and Voices of Lahore and Karachi
The visceral sounds of the tabla signal a once-in-a-lifetime chance to experience ancient Sufi music played by masters acclaimed in their own country, but unfamiliar to most Americans. Joyful devotion and improvisatory freedom drive the music of the Qawwalis, torch-bearers for a 700-year old form of Sufi music; the kinetic virtuosity of Tari Khan throbs with passionate volatility.
Join the Caravanserai - a place where cultures meet.
Program managed by Arts Midwest, on behalf of the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations with financial support from the Building Bridges Program of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
11/10/2011 to 11/13/2011 8pm; 7pm Sun. Perishable Theater
LOSTWAX Multimedia Dance Seven Veils
Voted Rhode Island's best dance company, LOSTWAX and Jamie Jewett weave a new fantasy in SEVEN VEILS, a multimedia dance based on Thalia Field's adaptation of "Salome". Video by Luke DuBois and choral music by Alexander deVaron provide an often humorous score for Jewett's quirky contemporary dance. It's all there: the dungeon, the palace, the dance, the seductions and betrayals - interweaving voices, dancer, and projections - the re-imagined "veils" of Salome's story.
09/22/2011 to 10/02/2011 
10/01/2011 8pm
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10/22/2011 8pm
10/28/2011 8pm
10/29/2011 8pm
11/10/2011 to 11/13/2011 8pm; 7pm Sun.
