In celebration of National Poetry Month, former Rhode Island Poet Laureate Tom Chandler will read from his works at the Newport Public Library on Thursday April 27 at 7 PM. The library is located at 300 Spring Street, Newport.

 VSA ARTS of RHODE ISLAND at TSETSE GALLERY ART IN MIND

May 9 thru June 8, 2006 Artist Reception: Thursday, May 18, 5 – 7 pm

email: programs@vsartsri.org web site: www.vsartsri.org*please note new email & website addresses 

The Art League of Rhode Island (ALRI) – Membership Info. The Art League of Rhode Island (ALRI) was formed based on a shared vision to encourage and foster artistic recognition and growth among Rhode Island Artists. ALRI was incorporated with a goal to contribute, encourage and promote integrity and excellence in the arts in Rhode Island. The Art League of Rhode Island numbers among its founding members some of Rhode Island’s most prominent artists working in a wide range of medium from painting to furniture making. Artist Members (download the 2006 membership application PDF ) Rhode Island artists are encouraged to become members of the Art League of Rhode Island, and are juried into the organization by a distinguished jury of peers and professionals elected by the ALRI board. Artists may submit a resume, a minimum of 10 slides of their work and a non-refundable jury fee of $25. Once accepted, artist members will be notified by ALRI and a one time initiation fee of $75 is required. Subsequent annual dues for founding and artist members are $45. Associate Members Associate Membership is available for those interested in the fine arts. The Associate membership affords an opportunity for artists and patrons who wish to appreciate, encourage and support the efforts of the League. Associate Members will receive all ALRI publications and are invited to attend exhibits.

www.artleagueri.org.

Tag Along Down To Perishable Theatre: SIDEWALK SALE TO BENEFIT ARTISTIC PROGRAMS 

On Saturday April 29th, come downtown and buy something you don’t need to support something we all DO……..the work 

of resident artists To celebrate Spring and her new position as artistic director of 

Perishable Theatre, Vanessa Gilbert and cronies are taking inventory and selling off treasures from the Perishable Theatre storage to make 

room for new works in the 2006-2007 season! You can snag a little piece of RI performance history, listen to the music of the Local Yokel, 

and get a peek at the summer schedule at 95 EMPIRE, Perishable Theatre’s performance space. 

  Perishable Theatre’s mission is to create, incubate and produce 

groundbreaking works for the theater dedicated to innovation in theatrical forms and content. 

  Saturday April 29 10am-4pm 

On the sidewalk in front of Perishable Theatre In case of rain, the sale will take place inside the theatre 

95 Empire Street Downtown Providence 

  For SALE: 

• Mens’ suits and womens clothing 

• A sofa with headlights that really work 

• Various kitchen items that have starred in productions • Telephones and office supplies 

• Bikes for Spring!!!! • Theatre seats 

• And some scientific looking equipment that was used to cook up some experimental theatre 

 Magic Lantern Presents “The Mythology Show” Wednesday the 3rd of May at 9:30pm at the Cable Car Cinema (204 South Main Street, Providence, RI) FILMMAKER BEN RUSSELL IN PERSON! Garbed in the finest of linens (cotton) and bathed in radiant green flickering light (fluorescent), Magic Lantern’s Man-Behind-The-Curtain finally steps forward to reveal his own Mad Visions of Our Collective Existence. Steeped in American folklore, psychiatric techniques of the early 20th century, chaos theory, mask rituals, and techniques of synaesthesia, these five 16mm films propose an alternate mythos for the world in which we reside.In typical Magic Lantern fashion, we’ve got not only Creation Myths and First Contact Myths, but Giant Stone Head Myths and Eternally Bloody Cowboy Myths as well. As if that weren’t enough for you cineastes out there, you should know that missing this show means missing the Providence premiere of what may well be the only 16mm structuralist Western ever made…

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Andary Dance’s Frazier Festival – Site Specific Dance – Sunday, June 25, 2006Andary Dance’s Frazier Festival presents regional choreographers and performers by bringing together an eclectic and exciting array of dance, dance art and performance based art.The Frazier Festival is a supportive atmosphere providing a unique and innovative performance space enhancing an individual artist’s work adding to the viewing pleasure of the audience.The Frazier Festival is located in the capital city of Providence, Rhode Island and is a free event for both the artists and the audience and supports the community, by presenting, the many dance and performance art forms available in the region. The Frazier Festival provides high quality performance arts by regional artists.

Visit: www.frazierfestival.com for timelines and applications today!

 Dance the Night Away in Pawtucket!

Upcoming free classes: May 5, 19; June 2, 16. Regular Class Schedule: Regular times for Beginning Tango Classes at Providence Tango for April: Tuesdays, 4th-25th, 8-9pm, $15 (package discounts available).

 An Evening with Pawtucket Poets, Thursday, May 4 with a reception at 6:00 and readings begin at 6:30: Suggested donation of $10 per person. The Pawtucket Foundation is pleased to host an evening with the poets from Pawtucket. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell and Norah Pollard, recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize, both called Pawtucket home in their youth. On Thursday, May 4, 2006. They will appear at the Blackstone Valley Visitor Center to read selections of their work; after the readings the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions. The poets will later be available to sign their books. To reserve your ticket for this unique area appearance, please call Stephanie Fortunato at 401-729-8300 or respond to this email. Space is limited so tickets will be issued on a first come, first served basis.Galway Kinnell grew up in Pawtucket. At an early age, he was influenced by the work of Edgar Allen Poe whose use of language allowed him to appreciate the lyrical possibilities obscured by the “charming and loveable accent” of his hometown. He studied at Princeton University and the University of Rochester. Mr. Kinnell is a former MacArthur Fellow and has been the state poet of Vermont. He has traveled throughout Europe and the Middle East and went to Paris on a Fulbright Fellowship. His work has been published extensively. His volumes of poetry include A New Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 2000), a finalist for the National Book Award; Selected Poems (1980), for which he received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; The Book of Nightmares (1971); Body Rags (1968); and What a Kingdom It Was (1960). He was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University and a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. Mr. Kinnell is retired and now lives in Vermont.

Norah Pollard’s first book, Leaning In, has been described as “work of singular radianc, an elegant, truthful, resonant collection. It should be read, re-read, and remembered” by the author of Seabiscuit – An American Legend (http://www.seabiscuitonline.com/) . In her second volume of poems, Report from the Banana Hospital, Ms. Pollard tells of her despairs, delights, and famous father, Red Pollard, Seabiscuit’s jockey. His love of wild things, the poems proclaim, is much like his daughter the poet’s. Directly and indirectly, these new poems draw on the wonderfully varied experiences Ms. Pollard has had during a many-faceted life: she has been a folk singer, seam-stitcher, nanny, teacher, solderer, and print shop calligrapher. As poet, she was one of the first readers in the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. While studying with Dick Allen at the University of Bridgeport, she received the Academy of American Poets Prize, and for several years she was editor of The Connecticut River Review. Norah Pollard lives in Stratford, CT.Space is limited, so contact Stephanie Fortunato at spf@pawtucketfoundation.org_ or 401.729.8300 by April 24 to reserve your seat.

Ninth Annual Success By Design Conference, Thursday, April 27, 2006, .8am-6pm,  RI Convention Center, Providence, RI; Registration: $225; early – $275; Late – $175. Center Associates: Friday, April 28 9am-2pm; Additional sessions offered by RISD and Bryant, $85. Speakers include Karen Neuburger, Chief Lifestyle Officer, KN Karen Neuburger brand; Helen Stringer, Design Director, Procter & Gamble; DJ Stout, Partner, Pentagram; Jeneanne Rae, Co-founder, Peer Insight, LLC; Jonathan Hayes, Xbox Design Director; Janine James, Founder and Creative Director, The Moderns; Stuart Karten, Principal, Stuart Karten Design; Mark Hellendrung, CEO, Narragansett Brewing Company; Natalia Ilyin, Designer and Critic, Nathalia Ilyin Company. For more info, call The Center for Design & Business at (401) 454-6108 or email info@centerdesignbusiness.org_ 

Company: Attleboro Arts Museum

Job title: Executive Director

Company Overview: The Attleboro Arts Museum is an arts institution dedicated to the promotion of education, creativity and cultural awareness through the visual and performing arts. Located ten miles north of Providence and forty miles southwest of Boston along the I-95 corridor, the Attleboro Arts Museum is a cultural center of southeastern Massachusetts and neighboring Rhode Island. Founded in 1929, the Museum spent most of its early years in a small city-owned building in Attleboro’s Capron Park. In 1992, at the invitation of the city’s business and political leaders, the Trustees decided to relocate the Museum to a vacant department store on an acre of land in the city’s downtown in order to meet the growing demands for its services. The Museum opened its Park Street doors in 1994, where it now anchors one end of the city’s burgeoning downtown revitalization efforts. The Museum is a wonderful space with 3,500 square feet of open gallery, 14-foot ceilings and movable walls. This beautiful, flexible, first-class exhibition space is unparalleled in the Boston-Providence corridor. There is an established Museum School where each quarter over 100 children and adults take studio classes from an accomplished faculty.

Job Description: Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA. (www.attleboroartsmuseum.org) has an immediate opening for a Chief Executive to provide hands-on leadership, organization and management to staff (2FT/2PT), faculty(20), volunteers and membership (500) of a small, vibrant regional arts institution. Reporting to the Trustees, ED is responsible for: gallery exhibitions, Museum School (studio classes), outreach, collection management, financial management, fund raising, grant writing, communications, community events, personnel management and oversight of all museum operations. FT (Tuesday–Saturday) position is a challenging and personally rewarding arts management opportunity.

Qualifications: Significant prior leadership, management and fund-raising experience, in art center, museum or appropriate non-profit institution; supervision and fiscal responsibility; BA/BS in related field; arts programming/art education experience; strong connection to New England art community. ED must possess a dynamic personality, professional demeanor, well-developed organizational, management and interpersonal skills, excellent written communications/ computer skills, ability to work constructively at all levels, significant grant-writing experience, keen public-speaking ability, social ease to successfully project the Museum to the community at large; dedication, integrity, diplomacy, flexibility, good humor and hands-on, can-do attitude to complete tasks, on time and budget.

Email/mail resume, cover letter, salary history and availability in confidence to: Gerry Hickman, President, 46 Payson Street, Attleboro, MA 02703 – (knghickman@comcast.net). No phone calls please. EOE. Contact: Gerry Hickman, President – Board of Trustees Address: 86 Park Street City/State/Zip: Attleboro, MA 02703 Country: US Email: knghickman@comcast.net Web: http://www.attleboroartsmuseum.org Phone:508-222-2644, Ext: 20 Posting Date: 04/19/06