Activities/Arts
New Urban Arts – Providence, RI
Founded in 1997, New Urban Arts is a nationally-recognized community arts studio for high school students and emerging artists in Providence, Rhode Island. Our mission is to build a vital community that empowers young people as artists and leaders to develop a creative practice they can sustain throughout their lives. Our free, year-round out-of-school programs promote sustained mentoring relationships between urban high school students and trained artist mentors—who, together, engage in youth leadership, risk taking, collaboration, and self-directed learning.
AS220 – Providence, RI
AS220 is a non-profit community arts organization located in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. We are an unjuried, uncensored forum for the arts: a space to access tools, technology and knowledge; a space to come together, collaborate, innovate, experiment and take risks. AS220 envisions a just world where all people can realize their full creative potential. AS220 offers artists opportunities to live, work, exhibit and perform in our facilities, including: four rotating gallery spaces, a performance stage, a black box theater, a print shop, a darkroom and media arts lab, a fabrication and electronics lab, a dance studio, a youth program focusing on youth under state care and in the Rhode Island juvenile detention facility, 47 affordable live/work studios for artists, and a bar and restaurant.
RIOT RI – Providence, RI
RIOT RI is a volunteer-based non-profit that uses music creation, critical thinking and collaborative relationships to foster collective empowerment and the development of healthy identities in girls, women, trans, and gender-expansive youth and adults. They offer music related programming, including individual and group music lessons, music mentorship, youth and adult rock camps, and more.
The Steel Yard – Providence, RI
The Steel Yard is a non-profit industrial art center and shared studio located in Providence, RI. We’re an arts maker space and non-traditional craft school offering courses & educational programs in blacksmithing, welding, jewelry, foundry, and ceramics. Depending on the program a student is enrolled in they may pay a subsidized fee, receive a scholarship or get paid to develop new skills. We’re a community of artists, makers, and learners. We host an artist residency program for emerging and mid-level artists that provides full access to our studios and equipment. Our welding job training program pays under-employed Rhode Islanders to learn welding, shop safety, and associated skills with the goal of getting a good-paying job.
Everett Company Stage School – Encompassing a Company, Stage and School, its ensemble of artists create, perform, teach and mentor new generations of artists within a diverse community. Guided by the principles of collaboration and experimentation, Everett explores complex social issues through a combination of theater, dance, music and video. At the heart of the organization is the belief that the arts can transform lives across cultures, generations, and economic backgrounds, and create a more just, equitable and joyous future.
RI Queer Hikes – We provide a fun and safe space for members of the LGBTQ+ community in RI & southern New England to explore nature & meet new people. Come on out!
Studio Playground – Providence and Pawtucket, RI
Studio Playground teaches acting classes for all ages based in clowning and physical theatre. We invite students to come as they are, play ferociously, and celebrate themselves!
The Empowerment Factory – For residents of Providence, Pawtucket, and Central Falls
The Empowerment Factory is a non-profit dedicated to giving youth the skills needed to lead happier, healthier more empowered lives.
The Haus of Glitter Dance Company (based in Providence, RI) works, through movement and choreography, to shift the energetic center of the universe towards Queer Feminist BIPOC Liberation. In the work we share and co-create with audiences, we strive to embody ancestral liberation, healing and love in every step and every breath of our creative process and pedagogy. Our choreography aims to reach beyond the stage and into the streets; into our homes; into our institutions; into our hearts. The Haus of Glitter Dance Company is a BIPOC affinity space and is also the leadership team for The Haus of Glitter Performance Lab (our current physical location + collective of performance artists). We welcome collaborations with white allies.
Red Ink Community Library – Providence, RI
We are a nonprofit community library, reading room, and organizing space located in the Mount Hope neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The Red Ink Community Library is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization that brings equitable access to a collection of historical, economic and political material. Its formation sets a cornerstone in the leftist providence community, to turn allies into comrades, to challenge cultural hegemony, to raise up community voices, and provide a safe space for people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Red Ink Community library aims to become a nexus of radical and revolutionary thought.
Que Dulce – Providence, RI – A QTBIPOC dance space, created by Queer and Trans People of Color for Queer and Trans People of Color
Queer Quilting Circle – Providence, RI – Queer Quilting Circle [(qq)] is intended to be a space for queer folx to gather in a tender way, and to create together and near each other for ourselves and our community. We believe that the act of repurposing, tearing, binding and remaking is an intrinsic quality in queer communities. We have no set definition for queer or for quilt; if you feel you belong here, you do.
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