Arts List

What's happening in PVD this week

Oct. 28

Some Like it Hot

"This hilarious gender-bender about two musicians who don wigs and heels to escape the mob is genius Wilder at his crackling best. The laughs never let up until the credits roll — and beyond, considering the legend that surrounds the film's funny final line."

Playing at the Avon on Thayer St. Fri and Sat at midnight.

Oct. 28 - 30

Rhode Island's Horror Film Fest at the Cable Car Cinema on South Main St.

Oct. 28 - Nov. 3

Capote

"On assignment to write an article for 'The New Yorker,' Truman Capote traveled to a small Kansas town, where he began to investigate and report on the gruesome murder of a local family. At first leery of the writer, the townsfolk come to trust Capote and allow him into their lives, giving him his story."

Also playing at the Avon, but until next Thurs,

Oct. 30

Last chance to see Joe Diebes' Song of Transformation exhibit at the Winton Bell Gallery in List. "Song of Transformation includes two sculptural sound installations by composer and artist Joe Diebes. Conceived as companion pieces, Sound Field (2003), and Aviary (2004), speak to a confluence of nature and technology, which the artist views as neither progressive nor pernicious."

Through Oct. 30

Providence RISD Sculpture Alumni show at Woods-Gerry Gallery (62 Prospect Street). It's only up for ten days, and pretty much everybody in the show has new work.

Through Nov. 3

The Constant Gardener extended showtimes at the Cable Car on South Main St.

Nov. 3

First Works Providence, Artists Up Close: Laurie Anderson- Laurie's observation that "technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories" launches a Humanities First program on the art of science moderated by Todd Winkler, Professor of Music at Brown University. Seven pm, Pell Chafee Performance Center, 87 Empire Street. Presented in association with the Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium. Free admission.

Nov. 4

Closing day of First Works Providence

Laurie Anderson: The End of the Moon—Described as the high priestess of performance art, Laurie Anderson draws on her experience as NASA's first artist-in-residence to examine how we think about ourselves in relation to the rest of the planet. Providence Premiere. 8 pm, VMA Arts & Cultural Center, 1 Avenue of the Arts. tickets: $17, $22.50, $30, discount for students. www.firstworksprov.org

Fall Humanities Weekend Nov. 4-7

Symposium:"Architecture and the Humanities" 5:00 p.m., Leeds Theatre, Lyman Hall. A reception will follow in Leeds Theatre lobby.

Panelists will include Toshiko Mori, Principal with the New York firm Toshiko Mori Architect; Frances Halsband, Partner in the New York firm R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects; Svetlana Boym of Harvard University; and Brown University faculty members Sheila Bonde, Dietrich Neumann, Patrick Malone, and Dian Kriz.

Through Nov. 4

"Neal Walsh combines different materials- ranging from oil, pastel, dry pigment, ink and graphite to masking tape and pages ripped from newspapper and old books- to create works that fluctuate between collages and assemblages."—Vesela Sretenovic, Curator, Bell Gallery

Neal Walsh's work will be exhibited at Gallery Agniel, 120 North Main

Nov. 5

Performance: "The Dramatic Voices of Interactive Media: A Performance and Discussion" 9:00 p.m., Grant Recital Hall, 1 Young Orchard Avenue.

"A concert featuring Joseph Rovan's interactive monodrama Vis-á-Vis (2002), based on a text by Rainer Maria Rilke. Vis-á-Vis is a dramatic musical reading for a solo singer who performs against an electronic landscape of live and pre-recorded sound and video. The performance will be followed by a conversation about the work with composer Joseph Rovan and soloist Katherine Bergeron. Co-sponsored by the Department of Music."

Through Nov. 6

Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer at the Trinity Repertory, buy tickets at trinityrep.com

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