Saturday also includes the Critical Ass “naked bike ride,” which meets at Firehouse 13 at 7:30 pm for a ride around Providence at 8. “When we say ‘naked’ it’s with an asterisk,” Younger says. “Nobody has to be naked. And some people wear their underwear. And some people not even that much. We do encourage helmets.” The ride concludes at the “secret location TBA” of the Mid-Weekend Celebration.
The festival ends on Sunday with yoga led by Sarah Daigle on the Statehouse lawn at 1 pm, followed by the annual kickball game organized by Kickball Jesus (aka Frank Steiber of Utah) at 3 pm, probably at Station Park on Francis Street, next to the train station. The festival will likely offer various smaller happenings — perhaps including a return visit by Tim Devin of Boston, who last year interviewed random people on the street about the last time they saw significant people in their lives.
“The whole idea of ProvFlux is taking it out of the gallery and putting it in the streets and interacting with people,” Younger says. “It turns the participant from a passive par-ticipant into an active participant . . . We want to inspire people to get out and put their feet on the pavement and explore the city.”
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- Psychoactive Providence
With activities encompassing parties, outdoor performance art, parades, roundtable discussions, and film screenings, Provflux examines the interface between humans and their cityscape from many different angles.
- Shriiimp on the Barbie
Shrimp, the edible crustaceans commonly dipped in tart, tangy cocktail sauce, don’t usually carry overtly sexual connotations.
- Following the evidence
“CSI: The Experience,” like a B-movie, is best if you don’t think too hard about it.
- Holiday books
Okay, we admit, we went a bit crazy this year.
- I Heart New York
Jed Perl’s New Art City is as knotty as it is ambitious.
- Academic (im)prints
The Bowdoin Alumni Printmaking Exhibition at ICON Contemporary Art in Brunswick is the perfect primer for the array of talent emerging from the Bowdoin College campus.
- Family affair
“New Work,” a collaboration at Whitney Art Works between mother Judith Allen and daughter Eirene Efstathiou, is a joy to unpack.
- Spring thinking
We asked the arts community what they’re excited about as warm weather turns Maine back into Vacationland.
- Land and water
As New Englanders know, sights and impressions are endless wherever land and water meet.
- The girls of summer
Americans, Henry James wrote in 1867, “can pick and choose and assimilate and in short (æsthetically, etc.) claim our property wherever we find it.”
- Flora, fauna, and the female figure
The Art Nouveau movement of the late-19th/early-20th century distanced itself from the mass production of the Industrial Revolution with elaborate, one-of-a-kind works made from unusual materials.
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