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🎨 Artes y Cultura: 🌴✨ Noche Tropical – Gala 49° Aniversario de Progreso Latino 🎉💃 El Grupo Recuerdos Dorados, coordinad...
10/07/2026

🎨 Artes y Cultura: 🌴✨ Noche Tropical – Gala 49° Aniversario de Progreso Latino 🎉

💃 El Grupo Recuerdos Dorados, coordinado por Helen Ortíz, abrió con elegancia la gala tropical, llenando el escenario de ritmo, color y tradición. 🌺🍍

🎥 La velada continuó con más presentaciones vibrantes de los grupos de danza de Progreso Latino, cada uno mostrando el talento y la pasión que fortalecen nuestra comunidad.

🙌 Una noche que celebró generaciones de impacto, unión y cultura.

📹 Cortesía Cámara: Kelvin Ramírez



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🎨 Arts & Culture: 🌴✨ Tropical Night – 49th Anniversary Gala of Progreso Latino 🎉

💃 The Golden Memories Group, coordinated by Helen Ortíz, opened the tropical gala with elegance, filling the stage with rhythm, color, and tradition. 🌺🍍

🎥 The evening continued with vibrant performances by the Progreso Latino dance groups, each showcasing the talent and passion that strengthens our community.

🙌 A night that celebrated generations of impact, unity, and culture.

📹 Courtesy of the Chamber: Kelvin Ramírez

📘 Literary Rhode Island: At Ethan Gilsdorf’s upcoming craft writing workshop The World and I: Reported and Researched P...
10/06/2026

📘 Literary Rhode Island: At Ethan Gilsdorf’s upcoming craft writing workshop The World and I: Reported and Researched Personal Narratives, practice field reporting and research skills while mining exemplary works for structure, form and voice, including researched braids and politically informed, activist narratives.

Sign up to join us Thursdays Oct 29, Nov 5 + 19, Dec 3 + 10 +17 from 6-8pm at LitArts RI ( link in the comments)

Tickets:
$420 General Admission
$300 LitArts RI Member Admission

Thanks to generous grant funding and contributors to LitArts RI, we are able to provide a limited amount of free seats in our writing workshops to those who could not otherwise afford to attend. To opt in to the lottery for this workshop, select a lottery ticket via Eventbrite by Oct 15.

Funding for LitArts RI’s Community Access Lottery was provided in part by a Community Priority Grant from the Rhode Island Foundation.

🎨 Arts & Culture: "A Memory Season", Artist Member Weiwei Lo, CT, Oil on canvas, 20" x 16", Rhode Island Watercolor Soc...
10/06/2026

🎨 Arts & Culture: "A Memory Season", Artist Member Weiwei Lo, CT, Oil on canvas, 20" x 16", Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI

🎨 Arts & Culture: "Autumn Trees", Artist Member Talon Cress, TX, Acrylic, 24" x 36", Rhode Island Watercolor Society, P...
10/06/2026

🎨 Arts & Culture: "Autumn Trees", Artist Member Talon Cress, TX, Acrylic, 24" x 36", Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI

🎨 Arts & Culture: "Summer on Long Pond, Belgrade, ME", Artist Member Leeanne Wilkie, MA, Acrylic on canvas, 9.25" x 25....
10/06/2026

🎨 Arts & Culture: "Summer on Long Pond, Belgrade, ME", Artist Member Leeanne Wilkie, MA, Acrylic on canvas, 9.25" x 25.5", Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI

🎨 Arts & Culture: "Concert in the Park", Artist Member Sandra Richard, RI, Watercolor, 5" x 7", Rhode Island Watercolor...
10/06/2026

🎨 Arts & Culture: "Concert in the Park", Artist Member Sandra Richard, RI, Watercolor, 5" x 7", Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI

🦉 The Historic Blackstone Valley: Trolley Service on the Valley ~ Main Street, Downtown Pawtucket, RI, circa 1920s. Vi...
10/06/2026

🦉 The Historic Blackstone Valley: Trolley Service on the Valley ~ Main Street, Downtown Pawtucket, RI, circa 1920s. Visible are the Canton Chinese Restaurant, the Industrial National Bank and Shartenberg’s, left, a street car, center, and Modern Shoe, right.

Photographer unknown.

🦉 The Historic Blackstone Valley: Trolley Service on the Valley ~ Main Street, Downtown Pawtucket, RI, 1930.Photo court...
10/06/2026

🦉 The Historic Blackstone Valley: Trolley Service on the Valley ~ Main Street, Downtown Pawtucket, RI, 1930.

Photo courtesy Pat Morgan in RI History Lost & Found. Providence Journal file photo.

🦉 Historic Pawtucket: Trolley Service on the Valley ~ Main Street looking east, Downtown Pawtucket, September 7, 1930. ...
10/06/2026

🦉 Historic Pawtucket: Trolley Service on the Valley ~ Main Street looking east, Downtown Pawtucket, September 7, 1930. Visible are, from left to right, the Mineral Spring Avenue trolley, the Oriental Restaurant, the Pacific National Bank Building and its spire, Slater Trust Company, Rhode Island Hospital Trust and F***y Farmer Candy Shops.

Providence Journal Photo.

🦉 Historic Pawtucket: Trolley Service on the Valley ~ UER 1049 Pawtucket - The Providence Express, a United Electric Ra...
10/06/2026

🦉 Historic Pawtucket: Trolley Service on the Valley ~ UER 1049 Pawtucket - The Providence Express, a United Electric Railways 1049 at East Avenue & Main Street in Pawtucket, RI, September 25, 1932. This is one of ten cars (1041-1051) that were rebuilt with steel sides for this service in 1926.

Visible are The Strand Theater, featuring “Blondie of the Follies”, with Marion Davis and Robert Montgomery, left, and the Slater Trust Company, right. Marion Davis, a native of Pawtucket, was probably the most popular silent movie actress of all time.

William H. Watts photo, Loris J. Bass collection.

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