Thursday, June 23

HOPKINTON — The Wood-Pawcatuck Wild and Scenic Rivers Stewardship Council will hold a celebration of seven local rivers this weekend with a series of events scheduled to occur on or around rivers in Rhode Island and nearby Connecticut.

MYSTIC — Local fans of renowned American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell can view all 323 of the artist's famous magazine covers from the Saturday Evening Post this summer at Mystic Museum of Art.

WESTERLY — Ryan Saunders, Andrew Howell and John Tafone had good reason to be all jazzed up and full of good cheer.

NEWPORT — The 2022 Newport Flower Show, with a theme of “Eden … A Personal Paradise,” is set for this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 17-19, at Rosecliff.

WESTERLY — Novelist Mary Alice Monroe, whose "Beach House" series and other stories has captured the attention of millions of readers, will make her first Rhode Island appearance next week when she joins Ocean House owner and author Deborah Goodrich Royce to discuss "The Summer of Lost and F…

Thursday, June 16

NEWPORT — Julian Fellowes, the writer, director, producer, novelist and actor who created "Downton Abbey" and "The Gilded Age," will be in Newport next month for an event sponsored by the Preservation Society of Newport County.

NEW LONDON — The Connecticut Early Music Society celebrates its 40th anniversary season this month with the annual Connecticut Early Music Festival, a return to the live stage and a series of six events — featuring more than 60 musicians — to be presented from Niantic to New London and from …

STONINGTON — The Stonington Historical Society will hold its major fundraiser of the year, the Cannon Ball, on Saturday, June 25 on the North Lawn at the Mystic Seaport Museum, 105 Greenmanville Avenue.

The outdoor music scene in our neck of the woods officially kicks off with the Chorus of Westerly's blockbuster Summer Pops concert in Wilcox Park. And while this year's pops concert — scheduled for June 18 and featuring another exciting program — is indeed the first large-scale musical even…

WESTERLY — From a concert with Connecticut’s first African American State Troubadour to lectures and free shuttles to story walks, there are many opportunities available to celebrate Juneteenth in the region this year. Juneteenth celebrations will kick off this Saturday in New London, when t…

Thursday, June 9

WESTERLY — The Artists’ Cooperative Gallery of Westerly will present "Parks & Gardens," its June show featuring artists Gerry Matteo and Richard Inserra, with special guests the Ocean Community YMCA Garden Club.

STONINGTON — Members of the Stonington Garden Club are preparing for Gardens by the Sea, their popular triennial event, which is is expected to attract thousands of visitors. Twice postponed due to COVID concerns, this year's walking tour of rarely-seen private gardens in Stonington Borough …

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SOUTH KINGSTOWN —  Lifelong surfer, environmentalist and singer-songwriter Will Evans will perform his first summer concert Saturday at Ocean Mist with with special guest Rory O’Neill, a musician who gained popularity during Season 19 of "American Idol."

WESTERLY — Transgender author and activist Connelly Akstens will read from her memoir, "Without Shame: Learning to Be Me," on Thursday, June 9, from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Westerly Library and Wilcox Park, 44 Broad St.

WESTERLY — Erin Sousa-Stanley, the Granite Theatre's newly-appointed artistic director, is creating some magic again.

Thursday, June 2

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — The Contemporary Theater Company will present a program called “The Voice of Gertrude Stein,” featuring a selection of art songs with text by Stein from LGBTQIA+ composers such as Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem and Felix Jarrar from Rorem’s opera "Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters."

WESTERLY — Music and art will once again fill Wilcox Park this weekend when the Virtu Outdoor Art Festival returns for its 26th year.

HARTFORD — Out Film CT, which produces Connecticut's longest-running film festival, announced the complete lineup of films in the 35th Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival, a hybrid event that will feature both in-person and virtual screenings. This year's event features 113 feature-length movies…

STONINGTON — Rosanna Warren — an acclaimed poet, whose research interests include translation, literary biography, literature and the visual arts, and relations between classical and modern literature — will deliver this year’s Merrill Lecture, an annual program presented by the James Merril…

PROVIDENCE — Trinity Repertory Company will finish the 2021-22 season with "Fairview," a play by Jackie Sibblies Drury. Directed by Brown University and Trinity Repertory Company alum Christopher Windom, the show runs through June 19 and features resident company members Mia Ellis, Rebecca G…

WESTERLY — Literacy Volunteers of Washington County will host a program with author and historian Nathaniel Philbrick next week as part of the organization’s annual Joyce S. Ahern Speaker Series.

Thursday, May 26

NEW LONDON — Colleen Kattau and Charlie King will join forces Friday for a long-awaited performance at Friday Night Folk at All Souls. 

WESTERLY — It will be a good weekend to be outside in Westerly except when it will be better to be inside to hear the Westerly Band perform. The band will perform at a free 2:30 p.m. concert at the United Theatre on Sunday. But first, to the park and to the streets.

STONINGTON — La Grua Center's "Summer Concerts on the Green" will kick off Friday at 6 p.m. with a concert by Twisted Pine.

WESTERLY — Theatre Scrapbook will honor its origins this weekend with performances of "Oklahoma!" according to Director Antonella DeAngelis, a show that will also honor her late father.

Thursday, May 19

WESTERLY — In a sure sign that summer is around the corner, the Misquamicut Springfest will make a return this weekend after a two-year hiatus.

WESTERLY — In an effort to recruit new singers, The Chorus of Westerly will host an "Open Rehearsal Week" next week from Monday, May 16, through Monday, May 23.