LAW AND ORDER PARTY SUMMER GUIDE 2017 HOW THIS GUIDE WORKS Here’s a list of 101 things to do this summer, along with a list of roughly 70 spots to check out the water. This year there’s also a bar and restaurant guide for the state’s 20 coastal cities and towns. Events (sorted by date) make up the first section of the guide, and the second half is a list of beaches, parks, nature preserves, and other places to swim, picnic, surf, fish, eat, drink, and so on. The guide also features vintage postcards from the digital collections of Providence Public LAW AND ORDER PARTY Library (provlibdigital.org) WHAT’S WITH THE COLOR CODING? Events are roughly divided into categories. Arts festivals are SUMMER GUIDE red, cultural festivals are olive, nature events are dark green, plays and movies are purple, and so on. You can figure it out pretty easily, or not bother. If something falls into more than 2017 one category I just picked one. 101 Events // 70 Beaches WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THE TICKET PRICING? All prices listed are for adults on the day of the event unless otherwise noted. If there’s no price listed then it’s free, just like with the weekly Law And Order Party newsletters. For spatial reasons, and to minimize any chance of error, discounted ticket prices weren’t included. Sometimes tickets are cheaper if you get them ahead of time, or if you’re a child, or if you’re a member of whatever organization is throwing the event. It can’t Matthew Lawrence hurt to ask. www.lawandorder.party Instagram: @lawandorderparty Twitter: @lawandorderRI EVENTS (long weekend!) May 22 - May 29 It’s too hard to resist heat-related puns this Memorial Day weekend, especially with R&B crooner Keith Sweat getting hot and steamy at Twin River. There’s lots to do Saturday and Sunday: a bird watch, an herb festival, a big loud show with a dozen bands, and a performance in Goddard Park by the Warwick Symphony Orchestra. This weekend also marks the annual opening of Spring Lake, a freshwater beach where you can also play century-old arcade games and wooden pinball machines. Monday’s pretty quiet, but the Gaspee Arts and Crafts Festival is happening in Pawtuxet Village. 5/26: Keith Sweat (8pm) Twin River Event Center – 100 Twin River Road, Lincoln $35-$75 5/27: Birding on the Blackstone (8am-10am) River Bend Farm – 287 Oak Street, Uxbridge 5/27: 23rd Annual Garden & Herb Festival (10am-4pm) Tiverton Four Corners Arts Center 3852 Main Road, Tiverton 5/27-5/29: Gaspee Arts and Crafts Festival (10am-5pm) Narragansett Parkway, Warwick 5/27: Spring Lake Arcade Opens (10am-6pm) Spring Lake Beach – 50 Old Hillside Drive, Burrillville 5/27: Parking Lot Mega Show (2pm-11pm) The Scurvy Dog – 1718 Westminster Street, Providence 5/28: Warwick Symphony Orchestra (2pm) Goddard Park Carousel – 1095 Ives Road, Warwick Keith Sweat $10 May 30 - June 4 This weekend’s big event is PVDFest. Also in the city: Providence Preservation Society’s Festival of Historic Houses, which this year focuses along tony Princeton Avenue in the city’s Elmwood neighborhood. If you’re headed south, there’s an open studio tour in North Kingstown and a wine festival over the border in North Stonington. The two-week Music on the Hill festival kicks off this week and includes a lawn performance by the Narragansett Symphony Orchestra. (It’s BYOBlanket.) Finally, Newport’s Rough Point opens up Wednesday for a sketching session. Bring a notebook and draw some of the mansion’s crazy gothic tapestries. 5/31: Beyond the Tour: Nature Tamed (5-7pm) Rough Point – 680 Bellevue Avenue, Newport $10 6/1-6/4: PVDFest Visit pvdfest.org for full schedule 6/3: Festival of Historic Houses (10am-4pm) Knight Memorial Library (check-in) 275 Elmwood Avenue, Providence $35-$55 6/4: Music on the Hill presents Narragansett Brass Quintet (4pm) Clouds Hill Victorian House Museum 4157 Post Road, Warwick $25 6/3-6/4: Spring Wine Festival (12-6pm) Jonathan Edwards Winery 74 Chester Maine Road, North Stonington $25-$30 6/3: Shady Lea Open Studio Tour (1-5pm) The Mill at Shady Lea – 215 Shady Lea Road, North Kingstown Bettye Lavette plays the FirstWorks Stage at PVDFest // photo: Marina Chavez May 31 - June 5 June 5 - June 11 Street Science star Kevin Delaney appears at the Science Fair- themed fundraiser for youth theater group Manton Avenue Project. Later in the week, you can choose between the musket-heavy Gaspee Days parade; the kilt-wearing anvil flingers at the Scottish Highland Festival; and the SVF Foundation Visitors Day, where rare livestock breeds are on display in a replica Swiss village. Also worth checking out: strawberry festivals in Saunderstown and Exeter. In Bristol, meanwhile, Anglophiles line up antique Jags, Rollses, and Aston Martins at the annual British Motorcar Festival. 6/5: (Mad) Science Fair Bash (6-9pm) Pell Chafee Performance Center 87 Empire Street, Providence $40-$70 6/10: Strawberry Jam (8:30am-12:30pm) Casey Farm – 2325 Boston Neck Road, Saunderstown 6/10: SVF Foundation Visitors Day (9am-3pm) Park at Fort Adams State Park, Newport 6/10: RI Scottish Highland Festival (9am-5pm) Washington County Fairgrounds 78 Richmond Townhouse Road, Richmond $20 6/10: Strawberry Thanksgiving (10am-2pm) Tomaquag Museum - 390 Summit Road, Exeter $6 6/10: Gaspee Days Parade (10am) Pawtuxet Village, Cranston/Warwick 6/11-6/12: British Motorcar Festival (9am-5pm Sat; 9am-3pm Sun) Colt State Park – Route 114, Bristol Strawberry Jam at Casey Farm $10-$15 June 12 - June 18 If you’re on Block Island, you’ll have no trouble finding the town’s week-long Music Festival. The RISD Museum is throwing its second annual dance party; go pre-party before wandering downtown to hear Big Freedia on Snow Street. Or, if you’re in Newport, you can see fashion designer Pierre Cardin; the 94-year old icon will be in attendance for a retrospective runway show at The Breakers. Foodies can go to Save the Bay’s annual Taste of the Bay fundraiser, while more athletic types can go to Goddard Park for the cleverly titled Oh My Goddard! triathlon. 6/13-6/18: Block Island Music Festival (5pm-1am) Captain Nick’s Rock n Roll Bar 34 Ocean Avenue, New Shoreham 6/15: Taste of the Bay (7-9pm) Save The Bay Center – 100 Save The Bay Drive, Providence $45 6/16: Dance Party: Luminous (7-11pm) RISD Museum – 20 North Main Street, Providence $60-$100 6/16: Big Freedia (9pm-2am) Dark Lady / Alley Cat – 17 Snow Street, Providence 6/17: Pridefest (12pm-12am) South Water Street, Providence 6/17: Pierre Cardin Fashion Runway Show (4:30pm) The Breakers 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport $250-$500 6/18: Oh My Goddard! Olympic & Sprint Triathlons (6:30am) Goddard State Park – 1095 Ives Road, Warwick $105-$190 Pierre Cardin Runway Fashion Show at The Breakers June 19 - June 25 The Roger Williams Park Conservancy is having talks all month about different aspects of the park. Thursday it’s all about the waterways in the park. Saturday the Chorus of Westerly performs in Wilcox Park, while two different events are happening in the gardens of Bristol and Warren. Meanwhile in Newport there’s a pirate-themed booze cruise sponsored by local rum manufacturer Thomas Tew. The German Club in Pawtucket is throwing a summer festival headlined by the Tubafrau Hofbräu Band, while Stages of Freedom throw a 1920s rent party on the East Side. 6/22: Waterways and Landscape in Roger Williams Park (5:30pm) Dalrymple Boathouse – Roger Williams Park, Providence 6/24: The Chorus of Westerly 2017 Summer Pops (8-10pm) Wilcox Park – 71 High Street, Westerly 6/24: Art in the Garden (10am-4pm) Bristol Art Museum – 10 Wardwell Street, Bristol $30 6/24: 1st Annual Sommerfest! (1-11pm) German American Cultural Society 78 Carter Avenue, Pawtucket $10 6/24: Behind Closed Doors: House, Garden, & Studio Tour (10am-4pm) United Methodist Church – 27 Church Street, Warren $25 6/24: Third Annual Newport Pirate Invasion (10am-8pm) Schooner Aurora – Goat Island, Newport $25-$49 6/25: Stages of Freedom’s Harlem Rent Party (4-6pm) Bishop Mansion – 72 Waterman Street, Providence Dyer Memorial, Roger Williams Park, postcard circa 1901 $55 June 26 - July 2 Two good movie options this week: the Jane Pickens is throwing a five-year anniversary event for Moonrise Kingdom, while Movies on the Block continues its weekly experiment in patriotism with an outdoor screening of Dr. Strangelove. Meanwhile, Central Falls shuts down the Roosevelt Avenue Bridge for the first of four monthly outdoor salsa dance parties. There’s an art opening at the Little Compton Historical Society, while the Jamestown Arts Center and the Newport Art Museum both throw their big summer shindigs. 6/28: Moonrise Kingdom 5th Anniversary Party (8pm) Jane Pickens Theater – 49 Touro Street, Newport $10 6/29: Dr. Strangelove: or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (8:24pm) Grant’s Block – 260 Westminster Street, Providence 6/30: Little Compton’s 20th Century Artists (6-8pm) Little Compton Historical Society 548 West Main Road, Little Compton 6/30: 7th Annual Summer Soirée (7-10pm) Jamestown Arts Center – 18 Valley Street, Jamestown $150-$225 6/30: Central Falls Salsa Night (8-11pm) Roosevelt Avenue Bridge 7/1: Artists’ Ball (6pm) Newport Art Museum – 76 Bellevue Avenue, Newport $150-$1000 Dr. Strangelove: or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb July 5 - July 10 July 3 - July 9 The 4th of July Parade in Bristol is the country’s oldest, but it’s not the only one.