2019 PVDFest Announced
By: Tim Studebaker
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) – PVDFest, the popular outdoor arts festival in downtown Providence, is coming back again for 2019.
Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza says, “The wackier, the zanier, the more different and unique that you are, the more that you are welcome under the great tent which has become PVDFest.”
The festival, which started in 2015, has grown year after year. Last year it brought 100,000 people into downtown Providence to experience art, culture, and food.
Elorza says, “Last year, we had the first year of the PVDFest food village, which is coming back for year two.”
The yearly festival features art of all kinds, including music and dancing.
FirstWorks Executive Artistic Director Kathleen Pletcher says, “This year, born of a dream of dancing on a flying wall, we have from Italy, ‘eVenti Verticali.’ ‘Quadro’ is an air stage, 50 square meters, with white fabric, four large holes, and four dancers that move like pencils on an empty sheet.”
Among the visual art, a giant inflatable best described by one of the artists involved.
PNEUHAUS Artist August Lehrecke says, “Basically, covering the Civic Center parking garage in a giant knit tapestry, so kind of like knitting a sweater for a concrete building”
Continuing this year is their zero waste initiative, banning the use of some single-use items like plastic straws, plastic bags, and styrofoam cups.
PVDFest runs June 6-9.
Link to learn more: http://pvdfest.com/
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