GoLocalProv’s Top Picks for Your Summer Weekend

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Thursday, July 08, 2010

WEEKEND by GoLocalProv Features Team

The Fourth of July may be behind us (and wasn't it fantastic?), but summer rolls on every week with more and more fun events, festivals, and just outright great things to do. Here's the best of the best.

 

FRIDAY

PERFORMANCE Top Pick
Bring Your Own Improv Show
Bring Your Own Improv (BYOI) is now in its third season! This is an interactive improv show that welcomes voluntary audience participation! You can participate in one of three ways: Applaud at a scene you like, yell out fantastic suggestions, or if you feel you're ready, jump up and get involved on stage! 11pm-1am, $5, 18 and up, The Spot on Thayer, 286 Thayer St (second floor), visit the Bring Your Own Improv Web site for more information. 


 

 

SATURDAY-SUNDAY

HISTORY Top Pick
Civil War Living History Weekend
Soldiers in authentic Civil War uniforms of both the Union and Confederate armies will re-create camp life, from cooking and family life to artillery and troop drills, medical demonstrations, battles, and a nineteenth-century religious service. 10am, adults $10, children (6-17) $5, Fort Adams, Harrison Ave, Newport, 841-0707.

ART Top Pick
48th Annual Wickford Art Festival
The country's oldest open-air art fair features more than 250 artists from around the country and around the world. Includes fine arts-paintings, sculpture, and photography. 10am, free admission, Route 1A, Wickford and North Kingstown, visit the Web site or call 294-6840 for more information.

SUNDAY

LOCAL FLAVOR Top Pick
5th Annual Perryville Antique Auto Show
Over 100 antique autos on display. Special exhibit: 1903 Narragansett Fire Department Amoskeag Steamer. Vintage fashion show, hay wagon rides, food court, barn marketplace, silent auction and raffle, country music band, displays and exhibits. Special guest: cartoonist Don Bousquet. 12-4pm, free admission, South Kingstown Land Trust Barn, 11 Matunuck Beach Rd, 864-9312.

CULTURE Top Pick
35th Annual Cape Verdean Independence Day Celebration
Celebrate Cape Verdean Independence with traditional food, drink, music, arts and crafts, dance, and children’s area. 12-7pm, free admission, Roger Williams Park, Temple to Music, Providence, visit Web site or call 222-4133 for more information.

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