Come on out for the 2010 Summit Music Festival, on Sunday August 15 from 1 – 5pm.
Featured local bands include Brown Bird, The Gnomes, and Sunday Night Jammers. There will also be a magician and lots of vendors featuring local crafts and other goods.
Come join your neighbors for a few hours of music in the park! Great time for the family!
Hope For The Earth Festival on Hope Street
Sunday April 26 from 12-3 PM (rain date May 3rd)
The Hope Street Merchants Association is organizing a festival on Hope Street; and it does sound festive!
There will be many events for kids. Just some of the activities are listed below.
v Blooming Blossoms agreed to hold a work shop for children
v Fresh Purls will also hold a workshop at her store for kids
v Kreatelier will also do a kids workshop
The Roli Poli Guacomoli Band will be performing. This was fully funded by The Friends of Rochambeau Library
Also,
* Sidewalk Sales will be set up by merchants
* Groden Center will be selling locally grown herbs
* Seven Stars will have a “Decorate the Earth” cookie workshop
India Restaurant and Pizzico will be serving special “GREEN” food treats
At the Hope for the Earth Festival the new Hope Street trash barrels will be unveiled and a “Name that can” event will take place for kids
Congratulations to Phyllis Arffa and Christine Edmonds of Blaze East Side on Hope Street, winners of Rhode Island Monthly’s 2007 award for “Best East Side Neighborhood Restaurant.”
Despite winds that threatened to take us, the tent we were in and our little dog Toto, too, off to Oz all afternoon, about 59.5 neighbors stopped by the Summit Neighborhood Association table at the Hope Street Fair on Sunday (Oct. 16), judging by the number of citizen’s sticky dots attached to our oh-so-scientific poll-taking machinery. (Everyone got two votes, 119 were cast). That’s not counting our mayor, who declined to vote, saying, “I think Providence is a wonderful city.”
For the record, “walkability” and “environment” topped the count with 33 and 32 dots respectively. The modest total of 10 dots on “auto impacts” hardly reflects the depth of resident feeling, pro and con, about those traffic-calming bumpouts on Hope, Lorimer, Hillside, and, soon, Summit. (more…)