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AS220 is a non-profit community arts center located in Downtown, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.AS220 maintains four dozen artist live/work studios, around a dozen individual work studios, six rotating exhibition spaces, a main stage, a black box theater, a dance studio, a print shop, a community darkroom, a digital media lab, a fabrication lab, an organization-run bar and restaurant ...
The Strand was popular for a time as a vaudevillian theatre. In 1929, the theatre changed management and opened a year later as the Paramount Theatre. To capitalize on the emerging "talking pictures" market, the nearly 2,100-seat auditorium was converted into a movie cinema, making it one of eight in downtown Providence. Four years later, the ...
In 1902, 800 workers went on strike over an increase in the pace of work and a reduction in their wages linked with the implementation by the 58-hour work week in Rhode Island. [5] Employees returned to work after one week. [6] In 1907, there was a strike among the 500 workers in the carding room.
The bus service gives Providence residents a link to the train line to Chicago and Worcester and SouthCoast residents access to Providence's rail line Amtrak bus linking Providence, Worcester ...
A $23.5-million investment to develop Rhode Island's first food hall in the station was begun in 2022, [13] by a local developer who purchased the building from The Rhode Island Foundation. [14] The 18,000-square-foot food hall will be named Track 15 , a reference to the fact that the historic Union Station had 14 tracks. [ 14 ]
On June 16, 2006, Providence College announced an anonymous donation of $340,000 made to be used for renovations to the arena. The original red and yellow seats, which checkerboard throughout the arena, were replaced with modern seats that are black and silver (black and white are the school colors, with silver being the current accent color).
The Rhode Island Convention Center is an exposition center in downtown Providence, RI. Opened in 1993, [ 1 ] it is the largest convention center in Rhode Island, with about 130,000 square feet (12,000 m 2 ) of exhibition space, including a 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m 2 ) exhibit hall.
Across the Atlantic, 25-year-old Melissa Howard's day also starts at 5 a.m. Twice a week she makes her way from home in rural Cambridgeshire, England, to the office, taking two trains to get into ...