Providence Performing Arts Center is holding an open house event on Saturday, February 1st. Visitors will be able to walk on stage, visit the projection booth, and see how PPAC works.
Chuck Hinman
Morning Edition Host
Chuck became part of RIPR in 2012 after a career on commercial radio. He got his broadcasting start as an announcer for Off Track Betting Corporation in NYC. He’s been a news director, music director, production director and morning personality on radio stations in Providence and Boston.
A native of New Jersey, Chuck attended the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri and graduated from the University of Vermont with a BA in Mass Communications.
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Dorothy Day Combined Traditional Catholicism And Radical Politics
“Revolution of the Heart – The Dorothy Day Story” is a new documentary about the woman who helped create the Catholic Worker Movement. Her activism spanned the women’s suffrage movement, the great depression, the cold war and the Vietnam war. We talked with filmmaker Martin Doblmeier.
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Parkists-In-Residence Bring Art To An Historic Home in Hopkins Park
There are two official artists-in-residence living in Providence city parks right now. Specifically, the artists are living in historic homes that are in the parks. Matt Garza is one of the “Parkists in residence” he’s living in the Esek Hopkins House on Admiral Street in Providence. Artscape producer James Baumgartner talked with him earlier this week.
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‘How Many Bushels Am I Worth?’ Opens At AS220
The play is based on the life of Bena Shklyanoy who left Kiev, Ukraine in 1976, eventually settling in Chicago.
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Local Ecologies At UMass Dartmouth
Local Ecologies is an art-based concept aiming to generate understanding of our place in the local landscape, by contemplating our coastal and river ecosystems, as they’ve been over-layered by all this indigenous, colonial, and industrial history.
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Kirsten Evans And Alban Costello From Festival Ballet's 'Nutcracker'
Festival Ballet Providence will perform The Nutcracker this weekend. We talked with Kirsten Evans who plays the Sugar Plum Fairy and Alban Costello who plays The Nutcracker.
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Public Shop & Gallery Is A New Home For Art, Culture And Community
Public Shop & Gallery is a new art space in a wedge building at the corner of Aleppo St. and Manton Ave. in Providence.
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Music Infrastructure And The Night Time Economy
Last week, the city of Providence held a forum called “I Love The Nightlife” with a group of people who work in the “night time economy” – that is: musicians, dance clubs, bars, concert venues.
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“From The Inside Out” – A Collaboration Of Musical ‘Soul Partners’
Shelley Katsh and Cathy Clasper-Torch are two multi-instrumentalists who have collaborated on a new album of 10 songs called “From The Inside Out.”
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500 Years Of Hidden History In “Children Of The Inquisition”
The film by director Joseph Lovett is a look at what happened to the Jewish families forced to convert to Catholicism or flee during the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions.
