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WaterFire Providence commemoration remembrance dedication Luminaria Candle Lanterns at the Starry, Starry Night Installation in Memorial Park of Providence RI Rhode Island USA

WaterFire in Providence, Rhode Island, USA

 

WaterFire is and award-winning sculpture by Barnaby Evans installed on the three rivers of downtown Providence, with over eighty sparkling bonfires burning right above the river.

 

Barnaby Evans has been lighting the fires in the City of Providence since 1994.

 

WaterFire has grown to be much more than fire, it is a free public art installation, a performance work, an urban festival, a civic ritual and a spiritual communal ceremony. Well known nationally and internationally as a community arts event

 

WaterFire is one of the world’s most popular nighttime experiences.

 

On September 21 and 22, 2012, Barnaby Evans installed WaterFire in Rome Italy on the Tiber River

 

August 15th 2015 info:

WaterFire Providence Full Lighting

Sunset: 7:47 p.m.

Lighting time: 8:07 p.m.

The fires will remain lit until 12:30 a.m.

Clear Currents Koi Fish on the Rivers paddling for one of the two nights that it will happened in the 2015 season.

 

The same day as WaterFire also happening in Providence: Bolivian South America celebration: RIBAA presents the 26th Annual RHODE ISLAND Virgen de Urkupiña Festival - Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia at the Alex and Ani City Center

2 Kennedy Plaza, Providence, Rhode Island 02903

 

Facts about Rhode Island:

 

Rhode Island is the smallest state in size in the United States.

 

Polo was played for the first time in the United States in 1876 near Newport

 

Rhode Island was home to the first National Lawn Tennis Championship in 1899

 

Rhode Island's official state name is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

 

The White Horse Tavern was built in 1673 and is the oldest operating tavern in the United States

 

Rhode Island founder is Roger Williams

 

State Nickname - The Ocean State, Little Rhody

 

State Motto - "Hope"

 

State Song - Rhode Island, It's for Me

 

State flower - Violets

 

State tree - Red maple

 

 

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August 15th 2015

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