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Weekly Highlights in Rhode Island

Every featured event of the week, past and present

URI Guitar & Mandolin
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

URI Guitar & Mandolin

The 11th annual URI Guitar and Mandolin Festival runs Oct. 18-25, 2026, opening with a freewheeling outdoor afternoon at the General Stanton Inn in Charlestown and closing with Eliot Fisk at Edwards Hall.

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Dustin Pari's Haunted
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Dustin Pari's Haunted

Paranormal researcher Dustin Pari brings "Halloween: A Haunted History" to the Newport Public Library's Friends Room on Monday, October 19, 2026, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

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Irish Famine Quarantine Talk
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Irish Famine Quarantine Talk

Irish historian Loretto Horrigan Leary speaks on the quarantine islands where Famine immigrants died and were buried, October 20, 2026, at the Wyndham Newport Hotel in Middletown, Rhode Island, and on Zoom.

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TRANSylvania Drag Brunch at
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

TRANSylvania Drag Brunch at

Newport Out's all-trans Halloween drag brunch takes over Stoneacre Brasserie on Sunday, Oct. 25, with a two-course prix fixe menu, $10 drink specials and costumes encouraged.

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Paths to Spring at North
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Paths to Spring at North

Volunteers plant spring bulbs along long-lost colonial pathways at Providence's North Burial Ground on October 25, 2026, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

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Planetarium Show in
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Planetarium Show in

The Cormack Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History in Roger Williams Park runs its 30-minute Zeiss-projector sky show on Sunday, October 25, 2026, at 2 p.m.

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Greene Museum's
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Greene Museum's

The Charles Whipple Greene Museum at the George Hail Free Library in Warren opens its new Revolutionary War exhibit on October 14, 2026, marking the town's 4th of July 250th.

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BERTHA: Grateful Drag at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

BERTHA: Grateful Drag at

BERTHA, the world's first drag-infused Grateful Dead tribute band, brings its two-set Dead experience to Providence's Uptown Theater on October 15, 2026, with $1 per ticket going to Rhode Island Pride.

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Meet Cartoonist Tim Jones
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Meet Cartoonist Tim Jones

Tim Jones, creator of the syndicated comic strip 'Sour Grapes,' hosts a casual meet-and-greet at New England Brewing in Rhode Island on Saturday, October 17, 2026.

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Fall Sunset Tour at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Fall Sunset Tour at

Blithewold's Director of Horticulture leads a small-group sunset walk through the Bristol estate's 33 acres on October 15, 2026.

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Soil, Sequestered
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Soil, Sequestered

A free October walk through Hawk & Handsaw Farm in Portsmouth shows how a queer-run market farm on conserved land is rebuilding soil — and why the USDA is watching.

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Sit In with the House Band
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Sit In with the House Band

Every first Monday, Newport's Firehouse Theater throws open its doors to a free community jam where beginners and pros share the same stage.

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Baseball's Great War
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Baseball's Great War

Naval War College students take the field at Cardines Field in WWI uniforms, reviving a 1918 Army-Navy game that once drew 70,000 Londoners and a king.

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Painting Cato Vernon's Badge
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Painting Cato Vernon's Badge

A free watercolor workshop at Newport's Vernon House takes its inspiration from a Revolutionary War merit badge that may have belonged to an enslaved soldier who won his freedom by fighting.

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Floating Into Stillness: How
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Floating Into Stillness: How

At The Pell in Middletown, Allison Schumann and Jill Niedelman are bringing a floating sound bath to a hotel pool — part of a growing series that has quietly become one of the island's most unusual wellness rituals.

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A Fiddle Before the Fedora
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

A Fiddle Before the Fedora

The Jane Pickens Film & Event Center pairs the Coen brothers' Prohibition-era noir with live Celtic music and a three-Pinot tasting — inside a building that has been showing movies since the silent era.

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Fifty Ponies, One Last Gallop
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Fifty Ponies, One Last Gallop

After a nor'easter washed out Newport Polo's 150th-anniversary finale, America's first polo club gets a one-time Saturday encore — with a 50-pony parade, a charity day, and a season's worth of prizes on the line.

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Fifty Years of Harvest
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Fifty Years of Harvest

Sakonnet Vineyard's second annual Harvest Festival returns to Little Compton with two free days of wine, music, and family fun on the farm coast that started New England's modern wine industry.

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The 5-Foot-2 Sailor Who
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

The 5-Foot-2 Sailor Who

The first American woman to race solo, nonstop and unassisted around the globe discusses 'First Light' at the Jane Pickens Theater with a conversation partner who broke her own barriers in sailing.

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Where the Scouts Used to
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

Where the Scouts Used to

At Rhode Island's historic Camp Yawgoog, one of the nation's oldest Scout reservations, the piney woods and creaky bunkhouses are being reimagined as a place for vows, dancing, and s'mores by the firepit.

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A New Sea Change: Twenty
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A New Sea Change: Twenty

The New York Yacht Club revives a dormant tradition with its inaugural Women's International Championship, bringing Olympic medalists and rising talent to Harbour Court in identical 37-foot keelboats this September.

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Rhythm on the Sand: Brazil
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Rhythm on the Sand: Brazil

Every September, a small New England island becomes a corner of Brazil, as Ballard's Beach Resort hosts the homegrown festival that celebrates the Brazilian community who have quietly become part of Block Island's story.

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Shucking on the Plaza: Track
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Shucking on the Plaza: Track

The inaugural Oyster Darty brings Dune Brothers oysters, Narragansett Beer, and a Salty Brine Martini to the historic Union Station plaza for a free afternoon of shellfish, music, and local makers.

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A Life in Dots, Grids, and
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Life in Dots, Grids, and

The Warren gallery that Howard Windham called home for many years celebrates the late artist, teacher, and dean with a three-week exhibition featuring his work alongside that of his two artist children.

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A Floating Museum: The
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Floating Museum: The

On Sunday, September 6, 2026, historic sail and motor yachts will parade through Newport Harbor in a free, public celebration of maritime heritage.

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A Grand Finale for the Ages
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Grand Finale for the Ages

On the first Saturday of September, the Rhode Island Philharmonic returns to Independence Park for a free Labor Day tradition that doubles as the '250th Grand Finale' of Bristol's semiquincentennial celebration.

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Forty-Seven Years of Living
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Forty-Seven Years of Living

Each Labor Day weekend, the storied harbor of Newport, Rhode Island, becomes a living museum as century-old yachts race, parade, and celebrate the enduring craft of classic sailing.

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Fire on the Water: How One
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Fire on the Water: How One

WaterFire Providence returns September 6, 2026, for a full lighting along the city's three rivers—part of a season celebrating the 500th time the flames have illuminated downtown.

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In Newport, BlueTIDE Puts the Future of Blue Technology to the Test in Real Harbor Water
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

In Newport, BlueTIDE Puts the Future of Blue Technology to the Test in Real Harbor Water

The maritime technology demonstration is expanding to two days, with Navy leaders, startups, and investors gathering for live, in-water missions.

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A Nickel to Spin Through
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Nickel to Spin Through

On August 29, the historic 1895 Looff Carousel at Slater Park will turn for five cents as Pawtucket celebrates the machine's 1910 arrival with an afternoon of living history, museum tours, and vintage revelry.

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Rhode Island flag
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A King's Homecoming

When Roger Federer is enshrined in the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the tiny Newport Casino will throw open its stadium to thousands of fans who missed the sold-out ceremony — a night that promises to be the most emotional in tennis history.

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In Newport, BlueTIDE Puts
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

In Newport, BlueTIDE Puts

The maritime technology demonstration is expanding to two days, with Navy leaders, startups, and investors gathering for live, in-water missions.

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