Although PVD Fest had some small events in the last couple of years, this year is the first full festival since 2019. It’s a big one! There are events this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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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Wilbury Theatre’s ‘Natasha, Pierre’ – an incredibly moving electro-pop musical
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 is on now through June 19th at The WaterFire Arts Center in Providence. The play has been extended to June 26th. JAMES BAUMGARTNER: Hi, Chuck. I’ve been away for a week, but I understand you’ve been busy at the theater. CHUCK HINMAN: Yes. And I’m sorry you […]
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Contemporary art, music, food and the semiotics of cod at Fabric Fall River
The Fabric Fall River Festival takes place May 12 – 14 and it’s about a lot more than textiles. There’s music, visual art, performance art, food and more.
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PVD Cello Fest celebrates the beauty and versatility of the cello
Zan Berry and Isabel Castellvi are cellists who helped organize PVD Cellofest – a collection of concerts featuring a wide range of music genres but with one thing in common – the cello.
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RI Poet Laureate Tina Cane reflects on ‘The Year of the Murder Hornet’
April is National Poetry Month, and for Artscape, Chuck Hinman visits with poet Tina Cane. She stopped by to talk about her stint as Rhode Island Poet Laureate, which is ending, and her new poetry collection, which is coming out next month – and as always, to read for us, this time from her new book, “The Year of the Murder Hornet.”
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With ‘Seeing Providence Chinatown’ Jeffrey Yoo Warren creates a virtual neighborhood for a forgotten enclave
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Providence had a small Chinatown neighborhood, centered around Empire & Westminster Streets. Artist and designer Jeffrey Yoo Warren is creating “Seeing Providence Chinatown” – a virtual 3-D model of what was once a thriving community. Artscape producer James Baumgartner and morning host Chuck Hinman talked with Jeffrey about the project.
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Il Cine Ritrovato returns, in person, to Brown
Today’s Artscape welcomes back Professor Massimo Riva, from Brown University’s Italian Studies department, to talk about this years’ festival of rare and restored films from the Cineteca of Bologna, one of the world’s great archives of cinema classics, both known and unknown.
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A pandemic love story from 1892
For Valentine’s Day we present a special Artscape: local restaurant owner and history buff Bob Burke tells the love story of Italian Count Paolo Bajnotti and Carrie Brown, grand-daughter of Nicholas Brown Jr., the namesake of Brown University in Providence. In Burke’s telling, it’s a story of love and tragedy, of death in a pandemic, and the desire to triumph over death by creating a series of memorials to a timeless love.
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The Gamm’s ‘An Octoroon’ hopes to be uncomfortable and joyous
The Gamm Theatre’s latest play opens January 27th. It’s called ‘An Octoroon.’ Artscape producer James Baumgartner and morning host Chuck Hinman talked with actor Marc Pierre and director Joe Wilson Jr.
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Festival Ballet and Big Nazo collaborate on a fresh look for this year’s ‘Nutcracker’
The Nutcracker is a perennial favorite during the holidays, but this year’s Festival Ballet production is a bit different. Morning Edition host Chuck Hinman and Artscape producer James Baumgartner visited Festival Ballet’s rehearsal center for a preview of what’s new this year.