Steel Yard Resident Artist Exhbition Opening Reception

August 6, 2022

6:00 pm

The Steel Yards' resident artist exhibit includes works by twelve artist residents, all of whom participated in the residency program over the past twelve months. Each piece represents unexpected mediums, demonstrating a historic process through a contemporary lens. These include metals, light metals, ceramics, and foundry, all crafted in The Steel Yard’s historic 12,000 square foot studio over this past year.

Fine, Paper Lady, Mutter, Queen Crony

August 4, 2022

8:00 pm

8 pm doors, 9 pm music

Hanging by a Thread

July 1, 2022

6:00 pm

Hanging by a Thread offers a unique insight into the dark and deadly world of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder through art and poetry. Their journey — from newly trained firefighters through the years of experiencing the worst any human could bear — is an eye-opening revelation into the realities and terrors of PTSD. Using their vivid and expressive art and heartfelt words, they bare their souls for all to see the once private hell they endured. A hell many first responders share.

Finding the Spirit of Inanga Closing Reception and Performance

June 23, 2022

6:00 pm

Finding Inanga features unique and significant musical instruments and other music related artifacts from around the globe. This interactive musical showcase also offers the exciting opportunity to learn directly from the musicians who own these beautiful pieces of cultural history through three specially curated music education sessions. Dr. Silas Pinto will join us on May 26th for a demonstration and Q&A regarding the Berimbau and the Atebaque.

Noumenal Loom Records presents Silica Gel, Holly Waxwing + Caloric

June 17, 2022

8:00 pm

Silica Gel adapts medieval texts into lush noise ballads & composes original art songs for two voices, custom electronics, percussion & various strings. Their sound is a unique synthesis of Early music with improvisation and folk elements that create a spacious & highly textured soundworld. Coming out of the Birmingham, Alabama experimental music scene, they have toured nationally and are releasing a new album with Providence, RI based label Noumenal Loom in spring 2022.

Primitive Man Ten Year Anniversary Tour

June 3, 2022

7:00 pm

MWM presents Primitive Man with supporting acts Mortiferum, Jarhead Fertilizer, Body Void, and Elizabeth Colour Wheel. Denver’s PRIMITIVE MAN’s music matches its name: a savage, sparse mix of death metal, blackened noise, and doom. PRIMITIVE MAN return with the extreme, terrifying and confrontational new album, Immersion. A stark look at a mirror, Immersion's themes tackle sobering views on existential crises, a general distrust among another, and the current state of the world.

Finding the Spirit of Inanga Second Opening Reception and Performance

May 26, 2022

6:00 pm

Finding Inanga features unique and significant musical instruments and other music related artifacts from around the globe. This interactive musical showcase also offers the exciting opportunity to learn directly from the musicians who own these beautiful pieces of cultural history through three specially curated music education sessions. Dr. Silas Pinto will join us on May 26th for a demonstration and Q&A regarding the Berimbau and the Atebaque.

Retribution Body Album Release with House Red, Compactor, and Elizabeth Virosa

April 21, 2022

8:00 pm

Retribution Body's release show for Baphomet, the new album on Full Spectrum Records with supporting acts House Red, Compactor, and Elizabeth Virosa.

Symposium Records presents Biproduct, Slono, and SMX|JH

April 1, 2022

8:00 pm

Symposium Records presents an evening of techno/EBM/acid. Doors at 8, music starting at 9.

Symposium Records presents Scott MX, Lurch, Jackson Delay

February 26, 2022

8:00 pm

Symposium Records presents a brand new, monthly event series at MWM plus a pop-up shop featuring local artists

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Sip & Shop Market

February 12, 2022

12:00 pm

Love comes in all forms romantic, platonic, and everything in between! Let's celebrate it all… Bring the ones you love and explore 15+ artists, makers and small businesses. Try a tasty cocktail at the bar, bring the kids so they can make their own DIY Valentine's and take a self love selfie at our photo booth! Brought to you by Pasithea Productions and Hear Me Roar Art Collective.

Eleanor Elektra, Animal Face, Nate Cozzolino and the Lost Arts

December 19, 2021

8:00 pm

Eleanor Elektra is an interdisciplinary artist who fuses music and visual arts. Her practice spans songwriting, printmaking and installation work. Her music combines elements of folk, jazz and classical music within the songwriter idiom to create unique cinematic songs.

Completely in the Present

October 9, 2021

6:30 pm

A Tony Conrad documentary directed by Tyler Hubby, plus live performances by Lydia Lunch + Tim Dahl and Providence Research Ensemble.

INSIDE/OUT | OUTSIDE/IN

September 9, 2021

5:00 pm

Dollar Disco II

February 7, 2020

9:00 pm

Landing on the Right Acre: Storytelling for and by Farmers

January 30, 2020

6:30 pm

YFN is hosting Landing on the Right Acre: a storytelling event for and by farmers, in partnership with Land for Good, on Thursday, January 30th, 6:30PM - 9:00PM. Join us at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket to enjoy locally sourced food prepared by local, renowned chef Ben Sukle, drinks from the Machines with Magnets bar, and the company of your fellow farming community as they share some of the successes, pitfalls and takeaways from their journey toward finding land. Come prepared to laugh, sigh and learn more about farmland access in Rhode Island!