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October 20, 2006

Season's last WaterFire tomorrow night

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People line South Water Street in Providence during an earlier WaterFire.

Here's how Lifebeat Weekend put it yesterday:

The final WaterFire of this season takes place Saturday, with the full lighting of the bonfires on the river beginning at sunset, which is at 5:56 p.m., creeping before 6 p.m. this time, marking the earlier nightfalls of fall and winter.

WaterFire is urban conceptual art, braziers fed wood by people in boats at night on three rivers. It's the brainchild of Providence artist Barnaby Evans, each "fire sculpture," as Evans calls it, sponsored by a different local group or business. They have been a regular part of Providence's mild Saturday nights since 1997. (Sometimes on a Friday, or midweek too.)

WaterFire is outdoors, and it is free.

If you've never seen it, head downtown to catch the "classic" version -- recorded music (usually classical in some culture) and fires on the river; walk over bridges, around the rivers, see street art, shadows, flickering lights, reflections, relax.

Nobody knows what it is, but it works.

Posted by Sheila Lennon  at 6:50 PM | Permalink

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