Collaboration is central to FirstWorks' mission. We intend to reach across genres, cultures, ages, and organizations to:

• - engage diverse audiences
• - provoke dialogue
• - catalyze creative expression & community

Our multi-year partners include Providence’s Department of Art, Culture & Tourism, Providence Performing Arts Center, Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design.

• -Facilitating national funding for the dance company to develop Brain Storm, an ambitious multimedia dance/theater production scheduled to premiere at the 2011 FirstWorks Festival.


• [Read the press release]
• [Visit Everett Dance Theater website]

FirstWorks and Everett Dance Theater invite you to participate in the development of Brain Storm!

Monthly "Brain storming" sessions featuring presentations by members of Everett Dance Theater and special guests from the science, higher education and performance communities will take place at the Carriage House Stage at 9 Duncan Ave. in Providence.These Brain Café sessions are free and open to the public.

Upcoming Brain Cafés:

Thursday, May 26, 7:30 PM

• - The Junior Providence Singers performed live onstage with Sweet Honey in the Rock at the 2010 FirstWorks Festival finale performance of Indaba at The Vets.


• [Read the press release]
• [View photos]

• - The Silk Road Project and Yo-Yo Ma: Season of the Silk Road--a six-month educational project culminating in the premiere performance of their 2009 North American tour.
• - Community MusicWorks: a commissioned work by composer Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) to premiere during the FirstWorks Festival.
• - Providence Singers: An American Masterpieces concert featuring contemporary American choral composers.