Open Doors Festival Providence
The festival will provide the public with free behind the scenes access to more than 20 unique places across the city without tickets or reservations.
Open doors festival providence. Doors open rhode island festival providence saturday september 23 2017. Doors open providence festival in september 2017 we held a free city wide open house festival that welcomed over 4 000 visitors behind the scenes of 24 unique places across providence. Initially formed as the ri family life center it changed its name to opendoors in 2009 read more about the name change here. Providence ri providence city hall will be open to the public for tours as part of the inaugural doors open ri festival this saturday.
Wpri a new healthcare clinic designed specifically to address the needs of lgbtq residents opened monday morning in providence. Opendoors moved to its new 15 000 square foot home in june 2011. We already wrapped up our first festival but look forward to organizing another. 4 000 people from providence and beyond came in with fresh perspectives on what makes.
Opendoors was led by its first executive director solangel rodriguez from 2003 to 2017 through numerous landmark accomplishments. Providence unlocked imagine receiving a set of keys to historic homes theaters sacred spaces secret vaults studios and more for free. With support from rhode island housing opendoors renovated a former ice cream factory in the silver lake neighborhood of providence. Doors open ri previously held such a festival featuring 24 places across providence in 2017 visited by more than 4 000 people.
Open door health is located on central street. Doors open providence festival postponed due to the uncertainty surrounding covd 19 and out of concern for the safety of our community we will not be holding our citywide open house festival on saturday september 26th as we had planned. Opendoors was founded in 2003 with the sole mission of providing services and advocacy to people with criminal records. Our festival is part of a worldwide movement of citywide doors open and open house events connecting the public to the great places and spaces of their communities.
The renovated mixed use building will provide 19 units of permanent supportive housing for clients as well as program and office space. We opened the doors to 24 unique locations across providence providing free behind the scenes access without tickets or reservations. However doors open ri remains committed to bringing you fun and innovative programs that build community. Armory and many other one.