CMW Center Grand Opening Block Party

Join us for the Community MusicWorks Center Grand Opening Block Party

We’re opening the doors! In September the newly-constructed Community MusicWorks Center will open to students and the public. For the first time, CMW will have a permanent home base for young musicians, a hub for community performances, and a center for artists and musicians to develop their creative practice.

Come celebrate with us on Saturday, September 28!

Festivities include a kick-off musical parade featuring CMW students and staff, a world-premiere piece by composer Wang Lu performed by the MusicWorks Collective in our acoustically-sublime Performance Hall, food trucks, building tours, and, wear your comfy shoes because there will be dancing.

CMW Center Grand Opening Block Party
Saturday, September 28 from 2 to 7 pm
1326 Westminster Street, Providence
Admission is free

Don’t miss these events:
2:00 pm: Building tours
3:00 pm: Kick-off parade and world premiere performance of composer Wang Lu’s Fabric
3:30 pm: Food trucks arrive
4:30 pm: MusicWorks Collective reprise performance
5:00 pm: More building tours and dancing!

Let us know you’re coming and we’ll save you a lemonade!

Featured on the program is Wang Lu’s composition Fabric, written especially for this event, which will be performed by the MusicWorks Collective and CMW students in four dynamic movements. The first features a short musical march down the block from the old CMW storefront to the CMW Center. The performance continues inside with a “tuning up” as students and faculty perform throughout the three floors of the building so that music fills the spaces with harmony and celebration. For the final movement, we’ll invite our CMW students to gather in the Performance Hall to hear their teachers perform and become the very first audience members in the new space!

For this 15-minute finale, parents, community members, and other visitors can support the students’ first-listen experience from just outside the Hall, or via screens situated outdoors and in the cafe. Then, we’ll open the hall for a reprise MusicWorks Collective performance of the final movement so that the entire community gets a chance to appreciate the special acoustics and atmosphere of the central performance space.

We can’t wait to welcome you!

Learn more about the Community MusicWorks Center here:
https://communitymusicworks.org/the-community-musicworks-center/

 Learn more about Wang Lu here:
https://www.wanglucomposer.com