December 20-21, 2025: WaterFire Arts Center
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** Join us this weekend in Providence at the WaterFire Arts Center!
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This holiday season, we are excited to expand our programming to Providence, featuring arts, music, dance, performances, food, workshops, and speakers.
Celebrate this annual event, which honors Indigenous talent and traditions through handmade art, demonstrations, music, and dance. We invite you to visit and shop Cultural Survivals Bazaars, where you will find one-of-a-kind Indigenous, handmade, and traditional jewelry, clothing, accessories, housewares, paintings, sculptures, Palestinian blown glass, and more from artists and cooperatives from more than 20 countries spanning across 6 continents. Featuring 40+ artists ([link removed]) and community representatives!
This weekend!
December 20-21, 2025
WaterFire Arts Center ([link removed])
475 Valley St.
Providence, RI
Hours
Saturday, December 20: 10 am - 9 pm
Sunday, December 21: 10 am - 6 pm
"Pay what you can" with a suggested donation of $10.
Indigenous Book Swap! Who doesn’t love books! Bring a gently used Indigenous book to exchange for something new to read. Please DO NOT swap books within the WaterFire Art Center's gift shop. Those books must be purchased separately.
DRINKING: Bring your ID if you plan on having delicious beer or wine at our bar after 4pm. Non-alcoholic beverages will be available as well. Be sure to bring your reusable water bottle to fill at our water stations.
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Thank you to all who made our last weekend's Bazaar at the Cyclorama a great success!
** Featured Performers
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Thawn Sherenté Harris ([link removed]) (Narragansett-Niantic) is a storyteller, dancer, and cultural ambassador.
Yarina ([link removed]) (Kichwa) is an internationally renowned musical group of eleven Cachimuel brothers and sisters from Ecuador.
Tia Roberts ([link removed]) (Narragansett) is a highly acclaimed Fancy Dancer who has danced her way across the globe, sharing her heart, culture, and Indigenous pride with Native Pride Productions.
Annawon Weeden ([link removed]) (Mashpee Wampanoag/Pequot/Narragansett) is a multi-talented performer, educator, artist, and storyteller.
Marie Dion ([link removed]) walks the path of her Northeast Woodlands ancestral lineage and is an author, artist, speaker, and teacher.
** Performance Schedule
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Saturday - December 20
11am - 8pm - Family Booth with Annawon Weeden ([link removed])
11:30 am - Tia Roberts ([link removed])
1:00pm - Yarina ([link removed])
2:00pm - Thawn Harris ([link removed])
4:00pm - Marie Dion ([link removed]) Book Talk
5:30 - Tia Roberts ([link removed])
7:00pm - Yarina ([link removed])
Sunday - December 21
11am - 6pm - Family Booth with Annawon Weeden ([link removed])
10am - Yarina ([link removed])
11:30am - Tia Roberts ([link removed])
1:00pm - Marie Dion ([link removed]) Book Talk
2:00pm - Thawn Harris ([link removed])
4:00pm - Tia Roberts ([link removed])
5:00pm - Yarina ([link removed])
Live demonstrations by Rudy Lazzaro ([link removed]) , LLAPANMAKI ([link removed]) , and Serzhankz Bashirov ([link removed]) .
** Featured Chefs
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Sly Fox Den/ Sherry Pocknett (Mashpee Wampanaog)
Experience authentic Indigenous cuisine of the Northeast. In 2023, Sherry Pocknett received the James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Northeast.
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Eli's Delicias
Argentinian sandwiches, empanadas, desserts, and more!
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Fry Bread Indigenous Fusion
Where tradition meets taste, Frybread Catering, established in 2024, prides itself on serving fresh, local ingredients.
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Mohawk Shwarma Grill
Delicious Palestinian food.
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Hi Bar Lo Bar
A Providence-based mobile beverage service with roots in creative culture and 20+ years of event experience, specializing in delicious beverages and small bites.
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Cultural Survival advocates for Indigenous Peoples' rights and supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures and political resilience since 1972. We envision a future that respects and honors Indigenous Peoples' inherent rights and dynamic cultures, deeply and richly interwoven in lands, languages, spiritual traditions, and artistic expression, rooted in self-determination and self-governance.
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