Join us every Tuesday, 3–6pm, July 3 through October 30 at the Downtown Farmers Market in Providence! This diverse farmers market takes place on Washington St in Kennedy Plaza, beside Burnside Park, and features:
- Local farmers, food producers, and food trucks! This season, our vendors will include Steere Orchard, Pezza Farm, Daily farm, Naturally Karmah, Harvest Kitchen, and Alternutive — joined by food trucks Kay’s Ice Cream and Cafeina.
- Our Healthy Foods, Healthy Families programming — this season generously sponsored by the Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy through a Southwest Heart of the Community grant. The program delivers fun, interactive activities to families that receive federal food assistance (WIC or SNAP). Activities are provided in English and Spanish, and empower parents and children to learn about affordable, seasonal food and how to prepare it in healthy ways that kids will love.
- Weekly family-friendly activities at the Imagination Center by Kidoinfo, brought to you in partnership with the Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy — a public-private partnership formed to revitalize Downtown Providence’s exceptional public spaces. See below for schedule of events!
DOUBLE YOUR SNAP!
This market accepts Cash, Credit, SNAP/EBT, and WIC. And as of June 1, our Bonus Bucks nutrition incentives program is offering a 100% Bonus! That means for every dollar you spend with EBT, you get a FREE dollar in Bonus Bucks to spend on fresh fruits & vegetables at the market! (See all RI farmers markets accepting SNAP.)
KIDOINFO PLAY IN THE PARK!
Happening at the same time as the farmers market, inside Burnside Park, Kidoinfo Play in the Park brings a different family-friendly activity to the Imagination Center each week.
July 24 — playSCIENCE RI: Super Seeds
July 31 — Audubon Society of Rhode Island Live Raptor Show
4:15–5:15pm: Meet several of Audubon’s live raptors and learn about their adaptations, behaviors, habitats and more!
August 7 — Biomes Marine Biology Center Traveling Tidepool
4:00–6:00pm: Biomes Traveling Tidepool includes animals such as starfish, sea urchins, crabs, oysters and more! There will also be a small fish tank with other animals for viewing. Visitors can visit the bins at their own pace and Biomes staff will be there to educate and answer questions.
August 14 — playSCIENCE RI: Making Music
4:30–6:00pm: Sidy Maiga will host an open drum circle. Bring your own djembe or any musical instrument or sit in on one of Maiga’s to participate in an open drum circle with one of Rhode Island’s musical treasures.
August 21 — Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too!
A Magical Stop Motion Pixilation Workshop with artist Rachel Blumberg and Providence Children’s Film Festival. In this workshop, inspired by the imaginative and silly poems of Shel Silverstein, kids of all ages will have the opportunity to create a short film with themselves as the stars! Make your own props and masks! Dress up in costumes! Write a storyboard and explore how to tell a story! Work together! Learn about pixilation stop motion and create magical scenes where you slide, fly, appear and then disappear, and more!
August 28 — playSCIENCE RI Incredible Ice
NOTE: Kidoinfo Play in the Park will continue through October. Stay tuned for details!
During Play in the Park, the Imagination Center will be open for visitors to use the Open Air Reading Room, Creative Playspace, and the Big Blue Blocks of the Imagination Playground.
