Sculpture featuring a series of bonfires lit on the river accompanied by classical and world music presented in downtown Providence
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WaterFire is a sculpture by Barnaby Evans presented on the rivers of downtown Providence, RI. It was first created by Evans in 1994 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of First Night Providence, and has since become an annual public art installation.
On WaterFire evenings, downtown Providence is transformed by eighty-six burning braziers (each with approximately 33 pieces of wood); some float just above the surface of the rivers that flow through Waterplace Park (the Woonasquatucket river) and the middle of downtown Providence (the Moshassuck and Providence rivers; others are mounted on the piers of former bridges.) WaterFire is held May through November, with lightings typically on Saturday evenings once or twice a month.
This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "WaterFire", "Waterplace Park", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
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