Recent Press

The Cleansing Fire, Jeff Tiell, Next American City, 2010 

WaterFire Helps Save ‘Bright Night’, Mary Abraham and Courtney Caligiuri, WPRI, 2009 

Into the Heart of Providence, Lauren Houlihan, American Lifestyle, 2008

My Joyous Baptism of Fire, Bel Mooney, The London Daily Mail, 2008 

Barnaby Evans, WaterFire’s creator - a social entrepreneur igniting art and urban community, Gayle L. Gifford, consultant, 2008 

The Elements of Providence, Carlo Rotella, The Washington Post Magazine, 2006

Providential Happening, Fred Hapgood, Smithsonian, 2002

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Quotes from Articles

"’It’s Important for the city to have this celebration and this energy…The city cannot be in the dark.’" - Bryan Rourke

"When you are there, you see the families, you see the crowds.  There is such an incredible sense of peace.  Everybody is happy.  People do find something special there." - Tatiana Pina

"’WaterFire’ is a "profound and vivid,’ ever-changing experience." - Karen Lee Ziner

"It’s a slice of Paris right in Providence" - Chuck Maclean

"The torch fires were quickly spread.  Clusters of torches in flames, whipped by a gentle breeze, illuminated the faces of people holding them…" - Amanda Milkovits

"As the fires burn, music plays from speakers mounted on walls along the river, giving the sense that, like the fire, it emanates from the water.  The eclectic selection of songs sometimes sounds dreamlike, other times tribal." - Michelle R. Smith

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Archived Press