Strengthening Minds Through Arts and Music
Enhancing and Enriching the Community Through the Arts
Nonprofit CENTER FOR THE ARTS in West Kingston, RI
2024 Best Live Concert Venue
Entertaining the Community with Weekly Live Music Shows
We offer weekly concert events featuring local and international artists that will entertain you and get you dancing, swaying, and singing in the audience. Don’t be surprised if the band brings you up on stage to sing along. An intimate, most unique experience for concerts, and always a meet and greet after the shows. We strive to provide the best musicians from all over to entertain you and have you returning for more.
Enjoy Live Shows, Art, Music and more in a Historical Venue
The Courthouse Center for the Arts is located in the original Washington County Courthouse building in West Kingston, RI. This glorious courthouse, which was built in 1893, is rich with history and stories and serves as an arts and music educational organization and community arts center. The Courthouse Center for the Arts provides theater, music, art, and child development programs for children of all ages and abilities, with inclusion programs for what we call differently abled children.
Relive the Hits with Our Live Tribute Cover Bands
Our live tribute cover bands bring your favorite classics to life with stunning accuracy and energy. Enjoy performances that pay homage to iconic artists and bands, delivering the songs you love with authenticity and passion. These shows offer an exciting and nostalgic experience for music fans of all ages.
Your Contribution Can Make the Arts More Accessible
Support and contributions from members of the community are crucial to our mission of providing the best local free children’s programming available in the arts, theater, music, and beyond. Our work to provide amazing services for inclusion and unified children’s programs would not be possible without your generous donations. Help us make the arts more accessible today.
Showcasing Local Artists
We warmly welcome you to join us for our monthly art gallery events, perfect for art enthusiasts and collectors alike. Courthouse Center for the Arts is proud to offer a vibrant platform for local artists to showcase and sell their work. These openings provide a unique opportunity to explore diverse artworks, meet the artists, and support the local art scene. Enjoy a captivating evening of aesthetics, culture, and inspiration, helping to foster creativity and connection within the West Kingston community and beyond.
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Our Venue
The Courthouse Center for the Arts is the perfect venue for weddings, corporate events and parties, fundraising events, networking and social events, and more. We offer music from all genres, a traveling chorus to entertain you, summer day camps for local schools, Day Time Concerts for Seniors, and groups, which include an art or music class, and a tour of our historic building. We also host year-round, local, national, and internationally known musicians and events. Monthly art gallery openings are provided for local artists to showcase and sell their creations. We have a full-service bar, plentiful parking on premises, and we are handicapped-accessible. Our Chimes Chorus and senior chorus groups provide entertainment at assisted living facilities, senior housing events, festivals, and more. All of our ticketed events contribute to our community by funding the free programs in our music theaters and more. Join our family.
Our Mission
The Courthouse Center for the Arts, a non-profit community-based arts organization located in West Kingston, R.I., was founded in 1988. Our mission is to enhance the lives of the community and its children by providing educational enhancement and enrichment through arts and music, as well as quality programs for the community.
Our Goal since 2016 is to provide free, quality, and life-changing arts and music programs for children of all ages and abilities, with inclusion programs for differently abled children. Our instructors offer their craft to benefit our organization and work toward teaching children how to develop their musical and theatrical abilities, thereby increasing their vocabulary, lessening anxiety, teaching sentence structure, increasing speaking abilities and motor skills, and most importantly, for all children, increasing their cognitive learning abilities.
The Courthouse Center for the Arts also provides work-readyness programs for differently abled children and adults. Contact us for more information. Educational advocacy referrals allow us to work with the best professionals in the area. Dedicated volunteers and instructors, as well as musicians, keep us at the forefront of our goals.
In addition, we offer low-cost programs for adults, including arts programs, creative writing, photography, exercise programs, self-defense classes, and other exciting opportunities.
We are committed to providing accessible, affordable programming for adults and free programs for children, all while our valued volunteers help to preserve the coolest historical buildings and happenings in all of South County.
Our dedicated local sponsors and extremely kind donors support these life-enriching opportunities for the children of our community. Community unity is part of what we do.
Our Vision
Our vision is to enhance the lives of children through creative thinking, music, theatre, and the arts. We strive to provide programs that improve learning skills for children of all ages and abilities, impacting not just their lives but also the lives of differently-abled children and adults, along with their families.
For over 35 years, we have focused on providing services not offered by other nearby facilities. Excellence in education, fine entertainment, community outreach, and increased community involvement are our goals and aspirations. Join us and contribute to our expansion by attending an event, becoming a member, volunteering, taking part in activities, or instructing courses that will benefit those The Courthouse serves.
The Courthouse Center for the Arts is proud to serve Rhode Island and New England and is open to new programming and events. If you have experience in these areas and are interested in volunteering to teach a class, please feel free to contact us at 401-782-1018 and help enrich the lives of children. It’s truly amazing what music and the arts can do.
We are a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization. All monetary donations are 100% tax-deductible.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Steve A. Lopez
Vice President: Michael DeGiulio
Treasurer: Craig A. Pickell
Secretary: Sarah Renee Martin
Director: Vincent Carlone
Director: Mariann Almonte
Frequently Asked Questions
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