Show us some fun at the Bank of America City Center and be entered to win a Season Pass!
Email us a JPG of a photo you’ve taken at the Bank of America City Center by January 3rd to enter the contest. First place winner will receive a Season Pass, two runners up will each receive a family 4-pack of passes!
Send your entry to skating@kennedyplaza.org with subject line “Photo Contest Entry”. Include your name, address, phone number, and attach your photo.

In submitting your entry, you certify that you are the creator of the image, own the rights to the photo and accept Bank of America City Center’s option to publicize your photo with your credit. Only digital email submissions will be accepted. One entry per person. All photos must be received by 11:59pm on January 3, 2010.

Stock up on gift certificates for the 2009-2010 skating season and save 25%!

Buy a pack of 10 Bank of America Skating Center gift certificates for just $75. That’s $25 off  normal admission, includes skate rentals - and crosses off ten people from your list for just $7.50 each!

And through December 15th, you’ll also receive 3 FREE  admission tickets to Providence Children’s Museum with each 10-pack purchase! That’s an additional $30 value.

Just head over to the ticket window any day of the week between 11am and 10pm to snag this deal - before it’s gone.

We also have season passes available for $60 for the die-hard figure skating fans on your list!

The gym may be closed on Thanksgiving Day but the Bank of America Skating Center opens at 4pm for post-dinner exercise that’s fun and refreshing! Along with Thanksgiving customs come the traditional weight gains that build through New Year’s. Celebrators are encouraged to put an end to that ritual and partake in calorie-burning, smile-inducing and rejuvenating ice skating time during our special holiday hours from 4pm - 10pm on Thursday.
Ice skating in downtown Providence – where families can merrily earn a second slice of pie.

UPDATE: Due to heavy rains, we will be opening Saturday, November 21st to allow sufficient ice freezing.

This Saturday, November 21st is opening day at the Bank of America City Center Skating Rink! Please join us for a very special fundraising event for Skate for Joy to launch our season:

Saturday, November 21, 2009
11am - 2pm

A portion of every admission and skate rental this morning will benefit the non-profit organization, Skate for Joy. Skate for Joy teaches children ages three to 16 the U.S. Figure Skating’s Basic Skills Program for both hockey and figure skating. “Being one of only five programs in the country, Skate for Joy takes great pride in the lessons we teach children both on and off the ice. At this event, we hope to gather enough donations so we can invite more kids onto the ice this year,” said Carolyn Drumm, founder & executive director of Skate for Joy.

Tonight at the Bank of America City Center from 5-9pm - just $5!

We are pleased to present the final installment of the Burnside Park Afterwork Music Series this Thursday.

• Beer garden by Trinity Brewhouse goes from 5-7pm
• Extra Golden starts at 6pm

http://www.myspace.com/extragolden

Extra Golden is an international collaboration between members of two bands: Otieno Jagwasi and Onyango Wuod Omari of the Nairobi, Kenya based benga band Orchestra Extra Solar Africa, and Ian Eagleson and Alex Minoff of the Washington D.C. based rock band Golden. The musicians met as a result of Ian’s doctoral research on Kenyan music.

Free! free! free!

Burnside Park at Kennedy Plaza
September 20, 2009
3:00 to 6:00 pm

On Sunday, September 20, 2009 from 3:00 to 6:00 PM, the Peace Flag Project (PFP) is sponsoring Providence’s fifth annual celebration of the UN International Day of Peace in Burnside Park, Kennedy Plaza, downcity Providence. The American Friends Service Committee of Southeast New England, First Unitarian Church of Providence, Peace Alliance/Department of Peace, RiverzEdge Art Project and rpm voices are also sponsoring the event. It is free and open to the public.  This is a peace event, not an antiwar event.

For more details about the event, check out www.thepeaceflagproject.org or email info@peaceflagproject.org .

The Rhode Island Blood Center is holding a blood drive at the Bank of America City Center from 11am-3pm and offering plenty of incentives to donate! Get a free 6-inch sub from Subway for donating. Bring a friend, and be entered to win a 4-pack of tickets to the Patriots, Celtics, Red Sox, and Bruins!

Stick around at the Skating Center until 6pm and watch the Providence Roller Derby! The Sakonnet River Roller Rats will be duking it out with the Old Money Honeys for supremacy of the pavement!

Join us in Burnside Park tonight from 5-7pm to enjoy a FREE concert featuring the DJ BlackDove of AfroSonic Collective! There will also be a beer garden hosted by Trinity Brewhouse!

After the concert, head over to the corner of Westminster and Union where you can catch a FREE screening of the all-time classic Rain Man as part of Movies on the Block sponsored by Shop Downcity!

Come down to the Bank of America Skating Center for the Rhode Island Bolivian-American Association’s music, performances, dancing, food and amazing costumes to celebrate the Bolivia Festival De la Vergen De Urkupina! On Saturday, the festivities start with a procession from St. Patrick’s church on 244 Smith Street and end up at the Bank of America Skating Center from 2pm through 9pm. Then, on Sunday, the fun begins at 2pm and lasts until 6pm. Free admission!