Arts & Entertainment
Today: Middletown Arts Fest Seeks Volunteers, Free Screening of Project NIM
Here's a look at 5 happenings in and around Middletown today.
- Volunteers are needed to help make Middletown’s First Annual Celebration of the Arts a success on Aug. 20. Students can earn service hours.
- The Newport Children’s Theatre’s four-day run of “Tom Sawyer” begins today at 4 p.m. at the Norman Bird Sanctuary. The show runs daily through Sunday.
- Find out where newportFILM’s free outdoor screening of Project NIM (PG-13) will be in Middletown tonight. (Yes, there is a backup rain venue too, just in case.)
- Catch "Inside the Tube" today. Local artist and surfer Janice Causey will show new works through the month of August at the Endless Wave Surf Shop, 148 Bellevue Ave.
- On this date in history in 1934, a group of the "most dangerous" federal prisoners landed on Alcatraz Island, a 22-acre rocky island located 1.5 miles offshore from San Francisco.
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