Gaspee Days Celebration
Saturday, June 14, 2025
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Since 1965, the Gaspee Days Committee has continued its efforts to preserve, promote, and share Rhode Island’s revolutionary history with the community – and there’s no better way to do that than by celebrating over 50 years of the Gaspee Days Parade. Combining colonial groups from all over with our modern and vibrant community, this is truly a show not to miss! Each year, friends and neighbors crowd along a two-mile stretch of Narragansett Parkway anxiously awaiting the march of the parade. Be it the fife and drums corps, the fire trucks, or the Shriners in their miniature cars, everyone has a favorite to look forward to!
Location:
Narragansett Parkway
Warwick, RI
Gaspee Days Celebration
Saturday, June 14, 2025
9:30 am – 10:00 am
Enjoy the excitement of running before a pre-assembled cheering crowd in anticipation of the Annual Gaspee Days Parade! Over 1,600 runners each year flock to participate in this exciting event along the Parkway’s famed red, white, and blue road stripe. Challenge yourself to place a record among our top runners and win a prize or just do it for the fun – either way, you are supporting one of the area’s favorite community events, as all proceeds support funding the annual Gaspee Days Parade.
Location:
Narragansett Parkway
Warwick, RI
Gaspee Days Celebration
Saturday, June 14, 2025
2:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Sunday, June 15, 2025
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Come immerse yourself in the colonial atmosphere or our encampment and gain a feeling of what life was like in the 1700s. Throughout Gaspee Days Parade weekend and during Sunday in the Park, a collection of colonial militia will be camped out in authentic revolutionary style – no plumbing, no electricity, and no cell phones! This Gaspee Days featurette is brought to you in collaboration with the Pawtuxet Rangers, RIM, our local, all-volunteer colonial militia.
Location:
Pawtuxet Park
Warwick, RI
Free Event for the Family and for Children
Open to the Public
Featuring Puerto Rican traditions and folk arts.
Intensive Vejigante Foam Mask Making Workshop
with Kenneth Meléndez, Artisan directly from Puerto Rico: 12:00 noon- 4:00pm.
6:30pm – 8:30 p.m. (Plena Music + Vejigante demonstration)
Vejigante Mask Exhibition by students from:
Legacy High School in Pawtucket
The Heart Tree community
Master: Yiyi Rivera 1:00 – 4:00pm
1. Leather Restoration Workshop with Master Lisandro Guevara 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
2. Bomba Workshop: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, with Master Oscar Noel Carrasco Escalera
Vejigante Masks Exhibition, presented by students from Pawtucket-Legacy High School and The
Heart Tree community (All day), Maestra Yiyi Rivera. 1:00PM
1. Vejigante Storyteller Workshop: Maritza Martell (5:30- 6:30PM )
2. Vejigante FOAM Mask making presentation: Our RI Comparsa 2025 by Lydia Perez
Bomba Workshop: 6:30pm- 8:30pm with Master Oscar Noel Carrasco Escalera.
The big day,
12:00 noon – 4:00 pm, LA PEQUEÑA SANSE
We cordially invite you to be part of this gathering.
PROGRAM:
12:00 – 12:10pm: Procession
12:11—12:15pm prayer (Alicia Preza)
12:16 pm – 1:00pm Official elected invited, (Talk)
1:15pm- 1:30pm Visit our seasoned corner
1:35pm 2:30pm Daniela Hernández and Oscar Noel Carrasco Escalera
2:31pm -4:00pm Bombazo!
Vendors: We are offering free space in the beautiful Hope Artistic Village Hall, 1005 Main St.,
Pawtucket, RI. Bring your table, decorate it beautifully, stock it, and explore a tradition native to the
Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
Food trucks: 11:00 a.m. – 4:00pm: parking lot in the court yard
Political Guests: Parking Lot in the court yard, 12:00 noon
Kids entertainment area: Chokito Services: Pizza, Burger, Ice cream, flavor cone, Popcorn. And new
characters. (Free for children)
“Kiosco” and Decoration tables
10:30 a.m.
You will enter through the court yard (the middle of the building between 1005 and 999 Main St.),
unload tables and belongings. You will vacate the court yard and park in front of the building, in the
Hope Artistic Village parking lot. You may also park behind the building. 200 Esten Ave. (Behand
Village Lofts).
IMPORTANT: Please send us your “SPACE RESERVATION,” signed and dated, confirming acceptance
of the space. Last day of participation: May 22, 2025.
Contributors: The Village Theatre, ALNE, City of Central Falls Mayor Maria Rivera, The Pawtucket
Legacy High School, The Hearth Tree, Hope Artistic Village and American News.
Sponsors: The National Endowment for the Arts, (NEA); New England for the Arts, (NEFA)’ Rhode
Island State Council on the Arts, (RISCA), Rhode Island Foundation, Rodriguez Family Fund, (RIF);
Papitto Opportunity Connection, Pawtucket City and Mayor Donald Grebien.
Participant in the procession: Register as soon arrived
The Little Sanse
1005 Main St. Suite 2228
Pawtucket, RI 02860