WaterFire needs your help to keep the fires burning!
Help Us Keep the Fires Burning!
Support WaterFire
Help Keep WaterFire Burning Brightly by making a contribution at the WaterFire donation station and receive the gift of a "Ribbon of Light"
Light up the night and be part of the river of blue!
Make your contribution at any of the WaterFire stations marked by the illuminated blue columns.
Thank you!
WaterFire is a small independent 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and we need everyone who comes to WaterFire to contribute. All donations are tax deductable. WaterFire will be providing recycling opportunities for the Ribbons at the end of the evening.
For the 2008 Schedule
please click the button below:
Another way to support WaterFire
is to light your own Luminaria Candle Lantern
and keep the fires burning!
Click here for more information
2008 WaterFire Season
All full WaterFire installations usually occur on Saturday evenings. Lighting occurs just after sunset and the evening continues till just past midnight.
Click on each date below to view a detailed schedule of all the special events for that evening (updates still to come).
The daily schedule for each night will be updated right up to the time of event, so please check frequently for revisions, new events, or weather updates.
2008 WaterFire Season
Full Lightings:
| Date | Special Event | Sunset | Sponsored in part by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday, May 24th | Ballroom | 8:08 | Bank of America and Brown University |
| Friday, May 30th | Jazz | 8:13 | Rhode Island School of Design & Providence Place |
| Ballroom | 8:24 | Open MRI of New England | |
| Saturday, June 28th | 8:25 | Cox Business & APC by Schneider Electric | |
| 8:16 |
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| Saturday, Aug 2nd | Jazz | 8:02 | Amica Insurance |
| Saturday, Aug 16th | Ballroom | 7:44 | |
| 7:33 |
Picerne Realty and Textron |
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| Saturday, Aug 30th | 7:22 | ||
| Saturday, Sept 13th | Ballroom | 6:58 | Northeastern Society of Orthodontics & Waterplace Luxury Residences |
| Saturday, Sept 20th | 6:46 | CVS Caremark Downtown 5k & Boston Sports Club |
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| Saturday, Sept 27th | 6:34 | MetLife & Swarovski in Partnership with the American Heart Association & Secondary Sponsor the RISD Museum of Art | |
| Saturday, Oct 11th | Jazz | 6:10 | The Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation |
Partial Lightings:
This is lighting of a portion of the full installation. Some prefer the smaller lightings because they are less crowded.
| Date | Sunset | Sponsored in part by |
|---|---|---|
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Tuesday, June 3rd
Basin Only
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8:16 | |
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Wed., June 18th
Basin Only
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8:24 | National Association of Attorneys General |
| Wed., September 17th Steeple Street to Providence Place | 6:51 | The Jewish Federation of Rhode Island ~Community Wide Celebration of the Jewish Community of Rhode Island & The 60th Anniversary of the State of Israel~ |
| Friday, September 19th Steeple Street to Providence Place | 6:47 | Friends of WaterFire |