Iron Pour and Sims Ave. Festival are Saturday night

Posted 11/8/23

The Steel Yard once again will light up the skies over Sims Avenue in Providence as they melt more than 2,000 pounds of luminous iron in a custom-built tilt furnace. A trained pour crew will activate …

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Iron Pour and Sims Ave. Festival are Saturday night

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The Steel Yard is planning to once again light up the skies over Sims Avenue in Providence this Saturday, Nov. 11, as they melt more than 2,000 pounds of luminous iron in a custom-built tilt furnace. A trained pour crew will activate larger than life sculptures with fire and molten metal. It’s a one-of-a-kind industrial art event.

In tandem, they’ve partnered with all of their neighbors on Sims Avenue to produce the Sims Avenue Festival. Everyone on Sims will be out in force, selling beer and cocktails, food, flowers, hot sauce, ice cream and more, and more than twenty artists will take over the center of the street, with demonstrations of blacksmithing, glass blowing and more.

The festival and Iron Pour are Saturday from 1 to 7 p.m. Both events were rained out in October and rescheduled to this weekend.

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