WaterFire is a unique sensory experience and living art installation with fragrant, crackling logs burning in braziers afloat in the center of the canal in Providence, RI, and set ablaze after sunset.

PROVIDENCE — WaterFire will return to downtown Providence this summer, kicking off the season in May with events planned through the end of December. A large-scale public art installation ...

“Our summer WaterFire events will now end at 11 p.m. instead of midnight,” the announcement reads. ... The capital city’s iconic art installation recently celebrated its 30th anniversary.