Bike ride tonight: All bicycling enthusiasts are invited to join the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council (WRWC) tonight at 6 for a 5-mile after-work bike trip along the new paved off-road portion of the Fred Lippitt Woonasquatucket River Greenway.

The ride will begin at Hillside and Manton avenues and will go to Lyman Avenue in Johnston to Riverside Park in Providence and will end back at Hillside Avenue. This ride will take place only on the paved off-road section. The ride is safe for children; families are encouraged to attend. Lemonade will be provided.

To register, e-mail lisa@woonasquatucket.org or call (401) 861-9046.

African Summer Bash: Oasis International, 600 Broad St., in collaboration with the Liberian Community Association of Rhode Island, the Nigerian Community of Rhode Island and The Ghana Association of Rhode Island, is holding its 15th annual African Summer Bash from 1 to 7 p.m. on Saturday at Richardson Park on Prairie Avenue (next to Roger Williams Middle School).

Live entertainment will feature John Mahone with In House Free Style and artists representing Mali, Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria.

For more information, contact Oasis International, (401) 421-1252.

West Side Thursdays: Mahi Mahi and special guest John Carpenter will perform tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Dexter Training Ground, near the Armory, as a part of West Side Thursdays.

There will also be a farmers’ market and local artisans and craft vendors.

For information, call (401) 831-9344.

Celebration: The 16th annual ¡CityArts! Summer Celebration, including performances, art, food and live music with the Kim Trusty Band and Mr. Deep Positivity, will be held tomorrow from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at 891 Broad St.

Young artists will display their drawings, paintings, masks and clay creatures. Performances will include fusion dance and rap.

Providence ¡CityArts! for Youth, Inc. is a community arts center with a mission to provide free and accessible arts programs to at-risk urban youth between ages 8 and 14. ¡CityArts! serves more than 400 youth and families through after-school, summer and daytime arts programs each year. The corps of artist-teachers works with youths on-site in professional art education studios and in neighborhoods throughout the city, including Providence Recreation Centers, Knight Memorial Library, Olneyville community schools and Gilbert Stuart Middle School.

For more information, call (401) 941-0795, ext.103, or visit www.providencecityarts.org.

Concert: The Rhode Island Historical Society’s Concerts under the Elms series continues tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. at the John Brown House Museum lawn, 52 Power St.

Pendragon will play Celtic-inspired “roots music.”

Admission is $8, adults; free for children younger than 12. RIHS members and accompanying minor children are admitted free. Pets are not allowed.

For information, call Mary Lou Upham at (401) 331-8575 ext. 33, or e-mail mlupham@rihs.org.

Providence Children’s Museum: The 25th annual Allen H. Chatterton Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament to benefit the museum will be Tuesday, Aug. 5, at Agawam Hunt Club in East Providence. All proceeds benefit the Providence Children’s Museum.

This event, sponsored by Proskauer Rose LLP, features 18 holes of golf and lunch, refreshments on the course and a buffet dinner. Registration begins at 11 a.m. with lunch at 11:30 a.m. and a shotgun start at 1 p.m.

There will be an auction, and prizes will be awarded for challenging skill contests such as longest drive, closest to the bottle and closest to the pin and putting competition.

The museum’s first golf tournament was instituted in 1983 by the late Allen Chatterton Jr., an early supporter and board member of the Children’s Museum. The tournament is chaired by his son, Allen H. Chatterton III.

Individual entry fees start at $200 per player. For registration and information about sponsorship and tee signs, call Nancy Sullivan at (401) 273-5437 ext. 221.

Deadline for fellowship applications: The Rhode Island Foundation announced an Aug. 1deadline for $25,000 fellowships for music composers.

Robert Johnson, who worked with The Rhode Island Foundation for most of the nine years between his wife’s death in 1990 and his own in 1999, fashioned a lasting legacy for Rhode Island’s artists. The $25,000 artists’ fellowships for Rhode Island composers, writers and visual artists are among the largest offered in the United States.

Now in its fourth year, the program offers up to three fellowships in 2008 for original music composition. Composition genres include chamber, choral, electronic, experimental, symphonic, opera, contemporary, nontraditional, world music and musical theater. Jazz composers are eligible to apply as long as a significant component of work is composed.

The foundation will utilize an out-of-state panel to review the submissions, evaluating composers on the quality of their work and artistic achievements and their ability to demonstrate that the fellowship will advance their work and enable them to explore new directions and techniques.

Students will not be considered. Applicants must be Rhode Island residents at the time of application and throughout the one-year span of the fellowship.

Applications should be submitted through www.callforentry.org. The deadline for applications and residency documentation is Aug. 1.

Additional information on the program and application process is available at the Receive/Grant Opportunities section of the foundation Web site, www.rifoundation.org. Questions also may be directed to Wanda Miglus, community philanthropy associate, or Daniel Kertzner, community philanthropy officer, at (401) 274-4564, or e-mail artfellowship@rifoundation.org.

Decisions on the fellowships will be announced in December.

Supporting The Boys & Girls Club: As part of McDonald’s commitment to the community, local owner/operators Peter and Linda Crisafi are supporting the Boys & Girls Club of Providence members in North Providence and Johnston by sponsoring their membership cards. The Crisafis, who own four McDonald’s in northern Rhode Island, have signed on to underwrite the cost of the card program.

The membership cards, which ensure that everyone in the club is supposed to be there, will now carry the Boys & Girls Clubs and McDonald’s logo. As a bonus, whenever club members visit one of the participating McDonald’s and shows a membership card, they will receive a $1 off any Happy Meal or Extra Value Meal.

Clubs in Providence and North Providence house state-of-the-art computer labs, swimming pools and gymnasiums, as well as nationally accredited and licensed preschools and kindergartens. Camp Davis in Charlestown, accredited by the American Camping Association, offers children year-round outdoor camping opportunities.

More than 7,500 children and youths come to the clubs for homework help, computer and Internet safety instruction, swim lessons, job/career development and training and organized athletic leagues.

For information about the organization, call Rebecca Ebeling at (401) 444-0750 ext. 107 or visit www.bgcprov.org.

Award: The Citizens Bank Foundation recently awarded $15,000 to the Providence Revolving Fund Capital Campaign for its involvement in the revitalization of historic neighborhoods and commercial areas in the city of Providence.

The Providence Revolving Fund converts office buildings, abandoned and historic properties into affordable residential apartments. Through rehabilitation loans, ownership, development and sale of property, the Revolving Fund assists low- to moderate-income families who cannot obtain conventional financing.