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Rhode Island’s ballet theatre (RIbt) dancers will perform in the Newport Arboretum’s Arts After Dark for the first night of the Lighting of the Beeches. This will include a celebratory New Orleans’s-style funeral for the Newport Art Museum’s beloved European Fernleaf Beech. For more information visit www.newportaboretum.org and www.newportartmuseum.org