This much anticipated and highly visible event is the flagship of Rhode Island Black Storytellers (RIBS) program and reaches a statewide audiences of thousands. Each January for the week of the Martin Luther King Holiday, RIBS tellers, local artists and invited national and international guests bring the best of Black Storytelling to Rhode Island and […]
The John Carter Brown Library invites you to its annual Sonia Galletti Memorial lecture by Coll Thrush, Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. Urban and Indigenous histories have usually been treated as though they are mutually exclusive. Coll Thrush’s work, however, has argued that the two kinds of history are in fact […]
The Mini Grant Program for requests up to $2,000 invites individual researchers, nonprofit organizations, and schools to apply for funding in support of public humanities projects, documentary film, civic education initiatives, and individual research. MINI GRANT DEADLINES November 1, 2018 February 1, 2019 May 1, 2019 August 1, 2019 All materials must be submitted to […]
Providence is a city of hidden histories, some lying beneath the ground waiting to be unearthed and others tucked away in overlooked buildings and backstreets. Join Brown and RISD students as they share a diverse range of stories from Providence's past that they have uncovered through archaeological excavations, archival research, and collecting local memories and […]
Inspired by one of literature’s most haunting figures, award-winning author Lynn Cullen crafts a tale about Edgar Allan Poe, his poet mistress, and his obsessive young wife, featuring many historical characters well known to the Athenæum. Book signing to follow the program. -- Lynn Cullen grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and is the bestselling […]
An exhibition of design proposals for a new school on Broad Street, developed by RISD Architecture students. A public conversation led by Ben Pell, RISD faculty, will explore how design can both nurture a sense of community within the school and foster connections to the surrounding neighborhood.
Hosted by Teatro ECAS and ECOArts USA, this Providence, RI premier of "Councilwoman" will offer local audiences a chance to watch this documentary film about Councilwoman Carmen Castillo. About the Film: Politicians aren’t often full-time hotel housekeepers, grandmothers, and immigrants working service jobs. But Carmen Castillo changes that when she wins a seat on the […]
Living in a world of constant change requires ever-recurring adjustments in forms of repair as things break, decay, or fall into pieces. The Adaptive Reuse and Exhibition design studio by the Department of Interior Architecture, RISD, under guidance of Prof. Markus Berger investigated creative and generative topics of repair by engaging the 200-year-old Cathedral of […]
FREE screening of the Academy Award nominated feature documentary, Minding The Gap before Oscar Sunday! About the Film: Welcome to Rockford, Illinois, in the heart of Rust-Belt America, home to debut filmmaker Bing Liu. With over 12 years of footage, Bing discovers connections between two of his skateboarder friends’ volatile upbringings and the complexities of […]
Living Literature is proud to present a 60 minute readers theatre of the Reading Across Rhode Island selection for 2019, What the Eyes Don’t See by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha. Engaging discussions of the book follow the performances, which benefit both those who have read the book and those who have not had the opportunity. Laura […]
What we choose to preserve often tells us more about what we value in the present than it does about our past. That’s why conversations about what to preserve and what to demolish — what to archive and what to throw out — are so fierce. We can’t save everything, can we? So what shall […]
You would have to be a pretty clever bird to want to hang out at the library! Help welcome Zachariah, a real live raven, and the Audubon Society of Rhode Island to the Providence Athenæum. In conjunction with their special exhibit Ravenous: The Enduring Legacy of Poe, the Athenæum is partnering with the Audubon Society […]