Premiere Broadcast: September 3, 2019 @ 8/7c America ReFramed on WORLD Channel Streaming: 9/3 - 10/3/2019 @ bit.ly/ARF_Councilwoman Film Summary Carmen Castillo is a first-term city councilwoman who maintains her full-time job as a hotel housekeeper. She advocates for the working families in her community and leads the charge of the Fight for $15 in […]
Join the Newport Historical Society for Frère et Concitoyen: A Newporter in Revolutionary France, a lecture by Will Simpson, a Buchanan Burnham Summer Scholar in Public History, which will be at the Newport Historical Society Resource Center, 82 Touro Street, Newport, RI, on September 5, 2019 at 5:30pm. The story of William H. Vernon’s years […]
Join the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council at the Festival Pier in Pawtucket to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Chinese Dragon Boat Races in Pawtucket, the 40th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act, and the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council's six new dragon boats hand-built in Taiwan. The event will also feature a Dragon Boat Parade on […]
The Rhode Island Chinese Dragon Boat Races & Taiwan Day Festival is an extraordinary event for the whole family to enjoy! The races use the fiberglass Taiwanese-style dragon boats gifted from the Republic of China (Taiwan) – now 12 in total! – and incorporate the skill of flag-catching in each race. The Rhode Island Chinese […]
The Council-funded short film, Anna and Ahana, will have its world premiere on Saturday, September 7, 2019 at Rhode Island College as part of Caleidoscope, the largest Indian Film Festival in New England. Based on The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna and Ahana is a contemporary thriller connecting two women across time. Date: September 7, […]
Please join Pushed Learning and Media for a night of performances, student showcases, and short film screenings to celebrate and showcase the incredible work of RI students. 7:00 - 9:30 PM on Saturday, September 7, 2019. Free, with a $10 suggested donation.
Exhibition on view June 3 - September 10 In 1836, the Providence Library Company (1753) and the Providence Athenæum (1831) made the decision to dissolve their institutions and reform as the library we know today as the Providence Athenæum. The library has occupied its home on Benefit Street since 1838, bearing witness to the evolution […]
The Cranston Public Library will welcome filmmaker, professor and Cranston resident Evan Villari on Wednesday, Sept. 11, from 6:00 - 8:00 PM at the Central library, 140 Sockanosset Cross Road, Cranston, RI. Villari will share research for Blood and Watershed (bloodandwatershed.com), an upcoming documentary film on the true history of the Scituate Reservoir, while drawing […]
Keynote | September 12, 5:30 PM | Brown University Granoff Center for the Arts Martinos Auditorium | 154 Angell St. Providence | FREE | Registration required What’s gonna happen? There is a calamity in the air. Every person I pass on the street has that look on their face. The look of, “What’s gonna happen?” […]
September 14, 8:00 PM | The Vets, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence | $29-69 | Get Tickets “A necessary and great American epic for our time” (Los Angeles Times) Equal parts community organizer, Elizabethan fool and bedazzled bon vivant, Taylor Mac is recognized as one of the most exciting voices in contemporary theater, and […]
September 15, 10:30 AM | Brown University Granoff Center for the Arts Fishman Studio | 154 Angell St. Providence | FREE | Registration required . One of the most provocative voices in contemporary theater, Taylor Mac is hailed for defying convention while engaging diverse audiences. The multi-dimensional artist (who uses the pronoun “judy”) shares judy’s […]
Join us September 17 at 7pm at the Warwick Public Library for Rethinking the Gaspee Affair, a new history program reevaluating Rhode Island's much-lauded Gaspee Affair. The lecture is free and open to all. Rethinking the Gaspee Affair In June 1772, a group of Rhode Islanders attacked and burned the British customs ship Gaspee, contributing […]
The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities is offering free grant information and evaluation workshops! Have you ever wanted to learn more about our funding opportunities? Do you want to know more about how our funding fits in with other philanthropic organizations in Rhode Island? Have you ever had trouble evaluating your arts and culture […]
Join us for an evening of Victorian inspired games! Providence Gaming Guild will guide novices and challenge experienced players with a new round of exciting historical games. Brown University’s John Hay Library will bring a selection from their current exhibit Learning through Play: British and French Tabletop Games from the 18th and 19th Centuries. Snacks […]
Consider the lasting effects that the Gorham Manufacturing Company has had on the community where it grew and prospered. Through the RISD Museum's newest soundwalk, Reverberations, you can listen to firsthand multi-generational accounts about Gorham and its connections with labor, craft, and the Elmwood neighborhood, as well as Indigenous and environmental perspectives about the landscape […]
Join Stages of Freedom for a lively discussion on Charles Rappleye's compelling book about the famed Brown Brothers of Providence and the slave trade. View a pop-up exhibit on a newly discovered 1763 letter from John Brown about the purchase of a "negro" woman and child. Free. Registration required. Limited to the first 30 registrants.
Join New Urban Arts for Shared Stories, an exhibition of student artwork from their Summer 2019 programs (Art Inquiry: The Immigrant Story, Untitlement Project, College Explorations, and Open Studio). Art Inquiry: The Immigrant Story was funded in part by a grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.
The Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission will hold its 41st Annual Heritage Day Festival on September 21, 2019, in the historic Pawtucket Armory Arts Center. Some of the major highlights of the festival include a flag parade, cultural arts & crafts table displays, a multinational fashion show, a children’s craft area, and multicultural […]
Join ONE Neighborhood Builders in celebrating the spirit and diversity of Olneyville! Saturday, September 21st from 12pm-6pm at Riverside Park Celebrate the different cultures that make up the diverse and vibrant Olneyville community. They'll be live music, yoga and dancing classes, craft stations for kids, a paint-a-thon, a beer garden and more. Event and food […]
The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities is offering free grant information and evaluation workshops! Have you ever wanted to learn more about our funding opportunities? Do you want to know more about how our funding fits in with other philanthropic organizations in Rhode Island? Have you ever had trouble evaluating your arts and culture […]
The Civil Rights Kid with Ray Rickman tells in dramatic and compelling ways of his early activism in the Civil Rights Movement. As a young student, Ray fought to integrate the Detroit public schools, leading city-wide walk-outs and bringing a federal lawsuit. As a teen, against his mother's better instincts, he participated in the March […]
Engaging with and extending the fields of African American studies, urban studies, gender and sexuality studies, dance studies, performance studies, popular music studies, ethnomusicology, and media studies, Do You Remember House? considers house music culture’s liberatory potential in relation to its flexible repertoire in motion, an ever-expanding archive of danceable sounds perseverance. Featuring the author […]
The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities is offering free grant information and evaluation workshops! Have you ever wanted to learn more about our funding opportunities? Do you want to know more about how our funding fits in with other philanthropic organizations in Rhode Island? Have you ever had trouble evaluating your arts and culture […]
Exhibition: September 26 – November 14, 2019 Map It Out – Providence (September 26 – November 14) is an exhibition of hand-drawn maps created by Providence and Rhode Island community members in collaboration with the Toronto-based artists Gwen MacGregor and Sandra Rechico. The maps reveal our community’s memories, and propose new ways of understanding the geography […]
Brown University Petterutti Lounge (Room 201) in the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center 75 Waterman Street Providence, RI 02906 In the public humanities, counter-mapping and “radical cartography” are emerging as powerful tools to critique institutional authority and imagine alternative ways of thinking about place. Radical Cartography Now brings together historians, activists, social practice artists, digital […]
Panel discussion on alternative ways of mapping the city. This panel discussion is part of a one-day conference titled Radical Cartography Now: Digital, Artistic and Social Justice Approaches to Mapping. The entire conference is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Register here. Counter-mapping Providence (and Tulsa) Moderator: Marisa Angell Brown, Assistant […]
The Providence Athenæum is thrilled to welcome acclaimed author Colson Whitehead to Providence! Named “a genuine literary phenomenon” by The New York Times, he recently was the first author in almost a decade to appear on the cover of Time. His 2016 novel The Underground Railroad won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for […]
Imagine receiving a set of keys to the community landmarks and hidden gems all around you – for FREE! For one day, on Saturday, September 28th, 10:oo AM - 4:00 PM, Doors Open Pawtucket + Central Falls will provide you with behind-the-scenes access to one-of-a-kind places and spaces across these neighboring cities. Build your own […]
AS220 Main Stage - 115 Empire Street, Providence RI 02903 In honor of Constitution Day 2019, join the ACLU and AS220 to hear local poets and artists reflect aloud on the Bill of Rights. Featuring: Charlotte Abotsi, Stine AnUmberto Crenca, Joe DeGeorge, Muggs Fogarty, Hernan Jourdan, Vatic Kuumba, Laura Brown-Lavoie, Shey Rivera, Astrid Drew and hosted […]
The Martin House Farm is a rare example of an 18th and early 19th century farm which still retains the character of its original setting. It consists of the house, two barns and cultivated fields surrounded by dry stone walls and woodlands. The home was lived in continuously by members of the Martin family for […]
The 8th annual TEDxProvidence is returning to the VETS Auditorium on Saturday, October 5th. The event will begin at 10:00 and feature over 15 speakers, multiple musical performances, a food court featuring local food trucks, break out/networking space, and an audience you'll want to be surrounded by! TEDxProvidence is Providence's locally and independently-organized TED-like event, […]