Grantee Events

GAMM HUMANITIES FORUMS Surrounding the world premiere of King Elizabeth a new version of Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart freely adapted and directed by Tony Estrella “A Distant Mirror: Elizabeth and Mary in the 21st Century” with Gamm Artistic Director Tony Estrella & Gamm Resident Scholar Jennifer Madden at The Gamm Theatre, 172 Exchange St., Pawtucket […]

GAMM HUMANITIES FORUMS Surrounding the world premiere of King Elizabeth a new version of Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart freely adapted and directed by Tony Estrella   “Monstrous Regiment of Women: The Intersection of Gender, Politics and Power” co-sponsored by Lincoln School at Lincoln School, 301 Butler Ave., Providence Panelists: Aubrey Westfall, Assistant Prof. of Political […]

Originally from a poor family of farmers, Benjamin Brayton Knight (1813-1898) and his younger brother, Robert Brayton Knight (1826-1912), became some of the most successful late nine-teenth-century entrepreneurs in the state of Rhode Island. Their firm, B.B. & R. Knight & Co., was famed for its “Fruit of the Loom” trademark, and their cotton manufacturing […]

Yes Farms, Yes Food: The Farm-to-Table Plays! is the culminating production of The Manton Avenue Project’s 2017 Playmaking program, an afterschool playwriting course held at MAP’s Clubhouse in Olneyville. Ten young playwrights, all third graders, each worked with a dramaturge (grown-up playwriting mentor) to write a new play that explores the theme of local farms […]

GAMM HUMANITIES FORUMS Surrounding the world premiere of King Elizabeth a new version of Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart freely adapted and directed by Tony Estrella “The More Things Change…II” Panelists: Nellie Gorbea, RI Secretary of State & Sandra Cano, Pawtucket City Council Member Moderator: Maureen Moakley, Prof. Political Science, URI at The Gamm Theatre, 172 […]

SALON: Poet and writer Colin Channer as part of the Open Sesame project Poet and fiction writer Colin Channer will read and discuss poems arising from encounters with books, maps, and documents about food in the Athenæum’s archives. The exploration continues the journey of his artistic life – all the multitude of ways in which […]

Our experience of historic houses is most often framed by exterior appearances. We come to identify and understand historic time periods and changing styles of architecture through build-ing forms, rooflines, materials, and even paint colors. These are the elements of a public realm accessible to all. Exterior patterns can build whole neighborhoods and clearly reflect […]