Join us for the Rhode Island Premiere of Cunningham a film by Alla Kovgan Produced in Partnership with the Jamestown Arts Center. Film Screening at the Jane Pickens Theatre: 49 Touro St, Newport, RI 02840 Sunday, March 29th, 1:00 pm. Running time: 93 min. Q&A with Producer, Elizabeth Delude-Dix; Costume Designer, Jeffrey Wirsing; and a […]
Stages of Freedom's 5th Annual And Still I Rise, a Tribute to Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison & Jessye Norman Join Stages of Freedom for poetry readings, live music with an all-female band, reminiscences, and more by great Rhode Island women. Date: Sunday, March 29, 2pm Location: The First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main […]
Providence author Shai Afsai will discuss Benjamin Franklin’s self-improvement method and its influence on Judaism. As a young man in his twenties, Benjamin Franklin resolved to perfect his character and devised a unique method to aid him in the challenging task of becoming virtuous. Franklin's method, described in his posthumously-published autobiography, became incorporated into the […]
Edgar Villanueva, author of Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance (2018), visits Brown to discuss the legacy of colonialism in American philanthropy and to offer alternative paradigms informed by Indigenous worldviews and his expertise in the field. Joining him in conversation about shifts towards social justice philanthropy is renowned civil society scholar, social […]
Back to the Future Ready for some time travel? We have landed in suburban Warwick at CCRI’s Knight Campus, the sculptural concrete megastructure built in 1969-72 (Perkins + Will Partnership et al). Here Rhode Island’s 35th Annual Historic Preservation Conference will explore concepts of the future and historic preservation, including but not limited to: Post-war architecture […]
Join Dr. Lucy Spelman, founder of the local nonprofit Creature Conserve, alongside other RI environmental writers for What Cheer Writers Club's virtual Environmental Writers Round Table* on Saturday, April 25 at 1pm. Local science and environmental writers have a chance to gather online to hear about Dr. Spelman's efforts to connect scientists and creatives and […]
Join the Newport Historical Society for a talk with Dr. Allison Horrocks on Rhode Island's Suffrage Centennial: From Radical Social Movements to Ratification, on Thursday, April 30th, 2020 at 5:30pm at the Leatherman Program Center, 82 Touro Street, Newport, RI. The year 2020 marks the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment. As another election […]
The Rhode Island Expansion Arts Program (RIEAP) is excited to open the 2020-2021 funding opportunity for seed grants that promote intercultural collaboration. RIEAP offers funding and organizational assistance to community-based, culturally-diverse arts and cultural organizations. It is supported by a collaboration between the Rhode Island Foundation, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA), and Rhode Island Council […]
The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities invites applications to two new grant programs in support of humanities organizations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Rhode Island. The goal of the new general operating support grant program is to ensure that humanities organizations can continue to provide opportunities for our state’s diverse communities to access […]