One hundred years ago, Empire Street was home to a vibrant Chinatown, with shops, community organizations, subsidized housing, and more. How should we understand their stories, the stories of their descendants, and what it should mean to us today as Asian Americans? A "relational reconstruction" project which seeks to understand what it might have felt […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
PORTALES is an art exhibit presenting the variety of ways that artists and organizers in Rhode Island have strengthened our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement against racial injustice. In moments of difficulty, we can see how art can turn into ‘community portals’ that help us envision better futures. The exhibit is a […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
The My State House exhibition features six design proposals for a State House of the future and a selection of community-made maps of the building and grounds suggesting interventions that would make the State House more welcoming and accessible. The closing program includes remarks by Manuel Cordero, Becci Davis, and Ted Sanderson, and the announcement […]
PORTALES is an art exhibit presenting the variety of ways that artists and organizers in Rhode Island have strengthened our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement against racial injustice. In moments of difficulty, we can see how art can turn into ‘community portals’ that help us envision better futures. The exhibit is a […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
PORTALES is an art exhibit presenting the variety of ways that artists and organizers in Rhode Island have strengthened our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement against racial injustice. In moments of difficulty, we can see how art can turn into ‘community portals’ that help us envision better futures. The exhibit is a […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
PORTALES is an art exhibit presenting the variety of ways that artists and organizers in Rhode Island have strengthened our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement against racial injustice. In moments of difficulty, we can see how art can turn into ‘community portals’ that help us envision better futures. The exhibit is a […]
How can stories from the past inspire today’s activist storytelling? Join What Cheer Writers Club for Inside the Archives: The Art of Then online Wed, Sept 28 at 7pm to learn how to access sources of inspiration in Rhode Island’s collections. Archivists from Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, Rhode Island Historical Society, Rhode Island State […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
PORTALES is an art exhibit presenting the variety of ways that artists and organizers in Rhode Island have strengthened our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement against racial injustice. In moments of difficulty, we can see how art can turn into ‘community portals’ that help us envision better futures. The exhibit is a […]
ECAS en Casa inicia una serie de Diálogos teatrales, primer panel de discusión con el director y escritor de teatro dominicano Haffe Serulle, en una tertulia sobre el arte de la actuación, la energía creadora y la imaginación. “El director es un creador por excelencia. Cuando tú no eres un creador, no mereces el título de director. […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
PORTALES is an art exhibit presenting the variety of ways that artists and organizers in Rhode Island have strengthened our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement against racial injustice. In moments of difficulty, we can see how art can turn into ‘community portals’ that help us envision better futures. The exhibit is a […]
A HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES Now a decade in the making, Slatersville: America's First Mill Village will be a 12-episode historical documentary series that has been filmed in seven states and the U.K. Its focus is on the two-hundred-year history of the first industrialized mill village in the U.S., in the heart of the Blackstone Valley, […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join The Armenian Historical Association of Rhode Island “Under the Tent” to celebrate our Museum’s 5th Anniversary Free & open to all The event is interactive, informative, and fun! Bring old photos with Armenian script for translation. Ask questions about genealogy resources. Bring cherished textiles for assessment. Watch a live performance segment of “Gar oo […]
PORTALES is an art exhibit presenting the variety of ways that artists and organizers in Rhode Island have strengthened our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement against racial injustice. In moments of difficulty, we can see how art can turn into ‘community portals’ that help us envision better futures. The exhibit is a […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
PORTALES is an art exhibit presenting the variety of ways that artists and organizers in Rhode Island have strengthened our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement against racial injustice. In moments of difficulty, we can see how art can turn into ‘community portals’ that help us envision better futures. The exhibit is a […]
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Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
PORTALES is an art exhibit presenting the variety of ways that artists and organizers in Rhode Island have strengthened our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement against racial injustice. In moments of difficulty, we can see how art can turn into ‘community portals’ that help us envision better futures. The exhibit is a […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
PORTALES is an art exhibit presenting the variety of ways that artists and organizers in Rhode Island have strengthened our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement against racial injustice. In moments of difficulty, we can see how art can turn into ‘community portals’ that help us envision better futures. The exhibit is a […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
PORTALES is an art exhibit presenting the variety of ways that artists and organizers in Rhode Island have strengthened our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement against racial injustice. In moments of difficulty, we can see how art can turn into ‘community portals’ that help us envision better futures. The exhibit is a […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Nicole C. Laliberté, Director of Freedom Dances, hosts an evening celebrating French Canadian Heritage. Freedom Dances performs two multi-media dance works: One created from stories by local people of French Canadian descent; The 2nd, "La Survivance - Chère Mémère", is the biography of Roger Laliberté's mother, Maria. The evening concludes with a performance by Franco-American […]
Join the Rhode Island Historical Society for the 2nd Annual Archive Remix Film Festival! This year’s outdoor premiere screening will be hosted at the Old Slater Mill National Historic Site in the heart of Pawtucket. The hour-long program will feature 14 3-minute creative remixes created by local professional and amateur filmmakers using footage from the […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Once invisible to the general public, election administrators are at the center of an ongoing public debate about the integrity of our democracy. NO TIME TO FAIL is a verite film that tells the story of election officials across the state of Rhode Island. Amidst an onslaught of attacks from a sitting President, and the […]
A HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES Now a decade in the making, Slatersville: America's First Mill Village will be a 12-episode historical documentary series that has been filmed in seven states and the U.K. Its focus is on the two-hundred-year history of the first industrialized mill village in the U.S., in the heart of the Blackstone Valley, […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Movement Education Outdoors is hosting an art exhibit at the lodge in Saunderstown. Land and Liberation is an art exhibit connecting the work of climate justice and youth education with art and culture as a resource to imagine better futures and outdoor equity. Outdoor preservation is often tied to practices of colonialism, settlement, and white […]
Movement Education Outdoors is hosting an art exhibit at the lodge in Saunderstown. Land and Liberation is an art exhibit connecting the work of climate justice and youth education with art and culture as a resource to imagine better futures and outdoor equity. Outdoor preservation is often tied to practices of colonialism, settlement, and white […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Once invisible to the general public, election administrators are at the center of an ongoing public debate about the integrity of our democracy. NO TIME TO FAIL is a verite film that tells the story of election officials across the state of Rhode Island. Amidst an onslaught of attacks from a sitting President, and the […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
The future of our environment is among the most pressing issues of our time. In 2022-23, URI’s Center for the Humanities is devoting its annual lecture series to the environmental humanities, a discipline that uses humanistic questions and methods to shed light on how we interpret our environment and envision its future. This yearlong series draws on […]
Join the Rhode Island Historical Society for the 2nd Annual Archive Remix Film Festival! This year’s outdoor premiere screening will be hosted at the Old Slater Mill National Historic Site in the heart of Pawtucket. The hour-long program will feature 14 3-minute creative remixes created by local professional and amateur filmmakers using footage from the […]
Once invisible to the general public, election administrators are at the center of an ongoing public debate about the integrity of our democracy. NO TIME TO FAIL is a verite film that tells the story of election officials across the state of Rhode Island. Amidst an onslaught of attacks from a sitting President, and the […]
Applications are now open for the 2023-2025 Rhode Island Expansion Arts Program Grants Información en español sobre el programa: rifoundation.org/grant/programa-de-expansion-arts TO APPLY click here Grant deadline: October 14, 2022 For questions about the RIEAP application or for any language support for Spanish speakers, please contact: Elena Calderón Patiño, Director of Community Arts Program, RI State Council on […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
A HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES Now a decade in the making, Slatersville: America's First Mill Village will be a 12-episode historical documentary series that has been filmed in seven states and the U.K. Its focus is on the two-hundred-year history of the first industrialized mill village in the U.S., in the heart of the Blackstone Valley, […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Movement Education Outdoors is hosting an art exhibit at the lodge in Saunderstown. Land and Liberation is an art exhibit connecting the work of climate justice and youth education with art and culture as a resource to imagine better futures and outdoor equity. Outdoor preservation is often tied to practices of colonialism, settlement, and white […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join What Cheer Writers Club and blackearth collective + lab for a Poetry, Healing & Activism Experience on Sat, Sept 17 at 1:30pm. Led by poets Justice Ameer Gaines and Kou Tukala Nyan, this workshop will include readings and discussion around healing, advocacy, and art with an invitation to create and share poetry collectively or […]
Taller de intercambio de cuentos bilingües en Conexión Latina (Bilingual story-sharing workshop at Conexión Latina Newport) ¿Celebran el día de los muertos o algo similar? A quien honra durante sus celebraciones? ¿Cuáles memorias o tradiciones son las más significantes para ti? ¿Se cambió las celebraciones desde su niñez? Si pudieras escribir el epitafio de un […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join the Rhode Island Historical Society for the 2nd Annual Archive Remix Film Festival! This year’s outdoor premiere screening will be hosted at the Old Slater Mill National Historic Site in the heart of Pawtucket. The hour-long program will feature 14 3-minute creative remixes created by local professional and amateur filmmakers using footage from the […]
ECAS en Casa inicia una serie de Diálogos teatrales, primer panel de discusión con el director y escritor de teatro dominicano Haffe Serulle, en una tertulia sobre el arte de la actuación, la energía creadora y la imaginación. “El director es un creador por excelencia. Cuando tú no eres un creador, no mereces el título de director. […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Taller de creación artística bilingüe en Conexión Latina (Bilingual art making workshop at Conexión Latina Newport) Únase al personal del Museo y de Conexión Latina, y al artista residente del Museo Orlando Almanza, para una tarde de arte bilingüe en familia. Como una comunidad, creamos decoraciones tradicionales para nuestros dos altares comunidades – una para […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
The future of our environment is among the most pressing issues of our time. In 2022-23, URI’s Center for the Humanities is devoting its annual lecture series to the environmental humanities, a discipline that uses humanistic questions and methods to shed light on how we interpret our environment and envision its future. This yearlong series draws on […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
MIGHT CURIOSITY SAVE US? ‘The way you show people that they matter is aiming your curiosity at them. Ask yourself “what kinds of people do I talk about, but never with?” Whoever is underrepresented in your life will be overrepresented in your imagination.’ —Mónica Guzmán Ready to fight back against the confusion, heartbreak, and madness […]
ECAS en Casa inicia una serie de Diálogos teatrales, primer panel de discusión con el director y escritor de teatro dominicano Haffe Serulle, en una tertulia sobre el arte de la actuación, la energía creadora y la imaginación. “El director es un creador por excelencia. Cuando tú no eres un creador, no mereces el título de director. […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
The Black Press in Rhode Island is a remarkable yet virtually unknown history. In 1857 we find Alexander P. Niger, an accomplished typesetter, in the Providence print shop of A. C. Greene. In 1860, the first African American newspaper, Rev. George W. Hamblin’s L’Overture, begins publication. In 1906, John Carter Minkins became the nation’s first […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
a Survivance: An Evening Celebrating French Canadian Heritage will be presented at The Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Square, Woonsocket RI 02895 on Sunday, October 30, 2022, at 5:00 pm. La Survivance: An Evening Celebrating French Canadian Heritage promises a night filled with original dance and live music celebrating the vibrant Franco-American history in the Blackstone Valley. Admission is $21 and can […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
¡Una celebración bilingüe de Día de los Muertos! (A bilingual Day of the Dead celebration!) Bienvenidos al Newport Art Museum para ¡Qué Vivan los Muertos!, una celebración tradicional mexicana de los seres queridos que han fallecido. Organizado por el museo y Jesús de la Torre, empleado de Conexión Latina, con el apoyo artístico de Orlando […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
ECAS en Casa inicia una serie de Diálogos teatrales, primer panel de discusión con el director y escritor de teatro dominicano Haffe Serulle, en una tertulia sobre el arte de la actuación, la energía creadora y la imaginación. “El director es un creador por excelencia. Cuando tú no eres un creador, no mereces el título de director. […]
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
In support of local writers taking the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge, What Cheer Writers Club is hosting a kick-off Novel Writers Happy Hour for NaNoWriMo writers to meet fellow novelists and prepare for the month ahead.
Co-presented by FirstWorks and Brown Arts Institute at Brown University “For him, dance is theatre, not just movement.” — The Guardian For almost four decades, the groundbreaking Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company has revolutionized modern dance while exploring issues of identity. The company’s work “What Problem?” evokes the tension between belonging to a community and […]
Join director and choreographer Bill T. Jones and Janet Wong, Associate Artistic Director of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, as they discuss the company’s latest work, “What Problem?” and their collaboration with 26 local community participants for the Providence performance of the work.
Join Julia Renaud, Associate Director of Grants and Strategic Initiatives, for an hour long workshop about the ins and outs of applying for a mini or major grant from the Humanities Council. Bring your questions and your ideas for upcoming public humanities projects. Free and open to the public. Registration required.