As part of FirstWork's Artistic Icons Series, Urban Bush Women will perform "Walking with 'Trane" - a towering jazz masterpiece that comes alive onstage with unbridled energy, innovative choreography, and live music. In their performance, this electrifying, all-female “unstoppable force in American dance” salutes John Coltrane’s "A Love Supreme" against the backdrop of a composition […]
Essay in Public looks at the changing relationship between journalism and the humanities in the digital age. Our 2016 conference, The Way We Work Now, will explore how local reporting/research can best reach the broadest national audience. It is the first event in a year-long series of events called: “What is the 21st Century Essay?” a […]
Join the Library’s Brown Bag Book Club in a discussion of the 2016 Reading Across Rhode Island title, The Wright Brothers. Historian David McCullough brings to life two of the most iconic figures in American history in The Wright Brothers. Regarded by many in their time as mere “bicycle mechanics,” Wilbur and Orville Wright were […]
Funded by the "Latino Americans: 500 Years of History" grant opportunity offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA), this forum will focus on Rhode Island Latino activism—from AmeriCorps VISTAs registering voters in the 1990s, to DREAMers of today. The event will include a video created by PBS […]
During big election years the impact of money on our political process is clear. What role do PACs and other big donors play in the electoral process? How will current campaign finance reform efforts make a difference? Join a conversation led by Wendy Schiller, Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs at Brown University & […]
Join the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities for the announcement of our 2016 Major Grant Awardees! $124,000 will be awarded to 14 humanities projects across Rhode Island. Come celebrate and learn more about these Council-funded initiatives that will benefit our state through community engagement with public history, arts & culture, and civic education. Wednesday, April […]
Join fellow community members and enjoy a performance by Living Literature! This year's performance is based on the Reading Across Rhode Island selection, The Wright Brothers by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough. Living Literature is a collective of RI-based performing artists, who have been celebrating the written word through readers-theatre style performances of non-dramatic literature, since its […]
This Freedom Café will examine ongoing issues in mass incarceration from the perspective of those working within the system and hoping for positive changes. The evening will include a performance from Everett Company and allow for unique conversation between the Everett artists, individuals working within the criminal justice system, academics writing about mass incarceration, and […]
Stories of Access/Stories of Denial is a year-long investigation of Civil Rights history by youth at Riverzedge Arts. A group of young artists who specialize in making art in the public sphere looked at how various communities -- African American, Latino, Southeast Asian, LGBTQ and Native American – experience marginalization and resist with resilience. We […]
Stories of Access/Stories of Denial is a year-long investigation of Civil Rights history by youth at Riverzedge Arts. A group of young artists who specialize in making art in the public sphere looked at how various communities -- African American, Latino, Southeast Asian, LGBTQ and Native American – experience marginalization and resist with resilience. We […]
