This much anticipated and highly visible event is the flagship of Rhode Island Black Storytellers (RIBS) program and reaches a statewide audiences of thousands. Each January for the week of the Martin Luther King Holiday, RIBS tellers, local artists and invited national and international guests bring the best of Black Storytelling to Rhode Island and […]
The John Carter Brown Library invites you to its annual Sonia Galletti Memorial lecture by Coll Thrush, Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. Urban and Indigenous histories have usually been treated as though they are mutually exclusive. Coll Thrush’s work, however, has argued that the two kinds of history are in fact […]
Providence is a city of hidden histories, some lying beneath the ground waiting to be unearthed and others tucked away in overlooked buildings and backstreets. Join Brown and RISD students as they share a diverse range of stories from Providence's past that they have uncovered through archaeological excavations, archival research, and collecting local memories and […]
An exhibition of design proposals for a new school on Broad Street, developed by RISD Architecture students. A public conversation led by Ben Pell, RISD faculty, will explore how design can both nurture a sense of community within the school and foster connections to the surrounding neighborhood.
Living in a world of constant change requires ever-recurring adjustments in forms of repair as things break, decay, or fall into pieces. The Adaptive Reuse and Exhibition design studio by the Department of Interior Architecture, RISD, under guidance of Prof. Markus Berger investigated creative and generative topics of repair by engaging the 200-year-old Cathedral of […]
FREE screening of the Academy Award nominated feature documentary, Minding The Gap before Oscar Sunday! About the Film: Welcome to Rockford, Illinois, in the heart of Rust-Belt America, home to debut filmmaker Bing Liu. With over 12 years of footage, Bing discovers connections between two of his skateboarder friends’ volatile upbringings and the complexities of […]
Living Literature is proud to present a 60 minute readers theatre of the Reading Across Rhode Island selection for 2019, What the Eyes Don’t See by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha. Engaging discussions of the book follow the performances, which benefit both those who have read the book and those who have not had the opportunity. Laura […]
What we choose to preserve often tells us more about what we value in the present than it does about our past. That’s why conversations about what to preserve and what to demolish — what to archive and what to throw out — are so fierce. We can’t save everything, can we? So what shall […]