Community Events

Join acclaimed storyteller Bill Harley for a series of live-streamed performances the second Friday of the month January - April, 2021. Bill Harley is a two-time Grammy winner and recipient of the Humanities Council's 2010 Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities Award. Expect the unexpected in this series of live-streamed performances – three shows for families […]

This is a funding opportunity for independent producers from Rhode Island PBS. Read on for details and submission information. The submission deadline is March 8, 2021. Request for Proposal: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic February 8, 2021 Issued by: WSBE Rhode Island PBS Rhode Island PBS Contact: Lori Sullivan, Director of Content lsullivan@ripbs.org (401) 222-3636 […]

Rhode Island writers, illustrators and podcasters of color are invited to What Cheer Writers Club’s B/I/POC Creatives Happy Hour online Fri, April 9 from 5-6pm. Come share about your creative projects, and how you are facing the unique challenges of creating and finding community as an artist of color in the age of Covid. The […]

Leslie Kern, a feminist geographer and the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Mount Allison University, joins us virtually to discuss her latest book, Feminist City! GET THE BOOK Librarians love getting book recommendations too! As a citywide initiative, we invited Groundwork Rhode Island’s Executive Director, Amelia Rose, to co-host PCL READS this month and to select the next […]

Join newly-created Generation Citizen New England for a lively panel discussion of our most recent national and local changes and strains to our democracy, to inform and inspire civic Action and participation in New England. Panelists will include: RI Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg Fallon Manyika Erica Winter MA State Representative Andy […]

In honor of National Poetry Month, What Cheer Writers Club is hosting two virtual write-ins where Rhode Island poets can meet and write alone, but together, for a focused hour set apart for them and their work.

This episode will focus on mental health during the pandemic and the healing power of the arts in our communities. Hosts Michelle Cruz, and Joe Wilson, Jr. with guest host Janaya Kizzie from PPL will be joined by special guests Dr. Dana Dillon (National Alliance on Mental Illness – Rhode Island) and Ashley Frith (Community MusicWorks), who will […]

Many have turned to poetry over the past year for both expression and consolation in the face of loss. On Fri, April 23 at 5pm What Cheer Writers Club celebrates the form in honor of National Poetry Month with a virtual showcase of Rhode Island poets reading their work.

This webinar will feature Professor Íris Kantor from the University of São Paulo discussing "The History of Cartography and the Transatlantic Slave Trade".  Register for this event here.