RIHS gave Creators 300 minutes of footage from the RIHS collections – they're giving back remixed short films. RIHS is screening the films in 3 outdoor locations. Tickets are free, but register is encouraged. Please do so through the following links: Providence | Fri, Sept 10 | 6:30pm arrival; 7pm program | Aldrich House Lawn (110 Benevolent […]
Seventeenth-century New England’s bloody Pequot War erupted after English colonial settlers increasingly grabbed Indigenous inhabitants’ land. During the war, a relatively unknown legal case in Plymouth Colony set a precedent for justice—the trial by jury of three settlers for the unprovoked attack and murder of an Indigenous man named Penowanyanquis, a member of the Nipmuc Nation […]
Join the Rhode Island Historical Society along with Deborah Spears Moorehead and fellow artists on a walking tour along the Providence River area on September 18th at 10am. Moorhead will lead a walking tour along the Providence River highlighting its significance to native Indigenous communities. The tour will include musical performances and spoken word storytelling […]
Pawtucket Arts Fest Presents: Aurea & Festival Ballet Providence - Daybreak, A Premiere Collaboration for Unique Live Performance Daybreak Acclaimed for its innovative, eclectic, thematic programming, Aurea blends classical chamber music, brilliant harmonica improvisations and poignant readings. Daybreak, inspired by Langston Hughes’ iconic poem, Daybreak in Alabama, is an exciting first collaboration between the Aurea […]
Providence Community Library cordially invites you to save the date for the 2021 Providence Latino Book & Arts Fair to be held virtually on September 20-23 and September 27-30, 6-7.30pm, with an in-person event on September 25 to be hosted at Knight Memorial Library, 11-2.00pm. Our bilingual Fair will feature Latino, Latina and Latinx artists, performers and writers […]
Inspired by an expedition into the multidimensional realms of Octavia E. Butler’s archives, writer Porsha Olayiwola and visual artist Dara Bayer explore patterns in the development of the individual and the collective. Butler, the first Black woman to win the Hugo Literary Award for science fiction, questions the cycle of self and spirit. Bayer and […]
Women Leading Change event is the Women's Fund of Rhode Island's premier fundraiser, bringing together business and community leaders, social activists, philanthropists, and anyone interested in leveling the playing field for women and girls in Rhode Island to commemorate the organization’s 20-year impact. The event is both a celebration and tribute. Simone Joyaux founded WFRI […]
Providence Community Library cordially invites you to save the date for the 2021 Providence Latino Book & Arts Fair to be held virtually on September 20-23 and September 27-30, 6-7.30pm, with an in-person event on September 25 to be hosted at Knight Memorial Library, 11-2.00pm. Our bilingual Fair will feature Latino, Latina and Latinx artists, performers and writers […]
Sometimes the events of a life can feel less like a typical story and more like a constellation of disparate parts. In this workshop, we’ll explore how to work with this phenomenon and give compelling shape and structure to memoir, investigating variations in structure from the simple to the complex in works by authors such […]
Providence Community Library cordially invites you to save the date for the 2021 Providence Latino Book & Arts Fair to be held virtually on September 20-23 and September 27-30, 6-7.30pm, with an in-person event on September 25 to be hosted at Knight Memorial Library, 11-2.00pm. Our bilingual Fair will feature Latino, Latina and Latinx artists, performers and writers […]