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 […]
Originally scheduled for January 22, this live performance is rescheduled to Thursday, September 29, 2022 to open FirstWorks’ fall season. The producers have prioritized the health of our audience members and artists during the current high community transmission of COVID-19, while affirming the healing power of the arts. “The Telling” is a new collection of […]
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 […]
Join the Rhode Island Historical Society on Saturday, October 1, at 7 pm 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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.