Community Events

Our Department developed PVDx2031 in collaboration with local artists and arts organizations throughout 2020, a year with unforeseen yet necessary sociopolitical pivots. Engaging a cultural planning process during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns and in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement was both challenging and fortuitous. We could not shy away from this place […]

Would you like to learn how to paint in oils? This course will teach you the fundamentals of oils painting in a friendly, easy to understand, step-by-step approach. You'll learn about materials, set-up, color mixing, paint application, composition and more. You will be guided through completing a beautiful painting in class and you'll leave with […]

Join What Cheer Writers Club at a free community write-in Sun, March 5 from 10am-noon. It’s a Sunday, so parking is free! This is a great chance to get some writing in at the original Writers Club before our move. Meet other local writers and find a productive quiet atmosphere to work on your creative […]

Celebrate the launch of the SOLIDARITY zine anthology, a contemporary archive of Rhode Island stories of solidarity. On Thurs, March 23 at 7pm, join online or in person to hear contributing artists present visual work and read stories, essays and poems that infuse our present moment with narratives of activism and social change. This free […]

Explore close readings, reflections and discourse of The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson, with scholars and literary-minded audiences from Rhode Island and beyond. Bristol BookFest 2023 consists of a free keynote talk and reception on Friday evening, March 31, at Colt School Auditorium (574 Hope St) and a paid day program  of speakers and informal […]