Community Events

Giving and receiving feedback on creative work can be a delicate matter, especially when writing touches on sensitive material or when you are writing or discussing content outside of your own lived experiences. On Thurs, April 4 at 6pm online, LitArts RI welcomes sensitivity reader Renee Harleston of Writing Diversely to guide writers through the […]

The University of Rhode Island Center for the Humanities is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, and devoting this year’s speaker series to storytelling, an endeavor at the heart of the humanities. The Center's yearlong series envisions storytelling expansively and brings a variety of practitioners — historians and novelists, cartoonists and artists, musicians and musicologists, […]

The Manton Avenue Project is proud to present The Solito Plays, a collection of short plays by 4th graders in response to the incredible memoir by Javier Zamora, the Reading Across Rhode Island book of 2024. In collaboration with Living Literature and the Rhode Island Center for the Book. Directed by Alexis Elisa Macedo. Performances are Friday, April 12 and […]

April 13 // 9:30 am-1:00 pm $10 suggested donation // Register Rogers Rec Center // 60 Camden Avenue, Providence Presented by Providence Preservation Society Heritage. Who owns it? How do we use it? How do we change it? Hacking Heritage returns, now under the PPS umbrella. This one-day, participant-led gathering is open to anyone with an […]

The Manton Avenue Project is proud to present The Solito Plays, a collection of short plays by 4th graders in response to the incredible memoir by Javier Zamora, the Reading Across Rhode Island book of 2024. In collaboration with Living Literature and the Rhode Island Center for the Book. Directed by Alexis Elisa Macedo. Performances are Friday, April 12 […]