Grantee Events

Monday, September 30, 5:30 - 7:00pm: Join Providence Public Library for a talk by Timothy D. Walker, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, on Sailing to Freedom: Recovering and Re-centering the Maritime Dimension of the Underground Railroad as part of their Washed Series. Dr. Walker's talk will highlight little-known stories of freedom-seeking by sea, describe the less-understood […]

Created by Providence-based artist duo Jason Tranchida and Matthew Lawrence, co-curators of Headmaster, Scandalous Conduct: A Fairy Extravaganza is a multi-channel musical documentary reconstructing the Newport Navy Sex Scandal of 1919. This experimental video installation unravels themes of homophobia and surveillance, pairing primary historical documents and archival photography with recreated excerpts from Jack and the […]

Monday, October 7, 5:30 to 7pm: Join Providence Public Library for an evening with science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler on How Far the Light Reaches: lluminating Queerness in Nature, exploring radical models of family, community, identity, and care through the exploration of undersea life forms. The ocean is exuberantly queer—just look at sex-changing clownfish and gay […]

FREE Panel Discussion Date: Wednesday, October 9th Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm Venue: Community MusicWorks Center at 1326 Westminster Street, Providence About the panel: FirstWorks will partner with Community MusicWorks (CMW) for a free panel discussion with the artists on the function of Black and Indigenous music over time at the new Community MusicWorks Center. Panelists […]

Please join Wanderground Lesbian Archive/Library on Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at 6:30 pm in the Fleet Library's Living Room for a Panel Discussion to correspond with the current first floor exhibit: Understanding and Appreciating Lesbian Lives through Craft and Art, a collaboration between Waderground Lesbian Archive/Library and Fleet Library's Archives and Special Collections. *The exhibit […]