The Museum of Work & Culture will be hosting its annual Labor Day festivities online this year, with a series of pre-recorded presentations and film screenings. Programs will be released daily at 10am on the Museum’s Facebook page beginning on Thursday, September 3 through Labor Day, Monday September 7. Events will include: Thursday, September 3: […]
Tomaquag Museum Presents: Quarantine Creatives: A Virtual Interview with Indigenous Artist Dawn Spears, the first event in the museum's Native Artist Interview Series.
The Museum of Work & Culture will offer a virtual documentary screening on Wednesday, September 16 at 7pm when critically acclaimed filmmaker Christian de Rezendes will present two segments of Slatersville: America’s First Mill Village, “What If This Could Have a New Life?” and “Uncle Johnny.” In this talk, documentarian de Rezendes will discuss his […]
Tomaquag Museum Presents: Quarantine Creatives: A Virtual Interview with Indigenous Artist Deborah Spears-Moorehead. This is an event in the museum's Native Artist Interview Series. Please register at the link provided.
Power, Privilege & Social Justice is a three-part series from the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, in partnership with Providence Community Library, which explores the history and struggle for African Americans to achieve Civil Rights in Providence over a 300-year period. Keith Stokes, Advisor to the RI Black Heritage Society, will presents the talks. The […]
Power, Privilege & Social Justice is a three-part series from the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, in partnership with Providence Community Library, which explores the history and struggle for African Americans to achieve Civil Rights in Providence over a 300-year period. Keith Stokes, Advisor to the RI Black Heritage Society, will presents the talks. The […]
Power, Privilege & Social Justice is a three-part series from the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, in partnership with Providence Community Library, which explores the history and struggle for African Americans to achieve Civil Rights in Providence over a 300-year period. Keith Stokes, Advisor to the RI Black Heritage Society, will presents the talks. The […]
These are the stories of the artists of RI in the time of quarantine. 18 artists were given 8mm cameras and film on which to document their lives in 2020. This screening event will allow you to see all 18 of their short films. The screening will be held outside and the screening will be […]
On Wednesday, October 7 at 7pm, the Museum of Work & Culture will host journalist Patrick White for “The Exodus of French Canadians to New England : the Story Behind the Story,” a free talk via Zoom. White’s talk will deal with the wave of emigration of French Canadians to New England, from 1840 to […]
David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale, will discuss Douglass' connections to Rhode Island, his vision for freedom, and his relationships with fellow Rhode Island abolitionists. The talk will be accompanied by African […]
