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Innovations in Storytelling Series – The Way Forward

University of Rhode Island - Center for the Humanities URI Kingston Campus, 75 Briar Lane, Kingston, RI, United States

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, […]

Free

LitArts RI: Writers Like Us: A Creatives of Color Celebration

LitArts RI 400 Harris Ave Unit E, Providence, RI

Join Rhode Island creatives of color for Writers Like Us, a day of celebration and connection at LitArts RI on Sat, March 30 from 1-7pm. Writers of color are invited to drop in to participate in free programming designed by and for local B/I/POC creatives.   For the program schedule and more information, please visit:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writers-like-us-a-creatives-of-color-celebration-tickets-848465452007

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LitArts RI: Care in Feedback with Writing Diversely (Online Event)

Online RI

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 […]

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Providence Public Library Exhibition: From Hold to Horizon

Providence Public LIbrary's Joan T. Boghossian Gallery (3rd Floor) 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI, United States

Providence Public Library's Exhibition: From Hold to Horizon will be on view in the third floor Joan T. Boghossian Gallery during regular library hours from Saturday, April 6 through Tuesday, June 25. From Hold to Horizon is an immersive voyage toward Liberation, an inquiry into our complicated relationship with the ocean, sovereignty, and economies of capture. […]

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Price of Admission Documentary Screening at Rhode Island Black Film Festival

Brown University

PRICE OF ADMISSION is a documentary film about Rhode Island Black Baseball, tells a story about baseball, power, money, and the black community from the early 1900's through the Jazz Age and the Great Depression of the 1930's. The screening hosted by Brown University's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will feature a panel discussion […]

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Providence Public Library – Activation 4/6: From Hold to Horizon Exhibition

Providence Public LIbrary's Joan T. Boghossian Gallery (3rd Floor) 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI, United States

From Hold to Horizon Activation created by Kei Soares Cobb and Becci Davis  Activations offer the experience of a guided journey of the horizon and journaling as rituals of transformation, led by the artists. Please feel free to come and go as you please. To participate in the full experience, please arrive before 3:15pm. Activations […]

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We Are The Wind: Community Art Workshop with NBS Artist-in-Residence, Nina Elder

Sactuary's Coastal Education Center 830 3rd Beach Road, Middletown, RI, United States

We Are The Wind: Community Art Workshop All are welcome to join Nina Elder as she closes out her NBS residency with an interactive and hands-on workshop, We Are The Wind. Along with NBS teacher naturalists, Nina will share her artistic and poetic insights into erosion, landscape change, flight, human impacts, and wind. Using experimental […]

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Innovations in Storytelling Series – A Conversation with Novelist Ruth Ozeki

University of Rhode Island - Center for the Humanities URI Kingston Campus, 75 Briar Lane, Kingston, RI, United States

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, […]

Free

Manton Avenue Project presents: The Solito Plays

Wilbury Theatre Group WaterFire Arts Center, 475 Valley St, Providence, RI, United States

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 […]

$1 – $20

6th Annual Hacking Heritage Unconference

Selim Madelin Rogers Recreation Center 60 Camden Avenue, Providence, RI, United States

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 […]

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