The Cable Car Cinema and the Providence Center for Media Culture in collaboration with the Providence Public Library present Portals: History of the Future Film Series. Join them for a screening of Woody Allen's Sleeper (1973).
As part of the RARI + EnRICHment Program, Commander Timothy Urban will discuss the history of naval aviation and its historical links to the "The Wright Brothers," the 2016 RARI title. CDR Urban will detail how the US government capitalized on the power of flight from the early 1900s through WWII and the 21st Century. […]
The Humanities Council is proud to sponsor PVDFest, promoting Providence's unique arts & humanities communities. Council grantees and partners are featured throughout the festival, and art installations featuring stories, connections, and the humanities will take place throughout the weekend.
This event features a carnival of short stories and surprises by local artists and writers based on the PPL Special Collections! Plus the release of the giant, full color, Special Collections-themed issue of the Providence Sunday Wipeout!!!
Attend a film screening of Daniel Moshel's Login 2 Life (2011) as part of Portals: History of the Future Film Series.
Professional pilot Michael C. Clifton gives a talk in support of this year's Reading Across Rhode Island program and its official selection, David McCullough's The Wright Brothers. Michael began flight lessons at age 17, received an Aeronautical Science degree from Embry-Riddle, and has been flying professionally since 2007. He has amassed 3 transport category type […]
Please join filmmaker and second-generation Cape Verdean, Claire Andrade-Watkins. These films reconstitute the history of three generations of Cape Verdeans living in the Fox Point section of Providence, Rhode Island who were displaced by urban renewal, gentrification, the expansion of Brown University and the construction of Interstate I-95.
Please join the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities in Newport for the Catalyzing Newport Exhibition Launch. The exhibition will explore themes pertaining to climate change and new technologies.
Join the steering committee of Catalyzing Newport for a talk with Visiting Catalyst, Jake Dunagan. Jake will introduce concepts for thinking more effectively about the future, and the need for raising our collective foresight capacity.
Pulitzer Prize winner, Margo Jefferson, will give a talk called What is the 21st Century Essay, as a part of a yearlong series in partnership with the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities to commemorate the centennial of the Pulitzers. Jefferson is a cultural critic and the author of two books, On Michael Jackson and Negroland: A Memoir, for which she received the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography.
Please join Normand Deragon from the American-French Genealogical Society to uncover and discover your French-Canadian ancestry.
Join us this for this week's #newportFILMoutdoors right in the heart of Newport! Norman Lear is a Legend, a Creator, and a Television Boundary Breaker. He's the man behind some of the most iconic television shows of all time. SUGGESTED DONATION: $5 RSVP & Watch Trailer: https://bit.ly/NormanDoc SCHEDULE: 7:40PM: Pre-film music presented by Horan Building Company, The Z-Boys […]