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: […]
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.
This panel will focus on women in the context of their historical and political environments, and how those environments led to their singular and group actions for voting rights. 1920-2020 and beyond. 2020 marks the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave some women the right to vote. Voting rights have always been a […]
What Cheer Writers Club Members are invited to sign up now to write & create Art in the Fields together on Sat, Sept 12 at What Cheer Flower Farm, a nonprofit in Olneyville that gives flowers to charity. Write, draw & create among the blossoms alongside (but six feet away from) other local creatives.
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
Join the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission every Saturday in September at 1:00 pm for a 60-minute Heritage Virtual Celebration on Zoom. Each week we will feature “Heritage Highlights” from cultural performance groups, heritage museums, cultural organizations, hands-on activities like crafts, cooking, and more! Join weekly by using this link below and Passcode: […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
Have ideas for a project related to cultural, historical, or civic engagement? Want to learn more about what Rhode Island Council for the Humanities does, and what we fund? All are welcome to join Humanities Council staff members to learn all about the grant application process and ask any questions you might have. These free […]
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 […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
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.
Have ideas for a project related to cultural, historical, or civic engagement? Want to learn more about what Rhode Island Council for the Humanities does, and what we fund? All are welcome to join Humanities Council staff members to learn all about the grant application process and ask any questions you might have. These free […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
Join the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission every Saturday in September at 1:00 pm for a 60-minute Heritage Virtual Celebration on Zoom. Each week we will feature “Heritage Highlights” from cultural performance groups, heritage museums, cultural organizations, hands-on activities like crafts, cooking, and more! Join weekly by using this link below and Passcode: […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
Have ideas for a project related to cultural, historical, or civic engagement? Want to learn more about what Rhode Island Council for the Humanities does, and what we fund? All are welcome to join Humanities Council staff members to learn all about the grant application process and ask any questions you might have. These free […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
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 […]
One of the issues suffragists in the 19th century campaigned for, including Rhode Island’s Elizabeth Buffum Chace, was prison reform. What is being done to address the reliance of community safety policies on policing and prisons, overcome biases in the criminal justice system, promote the exercise of justice with equity, and not unjustly burden communities […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
Annette Gordon-Reed, a Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning scholar, is a preeminent historian of early America, law, slavery, and the country's third president. Join us for a conversation about Thomas Jefferson's impact on our republic and the distance between his principles and lived reality. She will be joined by Brown University Assistant Professor Emily […]
Saturday, September 26: Great Road Open House Day. The Blackstone Valley Historical Society will have an exhibit on the cemetery restoration work of Greg Duhamel and Ken Postle this past year, with photographs from the Facebook Group "River Road and Blackstone Valley Cemeteries." We appreciate their hours of volunteer work preserving and discovering Blackstone Valley […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
Join the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission every Saturday in September at 1:00 pm for a 60-minute Heritage Virtual Celebration on Zoom. Each week we will feature “Heritage Highlights” from cultural performance groups, heritage museums, cultural organizations, hands-on activities like crafts, cooking, and more! Join weekly by using this link below and Passcode: […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
Rhode Island Latino Arts announces A Nuestras Raíces // To Our Roots, a series of virtual conversations where speakers from countries throughout Latin America & the Caribbean will share their knowledge, research, and experience. A Nuestras Raíces is an initiative for and by people of color that uplifts indigenous and Afro-Latinx history in response to […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
Author and local historian Janet Lisle will detail the lives of a close-knit group of 19th-century women living at the corner of West Main and Swamp Roads, who, despite their youth, led Little Compton’s abolition efforts in the century’s early decades.
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
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 […]
The fight for “Equal Pay for Equal Work” was a cause championed by American Suffragists starting in the 1850s. What can be done today to promote employee equity regardless of sexual orientation, gender, age, race, or ethnicity? The social ramifications of pay in-equity are brought to the forefront during the current public health emergency, especially […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
Today, we know about the Rough Riders mostly as a colorful chapter in the life of Theodore Roosevelt. But there is much more to the tale. In his talk, New York Times deputy op-ed editor Clay Risen will explore the untold history of the regiment and explain what made it such a significant part of […]
The Little Compton Historical Society is pleased to present their Women’s History Project as a free indoor and outdoor exhibit suitable for the whole family. Since July, we have been welcoming small groups of up to 15 people for private, self-guided tours of the exhibits. These 90-minute appointments are offered free of charge through November […]
With so many local creatives in financial straits, What Cheer Writers Club is holding a practicum on financial relief available to writers, illustrators and podcasters negatively impacted by Covid or otherwise in need of funding for creative projects. Register now for Writer Relief: Funds & Fellowships for RI Creatives with RISCA’s Mollie Flanagan, online on […]