Newport Historical Society Winter Fest Walking Tours February 16 4:00 pm - Colonial Newport Lantern Tour: Enjoy a lantern-lit walk through Newport’s historic streets. Learn about Newport’s early history including stories of rebellion, revolution and religious liberty. This tour lasts approximately 75 minutes. February 17 11:00 am - Golden to Gilded: From Newport’s colonial Golden Age […]
The Pell Center at Salve Regina University invites the public to this powerful presentation by MIT Professor and award-winning author Dr. Joshua Bennett who will share selections from his most recent book—Spoken Word: A Cultural History—alongside original poems, as well as his reflections on the art of storytelling and his individual journey as a writer […]
RI Civic Learning Week 2024 will occur March 11-15, 2024 and seeks to highlight the importance of civic education in sustaining and strengthening constitutional democracy in the United States. The week’s free programs, events, and activities are hosted and organized by the Rhode Island Civic Learning Coalition in partnership with Common Cause RI, Courageous RI, […]
RI Civic Learning Week 2024 will occur March 11-15, 2024 and seeks to highlight the importance of civic education in sustaining and strengthening constitutional democracy in the United States. The week’s free programs, events, and activities are hosted and organized by the Rhode Island Civic Learning Coalition in partnership with Common Cause RI, Courageous RI, […]
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 6:30 PM Reception | 7:00PM Panel Discussion FREE, Registration Required Lippitt House Museum, the Providence League of Women Voters, and the African Alliance of Rhode Island are partnering on two in-person community discussions about civic life for immigrants in Rhode Island. The 9th Annual Community Conversations Discussion Series takes place March […]
RI Civic Learning Week 2024 will occur March 11-15, 2024 and seeks to highlight the importance of civic education in sustaining and strengthening constitutional democracy in the United States. The week’s free programs, events, and activities are hosted and organized by the Rhode Island Civic Learning Coalition in partnership with Common Cause RI, Courageous RI, […]
RI Civic Learning Week 2024 will occur March 11-15, 2024 and seeks to highlight the importance of civic education in sustaining and strengthening constitutional democracy in the United States. The week’s free programs, events, and activities are hosted and organized by the Rhode Island Civic Learning Coalition in partnership with Common Cause RI, Courageous RI, […]
RI Civic Learning Week 2024 will occur March 11-15, 2024 and seeks to highlight the importance of civic education in sustaining and strengthening constitutional democracy in the United States. The week’s free programs, events, and activities are hosted and organized by the Rhode Island Civic Learning Coalition in partnership with Common Cause RI, Courageous RI, […]
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 6:30 PM Reception | 7:00PM Panel Discussion FREE, Registration Required Lippitt House Museum, the Providence League of Women Voters, and the African Alliance of Rhode Island are partnering on two in-person community discussions about civic life for immigrants in Rhode Island. The 9th Annual Community Conversations Discussion Series takes place March […]
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, […]
Nina Elder, Artist-in-Residence at Norman Bird Sanctuary, will host a lecture detailing her scientific and artistic methods, as well as her site-specific project, Sedimental, an experimental, multi-media exploration of coastal sand formation and erosion processes as they relate to human resilience. Nina Elder’s lecture is FREE to all attendees. Registration is required. For more information and […]
Rhode Island historians Erik Chaput and Russell DeSimone will discuss the life and career of one of the most important civil rights activists of the 19th century – George T. Downing (1819-1903). Although Downing traveled extensively, living in Providence and Boston before the Civil War and in Washington, D.C., managing the U.S. House of Representatives […]
Thanks to an allocation from the State of Rhode Island, RI Humanities is excited to announce the THRIVE general operating support grantmaking program. THRIVE provides funding for small cultural heritage organizations and local historical and preservation societies that support and strengthen Rhode Island’s many diverse, dynamic communities. Find all the details about the THRIVE program […]
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, […]
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, […]
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
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]