Join Jeffrey Yoo-Warren and the Providence Preservation Society for a walking visit to Providence's Empire Street Chinatown, which existed until 1914. Open to the public. $15 PPS member// $20 general Registration required. On July 13, I’ll be leading a walking visit to Providence’s Empire Street Chinatown in relation to my Library of Congress project Hidden […]

Join newportFILM for a screening of Who is Stan Smith? Watch the trailer and learn more here. THURS, JUL 18 — WHO IS STAN SMITH? Aquidneck Park, Newport 7:15 PM - Live music by Liz Kantor of Hush Club 8:30 PM - Film View the rest of the summer series lineup: THURS, JUL 25 — JOAN BAEZ: I AM A […]

Join Providence Preservation Society from 1:00 - 2:45 pm for this new interactive photography-based activity, using Knight Memorial Library as our base. We will start with an orientation on the history and architecture of Elmwood. Participants will then be given historic or contemporary photographs of building details or sites within a 3-block vicinity and challenged to find as many […]

Join newportFILM for a screening of Joan Baez: I Am A Noise. Watch the trailer and learn more here. THURS, JUL 25 — JOAN BAEZ: I AM A NOISE 2nd Beach Parking Lot, Middletown 7:10 PM - Live Music by Erika Van Pelt 8:20 PM - Film View the rest of the summer series lineup: THURS, AUG 1 — […]

This one-hour tour of Providence’s industrial waterfront is led by environmental activist Angel Ramos and landscape designer Fatema Maswood, who will discuss the community impacts of pollution caused by the port in South Providence and Washington Park, the critical work that neighbors are doing to reclaim this site, and the status of the Public Street […]

Dr. Ira Reid: Haverford College’s Unsung Scholar Activist tells the story of the unsung, pioneering transformational scholar who strengthened the chorus of justice, peace and equal opportunity for all. In the first half of the 20th century, Ira de Augustine Reid was the first African American who had taught at a predominantly Black Southern university to […]

Welcome to Snowtown! Join Traci Picard and Kate Wells, members of the Snowtown Research Team, on a walk through this long-lost 19th-century neighborhood which once stood at the head of the Providence Cove. A diverse place of laborers and boarding-houses, entrepreneurs and immigrants, Snowtown is often remembered as a site of disorder…if it is remembered at all. […]

Join newportFILM for a screening of They All Came Out To Montreux. Watch the trailer and learn more here. THURS, AUG 1 — THEY ALL CAME OUT TO MONTREUX  Rosecliff, Newport 7:00 PM - Live Music by Chelley Knight and Chris Vaillancourt 8:15 PM - Film View the rest of the summer series lineup: THURS, AUG 8 — MAYA AND […]

Enjoy a morning of original music & poetry! Poets: Halyna Chapman, Alfred R. Crudale, William Doreski, Irena Kaci, Thomas E. Lane and Sandra Wyatt. Performance by The Notable Works' Ensemble: Maria Bilyeu, Teresa Gervais, Noreen Inglesi, Beth Schapira and Alison Shea. Video Presentation featuring Hundred Acre Cove and the East Bay Surroundings entitled "Notable Works […]