The Providence Athenaeum is proud to co-present with FirstWorks, “Art/Culture/Community: A Conversation” featuring internationally heralded Festival performers/humanitarian activists Angélique Kidjo and Oumou Sangaré along with local leaders in the arts, education, and community health.
Book launch at a special reception and talk with author Robb Dimmick on Tuesday, September 29th, 5:00pm at the Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit Street in Providence. The event is free and open to the public and includes a pop-up exhibit of some of the books in the bibliography. The book assembles an extraordinary history of […]
Get ready for Urban Bush Women's February 2016 performance of a jazz dance fest entitled "Walking with 'Trane" by engaging in a dialogue to address questions such as: What is black social dance? What is the relationship between dance and African Americans' long fight for racial equality? Johnson will situate the history of black social dance alongside […]
In conjunction with Cloud Eye Control's performance of Half Life in November, FirstWorks and ecoRI News present a salon discussion with Terry E. Tullis (Brown University Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Terry E. Tullis, Chair of the National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council). While fracking has lowered current gas prices and made us less […]
