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Living Literature: Norwegian By Night

Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI, United States

Living Literature is a collective of RI-based performing artists, who celebrate the written word through readers theatre style performances of non-dramatic literature. Since its inception in January of 1996, Living Literature has created well over 100 presentations based on poems, stories, novels, plays, essays, biographies, articles, and oral histories, in libraries, schools, and other community […]

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EnRICHment: Oral History Workshop with Marta Martinez

Providence Public Library 150 Empires Street, Providence, RI, United States

People who have “made history” often say that they were not thinking of making history, but were just going through daily life. Sheldon Horowitz, the main character of Norwegian by Night, falls into this category. But, as we learn, Sheldon, a Korean War sniper, watchmaker, husband, father, and New Yorker is as unique as his […]

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Every Hero Has a Story

Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI, United States

Every Hero Has a Story.... join Big Nazo for a workshop inspired by the RI Center for the Book's 2015 The Kids Reading Across Rhode Island book, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo. BIG NAZO LAB Staff Artists will demonstrate how scissors, staplers, hot glue, and colorful Sharpie markers can be used to create […]

Iterations: From Paris to Providence

Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI, United States

Providence Public Library’s summer exhibit (in the Providence Journal Rhode Island Room, 1st floor) features pochoir-printed plates from our extensive art and architecture collection. Pochoir is a many-layered stenciling process that produces extremely vivid and dimensional prints; it was particularly popular in late 19th and early 20th century Paris, and was used for fashion plates, […]

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Portals: History of the Future Film Series – Sleeper

Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI, United States

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).

Free

French‐Canadian Genealogy Workshop

Rhode Island Historical Society Aldrich House 110 Benevolent Street, Providence, RI, United States

Please join Normand Deragon from the American-French Genealogical Society to uncover and discover your French-Canadian ancestry.

Free

Living Literature at PPL

Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI, United States

Living Literature’s presentation of Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy, explores the human dynamics of poor, wrongly condemned individuals and those who struggle to help them. The readers-theater performance is intended for both those who have, and those who have not, read the book. The performance will be in the 3rd floor meeting room.