Part of our Junk Drawer Robotics Series! Construct a race car using rubber bands, wheels and straws. On your mark, get set, RACE! Instructor James McHenry is a student at Cranston West High School in the Robotics program. He hopes to become an engineer. He has always been interested in science and has participated in […]
Part of our Junk Drawer Robotics Series! Use ramps to experiment with friction on a variety of surfaces and objects. Join us for a variety of hands on robotic workshops for children and their families. Ages 6 and up - Limited to 10 participants - Registration is required. Instructor James McHenry is a student at […]
RI Museum Of Science and Art Workshops: A series of Cut-Paper Animation Workshops, a blended learning opportunity for the children of Providence, will take place at five libraries in the city from February through April. Youth at PPL as well as the Wanskuck, Olneyville, Washington Park and Rochambeau branches of the Providence Community Libraries will […]
Go back in time in our 1950s-era auditorium and gather center stage around the baby grand. Listen to jazz played by a master, become acquainted with classic jazz and learn how to listen to jazz. This Master class This Master class meets 3 times, February 1, 8 and 29. It features international jazz recording artist, […]
Go back in time in our 1950s-era auditorium and gather center stage around the baby grand. Listen to jazz played by a master, become acquainted with classic jazz and learn how to listen to jazz. This Master class meets 3 times, February 1, 8 and 29. It features international jazz recording artist, Greg Abate. A […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
At the Providence Public Library, The Center for Public Humanities at Brown University, the PPL's Story Seekers, and Urban Pond Procession are pleased to announce “Come Sit a Spell: Memories from a Forgotten Neighborhood” – an immersive art and oral history installation. The installation will be open November 18th through January 18th during regular library […]
Join local writers and librarians at the Providence Public Library on November 2 as they discuss the crossroads of historical fact and fiction. Their conversation will explore how researching the past often leads the novelist and historian in surprisingly different directions.
