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Screening: “What I Want You To Know” Presented with Providence Clemente Veterans’ Initiative

RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium 20 North Main Street, Providence, RI

What I Want You To Know is a documentary featuring 13 veterans and their personal stories from their deployments in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Executive producers Travis Weiner and Tommy Furlong, combat veterans, made this film as an outlet for veterans to candidly share their emotional experiences  of these wars and for civilians to listen. […]

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No Time to Fail Documentary Film Premiere

RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium 20 North Main Street, Providence, RI

Once invisible to the general public, election administrators are at the center of an ongoing public debate about the integrity of our democracy. By the People is a verite film that tells the story of election officials across the state of Rhode Island. Amidst an onslaught of attacks from a sitting President, and the deadly […]

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Divine Providence: The Rebirth of an American City

RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium 20 North Main Street, Providence, RI

This feature length documentary film tells the story of Providence's uniqueness from its colonial period through its century of greatness, its decline and continues through the four phases of its rebirth as a Renaissance City. At its core is its treasure house of 18th, 19th and 20th century architecture. In each phase, the film examines […]

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Divine Providence: The Rebirth of an American City

RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium 20 North Main Street, Providence, RI

Catch a screening of "Divine Providence: The Rebirth of an American City" by Salvatore Mancini at the 2019 Rhode Island International Film Festival. Screening will occur at the RISD Museum, Metcalf Auditorium on Sunday, August, 11th at 2:30pm. Purchase tickets online in advance. The film took over four years to complete and focuses on the […]

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22nd Annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading

RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium 20 North Main Street, Providence, RI

Join in the 22nd Annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading begin held at the RISD Museum. The gathering allows audiences young and old to learn about and experience the brilliance of Langston Hughes as a writer and voice of the Harlem Renaissance. Each year people from local communities participate by reading or performing select poems […]

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NetWorks 2016 Artist Video Portraits at RISD

RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium 20 North Main Street, Providence, RI

NetWorks Rhode Island, a project developed to showcasing work of selected contemporary Rhode Island visual artists, presents its 2016 Providence premiere of documentary video portraits.

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Artist Talk with Mary Beth Meehan

RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium 20 North Main Street, Providence, RI

Join artist Mary Beth Meehan at the RISD Metcalf Auditorium for the launch of Seen/Unseen: Providence and a conversation about artistic collaboration, place, and community that will challenge predisposed beliefs.

Providence Children’s Film Festival Opening

RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium 20 North Main Street, Providence, RI

Celebrate the 6th Annual Providence Children’s Film Festival at the Opening Night Party & Film Screening at the RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium! Help kick off this year’s festival with food and festivities followed by a screening of Zip & Zap and The Marble Gang.