We understand how audio can influence the world around us, and we want to create a space that inspires more crucial voices to be involved.✨ Come to WAVs to share your work, be inspired by others, and learn how to take the next steps towards creating your own project. The future of podcasting is in […]
Co-produced with Providence Public Library America Too: Reckoning and Resilience marks the sixth year of the America Too initiative. This 5-part online series combines theater, music, and art with stories from our community and seeks to catalyze community dialogue around the many challenges and potential opportunities of this particular moment, as we confront the aftermath of a polarizing election season, […]
This special fundraising event features a talk and reading from Dr. Michael Fine and is hosted by Former Mayor of Central Falls and Senior Advisor of the Brown University Policy Lab, James Diossa. Special guests include Julien Ayotte, Shoshana Feinstein, Val Tutson, and Erminio Pinque. Special Guests Val Tutson, Creative Director of Rhode Island Black […]
“The Endowed Authority of Indigenous Curation” Jim Enote is a Zuni tribal member, CEO of the Colorado Plateau Foundation, and serves on the boards of the Trust for Mutual Understanding and the Grand Canyon Trust. Jim’s service the past forty years includes assignments for organizations including UNESCO, UNDP, International Secretariat for Water, Nordic Council of […]
Why should everyone care that some communities are not active participants in our civic society? Recent tests to our country’s democratic processes remind us of the fragility of our system. For democracy to thrive it needs an educated electorate and systems that allow for full and fair participation by everyone. Join Lippitt House Museum and […]
High school students from seven Rhode Island schools will perform during the virtual 16th annual Poetry Out Loud Rhode Island state finals on Sunday, March 21, at 1 p.m., presented via Facebook live . Seven schools submitted videos to the Rhode Island state finals this year. During the Facebook live event on March 21, attendees will […]
Dr. Michael Sawyer, Assistant Professor in the Program in Race, Ethnicity, & Migration Studies at Colorado College, will give a talk entitled “The Threshold of the Door of (No) Return”. Dr. Sawyer is the author of two books, An Africana Philosophy of Temporality: Homo Liminalis and Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X. The talk will […]
"Hauntings, Refusals, and Fugitive Moments: Black Life and Everyday Disruptions of Slavery and Empire in Cuba" - Keynote Lecture with Professor Aisha Finch Atlantic history has been characterized by relentless rebellions, uprisings, and challenges to racial slavery exploited and coerced labor, and colonial rule. The subversion of work in slavery-based and colonial contexts ranged from […]
Join RISD Museum colleagues, Mariani Lefas-Tetenes, Assistant Director, School and Teacher Programs, and Deborah Clemons, Assistant Director, Public and Academic Programs, as they reflect on creating digital spaces for learning and sharing with a range of adult and K-12 audiences.
“Can Buildings Improve Local Ecologies?” - Talk by Lara Davis, Architect. Talk description and Zoom link are coming soon.
