Tune in on Wednesday, March 22 at 7:00 pm EST to the Real Action Motivates Progress podcast to hear Community Partner Kilah Walters-Clinton, Director of Race, Equity, and Community Engagement at the RI Executive Office of Health and Human Services, in conversation with host Tina G. Pedersen about the RI Civic Health Index. Find […]
The Indigenous Author Book Club is back! Last Tuesday of Every Month 7:00-8:o0pm! There is Great Selection of Books for This Season! December's meeting will feature Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger and will occur on December 20, 2022. Please click here to register.
Café Recuerdos led by Sussy Santana, will be bringing our people together each month for storytelling and conversations . Sign up here for the next talk scheduled for Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 5:30 PM | This one will be on Zoom, all others in person. .......... Café Recuerdos, run by Sussy Santana, brings our people together each month for informal conversations (pláticas) and […]
The future of our environment is among the most pressing issues of our time. In 2022-23, URI’s Center for the Humanities is devoting its annual lecture series to the environmental humanities, a discipline that uses humanistic questions and methods to shed light on how we interpret our environment and envision its future. This yearlong series draws on […]
MIGHT CURIOSITY SAVE US? ‘The way you show people that they matter is aiming your curiosity at them. Ask yourself “what kinds of people do I talk about, but never with?” Whoever is underrepresented in your life will be overrepresented in your imagination.’ —Mónica Guzmán Ready to fight back against the confusion, heartbreak, and madness […]
The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities is hosting two virtual sessions in September with information and updates on our grant opportunities for the upcoming year! These are especially useful if you’re new to the application process or considering submitting a major grant application. Letters of intent to apply for major grants must be submitted […]
The Womxn Project Education Fund we've been working behind the scenes for the last two years on a humor-driven video series about civic engagement in our state…, and it premieres live on Zoom & Facebook: Tuesday, August 23rd at 7:00 pm EST! Sign up to join the Zoom (or Facebook Live) for maximum fun, but be reassured […]
Join authors Afua Ansong, Eli Nixon, and Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie online Thurs, July 28 at 7pm for Author as Activist: The Art of NOW!, a conversation moderated by What Cheer Writers Club Advisory Committee Members Frank Maradiaga and Cherie Rowe on the intersections between writing, art and activism. How do contemporary authors advocate for social justice in their work and in […]
Seeing Providence Chinatown is an ongoing project using archival photographs and records to reconstruct an immersive 3D model of historic downtown Providence Chinatown in 1916. The process of reconstructing the neighborhood’s buildings, streets weaves together and interlinks the few images remaining of this once-vibrant enclave, of which almost no trace remains today. Beyond spatial reconstruction, […]
Lively discussion is inspired by the close viewing of works that explore gender and gender Please join for a virtual event, co-presented by PPL and the Pembroke Center, Brown University Performance artist and "gender outlaw," Kate Bornstein '69 will speak in conversation with Virginia Thomas AM'16 PhD'20, Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University's Center for the […]
