Don’t miss the 2010 Brown Festival of Dance next week!
May 6-9, 2010
Thurs-Sat @ 8pm
Sunday @ 2pm
In Stuart Theatre
Tickets available now at brown.edu/tickets <http://brown.edu/Departments/Theatre_Speech_Dance/about/boxoffice.html> or 401-863-2838.
For more information, check out brown.edu/taps <http://brown.edu/Departments/Theatre_Speech_Dance/performances/bfod2010.html> .
Friday, April 30, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
RI Historical Society -- Upcoming Events
Saturday, May 8, 11:00 a.m.
Tour departs from
The Curatorium
197 Wickenden Street, Providence
For more information: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
Personally Providence: Matt Bird of The Curatorium
Take a “behind the scenes” walk in Fox Point with Matt Bird, a Providence local with a personal passion for the neighborhood, and many years of accompanying his dog on long walks in the neighborhood. Bird’s shop, The Curatorium, on Wickenden Street, adds a new flavor to the area he has lived in for 25 years. Bird is a RISD graduate and was crucial in opening the risd works store. Come hear what the artist and entrepreneur finds of architectural value in Fox Point. Tour starts at The Curatorium, 197 Wickenden Street. Contact Dalila Goulart for more information. Tickets are $10 each, tour lasts about ninety minutes. Reservations are required.
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Wednesday, May 12, 6:30 p.m.
Aldrich House
110 Benevolent Street, Providence
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Natasha Brooks
(401) 273-8107 x12 or libprograms@rihs.org
Peace and Plunder:
John Russell Bartlett, Albert Gallatin, and the U.S-Mexican War
John Russell Bartlett, then a young bookseller, and the retired statesman Albert Gallatin launched a public relations campaign in opposition to the Polk administration's war against Mexico in 1846-1848. While the two men emphatically opposed the war, they looked forward to the new information coming to light on the Native peoples of Mexico, California, and what would become the U.S. southwest. This talk by NERFC scholar Dr. Sean Harvey is presented in collaboration with the John Russell Bartlett Society. Dr. Harvey received his Ph.D. from the College of William & Mary and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at Northern Illinois University.
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Sunday, May 16, 2:00 p.m.
2010 Annual Newell D. Goff Lecture
Salomon Center, Room 001, Brown University
For more information: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
Making the New England Mummies Dance:
Creating and Hunting Antiques in New England
This panel presents talks on the changing notions of collecting and antiquing in New England featuring Leslie Keno, Director of American Furniture and Decorative Arts at Sotheby’s and frequent appraiser on Antiques Road Show, Professor Briann Greenfield from the Department of History at Central Connecticut State University, and Scott and Rae Davis, proprietors of the Rhode Island Antiques Mall. Co-sponsored with the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage.
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Abraham Lincoln Visits the Blackstone Valley
150th Anniversary Celebration!
Saturday, May 15, 9:30am – 3:30pm
Train leaves Amtrak Station from Providence
for a 4 hour visit in Woonsocket
All seats are $49.50
Available online at www.tourblackstone.com <http://www.tourblackstone.com/>
- Join Abraham Lincoln as he travels from Providence to Woonsocket, RI on the Providence & Worcester Railroad.
- Hear Lincoln’s historic Cooper Union Speech at Harris Hall.
- Enjoy period music.
- Receive a signed Commemorative Print, from an original painting of Lincoln, by Blackstone Valley artist Peter Campbell.
- Your ticket includes a raffle to win an original Lincoln portrait by Peter Campbell. Painting valued at $2,000.
- Passengers are encouraged to dress in period costume.
- Ask about our Hotel Packages.
For more information: call Blackstone Valley Tourism Council at 401.724.2200 or email donna@tourblackstone.com.
Sponsored by the Rhode Island Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Switch: A Community in Transition
Switch: A Community in Transition
The Sarah Doyle Women's Center at Brown University is pleased to announce that we will bring the documentary film "Switch: A Community in Transition" to Providence on April 29th. Produced by filmmaker and longtime activist Brooks Nelson, this documentary explores the impact of a gender transition not just on the individual going through transition, but on the surrounding community of family, friends, co-workers and others. Brown’s April 29th event will be open to the Providence community, and will include a talk and question and answer session after the screening with filmmaker Brooks Nelson.
Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010
Time: 7 pm
Location: Smith-Buonanno Hall, room 106
95 Cushing Street (corner of Brown and Cushing)
Contact: Angela Mazaris, Graduate Proctor, Sarah Doyle Women's Center (angelamazaris@yahoo.com)
More Information: http://brown.edu/Departments/Sarah_Doyle_Center/events.html
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Inca Son comes to Providence
Sunday, May 2, 4:00 p.m.
Salomon 101 / DeCiccio Family Auditorium
Brown University Campus
Five members of the renowned band Inca Son, musicians and dancers of Andean folk traditions led by Cesar Villalobos, will put on a vibrant performance for Museum patrons. Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart says that Inca Son’s members are "indispensable cultural ambassadors of this nearly lost South American folk tradition. Their music is of the highest caliber." Inca Son has performed around the world at museums, folk and world music festivals, and at the 1996 summer and 2002 winter Olympics. Their numerous awards include "Outstanding World Music Act" at the 1999 Boston Music Awards; the 2007 Independent Music Award for "Best World Traditional Song;" and the 2008 Los Angeles Music Award for "Best World Artist." They have also collaborated on the Boston Pops Latin Album. Do not miss this opportunity to see a live performance which, according to Bob Young of the Boston Herald, "will lift you up and transport you clear to the Andes Mountains." Sponsored by donors to the Barbara Greenwald Memorial Arts Program Fund and the Friends of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. Free and open to the public.
Monday, April 19, 2010
RI Historical Society -- Upcoming Events
Wednesday, April 21, 6:30 p.m.
RIHS Library
121 Hope Street, Providence
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Natasha Brooks
(401) 273-8107 x12 or libprograms@rihs.org
George Lee Gaskell: Rhode Island Soldier and World Traveler
How did a native of Tiverton, RI travel the world, learn to speak four foreign languages fluently, fight in some of the Civil War's bloodiest battles and for the rights of freedmen, and travel westward? Come hear the interesting and strange life of George Lee Gaskell, a Rhode Islander who saw much and saw fit to write it down. This program is based on Robert Grandchamp's thesis in American History at Rhode Island College. Grandchamp is the author of several books and a former National Park Ranger.
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Saturday, April 24, 10:00 a.m.
Tour departs from the
Aldrich House
110 Benevolent Street, Providence
To R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
A Walking Tour of Edward M. Bannister’s Providence
This tour, conducted by Ray Rickman, will visit the College Hill home and studio of Edward and Christiana Carteaux Bannister. The walk will also include five other sites associated with the noted African-American artist and a lively discussion of several other landmarks. A stop at the Providence Art Club to view one of Bannister's landscape paintings will conclude the tour. Tickets are $10 each, tour lasts about ninety minutes. Reservations are required.
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Saturday, May 8, 11:00 a.m.
Tour departs from
The Curatorium
197 Wickenden Street, Providence
For more information: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
Personally Providence: Matt Bird of The Curatorium
Take a “behind the scenes” walk in Fox Point with Matt Bird, a Providence local with a personal passion for the neighborhood, and many years of accompanying his dog on long walks in the neighborhood. Bird’s shop, The Curatorium, on Wickenden Street, adds a new flavor to the area he has lived in for 25 years. Bird is a RISD graduate and was crucial in opening the risd works store. Come hear what the artist and entrepreneur finds of architectural value in Fox Point. Tour starts at The Curatorium, 197 Wickenden Street. Contact Dalila Goulart for more information. Tickets are $10 each, tour lasts about ninety minutes. Reservations are required.
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Wednesday, May 12, 6:30 p.m.
Aldrich House
110 Benevolent Street, Providence
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Natasha Brooks
(401) 273-8107 x12 or libprograms@rihs.org
Peace and Plunder:
John Russell Bartlett, Albert Gallatin, and the U.S-Mexican War
John Russell Bartlett, then a young bookseller, and the retired statesman Albert Gallatin launched a public relations campaign in opposition to the Polk administration's war against Mexico in 1846-1848. While the two men emphatically opposed the war, they looked forward to the new information coming to light on the Native peoples of Mexico, California, and what would become the U.S. southwest. This talk by NERFC scholar Dr. Sean Harvey is presented in collaboration with the John Russell Bartlett Society. Dr. Harvey received his Ph.D. from the College of William & Mary and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at Northern Illinois University.
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Sunday, May 16, 2:00 p.m.
2010 Annual Newell D. Goff Lecture
Salomon Center, Room 001, Brown University
For more information: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
Making the New England Mummies Dance:
Creating and Hunting Antiques in New England
This panel presents talks on the changing notions of collecting and antiquing in New England featuring Leslie Keno, Director of American Furniture and Decorative Arts at Sotheby’s and frequent appraiser on Antiques Road Show, Professor Briann Greenfield from the Department of History at Central Connecticut State University, and Scott and Rae Davis, proprietors of the Rhode Island Antiques Mall. Co-sponsored with the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage.
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Abraham Lincoln Visits the Blackstone Valley
150th Anniversary Celebration!
Saturday, May 15, 9:30am – 3:30pm
Train leaves Amtrak Station from Providence
for a 4 hour visit in Woonsocket
All seats are $49.50
Available online at www.tourblackstone.com <http://www.tourblackstone.com/>
- Join Abraham Lincoln as he travels from Providence to Woonsocket, RI on the Providence & Worcester Railroad.
- Hear Lincoln’s historic Cooper Union Speech at Harris Hall.
- Enjoy period music.
- Receive a signed Commemorative Print, from an original painting of Lincoln, by Blackstone Valley artist Peter Campbell.
- Your ticket includes a raffle to win an original Lincoln portrait by Peter Campbell. Painting valued at $2,000.
- Passengers are encouraged to dress in period costume.
- Ask about our Hotel Packages.
For more information: call Blackstone Valley Tourism Council at 401.724.2200 or email donna@tourblackstone.com.
Sponsored by the Rhode Island Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Eighth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars at Winterthur Museum
The Eighth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars entitled Materials of Exchange will be held on Saturday, April 24, 2010 at Winterthur Museum, Library and Garden! The keynote address will be delivered by John Styles, Research Professor in History at the University of Hertfordshire. For more information, see http://materialculture.udel.edu/symposia.html.
We are pleased to announce the following speakers in this year’s program:
Jennifer Black, University of Southern California (History): “‘A Token of My Sincerity’: Autograph Albums and the Visualization of Authenticity in Late-19th-Century Advertising”
Coral Carlson, Northern Illinois University (Global History): “Travels of the Smiling Fish: A Chinese Cizhou Motif in Asian, European and American Ceramics”
R. Dustin Cushman, Temple University (Anthropology): “Taken to the Grave: European Trade Goods in Delaware Mortuary Contexts During the 17th and Early 18th Centuries”
Caitlin Haskell, University of Texas (Art History): “Exchanged and Converted: How Henri Rousseau’s Bonne Fête Entered the Avant-Garde”
Natalya Hopper, Appalachian State University (Public History): “Feedsack Fashion in Rural Appalachia: A Social History of Women’s Experiences in Ashe County, North Carolina, 1929-1956”
Wan-Chuan Kao, The Graduate Center, CUNY (English): “Leather Incarnate: Medieval, American”
Katie Knowles, Rice University (History): “Playing Dress-Up: Exchanging the Garb of Slavery for Fashionable Clothing”
Jeff Manuel, University of Minnesota (History): “The Law’s Role in Constructing Material Culture: The Case of Pelletized Iron Ore”
Anna Rusk, University of Delaware (History): “Collecting the Confederacy: Wartime Souvenirs as Objects of Cultural Exchange”
Comments will be given by Roderick McDonald, Professor of History at Rider University, Terry Snyder, Deputy Director of Library Administration at Hagley Museum and Library, and Monica Dominguez Torres, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Art History at the University of Delaware.
The Symposium is free and open to all. Registration includes complimentary tours of Winterthur’s unparalleled collection of American decorative arts.
To register, simply email register.emerging.scholars@gmail.com with the following information:
Last Name:
First Name:
E-Mail Address:
Institutional Affiliation:
Interest area:
If you would like to take a tour, please also state your tour interest:
General Collection
Furniture
Textiles
Prints and Paintings
We are pleased to announce the following speakers in this year’s program:
Jennifer Black, University of Southern California (History): “‘A Token of My Sincerity’: Autograph Albums and the Visualization of Authenticity in Late-19th-Century Advertising”
Coral Carlson, Northern Illinois University (Global History): “Travels of the Smiling Fish: A Chinese Cizhou Motif in Asian, European and American Ceramics”
R. Dustin Cushman, Temple University (Anthropology): “Taken to the Grave: European Trade Goods in Delaware Mortuary Contexts During the 17th and Early 18th Centuries”
Caitlin Haskell, University of Texas (Art History): “Exchanged and Converted: How Henri Rousseau’s Bonne Fête Entered the Avant-Garde”
Natalya Hopper, Appalachian State University (Public History): “Feedsack Fashion in Rural Appalachia: A Social History of Women’s Experiences in Ashe County, North Carolina, 1929-1956”
Wan-Chuan Kao, The Graduate Center, CUNY (English): “Leather Incarnate: Medieval, American”
Katie Knowles, Rice University (History): “Playing Dress-Up: Exchanging the Garb of Slavery for Fashionable Clothing”
Jeff Manuel, University of Minnesota (History): “The Law’s Role in Constructing Material Culture: The Case of Pelletized Iron Ore”
Anna Rusk, University of Delaware (History): “Collecting the Confederacy: Wartime Souvenirs as Objects of Cultural Exchange”
Comments will be given by Roderick McDonald, Professor of History at Rider University, Terry Snyder, Deputy Director of Library Administration at Hagley Museum and Library, and Monica Dominguez Torres, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Art History at the University of Delaware.
The Symposium is free and open to all. Registration includes complimentary tours of Winterthur’s unparalleled collection of American decorative arts.
To register, simply email register.emerging.scholars@gmail.com with the following information:
Last Name:
First Name:
E-Mail Address:
Institutional Affiliation:
Interest area:
If you would like to take a tour, please also state your tour interest:
General Collection
Furniture
Textiles
Prints and Paintings
Cape Verdean exhibit at Fuller Craft Museum
Stonehill Exhibition
opens april 24 in the community gallery
A collaborative class at Stonehill College is working with the Cape Verdean Association and Seniors Center and creating a community art project that will be on display at Fuller Craft and at Stonehill. The main topic of the project is Identity.
On display at Fuller Craft will be shadowboxes that Cape Verdean seniors and other community members have created in order to portray how they define themselves as individuals. The students have also gathered some oral histories and will be incorporating that information into the installation.
The exhibition runs from April 24 through May 26.
Directions and Hours
Fuller Craft Museum
455 Oak Street
Brockton, Massachusetts 02301
www.fullercraft.org
Just three minutes off Route 24 at Exit 18B. Turn right at the third light onto Oak Street. The Museum is located one mile on your left. Fuller Craft Museum is wheelchair accessible and offers free parking.
Museum and Shop Hours: Open Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00am-5:00pm; Wednesdays, until 9:00pm; Closed Mondays.
artKitchen - the Café @ Fuller Craft
Tuesday-Saturday 11:00am-2:00pm
Operated by Lavishly Dunn
opens april 24 in the community gallery
A collaborative class at Stonehill College is working with the Cape Verdean Association and Seniors Center and creating a community art project that will be on display at Fuller Craft and at Stonehill. The main topic of the project is Identity.
On display at Fuller Craft will be shadowboxes that Cape Verdean seniors and other community members have created in order to portray how they define themselves as individuals. The students have also gathered some oral histories and will be incorporating that information into the installation.
The exhibition runs from April 24 through May 26.
Directions and Hours
Fuller Craft Museum
455 Oak Street
Brockton, Massachusetts 02301
www.fullercraft.org
Just three minutes off Route 24 at Exit 18B. Turn right at the third light onto Oak Street. The Museum is located one mile on your left. Fuller Craft Museum is wheelchair accessible and offers free parking.
Museum and Shop Hours: Open Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00am-5:00pm; Wednesdays, until 9:00pm; Closed Mondays.
artKitchen - the Café @ Fuller Craft
Tuesday-Saturday 11:00am-2:00pm
Operated by Lavishly Dunn
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Theoretical Archaeology Group 2010: 4/30-5/2 -- Free for Brown until April 15th
Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG-US) 2010
The Location of Theory
Friday, April 30th to Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Brown University, Providence, RI
http://proteus.brown.edu/tag2010
Theoretical Archaeology Group 2010 is a conference to explore and debate the implications of theoretical issues for archaeological practice and interpretation, worldwide. TAG-US 2010, ‘The Location of Theory’, is the third annual meeting of the Theoretical Archaeological Group in North America, and will be held at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island beginning Friday, April 30th. We invite all to attend.
TAG-US 2010 opens on Friday with a Plenary Session featuring Homi Bhabha, in conversation with Alejandro Haber, Yannis Hamilakis, and Uzma Rizvi, moderated by Nick Shepherd. Sessions will meet Saturday and Sunday (5/1-2), with performances, screenings, and exhibitions throughout the weekend. The full session list and schedule are now available on our website, at http://proteus.brown.edu/tag2010/8027 .
TAG-US 2010 is open to all, though registration is required. Registration is FREE for all Brown students, faculty, and staff until APRIL 15th. The cost of registration for non-Brown attendees is now $80.00 for professionals and $50.00 for students. These costs will increase by $25.00 each on April 15th. For information on registration, please visit http://proteus.brown.edu/tag2010/6956 .
For more information on arts programming, sessions, and other aspects of the conference, please consult the TAG-US 2010 website at: http://proteus.brown.edu/tag2010.
Monday, April 12, 2010
RI Historical Society -- Upcoming Events
Thursday, April 15, 6:30 p.m.
Gallery Night
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
To R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
If These Walls Could Talk… Westminster Stories
"Westminster Stories" is a unique collection of facts, memories, and stories about two blocks in downtown Providence. The centerpiece of Westminster Stories is a diorama on public display at 191 Westminster Street. The project is the work of more than 30 photographers, artists, interviewers, and researchers who have captured stories in an effort to deepen the connections between the past and present, and between the people who use the street. Co-creators Andrew Losowsky and Lyra Monteiro will share some of the project’s stories and their experiences in making it a reality. Learn more at www.westminsterstories.com <http://www.westminsterstories.com/> .
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Wednesday, April 21, 6:30 p.m.
RIHS Library
121 Hope Street, Providence
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Natasha Brooks
(401) 273-8107 x12 or libprograms@rihs.org
George Lee Gaskell: Rhode Island Soldier and World Traveler
How did a native of Tiverton, RI travel the world, learn to speak four foreign languages fluently, fight in some of the Civil War's bloodiest battles and for the rights of freedmen, and travel westward? Come hear the interesting and strange life of George Lee Gaskell, a Rhode Islander who saw much and saw fit to write it down. This program is based on Robert Grandchamp's thesis in American History at Rhode Island College. Grandchamp is the author of several books and a former National Park Ranger.
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Saturday, April 24, 10:00 a.m.
Tour departs from the
Aldrich House
110 Benevolent Street, Providence
To R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
A Walking Tour of Edward M. Bannister’s Providence
This tour, conducted by Ray Rickman, will visit the College Hill home and studio of Edward and Christiana Carteaux Bannister. The walk will also include five other sites associated with the noted African-American artist and a lively discussion of several other landmarks. A stop at the Providence Art Club to view one of Bannister's landscape paintings will conclude the tour. Tickets are $10 each, tour lasts about ninety minutes. Reservations are required.
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Saturday, May 8, 11:00 a.m.
Tour departs from
The Curatorium
197 Wickenden Street, Providence
For more information: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
Personally Providence: Matt Bird of The Curatorium
Take a “behind the scenes” walk in Fox Point with Matt Bird, a Providence local with a personal passion for the neighborhood, and many years of accompanying his dog on long walks in the neighborhood. Bird’s shop, The Curatorium, on Wickenden Street, adds a new flavor to the area he has lived in for 25 years. Bird is a RISD graduate and was crucial in opening the risd works store. Come hear what the artist and entrepreneur finds of architectural value in Fox Point. Tour starts at The Curatorium, 197 Wickenden Street. Contact Dalila Goulart for more information. Tickets are $10 each, tour lasts about ninety minutes. Reservations are required.
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Abraham Lincoln Visits the Blackstone Valley
150th Anniversary Celebration!
Saturday, May 15, 9:30am – 3:30pm
Train leaves Amtrak Station from Providence
for a 4 hour visit in Woonsocket
All seats are $49.50
Available online at www.tourblackstone.com <http://www.tourblackstone.com/>
- Join Abraham Lincoln as he travels from Providence to Woonsocket, RI on the Providence & Worcester Railroad.
- Hear Lincoln’s historic Cooper Union Speech at Harris Hall.
- Enjoy period music.
- Receive a signed Commemorative Print, from an original painting of Lincoln, by Blackstone Valley artist Peter Campbell.
- Your ticket includes a raffle to win an original Lincoln portrait by Peter Campbell. Painting valued at $2,000.
- Passengers are encouraged to dress in period costume.
- Ask about our Hotel Packages.
For more information: call Blackstone Valley Tourism Council at 401.724.2200 or email donna@tourblackstone.com.
Sponsored by the Rhode Island Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
For Immediate Release: The Africana Film Festival 2010
Contact: Micah Salkind
Publicity Assistant
Department of Africana Studies
Phone: 401-441-0623
Email: Micah_Salkind@brown.edu
For immediate release
COVERAGE REQUESTED
Professor Anthony Bogues (Producer) available for interviews
Brown Film Festival Brings Filmmakers, Films of Africa and The African Diaspora to Providence
Brown’s Departments of Modern Culture and Media and Africana Studies are pleased to present The Africana Film Festival 2010, Thursday April 15th, 2010 through Sunday April 18th, 2010. The Festival is funded by Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Media and Culture, Brown University’s Creative Arts Council, The Office of Institutional Diversity, and The Focus on Africa initiative. All screenings and panels will be held at the The Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main St. Providence, RI. The Africana Film Festival is open to the public; seating is $6.00 for students with valid ID and $8.00 for the public. Packages of 8 tickets can be purchased at The Cable Car box office for $38 (students) or $50. All seating is open but limited. For more info: http://brownafricanafilmfestival.info, email Africana_Studies@brown.edu <mailto:geverandshabab@brown.edu> or call the Africana Studies Department at 401-863-3558. All are invited.
Starting April 15th, filmmakers from Jamaica, Ghana, Cameroon and Cuba will arrive on Brown’s campus to discuss their films and life’s work with Providence audiences. The 2010 Africana Film Festival features a retrospective of work by The Black Audio Film Collective. John Akomfrah (Ghana/UK) and Lina Gopaul (Jamaica/UK), founding members of the collective and current members of Smoking Dog Films, have chronicled and cross-examined Britain's new multicultural reality since 1983. Their best-known work, Handsworth Songs (1986), will screen prior to their newest work, Genome Chronicles (2008) at 6:45 p.m. on Saturday, April 17. It is regarded as emblematic of a turn towards archival and documentation in recent art. Gopaul and Akomfrah will join filmmakers Gloria Rolando, Cuba’s foremost female filmmaker, and Jean-Marie Teno (Cameroon) for a panel discussion moderated by Professor Anthony Bogues of Brown’s Africana Studies Department at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 18th.
In addition to being able to hear directly from filmmakers who rarely if ever make their way to New England, let alone the US, Africana Film Festival audiences will have unprecedented opportunities to view films that are seldom seen in North America. Screenings of Sex, Okra & Salted Butter (Mali), Wrestling Ground (Senegal) and No Time To Die (Ghana) as well other shorts and features from Kenya, Burkina-Faso, and Chad make for a diverse and exciting look at the world of Afro-Diasporic cinema.
Brown’s Departments of Africana Studies and Modern Culture and Media are pleased to present The Africana Film Festival 2010, Thursday April 15th, 2010 through Sunday April 18th, 2010. The Festival is generously funded by Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Media and Culture with funding support from Brown University’s Creative Arts Council, The Office of Institutional Diversity, and The Focus on Africa initiative. All screenings and panels will be at the The Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main St. Providence, RI. The Africana Film Festival screenings are open to the public; seating is $6.00 for students with valid ID and $8.00 for the public. Packages of 8 tickets can be purchased at The Cable Car box office for $38 (students) or $50. All seating is open but limited. For more info check http://brownafricanafilmfestival.info, email Africana_Studies@brown.edu <mailto:geverandshabab@brown.edu> or call the Africana Studies Department at 401-863-3558. All are invited.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
RI Historical Society -- April Events
Wednesday, April 7, 6:30 p.m.
RIHS Library
121 Hope Street, Providence
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Natasha Brooks
(401) 273-8107 x12 or libprograms@rihs.org
Study Hill Book Club
On March 30, 1927, the Librarian of Brown University inaugurated what was to become the Study Hill Book Club. Richard Ring will talk about this network of bibliophiles, what the club managed to accomplish during its five-year lifespan, and why it never took hold in the apparently fertile bibliophilic ground of Providence. Ring holds a B.A. in English Literature from Ohio State University, and an M.L.S. from Indiana University. He is now the Special Collections Librarian at the Providence Public Library.
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Thursday, April 15, 6:30 p.m.
Gallery Night
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
To R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
If These Walls Could Talk… Westminster Stories
"Westminster Stories" is a unique collection of facts, memories, and stories about two blocks in downtown Providence. The centerpiece of Westminster Stories is a diorama on public display at 191 Westminster Street. The project is the work of more than 30 photographers, artists, interviewers, and researchers who have captured stories in an effort to deepen the connections between the past and the present, and between the people who use the street. Co-creators Andrew Losowsky and Lyra Monteiro will share some of the project’s stories and their experiences in making it a reality. Learn more at www.westminsterstories.com <http://www.westminsterstories.com/> .
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Wednesday, April 21, 6:30 p.m.
RIHS Library
121 Hope Street, Providence
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Natasha Brooks
(401) 273-8107 x12 or libprograms@rihs.org
George Lee Gaskell: Rhode Island Soldier and World Traveler
How did a native of Tiverton, RI travel the world, learn to speak four foreign languages fluently, fight in some of the Civil War's bloodiest battles and for the rights of freedmen, and travel westward? Come hear the interesting and strange life of George Lee Gaskell, a Rhode Islander who saw much and saw fit to write it down. This program is based on Robert Grandchamp's thesis in American History at Rhode Island College. Grandchamp is the author of several books and a former National Park Ranger.
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Saturday, April 24, 10:00 a.m.
Tour departs from the
Aldrich House
110 Benevolent Street, Providence
To R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
A Walking Tour of Edward M. Bannister’s Providence
This tour, conducted by Ray Rickman, will visit the College Hill home and studio of Edward and Christiana Carteaux Bannister. The walk will also include five other sites associated with the noted African-American artist and a lively discussion of several other landmarks. A stop at the Providence Art Club to view one of Bannister's landscape paintings will conclude the tour. Tickets are $10 each, tour lasts about ninety minutes. Reservations are required.
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Abraham Lincoln Visits the Blackstone Valley
150th Anniversary Celebration!
Saturday, May 15, 9:30am – 3:30pm
Train leaves Amtrak Station from Providence
for a 4 hour visit in Woonsocket
All seats are $49.50
Available online at www.tourblackstone.com <http://www.tourblackstone.com/>
- Join Abraham Lincoln as he travels from Providence to Woonsocket, RI on the Providence & Worcester Railroad.
- Hear Lincoln’s historic Cooper Union Speech at Harris Hall.
- Enjoy period music.
- Receive a signed Commemorative Print, from an original painting of Lincoln, by Blackstone Valley artist Peter Campbell.
- Your ticket includes a raffle to win an original Lincoln portrait by Peter Campbell. Painting valued at $2,000.
- Passengers are encouraged to dress in period costume.
- Ask about our Hotel Packages.
For more information: call Blackstone Valley Tourism Council at 401.724.2200 or email donna@tourblackstone.com.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Our Way of Making an Exhibit
Our Way of Making an Exhibit
2010 Barbara A. and Edward G. Hail Lecture
Monday, April 12, 2010, 5:30 p.m.
Barus & Holley 166, Brown University Campus
182 Hope Street, Providence
Ann Fienup-Riordan of the Calista Elders Council, the primary heritage organization in southwest Alaska, will discuss the exhibition she curated with the Calista Elders Council and the Anchorage Museum entitled Yuungnaqpiallerput/The Way We Genuinely Live: Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival. The exhibition, soon to travel to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, explores the scientific principles and processes practiced by the Yup'ik that enabled them to survive the conditions of the sub-arctic tundra. Yuungnaqpiallerput is described by Dr. Fienup-Riordan as being much more than a science exhibit. Combining art, science and culture in new and exciting ways, it is as much about the present as the past, and recognizes that the Yup'ik way of life is grounded in deep spiritual values and scientific principles. In this presentation, Dr. Fienup-Riordan will share the process of creating an exhibit collaboratively with the Yup'ik people. Reception to follow. Sponsored by donors to the Barbara A. and Edward G. Hail Lecture Fund and the FHMA.
2010 Barbara A. and Edward G. Hail Lecture
Monday, April 12, 2010, 5:30 p.m.
Barus & Holley 166, Brown University Campus
182 Hope Street, Providence
Ann Fienup-Riordan of the Calista Elders Council, the primary heritage organization in southwest Alaska, will discuss the exhibition she curated with the Calista Elders Council and the Anchorage Museum entitled Yuungnaqpiallerput/The Way We Genuinely Live: Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival. The exhibition, soon to travel to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, explores the scientific principles and processes practiced by the Yup'ik that enabled them to survive the conditions of the sub-arctic tundra. Yuungnaqpiallerput is described by Dr. Fienup-Riordan as being much more than a science exhibit. Combining art, science and culture in new and exciting ways, it is as much about the present as the past, and recognizes that the Yup'ik way of life is grounded in deep spiritual values and scientific principles. In this presentation, Dr. Fienup-Riordan will share the process of creating an exhibit collaboratively with the Yup'ik people. Reception to follow. Sponsored by donors to the Barbara A. and Edward G. Hail Lecture Fund and the FHMA.
Friday, April 2, 2010
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Celebrate with Historic New England at our Centennial 
This picture shows father and son today holding the movie poster that features a photograph of them in 1993. Brian Rayner was a mill worker for thirty-three years, his son Cory is a senior at Plymouth State University.
In 2003, Watson Farm was chosen as one of four sites in the country to receive rare Red Devon cattle from a herd in New Zealand and three cows were brought to the farm. The program is a great success, and the herd has grown to approximately ninety head of mostly Devon cattle. Today, the farm is a source of quality Devon seed stock for farmers in the region as well as nutritious and healthful grass-fed beef to the local community. 
Immerse yourself in New England history and material culture. Sign up for Historic New England's Program in New England Studies, an intensive learning experience with lectures by curators and architectural historians, workshops, and behind-the-scenes tours of Historic New England's house museums and collections, and other regional museums and private homes. The program is held from Monday, June 21 to Saturday, June 26. 
Thursday, April 1, 2010
FW: PPS April E-Newsletter
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February 3 marked the third anniversary of the illegal partial demolition of Grove Street School. As the ongoing battle to save this historic school building continues, the Providence Building Board of Review considered the owners' appeal of the city's order to stabilize the building at its meeting on March 11, 2010. 
PPS will present its 31st Annual 
The 25th Annual Rhode Island Statewide Historic Preservation Conference presents "Preservation Is Local" in Little Compton and Tiverton on Saturday, April 24. Robert McBride, Founding Director of Rockingham Arts and Museum Project (RAMP) and Vermont Advisor for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, will deliver the keynote address.
Food on the Move: America's Traveling Tastes
RISE (RISD Initiative of Sustainability and Environment) presents a group exhibition showing how different departments across the RISD campus have explored the themes related to sustainability. 
The Providence School Department and several community organizations in Federal Hill and the West End have joined forces to actively engage the community and its stakeholders in the process of creating a task force to help support neighborhood schools. The community organizations include the West Broadway Neighborhood Association (WBNA), the West Side Public Education Coalition (WSPEC), and a group of parents with pre-school age children called New Moms and Dads for Schools (NoMaDS). A series of meetings featuring school tours and discussions to engage neighbors in shaping the direction of their public schools was launched last Saturday, March 27. It included a tour of West Broadway Elementary School and Asa Messer Elementary School. Four more meetings are planned; anyone interested in this process may attend. For more information and updates, visit 
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