Tuesday, August 31, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Tour departs from the
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
$10 per person
For more information: Barbara Barnes
(401) 273-7507 x62 or bbarnes@rihs.org
Art and the City walking tour
Rhode Island boasts one of the highest concentrations of visual artists in the country. Providence streets, parks, and the RiverWalk are full of public sculpture; some of which make fabulous "outdoor rooms." The stories of art, artists, the Providence Art Club, the Rhode Island School of Design, Gallery Night Providence, Waterfire and excellent urban design are inspirational.
The RISD Museum will be closed during the month of August. However, Providence is a gallery en plein air. Take a guided walking tour with the Rhode Island Historical Society's SummerWalks program. Feast your eyes; fill your soul; enjoy one of the best art cities in the country! Tickets are $10; tour lasts about ninety minutes.
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Sunday, August 29 to Saturday, October 23
Museum of Work & Culture
For more information: Ray Bacon
(401) 769-9675 or rbacon@rihs.org
Gallery: "Let There Be Light"
"Let There Be Light," an art show by artist Robert J. Ducharme will be on exhibit at the Museum of Work & Culture's Gallery beginning Sunday, August 29 until Saturday, October 23, 2010. The exhibit is a compilation of photos, collages, sculptures and paintings concentrating on the quality of brightness. Whether it's a rambling stone wall or a quiet boat on a field of snow, his artwork, either with his brush or with his camera, depicts quiet scenes and evokes moods,
Robert J. Ducharme is a renowned Woonsocket artist . He owned and operated the Ducharme Art Studio in Woonsocket for 35 years. He has taught art classes for many years at the Woonsocket and Cumberland Senior Centers and has also taught at the VA Medical Center in Providence. He was the concept originator of Woonsocket's Korean War Memorial in 2004.
He has exhibited in regional shows throughout New England, including the annual Art Festivals at Wickford, Mystic, Coventry, East Greenwich, Burrillville, Warwick and Putnam,CT. The artist has received many awards, including the Louise Cole Todd Award and 1st Place in the Woonsocket Fine Arts Photography show.
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Monday, September 6
9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Museum of Work & Culture
For more information: Anne Conway
(401) 769-9675 or aconway@rihs.org
12th Annual Labor Day Open House
Admission is free at the Museum and all its events today! This year, we celebrate the opening of the new exhibit "Going to Work: 20th Century Settlers in the Blackstone Valley." Ethnic music and dance performances will enliven festivities outdoors, and Greg Rubano will present on baseball star Napoleon Lajoie in the ITU Hall. Museum volunteers will be on hand to assist visitors in perusing through the 71 archival binders on Catholic education and to accept donations of memorabilia on Catholic schools worldwide. Many thanks to the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission and to the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations for their generous support.
SCHEDULE of EVENTS
10:00am – Presentation by Greg Rubano -- Celebrating the Birthday of Rhode Island's Greatest Baseball Star Napoleon Lajoie, ITU Hall
11:00am – Performance by the Greek Pride Dancers, of the Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, River Island Park (rain location – ITU Hall)
12:00pm - Presentation by Greg Rubano -- Celebrating the Birthday of Rhode Island's Greatest Baseball Star Napoleon Lajoie, ITU Hall
1:00pm – Performance by the Rancho Danças e Cantares of the Clube Juventude Lusitana, River Island Park (rain location – ITU Hall)
2:30pm – Performance by Dana Maguire, Issa Coulibaly and Jesus Andujar, Afro-Caribbean and West African tradition drummers, River Island Park (rain locaton – ITU Hall)
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Friday, September 10, 7:00 p.m.
Aldrich House
To R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
There is Power in a Union: Book Signing & Lecture
A few days after Labor Day, come learn how central a role the union has played in the social, economic, political and cultural evolution of this country. Philip Dray, author of There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America, will speak on the American labor movement from the Industrial Age to this day. Event co-sponsored with the Providence Athenaeum.
A hundred years ago, to be in a union in America was a dangerous thing. Union-busting activity on the part of the industry and government alike was unremarkable, and often brutally violent, and legal recourse negligible. Then, fifty years ago, the union reached its zenith of power: over one-third of all American workers were union members by 1953. American workers enjoyed benefits and safeguards that created a secure foundation for a middle-class life. Now, the power of the union in America is once again at ebb tide. There is Power in a Union shows how vital the union and organized labor has
been to American life for the past two hundred years, what it has wrought, for good and for ill, over the past century, and how central a role it has played in the social, economic, political and cultural evolution of this country. There is Power in a Union delivers a gripping, narrative history of how our country was shaped, who it is, and how it stands today.
Philip Dray is the author of At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award and the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the co-author of We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi, which was a New York Times Notable Book for 1988. Born in Chicago and raised in Minnesota, Dray now lives in New York City. He has been a contributor to many publications, including Mother Jones, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.
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