| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | The Origins of Agriculture in China: From Hunting and Gathering to Early FarmingPresented by Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University at Brown University - Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology February 10, 2012 Presented by Ofer Bar-Yosef, Harvard University. The transition from hunting and gathering to cultivation of wild plants was initiated by semi-sedentary communities some 11,000 years ago. Among the earliest East Asian pioneering foragers were those who lived in North China who started cultivating wild millet. Within one or two millennia the annually cultivated millet became domesticated and was joined by corralling and eventual domestication of pigs. Stable food production and storage... | Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University | 02/10/12 | Providence |
| Young Men's Choral Festival | Rhode Island College | 02/10/12 | Providence |
| Fun-a-Day Community Art Show | Fun-A-Day Providence | 02/10/12-
02/11/12 | Providence |
Writing Is LivePresented by Brown University Theatre at Brown University - Leeds Theatre February 3-February 13, 2012 The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University proudly announces the third annual Writing is Live festival, a presentation of new works featuring six plays by writers in Brown’s graduate and undergraduate theatre programs. Writing is Live celebrates the diversity and strength of new theatrical voices while simultaneously exploring the meaning of text in performance.
This year, the festival presents readings and workshops of new plays by four graduate... | Brown University Theatre | 02/03/12-
02/13/12 | Providence |
| Book Group 2: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese | Warwick Public Library | 02/13/12 | Warwick |
Tuesday Morning Film Discussion Group: Bringing Up BabyPresented by Warwick Public Library at Warwick Public Library - Central February 14, 2012 See the uproarious screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938), starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. A madcap romance starts when a straight-laced paleontologist bumps into a flighty heiress with a pet leopard named Baby. Bring a lunch, and join in a casual, after-movie discussion. We'll supply the drinks. The Tuesday Morning Film Discussion Group meets on the second Tuesday of the month. This 102-minute film is brought to you by The Friends of the Library and is free and open... | Warwick Public Library | 02/14/12 | Warwick |
Evening Book Group: Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok Presented by Warwick Public Library at Warwick Public Library - Central February 16, 2012 When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life—the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family’s future resting on her shoulders, her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition—Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just... | Warwick Public Library | 02/16/12 | Warwick |
“Hark! The White Whale!” series, part 12Presented by Providence Athenaeum at Providence Athenaeum February 17, 2012 Writer LaShonda Barnett on “‘To Serve Before The Mast’: Recovering The Lost Legacy of Rhode Island’s Black Seaman,” co-presented with the RI Black Heritage Society.
In 1774 the population of the RI colony was 59, 000, the majority of which obtained at least some of its living from maritime activity. While little documented in scholarship, African-American sailors, free and enslaved, crewed riverboats, whaling ships, and many of the merchant vessels that... | Providence Athenaeum | 02/17/12 | Providence |
Dana Levin: A Classical Realist in the 21st Century [Pocket Show]Presented by Bert Gallery at Bert Gallery January 11-February 18, 2012 For many artists and critics, realistic painting in the 21st century is passé. For Dana Levin and her Classical Realist colleagues, this approach to painting is a disciplined and dynamic approach to creating good art. Levin demonstrates in this exhibit how the world of craft, beauty, and thought come together in her drawings and paintings. She continues the evolution of the vital and ongoing realistic tradition to paint, “A work of fine art that strikes a chord in the viewer and... | Bert Gallery | 01/11/12-
02/18/12 | Providence |
Nostalgia MachinesPresented by David Winton Bell Gallery at David Winton Bell Gallery January 25-February 19, 2012 Nostalgia Machines explores the intersection of nostalgia and technology in contemporary sculpture. Rather than the longing for specific lost moments of time, these artworks draw on aesthetic tropes associated with nostalgia. They capture abstract, often visceral registers of the sentiment, whether a sense memory (of rain, or of skin crawling), a personal history (moments of key decisions), or a “remembering” aesthetic (such as historical documentary).
The five artists... | David Winton Bell Gallery | 01/25/12-
02/19/12 | Providence |
The Life of William J. Brown and Race in 19th Century Rhode IslandPresented by Linden Place at Linden Place February 12-February 19, 2012 Linden Place Mansion presents a lecture by Ray Rickman, co-sponsored by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.
William J. Brown was an African-American civic leader who may have authored the most thoughtful narrative by a free man of color in the nineteenth century. Mr. Brown uses his autobiography to tell how his family came to America on a slave ship owned by Moses and John Brown and then touches on the entire sweep of nineteenth-century Rhode Island history. Linden Place... | Linden Place | 02/12/12-
02/19/12 | Bristol |
Meet the Writer: Raina Smith, author of The 13th ApostlePresented by Providence Public Library at Providence Public Library - Central February 19, 2012 Recently published thriller, The 13th Apostle by Rhode Island author Raina Smith is “intense,” “thought-provoking” and “a stay up all night thriller.” 13th Apostle Book JacketThis first book by Ms. Smith is causing quite a stir in the author’s home state.
The discovery of an ancient scroll written over two thousand years ago by a man believed by a select few to have been a mysterious thirteenth apostle of Christ leads to the discovery of... | Providence Public Library | 02/19/12 | Providence |
Brown Bag Book Club: Little BeePresented by Providence Public Library at Providence Public Library - Central February 21, 2012 Little Bee, a young Nigerian refugee, has just been released from the British immigration detention center where she has been held under horrific conditions for the past two years, after narrowly escaping a traumatic fate in her homeland of Nigeria. Alone in a foreign country, without a family member or friend to call her own, she seeks out the only English person she knows. Sarah is a posh young mother and magazine editor with whom Little Bee shares a dark and tumultuous past.
Call... | Providence Public Library | 02/21/12 | Providence |
Micro-MemoirPresented by Providence Athenaeum at Providence Athenaeum February 21, 2012 Co-presented with Not About The Buildings, join us to write and read aloud extremely short (200-word) personal memoirs based on an object/muse to be presented by our workshop facilitator, the noted short-short prose pioneer Karen Donovan, as the session begins. Participants will experience both the rigors and elation of writing short-short prose, and the reading aloud segment will be buoyed by the energy of surprise and speed. The more diverse the writing is, the more exciting the readings... | Providence Athenaeum | 02/21/12 | Providence |
| Poetry Writing Roundtable | Warwick Public Library | 02/22/12 | Warwick |
Creative Traditions: Crafting Contemporary Indigenous Identity in TaiwanPresented by Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University - Salomon Center February 23, 2012 Anthropology graduate student Christy DeLair spent her summer in Taiwan collecting contemporary indigenous craftwork for the Haffenreffer Museum. She will share some of her experiences during this presentation of her research. Dominant narratives suggest that to be indigenous is to be stuck in the past, tied to tradition, and antithetical to ever encroaching development. In this view, indigenous cultures will disappear unless they are preserved in their historic forms and sheltered from... | Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology | 02/23/12 | Providence |
Energizing The Arts & Cultural SectorPresented by Rhode Island Foundation February 23, 2012 Do you care about our arts and cultural organizations in Rhode Island and want to learn more about serving on a nonprofit board? If you are unsure of how to connect with boards interested in meeting young leaders, this event is for you. There will not be any formal matching at this networking event, but it will be a great opportunity for relationship-building between board members and young leaders.
Some organizations in attendance will be RiverzEdge Arts Project, the Rhode Island... | Rhode Island Foundation | 02/23/12 | |
AFRICAN-AMERICAN IDENTITY Exhibit Living on Both Sides of the HyphenPresented by URI Feinstein Providence Campus at URI Feinstein Providence Campus Gallery January 23-February 24, 2012 The exhibit features artworks in all media from Gregorio Aleman, Sharon Armour, Isabel Baez, Tyna Braxton, Marlene Britto, Tallibah and Carlos Cabral, Tamara Diaz, Felix Diclo, Kim Ellery, Manuel Fernando, George Garcia, Stephen Gross, Jerock, Evangelista Jimenez, Todd Jones, Victor Justo, Nixon Ledger, Leonard Lentini, Titilola O. Martins, Cindy Taylor Meeks, Donna Mitchell, Munir Mohammed, Onna Moniz John, James Montford and his class project, Carole Moody, Peaceable Kingdom, Lydia Perez,... | URI Feinstein Providence Campus | 01/23/12-
02/24/12 | Providence |
Night LightPresented by New Dimension Church at New Dimension Church February 24, 2012 An evening of creative arts featuring artists, poets, rappers, dancers, and singers from all over New England | New Dimension Church | 02/24/12 | Providence |
SALON: Dr. Thomas Brooks and Betsy Burleigh on Britten’s War Requiem and Owen’s WWI poetryPresented by Providence Athenaeum at Providence Athenaeum February 24, 2012 A monument of 20th century music, Britten’s 1962 War Requiem interlaces the Latin mass for the dead with powerful verse by the English war poet Owen to create a statement on the losses of war and the eternal quest for peace. The Providence Singers will collaborate with the New England Philharmonic and Chorus pro Musica for the 50th anniversary of the work at a concert on Sunday, March 4 at 4pm at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Providence; this Salon will help audience members... | Providence Athenaeum | 02/24/12 | Providence |
| New Paintings by Robert Mariani & RED FORK EMPIRE | AS220 | 02/05/12-
02/25/12 | Providence |
| New Paintings by Ivy M. McDonald | AS220 | 02/05/12-
02/25/12 | Providence |
| New Work by Agata Michalowska | AS220 | 02/05/12-
02/25/12 | Providence |
A Bookbinding Anamoly: Linked-spine BindingsPresented by Providence Athenaeum at Providence Athenaeum February 25, 2012 Sam Ellenport has been the proprietor of Harcourt Bindery in Boston for the past 40 years. It is the last large book bindery in America still working in a 19th century tradition, on a par with Bayntun’s in Bath, England. Through spectacular images, he will uncover a rare aspect in bookbinding: the use of the spines of books as a canvas on which binders create designs that span several volumes.
| Providence Athenaeum | 02/25/12 | Providence |
| RIC Chamber Orchestra and Small Ensembles | Rhode Island College | 02/26/12 | Providence |
| The Cadence of Familiarity | Krause Gallery @ Moses Brown | 01/31/12-
03/02/12 | Providence |
Mid-Year Makings Presented by New Urban Arts at New Urban Arts February 17-March 2, 2012 Don't miss our annual mid-year show of student artwork, Mid-Year Makings, opening on Friday, Feb. 17, 5-8pm. Witness brainstorms, beginnings, and the blooming of mid-year makings at an interactive exhibition of student artwork. | New Urban Arts | 02/17/12-
03/02/12 | Providence |
Salon: Historian Stephen O’Shea and his new book, The Friar of CarcassonnePresented by Providence Athenaeum at Providence Athenaeum March 2, 2012 In 1300, the French region of Languedoc had been cowed under the authority of both Rome and France for nearly a century, since a papal crusade had almost wiped out the Cathars, heretical Christians whose beliefs threatened the authority of the Church. Decades of repression under the grand inquisitor of Toulouse (the villain in The Name of the Rose) had bred resentment, and in Carcassonne, anger at the Inquisition reached a boiling point. Then the charismatic Franciscan friar Bernard... | Providence Athenaeum | 03/02/12 | Providence |
| Amazing Actresses Film Series @ Warwick Library | Warwick Public Library | 02/04/12-
03/03/12 | Warwick |
Screening: WindfallPresented by RISD Museum at RISD Museum March 4, 2012 Residents of Meredith, NY were in favor of clean energy and the additional income attached to wind turbines, but unexpected complications negatively impact their daily lives. Arguments on both sides are captured in the documentary.
| RISD Museum | 03/04/12 | Providence |
Family Learning Sunday: Discover LetterboxingPresented by Providence Public Library at Providence Public Library - Central March 4, 2012 Providence Public Library presents its 2011-12 series of Family Learning Sundays. Join us...every 1st Sunday of the month through May 2012, as we offer “learning families” varied opportunities to seek new knowledge — together — at the Library.
Letterboxing is an exciting “treasure hunt”-style outdoor activity perfect for families. In this family workshop, participants learn how to participate in letterboxing and, most importantly,... | Providence Public Library | 03/04/12 | Providence |
Book Group 1: Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks Presented by Warwick Public Library at Warwick Public Library - Central March 6, 2012 The story takes place on Martha's Vineyard and is based on a real person. In 1665 a young man became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. He becomes the center of a struggle between the local Calvinist minister and the Wampanoags. | Warwick Public Library | 03/06/12 | Warwick |
Caring for Our Pets: A Visit by the Warwick Animal Shelter Presented by Warwick Public Library at Warwick Public Library - Central March 6, 2012 Join Director Ann Corvin and an adoptable pet from the Warwick Animal Shelter for a presentation on caring for our pets.
Learn about basic cat and dog care and find out about Warwick pet laws. Hear how the Warwick Animal Shelter helps homeless animals, and discover how you can help, too. Also, find out how you can bring home a loving animal friend.
Ann Corvin has worked for the shelter for over 10 years, starting as a volunteer and becoming Poundkeeper and Director. | Warwick Public Library | 03/06/12 | Warwick |
The Regret-In, a marathon read-aloud of William Maxwell’s short novel So Long, See You Tomorrow.Presented by Providence Athenaeum at Providence Athenaeum March 6, 2012 One winter morning in the 1920s, a man is killed on an Illinois farm, and a privileged, neglected teenager’s tenuous friendship with a troubled farm boy is shattered. Decades later, one of the boys tries to reconstruct the events leading up to the murder. He is drawn back to his lost friend, the son of the killer and a witness to things Maxwell’s narrator can only imagine. From the surmises of children and the destructive passions of parents, Maxwell creates a classic of youth... | Providence Athenaeum | 03/06/12 | Providence |
| Poetry Writing Roundtable | Providence Public Library | 03/07/12 | Warwick |
Sonata Series Event #3 with Knut Erik Jensen, pianoPresented by Community MusicWorks at RISD Museum March 8, 2012 Co-presented by The RISD Museum
Grieg Cello Sonata in A Minor, Opus 36 (Heath Marlow, cello)
Schubert Sonata in A Major, D. 574 (Minna Choi, violin) | Community MusicWorks | 03/08/12 | Providence |
| Evening Book Group: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson | Warwick Public Library | 03/08/12 | Warwick |
Salon: Taylor Polites on his genre-bending new novel The Rebel WifePresented by Providence Athenaeum at Providence Athenaeum March 9, 2012 Augusta Branson was born into the antebellum Southern nobility of wealth and prosperity. Now, in the violent world of Reconstruction Alabama, her disreputable husband has died suddenly, leaving her with a young son. Her social standing ruined by her marriage, she is alone and unprotected in a community being destroyed by racial prejudice and violence, and her expected inheritance does not exist. Using the Southern Gothic tradition to explode literary archetypes like the chivalrous Southern... | Providence Athenaeum | 03/09/12 | Providence |
Art Gossip: Behind the Providence Art Scene in the Late 19th CenturyPresented by Bert Gallery at Bert Gallery January 11-March 10, 2012 The art profession is not immune to one of the most common means of sharing facts and views – gossip. In fact the Providence Journal during the late 19th century had just such a column – “Art Gossip” published weekly. Reviewing both the Providence Journal Art Gossip column and personal writings by artists from the 19th century gives you a clear insight into the dynamic art world of Providence. More importantly, one hundred years later this “gossip” is the... | Bert Gallery | 01/11/12-
03/10/12 | Providence |
Writing Studio with Liz HowortPresented by Providence Athenaeum at Providence Athenaeum March 10, 2012 This studio will focus on the travel log (non-fiction). Participants will consider Matsuo Basho’s travel log, The Narrow Road to the Interior, as a hybrid text, encompassing prose and haiku to offer the haibun form. Basho will group members as they consider the relationship between prose and poetry, and the studio will feature a series of in-class exercises to generate prose and haibun forms. Please come prepared to draft new work. Please
| Providence Athenaeum | 03/10/12 | Providence |
Community MusicWorks Players Players with Knut Erik Jensen, pianoPresented by Community MusicWorks at Temple Beth-El March 11, 2012 Presented by Temple Beth-El
Mahler Piano Quartet in A Minor
Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G Minor, Opus 57
William Stalnaker String Trio | Community MusicWorks | 03/11/12 | Providence |
Book Group 2: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson Presented by Warwick Public Library at Warwick Public Library - Central March 12, 2012 Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), is the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson's wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, Major Pettigrew lives alone and is content. Foollwing his brother's death, he meets and becomes friends with Mrs Ali, the local Pakistani shopkeeper. | Warwick Public Library | 03/12/12 | Warwick |
Tuesday Morning Film Discussion Group: Drums Along The MohawkPresented by Warwick Public Library at Warwick Public Library - Central March 13, 2012 See the costume drama Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert. A newlywed couple settles in the Mohawk Valley only to find themselves at the center of the Revolutionary War and the struggle for the American frontier. Bring a lunch, and join in a casual, after-movie discussion. We'll supply the drinks.
The Tuesday Morning Film Discussion Group meets on the second Tuesday of the month. This 104-minute film is brought to you by The Friends of the... | Warwick Public Library | 03/13/12 | Warwick |
A Discussion with Christian McBurneyPresented by Rhode Island Historical Society March 15, 2012 Please join us for the first Gallery Night of 2012 for a discussion with Christian McBurney, author of The Rhode Island Campaign: The First French and American Operation in the Revolutionary War.
On July 29, 1778, a powerful French naval squadron sailed confidently to the entrance of Narragansett Bay, and signaled the commencement of the first joint French and American campaign of the Revolutionary War. In his new book, The Rhode Island Campaign: The First French and American... | Rhode Island Historical Society | 03/15/12 | |
| Community MusicWorks Fellowship Program Seminar | Community MusicWorks | 03/16/12 | Providence |
St. Patrick's Day Parade - NewportPresented by at Downtown Newport March 17, 2012 The 56th Annual Newport, Rhode Island Saint Patrick's Day Parade will be held, rain, snow, or shine, on Saturday, March 17th 2012. It will begin promptly at 11:00am from Newport City Hall and will proceed to Carroll Avenue at Saint Augustin’s Church in the heart of the Fifth Ward. The parade this year is estimated to last 2 hours and will include 8 Pipe Bands, 9 Marching Bands, 3 Fife & Drum Corps, 3 Clown Units, 8 reenactment... | | 03/17/12 | Newport |
Phoenix from the Ashes: A Musical Remembrance of the HolocaustPresented by Rhode Island College at Rhode Island College - Sapinsley Hall March 21, 2012 Dramatic soprano Lori Phillips, joined by Judith Lynn Stillman on piano, will present the New England premiere of Phoenix from the Ashes: A Musical Remembrance of the Holocaust on March 21 at 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The event will feature the premiere of Phoenix from the Ashes, art songs with texts from Children's Poems from Terezin, composed by Stillman. | Rhode Island College | 03/21/12 | Providence |
Sports Art 2012 - Student Sports Photography ExhibitionPresented by Providence College Friars at Providence College - Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery January 26-March 22, 2012 Photography students of Dr. Eric Sung, assistant professor of art and a former professional sports photographer, will present their photo documentation of PC athletics. The students were given unprecedented access to varsity teams on campus. | Providence College Friars | 01/26/12-
03/22/12 | Providence |
Out Of LinePresented by DeBlois Gallery at DeBlois Gallery March 3-March 23, 2012 This is an unjuried, all-media show, for which we invite your unique interpretation of the theme. All media using theme are accepted | DeBlois Gallery | 03/03/12-
03/23/12 | Newport |
A Discussion with Alexander “Sam” AldrichPresented by Rhode Island Historical Society at Rhode Island Historical Society - Aldrich House March 24, 2012 To say that Sam Aldrich has had an unusual and interesting life would be a serious understatement. Born into a life of wealth and privilege, Aldrich was expected to follow his father into a career of high finance. But Aldrich had other ideas, as these lively memoirs make clear. At the age of 25, he danced in London with Queen Elizabeth II. At 37, he was marching with Martin Luther King in Selma, Alabama. Recounting the journey between and beyond those two points, and musing over the irony of... | Rhode Island Historical Society | 03/24/12 | Providence |
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