| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | 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 |
Read/Eat/ChatPresented by Newport Art Museum at Newport Art Museum February 16, 2012 "Read/Eat/Chat,” the Museum’s art themed book club, will meet at noon on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Read the book, bring a lunch and discuss!
Stealing Rembrandts
by Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg | Newport Art Museum | 02/16/12 | Newport |
“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 |
85th Annual Winter Lecture Series - William VareikaPresented by Newport Art Museum at Newport Art Museum February 18, 2012 The Enduring Art of William Trost Richards: A case study of the rich artistic heritage of Newport and the Narragansett Bay region, with personal reflections in celebration of the Centennial of the Newport Art Museum and Art Association. | Newport Art Museum | 02/18/12 | Newport |
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 |
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 |
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 |
85th Annual Winter Lecture Series - Steve FeinbergPresented by Newport Art Museum at Newport Art Museum February 25, 2012 Lights, Camera, Action Rhode Island: The romance of making films in the culturally and visually rich Ocean State. | Newport Art Museum | 02/25/12 | Newport |
The Roots of American Music: A Concert and a Lecture Presented by Warwick Public Library at Warwick Public Library - Central February 26, 2012 Join guitarist Ray Kamalay for a concert and a lecture on the roots of American music. Hear how spirituals became ragtime, jazz, gospel, the blues, and more, and discover how the musical innovations of American slaves continue in the songs we listen to today.
Ray Kamalay has presented Freedom, Slavery, and the Roots of American Music at universities and libraries across the U.S. He is a member of the Red Hot Peppers jazz combo, and he has performed at the Edinburgh Festival, the... | Warwick Public Library | 02/26/12 | Warwick |
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 |
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 |
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 |
| 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 |
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 |
85th Annual Winter Lecture Series - Hayat AlviPresented by Newport Art Museum at Newport Art Museum March 10, 2012 The Middle East of Today and Tomorrow: The Long Term Trends
Updates on the latest developments in the Middle East, and analysis of current and future trends. | Newport Art Museum | 03/10/12 | Newport |
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 |
Read/Eat/ChatPresented by Newport Art Museum at Newport Art Museum March 15, 2012 "Read/Eat/Chat,” the Museum’s art themed book club, will meet at noon on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Read the book, bring a lunch and discuss!
March 15
The Rape of Europa
by Lynn H. Nicholas
| Newport Art Museum | 03/15/12 | Newport |
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 | |
| Poetry Writing Roundtable | Warwick Public Library | 03/21/12 | Warwick |
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 |
Brown Bag Book Club: Caleb's CrossingPresented by Providence Public Library at Providence Public Library - Central March 27, 2012 Members of the PPL Brown Bag Book Club will discuss the 2012 Reading Across RI selection, Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks. Copies of the book available at the Library's Circulation desk.
Inspired by the true story of the first Native American graduate of Harvard University, Caleb’s Crossing is a fascinating historical novel exploring friendship, oppression, and spiritual attitudes of faith. The vividly detailed journey of Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck describes the lives of... | Providence Public Library | 03/27/12 | Providence |
| Poetry Writing Roundtable | Warwick Public Library | 04/04/12 | Warwick |
Living Literature Presents Caleb's CrossingPresented by Providence Public Library at Providence Public Library - Central April 15, 2012 As part of the 10th Anniversary Celebration of Reading Across Rhode Island, Living Literature presents a readers’ theater performance of Caleb’s Crossing by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Geraldine Brooks. Historical fiction based on fact, the tale illustrates 17th century repression intensified by the harshness of pioneer life. The vividly detailed journey of Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College in 1665, is a story about friendship,... | Providence Public Library | 04/15/12 | Providence |
| Poetry Writing Roundtable | Warwick Public Library | 04/18/12 | Warwick |
Read/Eat/ChatPresented by Newport Art Museum at Newport Art Museum April 19, 2012 "Read/Eat/Chat,” the Museum’s art themed book club, will meet at noon on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Read the book, bring a lunch and discuss! Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
| Newport Art Museum | 04/19/12 | Newport |
Book and Author Event: The Dropper by Ron McLartyPresented by Providence Public Library at Providence Public Library - Central April 22, 2012 The Dropper is a haunting soliloquy to the harsh and sometimes brutal world our forebears left behind in pursuit of a dream called America. It is also an ode to the often heartrending decisions they were forced to make in leaving some family members—and some part of themselves—behind. And finally, as young Shoe Horn, the novel’s protagonist, grapples blindly with sex until arriving at the maturity to recognize love, it’s also a tender coming-of-age... | Providence Public Library | 04/22/12 | Providence |
Brown Bag Book Club: OutlanderPresented by Providence Public Library at Providence Public Library - Central April 24, 2012 Members of the PPL Brown Bag Book Club will discuss Outlander by Gil Adamson. Copies of the book available at the Library's Circulation desk.
In 1903 a mysterious young woman flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. At nineteen, Mary Boulton has just become a widow—and her husband’s killer. As bloodhounds track her frantic race toward the mountains, she is tormented by mad visions and by the knowledge that her two ruthless brothers-in-law are... | Providence Public Library | 04/24/12 | Providence |
| Poetry Writing Roundtable | Warwick Public Library | 05/02/12 | Warwick |
| Poetry Writing Roundtable | Warwick Public Library | 05/16/12 | Warwick |
Read/Eat/ChatPresented by Newport Art Museum at Newport Art Museum May 17, 2012 "Read/Eat/Chat,” the Museum’s art themed book club, will meet at noon on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Read the book, bring a lunch and discuss!
Americans in Paris
by David McCullough
| Newport Art Museum | 05/17/12 | Newport |
Brown Bag Book Club: Einstein's WifePresented by Providence Public Library at Providence Public Library - Central May 29, 2012 Members of the PPL Brown Bag Book Club will discuss Einstein's Wife: Work and Marriage in the lives of Five Great Twentieth-Century Women. Copies of the book available at the Library's Circulation desk.
Inspired by her own experiences, Gabor sets out to define the unique stuff of which great women are made and chart the often tangled territory in which love and ambition intersect. The portraits of the five brilliant, married women that emerge serve as both a model and a caution to... | Providence Public Library | 05/29/12 | Providence |
Read/Eat/ChatPresented by Newport Art Museum at Newport Art Museum June 21, 2012 "Read/Eat/Chat,” the Museum’s art themed book club, will meet at noon on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Read the book, bring a lunch and discuss! Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland | Newport Art Museum | 06/21/12 | Newport |
Brown Bag Book Club: The Night CircusPresented by Providence Public Library at Providence Public Library - Central June 26, 2012 Members of the PPL Brown Bag Book Club will discuss The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Copies of the book available at the Library's Circulation desk.
The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is... | Providence Public Library | 06/26/12 | Providence |
Read/Eat/ChatPresented by Newport Art Museum at Newport Art Museum July 19, 2012 "Read/Eat/Chat,” the Museum’s art themed book club, will meet at noon on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Read the book, bring a lunch and discuss! The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean | Newport Art Museum | 07/19/12 | Newport |
Read/Eat/ChatPresented by Newport Art Museum at Newport Art Museum August 16, 2012 "Read/Eat/Chat,” the Museum’s art themed book club, will meet at noon on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Read the book, bring a lunch and discuss! Gilded: How Newport Became America's Richest Resort by Debra Davis | Newport Art Museum | 08/16/12 | Newport |
Read/Eat/ChatPresented by Newport Art Museum at Newport Art Museum September 20, 2012 "Read/Eat/Chat,” the Museum’s art themed book club, will meet at noon on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Read the book, bring a lunch and discuss! Leaving Van Gogh by Carol Wallace | Newport Art Museum | 09/20/12 | Newport |
Read/Eat/ChatPresented by Newport Art Museum at Newport Art Museum October 18, 2012 "Read/Eat/Chat,” the Museum’s art themed book club, will meet at noon on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Read the book, bring a lunch and discuss! Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White | Newport Art Museum | 10/18/12 | Newport |
Read/Eat/ChatPresented by Newport Art Museum at Newport Art Museum November 15, 2012 "Read/Eat/Chat,” the Museum’s art themed book club, will meet at noon on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Read the book, bring a lunch and discuss! The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures by Philip Mould | Newport Art Museum | 11/15/12 | Newport |
Friday Night LivePresented by Everett at The Carriage House January 13, 2012 - Ongoing Hilarious Improv Comedy featuring live music from Bertrand Laurence! Get beside yourself with FNL’s interactive scenes and on-the-spot musicals, featuring improvised song, dance, and skits! Performances are intended for audiences of all ages, personality types, and food groups. Friday Night Live unites a diverse cast of veteran Everett artists, young up-and-coming performers, and live guitarist/composer Bertrand Laurence, in the production of fun, funny, creative, and meaningful... | Everett | 01/13/12- Ongoing | Providence |
| Creation | The Spot on Thayer St. | 01/03/12- Ongoing | Providence |
Poetry/Hip Hop Elements 101Presented by Providence Community Library at Knight Memorial Library February 6, 2012 - Ongoing Learn to write and perform poetry or rap songs with Poetry Teacher Yunus. This is an introductory interactive class where teens are allowed to write and share their material and feelings to the world. For teens in grades 6 through 12. Registration required. | Providence Community Library | 02/06/12- Ongoing | Providence |
| Tiny Tales for Toddlers | Cranston Public Library | 01/25/12- Ongoing | Cranston |
Book BabiesPresented by Cranston Public Library at Cranston William Hall Library February 2, 2012 - Ongoing Babies from birth to 24 months (with a favorite adult) enjoy songs, action rhymes, books and playtime in each lively Book Babies session. Book Babies gives your baby the opportunity to hear lots of language while you get to know other young families. No registration required. | Cranston Public Library | 02/02/12- Ongoing | Cranston |
| Storytime For 4s & 5s | Cranston Public Library | 01/23/12- Ongoing | Cranston |