October 10, 2019 -- Cultural Content
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Dear Friends,
PPL programs are free and open to the public (unless otherwise stated), and during our building renovation we've scheduled most of then in different venues all around town. We're very grateful to all our hosting organizations! Be sure to check the location before heading out to an event.
Coming up later this month are
"
First Amendment Frontiers
," with distinguished reporters and scholars from around the country discussing current flash points for First Amendment issues, and "
Revival Meeting
," a discussion with expert designers and historians on the art and craft of typeface revivals, presented as part of our Updike Award presentation. Both events are free and open to the public.
Thanks for reading, hope to see you soon!
Christina Bevilacqua
Programs & Exhibitions Director
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Within a Lifetime: Immigration and the Changing City -- Who's Hiring? Immigration and Labor
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Thursday, October 10
Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Ave, Providence
Whether fleeing economic hardship, religious persecution, cultural subjugation, or natural disaster, people cross deserts, oceans, and continents to make new lives, and these new lives depend on finding work. Migration and labor, then, are inextricably bound together...
Photograph from PPL's Rhode Island Image Collection.
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"Within a Lifetime" is made possible with major funding support from the RI Council for the Humanities, an independent state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Council seeds, supports, and strengthens public history, cultural heritage, civic education, and community engagement by and for all Rhode Islanders.
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First Amendment Frontiers
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Thursday, October 24 | 6:30 - 8 pm |
Register
PPL Ship Room, 225 Washington Street, Providence
Join us for "First Amendment Frontiers," a lively conversation with a panel of editors, reporters, and legal experts working at the cutting edge of these critical issues and considering their implications for the future of our rights and responsibilities as citizens. Panelists are:
Lee V. Gaines
, Education Reporter, Illinois Public Media;
Justin Hansford
, Executive Director, Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, Howard University;
Lata Nott
, Executive Director, First Amendment Center, Freedom Forum Institute; and
Alan Rosenberg
, Executive Editor,
The
Providence Journal
; our moderator is
Ian Donnis
, Political Reporter, The Public’s Radio...
Read more and register
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Revival Meeting & Updike Award Ceremony
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Friday, October 25 | 7 pm
The Pavilion at Grace Episcopal Church, 300 Westminster Street, Providence
The event is free and open to the public.
Poster design:
Gene Hua
(Updke Prize 2018 winner)
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
Call For Poet
The submission deadline for proposals is Sunday, October 27, 2019 - 11:59 pm
The Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading Committee (BID)
will commission an original poem to celebrate its 25
th
Anniversary. This RFP is open to emerging and mid-career poets of color, ages 40 and under, with a national audience and seeks one project that pays tribute to the "Poet Laureate of Harlem” – Langston Hughes. The Committee invites poets to submit qualifications and portfolios for consideration and possible selection as the 25th Anniversary Honorary Poet and writer of an original, long form poem (e.g. Maya Angelou’s -
On the Pulse of Morning
or Langston Hughes’
Death in Harlem
or
Let America Be America Again
) to be published and presented at the
25
th
Annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading in 2020.
Only new works are eligible.
The Honorary Poet must be in Rhode Island from January 30-February 3, 2020 and available for two days of community interaction and engagement. As part of this two-day experience, the selected poet will also work with youth who are presenting at the 3
rd
Annual Langston Hughes Youth Event.
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