Presenter Information

See you next week in Providence!

Dear 2023 IA National Gathering Presenters, 

Thank you so much for sharing your work with IA at the 2023 National Gathering. We are excited for what is to come! This email has some important information for you and hopefully answers questions you may have.

Please read it closely.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

1. You may be the only person in your session receiving this email. Please share it with your co-presenters.
2. The National Gathering Print Program Schedule PDF is available for download. You will also receive a copy with your name badge at the registration desk.
3. You should expect 20-30 participants, depending on room size, in attendance for your session.
4. We received requests for specific space needs and tried our best to accommodate. Please bring a spirit of generosity and flexibility as we all work to make this Gathering the best it can be!

TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION:

1. Please bring your own laptop and necessary adaptors (for HDMI especially). We will have a very limited number of these to share.
2. Each room will have internet access, sound capability, and either a monitor or projector and screen.
3. We suggest you email a backup of your presentation to yourself, or save it on a USB drive.

IF YOU ARE PRESENTING ON FRIDAY, OCT 20:



• Friday sessions are scheduled in either the Providence Public Library (150 Empire St., Providence) or AS220 (115 Empire St., Providence).
• Rooms in both spaces will have projectors and screens. Please make sure you bring your own laptop and necessary adaptors - both USB and HDMI.
• A note that AS220 is a unique community art organization and we will be using some rooms currently supporting youth programs. Please be open to the special opportunity to share work in this treasured community space.

IF YOU ARE PRESENTING ON

SATURDAY, OCT 21 OR SUNDAY, OCT 22:

1. Saturday and Sunday sessions are scheduled in the MET School (325 Public St, Providence), in the following buildings: Justice, Equality, Unity, and Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE).
2. All classrooms at the MET School will have a large monitor that connects directly to your laptop via HDMI adaptor. All commons rooms at the MET School will have a projector and screen. Please make sure you bring your own laptop and HDMI adaptors.
3. A note that MET School is an active high school. Classroom spaces may have personal affects and student work, so please be aware of moving objects in those rooms.

Community-Hosted Site Visits

all site visits happen on Saturday, October 21

from 3:00 - 5:30 PM

A reminder that registration is now open for community site visits in Providence as part of the 2023 IA National Gathering. Only registered Gathering participants are eligible to sign up for one site visit, which are first-come, first-served until capacity is reached.

Please read the titles below then click "Register Here" to read a full description and register at EventBrite.

Verde Visions at Southside Community Land Trust

Capacity 40 people

Location: Southside Community Land Trust (404 Broad St, Providence, RI 02907)

Everett: Company, Stage & School - Parables from Prison

Capacity 40 people

Location: Everett: Company, Stage & School (9 Duncan Avenue, Providence RI 02906)

Stages of Freedom African American Museum

Capacity 25 people

Location: Stages of Freedom (10 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903)

Providence Art Club + Bannister Community Art Project

Capacity 20 people

Location: Providence Art Club (11 Thomas St, Providence, RI 02903)

Community Music Works: Collective Performance and Workshop with Phase II Youth and South African cellist and composer, TK Mhlambi

Capacity 30 people

Location: Southside Cultural Center of Rhode Island (393 Broad Street, Providence RI 02907)

Soil Stories, Plant Stories

Capacity 14 people

Location: Movement Education Outdoors + The Emergent Forest (47 Harrison Street, Providence, RI 02907)

Culturally Informed, Community Minded Memorialization in Providence's City Cemeteries

Capacity 20 people

Location: North Burial Ground (5 Branch Ave, Providence, RI 02904)

Tomaquag Museum

Capacity 25 people

Location: Tomaquag Museum (390A Summit Rd, Exeter, RI 02822)

The Youth Are the Truth: Enacting Social Justice through Arts, Education, Civic Engagement, and Youth Development

Capacity 25 people

Location: AS220 Black Box Theater (95 Empire Street, Providence RI 02903)

Nonviolence as a Practical Alternative to Violence

Capacity 25 people

Location: Nonviolence Institute (265 Oxford St, Providence RI, 02905)

College Unbound - College Re-Imagined

Capacity 20 people

Location: MET High School, Black Box Theatre (325 Public Street, Providence RI, 02905)

A Forgotten Neighborhood: The Resilient People of Smith Hill

Capacity 14 people

Location: Smith Hill Library (31 Candace St, Providence, RI 02908)

The Haus of Glitter: The Historical Intervention of The Former Home of Esek Hopkins, Commander of the slavery ship "Sally"

Capacity 25 people

Location: Esek Hopkins House + Park (also known as former home of The Haus of Glitter) (97 Admiral Street, Providence, RI 02908)

Tigers and Portals

Capacity 25 people

Location: Joseph A Doorley Jr. Municipal Building (444 Westminster St, Providence, RI 02903)

Reclaiming + Repatriating Land: Potumtuk: organized with the Center for Indigenous Peoples Rights

Capacity 25 people

Location: Potumtuk (Mt. Hope Farm) (250 Metacom Avenue Bristol, RI 02809)

IMPORTANT SITE VISIT INFORMATION: 

1. Site visit registration is now open through EventBrite (please do not email IA or site visit organizations to register).
2. Only registered IA Gathering participants are eligible to also register for a site visit.
3. Site visit capacity is limited and registration is available on a first come, first served basis. 
4. You may only register yourself for one site visit. 
5. All site visits take place on Saturday, October 21, from 3:00 - 5:30 PM. Round trip transportation is provided to the site visits from the Met School.

#IAGathering2023

The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world.

Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.

By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.