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RICH Program Directors Visit NYC and New Haven
In the spirit of
reflection that the New Year inspires, RICH
has been busy preparing for a
2008 full of meaningful humanities programs.
Currently, our focus in the office has been
planning for our new initiative On the
Road to Freedom. As part of our planning
process, the Council's Program staff, Risa
Gilpin and SueEllen Kroll, embarked on a
research trip from Jan. 6 - 8 to New York
City and New Haven, CT to connect with
scholars and fellow colleagues whose work
relates to the subject of slavery and its
legacies.
Thank you to the following sites for their
hospitality and wisdom:
New
York Historical Society; the office of
historian James
Basker; the Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture; Jumel
Terrace Bookshop; and the Gilder
Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,
Resistance, and Abolition.
Stay tuned for
more information about On the Road to
Freedom!
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Greetings!
"For last year's words belong to last year's
language and next year's words await another
voice."
-T.S. Eliott, Little Gidding, 1943.
What will be the voice that carries this
year's language?
It's an exciting time for us at the Council.
A time of reflection, a time for change. A
time of possibility.
Soon, we will be announcing an initiative
that will commemorate the bicentennial of the
abolition of the transatlantic slave trade
and explore the legacy of slavery in Rhode
Island.
In the upcoming weeks, we will be inviting
you to participate in shaping this work with
us. We hope you will join us.
In the mean time, we are delighted to
announce our FY08 grant awards. From Courage
to Speak: Voices of Women Who Are Changing
the World, a lecture series hosted by the
Pell Center at Salve Regina University, to
The Language of America a documentary
exploration of New England Native identity
though language, you will hear the rich and
textured words of our lives in this state.
Listen with us -
All the best,
Mary-Kim
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| RICH announces recent grant awards totaling $86,223 for public humanities projects across Rhode Island |
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RICH has recently awarded a total of
$76,623 in major grants to eight
non-profit organizations and $9600 in
mini grants to three individuals and three
non-profit organizations for development and
production of public humanities projects.
Funded programs include statewide public
dialogue forums examining the current
critical issues facing Black America today
(Rhode Island Black Storytellers);
research for a photo documentary project on
the complicated notions of what it means to
be American from the perspective of Rhode
Island's newest citizens - refugees from the
African country of Burundi (photographer
Nicole Tammelleo); and a documentary
film retracing the footsteps and legacy of
Waitstill and Martha Sharpe as they took up
the call to action issued by the Universalist
church to save Jews and anti-Nazi dissidents
in Europe in the era of WWII (Unitarian
Universalist Service Committee).
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Read the full list of awarded projects.... |
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| RICH Offers Monthly Mini-Grants... |
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This fiscal year, we've completed our major
grant awards in the Fall 2007 cycle. Although
we will not be considering major grant
applications in the spring of 2008, we will
continue to offer our mini-grant program on
its usual monthly cycle. Interested
candidates can still apply to our monthly
mini-grant program by clicking on the link
below.
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RICH Mini-Grant Application... |
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| POWER: A Multimedia Youth Forum |
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RICH Grantee event by Everett Dance Theatre's
Carriage House School
Friday, January 18, 2008, 8:15pm
Carriage House Stage, 7 Duncan Avenue,
Providence
POWER: A Multimedia Youth Forum
presents up-and-coming youth artists offering
creative and meaningful responses to
questions such as "where does your power
lie?" and "who has power over you?" This
forum will respond to popular conceptions,
present multiple perspectives, encourage
lively discussion, and shed light on the
ideas and attitudes of young people today.
The forum's special advisor, Dr. Robert
Cvornyek, Associate Professor of
History/Secondary Education at Rhode Island
College, will offer a unique humanities
perspective to POWER: A Multimedia
Youth Forum.
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Visit Everett Dance Theatre's website for more info... |
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| The Landscape of Orphanages: Children's Homes in RI |
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EnRICHment Opportunity lecture by Dr. Sandra
Enos
Monday, January 28, 2008, 7pm
Weaver Library, 41 Grove Avenue, East
Providence, RI
For the past five years, Sandra Enos has been
researching the history, development and
disappearance of the orphanages, asylums and
homes for children who were dependent,
neglected, delinquent and abandoned in Rhode
Island. This history reaches back to the
1830's and brings us to contemporary times.
Informed by oral histories of people who grew
up in these homes, in addition to academic
research, Dr. Enos weaves a fascinating story
of how communities organized to respond to
childrens' needs.
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| The Girl of my Dreams |
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RICH grantee event by researcher and
photographer Stacy Renee Morrison
January 30-March 16, 2008
Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of
Rhode Island, Kingston Campus
Stacy Renee Morrison's self-involving
photographic project derives from the
accidental - and remarkably fortuitous -
discovery of a small, dilapidated leather
trunk from the 1800s on the New York street
where she was soon to live. The 19th-century
treasure, discarded among garbage bags on a
street in Soho, contained anonymous vintage
photographs and other very personal ephemera.
The evolution of this mysterious material, as
it found its way into Morrison's hands at a
pivotal point in her own life, led to an
extended, interpretive portrait of Sylvia
DeWolf Ostrander (1841-1925).
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Visit URI Website for gallery information... |
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| The Blizzard of '78 |
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EnRICHment Opportunity lecture by Michael
Tougias
Monday, February 4, 2008, 6:30pm
Lincoln Public Library, 145 Old River Rd.,
Lincoln, RI
On February 6th and 7th 1978 New England was
knocked to its knees by incredible snow and
wind referred to as the "Worst Storm of the
Century." Tougias combines a unique array of
slides with riveting narration, bringing the
Blizzard to life again. Tougias first
chronicles the period before the storm, then
follows its progression, causing commuter
nightmares and incredible devastation
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