Programs
Current Programs
Action Speaks
Action Speaks is a series of contemporary, topic-driven panel discussions framed by the theme: "Underappreciated Days that Changed America." The panels take place Wednesdays in October, National Arts & Humanities Month, at AS220 in downtown Providence. They are recorded, edited, and rebroadcast the following Sunday on Rhode Island's NPR station, WRNI 1290 AM. Films pertaining to the topics are shown each Monday on Rhode Island PBS prior to Wednesday's panel discussion, providing a multi-media foundation for each issue.
For 12 years, Action Speaks has been committed to enhancing cultural life in the capital by providing high-quality, intellectually unbiased discourse between scholars, artists, students, and citizens.
Enrichment Opportunities
Our Speakers' Bureau, EnRICHment Opportunities offers the opportunity to bring humanities programs to public audiences throughout Rhode Island. The programs offered through EnRICHment Opportunities include lectures, discussions, performances, workshops, and slide presentations on a wide range of humanities topics: history, civic life, education, philosophy, social values, literature, and people and places in Rhode Island. Speakers travel throughout the state.
Justice Talks; Reflections on Civic Engagement
Justice Talks is a unique discussion series giving AmeriCorps volunteers and staff an opportunity to reflect on their own chosen form of civic engagement and to broaden their ability to think about the impact of service both to the recipient and to the ministers of that service.
Legacy
The Rhode Island Legacy program is a drama and discussion series offered as part of EnRICHment Opportunities. A troupe of performers dramatize historical events, and follow with discussion.
RI PBS Film Series
This collaboration between the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and RI PBS explores the theme: "On the Road to Freedom" through a series of documentary films.
To Protect and Serve: Understanding Community and Diversity
In a unique collaboration, the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities has been working with the Providence Police Department to enhance their Police Academy's diversity curriculum.