EX LIBRIS: Hanif Abdurraqib
“I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.” Inspired by these few words, spoken by Josephine Baker […]
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Athenæum Pub Quiz!
The library's popular pub quiz with Quizmaster Jonathan Migliori returns! Come test your trivia and general knowledge chops in the library after dark. Teams can […]
PCFF: Short Films
Join the Providence Children's Film Festival during their annual screening of short films at the Athenæum! This year's LETS' GET ANIMATED reel includes stories of […]
EX LIBRIS: The Lives of Literature
Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us […]
Women Warriors, Women’s Voices
Women from across Rhode Island will share their experiences as service members and veterans, through poems, stories, essays, and readings. Sponsored by the Providence Clemente Veterans' […]
EX LIBRIS: The Grimkes
Sarah and Angelina Grimke - the Grimke sisters - are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in […]
EX LIBRIS: Hotbed
On a Saturday in New York City in 1912, around the wooden tables of a popular Greenwich Village restaurant, a group of women gathered, all […]
EX LIBRIS: The Poison Book Project
The discovery of a highly toxic, arsenic-based green pigment in the cover of a Victorian-era, cloth-covered book at Winterthur Library launched The Poison Book Project. […]
EX LIBRIS: Hear Me Now
Focusing on the work of Black potters in the 19th-century American South, the MFA Boston’s Hear Me Now exhibition presents approximately 50 ceramic objects from […]
Athenæum Pub Quiz!
A second round of trivia and tomfoolery with Quizmaster Jonathan Migliori! Come test your trivia and general knowledge chops in the library after dark. Teams […]
To Turn Anew: A Celebration of Tim Philbrick
With its roots in the 19th-century Arts and Crafts movement, the Studio Furniture movement of the late 20th century used handmade, functional objects as a […]
EX LIBRIS: Covered with Night
In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and […]
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