Live from the Archive: Doggedness and Discomfort.

Fri, Sep 18,

1 pm – 3 pm

Colin Channer’s Providential Book Launch & Signing

Mon, Sep 21,

3 pm – 5 pm

Robb Dimmick’s Disappearing Ink Book Launch & Signing

Tue, Sep 29,

1 pm – 3 pm

Fernando Pessoa as English Reader and Writer

Fri, Oct 2,

1 pm – 3 pm

Black from White: How Labor Rights and Civil Rights Became Separate Freedoms in America

Fri, Oct 9,

1 pm – 3 pm

MORE THAN MY RELIGION

Fri, Oct 16,

1 pm – 3 pm

Meet Our New Executive Director and his family!

Sat, Oct 17,

10 am – 12 pm

Black Social Dance: Rhythm, Race, Community

Fri, Oct 23,

1 pm – 3 pm

What’s Happening in Children’s Publishing

Sat, Oct 24,

12 pm – 2 pm

Joe Wilson, Jr. on Strayhorn, Ferguson, and Black Lives in America

Fri, Oct 30,

1 pm – 3 pm

Library Orientation, Tour, and Reception

Thu, Nov 5,

12:15 pm – 2 pm

Matthew Bird on “Expanding a Point of View: What is Good Design?”

Fri, Nov 6,

12 pm – 2 pm

Lisa Cohen on “‘Medicine is Not an Exact Science’: Evidence, Grief, and Style in Proust.”

Thu, Nov 12,

12 pm – 2 pm

Richard Moran on “Proust and the Limits of the Will.”

Fri, Nov 13,

12 pm – 2 pm

Goat Hill Writers presents “The Publishing World”

Sat, Nov 14,

11 am – 1 pm

Fracking, Earthquakes, and Carbon Disposal

Fri, Nov 20,

12 pm – 2 pm

RI Artists on Environmental Practice

Fri, Nov 27,

12 pm – 2 pm

Freeing Athena

Fri, Dec 4,

12 pm – 2 pm

Jazz in RI History and Culture

Fri, Feb 12,

12 pm – 2 pm

Voices Beyond Bondage

Fri, Feb 19,

12 pm – 2 pm

Library Orientation, Tour, and Reception

Tue, Feb 23,

12:15 pm – 2 pm

Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson Performance & Discussion

Fri, Feb 26,

12 pm – 2 pm

Poet/Memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts

Fri, Mar 4,

12 pm – 2 pm

Literary Agents and the Biz

Sat, Mar 5,

11 am – 1:30 pm

Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

Fri, Mar 11,

12 pm – 2 pm

Design for Extreme Environments

Fri, Mar 18,

1 pm – 3 pm

Policy & Pinot: RIPR’s Political Roundtable

Tue, Mar 22,

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Geraldine Brooks on The Secret Chord

Fri, Mar 25,

1 pm – 3 pm

Tour of RISD’s Fleet Library

Tue, Mar 29,

2 pm – 4 pm

Providence’s “Golden Ghetto”

Fri, Apr 1,

1 pm – 3 pm

A Victorian House in the Millenial Age

Fri, Apr 8,

5 pm – 7 pm

Shakespeare’s First Folio

Fri, Apr 15,

1 pm – 3 pm

Providence, When Capitalized

Mon, Apr 18,

5:30 am – 7:30 pm

Cabinets of Curiosity

Fri, Apr 22,

1 pm – 3 pm

Library Orientation, Tour, and Reception

Tue, Apr 26,

1:15 pm – 3 pm

NO SALON

Fri, Apr 29,

All day

Philbrick Poetry Project Reading

Fri, Apr 29,

3 pm – 4:30 pm

Philosophers and Education

Fri, May 6,

1 pm – 3 pm

The Invention of Nature (OFFSITE)

Mon, May 9,

5:30 pm – 7 pm

Policy & Pinot: Greening Rhode Island’s Energy Grid (OFFSITE)

Tue, May 17,

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Seen/Unseen (OFFSITE)

Fri, Jun 3,

5:30 pm – 7 pm

The Great Athenæum Pub Quiz!

Thu, Sep 15,

6:30 pm – 9 pm

If Wallpaper Could Talk

Fri, Sep 23,

5 pm – 7 pm

Ordinarily Well

Fri, Sep 30,

5 pm – 7 pm

Providence Children’s Film Festival Jury Night

Wed, Oct 5,

6:30 pm – 8 pm

The Rise and Fall of American Manufacturing

Fri, Oct 7,

5 pm – 7 pm

Policy & Pinot: RIPR’s Political Roundtable

Thu, Oct 13,

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

No Salon

Fri, Oct 14,

All day

Library Orientation, Tour, and Reception

Tue, Oct 18,

5:15 pm – 7 pm

Collecting for Life

Fri, Oct 21,

5 pm – 7 pm

Open Sesame: Jed Hancock-Brainerd & Rebecca Noon

Fri, Oct 28,

5 pm – 7 pm

Akiko Busch on “Writing Nature”

Fri, Nov 4,

5 pm – 7 pm

No Salon

Fri, Nov 11,

5 am – 7 pm

Open Sesame: Consuelo Sherba

Tue, Nov 15,

5 pm – 7 pm

Proustfest: Jews, Inverts, & Snobs

Fri, Nov 18,

5 pm – 7 pm

No Salon

Fri, Nov 25,

5 pm – 7 pm

Reclaiming Conversation

Fri, Dec 2,

5 pm – 7 pm

The Longest Night: A Family Concert

Sat, Dec 3,

11 am – 12 pm

The Great Athenæum Pub Quiz

Thu, Dec 8,

6:30 pm – 9 pm

A Burns Night Celebration!

Wed, Jan 25,

6 pm – 8 pm

Rumi’s Secret

Fri, Feb 3,

5 pm – 7 pm

Who Dunnit?

Fri, Feb 10,

5 pm – 7 pm

The Great Athenæum Pub Quiz!

Thu, Feb 16,

6:30 pm – 9 pm

Migration of Memory

Fri, Feb 17,

5 pm – 7 pm

PCFF Shorts Screening

Tue, Feb 21,

10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Library Orientation & Tour

Tue, Feb 21,

5:15 pm – 7 pm

The Future of Public Libraries

Fri, Feb 24,

5 pm – 7 pm

PCFF Filmmakers Workshop

Sat, Feb 25,

3 pm – 4:30 pm

East Meets West

Fri, Mar 3,

5 pm – 7 pm

The Book that Matters Most

Sat, Mar 4,

3 pm – 5 pm

Policy & Pinot: Sanctuary Cities Under President Trump

Thu, Mar 9,

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Fri, Mar 10,

5 pm – 7 pm

Cabinet of Curiosities: The Lovecraft Statue Project Fundraiser Gala

Thu, Mar 16,

6 pm – 9 pm

Progress(ive)

Fri, Mar 17,

5 pm – 7 pm

Annual Meeting

Wed, Mar 22,

6 pm – 7:30 pm

How Digital Memory is Shaping Our Future

Fri, Mar 24,

5 pm – 7 pm

Flora & Fauna

Fri, Mar 31,

5 pm – 7 pm

The Secret Life of H.P. Lovecraft

Fri, Apr 7,

5 pm – 7 pm

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Ocean?

Fri, Apr 14,

5 pm – 7 pm

Author Talk: EXES by Max Winter

Wed, Apr 19,

7 pm – 8:30 pm

Sons & Daughters of the Incarcerated

Fri, Apr 21,

5 pm – 7 pm

19th Annual Philbrick Poetry Project Reading

Fri, Apr 28,

5 pm – 7 pm

Author J. Courtney Sullivan

Fri, May 5,

5 pm – 7 pm

A Complex, Multivalent, Polyphonic Place of Being

Fri, May 12,

5 pm – 7 pm

The Great Athenæum Pub Quiz!

Thu, May 18,

6:30 pm – 9 pm

The Art of Writing the Memoir

Sat, May 20,

3 pm – 5 pm

A Night in Crimetown

Wed, Jul 12,

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

PCFF Jury Night

Fri, Sep 8,

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Library Orientation & Tour

Tue, Sep 19,

5:15 pm – 7 pm

Noir Night Pub Quiz

Thu, Sep 21,

6:30 pm – 9 pm

PCFF Jury Night

Wed, Sep 27,

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Appraised

Fri, Sep 29,

5 pm – 7 pm

Unsung Heroines

Fri, Oct 6,

5 pm – 7 pm

Policy & Pinot: Political Narrative in the Era of Twitter and Facebook

Thu, Oct 12,

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Opening Reception of Imaginary Worlds Exhibition

Fri, Oct 13,

3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

PCFF Jury Night

Wed, Oct 18,

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Expressions of Freedom

Fri, Oct 20,

5 pm – 7 pm

Music & Muse

Fri, Oct 27,

5 pm – 7 pm

Making Sense of Science

Fri, Nov 3,

5 pm – 7 pm

Rhode Island Pub Quiz

Thu, Nov 9,

6:30 pm – 9 pm

Proustfest

Tue, Nov 14,

5 pm – 7 pm

PCFF Jury Night

Wed, Nov 15,

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

*RESCHEDULED 1/26* An Odyssey

Fri, Nov 17,

5 pm – 7 pm

Subculture New York

Fri, Dec 1,

5 pm – 7 pm