This month’s installment is at the Hi-Hat, at Davol Sq: Announcing the 13th Pecha Kucha night in Providence! The theme is: Truth or Dare. If you haven’t yet heard of this global http://cialistadalafils.com/ yet unpronounceable phenomenon, Pecha Kucha is a monthly format for sharing ideas, in which presenters are allotted 20 slides and 20 seconds […]
Panel discussion to be held Wednesday, “Free Speech or For Sale? The Supreme Court Decision on Campaign Finance Law” co-presented with Common Cause RI. In January of 2010 the US Supreme Court overturned decades of judicial precedent and over a century of campaign finance law in the case Citizens United v. FEC. Join us for
As always, PDD readers should feel free to attend for free. The Athenaeum is at the intersection of Benefit and College Streets. Friday, 5pm-7pm Part Twelve: WRNI’s political team, Scott MacKay and Ian Donnis, on the switch from print to radio journalism, and the changing media landscape. MacKay reported on politics for the Providence Journal
We should remind all PDD readers that the Athenaeum counts you as guests, and that means free wine and cookies. viagra from canadian pharmacy Rhody Food Tours founder Mike Ritz and special guests tell the stories behind Mike’s tour, “Immigrant Cuisines of Providence.” Join Mike, his culinary guides, and select immigrant restauranteurs for a night
We survived the not-quite-snowstorm and wandered into what feels like springtime. All the more reason to join us at the (rescheduled) 11th Pecha Kucha night in Providence tomorrow night, Tuesday the 16th, at Temple Downtown. The lineup and other juicy details are right here on Facebook: And this one’s gonna be part of the global
5PM at the Athenaeum, free and open to everybody: RISD Museum Costume and Textiles Assistant Curator Laurie Brewer on the exhibit Queen of the Insects: The Art of the Butterfly, running December 11, 2009 through May 9, 2010. Ephemeral, otherworldly, and transformative, the iridescent and fragile beauty of the butterfly has enchanted designers and artisans
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Announcing the 10th Pecha Kucha night in Providence! (And the first PK night of 2010.) The theme, courtesy of Shae Ramirez, is: nothing is impossible. Pecha Kucha is a monthly format for sharing ideas, in which presenters are allotted 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide. Put simply: 6 minutes and 40 seconds of adult-style
We’ve been asked to make sure that it’s known that this week’s salon, and events at the Athenaeum more generally, are open to Daily Dose readers, with free admission. SALON – Series: So, What’s the Story? Friday, 11/13, 5-7pm Part Five: Candy Adriance on the long and winding road to a library in a Kenyan
At the Athenaeum, Friday 5-7pm: Join us for a favorite Athenaeum tradition, declaiming verse in the Reading Room. Bring a poem you’ve written, a poem you’ve loved, or come browse our poetry shelves that evening and find one you can’t resist, and we’ll take turns reading aloud. Don’t miss this chance to wax lyrical with
Peter Singer is controversial not because his philosophy is especially profound — it’s a heavily utilitarian moral philosophy based on derivations from a few simple first principles, which are themselves attempts to capture those characteristics that make humans empathetic and sympathetic to one another. Rather, he’s controversial because he dares to say stuff that people
The season’s final Action Speaks: This week, Action Speaks takes a look at a birthplace of suburban utopia, Levittown. In just over 50 years, the American suburbs have physically transformed the landscape of our country, redefined the middle class and helped to both fuel and bring down our nation’s economy. Is this the American dream we were looking for? Will
Sister Spit, a legendary-in-certain-circles group of writers and performance artists, is in town today and tomorrow. Led by the eternally awesome Michelle Tea, the raggle-taggle group of wordy gypsies will be hosting workshops at Brown starting, like, an hour from now, and continuing through tomorrow night. Sister Spit was founded in 1997 as a means
Here’s Act 1, Scene 1 of the opera version. Sadly, composer John Adams will not be in attendance. [youtube]5Tv3hrZmcEk[/youtube] 1972 – Nixon visits People’s Republic of China What began as a Ping Pong match is now a game of ‘Chicken’…the US and China; partners or enablers? The relationship between the US and China has been
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The excellent Action Speaks began its fall season last week. It continues tomorrow, Wednesday, at 5pm at AS220, with a conversation about the Highlander Center and community organizing: 1932 -The Highlander Center opens its doors First door-to-door, now e-mail-to-email, will community organizing have the same power in a virtual community? How will we organize for
My dad is named Herman, and his first-ever email address represents a coming out: HermCanEmail@######. So it’s understandable that an organization nearly four times his age was until-recently languishing in the web stylings of the late 1990s. But no more: New website. New blog. The fall salon series begins on Friday: Part One: Phil Goldman,
Announcing the 7th Pecha Kucha night in Providence! Pecha Kucha is a monthly format for sharing ideas, in which presenters are allotted 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide. Put simply: 6 minutes and 40 seconds of adult-style show and tell. It began in Tokyo in 2003, has since spread to 224 cities worldwide, and