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The Artists Loop With Gallery Night Providence At Wanskuck Library

Featured Presentation at 6:00PM: Dawn Oliveira, Textile Artist Dawn Oliveira, is Founder of Oliveira Textiles, a RI based fabric design studio. With 25+ years of NYC design experience, Oliveira Textiles offers sea-inspired, printed organic hemp, organic cotton and natural linen fabrics to the trade. These unique textiles are printed locally with water based pigments and […]

CANCELLED Coffee Chat: Connect and Collaborate

Join us for our first-ever coffee chat event at the Knight Memorial Entrepreneur Center! Designed specifically for local entrepreneurs and small business owners, this gathering is a perfect opportunity to connect with peers, share insights, and shape the future of our community’s business landscape. Why You Should Attend: Network with Fellow Entrepreneurs: Build valuable connections […]

Conversations- Meet, Engage, Connect

This is a new social group with a loose structure whose purpose is to encourage conversation and connection among people of all ages and backgrounds on topics of interest from the sublime to the ridiculous (and everything in between.) The group will be facilitated by educator Ron Viafiore. Stay for quiet reading and hot drinks with […]

Culture Symposium Kickoff: Cultural Potluck

The Culture Symposium focuses on cultural and community connections expressed though storytelling and the arts that have historically shaped and formed the essence of our neighborhoods; our Library(ies) will provide a welcoming space for community discourse with the intent of highlighting the value of our culturally diverse people in order to educate, empower, and strengthen […]

Earth Day 2024

Stop by to help anytime between 9:30am-4pm – Refreshments provided! Rakes, shovels, brooms, plastic gloves and paper bags for leaves are inside the library! Youth may check in with Miss Sammi after school to enjoy an Earth Day activity 🙂

Take a Walk on the Wild Side

Florette Ruggiero presents:  Start Your Own Certified Back Yard Wildlife Habitat, Seed Sharing & Bird Counting Program Kristen Fletcher, Licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator, presents:  Wildlife Attracted to Your Backyard Habitat and Dos & Don’ts of Helping Injured or Orphaned Wildlife! Representative Scott Slater, District 10:  Discusses an Educational Component Introduced to Youth about the Environmental Effect […]