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From Fox Point to Sheldon Street: Cape Verdean’s Mark on Providence | Generation Rising
Filmmaker and historian Claire Andrade-Watkins, founder of SPIA Media Productions, explores the Cape Verdean community’s cultural legacy in Rhode Island. With a focus on her new project documenting the Sheldon Street Church, the first Cape Verdean church in America, Claire discusses the intersection of history, resilience, and identity, funded by a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts grant.
Generation Rising focuses on the inequities that people of color, including women, African Americans, Indigenous, Asian, Hispanic, and LGBTQIA+ communities face throughout Rhode Island. Community leaders and organizers, journalists, and academics offer their expertise and opinions on how they are pushing society toward change.
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In 2016, SPIA Media Productions, Inc., the content producer for Tockwotton Fox Point Cape Verdean Heritage Place, migrated over thirty years of historical, educational, and archival film and video content about the history of Cape Verde and the Tockwotton Fox Point Cape Verdean community to digital formats and platforms.
Your tax-deductible contribution to CID support SPIA’s ongoing educational, documentary, archival projects, immersive experiences, forward-facing public initiatives, legacy projects, events, walking tours and digital mapping of a chronological timeline that reconstitutes the history of Rhode Island’s first Cape Verdean neighborhood on existing and emerging digital platforms. The SPIA Media documentary collection is available on Kanopy, a leading streaming video service providing quality educational content to schools, colleges, universities, and libraries and YouTube.
June 2, 2024 90th St Antonio Procession, Providence RI
TRAILER
“Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican”: A Cape Verdean American Story (2006)
FIRST VOICE NARRATIVE:
BUILDING HISTORY ONE STORY AT A TIME
30 Years of Making History
Caption. August 24, 2024 South Main Street renaming to Tockwotton Cape Verdean Way
“One of Claire’s unique strengths is that she speaks for a community and to a community that most of New England doesn’t know much about… Andrade-Watkins has a gift for finding the right subjects to interview, people who are naturals in front of the camera, with interesting things to say. ”
Carter Long, curator of film and video at the MFA
“One of Claire’s unique strengths is that she speaks for a community and to a community that most of New England doesn’t know much about… Andrade-Watkins has a gift for finding the right subjects to interview, people who are naturals in front of the camera, with interesting things to say.”
Carter Long, curator of film and video at the MFA
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