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Institute’s Andrade-Watkins Using Grant to Advance Film Storytelling
Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Professor Claire Andrade-Watkins recently received a three-year grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA). Andrade-Watkins is one of three artists who will receive $6,000 annually for three years. The RISCA panel praised Andrade-Watkins: “This artist is very clear about what she wants to accomplish…
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Tockwotton Cape Verdean Way Celebration
Providence Dedication Ceremony of Tockwotton Cape Verdean Way Celebration SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 20243PM – SOUTH MAIN AT TRANSIT Cape Verdeans were the first voluntary immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa. the Tockwotton neighborhood, including South Main Street, was their first settlement in Rhode Island. The community grew in the late 19th century before being displaced by 195…
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Following In Their Footsteps
“Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?”, June 8th-13th, at the 47edtion of the Guarnice festival, in Mostra Cena a program featuring films from CENA, the film festival from Cape Verde highlighting Cape Verdean women filmmakers from the Diaspora. Guarnice, the oldest festival in North and Northeast Brazil is considered one of the most traditional audiovisual…
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Following In Their Footsteps
Celebrate with us at our procession to honor the 90th anniversary of the St. Antonio Association & Cape Verdean contributions to RI. More info on Facebook > Sunday, June 21 2024 Following 11:30am mass at our Lady of the Rosary Church, 21 Traverse Street, we step off at 1pm from the corner of Benefit and…
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WSBE TV 36 RI PBS
Friday, September 29, 7:30 PM , “Generation Rising” Tune into WSBE Generation Rising, Friday, September 29, 7:30 PM!!! to hear about the work underway with the Tockwotton Fox Point Cape Verdean Project about RI’s first settlement of Cape Verdeans Watch on RIPBS > “Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?”: A Cape Verdean American Story Friday, …
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Claire Andrade-Watkins Named One of GoProvidence’s Greatest Living Rhode Islanders – 2023 Version
Friday, July 07, 2023 PROVIDENCE RI Those bigger-than-life leaders – like political titans Bruce Sundlun, John Chafee, and Claiborne Pell are not easy to replace. And, some ot our most talented individuals have moved out ot Rhode island and are now living and workIng elsewhere, pursuing their amazing careers. They are no longer connected to…
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CENA 2023 Festival of films directed by women of the Africana/Cape Verdean Diaspora
CENA 2023 Festival of films directed by women of the Africana/Cape Verdean Diaspora May 11,12 13, 2023, PRAIA, CABO VERDE Fidjus di Terra: Nos Ku Nos, Producer/Director, Claire Andrade-Watkins( 2021, 1 hour 6 min) A surprising and touching celebration of Fidjus di Terra from Maputo, Mozambique, and Fox Point, Providence, Rhode Island, connecting across oceans…
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Cecelia “Dottie” Dorothy Ramos
Other news! Cecelia, Dorothy, affectionately known as ‘Dottie’ Ramos, who resided in North Providence, RI, peacefully departed this life on Christmas Day, December 25th, 2022, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. More >
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March 2023 – SKoFPR
NEWS Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?”: A Cape Verdean American Story (59-minute version) PEG RI TV MARCH 2023 • Providence Area (North Providence and Providence) – Cox 18/Verizon 38 – Sunday, March 5, 12, 19, 26 at 8 PM • Statewide, including the local area above – Cox 13/Verizon 32 – Tuesday, March 7, 14, 21,…
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10th anniversary of the 2013 Masters of the Craft: Gallery of Memory
10th anniversary of the 2013 Masters of the Craft: Gallery of Memory exhibit, PVD City Hall, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the founding of Local 1329 of the I.L.A.