Schedule

Saturday, November 9th

Sott'Acqua: A Tale of Two Cities Underwater - Photo Exhibit

Grace Episcopal Church Pavilion will exhibit iconic photographs taken by the late Life Magazine photographer David Lees that document the flood in Florence in 1966 and the Providence Journal photos of downtown Providence after Hurricane Carol in 1954. The lobby of the church will have on display eight of the most dramatic photographs from the exhibit.

Location: Grace Church Pavilion
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 
10am - 6pm
Admission: Free

Save The Bay: Activities for Families, Children and Students

Grace Church Pavilion's tented courtyard will host educational activities for students from Pre-K to High School to interact with environmentalists in a week-long program organized by Save The Bay to introduce young people to the Narragansett Bay, its living creatures, and the importance of keeping it healthy.

Location: Grace Church Pavilion
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 10am - 6pm
Admission:

Sunday, November 10th

Sott'Acqua: A Tale of Two Cities Underwater - Photo Exhibit

Grace Episcopal Church Pavilion will exhibit iconic photographs taken by the late Life Magazine photographer David Lees that document the flood in Florence in 1966 and the Providence Journal photos of downtown Providence after Hurricane Carol in 1954. The lobby of the church will have on display eight of the most dramatic photographs from the exhibit.

Location: Grace Church Pavilion
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 2p
m - 6pm
Admission: Free

Monday, November 11th

Sott'Acqua: A Tale of Two Cities Underwater - Photo Exhibit

Grace Episcopal Church Pavilion will exhibit iconic photographs taken by the late Life Magazine photographer David Lees that document the flood in Florence in 1966 and the Providence Journal photos of downtown Providence after Hurricane Carol in 1954. The lobby of the church will have on display eight of the most dramatic photographs from the exhibit.

Location: Grace Church Pavilion
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 
10am - 6pm
Admission:

Save The Bay: Activities for Families, Children and Students

Grace Church Pavilion's tented courtyard will host educational activities for students from Pre-K to High School to interact with environmentalists in a week-long program organized by Save The Bay to introduce young people to the Narragansett Bay, its living creatures, and the importance of keeping it healthy.

Location: Grace Church Pavilion
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 10am - 6pm
Admission:

Tuesday, November 12th

Sott'Acqua: A Tale of Two Cities Underwater - Photo Exhibit

Grace Episcopal Church Pavilion will exhibit iconic photographs taken by the late Life Magazine photographer David Lees that document the flood in Florence in 1966 and the Providence Journal photos of downtown Providence after Hurricane Carol in 1954. The lobby of the church will have on display eight of the most dramatic photographs from the exhibit.

Location: 
Grace Church Pavilion
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 
10am - 6pm
Admission:

Save The Bay: Activities for Families, Children and Students

Grace Church Pavilion's tented courtyard will host educational activities for students from Pre-K to High School to interact with environmentalists in a week-long program organized by Save The Bay to introduce young people to the Narragansett Bay, its living creatures, and the importance of keeping it healthy.

Location: Grace Church Pavilion
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 10am - 4pm
Admission:

Hope and Main Downtown Makers Marketplace: Tuscan Trattoria

Hope and Main Downtown Makers Marketplace will become a Tuscan Trattoria serving a typical breakfast and lunch as well as holding wine, cheese, and olive oil tastings.

Location: Hope and Main Downtown Makers Marketplace
Address: 100 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 
Admission:

Wednesday, November 13th

Sott'Acqua: A Tale of Two Cities Underwater - Photo Exhibit

Grace Episcopal Church Pavilion will exhibit iconic photographs taken by the late Life Magazine photographer David Lees that document the flood in Florence in 1966 and the Providence Journal photos of downtown Providence after Hurricane Carol in 1954. The lobby of the church will have on display eight of the most dramatic photographs from the exhibit.

Location: Grace Church Pavilion
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 
10am - 6pm
Admission:

Save The Bay: Activities for Families, Children and Students

Grace Church Pavilion's tented courtyard will host educational activities for students from Pre-K to High School to interact with environmentalists in a week-long program organized by Save The Bay to introduce young people to the Narragansett Bay, its living creatures, and the importance of keeping it healthy.

Location: Grace Church Pavilion
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 10am - 4pm
Admission:

Sott’Acqua: A Tale of Two Cities - Film Screenings

The Department of Italian Studies and the Office of Global Engagement, Brown University is hosting a two-part event - a film screening on November 13  and roundtable panel discussion on November 14

  • Opening Remarks by Arnaldo Minuti, Consul General, Consulate General of Italy, Boston
  • Screening of Per Firenze (Florence: Days of Destruction, 1966, 51’) directed by Franco Zeffirelli, courtesy of RAI Teche and the Zeffirelli Foundation in Florence, Italy. Introduction by Pippo Zeffirelli. 
  • Screening of Natural Disasters in Rhode Island, Hurricane Carol, (1954, 27’) 

The Screenings will be followed by a moderated Q&A facilitated by Massimo Riva, Professor and Interim Chair of Italian Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, Coordinator of the Virtual Humanities Lab, and Affiliated Professor of Modern Culture and Media. 

Location: Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Address: 154 Angell St, Providence, RI 02906
Time: 7 PM
Admission:

Hope and Main Downtown Makers Marketplace: Tuscan Trattoria

Hope and Main Downtown Makers Marketplace will become a Tuscan Trattoria serving a typical breakfast and lunch as well as holding wine, cheese, and olive oil tastings.

Location: Hope and Main Downtown Makers Marketplace
Address: 100 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 
Admission:

Thursday, November 14th

Sott'Acqua: A Tale of Two Cities Underwater - Photo Exhibit

Grace Episcopal Church Pavilion will exhibit iconic photographs taken by the late Life Magazine photographer David Lees that document the flood in Florence in 1966 and the Providence Journal photos of downtown Providence after Hurricane Carol in 1954. The lobby of the church will have on display eight of the most dramatic photographs from the exhibit.

Location: Grace Church Pavilion
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 
10am - 6pm
Admission:

Save The Bay: Activities for Families, Children and Students

Grace Church Pavilion's tented courtyard will host educational activities for students from Pre-K to High School to interact with environmentalists in a week-long program organized by Save The Bay to introduce young people to the Narragansett Bay, its living creatures, and the importance of keeping it healthy.

Location: Grace Church Pavilion
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 10am - 4pm
Admission:

Sott’Acqua: A Tale of Two Cities - Panel Discussion - Climate Science and Climate Action in the Aftermath of Two Natural Disasters

The Department of Italian Studies and the Office of Global Engagement, Brown University is hosting a two-part event - a film screening on November 13 and roundtable panel discussion on November 14, 2024.

This panel will focus on climate change, through a conversation among scholars and community representatives from both Florence and Providence, linking global and local, scientific and humanistic perspectives about issues of flood vulnerability, infrastructure preservation, protection of the artistic and cultural patrimony, climate action, education, justice and community resilience.

Moderated by Cornelia Dean, a science writer and former Science Editor of The New York Times, author of “Making Sense of Science” (Harvard University Press).

Panelists

April Brown, Organizational Steward, Racial and Environmental Justice Committee

Enrica Caporali, Associate Professor of Hydrology and Hydraulic Structures and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICEA), Coordinator of the Master’s degree in Geoengineering, the University of Florence; Chair Associate, UNESCO Prevention and Sustainable Management of Geo-Hydrological Hazards initiative

Manuel Cordero, Founder and Principal at CIVIC, a licensed architect in Rhode Island

Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University; Chairman and Co-founder of Ocean Visions; Special Advisor to the President on ocean and climate solutions at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Macarena Gomez-Barris, Timothy C. Forbes and Anne S. Harrison University Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Chair of Modern Culture and Media, Director of the Center for Environmental Humanities at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University

Kyle McElroy, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island.

Location: Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Address: 154 Angell St, Providence, RI 02906
Time: 7pm
Admission:

Hope and Main Downtown Makers Marketplace: Tuscan Trattoria

Hope and Main Downtown Makers Marketplace will become a Tuscan Trattoria serving a typical breakfast and lunch as well as holding wine, cheese, and olive oil tastings.

Location: Hope and Main Downtown Makers Marketplace
Address: 100 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 
Admission: 

Friday, November 15th

Sott'Acqua: A Tale of Two Cities Underwater - Photo Exhibit

Grace Episcopal Church Pavilion will exhibit iconic photographs taken by the late Life Magazine photographer David Lees that document the flood in Florence in 1966 and the Providence Journal photos of downtown Providence after Hurricane Carol in 1954. The lobby of the church will have on display eight of the most dramatic photographs from the exhibit.

Location: Grace Church Pavilion
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 
10am - 6pm
Admission:

Save The Bay: Activities for Families, Children and Students

Grace Church Pavilion's tented courtyard will host educational activities for students from Pre-K to High School to interact with environmentalists in a week-long program organized by Save The Bay to introduce young people to the Narragansett Bay, its living creatures, and the importance of keeping it healthy.

Location: Grace Church Pavilion
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 10am - 4pm
Admission:

Restauro: The Science of Art Restoration and Preservation

RISD Museum presents Elizabeth Wicks, an internationally renowned art conservator in Florence, who will share her recent restoration process for the painting Allegory of Inclination, created for Michelangelo’s home, now the Casa Buonarroti Museum in Florence. The artist, Artemisia Gentileschi, is the most celebrated female painter of the 17th Century. Ms. Wicks will describe her journey in discovering the mystery in this masterpiece. Following her presentation, RISD Professor Bill Drew, an expert on Renaissance painting techniques will give a lecture/demo. Both lectures will be presented a second time at the Providence Art Club.

Location: Metcalf Auditorium, RISD
Address: Chace Center, 20 N Main St, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 12pm-2pm
Admission:

Hope and Main Downtown Makers Marketplace: Tuscan Trattoria

Hope and Main Downtown Makers Marketplace will become a Tuscan Trattoria serving a typical breakfast and lunch as well as holding wine, cheese, and olive oil tastings.

Location: Hope and Main Downtown Makers Marketplace
Address: 100 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 
Admission:

Saturday, November 16th

Sott'Acqua: A Tale of Two Cities Underwater - Photo Exhibit

Grace Episcopal Church Pavilion will exhibit iconic photographs taken by the late Life Magazine photographer David Lees that document the flood in Florence in 1966 and the Providence Journal photos of downtown Providence after Hurricane Carol in 1954. The lobby of the church will have on display eight of the most dramatic photographs from the exhibit.

Location: Grace Church Pavilion
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 
10am - 6pm
Admission:

The Italian Opera Master Class

Master Class with Maestro Matteo Pais of the Academy of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

Location: Music Mansion
Address: 88 Meeting St, Providence, RI 02906
Time: 
10am - 1pm
Admission:

The Splendor of Italian Opera

The Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra is honored to present the Splendor of Italian Opera concert with Accademia Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (AMMF) as part of a visionary festival celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Friendship Pact between the cities of Florence Italy and Providence Rhode Island.

Location: Grace Church
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 
7:30pm
Admission:

Hope and Main Downtown Makers Marketplace: Tuscan Trattoria

Hope and Main Downtown Makers Marketplace will become a Tuscan Trattoria serving a typical breakfast and lunch as well as holding wine, cheese, and olive oil tastings.

Location: Hope and Main Downtown Makers Marketplace
Address: 100 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 
Admission: 

Sunday, November 17th

Sott'Acqua: A Tale of Two Cities Underwater - Photo Exhibit

Grace Episcopal Church Pavilion will exhibit iconic photographs taken by the late Life Magazine photographer David Lees that document the flood in Florence in 1966 and the Providence Journal photos of downtown Providence after Hurricane Carol in 1954. The lobby of the church will have on display eight of the most dramatic photographs from the exhibit.

Location: Grace Church Pavilion
Address: 300 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 
10am - 6pm
Admission:

Restauro: The Science of Art Restoration and Preservation

RISD Museum presents Elizabeth Wicks, an internationally renowned art conservator in Florence, who will share her recent restoration process for the painting Allegory of Inclination, created for Michelangelo’s home, now the Casa Buonarroti Museum in Florence. The artist, Artemisia Gentileschi, is the most celebrated female painter of the 17th Century. Ms. Wicks will describe her journey in discovering the mystery in this masterpiece. Following her presentation, RISD Professor Bill Drew, an expert on Renaissance painting techniques will give a lecture/demo. Both lectures will be presented a second time at the Providence Art Club.

Location: Providence Art Club
Address: 11 Thomas St, Providence, RI 02903
Time: 1pm-4pm
Admission: