Thursday, November 14th

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: 10 AM - 6 PM
Admission:

Grace Church Pavilion's tented courtyard will host educational activities for students from Pre-K to High School to interact with environmentalists in a weeklong 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: 10 AM - 4 PM
Admission:

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: 7 PM
Admission: Register Here

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: 7 AM - 3 PM