Events Calendar 2003-2004


Saturday, November 1, 3:00 pm
Performance Party

Parish Hall, Church of the Messiah, Olneyville Square


Sunday, November 9, 7:30 pm
Providence String Quartet Benefit Concert

Bell Street Chapel


Saturday, December 13, 3:00 pm
Performance Party

Parish Hall, Church of the Messiah, Olneyville Square


Saturday, February 14, 3:00 pm
Performance Party

Parish Hall, Church of the Messiah, Olneyville Square


Monday, March 8
Special Event: "The Art of the Groove"
Turtle Island String Quartet Residency

4:00 pm Educational Demonstration
8:00 pm Concert
Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway

 

Saturday, April 3, 3:00 pm
Performance Party

Parish Hall, Church of the Messiah, Olneyville Square

May 7 & 8
Symposium: "Education, Art, and Freedom: An Exploration of Philosophy and Pedagogy"

Hosted by Community MusicWorks

Examining Brazilian theorist Paulo Freire's impact on the development of educational practice, the history of “emancipatory pedagogy,” and the important role that the arts can play in bringing about freedom from oppression.

This event is funded in part by a grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Friday, May 7, 7:00 pm 

Forum, with Theodore Sizer and Deborah Meier

RISD Auditorium

15 Canal Walk

Providence, RI

Free admission, open to the public

To include a special screening of "Exclusions & Awakenings: The Life of Maxine Greene" in honor of Dr. Maxine Greene, preeminent American philosopher of education and Founder of the Center for Social Imaginiation, the Arts, and Education

Saturday, May 8, 10:00 am until 1:00 pm

Workshop for Educators, led by Deborah Meier
The Met School, Peace Street Campus

362 Dexter Street

Providence, RI

Free admission, reservations required     Reserve today by calling 401.861.5650

Theodore Sizer, Professor Emeritus at Brown University and Visiting Professor of Education at Harvard University, is the Founder and Chair Emeritus of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Having worked with hundreds of American high schools since the late 1970s, he has written a number of books on the subject of redesigning public schools, including Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School. He isformerly the director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.

Deborah Meier, Founder of the Central Park East Schools, is currently Co-Principal of the Mission Hill School, a pilot elementary school in Roxbury, MA. A recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, she is among the most acclaimed leaders of the school reform movement, having spent more than three decades working in public education as a teacher, principal, writer, and advocate. She is the author of several books, including The Power of Their Ideas.

Please note: previously scheduled participant Maxine Greene is unable to attend due to illness.

 

Saturday, May 22, 3:00 pm
Performance Party

Parish Hall, Church of the Messiah, Olneyville Square


Wednesday, June 2, 8:00 pm
Providence String Quartet Concert
to benefit Community MusicWorks
Presented by Rhode Island Chamber Music Concerts
Alumnae Hall, Brown University


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