February 2018 -- Program & Event News
Reminder: We will be closed for President's Day on February 19.
FAMILY PROGRAM 
    
Family Learning Sunday:
Improv with Jess

Sunday, February 4 | 2 - 3 pm
3rd Floor Meeting Room

Do you want to laugh, play and be silly? Crack jokes and try out your acting skills? Come and play at Improv with Jess. We will be playing Improv games.
 
COMMUNITY PROGRAM

23rd Annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading

Sunday, February 4 | 1:30 - 4 pm
Auditorium, 3rd Floor

Langston Hughes’s poems, dating from the Harlem Renaissance through the 1960s, continue to resonate today. These powerful, poignant and often amusing works are read aloud by members of the community, accompanied by the Daniel Ian Smith Jazz Trio.

Coordinated by the Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading Committee. This program made possible through a grant from the RI Committee for the Humanities, an independent state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and with support from the City of Providence Department of Art, Culture + Tourism.

Guest Exhibition: Final Days
Highlights from the Russell DeSimone Collection on The Dorr Rebellion
On view through February 9
Providence Journal RI Room | 1st Floor
The 1842 Dorr Rebellion was one of the most important (and unusual) political events in the state's history, and Russell DeSimone's collection of books and ephemera is one of the best in existence. PPL is pleased host a guest exhibition of a small selection of DeSimone's extensive collection.
2018 Program & Exhibition Series: March - June 
Kick-off Event!
Wednesday, February 28
6 - 8 pm
 Grand Hall | 1st Floor

Join us as we kick off HairBrained!
Showcasing books, prints, magazines and photographs from PPL's Special Collections, the HairBrained Exhibition will focus on hairstyles throughout history -- braids, curls, facial hair, wigs -- and the ways in which hair defines and reflects culture, self-identity, agency and politics. Inspired by images and texts in the exhibition, our series of cultural programs and educational activities for all ages explores how and why we have grown, cut, shaved, shaped, woven, adorned, and covered the hair on our heads, from centuries ago 'till today.