April 20th – 2:30 PM – William Hall Library in Cranston RI.

Join Living Literature for a 50 minute live performance of a readers’ theatre-style presentation of the 2024 Reading Across Rhode Island title, Solito, by Javier Zamora. 

But hold on! Our actors will present an optional 2nd Act consisting of short plays written by students of the Manton Avenue Project in response to the Solito text. This year Living Literature is thrilled to be collaborating with the young playwrights at Manton Avenue Project! http://www.mantonavenueproject.org

This event has been created in association with The RI Center for the Book in support of the 2024 RARI one-state, one-book reading program.

Free and open to the public. Registration is not required, but you will receive email reminders about the event by registering at the link below. Or contact the library for assistance at 401-781-2450.

https://events.cranstonlibrary.org/event/12066703

This program is sponsored by a grant from the Milford Cultural Council, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. This program is free and open to the public.

Living Literature presents: Firekeeper’s Daughter: a selection of Contemporary Native Voices at Milford Town Library, a readers’ theatre performance, created in association with The RI Center for the Book, in support of the 2022 community read Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley, the program is a selection of contemporary Native American writing, including excerpts from Firekeeper’s Daughter, and material from the RARI companion reads: Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Voices of the Warp and Weft, a collection of contemporary native writings edited by Amber Bliss. It also includes text from The Land Act of 1830, and quotes from Pope Francis. This program features actors Carol Pegg (Muscogee Creek) and Living Literature founder Barry Press. 

Living Literature is thrilled to be a part of this special event: AAPI Heritage Month Celebration® at Washington Park Library at 1316 Broad Street, Providence, Rhode Island. This event is free and open to the public.

Join us for this fabulous free event beginning at 12:30 on Saturday May 6th, to see Maia Mongado and Indigo Mudbhary perform a staged reading of several of Ms Mongado’s articles published in the AAPI journal. The articles are bookended with poems by Kimberly Nguyen and Cecilia Borromeo.

Join us again on May 13th, for a recorded version of the performance!

Free Finger food and Lemonade will be provided 

This is Rhode Island’s first month-long celebration for the AAPI Heritage Month 

 For more info visit:

Welcome

Any questions, email: info@csebri.org

First Saturday, 5/6/23 – Start the celebration with an introduction of Asian American history through songs and music. Learn more about the local history of Rhode Island. You will walk away with the knowledge of your state’s local history with a sense of purpose and community 

Second Saturday, 5/13/23 – Immerse yourself in the Cambodian and Thai cultures through their dances. Experience the connection of the divine power with the dances and joy that these dances offer. 

Third Saturday, 5/20/23 – Walk alongside the journey of this adoptive mom who shares her story of adopting a girl from China and the cultural transformation for both of them. See this artist mom’s exhibit and illustration of her adoption journey and learn some relaxation techniques through Chinese calligraphic art and breathing techniques. 

Presenting – Phenomenal Women

Living Literature presents Phenomenal Women, a 45 minute, two person readers’ theatre performance of poetry, prose, and history that celebrates women. For this program we showcase some of our favorite pieces from the 19th Amendment,  Mothers & Daughters, and Pearls, Politics & Power programs; learning from and celebrating women’s visionary voices, both past and present, who inspire us. Featuring local actors Kelly Seigh and Catia.

Email LivingLiteratureRI@gmail.com for more info about booking this program

Phenomenal Women: a Selection of History, Poetry, and Prose Celebrating Women

In celebration of Women’s History Month, Living Literature presents Phenomenal Women, a 45 minute, two person readers’ theatre performance of poetry, prose, and history that celebrates women. For this program we showcase some of our favorite pieces from the 19th Amendment,  Mothers & Daughters, and Pearls, Politics & Power programs; learning from and celebrating women’s visionary voices, both past and present, who inspire us.

email LivingLiteratureRI@gmail.com to book an event

Firekeeper’s Daughter: a selection of Contemporary Native Voices

Living Literature presents: Firekeeper’s Daughter: a selection of Contemporary Native Voices, a readers’ theatre performance, created in association with The RI Center for the Book, in support of the 2022 RARI community read Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley, the program is a selection of contemporary Native American writing, including excerpts from Firekeeper’s Daughter, and material from the RARI companion reads: Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Voices of the Warp and Weft, a collection of contemporary native writings edited by Amber Bliss. It also includes text from The Land Act of 1830, and quotes from Pope Francis. This program features actors Carol Pegg (Muscogee Creek) and Living Literature founder Barry Press. 

Rising, Dispatches From the New American Shore

Through the multiple lenses of theater, literature and science, local professional actors will perform a 45 minute readers’ theater adaptation of Rising, Dispatches from the New American Shore, by local author Elizabeth Rush (Reading Across Rhode Island’s 2020 selection). Beginning with nearby Jacob’s Point in Warren to the San Francisco Bay Area, this book will both inform and inspire our community to engage in this urgent topic in small ways and large. The performance will be followed by conversation and Q and A about the book, and climate change adaptation in our community. We will partner with a local expert from Save the Bay, to help guide the conversation. Two copies of the book will be given out as prizes! This performance was developed as part of RI Center for the Book’s Reading Across Rhode Island programming.

Becoming Muhammad Ali

Living Literature, now celebrating its 25th year, presents a 30 minute, readers theatre version of Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander, the Kids Reading Across Rhode Island’s 2021 book selection. Before he was a household name, Cassius Clay was a kid with struggles like any other. Kwame Alexander and James Patterson, two heavy-hitters in children’s literature, join forces to vividly depict his life up to age seventeen in both prose and verse, including his childhood friends, struggles in school, the racism he faced, and his discovery of boxing.