RILA’s Executive Director and Nuestras Raíces Project Director will offer Oral History Best Practices Workshops in 2018

Rebecca Noon, Actor/Creator/Producer and Community Engagement Coordinator and Teaching Artist at Trinity Repertory Company, will lead us through this participatory workshop on how to deliver our oral history monologues to a live audience.

THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED!
RESCHEDULED: Join us on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 | Southside Cultural Center | 5-7PM

Mark Valdez, writer and director who has worked at theaters across the country, will lead us through an introduction to scriptwriting workshop.

Convenience stores and corner stores are staples of American life, but for Latinos, bodegas are necessary for cultural survival.

Mi Sueño, 1070 Broad Street, Providence, RI 02907

Join us for a fun, educational and eye-opening Jane’s Walk on Lower Broad Street | La Broa’ — Providence’s Latino Cultural Corridor. It will be the only bilingual walk in Providence, and will be led by Nuestras Raíces Director, Marta V. Martínez along with students from Providence College, Global Studies Program.

Valerie Tutson of the Rhode Island Black Storytellers (RIBS) will lead a workshop on best practices and the art of storytelling.

“People’s stories make for moving theater.”
— Viola Davis, upon accepting her Supporting Actress award at the 2017 Oscars“

Marta V. Martínez, Director of Nuestras Raíces interviews Victor Capellan, Superintendent
of the Central Falls Schools for the Voices Latinas | Latino Voices project in the
studios of Rhode Island PBS

Returning in 2017

Thanks to grants from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, we will be transforming the Latino oral histories into theatrical monologues.

On Wednesday, October 12, 2016, Senator Jack Reed’s office reached out to the Project Director of the Latino History Project and asked that asked that we take him to some of the sites listed in the Latino History Walking Tour in Providence.

Location: Parkview & Broad Street RIPTA bus shelter.

In the in 1960s in Providence, a young Dominican woman named Josefina Rosario and her husband, Tony, single-handedly launched a community. They sponsored dozens of Dominicans, rescuing them from tyranny and helping them resettle here.

We are pleased to announce that Rhode Island Latino Arts in partnership with the Providence Preservation Society (PPS) was awarded a grant by the National Trust for Historic Preservation from the Antoinette Downing Fund for Rhode Island. These grant funds will be used to Explore Places of Significance to RI's Latino Communities.

Today we celebrated what's good in this world: Immigrants raising a dying industry from the ashes, in a small city one-square-mile in size and making it one giant success story for all of Rhode Island to be proud of.

Information from the Nuestras Raíces archives and collected during the panel discussions of LA500, has been translated into Spanish and added to the Rhode Tour mobile app and website. Guía Virtual Bilingüe will make the Latino histories meaningful, relevant, and accessible to the Spanish-speaking population that serves as the subject of the Latino History Project.

This will be a discussion on the complexities of the Cuban-American experience through changing political climates.

Join Nuestras Raíces Program Director and RI Latino Arts Executive Director for an interesting evening in Lincoln, RI

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Join us for a screening of Pride & Prejudice, which features César Chávez and the history of the labor movement in the United States.

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Rhode Island has seen a rising Latino political tide. In 2015 the state elected its first Latina to a statewide office, its second Latino Providence mayor, and its first Latina City Councilwoman in Pawtucket.

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In 2015 RI Latino Arts, the parent organization of Nuestras Raíces, received funding from the ADD Fund of the Rhode Island Foundation to create digital stories based on the Latino history project.

Read more …

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Nuestras Raíces • RI Latino Arts have partnered with RI public television station WSBE Channel 36 to create and present a series of short videos with leaders of RI Latino community who have contributed to the history of Latinos in RI.

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Rhode Island Latino Arts • Latino Oral History Project, in partnership with Rhode Island Council for the Humanities has been selected to receive a competitive Latino Americans: 500 Years of History (LA500) grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA).

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Earlier this year, we received an interesting E-Mail:

We have just completed a traveling art installation that will feature the stories of Latin American immigrants in Rhode Island based on the Latino Oral History Project of RI.

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Marta V. Martínez, head of Rhode Island Latino Arts, has written "Latino History in Rhode Island: Nuestras Raices," which grew out of an oral history project she started in 1991.

A hard copy of this oral history? Yes, absolutely!

On May 20, 1902 Tomas Estrada Palma took office as Cuba’s first President, elected by the people in fair and free elections. To many Cuban Americans this date commemorates the beginning of Cuba’s sovereignty.

Do you drink Café Bustelo? Do you know anyone who does? We are collecting 10 oz. cans for an upcoming art exhibit related to the collection of our Cuban Stories project.

Contact us if you can donate. EMPTY cans only, please!

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We are interested in reading and getting copies of any letters that were exchanged between immigrants who moved to Rhode Island at any time in their lives and a family members, friend or colleague back home.

L-R (back row): Marcos Rico -- Julio Filomeno(??) -- Unknown

Rosario Peña -- Luis Astudillo -- Unknown

(front row) Juán Francisco -- Victor Mendóza -- Millie López -- Unknown -- Elida Araujo

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How did you feel when you first saw snow?

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Tessie Salabert, 2013

We are currently focusing on collecting stories of Cubans and writing a general history of Cubans in New England. We recently conducted an interview with Tessie Salabert, who came to the U.S. from Cuba in 1961.

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We are collecting Latino holiday memories that include traditions from your home countries. Do you have a special Christmas memory ...

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It’s Hispanic Heritage Month and we’d like to give you this forum t...

We are looking for stories from Cuban individuals who immigrated to Rhode Island in the 1960s ...

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We are looking for stories and photographs from people who attended this and other festivals at the Temple to Music through the years...

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What Latino food or ingredient do you have a difficult time finding in Rhode Island or New England, and what dish do you miss the way it was prepared in your home country? What do you do to satisfy that hunger for your favorite foods?

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The Latino Oral History Project of Rhode Island would like to offer you, as a Rhode Island Latino, an opportunity to share a story and submit it to this project. We are looking for any excerpts that capture when, why and how you immigrated to the U.S. and then to Rhode Island. Use this Blog to send us your excerpts.

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