Celebrating Rosa Parks
featuring Ryan Mendoza‘s “Rosa Parks House Project”
Join us Saturday, March 31, 2018, 11:30 AM to 6:30 PM for a concert and celebration gathering as well as community and panel discussions throughout the day.
WaterFire Arts Center
475 Valley Street, Providence, RI
The WaterFire Arts Center will also be open on Easter Sunday from Noon to 6:30 PM for viewing of Ryan Mendoza’s “Rosa Parks House Project”.
Saturday, March 31st
Celebration Gathering & Concert in tribute to Rosa Parks: 3:00 – 6:00 PM
- 4:00 PM Concert FEATURING Rose Weaver, Becky Bass, Ramona Bass-Kolobe, Delbert Collins, Elizabeth Ann Keiser, Angela Nash Wade, Raffini, Cathy Clasper-Torch, Kim Trusty, Christopher Johnson, Sidy Maiga, Sylvia Ann Soares and friends
- Special guests: Rosa Parks‘ niece Rhea McCauley and artist Ryan Mendoza
Panel & Community Discussion: 11:30 AM*
A House, a Home, a Story: Oral Histories, Family Memories, Narrative Arc and Identity
Panel & Community Discussion: 1:30 PM*
The House in Art and Memory: History, Narrative, Place and the Act of Remembrance
Panel & Community Discussion: 5:30 PM*
African American History and its Telling: Still Contested Ground
*Speakers will be announced for each panel.
All events are free and open to the public!
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Funded in part by grants from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Organized by WP Support Corporation.
About the author
Tim Blankenship, newly appointed Director of Special Projects, is a 22-year veteran of WaterFire and a steadfast advocate for the organization’s mission to unite the community through shared artistic experiences. Having worked across multiple departments, including a decade in production and recent years with the creative services team, Tim brings unmatched institutional knowledge to his new role. He will focus on strengthening internal systems and supporting the creation of new visitor experiences at both the downtown installation and the WaterFire Arts Center.
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September 11, 2013 - Tim Blankenship
Dear Mr. Ryan Mendoza, Ms. Rhea McCauley,
1) Congratulations for bringing a grand gesture of history into a greater field of understanding.
2) Ms. Rosa Parks stood up tall as a human beacon to enlighten her and future generations.
3) She did so from a humble homestead… so humble it shamed today the upkeepers of her legacy.
4) You light it up straight to its core. The very nutshell grandeur of human spirit can step up from the humblest origin in all its glory.
5) It will be such a great centerpiece artwork at a Rosa Parks Memorial second to none… art… enlightening history and under s tanding and education and values building thru generatiions.
6) Gaudi built the Sagrada Familia all thru gifts… today you can as well solicit peoples support in little bits to build a sanctuary to the woman who defied status quo the powers that ruled including overarching mores… to break a breach of light… we stride on today.
7) Let it be…
With utmost respect and a helpful hand.
Sincecerely yours,
Walter Hidalgo