Built in 1739, this historic site was a center for Rhode Island’s colonial government. Explore its significant history, including the surrounding square, and view a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington.
Join Donald Osborne and veteran car expert and restorer Evan Ide in our gallery on Bellevue Avenue for a lively discussion on one of the most vibrant eras in automotive history, all visible in our current exhibition “Early Landmarks in Automotive Engineering”!
Would you like to learn more about what it takes to publish for a magazine? Join us at Salve Regina for a magazine publishing panel. Bruce Handy is the author of Wild Things and is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair. He has also been a writer and senior editor for Times. Some of his […]
Free craft talk presented by the Newport MFA. Helen Schulman is the author of Come With Me, This Beautiful Life, A Day At The Beach, The Revisionist, Out Of Time, and P.S, which was later turned into a film starring Laura Linney, Topher Grace, and Paul Rudd. Some of her other works have appeared in […]
Diana Goetsch has published eight collections of poetry and wrote the memoir This Body I Wore. In her inspiring memoir she explains her long journey to discovering she was a trans-woman. Her memoir was listed as “A Best Book of the Year” at Cosmopolitan. Her other works have appeared in The New Yorker, The American […]
Join us to enjoy a reading from poet Diana Goetsch, who has published eight collections of poetry and wrote the memoir This Body I Wore. In her inspiring memoir she explains her long journey to discovering she was a trans-woman. Her memoir was listed as “A Best Book of the Year” at Cosmopolitan. Her other works […]
Edgar Kunz is the author of a poetry collection called "Tap Out," which was selected as a New York Times "New & Noteworthy" pick. His other works of poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New England Review, Sewanee Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Edgar Kunz has received fellowships and awards […]
Touro Synagogue Foundation announces the second program of its Winter 2022-2023 Judah Touro Program Series, which will explore the architecture and interior of the 1675 Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, the Esnoga, a building with a direct influence on the architecture of the 1763 Touro Synagogue. Dutch professor, Dr. Pieter Vlaardingerbroek, will present this illustrated talk, […]
Presented by Dr. Amelia Sikora, DVM, Director of Shelter Medicine, Potter League for Animals Why is routine preventative care for your pet essential? Preventative care for your pet is critical to maintaining their overall health and avoiding unwanted and even life-threatening illness. In most cases, preventative care requires a routine visit to your vet to […]
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 406, Newport, invites the public to our first lecture of 2023. The night will feature a presentation by Ken Nomiyama and James Mcilwain. They will discuss an important and often overlooked part of our American history - the experiences and contributions of Japanese Americans during WWII. All are welcome to […]
Newport is a city known for firsts. Between 1755-1756, the first anatomical and surgical lectures in the Colonies were presented by Dr. William Hunter at the Colony House. On Thursday January 19, 2023, at 5:30pm, the Newport Historical Society will host the talk “Cure What Ails You”: An 18th Century Living History Lecture with living […]
Vice President and Senior Fellow of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution “Deciphering the Political Environment” The United States faces a difficult situation both in terms of domestic and foreign policy. At home, inflation remains stubbornly high, there are conflicts over abortion, government spending, and climate change, and people are divided about basic goals and […]
The James Webb Space Telescope is a feat of engineering and a long-awaited stride forward in many areas of astronomy. Communicating these advances to the public might seem easy when the space telescope is sending down awe-inspiring images of newborn stars, tenuous dust, and distant galaxies nearly every day. But these images are not showing […]
This meeting is a free in-person event at the Common Fence Point Community Center. Please register to attend in person. To view online, see the link below. This meeting will share information about the state and local decision-making process specific to offshore wind cable installation and how and when community members can engage. This interactive discussion, the […]
Art History Professor and Italian Renaissance Expert “Brunelleschi’s Basilica: The Building of Santo Spirito in Florence” Brunelleschi’s Basilica of Santo Spirito in Florence, Italy, is one of the defining architectural works of the Renaissance. The building of this great church was a perfect historical storm – a celebrity architect, who was bordering on apotheosis as […]
