Rhode Island College: DOCUMENTING THE TENTH ISLAND
A conversation with award winning Rhode Island film directors The Institute for Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies
You are cordially invited to a conversation with award winning Rhode Island film directors Claire Andrade-Watkins and Christian de Rezendes on Wednesday, March 25th at Rhode Island College at 10:00am-12 noon:
Documenting the Tenth Island: Cape Verdean and Portuguese heritages in Rhode Island.
Sponsored by The Committee on College Lectures & The Institute for Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies
More info at: https://our.ric.edu/news-events/events/documenting-tenth-island
FREE AND OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY
Parking: Parking Lot I
Gaige Hall 200 (number 24 on the map)
Rhode Island College:
600 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Providence RI 02908
Light Refreshments
Providence Modern Symposium
‘Before the highway’s construction and completion in the 1960s, the Cape Verdean community stretched from Planet Street and South Main Street through to India Point Park. South Main Street rested at its heart, though it was dubbed ‘one of the worst slum areas in the city’ by the Providence Redevelopment Agency in a 1951 report..300 families, 172 homes, and 32 businesses were displaced, and two schools were demolished.’”‘
Road to ruin
Route 195 sliced through a once-vibrant community in Fox Point
‘Before the highway’s construction and completion in the 1960s, the Cape Verdean community stretched from Planet Street and South Main Street through to India Point Park. South Main Street rested at its heart, though it was dubbed ‘one of the worst slum areas in the city’ by the Providence Redevelopment Agency in a 1951 report..300 families, 172 homes, and 32 businesses were displaced, and two schools were demolished.’”
Kate Mulvany, (Sunday August 14, 2022). ‘Traumatic’: How Route 195 uprooted the Cape Verdean community in Providence’s Fox Point. Providence Journal
Image: ©SPIA Media Productions
June 2, 2024 90th St Antonio Procession, Providence RI
AUGUST 24, 2024
South Main Street was renamed to Tockwotton Cape Verdean Way
SUPPORT
In 2016, SPIA Media Productions, Inc., the content producer for Tockwotton Fox Point Cape Verdean Heritage Place, migrated over forty years of historical, educational, and archival film and video content about the history of Cape Verde and the Tockwotton Fox Point Cape Verdean community to digital formats and platforms.
Image: ©SPIA Media Productions
Your tax-deductible contribution to CID support SPIA’s ongoing educational, documentary, archival projects, immersive experiences, forward-facing public initiatives, legacy projects, events, walking tours, and digital mapping of a chronological timeline that reconstitutes the history of Rhode Island’s first Cape Verdean neighborhood on existing and emerging digital platforms.