40th ANNIVERSARY SPIRIT OF CAPE VERDE
The Spirit of Cape Verde (1986) chronicles the first state visit to the United States in l983 by Aristides Pereira, Cape Verde’s first president after independence. Highlights of this half-hour documentary include history about the Cape Verdean communities in the Fox Point section of Providence and Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and President Pereira’s visit to New Bedford, MA, and visit to the schooner ERNESTINA, beloved queen of the Cape Verdean packet trade. Broadcast, WGBH-TV/2, Boston –October 1986 and February 1987.
6/6 – 8/16 – Spirit of Cape Verde: Runs
STATEWIDE: Sunday 3:30PM, Wednesday 5PM
Cox Ch. 13, Verizon Ch. 32
Monday 9PM, Thursday 7PM, Saturday 8:30PM
Cox Ch. 18 (Providence & North Providence) Verizon Ch. 38 (Anywhere in RI with Verizon)
6/6 – 8/15 – Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican
STATEWIDE: Tuesday 9PM, Saturday 4PM
Cox Ch. 13, Verizon Ch. 32
LOCAL: Monday 8PM, Wednesday 5:30PM, Saturday 9PM
Cox Ch. 18 (Providence & North Providence) Verizon Ch. 38 (Anywhere in RI with Verizon)
Avelino ‘Chappy’ Rose
Avelino J. Rose, affectionately known as “Chappy,” passed away peacefully at home on September 20, 2025, surrounded by his loving family. He was 101 years old.
A first-generation Cape Verdean-American, Chappy’s life was defined by resilience, service, and devotion to family. He proudly served in World War II as a Corporal in the 1883rd Company A Aviation Engineers, and broke barriers by becoming the first Black/Cape Verdean Processing Sheriff in Rhode Island.
Chappy was a war hero, a trailblazer on the docks, and a visionary son of immigrant parents. He loved his family, was fiercely proud of his heritage, deeply rooted in his neighborhood, and committed to lifting others through humility, craftsmanship, and love.
Jane’s Walk Providence: An annual festival of free, resident-led walking conversations
Friday 1st of May, 2026 through Sunday 3rd of May, 2026
Explore Providence neighborhoods on foot with Jane’s Walk, a global walking festival on May 1-3, inspired by urban activist Jane Jacobs. These interactive walks are led by local residents and community activists who get people thinking, talking and connecting with each other. Jane’s Walks are free and anyone can participate!
FRIDAY, MAY 1, start at 1pm
OUR RHODE: A mile of Tockwotton Fox Point Cape Verdean History with Claire Andrade-Watkins, PhD
I will lead this walk, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of “Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?: A Cape Verdean American Story.” I only do the walk, personally, for events or collaborations that I feel are impactful and contribute to the legacy work of our Tockwotton Fox Point CV community. I am a big fan of “Jane’, and her epic standoff with Robert Moses! The ‘stops’ are part of OUR RHODE: A mile of Tockwotton Fox Point Cape Verdean History. Each stop is a moment for an iterative dialogue with walk participants of the ‘lived’ and erased history of our community.
Start/end: Corner of Planet and South Main St/India Point Park, at site of proposed commemorative park for the Tockwotton Cape Verdean community.
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.