Long time Pawtucket Mayor James Doyle (D) faces 12-year Pawtucket City

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Hey all, I’m offering a short program entitled Bells and Gongs as part of the First Works Festival in early October. I and a few friends will be performing outdoors (weather permitting) just across the sidewalk from the the riverside doors of the RISD Auditorium. We’ll perform Thursday and Friday, October 2nd and 3rd, both nights 7:15-7:45pm. If it rains we’ll be in the foyer of the auditorium.Bob Asprinio, David Brown and Chris Monti will help me play the glass bells and gongs from my collection; Chris Turner and Rachel Maloney will bring their gongs to add to the fun. We’ll be offering half hour long sound sculptures, exploring the sonic possibilities of these exotic, evocative instruments.

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Michel Martin, an award-winning journalist and the host of NPR’s Tell Me More, will be speaking with Katrina Browne, writer, director and producer of Traces of the Trade, Dr. James Campbell, Africana Studies professor at Brown University, Mary-Kim Arnold, RICH executive director, and Rev. Jeffery A. Williams, head pastor at the Cathedral of Life, about the importance of the bicentennial for the Rhode Island and the nation. The conversation will focus on the historic and contemporary significance of Rhode Island’s involvement with the slave trade.As the host of NPR’s Tell Me More, Martin examines headlines and issues relevant to multi-cultural life in America. Before arriving at NPR on January 2006, Michel worked as a correspondent for ABC’s Nightline where she spent a decade covering such issues as the Congressional budget battles, the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, and racial profiling and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Martin has been honored by numerous organizations, including the Candace Award for Communications from The National Coalition of 100 Black Women. Along with her Emmy award, she received three additional Emmy nominations, including one for an ABC News program examining children’s racial attitudes.“200 Years After“ kicks off the month-long Rhode Island “Freedom Festival,“ an event that commemorates the bicentennial of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and celebrates African American Heritage in Rhode Island. For more information about this festival and all related events, please visit

www.rihumanities.org

or call Risa Gilpin at 401.273.2250. “200 Years After“ is funded, in part, by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.