Upcoming April Programs & Events at PPL (HairBrained Program Series)
Providence Public Library 2018 Exhibition & Program Series Runs through June 30
Four-month HairBrained Exhibition & Programs Series Offers a Full Schedule of Discussions, Workshops & Educational Activities
PROVIDENCE, RI – Providence Public Library’s (PPL) fourth annual Exhibition & Program series HairBrained is focused on hair. Specifically, the exhibition explores the ways in which hair defines and reflects culture, self-identity, agency and politics. Meanwhile, the program series, which is inspired by images and texts in the exhibition, will offer cultural programs and educational activities for all ages that explore how and why we have grown, cut, shaved, shaped, woven, adorned and covered the hair on our heads, from centuries ago ’til today.
Our calendar of upcoming HairBrained cultural and educational programs and events for all ages, running through June, is available at www.provlib.org.
Upcoming APRIL HairBrained programs/talks include:
Monday, April 2 6—8 pm, PPL 3rd Floor Meeting Room
An Evening with Leah Vernon, Style Blogger
Join Leah Vernon, style blogger, content creator, model, public speaker, hijab-wearing Muslim feminist, and body-positive activist from Detroit who was inspired to start her blog Beauty and the Muse in 2013 because “there wasn’t enough inclusion of real beauty in the media.”
Sign up: https://www.provlib.org/calendar/?id=3883688&d=2018-04-02
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Saturday, April 7 2—3:30 pm, (Takes place at Trinity Repertory Company, 201 Washington St.)
Emily Christoffersen: Historical Wigs & Hair for Theater
Join Emily Christoffersen, resident wig artisan for Trinity Repertory Company, at the theater for a presentation all about wigs! How they’re created and the tools used, the production process specific to each play, and how the wigs are styled and cared for. Meet in Trinity’s upper lobby for this wig-tastic discussion and a backstage tour. FREE, but registration required; limited to 30.
Sign up: https://www.provlib.org/calendar/?id=4042541&d=2018-04-07
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Saturday, April 14 10:30 am—12:30 pm, 3rd Floor Meeting Room
Hair and Identity — A Creative Writing Workshop with artist, writer and teacher Mary-Kim Arnold
Our hair can say a lot about how we see and present ourselves. In this writing workshop, we’ll use a series of prompts to write about hair. We’ll use our time together to write, revise, and share original short texts inspired by and in conversation with the HairBrained exhibit and our own lived experiences. FREE, but registration required; limited to 20.
Sign up: https://www.provlib.org/calendar/?id=4042529&d=2018-04-14
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Monday, April 16 6—8 pm, 3rd Floor Meeting Room
Book Talk: Art Historian Author Suzanne Scanlan
Suzanne Scanlan, RISD lecturer in the History of Art + Visual Culture, on her new book Divine and Demonic Imagery: Religious Women and Art in 15th Century Rome. In this talk, we examine depictions of hair and head coverings in convent paintings, at a time when a veil represented the line between the salvation of a woman’s soul or eternal damnation in Hell.
Books available for sale and signing.
Sign up: https://www.provlib.org/calendar/?id=4011692&d=2018-04-16
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Wednesday, April 25 6:15—8 pm, 3rd Floor Meeting Room
Hair as Holder of Memory/Artistic Medium
A conversation between artist Nafis White, whose multimedia work incorporates hair braiding and weaving techniques, and jeweler/historian Karen Bachmann, an expert on Victorian mourning jewelry, which was woven from hair.
Sign up: https://www.provlib.org/calendar/?id=3975295&d=2018-04-25
HairBrained Exhibition
Hair is simultaneously frivolous and serious, personal and universal. It’s a means to communicate complex messages to everyone we encounter. In this exhibition, we focus on hairstyles around the world and throughout history via a selection of items from PPL’s Special Collections. Exhibition materials will include books, prints, magazines, and photographs. Items will be on exhibit in the Providence Journal Rhode Island Room on Level 1 during the Library’s regular hours from March – June 2018.r