Thursday and Friday, August 22 and 23, from 9 to 4:30 pm: Please join us for the Second Annual Meshanticut Cultural Placemaking Confestival organized by Providence Cultural Equity Initiative!
This event is free and open to the public and takes place in the third-floor Auditorium at PPL. Registration through Eventbrite is strongly encouraged.
The Meshanticut Cultural Placemaking Conference is a two-day event hosting presenters and discussions to ideate initiatives, policies, and strategies to promote and support the international cultural placemaking sector. The mission of the conference is “To advance the cultural placemaking sector and stimulate interest and investment in cultural placemaking as a premier strategy for promoting tourism and equitable economic development.”
The Meshanticut Confestival is intended to achieve three specific goals:
First, to serve as a tangible demonstration of the international interest in identifying and engaging Providence as an international cultural tourism destination.
Secondly, to lay the foundation for the development of a nine-day annual festival based in Providence, Rhode Island, that will serve as a platform for showcasing Providence’s cultural tourism infrastructure to the international cultural tourism sector.
Third, to serve as the official launch for PCEI’s Real Revolution 2036 Campaign to begin planning and international relationship building in preparation for Providence’s 400th anniversary in 2036.
Find the full schedule for Thursday and Friday at PPL, including speakers and presentation times on Eventbrite.
Community members are invited to join in on both days of the conference at the Library, as well as the events continuing in the evenings and the rest of the weekend at other locations. See the complete Confestival agenda here.
Questions? Need more info? Please contact Raymond Two Hawks Watson, CEO/Founder, Providence Cultural Equity Initiative: ray@provcei.org.
The Second Annual Meshanticut Cultural Placemaking Confestival is sponsored by; The Rhode Island Foundation; Providence Public Library; the City of Providence’s Department for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging; Real Access Motivates Progress (RAMP); Roger Williams University; Roger Williams University School of Law; Project Peace Lights; Mount Hope Community Center; New Wave Martial Arts; the Federation of Aboriginal Nations of the Americas (FANA); the Cibuco-Bayamon Clan of the Taino Tribal Nation of Boriken; and the Mashapaug Nahaganset Tribe.