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THE BULLETIN BOARD
Upcoming Actions & Community Events
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Saturday 10/29 @ 12PM: Climate Protest: Solidarity with the People of Pakistan
Join Climate Action RI and the Jewish Youth Climate Movement of RI at this protest to hold Chase Bank accountable for profiting from the fossil fuels that exacerbate the climate crisis and historic flooding in Pakistan. Location: 291 Thayer St, Providence, RI 02906
Monday 10/31 @ 8AM: Protest Action for Housing Shelters/Sites
Show up to protest and put pressure on Housing Secretary Josh Saal and Governor Dan McKee to open up new housing spaces as winter approaches. Location: Smith St Side of the State House, 82 Smith St, Providence, RI 02903
Tuesday 11/1 @11AM-1PM: Popcorn with the Peer Counselors
Sponsored by The Minority Peer Counselors (MPCs), Women, Gender and Sexuality Peer Counselors (WGSPCs) and U-FLi Peer Counselors (U-FLiPCs), pop by for some gourmet popcorn and to learn about upcoming peer counselor programs. Location: Main Green, 75 Waterman St, Providence, RI 02906
Tuesday 11/2 @ 4:30-6:30PM: Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) Organizing Circle Orientation
Are you community rights-minded? Attend Providence Youth Student Movement’s youth leadership program to learn about grassroots organizing, abolition, leadership, and more! Reserve your spot at bit.ly/ ocworkshopsform. Location: 807 Broad Street Room 430, Providence RI 02907
Wednesday 11/2 @ 4:30PM Counselors Not Cops 101
Interested in activism? Passionate about education justice? Join the Providence Alliance for Student Safety at their Fall kick-off event to learn more about the push to replace cops with counselors in Providence schools. RSVP at bit.ly/CNC_10. Location: Providence Student Union, 769 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
Thursday 11/3 @ 4PM: Community Rally! Save Morely Field
The Pawtucket City Council and Mayor Donald R. Grebien have moved to destroy the single green space in District 5’s only recreational greenspace. Attend this rally to denounce the action. Location: Pawtucket City Hall, 137 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket, RI 02860
Friday 11/4 @ 10:30PM-1AM: Adult Skate Night - 90’s R&B Music
Grab some friends and skate to some 90’s R&B music. Laser tag and rock climbing are also available for $5 per person per game. Tickets start at $20—which include rollerskate rental—and can be purchased on Eventbrite at tinyurl.com/adult-skate-night. Location: United Skates of America, 75 New Road, East Providence, RI 02916
ARTS
All Day until December 22nd: Art Exhibition: Perceptions of Organizational Change, through a Kaleidoscopic Lexicon of Color
Jazzmen Lee-Johnson and Deborah Spears Moorehead, two Rhode Islandbased artists, have created site-specific artworks that respond to the Center for Public Humanities’ historic wallpaper, Les Vues d’Amérique du Nord, which features false depictions of Indigenous people. Location: Main Hall in the Nightingale-Brown House, 357 Benefit St, Providence, RI 02903
Saturday 10/29 @ 2:30-3:30PM: Halloween Agar Agar Plastic Workshop
Brown-RISD Innovation Community invites Brown and RISD students to participate in a sustainable workshop to make bioplastic candy wrappers with agar agar! You can RSVP using the Google Form that can be found in their Instagram bio @brownrisdinnovation. Location: Ewing Multicultural Center, 41 Waterman St, Providence, RI 02906
Sunday 10/30 @ 1-6PM: Wigs and Waffles: Halloween Drag Brunch
Attend an unforgettable brunch experience at Wigs and Waffles, which will feature drag queen performances while you enjoy delicious food. General admission tickets cost $15 and can be bought on Eventbrite at tinyurl.com/wigs-and-waffle-brunch. Location: Mangos Restaurant & Catering, 15 Exchange Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860
Saturday 11/19 @ 2:30-4:30PM: Collaborative Zine Workshop
Zines are an empowering medium where artists and writers find expression and community outside of mainstream publishing. For this workshop, engage with What Cheer Writers Club and local artist Zooey Kim Conner at Binch Press / Queer.Archive to learn about how zines can be used as a tool for knowledge sharing, participate in drawing and writing exercises, and learn the basics of zine assembly and binding. Participants will also get to take home a copy of What Cheer Writers Club’s collaboratively designed zine. Reserve a free spot on Eventbrite at tinyurl.com/ collaborative-zine-workshop. Location: Binch Press / Queer.Archive.Work, 400 Harris Ave Unit F, Providence, RI 02909
Mutual Aid* & Community Fundraisers
*Mutual aid is “survival pending on revolution,” as described by the Black Panthers. Join in redistributing wealth to create an ecosystem of care in response to a system of institutions that have failed or harmed our communities.
+ Donations needed for a Housing Activist
Donate at tinyurl.com/donate-2-hope
Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE) at Brown is organizing this GoFundMe for a fellow housing activist. This friend of HOPE’s is facing eviction and recently lost his job and had to pay for eye surgery. Donate to help him out of this stressful situation.
+ #GiveForDV
Donate at givefordv.nnedv.org/
GiveForDV strives to raise awareness, increase donations and volunteer efforts, and deepen community engagement around domestic violence. Donate to help support survivors.
+ Black and Pink Providence’s Fundraiser for Tunji
Donate at tinyurl.com/help-tunji
Black and Pink Providence, a non-profit organization working towards prison abolition, is raising money through a GoFundMe for Tunji. Tunji is formerly incarcerated and recently lost his job. You can help him get back on his feet by going to the Black and Pink Providence’s website to donate.
+ Amenity Aid Rhode Island
Donate at amenityaid.org/donate-money
Amenity Aid works to provide hygiene resources to marginalized communities and low-income people in need. On top of serving individuals, Amenity Aid partners with local shelters, food pantries, anti-domestic violence organizations, and other community groups who support underserved communities to distribute hygiene resources.
+ Project LETS Providence COVID-19 Relief Fund
Donate at projectlets.org/covid19
Project Let’s Erase The Stigma (LETS) is working in coalition with various grassroots organizations in Rhode Island to support marginalized groups in our community in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. All donations will directly help individuals, children, and families meet their basic needs.
+ Ocean State A$$ Mutual Aid Fund
Donate at tinyurl.com/oceanstateass
Support sex workers statewide. Priority given to BIPOC sex workers, trans sex workers, and sex workers who have been impacted by the pandemic.
+ Queer & Trans Mutual Aid Providence
Venmo: @qtmapvd; Paypal: qtma.pvd@gmail.com / Info: tinyurl. com/qtma-pvd
QTMA PVD is a small, volunteer-run mutual aid fund for queer and trans folks in the Providence, RI area. They do payouts once per week and have distributed over $80,000 since their founding in June 2020. They currently have over 30 outstanding requests for aid and would appreciate any donations!
