LECTURE & RECEPTION: 5:30pm Thursday Nov.5, 2009, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Brown University, Providence, RI

EXHIBIT: Nov.5, 2009 - Jan.8, 2010, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI

All Friends of the Library are invited to attend this upcoming program:

Black Lavender 2, a groundbreaking exhibit and lecture on Gay Black Men living and working in Rhode Island, will be held at the John Hay Library at Brown University, 20 Prospect Street, Providence, RI on Thursday, November 5th at 5:30pm. Dr. Daniel Scott will discuss his oral history project on Rhode Island Black gay men. A reception follows and is free and open to the public.

Gay Black men from 1919 to present are profiled in this unique exhibit of photographs, printed material and artifacts, showing their contributions to life and culture to Rhode Island, and demonstrating how surprisingly consequential and, at times, unexpectedly mainstream they are. The exhibit will remain open until January 8th weekdays from 9am-5pm at the John Hay Library.

This project is funded by the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities and is part of its “On the Road to Freedom” initiative which explores African American life in Rhode Island.

A celebration of the R. I. Philatelic Society’s 125 years of charted activity on February 2, 2010. This will be an opportunity for the Friends to see the valuable stamp collections which are held at the John Hay Library and to visit the temporary US Postal Station that will hand cancel a special envelope cache and cancellation to commemorate the occasion.

Lynn Nottage ’86 is an American Pulitzer Prize winning playwright whose work often deals with the lives of African Americans and women. Ms. Nottage will be giving this year’s Wilmeth Lecture on April 22, 2010.

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