This site is also a stop along Lovecraft walking tours we’re conducting during the convention – so, everyone should have an easy chance to stop by. Additionally, the Athenaeum will be housing a number of important Lovecraft relics and papers (from the Hay Library collection) during the convention. The unveiling will begin shortly before 7:00pm, but space is absolutely limited so this is a TICKETED event. Lovecraft Bronze Bust unveiling (Providence Athenaeum Library, 251 Benefit Street)Ī cornerstone of some overdue local recognition, and the culmination of much toil, we’re happy to co-present the unveiling of Bryan Moore’s bronze bust figure of Lovecraft at the most significant bastion of literature in Providence - the Athenaeum. You might also to hear a little something humorous for the occasion (can you guess what?). In particular, she will play Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in d minor, sing a unique Norwegian folk piece, and close with Boellman’s Toccata from the Gothic Suite. This special public event, in one of Lovecraft’s favorite buildings in Providence (“…the finest Georgian steeple in America”), will feature music by internationally-famed classical singer and organist, Gigi Velasco. Joshi, historian Stanley Lemons, and Providence Mayor Angel Taveras welcome all to Lovecraft’s city, and to NecronomiCon Providence, 2013. 5:30 – 6:30pmĬonvention Keynote Address (First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main Street)
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This event is free and open to the public. The exhibition explores Lovecraft’s youth in Providence and the city’s role in shaping his career as a master craftsman of “weird fiction.” Refreshments will be served. P. Lovecraft in Providence,” co-hosted by the Providence Athenaeum, will be on view. A smaller satellite exhibit of “The Shadow Over College Street: H. Joshi, Brown alumnus (’80, MA ’82) and prominent Lovecraft scholar. The fellowship is sponsored by The Aeroflex Foundation and Hippocampus Press, and is named for S.
Lovecraft, his associates and literary heirs. Joshi Endowed Research Fellowship for research relating to H. Library to celebrate the launching of the S.
Lovecraft materials in the world, will host a reception in the Lobby of the John D. Library, Brown University)īrown University Library, home to the largest collection of H. Joshi Endowed Research Fellowship ( John D. All proceeds benefit the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society.įor more information contact Ezra Claverie through 4:00 – 5:30pmĪ Celebration Commemorating the S. This walking tour is one way of remembering this former slave-state’s complex history.The tour lasts 90 minutes and costs $10 per person. Amid the celebration of Howard Lovecraft’s legacy, we should remember that the fantasist who declared “I Am Providence” was also a racist and a segregationist, and that real people suffered in Rhode Island (and elsewhere) from policies and practices that Lovecraft advocated. The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society offers this walking tour of Providence sites of African American historical interest. If you like, you can attend any of the parts, but the best experience comes from attending all the parts.
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Johnson are your guides on this crazy journey of hyperactive moviemaking discovery! this is the first of a multi-part workshop this weekend, the culmination of which includes making a movie at Necronomicon.
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If you’ve always wanted to make one, now’s the time to learn! Local professional filmmakers Edward Martin III and Ryan K. Hellbender Media and Seattle International Films present the “Let’s Make a Movie!” workshop! Join us for a weekend-long adventure that combines filmmaking and improvisation to walk you through the steps of making your own short movie. WORKSHOP: Let’s Make a Movie! Welcome to the Unspeakable Machine (Second floor, 95 Empire) Our friends at the Rhode Island Historical Society will conduct one of their superb historical walking tours of Lovecraft’s old haunts along the east side of Providence, leaving from the John Brown House at 52 Power Street.
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