12:30 p.m. – The unveiling of the public art.
Speakers: Mayor Brett Smiley, Mayor of Providence; Cheryl Space, Director of Community Libraries of Providence, and Jeannie Salomon, Founder & Director of Cultural Society (CSEBRI)
Short break – distributing lunches and drinks to patrons and everyone in the audience.
1:15 p.m. – “Nonoboy Band”, Dr. Julian Saporiti and his partner will perform their songs and will play intermittently throughout the afternoon.
Dr. Julian Saporiti is a Vietnamese Italian American songwriter and scholar born in Nashville, Tennessee. His multi-media work “No-No Boy” has transformed his Ph.D. research on Asian American history into concerts, albums, and films, which have reached a broad and diverse public audience.
2:00 p.m. – Angela Yuanyuan Feng (a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Brown University) and her associate, Julieanne Fontana, a public historian and community engagement specialist will showcase their research on Providence’s Chinatown from the 1900s.
2:45 – 3:15 p.m. – Two person reader’s theatre performance by Maia Mongado & Indigo Mudbhary (CSEBRI Intern & Volunteer)on the three articles written by Maia Mongado in AAC Journal, Issue 5 & Issue 2 about Asian Americans, in collaboration with Living Literature.
3:15 p.m. – Presentation on The History of Anti-Asian Violence in America, Dr. Robert George Lee, Brown University, Associate Professor Emeritus of American Studies
4:15 p.m. – Give out an eBook for filling out a survey (QR Code is on the last page) or The ABC’s of Asian Americans to families/people who registered.