Stories about artificial life are older than the technology that inspired them. Pygmalion's statue, the Golem, Pinocchio. The questions they raise about identity, ethics and responsibility have only grown more urgent as drones, prosthetics and adaptive software move those old myths closer to daily life. Rhode Island sculptor Krzysztof Mathews builds an ecosystem of cyborg

Soul Value, performed by April H. Brown and Jessica T. Pearson, brings to life the stories of New England Black women—Elleanor Eldridge, Elizabeth Freemen, and Margaret Kinnicutt—and the men of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment during and after the American Revolutionary War. Through a dynamic blend of monologue, dance, ritual, and song, Soul Value highlights

Write to Grow is an evening writing workshop facilitated by local poet Hannah Little, exploring a different topic in mindfulness, wellbeing and personal growth through reading, writing and sharing. This session's theme is Tolerating Discomfort. Participants read a short text together, write in response, and share as much or as little as they wish. No

Join historian and Johnson & Wales University professor Michael J. Simpson for a special Veterans Day lecture exploring the remarkable life of Fortune Stoddard, a Black Revolutionary War veteran born enslaved in Middletown, Rhode Island, in 1757. Drawing on military records, court documents, census records, and newly examined testimony surrounding an extraordinary 1781 murder trial,