The Museum of Work & Culture’s 2020 Cinema Sundays [FREE]
AMOUREUSES
March 1, 15, 29 at 1:30 pm
The Museum of Work & Culture, 42 S. Main St., Woonsocket, R.I.
Free French-Language Documentary Series Begins at the Museum of Work & Culture in March
(WOONSOCKET, R.I.) – Beginning Sunday, March 1, the Museum of Work & Culture will host Cinema Sundays, a free bi-weekly presentation of French-language documentaries produced in Québec. All films will be screened at 1:30 pm and are subtitled in English.
The series will kick off with Amoureuses, a documentary featuring, for the first time, cloistered sisters who agreed to be filmed in many aspects of their lives for almost a year. The result is an exceptional archival document for the history of Quebec. At their touch, these nuns are like plugs; they can channel the energy we need.
Cinema Sundays is presented as part of the MoWC’s celebration of Francophonie, a monthlong celebration of French language and culture in New England. It is made possible with the support of the Québec Delegation in Boston.
Other Cinema Sundays will include:
March 15, Expo 67: Mission Impossible, an account of the challenges of the men behind the 1967 Universal Exposition in Montréal, Canada. By searching through 80,000 archival documents at the National Archives, they managed to shine light on the biggest logistical and political challenges that were faced by organizers during the “Révolution Tranquille” in the Québec sixties.
March 29, Un homme sage-femme, which follows Louis Maltais, an ex-circus artist, as he begins his training to become the first male midwife in Quebec.
About the Museum of Work & Culture
The interactive and educational Museum of Work & Culture shares the stories of the men, women, and children who came to find a better life in Rhode Island’s mill towns in the late 19th- and 20th centuries. It recently received a Rhode Island Monthly Best of Rhode Island Award for its SensAbilities Saturdays all-ability program.
About the Rhode Island Historical Society
Founded in 1822, the RIHS, a Smithsonian Affiliate, is the fourth-oldest historical society in the United States and is Rhode Island’s largest and oldest historical organization. In Providence, the RIHS owns and operates the John Brown House Museum, a designated National Historic Landmark, built in 1788; the Aldrich House, built in 1822 and used for administration and public programs; and the Mary Elizabeth Robinson Research Center, where archival, book and image collections are housed. In Woonsocket, the RIHS manages the Museum of Work and Culture, a community museum examining the industrial history of northern Rhode Island and of the workers and settlers, especially French-Canadians, who made it one of the state’s most distinctive areas.