TRIPLE DECKER DOCUMENTARY
Museum of Work & Culture Launches Virtual Lecture Series
Popular Valley Talks Find New Home Online and Kick-off with Triple Decker Documentary
WOONSOCKET, R.I. – Valley Talks, a popular series of biweekly historical lectures presented by the Museum of Work & Culture, finds a new home online beginning Wednesday, April 22 at 4pm.
The new virtual series will kick-off with Triple Deckers: A New England Love Story, a talk and screening by documentary filmmaker Marc Levitt.
Levitt will share his “in progress” documentary Triple Deckers: A New England Love Story, exploring how the iconic three story homes helped to create the first US suburbs, forged a multi-cultural, mixed gender American Industrial working class and through their architectural DNA helped to make a country where its citizens understood that their well being and that of their neighbors were interdependent.
All events are free and take place on alternating Wednesdays at 4 pm. Register by emailing mowc@rihs.org
Levitt, documentary filmmaker, author, educational consultant, and storyteller, has made two films, Woven in Time, about the “discovered” pre-contact Native village in Narragansett, RI and Stories in Stone, a story of the Narragansett’s stonewall building tradition.
Marc has also written and published three books about education theory, written and performed a number of one person plays, was the host/co-producer of a national radio show, Action Speaks, Under-Appreciated Dates That Changed America and a comedy radio show, The New England Chowda’ Hour/Blue Bug Radio Cabaret. He has also worked throughout the United States and in 75 countries in Europe, South America, Central America, Asia and Africa as an Educational Consultant/Lecturer/Storyteller.
Other Virtual Valley Talks will include:
May 6: Filmmaker Christian de Rezendes offers a preview of his historical documentary series Slatersville: America’s First Mill Village highlighting the French-Canadian portion of the story.
May 20: Writer & Providence College Professor Emeritus Norman Desmarais presents insights from his book Untold Stories from World War II Rhode Island.
Additional dates forthcoming.