The rhode island historical society will implement a comprehensive professional development program for its staff and volunteers to build their knowledge and practice in using dialogue facilitation…

The rhode island historical society will implement a comprehensive professional development program for its staff and volunteers to build their knowledge and practice in using dialogue facilitation with different audiences and improve their readiness to work on RE-interpreting programming, exhibitions, and collections practices. Staff members will participate in a three-day training offered by the international coalition of sites of conscience on fostering dialogue and civic engagement. They will also engage in a series of four online sessions with the memorial acte (a museum in guadeloupe, on the site of the former darboussier sugar factory); the barbados museum and historical society; maison DES esclaves on GOR?e island in senegal; and the whitney heritage plantation museum in louisiana. The project will also include site visits to harriet beecher stowe center in hartford, CT; the ferreira-mendes portuguese-american archives and special collections at the university of massachusetts (dartmouth); and the HIP-HOP archive at the joseph p. Healey library at university of massachusetts (boston).