Who are the Friends of Rochambeau?
A group of caring individuals, families, and businesses dedicated to the support of the Rochambeau Library Branch... its facility, programs, services, resources, and the many people it serves. Learn more about the Friends of Rochambeau
2016 FALL SCHEDULE: October 24 – 29
- Preview / Dealers Night (Admission $30 / person) Mon. 24th 5pm – 8:30pm
- Members Night for Friends of ROC (join at the door!) Tues. 25th 4pm – 8:30pm
- Open to the public:
- Wed. 26th 10am – 5:30pm
- Thurs. 27th 1pm – 8:30pm
- Fill a Bag for $5, free entrance for ALL
- Fri. 28th noon – 5:30pm
- Sat. 29th 1pm – 3pm
Proceeds of the bi-annual Book Sales support events, programs and services for children and adults, subscriptions of papers and journals, purchase of media equipment, etc. at the Library.
Want to help us with the book sale? It’s really fun! Email us now or sign up in the binder at the Reference Desk.
Come browse and buy a selection of gorgeous
coffee table worthy books at Rochambeau Library! The mini-sale will be in the downstairs conference room, just off the elevator or stairs to the left, at Rochambeau Community Library from 2:00 – 5:00p on the first day of October.
We are very proud to offer hundreds of near-new condition books for sale at this event. All books were donated to the Friends by our generous neighbors here in our community! As always, proceeds from your purchases will go directly to support the programs, services and events at your branch location of the Providence Community Library. Bring a friend and tell a neighbor, and we will see you at the book sale!
For more information or to volunteer to help with this or other Friends events, please feel free to contact us, at friend@friendsofrochambeau.org
Come browse and buy specialty HIS, BIO, & FIC
books at the Friends of Rochambeau Library SUMMER FICTION Book Sale! We will be in the downstairs conference room, just off the elevator or stairs to the left, at Rochambeau Community Library from 1:00 – 5:00p on the first Saturday in March.
We are very proud to offer hundreds of near-new condition books for sale at this event. All books were donated to the Friends by our generous neighbors here in our community! As always, proceeds from your purchases will go directly to support the programs, services and events at your branch location of the Providence Community Library. Bring a friend and tell a neighbor, and we will see you at the book sale!
For more information or to volunteer to help with this or other Friends events, please feel free to contact us, at friend@friendsofrochambeau.org
Please join us for our 2016 Annual Meeting, where we will hear from this year’s special guest speaker: Ricardo Pitts-Wiley!
In 2003, Ricardo Pitts-Wiley and his wife Bernadet formed Mixed Magic Theatre &
Cultural Events, a non-profit arts organization, dedicated to presenting a diversity of
cultural and ethnic images and ideas on the stage. Ricardo serves as the company’s
Development Director. As the company’s director he has gained national and international
acclaim for his page-to- stage adaptations of Moby Dick, Don Quixote, Frankenstein, The
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave and the life and poetry of
Paul Laurence Dunbar.
He is the author of four volumes of performance poetry, Reflections: Growing Up a Black
Man in America, The Well of Woman, Night Voices and Man, Woman, Chaos. He wrote the
book and lyrics for the musicals A Kwanzaa Song, Celebrations: An African Odyssey,
Sara’s Jukebox and The Spirit Warrior’s Dream, as well as five plays including Fate Comes
Knocking and 35 Miles From Detroit. In 2009, Ricardo was the Martin Luther King Visiting Scholar at MIT in Cambridge, MA.
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley is an accomplished actor, director, playwright and composer. He has performed major roles at noted theaters throughout the United States including The Actor’s Shakespeare Project in Boston, Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI, The Old Globe Theater and San Diego Repertory in San Diego, North Carolina Black Repertory, Rites and Reason and Perishable Theater.
Come browse and buy 100’s of coffee table
worthy books at the Friends of Rochambeau Library ART + ARCHITECTURE Book Sale! We will be in the downstairs conference room, just off the elevator or stairs to the left, at Rochambeau Community Library from 1:00 – 5:00p on the first Saturday in March.
We are very proud to offer hundreds of near-new condition books for sale at this event. All books were donated to the Friends by our generous neighbors here in our community! As always, proceeds from your purchases will go directly to support the programs, services and events at your branch location of the Providence Community Library. Bring a friend and tell a neighbor, and we will see you at the book sale!
For more information or to volunteer to help with this or other Friends events, please feel free to contact us, at friend@friendsofrochambeau.org
The Friends of Rochambeau Newsletter publishes news, events and more in digest form three times a year: Fall, Winter and Spring.
Every Friends member household ought to receive a copy in the mail. If you didn’t, it means that either you need to renew your membership, or we’ve got your address wrong. Please contact us at friend@friendsofrochambeau.org.
Alternatively, you can access newsletters anytime via this website. You can read or download the current edition, our Winter, 2016Friends of Rochambeau Newsletter by following this link.
This Spring, We Invite You To “Remember CD’s?” & Add to Your Collection!
Our CD stocks are larger than ever and that means we are having a sale! Thousands of titles in every major genre are waiting for you to peruse and take home. Mark your calendar for Saturday, February 6th, from 1 – 5 P.M. and visit us in the Conference Room downstairs at the Rochambeau Library on Hope Street.
We cannot guarantee our inventory will hold out all afternoon – be sure to come early in order to avoid disappointment!
The Friends of Rochambeau are pleased to sponsor the Greg Abate Jazz Quartet at the Rochambeau Library on Thursday, January 7, 7pm-8:30pm in the Rochambeau Library’s Community Room. Join us!
A Conversation with Luis Aponte, Providence City Council President. On Mon, Nov 30, 7-8:30pm at Rochambeau Branch Community Library, 708 Hope Street, Providence, RI.
Please join us the Monday after Thanksgiving for the inaugural event of our new program series focused on local government, decision makers and politics, “The City.”
The series will provide opportunities for conversations of import with those of our fellow citizens on the frontlines here in Providence and Rhode Island. Hosted by FORL.
Ask Mr. Aponte about the Council’s top priorities, the responsibilities and challenges of heading the City’s legislative branch, or anything else on your mind. This is your chance to talk to one of the elected officials who represents you – please come and be heard.
This conversation in “The City” Events Series will be held at Rochambeau Library in the Community Room, from 7-8:30PM, and is free and open to the public. If you value programming like this, please consider becoming a member or making a monetary gift to the friends. Please feel free to contact us for more information, at friend@friendsofrochambeau.orgOur Fall Booksale for 2015 was our most successful to date,
and we owe it all to you! Thank you for coming out to find new additions to your home libraries, to all the booksellers who came to the opening event, Dealers Night, and especially to those who invited friends and family along. We felt the love from our reading community!
Of the the 20,000+ titles we had on hand, you carted away a vast majority in boxes, bags and by the armload. We surpassed our goals as a result. This means that we will be able to not only continue providing support to readers at Rochambeau Branch with things like periodical subscriptions, Museum Passes, and adult and childrens programming, but also expand our services in the year to come.
