Presenting Station:
Major funding provided by:
Additional funding:
Media Partners:
Music by the What Cheer Brigade:
Photo: Viera Levitt
Action Speaks
looks at contemporary issues through the lens of history by using under-appreciated dates of the twentieth century that have changed America.
Join host/Creative Director Marc Levitt and guest panelists
for some old-fashioned community exchange in the
heart of downtown Providence’s arts and cultural district.
June 29, 2010 12:42 AM
Friday, August 13th 2010 5-5:15pm "André the Giant Has a Posse" (1995) Film Screening Brought to you by Providence Community Library and AS220
This year, as part of AS220's 25th Anniversary Foo Fest and Free Culture celebration, we will be...
June 7, 2010 3:39 PM
This fall's Action Speaks series, "What's Eating Us?" will feature the following panels: October 6: 1926 Father Coughlin 'On the Air' and the rise of right wing radio October 13: 1971 Alice Waters Opens Chez Panisse; Local Food and the...
June 29, 2010 1:06 AM
Action Speaks is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Siegel will be our new Producer taking over from the wonderful stewardship of Cheryl Kaminsky. Those of you who worked with Cheryl can attest to her competence, diligence and dedication. She...
June 28, 2010 1:23 AM
Previous Panelist and the Artistic Director of AS 220, Umberto Crenca received a Pell Award from Providence's Trinity Repertory Theater. On the choice for this year's local award recipient, Curt Columbus, Artistic Director of Trinity Repertory states, "Rhode Island Pell...
December 26, 2009 7:00 AM
Dennis Brutus was a guest of our series in its tenth anniversary year, 2005. He contributed his profound depth of insight and experience to the fourth Action Speaks panel of the season with the leaping off point: Seattle's anti-globalization march...
January 11, 2010 1:29 AM
The Fall 2009 Action Speaks Panels on Flickr: ....
June 7, 2010 3:35 PM
We live in anxious times. Perhaps that's why we decided to name this fall's Action Speaks 'What's Eating Us'? Our topics for this fall are the following: October 6: 1926 Father Coughlin 'On the Air' and the rise of right...
July 4, 2010 10:20 AM
Bert Crenca and I traveled up to WGBH on June 30th to use their studios to interview Alice Waters, the founder of Chez Panisse for the web site. I had heard how charismatic she was supposed to be, but my...
I'm at a stage in my preparations for Action Speaks that I return to every year; too many ideas about where to take each discussion. Each topic stares at me like a Maurice Sendak monster, daring me to pull it...
Recorded live at AS220 on October 18th 2006 1979 - Three Mile Island When Pennsylvania's nuclear power plant melted down, who could have predicted that 27 years later the founder of Greenpeace would herald nuclear energy as our best...