2nd Annual St. Antonio Procession

1PM,  SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2010 RAIN OR SHINE

The Fox Point section of Providence, Rhode Island  is  the second oldest Cape Verdean community in North America after New Bedford, Massachusetts. St. Antonio was Rhode Island’s first Cape Verdean beneficent society,   providing health and death benefits to the Cape Verdean immigrants in Fox Point and  tending to the social, cultural and spiritual needs of the community. The 2009 75th anniversary parade  commemorating the founding of the St. Antonio Association in 1934 was a symbolic  return of  six generations  of  Cape Verdeans  from Fox Point-including descendants of the founders of the St. Antonio Association-to the  community that had been their home.

Panels, films, public events, music, dramatic performances,  and non-linear digital installations  for “WHOSE HISTORY IS IT? INTERPRETING HISTORY, MEMORY AND CULTURE”  begin May 1 at various venues at  Brown University,  Rhode Island School of Design and the city of Providence, culminating with the  2nd Annual St. Antonio Parade through Fox Point on Saturday, May 8.