// Based at the University of Rhode Island, ORIGINS is a three-tiered cultural movement:

ART. ACTION. SOUL.

ART: because we feel that the creative impulse is something worth encouraging and expressing.

ACTION: because issues of justice and human dignity in our world today need to be addressed and actively engaged on both personal and systemic levels.

SOUL: because we feel that, at the heart of both these other areas, we find something about what it means to be human: active, alive, expressive, and engaged with the things that truly matter.

We hope to be a pathway for partnerships and a starting point for engaging this thing called life. Open mics, concerts, film screenings, discussions, volunteer opportunities and venues for relevant community are all a part of what we do. So explore, interact, investigate and critique.

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Contact us: [ origins.uri@gmail.com ]