Upon hearing that a mother duck was nesting in a planter at the Science Library on Thayer Street most people were aghast — where will they go? how will they get there? It didn’t seem possible that this could end well. But a group of concerned students and various other members of the Brown University […]
(4.13) The 5th annual Brown University Folk Festival will bring folk music, dance, and food, to Brown’s campus for the fifth year in a row, Saturday, April 13. The free festival, open to the public, will kick off at noon out on Brown’s Lincoln Field. The jamboree will move to Sayles Hall at 6pm and
(3.10) Olivier Latry, Organist Titulaire of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and Professor of Music at the Paris Conservatory will perform works of Bach, Franck, Vierne, Guilmant, Widor, and an improvisation on the historic Hutchings-Votey pipe organ in Sayles Hall. The Sayles Hall organ is the largest remaining Hutchings-Votey organ of its type. Built by the
(11.15) And don’t miss the exciting sequel . . . The Sayles Sales. Okay, that last one needs work. At any rate, the Brown University Library will host a panel discussion featuring several of America’s most successful and renowned thriller writers. Author Jon Land ’79, will moderate the discussion between David Baldacci, Steve Berry, Neslon
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From cigar store Indians to reality TV, American popular culture has reflected, created, and perpetuated stereotypical representations of Native Americans. Museums have helped legitimize and solidify these stereotypes, freezing American Indians in a primitive, ahistorical past. Brown University students taking ETHN1890N, “Thawing the ‘Frozen Indian;’ American Indian Museum Representation,” have taken on this complicated issue
WHERE: List Art Center, Brown University, 64 College Street, Providence, RI 02912 and CCRI Knight Campus, 400 East Avenue, Warwick, RI 02886 WHEN: Saturday, October 6, 2012 at 11AM GUIDES: Dietrich Neumann PhD, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University; Viera Levitt, Director Knight Campus Art Gallery; Architect Robert Reilly, formerly of Perkins
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Join ‘Ocean State Action’ and Rhode Island ‘Jobs with Justice’ for a Labor Day rally and march. Meet on the Main Green at Brown University and then march downtown to the financial district. (Facebook) Join us on Labor Day as we stand with SEIU janitors at a rally at noon at Brown University’s Main Green.
(7.16) The Providence Preservation Society and the College Hill Neighborhood Association will hold an informational meeting Monday regarding Gilbane’s plan to build a four-story apartment building (housing about 200 grad students) at 257 Thayer Street (between Meeting and Euclid Streets). PPS and CHNA have formed a steering committee and will report their findings and conduct
Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep announces three new plays for the 2012 summer season. Beginning July 11th, the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep will showcase three outstanding new plays from around the country: Principal Principle by Chicago-based playwright Joe Zarrow, Reunion by Greg Moss of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Timeshare by L.A. native Rachel Caris Love. A celebration of the
(5.23) What goes on up there? I bet they’re computing. Join the Providence Geeks for the May dinner at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) and maybe sort of find out. This is not for the faint of brain. Professors George Karniadakis and Jeffrey Hoffstein will give us a double header
Brown University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and Sock & Buskin present A Perfect Wedding, written by Charles L. Mee and directed by professor emeritus John Emigh. A Perfect Wedding is a comedy about love, romance, marriage, and death. Fleeing to the forest to escape his impending wedding, the groom finds himself, and
Head over to Greater City: Providence and join a discussion of Gilbane’s proposed apartment building facing on Thayer Street (between Euclid, Brooks and Meeting Streets). While obviously aimed at the Brown University population, the apartments will be available to the general public. The plan includes an interior courtyard with a fireplace. You can see here
The David Winton Bell Gallery and the Department of Visual Art present the work of 30 young artists in the 32nd annual Student Exhibition. The exhibition was juried by Deborah Bright, Acting Dean of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design and Ellen Driscoll, Head of Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design. Participating artists are
The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University announces the third annual Writing is Live: a Festival of New Plays in Progress, a presentation of new works featuring six plays by writers in Brown’s graduate and undergraduate theater programs. Performance writing may take forms complete and incomplete, narrative and imagistic, compact or
Thursday, December 1 6:00pm Enticing edibles served. FREE and Open to the public. John Carter Brown Library on Brown University Campus 94 George St. Providence, RI (near the corner of George and Brown Streets) A lecture and discussion with Andrew Losowsky, Book Editor for the Huffington Post and author of Reading in 4 Dimensions. Hosted by
Gosh this is pretty. The scaffolding has now come down from the roof of the new Jonathan Nelson Fitness & Swimming Center on Hope Street, revealing the cupola with its four ‘ALDRICHFIELD’ clocks. The cupola once sat atop the old Marvel Gym (razed in 1989) on Elmgrove Avenue, famous as the unlikely venue in the