Today: "Political Art and Its Paradoxes: A Symposium," presented by the Cogut Center for the Humanities in conjunction with the exhibition "Views and Re-Views: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons." Featuring Profs. Svetlana Boym (Harvard), Devin Fore (Princeton and the American Academy in Berlin), and Christina Kiaer (Northwestern). From 3-6:30 p.m. in Pembroke Hall, Room 301. "Views and Re-Views" is on display until Oct. 19.
Now to Oct. 11: "Pixilerated: Concert Performances I & II," presented by Pixilerations [v.5]. In the University of Rhode Island Shepard Building, 80 Washington Street, at 10 p.m.
Oct. 11: WBRU presents TV On the Radio at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel at 7 p.m. With The Dirtbombs. Tickets are $20-30.
Now to Nov. 2nd: Perishable Theatre's 14th International Women's Playwriting Festival presents "Lazarus Disposed," by Desi Moreno-Penson; "Lizzy Izzy," by Holly Jensen; and "Biography of a Constellation," by Lila Rose Kaplan '02. "Lizzy Izzy" runs Oct. 9-12. "Biography" runs Oct. 16-19. Marathon performances of all three plays take place Oct. 23-26 and Oct. 30-Nov. 2. Performances are Thursday-Saturday at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m. Student tickets are available for $15. Perishable Theatre is located at 95 Empire Street.
Oct. 15: The Orion String Quartet performs works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Lowell Liebermann. In Alumnae Hall at 8 p.m.
Oct. 17: The Brown University Wind Symphony, directed by Matthew McGarrell and assistant conductor Aaron Jones '09, performs works by Bartok, Holst, Whitacre and others. In Salomon Center at 8 p.m.
Oct. 17-19: Brown and RISD host Interrupt 2008, a festival of digital media writing and performance. Events include performances, lectures and roundtables featuring artists, curators and theorists. See interrupt2008.net for more details.
Oct. 17-19: The Brown University Orchestra performs Richard Strauss' "Also sprach Zarathustra" under the baton of Paul Phillips. On Friday, the concert begins at 10 p.m. in Sayles Hall and will be followed by a screening of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey." On Saturday and Sunday, the orchestra presents the complete concert program. Carol Wincenc is the soloist in the RI premiere of Christopher Rouse's Flute Concerto. Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in Sayles.
Oct. 17-20: Sharpen your pencils and brush up on English Romantic poetry and the Mandelbrot set. Production Workshop presents Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," directed by Doug Eacho '11.
Now to Oct. 26: "The Dreams of Antigone," by Curt Columbus, at Trinity Repertory Company; directed by Brian McEleny. Performances are Tuesday-Sunday at 7:30 p.m, with selected Saturday and Sunday matinees. Student tickets are available for $15.
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