The student body was introduced to the Theatre Arts and Performance Studies department’s latest faculty addition this semester when Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Sarah D’Angelo started teaching two classes in the department, TAPS 0230: “Acting” and TAPS 0930: “The Actor’s ...
Zencare — a start-up founded by Yuri Tomikawa ’12 that aims to help college students find therapists, psychiatrists and dietitians — expanded past its Providence boundaries and into Boston last month. In the past year, Zencare has connected over 500 individuals with psychiatrists, therapists and ...
Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere held an event called “Change for Change,” a fundraiser featuring performances by several student groups as well as speeches by leaders of the Rhode Island Homeless Advocacy Project from the Providence community, Oct. 7. The funds raised from ticket sales ...
The Ivy Film Festival held an advance screening Wednesday night of “The Birth of a Nation,” which tells the story of Nat Turner’s 48-hour slave rebellion of 1831 in Virginia. Nate Parker, the star, producer, screenplay writer and director of the film, has come under scrutiny in recent months after ...
Revolutionizing the java scene in Providence, pop-up coffee stand The Nitro Cart fuels natives’ caffeine addictions with an artisanal, nitrogen-infused cup of joe. Appearing on street corners all over Rhode Island, The Nitro Cart specializes in cold-brewed, pure nitrogen-infused iced coffee. Beginning ...
“1 percent,” the latest curated exhibit by artist and senior Time Magazine photo editor Myles Little, explores class privilege on a global scale. The installation has been on display in the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy since Sept. 12 and will be until Dec. 21. To create “1 percent,” ...
Founded last year, the Brown Theatre Collective is looking forward to its first full year as a campus group that brings together actors, directors, artists and students passionate about theater. The group’s three founders, Naiyah Ambros ’17, Marina Hyson ’18 and Danielle Perelman ’17, a former ...
Upon graduating from Brown, Wendy Walker ’89 had no intention of becoming an author. Walker left Brown with a degree in political science and economics and planned to enter investment banking after college. Literary arts did not seem to figure into her future. Yet fast-forward to the present day, ...
Sock and Buskin’s “By The Way, Meet Vera Stark” employs screwball comedy as a means of social critique, and the results are funny and insightful in nearly equal measure. The play, written by Lynn Nottage ’86, tells the story of fictional African-American actress Vera Stark and focuses on the ...
“Ruzgarin Hatiralari” (“Memories of the Wind)”, directed by Ozcan Alper, is a film marred by tragedy that draws the portrait of a pained society. The year is 1943 and Turkey is caught between two worlds — that of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Europe and Stalin’s impregnable U.S.S.R. The Turkish ...
“Ivy League Rumba,” a documentary covering the Latin Jazz and Pop Festival held at Brown last fall, premiered Thursday at the Watson Institute for International Studies. The film explores contemporary Latin music in the United States, using performances from top Latin artists to showcase the fusion ...
Luke’s Coffee Day Vanuatu Coffee Roasters at 294 Atwells Avenue will turn itself into Luke’s Diner tomorrow in honor of “Gilmoreversary,” the 16th anniversary of the first airing of cult classic Gilmore Girls. Beginning at 7:30 a.m., the coffee shop will provide free coffee to customers. ‘What ...
The haunting electronic melodies of Samuel Driver GS — known by his stage name Samuel Proffitt — began with tragedy. The same day Proffitt wrote the song “Cranes,” he learned his roommate had died after spending three months in a coma. A long-term relationship with his girlfriend had ended earlier ...
Sock & Buskin’s production “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” will premiere Sept. 29. The play is a satirical comedy written by Lynn Nottage ’86 that focuses on the eponymous Stark — a struggling black actress who reaches fame but with unexpected consequences. Inspired by screwball comedies ...
Polly Apfelbaum visited campus yesterday to discuss her three-decade career as an artist. Apfelbaum kicked off her career with a keen interest in the domestic and everyday. She likes the concept of “art but not art,” as she describes it. Her first exhibition as a young artist featured bed sheets ...
The collaborative piece, “The Sound in Ceramics,” will debut in the Cohen Gallery at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Sept. 30. It features an array of hung-up, colored shapes played with clay bead mallets created by the sculptor, Polly Apfelbaum. A musical performance by ...
Chronicling The Beatles’ rise to stardom from meager beginnings in Liverpool in the late 1950s, Ron Howard’s documentary “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years” captures the adolescent camaraderie and easygoing spirit of the band and its wild international popularity during times ...
Renowned Japanese poet Gozo Yoshimasu visited Brown Sept. 22 to perform a reading as part of the Writers on Writing Reading Series. His most recently published collection of poems, “Alice Iris Red Horse” was edited by Forrest Gander, professor of literary arts, comparative literature and creative ...
The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America opened an exhibition Sept. 8 called “Rising/Uprising in Baltimore: A Beautiful Ghetto.” The exhibition features work by Devin Allen, a Baltimore photographer who captured life in Maryland’s largest city with breathtaking honesty. April ...
“Antisocial,” a production by Romania’s Radu Stanca National Theatre and written and directed by Bogdan Georgescu, was screened by the Theatre Arts and Performance Studies department with subtitles in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Tuesday and Wednesday. The play is ...
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