List Art Center will play host to the movie festival CineBrasil Thursday through Saturday. Throughout the three-day event, five films spanning eclectic genres will play for the festival-goers. The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and the Brazil Initiative, ...
This summer, gaming whizzes and augmented reality fanatics flooded parks, museums, monument malls and seemingly random corners of intersections in search of mythical beings like Lapras and Snorlax. The mobile and fictional creature-capture gaming worlds were taken by storm when software development ...
Written and directed by Ioana B. Jucan ’11 MA’13 MA’15 PhD’17, “Resistance (Happening)” tells the story of three women — Anka, Roza and Clara — as they seek a way to resist corporate exploitation and greed. Performances were held on Sept. 20 and 21 at Studio 1 in the Granoff Center ...
Sept. 3rd, the David Winton Bell Gallery opened its latest exhibition, “Phantom Limb,” which features the work of Syrian-American artist Diana Al-Hadid. Sept. 16th, Al-Hadid came to Brown to give a lecture offering insights on her creative process and art. Her work is comparable to the ruins of ...
The 13th annual Providence Improv Fest will take place this weekend in downtown Providence with nonstop shows, workshops and after-parties. Running from Sept. 22 to Sept. 24, the festival features some of the best improv troupes from around the country and world, including groups from New York City; ...
In the spirit of culinary entrepreneurship and social consciousness, food truck Mike’s Ice rolls through Providence feeding college students’ sugar cravings and promoting awareness of veterans’ struggles to reintegrate into civilian life. Comprised of just six employees and often stationed on ...
2016 has been an unforgettable year filled with tragedies, triumphs and the unexpected. Bad Suns reminds its listeners to remember the laughs, the tears and the bewilderment in its latest album titled “Disappear Here,” released Friday. Vocalist Christo Bowman invites an air of nostalgia into the ...
The adult autism non-profit Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation has bestowed a $100,000 gift to the University to support programs in the Theatre Arts and Performance Studies department that provide educational resources for adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The foundation’s Adult Autism Theater ...
Today, the John Hay Library will open the exhibit “A Hymn for the Brave: The Sharps and Humanitarian Work in World War II,” which will feature the heroic intervention of Waitstill and Martha Sharp in Nazi-occupied Europe. Martha’s studies at Brown marked the genesis of her family’s ties to the ...
The #brownconnect social media campaign started last year as a way to promote BrownConnect, a division of the University’s CareerLAB crafted by President Christina Paxson P’19 as part of an initiative to promote internship opportunities. “Our goal was to increase high-quality internship and research ...
An incredibly poignant commentary on grappling with identity on a spiritual, sexual and intellectual level, “Indignation,” the film adaptation of the Philip Roth novel, explores protagonist Marcus Messner’s emotional suffocation in rebelling against conformity. “Indignation” follows the story ...
Novelist and journalist Tim Murphy ’91 will visit the Brown Bookstore today to discuss his new acclaimed novel, “Christodora.” The novel grapples with sex, drugs and LGBT activism, centering around a cast of characters living in New York City. The novel was an Indie Next Selection for August and ...
Driven by Artemis Joukowsky III’s decades of zealous research, “Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War,” tells a story of compassionate heroism. Told in the familiar style of two-time Oscar nominee Ken Burns, the film focuses on Joukowsky’s grandparents’ intervention in Nazi-occupied Europe. ...
Kennedy Plaza erupted in protest Friday as organizers used the 45th anniversary of the Attica Prison uprising to call attention to prison slavery. Now Brown is following suit. This Thursday, Providence will host “States of Incarceration,” an exhibit exploring the history of mass incarceration in ...
The Haffenreffer Museum Student Group began showcasing two years of work this summer with its exhibition “Brewed for Thought: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Beer and Brewing.” The installation aims to educate the public on alcohol’s social significance around the world by focusing on beer’s ...
On Saturday and Sunday, Providence residents and outsiders alike can stop by India Point Park to enjoy food, drinks and music at the Rhode Island Seafood Festival. Over 50 sponsors and vendors will gather this weekend for the event, now in its sixth year. The event was founded by current event operations ...
This summer, screenwriter and co-producer Chris Sparling, a Rhode Island native, and director Gus Van Sant RISD ’74, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate, released “The Sea of Trees,” a film with all the trappings of a blockbuster. Starring Naomi Watts and Matthew McConaughey, it had a reported ...
Nestled between the many home goods stores, bistros and coffee shops in Wayland Square lies the neighborhood’s newest resident: Pasta Beach. The third installment of the chain, which boasts locations in Newport and Boston, opened just weeks ago Aug. 18. Already the restaurant attracts many culinary ...
Friday, the Brown Aerial Arts Society will put on its fourth annual spring showcase, featuring an underwater theme and titled “Aquaerials.” The show will be organized in several different acts with scenes played out both on the surface and underwater. The show will feature a wide range of ocean-related ...
With cuisine ranging from Citizen Wing’s beer-brined wings to Like No Udder’s vegan ice cream, 16 food trucks will come together Friday at the Eat Drink RI Festival: Truck Stop as part of the fifth annual Eat Drink RI event. A celebration of the Rhode Island “mobile restaurant” community, the ...
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