For Hushpuppy, heroine of director Benh Zeitlin’s first feature film, “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” the world is filled with beasts great and small. A young girl living with her dying father in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Hushpuppy narrates the film, reimagining the catastrophic storm the ...
Humans like to make stuff. This exercise in generating objects, art and ideas — the act of creating — was the focus of the lecturers who spoke at the first installment of the Creative Mind Lecture Series Tuesday night in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. The evening included ...
For some folks on campus, cracking jokes is serious business. Comedy groups run the gamut from sketch, improv and stand-up performers to humor blogs and print publications. Six of the groups are united under the mantle of the Brown Barrel, an umbrella organization formed last year to help facilitate ...
As a precursor to the Ivy Film Festival next month, the student group hosted its second annual seven-day screenplay competition for graduates and undergraduates of Brown and other universities. The competitors wrote and submitted screenplays March 11 to March 17 in response to a prompt that included ...
At 24 frames and 18 inches per second, or 90 feet per minute, film negatives rush by at lightning speed, illuminated by the brilliance of burning carbon. A 75-year-old machine at the Avon Cinema still functions with the same projection technology it did when it was installed in February 1938. But now ...
Over the last 10 years, the world has rapidly digitized, making the incorporation of multimedia natural everywhere — from classrooms equipped with iPads to children playing tennis on Nintendo Wii. Akiko Hatakeyama, a Ph.D. in the Multimedia Electronics Music Experiments program who performed four ...
It’s “A Clockwork Orange” with a comedic twist. It’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” with an electric chair. “Sappington!” also called “The Lamentations and Tribulations of Butlerhood,” written and directed by Emily Garrison ’16, features a multitude of small plots that invariably ...
Lost in a storm, a young professor stumbles into a trap. Mr. Shawqi, a man who loves nothing more than winning a game, holds the professor prisoner and changes the rules of his games so his opponent can never win or escape. Mr. Shawqi insists he is not crazy — this is the way of the universe. “Look ...
While some may consider concocting a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at the Sharpe Refectory a substantial culinary feat, the members of Brown Culinary Palate take gastronomic endeavors further than the average college student. With restaurant excursions and a blog featuring a myriad of dorm-appropriate ...
Some with their heads craned up, some with their eyes closed — members of a crowd of about 250 people not only listened to the overpowering chords from the 3,555 pipes of Sayles Hall’s organ, but also literally felt the vibrations of the building, almost indistinguishable from the instrument itself. ...
Hip-hop, ballet, contemporary and jazz — as well as a few zombies — all found a place at Fusion Dance Company’s 30th annual spring show last weekend. Fusion — Brown’s oldest dance company — was started by Paula Franklin ’86 in 1983. Franklin “decided that there was need for more student ...
“Grab some paper and start taking your anger out on it!” said Rhode Island School of Design student Connor Lynch, urging fellow students to engage in a papermaking workshop last Saturday. Lynch, along with fellow RISD sophomore Ryan Mather, directs a series of student-led RISD workshops called “Quickies.” In ...
Public service announcement: “Goose and Tomtom” is completely insane, compulsively ambiguous and totally worth seeing. In a rare production of David Rabe’s violent, surrealist romp, directed by Jenny Gorelick ’14, the actors wander bravely into an absurd but oddly familiar world of darkness, ...
Baguettes, chocolate mousse or a touch of brie — menu items at your favorite French bistro? Perhaps, but these items can also be found on the class agenda for FREN 1510: “Advanced Written and Oral French: A table!”, a new course that uses French cuisine as a medium for learning practical language ...
Incorporating polyrhythmic beats, bilingual lyrics and multi-ethnic identities, Heartbeat, an ensemble of young musicians from Israel and Palestine, gave an energetic concert of original music Thursday night in the Glenn and Darcy Weiner Social Hall at Brown-RISD Hillel. The event was hosted by Hillel ...
John Bojanowski ’89 has spent the last 23 years putting down roots in France, roots that date back to 1911. Bojanowski is part of a husband and wife vintner team that produces around 30,000 bottles of organic wine each year from Saint Jean de Minervois, a tiny village in southern France, he told The ...
Michael Graves, whose work ranges from designing a line of cleaning tools for Target to planning skyscrapers across the country, recounted the story of his colorful career to a packed Salomon 101 last Thursday. Graves started his architectural practice in 1964 and since then, his influence has been ...
“How to Build a Forest,” an installation created by the Obie Award winning collaborative team PearlDamour, made its Providence debut in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Wednesday and Thursday. Each day, the building team — a group of artists and volunteers — assembled ...
Pitchfork and BBC Radio 1 darling Nicolas Jaar ’12 is not the only rising musical star with Brown connections. The University boasts an impressive array of musicians who are releasing EPs and albums, playing local and global shows and leveraging the power of social media to advance their musical careers ...
Studying abroad, exploring independence and breaking away from the “Brown bubble” are not unusual activities for students, but they can take unique forms in the world of theater. Undergraduates are taking their futures into their own hands — producing and directing their own plays and even traveling ...
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