“I see friends here, ... and I see newly made friends here,” said Colin Channer, a 2011 transplant to the local Providence community, as he surveyed his audience in the McCormack Family Theatre to begin his reading Wednesday. Channer was born in Kingston, Jamaica, a heritage that is reflected in ...
Starting today, Providence’s Francophiles and cinephiles can unite at the Cable Car Cinema, where the Providence French Festival will run through March 3. In honor of the country that is credited as the birthplace of cinema and brought viewers “Amelié” and “The Intouchables” among many other ...
The Brown Band’s Tuesday night practice in Fulton Rehearsal Hall is lively with banter and laughter, both among musicians and with head student conductor Daniel Muller ’17 as he leads the group through various musical numbers. “We’re not like a high school marching band,” said Carol Medina ...
Facing an intimate audience of about 30 students, alumni and fellow novelists, author Paul LaFarge gave a talk on H. P. Lovecraft and R. H. Barlow’s lives Wednesday at the McCormack Family Theatre. LaFarge, who has earned critical acclaim for his novels “The Artist of the Missing,” “Haussmann, ...
Students from the fall 2015 American Studies course “AMST 1510: Museum Collecting and Collections” demonstrated their philatelic expertise in collectively curating the exhibition “Thousands of Little Colored Windows: Brown University’s Stamp Collections” that opened Feb. 10 and will run until ...
The Granoff Center for the Creative Arts will celebrate its fifth anniversary Friday with a party that fits its age — a toddler’s birthday party, full of candy and youthful decorations. While the building is young, the vision and achievements of the center are concrete. The Granoff Center’s glass ...
Maggie Smith has built her career playing characters with a defining air of dignity and nobility. From Harry Potter’s Minerva McGonagall to Violet Crawley in “Downton Abbey,” Smith crafts characterizations that are preeminent at their very core. In “The Lady in the Van,” Smith once again employs ...
Updated Feb. 16 at 2:15 p.m. “It’s here at Brown where my ideas radically changed, and I found chocolate,” said Kathryn Sampeck — professor at Illinois State University and a long-term fellow of the John Carter Brown Library — Monday night in her lecture “How Chocolate Came to Be.” Sampeck ...
The Chinese Students and Scholars Association’s sold-out Spring Festival Gala started at 7:30 p.m. Sunday night, but the Salomon Hall lobby was packed by 6:45 p.m. Students, faculty members, alums and family members from the Providence and Boston areas waited in line, eager to enter the auditorium ...
Jon Birger ’90 returned to campus Tuesday afternoon to discuss his newest book “Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game.” Birger started the hour with a prepared talk, discussing why an abundance of college-educated heterosexual women have been unsuccessful in their hunt for Mr. ...
“Music of the Night,” Shakespeare on the Green’s winter show, is running Friday through Sunday. The play combines Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” with “Phantom of the Opera,” but this show is unique. There is minimal talking and singing; instead, the story is expressed predominantly ...
Students and professors alike will waltz, rumba and tango their way into Presidents’ Day Weekend at the “Dancing With the Professors” ballroom dance competition Friday at 7 p.m. in Alumnae Hall. Presented by the Brown Ballroom Dance Team, the night will feature nine students from the team paired ...
Chinese Language Week The Department of East Asian Studies is hosting Chinese Language Week, five nights of festivities starting with a celebration of the Chinese New Year Monday. Throughout the week there will be film screenings, language sessions and a Chinese tea time ceremony. The week aims to ...
Carlos Sirah MFA’17 took the stage in a workshop-style performance of his play, “The Light Body,” Sunday night in the final installment of the theatre and performance studies department’s annual Writing is Live event. Designed to showcase and explore the work of first- and second-year students ...
Have you wondered why hookup culture has replaced old-fashioned dating? The explanation is more straightforward than expected. According to Jon Birger ’90, people have not lost the desire for first dates and romantic dinners. This cultural shift can be reduced to a simple numbers game. In his ...
The Department of Hispanic Studies is hosting Spanish Language Week, a series of movies, talks and programs, Feb. 8 to Feb. 12 in hopes of garnering greater interest in the department as well as the study of the Spanish language. “We are very excited about Spanish Week,” wrote Janet Blume, interim ...
Garnering widespread recognition from the classical music community, the Brown Orchestra released its first professionally recorded album, “Manhattan Intermezzo,” in early January. Produced by Naxos — the chief record label of the classical music world — “Manhattan Intermezzo” features talented ...
Noah Cowan ’19 will go head to head Friday with some of the most eclectic minds in America’s most famous game testing obscure knowledge and buzzer-pressing reflexes — “Jeopardy!” Tackling categories ranging from “U.S. Army Five-Star Generals” and “Say it in Latin” to “That’s Just ...
The film “Carol,” directed by Todd Haynes ’85, has received critical acclaim from journalists and critics all over the world. Receiving a standing ovation at its Cannes Film Festival premiere, “Carol” has since gone on to garner numerous accolades, including six Academy Award nominations. ...
Unless you’re careful when visiting “Dead Animals,” the newest exhibition in the David Winton Bell Gallery, you might trip over the taxidermied Labradors or crush the stuffing from the baby chick next to them. Also called “The Curious Occurrence of Taxidermy in Contemporary Art,” the show ...
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