Arts & Culture

Chinese film festival offers female perspective

One-woman show dissects life of writer, actress

Between writing, directing and producing, a show cannot come together without hard work. But when it comes to "Chemistry," a production by Arianna Geneson '14 performed in the Production Workshop Upspace this past weekend, one element proved effortless - casting.

Pakistani folk music inspires dance, joy

People of all ages and ethnicities sang and danced with remarkable energy Saturday night during a performance by Arif Lohar, a beloved Pakistani folk singer with 150 albums, 50 international tours and 5 million hits on YouTube.

Films delve into Israeli, Palestinian struggles

"This is the most beautiful country in the world," proclaims counterterrorist police officer Yaron as he looks out over Israel with his fellow officers in the first line of Nadav Lapid's Israeli film "Policeman." The film was one of six shown in the University's first-ever Israeli and Palestinian Film ...

Professionals feature student artwork

The hand-selected work of 30 student artists is on display at the David Winton Bell Gallery for its 32nd annual Student Exhibition, a joint effort between the gallery and the Department of Visual Art.            Entering the show, it is easy to overlook ...

Festival features persecuted writers

Art as Sin, the International Writers Project's annual cultural festival, is packed with big names from Iranian cinema, literature and poetry in honor of the Iranian heritage of 2011-12 project fellow poet Pegah Ahmadi. The festival began Monday and culminates today with a screening of Iranian director ...

Trinity performance probes meaning of family loss

Big band offers varied program in first concert

Student band expertly blends genres

Shadow puppets bring poetry to life

'Spring Awakening' exposes teenage taboos

Fusion Dance spring show both moody and moving

With crowd-pleasing hip-hop numbers and tragic modern pieces, Fusion Dance Company's 29th annual spring show keeps the audience on its toes for its entire two-hour duration. The show, running through Sunday, includes pieces in a variety of different styles, all choreographed by students. "Whatever someone ...

Filmmaker calls Hollywood a stifling place for black cinema

Black cinema will become sustainable when it separates itself from Hollywood, filmmaker Arthur Jafa told roughly 30 people Wednesday. The event, hosted by the Department of Africana Studies, was entitled "The Critical Sorrow, Catastrophic Ecstasy and Convulsive Beauty of Modern Black Cinema and Visual ...

Festival spotlights malnutrition in Mali

The guttural thump of drums was accompanied by bodies moving with graceful ferocity this past weekend at Brown's third annual Rhythm of Change initiative, which aims to address social change in Africa and the diaspora through the arts.

Unconventional Buddhist makes meditation relatable

Dressed in a suit and purple tie, atypical Buddhist practitioner and teacher Lodro Rinzler came to Winnick Chapel at Brown/RISD Hillel Thursday evening as part of a 24-city tour for his new book, "The Buddha Walks Into a Bar: A Guide to Life for a New Generation."

Beethoven's classic ninth honors Brown's 18th

The Brown University Orchestra and Chorus joined forces with the Providence College Cantori and Festival Chorus to pay tribute to President Ruth Simmons, who will be stepping down at the end of the academic year. Performing in front of a sold-out crowd of over 1,900 people Saturday night, the orchestra ...

Exhibit reflects aesthetics of the art of curating

Campy sci-fi musical explores family drama

"We can rebuild him. … We have the technology," says a supporting character of the bionic main character in the television series "The Six Million Dollar Man." But in the new Brownbrokers musical "We Can Rebuild Him," running in Stuart Theater through March 11, the character being pieced back ...

Baritone portrays loneliness of lost poet

Baritone Wolfgang Holzmair delivered a convincing performance as a wandering poet who had lost his way in a concert of Franz Schubert's legendary song cycle "Winterreise" Wednesday night in the Martinos Auditorium of the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts.

Production revels in silence