Arts & Culture
Iberian film fest seeks to break stereotypes
By Andrew Smyth | September 30The third annual New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema, which played Sept. 27 and 28 at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, addressed in various forms the diverse cultural and emotional experiences of the Iberian diaspora. The full program included more than 60 short and ...
New campus magazine explores feminism through writing, art
By Katherine James | September 30What is feminism? "Bluestockings Magazine," a new campus publication, hopes to shed light on this question - and explore its many answers - through community discussion, writing and art. "It was really important to us to have this conversation. We were talking about it with our friends, but we didn't ...
Symposium celebrates Italian composer
By Alison Silver | September 30An international conference entitled "Music Between Nation and Form: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and the Boundaries of Italianita" combined modernist musical performances with the historical context of Italian-Jewish composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco this weekend. The Italian studies department organized ...
Arts festival on downtown plaza draws big crowd
By Riley Davis | September 30The Greater Kennedy Plaza came alive Saturday as Providence celebrated its first annual Festival: On the Plaza, sponsored by FirstWorks, a company dedicated to promoting Providence's arts scene. Groups from all over the city, country and world sang, danced, painted and acted their way through the night, ...
Production reimagines Latina stereotypes
By Sabrina Imbler | September 27"On the count of three, do everything that goes against what you were taught about watching theater," Alexandra Meda, executive director of Teatro Luna, announced at the start of the production "GL 2010: Not Your Generic Latina." "Don't be shy to throw something at the girls, though they might throw ...
Sociology prof discusses rising appeal of living alone
By William Watterson | September 27Author Eric Klinenberg '93 discussed the growing trend of people living alone in a talk in Petteruti Lounge last night and urged his audience to be particularly aware of the phenomenon, since its largest increase is among young adults under the age of 35. Klinenberg, a professor of sociology, public ...
Trinity gives 'Lear' royal treatment
By Elizabeth Koh | September 20"King Lear" is a name synonymous with tragedy, but the inaugural performance joyously launched the Trinity Repertory Company's 49th season last week. Opening to a packed Dowling Theater, Trinity's take on one of Shakespeare's most famous plays spared no punches in its heart-wrenchingly bleak but gripping ...
'Ordet' highlights duality of religion
By Maddie Berg | September 20The plot of "Ordet," Production Workshop's newest show, revolves around a modest family in rural Denmark whose ordinary life becomes completely unordinary when one of the family members believes Jesus Christ possesses him. This production of the play, which was written in the 1920s by Danish playwright ...
'Yermedea' mesmerizes audience with puppetry
By Casey Bleho | September 20The room is pitch black, eerily silent. Flashlights begin to slowly flicker across a dark stage, dancing over shoes of all shapes, sizes and colors scattered disconcertingly across the floor. Tall, dried cornstalks provide the only hint as to where the audience might be. The actors release a collective ...
Indie artists draw small but enthusiastic crowd
By Marina Hernandez | September 16As the sun went down on the Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle Saturday evening, students trickled in for a Fall Concert that featured a motley array of dubstep and upbeat indie jams from artists TOKiMONSTA and Titus Andronicus. Many of the students in attendance had never heard of the performers, who were ...
'Dr. Faustus' revived under big-city lights
By Lee Bernstein | September 16Original cast and crew members from last October's production of "Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights" came together for a little summer fun in New York City, reviving the Production Workshop show at the 3LD Art and Technology Center for 10 performances in July. The idea to bring a revamped version ...
Science-fiction author describes 'oddly personal' journey
By Sora Park | September 13In a reading of his newest novel, "Swallowing a Donkey's Eye," science-fiction author Paul Tremblay described the process of writing the book as "an oddly personal journey, although not biographical in any way." Tremblay addressed a small crowd at the Brown Bookstore Wednesday evening.
Fall concert to be held outdoors
By Palak Walia | September 13Punk band Titus Andronicus will perform on Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle Sept. 15, preceded by opening act TOKiMONSTA, at this year's Fall Concert. The concert will officially be held outside, the Brown Concert Agency announced via its blog Wednesday. "We bring people that we know will put on a good live ...
BTV 'passion project' film offers surreal experience
By Meia Geddes | September 9There's nothing like the sound of rushing air, the rhythmic beating of a heart and the alluring sigh of echoes to usher moviegoers into an almost otherworldly experience. Brown Television screened its first student-made feature film, "Two Hearts," Friday at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the ...