“Where are you really from?” “He’s not white. He is cool.” “Black girls can’t sing opera.” These are just a few examples of the quotes featured in the exhibition “Racial Microaggressions and Microaffirmations,” which opened Thursday at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity ...
Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Soyinka — Nigerian playwright, professor and cultural critic — has been as prolific politically as he has been creatively. In 1986, the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work, which “in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones ...
“Take a cue from battered humanity of Nigeria: Do not concede a thing to the enemy of humanity,” said Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, political activist and winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, during a lecture on campus Monday evening. The talk, entitled “Hatched From the Egg of Impunity: ...
Musicians of both local and global acclaim took the stage at the Providence Rink and Kennedy Plaza Sept. 20 for the Urban Carnevale, which celebrated the 10th anniversary of FirstWorks. FirstWorks, a nonprofit created to engage the performing arts in Providence, collaborated with the City of Providence ...
Voices of Bengali, Amharic, Macedonian and Tagalog have gained new resonance on campus this week as the Brown Student Language Exchange kicked off this semester’s courses. BSLE’s five student fellows will share each of these languages with groups of 16 students during weekly 80-minute sessions ...
Les Velda: BEER Party Candidate for President | Courthouse Center for the Arts | Oct. 4 If Providence’s mayoral elections have brought you down, a taste of BEER — Bio-Engineered Experimental Reindeer — might be just what you need. Comedian Les Vilda launched a satirical presidential campaign ...
Modern-day reinventions frequently come across as gimmicky in theater and film. Too often, they serve as better marketing than art — or, perhaps more dangerously, they can come from the monomaniacal will of a rogue director, so concerned with his or her creative impulses that the reinvention ends ...
Before Tara Torabi ’15 could put in effect her plan to bring music education to low-income youth in Providence, she had to return to the piano keys. An avid piano player before college, Torabi couldn’t find time to practice once she arrived on College Hill. It was only after she started playing ...
The TEDxProvidence 2014 conference this weekend brought together community leaders from Rhode Island to share their perspectives on themes of health and wellness, civic engagement and education. The events, which took place Saturday at the Rhode Island School of Design Auditorium, marked the third ...
Dazzlingly white, the Hummingbird Palace points skyward like an incandescent Christmas tree, perhaps bringing to mind something found in a shopping mall during a more festive season. But it’s Hope Street’s Lippitt Park, not Providence Place Mall, that is the home of local artist Esther Solondz’s ...
Federal Hill is best known for its traditional Italian-American cuisine — the red sauces and garlic-heavy pastas — served on linen-clothed tables by formal waiters. So with a quirky decor and avant-garde menu, the recently opened North Bakery may seem a bit out of place. But its inventive flavor ...
After spending decades as a psychotherapist, Steve Cadwell now has a second job that is admittedly a “bridge to retirement,” he said. But his autobiographical one-man show, “Wild and Precious,” has catapulted him into a national conversation on both gay rights activism and pure theatrical entertainment, ...
Atypically formal for a collegiate event, ushers dressed in black tie greeted concertgoers and a grand piano graced the stage of Salomon 101 Tuesday night. Gathering to hear Cheol Woong Kim, a concert pianist and professor of music at Paekche Institute of the Arts in South Korea, speak and perform, ...
Rising from the ashes of now-defunct Issues Magazine, Synecdoche launched this semester as the newest literary arts magazine on campus. In contrast to Issues’ focus on creative writing, the fledgling publication will expand to include visual arts and will strive to facilitate a conversation between ...
The poetry of Pilar Fraile Amador, widely published in her native Spain, uses words to create and explore surreal spheres of personal and political identity. In a bilingual recitation, Lizzie Davis ’15 will open the door to these worlds for English-speaking readers with her translations of Amador’s ...
SnoTea Caffe fosters a chic yet homey interior reminiscent of your favorite aunt’s living room. Lilac, deep purple and forest green mix along the walls, complementing the cushy black leather seats. Classic board games from Sorry to Mad Gab line one side of the cafe, and if only more students were ...
Drawing from both the canonical and the avant-garde, this season’s theater lineup will explore the transcendental power of relationships and art’s ability to grapple with timeless issues of identity. Sock and Buskin will begin the season with a twisted, Occupy Wall Street-esque version of the classic ...
Perhaps it is rather cliche to convey imperfection through visual art, but to experience it aurally is an innovative concept. This is indeed at the heart of the “Audible Spaces: Tristan Perich, Zarouhie Abdalian and [The User],” an exhibition that constructs physical space around sound. Upon entering ...
Since its foundation in 2009, the Guantanamo Public Memory Project has promoted discussion about the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The exhibit, which has travelled internationally since 2012, now makes a stop in Providence. Visitors will not only experience an exhibit co-curated by a group ...
Walking through the Peace Art Exhibit is a Twilight Zone-esque venture. At first, it is easy to stare with academic detachment at the results of this experiment, which gave blank wall space to various members of the Providence community and asked them to represent on it the abstract idea of peace. ...
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