UpFest, a new festival hosted by the Production Workshop, provides student groups and individuals a platform to showcase their work. The two-week festival was conceived in response to feedback from the community that PW is closed off from the rest of campus, said Devon Nir ’17, a member of the PW ...
Before this album, I had not listened to Gwen Stefani’s music so excessively since my tenth birthday party, when my friends and I blared “Hollaback Girl” on repeat on my karaoke set, mimicking Gwen’s nasal, feminine voice until our throats were raw. The bubbly, foot-tapping songs that marked ...
Motifs of Lewis Carroll’s famous Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter, Tweedledee and Tweedledum will evoke childhood memories of the Disney film adaptation for students who attend the Alice in Wonderland-themed annual Gala Saturday night. Hosted by the Brown University Class Board, Gala will take place — as ...
The Black Heritage Series will host Força Di Kriola: A Celebration of Cape Verdean Women and Culture Saturday, March 19. The annual event will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Sayles Hall and will include talks from keynote speakers Terza Lima-Neves, assistant professor of political science at Johnson ...
This weekend, Brown Opera Productions will put on an opera written before the Declaration of Independence. Back in 1728, when Rhode Island was just a colony, writer John Gay sat across the pond and penned “The Beggar’s Opera,” a three-act ballad opera satirizing British government. Now, despite ...
“While it breaks our hearts, it also broke us open as a community,” said University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson Monday as she introduced the story of Sunil Tripathi, a student whose disappearance is chronicled in Neal Broffman’s award-winning documentary “Help us find Sunil Tripathi.” Sunil ...
There is perhaps no student group on campus more aptly named than Fusion Dance Company. Fusion’s 33rd Annual Spring Show reflected the company’s dedication to cohesively synthesizing different styles of dance and music genres with original choreography and film. In one of the group’s characteristic ...
The 1975 released its latest album, “I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it” Feb. 26, combining a sense of the old, the new and the unusual. The album starts with the band’s customary sound of frustrated lyrics mixed with an upbeat tune and purposeful, innovative ...
Written by Melanie Marnich and directed by Emily Garrison ’16.5, Production Workshop’s “Tallgrass Gothic” stuns with secrets, scandal and regimented religion. Running this weekend, the show incorporates both mystical Gothic elements and the harsh realities of domestic abuse. Laura, played by ...
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKVO9029hIY&feature=youtu.be[/embed] Instead of the typical drawl of an economics or psychology lecture, a fun and fresh medley of some of Korean pop’s biggest hits will fill Salomon 101 from 8 to 9 p.m. Friday. DAEBAK, Brown’s K-Pop dance association, will ...
Novelist Ben Marcus MFA’91 explored themes of health, vulnerability and technology’s dark side while reading his work “The Grow-Light Blues” for an intimate and enthusiastic audience in the McCormack Family Theater Wednesday. The story follows a man who works at a technology research and development ...
A peppery, full-bodied aroma of fresh basil filled the air as Assistant Chef for Brown Dining Services Aaron Fitzsenry welcomed students to the pesto pasta cooking class in the Ivy Room Sunday. In front of the students lay 12 promising piles of flour on a cooking work table. Friendly to all levels ...
Ben Ostrowski ’17 is a psychology concentrator, music enthusiast and likely the only student at the University who has turned an email exchange with his father into a book. This time next year, Ben’s collection of poems, co-written with his father Steven Ostrowski, will hit the stands. The seeds ...
When Connor Watts ’18 and Trang Le ’18 set out to raise money for the community service club Brown Circle K, their thoughts immediately jumped to Krispy Kreme. “Krispy Kreme is not found in this area,” Trang said. “It’s a staple in most places, but since Krispy Kreme is an hour away from ...
Three very different populations will take the stage in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Saturday — the performers include high school students from Central Falls, RI, a town known as the “smallest city in the smallest state,” a collection of professional and Brown dancers and a group ...
Sophia Narrett ’10 was living in her Providence apartment after graduation when she discovered the medium of embroidery. Since then, she has woven together many bold art pieces that take a close look at women’s sexuality and contemporary pop culture. Narrett came back to campus Wednesday to present ...
Mona Awad MFA’14 spoke at the Brown Bookstore Wednesday evening about the debut of her novel “13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl.” Awad spent six years writing the novel. When she started her MFA, she had only completed half of the first draft. Eventually, the story became her thesis. “The fat ...
A part of Providence’s local art scene for over 10 years, FirstWorks has brought artists such as DJ Spooky, Lauren Anderson and Sweet Honey in the Rock to the Creative Capital — often with the aid of Brown’s own Creative Arts Council. The partnership’s most recent guest to grace College Hill ...
Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating: These are topics Americans have a hard time discussing; these words evade conversation. But the reality is that people suffer from these disorders, particularly within American culture. The media puts such a strong emphasis on the body that one’s entire essence of ...
The University welcomed Hans-Ola Ericsson, world-renowned organist and professor of organ and church music at McGill University, to perform as the featured artist in the annual E.J. Lownes Memorial Organ Recital in Sayles Hall Friday. Ericsson performed a repertoire of works from Jean-Philippe Rameau, ...
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