Arts & Culture

AASA festival highlights cultural diversity

Piano recital features Bach, Mozart pieces

Jessie Ning, a junior at Rhode Island School of Design, and four of her piano students performed classical piano works at a recital Sunday afternoon in Grant Recital Hall. The program for the recital, entitled "Our Piano," prominently featured music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus ...

Senior thesis play merges virtual and personal

"If the results of the video game don't work, you can reset it, but the moral dilemma is, 'Can you do that in real life?'" asks protagonist Peter Hayes in "The Reality Effect," an original play by Michelle Meyers '12 that continues its run in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts ...

New color-changing installation lights up Granoff

The new permanent installation 2x5 - created by Berlin studio realities:united and on display in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts - defies the notion of art as paintings and sculpture. Instead, it brings the creative world into the current age via kinetic light images.

Black Lavender gives voice to marginalized playwrights

This week, the Department of Africana Studies is presenting the Black Lavender Experience, a festival of work by black queer playwrights. With four days of performances, staged readings and discussions, the festival aims to give exposure to a group whose voices are often underrepresented in national ...

Spoken word icon performs, inspires

Anis Mojgani gave a rousing spoken word performance Wednesday night, speaking to a packed audience in Salomon 001. Mojgani's performance, which coincides with National Poetry Month, was sponsored by Brown's spoken word troupe Word! and the Brown International Organization.

Photography exhibit offers lens into self-sufficient life

An auburn-bearded man, green foliage caressing his tilted, half-naked frame, clutches a pan of roadkill-turned-possum stew in a photo with the caption "Acorn with Possum Stew, Wildroots Homestead, North Carolina." His stance and eye contact - on display in an exhibit at the David Winton Bell Gallery ...

Metcalf decorated with alum's art

The courtyard entrance to the newly renovated Metcalf Laboratories is now transformed into slanted mirrored glass installed over the rectangular incision of the floor. The new feature is a public art installation, called P-131317 - an architectural intervention created by artist Sarah Oppenheimer '95 ...

Chronicling a never-ending plunge into grief

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance - we are taught to think of grief as a rationally ordered journey that progresses through five stages with relief at the end.

Alum's novel revives Homer's Patroclus

Mythic plays leave audiences spellbound

The Techno-Mythologies Project - two plays written and directed by Ioana Jucan '11 GS and Robert Snyderman GS - is overwhelmingly dense with meaning. To break through the plays' idiosyncrasies and begin to comprehend what Jucan and Snyderman are trying to evoke, you might want to do a little pre-play ...

Professor's book depicts changed New Orleans

Reading from her new book "BREATHTAKEN," Carolyn Wright, professor of literary arts, invoked the violence of post-Katrina New Orleans when she recited, "Can you pass a day without rancor / can you pick yourself up again?"

Performers infuse classic opera with humor

With the desks cleared out and chairs pushed aside, Foxboro Auditorium was transformed into a miniature concert hall Friday night for Brown Opera Productions' chamber performance premiere of "Don Pasquale." 

Steinbach brings Vienna to Providence

University Organist Mark Steinbach played a concert featuring the music of Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler and Anton Heiller in Sayles Hall Sunday evening. Baritone Andrew Garland, a voice teacher in the Applied Music Program at Brown, accompanied Steinbach for the Mahler songs. 

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 ...