[Summit] Fw: Featured Events at Brown University through the New Year

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Events
Monday 10 December 12:30pmConcert: Benjamin Nacar, pianoIn the late 1700s and early 1800s, Vienna was the capital of the music world. Some of history’s most famous composers, from Mozart and Beethoven to Schubert and Brahms, resided there and were inspired by the city’s beating artistic heart. Class of 2012 graduate Benjamin Nacar pays tribute to that special place and time in a piano recital. Room 305, Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting Street.Learn more Monday 10 December 7:00pmPortuguese and Brazilian Studies Performance and Exhibit NightThe department of Portuguese and Brazilian studies hosts an evening celebrating the achievements and talents of its students. Groups showcase their language skills and creativity in a series of varied and dynamic performances in Portuguese. A reception will follow. Lecture Room 001, Salomon Center for Teaching, 79 Waterman Street.Learn more Tuesday 11 December 1:30pmThe Pharaohs of Ancient EgyptUndergraduate student Sean Briody’s senior capstone project brings a famous 19th-century lecture on Ancient Egypt’s leaders back to life. The lecture, illustrated with stereopticon views, will be presented exactly as it was by Rev. Lysander Dickerman when he visited Brown in 1893. A short discussion about Dickerman, the field of Egyptology and Victorian-era “Egyptomania” will follow. Room 108, Rhode Island Hall, 60 George Street.Learn more Wednesday 12 December 12:00pmIn Solidarity: Exhibiting Civic Engagement, Protest and Activism on CampusThis semester, gallery spaces across campus have examined issues of civic engagement, activism and protest through the display of archival documents, contemporary artwork, historic photographs and music. For two hours, each space opens its doors and encourages visitors to take a self-guided tour. Participating spaces include the David Winton Bell Gallery, the Granoff Center galleries, the Rockefeller Library’s Digital Scholarship Lab and the Orwig Music Library lobby.Learn more Thursday 13 December 4:00pmCybersecurity: A Grand Challenge for the SocietyCybersecurity now impacts all aspects of life. Making cyberspace safe, then, is a complex problem that requires the engagement of all segments of society. Professor Emeritus of Computer Science John Savage, who spent 51 years at Brown before departing in July, gives his retirement lecture on the grand challenge of cybersecurity. Space is limited. Room 368, Watson Center for Information Technology, 115 Waterman Street.Learn more Friday 14 December 5:00pmIranian Ceramics, Trade and Collecting PracticesMartina Rugiadi, associate curator of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gives a talk exploring the historical techniques and trading practices of Iranian ceramics. The talk is presented in conjunction with an exhibition of ceramics at the John Hay Library, curated by Rhodes Scholar and recent Brown graduate Rhea Stark. John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street.Learn more Friday 14 December 7:00pmConcert: Building Musical InstrumentsBrown students enrolled in the “Building Musical Instruments” course showcase their creations. Hear and observe unique acoustic, analog and digital instruments making experimental sounds and new music. Studio 1, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.Learn more 
Exhibits
Saturday 12 May 10:00am to Wednesday 1 May 2019  4:00pmDrone Warriors: The Art of Surveillance and Resistance at Standing RockFrom April 2016 through February 2017, thousands of Native and non-Native people made the North Dakota Plains their home to stand in opposition of the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline. As the protesters faced police, roadblocks and heavy surveillance, a group of photographic drone operators emerged within their ranks, sending their flying cameras up and over barricades to illuminate spaces hidden from the public, unmask the face of force and show the world the beauty of the surrounding landscape. Their images motivated countless Americans to join the resistance, whether in person, on social media or through donations — and kickstarted a new movement of aesthetic protest. Haffenreffer Museum, Manning Hall, 21 Prospect Street.Learn more Saturday 12 May 10:00am to Wednesday 1 May 2019  2:00pmSacred is Sacred: The Art of Protecting Bears EarsFor centuries, Southern Utah’s Bears Ears region was home to Indigenous people who used its plants, animals and other natural materials to make their food, homes and culture. But while the area is rich in history, it’s also rich in oil and gas, and renewed calls for resource extraction threaten its natural and cultural landscape. This moving exhibition of contemporary and past art explores the beauty of Bears Ears and the ways in which Indigenous peoples have learned and healed through their fight to protect it. Haffenreffer Museum, Manning Hall, 21 Prospect Street.Learn more Friday 28 September 4:00pm to Friday 14 December 6:00pmUnfinished Business: The Long Civil Rights MovementThe Civil Rights movement was composed of ordinary black women, men and children, many of whom placed their lives on the line to fight the laws of racial segregation. This exhibition tells the story of the relationship between the black organizing tradition and the Civil Rights movement, tracing the tradition from the moment of emancipation until the presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson. Carriage House Gallery, Nightingale-Brown House, 357 Benefit Street.Learn more Wednesday 3 October 9:00am to Wednesday 19 December 6:00pmA Woman Was a WomanBrooklyn-based artist and feminist Sue Julien presents a series of portraits of women from both history and obscurity that illustrates the complexity of being female in a feminist world. Atrium Gallery, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.Learn more Thursday 13 September 9:00am to Monday 27 May 2019  5:00pmJoy + JusticeHow do we live joyfully while working for justice? That question lies at the heart of this exhibit. The 22 artists assembled display a broad range of subjects, styles and traditions, but they share one common thread: connecting joy to justice. Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, 96 Waterman Street.Learn more Friday 26 October 8:30am to Friday 21 December 4:30pmLight-Writings: Koutroulou Magoula 2017-18This collection of images, taken by Brown and RISD students who dug up 6,000-year-old artifacts in central Greece last year, sheds light on archaeological field practices and the excavation process, an exercise that’s both artistic and scientific. Accompanying the photos are passages from the reflective, personal diaries of the students who participated in the project. Atrium, Rhode Island Hall, 60 George Street.Learn more Friday 2 November 11:00am to Wednesday 19 December 4:00pmDanny Lyon: The Only Thing I Saw Worth LeavingIn the 1960s, photographer Danny Lyon made a name for himself photographing everyone from student leaders of the Civil Rights movement to convicts in Texas prisons, insisting they all be seen. This exhibition, part of a broader Brown Arts Initiative series titled “On Protest, Art and Activism,” spotlights some of Lyon’s most thought-provoking work. David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art, 64 College Street.Learn more Friday 5 October 9:00am to Friday 21 December 5:00pmTaming Nature: Gardens and the American WildernessLong before Europeans arrived, indigenous communities all over the world grew plants for subsistence, medicine and myriad other uses. Their small-scale cultivation stands in stark contrast to the export-driven, plantation-based monoculture Europeans introduced in the production of sugar, tobacco and cotton. This exhibition captures the spectacular range of early American gardens, from Mesoamerican chinampas to small plots of medicinal plants. Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street.Learn more All University Events 
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