[Summit] Fw: Featured Events at Brown Univ. through Sunday, May 12

[David Kolsky]

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Events
  Tuesday 30 April 12:00pm to Thursday 2 May 7:30pm   Conference: Theories in Action    Theories in Action is an opportunity for graduating seniors to celebrate their research at Brown and reflect on their pathways forward. The conference features roundtable discussions on science, social justice, international affairs and more, and culminates in a poster session where dozens of seniors present their independent study projects. Stephen Robert ‘62 Campus Center, 75 Waterman Street.  Learn more
   Wednesday 1 May 5:30pm   The Art of Science and the Commitment to Awareness    Speaker and multimedia artist Kelly Milukas builds a bridge between two branches of academia by exploring the mysteries of art and science through photography and three-dimensional artwork. Her work is aimed at advancing the translation, education and communication on regenerative medicine, stem-cell research and biotech therapies. Room 305, Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting Street.  Learn more
   Wednesday 1 May 7:00pm   Concert: Ghanaian Drumming and Dancing    The Brown University Ghanaian Ensemble presents a performance of Ghanaian traditional music and dance featuring guest artists Kwabena Boateng, Ama Bortsie, Michael Ofori and George Otoo. Grant Recital Hall, 105 Benevolent Street.  Learn more
   Thursday 2 May 2:00pm to Friday 3 May 9:30pm   Neurodiversity in Action: An Interdisciplinary Symposium    A two-day symposium features performances, lectures, roundtable discussions and workshops exploring the emerging concepts of neurodiversity and neurodivergence — terms originally developed by autistic activists and mental health self-advocates seeking to destigmatize mental, neurological and cognitive difference. Leeds Theater, Lyman Hall, 83 Waterman Street.  Learn more
   Thursday 2 May 7:00pm   Songwriters Showcase    Campus and community participants in the Brown Arts Initiative Songwriting Series workshop perform their original new songs. Refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m. Studio 1, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.  Learn more
   Friday 3 May 8:00pm   Concert: Brown Jazz Band Seniors    The Brown Jazz Band honors graduating seniors in the ensemble in a special concert featuring pieces performed throughout the past school year, including music from its recent tour to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Grant Recital Hall, 105 Benevolent Street.  Learn more
   Saturday 4 May 9:00am to Sunday 5 May 5:00pm   Untitled (Walking)    The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities hosts a two-day collaborative walk through Providence. Rather than using guidebooks, participants will create a make-as-they-go experience through every single one of the city’s 25 neighborhoods. Registration, and attendance at a May 1 meeting in which all participants will create a rough route together, is required.  Learn more
   Saturday 4 May 5:00pm   Opening Reception: The Providence Album, Vol. 1    “The Providence Album, Vol. 1” explores the life, look and history of Providence in the 1960s through the photography of Carmel Vitullo and Harry Callahan. Photos show a city in an era of tremendous change, as residents began moving out of the city and into the surrounding suburbs at a rate faster than any American city except Detroit. Carriage House Gallery, Nightingale-Brown House, 357 Benefit Street.  Learn more
   Monday 6 May 7:00pm   Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Performance and Exhibit Night    The Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies hosts an evening celebrating the achievements and talents of students in the department. Groups will showcase their language skills and creativity in a series of varied and dynamic performances in Portuguese. A reception will follow. Room 001, Salomon Center for Teaching, 79 Waterman Street.  Learn more
   Wednesday 8 May 12:30pm   Performance: Poetry & Music    Pianist and Brown graduate Benjamin Nacar joins Henry Majewski, professor emeritus of French studies, in a performance that includes commentary on the relationship between poetry and music. The program includes pairings of Victor Hugo and Franz Liszt, Charles Baudelaire and Claude Debussy, and Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn. Room 305, Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting Street.  Learn more
   Wednesday 8 May 6:30pm   What’s the big deal about calculus?    Millions of high school and college students feel compelled to take calculus classes, but many would be hard pressed to explain what it is or why it matters. In a talk, Cornell University applied mathematician Steven Strogatz clarifies the fantastic idea at the heart of calculus: where it came from; how it applies to countless fields, from medicine to technology; and how it has helped make the world modern. Floor 11, School of Public Health, 121 South Main Street.  Learn more
   Friday 10 May 3:00pm   Walking Tour: Brown’s Secret Treasures    Dietrich Neumann, director of urban studies at Brown, leads a walking tour of Brown’s secret treasures — beautiful interior spaces that are widely unknown to the general public and even to most members of the Brown community. Maxcy Hall, 108 George Street.  Learn more
   
Exhibits
    Saturday 12 May 2018 10:00am to Wednesday 1 May 4:00pm   Drone Warriors: The Art of Surveillance and Resistance at Standing Rock    From 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 2018 10:00am to Wednesday 1 May 2:00pm   Sacred is Sacred: The Art of Protecting Bears Ears    For 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
   Thursday 13 September 2018  9:00am to Monday 27 May 5:00pm   Joy + Justice    How 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
   Tuesday 22 January  4:00pm to Saturday 15 June 6:00pm   River Mile Zero    Rhode Island artist Kate Aitchison explores human intervention of free-flowing waterways in new, large-scale works on paper depicting the power, awe and obstruction of hydroelectric dams. Upper Lobby, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.  Learn more
   Thursday 10 January 10:00am to Tuesday 30 April 5:00pm   Entwined: Botany, Art and the Lost Cat Swamp Habitat    In this exhibit, original watercolors of Edward Peckham sit alongside matching specimens collected generations ago in Providence’s Cat Swamp Habitat. The samples, long archived in the Brown University Herbarium, showcase the biodiversity that once existed in the city’s Wayland and Blackstone neighborhoods and provoke questions about the consequences of environmental change. Exhibition Gallery, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street.  Learn more
   Friday 15 February 9:00am to Friday 10 May 5:00pm   Memory Work    Through a series of paintings, Haitian-born artist Renold Laurent uses different materials, from oil and acrylic paint to coffee grounds, to draw attention to the ways in which artistic imagination can compensate for artists’ economic limitations. Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 94 Waterman Street.  Learn more
   Tuesday 5 March 8:30am to Friday 3 May 5:00pm   Maré de Dentro: Race, Gender, and Life in Rio de Janeiro’s Militarized Favelas    “Maré de Dentro” focuses on the lives of favela (shantytown) residents of Rio de Janeiro’s Complexo da Maré, the largest agglomeration of favelas in Brazil. The exhibition incorporates photographic and videographic projects by artists and local Maré activists beginning in 2013. Second and third floors, Stephen Robert ‘62 Hall, 280 Brook Street.  Learn more
   Saturday 6 April 1:00pm to Sunday 7 July 4:00pm   Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson: The Only Show in Town    Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson’s exhibition is their response to the plight of the saltmarsh sparrow, a species predicted to be extinct by 2050 due to climate change. The artists followed researchers in Rhode Island as they tracked the sparrows’ movements and habits in an ever-rising tide. David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art, 64 College Street.  Learn more
   Friday 5 April 9:00am to Sunday 30 June 5:00pm   Textual Afterlives: Generating Editions and Editing Generations of Americana    In the early modern period, there were no intellectual copyright laws in place to prevent editors and publishers to adapt texts in order to sell their wares. Authors would often change their work to reflect popular views of the time, and translators would often do far more than just translate. This exhibition follows several of the most celebrated texts related to the early modern Americas as they made their way from inaugural to subsequent editions, ruminating on this question: When does a text stop being “original” and start becoming something else? MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street.  Learn more
   Thursday 4 April 9:00am to Friday 14 June 9:00pm   Wild Edible Botanicals    Since 2008, Jimmy Fike has been creating a photographic archive depicting America’s rich trove of wild edible flora. His botanical images function as reliable guides for foraging, and they ask the viewer to contemplate evolution and our relationship to the plant kingdom. Atrium Gallery, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.  Learn more
   Saturday 4 May 9:00am to Friday 19 July 5:00pm   The Providence Album, Vol. 1    “The Providence Album, Vol. 1” explores the life, look and history of Providence in the 1960s through the photography of Carmel Vitullo and Harry Callahan. Photos show a city in an era of tremendous change, as residents began moving out of the city and into the surrounding suburbs at a rate faster than any American city except Detroit. Carriage House Gallery, Nightingale-Brown House, 357 Benefit Street.  Learn more
   Saturday 20 April 9:00am to Friday 31 May 5:00pm   Blind Origin: New Work by Judd Schiffman    Artist and academic Judd Schiffman responded to objects selected from the collections of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World by creating a new series of ceramic sculptures. His work speaks to the meaning, stories and power we ascribe to objects, whether ancient or contemporary. Room 108, Rhode Island Hall, 60 George Street.  Learn more
   Thursday 18 April 9:00am to Friday 14 June 9:00pm   The Interior Landscape    A collaborative exhibition from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Forrest Gander and Indian ceramic artist Ashwini Bhat explores Tamil poetry, Indian temple architecture and fossil memories preserved in ancient ceramic objects. Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street.  Learn more
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