March 7-13: Storytellers, Dodgeball, and K Pop!
Monday, March 7Event: Women's History Month KickoffLocation: Sarah Doyle Women's CenterTime: 4:30- 7:30 p.m.To kick off Women's History month, the Sarah Doyle Women's Center will be hosting an open house with food and treats. The center's librarian will also be showcasing the Sarah Doyle book collection and provide information on how to check out books of interest for your research and personal reading. Check out the calendar here.Tuesday, March 8Event: Apply to Be a Social Justice EducatorLocation: Brown Center for Students of ColorTime: 4:00 p.m.Social Justice Peer Educators are undergraduate students who are selected and trained to facilitate social justice workshops for the Brown University community as part of the Social Justice Peer Education Program (SJPE) in the Brown Center for Students of Color (BCSC). Educators are passionate about issues of social justice, equity, and inclusion. They are equipped to educate their peers on a wide range of topics that raise awareness, promote inclusiveness and foster genuine understanding of systemic inequities. FIRST YEARS CAN APPLY! Applications will be open from Wednesday March 3rd-Monday March 14th at noon. Please submit your google form & supplementary materials here.Event: Virgie Tovar: Fat Feminism(s) and the Language of Anti/AssimilationLocation: BERT 130Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m.Virgie Tovar is an author, activist, and one of the nation's leading experts on fat discrimination and body image. She is a plus size style writer for BuzzFeed and the creator of the #LoseHateNotWeight campaign. Come for Tovar's lecture which will focus on her ongoing scholarship around fat feminism(s), fashion and queer aesthetics in fat politics, and the emergence of a politicized fat identity. Visit her page Lose Hate Not Weight.
Wednesday, March 9Event: Creative Medicine PanelLocation: Wilson 102Time: 7:00 p.m.Do you enjoy reading Atul Gawande? Do you want to be him? Come hear from a panel of physician-writers who incorporate creative medicine and medical humanities into their practice. The panelists will include Dr. Brian Zink, Chair of Emergency Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Dr. Teresa Schraeder, Director of Physician as Communicator Scholarly Concentration, Alpert Medical School, Dr. Jay Baruch, Emergency Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, and Dr. Peter Kramer, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School.Event: Ivy Film Festival + TFA Present: American Promise Free ScreeningLocation: Metcalf AuditoriumTime: 7:00 p.m.American Promise is a film that raises provocative questions and delivers answers, combining insights Brewster and Stephenson derived from their own experiences with the latest research on closing the black male achievement gap, providing readers with an unprecedented toolkit full of practical strategies from infancy through the teenaged years. This film won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. There are no tickets; admission is free and open to the public. To learn more, click here, here, here, and here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfA939LmPbUThursday, March 10Event: E X P O (vol.iii)Location: Granoff CenterTime: 7:00-8:30 p.m.BMP and PREVIEW present the third installment of EXPO-- a night of curated student media art.Event: BiscytownLocation: 334 S Water StTime: 9:30 p.m. — 1:00 a.m.The 70’s gave us Steve Martin movies, Charlie’s Angel’s, the end of Jackson 5 and the beginning of Michael Jackson. Come on down to Biscytown this Thursday and bring Brown back to bell bottom jeans and platform shoes for one night only. 21+ only.Friday, March 11Event: Brown University Storytellers SPRING STORYSLAMLocation: Kassar Fox AuditoriumTime: 8:00 - 9:30 p.m.Brown Storytellers present the FIRST STORYSLAM OF THE SECOND SEMESTER this Friday and Saturday night. Each story teller will perform each night. Come hear these great orators speak from their hearts!Event: Alfredo Jaar- SCAC Lecture SeriesLocation: Granoff CenterTime: 5:00 p.m.Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean-born artist, architect, and filmmaker working in installation, photography, filmmaking, and community-based projects that explore global relationships in relation to the over-saturation of media images and the limitations of art in representing humanitarian crises. His work has been shown extensively around the world in multiple Venice Biennales and Documentas, as well as individual exhibitions at the New Museum in New York and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.This lecture is free and open to the public; it will be followed by q&a and reception.Event: The Clothing Swap by EcoRepsLocation: JWWTime: 10:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m.Bring your unwanted, wearable clothing to JWW lobby to swap them for a wide array of other clothes! You can take home 1 new item for each piece of clothing you bring. Fun styles + hot chocolate provided.Event: INTO THE NEW WORLD: DAEBAK'S 1st Annual Spring ShowLocation: SalomanTime: 8:00-9:00 p.m.DAEBAK - Brown K-Pop Dance Association is thrilled to announce its FIRST Annual Spring Show!!! Come watch a fun, talented, and dedicated group of dancers take over the Salomon stage dancing to some of your all-time favorite K-Pop songs. Free entry.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuF61vQ7pxIEvent: Fusion Dance Company's 33rd Annual Spring ShowLocation: Alumnae HallTime: 8:00 p.m.Every piece in this year's show is 100% student (or Fusion alum!) choreographed. Come check out what Brown's oldest dance group has been working on all year long! For tickets: $5 presale in the Blue Room 10AM-3PM Monday 3/7- Friday 3/11 or $7 at the door. To buy online tickets, click here.Event: SV Presents: Back to the 80's with Jessie's GirlLocation: Lupo's Heartbreak HotelTime: 10:00 p.m. — 2:00 a.m.Small Victories is hosting it's first big event of the year at Lupos Heartbreak Hotel this Friday. This time, SV is taking everyone back to a time of big hair, bright colors, and incredible hits. Jessie's Girl, New York City's premier 80's tribute band, will be coming to town. There is no decade like the Eighties and no party like THE BACK TO THE EIGHTIES SHOW with JESSIE’S GIRL. So throw on your best neon, use extra hair spray because it’s time to party like it’s 1989! To learn more and buy tickets, click here and here.https://vimeo.com/123004072 Event: The Shit Show (with Butter!)Location: 208 Power St.Time: 10:30 p.m.Be ready to get your face blasted with an unrehearsed, unprepared, and very rare revival show from Butter. It's the only one of the semester, so roll through and get that creamy love.Event: Songs Against Stigma: A Mental Health Awareness ConcertLocation: Metcalf AuditoriumTime: 7:30 p.m.Songs Against Stigma: A Mental Health Awareness Concert hosted by Brown Active Minds! Tickets cost $2 during the pre-sale: Wed (3/9) and Thurs (3/10), 3:30-6:30 PM, Blue Room! At the door, tickets are 3$. Featuring:The Bear Bones, the Ursa Minors, Disney a Capella, The Brownstones, The Higher Keys, Peter Enriquez, Ronnie Li, and Kirsten Jones!Saturday, March 12Event: Dodge it in the Dark V6.0Location: OMACTime: 4:00-6:00 p.m.Did you miss out on Sophomore Slump's dodgeball? Join EcoReps for a earth-shattering dodgeball tournament to continue the 6th annual Brown Unplugged: Do It in the Dark dorm energy competition.mBrown Unplugged: Dodge It in the Dark will be a round-robin dodgeball tournament. Teams of 6 people will be necessary in order to compete.Interested in playing? CLICK HERE TO REGISTER YOUR TEAM. This event is FREE for everyone who is registered for the Brown Unplugged competition and there will be a raffle of the awesom Do It in the Dark T-shirts! To learn more, click here.Sunday, March 13Event: American Feast: A Solo Exhibit by Kira Nam GreeneLocation: Sarah Doyle's Women CenterTime: 8:00 a.m. — 5:30 p.m.The Sarah Doyle Gallery is proud to present Kira Nam Greene and her show American Feast. Kira Nam Greene creates self portraiture of painted collaged images of food and patterning that represent her pluralistic identity. She employs the imagery of food as a metaphor for the idealized female body and the conflicting desire to consume and control and represent her identity as an Asian-American immigrant woman.Image via