October 11-16: Phone Banking, Twerking, and A Raisin in the Sun

Tuesday, October 11Event: Phone Bank With the Brown Dems!Location: Wilson 101Time: 8:00 p.m.Completely invigorated after the last debate? Looking for a way to get involved? Stressed because we are less than ONE MONTH away!? Join the Brown Democrats to phone bank and help secure a Democratic victory. Never phone banked before? No worries! The Dems are happy to teach you, just bring your phone and laptop!Wednesday, October 12Event: BMP Advanced Screening: The Accountant Location: Granoff CenterTime: 7:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m.Brown Motion Pictures in partnership with Warner Brothers Pictures is happy to announce a FREE advanced screening of The Accountant starring Anna Kendrick and Ben Affleck at the Granoff Martinos Auditorium.To get tickets, click here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KHOVlEpMyYEvent: Submit to BPR!BPR wants YOU to submit a pitch and have your political opinions published in Brown's only nonpartisan, student-run, political magazine!A "pitch" is simply a 100-300 word idea for an article, and if yours is chosen, your full article will be featured in BPR's next issue. For more information, click here. You can submit until 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 15th. Thursday, October 13Event: Thirsty Thursdays at XS LoungeLocation: XS LoungeTime: 10:00 p.m.TurnUp and Swerve Entertainment Group Inc. bring to you Thirsty Thursdays at XS Lounge! 10$ cover fee; Turnup users get 5$ off for checking in!Drink specials available!Event: Lost in (trans)lation: An MPC workshop on cissexismLocation: List Arts Center, Room 120Time: 6:15 p.m.-8:00 p.m.Join MPCs Nana Adu, Renee Aponte, Katherine Chavez, Kobe Pereira & Emilio Vides-Curnen in investigating Cissexism within our community and society as a whole.Come early for pizza, as supplies are limited. All within the Brown & wider Providence community are welcome to attend, so spread the word!Event: How Structural Racism Works: Industrialized PunishmentLocation: Granoff CenterTime: 6:00 p.m.- 7:30 p.m.Come attend the next How Structural Racism Works lecture, "Industrialized Punishment," presented by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in earth and environmental sciences, City University of New York.The lecture will focus on mass incarceration and how it is a massively public, state-building project that both depends on and expands structural racism. The lecture will examine how and why the criminal justice system produced 25% of the plant's prison-and-jail population, and consider, "What is to be done?" The lecture will be followed by a Q&A discussion moderated by Professor Tricia Rose, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.A reception will follow. Doors open at 5:30 pm and is free and open to the public. A simulcast will be shown in Studio 1 in Granoff for overflow purposes.To request special accommodations for this event, please contact the University Event & Conference Services Office at universityevents@brown.edu or 401-863-3100.Event: SPEC Presents: Brown's Annual FALL FEST!Location: Ruth J. Simmons QuadrangleTime: 8:00 p.m.- 10:00 p.m.It's that time of year again: time for your favorite autumnal SPEC event- Fall Fest!Stop by Ruth Simmons Quad/ Lincoln Field between 8 and 10 on Thursday 10/13 for popcorn chicken and veggie samosas, apple cider, hot chocolate, mac n cheese, and broccoli cheddar bites all while watching some of Brown's best music, dance, and acappella groups! And what kind of SPEC event would this be without dessert? We've got pumpkin pie, apple crisp, peach cobbler, and more!And, as always and forever, everything is FREE.Stay tuned as we'll be updating this page with teasers!Friday, October 14Event: How to Get Away with TwerkingLocation: Harambee LoungeTime: 10:00 p.m.- 1:00 a.m.Are you nervous about your twerking abilities? Do you want a safe space to twerk it out? Then come to how to get away with twerking. Please bring 3 dollars for this learning opportunity. It's about to be B.O.M.B. Brought to you by Brown's Organization of Multiracial and Biracial Students.Event: HyperglowU Rhode Island w/ Zomboy! - Fall 2016 Campus Tour! "America's Largest Glow Party"Location: Lupo'sTime: 8:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.Hyperglow combines high-energy dance music with mind blowing Performances, Live Art, and Body Painting enhanced by an atmosphere illuminated in Ultra Violet Glow. Hyperglow Tour features some of the world’s most renowned dance music talent, in conjunction with leading-edge production and sound design, ready to glow America one city at a time.To join the VIP text list, text the word PROVIDENCE to 545454https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhhBg6WLjoUSaturday, October 15Event: PW Presents: "A Raisin in the Sun"Location: PWTime: 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.Come witness the magic and beauty of this show and reflect on the relevance of the play in today's sociopolitical climate. This production shows how the old meets the new and sheds light on the realness and importance of the experience of a black family in America."I think that imagination has no bounds in realism—you can do anything which is permissible in terms of the truths of the characters. That’s all you have to care about."-Lorraine Hansberry, 1959Tickets are FREE and released at midnight on October 12 here or an hour before the show at the Box Office.Full Schedule: Friday October 14 - 8:00P.M.Saturday October 15 - 3:00P.M. and 8:00 P.M.Sunday October 16 - 8:00P.M.Monday October 17 - 8:00P.M.Event: Gigs on the GrassLocation: Pembroke FieldTime: 12:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m.Gigs on the Grass is the first music and arts festival at Brown exclusively featuring and celebrating student artists!Featuring: Banana, Electric Kitty, Charlie Steinman, Interabang, Now Hiring, Stephen and the Believers, Royal Oats, Pure Evan, richard, Sam Hill, James Salimbeni, The Bear Bones, Luk and Val Make Music, MM40 and DIASPØRA.Admission is free, bags subject to search, re-entry permitted.Contact brownconcertagency@gmail.com for more info.

Sunday, October 16Event: Strait Talk Open Space Dialogue- Cross Strait RelationsLocation: Peterruti LoungeTime: 3:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.Join the 2016 Brown University Strait Talk Delegates as they come together to reflect on their experiences from the Symposium. Be a part of the conversation on the China-Taiwan issue, meet the delegates who come from all around the globe, and learn about their consensus document and the intensive interactive conflict resolution experience.Refreshments will be provided!