October 24-31: Asexuality, Virtual Reality, and Pumpkins!

Monday, October 24Event: Brown Football Bench Press for Cancer 2016Location: Main GreenTime: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.Come join Brown Football on the Main Green to raise the bar to support the Cancer Survivorship Program at Miriam Hospital. Come buy a t-shirt, try out the bench press, or enjoy some free pizza and donuts! Donations can be made in person or online here.Event: Fashion@Brown Presents: Steven FaermLocation: LIST 120Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.Join fashion@brown as we welcome Steven Faerm, Associate Professor of Fashion at Parsons School of Design."This presentation examines the unique and complex fashion design process through theory, application, and analysis. Design fundamentals such as narrative, motif, collection structure, and consumer demographics and psychographics are discussed. These are then contextualized through fashion and other creative disciplines such as fine arts, architecture, and interior design. Following analyses of professional collections and undergraduate theses, an Alexander McQueen runway show is presented to fully illustrate key principles and spotlight diverse applications."Event: Ain't I A Womxn? Women, Redefined: An MPC Workshop on SexismLocation: Peterruti LoungeTime: 6:15 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Come through to this year's MPC's Workshop on sexism! This workshop aims to center the experiences of marginalized womxn and elevate womxn’s resistance and resilience against sexism.Join your Minority Peer Counselors — Maryam Ahmad, Shanzé Tahir, Salina Tesfay, Terrell Palmer, and Julie Pham — in investigating sexism within our community and society as a whole.All within the Brown & wider Providence community are welcome to attend, so spread the word! Food will be provided!Event: Ivy Film Festival and React to Film Present: After SpringLocation: Granoff CenterTime: 6:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Join IFF + REACT to FILM for a free screening of After Spring. After Spring is a documentary about the Syrian refugee crisis. Filmmakers Steph Ching and Ellen Martinez immerse us into the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan, where close to 80,000 refugees must navigate their lives in a resource-scarce landscape.The trials of life in the camp are brought to light through the experiences of two refugee families and an aid worker fighting to sustain the camp. Produced by Jon Stewart, this film engages the ongoing realities of displacement for Syrians at a personal level. The screening will be followed by a discussion panel with Carl Saab, professor of neuroscience, Lisa Di Carlo, professor of sociology, Jennifer Johnson, professor of history, and Aaron Regunberg, a Rhode Island State Rep.To reserve your free ticket, click here. To learn more about the film, click here and here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQQmBU_rBpMTuesday, October 25Event: Asexuality 101—a WPC Workshop on Asexuality and Why it MattersLocation: BERT Room 015Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Have you been wondering what asexuality is? Why it's valid and an important aspect of identity? What it means to be "ace" on Brown's campus? Wonder no more...come celebrate Asexuality Awareness week and learn all about asexuality in a safe space with this WPC Workshop.Wednesday, October 26Event: Novelist Robert Coover to Read "A Political Fable"Location: Leung GalleryTime: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.Award-winning novelist Robert Coover will read from his prescient, rollicking short story "A Political Fable" (aka "The Cat in the Hat for President") in an evening of pre-election festivities. The evening will begin at 6:00 p.m. with a warm-up half-hour of satirical election comedy by The Skorts and other local talent; the reading itself will begin at 6:30 pm.Thursday, October 27Event: BUFF Presents The Thing!Location: Smitty B 196Time: 9:00 p.m.This week, BUFF's Halloween film is the horror sci-fi classic, The Thing!In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot and the camp doctor lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p35JDJLa9ecEvent: Rashad Shabazz, "Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago"Location: MacMillan Hall, Room 117 (Starr Auditorium), 167 Thayer StTime: 5:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.Rashad Shabazz, "Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago"This talk will explore how carceral power and the techniques of containment were woven into the quotidian geographies of poor and working class Black people on Chicago’s South Side. Through an examination of housing, policing, and the production of masculinity, this talk demonstrates how the explosion of Black incarceration rates in the 20th century were enabled by the geography of incarceration at the beginning of the century.Book signing and light reception to follow. Free and open to the public.Event: The Problem with DemocracyLocation: 85 Waterman St.Time: 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.What ails our democracy? Come find out at a live recording of The Partially Examined Life philosophy podcast with sponsorship from the Swearer Center for Public Service and Creative Scholars Project. We'll be discussing Alex de Tocqueville's still-relevant "Democracy in America," which explores the tension between freedom and equality. For more information, click here.Event: Virtual Realities and the Public SphereLocation: Granoff CenterTime: 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.What impact will an infinite supply of low-cost, high-quality, on-demand digital surrogates—available without leaving home—have on today’s cultural institutions, which largely require audiences to gather at a specific time, in a specific place, behave in a specific way, and pay handsomely to do it? Will tomorrow’s audiences view their homes, replete with increasingly sophisticated technology, as a legitimate surrogate for the public sphere (the museum, the opera house, the theater, or the community center)? Contrarily, what types of cultural institutions, and cultural content, will compete with most success in this environment? What type of experience must tomorrow’s museums and concert halls facilitate to augment the value of the “real"?This debate is the second of four that comprise Generation Elsewhere: Art in the Age of Distraction, which investigates the impact of 21st-century technologies on artists, arts organizations, and arts audiences. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. To register, click here. Event: De[STI]gmatization: De-spooking STIs with SHAGLocation: Memorial Room (Faunce 229)Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.High school sex-ed ~fear tactics~ got you feeling ~spooked~ about STIs? Come join SHAG right before Halloween & learn the facts about these not-so-scary, always treatable and often curable infections.We will be discussing some of the causes behind the [STI]gma, as well as groups that have been disproportionately affected by it and some histories of activism against it; medically accurate and non-judgemental information about STI treatment and prevention; and practical tips for compassionately navigating a world where almost all sexually active adults will contract an STI at some point.PLUS FREE food, safer sex supplies, and a raffle! SHAG, the Sexual Health Awareness Group, is sponsored by BWell Health Promotion.Event: POLER BEARS Present: POLEtergeistLocation: The Dark LadyTime: 9:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m.Leave your brooms at the door, come as you aren't (costumes encouraged), and watch as the Brown and RISD Poler Bears put a spell on you at the second annual Dark Lady Fall performance. This event sold out last year, so get your tickets pre-sale (starting Monday).Open to the public.Doors open at 9 p.m. and AFTER PARTY from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m.$5— 18+ (State ID required for entrance for everyone!!)$3— 21+ (ID required for discounted price, must also be shown at the door)International students please have your passport.Friday, October 28Event: Captive Genders: Reina Gossett, Chris Vargas, Eric StanleyLocation: Granoff CenterTime: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.In celebration of the release of the second expanded edition of Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, this two-day conference will bring together Reina Gossett, Eric Stanley, and Chris Vargas to highlight the linkages between institutions, racialized force, and unfreedom. The schedule of events includes a keynote panel, a workshop entitled "Queer Art as Prison Abolition," and a screening of the film Criminal Queers (dir. Vargas and Stanley, 2015), which visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex.Copies of Captive Genders will be available for purchase at the event, and a book signing will follow the panel. All profits from sales go toward providing free books to people inside prisons and jails.Saturday, October 29Event: Dream Haus: Halloween CircusLocation: Fete Music HallTime: 11:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.This Halloween Dream Haus and TurnUp are partnering up to bring you the main event of Halloween weekend. Come in your most elaborate costumes as this event will be quite the circus. Clown DJ's, Flying Zebras, and Lions jumping through hoops are just a few of the spectacles you'll witness at the Dream Haus Circus. Djiing for the night, Hot Rob will once again be bringing you those oldies but goldies, so get ready to dance the night away, followed by your favorite Wunderbar Wonderboys laying down the proper grooves. Guest appearence by DJ Gandalf.Event: Día de los Muertos Celebration!Location: Machado HouseTime: 5:00 p.m.Casa Machado and the Hispanic Studies DUG present a celebration of Día de Los Muertos!!What is Día de Los Muertos?A festival that takes place, traditionally on Nov 1, to celebrate the lives of those who have died (rather than mourning them with sadness). Although most strongly associated with Mexico, this holiday is celebrated across Latin America.Why should I come to this event? There will be amazing performances from campus groups, face painting, sugar skull decorating, and a traditional ofrenda! Come enjoy the activities and take part in a traditional celebration!Event: Black Power 50th: Elaine Brown Speaks!Location: LIST 120Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Hear Elaine Brown, Former Chairwoman of the Black Panther Party, speak on Black Power. THIS IS A PUBLIC EVENT. All are welcome to engage! Share this event, invite friends, and come prepared on the 29th with open minds, questions, thoughts, and/or a desire to grow. There will be a book signing to follow.Sunday, October 30Event: Rocky Point Pumpkin WalkLocation: Rocky Point FarmTime: 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.Hand carved pumpkins, bag candles, tiki torches and fire pits! Roast a marshmallow, see our living statuesand get a HalloweenTreat! Refreshments provided by the Presto Strange O Coffee and Food Truck! Drumming performed by Sidy Maiga and friends.