December 5-11: Tap Dancing, Ice Skating, and Hanukkah!
Monday, December 5Event: Final Exam GramsLocation: Blue Room CaféTime: 4:00 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.Finals are right around the corner, so why not send your friends some candy, wintry goodies, and a heartfelt letter for FREE? Come to the Blue Room to send a friendly gram --- there will be free candy!Event: Ivy Film Festival: Lion Location: Granoff CenterTime: 6:30 p.m.Join IFF for a free screening of Lion. A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.The discussion panel will begin at 9:00 p.m.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RNI9o06vqoEvent: CCB Presents: Holiday Party!Location: The UndergroundTime: 7:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.Class Coordinating Board is hosting the annual Holiday Party! Come get into the Holiday spirit with your peers and...☆ Sip on some hot chocolate and enjoy delicious latkes!☆ Decorate (and eat!) sugar cookies☆ Compete in a dreidel tournament against your peers!☆ Personalize your family holiday card with photos with Santa and his elvesEvent: Finals Destination: Heavy PettingLocation: RISDTime: 7:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.Come to Met A to hang out with some therapy dogs!Finals Destination week is a week of stress relieving events to help you prepare for finals!Sponsored by Center for Student Involvement, Residence Life, Intercultural Student Engagement, Counseling and Psychological Services and Health Services, in conjunction with the Wellness Task Force.Event: Entrepreneurship at the Intersection of Diversity and InequalityLocation: NelsonTime: 8:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.The Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship at Brown University is excited to invite you to a one-day conference --- “Entrepreneurship at the Intersection of Diversity and Inequality” --- on Monday, December 5, 2016. To achieve its mission of making entrepreneurship an essential part of the Brown experience, the Center hosts events from a wide range of disciplines and blends academic expertise with real-world practical experience. Our inaugural conference illustrates this commitment.The Center for Entrepreneurship integrates student groups, course offerings, and faculty entrepreneurial research by serving as an interdisciplinary space for entrepreneurship learning and scholarship. We encourage and foster critical thought and debate on the growing role that entrepreneurship plays on the local and global stage.The conference will provide critical perspectives on how entrepreneurship has served as a potential pathway toward inclusion and socioeconomic mobility, particularly in times of exclusion and marginalization. The conference will highlight the interdisciplinary character for the center and engage the intersectionality of race/ethnicity, gender, class, immigrant status and the simultaneity of agency and inequity of power and privilege in entrepreneurial endeavors.Tuesday, December 6Event: Brown Democrats Elections!Location: Wilson 101Time: 8:00 p.m.This Tuesday, the Dems will be holding elections for the Dems E-Board!Positions up for election this semester include VP, Political Director, Speakers and Events Chair, and 2 Freshman Whips. You may vote in this election if you have been to at least TWO Dems and/or SFH events.If you have any questions about the election process, please email the Brown Dems' president at Brian_cohn@brown.edu!Wednesday, December 7Event: Film Screening and Discussion: America's DiplomatsLocation: Watson InstituteTime: 4:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.From Ben Franklin to Benghazi, America's Diplomats takes you inside the Foreign Service and behind the scenes of U.S. Foreign Policy. Discover the role our diplomats play in shaping American history. Uncover the origins of our Foreign Service, and the danger American diplomats face far from home.Ambassadors Chas Freeman and Richard Boucher will discuss the role of America's diplomats in American foreign policy today and how that role could change under President-elect Trump. Professor Jo-Anne Hart will moderate the discussion following the screening.Learn more about this event and other events from #WatsonElection2016.Thursday, December 8Event: Norah Jones in ProvidenceLocation: The VetsTime: 8:00 p.m.- 11:00 p.m.Get tickets for Norah Jones concert here!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbjZPFBD6JUEvent: AS220 6th Annual Holiday Sale!Location: AS220 LabsTime: 6:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.You are invited to join us to shop local for all your holiday gifting at our 6th Annual AS220 Holiday Sale! Dozens of vendors will be selling their unique, handmade wares through all the spaces in AS220 Industries. Free and open to the public! For those wishing to be vendors themselves, book your table here.Event: BUFF Presents GremlinsLocation: Smitty B 106Time: 9:00 p.m.BUFF is getting in the holiday spirit and ending the semester with Gremlins! A gadget salesman is looking for a special gift for his son and finds one at a store in Chinatown. The shopkeeper is reluctant to sell him the "mogwai" but sells it to him with the warning to never expose him to bright light, water, or to feed him after midnight. All of this happens and the result is a gang of gremlins that decide to tear up the town on Christmas Eve.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nGd36NhmTE
Friday, December 9Event: What's On Tap?: A Holiday SpecTAPularLocation: Wayland ArchTime: 8:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.Come to the fourth annual winter Arch Tap, see a bunch of great dances, and get some free (T)apple Cider!Saturday, December 10Event: RISD Holiday Art SaleLocation: RI Convention Center (1 Sabin Street, Providence)Time: 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.The sale features over 200 RISD alumni and current student artists, selling work in a variety of media, including fine art, glass, ceramics, apparel, jewelry, and more. A list of all participants can be found here. Admission to the event is $8.00 per person at the door, free for current RISD students and children under 16.Event: Resist Hate RI's Second Community MeetingLocation: Hope High SchoolTime: 3:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.Our next community meeting will be Saturday, December 10th at 3p.m. at Hope High School in Providence. Childcare will be provided, and ASL interpretation.There's a lot to do, so come ready to work! We’ll be taking the next steps in structuring this community around several issue-focused working groups - we look forward to building with you!Sunday, December 11Event: Brown Club Figure Skating Presents: The 2016 Winter OlympicsLocation: Meehan AuditoriumTime: 6:00 p.m.- 7:30 p.m.Welcome to the Official Practice for the 2016 Winter Olympic Figure Skating in Providence, Rhode Island. If you don't already have a gold medal, NOW is your time.In the unlikely event that you haven't been landing your triple salchows as easily as you'd like, this event will be a chance to learn some cool new tricks and brush up on old ones, such as staying upright, slowing down, and stopping!!!!!!!The Brown Figure Skating Club is hosting this Learn to Skate party with fun music, fun people, and many opportunities to face-plant in front of all your peers. Skates and lessons will be provided with your purchase of a $7 ticket prior to the event. If you have your own pair of skates, tickets for entry are $2. A link will be posted here when tickets are available.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4P0hdm1Q4w Event: Brown-RISD Hillel's Annual Hanukkah Bash!Location: Brown RISD HillelTime: 6:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m.Hanukkah may be late this year, but that won't stop us from celebrating at our annual Hanukkah Bash!Festivities include student performances, mocktails, temporary tattoos, a photo booth, dreidel, Mystery Mordechai, TONS of latkes.All are welcome! Bring your friends! We hope to see you all there!