October 8 – October 14: Fashion, First Man, and Gigs on the Grass

We wish every school-week was only 4 days long!Tuesday, October 9Event: Bike Registration and U-Lock UpgradeLocation: Nelson Athletic CenterTime: 2:00p.m.-4:30 p.m.Brown DPS will be registering bikes and upgrading cable locks to u-locks. Students must bring bikes to the event. Event: Fashion@Brown Model CallLocation: List 120Time: 4:00-6:30 p.m.Fashion@Brown is holding a model call for its shows and shoots this semester. All bodies and identities are welcome. Wednesday, October 10Event: Where are the "Three Races"? Rethinking the Racial Narratives of Brazilian HistoryLocation: Watson, Joukowsky ForumTime: 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m.From the event: Brazil’s national identity is imagined as a mixture of the “three races” of Indian, Black, and White. Indians, however, are relegated to a colonial past. In this talk, Yuko Miki questions the widespread idea, perpetuated by many scholars, of indigenous “disappearance” that paved the way for the birth of Latin America’s largest black nation. By exploring the interconnected histories of black and indigenous Brazilians after independence, Miki argues that the exclusion and inequality of indigenous and African-descended people became embedded in the very construction of Brazil’s remarkably inclusive nationhood. Event: RailRoad Inaugural MeetingLocation: Friedman 201Time: 8:30-9:30 p.m.From the event: “Think the justice system is unjust? Want to do more as a Brown student? Join RailRoad, a new student group dedicated to Resisting the Prison Industrial Complex & Reimagining Justice! A student group working to end the Prison Industrial Complex and build alternatives to incarceration and punishment that center healing, growth, and radical love.” Thursday, October 11Event: National Coming Out Day CelebrationLocation: Main GreenTime: 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.The Brown University LGBTQ Center will be hosting a National Coming Out Day celebration on the Main Green, with rainbow ribbons, music, and photo-ops. All are welcome. Event: First Man Advanced ScreeningLocation: Avon CinemaTime: 7 p.m.-9 p.m.Ivy Film Festival and Universal Pictures present an advanced screening of “First Man,” starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Damien Chazelle of “La La Land.”From the event: "The riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the decade leading to the historic Apollo 11 flight. A visceral and intimate account told from Armstrong’s perspective, based on the book by James R. Hansen, the film explores the triumphs and the cost—on Armstrong, his family, his colleagues and the nation itself—of one of the most dangerous missions in history."Don’t forget to get tickets ahead of time! Friday, October 12Event: Brown Engineering Pumpkin PaloozaTime: 4:00-6:00 p.m.Location: BH GardensHosted by the Brown engineering DUG, this event is open to all, but you must sign up online.From the event: Join us for an intense evening of pumpkin carving .... community joy ... Halloween hype ... candy ... and perhaps roasted pumpkin seeds?! You (or your group) will be given a large pumpkin, pumpkin carving tools, and a tarp to get down and dirty on. Carving will begin promptly at 4 and cease at 5:30, when judging will commence. Event: PW Presents: Yellow FaceTime: 8 p.m.-10 p.m.Location: PW (7 Young Orchard Ave)From the event: Production Workshop is thrilled to present David Henry Hwang’s award-winning Yellow Face, directed by Kai Barshack ‘20, October 11th-14th! The play follows Hwang and his misadventures after he accidentally casts a White actor, who he mistakenly believes is Asian, in the Asian lead role of his new play. Yellow Face turns our assumptions about what it means to be of a particular race, nationality, or community on their heads. The play interrogates issues of identity, representation, political persecution, and how all these things are reflected in the media. Heavily awarded (an Obie Award winner and a Pulitzer finalist) Yellow Face explores these themes as a fast-paced comedy that leaves everyone laughing and lets no one off the hook. Saturday, October 13Event: Wickenden St. Makers + Merchants Sidewalk SaleTime: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.Location: Wickenden St.From the event: Come visit Wickenden St. for our 7th Makers + Merchants Sale! The street will be closed for the day and will be filled with over 50 artists and crafters along with food trucks, cocktails, beer, ice cream, music and more!Event: Gigs on the Grass 2018Time: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.Location: Main GreenThe Brown Class Board and Brown Concert Agency present the third annual Gigs on the Grass – “a music and arts festival exclusively featuring and celebrating student artists!” Admission is free.    Sunday, October 14Event: Jazz Night feat. Ben ShawTime: 8 p.m.-10 p.m.Location: The Grange Providence (166 Broadway, Providence)Finish off a packed weekend with a leisurely evening listening to jazz off campus. Join The Grange Providence for Jazz Night, every second Sunday of the month, this week featuring the Ben Shaw Quartet. All ages are welcome, no cover. Images via, via, via, via, via, via