February 25 - March 3: Films, Workshops, and Dear Blueno Dramatic Readings

Monday, February 25thEvent: 2019 Providence French Film FestivalTime: Times vary on each given day, and the festival continues through March 1st. Check out the Facebook event for more details!Location: Granoff Center for the Creative Arts (154 Angell St.)Screenings of dozens of films, presented by Providence French Film Festival and Brown University.  Event: CCB 2019 Senior Night: Club GCB Retro NightTime: 9 p.m. - 12 a.m.Location: Grad Center Bar (42 Charlesfield St./82 Power St.)"For ONE NIGHT ONLY, the GCB becomes CLUB GCB, as there will be AN OPEN DANCE FLOOR! Music will be a mix of contemporary, disco and everything in between."The event is strictly 21+ and all attendees are required to bring a valid form of government-issued ID. There will also be free pizza! Tuesday, February 26thEvent: Out for Lunch: The Truth About Trans HealthTime: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.Location: Brown University LGBTQ Center (In the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center)"In this Out for Lunch, the LGBTQ Center aims to discuss the nature and the implications surrounding research done in the field of trans health, and explore ways in which the field can become more accepting, supportive and representative of real experiences of trans people." Event: Blackifying Migration: An Evening with UndocuBlack NetworkTime: 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.Location: U-Fli Center at Brown (201 Thayer St. - 5th Floor of the SciLi)"For our kick-off event this semester, the U-FLi Center invites Jonathan Jayes-Green and Ronnie James from UndocuBlack Network (UBN), a multigenerational Network of Black undocumented immigrants organizing their own communities and building power.Blackifying Migration: Transforming Realities and Healing Communities aims to “Blackify” our understanding of the undocumented population by highlighting the history, advocacy, resistance, and joy of Black undocumented immigrants. We hope that by amplifying the voices and work at the intersection of the immigrant rights and racial justice movements, we create future possibilities for organizing and solidarity on Brown's campus and beyond."Check out the Facebook event for more information about the speakers. Event: Missing and Murdered Indigenous WomenTime: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Location: Leung Gallery (in Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center)"This is a workshop teach-in and ceremony to honor missing and murdered indigenous women, we will incorporate teaching opportunities, art making, as well as storytelling to bring light on such pressing issues." Event: Creative Destruction: Blackout Poetry WorkshopTime: 6:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.Location: King House (154 Hope St.)"Our society has pathologized mental illness, trauma, and neurodivergence, but we don't have to define ourselves in those terms. ARMS and St. Anthony Hall are pleased to present a night of discussion, snacks, and blackout poetry using pages from DSM-5. Join us for thought-provoking conversation as we work to reclaim the personal stories behind our experiences of mental health. All are welcome!" Wednesday, February 27thEvent: Say "NO" to the Criminalization of HomelessnessTime: 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.Location: Rhode Island State House (82 Smith St.)"On Wednesday, Representative Charlene Lima is introducing H5330 to the House Judiciary Committee. This bill aims to minimize panhandling in the state by prohibiting drivers from passing goods out of their cars to individuals. We see through this cheap attempt to criminalize homelessness, HOPE and the ACLU of Brown University want to remind Representative Lima that we all have the right to ask for help in times of need. Join us and our community partners as we stand in solidarity against this unjust legislation that unfairly targets individuals experiencing homelessness.HOPE and ACLU students will be meeting at Faunce at 4:00 pm to walk down to the Statehouse together. If you own the white Homeless Bill of Rights shirt, please wear it to remind legislators that people experiencing homelessness have rights too. If you don’t have the shirt, please wear white nonetheless to draw attention to the shirts’ message and show Representative Lima that we won’t let this legislation pass without a fight. See you then!We anticipate the bill to be heard around 4:30, but the legislative calendar can be unpredictable. Be sure to bring homework and snacks!" Event: Onoso Imoagene ─ Footprints: The US Diversity Visa Program, Its Immigrants and Migration Industry ActorsTime: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.Location: McKinney Conference Room (Room 353), in the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs"Onoso Imoagene is an assistant professor of sociology at UPenn. Her research is in the areas of international migration and immigrant incorporation with a special focus on first and second generation African immigrants in the British and American diasporas; inter-ethnic group (black-on-black) relations; the intersection of race, ethnicity, and class in assimilation outcomes of the African second generation; impact of national factors on assimilation outcomes; immigration and education; and migration and development." Thursday, February 28thEvent: The End of the Party: Bill Kristol + the Future of ConservatismTime: 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.Location: 85 Waterman St."Interested in ideological diversity? Or the trajectory of the Republican party? Want to learn more about the future of neoconservative journalism? Or to hear from a conservative who's active in the movement against Trump?Bill Kristol has been a fixture of the conservative policy scene since serving as chief of staff to Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Education. Since then, he has also served as Dan Quayle’s Chief of Staff in the Office of the Vice President and a foreign policy advisor for John McCain’s presidential campaigns. Nonetheless, he is best known for founding The Weekly Standard, a neoconservative publication with a circulation of over 100,000. In the 2016 election, Mr. Kristol vehemently opposed the candidacy of Donald Trump. One of his current projects is to recruit a Republican candidate to run against the President in 2020." Event: Opening Reception for 39th Annual Juried Student Art ExhibitionTime: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Location: Granoff Center for the Creative Arts (154 Angell St.)"Please join us for the opening reception of Brown University’s 39th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition. The exhibition was curated by Carla Edwards and Shey Rivera Rios, and will be on view from Tuesday, February 26 until Wednesday, March 20. This event is made possible by the Department of Visual Art, the David Winton Bell Gallery, and the Brown Arts Initiative." Event: Screening of Indigenous-Themed ShortsTime: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Location: The Brazil Initiative at Brown (111 Thayer St.)This event is co-sponsored by Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies at Brown. Check out the Facebook event for more details about the individual shorts! Friday, March 1stEvent: Free LinkedIn PhotosTime: 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.Location: CareerLAB (167 Angell St.)"The CareerLAB will have a professional photographer on hand to take LinkedIn photos to make your profile creation and updating easier." Event: Mezcla Presents: 24K GOLDTime: 7:00 p.m. on Friday and SaturdayLocation: Alumnae Hall (194 Meeting St.)Mezcla Latin Dance Troupe presents: The 24th Annual Spring Show: 24K GOLD. Doors open at 6:30. Entry is free, but there will be donation boxes at the event. Saturday, March 2ndEvent: A Date with VietnamTime: 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Location: Brown-RISD Vietnamese Students Association"Follow Nancy Tran and Long Do around Vietnam as they discover Vietnam's beauty, from the countryside to the city. You'll (hopefully) fall in love with Vietnam's culture, food, and people as Nancy and Long bring you on this journey to unpack the Vietnamese/Vietnamese American experience. Expect a night of delicious Vietnamese cuisine, an áo dài fashion show, funny gigs, and guest performer/YouTuber: Chị Kayla (Vietglish Fun)."Check out the Facebook event for ticket information. Event: Dear Blueno: Dramatic ReadingsTime: 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Location: Production Workshop Upspace (7 Young Orchard Ave.)Description by host Emily Tunkel:"Bring your friends. Bring your enemies. Bring that person you wrote a passive-aggressive post about but never tagged them in.This event is literally just going to be me reading ~100 posts from DB that I found funny. There's going to be no drama. Put down your pitchforks. I'm only reading the funny ones." Sunday, March 3rd Event: Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler In a New Version by Brian FrielTime: 2:00 p.m. (Check out the event for more dates and times!)Location: Stuart Theatre (75 Waterman St.)"Hedda Gabler returns, dissatisfied, from a long honeymoon. Bored by her aspiring academic husband, she foresees a life of tedious convention. And so, aided and abetted by her predatory confidante, Judge Brack, she begins to manipulate the fates of those around her to devastating effect." Images via, via, via, via, via, via, via.