What to do this week: De-stressing, theatre, and more
Monday, April 29thEvent: PW Presents: Not ILocation: PW (7 Young Orchard Ave)Time: 8:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m."“A play at the speed of thought about what we want to say and what we cannot, Not I captures the frenetic and painful process of coming to terms with one’s past. "
Event: Support Dance Marathon @ ChipotleLocation: ChipotleTime: 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m."Any dinner plans on Monday 4/29? Come grab some Chipotle and support Dance Marathon @ Brown’s goal of providing support for families partnered with the Children’s Miracle Network through Hasbro Children’s Hospital!Be sure to mention Dance Marathon @ Brown as you check out! Hope to see you there!" Tuesday, April 30thEvent: Renee Ater: Monuments, Slavery, and the Digital HumanitiesLocation: Rockefeller LibraryTime: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m."On Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 4 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Renée Ater will give a talk entitled, “Monuments, Slavery, and the Digital Humanities.”Free and open to the public. A reception will follow the talk.In this public lecture, Renée Ater discusses the processes and challenges of creating a digital project/publication about the memorialization of slavery. Her project, Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past: Race, Memorialization, Public Space, and Civic Engagement, investigates how we visualize, interpret, and engage the slave past through contemporary monuments created for public spaces. Arranged thematically, she considers six digital case studies that include monuments to the Transatlantic slave trade and the Middle Passage, slavery and the university, resistance to enslavement, Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, black soldiers and the Civil War, and emancipation and freedom." Event: Breakfast for Dinner Study BreakLocation: Sarah Doyle Gallery (26 Benevolent St)Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Time: "Join us for a stress-free study break with a side of french toast and other breakfast treats (and coffee!). There will be crafting materials and DIY study kits available. Fuel your exam prep with your friends at the Sarah Doyle Center!"
Wednesday, May 1stEvent: De-stress FestLocation: Sci-LiTime: 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m."Stressed about upcoming finals and projects? Take a break from studying with AMSA's De-Stress Fest!We'll have tea and snacks (including cookies!) from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM on May 1st at the Science Center (3rd floor, Main room) in the Sci-Li! Come on over for relaxing activities including board games and coloring or just to hang out for a few minutes with friends!" Thursday, May 2ndEvent: Festival of DanceLocation: Stuart Theatre (75 Waterman St)Time: 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.Festival of Dance, produced by Sydney Skybetter.May 2 – May 5Thursday - Saturday @ 8:00PMSunday @ 2:00PMTickets:$7 - $15Event: Neurodiversity in Action: A Symposium at Brown UniversityLocation: Leeds TheatreTime: 3:00 p.m."Neurodiversity In Action is an interdisciplinary symposium exploring the emerging concepts of neurodiversity and neurodivergence. We will consider how the concept of neurodiversity is being put into action — through various experiments in art, performance, scholarship, activism, and pedagogy — taking our cue from recent attention to the textures and temporalities of neurodivergence as a distinctive mode of acting, being, and world-making." Friday, May 3rdEvent: The Brown/RISD CUPSI Homecoming ShowLocation: The UndergroundTime: 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m."Join the Brown/RISD CUPSI team as we showcase all 14 poems we wrote for the 2019 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in Houston, Texas! Come ready for a night full of hollering, tears, laughter, and some /fyre/ poetry (and poets ;) )We're celebrating the highest the team has ever placed at CUPSI as the 5th ranked collegiate slam team nationwide!"
Event: Moon songs, star muses, a recitalLocation: Ladd Observatory (210 Doyle Ave)Time: 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m."Come to the observatory dome, May 3, 7:30pm, to hear music and poetry; the skies will be clear; after the music, treats and telescopes on the rooftop.Arvo Pärt, Spiegel im SpiegelMax Richter, MercyNico Muhly, Two VoicesArvo Pärt, FratresViolin, Grace JohnsonPiano, Seamus Hubbard Flynn" Saturday, May 4thEvent: RI Green New Deal Young People's AssemblyLocation: All Saints' Memorial Church (674 Westminster St)Time: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Event: Last KallLocation: The Met (1005 Main St, Pawtucket)Time: 9:00 p.m. - 12:40 p.m."LAST KALL! The semester is quickly coming to an end, but there's still plenty of time left for one last hoorah!! Come out and see some of Brown's best musical talent LIVE in concert at The Met on Saturday, MAY 4th!!TICKETS: $10 presale, $10 at the door before 10 PM, and $15 at the door after 10:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 5thEvent: Brown University Orchestra and Chorus ConcertLocation: Sayles HallTime: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m."The Brown University Orchestra and Brown University Chorus collaborate in concerts on two dates, May 4 and 5. The program also features violinist Typher Yom, a winner of the 2018 BUO Concerto Competition, as soloist for Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Online tickets will be on sale until May 3, 4:00 p.m. Any remaining tickets will be available for sale at the door starting one hour to the start of the performance.Samuel Barber: School for Scandal OverturePyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto - Typher Yom ’19, violin (2018 BUO concerto competition winner)Felix Mendelssohn: Verleih’ uns FriedenJohannes Brahms: Schicksalslied" Images Via, Via, Via, and Via