WTDTW: Astronomy, Rap Workshops, Long Weekend, and More!
Monday, October 7
Event: Artist Talk with Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
Time: 6-7 p.m.
Location: Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center, Room 201
Description (from event page): In “First Series A.G.” Consuelo Jimenez Underwood reflects on her artistic trajectory after graduate school. Focusing on her Heroes: Burial Shroud Series she goes back in time to the individuals who have affected her travels and art-making practice since childhood. She will also introduce the new installation work that she has created at the Sarah Doyle Center. The audience is invited to the opening reception of Exposing Unseen Boundaries immediately following the lecture.
Tuesday, October 8
Event: Telescope Observing Night
Time: 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Location: Ladd Observatory (210 Doyle Ave.)
Description (from event page): View the moon, planets, and stars through the telescope at Brown’s historic Ladd Observatory. Experience astronomy as it was practiced in the 1890s. See our exhibits and displays about the history of science and technology. Weather permitting.
Wednesday, October 9
Event: Lyrics Workshop with Hip Hop Artist Akua Naru
Time: 5-7 p.m.
Location: Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA), Room 103.
Description (from event page): We invite students to register for a lyrics workshop with Akua Naru, hip hop artist and CSREA Artist-in-Residence (Fall 2019). Akua will speak about her writing process and will survey other rap lyric writers to analyze various techniques.
Registration is required with only 15 spots available. Registration opens on Thursday, September 26 at 8:30 AM. Click here to register. Pizza will be provided.
Event: Thinking Out Loud: Teaching Old Bacteria New Tricks
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: Salomon 001
Description (from event page): Kristala L. J. Prather, Arthur D. Little Professor of Chemical Engineering, MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT, will present the sixteenth lecture in the series, “Thinking Out Loud: Deciphering Mysteries of our World and Beyond.”
Biology is an exquisite chemist, each cell comprised of numerous chemical structures. Microbes can be engineered to reroute and extend biosynthetic pathways to make molecules for human use, ranging from drugs to materials. Yet, biology is also designed for reproduction, each cell aiming to make more of itself. Come learn how Kris balances these competing objectives to teach old bacteria some new tricks.
Thursday, October 10
Event: Reading: Lizzie Davis
Time: 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Location: McCormack Family Theater (68.5 Brown St.)
Description (from event page): Lizzie Davis is a writer, translator from Spanish to English, and editor at Coffee House Press who acquires fiction, nonfiction, and translations, and is passionate about championing writing that takes risks and pushes boundaries. She has translated such writers as Pilar Fraile Amador, Daniela Tarazona, Daniel Saldaña Paris, Paulina Flores, and others. Recent translations include My First Bikini by Elena Medel, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions with Valeria Luiselli, and Ornamental by Juan Cárdenas. Davis will read from her translations in this event.
Friday, October 11
Event: Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles
Time: 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Location: Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Description (from event page): Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles whip up an intoxicating blend of blues, soul, R&B, Afrobeat, gospel, and jazz, blurring genres and upending expectations at every turn. Praised by AllMusic as “one of the finest Hammond B-3 organ players of his generation,” Cory Henry won a pair of GRAMMY Awards for his work with the band Snarky Puppy since 2012. Now coming fully into his own as a bandleader and storyteller, the simultaneously futuristic and retro, experimental and classic sound of Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles demonstrates Henry’s place as one of modern music’s most inventive minds.
N.B. The evening concert is currently SOLD OUT. There will be standby admission at the door. Tickets for the concert are FREE for students; $10 for Brown faculty and staff; and $20 for general public.
Have a wonderful long weekend!