What To Do This Week: Music, Lectures, and (Almost) Halloween!
Monday, October 21
Event: Spooky Bake Sale (link)
Location: Blue Room
Time: 11:00am – 2:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Love Halloween? Love tasty treats? Love supporting a good cause and members of the Providence community?? Then come stop by Tink Knit's *spooky* bake sale!
Event: IFF x A24 at Brown x BUFF Presents: The Witch (link)
Location: Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Please join Ivy Film Festival, A24 at Brown, and BUFF for a free screening of 'The Witch' to get you in the Halloween spirit. Dress to impress for our costume contest! Winner will receive a full size movie poster of 'The Witch', a poster of Robert Eggers new release 'The Lighthouse', and A24 merch!
Tuesday, October 22
Event: I Stand With Immigrants Day of Action (link)
Location: Main Green
Time: 1:30pm – 3:30pm
Description: (From event page)
Calling all members of the community - Join us on October 22nd for the FOURTH ANNUAL #IStandWithImmigrants Day of Action! Over 170 colleges & universities are participating in this national campaign.
EVENTS:
-Take a photo with one of our signs and post it on social media with the hashtags #IAmAnImmigrant or #IStandWithImmigrants
-Reflect on your immigrant experience, or tell us how you support the immigrant community!
-Enter the raffle to win a FREE T-shirt
-Express interest in the university developing a Migration Studies concentration
-Help us "abolish" ICE!
Event: Jazz Combos Concert (link)
Location: Grant Recital Hall
Time: 8:00pm – 10:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Students perform jazz in ensembles of varying sizes and instrumentation. This concert is free and open to the public.
Wednesday, October 23
Event: Student Internship Panel (link)
Location: Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
Time: 5:45pm – 7:30pm
Description: (From event page)
Interested in pursuing a career in a humanitarian field? Want to learn how to get involved in human rights advocacy and global service? Come to an internship panel hosted by the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies! This panel will feature Brown students who completed internships at Human Rights First, The International Crisis Group, and Project Hope this past summer. Pizza will be provided.
Event: Audiovision: Hearing Voices (link)
Location: Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Description: (From event page)
Don’t miss the next iteration of the Brown Arts Initiative’s Audiovision series for eight-channel surround sound. Featured works include compositions by John Cage, Christopher Hobbs, Trevor Wishart and Jonathan Harvey’s groundbreaking Mortuous Plango, Vivos Voco for eight-track tape.
Thursday, October 24
Event: The Power of Language, a Lecture by Dr. Jim Yong Kim (link)
Location: Friedman Auditorium
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Description: (From event page)
Mark Your Calendars!
Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Brown, '82, currently a Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs at Brown's Watson Institute, will speak about the special importance of language learning in today's world and in his own personal and professional life.
Throughout his career Dr. Kim served as the President of the World Bank, President of Dartmouth College, and is one of the founders of Partners in Health. He is a MacArthur Genius fellowship recipient and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.
Event: Sonnets and Stories (link)
Location: The Underground
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Description: (From event page)
Join us for a night of Poetry, Storytelling, Spoken word, and more from performers across the brown community!
Friday, October 25
Event: Latinx Art Show (link)
Location: Leung Family Gallery
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Description: (From event page)
Join us for this year's Latinx Art Show coordinated by the Latinx Heritage Series! This year's theme is Crossing Borders: Unsettling Boundaries and we have amazing performances and pieces from Brown and RISD students, and from the Providence Latinx community!
Event: JCA Presents: Childhood Nightmare (link)
Location: Sayles Hall
Time: 8:30pm – 11:00pm
Description: (From event page)
It's that time of year again...
Come join us on October 25th for our ANNUAL HAUNTED HOUSE!! See your childhood nightmares come to life from birthday clowns to Pokemon and much more!
Saturday, October 26
Event: Providence Medical Orchestra Halloween Concert (link)
Location: Sayles Hall
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Our first ever spooky spectacular, featuring Mark Steinbach, University Organist, Curator of Instruments, and Senior Lecturer in Music!
Come enjoy a wonderful selection of classical music on Saturday, October 26, 2019, at 7pm in Sayles Hall on the Brown University Main Green (see map for location details). Concert will also include organ music and spooky poetry reading by a special guest!
Event: Halloween Extravaganza (link)
Location: Stephen Robert Campus Center
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Description: (From event page)
Come to Campus Center on October 26th from 7-10pm for a spooktacular Halloween event! Discover your future with our physic card readers. Unwind with some pumpkin decorating but beware of the corn maze- you won’t be alone in there! There will be tons of free food and so much more! Don’t forget to wear your best costume for a chance to win free tickets to spring weekend!
Sunday, October 27
Event: Halloween Touch A Truck On Thayer Street (link)
Location: Thayer Street
Time: 9:00am – 11:00am
Description: (From event page)
Family Friendly Event. Come in Costume!
Halloween Candy to be passed out during event
Face Painting & Henna Art by Spectrum India
Matilda empanadas
LIVE Music & More!
Free and Open to the Public