What to Do This Week: Final Stretch
We’ve made it. We’re in the final stretch. We're running toward the finish line. Lest you spend your entire day in the Rock or your entire night in the SciLi, we’ve got this week’s best study breaks all mapped out for you. Godspeed, friends!
Monday, December 9
Event: Study Break: Get warm and cozy at the Nelson Center
Time: 10-11am
Location: Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship (1 Euclid Ave.)
Description: Let reading week begin! Take a study break with PVDonuts, hot chocolate, and coffee at the Nelson Center! RSVP here!
Event: BASE Black & Pink Holiday Card-Making Party
Time: 7-8:30pm
Location: Sarah Doyle Center for Women & Gender (26 Benevolent St.)
Description: Join Brown Asian Sisters Empowered to make and write cards for our incarcerated community members! Black & Pink is an organization of LGBTQ prisoners and “free world” allies who support each other. Find more information here!
Tuesday, December 10
Event: Opening for Tiny Enchantments Exhibit
Time: 3-4:30pm
Location: Fleet Library at RISD (15 Westminster St.), Dale Reading Room 201
Description: Tiny Enchantments: A Closer Look at Miniature Books is hosting a reception for the opening of their exhibit. Head down to Fleet Library to eat some snacks, admire some tiny books, and listen to Special Collections intern Ellen Cummings’ brief talk on miniature books.
Wednesday, December 11
Event: Sunrise PVD Open Meeting: What’s Next?
Time: 7-9pm
Location: 545 Pawtucket Ave Mill
Description: What’s next? What do I do next? Where do we go from here? etc??? Join Sunrise PVD as they reveal their plans for 2020 and learn what you can do to help!
Thursday, December 12
Event: Underground Thursdays Holiday Marketplace!
Time: 12-2pm
Location: Brown University Boat House
Description: Surprised that Brown offers a class in boatbuilding? Yeah, we’re not either. We are, however, excited to help the class test (and hopefully celebrate) the boat they have been building all semester. Light snacks, drinks, music, and chilly weather will be in attendance.
Friday, December 13
Event: Poetry & Storytelling Night
Time: 7-9pm (7-7:45pm -- sign up to share)
Location: Public (1 Aleppo St.)
Description: Think: open mic 2.0 -- readings, slam poetry, oral histories, comedy, stories, and more will be shared starting at 7:45pm. Entry is $5.
Saturday, December 14
Event: Farm Fresh Winter Market
Time: 9am
Location: 1005 Main St., Pawtucket
Description: This Farm Fresh Winter Market is the largest of its kind in all of New England! The event takes place at Hope Artiste Village, a renovated mill building which also houses retail stores, art galleries, yoga and music studios, and more. See a full list of vendors here!
Event: Courtney Act LIVE at EGO!
Time: 10pm-3am
Location: EGO Providence (73 Richmond St.)
Description: Drag superstar Courtney Act is coming to EGO Providence!!! First 100 people to arrive will be invited to a meet & greet with Courtney. Entry is $10.
Sunday, December 15
Event: Lizzo Boston
Time: 6-9pm
Location: Boston...
Description: I mean, if you can swing it…