What to do this week: plays, movies, lectures, and love
ALL WEEK
What: Datamatch
Where: Brown University!
When: Feb 7, 12:01 AM - Feb 13, 11:59 PM
Description: Looking to get cuffed this Valentine's Day season?? Join Datamatch, the algorithm-based matchmaking service that will bring you love, either platonic or... not so platonic.
Find out more here: http://blognonian.com/2020/02/07/datamatch-is-back-at-brown/
Sign up here: https://datamatch.me/
February 10, Monday
What: PW Presents: The Hanging Girl
Where: 7 Young Orchard Ave (TF Green)
When: 8 PM
Description: The Hanging Girl
Presented by Production Workshop
Written by Aleks Merilo
Directed by Rishi Wagle '20
Assistant Directed by Akash Altman '20
Stage Managed by Robert Bush '23
"The Hanging Girl" follows the story of Sonny, a recently expelled high school student, and his friends as they engage in a final night of revelry that will end with one of them going missing. 18 years earlier, Sonny's parents were involved in a crime that would never be reported. These two stories collide in the present day in "The Hanging Girl".
What: Brown Digital Collective first spring meeting
Where: Friedman Hall, 108
When: 8-9 PM
Description: Join us at our first meeting of the semester! We will be going over our scheduled community events and workshops for Spring 2020. All new members will also receive a FREE BDC Lightroom preset pack! So make sure to come down and find out how you can be more involved with the creative community here at Brown. We will also be announcing the winner of our INSTAGRAM GIVEAWAY so STAY TUNED for that!
February 11, Tuesday
What: Clare Hemmings: Plays on Gendered and Sexual Citizenship
Where: Pembroke Hall 305
When: 4 PM - 6 PM
Description: Clare Hemmings, Professor of Feminist Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will introduce a new body of work that explores how gender and sexuality are (and have become) central to citizenship. Hemmings will sketch out a range of real and imagined theatrical scenes, drawing on family stories, contradictory memories, and social histories to depict gendered and sexual encounters. She seeks to cast gendered and sexual politics and practices precisely as scenes that variously hyperbolize, repeat, engage or even transform the histories we inherit. Free and open to the public, wheelchair accessible. Pembroke Hall 305.
What: MLK Lecture featuring Dr. Beverly Tatum
Where: Salomon Hall
When: 6-7:30 PM
Description: RSVP AT https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mlk-lecture-featuring-dr-beverly-tatum-tickets-86734231421
Please join the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity for this special lecture with Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.
Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College, is the author of the best-selling book, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race, now in its 20th anniversary edition.
A thought-leader in higher education, she was the 2013 recipient of the Carnegie Academic Leadership Award and the 2014 recipient of the American Psychological Association Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology. Dr. Tatum holds a B.A. degree in psychology from Wesleyan University, a M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from University of Michigan, and a M.A. in Religious Studies from Hartford Seminary.
What: Trivia Night with Dean Zia and the Language Ambassadors
Where: Petteruti Lounge in Faunce
When: 5:30-7:30 PM
Description: Are you a trivia buff?
Join the CLS Language Ambassadors and DEAN ZIA for a competitive night of world trivia! Attendees will compete in teams for a variety of prizes and the title of World Trivia Champions!
5:30-7:30 PM
February 11
Petteruti Lounge
FREE PIZZA! PRIZES! Bring your friends and compete to win!
February 12, Wednesday
What: Active Minds: Love on the Mind
Where: Brown University Mail Services (Page-Robinson)
When: 10 AM - 4 PM
Description: Swing by the mail room in Page-Robinson to send your friends a heartfelt envelope with your choice of lollipops, chocolate, confetti, essential oil, tea bags, mental health tips, and more for only $2! All proceeds go to Brown Active Minds to help us fund our semester events, such stress less fairs, speakers, safe space discussions, etc.
What: Sunrise Brown/RISD Weekly Hub Meeting
Where: Sunrise Movement Brown and RISD (135 Angell St.)
When: 6 PM - 7:30 PM
Description: We are a youth led movement fighting to stop the climate crisis while creating millions of new jobs in the process. Come join us as we help to stop the climate crisis!
What: IFF presents an advance screening of Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Where: Granoff Center
When: 7-9 PM
Description: IFF is excited to present an advance screening of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, starring Noémie Merlant and directed by Céline Sciamma. The film tells the story of Marianne, a young painter, and Héloïse, an aristocrat destined for marriage. When Marianne is hired to secretly paint a portrait of Héloïse for her future husband, the two women -- caught in the societal restrictions in 18th century France -- get closer, developing a relationship beyond the confines of class roles. With Héloïse’s impending wedding on the horizon, secrecy and desire clash in this Golden Globe-nominated drama.
What: Snacks + Cinema: Black Mitzvah Night
Where: Brown RISD Hillel
When: 8 PM
Description: Come get cozy with Hillelanin’ for a screening of Tiffany Haddish’s “Black Mitzvah”. There will be snacks and laughs so you won’t want to miss this! See you there!
February 13, Thursday
What: The Swedish Program Info Session
Where: Brown University Office of International Programs (Page-Robinson, 420)
When: 12 PM - 1 PM
Description: Study abroad in English with The Swedish Program at the Stockholm School of Economics. Courses offered in economics, political science, sociology, psychology, film, and more. Study trips to London and Paris. Cultural excursions to the Stockholm Archipelago, Arctic Circle, and the island of Gotland. Live in your own apartment in the city or with a host family. Come and learn more about studying abroad in a prestigious university in one of the world's most vibrant and progressive cities.
What: Casa Machado Scavenger Hunt
Where: Casa Machado at Brown (87 Prospect St.)
When: 6 PM - 8 PM
Description: Interested in practicing your Spanish? Interested in Hispanic culture? Want to live in a MANSION? Join us during our second recruitment event! We will be having a scavenger hunt in the old mansion!
Please ring the doorbell when you arrive at the 87 Prospect St. entrance.
Recruitment events are mandatory for prospective members. Please message us or email us at brown.machado.spanish.house@gmail.com if you absolutely cannot make it to any of the events.
What: Dumpling Evocation
Where: King House (154 Hope St.)
When: 6 PM - 9 PM
Description: This course investigates Dumplings through alternative ontological approaches, both the etymological spectres surrounding Dumplings and the culinary gastro-object. Themes may include: merlions, “Tender Ears,” horns, dough-ness, “Ich Dien,” and Edward III. By the end of our time together, we hope to make 150 Dumplings. Enrollment limited to students of semester level: 01 and above.
February 14, Friday
What: Conversations in Latinx Art: Xanxra Ibarra and Iván Ramos
Where: Pembroke Hall, 305 (172 Meeting St.)
When: 11 AM - 12:30 PM
Description: "Conversations in Latinx" Art brings together the Oakland-based award-winning performance artist Xandra Ibarra and interdisciplinary scholar Dr. Ivan Ramos (Assistant Professor, University of Maryland) to reflect on queer Latinidad and its deployment as a form of resilience and endurance against political hostility. Drawing on scholarship in Latinx and gender and sexuality studies and Ibarra’s oeuvre, the pair will also reflect on their many years of friendship to elaborate on the creation and impact of queer femme Latinx performance.
LOCATION: Brown University - Pembroke Hall, Room 305, 172 Meeting Street, Providence RI
Free and open to the public. Q&A and reception to follow.
What: Screw Cupid
Where: King House (154 Hope)
When: 7 PM - 9 PM
Description: Shall I compare thee to a plumber's pay? If you think that Valentine's Day sucks and love is a bourgeois construct, come share the very worst love poetry you can find at King House or learn to write your own.
What: Winter Ball!
Where: Sayles Hall
When: 8 PM - 11 PM
Description: Spend your Valentine's Day with a night of live orchestral music, snacks, photo booths, and dancing at Brown University Orchestra's first ever Winter Ball!
Tickets will be $8 presale and $10 at the door. We will be selling presale tickets in the Blue Room on 2/11-2/13 from 2:30-5pm or Venmo @Rainbow-Chen!
For any financial concerns, please contact our Orchestra President Rainbow Chen through email or Fb Messenger!
What: THasquerade
Where: Technology House (39 Charlesfield St., Harkness House)
When: 9 PM - 1 AM
Description: Find a marvelous mask and wear it well... So your true identity no one can tell! Come for a fun night of music, dance, and masks
