Jordan Bartee presents Ming Mecca: Voltage Controled Videogame Console on Sunday, May 5th in the level 2 living room at the Granoff Center from 1pm - 8pm. Free and open to the public.
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2012-2013
MUSIC, MOVEMENT, & AGEOLD
FAMILY SECRETS
Kali Quinn Performs Two Original and Teaches Workshops at the Granoff Center
Providence, RI – Through a combination of two original solo shows, witness virtuoso physical theatre artist and musician Kali Quinn transforms into characters ranging from age five to ninetyone, all taking you on a remarkable emotional journey from 1917 to present day that questions our will to go on and who to take with us. Overture to a Thursday Morning will be presented April 26 and 27 at 7.30pm at the Granoff Center on Brown University’s Campus as part of the Creative Arts Council’s FITT Artist‐In‐Residence Grant.
Through movement and the creative use of household objects, live violin composition, and projections, along with her ability to voice young and old, angry and kind, Kali Quinn invites you to her unique and riveting theatrical experience that plays with both autobiographical and fictionalized material:
“It’s amazing how much we all don’t know about our own births and our parents’ life experiences.
Please come see the performance to share in, ponder, and celebrate these stories and family secrets.”
The story follows the journeys of Lila, a spunky twenty‐something rock star, and Julia, a ninetysomething nursing home patient and their hidden family histories. Audiences and critics from throughout the United States have described these solos shows as inspiring, beautiful, stunning, funny, moving and magical. Michael Miller of the Berkshire Review for the Arts raves:
“Our attention is riveted on Kali Quinn’s virtuosic performance… a unique range of voice and movement… extraordinary skill and imagination… deeply affecting.”
Kali has previously performed this work Off‐Off Broadway at Theater Row, PS 122, HERE Arts Center, and The Tank, along with performances at Ko Festival of Performance, University of Rochester, Williams College, Coastal Carolina University, Mississippi University for Women, and Sandglass Theater in Vermont.
In addition to the performance, Kali will teach four free workshops that are open to the public. These workshops will focus on various layers of creating your own solo work and take place from 6‐ 8pm in the Kooper Studio at the Granoff Center: April 18 (Movement), April 19 (Music), April 23 (Objects), and April 24 (Text). Please email kali_quinn@yahoo.com to sign up.
Overture to a Thursday Morning will take place April 26 and 27 at 7.30pm at the Granoff Center.
Tickets are pay‐what‐you‐can and can be purchased at brownpapertickets.com or by calling 800.838.3006. The show runs approximately 2 hours, including a talk‐back with the performer and a panel of local experts.
Brown student designers, stylists, photographers, and hair and makeup artists showcase their talents in the annual Fashion @ Brown Fashion Show. F@B is dedicated to bringing a fashion outlet to Brown students interested in all different aspects of the fashion world.
7pm, Studio 1.
Realizing Empathy Public Talk and Panel Discussion
4.24.13 @ 7pm
Martinos Auditorium
After spending 9 years in the domain of Human-Centered Design and Pervasive Computing research, Seung Chan Lim (a.k.a. Slim) felt the need to find a new way of looking at his practice. To satisfy this thirst, he then spent 4 years studying both visual and performing arts. In this process, he developed a way of looking at the creative process of "making something" as being analogous to engaging in an empathic conversation with another person. In this talk, he will tell the story of why he thinks this is the case, and why this way of looking is valuable to not only enriching one's own creative process, but also to learning, interdisciplinary collaboration, and life in general.
After the talk, Brown and RISD students who partook in a 2-day workshop of the same theme will share their reflections from the event and engage in a discussion around questions presented by the audience.
"The Myth of Progress" - The Foundation Principles of Sustainability
Science Communication Series, Spring 2013,
Tom Wessels, Professor of Ecology Antioch New England Graduate School
A Presentation based on Tom Wessels, book, "The Myth of Progress" ,
For 3.5 billion years life has not only sustained itself, but has thrived on this planet. To create sustainable systems we don’t need to reinvent the wheel, we only need to embrace the scientific principles that govern sustainability in all living systems. This presentation covers three of these principles: the law of limits to growth, the second law of thermodynamics and its realtionship to entropy, and the law of self-organization. Examples of how these laws work in the natural world will be used to show how they can be applied to human systems like a community or an economy.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
7:00 pm– 9:00 pm
Martinos Auditorium
Obie Award winning playwright Robbie McCauley to perform SUGAR, her one-woman show about her life-long struggle with diabetes at the Brown University Granoff Creative Arts Center on April 18 and 19, 2013 at 7pm. A post-show discussion follows each performance. Performances are free and open to the public.
Providence, RI – "You know I suppose to ‘a been dead. Sugar is complicated, like love, full of pleasure and pain. It's complicated, gives you energy and can eat you up from the inside out." So begins award-winning theatre artist, Robbie McCauley's autobiographical solo show about living with diabetes. SUGAR, directed by Maureen Shea, professor of Performing Arts at Emerson College, with music by Chauncey Moore and projections by Mirta Tocci, cracks open the silence about the diabetes epidemic in the U.S. that affects approximately 20 percent of adult African-Americans and is the fourth leading cause of death among African-Americans.
In a January, 2013 interview in The Boston Globe, McCauley said that she created the piece as a way to encourage more people who have diabetes to talk about it. SUGAR, a 90-minute performance, was shaped from survival tales from McCauley’s own life as well as interviews with diabetics, their families, friends and health care providers. During the performance, McCauley tells tales of food – from the comfort food of her southern upbringing to the food from her days living as an artist in New York. As part of the narrative, McCauley also addresses disparities in health care between black and white people in the United States. In one provocative scene the artist carries sugar cane on her back, drawing a link between slavery, health-care inequity and diabetes.
McCauley’s moving story, SUGAR, is presented by Brown’s Department of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies and the Creative Arts Council. It will be performed at Brown University’s Granoff Creative Art Center, 154 Angell Street. April 18 & 19, 2013 at 7:00pm. Performances are free and open to the public.
ROBBIE MCCAULEY is a professor in the Performing Arts Department at Emerson College. She is an Obie Award winning playwright and a nationally recognized performance artist and director. McCauley was a member of the original Broadway cast of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.
Studio 1, April 18th and 19th at 7pm
The Student Creative Art Council will host their annual Spring Arts Fest throughout the Granoff Center on 4.13. As a committee, the SCAC curate and fund lecture series, performances, screenings and exhibitions.
Spring Arts Fest brings diverse disciplines together but the spring event has a more programmatic focus, with installations, performances, lectures, screening, and community events.
The Student Creative Arts Council presnts The Grant Show, an exhibition of works by several recent recipients of CAC Student Grants. The show will feature works by:Zachary Bleckner, Peter Bussigel, Woo Jin Chun, Sarah Grimm, Daniel Kelley, Maya Mason, Chris Novello, Sofie Ramos, Nara Shin, Whitney White (pending)
April 6th - 16th, 2013
Granoff Center Lower Lobby
Opening Reception, April 7th at 5pm
The Innocents documents the stories of individuals who served time in prison for violent crimes they did not commit. Simon, a 1997 Brown alum, photographed these men at sites that had particular significance to their illegitimate conviction: the scene of misidentification, the scene of arrest, the scene of the crime or the scene of the alibi. Stop by Hillel for this rare opportunity to see a selection from Simon's ground breaking collection. In these photographs Simon confronts photography’s ability to blur truth and fiction -- an ambiguity that can have severe, even lethal consequences.
Brown RISD Hillel Gallery (80 Brown Street)
M-F 9 am to 11 pm, Sat 10 am to 8 pm, Sun 12 pm to 6 pm
Brown Concert Agency presents the thirteenth speakeasy featuring student and professor bands from Brown and RISD.
Cannibal Ramblers are a dynamic duo hailing from New England. Their influences range from Delta, North Mississippi to Noise, Doom, and Punk, creating a unique and idiosyncratic sound most frequently compared to early Captain Beefheart. Up next, Railway, the electronic project of Tristan Rodman, will be played live with a full band that includes drums, drum machine, guitar, synths, and a computer. Expect a continuous set of fun music to dance to + sing along with. Then, Hey Human will come on with their sound: avant rock, savant rock, and noise from three humans about life in flooded claypit, Rhode Island. Finally, Stolen Jars, the project of Cody Fitzgerald, is a beautiful mixture of looping intricate guitar lines and floating melodies all brought to life by a live band.
More information about the bands and links to their music can be found at http://brownconcertagency.wordpress.com/speakeasies/ or http://www.facebook.com/events/544168202271666/.
April 4th - Granoff Center for Creative Arts, Studio 1 @ 8 pm
This event is free and open to the public.
Professor Roger Hangarter will present a lecture entitled "Plants: they whisper, talk and even move" in the Martinos Auditorium of the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at noon on Thursday April 4.
Professor Hangarter is a creative plant biologist, photographer and educator who has used time-lapse photography to develop beautiful videos that document plant movement and its effects. His work (a traveling exhibit called sLowlife [http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/usbg/toc.htm] and a wonderful PlantsInMotion website [http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/starthere.html]) has been exhibited both in botanic gardens and museums as well as the Indiana School of Fine Art. He has also been recognized with a regional Emmy for his photography in the documentary The Natural Heritage of Indiana.
Roger Hangarter is the Class of 1968 Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Biology at Indiana University, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. From 2004-2005 he served as President of the American Society of Plant Biologists.
Brown's Creative Mind Initiative has invited Dr. Beth Altringer to present a mini lecture about her explorations in the areas of innovation, creative collaboration, and human-centered design. Dr. Altringer runs the Behavior for Better Innovation Group at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). The group's contributions range from academic research, to curriculum design, to the provision of monetary and structural support for student entrepreneurial projects. Dr. Altringer's research focuses on the conditions that yield innovative solutions to complex problems. Her work experience includes having been part of the IDEO research team, teaching and research on creative team dynamics as a visiting scholar at the Stanford Institute of Design (D-School), and consulting for the PPR Group, Gucci, and Puma. Please join us for her talk.
4/2, 6.30 pm, Granoff, Englander Studio.
FREE
‘Raiding the Attic’ assembles the work of artists, Jean Blackburn, Wendy Edwards, Holly Hughes and Randa Newland, each feeding on the stored cultural baggage of intimate domestic space. An opening reception will be held on 3.19 at 6:30pm.
Science Communication Series, Spring 2013,
John Long, Professor of Biology and Chair of Biology, Vassar College
Biologist and robotics expert John Long examines what evolving robots can teach us about the history of life and the future of technology. Long, author of Darwin's Devices, has found an ingenious way to study extinct species: he creates robots that look and behave similarly, applies evolutionary pressures, lets them compete for mates and resources, and mutates their 'genes.' In short,he lets robots play the game of life; in the process learning some startling things about the origins--and trajectory--of species.
Monday, March 18
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Martinos Auditorium
AMERICAN DANCE LEGACY INITIATIVE INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS AND INSTALLATIONS
curated by Brown Public Humanities graduate students
March 18-22 - 10am-4pm
Granoff Living Rooms
Free and open to the public
The Installations, situated in all five of the Living Rooms, provide new perspectives on viewing and experiencing dance.
Two of the Installations are inspired by the work of American dance pioneer and legend, José Limón (1908-1972), curated by students from Central Falls High School. By combining photographs, video, text and choreography, the students share their personal connection to José Limón and his repertory. Cathedral, designed and curated by Brown dancer/choreographer, Alison Murphy, is an interactive exhibit of paintings by Professor of History Emeritus Tom Gleason, which he created after the onset of Parkinson's Disease. Viewers will have the opportunity to respond to the exhibit through text, sound, visual art, and movement. Cathedral, is presented in partnership with ASaP: Artists and Scientists as Partners. The final two installations showcase ADLI programs across the country.
ADLI Mini-Fest Concert: A Journey Through Nine Decades of Dance
3.15 & 16.13 @ 8pm, Martinos Auditorium
Join our welcoming, innovative community for a performance of fierce, exhilarating, and beautiful dancing! Anchoring the program will be three pieces based on the repertory of dance legend and pioneer, José Limón (1908-1972). Kristen Foote, soloist with the José Limón Dance Company, will perform three solos from Dances for Isadora, choreographed just one year before Limón's death. Dancing Legacy, ADLI's performing and teaching ensemble, will perform excerpts from Colin Connor's Requiem. Connor danced with the Limón company for eight years and Requiem clearly honors that lineage. Dance Extension, Brown University's modern repertory company will performLimón Etude choreographed by Limón company artistic director Carla Maxwell. Limón Etude includes themes and motifs from Dances for Isadora, which Limón created on Maxwell. Tickets: $15 General/$5 Students, available at www.adli.us.
ADLI Mini-Fest Masterclass with Carla Maxwell
3.16.13 @ 12pm, Studio 1
Carla Maxwell joined the Limón Dance Company in 1965. She soon became a principal dancer under Limón's direction and, in 1975, assistant artistic director under Ruth Currier. Maxwell was appointed artistic director in 1978, and during her tenure, the Company has emerged as one of the finest repertory dance ensembles in the world. She received the 1995 Dance Magazine Award and a 1998 New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award for finding a creative present in the context of a revered past, and thereby offering choreographic opportunity to multiple generations of artists; for inspired leadership and artistic accomplishment. Acclaimed as a brilliant dramatic dancer, she danced many major roles with the Company, including the title role in Carlota, Limón's final ballet which he choreographed for her. Maxwell is responsible for many of the Company's reconstructions of Limón dance, and as a choreographer, she has created works for the Company and regional companies throughout the U.S. She teaches internationally as both a representative of the Company and a guest artist-in-residence. Participants in the master class will have the opportunity to learn excerpts from Dances for Isadora, one of the works featured in the Mini-Fest Concert.
ADLI Mini-Fest Lecture Demonstration: Dance, Access and Arts Literacy
3.16.13 @ 2pm, Studio 1
Dance, Access, and Arts Literacy showcases ADLI's Repertory Etudes with diverse populations, featuring live and video presentations of professional dancers, persons with Parkinson's Disease, college dancers, students from Central Falls High School, middle school students, and children with Autism. ADLI programs are designed to engage participants with multiple points of entry and emphasize hands-on experiences that celebrate American dance as a cultural asset accessible to all.
In this lecture demonstration, members of a Dance for Parkinson's Disease class will perform an adapted version of a RepEtude based on the works of American dance legend and pioneer, José Limón (1908-1972.) Erika Pujic, co-founder of Battleworks Dance Company, will share her work on a RepEtude, based on the choreography of Robert Battle who is currently artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Closer to home, students from Central Falls High School will present choreography inspired by RepEtudes based on the works of Battle, Limón, and David Parsons.
3.11.13 @ 6:30pm
Martinos Auditorium
Architect Annabelle Selldorf will present a public lecture on March 11th at 6:30pm. Annabelle Selldorf is the principal of Selldorf Architects, an internationally regarded architectural practice known for its work on gallery and art spaces. The firm is currently working on the renovation of Brown University's historic John Hay library. Born and raised in Germany, Annabelle Selldorf received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pratt Institute and a Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University in Florence, Italy. Ms. Selldorf is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and President of the Board of the Architectural League of New York. She also serves on the Boards of the Design Trust for Public Space and the Chinati Foundation.
TEMPESTS
Written by Ben Tallen, Aaron Greer, & Brian Watson-Jones
Directed by Ben Jones '13
This action packed sequel to Shakespeare's The Tempest is inspired by the movie Aliens. 20 years after the events of The Tempest, Miranda returns to Prospero's island with the Neapolitan marines to face a vengeful Ariel…
Join us for an exciting fantasy thriller play, performing in Granoff March 7-9!
George Saunders is the author of four collections of short stories: a new collection, The Tenth of December, published in January, 2013; the bestselling Pastoralia, set against a warped, hilarious, and terrifyingly recognizable American landscape; CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and In Persuasion Nation, one of three finalists for the 2006 STORY Prize for best short story collection of the year. Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline were both New York Times Notable Books. Saunders is also the author of the novella-length illustrated fable, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, which takes us into a profoundly strange country called Inner Horner, and the New York Times bestselling children's book, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, illustrated by Lane Smith, which has also won major children’s literature prizes in Italy and the Netherlands. The Boston Globe lauds Saunders’ ability to “construct a story of absurdist satire, then locate within it a moment of searing humanity."
ENTRY IS FREE BUT TICKETED
Tickets are available, beginning at 9:00 a.m. on 15 February through:http://saundersatbrown.eventbrite.com
To ensure entry, you must present your ticket by 2:25 p.m. (when stand-by admission begins)
Martinos Auditorium, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Stephen Vitiello joins Brown University as a Fitt Artist in Residence at the Granoff Center, March 4-8, 2013
Lecture, Wednesday, March 6th, 7pm
Kooper Studio, Granoff N430
Concert, Friday, March 8th, 7:30pm
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center
Performances by Stephen Vitiello & Mem1 (Mark and Laura Cetilia), Ed Osborn, and Peter Bussigel.
Stephen Vitiello presents a new sound performance work to accompany a section of the D.W. Griffith film Way Down East. For this performance he will be joined by Mem1 (Mark and Laura Cetilia). The evening also features new work by faculty member Ed Osborn, and MEME PhD student Peter Bussigel.
Stephen Vitiello is prominent and widely-exhibited sound artist whose work includes installation and performance works. Recent solo exhibitions include All Those Vanished Engines, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2011-2016); A Bell For Every Minute, The High Line, NYC (2010-2011); More Songs About Buildings and Bells, Museum 52, New York (2011); and Stephen Vitiello, The Project, New York (2006). He has participated in such group exhibitions as September 11, PS 1/MoMA, LIC, NY (2011-2012); the 15th Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2006); Yanomami: Spirit of the Forest at the Cartier Foundation, Paris; and the 2002 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2002). Vitiello has performed nationally and internationally, at locations such as the Tate Modern, London; the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival; The Kitchen, New York; and the Cartier Foundation, Paris. In 2011, ABC-TV, Australia produced the documentary Stephen Vitiello: Listening With Intent. Awards include Creative Capital (2006) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2011-2012). Vitiello is an Associate Professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University. He lives and works in Richmond, Virginia.
All events free and open to the public.
Presented by the Brown Visual Art Department, the Creative Arts Council, and the Music Department’s Program in Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments.
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