Events
February 3-12, 2012
Writing is Live Festival, Feburary 3-12, 2012
The third annual Writing is Live festival is a presentation of new works featuring six plays by writers in Brown’s graduate and undergraduate theatre programs. Writing is Live celebrates the diversity and strength of new theatrical voices while simultaneously exploring the meaning of text in performance. Performance writing may take forms complete and incomplete, narrative and imagistic, compact or durational, so the festival stresses and plays with the idea of the Live, allowing the development and evolution of new work in conversation with the writer, directors, actors, designers, and audience. All are collaborators in the exciting life of the new performance script. Tickets for all of the festival’s performances are free and available on a first-come, first-served basis at the door half an hour before the curtain. Tickets are limited for these productions, so please arrive as early as possible to guarantee yourself a seat
february 13, 2012
The Precarious University Series continues with Martin Manalansan IV, Monday, February 13 at 4pm
Martin Manalansan, is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, Anthropology, Latin American and Caribbean Studies at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He will be giving histalk The Queer Ethic and the Spirit of Normativity: Neocolonialism in the History of Sexuality at Smith-Buonanno, room 106. A reception follows the talk.
February 17, 2012
Graduate Colloquium with J. Ellen Gainor, Friday, February 17 at 4pm, Lyman Hall, room 211
J. Ellen Gainor, Cornell University, will give a talk entitled, "So You Think You Can Dance Straight? Same-Sex Ballroom and Reality Television"
February 20-March 11, 2012
Artists-in-Residence, Cynthia Hopkins, Jeff Sugg and D.J. Mendel
The artists will be in residence at the Granoff Creative Arts Center from February 20 through March 11, to work on their new peice, The Clement World. The peice is written, composed and performed by Cynthia Hopkins, designed by Jeff Sugg and Directed by D.J. Mendel. This Clement World is a new musical performance work by Cynthia Hopkins that poetically but urgently addresses our global climate crisis. The work is a live documentary film infused with three fictional charactersthat serve as tour guides for an imaginary exhibit conveying the wonders of our currently clement world. While at Brown Cynthia will prepare for a concert version of the work at St. Ann’s in May (also featuring songs from previous works) followed by premiere performances of This Clement World at St. Ann’s, the Walker Art Center, and Les Subsistances in Lyon, France.