Hours: M-F, 11-4; Sat & Sun, 1-4 "We Can Make Rain But No One Came to Ask" touches on the history of car bombing in the Lebanese civil wars by treating historical events as both factual and imagined. In a 17-minute documentary-style video, two fictional characters investigate a bombing in Beirut in 1986. The video is accom-panied by 43 inkjet prints, grouped in four separ-ate folios and displayed on tables to resemble archival materials. Raad's title refers to the impossibility of prognosis, less in terms of weather conditions than future historical, geopolitical, and cultural conditions.

From 4/25 until 5 pm on Friday May 16 The Friedman Study Center is open continuously (24/7) -- now including the 3rd floor! The Rockefeller Library is open 7:30 am - 2 am, Monday - Saturday and 10 am - 2 am Sunday. The John Hay Library, is open 9 am - 6 pm Monday - Friday and 1 - 5 pm Saturday - Sunday. The Sciences Library's tower floors and all other Brown libraries will maintain usual hours. For library hours during exam period, see: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/hours/spring_exams.pdf

Meeting starts every Sunday morning at 10am in the Memorial room, Faunce Hall, Second floor

An exhibition curated by Pauline de Tholozany and Dominique Coulombe. http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/exhibits/index.php For further information contact: Dominique_Coulombe@brown.edu Sponsored by the Department of French Studies: French_Studies@Brown.edu. The John Hay exhibit is designed to accompany the Conference "The Demon of Melancholy: Geneaologies, Modernities http://www.brown.edu/Departments/French/ " which will take place at Brown University on April 24th and 25th, 2008. From antiquity to modern times, from the confinement of enclosed spaces to open-ended journeys of displacement, as part of an individual or collective experience, Melancholy has been a source of inspiration and contemplation for philosophers, aesthetes, writers, artists, and scientists. At the crossroads of the fields of philosophy, occultism, literary arts, visual arts, and medicine, the theme of Melancholy lays a fertile ground for an abundance of literary and artistic creations. How has Melancholy been perceived and represented across the centuries? The displays of this exhibition attempt to provide a partial answer to this question. While it would be an impossible task to give justice to such a rich and vast theme in a small exhibit, works selected from the collections of the John Hay Library and Rockefeller Library offer some insight into the complexities and paradoxes of the theme of Melancholy and illustrate its dialectic nature: on one hand a debilitating and paralyzing force that can lead to asthenia, inhibition, or even mental illness; on the other hand, a nurturing, creative and restorative power capable of unleashing artistic creation, healing the wounds and renewing the will to survive. PLEASE NOTE: EXHIBIT WILL NOT BE OPEN ON SATURDAYS

A recital performed by students in the Applied Music Program for Chamber Music and Strings. Admission is free. Grant Recital Hall is newly renovated and accessible. To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact Ashley Lundh [401.863.3234 - Ashley_Lundh@brown.edu] as far in advance of the event as possible.

A solo recital performed by Mo Tian, pianist. Admission is free. Grant Recital Hall is newly renovated and accessible. To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact Ashley Lundh [401.863.3234 - Ashley_Lundh@brown.edu] as far in advance of the event as possible.

Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas is a Book-on-Legs Project. The novel was adapted by Professor Elmo Terry-Morgan and Denise Nicholas. Freshwater Road tells the story of a young woman's journey into adulthood during Freedom Summer and the political upheavals of the Civil Rights Movement - 1964. The show runs from May 8-24, 2008. Thursday-Saturday performances at 7PM; Sunday performances at 3PM followed by folkthought. PLEASE NOTE: The final performance on Saturday, May 24th is a special commencement performance which begins at 11:00AM. For reservations call (401) 863-3558.