Our Storied Health Film and Media Series is a year-long integrated media experience at the Brown Arts Institute that illuminates the importance of our collective health and what can be done to enhance it. The series, curated by Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, Director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown School of Public Health and Dr. […]
Join director and choreographer Bill T. Jones and Janet Wong, Associate Artistic Director of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, as they discuss the company’s latest work, “What Problem?” and their collaboration with 26 local community participants for the Providence performance of the work.
Edgar Villanueva, author of Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance (2018), visits Brown to discuss the legacy of colonialism in American philanthropy and to offer alternative paradigms informed by Indigenous worldviews and his expertise in the field. Joining him in conversation about shifts towards social justice philanthropy is renowned civil society scholar, social […]
Keynote | September 12, 5:30 PM | Brown University Granoff Center for the Arts Martinos Auditorium | 154 Angell St. Providence | FREE | Registration required What’s gonna happen? There is a calamity in the air. Every person I pass on the street has that look on their face. The look of, “What’s gonna happen?” […]
This signature Aurea Ensemble premiere will explore the intersection of nature, science, the arts and humanities in celebration of the Pulitzer Prize centennial and the sanctity of our environment. Of Nature Composed includes the music of 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner, John Luther Adams; American Modernist, Charles Ives, and Renaissance composer, Johannes Ockeghem; with words of the […]
This Freedom Café will examine ongoing issues in mass incarceration from the perspective of those working within the system and hoping for positive changes. The evening will include a performance from Everett Company and allow for unique conversation between the Everett artists, individuals working within the criminal justice system, academics writing about mass incarceration, and […]
Please join us for Winter Mini-Fest 2016! Wednesday, March 2 - Saturday, March 5, 2016 ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Visit: www.adli.us for more details about all of the events. __________________________________________________ INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS AND INSTALLATIONS Wednesday March 2 - Saturday, March 5 10am-4pm Living Room Galleries curated by Rhode Island artists […]
Everett's FREEDM PROJECT premieres at Brown University's Granoff Center on March 13 and 14 at 8:00pm.
Join American Dance Legacy Initiative at Brown University's Granoff Center for multi-media activities inspired by Donald McKayle’s 1959 signature dance work, Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder about chain gangs in the American south.
Slavery by Another Name challenges one of our country's most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. The documentary recounts how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, keeping hundreds of thousands of African Americans in bondage, […]
