Come to the Hillel Gallery for viewing and interaction with a site-specific work created by RISD and Brown students during the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange residency. This event begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Brown RISD Hillel Gallery, 80 Brown St. A Wish and a Prayer, an ongoing installation project by artist Pam Hall, is an evolving and interactive installation that includes a “house of prayer” that invites community members to share their wishes. The work will be on view through February 21, 2008. See link or call (401) 863-2805 for more information.
www.brownhillel.org/danceexchange

Ruth Solie of Smith College will discuss “Steam Engines, Beethoven, and Victorian Modernity” at 4 p.m. in Orwig Music Building. Her talk will focus on an 1883 Ernest Foxwell essay in Macmillan’s Magazine, titled “Express Trains–A Rhapsody,” which contained references to Beethoven and musical phenomena. This event is part of The Department of Music’s Mediated Musical Communities colloquium series.
www.brown.edu/Project/Music/colloquium.html

Want to learn more about what’s happening in energy research and action at Brown and beyond? The Environmental Change Initiative is organizing a rapid-fire symposium to capture the broad range of campus research and activities in these areas. The symposium will consist of a series of five-minute talks by members of the Brown, RISD and Providence communities to highlight the many energy-related projects that are underway. Research talks will be grouped early in the afternoon (3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.). Community and other action-oriented projects will present later in the afternoon (5:30 -6:30), with a networking reception in between. This event will be held in Barus and Holley, Room 168.
www.brown.edu/Research/ECI/activities/symposiumsignup.html

Internationally renowned choreographer and MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow Liz Lerman will discuss her artistic process and interests, including her newest project, 613 Radical Acts of Prayer. The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange brings community groups together to experience the expressive power of movement and explore important issues through story and collaboration. The lecture begins at 5 p.m. in List Art Center, 64 College St. Mayor David Cicilline will make introductory remarks. The presentation also includes a performance by Dance Exchange company members. This event is part of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Residency. See link for additional workshops, lectures, and performances.
www.brownhillel.org/danceexchange

Gabriel Alegria and his Afro-Peruvian Jazz Ensemble perform as part of a 2008 tour across the United States and Canada. Their tour features music from Alegría’s latest recording, which features guest appearances by some of today’s jazz luminaries such as vocalist Tierney Sutton, multi-grammy award winning Russell Ferrante, and jazz legends Bill Watrous and Bobby Shew. The concert begins at 8 p.m. in Grant Recital Hall, located behind the Orwig Music Building on the corner of Hope Street and Young Orchard Avenue. The Ensemble also leads a workshop in Fulton Rehearsal Hall earlier in the evening.
www.brown.edu/Departments/Music/events/

The Brown University Orchestra performs under the direction of Paul Phillips, conductor, with special guest Carol Wincenc, flutist and CAC Artist-in-Residence. The program includes Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (Krzysztof Penderecki), Symphony in Three Movements (Igor Stravinsky) and Flute Concerto (Christopher Rouse) featuring Ms. Wincenc. Tickets will be available at the Orwig Music Building during the week of the concert or at the door one hour before the peformance for $8 ($4 with a Brown ID). The program begins at 8 p.m. on both evenings in Sayles Hall.

James David Christie, the organist for the Boston Symphony and professor of organ at Oberlin College, will be the featured guest artist for Brown University’s 2008 Edgar John Lownes Memorial Organ Concert at 4 p.m. in Sayles Hall. Dr. Christie, who has performed and recorded with many of the world’s major orchestras, will perform works by Piroye, Camphuysen, Böhm, van Soldt, Ropartz, Alain, Langlais, and Guilmant. Additionally, he will offer one of his own compositions, titled Élégie, in memory of composer Jean Langlais. The concert is sponsored by the Edgar John Lownes Memorial Fund and Brown University’s Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life and the Music Department.
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This culminating event of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Residency at Brown will feature the performance piece created during the two-week residency. 613 Radical Acts of Prayer will be performed by community dancers as well as by Dance Exchange company members and will also include a post-performance talkback led by Liz Lerman. Performances begin at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. in Ashamu Dance Studio at Brown University. Tickets are required. See link or call 401-863-2805 to reserve tickets.
www.brownhillel.org/danceexchange

Stephen Ellis, Senior Researcher at the African Studies Center, Leiden, will present the second lecture in a series on “Contemporary Africa: Writing Its History.” His talk, titled “Histories of Invisible Africa,” begins at 4 p.m. in the Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St.

The Brown University Literary Arts Program and the Brown/Trinity Repertory Consortium present the first installment of the 26th annual New Plays Festival. Join MFA candidate playwrights Christina Anderson, Dipika Guha, and Meg Miroshnik, working under the guidance of Paula Vogel and Bonnie Metzgar and alongside graduate students in the Brown/Trinity Consortium and professional artists from around New England, as they present three new plays in one extraordinary weekend of artistic collaboration and theatrical innovation. Each play – Inked Baby, Grand MotherLand, and Bad Money will be performed twice. See link for show times and ticket reservations.
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Aaron Fox of Columbia University will discuss, “Repatriation as Re-animation: the Multiple Circulations of Native Musical Heritage,” at 4 p.m. in Orwig Music Building. Fox’s talk will cover his work with Navajo and Inupiat communities in New Mexico and Alaska to “repatriate” recordings made by collector Laura Boulton in the 1930s and 40s. This event is part of The Department of Music’s Mediated Musical Communities colloquium series.
www.brown.edu/Project/Music/colloquium.html

A solo recital featuring The ViM Saxophone Quartet, guest clinicians and visiting artists for The Inner Chamber Festival of Saxophone Chamber Music, begins at 8 p.m. in Grant Recital Hall. The ViM Saxophone Quartet won the 2006 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in Notre Dame,Indiana, and numerous other awards for their superb musicality. The quartet has also developed a strong national reputation for its participation in music education and outreach. The Inner Chamber Festival for Saxophone Chamber Music is sponsored in part by the Creative Arts Council. The ViM will also lead a double-session master class in the morning, and a large saxophone ensemble reading session in the afternoon. See link for more information.
www.brown.edu/Departments/Music/events/

As part of her residency at RISD, artist Pam Hall will create a new piece inspired from her recent work, A Wish and a Prayer. This evolving and interactive installation will include a “house of prayer” that invites community members to share their wishes. The installation will be on view through Thursday, February 21, 2008 at the Brown RISD Hillel Gallery, 80 Brown St. See link or call (401) 863-2805 for more information.
http://www.brownhillel.org/danceexchange

The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University presents Cut Folded Dyed & Glued from Saturday, Jan. 26 through Wednesday, March 5, 2008. The exhibition features abstract paper and Mylar sculptures by artists Imi Hwangbo and Jae Ko. An opening reception will be held on Friday, Jan. 25, 2008, at 5:30 p.m. The David Winton Bell Gallery, located on the first floor of List Art Center, 64 College St., is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For more information, call (401) 863-2932.
http://www.brown.edu/news/2007-08/07-079.html

In September 1855, 17-year-old John Milton Hay arrived at Brown to pursue his studies. Five and a half years later, with an A.M. from Brown under his arm, he was heading off to Washington as Assistant Private Secretary to the newly elected President of the United States – Abraham Lincoln. John Hay’s Lincoln, and Lincoln’s John Hay: Shaping Identity and Public Memory in 19th Century America explores the story of Hay, his time at Brown, and his evolving relationship with the man who would help to shape his life’s work and whose public image Hay, in turn, would help to shape for the American people in generations to come. The John Hay Library is located at 20 Prospect St. The exhibit is on view through March 6, 2008. Hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 1-5 p.m. For more information contact hay@brown.edu.
blogs.brown.edu/project/libnews/archives/2008/01/john_hays_linco.html

Come see what Brown’s libraries, museums, and galleries have to offer. This exhibition honors the treasures of Brown University’s collections – from the coffee pot that launched a thousand Alcoholics Anonymous meetings to a hand-knit cap from a Civil War Zouave regiment. Curated by students in American Civilization’s Methods in Public Humanities course and sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center Public Humanities Program and the Brown University Library, the exhibition runs through May 30, 2008, at the Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street. Open Monday through Friday from 1-5 p.m.
www.brown.edu/news/2007-08/07-074.html

Brown University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology presents Believing Africa in its satellite gallery at Manning Hall. The exhibition focuses on the diversity of African spiritual beliefs. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Ongoing exhibitions at the Haffenreffer Museum’s main base in Bristol include Kayak, Umiak, Canoe; Packrats for Posterity? Relevance in the Anthropological Museum; and the newest exhibit, Facing Mesoamerica.
haffenreffermuseum.org/