Brown Arts

Campus Projects

Interdisciplinary and collaborative programs created by members of the Brown community

IGNITE Series Campus Projects

On Now/Up Next

October 16 — 18, 2024
CONFERENCE | FILM SCREENING | DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE
A three-day conference of panels, screenings, and performances exploring the force of the elemental in and beyond media studies.
DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE
October 17, 2024
A durational performance and queer choreography of the throat by Julie Tolentino
Performance by Stosh Fila and Julie Tolentino
October 24 — 27, 2024
MUSIC | ORCHESTRA | FESTIVAL
A Three-day Festival Highlighting Innovative New Orchestral Music
Fall 2023 — Fall 2024
Upcoming: "Power of the Dream" on Oct. 23
FILM | PANEL
A year-long integrated media experience that illuminates the importance of our collective health and what can be done to enhance it.
December 5 — 7, 2024
PERFORMANCE | SYMPOSIUM
A three-day symposium that will investigate how and why duration has been an important aesthetic mode for performance, visual, and media artists.

Coming Soon

Celebrating the Words That Make Us: An Evening with Claudia Rankine & Bernardine Evaristo
Date: February 11, 2025
Location: The Lindemann Main Hall
Curated by the Department of Literary Arts

Renowned authors Claudia Rankine and Bernardine Evaristo will share selected readings of their work followed by a conversation with Kwame Dawes about literary arts across Africa and the African diasporas.

Residual Noise Conference
Date: April 4-5, 2025
Location: The Lindemann Main Hall and the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Curated by Ed Osborn, Professor | Music and Visual Art

Three performance-residencies including local and legendary artists that cross disciplinary boundaries to explore ways in which music forms community, cultivates creative expression, and examines the relationship of humans to their physical and spiritual environments.

Concluded Projects

September 27 and 28, 2024
HISTORY OF ART & ARCHITECTURE SYMPOSIUM
Following "Light in Theory and Practice," a celebration of the opening of The Lindemann Performing Arts Center with five of today's most prominent light artists and lighting designers including Leo Villareal, whose luminous work Infinite Composition is installed in the Atwater lobby.
April 22 — May 10, 2024
VISUAL ART | MULTIMEDIA
An exhibition and envisioning space that encourages men of African descent to remember and represent their relationships with their fathers and children through a multimedia installation of creative and archival works.
April 22, 2024
FILM | PANEL
Alumni in the Arts | IGNITE Series
Join Brown alumna Catherine Gund ‘88 for a preview screening of her new film.
February 26-March 2, 2024
FILM | PANEL | EXHIBITION
A film screening and week-long exhibition creating dialogue between the past and present, art and politics, creative and scholarly work against AIDS.
February 17, 2024 (concluded)
MUSIC
Rooted in Japanese drumming traditions and pioneered by transnational Asian and Asian American communities, taiko is now a global phenomena.
January 27, 2024 (Concluded)
AFRICANA STUDIES | THEATER | WORKSHOP
A developmental workshop and invited sharing of a new play.
November 6, 13, & 20, 2023 (Concluded)
FILM SERIES | PANEL DISCUSSIONS
A selection of films from across the African continent and diaspora that contend with the social and political dimensions of Racial Ecologies.