April 3–5, 2025
CONCERTS | CONFERENCE | SOUND INSTALLATIONS
A three-day festival highlighting a wide range of contemporary sonic practices by prominent artists and scholars from Brown, RISD, and beyond.

February 11, 2025
LITERARY ARTS | CONVERSATION
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.

December 5–7, 2024
PERFORMANCE | SYMPOSIUM
A three-day symposium that will investigate how and why duration has been an important aesthetic mode for queer and trans performance, visual, and media artists.

Fall 2023–Fall 2024
FILM | PANEL
A year-long integrated media experience that illuminates the importance of our collective health and what can be done to enhance it.

October 24–27, 2024
MUSIC | ORCHESTRA | FESTIVAL
A Three-day Festival Highlighting Innovative New Orchestral Music

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.

October 17, 2024
DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE
A durational performance and queer choreography of the throat by Julie Tolentino
Performance by Stosh Fila and Julie Tolentino

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.

June 4–6, 2024
FILM | MULTIMEDIA | PERFORMANCE | PANEL
An artistic response to the eco-political challenges of the 21st century.

May 23 & 25, 2024
THEATER
A celebration and staged reading of the 1970s play written by George Houston Bass.

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 16 and 17, 2024
VISUAL ART | SYMPOSIUM
Featuring artists whose multidisciplinary practices extend beyond art objects, into the realm of social engagement.

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.

April 12, 2024
MUSIC | DANCE
A concert event and dance party that celebrates the creative practices of SAMMUS (Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo), Nadine Lee, and madison moore.

March 19, 2024
MUSIC
The finale of the Electric Hour Songwriting Series, a songwriting concert benefit series started by students at Brown.

March 2, 2024
MUSIC
Meredith Monk presents a concert of music from her interdisciplinary performance work.

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.

Jan 27 — Feb 17, 2024 (concluded)
MUSIC | PANEL
A series of events that sparks dialogue between Cabo Verdean and Cabo Verdean American scholars, activists, and sound artists.

January 27, 2024 (Concluded)
AFRICANA STUDIES | THEATER | WORKSHOP
A developmental workshop and invited sharing of a new play.

January 2024 (Concluded)
WORKSHOP | EDUCATION
An ArtsLiteracy event

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.