Date October 12, 2022 2022-10-12
The University’s sponsorship of the late-October lighting comes during Family Weekend and 50 Years of Medicine celebration, and reflects Brown’s committedness to and transportation with the City of Providence.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Brown University volition sponsor a afloat lighting of WaterFire Providence connected the evening of Saturday, Oct. 22, uniting members of the Brown assemblage with neighbors and families from crossed the Providence country for a world-class creator and taste experience.
Launched successful the mid-1990s by Brown Class of 1975 postgraduate Barnaby Evans, the award-winning WaterFire has been acclaimed by Rhode Island residents and planetary visitors alike arsenic a almighty enactment of creation and a moving awesome of Providence’s renaissance. During each lighting, much than 80 sparkling bonfires, the fragrant scent of wood smoke, the flickering firelight connected the city’s arched bridges, the silhouettes of the fire-tenders passing by the flames, the torch-lit vessels traveling down the river, and the enchanting euphony from astir the satellite prosecute the senses and emotions of those who stroll Providence’s adjacent streets and sidewalks.
Barnaby Evans connected WaterFire's interaction successful Providence
The WaterFire laminitis and Brown postgraduate shared insights connected the Open Curriculum, and WaterFire's almighty economic, taste interaction successful Providence.
Brown President Christina H. Paxson said the University’s sponsorship of WaterFire reflects its ongoing commitment to and transportation with the City of Providence — arsenic a neighbor, top employer and instauration dedicated to a ngo of education, probe and service.
“In everything from advancing wellness and aesculapian care successful Rhode Island, supporting section K-12 schools and playing a cardinal relation successful fueling the determination economy, Brown is profoundly committed to investing successful the occurrence of our section community,” Paxson said. “In the 28 years since Brown postgraduate Barnaby Evans founded WaterFire, this singular installation has illuminated Providence and helped to alteration the metropolis culturally and economically. We are excited to physique connected our erstwhile partnerships with WaterFire, observe our enduring committedness to Providence, and ignite caller and lasting connections with the metropolis and authorities we telephone home.”
Brown’s sponsorship of the Oct. 22 lighting comes arsenic the University welcomes thousands of parents and household members of existent students from crossed the globe to Providence for Family Weekend and for the Warren Alpert Medical School’s Medical Family Weekend, portion of a solemnisation of Brown’s 50 years of impact successful aesculapian acquisition and research. The play events gives families of Brown students a sensation of the intelligence and taste vitality of Brown and Providence and the accidental to prosecute firsthand successful the section community.
Beginning astir sunset, the Saturday evening lighting volition see a divers lineup of nationalist performances and events featuring Brown pupil organizations. A capella performances volition capable the streets with philharmonic pieces from the Ursa Minors and Shades of Brown, arsenic good arsenic Beauty and the Beats, a unit that performs fashionable Disney songs. DAEBAK K-Pop, a radical that performs Korean popular music, volition articulation different creation acts, including the Brown Salsa Club. Additionally, Art for Service — a student-led radical known for creating murals successful nationalist spaces — volition pb a unrecorded coating lawsuit capturing the sights of WaterFire passim the night.
Other Brown-affiliated groups hosting assorted activities for the nationalist see the Warren Alpert Medical School. In solemnisation of 50 Years of interaction successful aesculapian education, the aesculapian schoolhouse volition diagnostic MEGA Lungs, an acquisition grounds that allows visitors to measurement wrong an inflatable quality lung replica. Visitors tin larn astir the assorted structures and mean lung functions, observe examples of lung trauma and illness — including lung cancer, the starring origin of decease from crab successful Rhode Island — and presumption displays explaining immoderate of the latest respiratory aesculapian treatments.
An array of Providence-based assemblage organizations volition beryllium featured arsenic well. Visitors tin besides bask pop-up creation installations, including inflatable creation by Pneuhaus and a glass-blowing presumption led by Gather Glass. Other assemblage organizations participating see the Avenue Concept, the Providence Performing Arts Center, Gallery Night Providence, AS220, and Haus of Codec.
The lighting is escaped and unfastened to the public. All are encouraged to articulation members of the Brown assemblage to statesman the lighting procession astatine the basin of Waterplace Park. The night’s events commencement astatine 5:45 p.m. with a peculiar show from folk-rock creator and Brown University pupil Chance Emerson and little remarks from Paxson and the Warren Alpert Medical School Dean Mukesh K. Jain. The lighting volition instantly follow, astir 20 minutes past sunset (5:54 p.m.), and the fires volition stay lit until 11 p.m.
Brown volition besides big hospitality tents for Brown parents and families (on Market Square) and Warren Alpert Medical School assemblage members celebrating 50 Years of Medicine astatine Brown (on Washington Street). The lighting besides coincides with events passim the play for Brown alumni unpaid leaders.
October 12, 2022
The Brown postgraduate and WaterFire laminitis shared insights connected Brown’s Open Curriculum, and the enduring interaction of the almighty enactment of creation and moving awesome of Providence’s renaissance.
October 10, 2022
Douglas W. Diamond, a University of Chicago student who earned a bachelor’s grade successful economics from Brown, was recognized for probe connected banks and fiscal crises.
October 4, 2022
In an lawsuit hosted by world centers astatine Brown and Columbia universities, researchers discussed however protests successful Iran link with a agelong state conflict and subordinate to the planetary combat for women’s bodily autonomy.
English (US)