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Carberry Day
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A young Josiah Carberry.
Photo Credit: Cindy Cornett SeigleIn honor of Carberry Day—on Friday, December 13 at 3 p.m. in the Laura and David Finn Reading Room of the Rockefeller Library—the Library will present a cooking demonstration and Josiah Carberry himself will sign cookbooks.
There have been rumors that Carberry will be preparing every recipe from The Carberry Cookbook. One rumor in particular said, “Carberry most likely will try to combine all the recipes into one large dish that will be served in the University’s largest cracked pot.”
The Library can neither confirm or deny most of these rumors, but there will be food.
If you happen to spot Josiah Carberry between now and tomorrow afternoon, feel free to post an image of him on instagram and tag it #josiahcarberry so it will appear on the Library’s Josiah Carberry Wall.
Details for Cooking Demonstration and Cookbook Signing:
Date: Friday December 13
Time: 3 p.m.
Location: Laura and David Finn Reading Room (Rockefeller Library)Contact: Mark Baumer | 401-863-3642
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Mapping Arts Project Event in the Digital Scholarship Lab
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The Mapping Arts Project is publicly launching Mapping Arts Project-Providence on Thursday, December 12 in the Digital Scholarship Lab.
This project—a collaborative effort by Brown University graduate students and faculty—digitally mapped the lives, influence, and work of black artists in Providence from the 1860s through the 1960s.
This undertaking is part of the larger Mapping Arts Project run by Blackbird Arts and Research, which has so far mapped the lives and work of artists in Miami during the 1920s through the 1950s.
This current project engages the university and larger Providence community via a publicly accessible, digital map with historical information and images about black artistic influence on Providence. Furthermore, it situates Providence as an important site of black Atlantic cultural production. Artists including painter Edward Bannister, singer Sarah Vaughan, and jazz musician James Berry spent time in the city and shaped its cultural landscape.
Date: December 12
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller LibraryContact: Lara Stein Pardo
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An Evening with 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winning Dramatist, Ayad Akhtar ’93
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The Library is honored to present Ayad Akhtar (Brown alum ’93) as the speaker for the 10th Annual Don Wilmeth Endowed Lectureship in American Theatre.
The lecture will be on Monday, December 9 at 7 p.m. in the Martinos Auditorium of the Granoff Center.
Ayad Akhtar is an author, playwright, and screenwriter. His book American Dervish was voted one of the Best Books of the Year (2012) by numerous publications. His play Disgraced won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Akhtar is a graduate of Brown and Columbia Universities with degrees in Theater and Film Directing. He was born in New York City and raised in Milwaukee.
The Don Wilmeth Endowed Lectureship was established in honor of Professor Don Wilmeth and his monumental contribution to the study of theatre at Brown. The lectureship supports an annual lecture series on American theatre. Past visiting lecturers have included Laurence Maslon (2005), Jim Steinmeyer (2007), Christopher Bigsby (2008), Laura Linney (2008), Lynn Nottage (2010), and Bill Irwin (2011).
The Brown University Library is home to more than 6.8 million print items, plus a multitude of electronic resources and expanding digital archives serving the teaching, research, and learning needs of Brown students and faculty, as well as scholars from around the country and the world. http://library.brown.edu/
Contact: Mark Baumer | 401-863-3642