Location: McMillan 117

David Makovsky is the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and Director of The Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is the former Executive Editor of the Jerusalem Post and was diplomatic correspondent for Israel’s leading daily Haaretz.
Ghaith al-Omari is Advocacy Director at the American Task Force on Palestine. Prior to that, he served in various positions within the Palestinian Authority, including Director of the International Relations Department in the Office of the Palestinian President, and advisor to former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
Sponsored by Program in Judaic Studies, Middle East Studies, Common Ground: Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel,
Puzzle Peace, Brown Students for Israel, Israel on Campus Coalition
In memory of Avi Schaefer.

IMPROVidence “Cuteness Show”

9:00 p.m. Lower Salomon, $1

Perhaps Brown and RISD’s oldest comedy improvisation troupe will entertain us with an explanation why this performance’s advertisements feature clothed puppies in awkward positions and information presented in instant message (non)grammar.

Africa for Haiti Benefit Concert

8:30 p.m. Sayles Hall, $10 Brown / $15 public

West African music and dance troupe Komee Josee and New Works/World Traditions Dance Ensemble will perform to raise money for disaster relief.

Pulse with it

7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Alumnae Hall, $5 at post office / $7 at door

ImPulse Dance Company is sharing the stage with Brown’s Unnatural Selection, HellooHi and URI’s Aesthetic Flo for a hip-hop dance extravaganza. A free after party in South Wayland Lounge will follow at 10:00 p.m. for those who care to listen to ImPulse’s Remyx Album or just can’t get enough of them.

BCA Speakeasy Sessions

10:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m. Grad Center Lounge, free

The Brown Concert Agency is throwing a party that showcases four new student bands and six DJs with a wide range of musical styles. The night’s line-up is, in order, Behaviors, Kid Chocolate, The Unintentions, Release, Redscare and Spoletto.  Discover the potential rock stars and hip-hop artists of the future!

Speaking of futures, make sure your teeth are in for a good one on National Dentist Day.

Location: PW Main stage

By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Morgan Ritchie
Tickets available beginning Wednesday the 10th at 11:59pm online at http://pw.brown.edu/. Tickets will also be available 1 hour before showtime at the door.

Location: Smitty B 106

Cost: Public admission is $10 (at the door or at arttixri.com). All proceeds are donated to Open Doors, an agency working directly with women who are transitioning back into the community after being incarcerated. E-mail catherine.e.mccarthy (at) gmail (dot) com for a student discount price of $5, or show your Brown ID at the door for the same price.

More than 90% of women in prison have experienced violence in their own lives. Presented as part of the Until The Violence Stops: Rhode Island Festival, this event will bring forth raw voices of fierceness and honesty written by women from Rhode Island prisons who are moving forward toward healing, understanding, and change, ultimately impacting laws and treatment of incarcerated women. For the first time Rhode Island women who are presently incarcerated and have themselves experienced violence are being invited to tell their own stories through their words. These writings will be performed during the March 11, 2010 production, and the performance will conclude with a panel discussion about issues affecting women in prison. For more information, please visit www.vdayri.com.

Hosted by: Sexual Assault Task Force, AXO, Coalition Against Relationship Abuse

Location: Stuart Theater, 77 Waterman

LULU follows the rise and fall of one dangerous and doomed creature: the sexually educated but passive woman who will go by any name her lovers wish to call her. From presiding over high society Parisian balls to selling herself in London basement rooms, Lulu ruins those around her, and is ruined, for love. Donald Lyons called LULU a “symphony – or rather a cacophony – of deotic sexual rhetorics….among the supreme masterpieces of nineteenth-century theatre.” Director Spencer Golub calls LULU “very nasty.”  An Eyes Wide Shut for an earlier century’s turn, LULU is a sex tragedy – or comedy – about how basic need and desire are made base by social convention, bourgeois morality and the fantasy life of the mind. Smart, dark, beautiful, twisted, tragic, haunting – you will not forget LULU, or Lulu. For tickets, visit: www.brown.edu/tickets

Location: Barus & Holley room 190

Join us for the screening of a deeply touching film about the Greek Civil War 1946-49, “Psyhi Vathia (Soul Deep)”. Produced in 2009 from one of Greece’s most important film directors, Pantelis Voulgaris, the film presents these dramatic events through the tale of two young brothers who find themselves enlisted in opposing camps after their father is killed and they are separated from their mother.

Location: Pembroke Hall 305, 172 Meeting St.

The Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Committee on Science and Technology Studies, the Center for Environmental Studies, and the Environmental Change Initiative present the fourth event in the year-long series “Nature and Legacy: Humanists, Scientists and the Environment.” Please join us for a panel discussion on “Toxicity” with Brown faculty Kim Boekelheide and Phil Brown, and filmmaker Judy Helfand (“Blue Vinyl”). More info: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Humanities_Center/events/NatureandLegacy.html

Location: Smith-Buonanno, Room 106

Sponsored by the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Research in Culture and Media Studies , and the Department of Modern Culture and Media, Pembroke Center and  Sarah Doyle Women’s Center.

Location: Salomon DECI

The South Asian Students Association is holding its Annual Culture Show – Nashaa 2010. Come join us for an evening of South Asian culture and enjoy the various acts including South Asian dance, music and comedy. Be there and watch SASA at its absolute best!

Location: BBF (turf fields way, way behind the OMAC)

Women’s Club Soccer is having spring tryouts! If you’re looking for a fun, friendly environment to play competitive soccer, come check it out. Bring warm clothes for the weather, either cleats or tennis shoes for the turf, and your game face.