Freedom Train Productions is hiring!

Managing Producer (Consultant)

Freedom Train Productions, a black queer theatre company, seeks a highly motivated and independent arts professional with a background in theatre management. This is a part time consultant position beginning in Spring 2010 with an option to stay on permanently dependent on funding.

The Managing Producer will:

* Develop a three-year development and relationship building strategy for special events fundraising and individual, institutional, and government giving;
* Work with the artistic team to identify and support the theatre's response to immediate public and private giving opportunities;
* Work with the artistic team to design a public theatre training series and related earned income revenue strategy; and
* Assess the artistic and management theatre model that the theatre has built over its first three years and provide consultation toward opportunities moving forward.

This position, funded through our Stonewall Community Foundation award, is a great opportunity for a rising arts leader to play a crucial role in the growth of an emerging theatre.

Women, transgender, and people of color candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information and to apply please visit:

www.freedomtrainproductions.org/work

Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality

A lecture by

SUNY Professor Anita Gonzalez

TODAY, Friday, April 16th

3:00pm

211 Lyman Hall

This event is free and open to all!

Generously co-sponsored by Brown University’s Creative Arts Council, Department of Comparative Literature, Center for Latin American Studies, Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, and Latino History Month.

Carmelita Tropicana

Cabaret a la Cubana

Saturday, April 10

10:00pm

Ashamu Dance Studio

After tonight's performance of The Cook

This event is FREE while space lasts!

THE COOK opens this Thursday

Get your tickets to The Cook!

http://www.brown.edu/tickets

THE COOK

by Eduardo Machado, directed by Kym Moore

Apr 8-11 and 15-18 in Leeds Theatre

8PM Thurs-Sat, 2PM Sun

Brown students, check your mailboxes for a $2-off coupon and bring it to the Box Office in Leeds breezeway to get your discounted ticket for the show. Freshmen get in FREE this Thursday!

Also this Thursday: look out for our Box Office on the (Main) Green where you can purchase your ticket and get some free Cuban coffee.

Keep watching this space for more info about talkbacks, related presentations and performances!

The Cook explores the personal, social and political cost of "Revolution." It is a social realist play that brings to mind Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. We observe the relationship of Gladys and Carlos over forty years beginning on the eve of Castro's rise to power in 1959. The rise and fall of Castro's regime is reflected in the character's relationships, making it a truly human story.

What happens to the dream once the dreamer is awakened? She goes to "work" in an attempt to reconstruct that which has almost been destroyed: the human spirit.

Please join us for this beautiful tale of struggle, love, family and survival.

Ivy Film Festival - Screenplay Readers Required!

The Ivy Film Festival is looking for Brown actors and actresses to read excerpts of winning student scripts at the 2010 Screenplay Brunch. The event will be held on the final day of the festival (Sunday, April 18th), and is the only opportunity that screenwriters have to showcase their work at the festival, so we're asking for your help in order to make the scripts sound as good as possible.

Volunteers will get free food at the brunch, as well as drink tickets at our after party, and tickets to one of our larger events (the schedule has not yet been finalized, but once it has been, the event is negotiable).

Anyone who is interested should email Lisa Weisdorf at iffscreenplay@gmail.com.

Thanks in advance!