Complete with a rainbow backdrop, tie-dye, live music, food and a bouncey castle, the University of Rhode Island celebrated National Coming Out Day with a resource fair on Friday. The URI Gender and Sexuality Center did most of the event planning, according to Zoey Evora, the building manager for the GSC. It was held on…
The University of Rhode Island’s Gender and Sexuality Center hosted a “Spill the Tea: Life’s a Drag” event on Oct. 8, featuring drag queen Ninny Nothin’. The event was a Q&A about Nothin’s life and how she began her journey as a drag queen. Nothin’ attended URI for theater. For all of her life, she…
The University of Rhode Island hosted Nancey B. Price, an Afrofuturist collage artist who uses her art to draw connections between her identity, her past and the future on Thursday, Oct. 9. Afrofuturism is defined as “expressions of Black identity, agency and freedom through art, creative works and activism that envision liberated futures for Black…
The University of Rhode Island’s Robert L. Carothers Library hosted a “Blind Date with a Banned Book” event this week, drawing students and staff to discuss censorship, intellectual freedom and the importance of diverse literature. The event was held to raise awareness about the issue of banned books, censorship and challenged literature in general, according…
To kick off the Halloween season, The University of Rhode Island Electronic Music Association with a spooky-themed costume rave on Friday featuring three New England DJs. The club held its first event of the year in the Memorial Union at 6 p.m. and concluded at 9 p.m. Many attendees sported their Halloween costumes on the…
The Ryan Center has made the decision to not hold a live concert event, but instead, host a Taylor Swift listening party. In the past, the Ryan Center has held popular performers such as Ke$ha in 2013, Fetty Wap in 2016, Khalid in 2018, Machine Gun Kelly in 2019 and The Kid Laroi in 2023….
Coughdrop, a University of Rhode Island student band, will release its first album “Everything I’m Not” on Friday. The album features a single titled “a wasp flew into my car at 90 mph and it almost crashed,” released on Oct. 2, Instagram post published by the band. Members fourth-year Ryan Baudisch, fourth-year Peter Tolmei, fourth-year…
Spearheaded by a music professor with a vision, what was once a one-day symposium with a few guitars has blossomed into a multi-day multi-instrumental festival featuring artists from around the world. Founded by University of Rhode Island professor Adam Levin in 2015, the URI Guitar and Mandolin Festival is opening its doors to individuals from…
University of Rhode Island third-year Ewan Nosovskiy released his first album, “Night Vision,” on Sept. 14. The album is a ten-track, 80s pop-inspired nostalgic record, with Nosovskiy handling vocals, lyrics, instruments and production. Nosovskiy described the album in three words: “Saturated, vibrant and deep.” “The sound I was going for was that vintage 80s sound,”…
A University of Rhode Island journalism professor released a new documentary that follows researchers studying the effects of climate change on the saltmarsh sparrow, a small bird found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. The film by Jason Jaacks is called “Between Moon Tides.” Jaacks spent two full summers following the saltmarsh sparrow…