Rhode Island Nexus

This workshop will address the basics of preparing for federal state and local government contracting. Learn about required registrations, state certifications, and where to access local small business development resources. Get some tips, and hear some lessons learned about responding to a government solicitation. 

BBC Audiobooks America, a leading Publisher of American and British bestselling unabridged Audiobooks, located in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, will be holding auditions for local union and non-union actors interested in being audio book narrators.

Where: Machines With Magnets Recording Studio, Pawtucket, RI

When: 1/23 and 1/24

Auditions will take place in 20 minute increments and those interested in auditioning must sign up for an audition time. Reading materials will then be e-mailed to you after you are scheduled. Please bring a CV and headshot if you have one available.

If you can’t make the audition, but would like to be considered for future productions, you may mail a demo CD to 400 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860.

To schedule your appointment please contact:

Dan Hypes
dan.hypes@bbcaudiobooksamerica.com;
401.295.3822

or

Lauren Holt
laurenholt@machineswithmagnets.com
401.475.2655 to set up an audition time and for more information.

Beginning the new year in a renewed spirit of global inclusiveness, the Fine Arts Center Galleries present an exciting video art program dedicated to contemporary works created by prominent Central European artists, nearly all still resident in their native countries...

...At multiple monitor stations installed for this purpose, Main Gallery visitors will be able to view video-loops at their own pace. Guest-curator Viera Levitt did not choose popular and stereotypical post-communist images like blocks of flats or factory-polluted lands framed by grey and desolate landscapes. Instead, in this exhibition she emphasizes the region’s human stories of vulnerability and fragility that she believes we all share and will resonate deeply with an American public.

The 6 artists whose video art is featured are:

• Pavlina Fichta Cierna (b. 1967, Slovakia)
• Milena Dopitova (b. 1963, Czech Republic)
• Pavel Mrkus (b. 1970, Czech Republic)
• Hajnal Nemeth (b. 1972, Hungary, lives and works in Berlin)
• Katerina Seda (b. 1977, Czech Republic)
• Artur Zmijewski (b. 1966, Poland)

 

"MayBMS: A System for Managing Large Uncertain and Probabilistic Databases"

Christoph Koch, Cornell University

...In this talk I present MayBMS, a database management system for efficiently managing and processing large collections of uncertain data that is currently under development at Cornell. MayBMS is based on a clean yet expressive query language that captures many important use cases of probabilistic databases, including what-if queries and the conditioning of databases using new evidence. MayBMS employs a carefully designed succinct representation system for probabilistic databases called U-relations, which nicely unifies various approaches to representing uncertain data, such as c-tables, relational, in particular vertical, decomposition, and probabilistic graphical models. U-relations allow for the natural reuse of mature relational storage, indexing and query processing techniques to build scalable probabilistic database systems...

If you are (or want to be) an entrepreneur, chances are you've dealt with your share of blunders.  In fact, there are a handful of mistakes that entrepreneurs tend to make over and over again.  Learning from them is good.  Avoiding them is even better.

In this Forum, a panel of experts will draw from personal experience to identify and rank the worst mistakes that entrepreneurs have made.  You'll get to hear their stories and then have your own say on their top ten picks.  No power point, no lectures, just the muff-ups and screw-ups that others have made, so you don't have to.

In this final module, you will work with other business owners and our experts to: prepare a business plan, determine the feasibility of your business concept, understand and organize your financials, market yourself and your business, reach your target customers, and find options for financing your business. We’ll help you create a viable business plan and identify solutions to typical start-up problems and challenges while you learn step-by-step how to start and run your own business efficiently and effectively.

Digital + Media graduate students show off their work at the Sol Koffler gallery.

Cost: Free