Weekly Rochester Events #486 Starting Thursday, May 1, 2008
May Day
Today and tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Spot Coffee (200 East Ave.) is the "Coffee With ..." discussions with filmmakers at The Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF).
[source:
Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) website]
[all ages]
This evening at 6 p.m. in the auditorium at The University of Rochester's Advancement and Alumni Center (300 East River Rd.) is readings by Salman Rushdie and Umberto Eco.
[source:
University of Rochester website]
Today at Manhattan Square Park (130 Chestnut St.) is a May Day Picnic and Celebration starting at 6 p.m. [source: Community Biking Alliance message board]
Nevan Fisher will discuss China in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Does the Dragon Roar or Whimper? at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) starting at 7 p.m. tonight.
[source:
Memorial Art Gallery calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) is A Night of John Cage with Ed Downey, R. Scott Oliver , Chris Reeg, and Joe Tunis.
[source:
Carbon Records calendar]
[all ages]
Pepi Ginsberg will be at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
Over at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m. is The Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble.
[source:
Eastman School of Music calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford starting at 8 p.m. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] 
Mose Giganticus , The Emotron, and excellent power-pop band with a nerdy math theme The Mathematicians will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
Drinking Liberally meets at 8 p.m. tonight at Monty's Korner (355 East Ave.) [source: RocWiki calendar] |
No Pants Day
Tonight is another First Fridays around art galleries downtown starting around 5 p.m. [source: First Friday website]
This afternoon at 5 p.m. at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is a screening of Afro-Punk with director James Spooner and then later at 8 p.m. is music by The Mom and Dad Parade.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
Today at 5:30 p.m. in the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is a Young Filmmakers Competition which is a way for young people "to share their ideas and visions with the community through the medium of film, video and new media". [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) website] This evening at 6 p.m. is the closing reception for Lisa Wright's MFA Thesis Exhibition: Stand-in in the 2nd Floor Gallery of The Rochester Visual Studies Workshop (31 Prince St.) and the opening reception for Keeping Your Words on the 3rd Floor Collector's Gallery, Tammie Malarich's MFA Thesis Exhibition on display through May 18. [source: Visual Studies Workshop calendar] [all ages] Tonight at The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) is Gypsy Dave and the Stumpjumpers starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
House of Hamez website]
[all ages]
Roots Collider will be at The Dub Land Underground (315 Alexander St., formerly Whiskey) starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
Over at The Club at Water Street (204 N. Water St.) starting around 10 p.m. is hippie groove rock from The Sim Redmond Band , and solid jam-band Big Leg Emma.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
Updated: Tonight at 10 p.m. in Theater #5 at The Little (240 East Ave.) is a screening of Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness followed by a question-and-answer with filmmaker Melody Gilbert. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] Tonight at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) is The Sick Gypsy starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Monty's Krown MySpace page]
[21+]
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Since it got postponed from last week, you have another chance to sign up at MEETinROCHESTER to skydive with The Rochester Sky Diving Club today — presumably at The Hamilton Airport (6610 Airport Rd., Hamilton) — leaving at 9 a.m. from Rochester.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Today at 1 p.m. is a Screenplay Live reading of The Stones by Ana Lily Amirpour , the BlueCat Screenplay Competition winner this year. The website has contradictory information, so it will either be held at the Curtis Theatre at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) or in The Little Theatre Café (240 East Ave.)
[source:
Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) website]
Today at 2 p.m. in the auditorium at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is an Artist Lecture with Alison Saar titled Hither, Whither and Yon [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages] Updated: This afternoon in Theater #5 at The Little (240 East Ave.) at 2:50 p.m. is Movies on a Shoestring (MoaS): Shorts Program #4 — always a treat. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] The House of Hamez (389 Gregory St., formerly Daily Perks) will be hosting The Alpine Black , and Phil Marshall starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
House of Hamez website]
[all ages]
Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) will be hosting Bookmobile starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) will be hosting The Eastman Philharmonia starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Eastman School of Music calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival starting at 8 p.m. and again tomorrow night at 7 p.m.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at Equal=Grounds (750 South Ave., formerly Hunt's Hardware) is Brian Rath starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Freetime]
[all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9:30 p.m. is Le Loup , and LouLou and the Sharp Sword.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[21+]
Updated: Young People Fucking is playing tonight in the #1 Theater at The Little (240 East Ave.) at 9:30 p.m. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet]
Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting really great, tight, current punk-rock from 5 Watt Bulb starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Monty's Krown MySpace page]
[21+]
Betty's Sing-a-Long is regularly scheduled at Betty Meyer's Bullwinkle Café (622 Lake Ave., a.k.a. "Bullwinkle's") starting around 10 but since September, 2007 people have reported they were closed. |
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Despite inaccuracies on the website of The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square), today is the annual Bop Shop Spring Record Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
[all ages]
Today at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) at 2 p.m. is a What's Up Lecture with Susan Gordon on "why museums exhibit objects as they do." [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages] Students of The Eastman School of Music (26 Gibbs St.) will perform a jazz recital at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) today at 3 p.m. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages] This afternoon at 5 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a lecture by Michael Lasser titled We Could Make a Paradise: Songs from the Time of the American Impressionists. [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages]
Tonight at 9 p.m. at German House (315 Gregory St.) is a Premiere Party for Smoking Laws following the screening at the film festival.
[source:
Eggwork e-mail]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Wales Road , and Light Blue starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
[18+]
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Cinco de Mayo
Eric Kunsman of Booksmart Studio (250 North Goodman St.) will speak at tonight's Monday Evening Creative Arts (MECA) Lecture Series at Edgar G. Praus Productions, Inc. (176 Anderson Ave.) at 7 p.m.
[source:
MECA Rochester website]
Updated: Tonight at 7 p.m. is the Audience Choice Award Narrative Film followed at 9:30 p.m. with the Audience Choice Award Documentary Film of the The Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) at The Little (240 East Ave.) The winning narrative is Phoebe in Wonderland and the winning documentary is Autism: The Musical. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] Bored? Why not check out 1980's DJ night at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 11 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar] |
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This morning at 7:30 a.m. in the cafeteria overlooking the arboretum in
Bausch and Lomb
(140 Stone St.)
is the
Artists Breakfast Group
meeting ... anyone interested in art or creativity is invited.
Today at 12:12 p.m. is another Books Sandwiched-In lecture in Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) — this time, Hon. Michael Miller will discuss 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina by Chris Rose
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Today from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. is a Rochester Stories event in the Eisenhart Lobby and Auditorium of Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC) (657 East Ave.). [source: Memorial Art Gallery calendar] [all ages] Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is Owen Muir, and Daniel Ball, Jr..
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Les Bonnes Femmes starting at 8 p.m. which "examines the everyday lives and ultimate fates of four young women [...] who work at an appliance store in Paris. 'Arguably the best as well as the most disturbing movie Claude Chabrol has made to date'—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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Today at 9 a.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is a Coffee Talk (for Eastman House members) with Dresden Engle, the Museum's Public Relations Manager in the Curtis Theatre.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Updated: Every Wednesday starting at Dogtown Hots (691 Monroe Ave.) at 7 p.m. is the Rochester Cruisers Wednesday Night Cruise (for bicyclists). [source: the proverbial grapevine] The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Shadows starting at 8 p.m. with film critic Marshall Fine. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Poor People United meets tonight and every Wednesday at 7 at St. Joseph's House of Hospitality (402 South Ave.) [source: the proverbial grapevine] There's an Open Mic for Acoustic Music at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) tonight around 8. [source: the proverbial grapevine] |
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