Weekly Rochester Events #540 Starting Thursday, May 14, 2009
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Today and tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Spot Coffee (200 East Ave.) is a Coffee With... session with filmmakers from The Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF).
[source:
Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet]
[all ages]
Today at 1:30 p.m., join The Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) at Susan B. Anthony House (17 Madison St.) for a Student Award Reception — RHFIFF's first financial award for students. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] People from MEETinROCHESTER  will be heading to The Lilac Festival for Jazz 'N Blues Day tonight at 5:30 p.m.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
[all ages]
This evening at 5:30 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.), join Pat Carroll in a conversation moderated by Fred Armstrong. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] Tonight at 6:30 p.m. at The Little (240 East Ave.) is a screening of Le jour avant le lendemain (Before Tomorrow). [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] This evening at The Lilac Festival, catch Madeline Forster at 4 p.m., nice, well-executed jazzy swing from Bobby Henrie and The Goners at 5:30 p.m., and Asleep at the Wheel at 7 p.m.
[source:
Lilac Festival website]
[all ages]
Today at 7 p.m. at Lamberton Conservatory (Reservoir Rd.), Fr. William Amann will lead a tour of Highland Park Poetry Sites. [source: Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association e-mail] The Bertrand Russell Society meets today at 7 p.m. in Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) Tonight, Howard A. Blair will discuss Great Feuds on Mathematics: Russell vs. Poincare. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages] Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is a screening of Invisible: Abbot Thayer and the Art of Camouflage director Pam Peabody in attendance. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] 
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Top Hat starting at 8 p.m. Enough said: "Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers cemented their icon status in their second musical comedy for director Mark Sandrich."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Instruments Band, Devall Music, and The Spirit Of Ontario starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at 9:45 p.m. at The Little (240 East Ave.) is a screening of Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] Tonight at 9 p.m. at One Restaurant and Lounge (1 Ryan Alley) is the Kickoff Party for The Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF). [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] Pure Kona Open Mic Poetry will be at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) tonight starting around 7:30 p.m. [source: the proverbial grapevine] |
 Peace Officers Memorial Day (half-staff)
Harry Davis will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) today at 5 p.m. as part of his run for City Council. [source: the proverbial grapevine] 
Wicked fun percussion-and-saxophone dominated jam band The BuddhaHood will be playing at The Lilac Festival today at 5:30 p.m.
[source:
Lilac Festival website]
[all ages]
This evening at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. is the opening reception for What is nonetheless already there featuring art by Romy Hosford, Fumiko Koizumi, Jaimee S. Lindvay, and Robyn York. The work will be on display through June 21.
[source:
Abilene e-mail]
Food, Inc. will be screening tonight at 6:30 p.m. at The Little (240 East Ave.) [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet]
Tonight at The Record Archive (33 1/3 Rockwood St.) is great, inspiring mild rock from Autumn In Halifax, and Why The Wires starting around 7 p.m.
[source:
Carbon Records calendar]
This evening at 7:15 p.m. in Carlson Auditorium at RIT (One Lomb Memorial Dr., campus map) is RiP: A Remix Manifesto. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] Over at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) starting around 7:30 p.m. is The Penfield High School Monday/Wednesday Jazz Ensemble. [source: Bop Shop calendar] [all ages] The Nuts and Bolts Comedy Improv Troupe will be at Spotlight Theatre Arts (66 N. Main St., Fairport) tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m.
[source:
Nuts and Bolts e-mail]
Tonight at The Mez Café (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) is The Tin Can Set starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Mez website]
[all ages]
Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) is Bryan Johnson and Family, and Lion Walk, Lion Run starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
[all ages]
Tonight at 8 p.m. at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) is a China Connection Concert. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing 200 Motels starting at 8 p.m. — a documentary/musical/narrative about life on the road with Frank Zappa.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Richard Lloyd, a perfection of rock-and-roll from Tiger Cried Beef, and The Gifted Children starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Over at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m. is The Dirty Bourbon Blues Band .
[source:
Abilene website]
Boulder Coffee Co. (955 Genesee St.) will be hosting loud, brash punk/post-ska/punk-ska band Radioactive Snowshu, and Run Marty! starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
Tonight at Equal=Grounds (750 South Ave., formerly Hunt's Hardware) is the 3rd Friday Songwriters Open Mic with Jim Bowers starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Equal=Grounds MySpace page]
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Today at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is a couple events. First, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. is the Annual Plant Sale (although Eastman House members can arrive at 9 a.m. to shop). Then at 10:15 a.m. is an Upstairs/Downstairs Tour tour of the house for members.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
This morning at 9:30 a.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.), join Lesley Stahl in a conversation moderated by Catherine Wyler. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] Today at 11 a.m. is Children's Shorts From Our Own Backyard ... to Around the World at The Little (240 East Ave.) [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] This afternoon at 12:30 p.m. at The Little (240 East Ave.) is a screening of Unmistaken Child. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] Today at 2 p.m., catch the Screenplay Live! reading at The Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) with Zoje Stage's The Machine Who Loved at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] Today at 2:45 p.m. is Shorts Program #2 at The Little (240 East Ave.) [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] At 3 p.m. today at The Little (240 East Ave.) is a screening of Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] This afternoon at 5:15 p.m., The Little (240 East Ave.) will be screening Astronaut Pam: Countdown to Commander with local filmmakers Renée Sotile and Mary Jo Godges. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Flat Iron Café (561 State St.) is a Fourth Year Anniversary and Pig Roast along with Barrio Sabados.
[source:
Flat Iron Cafe webstie]
Tonight at 7:15 p.m. at The Little (240 East Ave.) is a screening of Skin with Judith Stone, author of When She was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race (but otherwise not affiliated with the film). [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] The Mez Café (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) will be hosting witty and accomplished acoustic soloist Brian Coughlin, Kerry Regan, and Joe Matt for Songwriters in the Round starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Mez website]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Kagemusha (a.k.a. Kagemusha — The Shadow Warrior) starting at 8 p.m. I'm not a big fan of this kind of film, but the Eastman House calendar quotes Vincent Canby, "Kagemusha is probably the director's most physically elaborate, most awesome film, full of magnificent views of lines of mounted soldiers slowly crossing grand landscapes or galloping along seashores, against sunsets of a magnificence that seem to foreshadow the end of the world". [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Froth will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
Tonight at Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) is excellent percussion/sax dominated jam band The BuddhaHood (in case you missed them last night), Thousands Of One, and The Grift starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
Tonight at Boulder Coffee Co. (955 Genesee St.) is an After Party for The Roc City Roller Derby (RCRD) with Bloodline starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
Tonight at 9 p.m. is the Saturday Night Party at the Falls — part of The Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) — at The Max at High Falls Event Center (60 Browns Race, formerly The Center at High Falls). [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] Tonight at 9:45 p.m. at The Little (240 East Ave.) is Rusalka (Mermaid). [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] Tonight at 9:45 p.m. at The Little (240 East Ave.) is a screening of Slingshot Hip Hop with filmmaker Jackie Reem Salloum and Abeer (a.k.a. Sabreena Da Witch).
[source:
Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m. is The Quartershots, great local rock from The Grinders, and The Dudes Of Earl.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Lilac Festival
ends today.
Every Sunday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. is the Greatest Community Garage Sale and Super Flea series at The Rochester Public Market (280 Union St. N.) [source: City Hall press release]
Today is The Medved Lilac 10K and 5K Family Fun Run starting at 8 a.m. at The Lilac Festival
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
The Mez Café (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) will host an art opening from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. titled Unearthed and Equipped.
[source:
Mez website]
[all ages]
This morning at 11 a.m., Lynn Redgrave will be in a conversation moderated by Catherine Wyler at The Little (240 East Ave.) [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] The Little (240 East Ave.) will be screening Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes today at 11:45 a.m. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet]
Today at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Cynthia Howk will help you Discover Rochester: 200 Years of Historic Architecture.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
This afternoon at 2 p.m. is a screening of BLAST! at The Little (240 East Ave.). [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] This afternoon at 3 p.m. at The Little (240 East Ave.) is a screening of Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman with executive producer Michelle Oliver. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] Today at 4:15 p.m. at The Little (240 East Ave.) is the Women of SoFA Program 2008 featuring films from The RIT School of Film and Animation (SoFA). [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] This afternoon at 5:15 p.m., The Little (240 East Ave.) will present the Young Filmmakers Competition. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] Today from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Lux Lounge (666 South Ave.) is the opening reception for Paintings by Ed Repard.
[source:
City Newspaper]
[21+]
Cynthia Lester and Elisabeth Harris will be on hand at The Little (240 East Ave.) at 6:45 p.m. for their film My Mother's Garden. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Forbidden Planet starting at 7 p.m. I don't think I've seen this sci-fi classic, but the Eastman House's description is enticing: "in this loose sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest, Prospero becomes Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), who rules the planet Altair-4 along with his daughter (the sexy Anne Francis) and their mechanical Caliban, Robby the Robot. When a United Planets rescue team lands, a battle of wits ensues between Morbius and the rescue team's Commander (a young, straight-faced Leslie Nielsen). The colorful CinemaScope™ landscapes and the electronic score of Bebe and Louis Barron make this a treat for the eyes and the ears."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at 7 p.m. under the Frederick Douglass — Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge (formerly the Troup-Howell Bridge) is a Night Out at Cornhill Landing and an outdoor film screening starting at dusk. [source: Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) booklet] Death Vessel , and This is How Rumors Get Started. will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Wide Open Mic with Norm Davis is early this month: tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.)
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
Updated:
Tonight at 7 p.m. is the Best Feature Film of The Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (RHFIFF) this year: Skin, followed at 9 p.m. by the Best Documentary Film: Signs of the Time at The Little (240 East Ave.)
[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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Armed Forces Day
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. Fences begins its pre-opening run tonight at 8 p.m. at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) [source: Geva Theatre website] Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Pigsty, Jig-Ai, Animals Killing People, and Abdicate starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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The Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) is hosting their Spring Festival — New Horizons Evening of Ensembles tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.)
[source:
Eastman School of Music calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Dark Star starting at 8 p.m. When I was a kid, this was a hilarious sci-fi parody ... I don't know if its slow pace will hinder it, or if I was just missing a lot. It's also John Carpenter's first feature film.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Crucifist, Sayyadina, Defeatist, and Kill The Client starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at The Comedy Club (2235 Empire Blvd., Webster) is a Comedy Open Mic with Michael Gately .
[source:
Comedy Club website]
There's an Open Mic for Acoustic Music at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) tonight around 8. [source: the proverbial grapevine] Tonight at 8 p.m. at Abeline Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is an Open Mic with The Grand Canyon Rescue Episode .
[source:
Abeline website]
The Comedy Underground will be at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) tonight at 8 p.m.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
[all ages]
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