Weekly Rochester Events #613 Starting Thursday, October 7, 2010
Today at The Dome Center (E. Henrietta Rd. and Calkins Rd.) is the 21st Annual Family Health and Fitness Fair starting at 10 a.m. and featuring "flu shots, 12 free testings and screenings, free parking, free admission, and free programs by health professionals and more than 200 exhibitors both profit & non-profit."
[source:
RocWiki calendar]
Today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Rochester Public Market (280 Union St. N.) is an America's Favorite Farmer's Market Celebration as the "Rochester Public Market won the large market category by a 2 to 1 margin over the second place finisher" in a national competition sponsored by The American Farmland Trust.
[source:
City Hall press release]
Today a 7:30 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is an Archaeology Lecture with Dr. Ronald Stroud on Magic and Religion in Ancient Corinth.
[source:
Memorial Art Gallery calendar]
[all ages]
Over at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m. is Eastman Chamber Jazz. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Uninvited starting at 8 p.m. — a stylish haunted-house movie.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Today at Booksmart Studio (250 North Goodman St.) is an Open Critique for photographers starting at 7 p.m. [source: City Newspaper] This evening at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is the Pure Kona Poety Reading and Open Mic starting at 8 p.m. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website] |
Today at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is an Art Opening for Flying Carpets by Susan Schickler from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
This evening starting at 6 p.m. at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is Frankie Leigh and Jewels followed at :3 p.m. by excellent ska-driven rock from The Beaumonts.
[source:
Abilene website]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) is a Community Dialogue Series discussion of Fraternities + Sororoties and the shaping of the identity with Gayle Harrison, and Bob Harrison. [source: Baobab website]
Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) will be hosting Ossia New Music starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Ossia New Music calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Northern Lights starting at 8 p.m. which "dramatizes the early days of the Nonpartisan League, an early 20th-century Socialist movement among North Dakota farmers."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is The Growlers, The Goons, and Animal Pants.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at Eros (37 Charlotte St., was Metro 37) is the Opening Night Party of The ImageOut Film Festival strting at 9 p.m. Be sure to check out films at The Little (240 East Ave.), the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.), and The Cinema Theatre (957 South Clinton Ave.)
[source:
ImageOut website]
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Today at 9 a.m. at The Highland Park Conservancy and Lamberton Conservatory (180 Reservoir Ave.) is a Tree Tour
[source:
Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association e-mail]
Anderson Alley Artists (250 Goodman St. N.) will be having another open house this and every second Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. [source: the proverbial grapevine] The Lower Gorge Explorer, Fall, Series 2 today runs from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. starting at the parking lot for The Maplewood Rose Garden (Driving Park and Lake Ave.) and touring the Genesee Gorge and the surrounding area. [source: City Hall press release] Tonight at 6 p.m. at The Dome Center (E. Henrietta Rd. and Calkins Rd.) is The Roc City Roller Derby (RCRD) .
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
Unleashed! Improv presents the Elliot L. Spitzer Middle School Open House show today at 7:30 p.m. at The Jewish Community Center (JCC) (1200 Edgewood Ave.) [source: RocWiki calendar] The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) will be hosting a performance of Welcome to My Mid-Life Crisis: Bonnie Abrams tonight at 8 p.m. [source: MuCCC website] 
Great, fun 1960's-styled rock band The Hi-Risers, the nicely harmonius rock band Walri, and great orchestral motley-folk from Cuddle Magic will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
The great, gritty, grizzled acoustic soloist Dave Donnelly will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
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Linda Henderson will present a lecture on Claude Bragdon and Modern Art at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) today at 2 p.m.
[source:
Memorial Art Gallery calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Missing Teens, Thunderbang!, and Illman Jaro starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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 Columbus Day (observed)
National Coming-Out Day
Hedonist Artisan Chocolates (674 South Ave.) will be at Parkleigh (215 Park Ave.) today from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. for a Chocolate Tasting.
[source:
Hedonist Chocolates website]
Home Underground by Sarah C. Rutherford and works by Rutheford and Lea Rizzo go on display today at The Owl House (75 Marshall St., formerly Atomic Eggplant) for an Art Reception from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
[source:
Facebook]
The Lovin' Cup (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) is hosting a Laughin' Cup Comedy Competition tonight starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup 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.
At today's Books Sandwiched-In in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is a discussion of Ben Macintyre's Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Fr. Paul Freemesser from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. [source: City Hall press release]
Today at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School (1100 South Goodman St.) is a Concert for Hope starting at 5:15 p.m.
[source:
Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association e-mail]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Lovin' Cup (Jefferson Rd. and John St. at 300 Park Point Dr., Suite 110) is The Young Republic, and Adrien and the Fine Print starting around 6 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Word Is Out starting early at 7 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "subtitled 'Stories of Some of Our Lives,' this landmark documentary stunned audiences during its initial release with a nuanced, panoramic view of contemporary gay America." Part of The ImageOut Film Festival.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Carry It On opens tonight with a first-week special at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) at 7:30 p.m.
[source:
Geva Theatre website]
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The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing I Walked With A Zombie starting early at 7 p.m. followed at 8:20 p.m. by Curse Of The Demon — a "double-feature of horror classics".
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Water Street Music Hall (204 N. Water St.) will be hosting Big Sam's Funky Nation, wicked fun, saxophone-driven, percussive groove-rock band The BuddhaHood, and The Deep Blue Dream starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Water Street calendar]
[16+]
Edward Albee's The Zoo Story opens tonight at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) at 8 p.m. along with a short play, Miss Mary Dugan by Manuel Igrejas. [source: MuCCC website]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting nice, complex post-surf rock Deadbolt, Club Sandwich (a.k.a. Big Boy Soda and the Yucky Snakes), and good punk-rockabilly-country from Devil Springs starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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]
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