Weekly Rochester Events #637 Starting Thursday, March 24, 2011
Today at 5:30 p.m. in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is a Public Meeting to discuss a Center City Circulator.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Cinema Theatre (957 South Clinton Ave.) is a double-feature from The ImageOut Film Festival as part of LGBT Health Month. First is FIT followed at 9 p.m. by Children of God.
[source:
Gay Alliance website]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Rochester Friends Meeting House (84 Scio St.) is a screening of A Force More Powerful.
[source:
RocWiki calendar]
This evening at The Tap and Mallet (381 Gregory St.) is the Spring-Summer '11 Art Opening starting at 7:30 p.m. featuring works by Matté Baxendell, Michael Ferreri, and Elizabeth Kelly. [source: Tap and Mallet website] Over at Johnny's Irish Pub (1382 Culver Rd., still smoke-free) starting around 8 p.m. is Amy Montrois. [source: Johnny's Irish Pub calendar] The Eastman Horn Choir will be at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) 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 Plaza Suite starting at 8 p.m. in which Walter Matthau plays three disparate characters all taking place in the same hotel.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Anchorage, Nebraska, Chillum, and The Ginger Faye Bakers starting around 8:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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This afternoon at 2 p.m., The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) will be screening The Dhamma Brothers.
[source:
Baobab website]
Apparently The Critical Mass Bike Ride is tonight starting at 6 p.m. at The Liberty Pole (1 Liberty Pole Way) and heading through the city from there. [source: the proverbial grapevine] Mike Brown will perform at tonight's Happy Hour at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 6 p.m. followed by Richie Stearns at 9 p.m. [source: Abilene website] Death Camp , War Hound, and Unfinished Business will be at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) starting around 7 p.m.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
Tonight at 7 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) is a screening of The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. [source: Baobab website]
Geva Comedy Improv performs tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.)
[source:
Geva Theatre website]
At 7:30 p.m. tonight at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) is a staged reading of The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel as part of The Tennessee Williams Birthday Festival. [source: MuCCC website] The unreliable calendar for Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) says at 8 p.m. is The "Three Guys Walk Into Bar" Comedy Show.
[source:
Boulder Coffee website]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Marwencol starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "savagely beaten in a bar fight that shattered his face, mind, and memory, Mark Hogancamp emerged from a coma needing to relearn not just how to walk and talk, but who he once had been. As part of his self-prescribed therapy, he began construction on 'Marwencol,' an astoundingly detailed scale model of an imaginary World War II-era Belgian town populated by the doll-sized 'alter-egos' of real-life people Hogancamp knows and loves."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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The Tennessee Williams Birthday Festival continues tonight at 7:30 p.m. at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) with a staged reading of Small Craft Warnings.
[source:
MuCCC website]
The Dady Brothers , and Nick Bullock will be at The Lovin' Cup (300 Park Point Dr., #110) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
Eastman Virtuosi will perform at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) tonight 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 Mamma Roma starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 7 p.m. From the calendar description: Anna Magnani "plays a middle-aged prostitute determined to give her son the bourgeois life she never had, until a figure from the past returns to threaten her dreams."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Friday in America starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Nice, well-executed jazzy swing from Bobby Henrie and The Goners will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene e-mail]
Tonight is another Left of Center Stage Variety Show at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) starting around 9:30 p.m. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website] |
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Today's Musicale at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) features Futaba Niekawa on piano from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
This afternoon starting around 5 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is The Flying Squirrel Poetry Series. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website] In case you happen to be in Boston, The Beast Pageant (and on IMDb) will be shown at The Kendall Square Cinema (1 Kendall Sq., Cambridge, MA) tonight at 7 p.m. and again Thursday night at 7:15 p.m. as part of The Boston Underground Film Festival (BUFF). [source: the proverbial grapevine]
Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is synth-pop-acoustic-soloist Love of Everything, Light Feelings, and acoustic soloist Anthony Provenzano.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Today at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.), Sustain Inspire Survive (S.I.S.) presents Comics Against Cancer 2 starting around 5:30 p.m.
[source:
Geva Theatre website]
Tonight and tomorrow from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is Love Your Boobs, the 2nd Annual Breast Casting Event.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
Today at 7:30 p.m. is Wide Open Mic with Norm Davis at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages] Tonight at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) is Eugene Chadbourne, and Tatsuya Nakatani starting around 8 p.m. [source: Bop Shop calendar] [all ages] Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) will be hosting The Eastman School Symphony Orchestra starting at 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
Skeletons in the Piano, and loud, brash punk/post-ska/punk-ska band Radioactive Snowshu will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Special Mayoral Election 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. 
At today's Books Sandwiched-In in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.), Sherman F. Levey, Esq. will review Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Over at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m. is Ossia New Music's last show of the season.
[source:
Ossia New Music calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Kansas City Confidential starting at 8 p.m. A man set up as the fall-guy for a bank robbery sets out to clear his name. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Genesee Mud Bottom, The Beastman, Assbeer, and Pegacide starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Tonight at Johnny's Irish Pub (1382 Culver Rd., still smoke-free) is The Improv Plate starting around 7 p.m.
[source:
Johnny's Irish Pub calendar]
Over at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m. is The Eastman Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Shinjû: Ten no amijima (Double Suicide) starting at 8 p.m. — a tragedy of love across class differences.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Last Year's Men, The Inner Planets, and Melia starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Better Than Bowling will be at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) starting around 10 p.m. [source: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que calendar] |
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