This exciting group exhibit highlights alternative photo processes, and features work by Marianne Pojman (fiber prints toned with tea and coffee, plus other alternative process works), Jonathan Merritt (cyanotypes), Bill Bates (lith prints), Pat Bacon (photogravures), and me (showing all new kallitypes).

[source: artist e-mail, 2020-Feb-17]

What is hate? How does it shape our thoughts, identities, and communities? What can we do about it? Join Kit Miller and David Sanchez from the Gandhi Institute for an afternoon dedicated to exploring this seldom discussed topic through a variety of perspectives and traditions.

[source: M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence website, 2020-Mar-23]

Join us for this opportunity to share what's heavy on your heart during these uncertain times. We will be offering online grief circles every Tuesday and Thursday, please join as often as you like.

[source: M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence website, 2020-Mar-30]

In the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library BuildingOnline only, Meaghan de Chateauvieux will review No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder.

"Compulsively readable … [Snyder] takes us into the lives of the abused, the abusers and the survivors. . . The stories are devastating, but Snyder keeps us reading by pointing us toward possible solutions." – The Washington Post

[source: Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library brochure, 2020-Mar-2]

In the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library BuildingOnline only, Zhiyao Duan will review Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell.

Interweaving stories about the science of AI and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence outlines the most interesting and provocative modern work in the field, including how some of the most prominent AI systems work; their limitations; and their impact on humankind.

[source: Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library brochure, 2020-Mar-2]

In the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library BuildingOnline only, Dresden Engle will review Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton.

In this follow-up to her memoir Home, Julie Andrews shares reflections on her astonishing career, "Graceful and candid . . . Home Work has such profound meaning for artist and humanitarian Andrews. . . [a] treasury of delectable Hollywood revelations. " – Booklist

[source: Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library brochure, 2020-Mar-2]

From 9:00am-11:00am on Saturday April 25th at the Monroe County ecopark, you can come in and purchase trees in a first-come, first-serve sale! This is a great opportunity to still get some trees even if you missed the deadline. More information can be found on our website here: http://www.monroecountyswcd.org/Tree.html

[source: Monroe County Soil & Water Conservation District e-mail, 2020-Mar-6]

In the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library BuildingOnline only, Frank Regan will review The Uninhabitable Uninhabitable Earth: Earth Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells.

"If the planet was broughtto the brink of climate catastrophe within the lifetime of a single generation, the responsibility to avoid it belongs with a single generation, too. We all also know that second lifetime. It is ours. "

[source: Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library brochure, 2020-Mar-2]

This exciting group exhibit highlights alternative photo processes, and features work by Marianne Pojman (fiber prints toned with tea and coffee, plus other alternative process works), Jonathan Merritt (cyanotypes), Bill Bates (lith prints), Pat Bacon (photogravures), and me (showing all new kallitypes).

[source: artist e-mail, 2020-Feb-17]

In the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library Building, Edward J. Doherty will review The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein.

"Basedon careful analyses of multiple historical documents, Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on sending how federal, state and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." – William Julius Wilson, author, of The Truly Disadvantaged

[source: Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library brochure, 2020-Mar-2]

Tour the exhibit with Central Library's Local History & Genealogy Division. Based on the collection of library patrons Karen Dinkle Bunton and Jerry Bunton, Everyday People: The Dinkle Family and Rochester's African American Past explores the city's black heritage through the eyes of a family that has resided in the Rochester area since the late 19th century and examines topics such as the local Civil Rights movement and the role of blacks in the military.

[source: Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library brochure, 2020-Mar-2]