Events
Printing and Book Arts Open Studio
Today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. is a Printing and Book Arts Open Studio at the Printing & Book Arts Center at Genesee Center for the Arts. Choose from 2 etching presses and 3 flat bed cylinder presses. Print … Continue reading
The Pathology of Gun Violence: Building Safer Communities for Our Children
Starting at 11 a.m., Kathy Richardson will present The Pathology of Gun Violence: Building Safer Communities for Our Children at the Gandhi Institute. The presentation is a look at how guns move from the gun dealers out into communities, where … Continue reading
Mosaic Foundation
Mosaic Foundation performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 12:30 p.m.
Practicing Godot performance
Two actresses meet each other for the first rehearsal of an all-female production of the famed playwaiting for Godot, but their different backgrounds may throw them and the show out of control — then there's the neurotic stage manager who … Continue reading
Prime Time Funk
Prime Time Funk performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 3:30 p.m.
Lambert and Stamp screening
At this afternoon's 3:30 p.m. screening of Lambert and Stamp (James D. Cooper, U.S. 2014, 117 min.), one of the producers—my guess is Douglas Graves—will be on hand to discuss the film. Early 1960s London: the postwar generation who grew … Continue reading
50,000,000 Jacobeans Can't Be Wrong: Shakespeare's Greatest Hits—Volume 2 performance
ShakeCo presents 50,000,000 Jacobeans Can't Be Wrong: Shakespeare's Greatest Hits—Volume 2 at the MuCCC starting at 4 p.m. The canon of Shakespeare's plays runs to a grand total of thirty-eight works. (Or thirty-nine...or forty — I mean, how do you … Continue reading
Oversight opening
From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. tonight at the Firehouse Gallery at Genesee Pottery is the Opening Reception for Oversight featuring works by Adam Jennett; on display through May 23.
Orestes 2.0 performance (2015-May-16 @ 7:30 p.m.)
Orestes 2.0 by Charles Mee is based on Orestes by Euripedes. The Euripides after-war play, re-set in the world today, in which veterans return from the Trojan War, to find that the disorder and nightmare of war has come home … Continue reading
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul screening
The Dryden will screen Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany 1974, 94 min., 35mm, German w/subtitles) tonight at 8 p.m. One night, Emmi (Brigitte Mira), an aging cleaning woman, wanders into an … Continue reading
Violet performance (2015-May-16 @ 8 p.m.)
As a girl, Violet was involved in a tragic accident leaving her with a visible scar across her face. With enough money finally saved, she's traveling across the deep south in 1964 towards a miracle - the healing touch of … Continue reading