Ongoing

Highland Hospital Lilac Run 10K/5K

Highland Park 450 Highland Ave., Rochester

Regardless of your skill level, this race will restore your faith in Mother Nature and re-invigorate your workouts for the summer season ahead. The famous lilac gardens of Highland Park, also the backdrop for the event's after party, mark the … Continue reading

Flying Squirrel Fundraising Brunch

Flying Squirrel Community Space 285 Clarissa St., Rochester

Come fill your belly with wonderful food, while supporting the Flying Squirrel Community Space. This not for profit space provides educational programs, meeting space for activist groups, recovery groups, films, social events and community building. Menu to include: tofu scramble, … Continue reading

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5th Annual Rochester Seersucker Social Ride

Abundance Cooperative Market 571 South Ave., Rochester

Prepare your seersucker, linen, and other summer fashions. Clean your bike and pump up your tyres. We've a splendid and lazy tour to a few gardens and scenic Rochester neighborhoods.

Teressa Wilcox

Lilac Festival 450 Highland Ave., Rochester

Good acoustic rock from Teressa Wilcox performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 11:30 a.m.

Free

WAYO Benefit and Chiptune Concert

Gamer's Nostalgia 1350 Culver Rd. #B, Rochester

Starting at 12 p.m. at A Gamer's Nostalgia is a WAYO Benefit and Chiptune Concert featuring music by Chipocrite, Nick Maynard, and great one-man-band with chiptune vocoder BC Likes You. On Sunday, May 17th WAYO 104.3 FM and A Gamers … Continue reading

Bakken Oil Trains in New York: What You Need to Know

Brighton Memorial Library 2300 Elmwood Ave., Rochester

Have you wondered about what is in those big black tail cars and why there are so many? Are you concerned about the environmental justice of those living near the rail tracks? Do you wonder about the effects of extreme … Continue reading

Young Eagles screening

Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House 900 East Ave., Rochester

This afternoon at 2 p.m., the Dryden will screen Young Eagles (William A. Wellman, U.S. 1930, 70 min., 35mm). "Flying and spying have their innings in Young Eagles, an audible film now at the Paramount. Charles Rogers, the young screen … Continue reading

Violet performance (2015-May-17 @ 2 p.m.)

Blackfriars Theatre 795 E. Main St., Rochester

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

Orestes 2.0 performance (2015-May-17 @ 2 p.m.)

Bread and Water Theatre 172 W. Main St., Rochester

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

$14

The Prickers

Lilac Festival 450 Highland Ave., Rochester

The Prickers performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 4 p.m.

Free

Danielle Ponder & The Tomorrow People

Lilac Festival 450 Highland Ave., Rochester

Danielle Ponder & The Tomorrow People performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 5:30 p.m.

Free