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Lighthouses of the Port of Rochester and Women Lighthouse Keepers
2015-06-04 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Charlotte Branch Library, 3557 Lake Ave., Rochester, New York, 14612, United States
Historian Fred Amato will give us an entertaining tour of the Charlotte lighthouses and light stations…from 1792 to 1995! Then he'll tell us about women who have served as lighthouse keepers around the country.
[source: City of Rochester website, 2015-Jun-3]

My So-Called Enemy screening
2015-06-04 18:30 - 19:59 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Tonight at 6:30 p.m., the Little will screen My So-Called Enemy (Lisa Gossels, U.S. 2010, 89 min.) as part of The Best of the Fests series followed by a discussion with director Lisa Gossels.
Adi, Gal, Hanin, Inas, Rawan and Rezan — six Israeli and Palestinian teenagers — first meet at a women's leadership program in the U.S. called Building Bridges for Peace. Their commitment to justice and mutual understanding as the conflict continues to rage in their homeland leads these "enemies" to see each other as human beings. By following these remarkable women over the next seven years, this award-winning, coming-of-age film presents the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the human lens, and opens our eyes to the personal, political and physical borders that stand in the way of conflict resolution in this post-9/11 world. Filmmaker Lisa Gossels' inspiring documentary offers profound messages about tolerance, inclusion and respect, and about what it takes to create a lasting peace.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2015-May-28]

Artist Lecture: Hung Liu
2015-06-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Hung Liu began her art studies in her native China and came to the U.S. in 1984. By reworking photographic images from Chinese history into layered allegorical paintings, she bridges the emotional distances imposed by culture, time and geography. Liu is professor emerita at Mills College in Oakland, Ca, where she taught for nearly two decades.
[source: MAG website, 2015-Jun-1]

HÃ¤ndler der vier Jahreszeiten (The Merchant of Four Seasons) screening
2015-06-04 20:00 - 21:28 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House, 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen HÃ¤ndler der vier Jahreszeiten (The Merchant of Four Seasons, R. W. Fassbinder, West Germany 1971, 88 min., 35mm, German w/subtitles) tonight at 8 p.m.
Set in West Germany in the years following the Second World War, The Merchant of Four Seasons follows Hans Epp (Hans Hirschmüller), who returns home after serving in the French Foreign Legion to a family and society with which he feels deeply at odds. Hans and his wife Irmgard (Irm Hermann) run a modest fruit stand, but when Hans suffers a serious heart attack, his wife must tend to the business alone. As the events of their lives become progressively more cataclysmic, Hans is haunted by the memories of his troubled duty in the Legion. At once recalling the raw frankness of John Cassavetes and the severe austerity of Robert Bresson, Fassbinder presents the devastating events of its characters' lives through unspectacular imagery. He cares deeply for the figures that inhabit his films, but he is never moralizing, never asking them to be anything other than what they are. The Merchant of Four Seasons cemented its director's international reputation as one of the most gifted auteurs of his generation. Fassbinder was only 27 when he made this remarkable film, ten years before his untimely death.
[source: Dryden website, 2015-Jun-1]

Nothing, Merchandise, Cloakroom
2015-06-04 20:30 - 22:30 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Bug Jar calendar, 2015-Jun-1]

Lies I Told My Little Sister screening
2015-06-04 21:00 - 22:38 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Tonight at 9 p.m., the Little will screen Lies I Told My Little Sister (William J. Stribling, U.S. 2014, 98 min.) as part of The Best of the Fests series.
A family trip. Packing all the childhood baggage. After the death of her oldest sister, a globetrotting nature photographer is pressured into joining her dysfunctional family for a vacation, along with the younger sister that she used to torment. Lies I Told My Little Sister is the story of childhood baggage, death, life, love and family relationships. With solid acting and complex characters, the story offers moments of humor, while leaving an emotional impact on the viewer. Proving that even after great loss, life is still funny.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2015-May-28]
