South Wedge-Ucation 2015
2015-09-10 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | South Wedge, South Ave. at Gregory St., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
It's time to get Wedge-Ucated. Make a stop in the South Wedge neighborhood on Thursday, September 10, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., where City Newspaper will be putting on its annual South Wedge-Ucation event. If you're like every person ever and you like a good deal, this is one event you don't want to miss.
[source: Facebook, 2015-Sep-7]

StoryCorps and Immigration presentation
2015-09-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Bausch and Lomb Library Building, 110 South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
In the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library Building is a program titled StoryCorps and Immigration.
Since May, New Americans from all over the world have been recording their life stories with Rochester Public Library volunteers. The recordings will be archived for the Library of Congress, the Rochester Public Library, and StoryCorps, a national nonprofit well known for its affiliate series through the National Public Radio (NPR). Join us in the Kate Gleason Auditorium for the first public airing of excerpts from their stories. A panel of experts will touch upon a unique learning opportunity as we celebrate our multinational neighbors, and show how immigrant communities old and new contribute to life in our city. These experts include Walter Ruehle, an attorney with the Immigration Law Unit of The Legal Aid Society of Rochester, and Quyen Luu, a refugee resettlement advisor through the Lake Avenue Baptist Church.
[source: City of Rochester website, 2015-Sep-2]

Wish You Were Here lecture with John Chiara: Lands End
2015-09-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House, 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will host John Chiara presenting a Wish You Were Here lecture titled Lands End.
Using a camera obscura mounted on a trailer, John Chiara works by the side of the road, pointing his lens at in-between landscapes—obstructed, fenced, developed, commodified, and littered with markers of human presence. He is interested in turning these places into images of memory, of seeing, of light and the means of its recording. Book signing to follow.
[source: Eastman House calendar, 2015-Sep-7]

Todd East musical performance
2015-09-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd., Henrietta, New York, 14623, United States
Todd began playing piano and singing at the age of three. He began his professional career at the age of fifteen and has been performing ever since. Blind since birth, Todd is often compared to Stevie Wonder, one of his major influences. Other influences include Billy Joel, Elton John, and Bruce Hornsby. Todd is considered one of the premier pianists and vocalists in Upstate New York and continues to perform not only as a solo artist, but with a wide variety of groups. An original member of Prime Time Funk, Todd has performed internationally (at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Club in Paris, France) regionally at Foxwoods Casino Resort and locally at the Rochester Music Fest. His voice can be heard on many local and regional television and radio commercials.
[source: Sticky Lips website, 2015-Sep-7]

The Amazing Acro-Cats performance (2015-Sep-10 @ 7 p.m.)
2015-09-10 19:00 - 20:30 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The one-hour show features over a dozen fabulous felines (all former orphans, rescues, and strays) walking tightropes, pushing carts, skateboarding, jumping through hoops, ringing bells, balancing on balls and turning on lights. Nola, our newest addition to the troupe, will be sure to delight and amaze you with her energy and ability. We also have a new celebrity in the troupe, Alley, who was just awarded Guinness Book World Records title for longest jump made by a cat — but wait there's more! Tuna, the star of the show, is the leader of the Only Cat Band In Existence — The Rock Cats. With Oz on guitar, Dakota on drums, Nue on keyboards, and Sookie on chimes — Tuna (who plays cowbell) and her backing band really strut their stuff with their own style of original music. Cluck Norris, a chicken on cymbal and tambourine, isn't "kitten" around — she usually steals the show!
[source: MuCCC website, 2015-Sep-7]

Irrational Man screening (2015-Sep-10 @ 7 p.m.)
2015-09-10 19:00 - 20:35 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Irrational Man (Woody Allen, U.S. 2015, 95 min.) "A tormented philosophy professor finds a will to live when he commits an existential act." [source: Cinema coming soon page, 2015-Sep-2]

Wide Open Mic with Angela Cannon-Crothers, Edgar Brown
2015-09-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Gell Center, 6581 West Hollow Rd., Naples, New York, 14512, United States
Join us for an Open Mic night once a month at the Gell Center of the Finger Lakes to share your poetry, prose, or comedy for 5 minutes per reading to a wonderful audience! Come early to explore the beautiful grounds and facility at the Gell Center. We'll supply coffee and tea for the group.
[source: Writers and Books website, 2015-Sep-7]

Unity Bike Ride (2015-Sep-10 @ 7 p.m.)
2015-09-10 19:00 - 23:00 | Bullshead Plaza, 855 W. Main St., Rochester, New York, 14611, United States
Because of the success of the last unity bike ride we decided to do another one. The Unity Bike Ride will be an opportunity for anyone wants to cruise the Westside Neighborhoods with the Conkey Cruisers to bring awareness of peace and the need for community. All are welcomed to join and ride along. The bike ride will begin in the Bulls Head Plaza parking lot. Hosted by City Councilman Adam McFadden.
[source: Facebook, 2015-Sep-7]

Stereo screening
2015-09-10 20:00 - 21:03 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House, 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Stereo (David Cronenberg, Canada 1969, 63 min., 35mm).
In his first feature-length film, David Cronenberg begins to explore many of the themes that would remain constant across his substantial and diverse body of work—the relationship between sexuality and violence, the otherness of the body, and the mysteries of the unconscious. Foremost among these topics, as Stereo suggests, is perhaps psychoanalysis itself, both as a philosophical discourse and as a symbolic system subject to translation into cinematic language. Crafted in the style of midcentury educational films, Stereo purports to be directed towards pupils of the (sadly) fictional institution known as the Canadian Academy of Erotic Inquiry. We learn of an experiment carried out by the "aphrodisiast" Dr. Luther Stringfellow, who sought to cultivate telepathic abilities in his subjects by means of sexual exploration. But as with most works by Cronenberg, what is shown is often secondary to how it is shown. For Stereo, the young Cronenberg drew upon his already considerable talents as a cinematographer, editor, and worldbuilder to explore the depths of the human psyche.
[source: Dryden website, 2015-Sep-7]

Whenskiesaregrey, Sights, Cavalcade musical performances
2015-09-10 20:30 - 22:30 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Bug Jar calendar, 2015-Sep-7]

Infinitely Polar Bear screening (2015-Sep-10 @ 8:40 p.m.)
2015-09-10 20:40 - 22:10 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Infinitely Polar Bear (Maya Forbes, U.S. 2014, 90 min.) "A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming task any easier." [source: Cinema coming soon page, 2015-Sep-2]
