In Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library Building is a Got Health? Series lecture titled Understanding the Nutrition Facts Label with Michelle Weiler. Do you find yourself confused by the nutrition facts label on the back of … Continue reading
In Rush Rhees Library on the UofR Campus is a lecture by Pamela Newkirk titled Why Ota Benga Matters: Race, Mythology and the Persistence of Prejudice. Pamela Newkirk, professor of journalism at New York University, will present a lecture on … Continue reading
The Gandhi Institute will screen The Mask You Live In (Jennifer Siebel Newsom, U.S. 2015, 97 min.) The Mask You Live In is an award-winning documentary about young men struggling to negotiate America's narrow definition of masculinity. The film challenges … Continue reading
The Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Rochester will present a lecture titled Don't Live for Your Student Loans at Irondequoit Public Library. (Note: not covered is how to pay back your student loans when the only job you can get … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, U.K. / U.S. / Belgium / Denmark / Germany 2015, 119 min.) "A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Harvest: 3,000 Years (Haile Gerima, Ethiopia 1976, 150 min., 16mm). Haile Gerima's first feature work set in Africa employs visions of his native Ethiopia to construct a post-colonial allegory of class exploitation. Depicting a peasant family … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Carol (Todd Haynes, U.K. / U.S. 2015, 118 min.) "In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's seminal novel The Price of Salt, Carol follows two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love … Continue reading