In the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library Building is a Tuesday Topics lecture titled The New MCC Downtown Campus: Good for Students, Good for Rochester.
On any given day, 25,000 New Yorkers are caged in county jails across our state. The abuse that occurs in these jails is rampant. Human rights violations, racial disparity, violence, and medical neglect are commonplace. Our jails are unjust, unsafe … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, U.S. 2017, 94 min.) "Christine "Lady Bird" MacPherson is a high school senior from the 'wrong side of the tracks.' She longs for adventure, sophistication, and opportunity, but finds none of that … Continue reading
The Flying Squirrel will screen the excellent documentary July '64 (Carvin Eison, U.S. 2006, 60 min.) The night of Friday, July 24th, 1964 started off normally enough in Rochester New York, stiflingly hot and humid; but by the next morning … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Queen Kelly (Erich von Stroheim, U.S. 1929, 75 min., 35mm) as part of the Silent Tuesdays, and Erich von Stroheim series. In a career laden with personality and business clashes, Erich von Stroheim never faced any … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Humor Me (Sam Hoffman, U.S. 2017, 93 min.) "A once-acclaimed New York playwright, Nate (Jemaine Clement), is struggling to finish his new play when his wife (Maria Dizzia) leaves him, taking their son. Desolate, broke and … Continue reading