In the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library Building, Brian DiNitto will present a Media in Focus lecture on Movies on a Shoestring. Presenter, Brian DiNitto, will talk about the Rochester International Film Festival and show some … Continue reading
Join us on soup-er Second Friday! Donate $20, and get a hand-made bowl and package of Healthy Sisters' soup mix. Then graze to your heart's delight on delicious apps and desserts. Doors open at 5. But don't delay, dawdle or … Continue reading
The Flower City Arts Center will have an Opening Reception for Wall-to-Wall: 2017 Members Exhibition, on display through February 25.
The Strong National Museum of Play will host a screening of Screenagers (Delaney Ruston, U.S. 2016, 70 min.) Once, parents were concerned about the amount of time their kids watched television. Today, screen time has risen dramatically. There are few … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, U.S. 2016, 116 min.) "A wealthy art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale."
The Dryden will screen Alien (Ridley Scott, U.K./U.S. 1979, 117 min., 35mm) as part of the First Contact series. Sigourney Weaver proves herself a courageous warrior as her working-class spaceship crew steadily fall prey to a terrifyingly unpredictable creature in … Continue reading
Bread and Water Theatre will host a reading by J. R. Teeter of Mike Daisey's The Trump Card. Author and monologist Mike Daisey takes on the reigning world heavyweight of self-mythologizing, the short fingered vulgarian who captured the nation's heart … Continue reading
A new play by Mark Jabaut, directed by Jean Gordon Ryon. The goal of this series is to ensure that local playwrights get multiple opportunities to workshop new plays and hear them in front of a live audience, so that … Continue reading
Babeville is hosting Stand-Up For Planned Parenthood featuring comedy by Andrea Springer, RJ Purpura, Malcolm Whitfield, Nicky Spin, Cody Colin Chase, Allie Brady, and Phil MacHemer, hosted by Zach Dietsch.
The Lovin' Cup will host excellent ska-driven rock from The Beaumonts, and Stay the Plow.
The Cinema will screen Collateral Beauty (David Frankel, U.S. 2016, 97 min.) "Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things … Continue reading
The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States poses a dramatic threat to civil liberties and civil rights around the country and in New York. There is no question of how much we have to lose. The … Continue reading
In the Science and History Division on the 3rd Floor of the Bausch and Lomb Public Library Building is a lecture titled Understanding Dementia Related Behavior. Behavior is a powerful form of communication and is one of the primary ways … Continue reading
Are you committed to social justice and political change, but not sure where or how to plug in? Please consider attending the Rochester Activism Fair. Many activist organizations from the Greater Rochester area will be in attendance to speak directly … Continue reading
William Green, curatorial assistant in the Department of Photography and contributor to the exhibition catalogue, will give a tour of A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age.