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
Pittsford Zurich Cinemas will screen Wildflower (Nicholas DiBella, U.S. 2016, 92 min.), filmed around Rochester and directed by local filmmaker Nick DiBella. Multiple screenings each day through February 11. When a college student starts having a reoccurring nightmare, she begins … Continue reading
In the Computer Studies Building #209 on the UofR Campus is a lecture with Dan Steingart discussing Learning New Things from Old Chemistries: Revisiting Ideas Before Lithium Ion.
VSW will host a First Friday reception for Monitored or Recorded by Luna Galassini, on display through February 19. Galassini works as a transcriptionist for the LA County district attorney's office and has browsed prison message boards and studied Google … Continue reading
Get all shook up as Elvis DJs, at Gruntwerk and Khaos by Design, #41, Bitterly-singed hibiscus dirty rose ice cream cones at Eat Me, #148, Temporary tattoos in Little Lamb Studios, #213, Free chair massages in Black Dog Studio and … Continue reading
Introducing The Valentine's Day Collection, "Written in the Stars" with designs by Joanna Walters Design and inspired by Keith Walters Photography. Taste the Raspberry Chocolate Truffle created in the kitchen of Hedonist Artisan Chocolates featuring hand-lettered artwork by Joanna Walters … Continue reading
The Panfil Brothers are multi-instrumentalists and vocalist who perform original, traditional and contemporary Bluegrass music. Their hallmark is songwriting and versatility both instrumentally and stylistically. A performance will include guitars, banjo, fiddle, harmonica, mandolin, accordion, bass and bodhran (the Irish … Continue reading
In Ingle Auditorium is a lecture titled I Love Female Orgasm. Join us to laugh and learn about the "big O," the most popular topic sex educators Dorian Solot and Connor Timmons teach about! Orgasm aficionados and beginners of all … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino, U.S. 2015, 187 min.) "In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters."
He was one of the great twentieth century American playwrights, and Tennessee Williams' private persona is shown to have been just as fascinating as his plays in this delightful, moving, and incisive ninety minute drama. The play is structured as … Continue reading
The MuCCC is hosting a performance of The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer. In this compelling dramatic triptych, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital's grounds. The three are attended and visited by family and close … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Hua li shang ban zu (Office, Johnnie To, Hong Kong/China 2015, 117 min., DCP, Cantonese w/subtitles). Billion-dollar company Jones and Sunn is going public. Chairman Ho Chung-ping has promised CEO Chang, who has been his mistress … Continue reading