Rochester Film Legacy Award presentation to Marilyn O'Connor; Dog Bowl screening; Gordy Hoffman discussion
2015-11-08 21:00 - 22:30 (America/New_York) | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The High Falls Film Festival gets an early start with the presentation of the Rochester Film Legacy Award to Marilyn O'Connor followed by a screening of Dog Bowl (Gordy Hoffman, U.S. 2015, 19 min.) and a discussion with filmmaker (and O'Connor's son) Gordy Hoffman. "A heartbroken girl spiraling through her life stumbles upon the true nature of her existence after stealing the vest off of a service dog." [source: High Falls Film Festival website, 2015-Nov-5]

Automagik, Mostly Fiction, Full Body musical performances
2015-11-08 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Bug Jar calendar, 2015-Nov-2]

Grandma screening (2015-Nov-9 @ 7 p.m.)
2015-11-09 19:00 - 20:20 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Grandma (Paul Weitz, U.S. 2015, 80 min.) "A teenager facing an unplanned pregnancy seeks help from her acerbic grandmother, a woman who is long estranged from her daughter." [source: Cinema coming soon page, 2015-Nov-4]

Eastman Philharmonia musical performance (2015-Nov-9 @ 8 p.m.)
2015-11-09 20:00 - 22:00 | Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
[source: Eastman School of Music calendar, 2015-Nov-2]

Learning to Drive screening (2015-Nov-9 @ 8:25 p.m.)
2015-11-09 20:25 - 21:55 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Learning to Drive (Isabel Coixet, U.K. / U.S. 2014, 90 min.) "As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel." [source: Cinema coming soon page, 2015-Nov-4]

Vic, Roarshark, Harsh Mellows musical performances
2015-11-09 21:30 - 23:30 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Community Shred Day (2015-Nov-10 @ 10 a.m.)
2015-11-10 10:00 - 14:00 | Classified Shredding Services, 425 Paul Rd., Chili, New York, 14624, United States
Your documents will be inserted into locked containers, shredded and sent to a paper mill for recycling, protecting your family and the environment at the same time. The following are acceptable for shredding: documents with staples and clips, receipts, junk mail, all types of envelopes, and 3-ring binders. Limit three boxes per person please, no appointment necessary.
[source: Classified Shredding Services mailing, 2015-Oct-26]

$15 and Union Rights for All! National Day of Action
2015-11-10 17:00 - 20:00 | Washington Square Park, 111 Woodbury Blvd., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
After a major victory earlier this year, where all fast food workers in New York State have a guaranteed path to $15 per hour wage, the Fight for 15 continues to push forward! Now fast food workers and their allies are beginning, throughout the entire nation, are beginning to build a powerful coalition for racial and economic justice. The cornerstones of this movement nationwide are three major components: 1. Black Lives Matter 2. Immigration Justice 3. $15 and union rights for all On November 10th, we will participate in a National Day of Action for economic and racial justice. As our movement grows, we are finding that bold, public actions are the real way to create serious transformational change in the nation.
[source: Facebook, 2015-Nov-2]

American St. Nick screening
2015-11-10 18:30 - 19:27 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen American St. Nick (Tim Gray, U.S. / Germany 2015, 57 min.) as part of WXXI's Veterans Connections.
It's December 1944, the Germans are retreating. It appears the war in Europe may be over soon, but not soon enough for members of the battle-worn 28th Infantry Division. Knowing they won't be home again for the Holidays, soldiers from a 112th regiment Signal Company Message Center in the storybook town of Wiltz, realize that although the town has been liberated after nearly five years of Nazi occupation, the ravages of war have left the townspeople with nothing to celebrate the season. For the children, it will be especially bleak without the hope of candies, treats or gifts on the normally town-wide celebration of St. Nicolas Day. Hearing this, Corporal Harry Stutz gets an idea. He gathers some fellow soldiers and together they organize a Christmas party for the children, a party that will include a special visit from St. Nicolas himself, thanks to a reluctant Corporal Richard Brookins. Wearing the mass robes of the local priest and a crudely fashioned rope beard to complete the costume, St. Nicolas rides through town on an Army jeep, stopping to meet the children and passing out treats baked by the Army cooks or donated from the soldier's care packages from home. Later the celebration continues with a party for all the children at the Wiltz Castle. It is a wonderful day for the children of Wiltz and for the American soldiers as well.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2015-Nov-2]

Grandma screening (2015-Nov-10 @ 7 p.m.)
2015-11-10 19:00 - 20:20 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Lime Kiln Club Field Day screening
2015-11-10 20:00 - 21:03 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Lime Kiln Club Field Day (Edwin Middleton, T. Hayes Hunter, Sam Corker Jr., U.S. 1913, 63 min., 35mm).
At a challenging time of segregation in the fall of 1913, a virtuoso cast of black performers led by famed Caribbean American entertainer Bert Williams (1874—1922) gathered in the Bronx to make a feature-length motion picture. After more than an hour of film was shot, the project was abandoned by its white producers and left forgotten—until today. Found in MOMA's Biograph Studio collection, the seven reels of untitled and unassembled footage represent the earliest known surviving feature with a cast of black actors. Shot at locations in New York and New Jersey, the comedy centers on Williams's efforts to win the hand of the local beauty and boasts among its highlights a two-minute exhibition dance sequence and a cutting-edge display of on-screen affection between its leads.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2015-Nov-2]

Learning to Drive screening (2015-Nov-10 @ 8:25 p.m.)
2015-11-10 20:25 - 21:55 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Rick Hock: Codices exhibition
2015-11-11 11:00 - 17:00 | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
MAG is one of four Rochester cultural institutions exhibiting work by Rick McKee Hock (1947-2015), a noted educator and longtime director of exhibitions and program design at George Eastman House. Hock was also a prolific artist whose work was featured at MAG in the 4th Rochester Biennial. The three works in this tribute take as their starting point the glut of visual information that bombards us daily. Each codex comprises a group of images from books, magazines, posters, advertisements, how-to manuals and the like.
[source: MAG website, 2015-Nov-2]

Guilty Pleasures: Artist Talk by Jay Muhlin
2015-11-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Visiting artist Jay Muhlin with present his new photobook Guilty Pleasures with a slide show and present Guilty Pleasures the tarot deck for readings and a gathering. Let's look into your future together…
[source: Facebook, 2015-Nov-2]

Grandma screening (2015-Nov-11 @ 7 p.m.)
2015-11-11 19:00 - 20:20 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Time of Fear: Japanese-American Internment During WWII
2015-11-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Pittsford Community Library, 24 State St., Pittsford, New York, 14534, United States
One of the most heroic times in American history is also the darkest. While World War II raged on and U.S. soldiers fought for freedom and democracy elsewhere, Japanese-Americans were removed from their homes and communities and interned in camps situated in the farthest recesses of Arkansas and elsewhere. RIT Osher speaker Bob Vukosic will explore who, what, when, where, and why of Japanese-American Internment. Registration required.
[source: Monroe County Library website, 2015-Nov-2]

Ici et ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere), and Al-Shareet bi Khayr (All Is Well on the Border) screenings
2015-11-11 20:00 - 21:43 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Ici et ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere, Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, France 1976, 60 min., 16mm, French w/subtitles), and Al-Shareet bi Khayr (All Is Well on the Border, Akram Zaatari, Lebanon 1997, 43 min., digital, French w/subtitles).
"It is necessary to stop making movies on politics, to stop making political movies, and to begin making political movies politically," declared Jean-Luc Godard as part of the Dziga-Vertov Group, a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist filmmaking collective he spearheaded with Jean-Pierre Gorin between 1968 and 1972. Commissioned by the Arab League in 1970 to produce a film on the Palestinian Revolution provisionally entitled Jusqu'Ã la victoire! (Until Victory), Godard and Gorin's cine-revolutionary plans were upended by the events of Black September, which left the fedayeen (whom they'd hoped to feature) dead at the hands of Jordan's King Hussein. Unable to finish the film as conceived, Godard, now working with Anne-Marie Miéville, transformed the original footage into a scathing self-critique of the assumptions that led a band of European filmmakers to believe they might be able to speak for a people "elsewhere" from their comforts "here."
One of Zaatari's earliest experiments in documentary video, All Is Well emerged from the filmmaker's desire to understand Israel's occupation of Southern Lebanon following the 1982 Lebanon War. The video presents a series of testimonies by Lebanese citizens who were detained during the occupation, each presenting an image of resistance that falls outside the dominant narrative of liberation and solidarity promoted by the Lebanese left. At the same time, by actively resisting the tendency in political documentary filmmaking to give a voice to those who do not have one, Zaatari adopts a form of self-critique similar to the one used by Godard and Miéville twenty years earlier in Here and Elsewhere.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2015-Nov-2]

Eastman Wind Orchestra musical performance
2015-11-11 20:00 - 22:00 | Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States

Learning to Drive screening (2015-Nov-11 @ 8:25 p.m.)
2015-11-11 20:25 - 21:55 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Wendy Ewald: This Is Where I Live lecture
2015-11-12 18:00 - 19:00 | George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
For forty years, Wendy Ewald has traveled the world working with children and adults to document their communities. Her recent book, This Is Where I Live (London: Mack, 2015), documents this collaborative approach, reflecting the personal experiences of people living in Israel and the West Bank.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2015-Nov-9]

St. Monci art opening
2015-11-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Abode, 289 Gregory St., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
[source: Facebook, 2015-Nov-9]

Grandma screening (2015-Nov-12 @ 7 p.m.)
2015-11-12 19:00 - 20:20 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Henry V theatrical performance (2015-Nov-12 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2015-11-12 19:30 - 21:30 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Shakespeare Players program of the Rochester Community Players presents Henry V at the MuCCC.
"Henry V concludes the "Henriad" Cycle that began in Spring with Richard II. Young King Henry V takes the throne in a most contentious atmosphere and must learn fast how to lead in war, love, and politics.
[source: MuCCC website, 2015-Oct-26]

Kreuzweg (Stations of the Cross) screening
2015-11-12 20:00 - 21:47 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Kreuzweg (Stations of the Cross, Dietrich Brüggemann, Germany/France 2014, 107 min., DCP, German w/subtitles).
Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot tableaux that parallel Christ's journey to his crucifixion, Stations of the Cross is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen's struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires sacrifice and devotion at every turn. As she struggles to balance her own desires with the dictates of her family's faith, she makes ever more perilous sacrifices, attempting to please a god she worships unquestioningly in the pious hopes of curing the autistic younger brother she adores. Winner of Silver Bear for best script and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2015-Nov-9]

2015 High Falls Film Festival Opening Night Party
2015-11-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Sibley Tower Building, 228 East Main St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
[source: High Falls Film Festival website, 2015-Nov-11]

Learning to Drive screening (2015-Nov-12 @ 8:25 p.m.)
2015-11-12 20:25 - 21:55 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

The Branch Davidians, Cavalcade musical performances
2015-11-12 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Bug Jar will host The Branch Davidians, and Cavalcade. [source: Bug Jar calendar, 2015-Nov-9]

Teressa Wilcox Duo musical performance
2015-11-12 22:00 - 2015-11-13 00:00 | Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
[source: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que website, 2015-Nov-9]

Black Mass screening (2015-Nov-13 @ 7 p.m.)
2015-11-13 19:00 - 21:02 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Black Mass (Scott Cooper, U.S. / U.K. 2015, 122 min.) "The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf." [source: Cinema coming soon page, 2015-Nov-11]

Henry V theatrical performance (2015-Nov-13 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2015-11-13 19:30 - 21:30 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
