Guilty Pleasures: Artist Talk by Jay Muhlin
2015-11-11 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | 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
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]

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
[source: Eastman School of Music calendar, 2015-Nov-2]

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
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]

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

Confessions Of A Nightingale theatrical performance (2015-Nov-13 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2015-11-13 19:30 - 21:30 | Bread and Water Theatre, 172 W. Main St., Rochester, New York, United States
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 an interview with a reporter, to whose unheard questions Williams responds directly to the audience as if they are doing the asking. We learn of the struggles of his early years, his first successes, the price of his fame and his later years of dissolution and decline, all in Williams' delightfully witty style. Part of the Rainbow Theater Festival.
[source: Bread and Water Theatre website, 2015-Nov-2]

Chelovek s kino-apparatom (Man with a Movie Camera) screening
2015-11-13 20:00 - 21:20 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Chelovek s kino-apparatom (Man with a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov, Soviet Union 1929, 80 min., 35mm) with live accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra.
In the original city symphony and quintessential experimental essay, Soviet master Dziga Vertov traverses the vibrant cityscapes of Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow, and Odessa, using a variety of camera techniques to deconstruct motion and montage simultaneously. Eliminating script, intertitles, and actors, Vertov's "Kino-eye" dissects the very language of cinema. The renowned Alloy Orchestra will perform the live musical accompaniment, creating a cinematic experience not to be missed.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2015-Nov-9]

Jonathan Richman musical performance
2015-11-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Abilene Bar and Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Jonathan Richman has been writing music, recording and touring for most of his life, gathering the loyalty of fans and fellow artists with his warmth, humor and insightful lyrics. In the early 1970s he formed the Modern Lovers, a major progenitor of punk music. Tommy Larkins was in the groups Naked Prey, Giant Sand and other popular bands in Tucson, Arizona. Jonathan and Tommy continue to record, write music together and tour across the U.S. Tommy's drumming along with Jonathna's guitar and singing create a live experience that is hard to forget.
[source: Abilene website, 2015-Nov-9]

99 Homes screening (2015-Nov-13 @ 9:05 p.m.)
2015-11-13 21:05 - 22:57 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen the imperfect but quite good drama 99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani, U.S. 2014, 112 min.) "A father struggles to get back the home that his family was evicted from by working for the greedy real estate broker who's the source of his frustration." [source: Cinema coming soon page, 2015-Nov-11]

Jackie Brown screening
2015-11-13 22:00 - 2015-11-14 00:34 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, U.S. 1997, 154 min.) as part of the Mondo Movie Series.
A middle-aged woman finds herself in the middle of a huge conflict that will either make her a profit or cost her her life.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2015-Nov-9]

Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura, Pengo musical performances
2015-11-13 22:30 - 2015-11-14 00:30 | Monty's Krown, 875 Monroe Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura, and something like semi-melodic fast-paced noise from Pengo perform at Monty's Krown. [source: Carbon Records website, 2015-Nov-9]

Awakening the Dreamer Symposium
2015-11-14 10:30 - 14:30 | Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave., Rochester, New York, 14618, United States
In Awakening the Dreamer, you'll look squarely at the state of the world—where we are and how we got here—and then explore what role you can play in bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet.
[source: Color Brighton Green website, 2015-Nov-9]

I'm Not Racist...Am I? screening
2015-11-14 13:00 - 14:33 | Gandhi Institute (M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence), 929 S. Plymouth Ave., Rochester, New York, 14608, United States
The Gandhi Institute will screen I'm Not Racist…Am I? (Catherine Wigginton Greene, U.S. 2014, 93 min.) "followed by a facilitated discussion of the film" with the Shades of Sisterhood, "a multiracial women's organization". [source: Gandhi Inistitute website, 2015-Nov-9]

85th Birthday Party
2015-11-14 13:00 - 16:00 | Monroe Branch Library, 809 Monroe Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Join us for our Birthday Bash! Please stop by to celebrate 85 years of information, entertainment and enlightenment. We will have live music, refreshments, games, raffles, crafts and other surprises!
[source: Monroe County Library website, 2015-Nov-9]

Found, Shared, Liked: a Symposium
2015-11-14 14:00 - 17:00 | Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Our lives are hyper-visual. We engage images on multiple screens and image sharing increases daily; Instagram alone has 1.6 billion images shared with 60 million images liked a day. It is more important than ever that we employ critical thinking when using visual representations. Found, Shared, Liked is an afternoon symposium to discuss the history of appropriation of images for expressive purposes, photo sharing as a phenomenon, and to study the concept of fair use. Found, Shared, Liked is in connection with VSW's exhibition The Curious Reality of Images by Rick McKee Hock who appropriated images to great effect in his own creative work.
[source: Visual Studies Workshop website, 2015-Nov-9]

Grandma screening (2015-Nov-14 @ 4:30 p.m.)
2015-11-14 16:30 - 17:50 | 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-11]

Chili Cookoff
2015-11-14 16:30 - 19:30 | Genesee Center for the Arts, 713 Monroe Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Bring some Tums along with your appetite if you think you can take the heat. Contenders from over a dozen Rochester eateries are duking it out for top honors in a variety of sizzling categories. Taste them all and vote for the victor. A handmade ceramic bowl is yours to keep as a reminder of your gastronomic achievement.
[source: Genesee Center for the Arts and Education website, 2015-Nov-9]

Black Mass screening (2015-Nov-14 @ 7 p.m.)
2015-11-14 19:00 - 21:02 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
