Cuba: What's Turning with the Revolution?
2018-09-18 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Abundance Cooperative Market (formerly Echo Tone Music), 571 South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
A report back on the politics, farming and social networks from a trip to Cuba by Coop members Jack Spula, Liz Henderson, Peter House and Michael Hannen.
[source: Rochester City Newspaper events calendar, 2018-Sep-10]

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again screening (2018-Sep-18 @ 7 p.m.)
2018-09-18 19:00 - 20:54 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Ol Parker, U.K. / U.S. 2018, 114 min.) "Five years after the events of Mamma Mia! (2008), Sophie prepares for the grand reopening of the Hotel Bella Donna as she learns more about her mother's past." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2018-Sep-12]

Ben-Hur screening (2018-Sep-18 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2018-09-18 19:30 - 21:53 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Ben-Hur (Fred Niblo, U.S. 1925, 143 min., 35mm) with live piano by Philip C. Carli as part of the Silent Tuesdays series.
The most expensive spectacle of its time, this film tells the familiar story of Judah Ben-Hur (matinee idol Ramon Novarro) in the early days of Christianity. His wealthy family is persecuted for their faith by the Romans, including Judah's childhood friend Messala. Following an accident, Judah is sentenced to life as a galley slave and separated from his family. He seeks to find a way to escape, exact his revenge, and find his sister and mother. The massive sea battle scene and the famous chariot race are the centerpieces of this epic tale that still resonates almost a hundred years later.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2018-Sep-10]

Woody Pines musical performance
2018-09-18 20:00 - 22:00 | Abilene Bar and Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
If you're wondering where the music of Nashville troubadour Woody Pines comes from, look to the streets. It was on the streets as a professional busker that Woody first cut his teeth, drawing liberally from the lost back alley anthems and scratchy old 78s of American roots music, whether country blues, jugband, hokum, or hillbilly. Heavy rollicking street performances are the key to some of today's best roots bands, like Old Crow Medicine Show (Woody and Ocms' Gill Landry used to tour the country in their own jugband), and they're the key to Woody's intensely catchy rhythms, jumpy lyrics, and wildly delirious sense of fun. Woody traveled all over the streets of this country, road testing his songs, drawing from the catchiest elements of the music he loved and adding in hopped-up vintage electrification to get that old country dancehall sound down right.
[source: Abilene Bar and Lounge website, 2018-Sep-10]

Blindspotting screening (2018-Sep-18 @ 8:55 p.m.)
2018-09-18 20:55 - 22:31 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada, U.S. 2018, 96 min.) "While on probation, a black man begins to re-evaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2018-Sep-12]

Fall of Thunder, Axemaster, Vatican musical performances
2018-09-18 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Facebook, 2018-Sep-10]

Park Ave Pop-up Walking Tour
2018-09-19 17:15 - 21:00 | RMSC Park, 270 Park Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Join The Landmark Society and the Young Urban Preservationists for a guided walking tour of the Park Avenue neighborhood! We'll explore the architecture and history of one of Rochester's most iconic neighborhoods. As a special bonus—we're even getting you inside two incredible private homes and two Park Ave. businesses! This is a rare opportunity to get a peek inside these homes and see the neighborhood through the eyes of local architecture and history experts.
[source: Landmark Society website, 2018-Sep-10]

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again screening (2018-Sep-19 @ 7 p.m.)
2018-09-19 19:00 - 20:54 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

ProÄ UNESCO? (Why UNESCO?), Sen noci svatojánské (A Midsummer Night's Dream) screenings
2018-09-19 19:30 - 20:52 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen ProÄ UNESCO? (Why UNESCO?, Jiri Trnka, Czechoslovakia 1958, 10 min., 35mm, Czech w/subtitles), and Sen noci svatojánské (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jiri Trnka, Czechoslovakia 1959, 72 min., 35mm, English version) as part of the Animation of Jiri Trnka series.
Coming near the end of Trnka's career, A Midsummer Night's Dream is likely his best-known work. This bewitching adaptation of Shakespeare's romantic fairy tale is a masterpiece of surpassing balletic beauty that plays out amidst a garlanded pastel dreamscape. Preceded by Why UNESCO?, a short commissioned by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, which employs strikingly simple animation to make the case that all of humanity is enriched when we tear down the walls that separate us.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2018-Sep-10]

Cloven Hoof, Kryst, Fatal Curse, Nuclear Winter musical performances
2018-09-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Caroline Rose musical performance
2018-09-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Abilene Bar and Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
An obsession with money, an unfaithful lover, a friend's accidental pregnancy, misogyny, loneliness, death… This is just some of the lighthearted subject matter that make up Loner—the darkly comedic second album from songwriter/producer Caroline Rose. Armed with an arsenal of new instruments and equipment, an ever-growing sense of "ahhh fuck it," two years of exploration, and a wicked sense of humor, Rose delivers a set of serious songs wrapped in a sprightly, angsty pop burrito. Because, as Rose puts it, "Sometimes sad songs just need a cocktail." Loner captures the cheeky satire, comical musings, and often jarring mood swings——sometimes goofy, sometimes emotional——that make up much of Rose's personality. "I call it Schizodrift," she says sipping on a martini with her pinky out. "I want to make music that sounds as manic as I feel." Filled with catchy synth hooks, Ray Manzarek-esque Farfisa, surf guitar, depth of thought and a punk attitude, Loner captures the energy of bands like Le Tigre and The Cramps, and nods to the styles of Blondie and Devo, the pop hooks of icons like Justin Timberlake, all the while being inspired by the artistry of Kate Bush. "I'd say this album was as much inspired by Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears as it was late 70s punk."
[source: Abilene Bar and Lounge website, 2018-Sep-10]

Blindspotting screening (2018-Sep-19 @ 8:55 p.m.)
2018-09-19 20:55 - 22:31 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

September Meeting of The Photographic Historical Society
2018-09-20 13:30 - 16:30 | Rochester Historical Society, 121 Lincoln Ave., Rochester, New York, 14611, United States
The September 20 TPHS meeting will Not be held at VSW in the evening. We are meeting on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the Rochester Historical Society, at 121 Lincoln Ave, on the west side of the city. Our tour guide is historian Dan Cody. The museum is fascinating, with early Rochesterians' oil portraits, WW1 Posters, early Rochester pioneer's information, clothing (including Susan B. Anthony's burgundy traveling dress), an historic piano and one of the Fox sisters' table used for "tapping" for seances. When you get to Lincoln Ave, if you see a small church with the number 121 on it, pull behind it to the original home of Eastman Kodak's former Lincoln Plant. This plant still has the chain-link fence with barbed wire on top, as it was the top-secret location for the building of spy satellites. In fact, the room with two basketball courts in the rec center in the back of the building was once the largest "clean room" in the Eastern US!
[source: Facebook, 2018-Sep-17]

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again screening (2018-Sep-20 @ 7 p.m.)
2018-09-20 19:00 - 20:54 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Intruder in the Dust screening
2018-09-20 19:30 - 20:57 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Intruder in the Dust (Clarence Brown, U.S. 1949, 87 min., 35mm) as part of the Reinventing Hollywood series.
This rarely seen adaptation of the mystery novel by William Faulkner investigates racism and justice in the mid-century South. When a black landowner is falsely charged with the murder of a white lumberman, it's up to an unlikely band to defend him. A black teen, a white teen and his lawyer uncle, and an elderly woman come together to prove the landowner's innocence and bring the true murderer to justice. While providing a social message, the film also highlights the importance of mystery to 1940s cinema and utilizes the flashback technique.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2018-Sep-17]

Blindspotting screening (2018-Sep-20 @ 8:55 p.m.)
2018-09-20 20:55 - 22:31 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Open Stage—The Series (2018-Sep-21 @ 6 p.m.)
2018-09-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Abundance Cooperative Market (formerly Echo Tone Music), 571 South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
Even if you don't have anything to perform, stop in — artists and photographers are invited to record the event; and, of course, everyone's welcome to drop in just to see and listen!!
[source: Facebook, 2018-Sep-17]

Incredibles 2 screening (2018-Sep-21 @ 7 p.m.)
2018-09-21 19:00 - 20:58 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird, U.S. 2018, 118 min.) "Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) is left to care for the kids while Helen (Elastigirl) is out saving the world." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2018-Sep-19]

I, Daniel Blake screening
2018-09-21 19:30 - 21:10 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, U.K. / France / Belgium 2016, 100 min., DCP) as part of the Labor Film Series.
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Ken Loach's latest film is a gripping human tale about the impact one man can make. Daniel Blake (Dave Johns), a gruff but goodhearted widowed woodworker, lives by his own common-sense moral code. But after a heart attack leaves him unable to work and the state welfare system fails him, the stubbornly self-reliant Daniel must stand up and fight for his dignity. He leads a one-man crusade for compassion that will transform not only his life, but also the lives of a struggling single mother (Hayley Squires) and her two children. I, Daniel Blake is a moving, much-needed reminder of the power of empathy from one of the world's greatest living filmmakers.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2018-Sep-17]

Juliet, Naked screening (2018-Sep-21 @ 9 p.m.)
2018-09-21 21:00 - 22:45 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Juliet, Naked (Jesse Peretz, U.S. 2018, 105 min.) "Juliet, Naked is the story of Annie (the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan) and her unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2018-Sep-19]

From the Rough screening
2018-09-22 11:00 - 12:37 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen From the Rough (Pierre Bagley, U.S. 2013, 97 min.) with film producer Mike Critelli and Dr. Catana Starks .
The film is based on the inspirational true story of Dr. Starks, who made history as the first woman, and the first African American woman, to coach a men's college golf team. Starring Taraji P. Henson and Michael Clarke Duncan.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2018-Sep-20]

Theme Tour: Roads Less Traveled By
2018-09-22 11:00 - 13:00 | Mt. Hope Cemetery North Gatehouse, 791 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
Meet 19th century Rochesterians — pivotal leaders, entrepreneurs and heroes — in sections not often visited on other Mt. Hope tours.
[source: Friends of Mt. Hope website, 2018-Sep-17]

Looking for Frederick Douglass: Resources in Libraries, Museums, and Archives
2018-09-22 12:00 - 14:00 | George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Frederick Douglass was a highly visible public figure, a popular orator, and a prolific writer and memoirist; he has also been called "the 19th century's most photographed American." Two hundred years after his birth, however, locating and bringing together dispersed documentary records of Douglass's life can be a challenge. While the circumstances of his life and legacy certainly play a role, this elusiveness may have as much to do with the variety of institutions that hold such materials and the differing standards and practices among libraries, museums, and archives. The Eastman Museum will host a conversation about these challenges. The panelists are Jessica Lacher-Feldman, assistant dean, Special Collections and Preservation, University of Rochester; Jennifer Morris, archivist, Anacostia Community Museum, Washington, Dc; and Heather Shannon, associate curator, Department of Photography, George Eastman Museum. Ken Fox, head of library and archives, Eastman Museum, will moderate. Join us as we set out to find Frederick Douglass.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2018-Sep-17]

Oktoberfest Train Rides
2018-09-22 12:00 - 16:00 | Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum, 282 Rush Scottsville Rd., Rush, New York, 14534, United States
All aboard for Oktoberfest Train Rides! Grab your lederhosen and enjoy tastings from local craft breweries on Saturday, September 22, from 12:00 p.m. — 4:00 p.m. Ride the train to visit all of the tasting stations! Ticket purchase includes museum admission and free souvenir tasting glass. Refreshments available for purchase. Free soft drinks for Designated Drivers.
[source: Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum website, 2018-Sep-17]

ArtAwake
2018-09-22 12:00 - 2018-09-23 00:00 | First Federal Plaza, 28 E. Main St., Rochester, New York, 14614, United States
Now in its 10th year, ArtAwake is University of Rochester-born, student-run, free art-and-music festival that showcases local talent in an unconventional venue. This year, the event joins Fringe and takes over the former Changing Scene restaurant in the First Federal Plaza building! View hundreds of artworks while enjoying live music throughout the noon-to-midnight event. Don't miss afternoon fun for the whole family and a sunset cocktail party for the 21+ crowd in one of Rochester's coolest venues.
[source: University of Rochester events calendar, 2018-Sep-17]

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again screening (2018-Sep-22 @ 4:30 p.m.)
2018-09-22 16:30 - 18:30 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Ol Parker, U.K. / U.S. 2018, 114 min.) "Five years after the events of Mamma Mia! (2008), Sophie prepares for the grand reopening of the Hotel Bella Donna as she learns more about her mother's past." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2018-Sep-19]

Cheshire's 6th Anniversary
2018-09-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Cheshire, 647 South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
We all had so much fun last year that it's going to be another Alice In Wonderland themed Cheshire anniversary party! Come in costume and show us…are you the Queen of Hearts? Mad Hatter? Cheshire Cat himself? Drink specials all night as well as prize for best costume! Mainly – celebrate six years of great vibes and great cocktails upstairs at Cheshire!
[source: Facebook, 2018-Sep-17]

Incredibles 2 screening (2018-Sep-22 @ 7 p.m.)
2018-09-22 19:00 - 20:58 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Gentleman's Agreement screening
2018-09-22 19:30 - 21:28 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan, U.S. 1947, 118 min., 35mm) as part of the Reinventing Hollywood series.
Gregory Peck stars as Philip Green, a journalist transplanted from California to New York assigned a series for his new magazine on the subject of anti-Semitism. He struggles with how to approach the topic until he decides to pass himself off as Jewish. While very few people know about the ruse (the 1940s technique of "restricted knowledge"), Philip goes about his everyday life, including career and romance, while suffering prejudices and ultimately discovering that the issue is much larger than a magazine article.
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2018-Sep-17]

Juliet, Naked screening (2018-Sep-22 @ 9 p.m.)
2018-09-22 21:00 - 22:45 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
