Don't Live for Your Student Loans lecture
2016-02-04 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Irondequoit Public Library, 1290 Titus Ave., Rochester, New York, 14617, United States
The Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Rochester will present a lecture titled Don't Live for Your Student Loans at Irondequoit Public Library. (Note: not covered is how to pay back your student loans when the only job you can get doesn't pay enough to live on, but prevents you from continuing to defer the insurmountable debt.)
The average college student graduates with approximately $27,000 in student loan debt. This program will educate how to handle student loans, the benefits of paying loans off faster, the helpful payoff programs that are available through the federal loan program, and how to maximize repayment efforts. Materials and handouts with practical resources and useful tools will be provided.
[source: Monroe County Library website, 2016-Feb-1]

The Danish Girl screening (2016-Feb-4 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-02-04 19:00 - 20:59 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, U.K. / U.S. / Belgium / Denmark / Germany 2015, 119 min.) "A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer." [source: Cinema coming soon page, 2016-Jan-27]

Harvest: 3,000 Years screening
2016-02-04 20:00 - 22:30 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
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 toiling under a wealthy feudal landlord, the film blends numerous narrative techniques to create an impassioned work of haunting beauty.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-1]

Carol screening (2016-Feb-4 @ 9 p.m.)
2016-02-04 21:00 - 22:58 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
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 affair in 1950s New York." [source: Cinema coming soon page, 2016-Jan-27]

Wildflower screening
2016-02-05 11:00 - 12:32 | Pittsford Zurich Cinemas, 3349 Monroe Ave., Pittsford, New York, 14618, United States
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 to believe that it's a suppressed memory. Her search to find the answers forces her to confront her past traumas, while at the same time, helps her unlock a mystery that may bring a killer to justice.
[source: Zurich Cinemas, Pittsford website, 2016-Feb-4]

Learning New Things from Old Chemistries: Revisiting Ideas Before Lithium Ion lecture
2016-02-05 12:00 - 13:00 | University of Rochester River Campus, Intercampus Dr. & Library Rd., Rochester, New York, 14611, United States
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. [source: UofR website events calendar, 2016-Feb-1]

Reception for Monitored or Recorded by Luna Galassini
2016-02-05 18:00 - 21:00 | Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
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 Maps to pinpoint the location of a drive-by shooting more times than she can count. In the Project Space she will be working with the found material of these interrogations, witness interviews, and jail phone calls to further her attempts at bridging the gap between personal experience, the visual vernacular of the digital world, and the stories on which she eavesdrops on a daily basis.
[source: VSW e-mail, 2016-Jan-12]

Heartbreak Hotel
2016-02-05 18:00 - 21:00 | Hungerford Building, 1115 E. Main St., Rochester, New York, 14609, United States
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 Fired Figments, #224, One-of-a-klnd instant portrait in Genesee Libby Studio, #225, Contest for the sucky-est line in Cat Clay, #242, and Netflix and chili in Blue Toucan Studio, #258.
[source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2016-Feb-1]

Written in the Stars: Official Release and Tasting Party
2016-02-05 18:00 - 21:00 | Hedonist Artisan Chocolates, 674 South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
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 and inspired by the photography of Keith Walters. Meet Keith and Joanna and the Hedonist chocolatiers for this special event in conjunction with #firstfridayroc at Hedonist's shops in the heart of Rochester's South Wedge neighborhood. Keith's photography and Joanna's hand-lettered artwork will be on display and available for purchase.
[source: Facebook, 2016-Feb-4]

The Panfil Brothers musical performance
2016-02-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Bernunzio Uptown Music, 122 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
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 drum).
[source: Bernunzio Uptown Music website, 2016-Feb-1]

I Love Female Orgasm lecture
2016-02-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), 1 Lomb Memorial Dr., Rochester, New York, 14623, United States
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 genders are welcome to come learn about everything from multiple orgasms to that mysterious G-spot. Whether you want to learn how to have your first orgasm, how to have better ones, or how to help your girlfriend, they cover it all with lots of humor, plenty of honesty, and an underlying message of sexual health and women's empowerment. Are you coming?
[source: RIT College Activities Board website, 2016-Feb-1]

Wide Open Mic hosted by Norm Davis (2016-Feb-5 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-02-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Writers & Books, 740 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Writers and Books website, 2016-Feb-1]

The Hateful Eight screening
2016-02-05 19:00 - 22:07 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
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." [source: Cinema coming soon page, 2016-Feb-3]

Confessions Of A Nightingale theatrical performance (2016-Feb-5 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2016-02-05 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, 2016-Jan-11]

The Shadow Box theatrical performance (2016-Feb-5 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2016-02-05 19:30 - 21:30 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
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 friends: Agnes and her mother Felicity, estranged further by the latter's dementia; Brian and Beverly, whose marital complications are exacerbated by Brian's new lover, Mark; and Joe and Maggie, unready for the strain of Joe's impending death and its effect on their teenage son.
[source: MuCCC website, 2016-Feb-1]

Hua li shang ban zu (Office) screening
2016-02-05 20:00 - 21:57 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
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 for more than twenty years, to become a major shareholder of the company. As the IPO team enters the company to audit its accounts, a series of inside stories start to be revealed. Lee Xiang, a new hire at Jones and Sunn, brings with him youthful ideals and dreams. Within the neoliberal market, the logic of intrigue rules, complicated by entanglements of love-hate relationships, which weaves a power play and a pathos-laden tragedy inside the office. Adapted from Taiwanese actress Sylvia Chang's play, critically acclaimed director Johnnie To's Office depicts the fast-paced and glamorous corporate lives of and between men and women. Comedy, romance and musical Office boasts an all-star cast including Chow Yun Fat, Sylvia Chang, Eason Chan, and Tang Wei.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-1]

Eastman Wind Ensemble musical performance (2016-Feb-5 @ 8 p.m.)
2016-02-05 20:00 - 22:00 | Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
[source: Eastman School of Music calendar, 2016-Feb-1]

Shaft screening
2016-02-05 22:00 - 23:40 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen Shaft (Gordon Parks, U.S. 1971, 100 min.) as part of the Mondo Movie Series.
John Shaft is the ultimate in suave black detectives. He first finds himself up against Bumpy, the leader of the Black crime mob, then against Black nationals, and finally working with both against the White Mafia who are trying to blackmail Bumpy by kidnapping his daughter.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2016-Feb-1]

Carol screening (2016-Feb-6 @ 1 p.m.)
2016-02-06 13:00 - 14:58 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
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 affair in 1950s New York." [source: Cinema coming soon page, 2016-Feb-3]

Living Out staged reading
2016-02-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St., Rochester, New York, 14605, United States
At Blackfriars Theatre is a reading of Living Out by Lisa Loomer.
The play looks at the complicated relationship between a Salvadoran nanny and the Anglo lawyer she works for. The story explores their shared humanity and the differences wrought by race, class, and the nanny's undocumented status.
[source: Facebook, 2016-Feb-1]

Chi-Raq screening
2016-02-06 15:00 - 17:07 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen Chi-Raq (Spike Lee, U.S. 2015, 127 min.) as part of the Black History Month Film Series followed by a discussion with WDKX morning host Tariq Spence and Rochester program coordinator Shanterra Randle-Brown.
Beautiful Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris) is in love with aspiring Rapper Demtrius "Chi-Raq" Dupree (Nick Cannon), but she is disturbed by the bloody war between his Spartan gang and the rival Trojans, led by Cyclops (Wesley Snipes). After Trojans set fire to her apartment while she's in bed with Chi-Raq, Lysistrata moves in with her neighbor Miss Helen (Angela Bassett), a book-loving Peace activist who lost her daughter years before to a stray bullet. Shaken by an unexpected death and desperate to do something to stop the escalating bloodshed, Lysistrata persuades Spartan and Trojan women to swear off sex with their men until the fighting stops. To draw more attention to their cause, she leads the women in a bold occupation of a local armory, inspiring women across the city-and eventually the world-to join the boycott. As the ultimate battle of the sexes rages on, the city's fate hangs in the balance in this searing satire of gun violence in America.

The Danish Girl screening (2016-Feb-6 @ 4 p.m.)
2016-02-06 16:00 - 17:59 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, U.K. / U.S. / Belgium / Denmark / Germany 2015, 119 min.) "A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer." [source: Cinema coming soon page, 2016-Feb-3]

Bridge of Spies screening (2016-Feb-6 @ 6:30 p.m.)
2016-02-06 18:30 - 20:52 | Hoyt Auditorium, University of Rochester Campus, Rochester, New York, United States
In Hoyt Auditorium on the UofR Campus is a screening of the very good Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg, U.S. / Germany / India 2015, 142 min.)
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
[source: University of Rochester Cinema Group website, 2016-Feb-1]

The Hateful Eight screening (2016-Feb-6 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-02-06 19:00 - 22:07 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Confessions Of A Nightingale theatrical performance (2016-Feb-6 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2016-02-06 19:30 - 21:30 | Bread and Water Theatre, 172 W. Main St., Rochester, New York, United States

The Shadow Box theatrical performance (2016-Feb-6 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2016-02-06 19:30 - 21:30 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Power of the Press, Born Yesterday screenings
2016-02-06 20:00 - 22:02 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Power of the Press (George Kuchar, U.S. 1977, 28 min., 16mm), then Born Yesterday (George Cukor, U.S. 1950, 94 min., 35mm). The first is "Kuchar's unique take on the media: a radio workshop play meant to train students of the time in broadcasting techniques." The second:
Judy Holliday's seemingly "dumb blonde" Billie Dawn is about to awaken to a new day in Cukor's film of Garson Kanin's Broadway smash. Billie is the "kept woman" of a big-time lobbyist (Broderick Crawford), who hires newsman William Holden to make her sound more intelligent. Turns out she's far smarter than anyone had imagined.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-1]

Bridge of Spies screening (2016-Feb-6 @ 9:15 p.m.)
2016-02-06 21:15 - 23:37 | Hoyt Auditorium, University of Rochester Campus, Rochester, New York, United States

Penetration, Babayaga, Saints and Winos musical performances
2016-02-06 22:00 - 2016-02-07 00:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Bug Jar calendar, 2016-Feb-1]

Tribute To Motorhead with Engineface, Orgasmatron, Louder/Faster
2016-02-06 22:00 - 2016-02-07 00:00 | Monty's Krown, 875 Monroe Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
[source: Facebook, 2016-Feb-1]
