The Big Short screening (2016-Feb-28 @ 12 a.m.)
2016-02-28 00:00 - 02:10 (America/New_York) | Hoyt Auditorium, University of Rochester Campus, Rochester, New York, United States
The UofR Cinema Group will screen The Big Short (Adam McKay, U.S. 2015, 130 min.) in Hoyt Auditorium on the UofR Campus.
Four denizens of the world of high-finance predict the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight.
[source: University of Rochester Cinema Group website, 2016-Feb-22]

Electronics Recycling
2016-02-28 09:00 - 13:00 | EcoPark, 10 Avion Dr., Gates, New York, 14624, United States
Drive your car to the most desolate location in Monroe Country, EcoPark for a Free Electronics Recycling Event. "This is the perfect time to responsibly dispose of that old television or computer for free." [source: Color Brighton Green website, 2016-Feb-22]

Slave Experience and the Underground Railroad with Jerry Bennett
2016-02-28 14:00 - 15:30 | Pittsford Community Library, 24 State St., Pittsford, New York, 14534, United States
Join RIT Osher speaker Jerry Bennett as he shares his maps, songs, books, stories and visual aids in this presentation in honor of African American History Month. Registration required. Follow the slave's ship from England to West Africa to the Americas; witness the sale on the auction block in the South; view life on the plantation; envision life on the run, and meet the many heroes on the Underground Railroad's routes to freedom.
[source: Monroe County Library website, 2016-Feb-22]

Les plages d'agnÃ¨s (The Beaches of AgnÃ¨s) screening
2016-02-28 14:00 - 15:50 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Les plages d'agnÃ¨s (The Beaches of AgnÃ¨s, AgnÃ¨s Varda, France 2008, 110 min., 35mm, French w/subtitles).
"AgnÃ¨s Varda takes a cinematic stroll through her career—and the history of French film—in this jovial first-person documentary that 'walks backwards' across the beaches, landscapes, and movie sets of her life and times. For some, turning eighty may mean settling down, but for the 'Grandmother of the French New Wave' it's cause for reflection, irreverence, and a continued reinvention of the cinematic form. Recollections of a wartime childhood, an early career as a photographer, and her emergence as a filmmaker coincide with remembrances of friends and colleagues, a who's-who that includes Jean-Luc Godard, Gérard Depardieu, Alexander Calder, members of the Black Panthers, and Jim Morrison, with special attention paid to fellow Left Bank filmmakers like good friend Chris Marker (who "appears" in his favorite feline guise) and her great love, Jacques Demy. As charming and idiosyncratic as Varda herself, The Beaches of AgnÃ¨s is supposedly her last film; if so, it's a goodbye as youthful and vigorous as her hello, 1954's La Pointe Courte." — Jason Sanders (Pacific Film Archive)
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-22]

Afternoon Soiree with Rochester's African American Film Makers
2016-02-28 14:00 - 16:00 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The MuCCC will host an Afternoon Soiree with Rochester's African American Film Makers, "showcasing original films by two of Rochester's premier film makers, David Taylor and Shabaka Mu Ausar." [source: MuCCC website, 2016-Feb-15]

The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble musical performance
2016-02-28 19:30 - 23:00 | Lovin' Cup, 300 Park Point Dr., Rochester, New York, 14623, United States
The Legendary Ethnic Heritage Ensemble All Star 2016 Tour begins in February during Black History Month. Internationally acclaimed percussionist, composer, and band leader Kahil El'zabar will premier a brand new Ethnic Heritage Ensemble featuring two masterful icons of the modern jazz idiom: Baritone sax giant, Hamiet Bluiett, and trombone titan, Craig Harris! While these three giants have worked together in various collaborations for more than 40 years, they have never come together as Kahil's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble until now. The coming together of these three important players is indeed musical history in the making!
[source: Bop Shop website, 2016-Feb-22]

Open Mic Comedy hosted by Bob Holzwarth (2016-Feb-29 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-02-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Writers & Books, 740 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Writers and Books website, 2016-Feb-22]

Tuesday Topics lecture, Gun Violence and Gun Control — Where Do We Go From Here?
2016-03-01 12:12 - 12:52 | Bausch and Lomb Library Building, 110 South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
At today's Tuesday Topics lecture in Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library Building, Gary Pudup will discuss Gun Violence and Gun Control — Where Do We Go From Here?
With unparalleled acts of gun violence nationwide and in our own community, we repeatedly ask what can be done. Find out how effective gun control has or has not been and what else can be done at the state and local levels to combat the gun violence in the Rochester region.
[source: Monroe County Library website, 2016-Feb-22]

Enough Is Enough meeting, Free Angela and All Political Prisoners screening
2016-03-01 18:30 - 20:12 | Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St., Rochester, New York, 14608, United States
The Flying Squirrel will host a meeting of Enough Is Enough along with a screening of Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (Shola Lynch, U.S. / France 2012, 102 min.)
This is a documentary that chronicles the life of young college professor Angela Davis, and how her social activism implicates her in a botched kidnapping attempt that ends with a shootout, four dead, and her name on the FBI's 10 most wanted list.
[source: Rochester Indymedia website, 2016-Feb-22]

A Night at the Movies 100 Years Ago, screenings of American Cooperative Weekly, Exploits of Elaine - Episode 2, Domestic Difficulties, The Cossack Whip
2016-03-01 20:00 - 21:54 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen A Night at the Movies 100 Years Ago with live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli, featuring American Cooperative Weekly (U.S. 1917, 3 min., 35mm), Exploits of Elaine – Episode 2 (George B. Seitz and Louis Gasnier, U.S. 1914—15, 30 min., 35mm), Domestic Difficulties (H.G. Fisher, U.S. 1916, 8 min., 35mm), and The Cossack Whip (John H. Collins, U.S. 1916, 73 min., 35mm).
We are continuing our series of A Night at the Movies 100 Years Ago with a program from 1916, featuring a newsreel, a cartoon starring two popular characters from the newspaper "funnies" of the time, an exciting episode of the most popular serial of 1916, and a feature starring Viola Dana as Darya, a ballerina in prerevolutionary Russia bent on revenge against the sadistic and despicable Czarist police chief who murdered her husband and father. A thrilling and sometimes wonderfully kinky melodrama, The Cossack Whip is one of the few surviving films of the talented director Collins, the real-life husband of Dana.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-22]

Cannabis Corpse, S.N.A.F.U., Coagula, Abdicate musical performances
2016-03-01 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Bug Jar calendar, 2016-Feb-22]

The David Dance screening
2016-03-02 18:30 - 20:18 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen The David Dance (Aprill Winney, U.S. 2014, 108 min.) "A discussion with Writer/Producer/Actor Don Scimé will follow the show!"
Away from the microphone, David is soft spoken, shy and unsure of himself. However, as his on-air alias, "Danger Dave" – the host of the local radio show, "Gay Talk," in Buffalo, New York – he's poised, witty, and every listener's best friend. His sister, Kate, is a thrice divorced banker with a yen for classical music and cats. Though successful, the siblings suffer from a secret, yet vast, sense of inadequacy. Kate decides to adopt an orphan in Brazil and asks David to be a father figure. David struggles with his self-doubt while gawkily romancing his coworker. Past and present intertwine in this bittersweet winter's tale of a man learning to love and accept himself.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2016-Jan-25]

Triple Divide screening
2016-03-02 18:30 - 20:30 | Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave., Rochester, New York, 14618, United States
The Brighton Memorial Library will screen Triple Divide (, U.S. 2013, 90 min.)
This movie is said to be the only documentary of its kind on the controversial subject of fracking capable of speaking to all sides, with exclusive interviews from the industry, experts, and Americans suffering in the wake of shale gas development. "Its the best movie on fracking to date [using] facts, not fiction or spin" wrote Pennsylvania resident, Robert Donnan. Academy Award nominated actor Mark Ruffalo co-narrates the film, taking part in the project after being shown an online screener a few weeks before the final release. The film is co-directed by journalists Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman.
[source: Color Brighton Green website, 2015-Dec-14]

Trois couleurs: Bleu (Three Colors: Blue) screening
2016-03-02 20:00 - 21:38 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Trois couleurs: Bleu (Three Colors: Blue, Krzysztof Kieslowski, France/Poland/Switzerland 1993, 98 min., 35mm, French w/subtitles).
Loosely based, both thematically and visually, on the colors of the French flag, Kieslowski's trilogy examines the tenuous bonds that connect people and the haphazard events that forge or break them. A restrained coolness pervades Blue, which stars Juliette Binoche as a recent widow who passes through life, evading contact with the world and its painful reminders of her lost past. But the entreaties of a former lover and a friendship with the prostitute downstairs threaten to draw her back into the realm of relationships and feeling. Beautifully shot and daringly edited, Blue also earned Binoche a Best Actress Award at Cannes.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-22]

The Concussed, Dead Lounge musical performances
2016-03-02 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

A Night about Water Conservation lecture
2016-03-03 18:00 - 20:00 | John Calvin Presbyterian Church, 50 Ward Hill Rd., Henrietta, New York, United States
Josh Goldowitz, RIT Professor and Undergraduate Chairman, Environmental Sustainability, exploring the Sustainability of the our fresh Water Supply here at home and around the world.
[source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2016-Feb-29]

Ghost Light theatrical performance (2016-Mar-3 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2016-03-03 19:30 - 21:30 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The MuCCC will host a performance of Ghost Light by Justin Rielly.
Theater director Max Campbell is in a state of mourning. An actress died in a tragic accident during his latest production of Chekhov's The Seagull, and the performer — Lenny — is now the theater's resident ghost. Max decides to give up his building and gets the help of a returning actor coming off a successful career in New York and his reality star ghost hunter girlfriend. When Lenny catches word of Max's plans, emotions will explode…
[source: MuCCC website, 2016-Feb-29]

Rochester's Great Tonsil Massacre: Mendon and Honeoye Falls lecture
2016-03-03 19:30 - 21:30 | Mendon Community Center, 167 N. Main St., Honeoye Falls, New York, 14472, United States
Teresa Lehr will present a lecture titled Rochester's Great Tonsil Massacre: Mendon and Honeoye Falls at the Mendon Community Center.
She will open with a short account of Rochester's social scene following World War I and the Spanish influenza epidemic. Her presentation will explore the origins of the tonsil clinic initiative in 1920, describe the experiences of city children who went through the two clinics, and imagine the experiences of a Mendon or Honeoye Falls youngster whose family might have qualified. The talk will be illustrated with photographic images from the actual clinics.
[source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2016-Feb-29]

Mata Hari screening
2016-03-03 20:00 - 21:29 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Mata Hari (George Fitzmaurice, U.S. 1931, 89 min., 35mm).
There is perhaps no spy as glamorous as Greta Garbo in Mata Hari. Dressed in bejeweled gowns and sparkling capes, and even in nothing but lace and orchids, she proves to be both provocative and brilliant in her role of exotic dancer turned double agent in the thralls of World War II. Ramon Novarro plays the smitten Russian officer who is dominated swiftly by her intelligence and power, and later gently redeemed by her love. Lionel Barrymore portrays the snubbed army-general lover, as well as a pawn from which Mata steals her information. Also, in the part that seems to consistently suit him most, Lewis Stone makes an appearance as a sort of father figure and pimp for Mata. The film itself is beautiful, the costumes, designed by famed MGM costumer Adrian, almost stealing the show with their sparkle.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-29]

So Last Year, Nostalgic Stereo, Cedar Green, At Bay musical performances
2016-03-03 20:00 - 22:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Bug Jar calendar, 2016-Feb-29]

The BuddhaHood, Seth Faergolzia and 23 Psaegz, Mulberry Soul musical performances
2016-03-03 21:30 - 23:30 | Flour City Station, 170 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Flour City Station will host performances by wicked fun, saxophone-driven, percussive groove-rock band The BuddhaHood, Seth Faergolzia and the 23 Psaegz, and Mulberry Soul. [source: Facebook, 2016-Feb-29]

2016 Veteran's Stand Down
2016-03-04 09:00 - 15:00 | Harro East Ballroom, 155 N. Chestnut St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The free event will include information on veterans benefits, housing, Social Security, employment, health care, public assistance, Veterans Affairs eligibility, senior services, peer mentoring, veteran organizations, education counseling and personal care kits. Breakfast and lunch will be provided by Wegmans and Blue Star Mothers, New York Chapter No. 1. Attendees should bring DD Form 214 if available.
[source: Daily Messenger website, 2016-Feb-29]

Bugzilla—Bigger Than The Beetles!
2016-03-04 17:00 - 21:00 | Cat Clay, 1115 E. Main St. Hungerford Building, Suite #242, Rochester, New York, United States
This annual event celebrates those harbingers of spring: insects! Our guest artists have made pieces that pay homage to those critters that fly, creep and crawl. Come see work created by: Gretchen Arnold Chris Charles, Carolyn R. Ellinger, Melissa Huang, Ashley Landon, Jenn Libby, Karin Marlett Choi, Joseph Paladino, Janet Pelechaty, Bev Rafferty, Victoria Savka, Martha Schermerhorn, Laura Sherwood, Sophie Signorino, April Younglove and, of course, her bugginess, Clifton Wood!
[source: Facebook, 2016-Feb-29]

3rd Brainiversary Celebration
2016-03-04 18:00 - 21:00 | Rochester Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N. Goodman St. Village Gate Square, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Not only will it be the closing reception for our "New Works 2016" art show (featuring 29 wonderful artists!), but we'll also have music from DJ Alykhan, sweets from Scratch Bakeshop, photos by Hype Booth and the 3rd Annual Bat's!!! Some of you right now are probably like, "What the hay is a Bat!?" We'll tell you! Think of it as the Sat but only 25 questions pulled from Brainery classes and it won't get you into College. It may, however, win you a sweet, sweet Rochester prize pack.
[source: Facebook, 2016-Feb-17]

Superbad screening (2016-Mar-4 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-03-04 19:00 - 20:53 | Hoyt Auditorium, University of Rochester Campus, Rochester, New York, United States
The UofR Cinema Group will screen Superbad (Greg Mottola, U.S. 2007, 113 min.) in Hoyt Auditorium on the UofR Campus. "Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry." [source: University of Rochester Cinema Group website, 2016-Feb-29]

Wide Open Mic with Norm Davis (2016-Mar-4 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-03-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Writers & Books, 740 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Writers and Books website, 2016-Feb-29]

The Big Lebowski screening (2016-Mar-4 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2016-03-04 19:30 - 21:27 | Makers Gallery and Studio, 34 Elton St., Rochester, New York, United States
At Makers Gallery and Studio is a screening of The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, U.S. / U.K. 1998, 117 min.) as part of The Day of The Dude Festival. [source: Facebook, 2016-Feb-29]

Ghost Light theatrical performance (2016-Mar-4 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2016-03-04 19:30 - 21:30 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Jafar Panahi's Taxi screening
2016-03-04 20:00 - 21:22 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Jafar Panahi's Taxi (Jafar Panahi, Iran 2015, 82 min., DCP, Farsi w/subtitles).
Internationally acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (This Is Not a Film) drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse (and representative) group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world, while being interviewed by the curious and gracious driver/director. Panahi's camera, placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio, captures a spirited slice of Iranian society while also brilliantly redefining the borders of comedy, drama, and cinema. Winner of the Golden Bear for best film at 2015 Berlin Film Festival.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-29]

Eastman Studio Orchestra musical performance
2016-03-04 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-29]
