Bill Kirchen's Honky Tonk Holiday Show (2017-Dec-7 @ 8 p.m.)
2017-12-07 20:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Lovin' Cup, 300 Park Point Dr., Rochester, New York, 14623, United States
Forget the Nutcracker and Handel's Messiah. For a real taste of seasonal cheer, nothing says joy to the world like Bill Kirchen singing Daddy's Drinkin' Up Our Christmas. The Too Much Fun annual Honky Tonk Holiday Tour stops at the Lovin' Cup Bistro and Brews on Thursday, December 7 at 8 pm. Featured is a sleigh-full of rarely heard holiday numbers from the blues, rock 'n' roll and honky tonk bags: Silent Surfin' Night, Truckin' Trees for Christmas, Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy and many more. But be ye not afraid, there'll be so much more than holiday songs of questionable taste; you can count on a truckload of dieselbilly classics to take the edge off the holiday fuss.
[source: Bop Shop website, 2017-Dec-4]

Midnight Ramblers musical performance
2017-12-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Brue Coffee Co., 960 Genesee St., Rochester, New York, 14611, United States
Join us at Brue Coffee from 6-8pm on Friday, December 8th for performances by the incredibly talented University of Rochester a cappella group, the Midnight Ramblers! Tickets are just $10 and all proceeds will go directly into the Gandhi Institute's nonviolence programming.
[source: M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence website, 2017-Dec-4]

Opening Reception, Mirko Pylyshenko Retrospective: Prints from 1965-2017
2017-12-08 18:00 - 21:00 | Flower City Arts Center (formerly Genesee Center for Arts and Education), 713 Monroe Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Flower City Arts Center will host an Opening Reception for Mirko Pylyshenko Retrospective: Prints from 1965-2017 in the Printmaking Studio, on display through December 30.
Mirko taught printmaking at SUNY Brockport during the golden years of Wendell Castle, Nathan Lyons, Garth Fagan, Albert Paley, Robert Marx and Jack Wolsky. His work has been shown in many galleries, and include the graphic logo for BOA Editions. Mirko is a very proud and active member of Rochester's Ukrainian community. All proceeds from print sales to go the Flower City Arts Center, Printmaking and Book Arts, and to aid victims of the Russian war in Poltava, Rochester's sister city in Ukraine.
[source: Flower City Arts Center website, 2017-Dec-4]

Ambush #47
2017-12-08 18:00 - 21:00 | Angry Goat Pub, 938 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The holiday season is upon us, let the stress and pressure of the holiday season melt away with our December Ambush event at the Angry Goat Pub! Join us for some festive fun at our monthly LGBTQ+ rotating happy hour. Come out to meet, greet and share the holiday cheer with the ladies of Ambush!
[source: Facebook, 2017-Dec-4]

Laugh Out Loud (2017-Dec-8 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-12-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Out Alliance LGBTQ+ Resource Center, 100 College Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Join us for a fun filled evening of open mic featuring LGBTQ+ and Allies performing. Sign up at the door or with your host Pat Collins for a slot. The stage is open to anything that you can perform on a stage with a mic: poetry, music, comedy, and storytelling are examples!
[source: Facebook, 2017-Nov-6]

WIP (Work in Progress) Open-Mic Event
2017-12-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Writers & Books, 740 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Works showcased will be, first, from students in Intro and Intermediate Memoir Classes. After students read, members of the general public will be encouraged to share their own writing.
[source: Writers and Books website, 2017-Dec-4]

Only the Brave screening (2017-Dec-8 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-12-08 19:00 - 21:14 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Only the Brave (Joseph Kosinski, U.S. 2017, 134 min.) "Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters who risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2017-Dec-6]

Nocturama screening
2017-12-08 19:30 - 21:40 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello, France/Germany/Belgium 2016, 130 min., DCP, French w/subtitles) as part of the Primal Screen series.
Paris, the present. A group of adolescents methodically prepares a series of terrorist attacks in the French capital. The very idea of producing a film on a subject like this at a time when the world is struggling with political violence is controversial in itself, but director Bertrand Bonello—who directed the equally contentious 2014 biopic about Yves Saint Laurent—pushes the challenge even further by staging the events with the geometric mise-en-scÃ¨ne of a Stanley Kubrick work or with the aplomb of a George Romero horror story. The Shining, Dawn of the Dead, and a constellation of other cinematic references make this thriller a highly divisive yet compelling exercise in style, confronting the viewer's expectations in an elegant, visceral, and unsettling moral tale. It could have been conceived by Robert Bresson, but it will keep you at the edge of your seat.
[source: George Eastman Museum, 2017-Dec-4]

Eastman New Jazz Ensemble musical performance (2017-Dec-8 @ 8 p.m.)
2017-12-08 20:00 - 22:00 | Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
[source: Eastman School of Music Calendar, 2017-Dec-4]

Eastman-Rochester Chorus and Eastman Philharmonia musical performance
2017-12-08 20:00 - 22:00 | Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States

Utah, David Attis, OHS, MD Woods musical performances
2017-12-08 20:00 - 22:00 | Small World Books, 425 North St., Rochester, New York, 14605, United States
[source: WNY Shows website, 2017-Dec-4]

The Foreigner screening (2017-Dec-8 @ 9:20 p.m.)
2017-12-08 21:20 - 23:13 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen The Foreigner (Martin Campbell, U.K. / China / U.S. 2017, 113 min.) "A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2017-Dec-6]

Focus 45 lecture: Nicholas M. Graver, Skylight Photo Studios of the Finger Lakes
2017-12-09 12:00 - 13:00 | George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Nicholas M. Graver will present a Focus 45 lecture titled Skylight Photo Studios of the Finger Lakes.
Before electricity, early photography studios were illuminated by large skylights. Some of these historic buildings still stand, and traces of their original details remain visible. Photographic antiquarian Nick Graver has been conducting research on and providing full-day field trips to these locations for more than forty years. Join us as he takes us on a digital tour of these unique studios and discusses their importance to the history of photography in our region.
[source: George Eastman Museum, 2017-Dec-4]

Cards for LGBTQ Behind Bars
2017-12-09 12:00 - 15:00 | Out Alliance LGBTQ+ Resource Center, 100 College Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Join us for a fun afternoon of coloring, sipping festive fall drinks, and just hanging out as we help Black and Pink send out holiday cards to over 2,000 LGBTQ people behind the wall! We have 60 cards to send out to incarcerated queer people across the country and want You to come share in the fun. Come relax at the LGBTQ Resource Center and bring some holiday cheer to the many LGBTQ people who will be behind the wall this holiday season.
[source: Facebook, 2017-Dec-4]

And, Ain't I a Woman: A Long Table Conversation/Installation
2017-12-09 15:00 - 19:00 | Gallery 74, 215 Tremont St., Bldg. 3, 3rd Floor, Rochester, New York, 14608, United States
As New York state celebrates 100 years of women's suffrage, "At the Crossroads: Activating the Intersection of Art and Justice" announces its second event of the 2017-2018 season, "And, Ain't I a Woman: A Long Table Conversation and Installation," inspired by the fierce legacy of Sojourner Truth. Sojourner Truth was born a slave in New York in 1797, twenty-one years after women lost the right to vote in the state in 1776. She was to become an outspoken advocate for abolition as well as civil and women's rights. More than a century before Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced the concept of intersectionality to feminist theory in the 1980s, Sojourner Truth challenged sexist + racist notions with her extemporaneous "And, Ain't I a Woman" speech in 1851 at the National Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio.
[source: Facebook, 2017-Dec-4]

Blade Runner 2049 screening (2017-Dec-9 @ 3:30 p.m.)
2017-12-09 15:30 - 18:14 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, U.S. / U.K. / Hungary / Canada 2017, 164 min.) "A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2017-Dec-6]

Only the Brave screening (2017-Dec-9 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-12-09 19:00 - 21:14 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Family Plot screening
2017-12-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock, U.S. 1976, 120 min., 16mm) as part of the Hitchcock in Winter series.
In Hitchcock's droll and delightful final film, Bruce Dern returned to work for the master of suspense (after having appeared in Marnie and two episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour). Dern plays a cab driver turned detective, who, along with his phony-psychic girlfriend, is hot on the trail of a couple of kidnappers. The entire cast delivers sly and witty performances in this tongue-in-cheek thriller that plays as both a compelling mystery and a brilliant parody of Hitchcock's own films.
[source: George Eastman Museum, 2017-Dec-4]

Folkfaces musical performance
2017-12-09 20:00 - 22:00 | Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Facebook, 2017-Dec-4]

The Foreigner screening (2017-Dec-9 @ 9:20 p.m.)
2017-12-09 21:20 - 23:13 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation screening
2017-12-09 21:30 - 23:07 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah S. Chechik, U.S. 1989, 97 min.) as part of the Saturday Night Rewind series.
As the holidays approach, Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) wants to have a perfect family Christmas, so he pesters his wife, Ellen (Beverly D'angelo), and children, as he tries to make sure everything is in line, including the tree and house decorations. However, things go awry quickly. His cousin, Eddie (Randy Quaid), and his family show up unplanned and start living in their camper on the Griswold property. Even worse, Clark's employers renege on the holiday bonus he needs.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2017-Dec-4]

Handsome Jack, Dangerbyrd, Jivviden, Ginger Faye Bakers musical performances
2017-12-09 22:00 - 2017-12-10 00:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

David Cay Johnston, Sunday Forum: Challenges to Our Democracy
2017-12-10 09:45 - 10:45 | Downtown United Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh St., Rochester, New York, United States
What does our current political divisiveness tell us about the state of civil rights, human rights, and economic injustice in America today? David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize winning author whose 2016 book, "The Making of Donald Trump" was a New York Times bestseller.
[source: Rochester City Newspaper events calendar, 2017-Dec-6]

Speak Easy: Regrets and New Beginnings
2017-12-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Cheshire, 647 South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
Reflect on the past and look forward to the future as you listen to our readers share stories of past regrets and fresh starts. Whether you're looking to drown your sorrows or toast the New Year, there'll be holiday-themed craft cocktails available to do it right. Want to participate? Share your New Year's Resolution with us by submitting it at Rocspoke.org/Resolution. We'll share what we collect at our Speak Easy on December 10th and via social media in the days leading up to it. Who knows? Maybe you'll inspire someone!
[source: Rochester Spoken Word website, 2017-Dec-4]

It's a Wonderful Life screening (2017-Dec-10 @ 2 p.m.)
2017-12-10 14:00 - 16:10 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, U.S. 1946, 130 min., 35mm) as part of the Capra, Holidays series.
In one of the most inspirational films of all time, James Stewart and Donna Reed find their way through rough times in Bedford Falls (modeled after nearby Seneca Falls, New York) by way of a loving, dedicated relationship and a little heavenly intervention. As Stewart's and Capra's first work after their military service, the film takes the postwar malaise often seen in film noir and turns it on its head, constructing a narrative of faith and perseverance.
[source: George Eastman Museum, 2017-Dec-4]

Blade Runner 2049 screening (2017-Dec-10 @ 3:30 p.m.)
2017-12-10 15:30 - 18:14 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story screening
2017-12-10 18:00 - 19:30 | Jewish Community Center (JCC), 1200 Edgewood Ave., Rochester, New York, 14618, United States
The JCC will screen Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (Alexandra Dean, U.S. 2017, 90 min.)
Hollywood's Hedy Lamarr (originally Hedy Kiesler) has been called "the Angelina Jolie of her day," and "the most beautiful woman in the world." Her dazzling beauty, however, proved to be a heartbreaking distraction from her real calling: a genius inventor credited with developing technology leading to today's Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth. Come join us to see why this exciting new film is getting such a buzz from NPR, the New York Times, and many others!
[source: Facebook, 2017-Dec-4]

Laughs for Lollypop
2017-12-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Comedy at The Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd., Rochester, New York, 14610, United States
An evening to benefit Lollypop Farm. Hosted by Dr. Don, Rochester native and co-owner of SEQUELS, for an evening of rigorously random reflections on life and living in honor of the rest of the animal kingdom. Dr. Don is an educator, writer, producer and performer who brings his wit and charm to Comedy at the Carlson for this one special night in honor of Lollypop Farm and our extended animal families, past and present.
[source: Rochester City Newspaper events calendar, 2017-Dec-4]

Only the Brave screening (2017-Dec-10 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-12-10 19:00 - 21:14 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Sun Parade, Great Red, Daily Milestone musical performances
2017-12-10 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
