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Sisters screening (2016-Feb-17 @ 9:15 p.m.)
2016-02-17 21:15 - 23:13 (America/New_York) | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Sisters (Jason Moore, U.S. 2015, 118 min.) "Two sisters decide to throw one last house party before their parents sell their family home." [source: Cinema coming soon page, 2016-Feb-10]

Fruit Belt Letterpress Show & Sale
2016-02-18 18:00 - 21:00 | Abode, 289 Gregory St., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
Join us for a celebration of Community Collaboratives. In collaboration with The Fruit Belt Project, this collection of letterpress posters designed by students from Rochester Institute of Technology's letterpress course at Type High Letterpress were made to inspire hope, and optimism throughout the Fruit Belt community. Proceeds from poster sales support our Fruit Belt initiatives.
[source: Facebook, 2016-Feb-15]

Creed screening (2016-Feb-18 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-02-18 19:00 - 21:13 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Creed (Ryan Coogler, U.S. 2015, 133 min.) "The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed." [source: Cinema coming soon page, 2016-Feb-10]

Voicing on Film screenings
2016-02-18 19:30 - 20:40 | Hoyt Auditorium, University of Rochester Campus, Rochester, New York, United States
The UofR's On Film team presents a film screening night titled Voicing on Film featuring Rawane's Song (Mounira Al Solh, 2007, 7 min., video), (as if) beauty never ends (Jayce Salloum, 2002, 12. min., video), The Sea is a Stereo, part II: Paris Without a Sea (Mounira Al Solh, 2007-2008, 12 min., video), Broken Tongue (Mónica Savirón, 2013, 3 min., 16mm to digital), Now Eat My Script (Mounira Al Solh, 2014, 25 min., video), and The Chamber (Chantal Akerman, 1972, 11 min., 16mm to digital).
Formally, these works are organized around the possibilities of spoken or textual narration enlivening an otherwise minimal soundtrack. However together, they elaborate an idiosyncratic critique of the authority of the voiceover as material and political conquest, problematizing the narration of identity (or imperatives to do so) in politically fraught art markets, and restating the performative faculties of the camera in playfully inventive and wildly affecting ways.
[source: University of Rochester On Film screenings website, 2016-Feb-8]

Publick Musick: Adventurous Italians!
2016-02-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Today at the MAG is a Publick Musick concert titled Adventurous Italians!.
Dazzling Italian baroque music for strings and organ. On the series "Third Thursday Concerts with Eastman's Italian Baroque Organ" at the Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. (Free with gallery admission)
[source: flyer, 2015-Dec-23]

The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn theatrical performance (2016-Feb-18 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2016-02-18 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 The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn.
"The designated mourner. I am the designated mourner. I have to tell you that a very special little world has died, and I am the designated mourner", Jack says to start this show. Jack and Judy and Howard tell the stories of the lives of Jack and Judy and Howard, and the unnamed country in which they try to live. The tales cover decades. Jack and Judy and Howard change (and stay the same), and the country changes (and stays the same). It is a country of unstable stability, of precarious lives, and the narratives reflect this. You will be drawn into this world and these lives; take what you will from them.
[source: MuCCC website, 2016-Feb-15]

Pussy Riot: In Conversation and Q&A
2016-02-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Babeville, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, New York, 14202, United States
Although the ultra-conservative WBER choses to censor their name, Pussy Riot will be In Conversation and Q&A in Asbury Hall at Babeville.
Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk rock protest group based in Moscow. Founded in August 2011, it has a variable membership of approximately 11 women ranging in age from about 20 to 33 (as of 2012). The group stages unauthorised provocative guerrilla performances in unusual public locations, which are edited into music videos and posted on the Internet. The collective's lyrical themes include feminism, LGBT rights, and opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom the group considers a dictator, and to his links with the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church.
[source: Town Ballroom website, 2016-Feb-15]

The Photographic Historical Society meeting (2016-Feb-18 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2016-02-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Barnes and Noble, 3349 Monroe Ave., Pittsford, New York, 14618, United States
[source: The Photographic Historical Society e-mail, 2016-Feb-16]

Eastman Percussion Ensemble musical performance (2016-Feb-18 @ 8 p.m.)
2016-02-18 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, 2016-Feb-15]

Ashes and Embers screening
2016-02-18 20:00 - 22:00 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Ashes and Embers (Haile Gerima, U.S. 1982, 120 min., 16mm).
Nay Charles is an African American Vietnam veteran who no longer fits in, can't find a job and is ultimately arrested by the police. Like his protagonist, Haile Gerima is both drawn to and skeptical of the Black Nationalist ideology. Finally, Gerima places his faith in African American youth, a vision of utopia after the grim lessons of contemporary race relations in America.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-15]

B-Side Karaoke
2016-02-18 20:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Bug Jar calendar, 2016-Feb-15]

Sisters screening (2016-Feb-18 @ 9:15 p.m.)
2016-02-18 21:15 - 23:13 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

The 1975 Listening Party
2016-02-19 12:00 - 14:00 | Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St., Rochester, New York, 14610, United States
February 19, 2016 at noon we'll be hosting a lunch time listening party for the release of the new The 1975 album "I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are so Beautiful" (in stores February 26, 2016).
[source: Record Archive website, 2016-Feb-15]

Mark Cook of the George Jackson Brigade lecture
2016-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St., Rochester, New York, 14608, United States
Mark is a former political prisoner and the GJB was a Seattle-based guerrilla group that committed several bank sabotage bombings, bank robberies and prison breaks across the NW. The GJB was noted for being an especially diverse group which included a number of ex-prisoners, and queer members.
[source: Flying Squirrel website, 2016-Feb-15]

Monstrosity Live Improv Comedy (2016-Feb-19 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St., Rochester, New York, 14610, United States
[source: Record Archive website, 2016-Feb-15]

Jerry Seinfield comedy performance
2016-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St., Rochester, New York, 14605, United States
America's premier comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, will be performing his signature stand-up routine at the Auditorium Theatre. Seinfeld has been hailed for his uncanny ability to joke about the little things in life that relate to audiences everywhere.
[source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2016-Feb-15]

Stephen Lewandwoski poetry reading
2016-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Greenwood Books, 123 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Stephen Lewandwoski will present a Poetry Reading from his most recent book, Last Settlers in the Finger Lakes. [source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2016-Feb-17]

The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn theatrical performance (2016-Feb-19 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2016-02-19 19:30 - 21:30 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Eastman Philharmonia musical performance (2016-Feb-19 @ 8 p.m.)
2016-02-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States

The Forbidden Room screening
2016-02-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin, Canada 2015, 120 min., DCP).
The Forbidden Room is Guy Maddin's ultimate epic phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film begins (after a prologue on how to take a bath) with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjacks in a desperate attempt to breathe the oxygen within. Suddenly, impossibly, a lost woodsman wanders into their company and tells his tale of escaping from a fearsome clan of cave dwellers. From here, Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson take us high into the air, around the world, and into dreamscapes, spinning tales of amnesia, captivity, deception and murder, skeleton women and vampire bananas. Playing like some glorious meeting between Italo Calvino, Sergei Eisenstein and a perverted six year-old child, The Forbidden Room is Maddin's grand ode to lost cinema. Created with the help of master poet John Ashbery, the film features Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin, Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Maria de Medeiros, Jacques Nolot, Adele Haenel, Amira Casar and Elina Lowensohn as a cavalcade of misfits, thieves and lovers, all joined in the joyful delirium of the kaleidoscopic viewing experience.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-15]

Kevin McCaffrey comedy performance (2016-Feb-19 @ 8 p.m.)
2016-02-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Photo City Improv and Comedy Club, 543 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14609, United States
The Comedy Fix Stand-Up Showcase with headliner Kevin McCaffrey! Kevin is a comedian & writer based out of New York City. He made his network TV debut on The Late Show with David Letterman in November of 2013, and he currently appears every week on "truTV Presents: World's Dumbest."
[source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2016-Feb-15]

Joe Goehle and Cerebral People musical performance
2016-02-19 21:00 - 23:00 | Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Ave., Rochester, New York, 14618, United States
Buffalo native Joe Goehle comes to music with an eclectic mindset. His love of improvised sounds and firm roots in the classical tradition blends together to form a unique voice as a composer. His compositions feature a mix of free and traditional improvisations that appeal to multiple musical sensibilities. The bassist brings a strong and complex tone to all of his compositions, allowing new interpretations to breathe life into each performance.
[source: Bop Shop website, 2016-Feb-15]

Uptown Saturday Night screening
2016-02-19 22:00 - 23:44 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen Uptown Saturday Night (Sidney Poitier, U.S. 1974, 104 min.) as part of the Mondo Movie Series.
Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin sneak out of their houses to visit Madame Zenobia's: a high-class but illegal nightclub. During their visit, however, the place is robbed and they are forced to hand over their wallets. Steve's wallet turns out to have contained a winning lottery ticket, and together they must recover their stolen property.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2016-Feb-15]

Nature of Montezuma Lecture Series, Bird Banding with John Van Niel
2016-02-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Montezuma Audubon Center, 2295 State Rte. 89, Savannah, New York, 13146, United States
John Van Niel will present Bird Banding as part of the Nature of Montezuma Lecture Series.
Dr. John Van Niel is a Professor of Environmental Conservation at FLCC. Dr, Van Niel has been a bird bander since 1999, working primarily with song birds. Participants will learn how to safely capture and handle wild birds.
[source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2016-Feb-17]

Winter Cemetery Tour (2016-Feb-20 @ 11 a.m.)
2016-02-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Mt. Hope Cemetery Office, 1133 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Winter and Springtime Tours leave from the south cemetery entrance, opposite The Distillery restaurant, and last from 60 to 90 minutes, depending on weather conditions. The tour route is entirely on flat, paved roads. In addition to general information about Mount Hope Cemetery, tours feature significant figures such as architect A.J. Warner and Revolutionary War veteran Alexander Millener. Other highlights include the cemetery's largest mausoleum, and the 50-foot-high monument honoring Hartwell Carver, father of the transcontinental railroad.
[source: Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery website , 2016-Jan-6]

Focus 45 lecture, Todd Gustavson: Curious Cameras from the Collection
2016-02-20 12:00 - 13:00 | George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
In the Curtis Theatre at the George Eastman Museum, Todd Gustavson will discuss his recent book, Curious Cameras: 183 Cool Cameras from the Strange to the Spectacular. [source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-15]

Rochester's Rich History Series, Frederick Douglass and Ireland lecture
2016-02-20 13:00 - 14:30 | Rundel Library Building, 115 South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
In the Rundel Auditorium of the Rundel Library Building is a Rochester's Rich History Series lecture titled Frederick Douglass and Ireland by Tim Madigan.
In 1845 Frederick Douglass was invited by leaders of the worldwide abolitionist movement to come to Ireland, where he spent months visiting such cities as Dublin, Cork, Waterford, and Belfast and befriending orator and political leader Daniel O'connell. During his time in Ireland, Douglass came to feel for the first time that he was truly accepted as a human being. Douglass remains a powerful figure for reconciliation in modern-day Ireland and Northern Ireland, with plaques commemorating him in Cork and Waterford, murals honoring him in Belfast, and a statue of him in Dublin.
[source: Monroe County Library website, 2016-Feb-15]

Bamboozled screening
2016-02-20 15:00 - 17:15 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen Bamboozled (Spike Lee, U.S. 2000, 135 min.) as part of the Black History Month Film Series 2016, followed by a discussion led by Nate Brown.
A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2016-Feb-17]

The Danish Girl screening (2016-Feb-20 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-02-20 19:00 - 20:59 | Hoyt Auditorium, University of Rochester Campus, Rochester, New York, United States
The UofR Cinema Group will screen The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, U.K. / U.S. / Belgium / Denmark / Germany 2015, 119 min.) in Hoyt Auditorium on the UofR Campus.
The Danish Girl The Danish Girl 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: University of Rochester Cinema Group website, 2016-Feb-15]

Chi-Raq screening (2016-Feb-20 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-02-20 19:00 - 21:07 | 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 2016.
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.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2016-Feb-17]
