In the Rundel Auditorium on the 3rd floor of the Rundel Memorial Building is a Rochester's Rich History lecture by Peter Scribner titled From Flapper on Stage to Shakespeare at the Bowl: 93 Years of Rochester Community Players History. Come … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Logan (James Mangold, U.S. / Canada / Australia 2017, 137 min.) "In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X somewhere on the Mexican border. However, Logan's attempts to hide from the … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen The Lost City of Z (James Gray, U.S. 2016, 141 min.) "A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Col. Percival Fawcett, who disappeared while searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s."
The Dryden will screen Pretty Woman (Garry Marshall, U.S. 1990, 119 min., 35mm) as part of the Eastman Entertains series. One of the quintessential romantic movies of the 1990s, Pretty Woman is a compulsively watchable and immensely entertaining riff on … Continue reading
Blackfriars Theatre will host a performance of The Blacks: A Clown Show by Jean Genet. A troupe of black actors reenact the rape and murder of a white woman before a kangaroo court and thus begins The Blacks: A Clown … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Tommy's Honour (Jason Connery, U.K. / U.S. 2016, 112 min.) "In every generation, a torch passes from father to son. And that timeless dynamic is the beating heart of Tommy's Honour - an intimate, powerfully moving … Continue reading
Skylark will host good bar-rock band The Heroic Enthusiasts.
Sally Allison will draw upon the books "I'm Right and You're an Idiot" and "You Don't Have to be Wrong for Me to be Right " to consider the current state of public discourse and ways in which we can … Continue reading
The Little will screen Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Steve James, U.S. 2016, 88 min.) followed by a discussion with filmmaker Steve James as part of the One Take Film Festival. From acclaimed director Steve James (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, … Continue reading
Blackfriars Theatre will host a performance of The Blacks: A Clown Show by Jean Genet. A troupe of black actors reenact the rape and murder of a white woman before a kangaroo court and thus begins The Blacks: A Clown … Continue reading
This foundational tour is a two-hour walk of approximately one mile on paved roads and uneven terrain. This overview includes the graves of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, as well as topics of local history, horticulture, geology, architecture, monument … Continue reading
The Little will screen Hoop Dreams (Steve James, U.S. 1994, 170 min.) as part of the One Take Film Festival. "The great American documentary... The best film of the 1990's" - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times First exhibited at the 1994 … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Good Times Never Come (Keith Lukowski, U.S. 2017, 98 min.) The movie's Facebook page says only, "an aging musician finds new purpose, and goals," and that it was made in Tonawanda.