In Rush Rhees Library on the UofR Campus is a lecture by Pamela Newkirk titled Why Ota Benga Matters: Race, Mythology and the Persistence of Prejudice. Pamela Newkirk, professor of journalism at New York University, will present a lecture on … Continue reading
The Gandhi Institute will screen The Mask You Live In (Jennifer Siebel Newsom, U.S. 2015, 97 min.) The Mask You Live In is an award-winning documentary about young men struggling to negotiate America's narrow definition of masculinity. The film challenges … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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.
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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."