Ghostbusters screening (2019-Oct-30 @ 8:45 p.m.)
2019-10-30 20:45 - 22:30 (America/New_York) | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, U.S. 1984, 105 min.) with pen captions. "Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2019-Oct-21]

We Are Not Princesses screening
2019-10-31 16:30 - 17:45 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The High Falls Women's Film Festival kicks off with a screening of We Are Not Princesses (Bridgette Auger, Itab Azzam, UK 2018, 75 min.))
The Syrian refugee crisis is on the world stage. But We Are Not Princesses shows a personal side of the crisis most have never seen, following the daily lives of four remarkable women, whose extraordinary struggles and strength tell a different kind of story, about obedience and defiance, resilience and reconciliation.
With intimately revealing footage and evocative animation, filmmakers Bridgette Auger and Itab Azzam follow how the women as they navigate new lives and small freedoms in exile, adapting to new roles: in their families and in a theater production of the Greek play, Antigone. Through the film, we see revealing glimpses of lives under siege, as these mothers, sisters, and wives grapple with past trauma and express themselves openly, often for the first-time, on camera. As they learn to question cultural norms, and stand up to societal and patriarchal pressures, they form friendships and bonds with each other. Never far from the surface are the horrific backstories which brought the women to Beirut. Their stories provide context for the Syrian war, and also establish the women's point of access into the story of Antigone, through which the women begin the work of processing their personal and national wars. Behind the scenes, they discover a kinship with the ancient princess, whose tragedy mirrors their own. While Antigone's story is legend, theirs are still being written.

[source: High Falls Women's Film Festival website, 2019-Oct-29]

Brittany Runs a Marathon screening (2019-Oct-31 @ 7 p.m.)
2019-10-31 19:00 - 20:44 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Brittany Runs a Marathon (Paul Downs Colaizzo, U.S. 2019, 104 min.) "A young woman decides to make positive changes in her life by training for the New York City Marathon." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2019-Oct-23]

Halloween Karaoke Party
2019-10-31 19:00 - 22:00 | Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Our good friend Alfie, from Teagan and the Tweeds, is hosting a free Karaoke party to celebrate Halloween, so come down in your best costume, drink some beers and then hit the stage to your favorite tune.
[source: Facebook, 2019-Oct-28]

Spooky Supper with SAVVY
2019-10-31 19:00 - 22:00 | Frederick Douglass Commons, 500 Wilson Blvd., Rochester, New York, 14627, United States
The Student Association of VEgan and Vegetarian Youth be hosting its monthly Supper with SAVVY during our Veg Challenge month! It will be Halloween themed.
[source: University of Rochester events calendar, 2019-Oct-28]

Stephen King's Dollar Babies, Program 2 screening
2019-10-31 19:30 - 21:34 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will present Stephen King's Dollar Babies, Program 2 featuring:

Here There Be Tygers (Bryan Higby, U.S. 2019, 11 min.)
Popsy (Jon Mann, U.S. 2019, 11 min.)
Rest Area (Sean A. Skinner, U.S. 2018, 21 min.)
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away (Seth Friedman, U.S. 2017, 14 min.)
My Pretty Pony (Luke Jaden, U.S. 2017, 33 min.)
The Road Virus Heads North (Dave Brock, U.S. 2004, 21 min.)
Willa (Corey Mayne, U.S. 2018, 13 min.)

followed by a discussion with directors Seth Friedman, and Corey Mayne.
The horror from Stephen King continues (see October 17 for Program 1) with this septet of films based on his work. A tiger may or may not be hiding in an elementary school bathroom; a young boy loses his "Popsy," creating opportunity for a serial kidnapper; an author struggles with the character that lives inside of her; a lonely traveling salesman contemplates publishing a book of bathroom graffiti; an aging grandfather (Tobin Bell) passes on to his grandson the true nature of time; a sinister painting seems to be changing as a man gets closer to home; and a band traveling to their next gig by train deal with troubles along the way . . .
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2019-Oct-28]

Sword of Trust screening (2019-Oct-31 @ 8:45 p.m.)
2019-10-31 20:45 - 22:13 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Sword of Trust (Lynn Shelton, U.S. 2019, 87 min.) "Cynthia and Mary show up to collect Cynthia's inheritance from her deceased grandfather, but the only item she receives is an antique sword that was believed by her grandfather to be proof that the South won the Civil War." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2019-Oct-23]

Opening Reception: James Lewis Artworks
2019-11-01 18:00 - 21:00 | Gallery Q, 100 College Ave., Ste. 100, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Gallery Q will host and Opening Reception for art by James Lewis.
This exhibition highlights three bodies of work Lewis has been creating over the past 15 years: Snap Shots, Daddy Art, and Hillside Party Scenes. An active member of the Empire Bears and a frequent camper at Hillside, a gay campground in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania, Lewis draws inspiration from his community and camp experiences. In Snap Shots he portrays intimate and candid scenes of family and friends in which personal narratives begin to emerge. His portraits of members of the Bear community in his Daddy Art series border on humorous and sensual. These two bodies of work culminate with Hillside Party Scenes, which are candid snapshots of his community at Hillside. Lewis states, "these are scenes celebrating hedonism but also the camaraderie shared by the campers that frequent the grounds." Lewis is an RIT graduate with a degree in painting and has lived in Rochester for 33 years. His professional work includes working as an art director and producing commissioned artworks.
[source: First Friday Rochester website, 2019-Oct-29]

Wide Open Mic (2019-Nov-1 @ 7 p.m.)
2019-11-01 19:00 - 21:00 | New York
Rochester's longest running open mic welcomes poets, performers, and writers of all kinds.
[source: Rochester City Newspaper events calendar, 2019-Oct-28]

Ad Astra screening (2019-Nov-1 @ 7 p.m.)
2019-11-01 19:00 - 21:03 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Ad Astra (James Gray, U.S. / China 2019, 123 min.) "Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2019-Oct-30]

Chelovek s kino-apparatom (Man with a Movie Camera) screening (2019-Nov-1 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2019-11-01 19:30 - 20:38 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Chelovek s kino-apparatom (Man with a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov, Soviet Union 1929, 68 min., DCP) with live musical accompaniment from the Alloy Orchestra as part of the Labor Film Series series.
The Alloy Orchestra returns to the Dryden Theatre with this silent film, director Dziga Vertov's lasting contribution to world cinema. This classic of experimental early filmmaking shows the work of a cameraman as he records life and work in the streets of Moscow, Kiev, and Odessa. Groundbreaking for its use of emerging film techniques, including multiple exposure, fast- and slow-motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, and stop-motion animation, this film was voted as the best documentary of all time in a 2014 Sight and Sound critics' poll. Alloy Orchestra based their score on the director's notes to his composer for the premiere of the film in 1929.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2019-Oct-28]

Eastman Wind Orchestra and Eastman Wind Ensemble musical performance (2019-Nov-1 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2019-11-01 19:30 - 21:30 | Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
[source: Eastman School of Music Calendar, 2019-Oct-28]

Robert Berry's 3.2 musical performance
2019-11-01 20:00 - 23:00 | Lovin' Cup, 300 Park Point Dr., Rochester, New York, 14623, United States
Berry came into the spotlight in 1988, when he teamed with Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer (of Emerson, Lake and Palmer fame) and formed the band 3. Their only album, To the Power of Three, drew much criticism from progressive rock fans for its radio-friendly and polished 80's sound, considering the progressive pedigree of both Emerson and Palmer. 3 disbanded in 1989 after a successful tour supporting the album. The first single released from the album, Talkin' Bout, penned by Berry, reached #9 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
[source: Bop Shop website, 2019-Oct-28]

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice screening (2019-Nov-1 @ 9:05 p.m.)
2019-11-01 21:05 - 22:40 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, U.S. 2019, 95 min.) "With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk rock music scene in her early twenties." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2019-Oct-30]

Mayday! Underground Crafts and Art (2019-Nov-2 @ 10 a.m.)
2019-11-02 10:00 - 16:00 | Village Gate Square, 274 N. Goodman St., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Mayday! website, 2019-Oct-28]

Rochester Children's Book Festival
2019-11-02 10:00 - 16:00 | Monroe Community College Brighton Campus, 1000 E. Henrietta Rd., Rochester, New York, 14623, United States
Attendees can meet more than 50 authors and illustrators for children, tweens, and teens; make free crafts at the Busy Bookworm Place; and listen to authors reading from their books. There will also be free early vision screenings.
[source: Rochester City Newspaper events calendar, 2019-Oct-30]

6th Annual Sour Fest
2019-11-02 11:30 - 23:45 | Tap and Mallet, 381 Gregory St., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
Pucker up folks. Sour Fest is coming.
[source: Tap and Mallet website, 2019-Oct-28]

Medium Cool screening (2019-Nov-2 @ 1 p.m.)
2019-11-02 13:00 - 14:51 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler, U.S. 1969, 111 min., 16mm) as part of the A Tribute to Robert Forster series.
Following two noted supporting performances in Reflections in a Golden Eye (John Huston, 1967) and The Stalking Moon (Robert Mulligan, 1968), Robert Forster brings a sizzling screen presence in Medium Cool. His inscrutable stare and volcanic intensity perfectly characterize a man caught up in the turbulence of the late 1960s. Forster plays John Cassellis, a news cameraman who discovers his footage is being handed over to the FBI and becomes enraged. After being fired, he finds a job as a freelancer during the Democratic National Convention in 1968. Partially shot against the backdrop of the actual convention, director Haskell Wexler's cinema verité style blurs the lines between reality and fiction. The Dryden Theatre will present Forster's personal 16mm print, donated to the Eastman Museum in 2004.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2019-Oct-24]

Monroe Reads to End Racism (2019-Nov-2 @ 2:30 p.m.)
2019-11-02 14:30 - 15:30 | Monroe Branch Library, 809 Monroe Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Rochester City Newspaper events calendar, 2019-Oct-30]

Jackie Brown screening (2019-Nov-2 @ 4 p.m.)
2019-11-02 16:00 - 18:34 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, U.S. 1997, 154 min., 35mm) as part of the A Tribute to Robert Forster series.
Robert Forster earned a much-deserved Academy Award nomination in Quentin Tarantino's first film after Pulp Fiction (1994). In this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch, Forster plays Max Cherry, a bail bondsman caught up in a tangled double-cross that turns into a much more sinister situation. Cherry is hired by Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson) to bail out smuggler Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) after she is caught with some of Ordell's money and drugs. Ordell plans to murder Jackie before she can testify to the Atf, but Jackie has another plan in mind. Forster imbues Max with a world-weariness that can only come from experience with the darker places in life, while leavening the performance with a hope that there's always one more adventure on the horizon.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2019-Oct-24]

Brittany Runs a Marathon screening (2019-Nov-2 @ 4:15 p.m.)
2019-11-02 16:15 - 17:59 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Brittany Runs a Marathon (Paul Downs Colaizzo, U.S. 2019, 104 min.) "A young woman decides to make positive changes in her life by training for the New York City Marathon." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2019-Oct-30]

An Evening With Ira Flatow
2019-11-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Harro East Ballroom, 155 N. Chestnut St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Join us for an inspirational gathering featuring keynote speaker Ira Flatow from public radio's Science Friday. Celebrate Genesee Land Trust's 30th Anniversary of protecting local land at this special anniversary dinner.
[source: Genesee Land Trust website, 2019-Oct-28]

Ad Astra screening (2019-Nov-2 @ 7 p.m.)
2019-11-02 19:00 - 21:03 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Di qiu zui hou de ye wan (Long Day's Journey into Night) screening
2019-11-02 19:30 - 21:48 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Di qiu zui hou de ye wan (Long Day's Journey into Night, Bi Gan, China 2018, 138 min., DCP, Mandarin w/subtitles).
Far removed from Eugene O'Neill's play of the same title, this noir-tinged stunner is about a lost soul, Hongwu Luo (Huang Jue), on a quest to find a missing woman from his past, Wan Qiwen (Tang Wei, Lust, Caution). Following Qiwen across Guizhou province, Luo crosses paths with a series of colorful characters, among them a prickly hairdresser played by Taiwanese superstar Sylvia Chang. Past and present blur into an engaging, hypnotic picaresque. Bi Gan follows up his knockout debut, Kaili Blues, with China's biggest arthouse hit of all time, infused with ethereal, floating Steadicam, breathtaking sets, and beautiful score.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2019-Oct-28]

The Isotopes musical performance (2019-Nov-2 @ 8 p.m.)
2019-11-02 20:00 - 22:00 | Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Three Heads Brewing will host a great stage show and excellent surf-based rock from The Isotopes for their Hallo-Ween Show.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Chocolate and Cheese, the Isotopes are performing the entire album. They'll also play some of their other Ween favorites and a full set of instrumental rock.
The Isotopes's Ween tribute show has become a staple of the Halloween season here at Three Heads and we look forward to you all coming to hang out with us.

[source: Facebook, 2019-Oct-28]

Girls Rock! Rochester: Rock Roulette Showcase
2019-11-02 20:00 - 22:00 | Lovin' Cup, 300 Park Point Dr., Rochester, New York, 14623, United States
Folks who have been placed into bands will fundraise on and offline for GR!R, while taking six weeks to write and rehearse original songs! Each band will have a designated, experienced band coach as a resource, and each band will have access to any GR!R gear that they may need. This adventure will culminate in our GR!R Rock Roulette event at The Lovin' Cup!
[source: Lovin Cup website, 2019-Oct-28]

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice screening (2019-Nov-2 @ 9:05 p.m.)
2019-11-02 21:05 - 22:40 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Aku, Mustardmind, Candy Isle, Evil Hearted You, Cooled Jets musical performances
2019-11-02 21:30 - 23:30 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Facebook, 2019-Oct-28]

Sunday Forum: Spiritual Journeys of Henry and Connie Ehrindero
2019-11-03 09:50 - 10:50 | Downtown United Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh St., Rochester, New York, United States
Henry's spiritual journey began in Nigeria, Connie's in Irondequoit.
[source: Rochester City Newspaper events calendar, 2019-Oct-30]

Flying Squirrel Annual Fall Brunch Fundraiser
2019-11-03 10:00 - 13:00 | Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St., Rochester, New York, 14608, United States
Come out and support the Squirrel while enjoying a amazing brunch with other community members. This year will be the 10 year celebration of the Flying Squirrel! Ten Years! A Decade! We Made It! Come join the celebratory feast as we thank the community that has supported and sustained the space for all these years.
[source: Flying Squirrel website, 2019-Oct-28]
