Buffalo, NY — Saturday, May 9, at 8 pm, the acclaimed Instant Composers Pool Orchestra will perform a special musical event in the AK Auditorium. The ICP Orchestra, a group known for their extraordinary musicianship, inspired improvisations, and entertaining onstage … Continue reading →

As a girl, Violet was involved in a tragic accident leaving her with a visible scar across her face. With enough money finally saved, she's traveling across the deep south in 1964 towards a miracle - the healing touch of … Continue reading →

Tonight at the Bug Jar starting around 9 p.m. is the Girls Rock Cover Show to support Girls Rock Rochester.

Great classic rock/soul band Anonymous Willpower performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 12:30 p.m.

Today at 2 p.m., the Dryden will screen Kes (Ken Loach, U.K. 1969, 110 min., 35mm). Director Ken Loach received international acclaim for this enormously moving tale of a lonely working-class Yorkshire boy, who turns from a life of comic … Continue reading →

Starting at 2 p.m. at Susan B. Anthony Square Park is a Radical Roots History Ride, "a sociopolitical cyclo-tour of local historic points" led by Jack Bradigan Spula.

The Psychedelic Furs performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 7 p.m.

Today at 1:30 p.m., the Dryden will screen Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, U.S. 1941, 119 min., 35mm) for the Senior Matinee. Orson Welles, born 100 years ago today , stars as Charles Foster Kane in his classic first feature, a … Continue reading →

From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre is the Rochester City School District—All City Concert featuring "performances from the following ensembles from the Rochester City School District": Foundation Orchestra Commencement Orchestra Foundation Band Commencement Band … Continue reading →

So Michael Jackson invites you for a sleepover: John Lennon wants to meet you at the corner pub; you run into Jackson Pollock buying house paint; Marie Curie is having a bad day in the lab and needs your help. … Continue reading →

Wicked fun, saxophone-driven, percussive groove-rock band The BuddhaHood performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 4 p.m.

Tonight at 7 p.m., the Little will screen An Honest Liar (Tyler Measom, Justin Weinstein, U.S. / Spain / Italy / Canada 2014, 90 min.) followed by a Videconference Q&A with documentary subject James "The Amazing" Randi. For the last … Continue reading →

As part of the Rochester Bicycle Film Festival, the Cinema will screen Breaking Away (Peter Yates, U.S. 1979, 101 min.) Breaking Away is the lighthearted and heartwarming tale of competitive bicyclist Dave Stohler and his working-class friends. The film was … Continue reading →

Riots, deception, legitimate and illegitimate science, aristocratic villains and drug addicted heroes- who knew these were all part of the evolution of medicine as we know it here in America?

Tonight at 8 p.m., the Dryden will screen Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, Us/France 1992, 125 min., 35mm). Scripted by Joe Eszterhas (Jagged Edge) and starring Michael Douglas, Verhoeven's glossy pulp shocker stands as the ne plus ultra of the '80s/'90s … Continue reading →