2017 is a big year for local politics with City Council, School Board, Mayor, and many town boards up for election. For anyone thinking about running for office the Green Party would like to help you out with a campaign … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union 1972, 166 min., 35mm, Russian w/subtitles) as part of the First Contact series. Andrei Tarkovsky turns an innovative, pensive eye to the Space Age in one of his most critically acclaimed … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen the wonderful (if simple) Loving (Jeff Nichols, U.K. / U.S. 2016, 123 min.) "The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to … Continue reading
In the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library Building, Brian DiNitto will present a Media in Focus lecture on Movies on a Shoestring. Presenter, Brian DiNitto, will talk about the Rochester International Film Festival and show some … Continue reading
Join us on soup-er Second Friday! Donate $20, and get a hand-made bowl and package of Healthy Sisters' soup mix. Then graze to your heart's delight on delicious apps and desserts. Doors open at 5. But don't delay, dawdle or … Continue reading
The Flower City Arts Center will have an Opening Reception for Wall-to-Wall: 2017 Members Exhibition, on display through February 25.
The Strong National Museum of Play will host a screening of Screenagers (Delaney Ruston, U.S. 2016, 70 min.) Once, parents were concerned about the amount of time their kids watched television. Today, screen time has risen dramatically. There are few … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, U.S. 2016, 116 min.) "A wealthy art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale."
The Dryden will screen Alien (Ridley Scott, U.K./U.S. 1979, 117 min., 35mm) as part of the First Contact series. Sigourney Weaver proves herself a courageous warrior as her working-class spaceship crew steadily fall prey to a terrifyingly unpredictable creature in … Continue reading
Bread and Water Theatre will host a reading by J. R. Teeter of Mike Daisey's The Trump Card. Author and monologist Mike Daisey takes on the reigning world heavyweight of self-mythologizing, the short fingered vulgarian who captured the nation's heart … Continue reading
A new play by Mark Jabaut, directed by Jean Gordon Ryon. The goal of this series is to ensure that local playwrights get multiple opportunities to workshop new plays and hear them in front of a live audience, so that … Continue reading
Babeville is hosting Stand-Up For Planned Parenthood featuring comedy by Andrea Springer, RJ Purpura, Malcolm Whitfield, Nicky Spin, Cody Colin Chase, Allie Brady, and Phil MacHemer, hosted by Zach Dietsch.
The Lovin' Cup will host excellent ska-driven rock from The Beaumonts, and Stay the Plow.
The Cinema will screen Collateral Beauty (David Frankel, U.S. 2016, 97 min.) "Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things … Continue reading
The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States poses a dramatic threat to civil liberties and civil rights around the country and in New York. There is no question of how much we have to lose. The … Continue reading