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Singin' in the Rain screening (2017-Sep-18 @ 1:30 p.m.)
2017-09-18 13:30 - 15:13 (America/New_York) | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, U.S. 1952, 103 min., 35mm).
In one of the greatest Hollywood musicals ever made, Gene Kelly and Jean Hagen are silent screen stars in the late 1920s, on the cusp of the sound era, but Hagen's voice presents problems for their potential fame in the talkies. The solution: A young Debbie Reynolds (in her first major role) will act as the actress's understudy and dub her voice. Singin' in the Rain spoofs the aura surrounding film personalities and has something for everyone's taste, including delightful comedy, romance, stunning dance sequences, and memorable songs.
[source: George Eastman Museum , 2017-Sep-4]

The Writings of Bob Dylan: Seeing From a Different Point of View class, Lisa Kleman
2017-09-18 18:30 - 20:00 | Rundel Library Building, 115 South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Lisa Kleman will present The Writings of Bob Dylan: Seeing From a Different Point of View with a second part on Monday, September 25 in the Rundel Arts Room of the Rundel Library Building.
Let's get together and talk about Bob Dylan! He has not only been performing and writing for over 50 years, but is now a Novel Prize winner. He was the Voice of a Generation – but he, and we, keep changing as the decades roll by. Let's get to the heart of his writing – his nuanced use of poetic and literary devices, the references to literature and the Bible which are sprinkled throughout his work, his themes and genres and points of view. Bob Dylan has been telling stories of America, and Americans, for so long now, and we are lucky to have him in our midst.
[source: Monroe County Library website, 2017-Sep-4]

Gaza in Context, Gaza Fixer: A Chronicle of Survival screenings
2017-09-18 18:45 - 20:03 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen Gaza in Context (20 min.), and Gaza Fixer: A Chronicle of Survival (George Azar, Raed Atharmneh, 58 min.)
Two years after the onslaught on Gaza that killed over 2,200 people, a group of activists, academics, and artists have produced a new teaching video that aims at shifting the western narrative of the conflict. Gaza in Context, narrated by Noura Erakat, points out the historic roots of the conflict: for 70 years Israel has sought as much Palestinian land with as few Palestinians on it as possible, and the peace process has only served as a cover for this project. Erakat uses simple descriptions to convey the reality, that Israel now seeks to accustom Palestinians to "domination as a way of life— an unfathomable possibility to all humans, whose first instinct is to be free."
Raed Atharmneh is a six-time war survivor, patriarch, and trusted news fixer to foreign reporters covering Gaza. In 2006 he became part of the story when eighteen members of his family were killed by an Israeli bomb. As he gives aid workers and journalists tours, he is the one who actually talks to the people, and translates the story of their fate to the foreigners eagerly recoding, writing, filming, the tragedy that Gaza has become. His colleague, photojournalist George Azar, has witnessed Gaza's trauma in extreme close-up and through his observational filming of Raed himself, as well as over nine years of friendship. He captures the defining moments of Raed's life – destruction, endurance, humour and unimaginable loss – with remarkable intimacy.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2017-Sep-14]

Atomic Blonde screening (2017-Sep-18 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-09-18 19:00 - 20:55 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Atomic Blonde (David Leitch, Germany / Sweden / U.S. 2017, 115 min.) "An undercover Mi6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2017-Sep-13]

Good Time screening (2017-Sep-18 @ 9 p.m.)
2017-09-18 21:00 - 22:41 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Good Time (Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, U.S. 2017, 101 min.) "After a heist goes awry, a bank robber tries to free his brother from Rikers Island, all in one night." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2017-Sep-13]

Books Sandwiched-In: Veronica Volk reviews "The Death and Life of the Great Lakes" by Dan Egan
2017-09-19 12:12 - 12:52 | Bausch and Lomb Library Building, 110 South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
In the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library Building, Veronica Volk will present a Books Sandwiched-In review of The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan.
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan's assessment of factors that jeopardize the health of the Great Lakes, and an outline of ways we can restore and preserve them. According to the journalism collaborative Great Lakes Today, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma serve as a warning for cities to the north – such as Rochester – as climate change is expected to increase the number of storms crossing the country.
[source: Friends & Foundation of the RPL e-mail, 2017-Sep-14]

Atomic Blonde screening (2017-Sep-19 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-09-19 19:00 - 20:55 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Within the Quota theatrical performance
2017-09-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
TableTopOpera will perform Within the Quota in the Dryden Theatre.
The United States may be a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of quotas. For more than a century, Congress has imposed laws to control the influx of immigrants. Written between 1922 and 1923, the ballet Within the Quota by Gerald Murphy and Cole Porter is a biting critique of the Emergency Quota Act (1921). TableTopOpera's new arrangement juxtaposes images and film clips from Porter's time with material pertaining to current US immigration policies and their effects on the nation.
[source: George Eastman Museum , 2017-Sep-4]

Good Time screening (2017-Sep-19 @ 9 p.m.)
2017-09-19 21:00 - 22:41 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Artist Talk and Preview of "Implement", Bridget Elmer, Emily Larned
2017-09-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
ILSSA founders Bridget Elmer, and Emily Larned will be at VSW to discuss their exhibition Implement, on display from October 6 to November 11.
As part of an exhibition and artist residency, VSW introduces Implement, the latest participatory art project initiated by Bridget Elmer and Emily Larned, co-founders of ILSSA, Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts. Established in 2008, ILSSA is an evolving publishing and public practice platform committed to investigating labor, time, and what we value. ILSSA functions as a Union that fosters solidarity and creates opportunities for its members, and as a Research Institute that supports and publishes new ideas, communications, and resources. ILSSA's Implement is a participatory art project that explores and expands the potential of the toolkit, inviting participants to consider and share what they deem to be essential tools for living. In addition to Implement, VSW will exhibit a selection of ILSSA publications as well as a collection of resources featuring artists who inspired and influenced the founding and development of the organization.
[source: Implement by ILSSA, Visual Studies Workshop , 2017-Sep-19]

Atomic Blonde screening (2017-Sep-20 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-09-20 19:00 - 20:55 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Secret Agent screening
2017-09-20 19:30 - 20:56 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock, U.K. 1936, 86 min., 16mm) as part of the WWI series.
Coming immediately on the heels of Hitchcock's early masterpiece The 39 Steps, this adaptation of two spy stories by W. Somerset Maugham is an unfairly overlooked entry in the master's British filmography (that The Lady Vanishes comes soon after doesn't help). Judged on its own merits, this film is a taut and twisty thriller about a WWI-era novelist turned secret agent (John Gielgud) who is given a new identity, a deadly assistant (Peter Lorre), and a beautiful, thrill-seeking "wife" (Madeleine Carroll, arguably the coolest of Hitch's cool, elegant blondes).
[source: George Eastman Museum , 2017-Sep-4]

Good Time screening (2017-Sep-20 @ 9 p.m.)
2017-09-20 21:00 - 22:41 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Palehound, Tall Friend, Total Yuppies, Anamon musical performances
2017-09-20 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Facebook, 2017-Sep-4]

Joey Molland musical performance
2017-09-20 21:00 - 23:00 | Lovin' Cup, 300 Park Point Dr., Rochester, New York, 14623, United States
Badfinger was the most successful recording act ever signed to The Beatles' label, Apple Records. Joey Molland joined the original lineup of Pete Ham, Tommy Evans and Mike Gibbins in late 1969 when The Iveys transformed into Badfinger. The group would go on to produce such Top 10 hits as "Come and Get It", "No Matter What", "Day After Day", "Baby Blue" (featured in the series finale of Breaking Bad) and "Without You" — a song covered by both Nilsson (1972) and Mariah Carey (1994), both of which went to #1. The band interacted in various ways with each member of The Beatles, including their solo careers. Paul McCartney wrote and produced the band's first single — "Come and Get It". Joey and Tommy played acoustic guitars on John Lennon's "Jealous Guy" and "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier, Momma" on his Imagine Lp. Pete and Tommy lent backup vocals on Ringo Starr's "It Don't Come Easy". And the entire original Badfinger lineup contributed to George Harrison's landmark triple-Lp set, "All Things Must Pass" and the equally groundbreaking fundraising event, Concert for Bangladesh. Expect to hear some exclusive, "behind the scenes" stories while attending a Joey Molland solo performance!
[source: Bop Shop website, 2017-Sep-4]

Fantastic Findings Sale (2017-Sep-21 @ 9 a.m.)
2017-09-21 09:00 - 16:00 | Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC), 657 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Fantastic Findings is an annual "next-to-new" sale organized by the RMSC Women's Council to support the Rochester Museum and Science Center featuring china, elegant glass, silver, lamps, jewelry, linens, art, toys and other fantastic treasures and collectibles in the RMSC Eisenhart Auditorium.
[source: Facebook, 2017-Sep-18]

On Beauty screening
2017-09-21 18:30 - 19:02 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen On Beauty (Joanna Rudnick, U.S. 2017, 32 min.) followed by a discussion with film subject Rick Guidotti.
The documentary, from Emmy-nominated "In The Family" filmmaker Joanna Rudnick and Chicago's Kartemquin Films, follows fashion photographer Rick Guidotti, who left the fashion world when he grew frustrated with having to work within the restrictive parameters of the industry's standard of beauty. After a chance encounter with a young woman who had the genetic condition albinism, Rick re-focused his lens and uses it to challenge convention and redefine beauty with the help of two extraordinary women.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2017-Sep-14]

Tim's Vermeer screening
2017-09-21 19:00 - 20:20 | Main Street Arts Gallery, 20 West Main Street, Clifton Springs, New York, 14432, United States
Main Street Arts Gallery will screen the interesting but under-researched documentary Tim's Vermeer (Teller, U.S. 2013, 80 min.)
Screening of Tim's Vermeer, a film that follows inventor Tim Jenison as he conducts experiments to discover how 17th-century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer achieved such photographic realism in his paintings.
[source: Rochester City Newspaper events calendar, 2017-Sep-18]

Atomic Blonde screening (2017-Sep-21 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-09-21 19:00 - 20:55 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Four Poets Walk Into a Bar: Jan Beatty, Sarah Freligh, George Guida, Gerry LaFemina poetry reading
2017-09-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Nox Cocktail Lounge, 302 N. Goodman St., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Rochester City Newspaper events calendar, 2017-Sep-20]

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp screening (2017-Sep-21 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2017-09-21 19:30 - 22:09 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, U.K. 1943, 159 min., 35mm) as part of the WWI series.
Famous for being the film that infuriated Winston Churchill, this gorgeously shot satirical view of British military life traces the consequences of political ignorance and emotional blockage from the Boer War to Hitler, with the density and structure of an epic novel. Deborah Kerr shines in perhaps her best role, as three different women in a long and adventurous life of a professional soldier Clive Candy (equally great Roger Livesey).
[source: George Eastman Museum, 2017-Sep-18]

Good Time screening (2017-Sep-21 @ 9 p.m.)
2017-09-21 21:00 - 22:41 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

The Queers, The Ataris musical performances
2017-09-21 21:00 - 23:00 | Photo City Improv and Comedy Club, 543 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14609, United States
[source: Facebook, 2017-Sep-18]

Fantastic Findings Sale (2017-Sep-22 @ 9 a.m.)
2017-09-22 09:00 - 16:00 | Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC), 657 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Sirsy musical performance (2017-Sep-22 @ 6:10 p.m.)
2017-09-22 18:10 - 19:10 | Rochester Fringe Festival Gibbs Street Main Stage, Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Very good medium-tempo progressive rock from Sirsy will be at the Rochester Fringe Festival at the Gibbs Street Main Stage. [source: Rochester Fringe Festival website, 2017-Sep-19]

Birth of a Movement screening
2017-09-22 19:00 - 19:56 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen Birth of a Movement (Bestor Cram, Susan Gray, U.S. 2017, 56 min.)
In 1915, Boston-based African American newspaper editor and activist William M. Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's technically groundbreaking but notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly The Birth of a Nation, unleashing a fight that still rages today about race relations, media representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement, based on Dick Lehr's book The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights, captures the backdrop to this prescient clash between human rights, freedom of speech, and a changing media landscape. Griffith originally titled his three-hour epic The Clansman, based on a novel and play of the same name, but changed it to The Birth of a Nation to reflect the director's belief his work gave the true story of America's "Reconstruction." Set during the Civil War, it was told from a point of view sympathetic to the Confederacy, and its portrayal of African American men was controversial even then, painting them as unintelligent and sexually aggressive, while members of the KKK were shown as valiant heroes protecting the innocent. (The film's release led to a spike in membership for the Klan.) Birth of a Nation was one of the first motion pictures screened at the White House, and white film audiences made it a box office hit, but in each city it traveled to it was also met with protests by African Americans, including by the newly formed NAACP which attempted to ban the film. These protests were led by Trotter, the first African American Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University and editor of The Guardian newspaper. A Northern intellectual and contemporary of W.E.B. Dubois, Trotter was positioning himself as a leading voice in a fractured civil rights movement. Birth of a Movement features interviews with Spike Lee (whose NYU student film The Answer was a response to Griffith's film), Reginald Hudlin, DJ Spooky, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Dick Lehr, while exploring how Griffith's film — long taught in film classes as an innovative work of genius — motivated generations of African American filmmakers and artists as they worked to reclaim their history and their onscreen image.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2017-Aug-28]

Dorothy Day and Mohandas Gandhi:the Legacy of Our Nonviolent Grandparents
2017-09-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Nazareth College, 4245 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14618, United States
A discussion on "Dorothy Day and Mohandas Gandhi: The Legacy of Our Nonviolent Grandparents." Martha and Kate Hennessy (grandchildren of Dorothy Day) and Arun Gandhi (grandson of Mohandas Gandhi) will have a group discussion about their peace-making grandparents.
[source: Rochester City Newspaper events calendar, 2017-Sep-18]

Wonder Woman screening (2017-Sep-22 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-09-22 19:00 - 21:21 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, U.S. / China / Hong Kong / U.K. / Italy / Canada / New Zealand 2017, 141 min.) "When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2017-Sep-20]

All the President's Men screening (2017-Sep-22 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2017-09-22 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 All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, U.S. 1976, 138 min., 35mm) as part of the Labor Film Series.
Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford are Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the Washington Post journalists who exposed the Watergate scandal. Director Alan J. Pakula's gift for portraying paranoia is matched by his exciting and detailed depiction of investigative reporting. The supporting cast of this absolutely timeless political classic includes an Oscar-winning Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee and Hal Holbrook as Deep Throat. Free to members.
[source: George Eastman Museum, 2017-Sep-18]

Baby Driver screening (2017-Sep-22 @ 9:25 p.m.)
2017-09-22 21:25 - 23:17 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, U.K. / U.S. 2017, 112 min.) "After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2017-Sep-20]
