Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago, will give a talk on "Life of Learning: How My Mother (who died in 1991) Prepared Me to Confront Hindu Fundamentalists in 2010." The talk is sponsored by the Humanities Center, Susan B. Anthony Institute … Continue reading
The area in the Park Avenue neighborhood of the city of Rochester, outlined in brown in the map above (click image to see larger view), is potentially eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic … Continue reading
Pittsford Zurich Cinemas will screen Fair Haven (Kerstin Karlhuber, U.S. 2016, 90 min.) with director Kerstin Karlhuber, and producer Tom Malloy in attendance for a Q&A afterward. After a long stint in gay conversion therapy, James, a young piano prodigy, … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Manchester By the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, U.S. 2016, 137 min.) "A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies."
The Dryden will screen the emotionally tense thriller Un condamné Ã mort s'est échappé (A Man Escaped, Robert Bresson, France 1956, 99 min., 35mm, French w/subtitles) as part of the 12 Postcards from Prison series. An unceasingly tense thriller, A … Continue reading
The MuCCC is hosting a performance of Sketching the Soul by Jacqueline Lynch. Chelsea Logan is an artist struggling with the conflict between her growing celebrity and her Amish upbringing, which she left behind to pursue her ambition, and which … Continue reading
Pittsford Zurich Cinemas will screen Fair Haven (Kerstin Karlhuber, U.S. 2016, 90 min.) with director Kerstin Karlhuber, and producer Tom Malloy in attendance for a Q&A afterward. After a long stint in gay conversion therapy, James, a young piano prodigy, … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, France / U.S. 2016, 93 min.) "Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House."
The Cinema will screen Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi, U.S. 2016, 127 min.) "The story of a team of African-American women mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program."
The Dryden will screen Apocalypse Now Redux (Francis Ford Coppola, U.S. 1979/2001, 202 min., 35mm) with cinematographer Vittorio Storaro in person. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro will provide a special introduction to this screening of Apocalypse Now Redux, Francis Ford Coppola's epic … Continue reading
The MuCCC is hosting a performance of Sketching the Soul by Jacqueline Lynch. Chelsea Logan is an artist struggling with the conflict between her growing celebrity and her Amish upbringing, which she left behind to pursue her ambition, and which … Continue reading
The Lovin' Cup will host excellent ska-driven rock from The Beaumonts, and The Saplings.
The Cinema will screen Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, U.S. 2016, 111 min.) "A chronicle of the childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood of a young black man growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami."
In collaboration with the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, the Gandhi Institute will be hosting two introductory workshops on the tradition of withholding federal income taxes as a form of civil disobedience. Two facilitators connected to the National War … Continue reading