UofR's Spurrier Hall will host Meredith Monk's Cellular Songs: Concert Version. Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, music-theater works, films and installations. Monk creates works that thrive at the intersection of music and movement, … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen The Peanut Butter Falcon (Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz, U.S. 2019, 97 min.) "Zak runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler come true."
Named a 2016 Comic To Watch by Comedy Central, Daniel Van Kirk is a comedian that you might know from Bob's Burgers, Comedy Central, and Fox. You can also hear him every week on the podcasts, "Dumb People Town" with … Continue reading
In the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library Building, Donald M. Thompson, Esq. will review Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment and the Rule of Law by Preet Bharara. Using case histories and personal experiences, … Continue reading
The Little will screen Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (Stanley Nelson, U.S. 2019, 115 min.) as part of the One Take Documentary Series. Miles Davis: Horn player, bandleader, innovator. Elegant, intellectual, vain. Callous, conflicted, controversial. Magnificent, mercurial. Genius. The … Continue reading
The Dryden will host a Silent Documentaries Program with live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli featuring Las Hurdes (Luis Buñuel, Spain 1933, 30 min.) À propos de Nice (Boris Kaufman, Jean Vigo, France 1930, 25 min.) Berliner Stilleben (László … Continue reading
The Squeaky Wheel will present We Tell: Environments of Race and Place including Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19) (San Francisco Newsreel, U.S. 1967, 15 min.), Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (Mimi Pickering, U.S. 1975, 39 … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen The Lion King (Jon Favreau, U.S. 2019, 118 min.) "After the murder of his father, a young lion prince flees his kingdom only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery."
Born in the Bronx, child of Holocaust survivors, Bonnie Abrams played Greenwich Village clubs as a teenager. Through careers as an environmental scientist, winemaker, and now a Holocaust educator, Bonnie kept writing and singing her songs, incorporating her family history … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen The Pajama Game (George Abbott, Stanley Donen, U.S. 1957, 101 min., 35mm) as part of the In Memoriam: Doris Day series. This movie musical is also a rare Hollywood foray into a labor milieu, with factory … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen The Peanut Butter Falcon (Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz, U.S. 2019, 97 min.) "Zak runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler come true."
Get ready for the annual Night Of The Living Wedge pub crawl! It's full of gruesome fun, with a bunch of drunken fools stumbling around in killer costumes. I know you want to be one of them, so come on … Continue reading