The Dryden will screen The Beaches of Agnes (Agnès Varda, France 2008, 110 min., 35mm, French and English w/subtitles) as part of the In Memoriam: Agnès Varda series. Agnès Varda (1928—2019) studied art history at university, intending to seek a … Continue reading
Olli Hirvonen is a Finnish guitarist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Fluent in various styles from jazz to rock to more experimental sounds, he has formed a highly unique style combining these different influences. As the winner of the 2016 … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, U.S. 2019, 95 min.) "With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk … Continue reading
In UofR's Wilson Commons is a Bicycle Winter Class. Join us to gain the confidence you need to bike to work! The Department of Transportation and Parking Management and the League of American Bicyclists present a series of instructional seminars … Continue reading
Lena Herzog is multimedia artist, who, in addition to her recent projects in immersive art forms, has produced extensive bodies of photographic work while traveling the globe. From rock gardens in Venezuela and Brazil to monks in India and Tibet, … Continue reading
The UofR will host an Egg Drop on the Third Floor of Ronald Rettner Hall for Media Arts and Innovations. Can you build something to protect an egg from breaking when dropped from a height? Come and prove it in … Continue reading
Medha Bhattacharyya discusses her new translation of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's rarely known collection of meditative essays, ÅšÄntiniketan (Abode of Peace), which looks at his ideas of universality; his socio-cultural location; and his reflections on Buddhism, Vaiṣṇavism, BÄul philosophy, and … Continue reading
A panel of UofR Sex Experts answer all of your deepest, darkest questions about sex and relationships ... in the dark! Come early to visit our engaging educational tables: What Size am I?, Lubrication Station, All About Sex Toys, and … Continue reading
The Little will screen Boze Cialo (Corpus Christi, Jan Komasa, Poland 2019, 115 min.) as part of the Polish Film Festival. Twenty year-old Daniel with a troubled past is incarcerated in a brutal youth detention center. He has developed a … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Ad Astra (James Gray, U.S. / China 2019, 123 min.) "Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Last Whispers (Lena Herzog, U.S. 2016, 46 min., DCP). with an introduction by filmmaker Lena Herzog. Last Whispers is an elegy about the mass extinction of languages. Multimedia artist Lena Herzog has collected samples of extinct … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, U.S. 2019, 95 min.) "With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk … Continue reading
The Flower City Arts Center will host an Opening Reception for Photography and Politics, on display through December 14. How can images not only document political events but themselves be political acts? Question politics around them? React, subvert politics? Imagine … Continue reading