Mike Recine is either the smartest dumb guy or the dumbest smart guy in the room. He's performed stand-up on Conan, written for the MTV Video Music Awards, performed as a New Face in the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, … Continue reading
The Strong National Museum of Play will host a screening of Insert Coin: Inside Midway's '90s Revolution (Josh Tsui, U.S. 2018). The film follows the untold story of a small team of geeks working in the back of a Chicago … Continue reading
Miki Kashtan will teach a workshop titled Reckoning with Collapse at Coordinated Care Services, Inc.. This workshop is an opportunity to learn and engage with others who are also grappling with the overwhelming information and grim prospects that humanity faces, … Continue reading
The Cinema will host a screening of Shocking! Spooky! Saturday Shorts as part of Anomaly—The Rochester Genre Film Festival featuring: Toe (Chad Thurman, Neal O'Bryan, USA 2019, 7 min.): "Horror, A stop-motion gothic folktale. A starving young boy eats a … Continue reading
Martha Collins has just published her tenth book of poetry, Because What Else Could I Do. Her previous volumes include Admit One: An American Scrapbook, White Papers, and the book-length poem Blue Front, as well as the paired volumes Night … Continue reading
Meghan Jordan, curatorial assistant, and Jamie M. Allen, the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Associate Curator, Department of Photography, will discuss their selections for the latest rotation in the History of Photography Gallery. This installation features photographs created by … Continue reading
The Cinema will host a screening of Bacurau (Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil / France 2019, 131 min.) as part of Anomaly—The Rochester Genre Film Festival, preceded by NOM (Angel Hernández Suarez, Spain 2019, 11 min.): "An old cyclist … Continue reading
The Little will screen Córka Trenera (A Coach's Daughter, Åukasz Grzegorek, Poland 2018, 95 min.) as part of the Polish Film Festival. Full of subtle humor, a sensual and striking story about finding your own way in life regardless of … Continue reading
Stephanie Mercedes will discuss the exhibit Photography and Politics at the Flower City Arts Center. Join us for an afternoon with Photography and Politics juror Stephanie Mercedes! Stephanie Mercedes is a Argentinian/American performance artist who graduated from Smith College with … Continue reading
The Cinema will host a screening of Extra Ordinary (Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman, Ireland / Belgium 2019, 94 min.) as part of Anomaly—The Rochester Genre Film Festival, preceded by Night of the Living Shred (Boris Sapozhnikov, U.S. 2018, 5 min.): … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Give Me Liberty (Alice Austen, Kirill Mikhanovsky, U.S. 2019, 110 min., 35mm). One of the breakouts of this year's Sundance Film Festival, this American independent follows Milwaukee medical transport driver Vic on a particularly stressful day. … Continue reading
Described in a newspaper article as having "dead-eyed confidence," sisters Gracie Walsh and Maddy Hubert are Saunt Yübear, a comedy music duo from Rochester, NY. Pulling inspiration from real-life experiences, their songs range in subject matter from banal office banter … Continue reading
As rock phenoms go, Sarah Borges has never been easy to pin down. Since bursting onto the national scene in 2005 as the lead singer of the Broken Singles, she hasn't allowed a speck of dust to settle on her … Continue reading