The Dryden will screen Alien (Ridley Scott, U.K./U.S. 1979, 117 min., 35mm) as part of the First Contact series. Sigourney Weaver proves herself a courageous warrior as her working-class spaceship crew steadily fall prey to a terrifyingly unpredictable creature in … Continue reading
Bread and Water Theatre will host a reading by J. R. Teeter of Mike Daisey's The Trump Card. Author and monologist Mike Daisey takes on the reigning world heavyweight of self-mythologizing, the short fingered vulgarian who captured the nation's heart … Continue reading
A new play by Mark Jabaut, directed by Jean Gordon Ryon. The goal of this series is to ensure that local playwrights get multiple opportunities to workshop new plays and hear them in front of a live audience, so that … Continue reading
Babeville is hosting Stand-Up For Planned Parenthood featuring comedy by Andrea Springer, RJ Purpura, Malcolm Whitfield, Nicky Spin, Cody Colin Chase, Allie Brady, and Phil MacHemer, hosted by Zach Dietsch.
The Lovin' Cup will host excellent ska-driven rock from The Beaumonts, and Stay the Plow.
The Cinema will screen Collateral Beauty (David Frankel, U.S. 2016, 97 min.) "Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things … Continue reading
The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States poses a dramatic threat to civil liberties and civil rights around the country and in New York. There is no question of how much we have to lose. The … Continue reading
In the Science and History Division on the 3rd Floor of the Bausch and Lomb Public Library Building is a lecture titled Understanding Dementia Related Behavior. Behavior is a powerful form of communication and is one of the primary ways … Continue reading
Are you committed to social justice and political change, but not sure where or how to plug in? Please consider attending the Rochester Activism Fair. Many activist organizations from the Greater Rochester area will be in attendance to speak directly … Continue reading
William Green, curatorial assistant in the Department of Photography and contributor to the exhibition catalogue, will give a tour of A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age.
The Little will screen The Freedom to Marry (Eddie Rosenstein, U.S. 2016, 86 min.) as part of the One Take Documentary Series. Over the last four decades, same-sex marriage has gone from a 'preposterous notion' to one of the most … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Doctor Strange (Scott Derrickson, U.S. 2016, 115 min.) "A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts."
The Little will screen The Freedom to Marry (Eddie Rosenstein, U.S. 2016, 86 min.) as part of the One Take Documentary Series. Over the last four decades, same-sex marriage has gone from a 'preposterous notion' to one of the most … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, U.S. 2016, 116 min.) "A wealthy art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale."
The Dryden will screen Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges, U.S. 1955, 81 min., 35mm) as part of the Ernest Borgnine series. Smoldering rural hatred erupts as Spencer Tracy fights postwar bigotry in the male-dominated town of Black Rock, … Continue reading