Believe or Behave Holiday Sale: Cat Clay, Genesee Libby, Joseph Paladino artwork (2017-Dec-2 @ 10 a.m.)
2017-12-02 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Cat Clay, 1115 E. Main St. Hungerford Building, Suite #242, Rochester, New York, United States
Great alt holiday music play list! Fun "Worst Holiday Food" contest! And mac and cheese on Saturday. Part of Fungerford's event, Miracle on Main Street. Kringle and Krampus are coming to town! Explore holiday Hungerford, with over 15 edgy-festive studios. There will be a toy drive, Kringle and Krampus photo op, studio raffles and other jovial stuff!
[source: Facebook, 2017-Nov-27]

Wintercraft Open House and Holiday Sale
2017-12-02 10:00 - 17:00 | Flower City Arts Center (formerly Genesee Center for Arts and Education), 713 Monroe Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Join us for our annual Open House! Come get in the holiday spirit by making crafts and shopping for holiday gifts; see free demos or make a small recommended donation to participate in letterpress, ceramic, and book arts activities. Great fun for the entire family!
[source: Flower City Arts Center website, 2017-Nov-27]

It's a Wonderful Life in the South Wedge and A Handmade Holiday 2017
2017-12-02 11:00 - 16:00 | Star Alley Park, 662 South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
Star Alley will be decorated in a classic Christmas theme with pine boughs and decorations while a horse drawn carriage strolls the neighborhood. Children's activities will include an Angel Get's it's Wings activity, Christmas tree ornament and stocking decorating. There will be holiday themed games that appeal to all ages. Rochester's favorite food trucks will be on hand in addition to the South Wedge's finest eateries, many featuring holiday food and drink specials. There will be five musical groups, Westside Singers Children's Choir, Resonanz – The Rochester Oratorio Society, The Flower City Pride Band, Matt Weasner, and a Rochester favorite, The Buddhahood. Local businesses will provide the backdrop and be open throughout the event.
[source: Facebook, 2017-Nov-27]

Victoria and Abdul screening (2017-Dec-2 @ 2 p.m.)
2017-12-02 14:00 - 15:51 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Victoria and Abdul (Stephen Frears, U.K. / U.S. 2017, 111 min.) "Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2017-Nov-29]

Grief Café
2017-12-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Gandhi Institute (M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence), 929 S. Plymouth Ave., Rochester, New York, 14608, United States
Join us for an intimate exploration of grief and how to share it within a community. This opportunity is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis; maximum capacity 15 people.
[source: M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence website, 2017-Nov-27]

Liberty Pole Lighting
2017-12-02 16:30 - 17:30 | Liberty Pole, 1 Liberty Pole Wy., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Join us as we kick off the holiday season by lighting the Liberty Pole.
[source: City of Rochester website, 2017-Nov-29]

Goodbye Christopher Robin screening (2017-Dec-2 @ 4:30 p.m.)
2017-12-02 16:30 - 18:17 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Goodbye Christopher Robin (Simon Curtis, U.K. 2017, 107 min.) "A behind-the-scenes look at the life of author A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son C.R. Milne." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2017-Nov-29]

Cloudburst on the Road: Rochester
2017-12-02 16:30 - 18:30 | Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St., Rochester, New York, 14608, United States
Come join with poets who have been part of the past five annual Cloudburst Councils to share your poetry in a Round Robin Reading. Learn more about what Cloudburst is and meet some of the poets who have attended. There'll be poets from the Buffalo, Rochester and Albany areas, as well as the Southern Tier.
[source: Facebook, 2017-Nov-27]

Family Ice Skating Night
2017-12-02 17:30 - 20:30 | Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park at Manhattan Square, 353 Court St., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Free ice skating, horse-drawn carriage rides, and kid crafts at MLK Park Ice Rink! Skate rental is $3 and limited, so bring your own ice skates if possible!
[source: City of Rochester website, 2017-Nov-29]

The 2000 Word Club Open Mike (2017-Dec-2 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-12-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Writers & Books, 740 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Prose writers of short fiction, memoir, essays, prose poem, chapters from longer works are welcome to read. Our only requirement is that your piece be under 2000 words.
[source: Writers and Books website, 2017-Nov-27]

Gary Numan, Me Not You musical performances
2017-12-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Town Ballroom, 681 Main St., Buffalo, New York, 14203, United States
[source: Town Ballroom website, 2017-Nov-27]

Blade Runner 2049 screening (2017-Dec-2 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-12-02 19:00 - 21:44 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, U.S. / U.K. / Hungary / Canada 2017, 164 min.) "A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2017-Nov-29]

Frenzy screening (2017-Dec-2 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2017-12-02 19:30 - 21:13 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock, U.K./U.S. 1972, 103 min., 35mm) as part of the Hitchcock in Winter series.
Hitchcock's penultimate feature was his first return to British production in two decades. It focuses on a rapist-murderer terrorizing the women of London, with the wrong man being accused for the crimes. The clever, suspenseful script by Anthony Shaffer (The Wicker Man) reveals the rapist's identity to the audience long before the police catch on. Frenzy, loaded with expected virtuoso camerawork and suspense, exhibits explicit horror and anger, never shying away from examining the classic Hitchcockian theme of sexual deviance in the realm of guilt and innocence.
[source: George Eastman Museum, 2017-Nov-27]

The Young Couples, Total Yuppies, Cammy Enaharo, Long Movers musical performances
2017-12-02 22:00 - 2017-12-03 00:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Facebook, 2017-Nov-27]

Lost Horizon screening
2017-12-03 14:00 - 15:37 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Lost Horizon (Frank Capra, U.S. 1937, 97 min., 35mm) as part of the Capra series.
James Hilton's beautiful, melancholy novel Lost Horizon introduced the world to Shangri-La, a place of peace and contentment, and it became an equally popular film under the guidance of director Frank Capra. Set in a troubled world on the brink of a cataclysmic global war, a small group of individuals are given the opportunity to lead lives rich with meaning through the extension of time. Ronald Coleman is perfectly cast as Conway, the sad-eyed and weary golden boy of the British Civil Service. A reluctant hero, Conway has seen too much; his soul bears enough sadness to last a lifetime. Shangri-La offers him a chance for emotional, spiritual, and physical renewal—and a long life of unimaginable peace and happiness—if only he can break the ties that bind him to the past.
[source: George Eastman Museum, 2017-Nov-27]

Victoria and Abdul screening (2017-Dec-3 @ 2 p.m.)
2017-12-03 14:00 - 15:51 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

A City Sings for the Season (2017-Dec-3 @ 3 p.m.)
2017-12-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Stardust Ballroom at the Edgerton Recreation Center, 41 Backus St., Rochester, New York, 14608, United States
Rochester's historic Stardust Ballroom resounds this December with "A City Sings For The Season," the fourth annual community holiday celebration of music and dance presented by the Rochester Oratorio Society.
[source: City of Rochester website, 2017-Nov-29]

Goodbye Christopher Robin screening (2017-Dec-3 @ 4:30 p.m.)
2017-12-03 16:30 - 18:17 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Blade Runner 2049 screening (2017-Dec-3 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-12-03 19:00 - 21:44 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Garrison Keillor, Robin and Linda Williams theatrical performances
2017-12-03 19:30 - 21:30 | Babeville, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, New York, 14202, United States
Garrison Keillor was born in 1942 in Anoka, Minnesota, and began his radio career as a freshman at the University of Minnesota, from which he graduated in 1966. He went to work for Minnesota Public Radio in 1969, and from July 6, 1974 through July 1, 2016, he created and hosted his popular variety show, A Prairie Home Companion, for some 3.5 million listeners on 700 public radio stations coast to coast and beyond. Keillor has been honored with Grammy, Ace, and George Foster Peabody awards, the National Humanities Medal, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His many books include Lake Wobegon Days, The Book of Guys, Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance, Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny, and The Keillor Reader (Viking). He is the host of the daily program The Writer's Almanac and the editor of several anthologies of poetry, most recently, Good Poems: American Places (Viking). In 2006, Keillor played himself in the movie adaptation of his show, a film directed by Robert Altman. He has two grandsons and in 2007, he opened an independent bookstore, Common Good Books, in St. Paul, the city where he and his wife and daughter make their home.
[source: Babeville website, 2017-Nov-27]

Game of Life for Teens
2017-12-04 16:00 - 17:00 | Arnett Branch Library, 310 Arnett Blvd., Rochester, New York, 14619, United States
Come play the game of life! This is an event that will give teens a chance to experience firsthand how to manage their money and finances. Each player will start the game with a "monthly allowance", and the player with the most "money" at the end wins a prize. For teens 13-17 years old.
[source: City of Rochester website, 2017-Nov-29]

Resisting State Repression in the Trump Era
2017-12-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St., Rochester, New York, 14608, United States
The first Monday of every month the Flying Squirrel hosts an event that seeks to examine the role that our community space can play in creating positive social change. This month we will be examining what new trends in political repression mean for us and how we can resist their influences. Beginning his first day in office, Trump and his appointees have attempted to squash resistance to their regime by demanding prosecuters and DAs seek the most extreme possible charges against protestors. This month, we will dive deep into the intricacies of the state's strategies against popular resistance and begin to examine what the best movement response to this repression would be. Helping us in this investigation will be Heidi Reynolds Stenson, a sociologist who has studied the effects of state repression on social movements, Erik, a protester arrested on J20 who is facing 60 years in prison in the wake of this repression.
[source: Facebook, 2017-Nov-27]

Blade Runner 2049 screening (2017-Dec-4 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-12-04 19:00 - 21:44 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Ossia New Music performance (2017-Dec-4 @ 8 p.m.)
2017-12-04 20:00 - 22:00 | Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
[source: Ossia New Music website, 2017-Nov-27]

Reimagine RTS "Meeting in a Box"
2017-12-05 18:30 - 20:30 | Rochester Regional Joint Board, 750 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Members of local non-profit organizations with an interest in mass transit / sustainability are invited. The meeting is open to the public. The Reimagine RTS is a planning process that will study and explore changes to the RTS fixed-route transit system to better meet the changing needs of the region. For this meeting, we will be provided with guidelines by RTS's "Meeting in a Box". The "Reimagine RTS" process provides a rare opportunity to improve the public transit system in Rochester, thereby significantly reducing green-house gas emissions, providing more equitable transportation options for low-income residents, increasing mass transit ridership, and providing a stimulus for urban revitalization in downtown Rochester.
[source: Facebook, 2017-Nov-27]

Blade Runner 2049 screening (2017-Dec-5 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-12-05 19:00 - 21:44 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

The Love Parade screening
2017-12-05 19:30 - 21:17 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch, U.S. 1929, 107 min., 35mm) as part of the Silent Tuesdays series.
Maurice Chevalier became an overnight film sensation in his first sound feature Innocents of Paris; his sophistication, insouciance, overwhelming charm, and natural comedic ability made him the first international star created by the new medium of talking pictures. Whereas Innocents of Paris had only a few songs created for Chevalier centered on a thin plot, Paramount went all out for his second film, The Love Parade. Ernest Vajda and Guy Bolton (whose collaborations with humorist P. G. Wodehouse had revolutionized musical theatre) wrote the script; multi-talented Victor Schertzinger (who had come to Hollywood to compose music for silent films but then became a major film director) wrote the score; brilliant newcomer Jeannette MacDonald made her screen debut; and the great director Ernst Lubitsch (who was also a trained musician) was assigned to bring everything together as his own first talkie. The result was cinema's first truly witty musical, which rolls along with incredible fluency and ingratiating sauciness. Many of the songs became instant hits ("Paris, Stay The Same," "Dream Lover," "Nobody's Using It Now," and the title song), and Lubitsch even gave secondary couple Lillian Roth and Lupino Lane a spectacular showcase in their wild "Let's Be Common" number, which is not to be missed!
[source: George Eastman Museum, 2017-Nov-27]

New Ground Poetry Night (2017-Dec-5 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2017-12-05 19:30 - 21:30 | Equal=Grounds, 750 South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
"A saucy seismic, splendid, sweet, scanalous, surprising, social open mic poetry series"
[source: Rochester Spoken Word website, 2017-Nov-27]

33% Girl, Candy Isle, Mort and the People musical performances
2017-12-05 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Come spend your Tuesday night with us and listen to some jamz from newcomers 33% Girl, Candy Isle, and Mort and the People! We got some garage jazz, we got some soft indie, and we got some conscious jazz rap. Hang out with us and discover your new fave tunes!
[source: Facebook, 2017-Nov-27]

Fight for $15: Take action for fair scheduling!
2017-12-06 16:30 - 18:00 | Pittsford Plaza, 3349 Monroe Ave., Pittsford, New York, 14618, United States
Act in solidarity with food service workers demanding fair scheduling! We'll be gathering to support hourly workers in calling attention to Governor Cuomo's Fair Scheduling Act, which fast food workers have already won in New York City! This call to action will be supporting that victory and fighting for the same economic justice for food workers all across New York State. If passed through the Department of Labor, the Fair Scheduling Act would require employers to give their workers at least two weeks notice on their schedule, four hours pay for any shift lost within 72 hours, and extra pay for last minute call-in shifts. This gives workers the more predictable and dependable schedule they deserve. For example, employees with children or dependents would be better able to secure care. Therefore, a statewide fair scheduling act would continue to tackle industry-wide abusive practices. So please join us on December 6th to show your support for fair scheduling and make sure restaurant owners respect their workers' rights!
[source: Facebook, 2017-Nov-27]
