Similar to Writers and Books smashing success The 24 Hour Plays (performed at the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival the past several years), the 24 Hour Musical will involve 20 artists made up of composers, playwrights, directors, actors, and musical … Continue reading
Chris Trapper began his career as the front man for late-90's alternative rock band The Push Stars (Capital Records). With four CD releases and several high profile national tours-including a run with Matchbox Twenty, The Push Stars served to establish … Continue reading
The UofR Cinema Group will screen Straight Outta Compton (F. Gary Gray, U.S. 2015, 167 min.) The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Vapor Trail (Clark) (John Gianvito, U.S. 2010, 264 min., DCP, Tagalog w/subtitles). Vapor Trail (Clark) is a documentary essay exploring circumstances of toxic contamination around the former U.S. military bases in the Philippines as the locus … Continue reading
The MuCCC will host a performance by the Shakespeare Players of All's Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare. Dr. Cece McFarland, the director, has chosen a fairy-tale setting for this fantastical comedy in which Helena, a woman of modest … Continue reading
The Cinemark Tinseltown USA will screen It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Stanley Kramer, U.S. 1963, 205 min.)
Commando, punk hard-rock band Green Dreams, Crush the Junta, and Periodic Table of Elephants will be at Lux. According to the poster, "bring earplugs."
Jen Chapin has been celebrated for writing "brilliant soulfully poetic urban folk music" (NPR) for over a decade, beginning with her debut, Open Wide, in 2002. Nurtured in and around NYC by a large family of artists, writers, and musicians, … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu, U.S. / Hong Kong / Taiwan / Canada 2015, 156 min.) "A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and … Continue reading
The Little will screen Jag är Ingrid (Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, Stig Björkman, Sweden 2015, 114 min., DCP, English and Swedish w/subtitles). Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words is a captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Hair High (Bill Plympton, U.S. 2004, 76 min., 35mm). High school gothic myth kind of film. For the first time in animation and internet history, the public was able to watch, from beginning to end, the … Continue reading
Mike Bialaszewski will present an Introduction to Government Grants in the Kate Gleason Auditorium in the Bausch and Lomb Library Building. Mike Bialaszewski, a grants specialist with 37 years of grant writing experience, 7 years of which are municipal in … Continue reading
As part of the Films, Facts and Fallacies About Mental Health series is a panel discussion on Autism in Adulthood. "The series is free, but registration is required by calling Tammy at (585) 325-3145 x100".