Eastman Saxophone Project musical performance (2016-Nov-14 @ 8 p.m.)
2016-11-14 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
[source: Eastman School of Music calendar, 2016-Nov-7]

Sugar! screening
2016-11-14 20:15 - 21:35 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little Theatre will screen the High Falls Film Festival's Audience Choice — BEST of the FEST Narrative Film, Sugar! (Shari Berman, USA 2016, Narrative Feature Film, 81 min.).
Responding to a dare, Leslie, a 50+ Indiana piano teacher (Tony-award winner Alice Ripley) secretly forms an all-woman rock band, Sugar. At the same time, her husband, a conservative Republican, runs for Congress. The band quickly goes viral as "MILF" musicians. When her husband (SAG Award Winner Robert Clohessy) and college-bound daughter discover the secret, all hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Leslie has a clandestine affair with a younger bartender and while being caught between responsibilities and dreams, she almost destroys the band. But victory is in the air â€¦
[source: High Falls Film Festival website, 2016-Nov-14]

Don't Breathe screening (2016-Nov-14 @ 8:50 p.m.)
2016-11-14 20:50 - 22:18 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Don't Breathe (Fede Alvarez, U.S. 2016, 88 min.) "Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn't as helpless as he seems." [source: Cinema coming soon page, 2016-Nov-9]

Nik Turner's Hawkwind, Hedersleben, Saint Phillip's Escalator musical performances
2016-11-14 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Bug Jar calendar, 2016-Nov-7]

Police Community Engagement Forum (2016-Nov-15 @ 6 p.m.)
2016-11-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Flint Street Recreation Center, 271 Flint St., Rochester, New York, 14608, United States
The Rochester Police Department will hold public forums to discuss the state of police-community relations as part of Mayor Lovely A. Warren's 90 Days of Community Engagement Initiative.
[source: City of Rochester website, 2016-Nov-9]

Do Not Resist screening (2016-Nov-15 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-11-15 19:00 - 20:12 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen Do Not Resist (Craig Atkinson, U.S. 2016, 72 min.) as part of the One Take Documentary Series.
An urgent and powerful exploration of the rapid militarization of the police in the United States. Starting on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, as the community grapples with the death of Michael Brown, Do Not Resist— the directorial debut of Detropia cinematographer Craig Atkinson — offers a stunning look at the current state of policing in America and a glimpse into the future. The Tribeca Film Festival winner for Best Documentary puts viewers in the center of the action — from a ride-along with a South Carolina Swat team and inside a police training seminar that teaches the importance of "righteous violence" to the floor of a congressional hearing on the proliferation of military equipment in small-town police departments — before exploring where controversial new technologies, including predictive policing algorithms, could lead the field next.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2016-Oct-31]

13th screening
2016-11-15 19:00 - 20:40 | Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St., Rochester, New York, 14608, United States
The Flying Squirrel will screen 13th (Ava DuVernay, U.S. 2016, 100 min.) as part of the Enough is Enough meeting.
According to the New York Film Festival description of the documentary, "Ava Duvernay's extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads 'neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.' The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by Duvernay with bracing lucidity. With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, Duvernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis. A Netflix original documentary."
[source: Rochester Indymedia website, 2016-Nov-7]

Deepwater Horizon screening (2016-Nov-15 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-11-15 19:00 - 20:47 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Deepwater Horizon (Peter Berg, Hong Kong / U.S. 2016, 107 min.) "A dramatization of the April 2010 disaster when the offshore drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history." [source: Cinema coming soon page, 2016-Nov-9]

The Navigator screening
2016-11-15 20:00 - 21:00 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen The Navigator (Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp, U.S. 1924, 60 min., 16mm) with live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli, as part of the Silent Tuesdays series.
While Keaton is often credited as co-director on his productions, in truth he exercised complete creative control, crafting their gorgeous cinematography as well as their inventive narrative constructions. Here, in his biggest box office hit, Keaton stars as a millionaire who by chance winds up on a deserted schooner with the woman of his dreams. Loaded with classic Keaton sidesplitting moments and sight gags, this film makes manifest his cinematic magic.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Nov-7]

Eastman Chamber Percussion Ensemble
2016-11-15 20:00 - 22:00 | Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States

Don't Breathe screening (2016-Nov-15 @ 8:50 p.m.)
2016-11-15 20:50 - 22:18 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Public Meeting - Comprehensive Plan Update - Rochester 4.0 (Center City Venue)
2016-11-16 11:30 - 13:30 | Tower280 at Midtown, 280 East Broad St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The City of Rochester will host a Public Meeting on the Comprehensive Plan Update – Rochester 4.0 (Center City Venue) in the Lobby of Tower280.
This "open house" style meeting will include various stations where the public can share their ideas, concerns and priorities for the future of the City as it updates its long range comprehensive plan, to be known as "Rochester 4.0 – Our Neighborhoods. Our Future". Project Consultants and City staff will be on hand to answer any questions about the project. Residents are encouraged to attend any of the scheduled meetings at any venue, regardless of where they live.
[source: City of Rochester website, 2016-Nov-9]

Between Pop Culture and the Avant-Garde: Little-Seen Films by Women from the Collection of Canyon Cinema
2016-11-16 19:00 - 19:57 | Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center, 617 Main St., Buffalo, New York, 14203, United States
At the Squeaky Wheel is a screening of films titled Between Pop Culture and the Avant-Garde: Little-Seen Films by Women from the Collection of Canyon Cinema followed by a discussion with Tess Takahashi.
Toronto based scholar and curator Tess Takahashi will be coming through Buffalo to present a guest-curated program Between Pop Culture and the Avant-Garde: Little-Seen Films by Women from the Collection of Canyon Cinema. Ranging from 1970—1989, the films display unexpected images by women that comment on how we present and perform ourselves, both in private and in public, in relation to oneself and to pop culture. The screening features works by Coni Beeson, Dana Plays, Alice Anne Parker Severson, Elizabeth Sher, Greta Snider, and Jean Sousa. Takahashi will lead a Q&A after the screening.
The films to be screened are:

River Body (Alice Anne Parker Severson, 1970, sound, 7 min.): "A continuous dissolve of 87 male and female nudes. — Canyon Cinema Catalog"
Women (Coni Beeson, 1974, sound, 13 min.): "'Of the many films Coni Beeson made for the National Sex and Drug Forum in the 1970s, Women is the most overtly critical of mainstream media representations of women. Canyon's Catalog describes it as 'a sardonic film about the clichés laid on women.' Her films often come with the following suggestions for use: 'with persons as young as high school age, in a variety of groups seeking to deal with feelings and values about sexuality. Its richness of imagery makes it useable alone, or in combination with other material." — Tess Takahashi"
Grain Graphics (Dana Plays, 1978, sound, 6 min.): "'This short structural film feels like a playful dance that comments on the multiplicity of screens in our environment.' — Tess Takahashi"
New Moon (Donna Cameron, 1987, silent, 11 min.): "'Second in a series of paper films made from strips of color Xerography. In these films, the filmmaker is concerned with the film as an object or motion picture 'soft sculpture' constructed of 16mm-sized strips. The paper (or emulsion) could be a kind of skin complete with hair and pores, half-tone dots, paper fiber — through which the world is viewed.' — Canyon Cinema Catalog"
Swish (Jean Sousa, 1982, silent, 5 min.): "'Swish is a self-portrait taken at very close range.' — Tess Takahashi"
Too Young (Elizabeth Sher, 1982, sound, 3 min.): "'To me, this film looks as if it was made by George Kuchar as a 13 year old girl making a music video in 1982.' — Tess Takahashi"
Portland (Greta Snider, 1996, sound, 12 min.): "'The film is a documentary road movie about travel, the fallibility of photographs, and the merging of memory and imagination. (…) Portland reconstitutes the trip in a humorous mixture of footage from the journey (taken with a run-down Super 8 camera), interpreted re-enactments, and interviews with the involved parties. The result is a spirited look at independent women and fearless travelers.' — Canyon Cinema Catalog"

[source: Squeaky Wheel website, 2016-Nov-7]

Deepwater Horizon screening (2016-Nov-16 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-11-16 19:00 - 20:47 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Robert Frank - Don't Blink screening
2016-11-16 20:00 - 21:22 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Robert Frank – Don't Blink (Laura Israel, Canada/France/U.S. 2015, 82 min., DCP).
The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they're one and the same, and the vast amount of territory he's covered, from The Americans in 1958 up to the present, is intimately registered in his now formidable body of artistic gestures. From the early 1990s on, Frank has been making his films and videos with the brilliant editor Laura Israel, who has helped him to keep things homemade and preserve the illuminating spark of first contact between camera and people/places. Don't Blink is Israel's like-minded portrait of her friend and collaborator, a lively rummage sale of images and sounds and recollected passages and unfathomable losses and friendships. It leaves us a fast and fleeting imprint of the life of the Swiss-born man who reinvented himself the American way and is still standing on ground of his own making at the age of 91.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Nov-7]

Eastman Trombone Choir
2016-11-16 20:00 - 22:00 | Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States

Don't Blame Anyone opera performance
2016-11-16 20:00 - 22:00 | Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Through a series of choreographed, interconnected scenes, an author/poet/composer faces the specter of the blank page. Each symbolic vignette explores the birth, growth, and death of an "idea", often ending catastrophically: the author falls into the abyss of the blank page; attempts to put on an impossibly large sweater while perilously climbing a ladder; is devoured by the monster of creative reason; is born out of the monster as a child castrated by self-doubt and censorship. The author is reduced to dust and dies but, all along, the "idea" he has been seeking reveals itself through the imaginative circle that unfurls onstage. We witness the creative product through a process where inspiration is shown as a fundamental human action.
[source: Eastman School of Music calendar, 2016-Nov-7]

Don't Breathe screening (2016-Nov-16 @ 8:50 p.m.)
2016-11-16 20:50 - 22:18 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

John Akers and Erik Welsh musical performance
2016-11-16 22:00 - 2016-11-17 00:00 | Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
John Akers and Erik Welsh of the great Rochester rock band Hard Rain perform as an acoustic duo.
[source: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que website, 2016-Nov-7]

Artist's Talk: Jason Lazarus, Gestures Toward the Photographic
2016-11-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Working with photography as an expanded field, Jason Lazarus will trace multiple projects that rely on found images and text, including his installation T.H.T.K. (Rochester), on view in A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age. Since 2010, Lazarus has been collecting photographs from the public that are deemed too hard to keep and too painful to destroy. Other objects that appear in the T.H.T.K. archive include undeveloped rolls of film, photo albums, slides, photos printed on objects, and more. Visitors are encouraged to donate any photographic ephemera they wish to the collection, which may appear in future installations.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Nov-14]

Dr. Michael Scharf, Antidepressant Medications and Suicidality in Youth: What's New, What's True, and What's a Parent to Do?
2016-11-17 18:00 - 19:30 | Rochester Psychiatric Center, 1111 Elmwood Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
Dr. Michael Scharf will discuss Antidepressant Medications and Suicidality in Youth: What's New, What's True, and What's a Parent to Do? in the Rehab Center Auditorium of the Rochester Psychiatric Center.
Depression, Anxiety disorders and other behavioral health problems increasingly impact children and adolescents. Antidepressant medications are often used or considered to help youth with their suffering, but questions and controversies remain about efficacy and risks, including the possibility that antidepressant medications may induce suicidal thoughts or behaviors. We invite you to join us as Dr. Scharf discusses the most current data and thinking about the benefits and risks of using antidepressants in youth.
[source: Mental Health Association e-mail, 2016-Nov-3]

Free Angela and All Political Prisoners screening
2016-11-17 19:00 - 20:42 | Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St., Rochester, New York, 14608, United States
The Flying Squirrel will screen Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (Shola Lynch, U.S. / France 2012, 102 min.) as part of the Green Party Monthly Educational Series. [source: Flying Squirrel website, 2016-Nov-14]

Deepwater Horizon screening (2016-Nov-17 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-11-17 19:00 - 20:47 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Robert Bringhurst lecture for the RIT Goudy Award in Typographic Excellence
2016-11-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), 1 Lomb Memorial Dr., Rochester, New York, 14623, United States
In the University Gallery at the University Services Center of RIT is the Robert Bringhurst lecture for the RIT Goudy Award in Typographic Excellence.
Robert Bringhurst, a leading poet, typographer, and linguist, is the 2016 recipient of the Frederic W. Goudy Award, given to an outstanding practitioner in type design and its related fields. Presentation of the award and the Goudy Distinguished Lecture in Typography, entitled: "Putting Big Truth in Little Boxes: The Perils of Taxonomy."
[source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2016-Nov-14]

Comedy Show (2016-Nov-17 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-11-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Johnny's Irish Pub, 1382 Culver Rd., Rochester, New York, 14609, United States
[source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2016-Nov-16]

Eyes of Laura Mars screening
2016-11-17 20:00 - 21:44 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Eyes of Laura Mars (Irvin Kershner, U.S. 1978, 104 min., 35mm) as part of the (In)visibility series.
Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway), a New York City—based fashion photographer, finds herself capable of seeing through her own eyes murders that target people around her. Shocked by the serial deaths of her colleagues and fearing that she could be the next victim, Mars builds a close relationship with the detective (Tommy Lee Jones) in charge of solving the mystery. A big box office hit upon its release, this thriller is composed of dark murder scenes as well as lively surreal images of the fashion world of 1970s New York City. What makes the film more interesting, though, is the character of Laura Mars, highly empowered by her extraordinary vision, and the film's "cleverness," which according to New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin, is also the most important characteristic of the film itself.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Nov-14]

Groundwater Mafia, Ian Downey Is Famous musical performances CANCELED
2016-11-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Vineyard Community Space, 836 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, United States
The Groundwater Mafia, and Ian Downey is Famous show at The Vineyard Community Space has been canceled. [source: Facebook, 2016-Nov-17]

Eastman Jazz Lab Band musical performance (2016-Nov-17 @ 8 p.m.)
2016-11-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
[source: Eastman School of Music calendar, 2016-Nov-14]

Don't Breathe screening (2016-Nov-17 @ 8:50 p.m.)
2016-11-17 20:50 - 22:18 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

"New Americans: Who Stays?" UN Day Conference
2016-11-18 08:30 - 12:30 | Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Square Dr., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Examining international, national, and local issues on the migration of peoples. To educate local public and bring together agencies providing services for Refugees and Immigrants in the Greater Rochester area. Come to participate and learn about the screening process, how local agencies are helping Refugees and Immigrants with their housing, education, health, and jobs.
[source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2016-Nov-16]
