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Mark Cook of the George Jackson Brigade lecture
2016-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St., Rochester, New York, 14608, United States
Mark is a former political prisoner and the GJB was a Seattle-based guerrilla group that committed several bank sabotage bombings, bank robberies and prison breaks across the NW. The GJB was noted for being an especially diverse group which included a number of ex-prisoners, and queer members.
[source: Flying Squirrel website, 2016-Feb-15]

Monstrosity Live Improv Comedy (2016-Feb-19 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St., Rochester, New York, 14610, United States
[source: Record Archive website, 2016-Feb-15]

Jerry Seinfield comedy performance
2016-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St., Rochester, New York, 14605, United States
America's premier comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, will be performing his signature stand-up routine at the Auditorium Theatre. Seinfeld has been hailed for his uncanny ability to joke about the little things in life that relate to audiences everywhere.
[source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2016-Feb-15]

Stephen Lewandwoski poetry reading
2016-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Greenwood Books, 123 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Stephen Lewandwoski will present a Poetry Reading from his most recent book, Last Settlers in the Finger Lakes. [source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2016-Feb-17]

The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn theatrical performance (2016-Feb-19 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2016-02-19 19:30 - 21:30 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The MuCCC will host a performance of The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn.
"The designated mourner. I am the designated mourner. I have to tell you that a very special little world has died, and I am the designated mourner", Jack says to start this show. Jack and Judy and Howard tell the stories of the lives of Jack and Judy and Howard, and the unnamed country in which they try to live. The tales cover decades. Jack and Judy and Howard change (and stay the same), and the country changes (and stays the same). It is a country of unstable stability, of precarious lives, and the narratives reflect this. You will be drawn into this world and these lives; take what you will from them.
[source: MuCCC website, 2016-Feb-15]

Eastman Philharmonia musical performance (2016-Feb-19 @ 8 p.m.)
2016-02-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
[source: Eastman School of Music calendar, 2016-Feb-15]

The Forbidden Room screening
2016-02-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin, Canada 2015, 120 min., DCP).
The Forbidden Room is Guy Maddin's ultimate epic phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film begins (after a prologue on how to take a bath) with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjacks in a desperate attempt to breathe the oxygen within. Suddenly, impossibly, a lost woodsman wanders into their company and tells his tale of escaping from a fearsome clan of cave dwellers. From here, Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson take us high into the air, around the world, and into dreamscapes, spinning tales of amnesia, captivity, deception and murder, skeleton women and vampire bananas. Playing like some glorious meeting between Italo Calvino, Sergei Eisenstein and a perverted six year-old child, The Forbidden Room is Maddin's grand ode to lost cinema. Created with the help of master poet John Ashbery, the film features Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin, Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Maria de Medeiros, Jacques Nolot, Adele Haenel, Amira Casar and Elina Lowensohn as a cavalcade of misfits, thieves and lovers, all joined in the joyful delirium of the kaleidoscopic viewing experience.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-15]

Kevin McCaffrey comedy performance (2016-Feb-19 @ 8 p.m.)
2016-02-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Photo City Improv and Comedy Club, 543 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14609, United States
The Comedy Fix Stand-Up Showcase with headliner Kevin McCaffrey! Kevin is a comedian & writer based out of New York City. He made his network TV debut on The Late Show with David Letterman in November of 2013, and he currently appears every week on "truTV Presents: World's Dumbest."
[source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2016-Feb-15]

Joe Goehle and Cerebral People musical performance
2016-02-19 21:00 - 23:00 | Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Ave., Rochester, New York, 14618, United States
Buffalo native Joe Goehle comes to music with an eclectic mindset. His love of improvised sounds and firm roots in the classical tradition blends together to form a unique voice as a composer. His compositions feature a mix of free and traditional improvisations that appeal to multiple musical sensibilities. The bassist brings a strong and complex tone to all of his compositions, allowing new interpretations to breathe life into each performance.
[source: Bop Shop website, 2016-Feb-15]

Uptown Saturday Night screening
2016-02-19 22:00 - 23:44 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen Uptown Saturday Night (Sidney Poitier, U.S. 1974, 104 min.) as part of the Mondo Movie Series.
Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin sneak out of their houses to visit Madame Zenobia's: a high-class but illegal nightclub. During their visit, however, the place is robbed and they are forced to hand over their wallets. Steve's wallet turns out to have contained a winning lottery ticket, and together they must recover their stolen property.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2016-Feb-15]

Nature of Montezuma Lecture Series, Bird Banding with John Van Niel
2016-02-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Montezuma Audubon Center, 2295 State Rte. 89, Savannah, New York, 13146, United States
John Van Niel will present Bird Banding as part of the Nature of Montezuma Lecture Series.
Dr. John Van Niel is a Professor of Environmental Conservation at FLCC. Dr, Van Niel has been a bird bander since 1999, working primarily with song birds. Participants will learn how to safely capture and handle wild birds.
[source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2016-Feb-17]

Winter Cemetery Tour (2016-Feb-20 @ 11 a.m.)
2016-02-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Mt. Hope Cemetery Office, 1133 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Winter and Springtime Tours leave from the south cemetery entrance, opposite The Distillery restaurant, and last from 60 to 90 minutes, depending on weather conditions. The tour route is entirely on flat, paved roads. In addition to general information about Mount Hope Cemetery, tours feature significant figures such as architect A.J. Warner and Revolutionary War veteran Alexander Millener. Other highlights include the cemetery's largest mausoleum, and the 50-foot-high monument honoring Hartwell Carver, father of the transcontinental railroad.
[source: Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery website , 2016-Jan-6]

Focus 45 lecture, Todd Gustavson: Curious Cameras from the Collection
2016-02-20 12:00 - 13:00 | George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
In the Curtis Theatre at the George Eastman Museum, Todd Gustavson will discuss his recent book, Curious Cameras: 183 Cool Cameras from the Strange to the Spectacular. [source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-15]

Rochester's Rich History Series, Frederick Douglass and Ireland lecture
2016-02-20 13:00 - 14:30 | Rundel Library Building, 115 South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
In the Rundel Auditorium of the Rundel Library Building is a Rochester's Rich History Series lecture titled Frederick Douglass and Ireland by Tim Madigan.
In 1845 Frederick Douglass was invited by leaders of the worldwide abolitionist movement to come to Ireland, where he spent months visiting such cities as Dublin, Cork, Waterford, and Belfast and befriending orator and political leader Daniel O'connell. During his time in Ireland, Douglass came to feel for the first time that he was truly accepted as a human being. Douglass remains a powerful figure for reconciliation in modern-day Ireland and Northern Ireland, with plaques commemorating him in Cork and Waterford, murals honoring him in Belfast, and a statue of him in Dublin.
[source: Monroe County Library website, 2016-Feb-15]

Bamboozled screening
2016-02-20 15:00 - 17:15 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen Bamboozled (Spike Lee, U.S. 2000, 135 min.) as part of the Black History Month Film Series 2016, followed by a discussion led by Nate Brown.
A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2016-Feb-17]

The Danish Girl screening (2016-Feb-20 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-02-20 19:00 - 20:59 | Hoyt Auditorium, University of Rochester Campus, Rochester, New York, United States
The UofR Cinema Group will screen The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, U.K. / U.S. / Belgium / Denmark / Germany 2015, 119 min.) in Hoyt Auditorium on the UofR Campus.
The Danish Girl The Danish Girl A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
[source: University of Rochester Cinema Group website, 2016-Feb-15]

Chi-Raq screening (2016-Feb-20 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-02-20 19:00 - 21:07 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen Chi-Raq (Spike Lee, U.S. 2015, 127 min.) as part of the Black History Month Film Series 2016.
Beautiful Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris) is in love with aspiring Rapper Demtrius "Chi-Raq" Dupree (Nick Cannon), but she is disturbed by the bloody war between his Spartan gang and the rival Trojans, led by Cyclops (Wesley Snipes). After Trojans set fire to her apartment while she's in bed with Chi-Raq, Lysistrata moves in with her neighbor Miss Helen (Angela Bassett), a book-loving Peace activist who lost her daughter years before to a stray bullet. Shaken by an unexpected death and desperate to do something to stop the escalating bloodshed, Lysistrata persuades Spartan and Trojan women to swear off sex with their men until the fighting stops. To draw more attention to their cause, she leads the women in a bold occupation of a local armory, inspiring women across the city—and eventually the world—to join the boycott. As the ultimate battle of the sexes rages on, the city's fate hangs in the balance in this searing satire of gun violence in America.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2016-Feb-17]

The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn theatrical performance (2016-Feb-20 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2016-02-20 19:30 - 21:30 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Films from the Early Avant-Garde
2016-02-20 20:00 - 21:48 | Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
VSW will screen Films from the Early Avant-Garde (projected from 16mm film) including Rhythmus 21 (Hans Richter, Germany 1923, 3 min.), Symphonie Diagonale (Viking Eggeling, Germany 1924, 5 min.), Entr'acte (René Clair, France 1924, 22 min.), Anemic Cinema (Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, France 1926, 7 min.), Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel, France 1929, 16 min.), and Le sang d'un poÃ¨te (The Blood of a Poet, Jean Cocteau, France 1932, 55 min.)
The VSW Film Series will present a screening of seminal avant garde films from the 1920's and 1930's. This program includes historically significant films by European artists working between world wars, who were struggling against the restrictions of classical art to re-define the role of the artist in modern society. Dada and Surrealist artists in particular began using the "new" form of cinema to experiment visually and sonically, and in doing so pushed filmmaking far beyond traditional narrative boundaries, cutting a new edge in artistic discourse. The titles in this program present a selection of influential films made by artists working at the front lines of cinema.
[source: Facebook, 2016-Feb-15]

Eastman School Symphony Orchestra musical performance (2016-Feb-20 @ 8 p.m.)
2016-02-20 20:00 - 22:00 | Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States

Kevin McCaffrey comedy performance (2016-Feb-20 @ 8 p.m.)
2016-02-20 20:00 - 22:00 | Photo City Improv and Comedy Club, 543 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14609, United States

A Star Is Born, Hold Me While I'm Naked screenings
2016-02-20 20:00 - 22:49 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Hold Me While I'm Naked (George Kuchar, U.S. 1966, 15 min, 16mm) followed by A Star is Born (George Cukor, U.S. 1954, 154 min., 35mm). On the former:
"This film could cheer an arthritic gorilla, and audiences, apparently sensitized by its blithely accurate representation of feelings few among them can have escaped, rise from their general stupor to cheer it back." — James Stoller (The Village Voice)
On the latter:
Judy Garland offers her finest performance as a resplendent ingenue and aspiring actress who marries a hard-drinking leading man (James Mason). As her career takes off, his plummets to the ground. Filled with songs of joy and yearning penned by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin, the movie is the most brilliant of all of George Cukor's films about theater and show business. Amid the glamour, Cukor's piercing comments on Hollywood hit their targets with the bang of Judy's high notes.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-15]

The Danish Girl screening (2016-Feb-20 @ 9:30 p.m.)
2016-02-20 21:30 - 23:29 | Hoyt Auditorium, University of Rochester Campus, Rochester, New York, United States

The Tragedy Brothers musical performance
2016-02-20 21:30 - 23:30 | Skylark Lounge, 40 South Union St., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Skylark Lounge calendar, 2016-Feb-15]

The Danish Girl screening (2016-Feb-21 @ 12 a.m.)
2016-02-21 00:00 - 01:59 | Hoyt Auditorium, University of Rochester Campus, Rochester, New York, United States

The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn theatrical performance (2016-Feb-21 @ 2 p.m.)
2016-02-21 14:00 - 16:00 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Daguerreotypes screening
2016-02-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Daguerreotypes (AgnÃ¨s Varda, France 1976, 80 min., DCP, French w/subtitles).
Daguerreotypes is a stunningly intimate portrait of the shopkeepers and small shops of the rue Daguerre, a picturesque Parisian street, where Varda has lived and worked for more than fifty years. The title, Daguerreotypes, references both the name of her street and early photographic portraits, which she evokes in poetically documenting her neighbors. Through this intimate and local lens, Varda reveals a larger world in the process of transformation, creating a portrait of a city and ways of life that no longer exist.
[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-15]

Eleanor Friedberger, Icewater musical performances
2016-02-21 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Bug Jar calendar, 2016-Feb-15]

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution screening (2016-Feb-22 @ 7 p.m.)
2016-02-22 19:00 - 20:53 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
The Little will screen The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Stanley Nelson, U.S. 2015, 113 min.) as part of the Black History Month Film Series 2016, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Nate Brown, Jr.
Change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored— cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change. The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution is the first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure trove of rare archival footage with the voices of the people who were there: police, FBI informants, journalists, white supporters and detractors, and Black Panthers who remained loyal to the party and those who left it. Featuring Kathleen Cleaver, Jamal Joseph, and many others, The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution is an essential history and a vibrant chronicle of this pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2016-Feb-17]

The Waiting Room theatrical performance
2016-02-22 19:30 - 21:30 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The MuCCC will host a performance of The Waiting Room by Grace Flores.
"The Waiting Room", tells the story of people from varying walks of life, in one place. With continuous reminders of good and evil, it's apparent, most don't change. The theme is,"What if God were one of us", subtitle " Where the first will be last and the last shall be …" . We will follow with questions and answers… and music by North East Flow, featuring singer Jamall Youngblood.
[source: MuCCC website, 2016-Feb-15]
