Wide Open Mic hosted by Norm Davis (2017-May-5 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-05-05 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Writers & Books, 740 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Writers and Books website, 2017-May-1]

The Blacks: A Clown Show theatrical performance (2017-May-5 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2017-05-05 19:30 - 21:30 | Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St., Rochester, New York, 14605, United States
Blackfriars Theatre will host a performance of The Blacks: A Clown Show by Jean Genet.
A troupe of black actors reenact the rape and murder of a white woman before a kangaroo court and thus begins The Blacks: A Clown Show a play that examines racism and oppression through the ritualistic reenactment of a murder where all the participants are played by black actors — even the white characters. Written by Jean Genet at the request of a black actor, The Blacks "flows as freely as an improvisation, with fantasy, allegory and intimations of reality mingled into a weird, stirring unity…Genet's investigation of the color black begins where most plays of this burning theme leave off." —Howard Taubman, New York Times
[source: Bread and Water Theatre website, 2017-May-1]

BakushÅ« (Early Summer) screening (2017-May-5 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2017-05-05 19:30 - 21:34 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen BakushÅ« (Early Summer, YasujirÅ Ozu, Japan 1951, 124 min.) as part of the Nitrate Picture Show.
"I was interested in getting much deeper than just the story itself; I wanted to depict the cycles of life, the transience of life. . . . Consequently, I didn't force the action, but tried to leave some spaces unfilled . . . leave viewers with a pleasant aftertaste. For this reason, Early Summer was one of the most demanding work[s] I've done in years. There was criticism about the children being unruly. In my view, children and adults have different 'rules.' When they grow up, they too will change. As for acting, it's best to leave things unexpressed, something to ponder or savor. Those who appreciate this have themselves reached a transcendent state. Hara Setsuko is a fine person. If only there were four or five more such persons." — YasujirÅ Ozu
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-May-5]

Eastman-Rochester Chorus and Philharmonia musical performance
2017-05-05 20:00 - 22:00 | Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
[source: Eastman School of Music Calendar, 2017-May-1]

Brian Lindsay Band musical performance
2017-05-05 20:30 - 22:30 | Lovin' Cup, 300 Park Point Dr., Rochester, New York, 14623, United States
"Brian's music is pure Americana; plugged in Americana that is full of spunk and life. He possesses a Springsteen type swagger and exudes the same confidence delivering his well crafted tunes with guitars blazing." — Don Zelazny, Americana Roots
[source: Lovin Cup website, 2017-Apr-24]

Life screening (2017-May-5 @ 8:50 p.m.)
2017-05-05 20:50 - 22:34 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Life (Daniel Espinosa, U.S. 2017, 104 min.) "A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form, that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2017-May-3]

The Grinders, Rootshock, Rotten U.K., Upward Groove, The Isotopes musical performances
2017-05-05 21:00 - 23:00 | Photo City Improv and Comedy Club, 543 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14609, United States
[source: Facebook, 2017-May-1]

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer screening
2017-05-05 22:00 - 23:35 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (Irvin Reis, U.S. 1947, 95 min.) as part of the Nitrate Picture Show.
"We wouldn't be able to tell you whether Sidney Sheldon, the fellow who wrote The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, which came to the Music Hall yesterday, has suffered personal harassment at the hands of modern youth. But whether he has or hasn't, he certainly understands that dreadful fate. And, furthermore, he knows how to make it seem delightfully bewildering on the screen—which may not be wholly consistent but which makes for most agreeable film fare. For, in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, Mr. Sheldon has caught the wry frenzy of a gay, debonnaire, indifferent and slightly naughty man-about-town who suddenly finds himself the victim of a fanciful high-school girl's crush—than which no other attachment of a female is more profound. And he has also invented a hilarious sequence of events by which the baffled hero must submit to the willful child's designs. As a consequence—and while the swoony fever is upon the bashless tot— this poor, victimized bystander is taken for a most amazing ride. . . . And we also must tell you that the texture of Mr. Sheldon's farce is firm and uncloyed with cuteness, which is just the way it should be, and that Irving Reis' direction has kept it in that solid shape. In fact, it is all reminiscent of some of those gay, galvanic larks that Gregory Lacava and Leo McCarey used to make ten or more years ago. And a higher recommendation we can't give to a light summer show." — Bosley Crowther, New York Times, July 25, 1947
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-May-5]

Day Trip to Buffalo
2017-05-06 08:30 - 18:00 | Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum, 282 Rush Scottsville Rd., Rush, New York, 14534, United States
The Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum is sponsoring a special railfan day trip to Buffalo, N.Y., on Saturday, May 6. The trip will depart from our museum parking lot at 9:00 a.m. sharp where we will travel via deluxe motorcoach to Buffalo. Our group will tour two important pieces of Buffalo transportation history.
[source: Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum website, 2017-Apr-24]

Rummage Sale (2017-May-6 @ 9 a.m.)
2017-05-06 09:00 - 15:00 | Ellwanger Barry Cooperative Nursery School (EBNS), 4 E. Henrietta Rd., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
[source: sandwichboard sign, 2017-May-4]

Anchors Aweigh screening
2017-05-06 09:30 - 11:53 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Anchors Aweigh (George Sidney, U.S. 1945, 143 min.) as part of the Nitrate Picture Show.
"Anchors Aweigh mixes music, uniforms and Hollywood cut-ups in such a show as only Hollywood could concoct. Gene Kelly is in there dancing superbly in more than one sequence. Frank Sinatra tags along with his largo vocalizing; Jose Iturbi knocks out some fancy boogie-woogie on the piano and Kathryn Grayson alternates between singing mock operatic arias and being cute. Since Isobel Lenart has written some amusing lines for the continuity and Joe Pasternak has produced the show with Technicolor extravagance, the film is satisfactory summer fare." — Howard Barnes, New York Herald Tribune, July 20, 1945
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-May-5]

Theme Tour: Cranks, Catalysts and Collisions in History with Dennis Carr (2017-May-6 @ 11 a.m.)
2017-05-06 11:00 - 13:00 | Mt. Hope Cemetery North Gatehouse, 791 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
Discover a collection of people you may never have heard of, who greatly influenced major events in American and global history.
[source: Friends of Mt. Hope website, 2017-May-1]

Siréna (The Strike), Å½havÃ½ jÃcen (Hot Throat) screenings
2017-05-06 13:00 - 14:29 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Siréna (The Strike, Karel SteklÃ½, Czechoslovakia 1947, 77 min.) as part of the Nitrate Picture Show. The feature will be preceded by Å½havÃ½ jÃcen (Hot Throat, JiÅ™Ã Lehovec, Czechoslovakia 1939, 12 min.): "An industrial short produced by PraÅ¾ská Å¾elezáÅ™ská spoleÄnost (Prague Ironworks Company) in 1939, the film contains footage from the shorts VÃ½roba oceli (Steel Production, 1939)—today presumed lost—and Poklady zemÄ› (Treasures of the Earth, 1939), both directed by Karel Kohout."
"We greatly admired this picture, which resembles Carol Reed's film about the lives of Welsh miners, The Stars Look Down. This is that film's Czech counterpart, so to speak—a dignified and an even more brilliant counterpart, with its proletarian story about the working-class HudcovÃ½ family. It is an intense, extensively detailed, and often riveting picture about the bitter cycle of existence for the poor, a picture of misery and grief, warmed only by the rays of human love and hardened by the hate that compels one to clench their fists and come to blows—perhaps even wrongly." — Jan Å½alman, Kino, May 9, 1947
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-May-5]

One World Goods Community Shopping
2017-05-06 13:00 - 16:00 | One World Goods, 3349 Monroe Ave., Pittsford, New York, 14618, United States
Join Gandhi Institute staff Dana Lundquist and David Sanchez at One World Goods as they demonstrate how to use our Gandhi and Nonviolence Knowledge Cards as a tool for facilitation, education, and mindfulness.
[source: M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence website, 2017-May-1]

A Brilliant Idea—For a While lecture by Don Hall
2017-05-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Ogden Town Hall, 269 Ogden Center Rd., Spencerport, New York, 14559, United States
In the Ogden Farmers' Library Meeting Room at Ogden Town Hall, Don Hall will present a lecture titled A Brilliant Idea—For a While.
Learn about the brief phenomenon that was the zinc or "white bronze" grave marker, popular in American cemeteries from 1874 to 1914.
[source: Monroe County Library website, 2017-May-1]

May Day Celebration
2017-05-06 14:00 - 18:00 | Peacework Farm, 2231 Welcher Rd., Arcadia, New York, 14513, United States
Please join the festivities at Peacework Farm, Saturday, May 6 from 2 to 6 pm. We are having a May Day Celebration that is open to one and all! Peacework Farm is located at 2231 Welcher Road (across from 2232 Welcher, but that is a private home so use our marked parking areas). At 2 pm, farmer Ammie Chickering, on her valiant nag, will lead us in dancing around the May Pole. No previous dance experience necessary. Next we will take a wild flower walk in the woods of the Kraai Preserve, a nature preserve open to the public. Then, we will have tours of Peacework Farm and the Johnson Brothers Food Forest. At 4:30, we will have a potluck supper. Please bring a dish to pass, a place setting and folding chairs. The farm will provide beverages. All are welcome!
[source: Peacework CSA e-mail, 2017-Apr-5]

My Life without Nitrate lecture, Alexander Horwath; Rouen, Martyre d'une Cité, Die Todesmühlen (Death Mills) screenings
2017-05-06 15:00 - 16:00 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
In the Dryden Theatre, Alexander Horwath will present a lecture titled My Life without NitrateRouen, Martyre d'une Cité (Louis Cuny, France 1945, 15 min.), and Die Todesmühlen (Death Mills, Hans Burger, U.S. 1945, 22 min.): "Both films address the destructive consequences of World War II. Rouen is about the 'martyrdom of a city'; Todesmühlen is the most important postwar re-education film made by the Allied Forces, showing to the German and Austrian population the horrors of concentration camps.".
A leader and a source of inspiration in the museum world, Alexander Horwath has worked internationally as a curator of exhibitions, film retrospectives, and festivals; as a lecturer on film at universities and cultural institutions; as a consultant and jury member at film festivals; and as a member of film subsidy boards. Since 2002, he has served as director of the Ã–sterreichisches Filmmuseum (Austrian Film Museum). He has been a member of the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts, Berlin) since 2012 and a corresponding member of the Vienna Secession since 2008. Previously, he was director of the Viennale (1992—1997) and curator of film at Documenta 12 in Kassel (2007). Eloquently outlining the principles behind his curatorial efforts, Horwath has stated, "The Austrian Film Museum has the policy of exhibiting moving image works in their respective medium—meaning the way in which they originally entered the world: the 'language' in which they expressed themselves at the time of production and publication. . . . This is what museums do—and why they exist in the first place: to give access to cultural artifacts in a manner that keeps them legible and transparent, especially if these artifacts are no longer part of everyday life or mainstream industrial practice. . . . By continuing to give access to film as film, a film museum also partakes in a tradition that has supported human culture for many centuries: the notion that our heritage can actually remain generative, potent, and procreative in relation to future artistic achievements. For this to happen, our cultural techniques have to be preserved as working systems, and our artifacts need to remain in a shape that can be 'read' by these systems. Only then will they continue to make sense."
[source: Nitrate Picture Show program, 2017-May-5]

Phanton of the Opera screening
2017-05-06 16:30 - 18:02 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Phanton of the Opera (Arthur Lubin, U.S. 1943, 92 min.) as part of the Nitrate Picture Show.
"Phantom of the Opera is far more of a musical than a chiller, though this element is not to be altogether discounted, and holds novelty appeal. Story is about the mad musician who haunts the opera house and kills off all those who are in his protege's way towards becoming the headliner. Tuneful operatic numbers and the splendor of the scenic settings in these sequences, combined with excellent group and solo vocalists, count heavily. Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Jane Farrar (niece of operatic star Geraldine Farrar) score individually in singing roles and provide marquee dressing. Third act from [Friedrich von Flotow's opera] Martha and two original opera sketches based on themes from Chopin and Tchaikovsky have been skillfully interwoven. Outstanding performance is turned in by Claude Rains as the musician who, from a fixation seeking to establish the heroine as a leading opera star, grows into a homicidal maniac. Eddy, Foster, and Edgar Barrier, as the Parisian detective, are awkward in movement and speech, though much like opera performers restricted by their medium." — Variety, December 31, 1942
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-May-5]

Druse, Sulaco, Phosphorus Rex, Stress, Hallucination Realized musical performances
2017-05-06 16:30 - 22:30 | Genesee Valley Park, Hawthorne Dr., Rochester, New York, 14623, United States

The Last Word screening (2017-May-6 @ 7 p.m.)
2017-05-06 19:00 - 20:48 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen The Last Word (Mark Pellington, U.S. 2017, 108 min.) "Harriet is a retired businesswoman who tries to control everything around her. When she decides to write her own obituary, a young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth resulting in a life-altering friendship." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2017-May-3]

The Blacks: A Clown Show theatrical performance (2017-May-6 @ 7:30 p.m.)
2017-05-06 19:30 - 21:30 | Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St., Rochester, New York, 14605, United States

Alexander Nevsky (Alexander Nevsky), Le Sang des BÃªtes (Blood of the Beasts) screenings
2017-05-06 19:30 - 21:40 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Alexander Nevsky (Alexander Nevsky, Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilev, Soviet Union 1938, 108 min.) as part of the Nitrate Picture Show. The feature will be followed by the short Le Sang des BÃªtes (Blood of the Beasts, Georges Franju, France 1949, 22 min.): "a haunting documentary classic that details the daily operations of Paris slaughterhouses."
"In Nevsky, the white robes of the Teuton Ritter were associated with the themes of cruelty, oppression and death, while the color of black, attached to the Russian warriors, conveyed the positive themes of heroism and patriotism. This deviation from the generally accepted image for these colors would have been less surprising to the critics and press abroad (whose objections were very interesting in themselves) if they had recalled an astonishing and powerful passage of literature which I have since found for myself—the chapter called 'the Whiteness of the Whale,' in Melville's Moby Dick." — Sergei Eisenstein, The Film Sense, 1942
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-May-5]

Benefit For Oz: Nokturnal Hellstorm, Anthropic, Babayaga, Greatness and World Domination, Wren Williams musical performances
2017-05-06 20:30 - 22:30 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
As the result of two hospitalizations due to diverticulitis and subsequent check ups due to his health issues, Oz is now saddled bills. Please come out and support one of Rochester's well known promoters. Come out and enjoy music, as well as pizza and a 50/50 raffle.
[source: Facebook, 2017-May-1]

Life screening (2017-May-6 @ 8:50 p.m.)
2017-05-06 20:50 - 22:34 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

The Forevers musical performance
2017-05-06 21:00 - 23:00 | Skylark Lounge, 40 South Union St., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Skylark website, 2017-May-1]

Night and the City screening
2017-05-07 10:00 - 11:51 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Night and the City (Jules Dassin, U.K./U.S. 1950, 111 min., format) as part of the Nitrate Picture Show.
"An exciting, suspenseful melodrama, . . . the story of a double-crossing heel who finally gets his just desserts. In this role, Richard Widmark scores a definite hit. And he has excellent support right down the line. Gene Tierney was cast for name value only. Jules Dassin, in his direction, manages extraordinarily interesting backgrounds, realistically filmed to create a feeling both of suspense and mounting menace." — Variety, December 31, 1949
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-May-5]

Fake Visionary Square: Miming at Parcel 5
2017-05-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Parcel 5, 275 E. Main St., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
An all-ages orchestration of miming what we want to see in the heart of our city, from artist Ray Ray Mitrano.
[source: Rochester City Newspaper events calendar, 2017-May-1]

Spellbound screening (2017-May-7 @ 1:30 p.m.)
2017-05-07 13:30 - 15:21 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum (formerly George Eastman House), 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, U.K. 1945, 111 min.)
"This writer has had little traffic with practitioners of psychiatry or with the twilight abstractions of their science, so we are not in a position to say whether Ingrid Bergman, who plays one in her latest film, Spellbound, is typical of such professionals or whether the methods she employs would yield results. But this we can say with due authority: if all psychiatrists are as charming as she—and if their attentions to all their patients are as fruitful as hers are to Gregory Peck, who plays a victim of amnesia in this fine film which came to the Astor yesterday—then psychiatry deserves such popularity as this picture most certainly will enjoy. For Miss Bergman and her brand of treatment, so beautifully demonstrated here, is a guaranteed cure for what ails you, just as much as it is for Mr. Peck. It consists of her winning personality softly but insistently suffused through a story of deep emotional content; of her ardent sincerity her lustrous looks and her easy ability to toss off glibly a line of talk upon which most girls would choke." — Bosley Crowther, New York Times, November 2, 1945
[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-May-5]

North Section Public Tour (2017-May-7 @ 2 p.m.)
2017-05-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Mt. Hope Cemetery North Gatehouse, 791 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
This foundational tour is a two-hour walk of approximately one mile on paved roads and uneven terrain. This overview includes the graves of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, as well as topics of local history, horticulture, geology, architecture, monument symbolism, and more.
[source: Friends of Mt. Hope website, 2017-May-1]

The Blacks: A Clown Show theatrical performance (2017-May-7 @ 2 p.m.)
2017-05-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St., Rochester, New York, 14605, United States
