The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester and Rochester Cocktail Revival invite you to a fanciful launch party, centered around the tempestuous relationship between art and imbibing.
Join Black Button Distilling in conjunction with the Rochester Cocktail Revival at The Playhouse (820 S Clinton Ave) for a galactic cocktail party of epic proportions. Featuring custom Black Button cocktails crafted by the Jedi Master Bartenders at The Playhouse, … Continue reading
The MAG will screen Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace (Jeff Dupre, U.S. / France / China 2014, 38 min.) followed by a lecture by Henry L. Thaggert. We are honored to have Henry L. Thaggert, noted arts patron from … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Frantz (François Ozon, France / Germany 2016, 113 min.) "In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Cinema Futures (Michael Palm, Austria/India/Norway/U.S. 2016, 126 min., DCP), introduced by Alexander Horwath and followed by a panel discussion. The "digital revolution" reached the cinema late and was chiefly styled as a technological advancement. Today, in … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen T2 Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, U.K. 2017, 117 min.) "After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie."
For the first time, the Nitrate Picture Show presents this exceptional event, the exhibition of a 35mm print on a 1905 Lubin projector from the George Eastman Museum's extraordinary collection of motion picture apparatus. Todd Gustavson, curator of the technology … Continue reading
In the Dryden Theatre, Hisashi Okajima will present a lecture titled My Life with Nitrate. One of the most eminent personalities in the field of film preservation and curatorship, Hisashi Okajima (b. 1956, Aichi, Japan) is a prominent advocate of … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Nitrate Shorts with live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli to kick off the Nitrate Picture Show. The films are: Movies are Adventures (Jack Hively, U.S. 1948, 10 min.): "The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and … Continue reading
Studios will be supporting various causes, including support for the Rochester Protectives. Please bring along twin blankets for donation to the Protectives. The Protectives provide volunteer support to the Fire Department such as: covering or removing property, recovering family valuables, … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading