The Dryden will screen Last Whispers (Lena Herzog, U.S. 2016, 46 min., DCP). with an introduction by filmmaker Lena Herzog. Last Whispers is an elegy about the mass extinction of languages. Multimedia artist Lena Herzog has collected samples of extinct … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, U.S. 2019, 95 min.) "With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk … Continue reading
The Flower City Arts Center will host an Opening Reception for MudBooks, on display through December 20. Join us as we celebrate the second MudBooks exhibit. The MudBook Project partners a ceramic artist with a book artist, and the result … Continue reading
The Flower City Arts Center will host an Opening Reception for Photography and Politics, on display through December 14. How can images not only document political events but themselves be political acts? Question politics around them? React, subvert politics? Imagine … Continue reading
The Flower City Arts Center will host an Opening Reception for Good Things...come in small packages, on display through December 21. Good Things...come in small packages is an exhibit and sale dedicated to small, finely crafted ceramic art. All work … Continue reading
Anomaly—The Rochester Genre Film Festival kicks off at The Cinema with a screening of Daniel Isn't Real (Adam Egypt Mortimer, U.S. 2019, 96 min.), preceded by The Video Store Commercial (Cody Kennedy, Tim Rutherford, Canada 2019, 4 min.): "A desperate … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (Louise Osmond, U.K. 2016, 93 min., DCP) as part of the Labor Film Series. With thirty credits to his name—all of them dealing with the oppression of workers … Continue reading
Mike Recine is either the smartest dumb guy or the dumbest smart guy in the room. He's performed stand-up on Conan, written for the MTV Video Music Awards, performed as a New Face in the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, … Continue reading
The Strong National Museum of Play will host a screening of Insert Coin: Inside Midway's '90s Revolution (Josh Tsui, U.S. 2018). The film follows the untold story of a small team of geeks working in the back of a Chicago … Continue reading
Miki Kashtan will teach a workshop titled Reckoning with Collapse at Coordinated Care Services, Inc.. This workshop is an opportunity to learn and engage with others who are also grappling with the overwhelming information and grim prospects that humanity faces, … Continue reading
The Cinema will host a screening of Shocking! Spooky! Saturday Shorts as part of Anomaly—The Rochester Genre Film Festival featuring: Toe (Chad Thurman, Neal O'Bryan, USA 2019, 7 min.): "Horror, A stop-motion gothic folktale. A starving young boy eats a … Continue reading
Martha Collins has just published her tenth book of poetry, Because What Else Could I Do. Her previous volumes include Admit One: An American Scrapbook, White Papers, and the book-length poem Blue Front, as well as the paired volumes Night … Continue reading
Meghan Jordan, curatorial assistant, and Jamie M. Allen, the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Associate Curator, Department of Photography, will discuss their selections for the latest rotation in the History of Photography Gallery. This installation features photographs created by … Continue reading