The Dryden will screen Water Motor (Babette Mangolte, U.S. 1978, 7 min., 16mm), Accumulation with Talking plus Water Motor (Jonathan Demme, U.S. 1986, 11 min., digital), and Shot Backstage (Trisha Brown, 1998, 31 min., digital). On Water Motor: "The image … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, France / U.S. 2016, 93 min.) "Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House."
Brian DiNitto will present Short Films Sandwiched In in the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library Building. One of the audience favorites from a selection of short films at the Rochester International Film Festival.
The Gandhi Institute will host a Community Solar Social with Sun Common. Enjoy food and drink as we continue your solar education, empowering you to control your energy needs with green, local power. Solar is not just for the right … Continue reading
The Brighton Memorial Library will screen Merchants of Doubt (Robert Kenner, U.S. 2014, 96 min.) in the Friends Learning Center followed by a discussion. Inspired by the acclaimed book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, Merchants Of Doubt takes audiences … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Manchester By the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, U.S. 2016, 137 min.) "A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies."
The Dryden will screen The Flat (Arnon Goldfinger, Israel/Germany 2011, 97 min., DCP, Hebrew and German w/subtitles) as part of the Holocaust: Affect and Absence series. At age 98, director Arnon Goldfinger's grandmother passed away, leaving him the task of … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, France / U.S. 2016, 93 min.) "Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House."
Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago, will give a talk on "Life of Learning: How My Mother (who died in 1991) Prepared Me to Confront Hindu Fundamentalists in 2010." The talk is sponsored by the Humanities Center, Susan B. Anthony Institute … Continue reading
The area in the Park Avenue neighborhood of the city of Rochester, outlined in brown in the map above (click image to see larger view), is potentially eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic … Continue reading
Pittsford Zurich Cinemas will screen Fair Haven (Kerstin Karlhuber, U.S. 2016, 90 min.) with director Kerstin Karlhuber, and producer Tom Malloy in attendance for a Q&A afterward. After a long stint in gay conversion therapy, James, a young piano prodigy, … Continue reading