CANCELED: Johnny Peers and the Muttville Comix (2015-Jun-21 @ 2 p.m.)
2015-06-21 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Johnny Peers, the maestro of Muttville Comix, has suffered a health emergency. Unfortunately, we are forced to cancel the Muttville shows we were so looking forward to. He promises to return and we will notify all of you when he does.
[source: MuCCC website, 2015-Jun-22]

Westward the Women screening
2015-06-21 14:00 - 15:58 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House, 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Westward the Women (William A. Wellman, U.S. 1951, 118 min., 35mm)
"Thinking about how women made their way into the center of westerns in the Fifties (Joan Crawford in Johnny Guitar, Barbara Stanwyck in Forty Guns), it's strange how seldom Wellman's remarkable portrayal of a female group is mentioned in lists of the finest 1950s westerns, the greatest decade for that form. Both The Ox-Bow Incident and Yellow Sky might have bigger reputations and yet, poignantly, Westward the Women is a strong candidate for Wellman's finest western. A female trek, even though it is led by Robert Taylor, more or less reenacts the story of Red River. The narrative is less deep than Hawks's masterpiece, and in some sense it is harsher, more realistic about the difficulties and facts of loss. Another great contemporary film, Ford's Wagon Master, is somehow romantic by comparison. Wellman was a tough guy who could create an amazing combination of tenderness and cruelty." — Peter von Bagh
[source: Dryden website, 2015-Jun-15]

CANCELED: Johnny Peers and the Muttville Comix (2015-Jun-21 @ 4 p.m.)
2015-06-21 16:00 - 17:30 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Muuy Biien, Wilxy and Crump, Dead Ghoti
2015-06-21 22:00 - 2015-06-22 00:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Bug Jar calendar, 2015-Jun-15]

On Beauty, My Country, Love Land screening
2015-06-22 18:00 - 20:16 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen the short documentary On Beauty (Joanna Rudnick, U.S. / Kenya 2013, 32 min.), the short animation My Country (Jelena Sinik (co-director) Ralph Stevenson (co-director), Austria 2014, 3 min.), and the feature-length drama Love Land (Joshua Tate, U.S. 2014, 101 min.) along with a discussion; in conjunction with The Center for Disability Rights of Rochester. [source: Cinema e-mail, 2015-Jun-17]

CANCELED: Johnny Peers and the Muttville Comix (2015-Jun-22 @ 7 p.m.)
2015-06-22 19:00 - 20:30 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

CANCELED: Johnny Peers and the Muttville Comix (2015-Jun-23 @ 7 p.m.)
2015-06-23 19:00 - 20:30 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

The Lair of the White Worm screening
2015-06-23 20:00 - 21:33 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House, 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen The Lair of the White Worm (Ken Russell, U.K. 1988, 93 min., 35mm).
James Card apparently had great affection for this campy horror directed by Ken Russell, the filmmaker known for classics like Tommy (1975) and Altered States (1980). Russell loosely based the film's screenplay on Bram Stoker's novel of the same name, but the film ultimately takes leave of its source material, going off in wild, unexpected directions. After Scottish archaeologist Angus Flint (Peter Capaldi) unearths the remains of what appears to be a giant snake, strange events begin to unfold in the Derbyshire countryside surrounding the excavation site. Flint soon learns of the legend surrounding this "worm," and eventually meets James D'Ampton (Hugh Grant), who claims to be the descendant of the knight credited with slaying the mythical creature. The Lair of the White Worm is jam-packed with Russell's trademark mixture of horror, sexual innuendo, and droll humor.
[source: Dryden website, 2015-Jun-15]

Digital Rochester (Pitch Night #1)
2015-06-23 20:00 - 22:00 | Boulder Coffee, South Wedge, 100 Alexander St., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
This event will be put on by the Entrepreneurial Special Interest Group of Digital Rochester and will be storytelling around the failures of startup companies.
[source: Boulder Coffee calendar, 2015-Jun-15]

Awkward Age, Declan Ryan and Close Calls, Cantelope, Ghost Righter
2015-06-23 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Chocolat screening
2015-06-24 20:00 - 21:45 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House, 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Chocolat (Claire Denis, France/West Germany/Cameroon 1988, 105 min., 35mm, French w/subtitles).
Claire Denis's semi-autobiographical debut film, Chocolat, tells in flashback the story of a family in Cameroon during the waning days of colonialism in West Africa. The characters—france, a young girl; her best friend, the black house servant Protée; her mother, Aimée; and her father, Marc—have a symbiotic existence, despite the strictures and social boundaries that exist between the native Africans and France's family. When a plane crashes nearby and strangers enter their household, the tensions between the family and their neighbors expand into devastating territory, especially for Aimée and Protée, whose forbidden, mutual desires have up until now retained an unspoken balance. With Denis's trademark atmospheric silence and emotionally charged images, Chocolat remains one of her most profoundly absorbing films. "Chocolat is one of those rare films with an entirely mature, adult sensibility; it is made with the complexity and subtlety of a great short story, and it assumes an audience can understand that a strong flow of sex can exist between two people who barely even touch each other. . . . It is about how racism can prevent two people from looking each other straight in the eyes, and how they punish each other for the pain that causes them. This is one of the best films of the year." — Roger Ebert
[source: Dryden website, 2015-Jun-15]

Mrs. Skannotto, 5Head
2015-06-24 21:00 - 23:00 | Flour City Station, 170 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Fun ska from Mrs. Skannotto and 5Head perform at Flour City Station starting around 9 p.m. [source: JamBase calendar, 2015-Jun-15]

Rochester's Most Prestigious Garage Sale (2015-Jun-25 @ 6 p.m.)
2015-06-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
A tradition for more than 20 years, Art and Treasures features the best in gently used antiques, artwork, jewelry, china, pottery, porcelain, silver, crystal, fine linens and small furniture items.
[source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2015-Jun-22]

Shoulders To Stand On screening (2015-Jun-25 @ 6:30 p.m.)
2015-06-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Henrietta Public Library, 455 Calkins Rd., Rochester, New York, 14623, United States
The Henrietta Public Library will screen Shoulders To Stand On: The LGBT History of Rochester (Kevin J. Indovino, U.S. 2014, 90 min.)
The documentary reveals an unknown and thus far undocumented chapter of New York State's diverse local history. STSO captures the stories, struggles, and achievements of our LGBT pioneers who made important sacrifices to make Rochester and upstate New York a better place to live for all our families. The screening will be introduced by Evelyn Bailey, Executive Producer of the documentary to be followed by a Q & A period with light refreshments.
[source: Monroe County Library website, 2015-Jun-22]

Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police screening
2015-06-25 19:00 - 20:19 | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The MAG will screen Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police (Andy Grieve, Lauren Lazin, U.S. 2012, 79 min.) tonight. [source: MAG website, 2015-Jun-22]

Satansbraten (Satan's Brew) screening
2015-06-25 20:00 - 21:52 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House, 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Satansbraten (Satan's Brew, R. W. Fassbinder, West Germany 1976, 112 min., 35mm, German w/subtitles).
The poet Walter Kranz (Kurt Raab) faces a total creative crisis: Once called the "poet of the revolution," he has not produced a word in two years. What remains are debts, a haranguing wife (Helen Vita), and a dim-witted brother (Volker Spengler) who collects dead flies. But after Kranz kills his rich lover, the blood in his poetic vein is revitalized. Yet, the work turns out to be a plagiarism of a poem by Stefan George. This is when Kranz develops the mania to be George himself. The savings of his glowing admirer (Margit Carstensen) permit him to engage young actors who play, for good pay, the admiring circle of disciples. Among Kranz's creative exercises is also the attempt to succeed as a homosexual. But then the money is gone, including the funds Kranz stole from his parents and extracted from a prostitute. The "disciples" disappear. Now Kranz turns totally megalomaniac. Fascist ideas overcome him. There is no way to stop the chaos in the madhouse. And this is only a fragment of madness that ensues when Fassbinder, for the first and last time, decides to make a comedy.
[source: Dryden website, 2015-Jun-22]

The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Spraynard, Soda Bomb, Taking Meds, California Cousins
2015-06-25 20:00 - 22:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Bug Jar calendar, 2015-Jun-22]

Rochester's Most Prestigious Garage Sale (2015-Jun-26 @ 10 a.m.)
2015-06-26 10:00 - 16:00 | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Architecture For Lunch: East End/Grove Place with Cynthia Howk
2015-06-26 12:10 - 12:30 | Christ Church, 141 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Explore the city's glamorous East End cultural district in the heart of downtown Rochester. We'll visit the last remaining Victorian residential district in Center City, as we stroll through historic Grove Place and discover its quaint 19th-century architecture, whimsical public art, pocket gardens, and dramatic 20th century buildings. One of the city's most dynamic neighborhoods, the East End has history, art, restaurants, and activities for all ages, interests and appetites!
[source: Landmark Society website, 2015-Jun-22]

Happy Hour, Slappy Hour: A Barside Comedy Show
2015-06-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Black and Cuba screening
2015-06-26 19:00 - 20:23 | Baobab Cultural Center, 728 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Baobab will screen Black and Cuba (Robin J. Hayes, U.S. / Cuba 2013, 83 min.) as part of the Caribbean Film Festival June 26, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.
This edgy and artful documentary follows a group of predominantly black, street-smart students at Yale, who feel like outcasts at the elite Ivy League university, as they band together and adventure to Cuba to see if revolution is truly possible. While filming their poignant encounters with AfroCuban youth, breathtaking sites and moving hip-hop performances, the travelers confront realities behind myths of color-blindness and social mobility. This chronicle of their journey uncovers renewed hope for equality and human rights. The film is the feature directorial debut of Dr. Robin J. Hayes, international human rights advocate and scholar.
[source: Baobab website, 2015-Jun-22]

Honeymoon screening
2015-06-26 20:00 - 21:30 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House, 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Honeymoon (Dan Sallitt, U.S. 1998, 90 min., 16mm).
Honeymoon follows newlyweds Mimi (Edith Meeks) and Michael (Dylan Mccormick) in the turbulent days following their wedding. "This is the most conventionally made film of my career: it had an editor, a sound editor, and a colorist; it ran the gamut of labs and technicians. I don't think this industrial approach to filmmaking compromises the results much: there are certainly advantages to working with collaborators as well as risks, but I simply found it easier to take on these roles myself on later projects. A bigger difference between Honeymoon and my later work might be that the story is based on a concrete turn of events, whereas my later films are devoted more to states of mind than to occurrences. For this reason, I worry that I haven't protected Honeymoon's protagonists well enough against the judgments of viewers, and I sometimes ask audiences to make an effort to maintain sympathy with them. This hasn't been an issue with any other of my films, which seem to have my own perspectives built into them to a greater extent. I remember being horrified when the idea of this film occurred to me, and it took me a day to resign myself to the rightness of the project; so I always sympathize when viewers recoil from the events on screen" — Dan Sallitt
[source: Dryden website, 2015-Jun-22]

Solomon Blaylock—Apology.
2015-06-26 20:00 - 22:00 | MuCCC (Multi-use Community Cultural Center), 142 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
S
olomon Blaylock follows up "Goddamn!" (an anti-sermon on growing up as a religious fundamentalist in the deep South) and "Bad Buddhist" (a rambling exploration of Buddhist philosophy through the lens of Sanskritic calligraphy) with "Apology," a fast-paced, multimedia departure from form incorporating video, live music, and audience interaction to trace a winding path through Catholic history and praxis, modern Muslim social politics, and occult ritual toward practical redemption for the modern intellectual degenerate.
[source: MuCCC website, 2015-Jun-22]

Henry IV: Part 1 performance (2015-Jun-26 @ 8 p.m.)
2015-06-26 20:00 - 22:00 | Highland Bowl, Robinson Dr. and South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Shakespeare Players program of the Rochester Community Players present Henry IV parts 1 and 2 by William Shakespeare […] This production continues the "Henriad" a cycle of History Plays chronicling the Reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V. Henry IV parts 1 and 2 follow the civil war resulting from the ousting of Richard II by Henry Bullingbroke (now King Henry IV) and the questionable company kept by Prince Hal (the future Henry V) in the personage of Sir John Falstaff.
[source: Facebook, 2015-Jun-22]

Meatballs screening
2015-06-26 22:00 - 23:34 | Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. #100, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
If you're young enough to have seen Wet Hot American Summer but didn't realize it was a parody, then go to the Little to see Meatballs (Ivan Reitman, Canada 1979, 94 min.)
Mr. Depressingly Unpopular Rudy goes to summer camp full of rowdy teenagers. The head counselor is Tripper Harrison, the prank pulling, girl seducing, fun lover, teasing both his boss and the counselors at the nearby rich kids camp. He and everyone else are sick and tired of always losing the Camp Olympics every year, Tripper must encourage all campers to try their hardest, and even convince young Rudy that this may be his chance to feel better about himself.
[source: Little Theatre website, 2015-Jun-22]

Charlie's Old Goat Run
2015-06-27 09:00 - 11:00 | Ganondagan State Historic Site, 1488 Victor-Holcomb Rd., Victor, New York, 14564, United States
This is a gorgeous run in which participants negotiate hills, streams, rocky outcroppings, slippery mud boardwalks, forests, and lush meadows as each tries to make his or her way to the end. Trail shoes are highly recommended. Charlie's Old Goat Run has always had that throwback feel, from the fact that there is no exact distance, (advertised as + or – 7 miles), to the post race celebration with homemade cookies, brownies, Pizza, and more! The purpose has always been showing people the camaraderie and beauty of off road running while giving back to the community, with a portion of the fees going to Ganondagan to help maintain our picturesque trails that are free to the public all year long.
[source: Facebook, 2015-Jun-22]

Rochester's Most Prestigious Garage Sale (2015-Jun-27 @ 12 p.m.)
2015-06-27 12:00 - 15:00 | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

2nd Annual Lux Garage Sale
2015-06-27 13:00 - 18:00 | Lux Lounge, 666 South Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
"There are 9 picnic tables out back that can be reserved for selling your treasures/crap." [source: City Newspaper events calendar, 2015-Jun-22]

Hieronymous Bogs
2015-06-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Bernunzio Uptown Music, 122 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Stop by Bernunzio Uptown Music to see the great modern-Americana one-man-band Hieronymus A. Bogs.
Hieronymus Bogs is a one man troupe whose performances embrace the ties between music, poetry and art. The bearded Bogs, garbed in self-fashioned regalia, is known for imparting live shows with poetic recitals, looped sounds and short vignettes that veer off the stage. We are proud to welcome our friend back to Bernunzio Uptown Music.
[source: Bernunzio Uptown Music website, 2015-Jun-22]

Ma nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud's) screening
2015-06-27 20:00 - 21:50 | Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House, 900 East Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
The Dryden will screen Ma nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud's, Eric Rohmer, France 1969, 110 min., 35mm, French w/subtitles).
"As Eric Rohmer developed his mature style in the late '60s, he ran into the technical limitations of post-synchronized sound: in 1967's La Collectionneuse, he fought for aural realism with a Stroheim-like fanaticism, insisting that all dubbed sounds be geographically accurate. It's not surprising, then, that My Night at Maud's, Rohmer's first film using synchronized sound, saw him breakthrough to a new and supple style of filming and editing that is still a model for my filmmaking. Like the three Moral Tales that Rohmer had already filmed, Maud takes as its subject the disjunctures between the worldview of its protagonist (the wonderful Jean-Louis Trintignant) and the entropy of an all-too-real world that refuses to stay within the boundaries that ideology sets for it. But here for the first time Rohmer was able to demonstrate this disjunction with unmediated visual and aural textures. The editing syntax that Rohmer developed uses flexible rhythms that sometimes follow the compelling dialogue and sometimes remain fixed on one half of the room regardless of where the dialogue flows. Without visual splash, Rohmer allocates to himself the flexibility to shift emphasis back and forth effortlessly between the scene's dramatic values and a documentation of space, ambience, and time passing." — Dan Sallitt
[source: Dryden website, 2015-Jun-22]
