Medha Bhattacharyya discusses her new translation of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's rarely known collection of meditative essays, ÅšÄntiniketan (Abode of Peace), which looks at his ideas of universality; his socio-cultural location; and his reflections on Buddhism, Vaiṣṇavism, BÄul philosophy, and … Continue reading
A panel of UofR Sex Experts answer all of your deepest, darkest questions about sex and relationships ... in the dark! Come early to visit our engaging educational tables: What Size am I?, Lubrication Station, All About Sex Toys, and … Continue reading
The Little will screen Boże CiaÅ‚o (Corpus Christi, Jan Komasa, Poland 2019, 115 min.) as part of the Polish Film Festival. Twenty year-old Daniel with a troubled past is incarcerated in a brutal youth detention center. He has developed a … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Ad Astra (James Gray, U.S. / China 2019, 123 min.) "Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 … Continue reading
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 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 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 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