Whether you are an avid backpacker looking to lighten your load so you can move faster or go farther, or you are an aspiring backpacker and feeling overwhelmed by the thought of trudging through the woods with a crushing pack, … Continue reading
The Little will screen Bikes vs. Cars (Fredrik Gertten, Sweden 2015, 90 min.) A feature documentary about the global revolution for safer streets and better cycling, Bikes vs. Cars premiers in Rochester and kicks-off the Rochester Bicycle Film Festival and … Continue reading
Martha Hennessy, Dorothy Day's granddaughter, will present a lecture titled Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin: A Discipleship Needed for Today.
The Cinema will screen Remember (Atom Egoyan, Canada / Germany 2015, 94 min.) "With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death … Continue reading
Adam Hurt and Beth Williams Hartness perform duets of traditional music from the Appalachian south and elsewhere with clawhammer banjo, fiddle, fingerstyle guitar, and vocals. Their engaging program will appeal to players and fans of old-time music as well as … Continue reading
Alan's presentation "The Mountains are Beautiful — Everywhere" is a photographic tour of mountain scenery and animals from the high terrain all over the world. Alan begins in the Adirondacks and Catskills, moves through Vermont, New Hampshire, Baxter Park before … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Madonna: Truth or Dare (Alek Keshishian, U.S. 1991, 120 min., 35mm). Gorgeously photographed in both color and black and white, Alek Keshishian's monumental behind-the-scenes revelation follows the pop icon on her controversial and wildly successful 1990 … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Criminal (Ariel Vromen, U.K. / U.S. 2016, 113 min.) "In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative's memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into a death-row inmate in hopes that he … Continue reading
The Bug Jar will host good and unique acoustic soloist Small Houses, Glenwood, Caleb and Carolyn, and Pat Yeomans.
Meet at the north end of the Webster Wegman's parking lot on Holt Rd. by 9 am to carpool to Chimney Bluffs for this day trip with the Burroughs Audubon Nature Club.
In the Brighton Town Hall Auditorium at Brighton Memorial Library, John Frater will review David McCullough's The Wright brothers which "presents the human side of the Wrights and flight."
For one night only during the Rochester Cocktail Revival, Cheshire will be transforming into a Tiki beach bar! Collaborating with Serralles USA, we'll be serving up some island-style drinks based on Don Cristal Rums, Death's Door Gin, and Barrow's Intense … Continue reading
The First Universalist Church will screen the first part of Race: the Power of an Illusion (Christine Herbes-Sommers, U.S. 2003, 57 min.), "California Newsreel's 3-part documentary about race in society, science and history" followed by a facilitated discussion.
Penny Wolin will discuss her book Descendants of light : American photographers of Jewish ancestry, 1853-2015 in the Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman Museum. Photographer and author Penny Wolin spent eight years traveling throughout the United States photographing and … Continue reading