Weekly Rochester Events #518 Starting Thursday, December 11, 2008
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This morning from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is a business seminar titled Small Business Financing in Turbulent Times by The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at SUNY Brockport.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Today from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) is their Holiday Homecoming. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages] 
Thomas Flynn will lecture on Confessions of an Encyclopedist at tonight's meeting of The Bertrand Russell Society at Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) at 7 p.m.
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. is a winter solstice performance titled Mother Night at Bush Mango Drum & Dance (34 Elton St.) [source: Bush Mango e-mail] Ossia New Music will perform tonight at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m. [source: Ossia New Music calendar] [all ages] The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Série Noire (Thriller Story) starting at 8 p.m. in which an older man is convinced by a young woman to kill her aunt and steal her aunt's money. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Tonight at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St.) is really good blues-charged rock-and-roll/groove-rock from Buford and the Smoking Section starting around 10 p.m. [source: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que calendar] Pure Kona Open Mic Poetry will be at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) tonight starting around 7:30 p.m. [source: the proverbial grapevine] |
Starting around 8 p.m., Walri is scheduled to play Happy Hour at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.)
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
The Julia Marie Band will be at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m.
[source:
Mez website]
[all ages]
Over at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) starting around 8 p.m. is Josh Netsky.
[source:
Boulder Coffee MySpace site]
[all ages]
Over at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m. is The Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble.
[source:
Eastman School of Music calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The New Year Parade starting at 8 p.m. Filmmaker Tom Quinn will be on hand to introduce his film about a brother and sister whose parents are divorcing, set against Philadelphia's annual Mummers Parade commemorating the new year.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Updated:
Tonight at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) is great punk-rock band The QUiTTERS , and Inugami starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
band e-mail]
[21+]
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Today at The Community Darkroom at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.), you can sit for and purchase a TinType Portrait from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. [source: Genesee Center for the Arts calendar] Today at 11 a.m. at The Carmen Clark Lodge at Brighton Town Park (777 Westfall Rd.) is a Festival of Light and Enlightenment with One Universe Resource Service (OURS). [source: One Universe Resource Service mailer]
Today from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Hedonist Artisan Chocolates (674 South Ave.) is a Chocolate Tasting.
[source:
Hedonist Chocolates website]
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at The Rochester Academy of Medicine (1441 East Ave.) is a performance of word, song, and dance titled A Banquet of Words and ... to benefit The Empowered Girl Alliance, and The Maafa Celebration Committee. [source: the proverbial grapevine] Tonight at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) is old-time rock-and-roll from Watkins and the Rapiers performing their Christmas songs starting around 8 p.m. [source: Mez website] [all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Brant's Birthday Bash featuring The VEiNS, The Spacelords, and good, amiable hard rock from The Clockmen starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) is Crush the Junta, No, and The Meddlesome Meddlesome Meddlesome Bells starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
A|V Space website]
[21+]
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George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) kicks off today with a Pancake Breakfast at 10 a.m. with Santa Claus. Then, at 3 p.m., The Rochester Flute Association (RFA) will perform a Musicale.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
This afternoon at 2 p.m. at The Storefront Anti-War Crisis Center (658 Monroe Ave.) is a meeting to discuss ending the war in Iraq, as March 19, 2009 reflects its 6th anniversary. [source: the proverbial grapevine] The Landmark Society of Western New York (133 S. Fitzhugh St.) is hosting a Guided Tour of St. Michael's Church (869 N. Clinton Ave.) today at 2 p.m. [source: Landmark Society calendar]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Alice in Wonderland starting at this afternoon at 2 p.m. and again at 7 p.m.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
This afternoon at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) at 3 p.m. is a Community Dialogue Series discussion of Youth Voices titled AIDS Awareness & Action: Suffering in Silence Under the "No Snitching" Policy. [source: Baobab website] Today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. is Holidays At the Market at The Rochester Public Market (280 Union St. N.) [source: City Hall press release] |
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The winners of the 2 Pages/2 Voices contest will be announced tonight at Verb Café at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) at 8 p.m.
[source:
Writers and Books calendar]
[all ages]
Bored? Why not check out 1980's DJ night at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 11 p.m. [source: Bug Jar calendar] |
This morning at 7:30 a.m. in the cafeteria overlooking the arboretum in
Bausch and Lomb
(140 Stone St.)
is the
Artists Breakfast Group
meeting ... anyone interested in art or creativity is invited.
Updated:
Tonight at 5:30 p.m. at The United Auto Workers (UAW) Hall (221 Dewey Ave.), David Cay Johnston will speak tonight, particularly about the current situation of the U.S. automotive industry.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing La bête humaine starting at 8 p.m. about a train engineer who falls in love with the conductor's wife, enticing her to murder her husband. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] |
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This afternoon at 4 p.m. in the Auditorium of The Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science (CIS) at RIT (1 Lomb Memorial Dr., building #76) is a lecture by Mark D. Fairchild titled High, Wide and Deep: Displayed Image Appearance and Perception.
[source:
Artists' Breakfast Group e-mail]
Meet people in Rochester from MEETinROCHESTER for the Official Happy Hour at Lux Lounge (666 South Ave.) tonight at 6 p.m.
[source:
MEETinROCHESTER calendar]
[21+]
Updated: Tonight is the first of Rochester's Snow Cheap Trail Races starting at 6 p.m. at Riley Lodge in Cobb's Hill Park (Norton Dr., softball diamonds near 490). Sign up through Fleet Feet Sports (2210 Monroe Ave.) [source: City Hall press release] The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Tall Target starting at 7 p.m. followed by Terror On a Train at 8:30 p.m. In the former, Detective John Kennedy tries to stop a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, and in the latter, a bomb could destroy a freight train full of mines [which is obviously not as good as a movie with a train full of mimes]. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is good punk-rock-groove band The Edge of Jupiter.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Updated:
Fun, great 1960's-styled rock from The Hi-Risers will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m. before the open-mic. Bring canned goods for the needy and homeless programs at The Catholic Family Center (CFC) (87 N. Clinton Ave.)
[source:
Abilene website]
Poor People United meets tonight and every Wednesday at 7 at St. Joseph's House of Hospitality (402 South Ave.) [source: the proverbial grapevine] Every Wednesday starting at Dogtown Hots (691 Monroe Ave.) at 7 p.m. is the Rochester Cruisers Wednesday Night Cruise (for bicyclists). [source: the proverbial grapevine] There's an Open Mic for Acoustic Music at Boulder Coffee Co. (100 Alexander St.) tonight around 8. [source: the proverbial grapevine] Tonight at 8 p.m. at Abeline Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is an Open Mic with The Grand Canyon Rescue Episode .
[source:
Abeline website]
Open-Mic Comedy at The Mez (389 Gregory St., formerly House of Hamez and Daily Perks) starting around 8 p.m. [source: the proverbial grapevine] [all ages] |
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