Weekly Rochester Events #669 Starting Thursday, November 3, 2011
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Today at Brighton Memorial Library (2300 Elmwood Ave.) is Books Sandwiched In from 12:10 p.m. to 1 p.m. with Major General John Batiste discussing Laura Hillenbrand's book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Photographer Benjamin Lowy will be at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) tonight at 6 p.m. to discuss his work covering the War in Iraq in 2003 as part of the Wish You Were Here travel photography lecture series. [source: Eastman House calendar] [all ages] This evening at 6:30 p.m. at The Pittsford Community Library (24 State St., Pittsford) is a Healthy Lifestyle Science Program with engineer Dr. Mike Rudnick, and physician Dr. Naomi Pless answering What Does Science Say Constitutes a Healthy Lifestyle?. [source: RocWiki calendar] Today at 7:30 p.m. at The Little (240 East Ave.) is a screening of Positive Negatives with documentary subject David Johnson on hand to discuss his work and answer questions. [source: Genesee Center for the Arts calendar] Fred Ritchin will present a lecture titled After Photography at tonight's The Caroline Werner Gannett Project lecture series starting at 8 p.m. in Webb Auditorium at RIT (One Lomb Memorial Dr., campus map). [source: Caroline Werner Gannett Project website] 
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing National Velvet starting at 8 p.m. A young Elizabeth Taylor "stars as a Velvet Brown, a Sussex schoolgirl who, with the help of a young drifter (Mickey Rooney), is determined to enter her rambunctious horse The Pie in the Grand National Steeplechase. Proof that family entertainment need not be cutesy or bland, the film features some truly exciting race sequences and remained one of Taylor's personal favorites."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar  (219 Monroe Ave.) is good ambient hard rock from The Vacant Lots, and The Abandoned Buildings Club starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
This evening at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is the Pure Kona Poety Reading and Open Mic starting at 8 p.m. [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website] Tonight at The Image City Photography Gallery (722 University Ave.) is the Opening Reception for Perspectives: Near and Far with works by Gary Thompson, and Phyllis Thompson from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The exhibit will be on display through November 27. [source: Image City Photography Gallery e-mail] |
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This evening at 7 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is a Vegan Pizza Fundraiser for The Habitat for Cats with a screening of the film Forks over Knives.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
Tonight is another First Fridays around art galleries downtown starting around 5 p.m. [source: First Friday website]
Happy Hour at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starts around 6 p.m. with This Other Life followed at 9:30 p.m. by The Colorblind James Experience.
[source:
Abilene website]
This evening at 7 p.m. at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) is First Fridays/Wide Open Mic hosted by Norm Davis. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages] This evening at 7 p.m. at The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.), Arzouma Aimé Kompaoré will discuss The Art of Film Making in Africa. [source: Baobab website]
Tonight from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) is the Fine Craft Show Preview Party which runs tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
[source:
Memorial Art Gallery calendar]
[all ages]
Photographer David Johnson will be at The Community Darkroom at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.) for the Opening Reception of The Photography of David Johnson tonight from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
[source:
Genesee Center for the Arts calendar]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Pianomania starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 5 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "as Steinway and Sons' chief technician and Master Tuner in Vienna, Stefan Knüpfer is dedicated to the unusual task of pairing world-class instruments with world-famous pianists. Juggling the demands of the pianist, the piano, and the piece to find the perfect match requires boundless enthusiasm, but also endless patience and nerves of steel." The trailer makes it look like a lot of fun.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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Today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) is their Sidewalk Sale.
[source:
Bop Shop calendar]
[all ages]
EmPower New York will be hosting an Energy Efficiency Workshop with Frank Regan at Arnett Branch Library (310 Arnett Blvd.) today from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. [source: Rochester Public Library calendar] [all ages] Tonight at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is Bizzart , and Ju-Jajuba starting around 5 p.m.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
This afternoon starting around 6 p.m. at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is Bug Jam with the Poets II.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing the popular documentary Note By Note: The Making Of Steinway L1037 starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting lyrical, interesting, groove-rock-ish country/folk/rock from Daryl Fleming and the Public Domain, Dolfish, The Oxford Train, and The Branch Davidians starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Over at The Lovin' Cup (300 Park Point Dr., #110) starting around 9 p.m. is the nicely harmonious rock band Walri, great orchestral motley-folk from Cuddle Magic, and good country-based rock from Josh Netsky.
[source:
Lovin' Cup calendar]
The Knyghts of Fuzz , and Cousin Al and the Fuzz will be at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9:30 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
The Inner Planets , and The Dead Catholics will be at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) starting around 10:30 p.m.
[source:
Monty's Krown Facebook page]
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Daylight Saving Time Ends — Set your clock back one hour from 2:00 a.m. daylight saving time to 1:00 a.m. standard time in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
Today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Bop Shop (274 N. Goodman St., in Village Gate Square) is the Fall 2011 Record Show and Sale — the 50th.
[source:
Bop Shop calendar]
[all ages]
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Today at 12:30 p.m. at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) Joe Blackburn will give a presentation on Restoring Mr. Eastman's Aeolian 947 before performing on it at the Musicale at 3 p.m.
[source:
Eastman House calendar]
[all ages]
Occupy Rochester meets today at 1 p.m. at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge). [source: Flying Squirrel Community Space website] Bill Lattin will present today's What's Up lecture at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Ave., near Goodman St.) on printmaking techniques and reproductions of Christ Rejected. [source: University of Rochester Events Calendar] [all ages] The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.)} will be showing Carmen starting early at 2 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, "the film that lifted the spirits of the devastated German film industry after the War, Carmen was Lubitsch's first major success. Lubitsch successfully adapted the tragedy of the courtesan (Pola Negri) and her Don José (Harry Liedtke) to the screen." With live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli. [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] Over at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 9 p.m. is The Teeth, School Shootings, Virgins, Still Rings True, and Rust Empire.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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I hope you got your invitations because TEDx Rochester is today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.)
[source:
TEDx Rochester website]
Kilbourn Hall at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) will be hosting Tuba Mirum starting at 8 p.m.
[source:
Eastman School of Music calendar]
[all ages]
The Loom , Christopher Paul Stelling, Gin and Bonnets, and Holy Smith will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 8:30 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Election Day
This morning starting around 8 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.
At today's Books Sandwiched-In from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.), Dresden Engle will review Tina Fey's Bossypants.
[source:
Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St., formerly the Flower City Elks Lodge) is Set It Off , and City Lights starting around 5 p.m.
[source:
Flying Squirrel Community Space website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Diary of a Lost Girl starting at 8 p.m. "Louise Brooks is the 'lost girl' displaced by a hateful stepmother and a lascivious shop assistant into the hellish world of a girl's reformatory." With live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli.
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is The Breakfast, Pearl White Ghosts, and solidly good power electric alt-acoustic rock from The Dads starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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Tonight at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) at 7 p.m. is a script-in-hand performance of The Real Me.
[source:
MuCCC website]
Over at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m. is The Eastman Wind Ensemble [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang starting at 8 p.m. According to the Eastman House calendar, it "is known today primarily as a muckraking triumph, but it's also a brilliant meditation on morality and social class."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting The Mumfords, Utopia Park, and Sunset Magnetic starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) is Tik Tok starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Abilene website]
The Fossils, T.J. Borden, Martin Freeman, experimental, melodic acoustic guitar from Andy Gilmore , and Jungle Heart perform tonight at an undisclosed location starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Carbon Records calendar]
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