Weekly Rochester Events #695 Starting Thursday, May 3, 2012
Today in the Gallery at the Art and Music Libaray in The Rush Rhees Library at The University of Rochester (Library Rd. at Intercampus Dr.) is an Art Reception for Divergent Ancestry: A case study of Homo Apollexus from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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City Newspaper]
Dar Williams , and The Milk Carton Kids will be at German House (315 Gregory St.) starting at 8 p.m.
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Up All Night website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Dirty Harry starting at 8 p.m. The "ultimate 'lone wolf' cop movie."
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Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
Over at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara) starting around 9 p.m. is Treasa Levasseur, and Izzy And The Catastrophics. [source: Abilene e-mail] 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] |
No Pants Day
Tonight is another First Fridays around art galleries downtown starting around 5 p.m. [source: First Friday website]
This evening starting around 6 p.m. at Joe Bean Roasters (1344 University Ave., #110) is Joe Bean's One-Year Anniversary featuring Coffee Romance by Mark Groaning.
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Joe Bean e-mail]
[all ages]
Tonight at Abilene Bar and Lounge (153 Liberty Pole Wy., formerly Tara), This Other Life will perform Happy Hour starting around 6 p.m. followed at 9:30 p.m. by The Pat Maloney Syndrome.
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Abilene e-mail]
This evening at 6 p.m., The Baobab Cultural Center (728 University Ave., formerly on Gregory St.) will be presenting First Friday art titled Magnificent Africa. [source: Baobab website] Norm Davis will be at Writers and Books (740 University Ave.) tonight at 7 p.m. for First Fridays Wide Open Mic. [source: Writers and Books calendar] [all ages] 
Ok, just go to this. You're reading this on a computer; you'll enjoy it. Tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at The Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (142 Atlantic Ave.) is an encore performance of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs by Mike Daisey. I reviewed it last month if you want any more evidence. Seriously. Go see it.
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MuCCC website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song starting at 8 p.m. I kind of welcome the discomfort of experiencing a blaxploitation film, and according to the Eastman House website, "forty years after its initial release, this independently produced feature has lost none of its controversial edge. Though routinely considered mere exploitation fare, Van Peebles cri de coeur is instead a raw and innovative expose of a racially divided nation."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Eastman-Rochester Chorus, and The Eastman School Symphony Orchestra will be at Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) starting at 8 p.m. [source: Eastman School of Music calendar] [all ages] The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Future Islands, Ed Schrader's Music Beat, and good country-based rock from Josh Netsky starting around 9 p.m.
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Bug Jar calendar]
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Cinco de Mayo
Head over to Genesee Valley Park at The Genesee Waterways Center (149 Elmwood Ave., in Genesee Valley Park) for the Clean Sweep for The Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood starting at 8:30 a.m. [source: Upper Mount Hope Neighborhood Association website] [all ages]
Today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Printing and Book Arts Center at The Genesee Center for the Arts (713 Monroe Ave.), Make Your Own Mother's Day Card.
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Genesee Center for the Arts calendar]
Today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at RIT (One Lomb Memorial Dr., campus map) is Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. [source: RocWiki] Today at 2 p.m. on Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) is Whats Next: Young Writers Showcase featuring six plays. [source: Geva Theatre website]
This evening at The Oxford Gallery (267 Oxford St.) is the opening reception for Palimpsest from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. and running through June 2.
[source:
Oxford Gallery website]
This evening at 6 p..m. is Unity Night at The Rochester Baha'i Center (693 East Ave.) — a potluck dinner and discussion of restorative justice.
[source:
Restorative Rochester Yahoo! Group]
This evening from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at The Yards at the Public Market (280 N. Union St., #50-52, above Java Joe's) is the Opening Reception for the RIT: School of American Craft BFA Glass Exhibition.
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The Yards website]
Tonight at The Rochester Visual Studies Workshop (31 Prince St.), The Tommy Brunett Band will provide music for Revelry With A Cause: A Night Out to Benefit Cobblestone School from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
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Freetime]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing A Torinói ló (The Turin Horse) starting at 8 p.m. and again tomorrow at 2 p.m. The Eastman House calendar has this to say: "Turin, 1889: Friedrich Nietzsche embraces a horse to protect it from the vicious whipping of its coach; then, the philosopher's mind collapses. So goes the chronicle, but what happened to the horse? Hungarian master Béla Tarr (author of the seven-hour masterpiece Sátántangó) tells its story within the stark, monumental pace of a moral apocalypse. Warning: this is an endurance test in cinematic style." [source: Dryden Theater calendar] [all ages] |
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This evening at 7 p.m. at Java's (16 Gibbs St.) is a Barista Throwdown presented by Java's and Joe Bean Roasters (1344 University Ave., #110).
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Java's calendar]
[all ages]
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This evening at 6 p.m. on Nextstage at Geva (75 Woodbury Blvd.) is What's Next: Regional Writers featuring The Presstitute by David Andreatta in which a struggling newspaper tries to stay ahead of a breaking story in its midst.
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Geva Theatre website]
The Demos, and Wallpaper will be at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) starting around 8:30 p.m.
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Bug Jar calendar]
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V-E 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.
Today from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.), Bonnie Abrams will review In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson for Books Sandwiched In.
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Rochester Public Library calendar]
[all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Zendegi va digar hich (Life and Nothing More...) starting at 8 p.m. From the Eastman calendar, "returning to the Koker region after an earthquake that claimed 50,000 lives, a filmmaker and his son sift through the aftermath in search of the child stars of Where Is the Friend's House? What they find is infinitely more complex and optimistic — a community in the process of rebuilding itself."
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Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
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The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) (Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe)) starting at 8 p.m. From the Eastman House calendar, "[Jan Svankmajer's] first feature after the death of his wife and collaborator Eva Svankmajerova is a sweet, somewhat autobiographical tale of a man who enters psychoanalysis after falling in love with a woman who appears only in his dreams."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar]
[all ages]
The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) will be hosting Ethan Helm, and The Michael Vadala Trio starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
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