Choice

Critics Choice Awards postponed due to Omicron concerns

George Shafe 5 months ago

In the hottest Hollywood domino to drop from the Omicron surge — and the hottest bump in this year’s upended and dispirited awards year — the Critics Alternative Assn. announced Wednesday it is postponing the 27th Critics Preference Awards, which had been scheduled to be held in person on Jan. 9.

No new date has been set for the telecast, which is set to air on The CW and TBS.

“After considerate thought and candid conversations with our associates at The CW and TBS, we have collectively come to the summary that the prudent and accountable determination at this level

… Read More

Stars align for Strasenburgh Planetarium, Vanishing Sun collab | Choice Events

George Shafe 6 months ago

click to enlarge

  • PHOTO BY DAVE JONES

  • The creative team behind “Impressions of the Infinte”: Strasenburgh Planetarium Director Steve Fentress and Ian Sherman of the funk fusion band Vanishing Sun.

It’s been more than a year and half ago since musician Ian Sherman and the Rochester Museum & Science Center’s Strasenburgh Planetarium Director Steve Fentress planned to premiere the show “Impressions of the Infinite” — combining live music performed by Sherman’s band Vanishing Sun with Fentress’s real-time manipulation

… Read More

‘Dancing Out the Dust’ performance to hit the Rochester Public Market | Choice Events

George Shafe 9 months ago

click to enlarge
&#13 &#13

    &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13
  • &#13 &#13 Photograph BY CLAIRE SALMON&#13 &#13

    • &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13

  • &#13 Erika Ruegemer, together with creative crew Elyssia Primus and Amanda Turk (pictured) will current “Dancing Out the Dust” at the Rochester General public Industry on Saturday, Aug. 28.&#13

    • &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13

A troupe of 26 dancers will descend on the Rochester Community Market place this weekend, but at initial, viewers may not know they are witnessing a efficiency.

Dressed in black and flesh-toned colours, duos and trios of dancers will be stationed close to

… Read More

Bristol Valley Theater’s one-woman show ‘Mala’ explores death with humor | Choice Events

George Shafe 9 months ago

click on to enlarge
&#13 &#13

    &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13
  • &#13 &#13 Picture BY Loaded MILLER&#13 &#13

    • &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13

  • &#13 Mary Mendez Rizzo stars in the a single-girl drama “Mala” at Bristol Valley Theater.&#13

    • &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13

How do you help a dying cherished one particular, particularly when you are battling to survive?

Bristol Valley Theater explores this problem — sure to resonate all through a pandemic — with “Mala,” a 1-female drama starring Mary Mendez Rizzo (whose latest credits include demonstrates at Blackfriars Theatre and Geva Theatre Middle).

Composed by Melinda Lopez,

… Read More

FILM | ‘The Spirit of Protest in Black Culture’ | Choice Events

George Shafe 1 year ago

click on to enlarge
&#13

  • &#13 &#13 Photograph Delivered&#13 &#13

    • &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13

  • &#13 A Nevertheless from “Black Music in The united states” by Hugh Robertson.&#13

    • &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13

On Martin Luther King Jr. Working day, Visible Research Workshop launched its spring movie series, “The Spirit of Protest in Black Tradition.” Neighborhood media artist and activist Rashaad Parker has curated a selection from the VSW archive that presents a view of the Black knowledge in an The usa outlined by the Black innovative pressure that, as Parker writes in his curatorial assertion, “set the regular

… Read More

Virtual talk presents ‘Stories of the Disabled’ featuring Luticha Doucette | Choice Events

George Shafe 1 year ago

click to enlarge
&#13

  • &#13 &#13 Photo Presented BY LUTICHA ANDRÉ DOUCETTE&#13 &#13

    • &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13

  • &#13 Luticha Doucette.&#13

    • &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13

On Thursday night time, Henrietta Community Library kicks off a collection of virtual talks that emphasize members of the “In This Instant: Revolution Reckoning Reparation” project, a collection of 10 chapbooks that profile community Black leaders, and are assembled by groups of Black writers and photographers. “In This Moment” aims to highlight the scope of innovative do the job happening in Rochester, and each individual of the subjects contribute to the vibrancy of

… Read More

Antiracism scholar Ibram X. Kendi presents UR’s MLK Jr. keynote | Choice Events

George Shafe 1 year ago

  • &#13 &#13 Image Offered&#13 &#13

    • &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13

  • &#13 Creator and antiracism scholar Ibram X. Kendi will give a virtual communicate on Wednesday for the College of Rochester’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address.&#13

    • &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13 &#13

Ibram X. Kendi, bestselling creator of “How to Be an Antiracist,” will give this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address hosted by the University of Rochester. The digital converse will be offered on Wednesday, Feb. 24, from 7 to 8 p.m., adopted by a Q&A. The celebration is cost-free to show up at, but registration is

… Read More

EXHIBITION-LECTURE | ‘Commemorating the Ratification of the 19th Amendment’ | Choice Events

George Shafe 2 years ago

The George Eastman Museum has switched out its rotating display in its History of Photography Gallery to commemorate that this year marks 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment. The new selection of photographs explores how the photographic medium has helped shape perceptions of women, feminists, and social justice movements from Suffrage onward. Featuring photographic material from as far back as the mid-1800s to recent decades, the exhibition expands beyond the basics of the suffrage movement to consider the many women who were denied equity, and the subsequent movements that followed.

The showcase includes portraits of suffragist Susan

… Read More

THEATER | ‘Pygmalion Once and Again!’ | Choice Events

George Shafe 2 years ago

While the ongoing pandemic has our ability to see live theater still on hold for now, Classics Theatre of Rochester has joined the many other troupes and organizations who have made their presentations available to stream online. This month you can catch CTR’s “Pygmalion Once and Again!” which is actually two shows in one, and also a benefit for the Multi-use Community Cultural Center (The MuCCC). Local community theater greats James Landers and Roger Gans have directed two versions of the George Bernard Shaw classic, “Pygmalion,” which comes from the Greek myth about a sculptor who fell in love with

… Read More

Calendar preview: Sun power | Choice Events

George Shafe 2 years ago


Summer and sunshine — we’ve still got ’em, Rochester, and we have lots of ways to enjoy them. We should not look directly into the sun, but we can behold it through other means: ripening peaches, sunflower fields, and in the face of a lion. And they’re all here.

Leo, the zodiac sign long-associated with the sun, is having its moment right now. Leos can celebrate their namesake through August 16 during World Lion Week at Seneca Park Zoo. This annual education series brings conservation to the forefront to protect a species that has lost around 80 percent of its

… Read More