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
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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
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,
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
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
Due to the uncertainty about accumulating and touring, the Bermuda Festival of the Doing Arts stated “it is difficult for the Pageant to go forward as prepared this 12 months,” and “as an substitute to live activities, the Competition is working to supply a series of exciting virtual occasions.”
A spokesperson claimed, “Since the arrival of Covid-19 upon our shores, it has been the commitment of the Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts to deliver a large high-quality and harmless Festival for 2021.
“The Competition worked with the Federal government to make sure it adhered to all protocols in presenting
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
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
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
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