Rebecca Rafferty

It’s never too early to get your kids into foreign films. “Children’s Short Films from Around the World,” presented this week by Rochester International Children’s Film Festival, is a 60-minute program that includes award-winning films from Argentina, Belgium, Croatia, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, and elsewhere. The short movies include live-action, animation, and stop-motion […]

Is your kid a homebody or outdoorsy during academic breaks? Get the best of both worlds this week at the Winter Break at Ganondagan programming, featuring family activities appropriate for ages 5 and up. Activities include traditional Hodinöhsö:ni’ indoor winter games, crafting beaded necklaces and cornhusk dolls, storytimes, snowshoeing, and snowboats, which is a sledding-like […]

With his eight feet rooted in West African folklore, the spider-shaped trickster god Anansi has traveled through oral traditions to the Caribbean and America. Directed by Reuben J. Tapp and presented by {theatre}+{náfsi},”Anansi Tales for the Holidays” is a program of interactive theater, storytelling, and puppetry, featuring stories from various authors. A Children’s mask and […]

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” finalist Ginger Minj returns to Rochester this week with her new holiday show, “Crossdresser for Christmas,” in which she will share outrageous tales of her Christmases past, as well as some holiday classic stories. Presented by OFC Creations and the Bachelor Forum, the event doubles as OFC’s annual fundraiser for Broadway Cares: […]

Award-winning political satire comedy troupe, The Capitol Steps, returns this week for its 24th appearance at Nazareth College Arts Center’s annual New Year’s Eve comedy event. The DC-based troupe began as staffers in the Senate, and each year it presents a show filled with bipartisan wisecracks. This year the performance will be based on songs […]

This week Rochester Museum and Science Center will host the last of this year’s Almost Overnight series, in which kids get to enjoy programming late into the evening. This winter-themed, STEM-focused event features three hands-on workshops that will have them using science to create sweet treats, make an indoor snowstorm, and craft a snow globe […]

Currently on view at The Little Café Art Gallery is an exhibition of paintings and mixed media works by Courtney Gruttadauria. The space is filled with Gruttadauria’s vibrant and gestural work, ranging from landscapes to figure studies and abstract compositions. Courtney Gruttadauria’s work remains on view through Saturday, December 29, at The Little Café Art […]

In all of the debates about migrant workers and their place in America, too little is said about their inner lives — including their artistic expressions. One of the upstairs spaces at Rochester Contemporary Art Center is currently hosting “Hand Picked: Art Expression of Farmworkers Who Feed Us,” a traveling exhibit of 30 drawings by […]

If you’re about to have the kiddos home from school for the holiday stretch, you might be considering ways to keep them busy. The Strong Museum is hosting Blast Off Break Week during the academic recess, with a special spotlight on space. Kids can explore the ongoing Be the Astronaut exhibit, which has visitors engage […]

This week Rochester Global Refugee Services will host a fundraising event, “Giving the Gift of Life,” in support of families living in Uganda’s Nakivale refugee camp. One of the oldest refugee settlements in Uganda, Nakivale is a refugee resettlement camp in Isingiro District where 60,000 refugees live with limited services and resources. Faziri Ndahiro, former […]

The latest exhibition of the Memorial Art Gallery’s three-year Media Arts Watch program is “Peter Fischli & David Weiss: The Way Things Go,” a 1987 film and video installation newly acquired by the MAG. The Swiss art duo’s multimedia work uses humor and humble materials. In this case, the film features a Rube Goldberg machine-esque, […]