Rebecca Rafferty

Rochester Dance Theatre will this week present an immersive, multimedia experience in just four performances of “Ripple,” which merges the movement of bodies with the movement of light and sound. The program includes eight dancers in collaboration with spatial sound engineer Tom Montagliano, with light design and tech by Occurrent Arts. The audiences will be […]

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of 1975 Gallery, which emerged as a pop-up within Surface Salon in the South Wedge before gaining its own white walls on Charlotte Street. Though 1975’s brick-and-mortar spot has been closed down for a few years now, owner and curator Erich Lehman has continued his work […]

A century of Poland’s regained independence will be celebrated in October and November with the annual Polish Film Festival, which will explore various periods of the nation’s history through several film screenings. Presented by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, the Polish Filmmakers Association, the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum, and the […]

It’s no secret that a lot of comedy comes from coping — we make jokes to take some of the teeth out of the political situation, we make fun of our idiosyncrasies, and at times we use humor to deal with profound loss. That last point is the place that Glen Tickle’s current comedy tour […]

The 4th Annual Flower City Pottery Invitational takes place this weekend, featuring 21 premiere ceramic artists from throughout North America. An excellent opportunity for collectors and enthusiasts of contemporary clay, the event includes four days of exhibitions and sales of more than 2,000 objects, demonstrations, workshops, and talks by visiting artists. In addition to the […]

Based in a Spencerport barn, Loud Cow is an unorthodox space for holding exhibitions of fine art. But twice a year, artist and curator Aaron Delehanty hosts group shows featuring regional artists, and invites the public to the opening night party. The latest event in the series opens this week, spotlighting inflatable drawings/soft sculptures by […]

Before last year’s VSW Pub Fair I set a budget for purchases and then promptly ignored that number and went to town. I’m not mad about it. Held annually at Visual Studies Workshop’s auditorium, the renamed Rochester Small Press Book Fair features dozens of local and out-of-towner book artists, photographers, independent publishers, and DIY-ers in […]

Playwright Ntozake Shange’s Obie Award-winning 1974 play “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf” is what the author describes as a “choreopoem” — 20 separate poems choreographed to music and dance, and performed as monologues. It relates the experiences of seven African American women, identified only by the colors […]

Rochester artist Nick Brandreth returns to Makers Gallery and Studio this week with “N.M. Brandreth’s Phantasmagoria Presents: Seeing Shadows,” featuring new work that plays off the spooky ideas he worked with in last year’s “Unadulterated Overkill” group exhibit. Brandreth creates hand-constructed viewing boxes for his glass plate photographs that depict dreamt-up scenes of that appear pulled […]