Rochester’s unique cultural exchange with Nagaland — a remote state in Northeast India — has yielded an international film festival with the aim of preserving and amplifying the cultural expressions of the indigenous Naga people. Locally, the driving force behind the exchange are Heather Layton and Brian Bailey, who co-facilitate a variety of collaborative projects in Rochester and abroad.
Brian Bailey
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Honest Folk shakes the concert up
A simple group of folk music lovers, Honest Folk, has started bringing touring acts to Rochester for intimate pop-up shows, like Tow’rs (pictured) playing The Metropolitan next Monday.
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Lightning lectures: TEDxRochester turns 5
The nonprofit organization TED began in 1984 as a conference to bring together individuals working in the realms of technology, education, and design, and is devoted to promoting, in its words, “ideas worth spreading.” By the end of 2012 TEDx sessions — officially licensed franchised versions of TED — had been held in 1200 cities […]
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Domestic violence
Two Rochester artists have constructed an 18-foot-long rhinestone-laden replica of a US Predator drone, which will be shown as part of a multimedia exhibit opening Friday, March 1, at the Hampden Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The installation, “Home Drone,” asks audiences to consider what life is like for people in Pakistan, Yemen, […]
