This week’s calendar preview features events to accompany long stretches at home, with online workshops, lectures, and dance performances.
Central Library
Calendar preview: Digging out
This weekโs events excavate the past through film, theater, talks, an anti-racism conference, and an actual archaeological dig.
Calendar preview: A September ender
This week: Black Lives Matter, and 19th Amendment commemorations continue โ plus schnitzel, brats, beers, and … ghosts!
Calendar preview: A Season for Change
A big week of events โ from Black Kids Matter to The Suffragist City Parade โ marks a big time for change here in Rochester.
Calendar preview: Getting schooled
This weekโs preview highlights some local opportunities to learn, expand perspectives, and engage meaningfully in important conversations.
Calendar preview: Donโt forget to remember
Like lilacs wary of a May frost, Rochester is cautiously starting re-opening measures this week, with success directly tied to our good behavior.
Rebecca reviews ‘Central Library Sideshow,’ Dangerous Signs, and ROC Bottom Slam Team
Over a couple of hours on Saturday, Central Library hosted a variety of small acts. Members of ROC Bottom Slam Team (who performed later in the evening at TheatreROCS) took turns performing moving poetry about political and social issues in the Teen Center, while a pole dancer wowed a small audience with her strength in […]
Adam reviews ‘Spooky Stories in the Stacks’ and ‘The Hatchet Man’
With a chill now in the air, fall has officially arrived, putting me in just the right mood for “Spooky Stories in the Stacks” at the Central Library. Starting in the Rundel Memorial Building, our audience was brought downstairs to take our seats in the secluded stacks, a section of the library the public doesn’t […]
The City Seen: January 8-9
It is cold after all, and rather then complain, City took the time to celebrate and reflect with a visit to Cat Clay’s Winter Warmth fundraiser and to Central Library for a presentation on indigenous dance. On Friday evening, Cat Clay brought artists and the community together with more than 200 handcrafted bowls that were […]






