The Women’s Rights National Historic Park will livestream commemorations and lectures for its Virtual Equality Weekend on Saturday and Sunday.
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Reshaping Rochester starts lecture series with arts focus
The kick-off lecture to the 12th annual Reshaping Rochester series will introduce Rochester audiences to impactful arts programs that are transforming the city of Philadelphia. Gina Renzi, executive director of The Rotunda and the 40th Street Artist-in-Residence Program in Philadelphia, will give a talk on Wednesday, January 25, titled “Embedding the Arts: Bringing the Arts […]
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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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Turn on the reading light
Well, the Rochester Arts and Lectures series is already sold out. If you don’t have tickets, you may be able to get standing-room-only tickets to hear Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)and Alexander McCall Smith (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, The Sunday Philosophy Club) — both worth it. And there are still chances to catch […]
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Hitting the lecture circuit
OK, all you nerds out there, it’s time to get down to work. Stock your pencil boxes, pull out your literary anthologies, and check the batteries in your tape recorders: fall is bursting with enough lectures and literary events to make us all feel like we’re back in school again. Listen to authors and scientists, […]
