U.S Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand visited RIT to announce a large investment to help diversify the growing field of cybersecurity.
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The stardust of RIT’s ‘Spoon River Anthology’
RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf presents Edgar Lee Master’s “Spoon River Anthology,” connecting the 1918 pandemic era to the present-day COVID crisis.
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Rochester Fringe Festival, Day 11: ‘#txtshow,’ ‘The Wonderland Series,’ and ‘COVID Zone’
The innovative but exhausting “#txtshow,” Shannon Reilly’s experimental performance of “The Wonderland Series,” and NTID’s “COVID Zone.”
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Calendar preview: A September ender
This week: Black Lives Matter, and 19th Amendment commemorations continue — plus schnitzel, brats, beers, and … ghosts!
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Giving deaf refugees a voice
The number of deaf refugees in Rochester is small, but the problems they face can be huge without proper support. Deaf Refugee Advocacy of Rochester, a non-profit agency, helps service providers work more effectively with this vulnerable group of people. DRA serves about 35 deaf refugees at this time, most of whom have come from […]
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Deaf theater sees growth in Rochester
Spurred on in part by NTID, the deaf theater community, both in Rochester and nationally, has taken off in the last few years.
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Deaf musician Sean Forbes shines optimistic in his hip-hop
Sean Forbes is a rapper. A good one, too. But that, in and of itself, isn’t all that extraordinary. That is until you consider the fact that this young artist can’t hear what he’s doing. Sean Forbes is deaf. It’s a perplexing dichotomy that precedes him: a deaf rapper. What is admirable about Forbes is […]
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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
When Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” first printed in 1600, it was already a hit; the title page noted that it had been “sundry times publickely acted” before then. After a 1662 performance, Samuel Pepys described it in his diary as “the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw.” But that’s a minority opinion: […]
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DANCE: On their toes
You can’t discuss the dance year in Rochester without bringing up Garth Fagan Dance, now in its 43rd year. Most locals — at least those with an interest in the arts — know about this powerhouse troupe, but, then again, the name should trip automatically off the tongue of anyone citing Rochester as their home […]
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College Blog: Deaf in Rochester
The College Blog is a partnership between City Newspaper and Rochester Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Dr. Hinda Mandell. Each week City will post blog posts from several of Mandell’s journalism students, who will write about what concerns Rochester-area college students, both on and off campus. “When my hearing friends want to go out somewhere […]
