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Friday, February 12

Singing Valentines Fundraiser

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SINGING VALENTINES Fund-Raiser: Send the unforgettable gift of song 2/12, 13, 14. Delivered by uniformed a cappella quartet with rose and personalized card. Telephone "Ringing Valentines" also available. From Sweet Adelines International, a non-profit, women’s singing organization. (585) 831-6975 or rocharmony@yahoo.com

SueMelvin

V-Day 2010

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V-Day 2010 Reception and SIlent Auction. February 12, 2010 7-9pm.

In benefit of education and prevention of violence against women and girls.

Please join us to celebrate V-Day 2010!

New works by Alicia Ross points
to traditional expectations and modern-day characteristics ascribed to motherhood, womanhood and celebrity.

RoCo

Village Idiots Improv Comedy

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Village Idiots Improv Comedy Presents Directors’ Cut. Three improvisers take turns directing scenes with the audience yelling 'PLEASURE' if they like what they see, or 'PAIN' if they don’t. Directors who please the audience spin from the wheel of love. Those who cause pain must perform a humiliating punishment...kinda like a real relationship! Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM Feb 12th - Feb 27th and 7PM Sunday Feb 14th at Village Idiots Pillar Theater at the Village Gate -D106 274 N. Goodman St., Rochester, NY 14607 Tickets $7 online, $8 at the door. See http://www.improvVIP.com for more information.

ImprovLover

Saturday, February 13

Singing Valentines Fundraiser

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SueMelvin

Valentine's Striptease Class

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Come learn a sexy striptease for that someone special. Grab his button-down dress shirt and learn how to remove it like a pro. And for an extra surprise, have his pet name tattooed “temporarily” on your body part of choice!!! Body art by Robin at Henna Rising. Temporary body paint removable with rubbing alcohol. SAturday, Feb 13th from 1:00pm-3:30pm. Cost $40. www.goddesshour.com or 585-224-0277 for more info.

MichelleCharles

Conversations with Garth: Duets

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Garth Fagan Dance offers a Valentine's Day themed performance highlighting the varied and expressive Duets featured in many of Mr. Fagan's works. The evening will include a full sit-down dinner, champagne, valet parking, and a performance by Garth Fagan Dance. Tickets are $100.00/person. Visit www.garthfagandance.org or call 585-454-3260 for more information.

Shannon

Sunday, February 14

Singing Valentines Fundraiser

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SueMelvin

Village Idiots Improv Comedy

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ImprovLover

Thursday, February 18

Rochester A-List Third Thursday

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Rochester A-List February Third Thursday
Olympic Celebration at the Otter Lodge
www.rochesteralist.com
February 18, 2010
5:30-8:00pm

Celebrate the A-List way with beer and food pairings from countries around the world, Wii competition, Olympic Gold Medal Pool, Olympic size beer specials, Olympic trivia contest with the Budweiser Girls, raffle, giveaways, and great prizes while raising money for the Special Olympics. Wii competition sign-ups at the party so show up early to get in. Olympic Squares can be purchased now until they are all sold. Total Metals Won by the USA- touching squares win double their money, winner takes rest.

A-Listers on the guest list $10
Non A-Listers and those not on guest list $15
RSVP to get on the guest list by phone or email (585) 442-3874 or events@rochesteralist.com.
The Otter Lodge is located at 1776 Monroe Ave., Rochester

DanCarusone

Friday, February 19

Village Idiots Improv Comedy

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Village Idiots Improv Comedy Presents Directors’ Cut. Three improvisers take turns directing scenes with the audience yelling 'PLEASURE' if they like what they see, or 'PAIN' if they don’t. Directors who please the audience spin from the wheel of love. Those who cause pain must perform a humiliating punishment...kinda like a real relationship! Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM Feb 12th - Feb 27th and 8PM Sunday Feb 14th at Village Idiots Pillar Theater at the Village Gate -D106 274 N. Goodman St., Rochester, NY 14607 Tickets $7 online, $8 at the door. See http://www.improvVIP.com for more information.

ImprovLover

Saturday, February 20

Banff Mountain Film Festival at RIT

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RIT Interactive Adventures is proud to present its fifth annual showing of the Banff Mountain Film Festival. The 2009/2010 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour brings films from the 34th annual Banff Mountain Film Festival to about 285 communities around the world. Journey to exotic locations, paddle the wildest waters, and climb the highest peaks. From an exploration of remote landscapes and mountain cultures to adrenaline-fueled action sports, films in this year’s world tour are sure to captivate and amaze the explorer within us all.

We would like to invite many people from the Rochester community here to RIT to come share the magic of Banff. We hope to see you at the festival in February.

More info and film trailer at http://www.rit.edu/studentaffairs/ciar/interactiveadventures_news.php

February 20th and 21st, 2010

RITInteractiveAdventures

Village Idiots Improv Comedy

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Village Idiots Improv Comedy Presents Directors’ Cut. Three improvisers take turns directing scenes with the audience yelling 'PLEASURE' if they like what they see, or 'PAIN' if they don’t. Directors who please the audience spin from the wheel of love. Those who cause pain must perform a humiliating punishment...kinda like a real relationship! Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM Feb 12th - Feb 27th and 8PM Sunday Feb 14th at Village Idiots Pillar Theater at the Village Gate -D106 274 N. Goodman St., Rochester, NY 14607 Tickets $7 online, $8 at the door. See http://www.improvVIP.com for more information.

ImprovLover

Sunday, February 21

Banff Mountain Film Festival at RIT

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We would like to invite many people from the Rochester community here to RIT to come share the magic of Banff. We hope to see you at the festival in February.

More info and film trailer at http://www.rit.edu/studentaffairs/ciar/interactiveadventures_news.php

February 20th and 21st, 2010
The films vary each night.

RITInteractiveAdventures

Village Idiots Improv Comedy

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ImprovLover

Friday, February 26

Village Idiots Improv Comedy

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Village Idiots Improv Comedy Presents Directors’ Cut. Three improvisers take turns directing scenes with the audience yelling 'PLEASURE' if they like what they see, or 'PAIN' if they don’t. Directors who please the audience spin from the wheel of love. Those who cause pain must perform a humiliating punishment...kinda like a real relationship! Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM Feb 12th - Feb 27th at Village Idiots Pillar Theater at the Village Gate -D106 274 N. Goodman St., Rochester, NY 14607 Tickets $7 online, $8 at the door. See http://www.improvVIP.com for more information.

ImprovLover

Saturday, February 27

Village Idiots Improv Comedy

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ImprovLover

Thursday, March 4

Visiting Writer: Colm Toibin @ MCC

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Colm Toibin will be at MCC for a reading and book-signing (free and open to the public). On Friday, March 5 at 12:00p.m. in Building 5 Room 200 there will be a discussion and workshop (free and open to the MCC Community). Since the death of John McGahern, Colm Toibin is arguably the Republic of Ireland's most important fiction writer. Toibin publishes in a variety of genres, including travel writing, poetry, criticism, and cultural commentary. He is a regular contributor to such publications as the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, and the New Yorker. While he now lives in Dublin, his writing has an international subject matter and an international perspective. He is perhaps best known in the US for "The Blackwater Lightship" (1999), the story of an Irish family coming to terms with the death of a family member from AIDS, which was made into a US TV production in 2004. Toibin's "The Master" (2004) exhibits his confidence with non-Irish subject matter through massively reconstructing Henry James' life in a fictional account that explores the relationship between James' carefully guarded private lives and their fictional renderings. While Toibin is a gay writer, he wears a label nonchalantly, and sexuality and sexual identity is only one of his ubjects. His criticism includes "Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar" (2002); but he has also written extensively on figures from the Irish Renaissance, and his latest collection of short stories, "Mothers and Sons" (2006), concerns the struggles of a widowed single mother attempting to provide for her family in a hostile business environment, a young boy negotiating conflicting generational loyalties, and an exploration of fluid sexual identity in a vigilant, repressive culture.

Bernadette

Friday, March 5

Jacqueline Welch's "Patron Saints"

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Jacqueline Welch's "Patron Saints" will be shown March 5 through April 2, 2010. The Opening Reception will be held Friday, March 5 from 7-9p.m. and a Gallery Talk will be held the same day at noon. Jacqueline Welch's current painting practices is narrative and addresses the animal as companion. Religious symbol and the sublime landscape are also of interest to her. Her process is drawing intensive. Paint is applied in semi-transparent layers so that parts of the drawing show through. In this recent work each dog is the patrom saint for a particular human idiosyncrasy. Through these paintings she advocates for shelter dogs and their right to be life-long companions. Her concerns involve the current debate of no-kill shelters vs. traditional shelters that periodically euthanize unwanted pets, and the rise in abandoned pets dure to the failing US economy. The sacred and pagan elements in her work are derived from her Irish-Catholic background and her interestin medieval painting and Celtic art.

Bernadette

Friday, March 19

Join us for a Sneak Peek!

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Friday, March 19, 2010

"Sip ‘N Tip"
Have a cocktail at the cash bar at Edibles Restaurant before going to the Silent Auction at Image City Photography Gallery. There will be donation box at the bar, make a donation on behalf of The Advocacy Center.

5:00-7:00pm

Edibles Restaurant

704 University Avenue

Rochester NY

"Sneak Peek"
Come see some amazing artwork at the Image City Photography Gallery and bid on select photographs from the community. All proceeds from the auction will go to The Advocacy Center.

Free Admission

7:00-10:00pm

Image City Photography Gallery

722 University Avenue

Rochester NY

This is a Prelude to A Night of Hot Jazz & Cool Art on June 4, 2010 at the Memorial Art Gallery.

Benefiting The Advocacy Center
http://www.advocacycenter.com
585-546-1700 or costalas@advocacycenter.com

AnnaCostalas

Friday, April 9

Antonio Petracca's "From Here to There"

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Antonio Petracca's "From Here to There" will be shown April 9 through May 7,2010. A Reception for the Artist will be held Wednesday, Aprl 14 at 6p.m. A workshop and talk will be held Friday, April 16, 11p.m. Antonio Petracca was born in Rochester, New York, the first born of six children who's father immigrated to the US through Ellis Island in late 1904. Petracca studied photography, cermaics, sculpture, graphic design, printmaking, painting, and drawing, and received a BFA and MFA from RIT. The former Director of the Pyramid Arts Center, a non-profit space for artists in Rochester, New York, until in 1986 he moved permanently to New York City. With his most recent work he endeavours to do two things: pay homage to his ancient Italian ancestors, whose culture and achievements helped change the western world and enter the dialogue concerning the effects of sterotyping and misrepresentation of Italian Americas in the media and entertainment industry.

Bernadette

MCC's Spring Play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller

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MCC's Spring drama, "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller will be April 9 & 10 @ 7:30p.m. and April 11 @ 2:00p.m. Join us in a new version of Miller's world-renowned play. This new MCC staging will have contemporary actors in modern dress re-enacting the story in a thrilling and in-your-face presentational stle. It's a story that has political overtones with the Red scare of the 1950s, but also in today's world with modern witch-hunts that surround our public figures. The hysteria of the late 1600s still exists; it just has taken different and maybe even more sinister forms. This new version will be a thrill ride of emotion and intellectual confrontation.

Bernadette

Friday, May 14

34th Annual Student Art Exhibition

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34th Annual Student Art Exhibition: May 14-September 10, 2010. The Opening Reception will be May 14 from 6:00-8:00p.m. This is an exhibition of painting, drawing, sculpture, design, 3D design, video, photography, digital & multi-media pieces and any aspect of course work accomplished while studying at MCC. This includes the work od Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Photo, TV & Video, Commercial Illustration and Interior Design majors graduating May, August, or December 2010. The Opening Reception is a backyard barbeque: hots, hamburgers, salads, and desserts will be served. Awards and dinner at 6:00p.m. MCC Faculty, Staff, Family and Friends of the graduates are encouraged to attend to celebrate this exhibition of hard work.

Bernadette

Wednesday, June 2

MCC's Children's Play, "School House Rock Live"

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The children's show was so popular last year so we have decided to bring back this wonderful musical revue we all grew up with. This time we will have more music, characters, dancing, and audience participation action! It's a fun-filled musical experience for the entire family. Rock out with Verbs, Nouns, One's Two's, and maybe even Inter-planet Janet will make an appearance! This is a musical not to miss!

Bernadette

Saturday, June 5

6x6x2010: Huge Exhibition of Small Artwork

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6x6x2010: You Asked For It!
Last year more than 6,000 Visitors attended an exciting art exhibition of more than 3,000 artworks by nearly 1,200 artists from 17 countries, 36 states (and 4 species)! More than 1,400 artworks sold. It was a huge success! We asked every visitor to 6x6x2009 if we should have another 6x6 exhibition. Resoundingly, you answered YES!

SUBMISSIONS DUE: May 2, 2010 at 5pm.
Artworks may be mailed or delivered directly to RoCo, 137 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14604. Wed. - Sun. 1-5 pm, January 24 - May 2. Each submission must be accompanied by the submission form, available on the RoCo website. Artworks must be signed only on the back (to be exhibited and sold anonymously) and accompanied by the submission form. Please read: Frequently Asked Questions on the website

ABOUT 6x6x2010
6x6x2010 is the third exhibition of thousands of original artworks, made and donated by celebrities, international and local artists, designers, college students, youths and YOU. Each artwork will be 6x6 inches square and signed only on the back, to be exhibited anonymously. All artworks will be for sale to the public for $20 each, to benefit Rochester Contemporary Art Center. Artists' names will be revealed to the buyer only upon purchase and all artworks will remain on display for the duration of the exhibition. Don't miss Rochester's largest exhibition and don't miss the chance to show your artwork in great company and support of Rochester's downtown contemporary art venue. All submissions are due by May 2 at 5 pm and should be delivered or mailed directly to Rochester Contemporary Art Center. A full list of artists and an online gallery of all contributed artworks will be made available online.

For more information, see: http://www.rochestercontemporary.org/6x6x2010.html

Exhibition Dates: June 5 - July 11, 2010
Deadline for Submissions: May 2, 5pm
Preview Hours: June 2, 3 & 4, 1-10pm
Opening Reception & Artwork Sale: June 5, 6-10pm Purchased Artwork Pick-Up: July 11, 12, 13 & 14, 1-7 pm

RoCo

Sunday, June 13

Tour de Cure Rochester, American Diabetes Association

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Join thousands of local riders in the 18th annual Tour de Cure cycling event sponsored by the American Diabetes Association. Routes and distances are designed for everyone from the occasional rider to the experienced cyclist. To register, sponsor a rider, volunteer or learn more, visit www.diabetes.org/tour and select “New York” to connect to the Rochester event.

Phone: 1-888-DIABETES Ext. 3473
E-mail: kligozio@diabetes.org

LaurenSacks

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