Falcon Watch Weekend - 2013 - July 13th and 14th

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Party in the Park Thursday for early arrivals...

July 11: John Brown's Body

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Chocolate Fest 2013
   
Start Date: Jul. 13, 2013
Time: 12:00 AM

Join Affaire de Chocolat for our annual Chocolate Fest. We will have live music, Art and Craft vendors, Chocolate, Food and Adult beverages. This is a fun family event. Free for children under 18. Chocolate Fest 2013 will be held at Affaire de Chocolat located at: 1769 Penfield Road, Penfield NY 14526. Event to be held Rain or Shine. Follow signs for off site parking.

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Eastman School of Music

Friday, July 12, 2013
12:00 PM
Summer@Eastman - Eastman Community Music School Harp Workshop Participants Concert
Eastman East Wing Hatch Recital Hall
3:00 PM
Summer@Eastman - Summer Jazz Studies: Large Ensembles
Kilbourn Hall

Sunday, July 14, 2013
1:00 PM
Going for Baroque
Memorial Art Gallery
3:00 PM
Going for Baroque
Memorial Art Gallery

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George Eastman House

My Pie Town
From June 15, 2013 through October 13, 2013 at 7:00 pm in Brackett Clark Annex

On display as part of The Gender Show, Debbie Grossman’s photographic series My Pie Town reworks a body of images originally photographed by Russell Lee for the United States Farm Security Administration in 1940. Using Photoshop to modify Lee’s pictures, Grossman creates an imaginary, parallel world: a Pie Town populated exclusively by women and girls.

Grossman is interested in playing with time, reimagining history, and reviving archival images and documents. Born and raised in Rochester, she holds a master of fine arts degree in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts, where she won the Paula Rhodes Memorial Prize, and a bachelor of arts degree in women’s studies and art history from Barnard College. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Jewish Museum, among others.

Cameras from the Technology Collection
From May 5, 2005 through December 31, 2013 in North Gallery

"All the things the public most wants to see from the technology collection," that’s how Technology Curator Todd Gustavson describes Machines of Memory, the exhibition in the North Gallery. The display includes a variety of photographic highlights from camera obscuras through digital imaging designed to show the evolution of photography as well as its revolutions.

A section on Kodak showcases the cameras that changed the world, including the first Kodak, the first folding pocket camera, the first auto exposure camera and, of course, the Brownie. A selection of the most fascinating objects in the collection features, among other items, a lunar orbiter, a Technicolor movie camera, and "detective" cameras from the 1880s. "The exhibition really explores the depth and breadth of the collection," explains Gustavson. "There’s something in there to interest everyone, even people not previously familiar with photographic technology."

 

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Dryden Theater-Eastman House

Friday, July 12th, 8:00 pm Night of the Living Dead

Indoor Drive-In. “They’re coming to get you, Barbara!� Witness the film that first unleashed flesh-eating zombies on the mainstream. Steeped in pop-culture iconography, Romero’s low-budget masterpiece and staple of drive-in culture continues to shock audiences with its no-holds-barred approach to an age-old legend. Working on a shoestring budget, Romero and his crew created… [read more]

Saturday, July 13th, 8:00 pm Raiders of the Lost Ark and Sunday, July 14th, 2:00 pm

New Restoration! Following the major box office success of Jaws and Star Wars, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas joined forces to create one of the most beloved adventure franchises of all time. Harrison Ford stars in the now-iconic role of Indiana Jones, a professor and archaeologist whose fieldwork involves fighting Nazis, outrunning boulders, and spelunking in ancient, snake-filled tombs… [read more]

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RMSC Strasenburgh Planetarium

Enter a golden blizzard as tens of millions of monarch butterflies fill the sky in the hidden highlands of Mexico. Take flight alongside migratory birds navigating by sun, stars, and instinct. With spectacular cinematography filling the Star Theater dome, Amazing Journeys brings you another fine survey of natural wonders directed by George Casey, four-time Academy Award nominee and director of Forces of Nature and Ring of Fire.

Friday, July 12, 2013  1:00 PM   
Friday, July 12, 2013     2:30 PM   
Friday, July 12, 2013     4:30 PM   
Saturday, July 13, 2013     2:30 PM   
Saturday, July 13, 2013     4:30 PM   
Sunday, July 14, 2013     1:00 PM   
Sunday, July 14, 2013     2:00 PM   
Sunday, July 14, 2013     4:00 PM   

sponsored by
Time Warner Cable

40 minutes.
For all ages, recommended for ages 5 through adult

RMSC Strasenburgh Planetarium

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RMSC Strasenburgh Planetarium

Coral Reef Adventure

A silvery wall of sharks darts around the corner straight at you. Turning, you find yourself in a dazzling marine metropolis, a kaleidoscopic realm of tiny life-forms living hundreds of feet below the surface in peaceful partnerships. An octopus hides in plain sight among the corals, perfectly camouflaged, while a lionfish waves its feathery, but poisonous, spines. Suddenly, a 300-pound potato cod, feeling threatened, changes its spots right before your eyes. And meanwhile, a cleaner shrimp, wiggling its tiny antennae, swims boldly towards your mouth looking for dinner between your teeth.

Welcome to a world unlike any other, a world that has been called the “soul of the sea.� This is life on a coral reef – where some of the planet’s most diverse, fascinating and mysterious landscapes and creatures exist hidden from our sight. It is a world few human beings will ever experience up close, yet one that helps sustain the very balance of life on earth.

Friday, July 12, 2013             3:30 PM   
Saturday, July 13, 2013     3:30 PM   
Sunday, July 14, 2013     3:00 PM

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Memorial Art Gallery

Renaissance Remix: Art & Imagination in 16th-century Europe

Now Open in the Dorothy McBride Gill Discovery Center

See the world of the Renaissance through the eyes of a young boy growing up in mid 16th-century Europe—a time of political, cultural, religious and social change. Imagine that your world has been transformed by the invention of the printing press, the “discovery� of the New World, and a widespread explosion of intellectual and artistic energy.

At the center of this long-term installation is MAG’s much-loved Portrait of a Boy of the Bracciforte Family, but it also showcases 30 other works from the Gallery’s collection, the Metropolitan Museum and the Corning Museum of Glass. Hands-on activities, videos, touch screen displays and listening posts explore the Renaissance “spirit of change� through five major themes—portraiture, arms and armor, music, worldly goods, and the power of the press.

Mortal: A Portfolio of Woodcuts by Kiki Smith

May 24–August 25, 2013 in the Lockhart Gallery
woodcut by Kiki Smith from portfolio Mortal

This suite of 12 woodcut prints by groundbreaking American artist Kiki Smith was a 2011 gift of the Gallery Council. Self-published and printed in black on Japanese paper, Mortal (2007) depicts the final stages of the life of the artist’s mother. With great economy, the prints in the portfolio evoke a pathos similar in feeling to the German Expressionists.

This exhibition marks the first time that the entire suite is on view at MAG.

July 14–September 8, 2013 in the Grand Gallery (members’ opening party July 13)

Every two years, Rochester’s longest-running juried exhibition showcases work by artists from western and central New York.

This year’s Finger Lakes features 100 works by 81 artists—including 39 who are new to the show. They were chosen from a field of 623 entries by 230 artists by Alex Nyerges (pictured at right), director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. List of artists

This year’s artists are eligible for seven cash prizes including the $1,000 Memorial Art Gallery Award, selected by the juror, and the $500 Harris Popular Vote award, chosen by visitors during the first two weeks of the show.

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And that's just what google found for me...so far...

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  Now your talking my language!     

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  Now your talking my language!     

Too bad they won't be in Rochester until September

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So...time to make a list of who is coming...and what you might be able to bring...

So far...out of towners...

Lynne & hubby on the new trike...

Donna

Bonnie with falcon toast & cream cheese spread

Paul and family

Me...I'll bring paper plates, napkins, utensils, cups

Birdmusic

Probably missed someone...hence why I'm posting a list...

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Events...just posting what I'm finding. If anyone is interested in anything particular please speak up so we can get a group together of like-interested people...

Big Rib BBQ & Blues Fest -
Jul 12, 2013 04:00 PM - 11:45 PM (Friday) and Saturday, July 13 04:00 PM - 11:45 PM

Highland Park Festival Site
1440 Highland Ave (Corner of South and Highland Ave)
Rochester, NY 14620


The Whispers

Friday, July 12 07:30 PM Rochester Auditorium Theatre


Rochester Rhinos vs. Richmond Kickers

Friday, July 12 07:35 PM Sahlen's Stadium

Bill Maher

Saturday, July 13 08:00 PM Rochester Auditorium Theatre


Also finding a bunch of bar & club type events. Will post those if there's interest...

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And will there be a Watcher's Weekend T-shirt???

How about this?

And, while I do really like this shirt...and we've only had a watcher weekend shirt once before...it might be nice to make it a tradition.

Anyone with a bit more creativity than me have any ideas for a shirt? Merchandise team? Anyone? Doesn't have to be the "locals" coming up with ideas...

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And could someone check with June if she has any events in mind? Last year she had something, but she announced it at the breakfast, so it was a bit late to organize.

I know everyone loves to do Dinosaur, but any other dinner or Sunday breakfast places anyone wants to try?