Composers Crossing on East Main and Gibbs Street shows how a small group of people with a love and passion for Rochester can shape its future.
Culture
The origins and growing impact of the Rochester Fringe Festival
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Festival Producer Erica Fee says such festivals both further the work of artists and help build a community’s sense of its own assets.
Culture
2019 Jewish Book Festival has its own flavor
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James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov and business partner Steven Cook will be in Rochester as part of the festival’s two-day focus on food.
Culture
Valuing artists in our ‘City of the Arts’
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Rochester has a vibrant cultural sector, but some members of the creative community point to challenges—including difficulty making a living as an artist.
Community
Making a place for community
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Kathryn Mariner, a cultural anthropologist, is researching placemaking in the city of Rochester, through Fertile Ground, a visual, large-scale, multi-year project.
Culture
Replacing a local restaurant institution
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In the space Remington’s occupied for three decades, Lucca Kitchen & Cocktails aims to be a place for people who love food, family and Rochester.
Community
The experience of war through a different lens
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“First Light,” an exhibit of photography and writing by women combat veterans in Rochester, explores their stories and gives voice to a largely unacknowledged segment of the community.
Culture
Imagining Rochester in 2034 and beyond
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For the last decade, the Rochester Speculative Literature Association has nurtured visions of the city’s future. Its members—whose works span fantasy, science fiction and horror fiction—write stories about Rochester that ask “what if?”
Culture
Connecting through art
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The visual art community in Rochester is launching Current Seen, a small-and-midsize venue biennial designed as a contiguous string of exhibitions, pop-ups, and public art along East Avenue and Main Street downtown. The program’s theme: our current moment/our changing city.
Culture
Finger Lakes fusion
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A weekly pop-up menu at Noble Shepherd Craft Brewery in Bristol featuring Pad Thai Catering’s traditional Thai-Lao dishes has roots in a serendipitous crossing of paths three years ago.
Culture
The fiber of democracy
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A new exhibit featuring a diverse collection of craft art, from pieces knitted and crocheted by hand to quilts, explores themes such as reform, indignation against gender and racial injustices, women’s rights and voting.