Jeanette Colby, the University’s calendar editor, offers her selection of events and activities to check out this weekend. Get information on these and other upcoming events at the University of Rochester Events Calendar at www.rochester.edu/calendar.
Be moved by contemporary dance
The Program of Dance and Movement will present an afternoon program with Kate Weare Company at 2 p.m. at the Spurrier Dance Studio on Friday, March 24. The dance company showcases contemporary choreography and movement by Kate Weare, a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and 2011 Mellon Foundation awardee. Her most recent work, Dark Lark, was presented to critical acclaim by Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival in 2013. The show is $5 for students and $10 for all others. Read more.
Rock out in Beatlemania-style celebration
Get ready Beatles’ fans! Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on Saturday, March 25, at 8 p.m. in Strong Auditorium. The fab four’s eighth studio album, released on June 1, 1967, spent 15 weeks at number one in the United States and won four Grammy awards in 1968, including Album of the Year. The concert will feature performances by students, faculty, and the band The League of Extraordinary Uncles. The show is free and open to the public.
Explore African culture in student-led exhibition
The Pan African Students’ Association will host “Afrikanza” on Saturday, March 25. All are invited to the student-led cultural exhibition that celebrates African arts through dance, music, and performance skits. The event will also feature African cuisine. The cost is $10 for University students and $15 for the general public. The event begins at 6 p.m., at the Frederick Douglass Ballroom on the River Campus.
Hear majestic trombone sounds at Kilbourn Hall
The Trombone Choir at the Eastman School of Music will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 26. The program includes music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, Giovanni Gabrieli, as well as Johan de Meij’ s Symphony No. 1, The Lord of the Rings, arranged by Jordan Moore. The ensemble is codirected by Larry Zalkind and Mark Kellogg. The free concert will be held in Kilbourn Hall.
Catch finale film and discussion on trailblazing women
The Women’s History Month Film Series comes to an end on Sunday, March 26, with a screening of the 1983 documentary-style feminist science fiction film, Born in Flames. The series, hosted by the Little Theatre, WXXI, and the University’s Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, will present the film at 6 p.m. The story explores racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism in an alternative national socialist democracy. A discussion will follow with Lizzie Borden, the film’s director; Barbara LeSavoy, director of the gender and women’s studies at the State University College at Brockport; Almudena Escobar Lopez, a doctoral student from the Visual and Cultural Studies program and board member at Girls Rock!; and Shermeeka Mason, science fiction author and creator of “Black Girl with Glasses” blog. The screening is presented with community partners ImageOut and WAYO 104.3FM. Tickets are $5 for the general public and free for University of Rochester students, and can be purchased at the Little’s box office. Read more.
