Calendar editor Jeanette Colby offers her selection of events and activities to check out this weekend. Browse, discover, and share upcoming events on the University Events Calendar by logging in with your University NetID. The calendar features a variety of events at all campuses, including the River Campus, Eastman School, Memorial Art Gallery, and Medical Center.
#1: Check out a Rochester Fringe show
If you missed it last weekend, head out to the final few days of the Rochester KeyBank Fringe Festival where members of the University community will perform in several shows. “The Fragile Corridor: BIODANCE Harris & Burritt” features Michael Burritt ‘84E, ‘86E (MM), director of the Eastman Percussion Ensemble, and Missy Pfohl Smith, director of Institute for the Performing Arts, with shows on Thursday, September 19, Friday, September 20, and Saturday, September 21, at the Rochester Museum and Science Center’s Strasenburgh Planetarium. An official Rochester Fringe Festival venue, the Eastman School of Music offers several events, including headlining comedian Mike Birbiglia on Friday, September 20. The Eastman School of Music’s TableTopOpera performs “Within the Quota” —a look at 100 years of the United States immigration policy, is Thursday, September 19, at Hatch Recital Hall. Soul-Folk artist Siena Facciolo ’19 gives a performance on Saturday, September 21 at Nox Cocktail Lounge. All Fringe Festival tickets can be purchased online.
#2: Celebrate homecoming at Fauver Stadium
It’s a big home weekend for the football and women’s soccer teams. This Saturday, September 21, both teams play at Fauver Stadium in the Prince Athletic Complex on the River Campus. Football kicks off at noon against Alfred State College and Women’s soccer takes on the top-ranked William Smith College at 6 p.m. There is free admission to games. A football Homecoming Tailgate will be held, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. $15 per person ($10 for students) Registration is required. The soccer Homecoming Tailgate is from 5 to 6 p.m. Outside of Fauver Stadium there will be food trucks available from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
#3: See watercolor paintings of Rochester spaces
The works of Karal Ann Marling is on view at the Memorial Gallery through October 27. She began to paint her surroundings after taking a creative workshop at the museum. The exhibition, Rochester Americana: The Watercolors of Karal Ann Marling showcases Marling’s watercolor paintings, her attention to detail and pattern, and her unique and colorful perspective of her intimate home spaces, her hometown of Rochester, as well as her own 19th Ward neighborhood. The museum’s restaurant, Brown Hound Downtown, offers brunch on the weekends, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Reservations for brunch are requested. Admission to the museum is free for University faculty, staff, and students with ID. http://mag.rochester.edu.
#4: Attend a concert to mark International Day of Peace
The Students’ Association for Interfaith Cooperation will present “The United Nations International Day of Peace with The Yuval Ron Ensemble,” on Friday, September 20. An award-winning composer, producer, and peace activist Yuval Ron focuses on uniting east and west, Hebrew and Arabic, sacred and secular. The ensemble will offer a musical program from various faiths and religious traditions. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. There will be also be a hands-on workshop with the ensemble titled“Healing and Transforming Consciousness through Sacred Sound, Music, and Dance,” on Saturday, September 21, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public and take place at the Interfaith Chapel on the River Campus.
#5: Hear the testimony of an A-bomb survivor
On Saturday, September 21, the University will host Sadae Kasaoka, an atomic bomb survivor —or “hibakusha”—at the Interfaith Chapel for a talk about her experience. Kasaoka was 12 when the atomic bomb was detonated just 3.5 kilometers from her family’s home. The talk is in collaboration with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, the Rochester Public Library, and the cities of Rochester, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima. The event is from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the sanctuary and is free and open to the public.
