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Save the Date
Sun, Nov 2: Frontiers of
Impressionism exhibit opens at Memorial Art Gallery
Tue, Nov 4: Kwanzaa Setting at Corning Museum of Glass at Corning Museum of Glass
Wed, Nov 5: Nazareth University Night Flyers Campus-Community Band at Beston Hall, Glazer Music Performance Center
Sat, Nov 8: Studio Schweinfurth : Pastel Painting Studio: Focus on Still Life at Schweinfurth Art Center
Sat, Nov 8: Step It Up! Cure Pancreatic Cancer Walk & Family Fun Day at Pancreatic Cancer Association of Western New York
Sat, Nov 8: A Soul Symphony: Where Gospel Meets Orchestra at Eastman Theatre
Sat, Nov 8: The Burroughs Audubon Nature Club: Fall Clean-Up and Habitat Restoration Day at Burroughs Audubon Nature Club
Sat, Nov 8: Holiday Open House at Main Street Mercantile Sat, Nov 8: Holiday
Market and Preparing for Winter at Genesee Country Village & Museum
Sun, Nov 9: Bills Watch Party at Underpass Bar & Grill Nov
9 at Zonta Club of Rochester
Sat, Nov 15: Champions of Magic: Holiday Spectacular at Kodak Center
Sat, Nov 15: Maker Faire Rochester 2025 at RIT Gordon Field House
Sat, Nov 15: Rochester Hearing & Speech Center's Ultimate 80s Party! at Rochester Hearing & Speech Center
Sun, Nov 16: Sound, Sip, & Savor at fivebyfive
Sun, Nov 16: Haudenosaunee Heritage Celebration Day 2025 at Memorial Art Gallery
Tue, Nov 18: Hamilton at Rochester Broadway Theatre League (RBTL) - West Herr Auditorium Theatre
Sat, Nov 22: A Christmas Carol opens at Geva Theatre and runs through Dec 28
Sun, Nov 23: Holiday Alternative Gift Market at Greece Baptist Church |
Note from your publisher My pick for the weekend: Frontiers of Impressionism opens at the Memorial Art Gallery on Sunday, and it's a stunner. This major exhibit features 53 paintings on loan from the Worcester Art Museum, showing how daring and
boundary-pushing the Impressionists truly were. It's a rare chance to see these works up close—don’t miss it while it's here (November 2 - March 1). Also happening this weekend: The Wayne County Apple Tasting Tour wraps up for the season tomorrow. This self-driving tour has eleven stops through beautiful apple country, featuring farm experiences, tastings, and a fun interactive app. It’s a great excuse for one last crisp fall adventure. Prefer your fall with a dash of gothic drama? Head to Genesee Country Village & Museum Saturday night for A Night with Edgar Allan Poe, a theatrical experience
exploring the haunting real-life romance between Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman. More events, more ideas, and more ways to explore are on the site—this weekend’s looking especially good. —Debra Ross, publisher
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Today and tomorrow are the final days of Wayne County's 2025 Apple Tasting Tour! The tour is packed with new options for visiting and celebrating the apple! Virtual experiences to include an on-line app that has a fun game at each stop. The Tour features eleven locations throughout beautiful Wayne County, each unique, as is the taste and texture of each of the apples. With so many places and options, U Pick your stops, U Pick the Way! Download the Apple Tasting Tour app from the main…
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Are you 50 or older and caring for a loved one with dementia? The Connection in Caregivers study (funded by the National Institute on Aging) is examining how social relationships impact feelings of stress for dementia caregivers. This study is conducted remotely and lasts 6 months. You would complete a baseline interview (phone/zoom). Then a survey link is texted to you 3 times/day for 10 days. You would also do another interview at 6 months. You are paid for up to $250. Complete THIS…
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The RMSC’s newest exciting temporary exhibit explores the tasks and challenges required of a space explorer, requires teamwork to solve problems, and illuminates the science + tools needed to monitor damage to a spacecraft. Experience a rocket launch, explore how a lack of gravity can affect the body & mind, and discover how scientific observations and measurements can both differ in space. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to sleep, eat, shower, and use the toilet in space,…
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During the first full weekend of every month, Bank of America cardholders and employees get one free general admission at MAG. Present your Bank of America, Merrill® or Bank of America Private Bank® credit or debit card, (along with a valid photo ID) or your employee corporate ID (or other proof of employment with Bank of America, Merrill, or Bank of America Private Bank), along with a valid photo ID for free admission!
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Set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity in a seemingly perfect, well-to-do Victorian home, proper gentleman and scientist Dr. Givings has innocently invented an extraordinary new device for treating “hysteria” in women (and occasionally men): the vibrator. Adjacent to the doctor’s laboratory, his young and energetic wife Catherine tries to tend to their newborn daughter and wonders exactly what is going on in the next room. When a new “hysterical” patient, Sabrina, and…
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Learn lifesaving skills to help protect your furry family member. This class is designed to help pet owners provide temporary, urgent care to pets until they can reach a veterinary or emergency clinic. This course is for ages 14 and up.
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Saturday, November 1: Close out the spooky season with a night of love, letters, and the macabre at GCV&M! This year, we trade murder and mystery for a gothic romance just as haunting—the true-life courtship of Edgar Allan Poe, the master of American horror, and Sarah Helen Whitman, the witchy poet who captured (and broke) his heart. On All Souls’ Day, immerse yourself in the perfect atmosphere with Poe-inspired cocktails, let eerie melodies from The Fiddle Witch on nyckelharpa drift…
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Sunday. November 2: Experience the world’s most in-demand ballet, Swan Lake, presented by Classical Arts Entertainment and performed by International Ballet Stars. With over 200 custom scenery pieces adding grandeur and beauty, this production promises to be a spectacular visual treat. Featuring a brilliant cast of dancers from Italy, France, Georgia, Great Britain, Ukraine, Japan, Moldova, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan, this tour celebrates the diversity and global excellence of classical…
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Opening Sunday, November 2: Impressionist art is anything but tame and stagnant. Frontiers of Impressionism explores the evolution of the radical artistic movement that changed the course of art history. The audience will see fifty-three stellar paintings from the Worcester Art Museum’s collection through the lens of more than thirty artists—American and European—including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, and John Singer Sargent.
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Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025 starting at Gates Chili HS Field House: Step It Up! Cure Pancreatic Cancer Walk & Family Fun Day. Help us LEI THE PATH FOR A CURE. It’s an Hawaiian theme - grab your sandals & floral shirts. Be part of something exciting and help us fight pancreatic cancer! Entertainment, raffles, and activities for the whole family. REGISTRATION: 12:00 noon. Walk begins at 1:00 pm.
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Saturday, November 8, 2025: 2:00 PM-4:00 PM: The public is invited to help get the sanctuary ready for winter! Join us to help the leaves off the parking lot and onto the property where they can feed and shelter sanctuary critters even while they turn into soil for sanctuary plants. Volunteers will also be able to help take care of other important tasks along the boardwalks and trails and in the clubhouse before winter arrives, including helping with ongoing habitat restoration…
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Through October 31, 2025 in the CMOG Admissions Lobby: Made by our Museum glassmakers, the giant pumpkin is a whopping 97 inches (more than eight feet) in circumference and weighs in at 70 pounds. The pumpkin was created in 2009 by the glassmakers who present the Museum’s live glassblowing demonstrations. The pumpkin-making process took a team of eight glassblowers more than 50 hours of work, 17 attempts, a lot of shattered glass, and a number of lopsided prototypes.
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November 8 & 9: Step back in time and experience the charm of 19th-century winter traditions at Genesee Country Village & Museum’s Preparing for the Holidays! Wander through the Historic Village as villagers preserve food, stitch warm garments, and ready their homes for the snowy season ahead. Enjoy captivating Indigenous storytelling inside the cozy Brooks Grove Church, and shop for one-of-a-kind, handcrafted gifts at the festive Holiday Market—just in time for your seasonal giving!…
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The Eclipse Effect: How to Seize Extraordinary Moments to Build Strong Communities by Debra Ross and Jamie
Carter: A powerful new book about how to build stronger, healthier communities by harnessing the natural momentum of shared moments to bring people together. Equal parts strategy guide and storybook, The Eclipse Effect is essential reading for parents, educators, local leaders, and anyone who wants to make a meaningful difference where they live. It will be published December 9 and makes a great holiday gift... especially for anyone who experienced last year's total solar eclipse in
Rochester! Learn more and pre-order at TheEclipseEffect.com. And if your organization would be interested in a leadership talk by Debra Ross based on all the lessons learned from eclipse community organizing, click here to email her.
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Great ideas for a staycation in town or for a road trip for less than a tank of gas from Rochester: BeyondTheNest.com has is full of ideas for great travel adventures, with places to explore, learn, and have fun!
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What you can do in around the Rochester, NY area is LIMITLESS: Here are 101 MORE day trips from Rochester to help you make your day and adventure! Have a staycation in town or a road trip for less than a tank of gas from Rochester.
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If you've ever thought longingly for the days when you used to perform with school musical groups, or you'd like to expand your horizons in music, there are dozens of community groups in and around Rochester for every level of musician and every musical
interest.
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Wishing you and yours good health and happiness! |
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