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An Ontario County art gallery this month will begin an after school program to bring art to children, and children to art. Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs will begin “The After School Art Experience,” a four-week immersive art program ...

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There’s now a reason to go to the state fair in the winter: a miniature, indoor version of the Great New York State Fair in February was announced Tuesday. Winter Fair 2019 will include rides, games, sausage sandwiches and fried ...

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The KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival this weekend will host the 2018 U.S. Association of Fringe Festivals annual conference. “This is a real honor for us, both for our festival and for our city,” festival producer Erica Fee said in a ...

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A world renowned composer will join the Eastman School of Music this month as this year’s Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition. Charles Wuorinen will be in residency at Eastman from Nov. 12 through 16. His visit will culminate in ...

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You might call it Hollywood East. Or the Big Apple North. But the dozens of people who turned out for the grand opening Tuesday call the new building at Rochester Institute of Technology the MAGIC Spell Studios. The 52,000-square-foot, $31 ...

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A couple of music educators whose names are synonymous with Eastman School of Music have created a scholarship for graduate students focusing on conducting, particularly for wind ensembles. The Donald and Polly Hunsberger Endowed Conducting Scholarship will most likely be ...

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Jazz Fest fans will be able to freely swap their club passes this year, and a few venues are swapping in and out, too. Co-Producers John Nugent and Marc Iacona released an announcement on Tuesday saying that club passes for ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology is bringing the creator the syndicated cartoon “Rubes” to campus for a week as part of its efforts to bring more creativity and innovation to its instruction. Leigh Rubin, creator of “Rubes,” will be the first ...

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Rochesterians have something to look forward to as they brace for another Rochester winter right around the corner. Officials have announced the dates for the 121st annual Rochester Lilac Festival. The region’s largest free festival will take place from May ...

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Albert Paley, the internationally renowned sculptor who creates giant metal sculptures in his Rochester studios, has announced he will be downsizing, with an eye toward estate planning. The artist, who is in his mid-70s, said in a video and written ...

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Rochester’s Strasenburgh Planetarium will have a new look next year, when renovations are completed on the 50-year-old Star Theater. Rochester Museum & Science Center will close the planetarium on Sept. 4 for extensive renovations that include a state-of-the-art full-dome projection ...

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Paul J. Burgett, a music scholar, vice president and dean at the University of Rochester, as well as a warm and welcoming presence at the university for more than 50 years, has died. A UR statement issued late Thursday afternoon ...

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As local colleges threw open their doors to new and returning students this week, Nazareth College was doing the same, while planning for something else special: the grand opening of the Jane and Laurence Glazer Music Performance Center Sept. 22. ...

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Rochester Contemporary Art Center next month will host a new exhibition of works by Dave Calver. The exhibition will open with a reception Sept. 6 and will feature an artist talk and book signing Sept. 8. Calver, a Rochesterian who ...

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Rochester Contemporary Art Center and the Rochester Advertising Federation have partnered for the fourth annual On the Side exhibition. The show will feature rarely seen personal works by some of Rochester’s most well-known graphic artists, photographers and designers. Unique to ...

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