Friday, January 31- Chinese New Year February 14 Page | 1 This year is the Year of the wooden Horse. Chinese New Year is the most important holiday in the Chinese lunisolar calendar and is recognized by gift giving, parades, decorations, and feasting. The celebration culminates with the Lantern Festival on February 14.

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/social_customs/ zodiac/horse.htm February African American Heritage Month

February Women's Initiative

The Susan B. Anthony House 17 Madison Street Rochester, 14608

Visitor Center: (585) 235-6124 Administrative Offices: (585)279-7490

This 2 hour program begins with a tour of the Susan B. Anthony House and is followed by activities in the Carriage House focusing on drama, communication, perseverance, resources, and networking.

This program is used as a source of inspiration for women needing strength as they make important changes in their lives.

This program is available weekdays in any 2 hour block of time of your choosing. The cost is $12 per person (Non- profit rate: $8 per person).

Coffee is served.

February Redefining the Multiple: 13 Contemporary Japanese Printmakers Page | 2

Memorial Art Gallery 500 University Avenue Rochester, New York 14607 (585) 276-8900

The Grand Gallery. The history, theory and continuing popularity of print media in Japan have made printmaking a major course of study in universities and art schools there. As the individual practice of these 13 artists has evolved and matured, some of their work has transitioned into forms that, while utilizing tools and techniques of the printmaker, are often associated with sculpture, painting and digital media. The artists range in age from their mid-twenties to mid-sixties; they reside in different regions throughout Japan; and the visual content of their work ranges from formal abstraction to iterations of traditional Japanese cultural images.

Saturdays, February West African Drumming Class with Fana Bangoura 10:30 am - noon Page | 3 The Baobab Cultural Center 728 University Avenue Rochester, New York 14607 (585) 563-2145

Passed from generation to generation, West African drumming embodies the creative spirit of African peoples, as well as their pride in the past. Open to students of all levels, Fana Bangoura’s classes make these traditions come alive. A long-time member of Guinea’s most prestigious national performing groups, Les Ballets Africans and Les Percussions de Guinée, Fana offers students a wealth of knowledge, teaching rhythms from the Susu, Malinke, Landouma, and Baga peoples. Beginning students will fall in love with the vibrant rhythms played on the iconic djembe hand drum, as well as the dunun, sangban, and kenkeni, all played with sticks. $15 per session drop in; $10 for students with ID. No pre-registration necessary.

For more information, contact [email protected] (503-679-3372) www.mounafanyi.org. Sundays, February Going for Baroque 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm 500 University Avenue Rochester, New York 14607 (585) 276-8900

Enjoy a 25-minute presentation and mini-recital on the Italian Baroque organ by Thomas Gaynor, a graduate student at the . Repeated at 3 pm. Included in Gallery admission.

Sundays, February West African Dance Class with Fana Bongoura 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Page | 4 DancEncounters 215 Tremont Street Rochester, New York

Come move to the dynamic rhythms of Guinea, West Africa! Open to students of all level and ages, West African dance is a wonderful way to expand your dance vocabulary, get a great workout, and have fun! Instructor Fana Bangoura, a long-time member of Guinea’s most prestigious national performing groups, Les Ballets Africains and Les Percussions de Guinée, will share dances from the Susu, Malinke, Landouma, and Baga peoples. Accompanied by live music, classes offer beginning students and established dancers alike the opportunity to learn a richly developed dance tradition directly from a master teacher. Mixed Level. $15 per session drop in; $10 for students with ID. No pre- registration necessary. For more information, contact [email protected] (503-679-3372; www.mounafanyi.org. Wednesday, February 5 Susan B. Anthony Birthday Tea noon - 2:00 pm Rush Rhees Library Welles-Brown Room

Celebrate Susan B. Anthony's birthday!

Thursday, February 6 Faculty Research Seminar: The Intersection of Misogyny noon - 1:00 pm and Racism Page | 5

University of Rochester Lattimore Hall 540

"The Intersection of Misogyny and Racism: The Adjudication of African American Victims' Court Cases," presented by Catherine Cerulli, director of the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership. The seminar is free and open to the public. RSVP is required, RSVP period opens Jan.27 and closes on Feb. 3. Send RSVP to [email protected]. More info on the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies website. Friday, February 7 Frederick Douglass Institute: New Direction Symposium 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm University of Rochester Rush Rhees Library Welles-Brown Room "A Desir Love Supreme: John Coltrane and Afro-South Asian Freedom Struggles," presented by Elliott Powell, FDI postdoctoral fellow, American Studies "Tradition and Innovation in the Residential Architecture of Abomey," presented by Lynne Larsen, FDI Pre-doctoral fellow, African Art History "Captive Souls: Nuns and Slaves in the Convents of Colonial Mexico," presented Pablo Sierra, History. "The Way they Worked: the Afro-Brazilian Labor Experience in Early 20th Century Sao Paulo," Molly Ball, Department of History Additional selections offered. For more information, contact the Frederick Douglass Institute for African & African-American Studies at (585) 276-5744 or email [email protected].

Friday, February 7 Art Exhibit: First Friday Gallery Night: 6:00 pm Magnificent Africa Page | 6 Film: More than a Month

The Baobab Cultural Center 728 University Avenue Rochester, New York 14607 (585) 563-2145

In this documentary, Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29- year-old African-American filmmaker, is on a cross- country campaign to end Black History Month. Through this tongue-in-cheek journey, “More Than a Month” investigates what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a “post-racial” America.Through a series of informative panels, artifacts, and now, a fully interactive digital display including music, video, and imagery, which was made possible through a major grant from the Farash Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts' Regional Economic Development Program, you can learn the story of African migration and trade routes, classical civilizations and great empires, ancient writings, scholarship in math and sciences, and excellence in the arts - from textile making to architecture. Experience a tour of the exhibit with the Baobab's Executive Director, Terry Chaka! Contact us for information. http://www.thebaobab.org

Saturday, February 8 Discussion: Professor Njeru Murage 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Page | 7 Penfield Public Library 1985 Baird Road Penfield, New York 14526 Tel: 585-340-8720

Age Level: Adult. February is Black History Month. Throughout their history, three social philosophies have been advanced for the uplift of African Americans. In celebration of Black History Month, Professor Njeru Murage will compare and contrast these three ways of social development. Come and participate in the discussion that will follow the presentation. Sponsored by the Friends of Penfield Public Library. Saturday, February 8 Susan B. Anthony Legacy Dinner 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Staybridge Suites 1000 Genesee Street Rochester, NY 14611 (585) 527-9110

The dinner will recognize the 2014 award recipients of the Susan B. Anthony Scholarship, the Susan B. Anthony Prize, the Fannie Bigelow Prize, the Jane R. Plitt Award, the Dean Ruth A. Merrill Award, and the Sue Stewart Award. Sponsored by the Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership and the Women’s Club at the University of Rochester. Tickets for the dinner are $45 or $25 for University of Rochester students. Seating is limited and tickets must be purchased in advance. For more information and reservations, call (585) 275-8799 or visit www.rochester.edu/SBA.

Saturday, February 8 Film: Screening and Reception for Arzouma Aime 6:00 pm Kompaore: HAWA Page | 8

The Baobab Cultural Center 728 University Avenue Rochester, New York 14607 (585) 563-2145

Doors open; meet & greet reception. Film Screening: HAWA (30 minutes) followed by discussion with the filmmaker and reception starts at 7:00 pm. The Baobab wants to support African genius whenever and in whatever way we can. Recently, we have been privileged to play a small part in the creation of a work of art by filmmaker Arzouma Aime Kompaore, artist from Burkina Faso who is currently studying film at R.I.T.

We are happy to announce that his film, HAWA, is an 'Official Selection' at the 2014 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles!

We want to continue to support Arzouma. Please join us in doing so. Proceeds and donations from the event will help the artist and cast members to attend and present at the festival this February.

Saturday, February 8 China Nite 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Page | 9 Strong Auditorium

Celebrate the lunar new year at China Nite! Spend a fun night of music, dance and a fantastic skit! Enjoy a festival full of laughs and happiness. Doors open at 7 p.m. Sponsored by CSA. Tickets are available at the Common Market at Wilson Commons for $5 for University students, $8 for University faculty, staff, graduate students; and $10 for the general public. For more information, contact the Common Connection at (585) 275-5911. Monday, February 10 Story time with Miss Anne at 10:00 am Henrietta Public Library- Calkins Road Wegmans

Story time fun with Miss Anne at Calkins Road Wegmans! Join Miss Anne at the Calkins Road Wegmans for a special story time! This program will include stories, songs, rhymes, and simple sign language. Designed for children of all ages and their caregivers. Story time will take place in the Market Café. Monday, February 10 Mallet Time Duo 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Henrietta Public Library - Community Room

Join us for a unique vibraphone and marimba concert! Monday, February 10 from 7-8 p.m. The Mallet Time Duo is comprised of RPO Percussionists and Eastman Faculty members Charles Ross and Howard Potter. They bring to their performances a fun and eclectic mix of Jazz, Latin, and Classical pieces uniquely woven on the keyboard percussion instruments of Vibraphone and Marimba.

Tuesday, February 11 Officer and Community Relations Speaker 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Page | 10 St. John Fisher College Basil 135 @ 3690 East Avenue Rochester, New York 14618

Marisol O. Ramos-Lopez is the Administrator for one of the City’s Service Centers, a community quality-of-life initiative that teams residents with city staff to devise and achieve effective solutions to neighborhood problems. In her role as NSC Administrator, Marisol works closely with members of the Rochester Police Department in devising strategies to bring city government closer to residents and business owners so quality of life issues can be addressed more quickly and effectively.

For more information, contact the Office of Multicultural Affairs & Diversity Programs at [email protected] or (585) 385-8378.

February 11 - March 9 Clybourne Park Page | 11 Geva Theatre Center 75 Woodbury Boulevard Rochester, New York 14607 Box Office: (585) 232-4382

A wickedly funny and fiercely provocative play about the volatile combination of race and real estate. In Act One it’s 1959, and a white couple sells their home to the Younger family of A Raisin in the Sun, causing an uproar in their all-white neighborhood. Fast forward 50 years in Act Two and the same house is bought by a white couple with plans for gentrification - and a knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. While the stakes have changed, the debate remains as neighbors reveal just how far ideas about race have evolved…or have they?

Run Time: 2 hours, 5 min including intermission. Age Recommendation: 13+. WARNING: Strong language and mature subject matter. Approaching contemporary issues of race, class and community through the form of satire is complicated and intentionally provocative. Clybourne Park encourages audience members to question societal attitudes and examine their own positions and actions through a style of humor that can be both unsettling and uncomfortable. Wednesday, February 12 Africa Video and Film Series: Lincoln 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm University of Rochester Morey Hall 321

Film screening of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. Refreshments will be provided. Free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies at (585) 276-5744 or email [email protected].

Thursday, February 14 Film: Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Blacks in 7:00 pm New Orleans Page | 12

The Baobab Cultural Center 728 University Avenue Rochester, New York 14607 (585) 563-2145

Award-winning documentary about America's oldest black neighborhood. Nestled at the edge of New Orleans’ more famous French Quarter, Faubourg Treme was home to the largest community of free black people in the South and is considered the birthplace of both jazz and the Southern civil rights movement. Long before Hurricane Katrina, two native New Orleanians, filmmaker Dawn Logsdon and writer Lolis Eric Elie, began documenting the rich, living culture of this historic district. Miraculously, their tapes survived the disaster unscathed. The completed film is a fresh approach to historical documentary storytelling. The filmmakers interview prominent historians to elucidate the facts, but mostly what we hear and see is the music, dance, poetry, and voices of contemporary residents. We meet people several years before Hurricane Katrina and follow their stories through the storm's aftermath. Executive Producers are Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Nelson.

Friday, February 15 Guest Speaker Event: Dr. Raymond Winbush 1:00 pm Sponsored by Mt. Olivet Baptist Church Page | 13

The Baobab Cultural Center 728 University Avenue Rochester, New York 14607 (585) 563-2145

2014 Black Heritage Month Guest Keynote Speaker Dr. Raymond Winbush, Director, Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University will discuss "The Warrior Method, a Program for Rearing Healthy Black Boys. Reception and book signing to follow talk.

In 2001, Ray Winbush published The Warrior Method: A Program for Rearing Healthy Black Boys. The book is based on the traditions of Poro Society, the most ancient rite of passage ritual in West Africa, where 85% of Americanized Africans have their genetic roots. The Warrior Method is an extension of the rituals and teachings of Poro Society adapted for African boys growing up in white supremacist societies. It has been taught to hundreds of educators and parents throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and the Caribbean.

Winbush's work has been recognized by many, especially in the area of understanding racism and its impact on the Nine Areas of White Supremacy as discussed by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing and Neely Fuller. He has been a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show, with the stars of the critically acclaimed and Oscar-winning film, Crash, and a delegate to the 2001 United Nations World Conference Against Racism.

Dr. Winbush will also present the Sunday sermon at Mt. Olivet Feb. 16. 10:45 am.

Sunday, February 16 Black History Month Family Day noon - 5:00 pm Page | 14 Memorial Art Gallery 500 University Ave, Rochester, NY 14607 (585) 276-8900

All ages are invited to celebrate Black History Month with family art activities, music and dance performances, tours and storytelling. Suggested donation $5 per family.

Sponsored by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Additional support provided by Sankofa@UR and the Robert and Madeleine S. Heilbrunn Memorial Fund. Sunday, February 16 Rochester's Rich History: An Encounter with Abolitionist 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Rev. J.W. Loguen

Central Library- Rundel Auditorium, 3rd floor Rundel Memorial Building 115 South Avenue Rochester, New York 14604 Tel: 585-428-7300

Age Level: Adult. Live performance by Robert Djed Snead Step back in time to July 1853 to witness the Rev. J.W. Loguen reporting to his Syracuse congregation about the National Colored Convention he attended in Rochester the week before. Loguen will discuss his work as an abolitionist and the concerns raised by convention participants, including the effects of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law and the recent Jerry rescue, in which a crowd was able to free a former slave who had been arrested under the act. The performance will be followed by a Question & Answer session.

Monday, February 17 Lessons Learned from the Civil Rights Legacy 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Page | 15 Central Library- Kate Gleason Auditorium 115 South Avenue Rochester, New York 14604 Tel: 585-428-7300

A special presentation by the Rev. Dr. Bernard Lafayette. The Rev. Dr. Lafayette, an ordained minister, is a longtime civil rights activist, organizer and authority on nonviolent social change. He co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960, and he was a core leader of the civil rights movement in Nashville in 1960 and Selma in 1965. He directed the Alabama Voter Registration Project in 1962, and he was appointed by Martin Luther King, Jr. to be national program administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and national coordinator of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign.

Co-sponsored by the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence Monday, February 17 Gandhi Institute Lecture: Bernard LaFayette Jr 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Asbury First Methodist 1050 East Avenue Rochester, New York 14607 (585) 271-1050

Bernard LaFayette Jr., will give a talk "The Dream' Deferred; Challenge of Institutionalizing Change." LaFayette is a Freedom Rider, cofounder of SNCC, and close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He is currently a visiting scholar in residence at Emory University. The talk is free and open to the public. For more information, email [email protected].

Wednesday, February 19 Great Decisions 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Page | 16 Pittsford Community Library- Fletcher Steele Room 24 State Street Pittsford, New York 14534 Tel: 585-248-6275

Age Level: Adult. Great Decisions is a dynamic citizen education and discussion program sponsored nationally by the Foreign Policy Association and coordinated locally by the Pittsford Community Library. The purpose is to educate citizens about issues of importance to American foreign policy and to provide them with information to form opinions about the topics covered. Each year 8 issues significant to the United States' role in the global community are chosen for discussion. Great Decisions 2014 will meet from 7-8:30 pm, Wednesday evenings in the Fletcher Steele Room. Participants are welcome to attend all or selected sessions. Our February 19 topic is Israel and the US. Copies of the Great Decisions Briefing Books are available for check-out at the Check Out/Return Desk and for reference at the Reference Desk. Limited registration. Friday, February 28 Susan B. Anthony Lecture: Qwo-Li Driskill 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm University of Rochester Rush Rhees Library Welles-Brown Room

Keynote speaker: Qwo-Li Driskill is assistant professor of Queer Studies at Oregon State University. Driskill is a Cherokee Two-Spirit/Queer writer, scholar, educator, activist, and performer also of African, Irish, Lenape, Lumbee, and Osage ascent.

Advance Alert: Shen Yun - Classical Chinese Dance Coming to Rochester - Page | 17 March 1 - 2 Rochester Auditorium Theatre 885 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14605

From battlefields to imperial palaces. Classical Chinese dance has a history of thousands of years, sharing a common ancestry with martial arts. Its dramatic jumping, spinning, and flipping techniques are just part of the vast repertoire of movements that make classical Chinese dance—one of the most demanding and expressive art forms in the world. Witness the Divine Culture’s Return. An extraordinary journey across 5,000 years of Chinese civilization! With classical Chinese dance, live orchestra, dazzling costumes and animated backdrops, Shen Yun will transport you to another world. In ancient China, artists valued integrity, meditation, and a mindful lifestyle. They took to heart the belief that to create inspiring art there must first be inner beauty. Today, Shen Yun’s artists follow this noble tradition, incorporating study and meditation into their rigorous daily training. The result? A performance that moves audiences in beautiful and profound ways. You cannot see a show like this in China, where traditional culture has been devastated under 60 years of communism. But being based in New York, the non- profit Shen Yun is able to freely present these traditions on stage. Millions have seen Shen Yun. Standing ovations at sold-out theaters around the world have made it a global sensation.

Experience a performance that will touch your soul. http://www.shenyunperformingarts.org/rochester#abou t. Information Hotline: 1-877-519-0905, Tickets: 1-800-745- 3000.