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Friday, October 23, 2026, 7:30 p.m.

Seeds (DCP)

Dryden Theatre

Labor Film Series From Brittany Shyne, a camera operator on Barbara Kopple’s American Factory, comes this examination of a group of people being continually pushed aside: Black farmers.

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Saturday, October 24, 2026, All Day
Saturday, October 24, 2026, All Day
Saturday, October 24, 2026, All Day

Don't

7Crest Financial Partners Hall
Robin Lehman (American b. 1936) directed the poetic nature film Don’t, which follows the monarch butterfly’s journey of transformation and flight.
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Saturday, October 24, 2026, All Day

Selections from the Collection

Collection Gallery
Selections from the Collection features objects from the museum’s photography and related technology collections. A conceptual thread connects objects, which rotate in and out of the exhibition, to the various lineages that exist throughout the history of photography. Showcased is a field richly interdependent on community networks for its progress.
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Saturday, October 24, 2026, All Day

GAG

Main Galleries

What is "gag"? Gag moves. Gag is visceral. Gag catches in the throat. A laugh. A retch. A joke. A bind. Pleasure and pain. Both noun and verb, gag provokes strong feelings. And, in the hands of artists, it offers a means of grappling with contemporary experience in a tragicomic mode.

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Saturday, October 24, 2026, All Day

Ahndraya Parlato: TIME TO KILL

Project Gallery
Ahndraya Parlato: TIME TO KILL is an evocative interrogation of gendered aging unfolding through photographs, letters, and sculpture. In the exhibition, Parlato explores her fears and fantasies around aging and thinks about how women may become less culturally visible as they enter perimenopausal stages of life.
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Saturday, October 24, 2026, 1 p.m.

In Focus: Documenting LGBTQ History at Kodak

7Crest Financial Partners Hall
Members of the curatorial team for the exhibition Picturing Equality: The Lambda Network at Kodak will discuss their work sharing and preserving the history of Kodak's LGBTQ employee network. Project lead Dr. Tamar Carroll of the RIT History Department and student researchers will explain their curatorial process and demonstrate their digital preservation of primary sources through the Remembering the Lambda Network at Kodak project.
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Saturday, October 24, 2026, 2 p.m.

Matinee: Godmother (35mm)

Dryden Theatre

Filmi Fest 2000 Independent film darling Shabana Azmi stars in this crime drama that swept its six National Film Award nominations, including Best Hindi Feature and a fifth award for Azmi.

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Saturday, October 24, 2026, 7:30 p.m.

Re-Animator (DCP)

Dryden Theatre

Lovecraftian H.P. Lovecraft’s novelette is adapted by first-time writer-director Stuart Gordon into a lovingly blood-soaked ode to the impermanence of death.

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Sunday, October 25, 2026, All Day

GAG

Main Galleries

What is "gag"? Gag moves. Gag is visceral. Gag catches in the throat. A laugh. A retch. A joke. A bind. Pleasure and pain. Both noun and verb, gag provokes strong feelings. And, in the hands of artists, it offers a means of grappling with contemporary experience in a tragicomic mode.

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Sunday, October 25, 2026, All Day

Ahndraya Parlato: TIME TO KILL

Project Gallery
Ahndraya Parlato: TIME TO KILL is an evocative interrogation of gendered aging unfolding through photographs, letters, and sculpture. In the exhibition, Parlato explores her fears and fantasies around aging and thinks about how women may become less culturally visible as they enter perimenopausal stages of life.
Read More
Sunday, October 25, 2026, All Day
Sunday, October 25, 2026, All Day
Sunday, October 25, 2026, All Day

Don't

7Crest Financial Partners Hall
Robin Lehman (American b. 1936) directed the poetic nature film Don’t, which follows the monarch butterfly’s journey of transformation and flight.
Read More
Sunday, October 25, 2026, All Day

Selections from the Collection

Collection Gallery
Selections from the Collection features objects from the museum’s photography and related technology collections. A conceptual thread connects objects, which rotate in and out of the exhibition, to the various lineages that exist throughout the history of photography. Showcased is a field richly interdependent on community networks for its progress.
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Sunday, October 25, 2026, 3 p.m.

Keyboard Duets of Depth and Diversion

Living Room

This program explores the remarkable range of music written for piano four hands. Mozart’s elegant and spirited Piano Sonata in C major opens the program, followed by Schubert’s expressive Fantasie.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2026, All Day

Selections from the Collection

Collection Gallery
Selections from the Collection features objects from the museum’s photography and related technology collections. A conceptual thread connects objects, which rotate in and out of the exhibition, to the various lineages that exist throughout the history of photography. Showcased is a field richly interdependent on community networks for its progress.
Read More
Tuesday, October 27, 2026, All Day

GAG

Main Galleries

What is "gag"? Gag moves. Gag is visceral. Gag catches in the throat. A laugh. A retch. A joke. A bind. Pleasure and pain. Both noun and verb, gag provokes strong feelings. And, in the hands of artists, it offers a means of grappling with contemporary experience in a tragicomic mode.

Read More
Tuesday, October 27, 2026, All Day

Ahndraya Parlato: TIME TO KILL

Project Gallery
Ahndraya Parlato: TIME TO KILL is an evocative interrogation of gendered aging unfolding through photographs, letters, and sculpture. In the exhibition, Parlato explores her fears and fantasies around aging and thinks about how women may become less culturally visible as they enter perimenopausal stages of life.
Read More