Arts & Culture

Plenty of markets and events are trying to get gift buyers to shop locally this holiday season.

One of those is Curated, a market at the Culver Road Armory featuring all handmade and local art and items for Small Business Saturday, which was held this weekend.

Tanvi Asher is the owner of Shop Peppermint, which is also at the Armory, and started Curated three years ago. She says it’s important to keep money local.

"To me, that connection that you make with that person, knowing that you supported them and their family and their art is very important."

A Webster tradition is turning 47 years old this year. The annual Turkey Trot will hit Webster Park Thursday morning.

Ellen Brenner, owner of YellowJacket racing says it’s part of many families Thanksgiving ritual.

"They want to do something active, they want to do something with their friends and their family, and doing a race such as this is something that can accomplish that for them. Then they can go home and eat all they want and feel better about it."

The George Eastman Museum is collaborating with the JCC and the Jewish Federation for a film series.

It’s in commemoration of the lives of the victims of the Tree of Life tragedy in Pittsburgh and in solidarity with the Jewish People.

Meredith Dragon, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester says Bruce Barnes from the Eastman Museum reached out to both Jewish organizations just days after the Pittsburgh shooting, and asked if they wanted to do a film series celebrating Jewish Life.

The blockbuster show at the Memorial Art Gallery now was supposed to be “Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process.” And it is a nice collection of pretty paintings of a bridge. Variations on expressionism. Variations on London fog.

Rochester's Center for Youth has begun a remodeling project for the first LGBTQ and Trafficked Homeless Youth Shelter in the area.

They're demolishing a residence that has been donated to the center, according to Director of Development and Special Events, Jason Roberts.

"First of its kind in our region, and is really meeting the need of a vulnerable population that sometimes just don't have resources," he said.

Roberts says LGBTQ youth are only about 7 percent of this community, but they make up 40 percent of the homeless youth population.