No matter how earnest and flexible she tries to be, she just can’t move the judgey rep. The show opens with one woman frantically tidying her home in preparation for a visit from a pet adoption representative, who, of course, immediately comments on how unclean the place is. It includes three separate scenarios of first meetings, with opportunities for the audience to weigh in at key moments about how things should proceed. One part sketch comedy, one part choose-your-own-adventure, this two-woman show in three parts is presented by comedy theater group Nickel Flour. “If you can’t feel that in a workplace, get out of there.” -JEFF SPEVAK “Everyone wants to be validated,” he said. JPosh described himself as a voice that wants to be heard. He was featured on the WXXI-TV documentary series " Arts in Focus." He’s done other shows at Rochester Fringe and Montreal’s Fringe. He creates ASL events such as Roc That!, encouraging deaf artistic expression with local talent. Performing at Lovin’ Cup, signing along to music. What we see is video of JPosh as a figure skater. “What I didn’t expect was the discrimination I experienced,” JPosh said of those college years. "Deaf, Queer, and Fabulous!" covers JPosh’s years from '17 to ’23, a story he tells through spoken word and signing, along with videos and music by Beyoncé and others. He began losing his hearing in high school, and went completely deaf during his college years. “It is quite vulnerable to be honest, but I feel I am ready to share that with an audience,” JPosh said through the show’s interpreter. (And next week is the nationwide “ Deaf Awareness Week,” so it all falls into place.) By some estimates, Rochester has one of the largest deaf populations in the country, per capita. It is about self love, queer identities and souls that are “broken and beautiful.”īorn in The Bronx, JPosh attended Rochester Institute of Technology and now lives here. “This show is about being torn,” he said. Matthew “JPosh” Schwartz is indeed deaf, queer, and has a fabulous and daring fashion sense, considering his cape and very short shorts. "Deaf, Queer, and Fabulous!" is a diverse multimedia show linked to pieces of JPosh’s own story. A great deal of the audience was communicating through ASL, or American Sign Language. The usual pre-show chatter at The Little Theatre seemed unusually animated Friday evening. " Deaf, Queer, and Fabulous! " | One night only Saturday’s second night of telescopes on Parcel 5, the final day of the Rochester Fringe Festival, has been cancelled after forecasts of inclement weather brought on by the approach of Tropical Storm Ophelia. Yet, with the planets and stars uncooperative on this evening, might there be a temptation to turn the telescopes on the windows of the apartment buildings looming over Parcel 5? In a four-year orbit a little farther out from the sun than Mars, a rock of somewhere between two- to four-kilometers in diameter is named Davidbishop 70401. This one was fashioned out of a set of lenses, a blue-painted body made from a tubular concrete form, and some PVC pipe.īishop’s dedication to stargazing has been noted by a friend of his, who successfully applied through the Minor Planet Center to have an asteroid named after Bishop. “I’m an engineer, I build stuff like this,” he said. He was allowing people to catch a glimpse of the moon through a large telescope. Nearby was David Bishop, earthly residence: Hilton. “I always get excited when I see shooting stars,” Prindle said. “The red lines, bacon strips, if you will,” he said, connecting the gas giant to breakfast. Holding out hope for the night sky to clear over the next hour, Collins voted for Jupiter as his favorite celestial object. Directly above was the star Vega, Collins pointed out helpfully, 25 light years away. At around 9 p.m., an unseen haze obscured all celestial objects with the exception of Earth’s moon, which didn’t look like its usual crisp self.Ĭollins and Valerie Prindle - a Rochesterian also peering into the universe - were sharing one of the telescopes on loan from the RMSC. Yet with about 30 telescopes scattered around Rochester’s downtown grassy knoll of Parcel 5, what was otherwise a beautiful evening was not meant for stargazing. “Saturn is somewhere behind these buildings,” said Tim Collins, who, when he’s not among the stars, lives in Webster. Local stargazers in search of cosmic connections. Nerd alert! Friday at Rochester Fringe was date night with the Rochester Museum and Science Center, the RMSC Community Eclipse Ambassadors, and the Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Science. " AstroFringe" | Final night due to weather
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