This short film gives a glimpse of the experiences at “Lunar Ball” that was held on April 6th, 2024 at the historic 1804 Wadsworth Homestead in Geneseo, NY. Guests were invited back on April 8th, 2024 to experience the eclipse’s darkness on the West Lawn of the homestead.
As a first-year RIT student enrolled in the solar eclipse class, I had to find and cover an event surrounding the eclipse. I wanted to find something that captured the eclipse in an art and social context that connected me to the Rochester community. The sun Festival, put on by PWS and hosted by Essex, caught my attention.
The Rochester Red Wings opened its stadium doors and the gates to Innovational Field as it hosted Solarpalooza, a $40/ticket event that the minor league team hosted for the community to view the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.
On April 8th, 2024, students, faculty, and visitors of RIT gathered at the university wide Eclipse Fest to commemorate the rare Total Solar Eclipse. Hosted at the Gordon Field House,
A Celestial Embrace is a short cinematic of a couple of college friends located in Upstate New York coming together to have an eclipse-viewing picnic on April 8th, the day of the Great North American Eclipse in 2024.
This short film offers a glimpse of what it was like to experience the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 at the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, New York.
This project explores the complex differences of how people view the solar eclipse and the similarities, dispel common misconceptions and reveal how many different ways there are to understand a single event.
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra presented the “RPO ECLIPSE SPECTACULAR: A Symphonic Celebration” to a sold-out crowd April 7 at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, N.Y. Along with the orchestra, the event featured performances from the Rochester City Ballet, PUSH Physical Theatre, Madrigalia, and Troupe Vertigo.
