Friday, August 7, 2009

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Recent works by Al Bremer and Kate Timm
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Healing Art Passages: A Journey of Grace -- works of Suzanne Masters
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Painting and collage provide examples of "working through" from Suzanne's own personal experiences and of how she takes her students through the process of self discovery.

"Through visual art we can consciously process old beliefs and 'stuck' patterns that hold us back. Through this discovery, we can see clearly and decide the paths we choose to take in our lives. As an artist and a teacher, I have learned that when we close our mouths and stop the chatter, and let colors and forms talk, we shift the process to the other side of the brain where it can speak about things we may have covered up long ago. When they come back to us this way, it is with a different sound. The journey through such an emergence is powerful and beautiful!"

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Artist reception 6:00-8:00 pm.

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Organic Watermarks: Photographs by Gus Bennett, Jr.
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In the exhibition "Organic Watermarks," New Orleans photographer Gus Bennett, Jr., displays portraits of New Orleans residents juxtaposed with layers of debris from Hurricane Katrina. Watermarks on concrete and other surfaces, leaves, textures, colors and remnants left behind by Katrina form layers in front of, behind and even merged onto the surface of the skin of the subjects. Together, the subjects and debris become storytellers of New Orleans post-Katrina. Shot entirely in natural light, the overall mood of the pieces is almost of an ethereal quality, with the ghost-like images of debris commingling with the subjects. According to Bennett, as many as 82 layers comprise one individual portrait. The subjects either appear draped in fabric or nude, which the artist explains is a means of eliminating social class or status: "with Katrina, everyone got left behind." With "Organic Watermarks," Bennett creates true works of beauty, proving that even in the aftermath of chaos, hope can still prevail.

Purple Treatment: Ceramic Works by Eunjung Shin
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In "Purple Treatment," Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculptures represent stories from the artist's life. Shin has taken personal memories and transformed them into three-dimensional artistic expressions. The highly detailed figures are skillfully rendered and express a range of emotions. Shin describes some of her figures as "clowns" because they hide their true selves, putting on a face to the world in order to please others. Many of the pieces prompt the viewer to look inward to reflect upon their meaning.

Works of Sue Hershberger Yoder
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Sue Hershberger Yoder's solo exhibition features work which utilizes printmaking to explore the terrain between art and design through patterns inspired by nature. Yoder is influenced by her work in the fashion design industry where she creates print designs for fabric. She also draws upon familiar forms of the natural world, which were a constant backdrop of her Midwestern upbringing. The resulting prints create sensuous environments that envelop the viewer.

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

First Friday from 6:009:00 with live music provided by Louis Nocilly's "Jazzitude."

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and 100 Last Names
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The two solo exhibitions, Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and Xiaowen Chen: 100 Last Names, present work from the past nine years by Chinese-born, Ithaca-based artist Chen. Having lived in the United States for the past two decades, Chen has focused his work on the space between East and West. From his many return trips to China, Chen has created digital images and video projections reflecting American and Chinese attitudes toward the 21st-century role of media and technology and identity issues. His work of overlapping the cultures of East and West addresses his search for what he called in 1993 the "manifestation of the universal and the expression of the particular."

Chen places himself in the position of both the American and the Chinese tourist. He has noted that when photographing in China he feels like a foreigner, while in the U.S. he feels like a traveler. His work addresses both China's historical transformation and his personal experience as an émigré.

Like other artists of his generation, Chen grew up under Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and was exposed to a visual vocabulary that highlighted fragmentation and repetition. As a result, works by Xiaowen Chen evoke cultural clichés and stereotypes.

The Power of Revolt: Grassroots Resistance in Oaxaca
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A powerful exhibit of photographs from the Oaxaca, Mexico resistance movement combined with original political posters from art collectives there.

In 2006, Oaxaca, Mexico came alive with a broad and diverse movement that captivated the nation and inspired communities organizing for social justice around the world. Fueled by long ignored social contradictions, what began as a teachers' strike demanding more resources for education quickly turned into a massive movement that demanded direct, participatory democracy.

Hundreds of thousands of Oaxacans raised their voices against the abuses of the state government. They participated in marches of up to 800,000 people, planned strategy at the barricades, occupied government buildings, took over radio stations, held sit-ins, and reclaimed spaces for public art and altars for assassinated activists. In the now Legendary March of Pots and Pans, 2,000 women peacefully took over and operated the state television channel for three weeks.

Skaneateles Community Band

Price: Free
Clift Park
Genesee St., Skaneateles

Bring a blanket or lawn chair. Rain location is Austin Park Pavilion. For more information, phone 315-685-0552.

Into the Woods Junior
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie E. Strodel, director

Price: $10 adults; $5 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Youth Theater production. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine present a cockeyed view of everyone's favorite fairytale characters in this hysterical take on the Brothers Grimm. When a baker and his wife learn they've been cursed with childlessness by the witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell, swindling, deceiving and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk!)

For reservations, phone 315-877-4183.

Cinderella and Give My Regards to Broadway
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Cinderella performed by students in grades 1-5; Give My Regards to Broadway performed by grades 6-12.

Summer One-Acts
Appleseed Productions

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Spoons by Kyle Bass, directed by Donna Stuccio
Seven Menus by David Ives, directed by Daniel Rowlands
No Exit by Jean Paul Sarte, directed by Terence LaCasse

Read a review!

Closer

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A play by Patrick Marder. For more information, phone 315-246-1987.

West Side Story
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a review!

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

Purple Treatment: Ceramic Works by Eunjung Shin
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In "Purple Treatment," Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculptures represent stories from the artist's life. Shin has taken personal memories and transformed them into three-dimensional artistic expressions. The highly detailed figures are skillfully rendered and express a range of emotions. Shin describes some of her figures as "clowns" because they hide their true selves, putting on a face to the world in order to please others. Many of the pieces prompt the viewer to look inward to reflect upon their meaning.

Organic Watermarks: Photographs by Gus Bennett, Jr.
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In the exhibition "Organic Watermarks," New Orleans photographer Gus Bennett, Jr., displays portraits of New Orleans residents juxtaposed with layers of debris from Hurricane Katrina. Watermarks on concrete and other surfaces, leaves, textures, colors and remnants left behind by Katrina form layers in front of, behind and even merged onto the surface of the skin of the subjects. Together, the subjects and debris become storytellers of New Orleans post-Katrina. Shot entirely in natural light, the overall mood of the pieces is almost of an ethereal quality, with the ghost-like images of debris commingling with the subjects. According to Bennett, as many as 82 layers comprise one individual portrait. The subjects either appear draped in fabric or nude, which the artist explains is a means of eliminating social class or status: "with Katrina, everyone got left behind." With "Organic Watermarks," Bennett creates true works of beauty, proving that even in the aftermath of chaos, hope can still prevail.

Works of Sue Hershberger Yoder
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Sue Hershberger Yoder's solo exhibition features work which utilizes printmaking to explore the terrain between art and design through patterns inspired by nature. Yoder is influenced by her work in the fashion design industry where she creates print designs for fabric. She also draws upon familiar forms of the natural world, which were a constant backdrop of her Midwestern upbringing. The resulting prints create sensuous environments that envelop the viewer.

The Power of Revolt: Grassroots Resistance in Oaxaca
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A powerful exhibit of photographs from the Oaxaca, Mexico resistance movement combined with original political posters from art collectives there.

In 2006, Oaxaca, Mexico came alive with a broad and diverse movement that captivated the nation and inspired communities organizing for social justice around the world. Fueled by long ignored social contradictions, what began as a teachers' strike demanding more resources for education quickly turned into a massive movement that demanded direct, participatory democracy.

Hundreds of thousands of Oaxacans raised their voices against the abuses of the state government. They participated in marches of up to 800,000 people, planned strategy at the barricades, occupied government buildings, took over radio stations, held sit-ins, and reclaimed spaces for public art and altars for assassinated activists. In the now Legendary March of Pots and Pans, 2,000 women peacefully took over and operated the state television channel for three weeks.

Boogie Woogie Blues Bash
Bernie Clarke and the Rhythm Sharks, and Ron Spencer

Price: $12 advance, $15 door
Cooper's Landing
Lakeshore Rd., Cicero

Charlie Bertini Jazz Band
Skaneateles Arts Council

Price: Free
Clift Park
Genesee St., Skaneateles

Information: Sandi Mulconry, sandi@groupmcom.com, 315-685-9363 or Joe Strodel, js343@cornell.edu, 315-685-2414.

Mario DeSantis Orchestra
Candlelight Series

Price: Free
Armory Square
Clinton and Jefferson St., Syracuse

Into the Woods Junior
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie E. Strodel, director

Price: $10 adults; $5 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Youth Theater production. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine present a cockeyed view of everyone's favorite fairytale characters in this hysterical take on the Brothers Grimm. When a baker and his wife learn they've been cursed with childlessness by the witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell, swindling, deceiving and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk!)

For reservations, phone 315-877-4183.

The Falsettos Murder
Without A Cue

Price: $39.50 includes dinner, show, tax, and gratuity
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

In this a parody of the HBO mega hit, The Sopranos, Tony and his entourage are in town for—what else?—a waste management convention. When somebody gets whacked it's nothing personal, strictly "business."

For reservations, phone 315-469-6969. For more information, visit www.glenloch.net.

Summer One-Acts
Appleseed Productions

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Spoons by Kyle Bass, directed by Donna Stuccio
Seven Menus by David Ives, directed by Daniel Rowlands
No Exit by Jean Paul Sarte, directed by Terence LaCasse

Read a review!

Closer

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A play by Patrick Marder. For more information, phone 315-246-1987.

Talking With...
Simply New Theatre
Garrett Heater, director

Price: $25 at the door; $20 in advance
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Special one-night-only return engagement to benefit the Poor Broke College Student Fund. To reserve tickets, phone 315-558-9124.

West Side Story
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a review!

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

Works of Sue Hershberger Yoder
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Sue Hershberger Yoder's solo exhibition features work which utilizes printmaking to explore the terrain between art and design through patterns inspired by nature. Yoder is influenced by her work in the fashion design industry where she creates print designs for fabric. She also draws upon familiar forms of the natural world, which were a constant backdrop of her Midwestern upbringing. The resulting prints create sensuous environments that envelop the viewer.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Metro Station, Mayday Parade, Evan Taubenfeld
Westcott Theater

Price: $23
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Information: 315-299-8886.

SyraBlues Sunday: A Tribute to Roosevelt Dean
Showcase Sundays
Featuring Carolyn Kelly and the Roosevelt Dean Blues Band

Price: Free
Spirit of Jubilee Park
161 South Ave., Syracuse

For more information, visit showcasesundays.com.

West Side Story
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a review!

Guys and Dolls
Syracuse Opera

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

This concert will feature members of the Syracuse Opera Chorus. Syracuse Opera's Director of Music, Douglas Kinney Frost, will conduct the orchestra.

Picture it: New York City in the 1940s, all the hot gamblers are in town, and they're depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York;" the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. Throw in Sarah Brown, who's short on sinners at the mission she runs; Sky Masterson, who accepts Nathan's $1000 bet that he can't get Sarah Brown to go with him to Havana; Miss Adelaide, who wants Nathan to marry her; Police Lieutenant Brannigan, who always seems to appear at the wrong time; and the award-winning music and lyrics of Frank Loesser, and you've got an entertaining way to spend a Sunday afternoon!

Use the park entrance on Ostrom Avenue; bring lawn chairs or blankets.

Into the Woods Junior
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie E. Strodel, director

Price: $10 adults; $5 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Youth Theater production. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine present a cockeyed view of everyone's favorite fairytale characters in this hysterical take on the Brothers Grimm. When a baker and his wife learn they've been cursed with childlessness by the witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell, swindling, deceiving and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk!)

For reservations, phone 315-877-4183.

Monday, August 10, 2009

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Healing Art Passages: A Journey of Grace -- works of Suzanne Masters
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Painting and collage provide examples of "working through" from Suzanne's own personal experiences and of how she takes her students through the process of self discovery.

"Through visual art we can consciously process old beliefs and 'stuck' patterns that hold us back. Through this discovery, we can see clearly and decide the paths we choose to take in our lives. As an artist and a teacher, I have learned that when we close our mouths and stop the chatter, and let colors and forms talk, we shift the process to the other side of the brain where it can speak about things we may have covered up long ago. When they come back to us this way, it is with a different sound. The journey through such an emergence is powerful and beautiful!"

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

We Came as Romans, The Word Alive, Belle Epoque
Westcott Theater

Price: $12
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Information: 315-299-8886.

El Kabong
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Guitarist Frank Rhodes' exciting new rockabilly band.
Rain Date: Tuesday, August 11

For information on concerts or to see if a concert has been rained out, please call 315-457-3895.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Recent works by Al Bremer and Kate Timm
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Healing Art Passages: A Journey of Grace -- works of Suzanne Masters
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Painting and collage provide examples of "working through" from Suzanne's own personal experiences and of how she takes her students through the process of self discovery.

"Through visual art we can consciously process old beliefs and 'stuck' patterns that hold us back. Through this discovery, we can see clearly and decide the paths we choose to take in our lives. As an artist and a teacher, I have learned that when we close our mouths and stop the chatter, and let colors and forms talk, we shift the process to the other side of the brain where it can speak about things we may have covered up long ago. When they come back to us this way, it is with a different sound. The journey through such an emergence is powerful and beautiful!"

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Organic Watermarks: Photographs by Gus Bennett, Jr.
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In the exhibition "Organic Watermarks," New Orleans photographer Gus Bennett, Jr., displays portraits of New Orleans residents juxtaposed with layers of debris from Hurricane Katrina. Watermarks on concrete and other surfaces, leaves, textures, colors and remnants left behind by Katrina form layers in front of, behind and even merged onto the surface of the skin of the subjects. Together, the subjects and debris become storytellers of New Orleans post-Katrina. Shot entirely in natural light, the overall mood of the pieces is almost of an ethereal quality, with the ghost-like images of debris commingling with the subjects. According to Bennett, as many as 82 layers comprise one individual portrait. The subjects either appear draped in fabric or nude, which the artist explains is a means of eliminating social class or status: "with Katrina, everyone got left behind." With "Organic Watermarks," Bennett creates true works of beauty, proving that even in the aftermath of chaos, hope can still prevail.

Purple Treatment: Ceramic Works by Eunjung Shin
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In "Purple Treatment," Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculptures represent stories from the artist's life. Shin has taken personal memories and transformed them into three-dimensional artistic expressions. The highly detailed figures are skillfully rendered and express a range of emotions. Shin describes some of her figures as "clowns" because they hide their true selves, putting on a face to the world in order to please others. Many of the pieces prompt the viewer to look inward to reflect upon their meaning.

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and 100 Last Names
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The two solo exhibitions, Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and Xiaowen Chen: 100 Last Names, present work from the past nine years by Chinese-born, Ithaca-based artist Chen. Having lived in the United States for the past two decades, Chen has focused his work on the space between East and West. From his many return trips to China, Chen has created digital images and video projections reflecting American and Chinese attitudes toward the 21st-century role of media and technology and identity issues. His work of overlapping the cultures of East and West addresses his search for what he called in 1993 the "manifestation of the universal and the expression of the particular."

Chen places himself in the position of both the American and the Chinese tourist. He has noted that when photographing in China he feels like a foreigner, while in the U.S. he feels like a traveler. His work addresses both China's historical transformation and his personal experience as an émigré.

Like other artists of his generation, Chen grew up under Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and was exposed to a visual vocabulary that highlighted fragmentation and repetition. As a result, works by Xiaowen Chen evoke cultural clichés and stereotypes.

La Americana
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

La Americana is an intimate documentary following an undocumented immigrant's journey from Bolivia to New York City and back, as she struggles to save the life of her ailing daughter. Her unforgettable story is woven into the current immigration crisis in the United States, putting a human face on this timely and controversial issue. Through interviews, reenactments and a sweeping cinema-verite narrative, La Americana takes its viewers on an international journey following the personal and political tragedy faced by one undocumented immigrant in New York City. The story begins several years ago, in the poorest country of South America.

When nine-year-old Carla falls gravely ill, her mother Carmen must leave her behind and make the dangerous and illegal journey to New York. Carmen hopes to earn enough money to support her ailing daughter realizing she may never see her again. Six years later, U.S. Congress proposes amnesty legislation that may allow the mother and daughter to reunite. La Americana is Carmen's story, and the story of millions of illegal immigrants forced to leave their families behind in order to provide them a better life. It is the story of a continent divided not by values, but by a physical and political barrier that separates families indefinitely, sometimes forever.

For immigrants themselves, the film empowers by giving voice to a common struggle. For native audiences, the film provides a chance to step into the shoes of the other. In this way, La Americana can both be a bridge within communities, as well as a call to action.

Join representatives from the ACLU and the Detention Task Force for this film screening and informative discussion. This unforgettable story puts a human face on the controversial issue of the immigration debate.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Recent works by Al Bremer and Kate Timm
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Healing Art Passages: A Journey of Grace -- works of Suzanne Masters
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Painting and collage provide examples of "working through" from Suzanne's own personal experiences and of how she takes her students through the process of self discovery.

"Through visual art we can consciously process old beliefs and 'stuck' patterns that hold us back. Through this discovery, we can see clearly and decide the paths we choose to take in our lives. As an artist and a teacher, I have learned that when we close our mouths and stop the chatter, and let colors and forms talk, we shift the process to the other side of the brain where it can speak about things we may have covered up long ago. When they come back to us this way, it is with a different sound. The journey through such an emergence is powerful and beautiful!"

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Purple Treatment: Ceramic Works by Eunjung Shin
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In "Purple Treatment," Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculptures represent stories from the artist's life. Shin has taken personal memories and transformed them into three-dimensional artistic expressions. The highly detailed figures are skillfully rendered and express a range of emotions. Shin describes some of her figures as "clowns" because they hide their true selves, putting on a face to the world in order to please others. Many of the pieces prompt the viewer to look inward to reflect upon their meaning.

Organic Watermarks: Photographs by Gus Bennett, Jr.
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In the exhibition "Organic Watermarks," New Orleans photographer Gus Bennett, Jr., displays portraits of New Orleans residents juxtaposed with layers of debris from Hurricane Katrina. Watermarks on concrete and other surfaces, leaves, textures, colors and remnants left behind by Katrina form layers in front of, behind and even merged onto the surface of the skin of the subjects. Together, the subjects and debris become storytellers of New Orleans post-Katrina. Shot entirely in natural light, the overall mood of the pieces is almost of an ethereal quality, with the ghost-like images of debris commingling with the subjects. According to Bennett, as many as 82 layers comprise one individual portrait. The subjects either appear draped in fabric or nude, which the artist explains is a means of eliminating social class or status: "with Katrina, everyone got left behind." With "Organic Watermarks," Bennett creates true works of beauty, proving that even in the aftermath of chaos, hope can still prevail.

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and 100 Last Names
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The two solo exhibitions, Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and Xiaowen Chen: 100 Last Names, present work from the past nine years by Chinese-born, Ithaca-based artist Chen. Having lived in the United States for the past two decades, Chen has focused his work on the space between East and West. From his many return trips to China, Chen has created digital images and video projections reflecting American and Chinese attitudes toward the 21st-century role of media and technology and identity issues. His work of overlapping the cultures of East and West addresses his search for what he called in 1993 the "manifestation of the universal and the expression of the particular."

Chen places himself in the position of both the American and the Chinese tourist. He has noted that when photographing in China he feels like a foreigner, while in the U.S. he feels like a traveler. His work addresses both China's historical transformation and his personal experience as an émigré.

Like other artists of his generation, Chen grew up under Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and was exposed to a visual vocabulary that highlighted fragmentation and repetition. As a result, works by Xiaowen Chen evoke cultural clichés and stereotypes.

The Power of Revolt: Grassroots Resistance in Oaxaca
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A powerful exhibit of photographs from the Oaxaca, Mexico resistance movement combined with original political posters from art collectives there.

In 2006, Oaxaca, Mexico came alive with a broad and diverse movement that captivated the nation and inspired communities organizing for social justice around the world. Fueled by long ignored social contradictions, what began as a teachers' strike demanding more resources for education quickly turned into a massive movement that demanded direct, participatory democracy.

Hundreds of thousands of Oaxacans raised their voices against the abuses of the state government. They participated in marches of up to 800,000 people, planned strategy at the barricades, occupied government buildings, took over radio stations, held sit-ins, and reclaimed spaces for public art and altars for assassinated activists. In the now Legendary March of Pots and Pans, 2,000 women peacefully took over and operated the state television channel for three weeks.

Smokin'

Price: Free
Lonergan Park
Route 11, just north of Taft Road, North Syracuse

Part of Syracuse Parks and Recreation Department's Concerts in the Park series.
Information: 315-458-8050.

Eddie Fagan & Friends
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

CNY's most popular banjoman playing standards and leading sing-alongs.
Rain Date: Thursday, August 13

For information on concerts or to see if a concert has been rained out, please call 315-457-3895.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Recent works by Al Bremer and Kate Timm
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Healing Art Passages: A Journey of Grace -- works of Suzanne Masters
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Painting and collage provide examples of "working through" from Suzanne's own personal experiences and of how she takes her students through the process of self discovery.

"Through visual art we can consciously process old beliefs and 'stuck' patterns that hold us back. Through this discovery, we can see clearly and decide the paths we choose to take in our lives. As an artist and a teacher, I have learned that when we close our mouths and stop the chatter, and let colors and forms talk, we shift the process to the other side of the brain where it can speak about things we may have covered up long ago. When they come back to us this way, it is with a different sound. The journey through such an emergence is powerful and beautiful!"

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Organic Watermarks: Photographs by Gus Bennett, Jr.
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In the exhibition "Organic Watermarks," New Orleans photographer Gus Bennett, Jr., displays portraits of New Orleans residents juxtaposed with layers of debris from Hurricane Katrina. Watermarks on concrete and other surfaces, leaves, textures, colors and remnants left behind by Katrina form layers in front of, behind and even merged onto the surface of the skin of the subjects. Together, the subjects and debris become storytellers of New Orleans post-Katrina. Shot entirely in natural light, the overall mood of the pieces is almost of an ethereal quality, with the ghost-like images of debris commingling with the subjects. According to Bennett, as many as 82 layers comprise one individual portrait. The subjects either appear draped in fabric or nude, which the artist explains is a means of eliminating social class or status: "with Katrina, everyone got left behind." With "Organic Watermarks," Bennett creates true works of beauty, proving that even in the aftermath of chaos, hope can still prevail.

Purple Treatment: Ceramic Works by Eunjung Shin
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In "Purple Treatment," Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculptures represent stories from the artist's life. Shin has taken personal memories and transformed them into three-dimensional artistic expressions. The highly detailed figures are skillfully rendered and express a range of emotions. Shin describes some of her figures as "clowns" because they hide their true selves, putting on a face to the world in order to please others. Many of the pieces prompt the viewer to look inward to reflect upon their meaning.

Works of Sue Hershberger Yoder
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Sue Hershberger Yoder's solo exhibition features work which utilizes printmaking to explore the terrain between art and design through patterns inspired by nature. Yoder is influenced by her work in the fashion design industry where she creates print designs for fabric. She also draws upon familiar forms of the natural world, which were a constant backdrop of her Midwestern upbringing. The resulting prints create sensuous environments that envelop the viewer.

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and 100 Last Names
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The two solo exhibitions, Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and Xiaowen Chen: 100 Last Names, present work from the past nine years by Chinese-born, Ithaca-based artist Chen. Having lived in the United States for the past two decades, Chen has focused his work on the space between East and West. From his many return trips to China, Chen has created digital images and video projections reflecting American and Chinese attitudes toward the 21st-century role of media and technology and identity issues. His work of overlapping the cultures of East and West addresses his search for what he called in 1993 the "manifestation of the universal and the expression of the particular."

Chen places himself in the position of both the American and the Chinese tourist. He has noted that when photographing in China he feels like a foreigner, while in the U.S. he feels like a traveler. His work addresses both China's historical transformation and his personal experience as an émigré.

Like other artists of his generation, Chen grew up under Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and was exposed to a visual vocabulary that highlighted fragmentation and repetition. As a result, works by Xiaowen Chen evoke cultural clichés and stereotypes.

The Power of Revolt: Grassroots Resistance in Oaxaca
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A powerful exhibit of photographs from the Oaxaca, Mexico resistance movement combined with original political posters from art collectives there.

In 2006, Oaxaca, Mexico came alive with a broad and diverse movement that captivated the nation and inspired communities organizing for social justice around the world. Fueled by long ignored social contradictions, what began as a teachers' strike demanding more resources for education quickly turned into a massive movement that demanded direct, participatory democracy.

Hundreds of thousands of Oaxacans raised their voices against the abuses of the state government. They participated in marches of up to 800,000 people, planned strategy at the barricades, occupied government buildings, took over radio stations, held sit-ins, and reclaimed spaces for public art and altars for assassinated activists. In the now Legendary March of Pots and Pans, 2,000 women peacefully took over and operated the state television channel for three weeks.

Jazz in the City
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Vince "The Prince" Seneri

Price: Free
400 Block of N. Salina St.
Little Italy, Syracuse

Vince "The Prince" Seneri, award-winning Hammond B3 jazz organ burner, with special guest, saxophonist Bill Easley.

Bring lawn chairs or blankets. Food and beverages will be available to purchase at all locations. No alcohol please.

Musical Memories - Part I
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $23, $19 regular; $20, $16 students/seniors
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Peter Child Pantomime for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Oboe
Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major, K.452
Dvorák Piano Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 23

Performers include Renata Artman Knific, violin; Deborah Chodacki, clarinet; Katherine Collier, piano; Steven Doane, cello; Rosemary Elliott, cello; Elinor Freer, piano; Mark Kaplan, violin; W. Peter Kurau, horn; Michelle LaCourse, viola; Peggy Pearson, oboe; and Gregory Quick, bassoon.

The Tempest
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

The Tempest is one of the last plays The Bard wrote. Combining elements of natural and supernatural powers, comedy and tragedy and romance and fantasy, this show will blow you away in a storm of fun. Bring the whole family!

Vendors will be on site with food and wares. Free parking for all performances. Shuttle bus service available on Saturdays and Sundays. Handicapped accessible.

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The Strange Case of Sheik Yerbuti
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive comedy-mystery dinner theater.

A peace plan for the tiny camel-trading nation of Yerbuti goes awry when there are rumors of a huge pool of oil under the Sahara sands.

Friday, August 14, 2009

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Recent works by Al Bremer and Kate Timm
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Healing Art Passages: A Journey of Grace -- works of Suzanne Masters
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Painting and collage provide examples of "working through" from Suzanne's own personal experiences and of how she takes her students through the process of self discovery.

"Through visual art we can consciously process old beliefs and 'stuck' patterns that hold us back. Through this discovery, we can see clearly and decide the paths we choose to take in our lives. As an artist and a teacher, I have learned that when we close our mouths and stop the chatter, and let colors and forms talk, we shift the process to the other side of the brain where it can speak about things we may have covered up long ago. When they come back to us this way, it is with a different sound. The journey through such an emergence is powerful and beautiful!"

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Bob Gates: Photography
David Webster: Ceramics
Marna Bell: Photography

Purple Treatment: Ceramic Works by Eunjung Shin
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In "Purple Treatment," Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculptures represent stories from the artist's life. Shin has taken personal memories and transformed them into three-dimensional artistic expressions. The highly detailed figures are skillfully rendered and express a range of emotions. Shin describes some of her figures as "clowns" because they hide their true selves, putting on a face to the world in order to please others. Many of the pieces prompt the viewer to look inward to reflect upon their meaning.

Organic Watermarks: Photographs by Gus Bennett, Jr.
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In the exhibition "Organic Watermarks," New Orleans photographer Gus Bennett, Jr., displays portraits of New Orleans residents juxtaposed with layers of debris from Hurricane Katrina. Watermarks on concrete and other surfaces, leaves, textures, colors and remnants left behind by Katrina form layers in front of, behind and even merged onto the surface of the skin of the subjects. Together, the subjects and debris become storytellers of New Orleans post-Katrina. Shot entirely in natural light, the overall mood of the pieces is almost of an ethereal quality, with the ghost-like images of debris commingling with the subjects. According to Bennett, as many as 82 layers comprise one individual portrait. The subjects either appear draped in fabric or nude, which the artist explains is a means of eliminating social class or status: "with Katrina, everyone got left behind." With "Organic Watermarks," Bennett creates true works of beauty, proving that even in the aftermath of chaos, hope can still prevail.

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Works of Sue Hershberger Yoder
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Sue Hershberger Yoder's solo exhibition features work which utilizes printmaking to explore the terrain between art and design through patterns inspired by nature. Yoder is influenced by her work in the fashion design industry where she creates print designs for fabric. She also draws upon familiar forms of the natural world, which were a constant backdrop of her Midwestern upbringing. The resulting prints create sensuous environments that envelop the viewer.

Works of Howard Lehning and Thomas Kegler
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Furniture and clocks of Howard Lehning and paintings of Thomas Kegler will be on display.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and 100 Last Names
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The two solo exhibitions, Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and Xiaowen Chen: 100 Last Names, present work from the past nine years by Chinese-born, Ithaca-based artist Chen. Having lived in the United States for the past two decades, Chen has focused his work on the space between East and West. From his many return trips to China, Chen has created digital images and video projections reflecting American and Chinese attitudes toward the 21st-century role of media and technology and identity issues. His work of overlapping the cultures of East and West addresses his search for what he called in 1993 the "manifestation of the universal and the expression of the particular."

Chen places himself in the position of both the American and the Chinese tourist. He has noted that when photographing in China he feels like a foreigner, while in the U.S. he feels like a traveler. His work addresses both China's historical transformation and his personal experience as an émigré.

Like other artists of his generation, Chen grew up under Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and was exposed to a visual vocabulary that highlighted fragmentation and repetition. As a result, works by Xiaowen Chen evoke cultural clichés and stereotypes.

The Power of Revolt: Grassroots Resistance in Oaxaca
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A powerful exhibit of photographs from the Oaxaca, Mexico resistance movement combined with original political posters from art collectives there.

In 2006, Oaxaca, Mexico came alive with a broad and diverse movement that captivated the nation and inspired communities organizing for social justice around the world. Fueled by long ignored social contradictions, what began as a teachers' strike demanding more resources for education quickly turned into a massive movement that demanded direct, participatory democracy.

Hundreds of thousands of Oaxacans raised their voices against the abuses of the state government. They participated in marches of up to 800,000 people, planned strategy at the barricades, occupied government buildings, took over radio stations, held sit-ins, and reclaimed spaces for public art and altars for assassinated activists. In the now Legendary March of Pots and Pans, 2,000 women peacefully took over and operated the state television channel for three weeks.

Skaneateles Community Band

Price: Free
Clift Park
Genesee St., Skaneateles

Bring a blanket or lawn chair. Rain location is Austin Park Pavilion. For more information, phone 315-685-0552.

Musical Memories - Part II
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $23, $19 regular; $20, $16 students/seniors
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Haydn Divertimento in E-flat for Horn, Violin, and Cello, Hob. IV: 5
Prokofiev Quintet in G minor for Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, and Bass, Op. 39
Beethoven Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, "Archduke"

Performers include Renata Artman Knific, violin; Edward Castilano, bass; Deborah Chodacki, clarinet; Katherine Collier, piano; Steven Doane, cello; Rosemary Elliott, cello; Mark Kaplan, violin; W. Peter Kurau, horn; Michelle LaCourse, viola; and Peggy Pearson, oboe.

The concert will be preceded by "Behind the Scenes" at 7:00 pm -- a pre-concert event featuring a talk with and performance by the 2009 Robinson Award winner, pianist Nicholas Hrynyk.

The Tempest
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

The Tempest is one of the last plays The Bard wrote. Combining elements of natural and supernatural powers, comedy and tragedy and romance and fantasy, this show will blow you away in a storm of fun. Bring the whole family!

Vendors will be on site with food and wares. Free parking for all performances. Shuttle bus service available on Saturdays and Sundays. Handicapped accessible.

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An Evening at the Palace

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

An evening with local theater favorites Bob Brown, Cathleen O'Brien, Bill Ali, Becky Bottrill, and Richard Koons, with proceeds to benefit the McMahon Ryan Child Advocacy Site.