Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

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.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Organ Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring University Organist Kola Owolabi

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Owolabi will perform on Setnor Auditorium's historic 1950 Holtkamp organ. The program will include works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Ludwig Krebs, Maurice Duruflé, Rachel Laurin, and William Bolcom. The concert will also feature senior Jordan Dusek on oboe and a student vocal ensemble.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-5043.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

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.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

The New Deal
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The New Deal is a pioneer of the "livetronica" sound and a mainstay in both the Electronic and Jamband scenes for close to eight years. At the vanguard of a new progressive style, the New Deal has become a live touring phenomenon. They have appeared at Bonnaroo, Langerado, Jazz Fest New Orleans, the Coachella Festival, Street Scene in San Diego, Berkfest, Gathering of the Vibes, Camp Bisco, and the Detroit Electronic Music Festival to name just a few. They have headlined over 400 shows in the past 4 years. The New Deal inspires audiences of all kinds, from packed dance clubs across North America, to spellbound receptions during opening tours with Herbie Hancock and Page McConnell from Phish.

Cirque du Soleil: Alegría

Price: $40-$95 regular, $25 students/seniors
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives. Kings' fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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.

The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

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.

Opening: Visions
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Paintings by Phil Parsons, photography by Bill Storm, and ink drawings by Barbara Stout.

Opening: Wild Card Exhibition: Encaustics by Tanya Kirouac
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Behind Forgotten Eyes
Syracuse Symposium

Price: Free
Life Sciences Complex Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

There are heartbreaking moments in history that the world prefers to forget. Whilst Korea groaned under the harsh colonial rule of Imperial Japan, the Japanese Imperial Army coerced, tricked, and forced more than 200,000 Korean women into a brutal and systematic form of sexual slavery. This unconventional and shocking film examines the enduring legacy of this horrifying chapter in East Asian history through interviews with Korean victims, Japanese soldiers, academics, and social activists. (Directed by Anthony Gilmore, 76 min, USA/South Korea/Japan, 2007)

Screening will be followed by a discussion with co-director Ryan Seal.

This film is part of "Illuminating Oppression: The 7th Annual Human Rights Film Festival", and presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Photography as Art: Trends Since 1839
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
Featuring Howard Bond

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Howard Bond is a renowned photographer and protege of Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Brett Weston.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Cirque du Soleil: Alegría

Price: $40-$95 regular, $25 students/seniors
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives. Kings' fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.

Preview: Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $10
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

This wacky musical about reading glasses, mammograms, weekend warriors, proctology exams—all lampooned a la Saturday Night Live. If you bought some gingko biloba—but can't remember where you put it—then you're ready for MID-LIFE!

Book, music, and lyrics by Bob Walton and Jim Walton; Musical Director Michael Copps. Cast includes Jimmy Curtin, Shawn Forster, Peter Irwin, Tina Lee, Aubry Ludington Panek, and Suzanne Tiffault.

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Friday, September 11, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Dimensions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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.

The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

Wild Card Exhibition: Encaustics by Tanya Kirouac
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visions
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Paintings by Phil Parsons, photography by Bill Storm, and ink drawings by Barbara Stout.

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.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

Irish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

5:00: The Flyin Column
5:00: Merry Mischief
5:45: Butler-Sheehan School of Dance
6:00: The Common Taters (Dan Cleveland)
6:15: Drumcliffe School of Dance
6:30: Seamus Kennedy
6:45: Ashford School of Dance
7:00: Creevey
7:45: USMC Color Guard
7:45: 9/11 Remembrance
7:45: Blessing by Bishop Cunningham
7:45: Drumcliffe School of Dance
8:00: The Kreellers
8:00: Quigsy and the Bird
9:00: Cassidy McCale
9:15: Ashford School of Dance
9:30: Gaelic Storm

Information: 315-473-4330 or http://syracuseirishfestival.com

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Still Human Still Here and Pray The Devil Back To Hell
Syracuse Symposium

Price: Free
Life Sciences Complex Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Still Human Still Here: Destitution of the Refused Asylum Seekers>

Still Human Still Here depicts the predicament of refused UK asylum seekers who are denied support or the right to work, even if they are evidently unable to return to their country. Many are living in abject poverty, relying on others to survive, going hungry, and sleeping in the streets. The "Still Human Still Here" campaign calls on the UK government to end destitution as a policy tool against refused asylum-seekers. (Directed by Marc Hoeferlin and Barney Broomfield, 12 min, UK, 2007)

Pray The Devil Back To Hell

This is the extraordinary story of a small band of Liberian womenboth Christian and Muslimwho came together in the midst of a bloody civil war, took on violent warlords and the corrupt Charles Taylor regime, and won a long-awaited peace in 2003 for their shattered country. The women's historic, yet unsung achievement to bring lasting peace to their country is captured through contemporary interviews, archival images, and scenes of present-day Liberia. (Directed by Gini Reticker, 72 min, USA, 2007)

These films are part of "Illuminating Oppression: The 7th Annual Human Rights Film Festival", and presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Remembering the Heros

Price: Free; donations accepted for the Twin Towers Orphan Fund
Andrews Memorial United Methodist Church
106 Church St., North Syracuse

A concert performed in memory of those whose lives were lost during the tragic events of September 11, 2001.

Performers include pianists Cindy Josbena, Nancy Pease, Jerry Exline, and Maryna Mazhukhova; oboist Carol Fox; flautist Martha Grener; soprano Luba Lesser; cellist Christine Prevost; violist Mike Montaro; and violinists Jennifer Montaro and John Harnois.

The program will include music by Beethoven, Bozza, Brahms, Corelli, Josbena, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Schubert, Scott, plus The Ludlows (from Twilights of the Mist), Gabriel's Oboe (from The Mission), You Raise Me Up, Somewhere Out There, Ashokan Farewell, and Lord of the Dance.

For more information, phone 315-458-0890.

Mellits Consort
Redhouse

Price: $15 adults; $12 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Red House Arts Center kicks off the 2009-10 season with the Mellits Consort, performing original music by acclaimed composer Marc Mellits. Combining "elements of modern minimalist technique, classical training and a love of modern rock" (ASCAP), Mellits Consort provides an exciting introduction to the inaugural Red House Alternatives music series.

Marc Mellits studied composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, Yale School of Music, Cornell University and Tanglewood. He is currently regarded as one of the leading American composers of his generation. Mellits' work has been commissioned and performed by groups worldwide, including the Kronos Quartet, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Bang On A Can All-Stars, Andrew Russo and Real Quiet, Canadian Brass, New Music Detroit, Fiarì Ensemble (Italy), the Society for New Music, and the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. He is currently an instructor in music theory and music history at Le Moyne College.

Mellits Consort has toured the world performing their unique blend of electro-acoustic classical music, most recently at the Musique en Roue Libre festival in Arras, France where they performed music from their 2006 release Paranoid Cheese. Mellits Consort consists of Cristina Buciu (violin), Kevin Gallagher (electric guitar), Marc Mellits (synthesizer), Elizabeth Simkin (cello), and Danny Tunick (marimba).

Mellits Consort will perform all original music by Marc Mellits, including the premiere of a new piece.

Frida, An Opera in Two Acts
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Music by Robert Xavier Rodriguez; libretto by Hilary Blecher and Migdalia Cruz

Performers include:
Frida: Gina Manziello; Diego: Jonathan Michie; Woman I: Laura Enslin; Woman II: Bridget Moriarty; Man I: Jonathan Howell; Man II: David Neal; chorus: Nora Fleming, Lillian Choi, Christopher Jackson, and Michael Chellis; Calaveras: Sangeetha Ekambaram, Robert Cowles, and Emily Gibson

Ann McIntyre, violin; Jon Mosbo, viola; David Le Doux, cello; Edward Castilano, double bass; Sam Emanuel, piano; Ronald L. Caravan, clarinet/sax; John Raschella, trumpet; Jeff Gray, bass trombone; Rob Bridge, percussion; Ken Meyer, guitar

Musical preparation: James Welsch and Neva Pilgrim; stage director: Eric Johnson; lighting/projections: Barry Steele; murals: Juan Cruz and apprentices; choreography: Danita Emma

Presented in collaboration with the Spanish Action League of Onondaga County.

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Cirque du Soleil: Alegría

Price: $40-$95 regular, $25 students/seniors
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives. Kings' fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.

Cirque du Soleil: Alegría

Price: $40-$95 regular, $25 students/seniors
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives. Kings' fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.

Lend Me a Tenor
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This night is the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company; world famous tenor Tito Morelli is to perform Otello at the gala season opener. The General Manager hopes this will put Cleveland on the operatic map. Morelli is late; when he finally sweeps in it is too late to rehearse with the company. Through a hilarious series of mishaps, Il Stupendo is given a double dose of tranquilizers which mix with the booze he has consumed and he passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he is dead. What to do? Max is an aspiring singer and Saunders persuades him to get into Morelli's Otello costume and try to fool the audience into thinking he's Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo!

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Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

This wacky musical about reading glasses, mammograms, weekend warriors, proctology exams—all lampooned a la Saturday Night Live. If you bought some gingko biloba—but can't remember where you put it—then you're ready for MID-LIFE!

Book, music, and lyrics by Bob Walton and Jim Walton; Musical Director Michael Copps. Cast includes Jimmy Curtin, Shawn Forster, Peter Irwin, Tina Lee, Aubry Ludington Panek, and Suzanne Tiffault.

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Saturday, September 12, 2009

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

Visions
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Artist Bill Storm will be in attendance 12:00-3:00 pm.

Paintings by Phil Parsons, photography by Bill Storm, and ink drawings by Barbara Stout.

Wild Card Exhibition: Encaustics by Tanya Kirouac
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Artist reception 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

Irish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

10:00a: Irish Language Mass
10:00a: Syracuse Scottish Pipe Band
10:00a: (Breakfast will be available)
11:00a: Wind and Wire (Nick Whitmer and Jonathan Chai)
11:15a: Tom Dooley Choraliers
12:00p: Joe Davoli and Harvey Nusbaum
12:15p: Freeborn Men
1:00p: An Ceol
1:30p: Syracuse Irish Session
1:45p: Montague School of Dance
2:00p: Cuppa Tae (Bill Henrie)
2:30p: Montague School of Dance
2:45p: Rince Na Sonas
2:45p: School of Dance
2:45p: Seamus Kennedy
3:00p: Traonach
3:45p: Butler-Sheehan School of Dance
4:00p: Creevey
4:00p: The Rose Tree
5:00p: Anne Johnston Dance
5:00p: Demonstration & Lesson
5:00p: Johnston School of Dance:
5:15p: Rince Na Sonas
5:15p: School of Dance
5:30p: The Causeway Giants
6:00p: Eamon OConnor
6:40p: Miss Guinness Awards
6:45p: McDonald School of Dance
6:45p: Syracuse Kilties Pipe Band
7:00p: Merry Mischief
7:00p: Seamus Kennedy
7:45p: McDonald School of Dance
7:45p: Johnston School of Dance
8:00p: The Kreelers
8:00p: The Prodigals
9:00p: Bill Delaney
9:20p: Tribute to Mayor Matt Driscoll
9:30p: Johnston School of Dance
9:45p: Drawing for Win A Trip For
9:45p: Two To Ireland
9:45p: The Young Dubliners

Information: 315-473-4330 or http://syracuseirishfestival.com

Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment and Afro Chic
Community Folk Art Center

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

These two films by Carrie Mae Weems, an internationally known artist, are being screened in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's City-Wide Collaboration.

Under Construction and Up The Yangtze
Syracuse Symposium

Price: Free
Life Sciences Complex Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Under Construction

Every year, more than 100,000 Chinese families are displaced as city planners tear down parts of Shanghai's old town to regenerate the city. The families are forced to move into buildings on the edge of the city. Under Construction is a two and three-dimensional flight across the now destroyed living areas in Shanghai. (Directed by Zhenchen Liu, 10 min, France, 2007)

Up The Yangtze

The Three Gorges Dam, a contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle, provides the epic backdrop for Up the Yangtze, a dramatic feature documentary on life inside the 21st century Chinese dream. A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze navigating the mythic waterway known as "The River," which is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. As floodwaters rise, a young woman says goodbye to her family. Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang crafts a moving depiction of peasant life, a powerful narrative of contemporary China, and a disquieting glimpse into a future that awaits us all. (Directed by Yung Chang, 93 min, Canada, 2007)

These films are part of "Illuminating Oppression: The 7th Annual Human Rights Film Festival", and presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Is it Just a Game?, Morality TV and The Loving Jihad — A Thrilling Tale, and Flying Inside My Body
Syracuse Symposium

Price: Free
Life Sciences Complex Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Is it Just a Game? 2 and Is it Just a Game? 3

These short films use well-known games children played in India as a metaphor to address and challenge issues of power verses victimization, and violence and viciousness within the politics of gender, caste, and race, the world over. (Directed by Shakuntala Kulkarni, 3 min, India, 2007)

Morality TV and The Loving Jihad — A Thrilling Tale

In 2005 in Meerut, India, police officers, mostly women, swooped down and beat lovers in a park. Accompanying the police were reporters and photographers promised an exclusive of this sting operation. Images of the operation were repeatedly broadcast, prompting protests both for and against the operation. The film examines the towns complex social dynamicsthe fear of love, social control of women's mobility and sexuality, a history of communal violence, as well as issues of caste and feudalism. (Directed by Paromita Vohra, 31 min, India, 2007)

Flying Inside My Body

Flying Inside My Body explores how the form of the body can become a powerful, physical language to express dissent over societal norms and conventions. Veteran photographer Sunil Gupta challenges the stereotypes that define one's body, sexuality, and identity. Gupta spent over 20 years compiling this photographic chronicle of the gay community in India, while exploring his relationship with his country. The film combines still photography, moving images, and text to tell an intensely personal story, which questions deeply ingrained prejudices. (Directed by Sumit Sharma, Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh, and Ajeeta Chowhan; 35 min, India, 2008)

These films are part of "Illuminating Oppression: The 7th Annual Human Rights Film Festival", and presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Rightful Place and The Sari Soldiers
Syracuse Symposium

Price: Free
Life Sciences Complex Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Rightful Place

In 1974, the Kenyan government evicted the Endorois people from their land to make way for a game reserve and tourist resort. The community continues to fight for reparation for their loss and restitution for their land. Yet, their efforts have been met with denial, harassment, and subsequent evictions by successive Kenyan governments. The latest evictions made way for mineral mining. Rightful Place examines the impact of displacement on individual and community identity and the struggle of the Endorois to reclaim their rightful place. (Produced by WITNESS, Comissao Pastoral da Terra (CPT) and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), 16 min, Kenya/USA, 2007)

The Sari Soldiers

(Directed by Julie Bridgham, 92 min, Nepal/USA, 2008)
Filmed during a pivotal period in Nepal's modern history, The Sari Soldiers chronicles the courageous efforts of six women caught on opposing sides of a civil war against Maoist insurgents amid a crackdown on civil liberties by the Nepalese king. A witness to the torture and murder of her niece by soldiers in the Royal Nepal Army, Devi speaks out publicly. In retaliation, her 15-year-old daughter is abducted. The film depicts Devi's three-year struggle to uncover her daughter's fate and seek justice as well as the journeys of five other women caught up in a revolution that reshapes the country's future.

Screening will be followed by a discussion with director Julie Bridgham.

These films are part of "Illuminating Oppression: The 7th Annual Human Rights Film Festival", and presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

SaturdaySCREENINGS: The Garden
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $5 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy's politically charged, Oscar-nominated documentary follows a group of low-income families struggling to protect an urban farm from bureaucratic real estate developers. The 14-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the U.S. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country's most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community.

But now, bulldozers are poised to level their oasis.

The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall. Mostly immigrants from Latin America, from countries where they feared for their lives if they were to speak out, we watch them organize, fight back, and demand answers: Why was the land sold to a wealthy developer for millions less than fair-market value? Why was the transaction done in a closed-door session of the LA City Council? Why has it never been made public? And the powers-that-be have the same response: "The garden is wonderful, but there is nothing more we can do." If everyone told you nothing more could be done, would you give up?

A lightning rod for controversy in 2004, this cause célèbre drew the attention of numerous notable activists and politicians, including Dennis Kucinich, Joan Baez and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigoisa.

Russian Vocal Ensemble LYRA

Price: Freewill offering
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Five professional singers (2 women, 3 men) from St. Petersburg, Russia, will perform a half-hour of Russian Orthodox liturgical music followed by a half-hour of Russian folk songs.

The Breakfast
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Breakfast is a hard-rocking jazz-rock experimental quartet whose music ranges from rock to sonic landscapes. In 2003/2004 The Breakfast accepted their 1st Jammy award for best emerging artist at The Madison Square Garden Theater along with Phil Lesh, Umphrey's Mcgee, Dr John and other distinguished honorees. Since their Jammy win they have been traveling the country. Their national tour and non-stop schedule have seen them support the likes of The Wailers, Moe, North Mississippi All-Stars, Gomez, and others. In addition to their "road warrior" status The Breakfast have played the 10,000 Lakes Festival in Minnesota twice, featuring other bands like Widespread Panic, Trey Anastasio, The Black Crowes and many more. Summer Festivals like moe.down, Gathering of the Vibes, Camp Bisco, High Sierra, and other notable events have also invited The Breakfast to share their sound.

Opening: Family Farm

Frida, An Opera in Two Acts
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Music by Robert Xavier Rodriguez; libretto by Hilary Blecher and Migdalia Cruz

Performers include:
Frida: Gina Manziello; Diego: Jonathan Michie; Woman I: Laura Enslin; Woman II: Bridget Moriarty; Man I: Jonathan Howell; Man II: David Neal; chorus: Nora Fleming, Lillian Choi, Christopher Jackson, and Michael Chellis; Calaveras: Sangeetha Ekambaram, Robert Cowles, and Emily Gibson

Ann McIntyre, violin; Jon Mosbo, viola; David Le Doux, cello; Edward Castilano, double bass; Sam Emanuel, piano; Ronald L. Caravan, clarinet/sax; John Raschella, trumpet; Jeff Gray, bass trombone; Rob Bridge, percussion; Ken Meyer, guitar

Musical preparation: James Welsch and Neva Pilgrim; stage director: Eric Johnson; lighting/projections: Barry Steele; murals: Juan Cruz and apprentices; choreography: Danita Emma

Presented in collaboration with the Spanish Action League of Onondaga County.

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A Celebration of Hayden Carruth, 1921-2008

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Readings of his poems, with musical recordings chosen by him for the occasion. Reception to follow.

Parking available on campus in the Quad 1 Lot.

Cirque du Soleil: Alegría

Price: $40-$95 regular, $25 students/seniors
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives. Kings' fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.

Death by Disco
Without a Cue Productions

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

Welcome to the Land of Oz Discoteria and the "3rd Annual World Championship of Disco Championship." Contestants are ready to show their moves, but they don't know that tonight some competition will definitely be stiff. Join us for "Death by Disco." a murderous evening of theater, dancing, and great food!

Cirque du Soleil: Alegría

Price: $40-$95 regular, $25 students/seniors
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives. Kings' fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.

Lend Me a Tenor
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This night is the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company; world famous tenor Tito Morelli is to perform Otello at the gala season opener. The General Manager hopes this will put Cleveland on the operatic map. Morelli is late; when he finally sweeps in it is too late to rehearse with the company. Through a hilarious series of mishaps, Il Stupendo is given a double dose of tranquilizers which mix with the booze he has consumed and he passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he is dead. What to do? Max is an aspiring singer and Saunders persuades him to get into Morelli's Otello costume and try to fool the audience into thinking he's Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo!

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Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

This wacky musical about reading glasses, mammograms, weekend warriors, proctology exams—all lampooned a la Saturday Night Live. If you bought some gingko biloba—but can't remember where you put it—then you're ready for MID-LIFE!

Book, music, and lyrics by Bob Walton and Jim Walton; Musical Director Michael Copps. Cast includes Jimmy Curtin, Shawn Forster, Peter Irwin, Tina Lee, Aubry Ludington Panek, and Suzanne Tiffault.

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My Name is Rachel Corrie
Simply New Theatre

Price: $20
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American, was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer in Gaza as she was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home. My Name Is Rachel Corrie is a one-woman play composed from Rachel's own journals, letters and emails—creating a portrait of a messy, articulate, Salvador Dali-loving chain-smoker (with a passion for the music of Pat Benatar), who left her home and school in Olympia, WA, to work as an activist in the heart of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the three sold-out London runs since its Royal Court premiere, the piece has been surrounded by both controversy and impassioned proponents, and has raised an unprecedented call to support political work and the difficult discourse it creates.

Featuring Jillian Dailey and Chad Healy, with special musical guest artist Dylan Montrond, and a set by Navroz Dabut.

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

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.

The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

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.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

Jewish Music and Cultural Festival

Price: Free
Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

Information: 315-446-7810, 315-682-8489, or http://syracusejewishfestival.com.

12:00 PM - West of Odessa
12:40 PM - Love & Knishes
1:30 PM - Jonathan Dinkin & Klezmercuse
2:15 PM - Zetz
3:00 PM - Susan Watts, Elaine Hoffman Watts and the Fabulous Shpielkehs
4:45 PM - Syracuse Congregation Cantors
5:15 PM - Keyna Hora Klezmer Band
5:45 PM - Open Jam Session

Other Events:
Marty Kerker (Noon to 12:30 PM)
Rochester Jewish Chorale (12:45 PM to 1:15PM)
West of Odessa (1:30 PM to 2:00 PM)
Kenesseth Shalom Singers (2:15pm to 3:00pm)
JCC Lounge - Klezmer Workshop with Robin Seletsky (2 PM to 3 PM)

Westcott Street Cultural Fair

Price: Free
Westcott Business District
Westcott St., Syraucuse

Information: http://www.westcottfair.org/.

Music and Arts Festival

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Presented by the Syracuse University Department of African-American Studies.

Sculptor Mel Edwards, painter Napolean Jpnes-Henderson, Jayne Cortez & the Fire Spitters (jazz, blues and spoken word), Syracuse University's West African Drumming Ensemble. 6:45 PM: Jazz concert with Billy Bang, violin, and the Untempered Ensemble.

An Organ Crawl: Four Churches, Four Organs
Cathedral Square Neighborhood Association and the Syracuse Chapter of the American Guild of Organists

Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visit four churches and get close to the consoles and choir lofts where their organs are played.

2:00 pm: Park Central Presbyterian Church, Fayette & Townsend Streets
Host: Will Headlee, SU professor emeritus
Organ: M.P. Moller, Opus 10313, 1967

2:45 pm: St. Paul's Cathedral, Montgomery & Fayette Streets
Host: James Potts, Canon Musician
Organ: M.P. Moller, Opus 10247, 1967; Quimby, 2002

3:30 pm: Plymouth Congregational Church, E. Onondaga & S. Warren Streets
Host: Dr. Joseph Downing, SU Professor
Organ: M.P. Moller, Opus 5826, 1931

4:15 pm: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, E. Onondaga St. at Columbus Circle
Host: Dr. Kola Owolabi, SU Organist
Organ: Frank Roosevelt, No. 520, 1892; Schantz, 1980

Lyra Vocal Ensemble

Price: $10
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Choral group from St. Petersburg, Russia, performs chants from the Russian Orthodox Church and folk songs from Russia.

U.S. Navy band "Country Current"

Price: Free, but tickets required
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Banjo player Keith M. Arneson will lead the seven-piece band through a repertoire that includes work from the songbooks of Boots Randolph, Charlie Daniels, Vince Gill, and David Ball. The band was formed in 1973, and has played at the White House, the Grand Ole Opry and the G-8 Summit.

Tickets available at the Syracuse Parks departments main office at 412 Spencer St., 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays.

If any tickets for the show at the 650-seat theater go unclaimed, they will be available at the Palace on the day of the show, just before 3:00 p.m.

Robert Auler, piano
Joyful Noise Concert Series

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Liverpool First United Methodist Church
604 Oswego St., Liverpool

Concert pianist Robert Auler will dedicate a new piano in the sanctuary with selections from his recent CD, including a variety of classical and new music. Free parking; building is accessible to all. For more information, phone 315-457-5180.

The Court Band: Bach, Handel, and the Oboe
NYS Baroque
Featuring Debra Nagy, baroque oboe

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $7 students, $5 children 12 and under
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

The oboe and violin are a natural pair. Both boast bright tones and an uncanny ability to mimic the human voice, though via radically different techniques. Bach's Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor, BWV 1060 exemplifies this brilliant combination, which was heard at the finest courts of 18th-century Europe. We celebrate Baroque music for oboe and strings in this concert.

Handel Concerto grosso, op. 3 no. 3, HWV 314
Telemann Trio in G Major, TWV 42:G11
Janitsch Quadro on "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" for oboe and strings in G minor
Telemann Concerto in A major for d'amore and strings, TWV51:A2
Bach Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor after BWV 1060

Byron Jones
Syracuse Wurlitzer

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Byron Jones was born in South Wales, well known as the "land of song," and from a very early age he showed a great interest in music. It was not long before he was playing for his local Sunday school, where he was introduced to an harmonium. He continued piano lessons while at school and upon leaving was asked to play the newly installed Hammond organ in the local miners club. Soon he was accompanying famous West End artists when they appeared in clubs in his native Wales. He now has his own music club with over 600 members. He hosts a number of music festivals per year on both electronic and pipe organs, and has played many of the prime theatre organ venues in England as well as touring throughout the United States. He has broadcast many times on TV and radio and has produced many excellent CDs and Videos. A perennial favorite, he returns to Syracuse for a program on our world famous Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ!

Cirque du Soleil: Alegría

Price: $40-$95 regular, $25 students/seniors
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives. Kings' fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.

Lend Me a Tenor
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This night is the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company; world famous tenor Tito Morelli is to perform Otello at the gala season opener. The General Manager hopes this will put Cleveland on the operatic map. Morelli is late; when he finally sweeps in it is too late to rehearse with the company. Through a hilarious series of mishaps, Il Stupendo is given a double dose of tranquilizers which mix with the booze he has consumed and he passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he is dead. What to do? Max is an aspiring singer and Saunders persuades him to get into Morelli's Otello costume and try to fool the audience into thinking he's Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo!

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Cirque du Soleil: Alegría

Price: $40-$95 regular, $25 students/seniors
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives. Kings' fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

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.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Sitting Pretty
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3 regular, $2.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

The 1948 comedy "Sitting Pretty" stars dapper, distinguished Clifton Webb as Belvedere, who is hired by new parents Robert Young and Maureen O'Hara to be a full-time baby sitter.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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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.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

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.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment and Afro Chic
Community Folk Art Center

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

These two films by Carrie Mae Weems, an internationally known artist, are being screened in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's City-Wide Collaboration.

My Life as a Font
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Michael Bierut, Pentagram

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Music Journeys: Arturo Boscovich, Antonio Torres, and Grupo Pagan
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, students free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Spanish film composer and pianist Arturo Boscovich will perform songs based on Andalusian poetry with baritone Antonio Torres. Splitting the bill is Central New York's own Latin pop-rock-jazz outfit Grupo Pagan.