Saturday, March 17, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barbara Kellogg: watermedia
Nives Marzocchi: varied works
An exhibit of artists whose work is shown in the new cultural magazine, Stone Canoe Journal

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Jazz Age Virtues: Works of Richard Merkin and Jason King
Lucas Gallery

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Richard Merkin's work conjures up scenes that evoke the raucous spirit of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. In his witty, often eccentric illustrations, Merkin depicts movie stars, jazz musicians, sports heroes and literary impresarios co-mingling with more personal references. In his highly stylized approach to the figure, Merkin privileges color relationships, balance and juxtaposition over strictly literal descriptions of his subjects. He reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color. And humor; there's always humor.

Merkin began teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1963 and remained there for nearly 40 years. During this time, he built his reputation in New York. He is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Institution and the Whitney Museum as well as many others. Mr. Merkin has been a Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair since 1986 and a regular contributor of illustrations to The New Yorker since 1988, as well as Harpers and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. From 1988-1991 he wrote a monthly style column for Gentlemen's Quarterly. In 1995, he illustrated the book, Leagues Apart: The Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues, (by Larry Ritter). He wrote the text and captions for The Tijuana Bibles, (Simon & Schuster, 1997)

Jason King is a local artist who also captures the Jazz Age with convincing visual narration. His unique illustration like styling and deceptively simple compositions combine to produce a very real and universally shared memory of rural life in the American 20s.

Jason graduated Cum Laude from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts as a painting major in 1989. He has since had several showings of his art including one in Charlotte, VT and most recently at Mocha Maya's Coffee House in Shelburne Falls, MA. He has also successfully executed many commissions including the design for sculptures at Sycamore Hill Farm and Gardens in Marcellus. His painting "Otto on Fish Creek" was a winning entry at the New York State Fair in August of 2006.

Jason executes portraiture in acrylics that create a universal sense of nostalgia by working from old photographs and slides of rural America from the first half of the 20th century.

This show is designed to be of special interest to interior designers as well as collectors.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

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Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

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Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

Cinefest 27
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $25
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Within The Law (1923) with Norma Talmadge
How A Cowboy Makes His Lariat (1917)
A Movie Trip Through Filmland (1921)
Her Husband's Trademark (1922) with Gloria Swanson
The Spoilers (1930) with Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson

Cinefest 27
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $25 for the afternoon and evenings
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

3:00 PM: While Paris Sleeps (1932) with Victor McLaglen, Helen Mack
4:10 PM: Richard W. Bann presents Hal Roach Rarities (Show #3)
The Way Of All Pants (1927) with Charley Chase; Came The Dawn (1928) with Max Davidson; Hurdy Gurdy (1929) (the second talkie from the Hal Roach Studios with Max Davidson, Edgar Kennedy, Thelma Todd); Love Fever (1931); The Boy Friends
5:15 PM: Once In A Blue Moon (1935) with Jimmy Savo

DINNER BREAK

8:20 PM: Asbury Park Murder Mystery (1930) with William J. Burns
8:30 PM: The Captain Hates The Sea (1934) with John Gilbert, Victor McLaglen
10:00 PM: The Night Of Love (1927) with Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Montagu Love
11:30 PM: Behind That Curtain (1929) with Warner Baxter, Lois Moran, Boris Karloff

Family Series: My Wild Irish Harp
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor
Featuring Deborah Henson-Conant, harp

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Take an unforgettable musical journey with the always entertaining and never predictable harpist, storyteller and all-around entertainer Deborah Henson-Conant as she presents My Wild Irish Harp. From sizzling Latin rhythms to traditional Irish reels, you won't want to miss this season highlight performance.

Tom Gilbo and the Blue Suedes
Simply New Theatre

Price: $22.50 (no credit cards)
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Don't miss your chance to see this award-winning Elvis Impersonator as he and his band perform live and take us along for their acclaimed musical tribute to the King of Rock and Roll!

This live Elvis Review is a magnificent stroll down memory lane, back to that first kiss, your first prom, or maybe even that moment when you met your first love, all with the tender strains of Elvis Presley serenading you. This night will take you from Elvis' younger years, when every move he made set the 50s girls' hearts soaring, to the last years of his life, when both he and his music finally earned the respect they deserved. "Elvis" appears in one of his famous jumpsuits and the magical transition that takes place when he steps back on stage is amazing. Whether your eyes are wide open or have drifted shut dreamily, his voice and music will take you on a journey that you will want to travel again and again.

Seating is limited. To reserve a seat, phone 315-558-9124.

Pops Series: Tales and Travels
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor
Featuring Deborah Henson-Conant, harp

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Part storyteller, part musician and all-around ambassador of fun, Deborah Henson-Conant is a truly one-of-a-kind entertainer who will take you on a musical journey from the sizzling sounds of Latin Jazz to the heart-tugging tunes of the Irish isles. Armed with her electric blue harp and keen sense of humor, Deborah will lead you on a musical journey you will not soon forget!

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Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive adaptation of the well-known tale.

The Diary of Anne Frank
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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The Octette Bridge Club
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

On alternate Friday evenings, eight sisters meet to play bridge and gossip. The first act takes place in 1934; the second 10 years later during a Halloween bridge party where each acts out her costume's persona. The emotionally distraught youngest, who does a hilarious Salome belly dance, has just gotten out of a sanitarium and knows that she must cut the bonds to her smothering family and strike out on her own. A sentimental comedy by P.J. Barry about American life in a bygone era.

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The Seagull
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, recently translated by Tom Stoppard, is a serious comedy with writers at its core that examines some similar themes: How do we measure success? What is the cost of fame? What are we willing to sacrifice for public recognition and acclaim? Can we become the authors of our own lives? How do we take responsibility for our own happiness? Although it was written a century ago, the truth and richness of Chekhovs play, a mosaic of needs and desires and the power of giving and taking, still resonates today.

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Much Is Blue About Nothing, and The Mysterious Messenger
Open Hand Theater

Price: $14 at the door; $12 in advance regular; $10 in advance students/seniors
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Inspired by the Italian Commedia Dell'arte and the great American melodrama, featuring the daring dynamic deeds of the Open Hand Theater ensemble.

The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

Price: $21.00 regular; $19.00 seniors; $14.00 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A girl, a boy, a wall between them... This charming show, the longest running musical in history, tells a timeless story of young love. Beautiful songs include "Try to Remember."

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

Read a Review!

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Jazz Age Virtues: Works of Richard Merkin and Jason King
Lucas Gallery

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Richard Merkin's work conjures up scenes that evoke the raucous spirit of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. In his witty, often eccentric illustrations, Merkin depicts movie stars, jazz musicians, sports heroes and literary impresarios co-mingling with more personal references. In his highly stylized approach to the figure, Merkin privileges color relationships, balance and juxtaposition over strictly literal descriptions of his subjects. He reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color. And humor; there's always humor.

Merkin began teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1963 and remained there for nearly 40 years. During this time, he built his reputation in New York. He is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Institution and the Whitney Museum as well as many others. Mr. Merkin has been a Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair since 1986 and a regular contributor of illustrations to The New Yorker since 1988, as well as Harpers and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. From 1988-1991 he wrote a monthly style column for Gentlemen's Quarterly. In 1995, he illustrated the book, Leagues Apart: The Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues, (by Larry Ritter). He wrote the text and captions for The Tijuana Bibles, (Simon & Schuster, 1997)

Jason King is a local artist who also captures the Jazz Age with convincing visual narration. His unique illustration like styling and deceptively simple compositions combine to produce a very real and universally shared memory of rural life in the American 20s.

Jason graduated Cum Laude from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts as a painting major in 1989. He has since had several showings of his art including one in Charlotte, VT and most recently at Mocha Maya's Coffee House in Shelburne Falls, MA. He has also successfully executed many commissions including the design for sculptures at Sycamore Hill Farm and Gardens in Marcellus. His painting "Otto on Fish Creek" was a winning entry at the New York State Fair in August of 2006.

Jason executes portraiture in acrylics that create a universal sense of nostalgia by working from old photographs and slides of rural America from the first half of the 20th century.

This show is designed to be of special interest to interior designers as well as collectors.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Cinefest 27
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $25 for the day
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 AM: Man About Town (1939) with Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Betty Grable, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
10:30 AM: The Auction (2007) Hosted by Leonard Maltin, Lafe McKee, Jr.
12:00 PM: Jimmy And Sally (1933) with James Dunn, Claire Trevor
1:15 PM: Meet The Girls (1938) with June Lang, Lynn Bari, Robert Allen, Gene Lockhart
2:20 PM: Road Demon (1938) with Henry Arthur, Joan Valerie, Henry Armetta, Lon Chaney Jr.
3:30 PM: Society Smugglers (1939) with Preston Foster, Irene Hervey, Walter Woolf King

Hearts Unarmored
Redhouse

Price: $6
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Hearts Unarmored is Radu Olievschi's first feature-length film. It was completed on a shoestring budget and with the invaluable support of Syracuse University. A man and a woman meet at an old train station, where time seems to have stood still. She carries a book, he carries a gun. She is waiting for a train, he is waiting for answers. She is married to a soldier with war in his heart. Their eyes harbor words unspoken. Their lives will be forever changed.

A Cavalcade of Popular Music
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Phil Klein, piano

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

One-man show highlighting the best in American song of the last 125 years.

Reservations are recommended -- phone 315-469-4675.

Rory O'Bannion
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with tunes by the Camillus songwriter specializing in Irish music and folk-rock.

A Night at the Opera-atorio
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

Price: $15 regular, $12 students/seniors, $8 children 15 and under ($3 discount for advance purchase prior to 3/12)
Holy Cross Church
4112 E. Genesee St., Dewitt

Enjoy many of the most well known opera and oratorio choruses including Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem, Inflammatus from Stabat Mater, Habenera from Carmen, the Humming Chorus from Turandot, and more.

A Special Fundraising Program
Syracuse Wurlitzer
Featuring Bob Milne, piano

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door, $5 students
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

A special afternoon with ragtime and boogie-woogie pianist Bob Milne.

For advance tickets, phone 315-458-4755 or 315-451-4943.

LeMoyne College
The Jazzuits, with Jerry Exline and Friends

Price: $10 adults, $5 students
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Jerry Exline and Friends will perform a benefit concert for the Le Moyne College Jazzuits. Jerry Exline and Friends includes Bill Quick on drums, George Marlette on trumpet, and Luciano Iorizzo on bass, along with Jerry Exline on piano.

The Jazzuits is Le Moyne College's vocal jazz ensemble, directed by Carol Jacobe. The group consists of 14 vocalists and a complete rhythm section of piano, bass, and drums. They have performed at many Central New York venues in the last two years, including the Landmark Theater and the 2006 NYSSMA Winter Convention in Rochester.

The concert will include many popular standards performed by both groups.

Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling 315-638-9485.

The Octette Bridge Club
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

On alternate Friday evenings, eight sisters meet to play bridge and gossip. The first act takes place in 1934; the second 10 years later during a Halloween bridge party where each acts out her costume's persona. The emotionally distraught youngest, who does a hilarious Salome belly dance, has just gotten out of a sanitarium and knows that she must cut the bonds to her smothering family and strike out on her own. A sentimental comedy by P.J. Barry about American life in a bygone era.

Read a Review!

The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

Price: $21.00 regular; $19.00 seniors; $14.00 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A girl, a boy, a wall between them... This charming show, the longest running musical in history, tells a timeless story of young love. Beautiful songs include "Try to Remember."

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

Read a Review!

Monday, March 19, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Architecture Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Garofalo Architects was recently recognized as part of "The New Vanguard" in Architectural Record and the "Emerging Voices" program at the Architectural LEague of New York.

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

Dan Kishman paints in a non-objective abstract style with acrylic paints, sometimes incorporating mat medium or gesso. Mr. Kishman is a lifelong Syracuse area resident who has shown his work in a variety of local venues, including the Central Library at the Galleries Downtown, in Syracuse. He has won numerous awards, including Masters Division at the Adirondack Open Exhibit in Old Forge and, most recently, Second Place, Professional Class, at the New York State Fair.

Syracuse Set List: Latino Music
Redhouse

Price: $10
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Architecture Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Garofalo Architects was recently recognized as part of "The New Vanguard" in Architectural Record and the "Emerging Voices" program at the Architectural LEague of New York.

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

Dan Kishman paints in a non-objective abstract style with acrylic paints, sometimes incorporating mat medium or gesso. Mr. Kishman is a lifelong Syracuse area resident who has shown his work in a variety of local venues, including the Central Library at the Galleries Downtown, in Syracuse. He has won numerous awards, including Masters Division at the Adirondack Open Exhibit in Old Forge and, most recently, Second Place, Professional Class, at the New York State Fair.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

Read a review!

Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

Read a review!

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates. Fourteen artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography and sculpture.

MFA 2007 encompasses a broad range of both media and content. Some of the artists use personal experience and family as a central concept and inspiration. Others make statements on industrialization and the human condition. There are traditional processes: the expressive paintings and drawings by Elena Peteva speak to personal relationships as well as physical process. The photographs and film by Latoya Frazier document a family member's struggle with addiction.

Additionally, there is a variety of new media: Stacey Barton explores issues of the identity of the modern woman through video projection. A virtual installation by Sarah Howell engages the viewer to interact with her work in order to uncover new meaning in "the seemingly arbitrary and everyday."

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

An Evening with Gloria Steinem

Price: $5 regular, $3 with SU student ID
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Feminist, journalist and Ms. magazine founder Gloria Steinem will talk about her rise to journalistic fame as an undercover Playboy bunny, her years as an editor for New York magazine, and, most famously, Ms. Magazine -- the nation's first feminist magazine -- and her steadfast commitment to the women's rights movement.

Steinem is a trailblazer in journalism and feminism. She was inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame in 1993 and into the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame in 1998. She is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books and founded the Ms. Foundation for Women. Steinem also co-founded the National Women's Political Caucus and the Women's Action Alliance.

The event is sponsored by the Syracuse University chapters of Women in Communications and Ed2010. Tickets are on sale at the Schine Student Center Box Office.

Margaret McCann, painter
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Maxwell Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

McCann is currently a visiting professor of painting in the School of Art and Design. She exhibits paintings of giants in architecture, macrocosmic still lifes and surreal self-portraits at Galleria Antonia Jannone in Milan, Italy, and with the Zeuxis group. A recipient of an Ingram Merrill grant and a Fulbright to Italy, she taught art in Rome, Italy, for eight years and had a residency at the Cite des Arts in Paris. McCann studied at Yale University, where she earned a master of fine arts degree; Washington University in St. Louis, where she earned a bachelor of fine arts degree; and at the New York Studio School. She writes art reviews for Art New England and the satirical column "Woman on the Street" online for The Wire (www.wirenh.com).

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

For more information, contact Kathy Tills at (315) 443-2186 or kmtills@syr.edu.

Riverdance
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $39.50-$59.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Rediscover the original Riverdance. This highly acclaimed celebration of Irish music, song and dance features an international company that has touched the hearts of millions around the world. "A Phenomenon" raves The New York Times. "An explosion of sight and sound that simply takes your breath away," cheers the Chicago Tribune. You've heard about this electrifying spectacle, now it's your chance to experience Riverdance live.

Read a review!

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Architecture Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Garofalo Architects was recently recognized as part of "The New Vanguard" in Architectural Record and the "Emerging Voices" program at the Architectural LEague of New York.

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

Dan Kishman paints in a non-objective abstract style with acrylic paints, sometimes incorporating mat medium or gesso. Mr. Kishman is a lifelong Syracuse area resident who has shown his work in a variety of local venues, including the Central Library at the Galleries Downtown, in Syracuse. He has won numerous awards, including Masters Division at the Adirondack Open Exhibit in Old Forge and, most recently, Second Place, Professional Class, at the New York State Fair.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

Read a review!

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

Read a review!

Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates. Fourteen artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography and sculpture.

MFA 2007 encompasses a broad range of both media and content. Some of the artists use personal experience and family as a central concept and inspiration. Others make statements on industrialization and the human condition. There are traditional processes: the expressive paintings and drawings by Elena Peteva speak to personal relationships as well as physical process. The photographs and film by Latoya Frazier document a family member's struggle with addiction.

Additionally, there is a variety of new media: Stacey Barton explores issues of the identity of the modern woman through video projection. A virtual installation by Sarah Howell engages the viewer to interact with her work in order to uncover new meaning in "the seemingly arbitrary and everyday."

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Gallery Talk: Constructed Improvisation
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Mark Lindner

Price: Free
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Spiritual and Metaphysical Songs
Civic Morning Musicals
Leon Carapetyan, baritone; Todd Graber, tenor; Rebecca Horning, piano

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Dan Chaon, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m.

Riverdance
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $39.50-$59.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Rediscover the original Riverdance. This highly acclaimed celebration of Irish music, song and dance features an international company that has touched the hearts of millions around the world. "A Phenomenon" raves The New York Times. "An explosion of sight and sound that simply takes your breath away," cheers the Chicago Tribune. You've heard about this electrifying spectacle, now it's your chance to experience Riverdance live.

Read a review!

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

A reception for the exhibition will be held outside the gallery at 7:00 PM.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Architecture Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Garofalo Architects was recently recognized as part of "The New Vanguard" in Architectural Record and the "Emerging Voices" program at the Architectural LEague of New York.

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

Dan Kishman paints in a non-objective abstract style with acrylic paints, sometimes incorporating mat medium or gesso. Mr. Kishman is a lifelong Syracuse area resident who has shown his work in a variety of local venues, including the Central Library at the Galleries Downtown, in Syracuse. He has won numerous awards, including Masters Division at the Adirondack Open Exhibit in Old Forge and, most recently, Second Place, Professional Class, at the New York State Fair.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

Read a review!

Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

Read a review!

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates. Fourteen artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography and sculpture.

MFA 2007 encompasses a broad range of both media and content. Some of the artists use personal experience and family as a central concept and inspiration. Others make statements on industrialization and the human condition. There are traditional processes: the expressive paintings and drawings by Elena Peteva speak to personal relationships as well as physical process. The photographs and film by Latoya Frazier document a family member's struggle with addiction.

Additionally, there is a variety of new media: Stacey Barton explores issues of the identity of the modern woman through video projection. A virtual installation by Sarah Howell engages the viewer to interact with her work in order to uncover new meaning in "the seemingly arbitrary and everyday."

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barbara Kellogg: watermedia
Nives Marzocchi: varied works
An exhibit of artists whose work is shown in the new cultural magazine, Stone Canoe Journal

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

Cinema Thursday: Robert, Mary and Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

Price: $5 adults; $3 students; $1 ages 3 and under
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The film, directed by Marjoleine Boonstra, is about how one New Orleans family, led by Mary and Robert Manuel, aged 70 and 72 respectively, survive Hurricane Katrina.

Negro Spiritual Workshop
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

A workshop on the Negro spiritual in the history of American music. The workshop will give a chronological review of the Negro spirituals, interpretation of some personal messages found in them, a display of pioneering composers, choral groups, and a list of references and recordings. The workshop is presented by Mary Virginia Willie Gauthier, a retired music educator from Syracuse, and Dr. Harlan London, professor emeritus of Syracuse University. Both presenters will sing individually and as a duet, as well as engage the audience in dialogue and singing.

For more information, contact London at 315-446-2714 or Bradley Ethington, chair of the Setnor School, at 315-443-5892.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Women's Choir and Men's Glee Club

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

The concert will open with the Men's Glee Club under the direction of faculty member Lon Beery. The program includes Confitemini Domino by Allessandro Costantini, Rise Up, My Love, My Fair One by James McCray, Cross the Wide Missouri arranged by Don Besig and Nancy Price, The Whiffenpoof Song arranged by Lou Perry, and The Best of Doo-Wop arranged by Ed Lojeski.

The Women's Choir will perform under the direction of faculty member Barbara Tagg. The program includes the SU alma mater arranged by Melissa Rashford, Canticum Novum by faculty member Diego Vega, Sanctus-Benedictus by Gyorgy Orban, Child with the Starry Crayon by Eleanor Daly, The Snow by Edward Elgar, and It Was a Lover and His Lass by David Willcocks.

Parking is available in SU pay lots. For more information, contact the Setnor School at 315-443-2191 or Tagg at 315-443-5750.

Silky Thefts: poems by Michael Jennings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Reception with the author, poetry reading and book signing.

Silky Thefts is a story of deserts and gardens, place and displacement, love and loss, time and the timeless. It posits a morally complex, troubled world, yet one where beauty still abides and the authenticity of voice and experience remains a viability -- one man's record of travel, a song of the self.

Deadly Inheritance
Acme Mystery Company

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

Riverdance
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $39.50-$59.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Rediscover the original Riverdance. This highly acclaimed celebration of Irish music, song and dance features an international company that has touched the hearts of millions around the world. "A Phenomenon" raves The New York Times. "An explosion of sight and sound that simply takes your breath away," cheers the Chicago Tribune. You've heard about this electrifying spectacle, now it's your chance to experience Riverdance live.

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The Seagull
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, recently translated by Tom Stoppard, is a serious comedy with writers at its core that examines some similar themes: How do we measure success? What is the cost of fame? What are we willing to sacrifice for public recognition and acclaim? Can we become the authors of our own lives? How do we take responsibility for our own happiness? Although it was written a century ago, the truth and richness of Chekhovs play, a mosaic of needs and desires and the power of giving and taking, still resonates today.

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile and A Public Affair
Redhouse
WhAT: Warehouse Architecture Theater

Price: $8 adult; $4 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

WhAT presents a double bill, Picasso at the Lapin Agile written by Steve Martin and directed by Ian Nicholson, and A Public Affair, a new play written and directed by Alex Coulombe.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Architecture Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Garofalo Architects was recently recognized as part of "The New Vanguard" in Architectural Record and the "Emerging Voices" program at the Architectural LEague of New York.

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

Dan Kishman paints in a non-objective abstract style with acrylic paints, sometimes incorporating mat medium or gesso. Mr. Kishman is a lifelong Syracuse area resident who has shown his work in a variety of local venues, including the Central Library at the Galleries Downtown, in Syracuse. He has won numerous awards, including Masters Division at the Adirondack Open Exhibit in Old Forge and, most recently, Second Place, Professional Class, at the New York State Fair.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

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Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

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Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates. Fourteen artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography and sculpture.

MFA 2007 encompasses a broad range of both media and content. Some of the artists use personal experience and family as a central concept and inspiration. Others make statements on industrialization and the human condition. There are traditional processes: the expressive paintings and drawings by Elena Peteva speak to personal relationships as well as physical process. The photographs and film by Latoya Frazier document a family member's struggle with addiction.

Additionally, there is a variety of new media: Stacey Barton explores issues of the identity of the modern woman through video projection. A virtual installation by Sarah Howell engages the viewer to interact with her work in order to uncover new meaning in "the seemingly arbitrary and everyday."

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barbara Kellogg: watermedia
Nives Marzocchi: varied works
An exhibit of artists whose work is shown in the new cultural magazine, Stone Canoe Journal

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

Lunch Hour Film Series
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Marriott Hotel Syracuse
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

La Vie D’un Chien (Life of a Dog), directed by John Harden, fiction (USA), 14 minutes
A French scientist invents a serum that will temporarily change a human into a dog. He tests it on himself, and is transformed. He runs through the streets. He chases a truck, scraps with some stray dogs, and overturns a trash can. It is the most exciting and emotionally satisfying night of his life. By morning, he is human again. The scientist’s invention proves wildly popular. Parisians form clandestine groups to run wild in the streets every night.

To the South of the North, directed by Andrey Sokolov, animation (Russia), 15 minutes
The story of two fisherman fated to find themselves in the same boat.

Pillow Girl, directed by Ronnie Cramer, experimental (USA), 8 minutes
Scanned covers and inside pages of 150 lurid, vintage paperbacks, morph into one another every two seconds.

Ride of the Mergansers, directed by Steve Furman, documentary (USA), 10 minutes
The Hooded Merganser is a rare and reclusive duck found only in North America. Every spring, in the Great Lakes region, the wary hen lays and incubates her eggs in a nest high in the trees. Just 24 hours after hatching the tiny ducklings must make the perilous leap to the ground below to begin life in the wild.

Perils in Nude Modeling, directed by Scott Rice, fiction (USA), 10 minutes
For lonely souls like Ted Minor, to kiss the nude model he has been drawing is a once in a lifetime opportunity he cannot pass up, regardless of the unintended consequences.

Due to limited seating, reservations are suggested, but not required. Bring your lunch if you choose. SIFF will provide the popcorn. To reserve a seat, call 315-443-8826.

Bach Birthday Bash

Price: Free
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Performances by the Syracuse University Brass Ensemble, local organists and instrumentalists.

Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra Annual Concerto/Aria Winners Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
James O. Welsch, teaching fellow, conductor

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

The program includes Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 1 'Jeremiah' with mezzo-soprano Jennifer Kay as soloist and Tumbaos, a world premiere by Setnor faculty member Diego Vega. Graduate students Sharon I-Chun Cheng and Judy Hung will perform as winners of the Setnor School of Music Concerto and Aria Competition. The program also includes Donizetti's Regnavo nel silenzio and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20.

For more information, contact James Welsch, 315-443-9371.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage.

Music Man

Price: $5
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

Moms: An Evening of Comedy
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Jackie "Moms" Mabley and Her Ladies
Featuring Clarice Taylor

Price: $25 general admission; $30 for orchestra or table seating and reception
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Never Too Late
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: $15 adults; $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Never Too Late is a comedy about a middle-aged woman who discovers she is pregnant, much to the dismay of her husband and the surprise of the town. The husband does not feel he is up to the challenge, and their daughter is forced to cook and clean around the house while trying to get pregnant herself. After a drunken argument with the mayor and another with his wife, the man finally accepts the inevitable.

All prices include dessert and a hot beverage at intermission.

Journey to the Center of the World

Price: Free
Ray Middle School
7650 Van Buren Rd., Baldwinsville

For more information, phone 315-638-6106.

The Octette Bridge Club
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

On alternate Friday evenings, eight sisters meet to play bridge and gossip. The first act takes place in 1934; the second 10 years later during a Halloween bridge party where each acts out her costume's persona. The emotionally distraught youngest, who does a hilarious Salome belly dance, has just gotten out of a sanitarium and knows that she must cut the bonds to her smothering family and strike out on her own. A sentimental comedy by P.J. Barry about American life in a bygone era.

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The Seagull
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, recently translated by Tom Stoppard, is a serious comedy with writers at its core that examines some similar themes: How do we measure success? What is the cost of fame? What are we willing to sacrifice for public recognition and acclaim? Can we become the authors of our own lives? How do we take responsibility for our own happiness? Although it was written a century ago, the truth and richness of Chekhovs play, a mosaic of needs and desires and the power of giving and taking, still resonates today.

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Much Is Blue About Nothing, and The Mysterious Messenger
Open Hand Theater

Price: $14 at the door; $12 in advance regular; $10 in advance students/seniors
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Inspired by the Italian Commedia Dell'arte and the great American melodrama, featuring the daring dynamic deeds of the Open Hand Theater ensemble.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile and A Public Affair
Redhouse
WhAT: Warehouse Architecture Theater

Price: $8 adult; $4 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

WhAT presents a double bill, Picasso at the Lapin Agile written by Steve Martin and directed by Ian Nicholson, and A Public Affair, a new play written and directed by Alex Coulombe.

The Winter's Tale
Syracuse University Drama Department
Malcolm Ingram, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Shakespeare's genre-defying romance, The Winter's Tale, is sometimes referred to as a tragicomedy. When King Leontes of Sicilia suspects his pregnant wife and his best friend of having an affair, he throws his wife in prison and orders her baby to be abandoned in the wilderness. A kindly shepherd finds the baby and raises her as his own for 16 years. Meanwhile, the Oracle of Delphi tells King Leontes of his foolishness: his wife now dead, grief-stricken Leontes will have no heir until his abandoned daughter is found. In the same tragicomic spirit as such late Shakespeare plays as The Tempest and Cymbeline, the story's initial tragedy yields to an inevitable happy ending, but not before the characters endure the madness and death brought on by the flawed hero.

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The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

Price: $21.00 regular; $19.00 seniors; $14.00 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A girl, a boy, a wall between them... This charming show, the longest running musical in history, tells a timeless story of young love. Beautiful songs include "Try to Remember."

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barbara Kellogg: watermedia
Nives Marzocchi: varied works
An exhibit of artists whose work is shown in the new cultural magazine, Stone Canoe Journal

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Jazz Age Virtues: Works of Richard Merkin and Jason King
Lucas Gallery

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Richard Merkin's work conjures up scenes that evoke the raucous spirit of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. In his witty, often eccentric illustrations, Merkin depicts movie stars, jazz musicians, sports heroes and literary impresarios co-mingling with more personal references. In his highly stylized approach to the figure, Merkin privileges color relationships, balance and juxtaposition over strictly literal descriptions of his subjects. He reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color. And humor; there's always humor.

Merkin began teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1963 and remained there for nearly 40 years. During this time, he built his reputation in New York. He is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Institution and the Whitney Museum as well as many others. Mr. Merkin has been a Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair since 1986 and a regular contributor of illustrations to The New Yorker since 1988, as well as Harpers and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. From 1988-1991 he wrote a monthly style column for Gentlemen's Quarterly. In 1995, he illustrated the book, Leagues Apart: The Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues, (by Larry Ritter). He wrote the text and captions for The Tijuana Bibles, (Simon & Schuster, 1997)

Jason King is a local artist who also captures the Jazz Age with convincing visual narration. His unique illustration like styling and deceptively simple compositions combine to produce a very real and universally shared memory of rural life in the American 20s.

Jason graduated Cum Laude from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts as a painting major in 1989. He has since had several showings of his art including one in Charlotte, VT and most recently at Mocha Maya's Coffee House in Shelburne Falls, MA. He has also successfully executed many commissions including the design for sculptures at Sycamore Hill Farm and Gardens in Marcellus. His painting "Otto on Fish Creek" was a winning entry at the New York State Fair in August of 2006.

Jason executes portraiture in acrylics that create a universal sense of nostalgia by working from old photographs and slides of rural America from the first half of the 20th century.

This show is designed to be of special interest to interior designers as well as collectors.

Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

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Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

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Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent paintings by Koudakpo, a graduating senior at Syracuse University.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates. Fourteen artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography and sculpture.

MFA 2007 encompasses a broad range of both media and content. Some of the artists use personal experience and family as a central concept and inspiration. Others make statements on industrialization and the human condition. There are traditional processes: the expressive paintings and drawings by Elena Peteva speak to personal relationships as well as physical process. The photographs and film by Latoya Frazier document a family member's struggle with addiction.

Additionally, there is a variety of new media: Stacey Barton explores issues of the identity of the modern woman through video projection. A virtual installation by Sarah Howell engages the viewer to interact with her work in order to uncover new meaning in "the seemingly arbitrary and everyday."

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

The One Take Super 8 Event
Syracuse Experimental Film & Media Workshop

Price: $5 suggested donation
Funk 'n Waffles University
727 S. Crouse Ave. (Campus Plaza, behind Marshall , Syracuse

The One Take Super 8 Event is a distinct film screening, in that none of the films will be viewed before they are screened this evening. The filmmakers are not allowed to edit or view their films prior to the screening. What they shoot in the camera is what will be shown. No Cuts. No Splices. No Changes. One Take, One Night. This leads to some exciting and refreshing films, and a rare opportunity for public viewing.

Premiere films by Stacy Barton, Kyle Corea, Briana Fischer, Brett Kashmere, Ken Keech, Vanessa Rose Keech, Jason Kohlbrenner, Jessica Lance, Chiyoung Lee, Ty Marshal, Kevin Meegan, Frank Olive, Sebastien Park, Sejal Patel, Nick Ramsdell, Ryan Silveira, A. Suparak, and Ryan Tebo.

+ Bonus Films from last year's One Take Event, with work by Sarah Abbott, Dennis Evans, Shawn Fulton, Kyle Ketchemonia, Terry Mialkowsky & Shannon Jardine, Beatrix Moersch, Alex Rogalski, Katherine Skelton, and Ken Wilson.

For more information, contact syracusefilmworkshop@yahoo.com.

Dr. John and The Lower 911

Price: $25; $35; $45
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Cornell University Chorus

Price: Free
Liverpool First United Methodist Church
604 Oswego St., Liverpool

Classical and contemporary choral pieces performed by the chorus' female members.

Information: 607-351-8901.

Phil Woods, alto saxophone
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $19.50, $23.50, $26.50
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Move one chair over on the Mt. Olympus of Jazz and there sits the direct artistic descendant of the great Charlie Parker (as well as former husband to Charlie's widow Chan Parker and stepfather to Charlie's children) and benchmark for all aspirants to greatness on the alto saxophone, Phil Woods. Another Juilliard grad and student of Lenny Tristano, Phil became know as "New Bird" in the 1950's and retains that mantle to this day. Having worked for everyone in jazz for the last 50+ years, including Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, Quincy Jones, Benny Carter, Thelonius Monk, and Michel LeGrand, he is best know to jazz newbies as the soloist on Billy Joel's Just The Way You Are and Steely Dan's Doctor Wu. He has led his own quintet since 1974, and has amassed an oeuvre of many dozens of recordings.

Beolach
Folkus Project

Price: $15
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Beòlach, a Gaelic word meaning "lively youth," is an apt name for one of Cape Breton's most exciting and innovative traditional bands. Playing in the upbeat, foot-stomping style rooted in the dance- oriented tradition of Cape Breton, Beòlach has thrilled audiences at festivals and concerts around the world with their electrifying performances, witty presentation, and versatility as dancers and instructors. Performing an energetic mix of Cape Breton, Scottish, and Irish tunes, Beòlach plays in the joyous style brought to North America by earlier generations from Scotland.

As natives of Cape Breton, Beòlach respects the traditional music while showcasing it in a contemporary style that reflects their youthful energy. The tunes are removed from their usual fiddle/piano context and presented with the energy of a four-piece band featuring piano, pipes, whistles, guitar, and the extra punch of two fiddles.

Since getting their start at an impromptu late night session during the 1998 Celtic Colours International Festival, Beòlach has established itself as one of Cape Breton's most dynamic and inventive traditional bands. They have released five solo albums among them and have made individual guest appearances on countless other albums. Beòlachs two group efforts, Beòlach (2001) and Variations (2004), were both nominated for East Coast Music Awards and in 2005 the band was nominated for the Canadian Folk Music Award for Best Instrumental Group.

By melding their original compositions with marvelous arrangements of traditional tunes, Beòlach creates a driving, distinctive sound that is at once familiar and unique. The power and sheer energy of their musicianship is dazzling, intense and immensely uplifting.

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student, children under 13 free
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Debussy Sonata in D minor for Cello and Piano
Debussy Sonata in G minor for Violin and Cello
Kirchner Trio No. 2
Brahms Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8

Poetry Reading by Stone Canoe Poets: David Eye, Michael Jennings, David Lloyd and Georgia Popoff
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Poets featured in the inaugural issue of Stone Canoe, a Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York will read from their works.

David Eye is currently a graduate student in the Syracuse Univeristy creative writing program, with extensive background in the New York theatre. Michael Jennings studied with W.D. Snodgrass in the SU writing program, and is celebrating the release of his newest book, Silky Thefts, from Orchisis Press. David Lloyd is a well-published scholar, poet, and fiction writer who teaches at LeMoyne College. Georgia Popoff is senior editor of the Comstock Review and has leadership roles in many regional arts organizations.

Robert Colley, editor of Stone Canoe, will be present to discuss the entire Stone Canoe arts project and its significance in the community. The Delavan Gallery is currently exhibiting the works of 29 artists from Stone Canoe, which includes poetry, fiction, essays and visual arts from 71 artists and writers with connections to Upstate New York.

Stone Canoe was published by University College of Syracuse University. For more information about the journal, visit www.stonecanoejournal.org.

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive adaptation of the well-known tale.

Music Man

Price: $5
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

Never Too Late
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: $15 adults; $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Never Too Late is a comedy about a middle-aged woman who discovers she is pregnant, much to the dismay of her husband and the surprise of the town. The husband does not feel he is up to the challenge, and their daughter is forced to cook and clean around the house while trying to get pregnant herself. After a drunken argument with the mayor and another with his wife, the man finally accepts the inevitable.

All prices include dessert and a hot beverage at intermission.

The Octette Bridge Club
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

On alternate Friday evenings, eight sisters meet to play bridge and gossip. The first act takes place in 1934; the second 10 years later during a Halloween bridge party where each acts out her costume's persona. The emotionally distraught youngest, who does a hilarious Salome belly dance, has just gotten out of a sanitarium and knows that she must cut the bonds to her smothering family and strike out on her own. A sentimental comedy by P.J. Barry about American life in a bygone era.

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The Seagull
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, recently translated by Tom Stoppard, is a serious comedy with writers at its core that examines some similar themes: How do we measure success? What is the cost of fame? What are we willing to sacrifice for public recognition and acclaim? Can we become the authors of our own lives? How do we take responsibility for our own happiness? Although it was written a century ago, the truth and richness of Chekhovs play, a mosaic of needs and desires and the power of giving and taking, still resonates today.

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Much Is Blue About Nothing, and The Mysterious Messenger
Open Hand Theater

Price: $14 at the door; $12 in advance regular; $10 in advance students/seniors
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Inspired by the Italian Commedia Dell'arte and the great American melodrama, featuring the daring dynamic deeds of the Open Hand Theater ensemble.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile and A Public Affair
Redhouse
WhAT: Warehouse Architecture Theater

Price: $8 adult; $4 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

WhAT presents a double bill, Picasso at the Lapin Agile written by Steve Martin and directed by Ian Nicholson, and A Public Affair, a new play written and directed by Alex Coulombe.

The Winter's Tale
Syracuse University Drama Department
Malcolm Ingram, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Shakespeare's genre-defying romance, The Winter's Tale, is sometimes referred to as a tragicomedy. When King Leontes of Sicilia suspects his pregnant wife and his best friend of having an affair, he throws his wife in prison and orders her baby to be abandoned in the wilderness. A kindly shepherd finds the baby and raises her as his own for 16 years. Meanwhile, the Oracle of Delphi tells King Leontes of his foolishness: his wife now dead, grief-stricken Leontes will have no heir until his abandoned daughter is found. In the same tragicomic spirit as such late Shakespeare plays as The Tempest and Cymbeline, the story's initial tragedy yields to an inevitable happy ending, but not before the characters endure the madness and death brought on by the flawed hero.

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The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

Price: $21.00 regular; $19.00 seniors; $14.00 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A girl, a boy, a wall between them... This charming show, the longest running musical in history, tells a timeless story of young love. Beautiful songs include "Try to Remember."

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

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