Friday, April 20, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Gallery Exhibit: SU Touring Art Show: Above and Below
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibition of prints that examines the urban transformation of New York City during the first half of the 20th century and how it affected the city's residents and their lifestyles.

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Beyond the Silver Screen: works of Maestro Nano Campeggi
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Italian artist Silvano Campeggi, better known as Nano, produced over 3000 billboard posters for major Hollywood films during the post-war period. In the realm of cinema-graphic advertising, he is an Italian institution. This exhibition features the masterful, contemporary works that define his signature style, going beyond the silver screen and offering a rare glimpse of his original drawings and paintings. Combining his skills as an illustrator and painter, Nano plays with images, deliberately pairing modern film icons with art history's iconic historic counterparts, each culminating in a whimsical, idealized creation. The deft, essential strokes of vibrant color and black line successfully bridge the distance between the nostalgia provoked by poster art tradition, and the post-war film genre that Nano himself nurtured. His pastiche of style and ideas are interconnected through a visual vocabulary that is both familiar and evocative of a Pop Art sensibility. Nano's poster art evolved from and at the same time blossomed into these timeless works, treasures whose influence and reach is still seen in the contemporary work of both fine artists and graphic designers today.

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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.

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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Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

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.

Art Across Generations
Delavan Art Gallery

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

This exhibit features acrylic paintings by A. Brooks Decker, photographs by Vivian Geiger, photographs by Jessica Taylor and art by students in three Syracuse School District Elementary Schools: Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace.

For A. Brooks Decker, childhood memories are entwined in the subject matter of her paintings in a style she calls "romantic realism." Also included in this show are paintings of garden doors inspired by photographs by her daughter, Jessica Taylor, whose work is also included in this exhibit.

Vivian Geiger is a widely respected photographer who is showcasing a new series of abstracts and a new technique of using pastels on photographs.

Jessica Taylor is exhibiting many of her cloudscapes in this exhibit along side her mother, A. Brooks Decker's paintings.

For the fourth year, Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to host the work of children from Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace Elementary Schools. Students from the classes of Stacy Griffin, Kelly Moser and Simone Montgomery have the chance to see their work in a professional setting and to sell the work to raise money for themselves as burgeoning artists and for school art supplies.

A special reception will be held for students from 4:00 - 6:00 PM, featuring a performance by Seymour Guitar Ensemble. The ensemble consists of student guitar players in the 4th and 5th grades and is spearheaded by Seymour's music teacher, Kevin Dorsey. The public is encouraged to attend this reception.

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

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.

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."

Spring Concert
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Student Dancers

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This recital encompasses tap, abllet, modern, and jazz styles.

The Professor and His Beloved Equation
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Professor and His Beloved Equation by Atsushi Koizumi (117 min, fiction, Japan)
Akira Terao's plays a math professor, whose memory only lasts for 80 minutes due to an injury. Fukatsu, a single mom, is hired to be his housekeeper. The story surrounds their relationships, together with her son and the professor's sister-in-law, and his passion for mathematics and its mysteries. Drama.

Billo - Il Grand Dakhaar
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Billo - Il Grand Dakhaar by Laura Muscardin (98 min, fiction, Italy)
Billo Thierno, a young Senegalese, has a dream. He wishes to become a fashion designer and wants to immigrate to Italy. He's not rich, but lucky to be young and full of energy. In a village near Dakar, his Marabout (Koranic master) keeps telling him of the old local adage "A black ant, on a black stone, in a dark night, God sees it and loves it." Drama.

The Last Dining Table
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Last Dining Table by Gyung-tae Roh (91 min, fiction, Korea)
In this highly imaginative narrative several worlds exist simultaneously; where the main characters, a father, daughter, son, grandmother live, where they observe, where they dream, and where the other people live. Each thread of their stories develops independently, yet becomes intertwined towards the end. Drama.

Crossing The Stream; Guilty Unless Proven Otherwise; Gradually
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Crossing The Stream by Skip Battaglia (4 min, animation, USA)
A meditation on water. The animation of water. A poem in the shape of a stream.

Guilty Unless Proven Otherwise by Hedy Krisssane (11 min, fiction, Italy)
The shadow of international terrorism hovers above a police interrogation.

Gradually by Maziar Miri (74 min, fiction, Iran)
Mahmoud works for the Railroad Company outside Tehran. When he learns of the disappearance of his wife, who has a record of mental illness, he comes back to Tehran to look for her. Neighbors start to make his life impossible with their gossip. This film tells the story of the struggle of Iranian youth against the taboos of their society. Drama.

True Stories From Rug City; Low Level Flight
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

True Stories From Rug City by Colin Bannon (27 min, documentary, USA)
Stories of hope and despair from the citizens of Amsterdam, New York.

Low Level Flight by Jan Sikl (52 min, documentary, Czech Republic)
From their first meeting, Tana felt she was destined to marry Vaclav. She was very much attracted to his charm and personality, to his determination to achieve his lifelong dream of becoming a pilot. But marriage to an ace pilot in the Czechoslovak army was far from easy.

Audition; La Cena di Emmaus; The Northern Kingdom
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Audition by Megan Ehrhart (8 min, animation, USA)
Toys and dolls compete to be in a "real" Hollywood movie.

La Cena di Emmaus by Jose Corvaglia (10 min, experimental, Italy)
A game of hide-and-seek turns into a nightmare for ten-year-old Matthew.

The Northern Kingdom by Dorothy Lyman (100 min, fiction, USA)
The film is based on a play by Nancy Sayles Garrett, and follows three interconnected families in an agricultural town and their interaction with an injured Iraq-conflict veteran who upon his return befriends a troubled boy who is building a bomb.

Que Dieu benisse l'Amerique (May God Bless America)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Que Dieu benisse l'Amerique (May God Bless America) by Robert Morin (105 min, fiction, Quebec/Canada)
Maurice, a retired police investigator recalls that when the WTC was going down, a man, trapped in his car, drowned in Maurice's swimming pool. That same day, his neighbor Pierre, a sexual predator just released from jail is thrown out by his wife. Everywhere Pierre goes he sees a flyer, naming all sexual predators in the vicinity, including his own. To top things off, three of theses predators were now dead. Drama.

Dear Edmond
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Bistro Cinema
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Dear Edmond by Amit Goren (82 min, documentary, Israel)
In the shadow of David Perlov's Diaries comes this highly poetic metaphoric structure juxtaposing the filmmaker and his partner attempting to become parents with his memories of daily life on Rothschild Boulevard, the heart of the first Hebrew city, where Tel Aviv was born in 1909. A new city, a child is born. Both are struggles.

Special Event: Jazz and Buster Keaton's 1924 Masterpiece, Sherlock Jr.
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

See and hear how a music score changes the meaning of a film. Two screenings - back to back, each with a different original jazz score composed and performed live by The James Emery Trio and Combo Nuvo featuring David Schroeder, Rich Shemaria and Mike Richmond. The musicians will conduct a Q&A after both runs of the film. Presented in collaboration with Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation, Laurance A. Luttinger, Executive Director.

Synopsis: A young man (played by Buster Keaton) working at a movie theater takes a break from sweeping to read a book on how to be a detective. After work he buys a box of candy for a girlfriend and presents it to her along with a ring. Another suitor, the deceitful 'sheik', steals a watch from the girl's house, pawns it, and tries to impress her with a larger box of candy. The main character is accused of taking the watch and is forced to leave the girl's house. He returns to his job at the theater and falls asleep in the projector room. The young man dreams he can walk through the film screen and into an adventurous mystery movie. The characters are people from his real life, with the sheik playing the villain and the main character himself being the inventive and invincible detective Sherlock Jr. He manages to solve the crime and save the girl in this contained narrative before waking up back in the projector booth. The girl shows up and admits that her family had made a mistake in suspecting him. Unsure of what to do next, the hero looks to the characters in the movie currently playing for suggestions.

Special Program: The Carol North Schmuckler New Filmmakers Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This program is in honor and memory of Carol North Schmuckler for her many years of championing the College of Visual and Performing Arts film program and its students. She began this showcase 15 years ago to provide students with the opportunity of having their films screened publicly. From the beginning, Joan Vandeboncoeur, the Post-Standard's film critic, and Bill Delapp, the Syracuse New Times' film critic, have judged this showcase.

Painted by Brent Barbano (5 min, experimental)
A portrait of an artist whose face is also a blank canvas.

The Optometrist by Stacy Barton (13 min, fiction)
A metaphor for the eroticization and stereotyping of women in the history of cinema and media, this eye doctor get what he deserves in the end.

Lucid Lunch by Megan Ehrhart (5 min, animation)
Inside fabricated walls, an antique doll and her well-persevered companions picnic as nightmarish elements offer sustenance in manageable portions.

VI Courses by Valerie Ianello (11 min, documentary)
A study of people and their unique interactions with food.

An Antonionian Tale by Sean Flannery (5 min, fiction)
Love given doesn't always mean love received.

Petals by Elise D'Orazio (27 min, fiction)
A father's dilemma over helping his young daughter ease into womanhood in the absence of a mother.

Ballun by Monica Hoge (10 min, animation)
The eerie wanderings of a curious boy who escapes the stagnant security of home.

True Stories From Rug City by Colin Bannon (27 min, documentary)
Stories of hope and despair from the citizens of Amsterdam, New York.

Dedication Of Love; Magic Eye
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Dedication Of Love by Alessandro Merluzzi (12 min, fiction, Italy)
Two lines on the first page of a book are meant to be a gift to a beloved.

Magic Eye by Kujtim Cashku (90 min, fiction, Albania)
Albania 1997 - Gjirokaster, a town in the southern part of the country, is on the brink of a civil war. A retired photographer, Petro, is a witness to a tragedy that he captures by coincidence on film with his Super 8 camera. He travels from his native village to the capital of Tirana to have the film developed as quickly as possible. Drama.

Psi Cho; Pictures at an Exhibition; Oh Be Joyful
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Psi Cho by Libor Pixa (10 min, animation, Czech Republic)
A funny doggy psycho.

Pictures At An Exhibition by Natasha Turovsky (37 min, animation, Russia/Canada)
Mussorgsky's music made into digital projections of fifteen Turovosky paintings.

Oh Be Joyful by Peter Rinaldi (45 min, fiction, USA)
Tom Colebourne finds that he must choose between the safety and comfort of his current life, and the life his passionately jobless, actor-roommates feel he was destined to live.

Moving Panorama; A Farewell Song
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Bistro Cinema
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Moving Panorama by Jae-kyu Byun (4 min, experimental, Korea)
The title describes the visual technique as we see urban life in South Korea.

A Farewell Song by Arthur Jones and Luther Jones (76 min, documentary, England)
Music lovers will love this film. After distinguished careers in China's state-run orchestras, four musicians retire to enjoy family life and the relative freedoms of the 21st century. But the prospect of one last - and independent - concert reunites them and calls them back to the stage.

Something Like Happiness
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Something Like Happiness by Bohdan Slama (90 min, fiction, Czech Republic)
This tragic/comedy is about finding hope in the midst of disappointment. Monika, Tonik and Dasha grew up together in the same housing project on the outskirts of a small industrial city. Now the childhood friends are adults, each struggling with feelings of desire and loneliness, longing and failure. Comedy/Drama.

Valery's Ankle; Little Bang; Hanuszka
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Valery's Ankle by Brent Kashmere (33 min, documentary, Canada/USA)
Is violence in hockey necessary to the success of the sport?

Little Bang by Diek Grobler (11 min, animation, South Africa)
Fantastical characters that evolved from rubble in a garden shed play out a creation myth.

Hanuszka by Nurit Kedan (65 min, documentary, Israel)
A unique story, told here for the first time. Hanna Mandelberger, a 12 year old girl who fled the ghetto, roams the streets of Warsaw looking for something to eat. Out of nowhere, a light is shining; Hanna barely makes it to a doorstep before collapsing. Hanna will eventually tell the Mother Superior she is a Polish Catholic.

Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Urban Video Project (UVP) will present its third volume of experimental outdoor video installations. UVP will project on the exterior of the Palace Theater at dusk.

Inspired by the Connective Corridor and Th3, UVP is the brainchild of the 40 Below Public Arts Task Force, Gianunzio, and fellow VPA graduate students Blake Carrington and Colin Todd. A public arts initiative, UVP seeks to bring art to the streets and buildings of Syracuse using multiple video projections, six-channel sound and performance to explore new forms of cartography that challenge traditional functions and perceptions of urban space and identity. Working closely with many University and community partners, UVP produces installations throughout the year.

12
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

12 by Lawrence Bridges (201 min, experimental, USA)
A monumental and totally fascinating work. Its three plus hours fly by. A half-sister and brother, illegitimate offspring of the Greek God Zeus, are stranded on an island ranch just off the coast of Los Angeles. They wait in vain for Zeus to move them to new lives. Zeus fates a play, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The children must perform if they want to survive. Facing eviction by the U.S. Government - the island is to be turned into a National Park -- they seek new lives in Los Angeles. Comedy.

Outdoor Drive-In Theater
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Murbro Parking Lot - Armory Square
Corner of Franklin and Fayette Streets, Syracuse

The Legend of Black Tom by Deron Albright (16 min, animation, USA)
In 1810, Tom Molineaux, a freed American slave, fought for the bare-knuckle boxing championship against renown British champion, Tom Cribb.

Love Letter by Trent Jones (17 min, fiction, USA)
Henry is a young boy who loses a love letter written to the girl of his dreams and must survive the perils of 7th grade to win back her heart.

In the Mood by Hannah Robinson (8 min, fiction, England)
When a dance instructor learns new steps she is no longer effective as a German spy.

Little Bang by Diek Grobler (11 min, animation, South Africa)
Fantastical characters that evolved from rubble in a garden shed play out a creation myth.

Pop by Adriana Kukala (5 min, animation, Czech Republic)
A stylized horror film.

Rocketboy by Justin Guerrieri (13 min, fiction, USA)
Starring Star Trek: Voyager's Doctor, Robert Picardo, Roger Lange, a disenchanted accountant, comes face-to-face with a strange visitor from outer space.

Gallaitstraat; Disarmed and Dangerous; Mojave Phone Booth
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Bistro Cinema
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Gallaitstraat by Emma de Swaef (9 min, experimental, Netherlands)
An old lady observes the changing neighborhood through her living room window.

Disarmed and Dangerous by Diana Naftal (14 min, documentary, USA)
Two women with similar physical disabilities meet to give one another support.

Mojave Phone Booth by John Putch (88 min, fiction, USA)
In the middle of the Mojave Desert rests an abandoned but functioning phone booth. Its identity, born on the Internet, drew travelers who would camp next to the booth, in the hopes that it might suddenly ring, connecting them with a stranger on the other end of the line. In this story four disparate people's lives intersect at this mystical outpost. Drama.

Housed Dwellers; Evocation; Camjackers
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Housed Dwellers by Kristina Herczegova (28 min, fiction, Slovakia)
A film based on stories by Istvan Orkeny. It's the 1960s and we see the world of "Occupants of the House" through the eyes of a writer.

Evocation by Jaeyoon Park (5 min, animation, Korea)
Evocation is a visual ode to the poem 'Evocation' written by Kim So Wol that explores the strong emotional conflicts caused by losing a loved one. Traditional cultural symbols are used to convey the soul's transformation into spirit.

Camjackers by Julian Dahl (80 min, fiction, USA)
Two rich, clueless film school grads are shooting a modernized "ghetto" interpretation of an ancient Greek play on the mean streets of Los Angeles. Bridging narrative and documentary forms the film features special appearances by Aceyalone, 2mex, Medusa, Myka9, and other legends of the LA underground. Comedy.

Corridor; Cover Boy
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Corridor by Jan Strnad (7 min, experimental, Czech Republic)
Boy, youth, man, and old man meet as the same person walking on a stairway in different time lines.

Cover Boy by Carmine Amoroso (99 min, fiction, Italy)
The young Romanian immigrant lost his father during the revolution that led to the fall of Ceausescu. Despite the freedom his country has acquired, he can't see any future for himself. He leaves for Italy to realize his dreams. This story aims to be a portrait of consumer society's marginalized denizens in a Europe.

The Synchronized Dance of the Magnetic Peanuts: the Claude Kaerlivhe's Story; Hallucii; Bushman's Secret
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

The Synchronized Dance of the Magnetic Peanuts: the Claude Kaerlivhe's Story by Sebastian Litmanovich & Alex Beltran (50 min, experimental/documentary, Spain)
This highly inventive, very disturbing film in an in-depth investigation discloses important testimonies, including that of Adam West. Revealing experiments place Claude's theory in doubt and even question whether man did in fact reach the moon.

Hallucii by Goo-Shun (4 min, animation, Taiwan)
In an Escher-like world how does man travel and where does he go?

Bushman's Secret by Rehad Desai (65 min, documentary, South Africa)
When South African filmmaker Rehad Desai travels to the Kalahari to investigate global interest in ancient Bushmen knowledge, he meets Jan van der Westhuizen, a fascinating Khomani San traditional healer. Jan's struggle to live close to nature is hampered by centuries of colonial exploitation of the San Bushmen and of their land.

Closer; Face Value; The Glenmoore Job
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Closer by Marta Ferencova(29 min, fiction, fiction, Slovakia)
Reality and fiction are as close to us as life and death.

Face Value by Gareth Bird (14 min, fiction, South Africa)
A story about a facially scarred security guard, his colleagues and an unsettled customer.

The Glenmoore Job by Greg Williams (53 min, fiction, Australia)
Warren steps out of prison and straight into a self-help group whose idea of therapy is to play board games. But if he has to humor these weirdos, like Sally, a cat-burglar in training, so the cops will leave him alone while he does a 'job' for a mate on the inside, then 'roll the dice.' It's a dirty job, but Warren's got to do it.

Return of the Poet
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Return of the Poet by Harutyun Khachatryan (85 min, documentary, Armenia)
Here is a dazzling, alternative vision of a cinema that is essentially poetic, metaphorical and allusive. A work of tactile sensuality, it nominally depicts the step-by-step creation of a monumental statue of the poet that ends up traveling on the back of a truck through the Armenian countryside. In fact it is cinematic art at its finest.

The Second Wedding Night
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

The Second Wedding Night by Pupi Avati (103 min, fiction, Italy)
Giordano Ricci is a large man with an unkempt beard who removes landmines from the fields of Torre Canne. Everyone believes he is mentally ill, and, as such, more expendable than a healthy person. Only his elderly aunts with whom he runs the family's candy factory care about him. A sudden change in Giordano's life occurs with the arrival of a letter from his sister-in-law. Comedy/Drama.

Festival Special Forum: New Technologies in Animation
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Ben Burtt: born in Syracuse, New York has won two Oscars as Best Sound Editing for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and two Special Achievement Awards for sound editing in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).

Ken Schretzmann: a graduate of Syracuse University was the Assistant Editor on Dream A Little Dream, Ted & Venus, Fried Green Tomatoes, Get Shorty, Men in Black, and Toy Story 2. He was editor for the Academy Award nominated feature animation, Cars (2006).

Chris Wedge: a graduate of Fayetteville-Manlius High School was one of the principal animators for the groundbreaking Disney movie Tron. His 1999 Bunny won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Since then Chris has written and directed Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005), and Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006).

Festival Special Forum: Images of Youth in World Cinema and Media
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Linnea Dahl: is co-writer of Woman In Weird Short, Woman In Home Movie. She co-wrote and helped produce Camjackers. Currently, she is collaborating with Julian Dahl on Wild Child -- a line of nature-based video programs for children -- and developing the next feature film for LAFCO.

Jana: Grammy Award nominee and founder of Jana's Kids, to help Native American Youth, she refers to herself as "Urban Indian". Each of her last three singles won the Native American Music Award. She received Nammy awards for Best Pop Performer, Song Of The Year, and Female Artist Of The Year

Peter Mcalevey: native Upstate New Yorker, he is one of the producers of Screamers, a documentary feature examining why genocides keep occurring as seen through the eyes and music of Grammy award-winning rock band "System of a Down." McAlevey is a former VP of Production at Michael Douglas' Stonebridge Entertainment.

Carrie Mae Weems: photographer, installation and video artist her work investigates family relationships, gender roles, the histories of racism, sexism, class, and various political systems. One of her most recent pieces was commissioned by Tulane University, The Louisiana Project (2003).

Moderator and presenter
John Broughton: published two books on developmental psychology, and founded and edited three scholarly journals. His clinical research is on perinatally infected HIV+ adolescents. He is on the faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.

Onondaga Community College
OCC Percussion Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Folkus Project
Mustard's Retreat

Price: $12
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Michael Hough and David Tamulevich, the Michigan-based duo known as Mustard's Retreat, are celebrating their 31st anniversary of making music together. The key to this long success can be found in the loyal audiences who have made this group's music part of their everyday lives. Everything Mustard's Retreat does on stage is aimed at pleasing, moving, and engaging their audiences.

Whether they're singing their own gentle love songs and powerful ballads, telling tall tales, or offering treasures from America's vast collection of traditional melodies, a Mustard's Retreat show always feels like it's designed for the people who have come to see them that day. The goal, Tamulevich says, is “to create a moment of community where everybody is sharing the same experience, the same idea, the same song. I mean, that's the only reason for me to be up there: we really want that connection to people."

Nobody is just a spectator with Mustard's Retreat. They are wonderfully unafraid to get silly with their audiences, spinning out smartly goofy parodies, too-tall tales of wily rabbits and stupid frogs, hard-traveling cadavers, and marauding techno-nerds. In their serious songwriting, their desire to connect with listeners is as evident as it is in their robust sing-alongs and witty ditties. The moments upon which they hang their songs are moments all of us have felt: hands held in the kitchen during a quiet moment of rekindled love, the careless remark that reveals too much about a relationship withering from inattention, the hectic symphony of a busy city street, the timeless pleasure of gathering in shared song.

The Merry Widow
Syracuse Opera

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

An opera in three acts, The Merry Widow is set in Paris at the turn of the last century. A beautiful widow's fortune could mean all the difference for a tiny nation's future, but a spurned lover's arrogance threatens to get in the way. Lehár's ravishing score dances and dazzles its way to a delightfully perfect conclusion. The Merry Widow revels in romantic intrigue, splashy production numbers and timeless Viennese waltzes. It will be sung in English with projected titles.

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**POSTPONED** Poet Brian Turner
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Due to the death of a family member, this reading has been postponed until May 18.

Brian Turner is a soldier-poet whose debut collection, Here, Bullet, won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, the 2006 PEN USA Best in the West award, the 2006 Northern California Book Award in Poetry, and the New York Times "Editor's Choice" selection. Turner served seven years in the US Army, including one year as an infantry team leader in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000 with the 10th Mountain Division. Brian Turner's many awards include recent fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation.

Turner's Here, Bullet is a harrowing, beautiful first-person account of the Iraq war. The poems in this remarkable collection reflect Turner's experiences as a soldier with penetrating lyric power, compassion, sensitivity, and eloquence, while deploring the violence and acknowledging the grief and terror of war. One poem, "Eulogy," was written to memorialize a soldier in his platoon who took his own life. Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire), veteran Brian Turner's affecting poetry of witness is exceptional for its beauty, honesty and skill. These gracefully-rendered, unflinching poems make Here, Bullet a must-read for anyone who cares about the war, regardless of political affiliation.

Steel Magnolias
Theatre '90

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Some may equate Steel Magnolias to the consummate "chick flick." It is, however, more accurately described as the ultimate "feel good" theater piece that all adults will enjoy. A great girls' night out, as well as a guy-girl thing; a mother and daughter time together as well as an entire audience filled with strangers enjoying similar feelings while on the same wave-length. Steel Magnolias is one of the most popular theater productions in the country because it has it all: comedy, drama, excitement, laughter, and poignancy.

For more information, phone 315-479-5495.

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Sin: A Cardinal Deposed
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

In the tradition of outstanding "docu-dramas" like The Laramie Project and Execution of Justice, Michael Murphy's Sin is a collage of testimonies of, by and surrounding Cardinal Bernard F. Law - the Catholic leader whose governance of his diocese was questioned and scrutinized when years of sexual abuse by diocesan priests finally came to light. This searing and emotional work examines our dedication to religion, our faith in our legal system and the strength of our own convictions - in the words of Cardinal Law himself.

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Kiss of the Spider Woman
Simply New Theatre

Price: $25
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Adapted from the acclaimed novel on which the film and hit musical are based, the original play is gripping drama about two men imprisoned - one a window dresser, the other a socialist rebel. Locked up for their beliefs and forced to share a cell, each man finds comfort in the other's company as politics and eroticism blend together in the shadows of their cell.

Due to the graphic nature of this piece and male nudity, all audience members under the age of 18 need to be accompanied by an adult.

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Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

Price: $44, $39, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Its status as an American classic makes it easy to hurl superlatives at this great play without truly considering Arthur Miller's achievement. In creating Willy Loman, Miller, like Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, examines the shaky illusions at the foundation of so many American lives and finds tragedy within. Miller fearlessly assesses the small life of a common man, the shattered hopes and dreams, and insists "attention must be paid."

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Saturday, April 21, 2007

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Art Across Generations
Delavan Art Gallery

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

This exhibit features acrylic paintings by A. Brooks Decker, photographs by Vivian Geiger, photographs by Jessica Taylor and art by students in three Syracuse School District Elementary Schools: Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace.

For A. Brooks Decker, childhood memories are entwined in the subject matter of her paintings in a style she calls "romantic realism." Also included in this show are paintings of garden doors inspired by photographs by her daughter, Jessica Taylor, whose work is also included in this exhibit.

Vivian Geiger is a widely respected photographer who is showcasing a new series of abstracts and a new technique of using pastels on photographs.

Jessica Taylor is exhibiting many of her cloudscapes in this exhibit along side her mother, A. Brooks Decker's paintings.

For the fourth year, Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to host the work of children from Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace Elementary Schools. Students from the classes of Stacy Griffin, Kelly Moser and Simone Montgomery have the chance to see their work in a professional setting and to sell the work to raise money for themselves as burgeoning artists and for school art supplies.

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

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.

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.

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.

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Bares, Boats and Chairs; Implicit
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: Free
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Bares, Boats and Chairs: Series of Nude portraits taken inside the sitters' homes by Ashley De Rosa.
Implicit: Works by Andrew Walko.

Spring Concert
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Student Dancers

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This recital encompasses tap, abllet, modern, and jazz styles.

Spring Concert
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Student Dancers

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This recital encompasses tap, abllet, modern, and jazz styles.

The Professor and His Beloved Equation
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Professor and His Beloved Equation, by Atsushi Koizumi (117 min, fiction, Japan)
Akira Terao's plays a math professor, whose memory only lasts for 80 minutes due to an injury. Fukatsu,, a single mom, is hired to be his housekeeper. The story surrounds their relationships, together with her son and the professor's sister-in-law, and his passion for mathematics and its mysteries. Drama.

Young Filmmakers Program
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Films made by young filmmakers aged 10 - 18. Many of these works deal with serious issues and are not appropriate for kids under 10.

A New Leaf by Jose Guerreo (14 min, fiction, USA)
Her father tries to thwart her attempt to go to college.

Shoe Fly by Aaron Davidson (5 min, fiction/animation, USA)
Shoes go on a trip, with their owner, on Air France.

Jo Jovill (10 min, animation, USA)
MTV becomes narrative. Its all about Sally and Jake.

A Leaf Escaped by Isidore Bethel (3 min, animation, USA)
An attempt to escape the refrigerator, can any of the vegetables make it to freedom?

Patrick In Progress by Mitch Collier (15 min, fiction, USA)
Hard as he tries Patrick just can't learn the social graces.

A Conversation Between Two Miserable People In Dr. Tourin's Waiting Room by Melissa Wei (10 min, fiction, USA)
A young man and a young woman wait not knowing how to act with one another.

Rozwell by Hodges Usry (9 min, fiction, USA)
A man loses control and has fantasies of violent revenge.

Run To Tomorrow
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Run To Tomorrow by Fu Xiao Jian (90 min, fiction, China)
In a small Chinese village sport is unavailable to the school children until one day a new teacher with a background in long distance running comes to the school. The film explores traditional customs set against a contemporary world with new values and challenges. Drama.

My Family Is Magical and Immense; I Love You, I'm Sorry, and I'll Never Do It Again; First Lesson in Peace
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

My Family Is Magical and Immense by Darlo Jurilli (11 min, Italy)
Based on true events, it is a film about a recent event in Italy, one that shocked the nation.

I Love You, I'm Sorry, and I'll Never Do It Again by Keith Snyder (15 min, USA
1 husband. 1 wife. 2 thugs. And 3 simple lies. A wild farce on noir/crime/musicals.

First Lesson in Peace by Yoram Honig (56 min, documentary, Israel)
This is a riveting film that explores the Jewish-Arab conflict through the eyes of a six year old girl, the director's daughter when she starts school at the mixed Arab-Jewish primary school, Neveh Shalom (The Oasis of Peace).

Family Friendly Film: Little Heroes
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Little Heroes by Itai Lev (76 min, fiction, Israel)
Can we come to terms with who we are? Can we accept our shortcomings as well as our merits and to use them to our advantage? Can we face what makes us different than the rest, and embrace it wholeheartedly? A group of four children learn to do just that during an adventurous journey throughout the scenic Israeli wilderness.

Gilaneh
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Gilaneh by Rakshan Barri-Eternad and Mohsen Abdolvahab (82 min, fiction, Iran)
It's New Year's Eve and it's the Iran-Iraq war; Tehran is being repeatedly attacked with missiles. Gilaneh, a lonely middle-aged villager has to send her son to the war. She must also accompany her daughter to Tehran in search of her son-in-law, who has illegally left the service. 15 years later she is taking care of her chemically wounded son. Drama.

They Are Not Your Husband; The Paper Will Be Blue
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Bistro Cinema
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

They Are Not Your Husband by Matyas Prikler (22 min, fiction, Slovakia)
Based on the short story by Raymond Carver about a man's effort to reignite his sexual interest in his wife.

The Paper Will Be Blue by Radu Muntean (94 min, fiction, Romania)
Out of enthusiasm, a Militia soldier abandons his platoon and decides to fight for the cause of the Revolution. His Lieutenant and the rest of the crew look for him during the confused night of 22-23 December 1989. War/Political Drama.

Love Letter; Rocketboy; Little Fairy Tale; The Shutka Book of Records
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Love Letter by Trent Jones, (17 min, fiction, USA)
Henry is a young boy who loses a love letter written to the girl of his dreams and must survive the perils of 7th grade to win back her heart.

Rocketboy by Justin Guerrieri (13 min, fiction, USA)
Starring Star Trek: Voyager's Doctor, Robert Picardo, Roger Lange, a disenchanted accountant, comes face-to-face with a strange visitor from outer space.

Little Fairy Tale by Kristina Dufkova (5 min, animation, Czech Republic)
Animated film based on children's drawings and rendering of fairy tales featuring a dragon, a prince and a princess.

The Shutka Book of Records by Aleksandar Manic (78 min, documentary, Czech Republic)
The film is a crazy look at the 'Happy Valley' in the largest Roma (Gypsy) community in the world. This world is full of bizarre characters that pass the time by ridding themselves of evil Genies, vampire hunting, training geese to fight and holding listening contests to see who has the best collection of Turkish music on cassette.

Billo - Il Grand Dakhaar
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Billo - Il Grand Dakhaar, by Laura Muscardin (98 min, fiction, Italy)
Billo Thierno, a young Senegalese, has a dream. He wishes to become a fashion designer and wants to immigrate to Italy. He's not rich, but lucky to be young and full of energy. In a village near Dakar, his Marabout (Koranic master) keeps telling him of the old local adage "A black ant, on a black stone, in a dark night, God sees it and loves it." Drama.

First Flight; Vanaja
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

First Flight by Cameron Hood and Kyle Jefferson (8 min, animation, USA)
A fastidiously organized businessman's life is changed by tiny fledgling bird.

Vanaja by Rajnesh Domalpulli (111 min, fiction, India)
A 15 year old daughter of a financially troubled fisherman goes to work in the local landlady's house in hopes of learning Kuchipudi dance. She does well, but when the Landlady's son returns from the US, what begins as innocent sexual chemistry turns ugly. The film explores the chasm that divides classes as a young girl struggles to come of age.

Missing Pages; A Following Act; Agnieszka; Empathy
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Missing Pages by Jerome Oliver (20 min, experimental, Japan)
Sci-fi trip through time space travel.

A Following Act by Matyas Prikler(25 min, fiction, Slovakia)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday... and Monday again.

Agnieszka by Martin Gauvreau (17 min, experimental, England)
The night before the invasion of Poland, Agnieszka found the box of eternity.

Empathy by Refaeli Adi (39 min, fiction, Israel)
A terrible car accident connects four stories, each involving characters dealing with emptiness, regret, and life's harsh realities. A look on what drives us sometimes to go through ugly actions, although deep inside we are positive.

The Legend of Black Tom; Ballun; Edge of Eden: Living With Grizzlies
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

The Legend of Black Tom by Deron Albright (16 min, animation, USA)
In 1810, Tom Molineaux, a freed American slave, fought for the bare-knuckle boxing championship against renown British champion, Tom Cribb.

Ballun by Monica Hoge (10 min, animation, USA)
The eerie wanderings of a curious boy who escapes the stagnant security of home.

Edge of Eden: Living With Grizzlies by Jeff and Sue Turner (89 min, documentary, USA)
Canadian Charlie Russell has been raising orphaned grizzly bear cubs in the wilderness of Russia for the past decade. Becoming their surrogate mother, he struggles to teach them everything they need to survive a life in the wild. But will it be enough?

Pop; 37 Uses For A Dead Sheep
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Pop by Adriana Kukala (5 min, animation, Czech Republic)
A stylized horror film.

37 Uses For A Dead Sheep by Ben Hopkins (85 min, documentary, England)
The Pamir Kirghiz are a tribe of some 2,000 people from the Pamir region of Central Asia. For the last 27 years they have lived in exile in Eastern Turkey. The film is part historical document, part ethnographic, part portrait of the conflict between individual and globalised culture, and part comedy about the process of filmmaking.

Startle Pattern; One Hundredth of a Second; Dream Grammar; Rabia
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Bistro Cinema
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Startle Pattern by Eric Patrick (13 min, animation, USA)
A narrative of isolation leaves a puppet's form tattered and decayed.

One Hundredth of a Second by Susan Jacobson (7 min, fiction, England)
Do you continue to do your job by taking a photograph or do you get involved and help?

Dream Grammar by Jurseo Hahm (5 min, animation, Korea)
Movements and events are sentences, Scenes, frames and characters, are words.

Rabia by Oscar Cardenas Navarro (74 min, fiction, Chile)
Camila is unemployed for more than a year. As she seeks work she is subjected to humiliating treatment from potential male employers. She exists in a world of other women also vying for the few low paying jobs available. In a unique filmmaking style Camila's frustration finally reaches a boiling point. Drama.

Angel's Egg
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Angel's Egg by Togashi Shin (114 min, fiction, Japan)
The film follows a young aspiring art student who falls in love with the older sister of his girlfriend. The heartrending longing and the true love that the three characters pursue, is pure, but almost painful. Is the person who stands next to you the person that gives you true comfort and love? Drama.

The Last Dining Table
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Last Dining Table, by Gyung-tae Roh (91 min, fiction, Korea)
In this highly imaginative narrative several worlds exist simultaneously; where the main characters, a father, daughter, son, grandmother live, where they observe, where they dream, and where the other people live. Each thread of their stories develops independently, yet becomes intertwined towards the end. Drama.

The Hunter; Vanished
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Hunter by Benjamin Gray (20 min, fiction, USA)
Each winter, Tub hunts with Frank and Kenny. Still the butt of every joke, Tub wants this year to be different. Based on the Tobias Wolff short story 'Hunters in the Snow'.

Vanished by Ken Mizahe (96 min, fiction, Japan)
An elementary school student hears of a creepy urban legend, a surreal game where your spirit is transported to another place to find a dead girl's missing thumb. If you find it before the candle goes out, your wish will be granted. But if someone taps you on the shoulder during the search... Thriller.

Letter in Red; Dammi il la; Meokgo and the Stickfighter; Nose: Iranian Style
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Letter in Red
Sometime, somewhere out of boredom, two girls write letters on red leaves, placing them afloat in a pond and letting the current take them afar.

Dammi il la by Sarah Ledbetter & Matteo Sevente (21 min, fiction, Italy)
A priest succumbs to his urge of recounting the story of an inexplicable friendship to a blocked composer who visits his church every morning.

Meokgo and the Stickfighter by Teboho Mahlatsi (17 min, fiction, South Africa)
This film owes as much to Mozart's The Magic Flute as it does to Sergio Leone's Westerns as it creates a fable about African magic in traditional African cultures.

Nose: Iranian Style by Mehrdan Oskovei (52 min, documentary, Iran)
This film explores the reasons that so many Iranian women wish to change their appearance by having plastic surgery on their noses. Through nose surgery the film surveys and analyzes urban society and today's youth of Iran especially in social, psychological, cultural and political contexts.

Special Program: Bobcat Goldthwait Screening and Q&A
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Bobcat Goldthwait screens and discusses his newest film Sleeping Dogs Lie
Amy is a seemingly normal young girl, adored by her parents and golden-boy fiance. Her future looks bright until her fiance suggests they tell each other their darkest secrets...things they have never told anyone. When Amy finally relents and reveals her secret, everything falls apart. The film adeptly explores honesty, family, forgiveness, and courage. By frankly probing our relationships and idealization of the absolute virtues of honesty, Sleeping Dogs Lie is a funny and perceptive dark comedy. 90 min., 2006.

Mature audiences only.

Do Over
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Do Over by Cheng Yu-chieh (114 min, fiction, Taiwan)
Very inventive drama about a lowly film production assistant who tries to lessen his low self-esteem in order to muster the courage to talk to the actress with whom he has fallen in love. Just when he thinks his luck is about to change, things take a dramatic turn... If you had the opportunity to reverse the course of your life, how would your story end?

Shocking Family
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Bistro Cinema
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Shocking Family by Kyung-soon (111 min, documentary, Korea)
Is there a single person born in Korea who is free from their family? This is a coming-of-age film that records the perspectives of three women in their twenties, thirties, and forties, dealing with the reality of a deteriorating identity within the boundaries of the family as they strive to find their own strengths.

Dedication Of Love; Magic Eye
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Dedication Of Love, by Alessandro Merluzzi (12 min, fiction, Italy)
Two lines on the first page of a book are meant to be a gift to a beloved.

Magic Eye, by Kutjim Cashku (90 min, fiction, Albania)
Albania 1997 - Gjirokaster, a town in the southern part of the country, is on the brink of a civil war. A retired photographer, PETRO, is a witness to a tragedy that he captures by coincidence on film with his Super 8 camera. He travels from his native village to the capital of Tirana to have the film developed as quickly as possible. Drama.

Outdoor Drive-In Theater
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Murbro Parking Lot - Armory Square
Corner of Franklin and Fayette Streets, Syracuse

Travel Diary by Keng Ming Liu (7 min, animation, Taiwan)
Stark differences between countries and cultures awaken everyone's desire to travel.

The Tube With A Hat by Radu Jude (14 min, fiction, Romania)
A small boy talks his dad into journeying from their rural village to the city, to fix their broken television set.

Psi Cho by Libor Pixa (10 min, animation, Czech Republic)
A funny doggy psycho.

Pictures At An Exhibition by Natasha Turovsky (37 min, animation, Russia/Canada)
Mussorgsky's music made into digital projections of fifteen Turovosky paintings.

Hallucii by Goo-Shun (4 min, animation, Taiwan)
In an Escher-like world how does man travel and where does he go?

High Maintenance by Phillip Van (9 min, fiction, USA)
If your husband is boring trade him in for a new model.

New Vision, New Sound, Big Screen
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Computer Artist, Heath Hanlin, Video/Film Artist, Elka Krajewska, Photographer/Video Artist, Carrie Mae Weems, and Video Artist, Bill Viola present works that relate image to music. Krajewska's piece was made especially for the IMAX screen and, as does Hanlin's, employs live musicians as part of their presentations.

How to Steer the Wheel, by Heath Hanlin (35 minutes, 2007, Premier of Live Version)
A transitive nightmare in seven parts, animated and composed by Heath Hanlin. Part 7, Lobe Massage features creature design and animation by Megan Ehrhart. The piece is performed with two guest musicians, Joshua Dekaney and Jeff Wagner.

Plany Mela for dome, by Elka Krajewska (25 minutes -- (90 seconds and 10 minutes))
This work is a hybrid cinematic experience combining an Imax film-loop and digital-video sequence, manipulated live, by Elka Krajewska with music score and improvisation by guitarist/composer Alan Licht who will perform with this projection.

Deserts, by Bill Viola (1994, music by Edgard Varese, concert film, color; 26 minutes)
Deserts is a film designed to accompany a live performance of the music of Edgard Varese. Varese had wanted to create a total image/sound work, but was unable to realize the visual component in his lifetime. He left only very general references to the images he envisioned for the music, preferring to leave the specifics to the filmmaker, as in the following statement: "For me, Deserts is a highly evocative word. It suggests space, solitude, detachment. To me it means not only deserts of sand, sea, mountains, and snow, of outer space, of deserted city streets, not only those stripped aspects of nature that suggest bareness and aloofness but also the remote inner space of the mind no telescope can reach, a world of mystery and essential loneliness." -Edgar Varese

Italian Dreams, by Carrie Mae Weems (10 minutes, 2006)
An exploration of gender and race in light of classical film, art and film music, this highly poetic work uses the Uffizi Museum in Florence as a metaphoric base for the video's ideas.

Unsettled
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Unsettled by Adam Hootnick -80 min, documentary, USA)
During the Gaza withdrawal, three young Israelis will be forced from their homes, two soldiers will be sent to evict them, and one activist will try to help her country avoid a war. Unsettled is a story about religion and democracy, soldiers and civilians, and the kids on the front lines of a battle where there is no enemy.

King of London; See the Sun; Bardo
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

King of London by Valeria Ruiz (19 min, fiction, England)
A Bulgarian delivery driver struggles to make it in London.

See the Sun by Liu Ching-yi(10 min, animation, Taiwan)
A little girl, alone in her room hears her arguing parents, her drunk father.

Bardo by Lin Tay-jou (70 min, experimental, Taiwan)
"Bardo" is borrowed from the Sanskrit word, which means "between" (bar) "two things" (do) -- in this case, it means between death and rebirth, and suggests something vaguely indeterminate, dim, and bearing on life and death. This film is a restructuring of religious allegory as well as a reflection on the basic value of life.

Corridor; Trisha
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Corridor, by Jan Strnad (7 min, experimental, Czech Republic)
Boy, youth, man, and old man meet as the same person walking on a stairway in different time lines.

Trisha by Sushen Bhatnagar (111 min, fiction, India)
A young married couple are having economic difficulties. In their growing desperation it eventually becomes clear that only by selling their yet to be born baby might they escape into a better world. What are the consequences of this decision? This is a world premier of a powerful drama. Drama.

Lucky
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Lucky by Vladimer Yakanin (94 min, fiction, Russia)
The film is based on real facts described in the diaries of Vadim Tumanov, who was sentenced and worked in the Siberian taiga. He survived and became a well-know perestroika businessman.

Anger Stone; My Own Private Deutschland
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Bistro Cinema
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Anger Stone by Dave Ryan (6 min, animation, USA)
Images hidden in your head shape who you are.

My Own Private Deutschland by Qiao Liang (90 min, fiction, China)
Xiao Yang goes to Germany in the hope of earning money. His one valuable possession is a digital video camera. His one great talent is as a pianist. He lives in a small room above a Chinese restaurant owned by a single woman. The film follows Xiao through a series of powerful scenes as he tries to find himself in this strange land. Drama.

The Old Barber
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

The Old Barber by Hasi Chaolu (90 min, fiction, China)
Uncle Jing is a 93 years old with over 80 years experience as a barber. He lives in the decrepit Beijing alleyways. He often travels to his old customers' homes to cut their hair and have a chat, then return home to fiddle with an ancient clock that always runs 5 minutes late. Beautifully filmed, subtle and heart warming drama of old age and China.

Screamers
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Documentary feature examining why genocides keep occurring -- from the Armenian genocide in 1915, to the Holocaust, Bosnia, Rwanda and now Darfur -- through the eyes and music of the Grammy award-winning rock band "System of a Down," based in Los Angeles, whose members are all grandchildren of genocide survivors. As the band tours the world and touches on the locations and stories of genocide in the last century, the film follows the personal story of the lead singer's grandfather, a 96-year old survivor of the Armenian genocide, one of the few remaining survivors from his village in Turkey. With the arguments of Harvard Professor Samantha Power, the personal stories of survivors from Armenia, Rwanda and Darfur, policy critics and whistleblowers - the "screamers" - the film targets the problem of genocide denial, with specific reference to the Turkish government's current campaign to stop its citizens from discussing the genocide. When the band arrives back in the United States, they confront the hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy in the debate on genocide recognition, with Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, actively blocking a vote in Congress. Through the band's efforts to get Dennis to "Do the Right Thing" and Power's thesis that America's interest has always been to stay neutral, no matter how wide-scale the carnage, the film shows how successive Presidents and corporate interests have conspired to turn a blind eye to genocides as they are happening -- whether it be Iraqi Kurds in the 80s, Rwanda in the 90s or Darfur today. After the Holocaust, we may say 'never again' -- but we don't mean it.

Well Aged Words: Onawumi Jean Moss
Open Hand Theater

Price: $18 in advance; $20 at the door. Artist reception: $5
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Onawumi Jean Moss, the Soulful Storyteller, received the Zora Neale Hurston Award for Storytelling, the highest award given by the National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS). Previous recipients have included the legendary theatrical couple of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee and jazz singer and storyteller Oscar Brown Jr. Her soulful narration, a capella singing, dramatic facial expressions and animated movements bring to life the worlds of adventurous girls and women, charming creatures, scheming tricksters and wicked demons.

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaption of the children's favorite.

Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Its status as an American classic makes it easy to hurl superlatives at this great play without truly considering Arthur Miller's achievement. In creating Willy Loman, Miller, like Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, examines the shaky illusions at the foundation of so many American lives and finds tragedy within. Miller fearlessly assesses the small life of a common man, the shattered hopes and dreams, and insists "attention must be paid."

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The Outsiders
Syracuse Civic Theatre

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

Members of teen gangs get caught up in cycles of violence.

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Steel Magnolias
Theatre '90

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Some may equate Steel Magnolias to the consummate "chick flick." It is, however, more accurately described as the ultimate "feel good" theater piece that all adults will enjoy. A great girls' night out, as well as a guy-girl thing; a mother and daughter time together as well as an entire audience filled with strangers enjoying similar feelings while on the same wave-length. Steel Magnolias is one of the most popular theater productions in the country because it has it all: comedy, drama, excitement, laughter, and poignancy.

For more information, phone 315-479-5495.

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Sin: A Cardinal Deposed
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

In the tradition of outstanding "docu-dramas" like The Laramie Project and Execution of Justice, Michael Murphy's Sin is a collage of testimonies of, by and surrounding Cardinal Bernard F. Law - the Catholic leader whose governance of his diocese was questioned and scrutinized when years of sexual abuse by diocesan priests finally came to light. This searing and emotional work examines our dedication to religion, our faith in our legal system and the strength of our own convictions - in the words of Cardinal Law himself.

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Kiss of the Spider Woman
Simply New Theatre

Price: $25
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Adapted from the acclaimed novel on which the film and hit musical are based, the original play is gripping drama about two men imprisoned - one a window dresser, the other a socialist rebel. Locked up for their beliefs and forced to share a cell, each man finds comfort in the other's company as politics and eroticism blend together in the shadows of their cell.

Due to the graphic nature of this piece and male nudity, all audience members under the age of 18 need to be accompanied by an adult.

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Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

Price: $44, $39, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Its status as an American classic makes it easy to hurl superlatives at this great play without truly considering Arthur Miller's achievement. In creating Willy Loman, Miller, like Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, examines the shaky illusions at the foundation of so many American lives and finds tragedy within. Miller fearlessly assesses the small life of a common man, the shattered hopes and dreams, and insists "attention must be paid."

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Sunday, April 22, 2007

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

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 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.

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."

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Billo - Il Grand Dakhaar
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Billo - Il Grand Dakhaar by Laura Muscardin (98 min, fiction, Italy)
Billo Thierno, a young Senegalese, has a dream. He wishes to become a fashion designer and wants to immigrate to Italy. He's not rich, but lucky to be young and full of energy. In a village near Dakar, his Marabout (Koranic master) keeps telling him of the old local adage "A black ant, on a black stone, in a dark night, God sees it and loves it." Drama.

Life In the Web; The Next Breath Down; Don't Look Down
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Bistro Cinema
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Life In the Web by Kathy Rose (9 min, experimental, USA)
Fabrics, figures and miniature sets create an enchanting operatic vision.

The Next Breath Down by Samantha Simmons (14 min, fiction, USA)
Sharing secrets between young would-be lovers can be dangerous.

The audience will be provided a very rare opportunity. Renowned Argentinian filmmaker Eliseo Subiela will screen and discuss No mires para abajo (Don't Look Down), his newest film in its unfinished state. In this film a young man falls in love with a woman who initiates him into sexual practices that allow him to explore unknown realms of spirituality and reality. It's the story of two young people who seek to get closer to God through love and sex.

High Maintenance; Great Noise; Inner Circle Line
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

High Maintenance by Phillip Van (9 min, fiction, USA)
If your husband is boring trade him in for a new model.

Great Noise by Claudio Coysanna (6 min, experimental, Greece)
A group of boys descend into a deep hole, the universe opens and the heavens pour down.

Inner Circle Line by Eunhee Cho (95 min, fiction, Korea)
A female club DJ becomes attracted to a mysterious club patron who reminds her of a past love. A subway engineer is haunted his past and a suicide that takes place in front of his train. Both characters have the same name, Youngju. When the DJs roommate brings things to a head, the two love stories intertwine. Drama.

Super Amigos
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Super Amigos by Arturo Perez Torres (82 min, documentary, Mexico/Canada)
Super Barrio, Super Animal, Fray Tormenta, Ecologista and Super Gay fight evil in Mexico City. Are they serious or is this all a joke? A highly unusual, fun-packed film that is surprisingly and effectively political. Very funny.

In The Cities
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

In The Cities by Catherine Martin (90 min, fiction, Quebec/Canada)
Four people walk the city. They do not know each other. There is Fanny, who looks after trees, and who will meet the three others: Josephine, who is at the end of her life; Carole, who is paralyzed by melancholy; and Jean-Luc, a blind man, who will restore Fanny's faith in beauty. Drama.

Dedication Of Love; Magic Eye
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Dedication Of Love by Alessandro Merluzzi (12 min, fiction, Italy)
Two lines on the first page of a book are meant to be a gift to a beloved.

Magic Eye by Kujtim Cashku (90 min, fiction, Albania)
Albania 1997 - Gjirokaster, a town in the southern part of the country, is on the brink of a civil war. A retired photographer, Petro, is a witness to a tragedy that he captures by coincidence on film with his Super 8 camera. He travels from his native village to the capital of Tirana to have the film developed as quickly as possible. Drama.

Valery's Ankle; Little Bang; Hanuszka
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Valery's Ankle by Brent Kashmere (33 min, documentary, Canada/USA)
Is violence in hockey necessary to the success of the sport?

Little Bang by Diek Grobler (11 min, animation, South Africa)
Fantastical characters that evolved from rubble in a garden shed play out a creation myth.

Hanuszka by Nurit Kedan (65 min, documentary, Israel)
A unique story, told here for the first time. Hanna Mandelberger, a 12 year old girl who fled the ghetto, roams the streets of Warsaw looking for something to eat. Out of nowhere, a light is shining; Hanna barely makes it to a doorstep before collapsing. Hanna will eventually tell the Mother Superior she is a Polish Catholic.

Vision of Darkness; First Lesson in Peace
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Vision of Darkness by Zero Chou (50 min, documentary, Taiwan)
On the surface, this moving and beautiful film is about the life and work of the visually impaired young children. Underneath it explores the differences and conflicts between those who can see and those who cannot see.

First Lesson in Peace by Yoram Honig (56 min, documentary, Israel)
This is a riveting film that explores the Jewish-Arab conflict through the eyes of a six year old girl, the director's daughter when she starts school at the mixed Arab-Jewish primary school, Neveh Shalom (The Oasis of Peace).

The Professor and His Beloved Equation
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Professor and His Beloved Equation by Atsushi Koizumi (117 min, fiction, Japan)
Akira Terao's plays a math professor, whose memory only lasts for 80 minutes due to an injury. Fukatsu, a single mom, is hired to be his housekeeper. The story surrounds their relationships, together with her son and the professor's sister-in-law, and his passion for mathematics and its mysteries. Drama.

Special Family Program: The Awakening
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Awakening by Stanislav Lebedev (88min, fiction, Russia -- in Russian with English subtitles)

This is a powerful, touching, inspirational story about a boy with a fragile and vulnerable soul who grows up in a very hostile world into adulthood. Yet, despite all odds his heart is still kind and sensitive. It happens very seldom, especially, at this dramatic age - when the child dies and the man has just awakened.

Sergey, a 12 years old boy (Sergey) lives with his invalid grandfather. Sergey dreams of learning to tap-dance. During the day, he works at a market, he carries goods, sweeps and washes. Although he doesn't earn a lot, his grandfather is proud of him, because he earns money in an honest way. He appreciates his grandson's self-dependency and trusts him. Sergey has a crush on Tanya, a prostitute whom he sees every day at the market. In the evenings he locks himself up in his room and learns to dance. Peace and harmony prevail in the house. But the outside world is different, and Sergey's self-dependency and honesty are under attack there. It hurts him. At the entrance exam at a dance school he gets nervous and fails. When his grandfather dies, he flees from home and joins a gang of homeless children. They live in a ruined house, they steal and are ready to do anything for a morsel of food. But grandfather's lessons weren't lost for Sergey. After living through the first severe pain Sergey realizes that he is betraying the memory of his grandfather....

Eugene Zykov, one of Russia's foremost writers on film will be present to discuss Awakenings. Zykov edits and publishes for Moscow Times and Variety International Film Guide.

In the Mood; 51 Birch Street
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In the Mood by Hannah Robinson (8 min, fiction, England)
When a dance instructor learns new steps she is no longer effective as a German spy.

51 Birch Street by Doug Block (88 min, documentary, USA)
Documentary filmmaker Doug Block always thought his parents' 54-year marriage was a good one. But when his mother dies unexpectedly and his father swiftly marries his former secretary, he discovers a family history far more complex and troubled than he ever imagined. Funny and Dramatic.

Housed Dwellers; Evocation; Camjackers
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Housed Dwellers by Kristina Herczegova (28 min, fiction, Slovakia)
A film based on stories by Istvan Orkeny. It's the 1960s and we see the world of "Occupants of the House" through the eyes of a writer.

Evocation by Jaeyoon Park (5 min, animation, Korea)
Evocation is a visual ode to the poem 'Evocation' written by Kim So Wol that explores the strong emotional conflicts caused by losing a loved one. Traditional cultural symbols are used to convey the soul's transformation into spirit.

Camjackers by Julian Dahl (80 min, fiction, USA)
Two rich, clueless film school grads are shooting a modernized "ghetto" interpretation of an ancient Greek play on the mean streets of Los Angeles. Bridging narrative and documentary forms the film features special appearances by Aceyalone, 2mex, Medusa, Myka9, and other legends of the LA underground. Comedy.

Anger Stone; My Own Private Deutschland
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Bistro Cinema
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Anger Stone by Dave Ryan (6 min, animation, USA)
Images hidden in your head shape who you are.

My Own Private Deutschland by Qiao Liang (90 min, fiction, China)
Xiao Yang goes to Germany in the hope of earning money. His one valuable possession is a digital video camera. His one great talent is as a pianist. He lives in a small room above a Chinese restaurant owned by a single woman. The film follows Xiao through a series of powerful scenes as he tries to find himself in this strange land. Drama.

Marilena de la P7; Gradually
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 at the door; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Marilena de la P7 by Cristian Nemescu (45 min, fiction, Romania)
Andrei, a 13 year old teenager, living on Bucharest's outskirts, steals a trolleybus in order to impress Marilena, a prostitute with whom he has fallen in love.

Gradually by Maziar Miri (74 min, fiction, Iran)
Mahmoud works for the Railroad Company outside Tehran. When he learns of the disappearance of his wife, who has a record of mental illness, he comes back to Tehran to look for her. Neighbors start to make his life impossible with their gossip. This film tells the story of the struggle of Iranian youth against the taboos of their society. Drama.

Closing Awards Celebration & Screening
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

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.

Big Mike Goss
Liverpool is the Place

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

Celebrate the music of Ol' Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra, with one of CNY's "biggest" entertainers.

OCC Spring Concert #1
Onondaga Community College
Wind Ensemble and Choir

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
The Young Lions of Central New York

Price: $5 to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This Syracuse-area high school conglomerate jazz ensemble is made up of the finest and most talented young student musicians.

The Merry Widow
Syracuse Opera

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

An opera in three acts, The Merry Widow is set in Paris at the turn of the last century. A beautiful widow's fortune could mean all the difference for a tiny nation's future, but a spurned lover's arrogance threatens to get in the way. Lehár's ravishing score dances and dazzles its way to a delightfully perfect conclusion. The Merry Widow revels in romantic intrigue, splashy production numbers and timeless Viennese waltzes. It will be sung in English with projected titles.

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Kiss of the Spider Woman
Simply New Theatre

Price: $25
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Adapted from the acclaimed novel on which the film and hit musical are based, the original play is gripping drama about two men imprisoned - one a window dresser, the other a socialist rebel. Locked up for their beliefs and forced to share a cell, each man finds comfort in the other's company as politics and eroticism blend together in the shadows of their cell.

Due to the graphic nature of this piece and male nudity, all audience members under the age of 18 need to be accompanied by an adult.

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Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Its status as an American classic makes it easy to hurl superlatives at this great play without truly considering Arthur Miller's achievement. In creating Willy Loman, Miller, like Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, examines the shaky illusions at the foundation of so many American lives and finds tragedy within. Miller fearlessly assesses the small life of a common man, the shattered hopes and dreams, and insists "attention must be paid."

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Steel Magnolias
Theatre '90

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Some may equate Steel Magnolias to the consummate "chick flick." It is, however, more accurately described as the ultimate "feel good" theater piece that all adults will enjoy. A great girls' night out, as well as a guy-girl thing; a mother and daughter time together as well as an entire audience filled with strangers enjoying similar feelings while on the same wave-length. Steel Magnolias is one of the most popular theater productions in the country because it has it all: comedy, drama, excitement, laughter, and poignancy.

For more information, phone 315-479-5495.

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Monday, April 23, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Gallery Exhibit: SU Touring Art Show: Above and Below
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibition of prints that examines the urban transformation of New York City during the first half of the 20th century and how it affected the city's residents and their lifestyles.

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Beyond the Silver Screen: works of Maestro Nano Campeggi
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Italian artist Silvano Campeggi, better known as Nano, produced over 3000 billboard posters for major Hollywood films during the post-war period. In the realm of cinema-graphic advertising, he is an Italian institution. This exhibition features the masterful, contemporary works that define his signature style, going beyond the silver screen and offering a rare glimpse of his original drawings and paintings. Combining his skills as an illustrator and painter, Nano plays with images, deliberately pairing modern film icons with art history's iconic historic counterparts, each culminating in a whimsical, idealized creation. The deft, essential strokes of vibrant color and black line successfully bridge the distance between the nostalgia provoked by poster art tradition, and the post-war film genre that Nano himself nurtured. His pastiche of style and ideas are interconnected through a visual vocabulary that is both familiar and evocative of a Pop Art sensibility. Nano's poster art evolved from and at the same time blossomed into these timeless works, treasures whose influence and reach is still seen in the contemporary work of both fine artists and graphic designers today.

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Gallery Exhibit: SU Touring Art Show: Above and Below
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibition of prints that examines the urban transformation of New York City during the first half of the 20th century and how it affected the city's residents and their lifestyles.

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Beyond the Silver Screen: works of Maestro Nano Campeggi
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Italian artist Silvano Campeggi, better known as Nano, produced over 3000 billboard posters for major Hollywood films during the post-war period. In the realm of cinema-graphic advertising, he is an Italian institution. This exhibition features the masterful, contemporary works that define his signature style, going beyond the silver screen and offering a rare glimpse of his original drawings and paintings. Combining his skills as an illustrator and painter, Nano plays with images, deliberately pairing modern film icons with art history's iconic historic counterparts, each culminating in a whimsical, idealized creation. The deft, essential strokes of vibrant color and black line successfully bridge the distance between the nostalgia provoked by poster art tradition, and the post-war film genre that Nano himself nurtured. His pastiche of style and ideas are interconnected through a visual vocabulary that is both familiar and evocative of a Pop Art sensibility. Nano's poster art evolved from and at the same time blossomed into these timeless works, treasures whose influence and reach is still seen in the contemporary work of both fine artists and graphic designers today.

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

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.

Freedom's Call
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

A film about the Civil Rights Movement during the turbulent '50s and '60s.

Visiting Artist Lecture
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Marylyn Dintenfass

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

"Things are not what they seem," Dintenfass says. She believes the variable quadrant in her grid paintings is like an annotation or commentary revealing an element of danger, tension and naughtiness-perhaps exuberance, spontaneity and comic relief.

Dintenfass is an internationally recognized artist whose work can be found in public and private collections across Denmark, Israel, Italy, Japan and the United States. More than 25 public collections hold her work, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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

S.U. Woodwind Quintet
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Adanfo Drummers
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Hendricks Chapel
Black Celestial Choral Ensemble

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SU Brass Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Haydn's Creation
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Performance featured the SU Symphony Orchestra, Hendricks Chapel Choir, Syracuse University Singers, Men of the Oratorio Society, SU Men's Glee Club, and SU Women's Choir

Chris Vadala, saxophone
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Since his years touring with the legendary Chuck Mangione, having performed on every continent and garnering two Grammys, an Emmy, 5 Gold and 2 Platinum albums with this group, Chris has continued an eclectic career as performer, educator and writer. You may have seen this Downbeat Poll finalist and National Endowment for the Arts Study Grant recipient here this past summer with Mangione at Jazz in the Square, regaling us with his now world-famous solos from those halcyon years. Still one of the country's busiest performers on jazz and classical stages, he is now Director of Jazz Studies and Saxophone Professor at the University of Maryland. His column on woodwinds appears regularly in Saxophone Journal, and his many instructional books are used by sax students everywhere. His appearance here supports the annual CRC Youth Jazz Festival, held earlier that day, with a keynote clinic.

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Readings from "Soul Talk: Urban Youth Poetry"
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Syracuse City School District Students will recite their poems.

Big Jake: A Giant Tall Tale Puppetry Pageant
Open Hand Theater

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Performance by Open Hand Theater, Syracuse University Soling Program students and Van Duyn elementary school students.

Selected Scenes from Moliere's Plays
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

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

French 400/600 students will perform scenes from Moliere's plays in French with English translations

Mask Stravaganza
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

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

Commedia dell'Arte-style mask characters in scenes and sketches

An Afternoon with Alice Childress
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An Afternoon with Alice Childress, directed by visiting Artist/Director, Mical Whitaker of Savannah, GA; excerpts from her book Like one of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life; and a staged reading of her Wine in the Wilderness featuring AAS 310 student actors and technicians from Professor William H. Rowland's Elements of Production class.

Masks of Life
Open Hand Theater

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

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Beyond the Silver Screen: works of Maestro Nano Campeggi
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Italian artist Silvano Campeggi, better known as Nano, produced over 3000 billboard posters for major Hollywood films during the post-war period. In the realm of cinema-graphic advertising, he is an Italian institution. This exhibition features the masterful, contemporary works that define his signature style, going beyond the silver screen and offering a rare glimpse of his original drawings and paintings. Combining his skills as an illustrator and painter, Nano plays with images, deliberately pairing modern film icons with art history's iconic historic counterparts, each culminating in a whimsical, idealized creation. The deft, essential strokes of vibrant color and black line successfully bridge the distance between the nostalgia provoked by poster art tradition, and the post-war film genre that Nano himself nurtured. His pastiche of style and ideas are interconnected through a visual vocabulary that is both familiar and evocative of a Pop Art sensibility. Nano's poster art evolved from and at the same time blossomed into these timeless works, treasures whose influence and reach is still seen in the contemporary work of both fine artists and graphic designers today.

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

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