Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Carved Vase Finalist Juried Exhibition
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Carved vases inspired by Adelaide Robineau, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Robineau's Scarab Vase.

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Three Generations on the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Three Generations on the Canal explores, through restored photographs, the relationship of one family—the Grahams—to the New York State Barge Canal over three generations. "Toot-Toot" Graham was a tug boat captain on the Barge Canal in the 1950s. For him, the canal was his workplace. The next generation of Grahams pioneered the recreational possibilities of the Canal on a small cabin cruiser named the Ro-mar. In those days there were not many accommodations for a pleasure craft. Fuel was purchased at gas stations in the towns along the canal and hand carried to the boat in cans. The current generation of Grahams travels the full length of the recreationally-oriented canal in rented boats.

Works of Willson Cummer, Bryan Hopkins, Jonathan Kirk, and Elisabeth Groat
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

The Scarab Vase: Celebrating 100 Years
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson is partnering with Strathmore By The Park Home Tours, Syracuse Ceramic Guild, the Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York, and Clayscapes Pottery for the Strathmore Festival, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Adelaide Alsop Robineau's Scarab Vase. Also known as "The Apotheosis of the Toiler," the Scarab Vase was purchased by the Everson directly from the artist's husband, Samuel Robineau, in 1930 along with 47 other porcelains including her well-known Viking Vase, Poppy Vase, and Crab Vase, which are all must-sees in the Everson's ceramic collection.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Images of Resistance: The Photographs of Ruth Putter and Mima Cataldo
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit by two of Central New York's leading feminist photographers, Ruth Putter and Mima Cataldo, is an inspiration to present social activists, reminding us that it is critical to understand that the freedoms we enjoy in the USA were not given but rather won by constant struggle, resistance and organizing.

The exhibit covers 35 years of resistance in CNY, including photographs from their time with the women at the Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in 1982 and new work by both artists.

Syracuse's 15th Ward and Beyond

Price: Free
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

"Syracuse's 15th Ward and Beyond," a documentary capturing the memories of former residents of Syracuse's 15th Ward and other Syracuse neighborhoods, was born from a bus tour of old Syracuse last fall sponsored by Syracuse University's South Side Initiative Office and the local Black History Preservation team. The tour went through the former 15th Ward and visited other historical sites, including the Ebony Market, Croton Elementary, Old Dunbar, The Glass Bottom and Open Door Lounges, Ben's Kitchen, the Father Brady Center for Black Catholics, and Washington Irving Elementary School.

Some 30 senior members of the community, who have lived in Syracuse for at least 40 years, participated. The tour and the participants' stories and recollections of Syracuse's past were captured by local filmmaker Courtney Rile.

For more information, contact the South Side Initiative Office at 315-443-1916.

Diamond Someday
Liverpool is the Place

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

Bluegrass

GWAR, with Dirge Within and Mobile Death Camp
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Having Our Say, the Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Sonita L. Surratt, director

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"You can catch more flies with molasses than you do with vinegar." Join us for a visit with Sadie and Bessie, the indomitable Delany sisters whose poignant and irreverent outlook on a transforming American landscape offers a life-affirming testament to legacy and hope. Having Our Say, the Delany Sisters' First 100 Years was adapted by multi-award-winning playwright Emily Mann from the best-selling book by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth. Having Our Say received three Tony nominations in 1995 and has since been produced internationally to critical acclaim.

Having Our Say opens as 103-year-old Sadie and 101-year-old Bessie Delany, portrayed by veteran actors Annette Adams-Brown and Karin Franklin King, welcome us into their home in Mount Vernon, NY. We, the audience, are guests in their home as the sisters prepare dinner in remembrance of their father's birthday. They recount a fascinating series of events and anecdotes drawn from a century of family history and their careers as pioneering African American professional women in a racially divided society. This wonderfully inviting dramatic story is about the struggles of women in a male-dominated society; of a family working together building a good life, as they serve others as good neighbors and set examples for the younger members of their family.

Read a review!

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Carved Vase Finalist Juried Exhibition
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Carved vases inspired by Adelaide Robineau, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Robineau's Scarab Vase.

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Three Generations on the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Three Generations on the Canal explores, through restored photographs, the relationship of one family—the Grahams—to the New York State Barge Canal over three generations. "Toot-Toot" Graham was a tug boat captain on the Barge Canal in the 1950s. For him, the canal was his workplace. The next generation of Grahams pioneered the recreational possibilities of the Canal on a small cabin cruiser named the Ro-mar. In those days there were not many accommodations for a pleasure craft. Fuel was purchased at gas stations in the towns along the canal and hand carried to the boat in cans. The current generation of Grahams travels the full length of the recreationally-oriented canal in rented boats.

Works of Willson Cummer, Bryan Hopkins, Jonathan Kirk, and Elisabeth Groat
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Works of John Jessiman and Steven Barbash
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery is proud to present the work of ceramist, John Jessiman, and painter, Steven Barbash. These two distinguished former professors of art taught together for almost 30 years at State University of New York, Cortland.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

The Scarab Vase: Celebrating 100 Years
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson is partnering with Strathmore By The Park Home Tours, Syracuse Ceramic Guild, the Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York, and Clayscapes Pottery for the Strathmore Festival, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Adelaide Alsop Robineau's Scarab Vase. Also known as "The Apotheosis of the Toiler," the Scarab Vase was purchased by the Everson directly from the artist's husband, Samuel Robineau, in 1930 along with 47 other porcelains including her well-known Viking Vase, Poppy Vase, and Crab Vase, which are all must-sees in the Everson's ceramic collection.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Images of Resistance: The Photographs of Ruth Putter and Mima Cataldo
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit by two of Central New York's leading feminist photographers, Ruth Putter and Mima Cataldo, is an inspiration to present social activists, reminding us that it is critical to understand that the freedoms we enjoy in the USA were not given but rather won by constant struggle, resistance and organizing.

The exhibit covers 35 years of resistance in CNY, including photographs from their time with the women at the Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in 1982 and new work by both artists.

Cornhole: The Movie
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular; $8 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

For more information, call 315-443-8826, email info@syrfilm.com, or visit www.cornholethemovie.com.

To Music: A Chorale Tribute
The Pennsylvania Youth Chorale

Price: Freewill offering
Liverpool First Presbyterian Church
603 Tulip St., Liverpool

A community children's choir for ages 7-15, based in Bucks and Montgomery counties, PA. For more information, hone 315-457-3161.

Dead Pull Hitter
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $32.50 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Play ball! Come on out to the ball park, loyal followers. It's media day and your hometown Sympronius Swamp Turtles are getting ready for yet another pathetic season of shabby, losing baseball. Make sure you wear your protective gear this year, sports fans. Jobs are now on the line and the new owner plays rough. Really, really rough.

Having Our Say, the Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Sonita L. Surratt, director

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"You can catch more flies with molasses than you do with vinegar." Join us for a visit with Sadie and Bessie, the indomitable Delany sisters whose poignant and irreverent outlook on a transforming American landscape offers a life-affirming testament to legacy and hope. Having Our Say, the Delany Sisters' First 100 Years was adapted by multi-award-winning playwright Emily Mann from the best-selling book by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth. Having Our Say received three Tony nominations in 1995 and has since been produced internationally to critical acclaim.

Having Our Say opens as 103-year-old Sadie and 101-year-old Bessie Delany, portrayed by veteran actors Annette Adams-Brown and Karin Franklin King, welcome us into their home in Mount Vernon, NY. We, the audience, are guests in their home as the sisters prepare dinner in remembrance of their father's birthday. They recount a fascinating series of events and anecdotes drawn from a century of family history and their careers as pioneering African American professional women in a racially divided society. This wonderfully inviting dramatic story is about the struggles of women in a male-dominated society; of a family working together building a good life, as they serve others as good neighbors and set examples for the younger members of their family.

Read a review!

Friday, June 25, 2010

Carved Vase Finalist Juried Exhibition
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Carved vases inspired by Adelaide Robineau, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Robineau's Scarab Vase.

Opening Changes
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

There will be an artists' reception 6:00-8:00 pm.

K.V. and Debe Abbott: Selection of works 1985-2010
Brian Brickley: Sculptural and functional ceramics

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Three Generations on the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Three Generations on the Canal explores, through restored photographs, the relationship of one family—the Grahams—to the New York State Barge Canal over three generations. "Toot-Toot" Graham was a tug boat captain on the Barge Canal in the 1950s. For him, the canal was his workplace. The next generation of Grahams pioneered the recreational possibilities of the Canal on a small cabin cruiser named the Ro-mar. In those days there were not many accommodations for a pleasure craft. Fuel was purchased at gas stations in the towns along the canal and hand carried to the boat in cans. The current generation of Grahams travels the full length of the recreationally-oriented canal in rented boats.

Works of Willson Cummer, Bryan Hopkins, Jonathan Kirk, and Elisabeth Groat
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Works of John Jessiman and Steven Barbash
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery is proud to present the work of ceramist, John Jessiman, and painter, Steven Barbash. These two distinguished former professors of art taught together for almost 30 years at State University of New York, Cortland.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

The Scarab Vase: Celebrating 100 Years
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson is partnering with Strathmore By The Park Home Tours, Syracuse Ceramic Guild, the Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York, and Clayscapes Pottery for the Strathmore Festival, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Adelaide Alsop Robineau's Scarab Vase. Also known as "The Apotheosis of the Toiler," the Scarab Vase was purchased by the Everson directly from the artist's husband, Samuel Robineau, in 1930 along with 47 other porcelains including her well-known Viking Vase, Poppy Vase, and Crab Vase, which are all must-sees in the Everson's ceramic collection.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Images of Resistance: The Photographs of Ruth Putter and Mima Cataldo
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit by two of Central New York's leading feminist photographers, Ruth Putter and Mima Cataldo, is an inspiration to present social activists, reminding us that it is critical to understand that the freedoms we enjoy in the USA were not given but rather won by constant struggle, resistance and organizing.

The exhibit covers 35 years of resistance in CNY, including photographs from their time with the women at the Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in 1982 and new work by both artists.

Opening: Detour
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

There will be an opening reception 7:00-10:00 pm with live music and refreshments.

Collaborative art installation by young artists Dan Mabie and James Boettger, includes paintings, drawings, mixed media, sculpture, and other media.

Also, a window design installation, "InTheMind," by Rachel Trinca.

Oregon Fail
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $5
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

This is a benefit performance with the proceeds going to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Awesome improv for a small amount of cash, all for a good cause.

Every Woman Here: Remnants of Seneca (1982-2006)
ArtRage Gallery

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

The Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice was an all-women's community of protest and challenge to violence and militarism housed on 52 acres bordering the Seneca Army Depot in upstate New York. Commonly known as the Seneca Women's Peace Camp or Seneca, the encampment was modeled after the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in England (1981-2000) where hundreds of British sisters were creating nonviolent protest in the face of the scheduled deployment of U.S. Cruise missiles.

In the summer of 1983, 12,000 women from around the world participated in nonviolence trainings, direct actions, and civil disobedience at Seneca resulting in 950 arrests. In 1994 the encampment transitioned into Women's PeaceLand, an intentional community whose purpose was to promote and implement the principles of peace, nonviolence and anti-oppression. This is their story.

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Henninger High School Jazz Ensemble
Michelin Keleher, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Scholastic Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Syracuse Jazz Fest
City of Syracuse Department of Parks and Recreation Stan Colella All-Star Band
Joe Carello, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Scholastic Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Westhill High School Jazz Ensemble
Tony Mastrobattisto, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Scholastic Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Evan Knight, saxophone

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Evan Knight is an active member of the Syracuse live music scene. Having been dubbed a "sax phenom" and "musical wunderkind" by his peers and fans, Knight's album "Reminiscence" is a highly anticipated mix of cool jazz, smooth R&B, and funk. The album radiates with a fresh, stimulating vibe that is sure to appeal to all music lovers. With the release of this CD, Evan Knight is poised to become a true contender in the contemporary jazz genre.

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Solvay High School Jazz Combo
John Spillett, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Scholastic Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Kimberly Jordan Band

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Onondaga Community College Jazz Band
Steve Frank, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Scholastic Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Atlantic Flyway, Driftwood, and John Cadley and the Lost Boys
Kellish Hill Farm

Price: $8
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

One night, 3 fantastic CNY bands! Atlantic Flyway is a progressive acoustic trio with a new take on bluegrass, old-time, and swing classics. Joining them will be Binghamton's string band Driftwood, with traces of early Rock and Roll, Classical, the protest folk of the 60's, American Old Time and the Indie and modern music of today. Topping off the evening with be Syracuse's own John Cadley and the Lost Boys, with a blend of the great traditional bluegrass songs like "Uncle Pen," "Are You Missing Me," and "Long Black Veil," and original compositions, mostly written by guitarist John Cadley, but with some sparkling gems from banjoist Mark Allnatt and fiddler Henry Jankiewicz.

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Richard Bona Band

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Jeff Lorber Fusion

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Ensemble consists of Jeff Lorber on keys, and four stellar sidemen and session players that are each bona fide stars in their own right: Los Angeles saxophonist Eric Marienthal (Chick Corea Elektric Band); fellow Los Angelino and charter Yellowjackets and longtime Jackson Browne bassist Jimmy Haslip; and two of the New York jazz scene's top veterans in trumpeter Randy Brecker (Frank Zappa, Blood Sweat and Tears, Frank Sinatra, Brecker Brothers) and drummer Lionel Cordew (Special EFX, Mike Stern, Roberta Flack, Gino Vannelli, Cassandra Wilson)

Late Night Jam
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Having Our Say, the Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Sonita L. Surratt, director

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"You can catch more flies with molasses than you do with vinegar." Join us for a visit with Sadie and Bessie, the indomitable Delany sisters whose poignant and irreverent outlook on a transforming American landscape offers a life-affirming testament to legacy and hope. Having Our Say, the Delany Sisters' First 100 Years was adapted by multi-award-winning playwright Emily Mann from the best-selling book by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth. Having Our Say received three Tony nominations in 1995 and has since been produced internationally to critical acclaim.

Having Our Say opens as 103-year-old Sadie and 101-year-old Bessie Delany, portrayed by veteran actors Annette Adams-Brown and Karin Franklin King, welcome us into their home in Mount Vernon, NY. We, the audience, are guests in their home as the sisters prepare dinner in remembrance of their father's birthday. They recount a fascinating series of events and anecdotes drawn from a century of family history and their careers as pioneering African American professional women in a racially divided society. This wonderfully inviting dramatic story is about the struggles of women in a male-dominated society; of a family working together building a good life, as they serve others as good neighbors and set examples for the younger members of their family.

Read a review!

The Wedding Singer
Appleseed Productions
Dustin M. Czarny, director

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

Music directed by Colin Keating, choreographed by Rachelle Clavin.

Read a review!

Cabaret
Wit's End Players

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

Leave your troubles outside as you enter the Kit Kat Klub when 1930 Berlin was at the height of decadence. Presided over by the Emcee and starring Fraulein Sally Bowles and the Kit Kat Girls, Tony-winning song and dance numbers include "Willkommen," "Life is a Cabaret," and "The Money Song." Even the orchestra is beautiful!

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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Carved Vase Finalist Juried Exhibition
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Carved vases inspired by Adelaide Robineau, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Robineau's Scarab Vase.

Changes
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

K.V. and Debe Abbott: Selection of works 1985-2010
Brian Brickley: Sculptural and functional ceramics

Read a review!

Three Generations on the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Three Generations on the Canal explores, through restored photographs, the relationship of one family—the Grahams—to the New York State Barge Canal over three generations. "Toot-Toot" Graham was a tug boat captain on the Barge Canal in the 1950s. For him, the canal was his workplace. The next generation of Grahams pioneered the recreational possibilities of the Canal on a small cabin cruiser named the Ro-mar. In those days there were not many accommodations for a pleasure craft. Fuel was purchased at gas stations in the towns along the canal and hand carried to the boat in cans. The current generation of Grahams travels the full length of the recreationally-oriented canal in rented boats.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

The Scarab Vase: Celebrating 100 Years
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson is partnering with Strathmore By The Park Home Tours, Syracuse Ceramic Guild, the Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York, and Clayscapes Pottery for the Strathmore Festival, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Adelaide Alsop Robineau's Scarab Vase. Also known as "The Apotheosis of the Toiler," the Scarab Vase was purchased by the Everson directly from the artist's husband, Samuel Robineau, in 1930 along with 47 other porcelains including her well-known Viking Vase, Poppy Vase, and Crab Vase, which are all must-sees in the Everson's ceramic collection.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Works of John Jessiman and Steven Barbash
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery is proud to present the work of ceramist, John Jessiman, and painter, Steven Barbash. These two distinguished former professors of art taught together for almost 30 years at State University of New York, Cortland.

Images of Resistance: The Photographs of Ruth Putter and Mima Cataldo
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit by two of Central New York's leading feminist photographers, Ruth Putter and Mima Cataldo, is an inspiration to present social activists, reminding us that it is critical to understand that the freedoms we enjoy in the USA were not given but rather won by constant struggle, resistance and organizing.

The exhibit covers 35 years of resistance in CNY, including photographs from their time with the women at the Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in 1982 and new work by both artists.

Detour
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Collaborative art installation by young artists Dan Mabie and James Boettger, includes paintings, drawings, mixed media, sculpture, and other media.

Also, a window design installation, "InTheMind," by Rachel Trinca.

Works of Willson Cummer, Bryan Hopkins, Jonathan Kirk, and Elisabeth Groat
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

SaturdaySCREENINGS: I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
ArtRage Gallery

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

Celebrating LGBTQ Pride, this is a story of antic mishaps of a gay girl in love with an uppity lady art dealer. Directed by Patricia Rozema. (1987)

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Corcoran High School Jazz Ensemble
Leigh Scheuerman, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Scholastic Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Manlius-Pebble Hill Jazz Combo
Joe Colombo, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Scholastic Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Skaneateles Middle School Jazz Ensemble
David G. Wilber, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Scholastic Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Skaneateles High School Jazz Band
Angelo Candela, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Scholastic Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Syracuse Jazz Fest
KJ Denhert

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

KJ Denhert is a unique artist, singer, guitarist and songwriter who calls her music "Urban Folk and Jazz." Her voice is powerful, her lyrics full of insight and her musicianship is impeccable. Among KJ Denhert's accomplishments, in addition to running her own band and label, are three appearances at the prestigious Umbria Jazz festival in Perugia Italy, an ongoing residency since 1999 at The (legendary) 55 Bar in NYC's West Village, and winning many songwriting contests, including the Kerrville New Folk Song contest and the Mountain Stage New song contest.

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Marcellus High School Jazz Ensemble
Michael Cirmo, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Scholastic Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Richie Havens

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Richie Havens possesses one of the most recognizable voices in popular music, and his fiery, poignant, soulful style has remained unique and ageless since he first emerged from the Greenwich Village Folk scene in the early 1960s. It's a voice that has electrified audiences from the Woodstock Music & Arts Fair in 1969 to the Clinton Presidential Inauguration in 1993—coming full circle with the 30th Woodstock Anniversary celebration, "A Day in the Garden," in 1999.

Syracuse Jazz Fest
West Genesee High School Jazz Band
Steve Frank, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Scholastic Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Kerlin Syndrome CD Release Party
Redhouse

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

Central New York's own contemporary Christian rock band The Kerlin Syndrome, formerly known as Zoa, has been working on their current project for over a year, and the SAMMY-Award-winning artists are eager to celebrate the release of their new CD, "Strings of Men."

The Kerlin Syndrome is Mike Kerlin (vocals and guitar), Mat Kerlin (vocals and drums), Jonas Kerlin (percussion), Joe Palozzi (bass), Seth Richardson (keyboards), and Steve Yazell (guitar). "Strings of Men" and their first CD, "Twomorrow," both from Spiritual Pit Bull Records, are available on iTunes, Rhapsody and CD Baby.

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Gil Scott-Heron

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Gil Scott-Heron is an American poet, jazz musician and author. Though known primarily for his late-1970s and early-1980s work as a spoken-word soul performer, he is also recognized as a pioneer of modern hip-hop.

The Waiting Room, a tribute to Genesis & Peter Gabriel
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Boz Scaggs

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

The multi-dimensional Boz Scaggs, whose seminal 1976 breakthrough album "Silk Degrees" was an instant classic and one of the landmark pop titles of the decade, now wraps his distinctive voice around such classics as Duke Ellington's "Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me," Chet Baker's "She Was Too Good To Me" and John Coltrane's "I Wish I Knew."

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic tale.

Idol Assassination
Without a Cue Productions
Sara Caliva, director

Price: $37.25 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

It's the final night of Big American Star, and America is going to get a chance to vote for its next...big American star. The contestants are at each other's throats, dangerously close to ripping out one another's vocal chords, while the judges and host stir up drama to boost sagging ratings. By the time the contestants are ready to sing, the atmosphere has turned murderous, and the contestants may "knock 'em dead" in more ways than one.

The show is an interactive murder mystery that involves the members of the audience.

The Wedding Singer
Appleseed Productions
Dustin M. Czarny, director

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

Music directed by Colin Keating, choreographed by Rachelle Clavin.

Read a review!

Cabaret
Wit's End Players

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

Leave your troubles outside as you enter the Kit Kat Klub when 1930 Berlin was at the height of decadence. Presided over by the Emcee and starring Fraulein Sally Bowles and the Kit Kat Girls, Tony-winning song and dance numbers include "Willkommen," "Life is a Cabaret," and "The Money Song." Even the orchestra is beautiful!

Read a Review!

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Three Generations on the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Three Generations on the Canal explores, through restored photographs, the relationship of one family—the Grahams—to the New York State Barge Canal over three generations. "Toot-Toot" Graham was a tug boat captain on the Barge Canal in the 1950s. For him, the canal was his workplace. The next generation of Grahams pioneered the recreational possibilities of the Canal on a small cabin cruiser named the Ro-mar. In those days there were not many accommodations for a pleasure craft. Fuel was purchased at gas stations in the towns along the canal and hand carried to the boat in cans. The current generation of Grahams travels the full length of the recreationally-oriented canal in rented boats.

Works of John Jessiman and Steven Barbash
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery is proud to present the work of ceramist, John Jessiman, and painter, Steven Barbash. These two distinguished former professors of art taught together for almost 30 years at State University of New York, Cortland.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

The Scarab Vase: Celebrating 100 Years
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson is partnering with Strathmore By The Park Home Tours, Syracuse Ceramic Guild, the Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York, and Clayscapes Pottery for the Strathmore Festival, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Adelaide Alsop Robineau's Scarab Vase. Also known as "The Apotheosis of the Toiler," the Scarab Vase was purchased by the Everson directly from the artist's husband, Samuel Robineau, in 1930 along with 47 other porcelains including her well-known Viking Vase, Poppy Vase, and Crab Vase, which are all must-sees in the Everson's ceramic collection.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Cuban Film Festival
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Sliding scale donation $0-$25 (no one turned away)
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

For over 20 years Pastors for Peace has challenged US policy toward Cuba by traveling to Cuba with material aid and promoting people to people contact. These films are not easily available and provide a range of perspectives on Cuba.

2:00 pm: Man of 2 Havanas Cuba and Miami, 2008
With a childhood filled with bombings and assassination attempts on her father, the filmmaker explores her relationship with him and the Cuba he left behind. Top Pick, Tribeca Film Festival.

4:00 pm: Alicia
Alicia Alonso, profile of a Cuban dance legend. One of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century has headed the Cuban National Ballet since the Revolution. See her dance in Cuba as well as a profile. Also a 60 Minutes interview.

6:00 pm: Cuban Five
Mission Against Terror - The Cuban Five; they gathered information on violent anti-Cuban groups in Miami and presented it to the FBI, who instead of prosecuting the violent, arrested them!

7:00 pm: Comandante
Oliver Stone interviewed Fidel Castro for 30 hours, in preparation for this HBO film which has never been shown.

8:45 pm: Memories
Pastors for Peace - shorts of past Cuba Caravans.

9:30 pm: Memories of Underdevelopment
A Cuban film classic by the director of Strawberry and Chocolate.

Come and go as you like.

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Jazz Band
Rebecca Bizup, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Scholastic Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Sheryl Bailey and the OCC Orchestra with special guest Jay Ashby

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Paul V. Moore High School Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Dennis Goettel, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Scholastic Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Michael Kaeshammer

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Jazz virtuoso Michael Kaeshammer has been called a Canadian triple-threat, and an artist whose entertaining high-energy style is a combination of piano virtuosity, vocal ability, and major on-stage charisma. And that potent combination has earned the Toronto-based artist international critical acclaim and a loyal and growing fan base, not to mention a just-announced Juno Award nomination for "Vocal Jazz Album of the Year" along with fellow category nominees Canadian superstars Diana Krall and Michael Buble.

Michael Kaeshammer's performances are pure delight and his energy knows no bounds. He has piano technique to burn and, to the audience's delight, has an acrobatic way with a grand piano. When Kaeshammer performs, it's obvious he's having a ball, playing superlative boogie-woogie, blues, jazz, and pop cross-over material, drawn mostly from his impressive catalog of studio recordings.

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Liverpool High School Jazz Ensemble
James R. Spadafore, conductor

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Scholastic Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Toph-E and the Pussycats

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

Drawing heavily on funk, soul, R&B, bop, and numerous other genres, Toph-E and the Pussycats' repertoire is heavily eclectic, with the band passionately performing everything from Miles Davis' "All Blues" and Duke Ellington's "Rockin' In Rhythm" to jazz and pop classics made famous by Les McCann and Grover Washington Jr.

The Pussycats include drummer/bandleader Chris Parker, bassist Will Lee, percussionist Ralph MacDonald, keyboardist Clifford Carter, and saxophonist Dave Mann.

Between them, Toph-E and The Pussycats have recorded and toured with artists such as Natalie Cole, James Taylor, Paul Simon, James Brown, Rosanne Cash, Martin Sexton, Joan Armatrading, Bette Midler, Art Garfunkel, Linda Ronstadt, Bryan Ferry, The Four Tops and Steely Dan. They've also appeared on countless platinum, gold and Grammy-winning albums by artists such as the original Brecker Brothers, Cher, Donald Fagen, Ashford and Simpson, Freddie Hubbard, Salt n' Pepa, Miles Davis, Patti LaBelle, Michael Bolton, Joe Cocker and Boz Scaggs, not to mentions stints with the SNL Band, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Band, and Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra.

Syracuse Jazz Fest
Natalie Cole

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage (Jamesville Beach)
Jamesville Beach Park, Jamesville

When Natalie Cole's seminal "Unforgettable...With Love" came out in 1991, the jazz collection set a new standard for reinventing the Great American Songbook. The CD, which captured 6 Grammys, including Album and Record of The Year, spent five weeks at No. 1 and sold more than 8 million copies in the U.S. alone. Yet instead of exploiting the moment and rushing out a second volume, Cole thoughtfully took a step back, devoted herself to several other projects including her riveting autobiography, and waited until she felt ready to return to the songs that fulfill her heart and soul.

Natalie released her follow up "Still Unforgettable" in 2009, and the album won two Grammys, one for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album and one for Best Instrumental Accompanying Vocalist. It also earned Cole an NAACP Award for Best Jazz Artist.

The 9-time Grammy winner continues to astonish with her vocal dexterity and her intimate, knowing way with a lyric and a melody. Those talents will be on display as Cole continues to tour to promote Still Unforgettable: "I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when Im in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band."

The Wedding Singer
Appleseed Productions
Dustin M. Czarny, director

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

Music directed by Colin Keating, choreographed by Rachelle Clavin.

Read a review!

Cabaret
Wit's End Players

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

Leave your troubles outside as you enter the Kit Kat Klub when 1930 Berlin was at the height of decadence. Presided over by the Emcee and starring Fraulein Sally Bowles and the Kit Kat Girls, Tony-winning song and dance numbers include "Willkommen," "Life is a Cabaret," and "The Money Song." Even the orchestra is beautiful!

Read a Review!

Having Our Say, the Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Sonita L. Surratt, director

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"You can catch more flies with molasses than you do with vinegar." Join us for a visit with Sadie and Bessie, the indomitable Delany sisters whose poignant and irreverent outlook on a transforming American landscape offers a life-affirming testament to legacy and hope. Having Our Say, the Delany Sisters' First 100 Years was adapted by multi-award-winning playwright Emily Mann from the best-selling book by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth. Having Our Say received three Tony nominations in 1995 and has since been produced internationally to critical acclaim.

Having Our Say opens as 103-year-old Sadie and 101-year-old Bessie Delany, portrayed by veteran actors Annette Adams-Brown and Karin Franklin King, welcome us into their home in Mount Vernon, NY. We, the audience, are guests in their home as the sisters prepare dinner in remembrance of their father's birthday. They recount a fascinating series of events and anecdotes drawn from a century of family history and their careers as pioneering African American professional women in a racially divided society. This wonderfully inviting dramatic story is about the struggles of women in a male-dominated society; of a family working together building a good life, as they serve others as good neighbors and set examples for the younger members of their family.

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Monday, June 28, 2010

Three Generations on the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Three Generations on the Canal explores, through restored photographs, the relationship of one family—the Grahams—to the New York State Barge Canal over three generations. "Toot-Toot" Graham was a tug boat captain on the Barge Canal in the 1950s. For him, the canal was his workplace. The next generation of Grahams pioneered the recreational possibilities of the Canal on a small cabin cruiser named the Ro-mar. In those days there were not many accommodations for a pleasure craft. Fuel was purchased at gas stations in the towns along the canal and hand carried to the boat in cans. The current generation of Grahams travels the full length of the recreationally-oriented canal in rented boats.

Works of Willson Cummer, Bryan Hopkins, Jonathan Kirk, and Elisabeth Groat
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Fritz’s Polka Band
Liverpool is the Place

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

Polka/country

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Changes
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

K.V. and Debe Abbott: Selection of works 1985-2010
Brian Brickley: Sculptural and functional ceramics

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Three Generations on the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Three Generations on the Canal explores, through restored photographs, the relationship of one family—the Grahams—to the New York State Barge Canal over three generations. "Toot-Toot" Graham was a tug boat captain on the Barge Canal in the 1950s. For him, the canal was his workplace. The next generation of Grahams pioneered the recreational possibilities of the Canal on a small cabin cruiser named the Ro-mar. In those days there were not many accommodations for a pleasure craft. Fuel was purchased at gas stations in the towns along the canal and hand carried to the boat in cans. The current generation of Grahams travels the full length of the recreationally-oriented canal in rented boats.

Works of Willson Cummer, Bryan Hopkins, Jonathan Kirk, and Elisabeth Groat
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

The Scarab Vase: Celebrating 100 Years
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson is partnering with Strathmore By The Park Home Tours, Syracuse Ceramic Guild, the Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York, and Clayscapes Pottery for the Strathmore Festival, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Adelaide Alsop Robineau's Scarab Vase. Also known as "The Apotheosis of the Toiler," the Scarab Vase was purchased by the Everson directly from the artist's husband, Samuel Robineau, in 1930 along with 47 other porcelains including her well-known Viking Vase, Poppy Vase, and Crab Vase, which are all must-sees in the Everson's ceramic collection.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Changes
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

K.V. and Debe Abbott: Selection of works 1985-2010
Brian Brickley: Sculptural and functional ceramics

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Three Generations on the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Three Generations on the Canal explores, through restored photographs, the relationship of one family—the Grahams—to the New York State Barge Canal over three generations. "Toot-Toot" Graham was a tug boat captain on the Barge Canal in the 1950s. For him, the canal was his workplace. The next generation of Grahams pioneered the recreational possibilities of the Canal on a small cabin cruiser named the Ro-mar. In those days there were not many accommodations for a pleasure craft. Fuel was purchased at gas stations in the towns along the canal and hand carried to the boat in cans. The current generation of Grahams travels the full length of the recreationally-oriented canal in rented boats.

Works of Willson Cummer, Bryan Hopkins, Jonathan Kirk, and Elisabeth Groat
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

The Scarab Vase: Celebrating 100 Years
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson is partnering with Strathmore By The Park Home Tours, Syracuse Ceramic Guild, the Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York, and Clayscapes Pottery for the Strathmore Festival, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Adelaide Alsop Robineau's Scarab Vase. Also known as "The Apotheosis of the Toiler," the Scarab Vase was purchased by the Everson directly from the artist's husband, Samuel Robineau, in 1930 along with 47 other porcelains including her well-known Viking Vase, Poppy Vase, and Crab Vase, which are all must-sees in the Everson's ceramic collection.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Detour
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Collaborative art installation by young artists Dan Mabie and James Boettger, includes paintings, drawings, mixed media, sculpture, and other media.

Also, a window design installation, "InTheMind," by Rachel Trinca.

Images of Resistance: The Photographs of Ruth Putter and Mima Cataldo
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit by two of Central New York's leading feminist photographers, Ruth Putter and Mima Cataldo, is an inspiration to present social activists, reminding us that it is critical to understand that the freedoms we enjoy in the USA were not given but rather won by constant struggle, resistance and organizing.

The exhibit covers 35 years of resistance in CNY, including photographs from their time with the women at the Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in 1982 and new work by both artists.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse Symphony String Quartet II

Price: Free
Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-435-1800.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse Symphony Brass Quintet

Price: Free
Mundy Branch Library
1204 S. Geddes St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-435-3797.

Kanjira
Liverpool is the Place

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

Jazz & world beat

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Onondaga Quartet

Price: Free
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-445-0331.