Friday, November 24, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Green Towers
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibit exploring the "green" design of the Bank of America tower, currently under construction at 1 Bryant Park in Manhatten.

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

The show and sale features paintings, sculptures, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, soaps, wood, ceramics, and more! It's the perfect place to find those special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Artistic Journeys
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit features watercolors by Linda Abbey, oil paintings by Diane Menzies, mixed media drawings by Fred and Laura J. Wellner, and "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux," art by Judith Hand and Christine Patsos.

Linda Abbey uses the transparency and freshness of the watercolor medium itself to depict flowers and scenes from Venice, Italy. For this exhibit Linda will also be showing works in oil from a series of 40 small birch panels depicting Onondaga Park in Syracuse.

Diane Menzies has a strong passion for the natural world as is depicted in many of her oil paintings. The "North Lake Series" emerges from the Adirondack Mountains. They portray a reverence for this ancient place of deep waters and quietude of woods.

Fred Wellner creates surreal landscapes and abstractions using pencil, charcoal and watercolor. Fred states, "There is this paradoxical dance of order and chaos, suggesting that life cannot be entirely either and therefore must embrace both. When I apply pencil or brush, this resonates in my thoughts, much more so when I'm unfettered by precision, when working on surreal or abstract images."

Laura J. Wellner creates landscapes and abstractions inspired by nature using pencil, watercolor and pastel. Her drawings reflect the intricate wonders of a flower, the pearly surface of a shell, the ruffles of lichen on bark, rocks in water, clouds in sky, and then there are visualizations of music -- Beethoven mostly.

Judith Hand and Christine Patsos are exhibiting art about dance in their collaborative show titled "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux." Judith Hand's watercolors depict the basic positions in ballet. Her images are almost monochromatic paintings with different backgrounds accompanying manikins arranged in each ballet position. Christine Patsos uses pencil and watercolor wash or acrylic stain on Bristol board to portray ballet dancers.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Christmas Around the World

Price: $1
Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois
106 Lake Dr., Liverpool

During the holiday season, Sainte Marie is transformed into a festive holiday center! Stroll through the Visitor Center and enjoy a nostalgic tour of decorated trees, international versions of Santa, various holiday symbols, light refreshments and wonderful musical entertainment. A working display of trains will return this year and new for 2006 - an Oz tree will celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Syracusan L. Frank Baum. As weather permits, venture out to the candle/fire lit mission compound where costumed interpreters perform daily chores associated with the 1656 mission residents. A gift shop featuring unique holiday items will be open.

I Wanna be a Famous Artist (in Musical Theater)
Theatre '90

Price: $15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Inspired by "Americal Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance," the show will feature 60 participants aged 8 - 18 all vying for the top prize of $1,000 in each of three age categories.

Redhouse Live: Ryan Fitzsimmons & Greg Klyma
Redhouse

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

Saturday, November 25, 2006

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Artistic Journeys
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit features watercolors by Linda Abbey, oil paintings by Diane Menzies, mixed media drawings by Fred and Laura J. Wellner, and "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux," art by Judith Hand and Christine Patsos.

Linda Abbey uses the transparency and freshness of the watercolor medium itself to depict flowers and scenes from Venice, Italy. For this exhibit Linda will also be showing works in oil from a series of 40 small birch panels depicting Onondaga Park in Syracuse.

Diane Menzies has a strong passion for the natural world as is depicted in many of her oil paintings. The "North Lake Series" emerges from the Adirondack Mountains. They portray a reverence for this ancient place of deep waters and quietude of woods.

Fred Wellner creates surreal landscapes and abstractions using pencil, charcoal and watercolor. Fred states, "There is this paradoxical dance of order and chaos, suggesting that life cannot be entirely either and therefore must embrace both. When I apply pencil or brush, this resonates in my thoughts, much more so when I'm unfettered by precision, when working on surreal or abstract images."

Laura J. Wellner creates landscapes and abstractions inspired by nature using pencil, watercolor and pastel. Her drawings reflect the intricate wonders of a flower, the pearly surface of a shell, the ruffles of lichen on bark, rocks in water, clouds in sky, and then there are visualizations of music -- Beethoven mostly.

Judith Hand and Christine Patsos are exhibiting art about dance in their collaborative show titled "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux." Judith Hand's watercolors depict the basic positions in ballet. Her images are almost monochromatic paintings with different backgrounds accompanying manikins arranged in each ballet position. Christine Patsos uses pencil and watercolor wash or acrylic stain on Bristol board to portray ballet dancers.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

The show and sale features paintings, sculptures, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, soaps, wood, ceramics, and more! It's the perfect place to find those special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Christmas Around the World

Price: $1
Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois
106 Lake Dr., Liverpool

During the holiday season, Sainte Marie is transformed into a festive holiday center! Stroll through the Visitor Center and enjoy a nostalgic tour of decorated trees, international versions of Santa, various holiday symbols, light refreshments and wonderful musical entertainment. A working display of trains will return this year and new for 2006 - an Oz tree will celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Syracusan L. Frank Baum. As weather permits, venture out to the candle/fire lit mission compound where costumed interpreters perform daily chores associated with the 1656 mission residents. A gift shop featuring unique holiday items will be open.

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

I Wanna be a Famous Artist (in Musical Theater)
Theatre '90

Price: $15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Inspired by "Americal Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance," the show will feature 60 participants aged 8 - 18 all vying for the top prize of $1,000 in each of three age categories.

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Stained Glass Series: Vivaldi and Mozart
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Allan Kolsky, clarinet

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Vivaldi Concerto Grosso in A major
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major
Schubert Symphony No. 4

State Fair Cafe
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $5 regular, $4 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In David Feldman's bittersweet drama, not only is the State Fair Cafe in danger of going out of business, but the cook falls for a waitress who finds it impossible to to remain faithful to one man for more than a week, and an abandoned orphan mysteriously disappears.

"We did a reading of an earlier version of this play about a year and a half ago," Feldman said. "It's gone through several revisions since then, including two workshops at New York's Ensemble Studio Theatre," one of them with Klonsky and Schwartz author Romulus Linney. "It's an entirely different play now."

Feldman currently teaches in the Syracuse University Drama Department and is the founder and artistic director of Armory Square Playhouse.

The script-in-hand reading will be followed by a discussion with the author, directed by ASP Production Coordinator Len Fonte.

I Wanna be a Famous Artist (in Musical Theater)
Theatre '90

Price: $15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Inspired by "Americal Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance," the show will feature 60 participants aged 8 - 18 all vying for the top prize of $1,000 in each of three age categories.

Monday, November 27, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Green Towers
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibit exploring the "green" design of the Bank of America tower, currently under construction at 1 Bryant Park in Manhatten.

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

The show and sale features paintings, sculptures, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, soaps, wood, ceramics, and more! It's the perfect place to find those special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Thank You Mr. Moto
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Weber's Restaurant
820 Danforth St., Syracuse

1938 film with Peter Lorre as the famous detective of the title.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Green Towers
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibit exploring the "green" design of the Bank of America tower, currently under construction at 1 Bryant Park in Manhatten.

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

The show and sale features paintings, sculptures, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, soaps, wood, ceramics, and more! It's the perfect place to find those special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble

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

The ensemble will perform under the direction of Joseph Riposo and John Coggiola, faculty members in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The program includes works by Stan Kenton, Woody Herman and Buddy Rich.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

A Christmas Carol
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: $28, $25, $22 (adults); $20 (teens); $16 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"... and it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well." The spirit of the season fills the stage in a fantastical telling of this family, holiday tale. At heart, A Christmas Carol is the story of Scrooge, of his transformation from the darkness and bitterness of greed and loneliness to the light of kindness and generosity. It is a tale of hope embodied in an old man's decision to do perhaps the hardest thing of all: admit his failings and change. As Dickens notes, "May that be truly said of us, and all of us."

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Green Towers
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibit exploring the "green" design of the Bank of America tower, currently under construction at 1 Bryant Park in Manhatten.

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

The show and sale features paintings, sculptures, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, soaps, wood, ceramics, and more! It's the perfect place to find those special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

The Historic Erie Canal
Dewitt Community Library
Featuring Melody Milewski, director of the Erie Canal Village in Rome, NY

Price: Free
Dewitt Community Library
Shoppingtown Mall, Dewitt

Enjoy a presentation about the history of the Erie Canal. This program has been presented to American Caribbean Cruise Lines for the past 12 years along with other libraries and historical societies Melody will be adorned in accurate reproduction clothing for a 4-part program featuring 19th-century clothing, a canal history slide show, a sing-a-long, and a presentation of historic post cards.

Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Featuring Lisa Randall, Harvard physicist, cosmologist, and author

Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Randall examines the possible existence of worlds only imagined in science fiction.

This appearance is presented as part of the Syracuse Symposium, a semester-long intellectual and artistic festival that celebrates interdisciplinary thinking, imagination and creation. This year's theme is "Imagination." For more information on symposium events, visit .

Paid parking for the public is available in Irving Garage.

The Rap Canterbury Tales
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Featuring Baba Brinkman

Price: Free
Heroy Auditorium, Heroy Geology Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Rap Canterbury Tales resurrects English poet Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century masterpiece The Canterbury Tales in the form of a lyrical battle. The Pardoner, The Miller, The Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself all compete for the storytelling crown. The presentation includes a comparison of Chaucer's narrative techniques and poetic form with the narrative techniques and practices of contemporary hip-hop culture. Baba Brinkman's version is set in the 21st century urban United States, as a group of rappers battle for the best rap while touring.

Brinkman began his rap career at age 19, free styling and writing songs in his hometown of Vancouver, Canada. During his development as a rapper, he also completed a bachelor's degree at Simon Fraser University and master's degree in Medieval and Renaissance English literature at the University of Victoria. His thesis drew parallels between the worlds of rap music and literary poetry.

In summer 2004, Brinkman took The Rap Canterbury Tales on a tour of seven cities around the world, including Prague, Montreal, Edinburgh and San Francisco. He completed the album version in fall 2004. In spring 2005, Cambridge University sponsored a school tour across England, where Brinkman performed for more than 1,600 students in more than 30 schools. Since 2004, he has toured The Rap Canterbury Tales in Australia and the United Kingdom. The Rap Canterbury Tales has also been published as an illustrated paperback by Vancouver's Talon Books.

For more information, contact Professor Amanda Eubanks Winkler at 315-443-4584 or awinkler@syr.edu.

Parking is available in SU pay lots. A reception will follow.

University Singers
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Kenneth Meyer, guitar

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

The program includes works by Johannes Brahms, Jeffrey Van, Eric Whitacre, Heinrich Schütz and Thomas Weelkes.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

For more information, contact Sarah Schaffner at 315-443-4106 or skschaff@syr.edu.

Caucasian Chalk Circle
Black Box Players

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Rookery Nook
Syracuse University Drama Department
Elizabeth Ingram, director

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

Ben Travers' popular 1920s comedy, Rookery Nook, is one of Travers' nine "Aldwych farces." Rookery Nook is set in 1926 and centers on Gerald Popkiss, a recently married playboy who suddenly finds himself traveling alone when his new wife, Clara, is waylaid by her mother's sudden illness. When Gerald arrives in Rookery Nook, his philandering instincts kick in when he happens upon a pretty young girl dressed only in pink pajamas who has been thrown out of the house next door to his. Hilarity ensues when Gerald struggles to properly outfit the girl and keep her hidden from his sister-in-law, Gertrude, and nosy maid, Mrs. Leverett. Hailed as the "Master of the Farce," Travers enjoyed his greatest popularity during the interwar years, and the good-humored absurdity of his plays is credited as the inspiration for the famous Whitehall farces.

Read a Review!

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Green Towers
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibit exploring the "green" design of the Bank of America tower, currently under construction at 1 Bryant Park in Manhatten.

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Holiday Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $7 regular; $4 students/seniors, free for children 5 and under
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Join the holiday merrymakers at the Everson Museum of Art's Holiday Festival of Trees, and enjoy one of Central New York's favorite holiday happenings. With ongoing live seasonal music and more than 100 decorated trees, wreaths and special displays donated by local individuals, businesses and community organizations, the Festival transforms the Everson into a true holiday wonderland. This year enjoy a special display of quilts and quilted items from the Towpath Quilt Guild.

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

The show and sale features paintings, sculptures, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, soaps, wood, ceramics, and more! It's the perfect place to find those special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Holiday Presence
Delavan Art Gallery

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

David Beale - watercolors
Robert L. Kasprzycki - oils and acrylics
Nine Members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild:
Sue Canizares - porcelain
Dee Gage - Raku
Lisa Goodlin - ceramics
Bobbi Lamb - ceramics
Shawn McGuire - wood fired and Raku fired pottery
Paul Molesky - wood fired ceramics
Lauren Ritchie - stoneware lanterns
Tim See - porcelain and wood fired vesselss
Burton Thomas - wall sculpture (bronze glazed and Raku)

Film Series: The Story of the Weeping Camel
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

When a Mongolian camel gives birth to a rare white calf and then refuses to nurse it, the nomadic family that owns the herd tries desperately to keep the calf alive.

Film Series: The Story of the Weeping Camel
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

When a Mongolian camel gives birth to a rare white calf and then refuses to nurse it, the nomadic family that owns the herd tries desperately to keep the calf alive.

The Nutcracker
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
North Carolina Dance Theatre
Grant Cooper, conductor

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

The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and North Carolina Dance Theatre proudly present this spectacular holiday tradition for the whole family. From the beautiful sets, magical effects, stunning dance and glorious music, The Nutcracker is a season highlight not to be missed!

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Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Third String Contemporary Music Ensemble

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

The program includes compositions by Augusta Read Thomas, Sofia Gubaidulina, SU faculty composer Vera Ivanova, and a premiere by graduate composition student Jennifer Bellor. Interwoven between these works will be a series of improvisations by SU's 11-member improvisation group, oPrAh woRkshoP.

The Gubaidulina composition will be conducted by Setnor faculty composer Nicolas Scherzinger, who also directs oPrAh woRkshoP. The Bellor premiere will be conducted by graduate conducting student James Welch. Daniel S. Godfrey, Composer-in-Residence at SU and faculty member in the Setnor School, is supervising director of Third String.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

For more information, contact the Setnor School of Music at 315-443-5892 or Godfrey at dsgodfre@syr.edu.

Hijacked Holiday
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $29.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater, about the theft of toys from Santa's sleigh.

Disney's The Jungle Book
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $12
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Caucasian Chalk Circle
Black Box Players

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Rookery Nook
Syracuse University Drama Department
Elizabeth Ingram, director

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

Ben Travers' popular 1920s comedy, Rookery Nook, is one of Travers' nine "Aldwych farces." Rookery Nook is set in 1926 and centers on Gerald Popkiss, a recently married playboy who suddenly finds himself traveling alone when his new wife, Clara, is waylaid by her mother's sudden illness. When Gerald arrives in Rookery Nook, his philandering instincts kick in when he happens upon a pretty young girl dressed only in pink pajamas who has been thrown out of the house next door to his. Hilarity ensues when Gerald struggles to properly outfit the girl and keep her hidden from his sister-in-law, Gertrude, and nosy maid, Mrs. Leverett. Hailed as the "Master of the Farce," Travers enjoyed his greatest popularity during the interwar years, and the good-humored absurdity of his plays is credited as the inspiration for the famous Whitehall farces.

Read a Review!

Friday, December 1, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Green Towers
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibit exploring the "green" design of the Bank of America tower, currently under construction at 1 Bryant Park in Manhatten.

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Holiday Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $7 regular; $4 students/seniors, free for children 5 and under
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Join the holiday merrymakers at the Everson Museum of Art's Holiday Festival of Trees, and enjoy one of Central New York's favorite holiday happenings. With ongoing live seasonal music and more than 100 decorated trees, wreaths and special displays donated by local individuals, businesses and community organizations, the Festival transforms the Everson into a true holiday wonderland. This year enjoy a special display of quilts and quilted items from the Towpath Quilt Guild.

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

The show and sale features paintings, sculptures, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, soaps, wood, ceramics, and more! It's the perfect place to find those special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Holiday Presence
Delavan Art Gallery

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

David Beale - watercolors
Robert L. Kasprzycki - oils and acrylics
Nine Members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild:
Sue Canizares - porcelain
Dee Gage - Raku
Lisa Goodlin - ceramics
Bobbi Lamb - ceramics
Shawn McGuire - wood fired and Raku fired pottery
Paul Molesky - wood fired ceramics
Lauren Ritchie - stoneware lanterns
Tim See - porcelain and wood fired vesselss
Burton Thomas - wall sculpture (bronze glazed and Raku)

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Christmas Around the World

Price: $1
Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois
106 Lake Dr., Liverpool

During the holiday season, Sainte Marie is transformed into a festive holiday center! Stroll through the Visitor Center and enjoy a nostalgic tour of decorated trees, international versions of Santa, various holiday symbols, light refreshments and wonderful musical entertainment. A working display of trains will return this year and new for 2006 - an Oz tree will celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Syracusan L. Frank Baum. As weather permits, venture out to the candle/fire lit mission compound where costumed interpreters perform daily chores associated with the 1656 mission residents. A gift shop featuring unique holiday items will be open.

5:15-5:45pm -- Wetzel Road Chorus
7:00-7:45pm -- North Syracuse Chamber Orchestra
8:00-8:45pm -- The Basilica of Sacred Heart Church Choir

FIB3R: Syracuse University Graduate Fibers Exhibition
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Fiber-based sculptural installations.

Holiday Dance Concert
LeMoyne College
LeMoyne Student Dancers

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Le Moyne students perform pieces by professional and student choreographers, from ballet to hip-hop. The dances will feature the music of Billy Joel, Janet Jackson, Nelly Furtado, Tool, Roisin Murphy, Kim English, Young Bloodz, and Natalie Cole, among others.

When Neglected Books Are Revived: The Cases of William Godwin and Dawn Powell
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Featuring Nicholas Birns

Bird Library
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Using William Godwin's 1793 novel Caleb Williams and the novels of the 20th-century American novelist Dawn Powell as test cases, this talk will explore what it means for a book to be lost and to be revived, the different ways that revived books are received in academia and in the general literary culture, and the nature of revivals themselves as cultural phenomena. The talk will close by drawing lessons from these cases for considering "revivals of neglected books."

Nicholas Birns, who has taught literature at Eugene Lang College, The New School, since 1996, is the author of Understanding Anthony Powell, the editor of Antipodes, and the co-editor of Companion to 20th-Century Australian Literature. He has written for European Romantic Review, Southern Quarterly, Arizona Quarterly, Religion and the Arts, and Review of Contemporary Fiction. He has lectured in Sweden, the UK, and Australia. Birns has a Ph.D. in English from New York University.

The talk will take place in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons on the first floor of Bird Library.

Onondaga Community College
OCC Percussion Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Composer Friday: Daniel S. Godfrey
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Crouse College, Room 400
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Composition Department in the Setnor School of Music hosts Composer Fridays, public presentations by composition faculty on the first Friday of each month. Each month a different faculty composer will present his or her recent work, guiding the audience through live and recorded performances, sharing what makes them tick and inviting the audience to respond. The resulting exchange will be lively, thought-provoking, sometimes weird, always fun. Reception to follow.

For more information, phone 315-443-5892.

The Nutcracker
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
North Carolina Dance Theatre
Grant Cooper, conductor

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

The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and North Carolina Dance Theatre proudly present this spectacular holiday tradition for the whole family. From the beautiful sets, magical effects, stunning dance and glorious music, The Nutcracker is a season highlight not to be missed!

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Lost Time, with Boots 'n' Shorts
Folkus Project

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Smooth vocal harmonies and intricate bluegrass instrumentals from one of Central New York's best homegrown bands. Lost Time has been nominated for two Syracuse Area Music Awards, including a nomination for their first CD, "It's About Time," which was released in November of 2002.

The members are all veterans of the Central New York bluegrass scene. Along the way, they've played in some of the region's most respected bluegrass bands, including The Down City Ramblers, Headin' South, Hard Times, Pleasant Valley, Chestnut Grove, and Rosewood.

Don Anderson sings lead and tenor vocals, and holds the band together on acoustic bass. Anderson is also the group's primary songwriter, contributing three originals to the band's CD.

John Burton plays banjo and sings baritone. He is also the default bass singer in the quartets. Burton's first professional job was as Tony Trischka's replacement with the legendary Down City Ramblers in the early '70's, and later was a founding member of Headin' South. Burton has also played in Rosewood and The Lost Boys.

The innovative playing of SAMMY Award winning mandolinist Perry Cleaveland keeps him in demand as a recording session player throughout New York State. For many years he has led the group Rosewood with his wife Caren and has recorded and performs with Chestnut Grove.

Ted Lambert plays rhythm and lead guitar, fiddle, and sings lead and harmony vocals. Lambert is a founding member of Creek Bend and a mainstay in the acoustic music field around the Buffalo, N.Y., area. He also plays banjo, mandolin, and bass.

Rounding out the Lost Time sound is their newest member, three-time Montana State Fiddle Champion Taylor Buckley, who has toured with and co-written tunes with April Verch. His inventive and accurate fiddling complements the versatility of the other musicians.

Boots 'n' Shorts is a new young bluegrass and acoustic jam band on the central NY scene that features fiddle, mandolin, acoustic guitar, electric bass, and vocals. Among their main influences they site: Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Band, David Grisman, and the Grateful Dead. Boots 'n' Shorts will play the opening set.

SU Symphony Band
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Bradley Ethington; Justin Mertz, conductor

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

The program includes "The Battell" by William Byrd and "El Capitan" by John Philip Sousa.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

For more information, contact Francesca Moore in the University Bands Office at 315-443-2194 or fmmoore@syr.edu.

Poets from PP/FF: An Anthology
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

PP/FF: An Anthology (Starcherone Press) collects works of prose poetry, flash fiction, and related evolving forms by 61 of Americas most innovative and exciting authors. Join us for an evening of writing from the book, including PP/FF contributors Christopher Kennedy, Sean Thomas Ddougherty, Ted Pelton, Ethan Paquin, Geoffrey Gatza, and Peter Conners, editor of the collection.

Disney's The Jungle Book
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $12
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The incarnation of the Logos
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $15 regular advance/$20 at the door, $5 children under 12
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A Christmas Nativity drama by Glen Williamson of New York City.

A Christmas Carol
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: $50, $47, $22 (adults); $20 (teens); $16 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"... and it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well." The spirit of the season fills the stage in a fantastical telling of this family, holiday tale. At heart, A Christmas Carol is the story of Scrooge, of his transformation from the darkness and bitterness of greed and loneliness to the light of kindness and generosity. It is a tale of hope embodied in an old man's decision to do perhaps the hardest thing of all: admit his failings and change. As Dickens notes, "May that be truly said of us, and all of us."

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I Wanna be a Famous Artist (in Musical Theater)
Theatre '90

Price: $15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Inspired by "Americal Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance," the show will feature 60 participants aged 8 - 18 all vying for the top prize of $1,000 in each of three age categories.

The Spitfire Grill
Appleseed Productions
Sharee Lemos, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A feisty parolee follows her dreams, based on a page from an old travel book, to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. It is for sale but there are no takers for the only eatery in the depressed town, so newcomer Percy suggests to Hannah that she raffle it off. Entry fees are one hundred dollars and the best essay on why you want the grill wins. Soon, mail is arriving by the wheelbarrow full and things are definitely cookin' at the Spitfire Grill. A musical filled with hope and promise, just right for the Christmas season. Music and book by James Valcq, lyrics and book by Fred Alley.

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Caucasian Chalk Circle
Black Box Players

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Mr. Jacobs' Remarkable Snowflake Collection
Open Hand Theater

International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

A new interactive story by Geoffrey Navias about memories and helping hands.

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Disney's The Jungle Book
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $12
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Rookery Nook
Syracuse University Drama Department
Elizabeth Ingram, director

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

Ben Travers' popular 1920s comedy, Rookery Nook, is one of Travers' nine "Aldwych farces." Rookery Nook is set in 1926 and centers on Gerald Popkiss, a recently married playboy who suddenly finds himself traveling alone when his new wife, Clara, is waylaid by her mother's sudden illness. When Gerald arrives in Rookery Nook, his philandering instincts kick in when he happens upon a pretty young girl dressed only in pink pajamas who has been thrown out of the house next door to his. Hilarity ensues when Gerald struggles to properly outfit the girl and keep her hidden from his sister-in-law, Gertrude, and nosy maid, Mrs. Leverett. Hailed as the "Master of the Farce," Travers enjoyed his greatest popularity during the interwar years, and the good-humored absurdity of his plays is credited as the inspiration for the famous Whitehall farces.

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