Monday, April 28, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

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Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student show.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works from area high school students.

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

Peach-O-Reno and Strictly in the Groove
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Peach-O-Reno (1931) and Strictly in the Groove (1942), a comedy and musical double bill starring Bert Wheeler, Ozzie Nelson, Shemp Howard and Leon Errol. In the first, Wheeler plays one of two divorce lawyers in Reno, Nevada. In the second, a group of college students is sent to a Western resort ranch.

10th Annual JPMorgan Chase Young Playwrights Festival
Syracuse Stage

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

Six area high school students have been chosen as the winners of the 10th annual JPMorgan Chase Young Playwrights Festival Contest at Syracuse Stage. Their work will be performed by SU Drama students, at a staged reading hosted by acclaimed Syracuse author and Stage board member Bruce Coville.

Anti-Pink by Shaina Bienvenue, a junior at Camden High School. This series of monologues that explore our societys view of beauty has won one of two awards for Performance Writing.

Odes to a Boy by Katherine Davis, a senior at Camden High School who plans to major in theatre. Her play, which combines classic poetry and performance in a celebration of love's triumphs and tragedies, will be honored with an award for Performance Writing. This is Davis' third time winning a prize from the Young Playwrights Festival, and this year she will be honored with a $500 scholarship, presented by Susan A. Basile, Founder & President of the Syracuse Area Live Theatre Scholarship Incorporated (S.A.L.T. Fund).

The Emo-kateers and the Quest for the Magical Neverfade Hair Dye by Elizabeth Fennessy, a senior at Nottingham High School who will attend SUNY Binghamton in the fall. Her play creates a satirical world that explores the vagaries of high school social networks, winning a prize for Best Comedy.

Ghetto Love by De'Shauna Ferrante, a senior at Liverpool High School who will attend Crouse Hospital's RN program after graduating. Her play about a woman who finds the strength to leave an abusive boyfriend won Best Script Development.

Poet's Disease by Jake Luttinger, a senior at Liverpool High School who will attend SUNY Albany or University of Massachusetts and major in French. His play, in which a meteor crash has somehow caused the world's population to speak in rhyme, has won a prize for Best Dialogue.

For the Love of Terrance by Steven Olson, a senior at Fowler High School who will join the Marine Corps after graduating. His tale of thwarted high school romance won a prize for Best Character.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Icons

Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student show.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works from area high school students.

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

36th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Show
Community Folk Art Center

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

Teen artists of African American, Native American, Hispanic American and Asian American heritage will display their work in the exhibition.

The Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Focus on New Russian Cinema: Fat Stupid Rabbit
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Fat Stupid Rabbit by Slava Ross (Russia, 93 minutes, fiction)
One of the miserable alcoholic actors from an unsuccessful repertory children's theater starts to insert Shakespeare into his lines in hopes of reviving his career. A sure fire hit.

Eugene Zykov from Moscow will be presenting five extraordinary new Russian films during the festival. Eugene is the founder, publisher, and chief editor of All The Showcase, a Russian/English magazine whose mission is to advance international awareness of Russian cinema.

Slava Ross, director of Fat Stupid Rabbit, will also be in attendance.

Israeli Cinema (Celebrating Israel at 60): No Exit
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

No Exit by Dror Sabo (Israel, 90 minutes, fiction)
A satirical look at the Israeli TV industry in which a filmmaker exploits the tragic novelty of a blind soldier to freshen up a reality show, and proves that his only artistic drive is for popular success. Very creative.

Israeli Cinema (Celebrating Israel at 60): Nuzhat al-Fuad
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nuzhat al-Fuad by Judd Ne'eman (Israel, 110 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
Against the splendid background of the Arabian Nights and tradition of Iraqi storytelling, the film explores the relationship between the real and the imagined in a story of two creative minds connected to a TV serial. Brilliant.

Focus on New Russian Cinema: Goodbye Southern City
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Goodbye Southern City by Oleg Safaraliyev (Azerbaijan, 90 minutes, fiction)
Political changes disrupt the peaceful lives of ordinary people in Baku, Azerbaijan, as new characters storm into the routine of a household, bringing new rules and demands. Enlightening.

Eugene Zykov from Moscow will be presenting five extraordinary new Russian films during the festival. Eugene is the founder, publisher, and chief editor of All The Showcase, a Russian/English magazine whose mission is to advance international awareness of Russian cinema.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Windjammer Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Bill DiCosimo, conductor

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The program features repertoire from the Great American Songbook, with both ensemble and solo performances. Guest performers from Samba Laranja, SU's Brazilian Music Ensemble, will be featured on a Steve Zegree arrangement of "Mas Que Nada," a Brazilian samba originally performed and recorded by Sergio Mendes. The concert also features the premiere of DiCosimo's original bossa nova composition "Lighten Up Your Heart."

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

For more information, phone 315-443-6145.

Evita
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $55, $45, $30
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Winner of seven Tony Awards, Evita brings to life the dynamic, larger-than-life persona of Eva Peron, wife of former Argentine dictator, Juan Person. Blessed with charisma, Eva Person captivated a nation by championing the working class. This exuberant production creates a gripping theatrical experience and features Andrew Lloyd Webber's compelling Latin, pop and jazz influenced score. One of the most popular collaborations between Webber and Tim Rice, this legendary musical features the memorable son "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina."

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Icons

Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student show.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works from area high school students.

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

38th Annual Celebration of the Arts
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free (contributions accepted)
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

36th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Show
Community Folk Art Center

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

Teen artists of African American, Native American, Hispanic American and Asian American heritage will display their work in the exhibition.

The Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

The Sweetest Battle: Works by Rebecca Murtaugh
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:
I am intrigued by the space between painting and sculpture and the history of objects. Much of my work is based in installation with materials and techniques that vary to serve the needs of my intentions. I engage in processes of often altering everyday materials so that they draw from the language of each material's history and at once, transcend that history to provide an experience of the sublime. My work maintains a balance of formal and conceptual motivations. I aim for the work to be playful, sexy, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Artist Biography:
Rebecca Murtaugh currently splits her time between Brooklyn and Central New York. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and was raised in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the Contemporary Art Fair with Thatcher Projects in New York City, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Northern California, the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Current Gallery in Baltimore, and the District of Columbia Art Center. Upcoming exhibitions in 2008 include Seductions at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Part Object, Part Sculpture at the Brew House: Space 101 in Pittsburgh; and Keeping the Conceptual Momentum at the Kelly and Weber Gallery in Philadelphia. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where she teaches Sculpture and Critical Theory.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Silence: BFA Solo Exhibit of David Hannon
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

American Indian Filmmaking: Imprint
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Imprint by Michael Linn, Chris Eyre, Carolyn Linn (USA, 88 minutes, fiction)
A Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns to the reservation to say goodbye to her dying father and experiences strange visions that challenge her beliefs. Wonderful.

Focus on New Russian Cinema: The Father
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Father by Ivan Solokov (Russia, 82 minutes, fiction)
With mixed emotions, a Russian soldier returns from WWII to an awaiting family he no longer knows, taking a detour along the way, only to ultimately face the person changed most by the war: himself. Very nicely constructed story.

Eugene Zykov from Moscow will be presenting five extraordinary new Russian films during the festival. Eugene is the founder, publisher, and chief editor of All The Showcase, a Russian/English magazine whose mission is to advance international awareness of Russian cinema.

Focus on New Russian Cinema: Black Prince
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Black Prince by Aratoli Ivanov (Russia, 100 minutes, fiction)
An African-American director (Ray Charles Jr.) tries to unravel the mysteries of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's death, and finds a connection to a distant past. Very creative.

Eugene Zykov from Moscow will be presenting five extraordinary new Russian films during the festival. Eugene is the founder, publisher, and chief editor of All The Showcase, a Russian/English magazine whose mission is to advance international awareness of Russian cinema.

Israeli Cinema (Celebrating Israel at 60): Rita
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Rita by Michal Bat-Adam (Israel, 100 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
A writer attempts to reinvent herself through her own fiction after realizing she no longer knows who she is. Another in a long series of masterful films by Michal Bat Adam. Don't miss.

The Piano Trio Through the Centuries
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring John Harnois, violin; Nancy Pease, piano; Christine Prevost, cello

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

Beethoven Piano Trio, Op. 1, No. 1

Evita
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $55, $45, $30
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Winner of seven Tony Awards, Evita brings to life the dynamic, larger-than-life persona of Eva Peron, wife of former Argentine dictator, Juan Person. Blessed with charisma, Eva Person captivated a nation by championing the working class. This exuberant production creates a gripping theatrical experience and features Andrew Lloyd Webber's compelling Latin, pop and jazz influenced score. One of the most popular collaborations between Webber and Tim Rice, this legendary musical features the memorable son "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina."

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The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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Sweeney Todd
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Based upon the original book The Legend of Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond, the musical relates the story of Todd (formerly Benjamin Barker) who returns home from Australia after spending 15 years imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Upon returning home, Todd learns of his wife's suicide after being raped by Judge Terpin, the man responsible for Todd's imprisonment. Todd vows revenge, leading to mass murder, booming business for Mrs. Lovett's pastry shop, and ultimately, tragedy. The 1979 original production, starring Angela Lansbury, won three Tonys and four Drama Desk Awards. Since then, revival productions have continued the pace, winning a host of awards and nominations. Stephen Sondheim's complex score, suffused with rich harmonies, has enticed opera companies to stage this "staggering theatre spectacle."

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Thursday, May 1, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Kewpie Karma/80
The Warehouse Gallery

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

What does a Kewpie doll have to offer the world? If anything has karma, why not a Kewpie doll?

Yoshiko Miki's work addresses issues of death and rebirth. The death of her mother three years ago caused Miki to search for answers as to why some people leave life at such a young age. She found that the only way to address this was to disregard the idea of life having an ending point and instead to view life as a continuation. Influenced by her Buddhist background, Miki wondered who her mother might have been re-born as: "A man? Or a woman?" and where she could be: "Here in America with me? Or back in Japan with my father and my little sister?"

In reincarnation, the karma of a person continues into the next life; no matter what form they are reborn. Miki depicts her mother's reincarnation through Kewpie dolls -- an iconic image of happiness and love, words that also describe her mother's approach to life. The subject of rebirth is reinforced by the infantile nature of the dolls and by their number. The 80 dolls signify the importance of the numbers 8 and 0 which represent endless life; when drawn out, there is no beginning or ending point for either number. Significantly, when the number 8 is rotated 90 degrees in either direction, it becomes a symbol for infinity. Kewpie Karma/80 deals with themes of death, rebirth and karma through an iconic medium.

Yoshiko Miki (1987) was born in Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan. At the age of 16 she moved to the United States and lived in Lancaster, PA and would remain there for a year before moving to Syracuse. She graduated from Manlius Pebble Hill School in DeWitt and currently is enrolled at the Pratt Institute at Munson-Williams-Proctor in Utica where she is studying fine arts with a concentration in sculpture.

Icons

Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student show.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works from area high school students.

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

An opening reception will be held 5:00-7:00 pm.

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

38th Annual Celebration of the Arts
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free (contributions accepted)
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

36th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Show
Community Folk Art Center

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

Teen artists of African American, Native American, Hispanic American and Asian American heritage will display their work in the exhibition.

The Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

The Sweetest Battle: Works by Rebecca Murtaugh
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:
I am intrigued by the space between painting and sculpture and the history of objects. Much of my work is based in installation with materials and techniques that vary to serve the needs of my intentions. I engage in processes of often altering everyday materials so that they draw from the language of each material's history and at once, transcend that history to provide an experience of the sublime. My work maintains a balance of formal and conceptual motivations. I aim for the work to be playful, sexy, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Artist Biography:
Rebecca Murtaugh currently splits her time between Brooklyn and Central New York. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and was raised in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the Contemporary Art Fair with Thatcher Projects in New York City, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Northern California, the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Current Gallery in Baltimore, and the District of Columbia Art Center. Upcoming exhibitions in 2008 include Seductions at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Part Object, Part Sculpture at the Brew House: Space 101 in Pittsburgh; and Keeping the Conceptual Momentum at the Kelly and Weber Gallery in Philadelphia. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where she teaches Sculpture and Critical Theory.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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World Cinema Celebration Opening Event: Red Like the Sky
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Red Like the Sky by Cristiano Bortone (Italy, 90 minutes, fiction)
In the spirit of Cinema Paradiso comes this film about a blind child who finds a new life at the cinemas, and is inspired to make films of his own. A winner for the entire family.

Writer/Actor Paolo Sassanelli and Luca Capriotti in his debut-starring role will be present as our special guests to discuss the film after it is screened.

Italian Shorts: Adel e Yusuf; The Path of the Skeptics; Crossing the Line
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Adel e Yusuf by Claudio Noce (Italy, 30 minutes, fiction)
A film that takes on the perspective of two Somali brothers trying to find work in Rome, and the experiences that capture their condition of being "strangers in a strange land."

The Path of the Skeptics (La passeggiata dello scettico) by Filippo Feel Cavalca (Italy, 30 minutes, fiction)
An agnostic philosophy student and an aging priest are bound together in a common need for God and a shared interest in the life of an 18th century philosopher.

Crossing the Line by Pietro Marcello (Italy 57 minutes, documentary) USA Premiere
A journey across Italy is set to the rhythm of long-distance express trains, long abandoned, slowly decaying, as they cross destroyed landscapes with passengers suspended between life and death.

El Benny
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

El Benny by Jorge Luis Sanchez (Cuba, 120 minutes, fiction)
A biographic look at Cuban jazz singer Benny More's fiery life, from his beginnings as a country boy to his rise and fall as one of Latin America's brightest stars. Strong and compelling.

Camera; Subtitles; The Tunnel (El Boquete)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Camera (Korea, 10 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
A frightening, Orwellian short that targets our fears of technology, and the ways in which the media have seeped into every pore of our lives this brilliant little film is for adults only.

Subtitles by Efe Oztezdogane (Turkey, 19 minutes, experimental/fiction)
A visual discourse about racism, unmasking the identities and representations that hide racial identity.

The Tunnel (El Boquete) by Mariano Mussi (Argentina, 83 minutes, fiction)
A quirky family of crooks attempts to rob a bank by digging a tunnel into a nearby bank vault in this black comedy with a bang-up, lowdown finale. This is one very bizarre and entertaining movie.

Special Forum: American Indian Film Perspectives
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

American Indian Film Perspectives with Sonny Skyhawk, Chris Eyre, Georgina Lightning and James Lujan
Quoting Sonny: This forum will be an informative discussion about who we really are. We are definitely not "searching for identity." We know who we are, it is mainstream America and the World who continue to want to re-define us. Anyway, we accept "American Indians" for the sake of discussion only.

Panelists:
Chris Eyre is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribe of Oklahoma. His first feature, Smoke Signals (1998) won numerous awards worldwide and made him a unique figure; becoming the first Native American director to ever make a movie that received national theatrical release. Some of his other films include: Skins (2002) with Graham Green and Eric Schweig; Skinwalkers (2002) executive producer, Robert Redford, with Adam Beach and Wes Studi; A Thief in Time (2003), executive producer Robert Redford, based on the Tony Hillerman novel; Edge of America (2004), for which Mr. Eyre won a Directors Guild of America Award, with James McDaniel and Tim Daly; A Thousand Roads (2005) executive producers, Peter Guber and Richard West, Jr., made for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian where it plays as an exclusive and unlimited engagement in Washington, DC.

Georgina Lightning is a Cree Indian making her directorial debut with the film Older Than America. She was recently featured in Filmmaker Magazine as one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film. She has a long track record of creative experience in the film industry as an actor, producer and acting coach on such projects as: Dreamkeepers, Backroads, Johnny Greyeyes, Christmas In The Clouds, Tecumseh The Oath, Smoke Signals, among countless others. Lightning has also guest starred in TV episodes of Walker Texas Ranger and West Wing. She is also the cofounder of Tribal Alliance Productions, a production company committed to producing media that matters told from a native prospective. A long time advocate of Native Indian advancement in the film industry, Lightning also formed Native Media Network, a group dedicated to the promotion and advancement of Native Indian talent.

James Lujan is a filmmaker and playwright from Taos Pueblo. He currently serves as the director of InterTribal Entertainment, a multimedia initiative of the nonprofit Southern California Indian Center, Inc., in Los Angeles. In 2006, Lujan launched the Creative Spirit Script-to-Screen Shootout, an annual screenplay contest and filmmaking week designed to provide employment, training and networking opportunities for emerging and established Native American talent in the film industry. In two years, the Creative Spirit program has produced four short films with Native writers, directors and actors. Lujans documentaries include High Strange New Mexico, Little Rock's Run, and Challenger: An Exploration of Art and Spirit. In 2004, Lujan was chosen as a Native Screenwriting Fellow by the Sundance Institute. As a playwright, Lujan has three produced plays including Kino and Teresa (2005).

Sonny Skyhawk is a well-known film and television character actor, writer, producer for the last 35 years. He has appeared in 58 films and television productions in his career. He is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation of South Dakota and currently presides as Chairman of the Screen Actors Guild Taskforce on American Indians. He is the founder of American Indians in Film & Television, an International Advocacy that promotes the true portrayal of the American Indian in those mediums. Sonny Skyhawk, is presently producing his own screenplay entitled Heartsong, about the redeeming power of will and spirit of American Indian children, while experiencing oppressive treatment, bigotry and cultural genocide at a Depression era Reservation Boarding School.

Special Forum: Educating our Children Through Film
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Educating Our Children Through Film with Moussa Gueye from Senegal, Administrative Manager of the Media Centre of Dakar; DeeDee Halleck from the USA, world-acclaimed documentary filmmaker; Georgina Lightning from the USA, actress/director; James Lujan from the USA, screenwriter/playwright/director; Michal Matus from Israel, Director of the Tel Aviv International Children's Film Festival; Minna Mokkila-Halinen from Finland; and Sonny Skyhawk from the USA, producer/actor/screenwriter.

Participants in the American Indian Film Perspectives forum and International Video Postcard Project will discuss the making of films by and for children. Educating, empowering, developing the ability to express oneself creatively in film and video is one of the major concerns of all our panelists. Also, what are the issues, ethically, aesthetically, economically, etc. when professional filmmakers create films with children as the main protagonists?

Drawing Conclusions: An Artist Discovers His America

Price: Free
Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Tracy Sugarman '43 will present his new book Drawing Conclusions: An Artist Discovers His America (Syracuse University Press, 2007).

Born in Syracuse, Sugarman is a nationally recognized illustrator and writer whose reportorial art has appeared in magazines and books and on network television. He is the author of Stranger at the Gate: A Summer in Mississippi (Hill and Wang, 1966) and a documentary filmmaker. Sugarman's paintings and drawings have been displayed widely, including at the 1994 exhibit at the Naval Memorial in Washington, DC, marking the 50th anniversary of D-Day.

Drawing Conclusions is a powerful pictorial take on the 20th-century's historic events, from the civil rights era and transformation in the South to labor demonstrations in the North. His work shows that an artist's personal imagery can eclipse the graphic potency of a camera in telling the human story.

Free parking is available in Booth Garage, at the corner of Comstock and Waverly avenues. For additional information, contact Kathleen White at 315-443-8782 or kswhite@syr.edu.

Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater.

Miss Saigon
Henninger High School

Price: $8 before April 25; $10 at the door
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

For tickets, phone 315-435-4343.

Evita
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $55, $45, $30
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Winner of seven Tony Awards, Evita brings to life the dynamic, larger-than-life persona of Eva Peron, wife of former Argentine dictator, Juan Person. Blessed with charisma, Eva Person captivated a nation by championing the working class. This exuberant production creates a gripping theatrical experience and features Andrew Lloyd Webber's compelling Latin, pop and jazz influenced score. One of the most popular collaborations between Webber and Tim Rice, this legendary musical features the memorable son "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina."

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The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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Women and Wallace
Black Box Players
Joshua Finn, director

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

Playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman drew from personal experience with the suicide of his mother when he was 18 for this drama.

Bang Bang, You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bang Bang, You're Dead, which features actors from local high schools, was commissioned by the Ribbon of Promise Campaign to Prevent School Violence. The piece tackles the subject of bullying and gun violence among our school-aged youth. This is the third season presenting this all-too-timely piece.

Sweeney Todd
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Based upon the original book The Legend of Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond, the musical relates the story of Todd (formerly Benjamin Barker) who returns home from Australia after spending 15 years imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Upon returning home, Todd learns of his wife's suicide after being raped by Judge Terpin, the man responsible for Todd's imprisonment. Todd vows revenge, leading to mass murder, booming business for Mrs. Lovett's pastry shop, and ultimately, tragedy. The 1979 original production, starring Angela Lansbury, won three Tonys and four Drama Desk Awards. Since then, revival productions have continued the pace, winning a host of awards and nominations. Stephen Sondheim's complex score, suffused with rich harmonies, has enticed opera companies to stage this "staggering theatre spectacle."

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Friday, May 2, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Kewpie Karma/80
The Warehouse Gallery

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

What does a Kewpie doll have to offer the world? If anything has karma, why not a Kewpie doll?

Yoshiko Miki's work addresses issues of death and rebirth. The death of her mother three years ago caused Miki to search for answers as to why some people leave life at such a young age. She found that the only way to address this was to disregard the idea of life having an ending point and instead to view life as a continuation. Influenced by her Buddhist background, Miki wondered who her mother might have been re-born as: "A man? Or a woman?" and where she could be: "Here in America with me? Or back in Japan with my father and my little sister?"

In reincarnation, the karma of a person continues into the next life; no matter what form they are reborn. Miki depicts her mother's reincarnation through Kewpie dolls -- an iconic image of happiness and love, words that also describe her mother's approach to life. The subject of rebirth is reinforced by the infantile nature of the dolls and by their number. The 80 dolls signify the importance of the numbers 8 and 0 which represent endless life; when drawn out, there is no beginning or ending point for either number. Significantly, when the number 8 is rotated 90 degrees in either direction, it becomes a symbol for infinity. Kewpie Karma/80 deals with themes of death, rebirth and karma through an iconic medium.

Yoshiko Miki (1987) was born in Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan. At the age of 16 she moved to the United States and lived in Lancaster, PA and would remain there for a year before moving to Syracuse. She graduated from Manlius Pebble Hill School in DeWitt and currently is enrolled at the Pratt Institute at Munson-Williams-Proctor in Utica where she is studying fine arts with a concentration in sculpture.

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Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student show.

Onondaga Art Guild Spring Show

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

For more information, phone 315-449-2240.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works from area high school students.

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

38th Annual Celebration of the Arts
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free (contributions accepted)
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

36th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Show
Community Folk Art Center

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

Teen artists of African American, Native American, Hispanic American and Asian American heritage will display their work in the exhibition.

The Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

The Sweetest Battle: Works by Rebecca Murtaugh
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:
I am intrigued by the space between painting and sculpture and the history of objects. Much of my work is based in installation with materials and techniques that vary to serve the needs of my intentions. I engage in processes of often altering everyday materials so that they draw from the language of each material's history and at once, transcend that history to provide an experience of the sublime. My work maintains a balance of formal and conceptual motivations. I aim for the work to be playful, sexy, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Artist Biography:
Rebecca Murtaugh currently splits her time between Brooklyn and Central New York. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and was raised in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the Contemporary Art Fair with Thatcher Projects in New York City, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Northern California, the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Current Gallery in Baltimore, and the District of Columbia Art Center. Upcoming exhibitions in 2008 include Seductions at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Part Object, Part Sculpture at the Brew House: Space 101 in Pittsburgh; and Keeping the Conceptual Momentum at the Kelly and Weber Gallery in Philadelphia. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where she teaches Sculpture and Critical Theory.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Works of Kathleen Schneider, Teresa Vitale, and Dee Ann VonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works by artists Kathleen Schneider (watercolors), Teresa Vitale (painting) and Dee Ann VonHunke (jewelry)

Opening reception with marimba music by Genoveffa Vitale.

Less Accurate/More Exciting
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Less Accurate/More Exciting: Shalini gets her BFA

ExcessoFevil Productions Presents RainRinse OR BUST

Shalini Patel + Jessica Posner + Shalini Patel

Bab Mook Ja; Lineage of the Voice (family friendly program)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Bab Mook Ja by Sung-ah Min (Korea, 11 minutes, animation)
In attempts to tie a string around a dragonfly, a small boy is led on adventure through nature that teaches him about the nature of things.

Lineage of the Voice by Yeon-ah Paik (Korea, 102 minutes, documentary) USA Premiere
Two young boys attempt to master the art of Pansori, a demanding form of Korean music, in this documentary that looks at the childhood that is sacrificed for ambitious hopes of celebrity. Absolutely beautiful filmmaking.

Escape From Hell; Little Fairy Tale; With Kisses From Your Love
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Escape From Hell (Korea, 6 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
No one wants to wake up in a boat on a sea of skeletons with the Grim Reaper, but that's what happens in this macabre short, full of colorful geometric backgrounds and characters.

Little Fairy Tale by Gor Margaryan (Armenia, 28 minutes, documentary) USA Premiere
Three portraits of boys growing into manhood and finding a man's work, their notions of what constitutes work and freedom wrapped in fairy tales.

With Kisses From Your Love by Jan Sikl (Czech Republic, 52 minutes, documentary) USA Premiere
Drawn in part from actual home movies, this film provides an intimate view into the everyday life of a middle-class family during and after World War II in Czechoslovakia.

Bobby Dogs
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Bobby Dogs by TK Reilly (USA, 117 minutes, fiction)
A recovering alcoholic tries to rebuild his life by starting a hot dog stand in this humorous look at one person's triumph in the face of fear and uncertainty. A definite audience pleaser.

Phaedra; Rita
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Phaedra by Salvo Bitonti (Italy, 13 minutes, experimental/fiction)
A stylized, modern dress retelling of the Greek legend, more a poetic representation of the original than a literal reenactment.

Rita by Michal Bat-Adam (Israel, 100 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
A writer attempts to reinvent herself through her own fiction after realizing she no longer knows who she is. Another in a long series of masterful films by Michal Bat Adam. Don't miss.

Waves; Grandhotel
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Imperial Ballroom
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Waves by Adrian Sitaru (Romania, 16 minutes, fiction)
It's just a sunny day at the beach with a Romanian family, or so it seems at first, until this film quickly undermines those sunny notions by presenting the darkness beneath the façade.

Grandhotel by David Ondruck (Czech Republic, 93 minutes, fiction)
Fleischman is a 30-something, angst-ridden man living at the top of an old hotel in a place that ceased to be happening years ago. Beautifully shot and very inventive.

Wave of Care; City Of Oblivion; The Miracle; Woman of Sarajevo
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Wave of Care by Alexandra Hetmerova (Czech Republic, 3 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
This film examines the fine line between the struggle for perfection and the capitulation to vanity.

City Of Oblivion (Taiwan, 8 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
Video game director Chang presents this mixed-media short that explores a man's contemplation of art as a platform for the creation of self.

The Miracle by Jeffrey Jon Smith (USA, 29 minutes, fiction)
The story of Tekki Lomonicki, a woman who dares to dream past her own physical limits, and in the process redefines the word "difference."

Woman of Sarajevo by Ella Alterman (Israel, 58 minutes, documentary)
A profile of a Bosnian woman's tumultuous life, this documentary follows Sara Pizatnich as she revisits the places and events that transformed her from schoolgirl to refuge.

Wedding Day; Juju Factory
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Wedding Day by David Schmoeller (USA, 25 minutes, fiction)
Three international tales of the wedding hopes of three brides gone awry in Las Vegas, Paris, and Singapore, combining to make for one comedic look at life's idiosyncrasies.

Juju Factory by Balufa Bakupa-Kanyinda (Congo, 93 minutes, fiction)
Set among Congolese expatriates living in a district of Brussels, this very creative and fascinating film centers around an author longing to express a world lost in a post-colonial environment, and his conflict with those who would rather forget.

Bye Bye; Summer Games; Swing State
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Bye Bye by Mario Pochat (Canada, 3 minutes, animation)
Take a look at the exciting state of computer animation) with this glimpse into the life of life-like characters and their frustrations.

Summer Games by Marian Tutoky (Slovakia, 17 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
Emil, a sweet-faced farm boy rounding the bend on puberty in rural Slovakia, has his world rocked when his fully developed cousin comes to spend the summer.

Swing State by Jason Zone Fisher and John Intrater (USA, 90 minutes, documentary)
A son follows his politician dad for a period of six months during his 2006 campaign to become lieutenant governor of Ohio, providing an inside look at the political workings of a state election. Revelatory and personal.

The Soupfather; Our Daily Bread; Nobody
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Soupfather by Tseng Hui Ming (Taiwan, 10 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
The ingredients of the best corn soup declare war on their enemies, the mushroom, in a strategic move to become the powerful Soupfather, in this parody of The Godfather.

Our Daily Bread by Martin Rosite (Spain, 12 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
Suggestive of a Sergio Leone epic, this symbolic film delivers a duel in the sun of competing takes on Western civilization, like a showdown between Jesus Christ and Karl Marx.

Nobody by Shawn Linden (Canada, 88 minutes, fiction)
A neo-noir gangster film set in the 1950s, with an assassin unable to prove to his mob boss that he has committed the crime, with references to dozens of your favorite films. Wonderful cinematography.

Horn; Empty Town
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Imperial Ballroom
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Horn by Roohollah Masroor (Iran, 10 minutes, fiction)
Passengers on a bus in Tehran reap the anger of a bus driver on his break when one of them honks the horn, in a revealing short about contemporary life and social interactions in Iran.

Empty Town by Hu Yaozhi (China, 91 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
A woman's failed quest for success in the big city leads her back home to try and pick up the broken fragments of her life, in what turns out to be a refreshing take on an old concept.

One of the Last; Continental: a film without guns
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

One of the Last (Italy, 12 minutes, documentary) USA Premiere
In this poignant portrait, a farmer living near an Italian hilltown represents the contented, simple, rural life that is fast disappearing worldwide.

Continental: a film without guns by Stephane Lafleur (Quebec/Canada, 103 minutes, fiction)
Without reason or notice, a woman's husband disappears, but that is only the jump off point for a film that explores the secret lives of those we only thought we knew. Great storytelling.

Radio Kebrle; The Thread; Artifacts
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Radio Kebrle by Zdenek Durdil (Czech Republic, 16 minutes, experimental/fiction) USA Premiere
Mixing elements of Luis Bunuel with Abbott and Costello, Durdil offers a painfully true-to-life picture of a life in a social vacuum so bare, that delusion serves as a form of escapism.

The Thread by Stan Orzel and Maria Orzel (USA, 17 minutes, fiction)
Haunted by the ghost of his dead fiancee, a man seeks out a psychic who might help him exorcise her spirit in this stylish horror/mystery.

Artifacts by Giles Daoust (Belgium, 75 minutes, fiction)
Kate knows that things aren't normal when her friends begin to disappear, but they get even stranger when she forgets how she knew them in first place. A science-fiction thriller that questions the boundaries of reality. Very smart.

Outdoor Drive-In Theater (family friendly)
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Clear Channel Radio is providing a special frequency for the soundtrack. There will also be outdoor speakers for those who just want to walk by, stand around, or bring a folding chair. This family-friendly program (PG) will be repeated throughout the evening. Kitty Hoynes Irish Pub and Restaurant will deliver food right to your car.

Bojo by Mikayel Vatinyan (Armenia, 14 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
A small, fuzzy-nosed creature named Bojo temporarily escapes the lonely sadness of the city through his fantasies.

Woollen Dogs by Emma DeSwaee (Belgium, 9 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
An encounter between a boy and an infirm woman in a wheelchair involving a ball, three black dogs, a mysterious mustached man related to time, and some mean, stone-throwing youngsters.

Dear Lemon Lima by Suzi Yoonessi (USA, 11 minutes, fiction)
This brisk coming-of-age comedy about three outsiders offers an acute portrayal of tween-age confusion, as well as a girl named Nothing who seeks solace in her theremin.

Christmas In Taxi by Jo Yung-Kung (Korea 11 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
It's a slow day for a cab driver in wintry Paris; that is, until a mysterious woman pops into his cab and changes his life.

Simultaneous Worlds (Italy, 6 minutes, experimental) USA Premiere
Awake into a surreal world of inexplicable boundaries and doorways, and travel through its landscape of dreams.

Bab Mook Ja by Sung-ah Min (Korea, 11 minutes, animation)
In attempts to tie a string around a dragonfly, a small boy is led on adventure through nature that teaches him about the nature of things.

This is My Cheesesteak by Ben Daniels (USA, 40 minutes, documentary)
A homage to the city of Philadelphia focusing on the mouth-watering cheesesteak sandwich packs a generous amount of atmosphere in just 40 yummy minutes.

Dinner Time; Naus; A Clear Sky on a Bad Day; Fragments of Disappearance Foretold
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Dinner Time by Gor Baghdasaryan (Armenia, 3 minutes, documentary) USA Premiere
Director Gor Baghdasaryan takes his camera into the dilapidated home of an Armenian family eating potatoes, where close-ups reveal more than we might want to know.

Naus by Lukas Glaser and Roman Stetina (Czech Republic, 14 minutes, animation)
An open-ended, loosely animated tale about an individual being lost and found in his own tracks.

A Clear Sky on a Bad Day by Akinobu Ikeno (Japan, 17 minutes, fiction) World Premiere
A victim has returned to confront her killer, in a film that draws on a minimalist style to increase its dramatic impact.

Fragments of Disappearance Foretold by Oliveir Meys (Belgium, 74 minutes, documentary)
As China prepares for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, a small neighborhood falls prey to the country's frantic push for growth, in a moving film that captures the painful stories of its residents.

Christmas In Taxi; Bloody Merry Christmas; Pulqui -- Moment In the Native Land of Happiness
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Christmas In Taxi by Jo Yung-Kung (Korea 11 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
It's a slow day for a cab driver in wintry Paris; that is, until a mysterious woman pops into his cab and changes his life.

Bloody Merry Christmas by Jan Cechl (Czech Republic, 13 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
A family is enjoying all the good tidings of Christmas when suddenly everything takes a turn for the worst, leading to a horrific ending in this stop-motion animated Christmas tale

Pulqui -- Moment In the Native Land of Happiness by Alejandro Fernandez Moujan (Argentina, 85 minutes, documentary) USA Premiere
This documentary takes a critical look at one of Argentina's earliest aviation innovations while following an artist's vision to recreate the infamous Pulqui jet. Very quirky and a lot fun.

Cold Joint; All the Invisible Things
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Cold Joint (Studeny Spoj) by Miroslav Remo (Slovakia, 20 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
In a polluted industrial town, a father struggles to fix a television so that his family can watch images of a clean future.

All the Invisible Things (Heile Welt) by Jacoby Erwa (Austria, 90 minutes, fiction)
Recalling the stylistic vibrancy of Fernando Meirelles's City of God, this coming-of-age film tells the tale of three restless teens growing up in Graz, Austria. Strong and inventive.

Icaro; Goodbye Life
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Imperial Ballroom
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Icaro by David Hartmann (Cuba, 11 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
Tensions rise between two middle-aged friends as they ponder their place in the cosmos during a rare celestial event.

Goodbye Life by Ensieh Shah-Hosseini (Iran, 93 minutes, fiction)
In what may be a suicidal impulse, a woman war correspondent asks to be put on the front line of the Iraq-Iran War, and gains a new view of life out of the trauma she witnesses. Compelling.

Simultaneous Worlds; Such As It Is; Let's Finish!!!
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Simultaneous Worlds (Italy, 6 minutes, experimental) USA Premiere
Awake into a surreal world of inexplicable boundaries and doorways, and travel through its landscape of dreams.

Such As It Is by Walter Ungerer (USA, 12 minutes, experimental)
With a series of abstractions that end in revelation, Such As It Is investigates four different environments through their perceptual themes.

Let's Finish!!! by Cheol Mean Hwang (Korea, 100 minutes, fiction)
Let's Finish!!! follows the tragic journey of three desperate youths who make a pact on an Internet chat room to find one another and end their lives together. Quirky but emotionally engrossing.

Dolina
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Dolina by Zoltan Kamondi (Hungary, 122 minutes, fiction)
A man returns to the isolated, corrupt village where he grew up to collect the remains of his recently deceased father, but is forced to take part in the intrigue and scandal of the villagers' lives. Brazil-like.

SyrFilm Midnight Surprise: Maldeamores (Lovesickness)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The long awaited premiere of the film Maldeamores (Lovesickness), produced by Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro, starring Luis Guzmán and a bright cast of local stars from Puerto Rico.

Silvia Brito, who plays Flora, the elderly woman caught in a love triangle, will be in attendance at the screening. More surprises expected that night!

The film is a comic portrayal of love stories at all ages in the backyards of Puerto Rico: a child's first kiss, a man's obsession, the end of marriage and an elderly love affair. Passion defeats reason again and again in this film about the eternal masochistic search for love. Rated R.

Open Forum: Distributing Independent Films in the USA
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Special Forum: New Technologies in Animation
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Guest Artists from Pixar Animation Studios will discuss and screen media excerpts on this topic from their own work and perspectives as media makers.

Dylan Brown, Supervising Animator, Pixar Animation Studios
Dylan was the Supervising Animator for the Academy Award winning Ratatouille. He joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1995 to work on the image compression and color mapping for the Toy Story Animated Story Book and the Toy Story Activity Center CD-ROM. Dylan then moved into the animation department and worked as an animator on A Bug's Life and as a directing animator on Toy Story 2. Following Toy Story 2, Dylan continued as an animator on Monsters, Inc. before he became the supervising animator for Finding Nemo. He joined the Ratatouille production as a supervising animator in 2003 during which he also served briefly as an animator on The Incredibles. After completion of Ratatouille in 2007, Dylan directed the Walle Superbowl commercial which aired in February 2008. He is currently working on future Pixar projects. Dylan grew up in Davis, CA, and studied film and animation at San Francisco State University.

Cynthia Slavens, Post Production Supervisor, Pixar Animation Studios
Cynthia Slavens was born in Syracuse, NY and raised in Manlius. She attended Russell Sage College in Troy, NY. She worked in the film and animation business in Wilmington, NC, Dallas, TX, and Los Angeles, CA before coming to Pixar. In her role as Post Production Supervisor for Non-Theatrical, she watches over Pixar's films as they make their way into distribution outlets outside of the theatre -- DVD, Blu-ray, iTunes, TV. If you've seen a Pixar movie on an airplane, Cynthia probably had something to do with it.

Open Forum: Making Films in Central New York
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

With Ron Bonk, Dennis Brogan, John Craddock, Cleveland Hughes, Jim Loperfido, and Alan Wright

Open Forum: Gaming -- Creative Opportunities for Filmmakers
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

OCC Saxophone Quartet
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

An Evening of Chamber Music
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free (contributions accepted)
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Garnet Rogers
Folkus Project

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

Brilliant songwriting, remarkable musicianship and a powerful voice.

One of folk music's foremost performers, Garnet Rogers sings with a glorious baritone voice that goes straight to the heart. With his incredible range and thoughtful, dramatic phrasing, he is widely considered by fans and critics alike to be one of the finest singers anywhere. An optimist at heart, Rogers sings extraordinary songs about people and small, everyday victories. As memorable as his songs, his over-the-top humor and lightning-quick wit move his audiences from tears to laughter and back again. His music, like the man himself, is literate, passionate, highly sensitive and deeply purposeful. Leaning toward sharply etched story songs that deal with crucial moments in the lives of ordinary people, it is the language of the heart.

Senior Showcase
Syracuse University Drama Department

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

The Senior Showcase, which features 20 seniors who are majoring in acting or musical theater, is directed by Stephen Cross and David Lowenstein, both assistant professors in the department. The acting majors featured are Sara Bues, Eric Bilitch, Ida Clay, Lulu Fogarty, Alexander Harvey, Steven Hosking, Stephen James, Jason Mesches, Drew Moerlein, Amy Newhall, Brittany Anne Oman, Lauren Port, Megan Sass and Crystal Sha'nae. The musical theater majors are Kirstin Dahmer, Kara DeYoe, Ian Joseph, Chrissy Malon, Gordon Maniskas and Shannon Tyo.

In addition, seniors majoring in design/technical theater will exhibit their portfolios in the theater lobby.

For more information about the showcase, contact Kim Hale, assistant professor of dance, at kahale@syr.edu.

The Concert
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors/students
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Concert, written and directed by Marcia L. Hagan, is a riveting dramatic play, with gospel music, that looks at the personal and social dynamics of three competing churches while preparing for a Mass Concert. The play that tells the story of three Baptist churches, one from the inner city, one from the lower east side of the city, and one from the suburbs, collaborating to present a musical concert to support a music scholarship fund for a graduating senior from each of the churches. The scholarship recipients must commit to serving as a musician for their church for at least one year after college graduation. This drama reveals the life, times, and tribulations of the various choir members. The story unfolds during rehearsals which take place at each church, a beauty shop, a health center, the choir members' homes, and various other places throughout the community. These rehearsals eventually culminate into a dynamic Gospel concert finale.

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

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

The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious "Stage Door Slasher") assemble for a backer's audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy "angel." The house is replete with sliding panels, secret passageways and a German maid who is apparently four different people -- all of which figure diabolically in the comic mayhem which follows when the infamous Slasher makes his reappearance and strikes again -- and again. As the composer, lyricist, actors and director prepare their performance, and a blizzard cuts off any possible retreat, bodies start to drop in plain sight, knives spring out of nowhere, masked figures drag their victims behind swiveling bookcases, and accusing fingers point in all directions. However, and with no thanks to the bumbling police inspector who snowshoes in to investigate, the mystery is solved in the nick of time and the Slasher unmasked -- but not before the audience has been treated to a sidesplitting good time and a generous serving of author John Bishop's biting, satiric and refreshingly irreverent wit.

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Women and Wallace
Black Box Players
Joshua Finn, director

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

Playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman drew from personal experience with the suicide of his mother when he was 18 for this drama.

Bang Bang, You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bang Bang, You're Dead, which features actors from local high schools, was commissioned by the Ribbon of Promise Campaign to Prevent School Violence. The piece tackles the subject of bullying and gun violence among our school-aged youth. This is the third season presenting this all-too-timely piece.

Three Viewings
Simply New Theatre

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

Jeffrey Hatcher's new comic/dramatic piece is made up of three comic/dramatic monologues set in a Midwestern funeral parlor over a three-day weekend. simply new will put its own unique mark on this piece by using not one but three directors -- one for each monologue.

ACT I: Tell-Tale
Featuring SALT Award winning actor Bill Molesky, and directed by Brian Hensley.
This is the story of Emil, the mild-mannered undertaker whose unspoken passion for a local real-estate woman who comes to all his funerals leads him to commit crimes and plot a way to confess his true feelings before timeand bodiesrun out.

ACT II: The Thief of Tears
Featuring SALT Award winner Shannon Tompkins and directed by John Nara.
Mac, a beautiful Los Angeles drifter who makes her living stealing jewelry from corpses, tells her story. When her wealthy grandmother dies, leaving her nothing, Mac returns to her hometown and attempts to pry loose her inheritance, a diamond ring her grandmother promised Mac when she was a child. Her attempt leads Mac to find there are more obstacles to getting the ring off grandma's finger than she had imagined, and more revelations about her own past than she had bargained for.

ACT III: Thirteen Things About Ed Carpolotti
Featuring veteran actress Rosemary Palladino-Leone and directed by Baldwinsville Theater Guild's Garrett Heater
This is the story of Virginia, the widow of a wheeler-dealer contractor, who discovers that her husband has left her in debt to the banks, her family and the mob. As Virginia struggles to escape her creditors and understand how her husband could have left her in such pain and doubt, a mysterious list of "13 things" embarrassing to Ed is offered to her if she can come up with one million dollars in three days. Virginia doesn't have the money, but she does have hidden resources and is saved by an unseen benefactor. As the play ends, Virginia's benefactor is revealed, along with what the mysterious "13 things" are -- revelations that resurrect the love and trust thought lost forever.

Jeffrey Hatcher is the author of numerous plays. Local audiences may remember him from last June's simply new production of A Picasso which is currently a SALT nominee for best play of 2007, Best Actor (Bill Molesky), Best Actress (Shannon Tompkins) and Best Director (John Nara).

Reservations can be made up to one day in advance of each performance by emailing boxoffice@simplynewtheatre.com.

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The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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Sweeney Todd
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Based upon the original book The Legend of Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond, the musical relates the story of Todd (formerly Benjamin Barker) who returns home from Australia after spending 15 years imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Upon returning home, Todd learns of his wife's suicide after being raped by Judge Terpin, the man responsible for Todd's imprisonment. Todd vows revenge, leading to mass murder, booming business for Mrs. Lovett's pastry shop, and ultimately, tragedy. The 1979 original production, starring Angela Lansbury, won three Tonys and four Drama Desk Awards. Since then, revival productions have continued the pace, winning a host of awards and nominations. Stephen Sondheim's complex score, suffused with rich harmonies, has enticed opera companies to stage this "staggering theatre spectacle."

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Saturday, May 3, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

There will be a reception at the site from 5:00pm - 8:00pm.

Kewpie Karma/80
The Warehouse Gallery

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

What does a Kewpie doll have to offer the world? If anything has karma, why not a Kewpie doll?

Yoshiko Miki's work addresses issues of death and rebirth. The death of her mother three years ago caused Miki to search for answers as to why some people leave life at such a young age. She found that the only way to address this was to disregard the idea of life having an ending point and instead to view life as a continuation. Influenced by her Buddhist background, Miki wondered who her mother might have been re-born as: "A man? Or a woman?" and where she could be: "Here in America with me? Or back in Japan with my father and my little sister?"

In reincarnation, the karma of a person continues into the next life; no matter what form they are reborn. Miki depicts her mother's reincarnation through Kewpie dolls -- an iconic image of happiness and love, words that also describe her mother's approach to life. The subject of rebirth is reinforced by the infantile nature of the dolls and by their number. The 80 dolls signify the importance of the numbers 8 and 0 which represent endless life; when drawn out, there is no beginning or ending point for either number. Significantly, when the number 8 is rotated 90 degrees in either direction, it becomes a symbol for infinity. Kewpie Karma/80 deals with themes of death, rebirth and karma through an iconic medium.

Yoshiko Miki (1987) was born in Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan. At the age of 16 she moved to the United States and lived in Lancaster, PA and would remain there for a year before moving to Syracuse. She graduated from Manlius Pebble Hill School in DeWitt and currently is enrolled at the Pratt Institute at Munson-Williams-Proctor in Utica where she is studying fine arts with a concentration in sculpture.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student show.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

38th Annual Celebration of the Arts
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free (contributions accepted)
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Works of Kathleen Schneider, Teresa Vitale, and Dee Ann VonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works by artists Kathleen Schneider (watercolors), Teresa Vitale (painting) and Dee Ann VonHunke (jewelry)

36th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Show
Community Folk Art Center

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

Teen artists of African American, Native American, Hispanic American and Asian American heritage will display their work in the exhibition.

The Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

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Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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The Exodus of the Unmarketable Aesthetic
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works of Michael Benedetti.