Thursday, March 29, 2007

Mute
ThINC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

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

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

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

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

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

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

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

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

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

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

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

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

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

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

Read a review!

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Film Series: Born into Brothels
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The 2005 Oscar winner for Best Documentary chronicles the travels of an American photographer to the red-light district of Calcutta, where she introduces photography to children living in poverty.

Film Series: Born into Brothels
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The 2005 Oscar winner for Best Documentary chronicles the travels of an American photographer to the red-light district of Calcutta, where she introduces photography to children living in poverty.

Historical and Contemporary Music Expressions: the Karen of Burma
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Featuring Heather MacLachlan

Price: Free.
Kilian Room, 500 Hall of Languages
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A talk by Heather MacLachlan (ethnomusicology, Cornell University) and folk arts demonstration by the Burmese People of Syracuse.

The program is sponsored by the New York Council for Humanities, New York Council on the Arts, and Department of Anthropology at Syracuse University.

For more information, contact Dr. Felicia McMahon, 315-443-2200.

Diana Abu-Jaber
LeMoyne College

Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Talk by the author of Crescent, the 2004 PEN center USA Award for Literary Fiction. For more information, phone 315-445-4390.

Classical Indian and Indo-Japanese Crossover Music
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Timothy M. Hoffman, shakuhachi; Mayookh Bhaumik, tabla

Price: Free
Maxwell Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The shakuhachi, played by Hoffman, is a thick, vertical bamboo flute of Japan with deep historical associations with Buddhist monks and the practice of meditation. An extremely subtle instrument, the shakuhachi can be difficult to play, but a good player can produce an incredibly wide spectrum of sound colors, ornaments and slides. The tabla, played by Bhaumik, is a set of two small hand drums of northern India. Like the shakuhachi, it can also produce a wide pallet of sounds that are combined into complex, cyclic patterns and improvisations, all of which are also "spoken" through a corresponding drum language.

This concert is jointly sponsored by The College of Visual and Performing Arts and the South Asia Center of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School.

Paid parking is available in Irving Garage.

A Cappella Afterhours
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
The Mandarins, Orange Appeal, Groovestand, Main Squeeze, and Oy Cappella

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

For more information, contact Abby Drumm, 315-269-8881.

Deadly Inheritance
Acme Mystery Company

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

Spring Musical

Price: $8
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Information: 316-453-1500 x4078.

Our Town
Black Box Players

Price: Free, but seating is limited -- reservations recommended
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

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

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

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

Read a review!

Friday, March 30, 2007

Mute
ThINC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

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

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

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

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

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

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

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

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

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

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Goodnight Bear
Point of Contact Gallery
Featuring Sarah Kipp, performance artist

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

Performance artist Sarah Kipp will present her piece Goodnight Bear in a one-night-only event. Goodnight Bear tells a tale about the overlapping lives, pushing and pulling into and out of one another to form a series of memories ... moments from times past.

A reception precedes the performance at 6:00 pm.

Something Not About Painting
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

An exhibition featuring artwork from Jennifer Carolin, Seunghee Chung, Brenda Edwards, Allison Fox, Frank McCauley, Robin Meyer, Elena Peteva, Pepa Santamaria, David Serotkin, and Arjan Zazueta.

Reception at 7:00 pm, with artists in attendance.

Lunch Hour Film Series
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Attack of the Bride Monster, directed by Vicky Boone, fiction (USA), 17 minutes
A Bride Monster is loose in the gay community; can Betty and Stell’'s relationship survive? When Betty falls under the Bride Monster’s bedazzling spell, Stella watches in horror as her longtime companion is transformed.

Before Dawn, directed by Balint Kenyeres, fiction (Hungary), 13 minutes
Before dawn, the wheat is quietly undulating on the hillside.
Before dawn, people will rise and other people will take away their hope.

Binta and the Great Idea, directed by Javier Fesser, fiction (Senegal/Spain), 30 minutes
Binta is a seven-year old girl who lives in a small village on the Casamance river in southern Senegal. She goes to school. Her cousin Soda, does not have the same good fortune and is not allowed to learn about the things of the world. Meanwhile, Binta’'s father, a humble fisherman, is concerned about the development of mankind and he is determined to carry out his great idea.

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

My Life in the Music Business
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Featuring Fred Wesley Jr., jazz trombonist

Price: Free
Hall of Languages, Room 107
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Best known for his work with now-departed "Godfather of Soul" James Brown, Wesley has built a career in funk and jazz. From 1968-75, he was music director, arranger, trombonist and primary composer for Brown's band, helping create a funky sound that can now be heard in much of todays popular music.

Visiting Composer Series Lecture
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Steven Stucky, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer

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

Stucky, this semester's Billy Joel Visiting Composer, is the Given Foundation Professor of Composition at Cornell University and is consulting composer for new music at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His Second Concerto for Orchestra won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005. His extensive variety of works ranges from large-scale orchestral compositions to a cappella choral works, and includes solo piano pieces, an eight-minute work for five percussionists, and chamber music for numerous combinations of instruments from piano quartet and string quartet to wind quintet, voice with piano and saxophone with piano.

The Billy Joel Visiting Composer Series was endowed using a portion of a gift from entertainer Billy Joel. VPA was one of seven East Coast institutions awarded gifts in fall 2005 as part of Joel's long-term commitment to music education and newly established music education initiative.

Mark Wood
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Come experience the Trans-Siberian Orchestra violinist's electric violin invention "The Viper" and the rock and roll of today.

The American Piano: Andrew Russo
LeMoyne College

Price: $12 regular; $7 seniors, free for students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

In his first CNY solo recital since being nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award, Le Moyne's artist-in-residence celebrates the release of his new solo album A Dirty Little Secret, a selection of short jazz-inspired American pieces, including works by Daniel Felsenfeld, Aaron Jay Kernis, Derek Bermel, Marc Mellits, William Bolcom, Scott Joplin, Amonte Jon Parsons and Morton Gould.

This special program will also include the world premiere of a new work by Marc Mellits, commissioned for and performed on the J. Howland Auchincloss piano.

Amber Rubarth, with Nicola
Redhouse

Price: $12
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Amber Rubarth returns to Redhouse with her unique brand of piano and acoustic guitar based throwback folkpop. Find out why she built a fanatic following when she played Redhouse for Daniel Pearl World Music Days in 2006. Billboard featured artist; Nicola opens the show.

Classics Series: Carmina Burana
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor
Featuring Syracuse University Oratorio Society

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

Debussy Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun
Revueltas Sensemaya
Orff Carmina Burana

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Fred Wesley Jr., jazz trombonist
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Funk 'n Waffles University
727 S. Crouse Ave. (Campus Plaza, behind Marshall , Syracuse

This visit marks legendary funk and jazz trombonist Fred Wesley Jr.'s Syracuse solo debut. Best known for his work with now-departed "Godfather of Soul" James Brown, Wesley has built a career in funk and jazz. From 1968-75, he was music director, arranger, trombonist and primary composer for Brown's band, helping create a funky sound that can now be heard in much of todays popular music.

Novelist Stephanie Dickinson
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Stephanie Dickinson is the author of the story collection Road of Five Horses, and the novel Half Girl, which won the Hackney Award for best unpublished novel of 2002 and was published in 2006 by Spuyten Duyvil. Along with Rob Cook, she publishes and edits Skidrow Penthouse. Her story "A Lynching in Stereoscope" appeared in Best American 2005 Nonrequired Reading. She is a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts fiction fellow.

Fiddler on the Roof
Christian Brothers Academy

Price: $7
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-446-5960.

Never Too Late
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

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

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

All prices include dessert and a hot beverage at intermission.

Spring Musical

Price: $8
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Information: 316-453-1500 x4078.

Our Town
Black Box Players

Price: Free, but seating is limited -- reservations recommended
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Mute
ThINC

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

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

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

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

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

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

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

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

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

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

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

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

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

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

Performances of traditional songs and dances with visual arts demonstrations by the DiDinga People of St. Vincent's Church, the Ahiska Turkish Community, and the Burmese People of Syracuse.

Program sponsored by the New York Council on the Arts and the Department of Anthropology at Syracuse University.

For more information, contact Dr. Felicia McMahon, 315-443-2200.

Irish Night
CNY Arts

Price: $10 in advance; $15 at the door
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An evening of Irish music and dance features Greenwich Meantime, Causeway Giants, Tipp Hillbillies, Harrington School of Irish Step Dance, and Montague School of Irish Dance. 10% of proceeds to benefit Project Children.

For more information or tickets contact the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155 or Cortland Celtic Festival at 607-753-3021 ext. 21 or 26.

Bandura - The Soul of Ukraine
Featuring Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus

Price: $20 regular, $15 students/seniors
Fowler High School
227 Magnolia St., Syracuse

All-male Ukrainian chorus.

Information: 315-471-4074.

The American Piano: Bruce Brubaker
LeMoyne College

Price: $12 regular; $7 seniors, free for students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Brubaker is as much American philosopher as American musician - equal parts Garrison Keillor and John Cage. A native of Iowa, his feeling for America is strong. Hear him narrate from the keyboard in a program of Phillip Glass's "Mad Rush," Alvin Curran's "Hope Street Tunnel Blues" and the "Time Curve Preludes" of William Duckworth. Don't miss this visionary American pianist's CNY debut!

Classics Series: Carmina Burana
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor
Featuring Syracuse University Oratorio Society

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

Debussy Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun
Revueltas Sensemaya
Orff Carmina Burana

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Visiting Composer Series Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Steven Stucky, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer

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

Setnor faculty and students will give a performance of Stucky's music, featuring a mix of chamber and choral works. Free parking is available in Irving Garage.

Stucky, this semester's Billy Joel Visiting Composer, is the Given Foundation Professor of Composition at Cornell University and is consulting composer for new music at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His Second Concerto for Orchestra won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005. His extensive variety of works ranges from large-scale orchestral compositions to a cappella choral works, and includes solo piano pieces, an eight-minute work for five percussionists, and chamber music for numerous combinations of instruments from piano quartet and string quartet to wind quintet, voice with piano and saxophone with piano.

The Billy Joel Visiting Composer Series was endowed using a portion of a gift from entertainer Billy Joel. VPA was one of seven East Coast institutions awarded gifts in fall 2005 as part of Joel's long-term commitment to music education and newly established music education initiative.

Poetry Reading by Stone Canoe Poets: Michael Burkard, Wendy Gonyea and Sarah Harwell
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Michael Burkard is an acclaimed poet and professor at Syracuse University with several books in print and the poetry editor of Stone Canoe. Wendy Gonyea is a journalist, poet and fiction writer who edits the Onondaga Nation News. Sara Harwell is a graduate of the SU Masters of Fine Arts program and a teacher/administrator at SU. Her works are included in the new volume Three New Poets from Sheep Meadow Press.

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

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

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the well-known tale.

Fiddler on the Roof
Christian Brothers Academy

Price: $7
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-446-5960.

Never Too Late
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

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

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

All prices include dessert and a hot beverage at intermission.

Spring Musical

Price: $8
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Information: 316-453-1500 x4078.

Our Town
Black Box Players

Price: Free, but seating is limited -- reservations recommended
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Sunday, April 1, 2007

Mute
ThINC

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

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

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

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

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

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Designing for the World of Film and Stage
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Andrew Benepe

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

For the past 25 years, Andrew Benepe has been designing and fabricating puppets, props, costume elements and special effects for films, television and stage. He is currently sculpting Beaux Arts figures for the upcoming film Spiderman III, and recently finished building the Pumbaa puppet for the Amsterdam production of the Lion King (one of more than 15 Pumbaas that he has made since the show first opened on Broadway). After 15 years in a studio in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn, Benepe recently moved to Syracuse with his family and works both here and in New York City. Benepe will discuss his current work and illustrate some of his past creations.

The Flute Choir
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

Music for multiple flutes.

The American Piano: Anthony Molinaro
LeMoyne College

Price: $12 regular; $7 seniors, free for students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Naumburg International Piano Competition winner and CNY favorite, Anthony Molinaro moves between the worlds of jazz and classical music with the fluency of Keith Jarrett and Brad Mehldau. Come and hear Anthony improvise on his own original works as well as standard tunes by icons like Gershwin and Ellington.

Our Town
Black Box Players

Price: Free, but seating is limited -- reservations recommended
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

Spring Musical

Price: $8
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Information: 316-453-1500 x4078.

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

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

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

Read a review!

Never Too Late
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

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

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

All prices include dessert and a hot beverage at intermission.

Monday, April 2, 2007

Mute
ThINC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

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

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

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

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

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

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

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

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

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Mute
ThINC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

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

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

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

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Music Film Series: The Fearless Freaks
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Equal parts punk and psychedelia, The Flaming Lips emerged from Oklahoma City as one of the most bracing bands of the late 1980s.

Music Film Series: The Fearless Freaks
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Equal parts punk and psychedelia, The Flaming Lips emerged from Oklahoma City as one of the most bracing bands of the late 1980s.

Wonderful Town
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $49.50; $39.50; $27.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Wonderful Town is the delightful tale of two sisters, Ruth and Eileen. Theyre fresh off the bus from Ohio, ready to follow their dreams, fall in love and take New York by storm. With a dazzling score by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green (featuring such songs as Ohio and A Little Bit in Love) and a glorious book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, the show is a fast and funny big-city adventure&and a glorious celebration of a Wonderful Town.

Read a review!

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Mute
ThINC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

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

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

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

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Anita Berrizbeitia
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Gallery Talk: Debora Ryan
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Curator Debora Ryan will lead visitors on a tour of the museum's spring exhibitions, "The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic," and "Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties."

Civic Morning Musicals
Maurice Black, tenor; William Black, baritone; John Spradling, piano

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

Schumann Dichterliebe and Liederkreis

Performance
Salt City Jazz Collective

Syracuse Suds Factory
320 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Wonderful Town
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $49.50; $39.50; $27.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Wonderful Town is the delightful tale of two sisters, Ruth and Eileen. Theyre fresh off the bus from Ohio, ready to follow their dreams, fall in love and take New York by storm. With a dazzling score by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green (featuring such songs as Ohio and A Little Bit in Love) and a glorious book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, the show is a fast and funny big-city adventure&and a glorious celebration of a Wonderful Town.

Read a review!

Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

Price: $26, $24, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

Read a Review!

Pugilist Specialist
Redhouse
The Riot Group

Price: $30 regular; $25 senior; $20 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This is the story of four highly trained U.S. soldiers who are assigned the task of eliminating a troublesome Middle Eastern leader. This psychological thriller unfolds in a series of field recordings, detailing the planning, execution, and mishandling of a modern political assassination.

Since 1997, the Riot Group has brought uncompromised intensity to the world of contemporary theater. Tightly-knit and fiercely committed, the ensemble have produced a string of original productions which combine absurd comedy and powerful political satire with a unique, confrontational acting style.

In the past seven years, that Riot Group has produced five original plays and have toured to festivals and theaters throughout the US and Europe, winning recognition for outstanding new writing and ensemble acting.

Read a review!

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Mute
ThINC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

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

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

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

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

A reception will be held from 5:00pm - 8:00pm.

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art Across Generations
Delavan Art Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Third String Contemporary Music Ensemble

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

The program includes two compositions by Steven Stucky: Ad Parnassum for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano; and Partita-Pastorale for clarinet, string quartet and piano. The program also includes Fantasia Carioca, a work for solo guitar by Sérgio Assad, and the world premiere of Appearances and Disappearances by Thomas Healy, a junior in the Setnor School of Music. O-prah Workshop, SU's improvisation group, will also perform.

Third String will be conducted by graduate student James Welsch. O-prah Workshop will be conducted by faculty member Andrew Waggoner, and Kevin Ames. Third String supervising director is faculty member and composer-in-residence Daniel S. Godfrey.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact Godfrey at 315-443-5895 or dsgodfre@syr.edu.

The Merry Widow Preview
Syracuse Opera

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

Artistic Director Richard McKee will discuss the opera and introduce members of the cast who will perform highlights from this lively and popular opera.

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

Parking will be available at the Irving Garage. Those attending should alert the guard they are there to attend the opera preview and parking will be free. For more information on the preview call the Syracuse Opera administrative offices at 315-475-5915.

Deadly Inheritance
Acme Mystery Company

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

Wonderful Town
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $49.50; $39.50; $27.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Wonderful Town is the delightful tale of two sisters, Ruth and Eileen. Theyre fresh off the bus from Ohio, ready to follow their dreams, fall in love and take New York by storm. With a dazzling score by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green (featuring such songs as Ohio and A Little Bit in Love) and a glorious book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, the show is a fast and funny big-city adventure&and a glorious celebration of a Wonderful Town.

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Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

Price: $28, $26, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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Our Town
Black Box Players

Price: Free, but seating is limited -- reservations recommended
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

BJ: A Musical Romp

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

This original musical written by Syracuse University drama major student Peter Dagger, tells the story of BJ, a formerly homeschooled boy and his first night at college. A variety of musical styles are present including jazz, blues, patter, rap and contemporary musical theater.

Pugilist Specialist
Redhouse
The Riot Group

Price: $30 regular; $25 senior; $20 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This is the story of four highly trained U.S. soldiers who are assigned the task of eliminating a troublesome Middle Eastern leader. This psychological thriller unfolds in a series of field recordings, detailing the planning, execution, and mishandling of a modern political assassination.

Since 1997, the Riot Group has brought uncompromised intensity to the world of contemporary theater. Tightly-knit and fiercely committed, the ensemble have produced a string of original productions which combine absurd comedy and powerful political satire with a unique, confrontational acting style.

In the past seven years, that Riot Group has produced five original plays and have toured to festivals and theaters throughout the US and Europe, winning recognition for outstanding new writing and ensemble acting.

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