Events for Monday, May 21, 2012    RSS

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Exploring the Digital Landscape: Works by Carl Hoffner
9:00 AM-4:00 PM The Ballerina Project Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
9:00 AM-5:00 PM The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
10:00 AM-6:00 PM For the Child in All of Us Imagine
10:00 AM-6:00 PM Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky Light Work Gallery
10:00 AM-6:00 PM Wounding the Black Male Light Work Gallery
10:00 AM-5:00 PM Mission Modern: The Paintings of Darryl Hughto Dalton's American Decorative Arts
11:00 AM-5:00 PM Garden Art in Glass & Clay Gallery 54
7:30 PM Tight Little Island (aka Whisky Galore) (1949) Syracuse Cinephile Society

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Request for Proposals
Deadline Extended: CMM now accepting online applications for the Wednesday Recital Series 2012-2013
SU Library acquires SSO recordings from Onondaga Historical Association
YMCA's Downtown Writer's Center announces the first annual CNY Book Awards
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The Westcott Area Cultural Coalition (WACC) is calling for proposals from artists to create a mural on the wall of 508 Westcott St. (formerly the Seven Rays Bookstore building). The details of the request for proposals are on the website with a deadline of June 5. To assist the artist in understanding the community's perspective of what the character is of the Westcott Neighborhood, WACC has collected community feedback by asking people to answer the question, "What does Westcott Street mean to you?" The responses to the question are posted on the website as well.

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CMM is now accepting applications for its 2012-2013 Wednesday Recital Series season at the Everson Museum. You may apply to perform at civicmorningmusicals.org/wednesday-recital-series. Follow the prompt at the top of the page. Whenever possible, please submit all recital applications online. All of our correspondence with applicants will be exclusively online, and you will receive an email receipt acknowledging your application. Applications without an active email address will not be accepted.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 11:59PM

Music programmed for your recital should be 35 to 45 minutes in length. Longer programs will be considered, for reasons such as presenting a complete cycle or work.

Special consideration will be given to programs containing music relating to the Everson's "The Other New York: 2012" exhibit, Sept. 22, 2012 - Jan. 6, 2013. This is a community-wide, multi-venue biennial exhibition that is the result of a major collaboration among 14 art organizations in Syracuse. This project aims to highlight the rich talent of artists across Upstate New York, with a special focus on Central New York and the surrounding counties. CMM intends to program music on its Wednesday Recital Series appropriate to this theme.

We particularly wish to encourage applications from highly talented and accomplished young people. Teachers are certainly aware of such students in their studios, and should encourage them to apply. A CD of recent work or an active URL of an online performance will be required of all new applcants.

If you have application questions, contact John Spradling, 315-254-7136.

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The Belfer Audio Archive of Syracuse University Library has accepted the donation of more than 700 78-rpm recordings from the Onondaga Historical Association (OHA). The recordings were formerly part of the collections of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. The OHA took ownership of them when the orchestra declared bankruptcy in 2011. The collection donated is comprised mainly of operatic excerpts and orchestral works.

Jenny Doctor, the recently appointed director of the Belfer, says of the gift, "Though not rare, the newly donated discs are in excellent condition and will undoubtedly enhance the Belfer Audio Archive's collection of nearly 400,000 78-rpm recordings. This acquisition is a welcome addition to our classical collections, representing music that has been significant to the conductors and players of the Syracuse Symphony and its community since the 1940s."

The Arthur and Diane Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive, founded in 1963 and named in 1982, is among the largest collections of sound recordings in the United States, holding over half a million items in a variety of formats, from the earliest experimental recordings on tinfoil to modern digital media. The Belfer's representation of classical music is substantive, but the archive has focused largely on popular vocal and instrumental music, including jazz, patriotic, novelty, folk, country, ethnic and experimental genres, as well as recordings of the spoken word. The late 19th and early 20th centuries are particularly well represented through a collection of more than 22,000 cylinders and extensive holdings of 78-rpm discs.

For more information, contact Doctor at 315-443-3477 or jrdoctor@syr.edu.

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Beginning this year, the YMCA's Downtown Writer's Center will host The CNY Book Awards, an annual series of prizes in celebration of the best books published by Central New York authors. The Awards will recognize books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and will be judged by prominent authors from around the nation; a "People's Choice" category will be decided by the audience at the awards ceremony and will include all books nominated for the genre awards.

The nomination for the 2012 CNY Book Awards is now open. A book may be nominated by either its author or its publisher. To be eligible, a book must have been published between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012, and its author must be a resident of Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Seneca, Tioga, or Tompkins County

Authors and publishers may download nomination forms after April 16th at the DWC's website, or may receive a copy immediately by email or mail from DWC director Phil Memmer.

The Awards will be announced at a reception in late Fall 2012. Prizes will include a cash honorarium for the winning authors. A short list of finalists in each category will also be named.

For more information, contact Philip Memmer, 315-474-6851 x328.

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