Events for Friday, May 9, 2008

3:00 PM OCC Guitar and String Ensembles Onondaga Community College
6:30 PM The Wizard of Oz Fowler High School
7:00 PM **CANCELLED** Cruizin' thru the '50s, 60s, and 70s
8:00 PM The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 Appleseed Productions (Read a review!)
8:00 PM Bang Bang, You're Dead Rarely Done Productions
8:00 PM Lovesong Redhouse
8:00 PM Three Viewings Simply New Theatre (Read a review!)
8:00 PM The Fantasticks Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)
8:00 PM Classics Series: Latin Delights/Arabian Nights Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, featuring Stephen Hough, piano
8:00 PM Sweeney Todd Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)
8:15 PM What the Butler Saw Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

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In the News

Call for Writing Submissions
Announcing The Senator John A. DeFrancisco Young Artist Program
Call for Artists - Visual Arts Showcase #64
CMM Seeks Performers for 2008-09 Season

For the next TH3 event, the Downtown Writer's Center is seeking poems, stories, and non-fiction works related to the theme of color, in celebration of their current gallery exhibit, Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti's The Materials of Color. They invite you to see the exhibit at the Downtown YMCA, and submit a piece of writing in response to Facchinettis vibrant colorscapes.

Guidelines:
1. No more than 1 page for any genre of writing. Prose submissions may be single-spaced.
2. Please use 12 point, Times New Roman font.
3. Because this is a public space and is frequented by middle school students during the afternoons, material should be at worst rated PG-13. This is not the best venue for your erotic poem about the color green.
4. Please e-mail your submission, in the body of your email message or as a Word (.doc) file attachment, to phil@ymcaarts.org.
5. Deadline: Friday, May 9, at noon.
6. Authors whose work is selected for the exhibit will be notified by Tues., May 13. If your writing is selected, you will be invited to read your piece of work at the TH3 reception on Thurs., May 15, from 5:00-7:30 p.m.
7. It is suggested that you view the exhibit before submitting a poem or story. Works which have the closest relation to the exhibit will have an advantage over works that more generally relate to the theme.

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The Cultural Resources Council, a regional arts council, is pleased to be administering The Senator John A. DeFrancisco Young Artist Program. The Young Artist Program is dedicated to advancing the professional goals of aspiring talented young people by providing limited financial assistance.

The program is ongoing with the first round application deadline on May 22. Eligible applicants are in Kindergarten through 12th grades who demonstrate a definite talent in the area of arts and culture. There are four areas through which aspiring artists and their parents may apply: Special Achievement Honorarium, Portfolio Development, Advanced/Ongoing Study, and Summer Intensives.

Applications for The Senator John A. DeFrancisco Young Artist Program are available at every school in Onondaga County, at many community centers, at the Cultural Resources Council's office in the John H. Mulroy Civic Center at 411 Montgomery Street in Syracuse or online at www.cspot.org/download.html.

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Open call for artists for an exhibit at the Link Gallery, Syracuse University Warehouse, June 4-July 15.

Jurors are Frank Olive, Exhibition Designer and Preparator, The Warehouse Gallery; and Khanh Le, MFA Candidate, Syracuse University.

All submissions are due the week of May 12th. For more information please call the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155. The prospectus andentry form can be downloaded at www.cspot.org/Download.html.

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The Program Committee of Civic Morning Musicals is pleased to begin receiving applications for its 118th season of Wednesday Lunch Hour Series Concerts at the Everson Museum. The quality of performance and the demand for recital spots continues to rise due to various factors: each date is professionally recorded, barring unforeseen circumstances; awareness of our CMM Series on the part of the musical public is rising; the continuing presence of our excellent Steinway pianos.

Applications can be found at www.civicmorningmusicals.org. All of our correspondence will be online. Applications indicating no email address will be turned down.

Deadline for receipt of applications is May 19. No deadline extensions will be granted.

Lunch Hour recitals should be 35 to 45 minutes in length. Longer programs will be considered, for reasons such as presenting a complete cycle or work. Complete details will be sent to performers after the season calendar is completed.

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. It must be understood that a CD of recent work will be required of new applicants, and that they will undergo a screening process on the part of the CMM Program Committee.

For more information, contact johnspradling@verizon.net.

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About SyracuseArts.net

This site is a collection of information about the wealth of performances, exhibits and visual and performing arts organizations in Syracuse and Onondaga County.

The calendar page gives you a month-by-month display of events, while the directory has a listing of area arts groups. On the search page, you can find events and ensembles by date, by performer, by location - whatever you're looking for on the site, our search page should find for you.

We hope this will become an invaluable resource, and to help us reach that goal, let us know if we've missed anything! Please contact us at web@syracusearts.net with your comments and suggestions, or to have your events listed on our calendar.