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Events for Thursday, December 1, 2016

8:00 AM-2:00 AM Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris LeMoyne College

8:00 AM-4:30 PM From My Front Door: Photographs by Willson Cummer SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

9:00 AM-4:00 PM We Can Be Heroes: Visualizing the Life & Music of David Bowie Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Holiday Show and Sale Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Annual "Off the Wall" Holiday Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Two Sides of James Ransome: Known and Unknown Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery Erie Canal Museum

10:00 AM-6:00 PM The Trouble with Flesh: New Work by MFA Candidates Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Holiday Group Show 2016 Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-6:00 PM 62nd Annual Art Mart Syracuse Allied Arts

11:00 AM-8:00 PM It's A Wrap! West African Textiles Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM 21 Etchings and Poems Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Edward Koren: The Capricious Line Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-8:00 PM From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Home Sweet Home Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Tide and Current Taxi Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM within walls: New Work by Karin Waisman Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM In God's House: The Photographs of Robert Knight ArtRage Gallery

4:00 PM Visualizing Mexican Migration: Historical Context & Contemporary Flows La Casita Cultural Center, featuring Gilberto Cárdenas

5:00 PM-11:00 PM Marie Lorenz: Tide & Current Taxi Urban Video Project

6:45 PM Nick Saint: Private Elf Acme Mystery Company

7:00 PM Disney's Beauty and the Beast Redhouse (Read a review!)

7:00 PM Mary Poppins Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Dancers Turn Out Better LeMoyne College

Events for Friday, December 2, 2016

8:00 AM-8:00 PM Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris LeMoyne College

8:00 AM-4:30 PM From My Front Door: Photographs by Willson Cummer SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

9:00 AM-4:00 PM We Can Be Heroes: Visualizing the Life & Music of David Bowie Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Holiday Show and Sale Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Annual "Off the Wall" Holiday Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Two Sides of James Ransome: Known and Unknown Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery Erie Canal Museum

10:00 AM-6:00 PM The Trouble with Flesh: New Work by MFA Candidates Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Holiday Group Show 2016 Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-6:00 PM 62nd Annual Art Mart Syracuse Allied Arts

11:00 AM-4:30 PM It's A Wrap! West African Textiles Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Edward Koren: The Capricious Line Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM 21 Etchings and Poems Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM 30th Annual Festival of Trees Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Home Sweet Home Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Tide and Current Taxi Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM within walls: New Work by Karin Waisman Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM In God's House: The Photographs of Robert Knight ArtRage Gallery

5:00 PM Gallery Talk: Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa Light Work Gallery

5:00 PM-11:00 PM Marie Lorenz: Tide & Current Taxi Urban Video Project

7:30 PM Amahl and The Night Visitors Open Hand Theater

7:30 PM Freud's Last Session Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

8:00 PM It's a Wonderful Life Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Cliff Eberhardt, with special guest Louise Mosrie Folkus Project

8:00 PM Dancers Turn Out Better LeMoyne College

8:00 PM A Christmas Survival Guide Rarely Done Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Disney's Beauty and the Beast Redhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM 25th Anniversary "Silver Chords" Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus

8:00 PM Mary Poppins Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

Events for Saturday, December 3, 2016

9:00 AM-8:00 PM Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris LeMoyne College

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Annual "Off the Wall" Holiday Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-2:00 PM Holiday Show and Sale Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery Erie Canal Museum

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Home Sweet Home Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Tide and Current Taxi Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 30th Annual Festival of Trees Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 46th Annual Plowshares Craftsfair

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Two Sides of James Ransome: Known and Unknown Community Folk Art Center

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Holiday Group Show 2016 Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-6:00 PM 62nd Annual Art Mart Syracuse Allied Arts

11:00 AM-4:30 PM It's A Wrap! West African Textiles Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM 21 Etchings and Poems Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Edward Koren: The Capricious Line Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM In God's House: The Photographs of Robert Knight ArtRage Gallery

12:00 PM-5:00 PM within walls: New Work by Karin Waisman Point of Contact Gallery

12:30 PM Beauty and the Beast Magic Circle Children's Theatre

1:00 PM The Nutcracker Syracuse City Ballet

2:00 PM Dancers Turn Out Better LeMoyne College

2:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Disney's Beauty and the Beast Redhouse (Read a review!)

2:00 PM 25th Anniversary "Silver Chords" Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus

3:00 PM Mary Poppins Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

5:00 PM-11:00 PM Marie Lorenz: Tide & Current Taxi Urban Video Project

6:00 PM The Nutcracker Syracuse City Ballet

7:00 PM Selections from Into the Woods LeMoyne College

7:30 PM Winter Concert Liverpool Community Chorus

7:30 PM Amahl and The Night Visitors Open Hand Theater

7:30 PM Freud's Last Session Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

8:00 PM-10:00 PM Parties in the Plaza: Barroom Philosophers CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

8:00 PM It's a Wonderful Life Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Dancers Turn Out Better LeMoyne College

8:00 PM A Christmas Survival Guide Rarely Done Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Disney's Beauty and the Beast Redhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Mary Poppins Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

Events for Sunday, December 4, 2016

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery Erie Canal Museum

10:00 AM-6:00 PM The Trouble with Flesh: New Work by MFA Candidates Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Holiday Group Show 2016 Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-5:00 PM 46th Annual Plowshares Craftsfair

11:00 AM-4:30 PM It's A Wrap! West African Textiles Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Edward Koren: The Capricious Line Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM 21 Etchings and Poems Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Home Sweet Home Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Tide and Current Taxi Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM 30th Annual Festival of Trees Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-2:00 AM Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris LeMoyne College

1:00 PM-5:00 PM Annual "Off the Wall" Holiday Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

2:00 PM It's a Wonderful Life Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

2:00 PM The Nutcracker Syracuse City Ballet

2:00 PM Mary Poppins Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

2:30 PM Messiah Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria), featuring Bridget Moriarty, soprano; Carolyn Weber, mezzo-soprano; Robert Allen, tenor; David Neal, baritone

4:00 PM Amahl and The Night Visitors Open Hand Theater

4:00 PM Reflections of the Season Syracuse Children's Chorus

7:00 PM Mary Poppins Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

7:30 PM Holidays at Hendricks Hendricks Chapel

7:30 PM Winter Concert Liverpool Community Chorus

Events for Monday, December 5, 2016

8:00 AM-2:00 AM Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris LeMoyne College

8:00 AM-4:30 PM From My Front Door: Photographs by Willson Cummer SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Annual "Off the Wall" Holiday Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery Erie Canal Museum

10:00 AM-6:00 PM The Trouble with Flesh: New Work by MFA Candidates Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM 62nd Annual Art Mart Syracuse Allied Arts

7:00 PM Goldenberg Series: The New Leaf Ensemble Temple Society of Concord

7:30 PM Holiday Pops LeMoyne College

7:30 PM Three Godfathers (1948) Syracuse Cinephile Society

Events for Tuesday, December 6, 2016

8:00 AM-2:00 AM Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris LeMoyne College

8:00 AM-4:30 PM From My Front Door: Photographs by Willson Cummer SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Holiday Show and Sale Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Annual "Off the Wall" Holiday Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery Erie Canal Museum

10:00 AM-6:00 PM The Trouble with Flesh: New Work by MFA Candidates Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM 62nd Annual Art Mart Syracuse Allied Arts

11:00 AM-4:30 PM It's A Wrap! West African Textiles Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM 21 Etchings and Poems Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Edward Koren: The Capricious Line Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM within walls: New Work by Karin Waisman Point of Contact Gallery

7:30 PM Holiday Pops LeMoyne College

Events for Wednesday, December 7, 2016

8:00 AM-2:00 AM Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris LeMoyne College

8:00 AM-4:30 PM From My Front Door: Photographs by Willson Cummer SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

9:00 AM-7:00 PM Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Holiday Show and Sale Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Annual "Off the Wall" Holiday Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery Erie Canal Museum

10:00 AM-6:00 PM The Trouble with Flesh: New Work by MFA Candidates Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM 62nd Annual Art Mart Syracuse Allied Arts

11:00 AM-4:30 PM It's A Wrap! West African Textiles Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Edward Koren: The Capricious Line Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM 21 Etchings and Poems Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-2:00 PM Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

12:00 PM-5:00 PM From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM 30th Annual Festival of Trees Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Tide and Current Taxi Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Home Sweet Home Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM within walls: New Work by Karin Waisman Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM In God's House: The Photographs of Robert Knight ArtRage Gallery

2:00 PM Mary Poppins Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

5:30 PM Peter Carey Raymond Carver Reading Series

7:00 PM Disney's Beauty and the Beast Redhouse (Read a review!)

7:00 PM Mary Poppins Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

Events for Thursday, December 8, 2016

8:00 AM-2:00 AM Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris LeMoyne College

8:00 AM-4:30 PM From My Front Door: Photographs by Willson Cummer SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Holiday Show and Sale Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Annual "Off the Wall" Holiday Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery Erie Canal Museum

10:00 AM-6:00 PM The Trouble with Flesh: New Work by MFA Candidates Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930 Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Holiday Group Show 2016 Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-6:00 PM 62nd Annual Art Mart Syracuse Allied Arts

11:00 AM-8:00 PM It's A Wrap! West African Textiles Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM 21 Etchings and Poems Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Edward Koren: The Capricious Line Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-8:00 PM From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM 30th Annual Festival of Trees Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Home Sweet Home Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Tide and Current Taxi Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM within walls: New Work by Karin Waisman Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM In God's House: The Photographs of Robert Knight ArtRage Gallery

5:00 PM-11:00 PM Marie Lorenz: Tide & Current Taxi Urban Video Project

6:45 PM Nick Saint: Private Elf Acme Mystery Company

7:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Disney's Beauty and the Beast Redhouse (Read a review!)

7:00 PM Mary Poppins Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

7:30 PM Count Basie and Thad Jones for Christmas LeMoyne College

7:30 PM Solstice at the Cathedral

8:00 PM It's a Wonderful Life Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM A Christmas Survival Guide Rarely Done Productions (Read a review!)

Next week  >>>

Thursday, December 1, 2016


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, December 1



Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This installation of sculptural drawings by artist Kenny Harris illustrates the universal nature of human emotion.


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8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 1



From My Front Door: Photographs by Willson Cummer
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 1



We Can Be Heroes: Visualizing the Life & Music of David Bowie
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by more than 30 artists from artists across CNY and beyond celebrating the influence of David Bowie by visualizing his music and legacy as a pop culture icon.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 1



Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Curated by University Archivist Meg Mason, the exhibition explores the dramatic impact of the GI Bill and the subsequent influx of veterans on the Syracuse University campus following World War II (1945-1950). From the University Archives, the materials on view document this critical period in the University's history and the associated changes to the campus landscape, social and cultural life, and academic programs.

Materials on view include:
• photographs of temporary classrooms and housing for veterans, including old barracks and trailers, which filled the campus and surrounding areas;
• cartoons of veteran student life on campus;
• aerial shots of the main and south campuses showing changes in the landscape;
• personal items from veterans who attended Syracuse University, including a cheerleading megaphone, a postcard about arriving at Syracuse, and photographs of the inside of one of the trailers used as married student housing;
• Daily Orange articles about the impact of veterans on campus.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, December 1



Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Handmade works of Alison Fisher — handbags, jewelry, scarves, mittens, and stylized landscape paintings.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 1



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

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Annual show and sale of members' work. Artwork purchased can be taken at the time of sale.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 1



Two Sides of James Ransome: Known and Unknown
Community Folk Art Center

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

James Ransome is a children's book illustrator as well as the recipient of several awards, including the Coretta Scott King award and the NAACP award. His southern background has left him fascinated by the struggles and victories of African Americans and those events are the primary focus of many of his books which often center around retelling African American folktales or memorializing African American sport and historical legends.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 1



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $7 adults, $5 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Dozens of imaginative creations by families, individuals, and professional bakers using a variety of edibles adorn the Erie Canal Museum's changing exhibit space during this holiday gallery. Works are displayed in 1800s-looking storefronts and feature numerous themes including the historic Erie Canal.



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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 1



The Trouble with Flesh: New Work by MFA Candidates
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to announce "The Trouble with Flesh," juried and curated by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, featuring new work by MFA candidates from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at SU.

Exhibiting students include: Courtney Asztalos, Adrianna Bianchi (Best of Show), Shouyu Stephen Chen, Evan Deuitch, Antone Dolezal, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, Michael Hicks, Todd Irwin Francis Lauther, Jacob Riddle, Fei Taishi, D'Angelo Lovell Williams (Honorable Mention), Nydia Blas Williams, and Luxin Zhang.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 1



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 1



Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa's "One Wall a Web" is an exhibition that gathers together work from two discrete photographic series that he made in the United States: "Our Present Invention" (2012–2014) and "All My Gone Life" (2014–2016). Both the series and the exhibition draw their titles from the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser.

"One Wall a Web" not only explores the mutability of archival images, but the ongoing presence of history in the present day. According to Wolukau-Wanambwa, the exhibition attempts to address "the normalcy of fear, separateness and violence in a moment suffused by them, but also in a culture riven by the habitually limited prescriptions of images." The exhibition comprises two distinct strands of photographs: the first, a series of appropriated archival 4 × 5 inch negatives; the second, a series of original photographs.

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer, writer, and editor of The Great Leap Sideways. He has contributed essays to catalogues and monographs by Vanessa Winship, George Georgiou, and Paul Graham, written for Aperture magazine, and is a faculty member in the photography department at Purchase College, SUNY. Wolukau-Wanambwa participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in May 2015.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 1



Holiday Group Show 2016
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally.

The exhibition features up-cycled jewelry and ornaments by Betsy Menson Sio, ceramics by Jen Gandee, Errol Willett, and Ed Feldman, paintings by Lucie Wellner and Phil Parsons, and earrings by Lily Tsay.


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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 1



62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

499 S. Warren St. (at the corner of E. Onondaga St.)
Syracuse

Unique, original art handcrafted by more than 45 local artists, featuring paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and other one-of-a-kind gifts.

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

For more information, visit www.artmart-syracuse.com or phone 315-317-8599.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, December 1



It's A Wrap! West African Textiles
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"It's A Wrap! West African Textiles" is an exhibition featuring over 40 examples of textiles and their accompanying tools. Drawn from geographically proximate locales in West Africa, including Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon, the textiles on display exemplify woven, stamped, appliqued, and resist-dyed techniques. Organized by Professor Michelle Gilbert, Department of Fine Arts, Trinity College, CT, and featuring objects on loan from the collections of Michelle Gilbert, and the Amyas Naegele and Eve Glasberg Collection, NY, this exhibition is sponsored in part by the Maxwell African Scholars Union, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University.

In all cultures clothing does more than simply cover the body. It communicates subtle visual messages about the owner. What and how it is worn, can be interpreted as a statement of flamboyant ostentation or modest conservatism. It may signal the prominence of a wealthy and powerful king, the presence of a deity, or the existence of a mad man. The textile culture in West African is very old, weaving is documented at Igbo Ukwu, Nigeria in the 9th-10th century and by the 11th century weaving flourished in Mali. Used in a variety of ways, African textiles can be presented as gifts to the living and the dead; used in a bride's dowry; displayed at weddings and funerals; used as blankets for protection from the cold and mosquitoes; spread on the ground for a chief to walk over or placed in layers to cover his palanquin or funeral bed. Textiles are worn to flatter or flirt, to display power or express silent insults, or to show common group identity. The artists' aesthetic sensibility is revealed in the cloth's intricate patterns, textures and technical flair.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, December 1



Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection" investigates how artists from the late 19th century until today have been captivated by the potential of landscape images and its ability to transport our imagination whether the locale be exotic or not. Curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, this display brings together historic albumen prints, travel albums, and contemporary black and white and color images from a variety of photographers working in the photographic medium over the past 120 years.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, December 1



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"21 Etchings and Poems," a landmark publication that had a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, will be presented in its entirety in the Print Study Room. Curated by Museum Studies graduate student Courtney Spencer Eppel, this exhibition presents 21 paired artists and authors to create unique works of art. The partnerships for this project included well-known artists and poets Peter Grippe and Dylan Thomas, Willem de Kooning and Harold Rosenberg, Letterio Calapai and William Carlos Williams, and Franz Kine and Frank O'Hara, among others.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, December 1



Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Edward Koren: The Capricious Line" celebrates the five-decade career of renowned cartoonist and long-standing contributor to The New Yorker, Edward Koren.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 1



From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 1



A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 1



Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For centuries, artists and craftsmen alike have found inspiration in their everyday surroundings, drawing upon their home life as a subject, theme, and creative force. This exhibition features an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that address the theme of life in the home over the past 150 years. Including paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, video, ceramics, design, and decorative arts objects, Home Sweet Home presents a multi-faceted view of the home, its spaces, furnishings, and inhabitants. From depictions of the genteel interiors of Gilded Age America to images of mass-produced products of the Post-War era, the exhibition presents works by more than 30 artists and designers, including major historical figures and up-and-coming contemporary artists. Key pieces by Andy Warhol, Miriam Shapiro, Milton Avery, Jeff Koons, and Claes Oldenburg will be shown alongside examples of functional handcrafted and production pottery and furniture, still life paintings, tromp l'oeil sculptures, documentary photographs, and interior genre scenes.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 1



Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Angela Fraleigh, based in New York City and Allentown, co-opts the techniques, media, and styles of the European Old Masters to create monumental paintings of female figures that explore social constructs of gender, power, and identity. Combining abstraction and realism, her visually seductive and complicated paintings reflect on art history, literature, and popular culture. For the Everson, Fraleigh presents new paintings inspired by works in the Everson's collection, women of the Arts and Crafts movement and important female figures in the history of Central New York.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 1



Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The culmination of Marie Lorenz's journey along the Erie Canal and the Hudson River in the summer of 2016, this multi-media exhibition brings together new works along with research, documentation and materials from the voyage.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 1



within walls: New Work by Karin Waisman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"within walls" reflects upon the natural processes of growth and decay. Each piece, made out of many cast or modeled fragments, is the outcome of the process of making it. The wall, no longer flat, becomes the concrete support of the work. A mural like quality of the pieces transforms the wall into a tactile and intricate sensuous surface. Ornament and wall become a metaphor for a time caught between permanence and evanescence.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, December 1



In God's House: The Photographs of Robert Knight
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"In God's House" examines religious diversity as a reflection of the contemporary immigration crisis
and demographic shifts facing Europe. Knight's photographs of religious services juxtapose historic Christian churches with contemporary mosques in cities across Europe, revealing both similarities and differences between faiths. The resulting images allow us to consider not only our contemporary relationship to religion but also our relationship to those different than ourselves.


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5:00 PM - 11:00 PM, December 1



Marie Lorenz: Tide & Current Taxi
Urban Video Project

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

Artist Marie Lorenz presents new video work as part of her ongoing project, Tide and Current Taxi, which she started in 2005. Lorenz explores New York Harbor and beyond, taking participants in a rowboat built from salvaged materials to disused coastlines and inaccessible islands, and experiencing the urban environment from the rare perspective of the water. Along the way, she often collects trash that becomes material for her artwork various media, as well as documenting her journey through social media.

This collaborative multimedia show, commisioned by the Everson Museum of Art, Light Work, and Urban Video Project, is the culmination of Marie Lorenz's journey along the Erie Canal and the Hudson River in the summer of 2016 and brings together new works along with research, documentation, and materials from the voyage on view inside the Everson and a new video work at UVP.


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Dance
 

8:00 PM, December 1



Dancers Turn Out Better
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Student Dance Company

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Le Moyne Student Dance Company presents its fall 2016 recital of student and guest-choreographed routines.


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Lecture
 

4:00 PM, December 1



Visualizing Mexican Migration: Historical Context & Contemporary Flows
La Casita Cultural Center
Featuring Gilberto Cárdenas

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Gilberto Cárdenas is the Executive Director of the Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture. An internationally recognized scholar who has worked in the area of immigration for over 44 years, Cárdenas has been three times listed by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Latinos in the United States.


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, December 1



Nick Saint: Private Elf
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $34.75 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

When night falls on Toyland Town, some elves play rough. But it's nothing compared to what happens on The Island of Misfit Toys: the seamy underbelly of the North Pole; Santa's dirty little secret. It's no place for an elf, especially on Christmas Eve. Nick's partner, Smiles Thirdly, just found that out. Twice, at close range. Nick needs your help to investigate, but if you come to The Island, don't be a sap. Act like a misfit and blend in. Better yet, just be yourself.


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7:00 PM, December 1



Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Redhouse
Patrick Burns, director

Price: $30 regular, $25 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed back into his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.

Based on the Academy Award winning feature, Disney's Beauty and the Beast will now inventively be brought to life on the Redhouse stage in partnership with Hillside Family of Agencies.

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7:00 PM, December 1



Mary Poppins
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Peter Amster, director

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

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! The sound of it may be atrocious but it is synonymous with this beloved family musical. The Banks children, Jane and Michael, have been positively beastly to a series of nannies. Enter (from above) Mary Poppins with her magic tricks and common sense know-how to charm children and grown-ups alike and remind them and us how important they are to each other. Winner of multiple Tony Awards, Mary Poppins is an enchanting mixture of irresistible story, unforgettable songs, breathtaking dance numbers, and astonishing stage magic.

A musical based on the stories of M.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film; original music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; book by Julian Fellowes; new songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe; choreography by Anthony Salatino.

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Friday, December 2, 2016


Art
 

8:00 AM - 8:00 PM, December 2



Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This installation of sculptural drawings by artist Kenny Harris illustrates the universal nature of human emotion.


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8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 2



From My Front Door: Photographs by Willson Cummer
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 2



We Can Be Heroes: Visualizing the Life & Music of David Bowie
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by more than 30 artists from artists across CNY and beyond celebrating the influence of David Bowie by visualizing his music and legacy as a pop culture icon.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 2



Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Curated by University Archivist Meg Mason, the exhibition explores the dramatic impact of the GI Bill and the subsequent influx of veterans on the Syracuse University campus following World War II (1945-1950). From the University Archives, the materials on view document this critical period in the University's history and the associated changes to the campus landscape, social and cultural life, and academic programs.

Materials on view include:
• photographs of temporary classrooms and housing for veterans, including old barracks and trailers, which filled the campus and surrounding areas;
• cartoons of veteran student life on campus;
• aerial shots of the main and south campuses showing changes in the landscape;
• personal items from veterans who attended Syracuse University, including a cheerleading megaphone, a postcard about arriving at Syracuse, and photographs of the inside of one of the trailers used as married student housing;
• Daily Orange articles about the impact of veterans on campus.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, December 2



Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Handmade works of Alison Fisher — handbags, jewelry, scarves, mittens, and stylized landscape paintings.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 2



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

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Annual show and sale of members' work. Artwork purchased can be taken at the time of sale.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 2



Two Sides of James Ransome: Known and Unknown
Community Folk Art Center

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

James Ransome is a children's book illustrator as well as the recipient of several awards, including the Coretta Scott King award and the NAACP award. His southern background has left him fascinated by the struggles and victories of African Americans and those events are the primary focus of many of his books which often center around retelling African American folktales or memorializing African American sport and historical legends.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 2



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $7 adults, $5 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Dozens of imaginative creations by families, individuals, and professional bakers using a variety of edibles adorn the Erie Canal Museum's changing exhibit space during this holiday gallery. Works are displayed in 1800s-looking storefronts and feature numerous themes including the historic Erie Canal.



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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 2



The Trouble with Flesh: New Work by MFA Candidates
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to announce "The Trouble with Flesh," juried and curated by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, featuring new work by MFA candidates from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at SU.

Exhibiting students include: Courtney Asztalos, Adrianna Bianchi (Best of Show), Shouyu Stephen Chen, Evan Deuitch, Antone Dolezal, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, Michael Hicks, Todd Irwin Francis Lauther, Jacob Riddle, Fei Taishi, D'Angelo Lovell Williams (Honorable Mention), Nydia Blas Williams, and Luxin Zhang.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 2



Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa's "One Wall a Web" is an exhibition that gathers together work from two discrete photographic series that he made in the United States: "Our Present Invention" (2012–2014) and "All My Gone Life" (2014–2016). Both the series and the exhibition draw their titles from the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser.

"One Wall a Web" not only explores the mutability of archival images, but the ongoing presence of history in the present day. According to Wolukau-Wanambwa, the exhibition attempts to address "the normalcy of fear, separateness and violence in a moment suffused by them, but also in a culture riven by the habitually limited prescriptions of images." The exhibition comprises two distinct strands of photographs: the first, a series of appropriated archival 4 × 5 inch negatives; the second, a series of original photographs.

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer, writer, and editor of The Great Leap Sideways. He has contributed essays to catalogues and monographs by Vanessa Winship, George Georgiou, and Paul Graham, written for Aperture magazine, and is a faculty member in the photography department at Purchase College, SUNY. Wolukau-Wanambwa participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in May 2015.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 2



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 2



Holiday Group Show 2016
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally.

The exhibition features up-cycled jewelry and ornaments by Betsy Menson Sio, ceramics by Jen Gandee, Errol Willett, and Ed Feldman, paintings by Lucie Wellner and Phil Parsons, and earrings by Lily Tsay.


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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 2



62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

499 S. Warren St. (at the corner of E. Onondaga St.)
Syracuse

Unique, original art handcrafted by more than 45 local artists, featuring paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and other one-of-a-kind gifts.

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

For more information, visit www.artmart-syracuse.com or phone 315-317-8599.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 2



It's A Wrap! West African Textiles
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"It's A Wrap! West African Textiles" is an exhibition featuring over 40 examples of textiles and their accompanying tools. Drawn from geographically proximate locales in West Africa, including Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon, the textiles on display exemplify woven, stamped, appliqued, and resist-dyed techniques. Organized by Professor Michelle Gilbert, Department of Fine Arts, Trinity College, CT, and featuring objects on loan from the collections of Michelle Gilbert, and the Amyas Naegele and Eve Glasberg Collection, NY, this exhibition is sponsored in part by the Maxwell African Scholars Union, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University.

In all cultures clothing does more than simply cover the body. It communicates subtle visual messages about the owner. What and how it is worn, can be interpreted as a statement of flamboyant ostentation or modest conservatism. It may signal the prominence of a wealthy and powerful king, the presence of a deity, or the existence of a mad man. The textile culture in West African is very old, weaving is documented at Igbo Ukwu, Nigeria in the 9th-10th century and by the 11th century weaving flourished in Mali. Used in a variety of ways, African textiles can be presented as gifts to the living and the dead; used in a bride's dowry; displayed at weddings and funerals; used as blankets for protection from the cold and mosquitoes; spread on the ground for a chief to walk over or placed in layers to cover his palanquin or funeral bed. Textiles are worn to flatter or flirt, to display power or express silent insults, or to show common group identity. The artists' aesthetic sensibility is revealed in the cloth's intricate patterns, textures and technical flair.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 2



Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Edward Koren: The Capricious Line" celebrates the five-decade career of renowned cartoonist and long-standing contributor to The New Yorker, Edward Koren.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 2



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"21 Etchings and Poems," a landmark publication that had a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, will be presented in its entirety in the Print Study Room. Curated by Museum Studies graduate student Courtney Spencer Eppel, this exhibition presents 21 paired artists and authors to create unique works of art. The partnerships for this project included well-known artists and poets Peter Grippe and Dylan Thomas, Willem de Kooning and Harold Rosenberg, Letterio Calapai and William Carlos Williams, and Franz Kine and Frank O'Hara, among others.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 2



Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection" investigates how artists from the late 19th century until today have been captivated by the potential of landscape images and its ability to transport our imagination whether the locale be exotic or not. Curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, this display brings together historic albumen prints, travel albums, and contemporary black and white and color images from a variety of photographers working in the photographic medium over the past 120 years.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 2



From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 2



A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 2



30th Annual Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $8 non-members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year, our theme of "City Lights" celebrates the renewal of downtown Syracuse and the bright light it casts on all of Central NY. Each decorated tree, wreath, and unique display is generously donated and all items are sold to benefit the Everson. Take in the beautiful sights, purchase items to decorate your home or office, and pick up tips for your own creations. The presentation of art and décor alongside activities and musical entertainment will make the Festival truly special.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 2



Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For centuries, artists and craftsmen alike have found inspiration in their everyday surroundings, drawing upon their home life as a subject, theme, and creative force. This exhibition features an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that address the theme of life in the home over the past 150 years. Including paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, video, ceramics, design, and decorative arts objects, Home Sweet Home presents a multi-faceted view of the home, its spaces, furnishings, and inhabitants. From depictions of the genteel interiors of Gilded Age America to images of mass-produced products of the Post-War era, the exhibition presents works by more than 30 artists and designers, including major historical figures and up-and-coming contemporary artists. Key pieces by Andy Warhol, Miriam Shapiro, Milton Avery, Jeff Koons, and Claes Oldenburg will be shown alongside examples of functional handcrafted and production pottery and furniture, still life paintings, tromp l'oeil sculptures, documentary photographs, and interior genre scenes.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 2



Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The culmination of Marie Lorenz's journey along the Erie Canal and the Hudson River in the summer of 2016, this multi-media exhibition brings together new works along with research, documentation and materials from the voyage.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 2



Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Angela Fraleigh, based in New York City and Allentown, co-opts the techniques, media, and styles of the European Old Masters to create monumental paintings of female figures that explore social constructs of gender, power, and identity. Combining abstraction and realism, her visually seductive and complicated paintings reflect on art history, literature, and popular culture. For the Everson, Fraleigh presents new paintings inspired by works in the Everson's collection, women of the Arts and Crafts movement and important female figures in the history of Central New York.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 2



within walls: New Work by Karin Waisman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"within walls" reflects upon the natural processes of growth and decay. Each piece, made out of many cast or modeled fragments, is the outcome of the process of making it. The wall, no longer flat, becomes the concrete support of the work. A mural like quality of the pieces transforms the wall into a tactile and intricate sensuous surface. Ornament and wall become a metaphor for a time caught between permanence and evanescence.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, December 2



In God's House: The Photographs of Robert Knight
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"In God's House" examines religious diversity as a reflection of the contemporary immigration crisis
and demographic shifts facing Europe. Knight's photographs of religious services juxtapose historic Christian churches with contemporary mosques in cities across Europe, revealing both similarities and differences between faiths. The resulting images allow us to consider not only our contemporary relationship to religion but also our relationship to those different than ourselves.


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5:00 PM - 11:00 PM, December 2



Marie Lorenz: Tide & Current Taxi
Urban Video Project

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

Artist Marie Lorenz presents new video work as part of her ongoing project, Tide and Current Taxi, which she started in 2005. Lorenz explores New York Harbor and beyond, taking participants in a rowboat built from salvaged materials to disused coastlines and inaccessible islands, and experiencing the urban environment from the rare perspective of the water. Along the way, she often collects trash that becomes material for her artwork various media, as well as documenting her journey through social media.

This collaborative multimedia show, commisioned by the Everson Museum of Art, Light Work, and Urban Video Project, is the culmination of Marie Lorenz's journey along the Erie Canal and the Hudson River in the summer of 2016 and brings together new works along with research, documentation, and materials from the voyage on view inside the Everson and a new video work at UVP.


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Dance
 

8:00 PM, December 2



Dancers Turn Out Better
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Student Dance Company

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Le Moyne Student Dance Company presents its fall 2016 recital of student and guest-choreographed routines.


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Lecture
 

5:00 PM, December 2



Gallery Talk: Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Join current exhibiting artist Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa for an informal gallery talk about his exhibition "One Wall a Web" and his role in curating and jurying "The Trouble with Flesh: New Work by MFA Candidates," featuring new work by MFA candidates from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.


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Music
 

8:00 PM, December 2



Cliff Eberhardt, with special guest Louise Mosrie
Folkus Project

Price: $12 members, $15 non-members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Eberhardt's melding of pop, rock and folk meets Mosrie's soulful Southern folk.

You've heard his lyrics and voice on commercials for Coke and Chevy (remember "It's the heartbeat of America…"? That's his!). But, his music is so much more than a commercial tag line. He's also the 2013 winner of the Helen Hayes Award for his original music and performance in Taming of the Shrew at Folger Theater in 2012.

Recorded in the Texas Hill Country, Cliff's new album "500 Miles: The Blue Rock Sessions" may be his finest to date. Cliff's song "Memphis" was included on "Cry Cry Cry", an album of collaborative covers by the "folk supergroup" of the same name (comprised of Dar Williams, Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell). Other performers who have recorded his songs include Richie Havens, Shawn Colvin, Russ Taff and Buffy Sainte Marie.

Louise Mosrie may well be the brightest young folk-oriented artist to emerge from Nashville in many a year. Her pure, expressive voice delivers the songs with the perfect balance of expressiveness and direction. Better still, the exquisite, very low key production keeps Mosrie's voice out front and shining.


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8:00 PM, December 2



25th Anniversary "Silver Chords"
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Stephen Gamba, conductor

Price: $18 regular, $15 student/senior in advance; $20 regular, $18 student/senior at the door
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, December 2



Amahl and The Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $18 adults, $13 youth in advance; $20 adults, $15 youth at the door (under age 2 free)
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

This enchanting Christmas opera, written by Gian Carlo Menotti in 1951, tells the simple story of a crippled shepherd boy and his destitute mother who are visited by three kings carrying gifts for an unknown newborn. The child in all of us will delight as gorgeous giant puppets perform alongside live actors in this acclaimed family-friendly story told from the boy's perspective.


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7:30 PM, December 2



Freud's Last Session
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Judith Harris, director

Price: $20
CNY Community Foundation Ballroom
431 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

On the eve of WWII and England's entrance into the war, Dr. Sigmund Freud invites C.S. Lewis to his home in London. They clash dramatically in a tug-of-war between science and religion. Who will win the battle about love, God, sex, and the meaning of life, merely weeks before Freud's suicide?


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8:00 PM, December 2



It's a Wonderful Life
Central New York Playhouse
Bill Lee, director

Price: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

In our American culture, It's a Wonderful Life has become almost as familiar as Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The story is a natural for a stage adaptation: the saga of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty, whose guardian angel has to descend on Christmas Eve to save him from despair and to remind him—by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born—that his has been, after all, a wonderful life. This faithful adaptation has all your favorite characters: George and Mary Hatch, Clarence, Uncle Billy, Violet, and, of course, the Scrooge-like villain, Mr. Potter. This fine dramatization not only celebrates the faith of the season, it also celebrates the American philosophy of life: hard work, fair play, and the love and support of one's family and community will be rewarded.

Adapted for the stage by James W. Rodgers, based on the film by Frank Capra.

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8:00 PM, December 2



A Christmas Survival Guide
Rarely Done Productions

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

This revue takes a wry and knowing look at a stressful season. The show explores everything from parody ("The 12 Steps of Christmas") to the traditional ("O Holy Night"). Join us for this light and lively way to take your mind off the holiday crush. Created and written by James Hindman and Ray Roderick.

Read a review!


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8:00 PM, December 2



*SOLD OUT* Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Redhouse
Patrick Burns, director

Price: $30 regular, $25 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed back into his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.

Based on the Academy Award winning feature, Disney's Beauty and the Beast will now inventively be brought to life on the Redhouse stage in partnership with Hillside Family of Agencies.

Read a review!


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8:00 PM, December 2



Mary Poppins
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Peter Amster, director

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

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! The sound of it may be atrocious but it is synonymous with this beloved family musical. The Banks children, Jane and Michael, have been positively beastly to a series of nannies. Enter (from above) Mary Poppins with her magic tricks and common sense know-how to charm children and grown-ups alike and remind them and us how important they are to each other. Winner of multiple Tony Awards, Mary Poppins is an enchanting mixture of irresistible story, unforgettable songs, breathtaking dance numbers, and astonishing stage magic.

A musical based on the stories of M.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film; original music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; book by Julian Fellowes; new songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe; choreography by Anthony Salatino.

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Saturday, December 3, 2016


Art
 

9:00 AM - 8:00 PM, December 3



Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This installation of sculptural drawings by artist Kenny Harris illustrates the universal nature of human emotion.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 3



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

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Annual show and sale of members' work. Artwork purchased can be taken at the time of sale.


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10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, December 3



Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Handmade works of Alison Fisher — handbags, jewelry, scarves, mittens, and stylized landscape paintings.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 3



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $7 adults, $5 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Dozens of imaginative creations by families, individuals, and professional bakers using a variety of edibles adorn the Erie Canal Museum's changing exhibit space during this holiday gallery. Works are displayed in 1800s-looking storefronts and feature numerous themes including the historic Erie Canal.



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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 3



Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For centuries, artists and craftsmen alike have found inspiration in their everyday surroundings, drawing upon their home life as a subject, theme, and creative force. This exhibition features an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that address the theme of life in the home over the past 150 years. Including paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, video, ceramics, design, and decorative arts objects, Home Sweet Home presents a multi-faceted view of the home, its spaces, furnishings, and inhabitants. From depictions of the genteel interiors of Gilded Age America to images of mass-produced products of the Post-War era, the exhibition presents works by more than 30 artists and designers, including major historical figures and up-and-coming contemporary artists. Key pieces by Andy Warhol, Miriam Shapiro, Milton Avery, Jeff Koons, and Claes Oldenburg will be shown alongside examples of functional handcrafted and production pottery and furniture, still life paintings, tromp l'oeil sculptures, documentary photographs, and interior genre scenes.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 3



Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Angela Fraleigh, based in New York City and Allentown, co-opts the techniques, media, and styles of the European Old Masters to create monumental paintings of female figures that explore social constructs of gender, power, and identity. Combining abstraction and realism, her visually seductive and complicated paintings reflect on art history, literature, and popular culture. For the Everson, Fraleigh presents new paintings inspired by works in the Everson's collection, women of the Arts and Crafts movement and important female figures in the history of Central New York.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 3



Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The culmination of Marie Lorenz's journey along the Erie Canal and the Hudson River in the summer of 2016, this multi-media exhibition brings together new works along with research, documentation and materials from the voyage.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 3



30th Annual Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $8 non-members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year, our theme of "City Lights" celebrates the renewal of downtown Syracuse and the bright light it casts on all of Central NY. Each decorated tree, wreath, and unique display is generously donated and all items are sold to benefit the Everson. Take in the beautiful sights, purchase items to decorate your home or office, and pick up tips for your own creations. The presentation of art and décor alongside activities and musical entertainment will make the Festival truly special.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 3



A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 3



From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 3



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 3



46th Annual Plowshares Craftsfair

Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Plowshares is Central New York's premiere multicultural craftsfair, featuring over 120 local craftspeople and community organizations.

For more information, visit www.peacecouncil.net/plowshares.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 3



Two Sides of James Ransome: Known and Unknown
Community Folk Art Center

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

James Ransome is a children's book illustrator as well as the recipient of several awards, including the Coretta Scott King award and the NAACP award. His southern background has left him fascinated by the struggles and victories of African Americans and those events are the primary focus of many of his books which often center around retelling African American folktales or memorializing African American sport and historical legends.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 3



Holiday Group Show 2016
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally.

The exhibition features up-cycled jewelry and ornaments by Betsy Menson Sio, ceramics by Jen Gandee, Errol Willett, and Ed Feldman, paintings by Lucie Wellner and Phil Parsons, and earrings by Lily Tsay.


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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 3



62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

499 S. Warren St. (at the corner of E. Onondaga St.)
Syracuse

Unique, original art handcrafted by more than 45 local artists, featuring paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and other one-of-a-kind gifts.

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

For more information, visit www.artmart-syracuse.com or phone 315-317-8599.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 3



It's A Wrap! West African Textiles
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"It's A Wrap! West African Textiles" is an exhibition featuring over 40 examples of textiles and their accompanying tools. Drawn from geographically proximate locales in West Africa, including Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon, the textiles on display exemplify woven, stamped, appliqued, and resist-dyed techniques. Organized by Professor Michelle Gilbert, Department of Fine Arts, Trinity College, CT, and featuring objects on loan from the collections of Michelle Gilbert, and the Amyas Naegele and Eve Glasberg Collection, NY, this exhibition is sponsored in part by the Maxwell African Scholars Union, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University.

In all cultures clothing does more than simply cover the body. It communicates subtle visual messages about the owner. What and how it is worn, can be interpreted as a statement of flamboyant ostentation or modest conservatism. It may signal the prominence of a wealthy and powerful king, the presence of a deity, or the existence of a mad man. The textile culture in West African is very old, weaving is documented at Igbo Ukwu, Nigeria in the 9th-10th century and by the 11th century weaving flourished in Mali. Used in a variety of ways, African textiles can be presented as gifts to the living and the dead; used in a bride's dowry; displayed at weddings and funerals; used as blankets for protection from the cold and mosquitoes; spread on the ground for a chief to walk over or placed in layers to cover his palanquin or funeral bed. Textiles are worn to flatter or flirt, to display power or express silent insults, or to show common group identity. The artists' aesthetic sensibility is revealed in the cloth's intricate patterns, textures and technical flair.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 3



Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection" investigates how artists from the late 19th century until today have been captivated by the potential of landscape images and its ability to transport our imagination whether the locale be exotic or not. Curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, this display brings together historic albumen prints, travel albums, and contemporary black and white and color images from a variety of photographers working in the photographic medium over the past 120 years.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 3



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"21 Etchings and Poems," a landmark publication that had a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, will be presented in its entirety in the Print Study Room. Curated by Museum Studies graduate student Courtney Spencer Eppel, this exhibition presents 21 paired artists and authors to create unique works of art. The partnerships for this project included well-known artists and poets Peter Grippe and Dylan Thomas, Willem de Kooning and Harold Rosenberg, Letterio Calapai and William Carlos Williams, and Franz Kine and Frank O'Hara, among others.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 3



Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Edward Koren: The Capricious Line" celebrates the five-decade career of renowned cartoonist and long-standing contributor to The New Yorker, Edward Koren.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, December 3



In God's House: The Photographs of Robert Knight
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"In God's House" examines religious diversity as a reflection of the contemporary immigration crisis
and demographic shifts facing Europe. Knight's photographs of religious services juxtapose historic Christian churches with contemporary mosques in cities across Europe, revealing both similarities and differences between faiths. The resulting images allow us to consider not only our contemporary relationship to religion but also our relationship to those different than ourselves.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 3



within walls: New Work by Karin Waisman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"within walls" reflects upon the natural processes of growth and decay. Each piece, made out of many cast or modeled fragments, is the outcome of the process of making it. The wall, no longer flat, becomes the concrete support of the work. A mural like quality of the pieces transforms the wall into a tactile and intricate sensuous surface. Ornament and wall become a metaphor for a time caught between permanence and evanescence.


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5:00 PM - 11:00 PM, December 3



Marie Lorenz: Tide & Current Taxi
Urban Video Project

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

Artist Marie Lorenz presents new video work as part of her ongoing project, Tide and Current Taxi, which she started in 2005. Lorenz explores New York Harbor and beyond, taking participants in a rowboat built from salvaged materials to disused coastlines and inaccessible islands, and experiencing the urban environment from the rare perspective of the water. Along the way, she often collects trash that becomes material for her artwork various media, as well as documenting her journey through social media.

This collaborative multimedia show, commisioned by the Everson Museum of Art, Light Work, and Urban Video Project, is the culmination of Marie Lorenz's journey along the Erie Canal and the Hudson River in the summer of 2016 and brings together new works along with research, documentation, and materials from the voyage on view inside the Everson and a new video work at UVP.


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Dance
 

1:00 PM, December 3



The Nutcracker
Syracuse City Ballet

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

Everyone's family holiday favorite, The Nutcracker, comes to life on the stage with spectacular and colorful dancing, costumes, and sets. Performed by Central New York's very own professional ballet company, this is a Nutcracker that will enchant children and adults alike. It is the must-see dance performance of the holiday season.

Tickets are available in person at the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), charge by phone (1-800-745-3000), or online via Ticketmaster.


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2:00 PM, December 3



Dancers Turn Out Better
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Student Dance Company

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Le Moyne Student Dance Company presents its fall 2016 recital of student and guest-choreographed routines.


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6:00 PM, December 3



The Nutcracker
Syracuse City Ballet

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

Everyone's family holiday favorite, The Nutcracker, comes to life on the stage with spectacular and colorful dancing, costumes, and sets. Performed by Central New York's very own professional ballet company, this is a Nutcracker that will enchant children and adults alike. It is the must-see dance performance of the holiday season.

Tickets are available in person at the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), charge by phone (1-800-745-3000), or online via Ticketmaster.


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8:00 PM, December 3



Dancers Turn Out Better
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Student Dance Company

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Le Moyne Student Dance Company presents its fall 2016 recital of student and guest-choreographed routines.


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Music
 

2:00 PM, December 3



25th Anniversary "Silver Chords"
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Stephen Gamba, conductor

Price: $18 regular, $15 student/senior in advance; $20 regular, $18 student/senior at the door
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt


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7:00 PM, December 3



Selections from Into the Woods
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This recital features students from the vocal studio of Carol Jacobe performing selections from Stephen Sondheim's hit musical Into the Woods.


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7:30 PM, December 3



Winter Concert
Liverpool Community Chorus

Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool


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8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, December 3



Parties in the Plaza: Barroom Philosophers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
LeMoyne Plaza
1135 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

The Barroom Philosophers emerged in the summer of 2014 and have quickly become an in-demand band. They set a high energy level with animated vocals, soaring guitar solos and hot bass lines interlaced with precision drum rhythms, served up in a dynamic fusion that breaks the barriers of soul, funk, blues and the space-time continuum.


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Theater
 

12:30 PM, December 3



Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $6
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.


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2:00 PM, December 3



*SOLD OUT* Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Redhouse
Patrick Burns, director

Price: $30 regular, $25 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed back into his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.

Based on the Academy Award winning feature, Disney's Beauty and the Beast will now inventively be brought to life on the Redhouse stage in partnership with Hillside Family of Agencies.

Read a review!


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3:00 PM, December 3



Mary Poppins
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Peter Amster, director

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

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! The sound of it may be atrocious but it is synonymous with this beloved family musical. The Banks children, Jane and Michael, have been positively beastly to a series of nannies. Enter (from above) Mary Poppins with her magic tricks and common sense know-how to charm children and grown-ups alike and remind them and us how important they are to each other. Winner of multiple Tony Awards, Mary Poppins is an enchanting mixture of irresistible story, unforgettable songs, breathtaking dance numbers, and astonishing stage magic.

A musical based on the stories of M.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film; original music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; book by Julian Fellowes; new songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe; choreography by Anthony Salatino.

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7:30 PM, December 3



Amahl and The Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $18 adults, $13 youth in advance; $20 adults, $15 youth at the door (under age 2 free)
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

This enchanting Christmas opera, written by Gian Carlo Menotti in 1951, tells the simple story of a crippled shepherd boy and his destitute mother who are visited by three kings carrying gifts for an unknown newborn. The child in all of us will delight as gorgeous giant puppets perform alongside live actors in this acclaimed family-friendly story told from the boy's perspective.


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7:30 PM, December 3



Freud's Last Session
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Judith Harris, director

Price: $20
CNY Community Foundation Ballroom
431 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

On the eve of WWII and England's entrance into the war, Dr. Sigmund Freud invites C.S. Lewis to his home in London. They clash dramatically in a tug-of-war between science and religion. Who will win the battle about love, God, sex, and the meaning of life, merely weeks before Freud's suicide?


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8:00 PM, December 3



It's a Wonderful Life
Central New York Playhouse
Bill Lee, director

Price: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

In our American culture, It's a Wonderful Life has become almost as familiar as Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The story is a natural for a stage adaptation: the saga of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty, whose guardian angel has to descend on Christmas Eve to save him from despair and to remind him—by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born—that his has been, after all, a wonderful life. This faithful adaptation has all your favorite characters: George and Mary Hatch, Clarence, Uncle Billy, Violet, and, of course, the Scrooge-like villain, Mr. Potter. This fine dramatization not only celebrates the faith of the season, it also celebrates the American philosophy of life: hard work, fair play, and the love and support of one's family and community will be rewarded.

Adapted for the stage by James W. Rodgers, based on the film by Frank Capra.

Read a Review!


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8:00 PM, December 3



A Christmas Survival Guide
Rarely Done Productions

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

This revue takes a wry and knowing look at a stressful season. The show explores everything from parody ("The 12 Steps of Christmas") to the traditional ("O Holy Night"). Join us for this light and lively way to take your mind off the holiday crush. Created and written by James Hindman and Ray Roderick.

Read a review!


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8:00 PM, December 3



*SOLD OUT* Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Redhouse
Patrick Burns, director

Price: $30 regular, $25 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed back into his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.

Based on the Academy Award winning feature, Disney's Beauty and the Beast will now inventively be brought to life on the Redhouse stage in partnership with Hillside Family of Agencies.

Read a review!


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8:00 PM, December 3



Mary Poppins
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Peter Amster, director

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

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! The sound of it may be atrocious but it is synonymous with this beloved family musical. The Banks children, Jane and Michael, have been positively beastly to a series of nannies. Enter (from above) Mary Poppins with her magic tricks and common sense know-how to charm children and grown-ups alike and remind them and us how important they are to each other. Winner of multiple Tony Awards, Mary Poppins is an enchanting mixture of irresistible story, unforgettable songs, breathtaking dance numbers, and astonishing stage magic.

A musical based on the stories of M.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film; original music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; book by Julian Fellowes; new songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe; choreography by Anthony Salatino.

Read a Review!


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Sunday, December 4, 2016


Art
 

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 4



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $7 adults, $5 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Dozens of imaginative creations by families, individuals, and professional bakers using a variety of edibles adorn the Erie Canal Museum's changing exhibit space during this holiday gallery. Works are displayed in 1800s-looking storefronts and feature numerous themes including the historic Erie Canal.



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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 4



The Trouble with Flesh: New Work by MFA Candidates
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to announce "The Trouble with Flesh," juried and curated by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, featuring new work by MFA candidates from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at SU.

Exhibiting students include: Courtney Asztalos, Adrianna Bianchi (Best of Show), Shouyu Stephen Chen, Evan Deuitch, Antone Dolezal, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, Michael Hicks, Todd Irwin Francis Lauther, Jacob Riddle, Fei Taishi, D'Angelo Lovell Williams (Honorable Mention), Nydia Blas Williams, and Luxin Zhang.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 4



Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa's "One Wall a Web" is an exhibition that gathers together work from two discrete photographic series that he made in the United States: "Our Present Invention" (2012–2014) and "All My Gone Life" (2014–2016). Both the series and the exhibition draw their titles from the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser.

"One Wall a Web" not only explores the mutability of archival images, but the ongoing presence of history in the present day. According to Wolukau-Wanambwa, the exhibition attempts to address "the normalcy of fear, separateness and violence in a moment suffused by them, but also in a culture riven by the habitually limited prescriptions of images." The exhibition comprises two distinct strands of photographs: the first, a series of appropriated archival 4 × 5 inch negatives; the second, a series of original photographs.

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer, writer, and editor of The Great Leap Sideways. He has contributed essays to catalogues and monographs by Vanessa Winship, George Georgiou, and Paul Graham, written for Aperture magazine, and is a faculty member in the photography department at Purchase College, SUNY. Wolukau-Wanambwa participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in May 2015.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 4



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 4



Holiday Group Show 2016
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally.

The exhibition features up-cycled jewelry and ornaments by Betsy Menson Sio, ceramics by Jen Gandee, Errol Willett, and Ed Feldman, paintings by Lucie Wellner and Phil Parsons, and earrings by Lily Tsay.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 4



46th Annual Plowshares Craftsfair

Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Plowshares is Central New York's premiere multicultural craftsfair, featuring over 120 local craftspeople and community organizations.

For more information, visit www.peacecouncil.net/plowshares.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 4



It's A Wrap! West African Textiles
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"It's A Wrap! West African Textiles" is an exhibition featuring over 40 examples of textiles and their accompanying tools. Drawn from geographically proximate locales in West Africa, including Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon, the textiles on display exemplify woven, stamped, appliqued, and resist-dyed techniques. Organized by Professor Michelle Gilbert, Department of Fine Arts, Trinity College, CT, and featuring objects on loan from the collections of Michelle Gilbert, and the Amyas Naegele and Eve Glasberg Collection, NY, this exhibition is sponsored in part by the Maxwell African Scholars Union, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University.

In all cultures clothing does more than simply cover the body. It communicates subtle visual messages about the owner. What and how it is worn, can be interpreted as a statement of flamboyant ostentation or modest conservatism. It may signal the prominence of a wealthy and powerful king, the presence of a deity, or the existence of a mad man. The textile culture in West African is very old, weaving is documented at Igbo Ukwu, Nigeria in the 9th-10th century and by the 11th century weaving flourished in Mali. Used in a variety of ways, African textiles can be presented as gifts to the living and the dead; used in a bride's dowry; displayed at weddings and funerals; used as blankets for protection from the cold and mosquitoes; spread on the ground for a chief to walk over or placed in layers to cover his palanquin or funeral bed. Textiles are worn to flatter or flirt, to display power or express silent insults, or to show common group identity. The artists' aesthetic sensibility is revealed in the cloth's intricate patterns, textures and technical flair.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 4



Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection" investigates how artists from the late 19th century until today have been captivated by the potential of landscape images and its ability to transport our imagination whether the locale be exotic or not. Curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, this display brings together historic albumen prints, travel albums, and contemporary black and white and color images from a variety of photographers working in the photographic medium over the past 120 years.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 4



Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Edward Koren: The Capricious Line" celebrates the five-decade career of renowned cartoonist and long-standing contributor to The New Yorker, Edward Koren.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 4



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"21 Etchings and Poems," a landmark publication that had a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, will be presented in its entirety in the Print Study Room. Curated by Museum Studies graduate student Courtney Spencer Eppel, this exhibition presents 21 paired artists and authors to create unique works of art. The partnerships for this project included well-known artists and poets Peter Grippe and Dylan Thomas, Willem de Kooning and Harold Rosenberg, Letterio Calapai and William Carlos Williams, and Franz Kine and Frank O'Hara, among others.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 4



Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For centuries, artists and craftsmen alike have found inspiration in their everyday surroundings, drawing upon their home life as a subject, theme, and creative force. This exhibition features an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that address the theme of life in the home over the past 150 years. Including paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, video, ceramics, design, and decorative arts objects, Home Sweet Home presents a multi-faceted view of the home, its spaces, furnishings, and inhabitants. From depictions of the genteel interiors of Gilded Age America to images of mass-produced products of the Post-War era, the exhibition presents works by more than 30 artists and designers, including major historical figures and up-and-coming contemporary artists. Key pieces by Andy Warhol, Miriam Shapiro, Milton Avery, Jeff Koons, and Claes Oldenburg will be shown alongside examples of functional handcrafted and production pottery and furniture, still life paintings, tromp l'oeil sculptures, documentary photographs, and interior genre scenes.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 4



Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The culmination of Marie Lorenz's journey along the Erie Canal and the Hudson River in the summer of 2016, this multi-media exhibition brings together new works along with research, documentation and materials from the voyage.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 4



Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Angela Fraleigh, based in New York City and Allentown, co-opts the techniques, media, and styles of the European Old Masters to create monumental paintings of female figures that explore social constructs of gender, power, and identity. Combining abstraction and realism, her visually seductive and complicated paintings reflect on art history, literature, and popular culture. For the Everson, Fraleigh presents new paintings inspired by works in the Everson's collection, women of the Arts and Crafts movement and important female figures in the history of Central New York.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 4



From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 4



A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 4



30th Annual Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $8 non-members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year, our theme of "City Lights" celebrates the renewal of downtown Syracuse and the bright light it casts on all of Central NY. Each decorated tree, wreath, and unique display is generously donated and all items are sold to benefit the Everson. Take in the beautiful sights, purchase items to decorate your home or office, and pick up tips for your own creations. The presentation of art and décor alongside activities and musical entertainment will make the Festival truly special.


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12:00 PM - 2:00 AM, December 4



Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This installation of sculptural drawings by artist Kenny Harris illustrates the universal nature of human emotion.


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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 4



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

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Annual show and sale of members' work. Artwork purchased can be taken at the time of sale.


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Dance
 

2:00 PM, December 4



The Nutcracker
Syracuse City Ballet

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

Everyone's family holiday favorite, The Nutcracker, comes to life on the stage with spectacular and colorful dancing, costumes, and sets. Performed by Central New York's very own professional ballet company, this is a Nutcracker that will enchant children and adults alike. It is the must-see dance performance of the holiday season.

Tickets are available in person at the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), charge by phone (1-800-745-3000), or online via Ticketmaster.


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Music
 

2:30 PM, December 4



Messiah
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Maria Sensi Sellner, conductor
Featuring Bridget Moriarty, soprano; Carolyn Weber, mezzo-soprano; Robert Allen, tenor; David Neal, baritone

Price: $35 regular, $26 senior, $5 student
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Symphoria and the Syracuse University Oratorio Society celebrate the season with this inspiring family tradition at beautiful Saint Paul's in downtown Syracuse.


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4:00 PM, December 4



Reflections of the Season
Syracuse Children's Chorus

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

A festive celebration of holiday songs and carols from around world, including audience participation and the singing of the beloved carol Stille Nacht by candlelight.


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7:30 PM, December 4



Holidays at Hendricks
Hendricks Chapel

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Hendricks Chapel Choir in collaboration with the Syracuse University Brass Ensemble are pleased to present Holidays at Hendricks. An ongoing CNY tradition, Holidays will once again feature guest ensembles from Syracuse University's Setnor School of Music including the award-winning SU Singers under the direction of Dr. John Warren; Windjammer, SU's Vocal Jazz Ensemble directed by Prof. Jeff Welcher; and the SU Women's Choir and Concert Choir, directed by Dr. Elisa Dekaney and Dr. Peppie Calvar respectively.

This year's concert will feature new arrangements of In dulci jubilo by Calvar and of the final movement from Ralph Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem arranged by SU Brass Ensemble director Dr. James T. Spencer. American composer Daniel Pinkham's Christmas Cantata will be performed by the Hendricks Chapel Choir with brass. Other featured composers include Ola Gjeilo, Moses Hogan, J.S. Bach, John Leavitt, Daniel Elder, and many others. The program will include a traditional holiday sing-along, and Silent Night by candlelight.

Donations of non-perishable food items for the Hendricks Chapel Food Pantry are gladly accepted, as well as monetary donations to the Hendricks Chapel Choir gift fund.

Public parking is free and available on a first-come, first-served basis in the Quad 1 lot (accessible via Crouse Drive), the Quad 3 lot (accessible via Sims Drive, with entrance between Bowne Hall and Carnegie Library), Waverly lot (accessible via Crouse Avenue), and in the Irving Garage.


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7:30 PM, December 4



Winter Concert
Liverpool Community Chorus

Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, December 4



It's a Wonderful Life
Central New York Playhouse
Bill Lee, director

Price: $17
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

In our American culture, It's a Wonderful Life has become almost as familiar as Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The story is a natural for a stage adaptation: the saga of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty, whose guardian angel has to descend on Christmas Eve to save him from despair and to remind him—by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born—that his has been, after all, a wonderful life. This faithful adaptation has all your favorite characters: George and Mary Hatch, Clarence, Uncle Billy, Violet, and, of course, the Scrooge-like villain, Mr. Potter. This fine dramatization not only celebrates the faith of the season, it also celebrates the American philosophy of life: hard work, fair play, and the love and support of one's family and community will be rewarded.

Adapted for the stage by James W. Rodgers, based on the film by Frank Capra.

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2:00 PM, December 4



Mary Poppins
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Peter Amster, director

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

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! The sound of it may be atrocious but it is synonymous with this beloved family musical. The Banks children, Jane and Michael, have been positively beastly to a series of nannies. Enter (from above) Mary Poppins with her magic tricks and common sense know-how to charm children and grown-ups alike and remind them and us how important they are to each other. Winner of multiple Tony Awards, Mary Poppins is an enchanting mixture of irresistible story, unforgettable songs, breathtaking dance numbers, and astonishing stage magic.

A musical based on the stories of M.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film; original music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; book by Julian Fellowes; new songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe; choreography by Anthony Salatino.

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4:00 PM, December 4



Amahl and The Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $18 adults, $13 youth in advance; $20 adults, $15 youth at the door (under age 2 free)
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

This enchanting Christmas opera, written by Gian Carlo Menotti in 1951, tells the simple story of a crippled shepherd boy and his destitute mother who are visited by three kings carrying gifts for an unknown newborn. The child in all of us will delight as gorgeous giant puppets perform alongside live actors in this acclaimed family-friendly story told from the boy's perspective.


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7:00 PM, December 4



Mary Poppins
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Peter Amster, director

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

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! The sound of it may be atrocious but it is synonymous with this beloved family musical. The Banks children, Jane and Michael, have been positively beastly to a series of nannies. Enter (from above) Mary Poppins with her magic tricks and common sense know-how to charm children and grown-ups alike and remind them and us how important they are to each other. Winner of multiple Tony Awards, Mary Poppins is an enchanting mixture of irresistible story, unforgettable songs, breathtaking dance numbers, and astonishing stage magic.

A musical based on the stories of M.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film; original music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; book by Julian Fellowes; new songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe; choreography by Anthony Salatino.

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Monday, December 5, 2016


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, December 5



Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This installation of sculptural drawings by artist Kenny Harris illustrates the universal nature of human emotion.


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8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 5



From My Front Door: Photographs by Willson Cummer
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 5



Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Curated by University Archivist Meg Mason, the exhibition explores the dramatic impact of the GI Bill and the subsequent influx of veterans on the Syracuse University campus following World War II (1945-1950). From the University Archives, the materials on view document this critical period in the University's history and the associated changes to the campus landscape, social and cultural life, and academic programs.

Materials on view include:
• photographs of temporary classrooms and housing for veterans, including old barracks and trailers, which filled the campus and surrounding areas;
• cartoons of veteran student life on campus;
• aerial shots of the main and south campuses showing changes in the landscape;
• personal items from veterans who attended Syracuse University, including a cheerleading megaphone, a postcard about arriving at Syracuse, and photographs of the inside of one of the trailers used as married student housing;
• Daily Orange articles about the impact of veterans on campus.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 5



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

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Annual show and sale of members' work. Artwork purchased can be taken at the time of sale.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 5



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $7 adults, $5 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Dozens of imaginative creations by families, individuals, and professional bakers using a variety of edibles adorn the Erie Canal Museum's changing exhibit space during this holiday gallery. Works are displayed in 1800s-looking storefronts and feature numerous themes including the historic Erie Canal.



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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 5



The Trouble with Flesh: New Work by MFA Candidates
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to announce "The Trouble with Flesh," juried and curated by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, featuring new work by MFA candidates from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at SU.

Exhibiting students include: Courtney Asztalos, Adrianna Bianchi (Best of Show), Shouyu Stephen Chen, Evan Deuitch, Antone Dolezal, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, Michael Hicks, Todd Irwin Francis Lauther, Jacob Riddle, Fei Taishi, D'Angelo Lovell Williams (Honorable Mention), Nydia Blas Williams, and Luxin Zhang.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 5



Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa's "One Wall a Web" is an exhibition that gathers together work from two discrete photographic series that he made in the United States: "Our Present Invention" (2012–2014) and "All My Gone Life" (2014–2016). Both the series and the exhibition draw their titles from the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser.

"One Wall a Web" not only explores the mutability of archival images, but the ongoing presence of history in the present day. According to Wolukau-Wanambwa, the exhibition attempts to address "the normalcy of fear, separateness and violence in a moment suffused by them, but also in a culture riven by the habitually limited prescriptions of images." The exhibition comprises two distinct strands of photographs: the first, a series of appropriated archival 4 × 5 inch negatives; the second, a series of original photographs.

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer, writer, and editor of The Great Leap Sideways. He has contributed essays to catalogues and monographs by Vanessa Winship, George Georgiou, and Paul Graham, written for Aperture magazine, and is a faculty member in the photography department at Purchase College, SUNY. Wolukau-Wanambwa participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in May 2015.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 5



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 5



62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

499 S. Warren St. (at the corner of E. Onondaga St.)
Syracuse

Unique, original art handcrafted by more than 45 local artists, featuring paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and other one-of-a-kind gifts.

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

For more information, visit www.artmart-syracuse.com or phone 315-317-8599.


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Film
 

7:30 PM, December 5



Three Godfathers (1948)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3.50 non-members, $3 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, Mae Marsh

Ford's version of the famous story of three western bandits who discover a baby born in the desert. A perfect film for this time of year. In TECHNICOLOR.


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Music
 

7:00 PM, December 5



Goldenberg Series: The New Leaf Ensemble
Temple Society of Concord

Price: Free
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

The New Leaf Ensemble is an oboe, bassoon, and piano trio that formed in 2015 to present innovative concert music to diverse audiences. In addition to the delightful repertoire already written for this combination of instruments, New Leaf Ensemble specializes in performing audience-guided improvisations.


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7:30 PM, December 5



Holiday Pops
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Raise a glass of holiday cheer to classics performed by the Le Moyne College Chamber Singers and Orchestra.


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Tuesday, December 6, 2016


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, December 6



Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This installation of sculptural drawings by artist Kenny Harris illustrates the universal nature of human emotion.


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8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 6



From My Front Door: Photographs by Willson Cummer
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 6



Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Curated by University Archivist Meg Mason, the exhibition explores the dramatic impact of the GI Bill and the subsequent influx of veterans on the Syracuse University campus following World War II (1945-1950). From the University Archives, the materials on view document this critical period in the University's history and the associated changes to the campus landscape, social and cultural life, and academic programs.

Materials on view include:
• photographs of temporary classrooms and housing for veterans, including old barracks and trailers, which filled the campus and surrounding areas;
• cartoons of veteran student life on campus;
• aerial shots of the main and south campuses showing changes in the landscape;
• personal items from veterans who attended Syracuse University, including a cheerleading megaphone, a postcard about arriving at Syracuse, and photographs of the inside of one of the trailers used as married student housing;
• Daily Orange articles about the impact of veterans on campus.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, December 6



Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Handmade works of Alison Fisher — handbags, jewelry, scarves, mittens, and stylized landscape paintings.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 6



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

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Annual show and sale of members' work. Artwork purchased can be taken at the time of sale.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 6



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $7 adults, $5 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Dozens of imaginative creations by families, individuals, and professional bakers using a variety of edibles adorn the Erie Canal Museum's changing exhibit space during this holiday gallery. Works are displayed in 1800s-looking storefronts and feature numerous themes including the historic Erie Canal.



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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 6



The Trouble with Flesh: New Work by MFA Candidates
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to announce "The Trouble with Flesh," juried and curated by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, featuring new work by MFA candidates from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at SU.

Exhibiting students include: Courtney Asztalos, Adrianna Bianchi (Best of Show), Shouyu Stephen Chen, Evan Deuitch, Antone Dolezal, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, Michael Hicks, Todd Irwin Francis Lauther, Jacob Riddle, Fei Taishi, D'Angelo Lovell Williams (Honorable Mention), Nydia Blas Williams, and Luxin Zhang.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 6



Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa's "One Wall a Web" is an exhibition that gathers together work from two discrete photographic series that he made in the United States: "Our Present Invention" (2012–2014) and "All My Gone Life" (2014–2016). Both the series and the exhibition draw their titles from the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser.

"One Wall a Web" not only explores the mutability of archival images, but the ongoing presence of history in the present day. According to Wolukau-Wanambwa, the exhibition attempts to address "the normalcy of fear, separateness and violence in a moment suffused by them, but also in a culture riven by the habitually limited prescriptions of images." The exhibition comprises two distinct strands of photographs: the first, a series of appropriated archival 4 × 5 inch negatives; the second, a series of original photographs.

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer, writer, and editor of The Great Leap Sideways. He has contributed essays to catalogues and monographs by Vanessa Winship, George Georgiou, and Paul Graham, written for Aperture magazine, and is a faculty member in the photography department at Purchase College, SUNY. Wolukau-Wanambwa participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in May 2015.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 6



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 6



62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

499 S. Warren St. (at the corner of E. Onondaga St.)
Syracuse

Unique, original art handcrafted by more than 45 local artists, featuring paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and other one-of-a-kind gifts.

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

For more information, visit www.artmart-syracuse.com or phone 315-317-8599.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 6



It's A Wrap! West African Textiles
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"It's A Wrap! West African Textiles" is an exhibition featuring over 40 examples of textiles and their accompanying tools. Drawn from geographically proximate locales in West Africa, including Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon, the textiles on display exemplify woven, stamped, appliqued, and resist-dyed techniques. Organized by Professor Michelle Gilbert, Department of Fine Arts, Trinity College, CT, and featuring objects on loan from the collections of Michelle Gilbert, and the Amyas Naegele and Eve Glasberg Collection, NY, this exhibition is sponsored in part by the Maxwell African Scholars Union, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University.

In all cultures clothing does more than simply cover the body. It communicates subtle visual messages about the owner. What and how it is worn, can be interpreted as a statement of flamboyant ostentation or modest conservatism. It may signal the prominence of a wealthy and powerful king, the presence of a deity, or the existence of a mad man. The textile culture in West African is very old, weaving is documented at Igbo Ukwu, Nigeria in the 9th-10th century and by the 11th century weaving flourished in Mali. Used in a variety of ways, African textiles can be presented as gifts to the living and the dead; used in a bride's dowry; displayed at weddings and funerals; used as blankets for protection from the cold and mosquitoes; spread on the ground for a chief to walk over or placed in layers to cover his palanquin or funeral bed. Textiles are worn to flatter or flirt, to display power or express silent insults, or to show common group identity. The artists' aesthetic sensibility is revealed in the cloth's intricate patterns, textures and technical flair.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 6



Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection" investigates how artists from the late 19th century until today have been captivated by the potential of landscape images and its ability to transport our imagination whether the locale be exotic or not. Curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, this display brings together historic albumen prints, travel albums, and contemporary black and white and color images from a variety of photographers working in the photographic medium over the past 120 years.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 6



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"21 Etchings and Poems," a landmark publication that had a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, will be presented in its entirety in the Print Study Room. Curated by Museum Studies graduate student Courtney Spencer Eppel, this exhibition presents 21 paired artists and authors to create unique works of art. The partnerships for this project included well-known artists and poets Peter Grippe and Dylan Thomas, Willem de Kooning and Harold Rosenberg, Letterio Calapai and William Carlos Williams, and Franz Kine and Frank O'Hara, among others.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 6



Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Edward Koren: The Capricious Line" celebrates the five-decade career of renowned cartoonist and long-standing contributor to The New Yorker, Edward Koren.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 6



within walls: New Work by Karin Waisman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"within walls" reflects upon the natural processes of growth and decay. Each piece, made out of many cast or modeled fragments, is the outcome of the process of making it. The wall, no longer flat, becomes the concrete support of the work. A mural like quality of the pieces transforms the wall into a tactile and intricate sensuous surface. Ornament and wall become a metaphor for a time caught between permanence and evanescence.


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Music
 

7:30 PM, December 6



Holiday Pops
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Raise a glass of holiday cheer to classics performed by the Le Moyne College Chamber Singers and Orchestra.


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Wednesday, December 7, 2016


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, December 7



Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This installation of sculptural drawings by artist Kenny Harris illustrates the universal nature of human emotion.


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8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 7



From My Front Door: Photographs by Willson Cummer
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, December 7



Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Curated by University Archivist Meg Mason, the exhibition explores the dramatic impact of the GI Bill and the subsequent influx of veterans on the Syracuse University campus following World War II (1945-1950). From the University Archives, the materials on view document this critical period in the University's history and the associated changes to the campus landscape, social and cultural life, and academic programs.

Materials on view include:
• photographs of temporary classrooms and housing for veterans, including old barracks and trailers, which filled the campus and surrounding areas;
• cartoons of veteran student life on campus;
• aerial shots of the main and south campuses showing changes in the landscape;
• personal items from veterans who attended Syracuse University, including a cheerleading megaphone, a postcard about arriving at Syracuse, and photographs of the inside of one of the trailers used as married student housing;
• Daily Orange articles about the impact of veterans on campus.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, December 7



Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Handmade works of Alison Fisher — handbags, jewelry, scarves, mittens, and stylized landscape paintings.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 7



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

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Annual show and sale of members' work. Artwork purchased can be taken at the time of sale.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 7



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $7 adults, $5 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Dozens of imaginative creations by families, individuals, and professional bakers using a variety of edibles adorn the Erie Canal Museum's changing exhibit space during this holiday gallery. Works are displayed in 1800s-looking storefronts and feature numerous themes including the historic Erie Canal.



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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 7



The Trouble with Flesh: New Work by MFA Candidates
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to announce "The Trouble with Flesh," juried and curated by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, featuring new work by MFA candidates from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at SU.

Exhibiting students include: Courtney Asztalos, Adrianna Bianchi (Best of Show), Shouyu Stephen Chen, Evan Deuitch, Antone Dolezal, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, Michael Hicks, Todd Irwin Francis Lauther, Jacob Riddle, Fei Taishi, D'Angelo Lovell Williams (Honorable Mention), Nydia Blas Williams, and Luxin Zhang.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 7



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 7



Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa's "One Wall a Web" is an exhibition that gathers together work from two discrete photographic series that he made in the United States: "Our Present Invention" (2012–2014) and "All My Gone Life" (2014–2016). Both the series and the exhibition draw their titles from the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser.

"One Wall a Web" not only explores the mutability of archival images, but the ongoing presence of history in the present day. According to Wolukau-Wanambwa, the exhibition attempts to address "the normalcy of fear, separateness and violence in a moment suffused by them, but also in a culture riven by the habitually limited prescriptions of images." The exhibition comprises two distinct strands of photographs: the first, a series of appropriated archival 4 × 5 inch negatives; the second, a series of original photographs.

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer, writer, and editor of The Great Leap Sideways. He has contributed essays to catalogues and monographs by Vanessa Winship, George Georgiou, and Paul Graham, written for Aperture magazine, and is a faculty member in the photography department at Purchase College, SUNY. Wolukau-Wanambwa participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in May 2015.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 7



62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

499 S. Warren St. (at the corner of E. Onondaga St.)
Syracuse

Unique, original art handcrafted by more than 45 local artists, featuring paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and other one-of-a-kind gifts.

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

For more information, visit www.artmart-syracuse.com or phone 315-317-8599.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 7



It's A Wrap! West African Textiles
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"It's A Wrap! West African Textiles" is an exhibition featuring over 40 examples of textiles and their accompanying tools. Drawn from geographically proximate locales in West Africa, including Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon, the textiles on display exemplify woven, stamped, appliqued, and resist-dyed techniques. Organized by Professor Michelle Gilbert, Department of Fine Arts, Trinity College, CT, and featuring objects on loan from the collections of Michelle Gilbert, and the Amyas Naegele and Eve Glasberg Collection, NY, this exhibition is sponsored in part by the Maxwell African Scholars Union, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University.

In all cultures clothing does more than simply cover the body. It communicates subtle visual messages about the owner. What and how it is worn, can be interpreted as a statement of flamboyant ostentation or modest conservatism. It may signal the prominence of a wealthy and powerful king, the presence of a deity, or the existence of a mad man. The textile culture in West African is very old, weaving is documented at Igbo Ukwu, Nigeria in the 9th-10th century and by the 11th century weaving flourished in Mali. Used in a variety of ways, African textiles can be presented as gifts to the living and the dead; used in a bride's dowry; displayed at weddings and funerals; used as blankets for protection from the cold and mosquitoes; spread on the ground for a chief to walk over or placed in layers to cover his palanquin or funeral bed. Textiles are worn to flatter or flirt, to display power or express silent insults, or to show common group identity. The artists' aesthetic sensibility is revealed in the cloth's intricate patterns, textures and technical flair.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 7



Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Edward Koren: The Capricious Line" celebrates the five-decade career of renowned cartoonist and long-standing contributor to The New Yorker, Edward Koren.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 7



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"21 Etchings and Poems," a landmark publication that had a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, will be presented in its entirety in the Print Study Room. Curated by Museum Studies graduate student Courtney Spencer Eppel, this exhibition presents 21 paired artists and authors to create unique works of art. The partnerships for this project included well-known artists and poets Peter Grippe and Dylan Thomas, Willem de Kooning and Harold Rosenberg, Letterio Calapai and William Carlos Williams, and Franz Kine and Frank O'Hara, among others.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 7



Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection" investigates how artists from the late 19th century until today have been captivated by the potential of landscape images and its ability to transport our imagination whether the locale be exotic or not. Curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, this display brings together historic albumen prints, travel albums, and contemporary black and white and color images from a variety of photographers working in the photographic medium over the past 120 years.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 7



From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 7



30th Annual Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $8 non-members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year, our theme of "City Lights" celebrates the renewal of downtown Syracuse and the bright light it casts on all of Central NY. Each decorated tree, wreath, and unique display is generously donated and all items are sold to benefit the Everson. Take in the beautiful sights, purchase items to decorate your home or office, and pick up tips for your own creations. The presentation of art and décor alongside activities and musical entertainment will make the Festival truly special.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 7



A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 7



Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Angela Fraleigh, based in New York City and Allentown, co-opts the techniques, media, and styles of the European Old Masters to create monumental paintings of female figures that explore social constructs of gender, power, and identity. Combining abstraction and realism, her visually seductive and complicated paintings reflect on art history, literature, and popular culture. For the Everson, Fraleigh presents new paintings inspired by works in the Everson's collection, women of the Arts and Crafts movement and important female figures in the history of Central New York.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 7



Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The culmination of Marie Lorenz's journey along the Erie Canal and the Hudson River in the summer of 2016, this multi-media exhibition brings together new works along with research, documentation and materials from the voyage.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 7



Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For centuries, artists and craftsmen alike have found inspiration in their everyday surroundings, drawing upon their home life as a subject, theme, and creative force. This exhibition features an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that address the theme of life in the home over the past 150 years. Including paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, video, ceramics, design, and decorative arts objects, Home Sweet Home presents a multi-faceted view of the home, its spaces, furnishings, and inhabitants. From depictions of the genteel interiors of Gilded Age America to images of mass-produced products of the Post-War era, the exhibition presents works by more than 30 artists and designers, including major historical figures and up-and-coming contemporary artists. Key pieces by Andy Warhol, Miriam Shapiro, Milton Avery, Jeff Koons, and Claes Oldenburg will be shown alongside examples of functional handcrafted and production pottery and furniture, still life paintings, tromp l'oeil sculptures, documentary photographs, and interior genre scenes.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 7



within walls: New Work by Karin Waisman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"within walls" reflects upon the natural processes of growth and decay. Each piece, made out of many cast or modeled fragments, is the outcome of the process of making it. The wall, no longer flat, becomes the concrete support of the work. A mural like quality of the pieces transforms the wall into a tactile and intricate sensuous surface. Ornament and wall become a metaphor for a time caught between permanence and evanescence.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, December 7



In God's House: The Photographs of Robert Knight
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"In God's House" examines religious diversity as a reflection of the contemporary immigration crisis
and demographic shifts facing Europe. Knight's photographs of religious services juxtapose historic Christian churches with contemporary mosques in cities across Europe, revealing both similarities and differences between faiths. The resulting images allow us to consider not only our contemporary relationship to religion but also our relationship to those different than ourselves.


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Music
 

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, December 7



Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
LeMoyne Plaza
1135 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse


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Poetry/Reading
 

5:30 PM, December 7



Peter Carey
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Peter Carey is the author of True History of the Kelly Gang and Parrot & Olivier.

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30.


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, December 7



Mary Poppins
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Peter Amster, director

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

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! The sound of it may be atrocious but it is synonymous with this beloved family musical. The Banks children, Jane and Michael, have been positively beastly to a series of nannies. Enter (from above) Mary Poppins with her magic tricks and common sense know-how to charm children and grown-ups alike and remind them and us how important they are to each other. Winner of multiple Tony Awards, Mary Poppins is an enchanting mixture of irresistible story, unforgettable songs, breathtaking dance numbers, and astonishing stage magic.

A musical based on the stories of M.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film; original music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; book by Julian Fellowes; new songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe; choreography by Anthony Salatino.

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7:00 PM, December 7



Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Redhouse
Patrick Burns, director

Price: $30 regular, $25 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed back into his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.

Based on the Academy Award winning feature, Disney's Beauty and the Beast will now inventively be brought to life on the Redhouse stage in partnership with Hillside Family of Agencies.

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7:00 PM, December 7



Mary Poppins
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Peter Amster, director

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

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! The sound of it may be atrocious but it is synonymous with this beloved family musical. The Banks children, Jane and Michael, have been positively beastly to a series of nannies. Enter (from above) Mary Poppins with her magic tricks and common sense know-how to charm children and grown-ups alike and remind them and us how important they are to each other. Winner of multiple Tony Awards, Mary Poppins is an enchanting mixture of irresistible story, unforgettable songs, breathtaking dance numbers, and astonishing stage magic.

A musical based on the stories of M.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film; original music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; book by Julian Fellowes; new songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe; choreography by Anthony Salatino.

Read a Review!


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Thursday, December 8, 2016


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, December 8



Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This installation of sculptural drawings by artist Kenny Harris illustrates the universal nature of human emotion.


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8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 8



From My Front Door: Photographs by Willson Cummer
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 8



Our Doors Opened Wide: Syracuse University and the GI Bill, 1945-1950
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Curated by University Archivist Meg Mason, the exhibition explores the dramatic impact of the GI Bill and the subsequent influx of veterans on the Syracuse University campus following World War II (1945-1950). From the University Archives, the materials on view document this critical period in the University's history and the associated changes to the campus landscape, social and cultural life, and academic programs.

Materials on view include:
• photographs of temporary classrooms and housing for veterans, including old barracks and trailers, which filled the campus and surrounding areas;
• cartoons of veteran student life on campus;
• aerial shots of the main and south campuses showing changes in the landscape;
• personal items from veterans who attended Syracuse University, including a cheerleading megaphone, a postcard about arriving at Syracuse, and photographs of the inside of one of the trailers used as married student housing;
• Daily Orange articles about the impact of veterans on campus.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, December 8



Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Handmade works of Alison Fisher — handbags, jewelry, scarves, mittens, and stylized landscape paintings.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 8



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

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Annual show and sale of members' work. Artwork purchased can be taken at the time of sale.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 8



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $7 adults, $5 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Dozens of imaginative creations by families, individuals, and professional bakers using a variety of edibles adorn the Erie Canal Museum's changing exhibit space during this holiday gallery. Works are displayed in 1800s-looking storefronts and feature numerous themes including the historic Erie Canal.



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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 8



The Trouble with Flesh: New Work by MFA Candidates
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to announce "The Trouble with Flesh," juried and curated by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, featuring new work by MFA candidates from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within College of Visual and Performing Arts at SU.

Exhibiting students include: Courtney Asztalos, Adrianna Bianchi (Best of Show), Shouyu Stephen Chen, Evan Deuitch, Antone Dolezal, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, Michael Hicks, Todd Irwin Francis Lauther, Jacob Riddle, Fei Taishi, D'Angelo Lovell Williams (Honorable Mention), Nydia Blas Williams, and Luxin Zhang.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 8



Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa's "One Wall a Web" is an exhibition that gathers together work from two discrete photographic series that he made in the United States: "Our Present Invention" (2012–2014) and "All My Gone Life" (2014–2016). Both the series and the exhibition draw their titles from the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser.

"One Wall a Web" not only explores the mutability of archival images, but the ongoing presence of history in the present day. According to Wolukau-Wanambwa, the exhibition attempts to address "the normalcy of fear, separateness and violence in a moment suffused by them, but also in a culture riven by the habitually limited prescriptions of images." The exhibition comprises two distinct strands of photographs: the first, a series of appropriated archival 4 × 5 inch negatives; the second, a series of original photographs.

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer, writer, and editor of The Great Leap Sideways. He has contributed essays to catalogues and monographs by Vanessa Winship, George Georgiou, and Paul Graham, written for Aperture magazine, and is a faculty member in the photography department at Purchase College, SUNY. Wolukau-Wanambwa participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in May 2015.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 8



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

In sync with the Syracuse Symposium 2016-2017 theme of Place, this exhibition explores how "thinking about place, then, entails questions of cementing, contesting, and crossing boundaries, devising frameworks yet also disrupting them, setting and upsetting expectations." The photographs in this exhibition aim to comprehend the ever-evolving histories and relationships of a location, and the new understandings a photograph offers.

Pulled from the Light Work Collection, the exhibition highlights work by Admas Habteslasie, Amy Stein, Andrea Robbin and Max Becher, Beatrix Reinhardt, Brian Ulrich, Deborah Willis, Irina Rozovsky, James Casebere, Linda Connor, Margaret Stratton, Peter Finnemore, Robert Benjamin, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Sylvia de Swaan, Viktor Lugansky, and William Earle WIlliams.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 8



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since the the winter of 2013, "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" has featured oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from local artists and photographers. The scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 8



Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Resembling the clothing styles portrayed in the critically acclaimed PBS series, Downton Abbey, "Downton Comes Downtown" features men's, women's, and children's clothing worn by citizens of Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930.

Highlights include a maroon evening coat with a mink collar worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes Hiscock to a State Dinner during the presidential administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); a boy's brown wool suit with a vest and knickers purchased from the Peck-Vinney Company, a clothier located on South Salina Street, worn by young Milton Jones in the 1920s; and a black kimono with Japanese images worn by Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1930.

The exhibit is augmented by fashion accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses as well as period furniture from OHA's collection.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 8



Holiday Group Show 2016
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally.

The exhibition features up-cycled jewelry and ornaments by Betsy Menson Sio, ceramics by Jen Gandee, Errol Willett, and Ed Feldman, paintings by Lucie Wellner and Phil Parsons, and earrings by Lily Tsay.


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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 8



62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

499 S. Warren St. (at the corner of E. Onondaga St.)
Syracuse

Unique, original art handcrafted by more than 45 local artists, featuring paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and other one-of-a-kind gifts.

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

For more information, visit www.artmart-syracuse.com or phone 315-317-8599.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, December 8



It's A Wrap! West African Textiles
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"It's A Wrap! West African Textiles" is an exhibition featuring over 40 examples of textiles and their accompanying tools. Drawn from geographically proximate locales in West Africa, including Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon, the textiles on display exemplify woven, stamped, appliqued, and resist-dyed techniques. Organized by Professor Michelle Gilbert, Department of Fine Arts, Trinity College, CT, and featuring objects on loan from the collections of Michelle Gilbert, and the Amyas Naegele and Eve Glasberg Collection, NY, this exhibition is sponsored in part by the Maxwell African Scholars Union, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University.

In all cultures clothing does more than simply cover the body. It communicates subtle visual messages about the owner. What and how it is worn, can be interpreted as a statement of flamboyant ostentation or modest conservatism. It may signal the prominence of a wealthy and powerful king, the presence of a deity, or the existence of a mad man. The textile culture in West African is very old, weaving is documented at Igbo Ukwu, Nigeria in the 9th-10th century and by the 11th century weaving flourished in Mali. Used in a variety of ways, African textiles can be presented as gifts to the living and the dead; used in a bride's dowry; displayed at weddings and funerals; used as blankets for protection from the cold and mosquitoes; spread on the ground for a chief to walk over or placed in layers to cover his palanquin or funeral bed. Textiles are worn to flatter or flirt, to display power or express silent insults, or to show common group identity. The artists' aesthetic sensibility is revealed in the cloth's intricate patterns, textures and technical flair.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, December 8



Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Wanderlust: Travel Photography from the SU Art Collection" investigates how artists from the late 19th century until today have been captivated by the potential of landscape images and its ability to transport our imagination whether the locale be exotic or not. Curated by exhibition and collection manager Emily Dittman, this display brings together historic albumen prints, travel albums, and contemporary black and white and color images from a variety of photographers working in the photographic medium over the past 120 years.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, December 8



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"21 Etchings and Poems," a landmark publication that had a profound impact on contemporary art and culture, will be presented in its entirety in the Print Study Room. Curated by Museum Studies graduate student Courtney Spencer Eppel, this exhibition presents 21 paired artists and authors to create unique works of art. The partnerships for this project included well-known artists and poets Peter Grippe and Dylan Thomas, Willem de Kooning and Harold Rosenberg, Letterio Calapai and William Carlos Williams, and Franz Kine and Frank O'Hara, among others.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, December 8



Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Edward Koren: The Capricious Line" celebrates the five-decade career of renowned cartoonist and long-standing contributor to The New Yorker, Edward Koren.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 8



From the Earth: Contemporary Haudenosaunee Clay and Stone
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Haudenosaunee, a name referring to the alliance of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations, have rich artistic traditions. This exhibition features the work of five contemporary Haudenosaunee artists represented in the Everson's collection—Tom Huff, Ada Jacques, Peter B. Jones, Tammy Tarbell-Boehning, and Steve Smith—all of whom draw upon their cultural heritage and blend traditional artistic methods with modern techniques.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 8



A Century of Collecting: 100 Years of Ceramics at the Everson
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The first exhibition in the Everson's new ceramics gallery, "A Century of Collecting" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Museum's first purchase of ceramics for the permanent collection in 1916. From that initial purchase of 32 works by distinguished Arts & Crafts potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the Everson has amassed a premier collection of more than 5000 ceramic pieces, dating from ancient times to the present day. This exhibition presents a survey of works made by key figures in modern and contemporary studio ceramics, tracing the Everson's role as a driving force in shaping attitudes about ceramics as a fine art medium.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 8



30th Annual Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 members, $8 non-members
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year, our theme of "City Lights" celebrates the renewal of downtown Syracuse and the bright light it casts on all of Central NY. Each decorated tree, wreath, and unique display is generously donated and all items are sold to benefit the Everson. Take in the beautiful sights, purchase items to decorate your home or office, and pick up tips for your own creations. The presentation of art and décor alongside activities and musical entertainment will make the Festival truly special.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 8



Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For centuries, artists and craftsmen alike have found inspiration in their everyday surroundings, drawing upon their home life as a subject, theme, and creative force. This exhibition features an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that address the theme of life in the home over the past 150 years. Including paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, video, ceramics, design, and decorative arts objects, Home Sweet Home presents a multi-faceted view of the home, its spaces, furnishings, and inhabitants. From depictions of the genteel interiors of Gilded Age America to images of mass-produced products of the Post-War era, the exhibition presents works by more than 30 artists and designers, including major historical figures and up-and-coming contemporary artists. Key pieces by Andy Warhol, Miriam Shapiro, Milton Avery, Jeff Koons, and Claes Oldenburg will be shown alongside examples of functional handcrafted and production pottery and furniture, still life paintings, tromp l'oeil sculptures, documentary photographs, and interior genre scenes.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 8



Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The culmination of Marie Lorenz's journey along the Erie Canal and the Hudson River in the summer of 2016, this multi-media exhibition brings together new works along with research, documentation and materials from the voyage.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 8



Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Angela Fraleigh, based in New York City and Allentown, co-opts the techniques, media, and styles of the European Old Masters to create monumental paintings of female figures that explore social constructs of gender, power, and identity. Combining abstraction and realism, her visually seductive and complicated paintings reflect on art history, literature, and popular culture. For the Everson, Fraleigh presents new paintings inspired by works in the Everson's collection, women of the Arts and Crafts movement and important female figures in the history of Central New York.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 8



within walls: New Work by Karin Waisman
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"within walls" reflects upon the natural processes of growth and decay. Each piece, made out of many cast or modeled fragments, is the outcome of the process of making it. The wall, no longer flat, becomes the concrete support of the work. A mural like quality of the pieces transforms the wall into a tactile and intricate sensuous surface. Ornament and wall become a metaphor for a time caught between permanence and evanescence.


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, December 8



In God's House: The Photographs of Robert Knight
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"In God's House" examines religious diversity as a reflection of the contemporary immigration crisis
and demographic shifts facing Europe. Knight's photographs of religious services juxtapose historic Christian churches with contemporary mosques in cities across Europe, revealing both similarities and differences between faiths. The resulting images allow us to consider not only our contemporary relationship to religion but also our relationship to those different than ourselves.


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5:00 PM - 11:00 PM, December 8



Marie Lorenz: Tide & Current Taxi
Urban Video Project

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

Artist Marie Lorenz presents new video work as part of her ongoing project, Tide and Current Taxi, which she started in 2005. Lorenz explores New York Harbor and beyond, taking participants in a rowboat built from salvaged materials to disused coastlines and inaccessible islands, and experiencing the urban environment from the rare perspective of the water. Along the way, she often collects trash that becomes material for her artwork various media, as well as documenting her journey through social media.

This collaborative multimedia show, commisioned by the Everson Museum of Art, Light Work, and Urban Video Project, is the culmination of Marie Lorenz's journey along the Erie Canal and the Hudson River in the summer of 2016 and brings together new works along with research, documentation, and materials from the voyage on view inside the Everson and a new video work at UVP.


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Music
 

7:30 PM, December 8



Count Basie and Thad Jones for Christmas
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Joe Carello, will perform holiday hits with a twist of jazz.


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7:30 PM, December 8



Solstice at the Cathedral

Price: General admission: $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Reserved seats: $35 in advance, $40 at the door
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A concert of music and light.

Solstice at the Cathedral concert is an annual Syracuse tradition. This concert offers you a moment to reflect on the the beauty of the season and celebrate the Winter Solstice—the return of light after the longest night of the year. Enjoy musical performances by some of Central New York's most critically-acclaimed artists, including Joe Whiting, Matt Vacanti, Bob Halligan Jr., International Guitar Duo (Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb), the Van Norstrand Brothers, Donna Colton, Jeff Stockham, Joe Davoli, Brian Scherer, Jim O'Mahony, Dave DeSiro, Marcia Hagan, Avery Head, Wayne Skinner, Tony Rashad, and Larry Kyle. Collaborations include a mix of pop, jazz, blues, Celtic, and original compositions in a spiritual setting. Creative lighting and a state-of-the-art sound system will enhance the experience.

Parking is available in the garage on Montgomery Street (across the street from St. Paul's) for a special rate of $5 for attendees of Solstice at the Cathedral concert.

For more information, visit www.solsticeatthecathedral.com or call People in the Seats Productions, 315-256-7386.


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, December 8



Nick Saint: Private Elf
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $34.75 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

When night falls on Toyland Town, some elves play rough. But it's nothing compared to what happens on The Island of Misfit Toys: the seamy underbelly of the North Pole; Santa's dirty little secret. It's no place for an elf, especially on Christmas Eve. Nick's partner, Smiles Thirdly, just found that out. Twice, at close range. Nick needs your help to investigate, but if you come to The Island, don't be a sap. Act like a misfit and blend in. Better yet, just be yourself.


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7:00 PM, December 8



*SOLD OUT* Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Redhouse
Patrick Burns, director

Price: $30 regular, $25 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed back into his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.

Based on the Academy Award winning feature, Disney's Beauty and the Beast will now inventively be brought to life on the Redhouse stage in partnership with Hillside Family of Agencies.

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7:00 PM, December 8



Mary Poppins
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Peter Amster, director

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

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! The sound of it may be atrocious but it is synonymous with this beloved family musical. The Banks children, Jane and Michael, have been positively beastly to a series of nannies. Enter (from above) Mary Poppins with her magic tricks and common sense know-how to charm children and grown-ups alike and remind them and us how important they are to each other. Winner of multiple Tony Awards, Mary Poppins is an enchanting mixture of irresistible story, unforgettable songs, breathtaking dance numbers, and astonishing stage magic.

A musical based on the stories of M.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film; original music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; book by Julian Fellowes; new songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe; choreography by Anthony Salatino.

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8:00 PM, December 8



It's a Wonderful Life
Central New York Playhouse
Bill Lee, director

Price: $17
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

In our American culture, It's a Wonderful Life has become almost as familiar as Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The story is a natural for a stage adaptation: the saga of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty, whose guardian angel has to descend on Christmas Eve to save him from despair and to remind him—by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born—that his has been, after all, a wonderful life. This faithful adaptation has all your favorite characters: George and Mary Hatch, Clarence, Uncle Billy, Violet, and, of course, the Scrooge-like villain, Mr. Potter. This fine dramatization not only celebrates the faith of the season, it also celebrates the American philosophy of life: hard work, fair play, and the love and support of one's family and community will be rewarded.

Adapted for the stage by James W. Rodgers, based on the film by Frank Capra.

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8:00 PM, December 8



A Christmas Survival Guide
Rarely Done Productions

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

This revue takes a wry and knowing look at a stressful season. The show explores everything from parody ("The 12 Steps of Christmas") to the traditional ("O Holy Night"). Join us for this light and lively way to take your mind off the holiday crush. Created and written by James Hindman and Ray Roderick.

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