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Events for Thursday, May 2, 2019

9:00 AM-5:00 PM On Tap 2: Works by members of the Independent Potters' Association Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Annual High School Seniors’ Exhibit Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM MFA Exhibit 2019: Plans Are Cancelled Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Robert Benjamin: River Walking Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM From Gilded to Gustav: The Victorian and Arts & Crafts Era in Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM From the Vault: Dumbo First Took Flight in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Plans Are Cancelled: MFA Thesis Exhibition Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Winslow Homer: Women and American Society During the Civil War Era Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Sound and Color Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Key Figures: Representational Ceramics 1932-1972 Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Socially Gifted: 75 Years of Gifts from the Social Art Club Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Highlights from the Permanent Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Eddie Dominguez: Garden of Eden Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Plans Are Cancelled: MFA 2019 Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM From Gods to Social Justice: Indian Folk Artists Challenging Traditions ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

6:00 PM PJ Masks Live: Save the Day Landmark Theatre

6:30 PM Journey to a Masterpiece Everson Museum of Art, featuring Dennis Connors

6:30 PM-9:30 PM Acoustic Open Mic The 443 Social Club

6:45 PM Death Takes a Bow Acme Mystery Company

7:00 PM Theatre Scratch Night Breadcrumbs Productions

7:00 PM Feeding Body and Soul: Jazz Benefit for Hunger Food Consortium

7:00 PM Rent (School Edition) Fowler High School Drama Club

7:30 PM Swing In

7:30 PM The Humans Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:45 PM-11:00 PM Culture Capture: Terminal Addition Urban Video Project

Events for Friday, May 3, 2019

9:00 AM-5:00 PM On Tap 2: Works by members of the Independent Potters' Association Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Annual High School Seniors’ Exhibit Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM MFA Exhibit 2019: Plans Are Cancelled Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Robert Benjamin: River Walking Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-4:00 PM From the Vault: Dumbo First Took Flight in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM From Gilded to Gustav: The Victorian and Arts & Crafts Era in Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Plans Are Cancelled: MFA Thesis Exhibition Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Sound and Color Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Winslow Homer: Women and American Society During the Civil War Era Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Key Figures: Representational Ceramics 1932-1972 Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Eddie Dominguez: Garden of Eden Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Highlights from the Permanent Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Socially Gifted: 75 Years of Gifts from the Social Art Club Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Plans Are Cancelled: MFA 2019 Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM From Gods to Social Justice: Indian Folk Artists Challenging Traditions ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

5:30 PM-8:00 PM First Friday: 90s Night Everson Museum of Art

7:00 PM Author Harvey Teres Downtown Writer's Center

7:00 PM Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus

7:00 PM Rent (School Edition) Fowler High School Drama Club

7:00 PM-10:00 PM John McConnell The 443 Social Club

7:30 PM Acis & Galatea NYS Baroque

8:00 PM A Belated Poetry Month Celebration ArtRage Gallery

8:00 PM Eliza Gilkyson Folkus Project

8:00 PM Puffs or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic Rarely Done Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM The Humans Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Preview: Good Kids Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

8:45 PM-11:00 PM Culture Capture: Terminal Addition Urban Video Project

Events for Saturday, May 4, 2019

9:00 AM-1:00 PM On Tap 2: Works by members of the Independent Potters' Association Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Key Figures: Representational Ceramics 1932-1972 Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Socially Gifted: 75 Years of Gifts from the Social Art Club Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Highlights from the Permanent Collection Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Eddie Dominguez: Garden of Eden Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Juan Cruz: A Retrospective Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Annual Spring Show and Sale Onondaga Art Guild

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Opening: Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit Celebration of the Arts

11:00 AM-5:00 PM MFA Exhibit 2019: Plans Are Cancelled Community Folk Art Center

11:00 AM-7:00 PM Crawfish Clam Festival Operation Northern Comfort

11:00 AM-4:00 PM From Gilded to Gustav: The Victorian and Arts & Crafts Era in Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM From the Vault: Dumbo First Took Flight in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM World of Puppets: Anansi: Tales of a Trickster Open Hand Theater

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Plans Are Cancelled: MFA Thesis Exhibition Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Winslow Homer: Women and American Society During the Civil War Era Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Sound and Color Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM From Gods to Social Justice: Indian Folk Artists Challenging Traditions ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

1:00 PM-9:00 PM Robert Benjamin: River Walking Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

1:00 PM-9:00 PM 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

3:00 PM The Humans Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

5:30 PM-10:00 PM 1000 Lights Water Lantern Festival

6:30 PM Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers Band The 443 Social Club

7:00 PM Basil: Greek Comedy Show

7:00 PM Rent (School Edition) Fowler High School Drama Club

7:00 PM Giving Back from the Heart Palace Theatre

7:30 PM Annual Jazz Concert Syracuse Vocal Ensemble

8:00 PM Puffs or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic Rarely Done Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM The Humans Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Opening: Good Kids Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

8:45 PM-11:00 PM Culture Capture: Terminal Addition Urban Video Project

Events for Sunday, May 5, 2019

11:00 AM-6:00 PM Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit Celebration of the Arts

11:00 AM-4:00 PM From the Vault: Dumbo First Took Flight in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM From Gilded to Gustav: The Victorian and Arts & Crafts Era in Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Sound and Color Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Winslow Homer: Women and American Society During the Civil War Era Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Plans Are Cancelled: MFA Thesis Exhibition Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Juan Cruz: A Retrospective Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Eddie Dominguez: Garden of Eden Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Highlights from the Permanent Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Socially Gifted: 75 Years of Gifts from the Social Art Club Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Key Figures: Representational Ceramics 1932-1972 Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Annual Spring Show and Sale Onondaga Art Guild

1:00 PM-9:00 PM 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

1:00 PM-9:00 PM Robert Benjamin: River Walking Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

2:00 PM Pinnacle Brass

2:00 PM The Humans Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

2:00 PM Good Kids Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

2:30 PM Casual Series: Spring Strings Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

2:30 PM Donnie Rankin Syracuse Wurlitzer

3:00 PM Classical Harp Concert

3:00 PM Cinco de Mayo Concert Syracuse Chorale

3:00 PM Spring Pops Concert Syracuse University Brass Ensemble

3:00 PM Adventures in Writing for Kids University Neighbors Lecture Series, featuring Bruce Coville

4:00 PM Smugtown Stompers Jazz Appreciation Society of Syracuse

4:00 PM Salt City Harpers Lakeside Performing Arts Series

4:00 PM I Hear America Singing Syracuse Children's Chorus

6:00 PM The SU Orange Juice Jazz Combo Celebration of the Arts

Events for Monday, May 6, 2019

9:00 AM-5:00 PM We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Robert Benjamin: River Walking Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Plans Are Cancelled: MFA 2019 Point of Contact Gallery

7:00 PM Young Composers Pop-Up Concert Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

7:30 PM Who Done It? (1942) Syracuse Cinephile Society

Events for Tuesday, May 7, 2019

9:00 AM-5:00 PM On Tap 2: Works by members of the Independent Potters' Association Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM MFA Exhibit 2019: Plans Are Cancelled Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Robert Benjamin: River Walking Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit Celebration of the Arts

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Plans Are Cancelled: MFA Thesis Exhibition Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Winslow Homer: Women and American Society During the Civil War Era Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Sound and Color Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Plans Are Cancelled: MFA 2019 Point of Contact Gallery

7:30 PM The Book of Mormon Broadway in Syracuse

7:30 PM Colm Toibin Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series

Events for Wednesday, May 8, 2019

9:00 AM-5:00 PM On Tap 2: Works by members of the Independent Potters' Association Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

9:00 AM-7:00 PM We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM MFA Exhibit 2019: Plans Are Cancelled Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Robert Benjamin: River Walking Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM From Gilded to Gustav: The Victorian and Arts & Crafts Era in Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM From the Vault: Dumbo First Took Flight in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit Celebration of the Arts

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Plans Are Cancelled: MFA Thesis Exhibition Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Sound and Color Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Winslow Homer: Women and American Society During the Civil War Era Syracuse University Art Museum

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

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Socially Gifted: 75 Years of Gifts from the Social Art Club Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Highlights from the Permanent Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Eddie Dominguez: Garden of Eden Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Juan Cruz: A Retrospective Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Key Figures: Representational Ceramics 1932-1972 Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Plans Are Cancelled: MFA 2019 Point of Contact Gallery

12:15 PM Onyx Clarinet Quartet Civic Morning Musicals

2:00 PM-7:00 PM From Gods to Social Justice: Indian Folk Artists Challenging Traditions ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

5:30 PM-8:30 PM Jazz at the Cavalier: Ronnie Leigh CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

7:00 PM Blood Leaves Its Trail (Khoon Diy Baarav) ArtRage Gallery

7:30 PM The Book of Mormon Broadway in Syracuse

7:30 PM The Humans Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Good Kids Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

Events for Thursday, May 9, 2019

9:00 AM-5:00 PM On Tap 2: Works by members of the Independent Potters' Association Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103 Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

10:00 AM-5:00 PM MFA Exhibit 2019: Plans Are Cancelled Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Robert Benjamin: River Walking Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-4:00 PM From the Vault: Dumbo First Took Flight in Syracuse Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM From Gilded to Gustav: The Victorian and Arts & Crafts Era in Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit Celebration of the Arts

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Plans Are Cancelled: MFA Thesis Exhibition Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Winslow Homer: Women and American Society During the Civil War Era Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Sound and Color Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Juan Cruz: A Retrospective Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Eddie Dominguez: Garden of Eden Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Highlights from the Permanent Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Socially Gifted: 75 Years of Gifts from the Social Art Club Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Key Figures: Representational Ceramics 1932-1972 Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Plans Are Cancelled: MFA 2019 Point of Contact Gallery

2:00 PM-7:00 PM From Gods to Social Justice: Indian Folk Artists Challenging Traditions ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

6:00 PM Design Talks with the CNY American Institute of Architects Everson Museum of Art

6:45 PM Death Takes a Bow Acme Mystery Company

7:00 PM Chris Trapper The 443 Social Club

7:30 PM The Book of Mormon Broadway in Syracuse

7:30 PM The Humans Syracuse Stage (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Puffs or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic Rarely Done Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Good Kids Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

8:45 PM-11:00 PM Culture Capture: Terminal Addition Urban Video Project

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Thursday, May 2, 2019


Art
 

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



On Tap 2: Works by members of the Independent Potters' Association
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce On Tap 2, featuring ceramics created by the group's members. The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels.


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



We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988 claimed the lives of 270 individuals from 21 nations. Among those lost were 35 students returning home from a semester abroad through Syracuse University. This exhibition of materials donated to the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster by the victims' families, friends, advocates, and affected communities commemorates the 30th anniversary of the tragedy through an exploration of the ways in which the lives of the victims have been remembered. Whether through scholarship, public advocacy, art, or physical memorials, we ensure their lives and the lessons learned from their deaths are not forgotten.


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



Annual High School Seniors’ Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

A show of works by high school seniors within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse, juried by the CNY Art Guild.


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



MFA Exhibit 2019: Plans Are Cancelled
Community Folk Art Center

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

The gallery, along with SUArt and Point of Contact Gallery, will be hosting the annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition titled "Plans are Cancelled", featuring works by Leticia Hernandez, Adam Hutchinson, Salome Kokoladze, Hlumela Matika, Seok Wun Au Yong, Haotian Wu, and Yilu Yang.


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



Robert Benjamin: River Walking
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present Robert Benjamin's "River Walking," a solo exhibition of photographs and poems spanning four decades. A self-taught photographer and poet, Benjamin's work, often centered around his family, offers a simple and honest consideration of what it means to live and to love with intention. "I think you have to love your life, and you have to have the courage to find the world beautiful," says Benjamin. Enchanted by color and the beauty of photography itself, Benjamin uncovers poetry in the everyday.

Benjamin never wanted a career in photography. He simply felt that he needed to make pictures. According to Benjamin, one of the great joys of being a photographer is working with cameras. He appreciates the elegance of mechanical objects deeply — their feel, their smell, their sound. Cameras are "exquisite little machines" — like typewriters, he says. Benjamin has been writing poems on his Smith-Corona Clipper longer than he's made photographs. His poems echo the sensitivity and humble directness of his photographs. More recently, Benjamin has begun pairing what he aptly calls "small photographs" with "small poems," a selection of which are included in this exhibition.

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



2019 Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present the 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual, featuring work by photography students in S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. This exhibition comprises more than 25 thematically diverse photographs by Newhouse's Multimedia Photography students. The exhibition represents various approaches to photographic practice and technique and showcases the rage of images that today's students are producing.

The exhibiting artists are Michele Abercrombie, Zack Bolton, Emily Elconin, Zach Krahmer, Jordan Larson, Sam Lee, Levingston Lewis, Gavin Liddell, Todd Michalek, Ally Moreo, Skye Schumacher, Liam Sheehan, Jes Sheldon, Maranie Staab, Doug Steinman, and Romy Weidner.

Caroline Smith, editor of photography and visuals at TOPIC, served as juror to select images for Best of Show and Honorable Mention awards. Maranie Staab took Best of Show and Honorable Mentions went to Emily Elconin and Sam Lee.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 2



From Gilded to Gustav: The Victorian and Arts & Crafts Era in Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This Victorian Era and Arts & Crafts exhibit will highlight several of Syracuse's major contributors to the Arts and Crafts movement, 1900-1920s, as well as feature many fine examples of period clothing, architecture, and furniture of the Victorian Era in Syracuse, 1837-1901.

In many respects, the Arts and Crafts movement was a rebuke of the ornate styling, designs, and increasing mechanization of production in the Victorian period. The displays will allow for museum patrons to see these contrasting styles up close.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 2



From the Vault: Dumbo First Took Flight in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will guide visitors through the long and humble beginnings of this adorable character. Learn about the two Helens, both Syracuse University graduates, who worked together to create the Dumbo that we know today. Helen Aberson wrote the original story of Dumbo the Flying Elephant and Helen Durney drew the illustrations.

For this special exhibit, OHA has worked in collaboration with the Syracuse University Special Collections, where the original documents are housed due to their connection to the S.U. graduates. Due to the extreme fragility of the pieces, duplicates are used in place of the originals, but the story the pieces tell about the origins and evolution of Dumbo is one every Syracusan should know.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 2



Plans Are Cancelled: MFA Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition featuring work by emerging contemporary artists in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 2



Winslow Homer: Women and American Society During the Civil War Era
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Distinguished Professor of Art and Music Histories Wayne Franits and students from his Senior Seminar studied wood engravings by noted American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) that depict women during the Civil War era. Their research and curatorial writing is featured in this exhibition.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 2



Sound and Color
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Whether we are healing or celebrating, the visual arts and music speak to our personal experiences and the connection we have to each other. It is only natural that the visual artist be directly influenced by melody and rhythm.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 2



Key Figures: Representational Ceramics 1932-1972
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Dating back to the Ceramic National exhibitions, which began in 1932, the Everson has a rich history of supporting artists who explore the figure. Artists like Viktor Schreckengost, Edris Eckhardt, and Waylande Gregory routinely received awards and critical acclaim for their work. "Key Figures" examines the larger-than-life artists who shaped an art movement, and features select works from a new generation of artists who are building on this legacy by using the figure to explore identity, narrative, and allegory.

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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 2



Socially Gifted: 75 Years of Gifts from the Social Art Club
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Founded in 1875, the Social Art Club is a women's club dedicated to the study of art in a group setting. The Club has an extensive history of supporting the Everson, including financial support for the acquisition of some of the Museum's most iconic pieces, such as Adrian Saxe's Untitled vessel from 1980, which graces the cover of the Museum's American Ceramics catalog. Over the past decade, the Social Art Club's gifts have strengthened the Everson's connections to Central New York through donations of work by indigenous and regional artists.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 2



Highlights from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Showcasing the depth of the Everson's collection, Highlights from the Permanent Collection presents 150 years of American art, from early 19th-century portraiture to the Pop Art of the 1960s. This exhibition features many visitor favorites, including work by Albert Bierstadt, Eastman Johnson, Lee Krasner, Grandma Moses, Jackson Pollock, and Gilbert Stuart.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 2



Eddie Dominguez: Garden of Eden
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The youngest of eight children, Eddie Dominguez grew up in Tucumcari, New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Amarillo on historic Route 66. He came to national prominence in the mid–1980s for highly stylized dinnerware sets that also stack into sculptural forms. In his work, Dominguez frequently references his home state's vegetation, landforms, weather, and Hispano–Catholic culture. The dual nature of Dominguez's objects, which inhabit the gray area between utility and art for art's sake, reflects his personal experience as a New Mexican who studied ceramics in the Anglo–dominated East: whether we see "art" or "craft," local Hispano or melting pot American depends completely on the immediate context.


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



Plans Are Cancelled: MFA 2019
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Featuring the work of six MFA candidates from Syracuse University's VPA School of Art and Department of Transmedia: Taylor Clock, Candice Corgan, Rene Gortat, Megan King, Jeremy Tarr, and Jessie Wang


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, May 2



From Gods to Social Justice: Indian Folk Artists Challenging Traditions
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Representing two painting styles of eastern India, this exhibition includes a male tradition of scrolls from Bengal and a female tradition of wall paintings, now done on paper, from the Mithila region of northern Bihar. Both of these art forms have morphed and changed in contemporary India, creating space for artists to use their art to comment on issues facing their lives, their nation and the planet. Their work deals with a variety of injustices such as violence against women, female infanticide, political corruption, climate change, and war.

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8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, May 2



Culture Capture: Terminal Addition
Urban Video Project

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

Light Work's Urban Video Project presents "Culture Capture: Terminal Addition" by the New Red Order (NRO). NRO core contributors Adam Khalil (Ojibway), Zack Khalil (Ojibway), and Jackson Polys (Tlingit) use video and performance to collectively challenge European settler and colonialist tendencies — such as "playing Indian" — with what they call "sites of savage pronouncement," the purpose of which is to shift potential obstructions to Indigenous growth and agency.

Created for UVP and shot in and around Syracuse, "Terminal Addition" uses local archives, collections, and locations, including the Columbus Monument in downtown Syracuse and the Saltine Warrior on the Syracuse University campus.

The exhibition will be on view on the north facade of the Everson Museum of Art from dusk until 11:00 pm.


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Lecture
 

6:30 PM, May 2



Journey to a Masterpiece
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Dennis Connors

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

The Everson Museum is marking a year-long celebration for the 50th anniversary of its I. M. Pei-designed home – an architectural masterpiece which opened in 1968. The history of how the museum evolved, physically, from borrowed space in a downtown office building in 1897 to its landmark tour de force is a fascinating story. It is one woven through local history touching on a James Street family fortune, controversies of post-World War II civic renewal, and the vision of dedicated patrons. Local historian Dennis Connors will explore that legacy in an illustrated lecture covering that 70-year passage which eventually created the Everson Museum edifice that we treasure today.


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Music
 

6:30 PM - 9:30 PM, May 2



Acoustic Open Mic
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Sign-ups begin at 5:30 pm.


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7:00 PM, May 2



Feeding Body and Soul: Jazz Benefit for Hunger
Food Consortium
Featuring E.S.P.

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


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7:30 PM, May 2



Swing In
Featuring Denis DeBlasio, saxophone; West Genesee Jazz ensembles

Price: $5
West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse


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Theater
 

6:00 PM, May 2



PJ Masks Live: Save the Day
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

PJ Masks Live is back with an all new super-heroic, live musical show, featuring the heroic trio from your favorite series: The PJ Masks! Watch Catboy, Owlette, and Gekko along with their new friend PJ Robot, as they try to save the day from the sneaky villains - Romeo, Night Ninja, and Luna Girl! Fluttering Feathers! Leaping Lizards! What a CAT-tastrophe! Leaping, flipping and climbing—live on stage! Complete with your favorite music and brand new songs you've never heard before! Don't sleep through it—watch the PJ Masks save the day, live on stage!

Tickets available online at Ticketmaster.com.


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6:45 PM, May 2



Death Takes a Bow
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

All the world's a stage, but some stages are worth more than others. Welcome to the historic White Tulip, the seediest theater in London, yet a place everyone seems to want. Tonight, a tycoon temptress and her tawdry toady take on a territorial thespian and his trollop of a treasurer in a tussle for title of this theatrical tenement. What valuable secrets lie behind the scenes, and how far will someone go to unearth them? Let the buyer beware: At this showplace greed steals every scene and dying on stage could be more than a figure of speech.


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7:00 PM, May 2



Theatre Scratch Night
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: $5
Wunderbar
201 S. West St., Syracuse

Readings of works-in-progress by local playwrights Martikah Williams, Isaac Betters, Louis DiNolfi, and Jodi Bova.


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7:00 PM, May 2



Rent (School Edition)
Fowler High School Drama Club

Price: $8
Fowler High School
227 Magnolia St., Syracuse


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7:30 PM, May 2



The Humans
Syracuse Stage
Mark Cuddy, director

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

Critically acclaimed winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play, The Humans offers a compelling look at a slice of contemporary life as seen through a family Thanksgiving celebration. The Blakes of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Eric and Deirdre, have come to Chinatown to spend the holiday with their adult daughters, Aimee and Brigid. Along for the celebration are Momo, Eric's mother teetering in and out of consciousness, and Richard, Brigid's boyfriend. Of course, they eat turkey, but when they talk turkey, it really gets interesting. A blisteringly funny and poignant play by Stephen Karam about people we might know and people we could be.

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Friday, May 3, 2019


Art
 

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 3



On Tap 2: Works by members of the Independent Potters' Association
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce On Tap 2, featuring ceramics created by the group's members. The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 3



We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988 claimed the lives of 270 individuals from 21 nations. Among those lost were 35 students returning home from a semester abroad through Syracuse University. This exhibition of materials donated to the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster by the victims' families, friends, advocates, and affected communities commemorates the 30th anniversary of the tragedy through an exploration of the ways in which the lives of the victims have been remembered. Whether through scholarship, public advocacy, art, or physical memorials, we ensure their lives and the lessons learned from their deaths are not forgotten.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 3



Annual High School Seniors’ Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

A show of works by high school seniors within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse, juried by the CNY Art Guild.


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



MFA Exhibit 2019: Plans Are Cancelled
Community Folk Art Center

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

The gallery, along with SUArt and Point of Contact Gallery, will be hosting the annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition titled "Plans are Cancelled", featuring works by Leticia Hernandez, Adam Hutchinson, Salome Kokoladze, Hlumela Matika, Seok Wun Au Yong, Haotian Wu, and Yilu Yang.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 3



2019 Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present the 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual, featuring work by photography students in S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. This exhibition comprises more than 25 thematically diverse photographs by Newhouse's Multimedia Photography students. The exhibition represents various approaches to photographic practice and technique and showcases the rage of images that today's students are producing.

The exhibiting artists are Michele Abercrombie, Zack Bolton, Emily Elconin, Zach Krahmer, Jordan Larson, Sam Lee, Levingston Lewis, Gavin Liddell, Todd Michalek, Ally Moreo, Skye Schumacher, Liam Sheehan, Jes Sheldon, Maranie Staab, Doug Steinman, and Romy Weidner.

Caroline Smith, editor of photography and visuals at TOPIC, served as juror to select images for Best of Show and Honorable Mention awards. Maranie Staab took Best of Show and Honorable Mentions went to Emily Elconin and Sam Lee.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 3



Robert Benjamin: River Walking
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present Robert Benjamin's "River Walking," a solo exhibition of photographs and poems spanning four decades. A self-taught photographer and poet, Benjamin's work, often centered around his family, offers a simple and honest consideration of what it means to live and to love with intention. "I think you have to love your life, and you have to have the courage to find the world beautiful," says Benjamin. Enchanted by color and the beauty of photography itself, Benjamin uncovers poetry in the everyday.

Benjamin never wanted a career in photography. He simply felt that he needed to make pictures. According to Benjamin, one of the great joys of being a photographer is working with cameras. He appreciates the elegance of mechanical objects deeply — their feel, their smell, their sound. Cameras are "exquisite little machines" — like typewriters, he says. Benjamin has been writing poems on his Smith-Corona Clipper longer than he's made photographs. His poems echo the sensitivity and humble directness of his photographs. More recently, Benjamin has begun pairing what he aptly calls "small photographs" with "small poems," a selection of which are included in this exhibition.

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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 3



From the Vault: Dumbo First Took Flight in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will guide visitors through the long and humble beginnings of this adorable character. Learn about the two Helens, both Syracuse University graduates, who worked together to create the Dumbo that we know today. Helen Aberson wrote the original story of Dumbo the Flying Elephant and Helen Durney drew the illustrations.

For this special exhibit, OHA has worked in collaboration with the Syracuse University Special Collections, where the original documents are housed due to their connection to the S.U. graduates. Due to the extreme fragility of the pieces, duplicates are used in place of the originals, but the story the pieces tell about the origins and evolution of Dumbo is one every Syracusan should know.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 3



From Gilded to Gustav: The Victorian and Arts & Crafts Era in Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This Victorian Era and Arts & Crafts exhibit will highlight several of Syracuse's major contributors to the Arts and Crafts movement, 1900-1920s, as well as feature many fine examples of period clothing, architecture, and furniture of the Victorian Era in Syracuse, 1837-1901.

In many respects, the Arts and Crafts movement was a rebuke of the ornate styling, designs, and increasing mechanization of production in the Victorian period. The displays will allow for museum patrons to see these contrasting styles up close.


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



Plans Are Cancelled: MFA Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition featuring work by emerging contemporary artists in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.


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



Sound and Color
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Whether we are healing or celebrating, the visual arts and music speak to our personal experiences and the connection we have to each other. It is only natural that the visual artist be directly influenced by melody and rhythm.


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



Winslow Homer: Women and American Society During the Civil War Era
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Distinguished Professor of Art and Music Histories Wayne Franits and students from his Senior Seminar studied wood engravings by noted American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) that depict women during the Civil War era. Their research and curatorial writing is featured in this exhibition.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 3



Key Figures: Representational Ceramics 1932-1972
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Dating back to the Ceramic National exhibitions, which began in 1932, the Everson has a rich history of supporting artists who explore the figure. Artists like Viktor Schreckengost, Edris Eckhardt, and Waylande Gregory routinely received awards and critical acclaim for their work. "Key Figures" examines the larger-than-life artists who shaped an art movement, and features select works from a new generation of artists who are building on this legacy by using the figure to explore identity, narrative, and allegory.

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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 3



Eddie Dominguez: Garden of Eden
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The youngest of eight children, Eddie Dominguez grew up in Tucumcari, New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Amarillo on historic Route 66. He came to national prominence in the mid–1980s for highly stylized dinnerware sets that also stack into sculptural forms. In his work, Dominguez frequently references his home state's vegetation, landforms, weather, and Hispano–Catholic culture. The dual nature of Dominguez's objects, which inhabit the gray area between utility and art for art's sake, reflects his personal experience as a New Mexican who studied ceramics in the Anglo–dominated East: whether we see "art" or "craft," local Hispano or melting pot American depends completely on the immediate context.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 3



Highlights from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Showcasing the depth of the Everson's collection, Highlights from the Permanent Collection presents 150 years of American art, from early 19th-century portraiture to the Pop Art of the 1960s. This exhibition features many visitor favorites, including work by Albert Bierstadt, Eastman Johnson, Lee Krasner, Grandma Moses, Jackson Pollock, and Gilbert Stuart.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 3



Socially Gifted: 75 Years of Gifts from the Social Art Club
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Founded in 1875, the Social Art Club is a women's club dedicated to the study of art in a group setting. The Club has an extensive history of supporting the Everson, including financial support for the acquisition of some of the Museum's most iconic pieces, such as Adrian Saxe's Untitled vessel from 1980, which graces the cover of the Museum's American Ceramics catalog. Over the past decade, the Social Art Club's gifts have strengthened the Everson's connections to Central New York through donations of work by indigenous and regional artists.


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



Plans Are Cancelled: MFA 2019
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Featuring the work of six MFA candidates from Syracuse University's VPA School of Art and Department of Transmedia: Taylor Clock, Candice Corgan, Rene Gortat, Megan King, Jeremy Tarr, and Jessie Wang


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, May 3



From Gods to Social Justice: Indian Folk Artists Challenging Traditions
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Representing two painting styles of eastern India, this exhibition includes a male tradition of scrolls from Bengal and a female tradition of wall paintings, now done on paper, from the Mithila region of northern Bihar. Both of these art forms have morphed and changed in contemporary India, creating space for artists to use their art to comment on issues facing their lives, their nation and the planet. Their work deals with a variety of injustices such as violence against women, female infanticide, political corruption, climate change, and war.

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5:30 PM - 8:00 PM, May 3



First Friday: 90s Night
Everson Museum of Art

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

Get the weekend started with the Everson Museum of Art's First Fridays! The First Friday of each month is an evening of art, music, art-making, and more. Cash bar.

Tonight, throw it back to the days of roller skating parties and frosted tips. Create your own puffy paint masterpiece. T-shirts and canvas totes available for purchase, or bring your own! Both our playlist and cash bar will be stocked with 90s fan favorites.


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8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, May 3



Culture Capture: Terminal Addition
Urban Video Project

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

Light Work's Urban Video Project presents "Culture Capture: Terminal Addition" by the New Red Order (NRO). NRO core contributors Adam Khalil (Ojibway), Zack Khalil (Ojibway), and Jackson Polys (Tlingit) use video and performance to collectively challenge European settler and colonialist tendencies — such as "playing Indian" — with what they call "sites of savage pronouncement," the purpose of which is to shift potential obstructions to Indigenous growth and agency.

Created for UVP and shot in and around Syracuse, "Terminal Addition" uses local archives, collections, and locations, including the Columbus Monument in downtown Syracuse and the Saltine Warrior on the Syracuse University campus.

The exhibition will be on view on the north facade of the Everson Museum of Art from dusk until 11:00 pm.


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Music
 

7:00 PM, May 3



Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus

Price: $30 adults, $10 ages 21 and under
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Under Artistic Director and Conductor Oleh Mahlay, the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus returns to the Syracuse area to present its Centennial Concert Program most recently showcased on their historic Centennial Tour of Ukraine in October of 2018.

Tickets available online or at Ukrainian Federal Credit Union. For more information, phone 315-396-1513.


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7:00 PM - 10:00 PM, May 3



John McConnell
The 443 Social Club

Price: No cover
The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse


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7:30 PM, May 3



Acis & Galatea
NYS Baroque

Price: $35 regular, $30 seniors, $10 college students, children free
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

A semi-staged concert version of this beloved pastoral opera by Handel. Will the monster Polyphemus woo Galatea to his side?

Laura Heimes, soprano, as Galatea; Jonas Budris, tenor, as Acis; Andrew Fuchs, tenor, as Damon; Andrew Padgett, bass, as Polyphemus; Michael Beattie, musical direction; Emily Cuk, stage direction.

There will be a pre-concert talk at 6:45 pm.


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8:00 PM, May 3



Eliza Gilkyson
Folkus Project

Price: $20 regular, $17 members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The daughter of legendary songwriter Terry Gilkyson, Eliza entered the music world as a teenager, recording demos for her father. Since then she has released 20 recordings of her own, and her songs have been covered by such notables as Joan Baez, Bob Geldof, Tom Rush, and Rosanne Cash.

Gilkyson's music has always offered a vivid reflection of the times we live in, full of joys and sorrows, each song a window into a life of struggle and triumph in a world she feels is "poised on the edge of moral, economic and environmental bankruptcy."

The Grammy-nominated songwriter has appeared on NPR, Austin City Limits, Mountain Stage, XM Radio, Air America Radio and has toured worldwide as a solo artist and in support of Richard Thompson, Patty Griffin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Dan Fogelberg, as well as with the Woody Guthrie review, Ribbon of Highway-Endless Skyway, alongside the Guthrie Family, Jimmy Lafave, Slaid Cleaves, and special guests Pete Seeger, Jackson Browne and Kris Kristofferson.

She has been inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame alongside such legends as Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt and Nanci Griffith and is an ongoing winner of the Austin Chronicle's various music awards, as well as Folk Alliance awards for Best Artist, Best Songwriter and Record of the Year.

Her CD Land of Milk and Honey was nominated for a GRAMMY for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Eliza's meditative "Requiem," written as a prayer for those who lost their lives in the devastating tsunami in Southeast Asia, was recorded by the nationally recognized choral group Conspirare, whose version was nominated for a Grammy and won the prestigious Edison Award in Europe. The song has become a standard in choir repertory the world over.

Two of her songs appeared on Joan Baez's Grammy-nominated CD, Day After Tomorrow. In addition to touring in support of her previous release, Roses at the End of Time, in 2011 and 2012 Eliza and label-mates John Gorka and Lucy Kaplansky performed as "Folk Super Trio" Red Horse, a side project whose CD stayed for months at the top of the Folk Music Charts.

Eliza was invited to contribute a track on the 2014 Jackson Browne tribute, Looking Into You, along with Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Sara Watkins, Bonnie Raitt, Shawn Colvin and others. She received her second GRAMMY folk nomination in 2015 for her album The Nocturne Diaries. In early 2018, Joan Baez covered Eliza's song "The Great Correction" on her covers album Whistle Down the Wind. Eliza's 20th album, Secularia, was released this past summer.


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Poetry/Reading
 

7:00 PM, May 3



Author Harvey Teres
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Harvey Teres is Dean's Professor for the Public Humanities in English at Syracuse University. He is the author of The Word on the Street: Linking the Academy and the Common Reader (University of Michigan Press, 2011) and Renewing the Left: Politics, Imagination, and the New York Intellectuals (Oxford University Press, 1996). His newest book, Conversations about Beauty with Ordinary Americans: "Somebody loves us all," features 14 people from different walks of life who talk about the impact of their encounters with beauty. They confirm what Simone Weil once observed: "beautiful things are like tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space."


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8:00 PM, May 3



A Belated Poetry Month Celebration
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $10
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Join Michael A. Gaut, The Painted Poet, for a night of spoken word, live music, and beautiful art! Featuring Mayhem Poetry, Alandra Michele, and YOU! (Open mic portion to followed featured artists). Live music provided by Bryon Cage and guest.


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Theater
 

7:00 PM, May 3



Rent (School Edition)
Fowler High School Drama Club

Price: $8
Fowler High School
227 Magnolia St., Syracuse


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8:00 PM, May 3



Puffs or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic
Rarely Done Productions
Krystal Wadsworth, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For seven years a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is not his story. This is the story of the Puffs... who just happened to be there too. A tale for anyone who has never been destined to save the world.

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8:00 PM, May 3



The Humans
Syracuse Stage
Mark Cuddy, director

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

Critically acclaimed winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play, The Humans offers a compelling look at a slice of contemporary life as seen through a family Thanksgiving celebration. The Blakes of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Eric and Deirdre, have come to Chinatown to spend the holiday with their adult daughters, Aimee and Brigid. Along for the celebration are Momo, Eric's mother teetering in and out of consciousness, and Richard, Brigid's boyfriend. Of course, they eat turkey, but when they talk turkey, it really gets interesting. A blisteringly funny and poignant play by Stephen Karam about people we might know and people we could be.

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8:00 PM, May 3



Preview: Good Kids
Syracuse University Drama Department
Holly Thuma, director

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

A hard-hitting and clear-eyed look at the troubling aftermath of the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl by members of a high school football team. Based on actual events, Good Kids, by Naomi Iizuka, examines how social media makes private lives public in ways we don't always anticipate and can't always control. At the same time, it sheds light on issues that are often treated as isolated incidents — but which, in truth, reflect attitudes and beliefs prevalent in the culture at large.

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Saturday, May 4, 2019


Art
 

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



On Tap 2: Works by members of the Independent Potters' Association
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce On Tap 2, featuring ceramics created by the group's members. The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels.


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



Key Figures: Representational Ceramics 1932-1972
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Dating back to the Ceramic National exhibitions, which began in 1932, the Everson has a rich history of supporting artists who explore the figure. Artists like Viktor Schreckengost, Edris Eckhardt, and Waylande Gregory routinely received awards and critical acclaim for their work. "Key Figures" examines the larger-than-life artists who shaped an art movement, and features select works from a new generation of artists who are building on this legacy by using the figure to explore identity, narrative, and allegory.

Read a review!


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



Socially Gifted: 75 Years of Gifts from the Social Art Club
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Founded in 1875, the Social Art Club is a women's club dedicated to the study of art in a group setting. The Club has an extensive history of supporting the Everson, including financial support for the acquisition of some of the Museum's most iconic pieces, such as Adrian Saxe's Untitled vessel from 1980, which graces the cover of the Museum's American Ceramics catalog. Over the past decade, the Social Art Club's gifts have strengthened the Everson's connections to Central New York through donations of work by indigenous and regional artists.


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



Highlights from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Showcasing the depth of the Everson's collection, Highlights from the Permanent Collection presents 150 years of American art, from early 19th-century portraiture to the Pop Art of the 1960s. This exhibition features many visitor favorites, including work by Albert Bierstadt, Eastman Johnson, Lee Krasner, Grandma Moses, Jackson Pollock, and Gilbert Stuart.


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



Eddie Dominguez: Garden of Eden
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The youngest of eight children, Eddie Dominguez grew up in Tucumcari, New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Amarillo on historic Route 66. He came to national prominence in the mid–1980s for highly stylized dinnerware sets that also stack into sculptural forms. In his work, Dominguez frequently references his home state's vegetation, landforms, weather, and Hispano–Catholic culture. The dual nature of Dominguez's objects, which inhabit the gray area between utility and art for art's sake, reflects his personal experience as a New Mexican who studied ceramics in the Anglo–dominated East: whether we see "art" or "craft," local Hispano or melting pot American depends completely on the immediate context.


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



Juan Cruz: A Retrospective
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In the 1980s, Juan Cruz began investigating his past as a method to understand where the tribal and the modern world collide. Born in Puerto Rico, Cruz briefly attended the Art Students League in 1975 and in 1995 he graduated from Syracuse University's School of Visual and Performing Arts. This career-spanning exhibition focuses on Cruz's work as a painter, sculptor, muralist, and community activist.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 4



Annual Spring Show and Sale
Onondaga Art Guild

Emmanuel Episcopal Church
400 Yates St., East Syracuse


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



Opening: Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

The juried exhibit showcases the recent artwork of over 110 artists from CNY.


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



MFA Exhibit 2019: Plans Are Cancelled
Community Folk Art Center

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

The gallery, along with SUArt and Point of Contact Gallery, will be hosting the annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition titled "Plans are Cancelled", featuring works by Leticia Hernandez, Adam Hutchinson, Salome Kokoladze, Hlumela Matika, Seok Wun Au Yong, Haotian Wu, and Yilu Yang.


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



From Gilded to Gustav: The Victorian and Arts & Crafts Era in Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This Victorian Era and Arts & Crafts exhibit will highlight several of Syracuse's major contributors to the Arts and Crafts movement, 1900-1920s, as well as feature many fine examples of period clothing, architecture, and furniture of the Victorian Era in Syracuse, 1837-1901.

In many respects, the Arts and Crafts movement was a rebuke of the ornate styling, designs, and increasing mechanization of production in the Victorian period. The displays will allow for museum patrons to see these contrasting styles up close.


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



From the Vault: Dumbo First Took Flight in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will guide visitors through the long and humble beginnings of this adorable character. Learn about the two Helens, both Syracuse University graduates, who worked together to create the Dumbo that we know today. Helen Aberson wrote the original story of Dumbo the Flying Elephant and Helen Durney drew the illustrations.

For this special exhibit, OHA has worked in collaboration with the Syracuse University Special Collections, where the original documents are housed due to their connection to the S.U. graduates. Due to the extreme fragility of the pieces, duplicates are used in place of the originals, but the story the pieces tell about the origins and evolution of Dumbo is one every Syracusan should know.


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



Plans Are Cancelled: MFA Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition featuring work by emerging contemporary artists in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.


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



Winslow Homer: Women and American Society During the Civil War Era
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Distinguished Professor of Art and Music Histories Wayne Franits and students from his Senior Seminar studied wood engravings by noted American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) that depict women during the Civil War era. Their research and curatorial writing is featured in this exhibition.


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



Sound and Color
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Whether we are healing or celebrating, the visual arts and music speak to our personal experiences and the connection we have to each other. It is only natural that the visual artist be directly influenced by melody and rhythm.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 4



From Gods to Social Justice: Indian Folk Artists Challenging Traditions
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Representing two painting styles of eastern India, this exhibition includes a male tradition of scrolls from Bengal and a female tradition of wall paintings, now done on paper, from the Mithila region of northern Bihar. Both of these art forms have morphed and changed in contemporary India, creating space for artists to use their art to comment on issues facing their lives, their nation and the planet. Their work deals with a variety of injustices such as violence against women, female infanticide, political corruption, climate change, and war.

Read a review!


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, May 4



Robert Benjamin: River Walking
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present Robert Benjamin's "River Walking," a solo exhibition of photographs and poems spanning four decades. A self-taught photographer and poet, Benjamin's work, often centered around his family, offers a simple and honest consideration of what it means to live and to love with intention. "I think you have to love your life, and you have to have the courage to find the world beautiful," says Benjamin. Enchanted by color and the beauty of photography itself, Benjamin uncovers poetry in the everyday.

Benjamin never wanted a career in photography. He simply felt that he needed to make pictures. According to Benjamin, one of the great joys of being a photographer is working with cameras. He appreciates the elegance of mechanical objects deeply — their feel, their smell, their sound. Cameras are "exquisite little machines" — like typewriters, he says. Benjamin has been writing poems on his Smith-Corona Clipper longer than he's made photographs. His poems echo the sensitivity and humble directness of his photographs. More recently, Benjamin has begun pairing what he aptly calls "small photographs" with "small poems," a selection of which are included in this exhibition.

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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, May 4



2019 Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present the 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual, featuring work by photography students in S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. This exhibition comprises more than 25 thematically diverse photographs by Newhouse's Multimedia Photography students. The exhibition represents various approaches to photographic practice and technique and showcases the rage of images that today's students are producing.

The exhibiting artists are Michele Abercrombie, Zack Bolton, Emily Elconin, Zach Krahmer, Jordan Larson, Sam Lee, Levingston Lewis, Gavin Liddell, Todd Michalek, Ally Moreo, Skye Schumacher, Liam Sheehan, Jes Sheldon, Maranie Staab, Doug Steinman, and Romy Weidner.

Caroline Smith, editor of photography and visuals at TOPIC, served as juror to select images for Best of Show and Honorable Mention awards. Maranie Staab took Best of Show and Honorable Mentions went to Emily Elconin and Sam Lee.


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8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, May 4



Culture Capture: Terminal Addition
Urban Video Project

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

Light Work's Urban Video Project presents "Culture Capture: Terminal Addition" by the New Red Order (NRO). NRO core contributors Adam Khalil (Ojibway), Zack Khalil (Ojibway), and Jackson Polys (Tlingit) use video and performance to collectively challenge European settler and colonialist tendencies — such as "playing Indian" — with what they call "sites of savage pronouncement," the purpose of which is to shift potential obstructions to Indigenous growth and agency.

Created for UVP and shot in and around Syracuse, "Terminal Addition" uses local archives, collections, and locations, including the Columbus Monument in downtown Syracuse and the Saltine Warrior on the Syracuse University campus.

The exhibition will be on view on the north facade of the Everson Museum of Art from dusk until 11:00 pm.


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Comedy
 

7:00 PM, May 4



Basil: Greek Comedy Show

Price: $35
St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church
325 Waring Rd., Syracuse


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Festival
 

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



Crawfish Clam Festival
Operation Northern Comfort

Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Cajun cuisine, plus crafters and entertainment.

11:10 am: Unity Street Band
12:15 pm: Los Blancos
1:45 pm: Soul Risin'
3:45 pm: C'est Bon Cajun Band
5:30-7:00 pm: The Ripcords


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5:30 PM - 10:00 PM, May 4



1000 Lights Water Lantern Festival

Price: $30 adults, $13 ages 10-13, free for ages 9 and under
Jamesville Beach
Apulia Rd., Jamesville

As the sun sets, water lanterns will be launched onto the waters of Jamesville Beach to light the night.

Entertainment, food trucks, and more.


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Music
 

6:30 PM, May 4



Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers Band
The 443 Social Club

Price: $10 in advance, $15 at the door
The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse


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7:00 PM, May 4



Giving Back from the Heart
Palace Theatre

Price: Free
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Giving Back From the Heart is a group of talented musicians and comedians coming together for one night only! Rock, pop, rap, country, gospel, alternative, and all sorts of music, plus comedy.


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7:30 PM, May 4



Annual Jazz Concert
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Jeff Welcher, conductor

Price: $20 adults, $5 students
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

SVE's annual chance to swing with great vocal jazz. Get a jump on summer and feel the beat!


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Theater
 

11:00 AM, May 4



World of Puppets: Anansi: Tales of a Trickster
Open Hand Theater

Price: $5
Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A retelling of three classic Anansi stories: The Talking Melon, The Wishing Stick, and Anansi Goes Fishing.


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3:00 PM, May 4



The Humans
Syracuse Stage
Mark Cuddy, director

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

Critically acclaimed winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play, The Humans offers a compelling look at a slice of contemporary life as seen through a family Thanksgiving celebration. The Blakes of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Eric and Deirdre, have come to Chinatown to spend the holiday with their adult daughters, Aimee and Brigid. Along for the celebration are Momo, Eric's mother teetering in and out of consciousness, and Richard, Brigid's boyfriend. Of course, they eat turkey, but when they talk turkey, it really gets interesting. A blisteringly funny and poignant play by Stephen Karam about people we might know and people we could be.

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7:00 PM, May 4



Rent (School Edition)
Fowler High School Drama Club

Price: $8
Fowler High School
227 Magnolia St., Syracuse


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8:00 PM, May 4



Puffs or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic
Rarely Done Productions
Krystal Wadsworth, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For seven years a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is not his story. This is the story of the Puffs... who just happened to be there too. A tale for anyone who has never been destined to save the world.

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8:00 PM, May 4



The Humans
Syracuse Stage
Mark Cuddy, director

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

Critically acclaimed winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play, The Humans offers a compelling look at a slice of contemporary life as seen through a family Thanksgiving celebration. The Blakes of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Eric and Deirdre, have come to Chinatown to spend the holiday with their adult daughters, Aimee and Brigid. Along for the celebration are Momo, Eric's mother teetering in and out of consciousness, and Richard, Brigid's boyfriend. Of course, they eat turkey, but when they talk turkey, it really gets interesting. A blisteringly funny and poignant play by Stephen Karam about people we might know and people we could be.

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8:00 PM, May 4



Opening: Good Kids
Syracuse University Drama Department
Holly Thuma, director

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

A hard-hitting and clear-eyed look at the troubling aftermath of the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl by members of a high school football team. Based on actual events, Good Kids, by Naomi Iizuka, examines how social media makes private lives public in ways we don't always anticipate and can't always control. At the same time, it sheds light on issues that are often treated as isolated incidents — but which, in truth, reflect attitudes and beliefs prevalent in the culture at large.

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Sunday, May 5, 2019


Art
 

11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, May 5



Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

The juried exhibit showcases the recent artwork of over 110 artists from CNY.


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



From the Vault: Dumbo First Took Flight in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will guide visitors through the long and humble beginnings of this adorable character. Learn about the two Helens, both Syracuse University graduates, who worked together to create the Dumbo that we know today. Helen Aberson wrote the original story of Dumbo the Flying Elephant and Helen Durney drew the illustrations.

For this special exhibit, OHA has worked in collaboration with the Syracuse University Special Collections, where the original documents are housed due to their connection to the S.U. graduates. Due to the extreme fragility of the pieces, duplicates are used in place of the originals, but the story the pieces tell about the origins and evolution of Dumbo is one every Syracusan should know.


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



From Gilded to Gustav: The Victorian and Arts & Crafts Era in Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This Victorian Era and Arts & Crafts exhibit will highlight several of Syracuse's major contributors to the Arts and Crafts movement, 1900-1920s, as well as feature many fine examples of period clothing, architecture, and furniture of the Victorian Era in Syracuse, 1837-1901.

In many respects, the Arts and Crafts movement was a rebuke of the ornate styling, designs, and increasing mechanization of production in the Victorian period. The displays will allow for museum patrons to see these contrasting styles up close.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 5



Sound and Color
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Whether we are healing or celebrating, the visual arts and music speak to our personal experiences and the connection we have to each other. It is only natural that the visual artist be directly influenced by melody and rhythm.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 5



Winslow Homer: Women and American Society During the Civil War Era
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Distinguished Professor of Art and Music Histories Wayne Franits and students from his Senior Seminar studied wood engravings by noted American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) that depict women during the Civil War era. Their research and curatorial writing is featured in this exhibition.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 5



Plans Are Cancelled: MFA Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition featuring work by emerging contemporary artists in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 5



Juan Cruz: A Retrospective
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In the 1980s, Juan Cruz began investigating his past as a method to understand where the tribal and the modern world collide. Born in Puerto Rico, Cruz briefly attended the Art Students League in 1975 and in 1995 he graduated from Syracuse University's School of Visual and Performing Arts. This career-spanning exhibition focuses on Cruz's work as a painter, sculptor, muralist, and community activist.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 5



Eddie Dominguez: Garden of Eden
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The youngest of eight children, Eddie Dominguez grew up in Tucumcari, New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Amarillo on historic Route 66. He came to national prominence in the mid–1980s for highly stylized dinnerware sets that also stack into sculptural forms. In his work, Dominguez frequently references his home state's vegetation, landforms, weather, and Hispano–Catholic culture. The dual nature of Dominguez's objects, which inhabit the gray area between utility and art for art's sake, reflects his personal experience as a New Mexican who studied ceramics in the Anglo–dominated East: whether we see "art" or "craft," local Hispano or melting pot American depends completely on the immediate context.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 5



Highlights from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Showcasing the depth of the Everson's collection, Highlights from the Permanent Collection presents 150 years of American art, from early 19th-century portraiture to the Pop Art of the 1960s. This exhibition features many visitor favorites, including work by Albert Bierstadt, Eastman Johnson, Lee Krasner, Grandma Moses, Jackson Pollock, and Gilbert Stuart.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 5



Socially Gifted: 75 Years of Gifts from the Social Art Club
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Founded in 1875, the Social Art Club is a women's club dedicated to the study of art in a group setting. The Club has an extensive history of supporting the Everson, including financial support for the acquisition of some of the Museum's most iconic pieces, such as Adrian Saxe's Untitled vessel from 1980, which graces the cover of the Museum's American Ceramics catalog. Over the past decade, the Social Art Club's gifts have strengthened the Everson's connections to Central New York through donations of work by indigenous and regional artists.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 5



Key Figures: Representational Ceramics 1932-1972
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Dating back to the Ceramic National exhibitions, which began in 1932, the Everson has a rich history of supporting artists who explore the figure. Artists like Viktor Schreckengost, Edris Eckhardt, and Waylande Gregory routinely received awards and critical acclaim for their work. "Key Figures" examines the larger-than-life artists who shaped an art movement, and features select works from a new generation of artists who are building on this legacy by using the figure to explore identity, narrative, and allegory.

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



Annual Spring Show and Sale
Onondaga Art Guild

Emmanuel Episcopal Church
400 Yates St., East Syracuse


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, May 5



2019 Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present the 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual, featuring work by photography students in S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. This exhibition comprises more than 25 thematically diverse photographs by Newhouse's Multimedia Photography students. The exhibition represents various approaches to photographic practice and technique and showcases the rage of images that today's students are producing.

The exhibiting artists are Michele Abercrombie, Zack Bolton, Emily Elconin, Zach Krahmer, Jordan Larson, Sam Lee, Levingston Lewis, Gavin Liddell, Todd Michalek, Ally Moreo, Skye Schumacher, Liam Sheehan, Jes Sheldon, Maranie Staab, Doug Steinman, and Romy Weidner.

Caroline Smith, editor of photography and visuals at TOPIC, served as juror to select images for Best of Show and Honorable Mention awards. Maranie Staab took Best of Show and Honorable Mentions went to Emily Elconin and Sam Lee.


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, May 5



Robert Benjamin: River Walking
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present Robert Benjamin's "River Walking," a solo exhibition of photographs and poems spanning four decades. A self-taught photographer and poet, Benjamin's work, often centered around his family, offers a simple and honest consideration of what it means to live and to love with intention. "I think you have to love your life, and you have to have the courage to find the world beautiful," says Benjamin. Enchanted by color and the beauty of photography itself, Benjamin uncovers poetry in the everyday.

Benjamin never wanted a career in photography. He simply felt that he needed to make pictures. According to Benjamin, one of the great joys of being a photographer is working with cameras. He appreciates the elegance of mechanical objects deeply — their feel, their smell, their sound. Cameras are "exquisite little machines" — like typewriters, he says. Benjamin has been writing poems on his Smith-Corona Clipper longer than he's made photographs. His poems echo the sensitivity and humble directness of his photographs. More recently, Benjamin has begun pairing what he aptly calls "small photographs" with "small poems," a selection of which are included in this exhibition.

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Lecture
 

3:00 PM, May 5



Adventures in Writing for Kids
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Bruce Coville

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Bruce Coville has published over 100 books for children and young adults, including the million copy bestseller Aliens Ate My Homework, as well as the much-loved Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher. He is also the founder of Full Cast Audio, an audiobook publishing company devoted to producing full cast, unabridged recordings of material for family listening. The film version of his book Aliens Ate My Homework can be seen on Netflix. He lives in Syracuse with his wife, illustrator and author Katherine Coville.

Discussion will touch on topics such as the ups and downs, pitfalls and pratfalls, of a life spent writing for children; thoughts about why this literature matters; the ever-present danger of censorship; and why pleasure is the key to literacy.


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Music
 

2:00 PM, May 5



Pinnacle Brass

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Premiere brass quintet of area music teachers will perform classics, standards, and marches.


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2:30 PM, May 5



Casual Series: Spring Strings
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Symphoria String Quartet
Christian Capocaccia, conductor

St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barber Adagio for Strings
Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite III
Haydn String Quartet, op. 77, Menuet
Caroline Shaw Entr'Acte
Elgar Introduction and Allegro, op. 47


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2:30 PM, May 5



Donnie Rankin
Syracuse Wurlitzer

Price: $15 adults, $2 kids 16 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Pop music performed on the Mighty Wurlitzer.


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3:00 PM, May 5



Classical Harp Concert
Featuring Abigail Kent, harp

Price: Free-will donation
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles


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3:00 PM, May 5



Cinco de Mayo Concert
Syracuse Chorale
Peppie Calvar, conductor

Price: $15 adult, free for kids 18 and under
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Martin Palmeri's Misatango


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3:00 PM, May 5



Spring Pops Concert
Syracuse University Brass Ensemble
James T. Spencer, conductor

Price: $10 adults, $5 children
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Proceeds will benefit the Manlius Historical Society.


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4:00 PM, May 5



Smugtown Stompers
Jazz Appreciation Society of Syracuse

Price: $20 ($15 for members)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Rochester-based ensemble plays New Orleans and Chicago style jazz.


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4:00 PM, May 5



Salt City Harpers
Lakeside Performing Arts Series

St. James Episcopal Church
94 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles


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4:00 PM, May 5



I Hear America Singing
Syracuse Children's Chorus

Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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6:00 PM, May 5



The SU Orange Juice Jazz Combo
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Donations welcome
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Founded in 2017, Orange Juice is the premier jazz chamber ensemble of the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University, under the guidance of Dr. John Coggiola. This group, consisting of advanced undergraduate and graduate musicians, performs diverse repertoire highlighting the many genres of American jazz and commercial music. Featuring Nick Ablegore, Gaspard Beck, Scott Greenblatt, Julia Goodwin, Liam Hines, Brian Miller, and Kyle Swigert.


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, May 5



The Humans
Syracuse Stage
Mark Cuddy, director

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

Critically acclaimed winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play, The Humans offers a compelling look at a slice of contemporary life as seen through a family Thanksgiving celebration. The Blakes of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Eric and Deirdre, have come to Chinatown to spend the holiday with their adult daughters, Aimee and Brigid. Along for the celebration are Momo, Eric's mother teetering in and out of consciousness, and Richard, Brigid's boyfriend. Of course, they eat turkey, but when they talk turkey, it really gets interesting. A blisteringly funny and poignant play by Stephen Karam about people we might know and people we could be.

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2:00 PM, May 5



Good Kids
Syracuse University Drama Department
Holly Thuma, director

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

A hard-hitting and clear-eyed look at the troubling aftermath of the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl by members of a high school football team. Based on actual events, Good Kids, by Naomi Iizuka, examines how social media makes private lives public in ways we don't always anticipate and can't always control. At the same time, it sheds light on issues that are often treated as isolated incidents — but which, in truth, reflect attitudes and beliefs prevalent in the culture at large.

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Monday, May 6, 2019


Art
 

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



We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988 claimed the lives of 270 individuals from 21 nations. Among those lost were 35 students returning home from a semester abroad through Syracuse University. This exhibition of materials donated to the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster by the victims' families, friends, advocates, and affected communities commemorates the 30th anniversary of the tragedy through an exploration of the ways in which the lives of the victims have been remembered. Whether through scholarship, public advocacy, art, or physical memorials, we ensure their lives and the lessons learned from their deaths are not forgotten.


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



Robert Benjamin: River Walking
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present Robert Benjamin's "River Walking," a solo exhibition of photographs and poems spanning four decades. A self-taught photographer and poet, Benjamin's work, often centered around his family, offers a simple and honest consideration of what it means to live and to love with intention. "I think you have to love your life, and you have to have the courage to find the world beautiful," says Benjamin. Enchanted by color and the beauty of photography itself, Benjamin uncovers poetry in the everyday.

Benjamin never wanted a career in photography. He simply felt that he needed to make pictures. According to Benjamin, one of the great joys of being a photographer is working with cameras. He appreciates the elegance of mechanical objects deeply — their feel, their smell, their sound. Cameras are "exquisite little machines" — like typewriters, he says. Benjamin has been writing poems on his Smith-Corona Clipper longer than he's made photographs. His poems echo the sensitivity and humble directness of his photographs. More recently, Benjamin has begun pairing what he aptly calls "small photographs" with "small poems," a selection of which are included in this exhibition.

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



2019 Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present the 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual, featuring work by photography students in S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. This exhibition comprises more than 25 thematically diverse photographs by Newhouse's Multimedia Photography students. The exhibition represents various approaches to photographic practice and technique and showcases the rage of images that today's students are producing.

The exhibiting artists are Michele Abercrombie, Zack Bolton, Emily Elconin, Zach Krahmer, Jordan Larson, Sam Lee, Levingston Lewis, Gavin Liddell, Todd Michalek, Ally Moreo, Skye Schumacher, Liam Sheehan, Jes Sheldon, Maranie Staab, Doug Steinman, and Romy Weidner.

Caroline Smith, editor of photography and visuals at TOPIC, served as juror to select images for Best of Show and Honorable Mention awards. Maranie Staab took Best of Show and Honorable Mentions went to Emily Elconin and Sam Lee.


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



Plans Are Cancelled: MFA 2019
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Featuring the work of six MFA candidates from Syracuse University's VPA School of Art and Department of Transmedia: Taylor Clock, Candice Corgan, Rene Gortat, Megan King, Jeremy Tarr, and Jessie Wang


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Film
 

7:30 PM, May 6



Who Done It? (1942)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, William Gargan, William Bendix, Mary Wickes, Patric Knowles, Louise Allbritton, Don Porter, Jerome Cowan, Walter Tetley

Abbott & Costello become involved in a real crime that happens during a radio mystery broadcast. A terrific combination of classic comedy and genuine mystery.

Plus two great comedy shorts: Laurel & Hardy in Hog Wild (1930) and the Three Stooges in An Ache in Every Stake (1941)


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Music
 

7:00 PM, May 6



Young Composers Pop-Up Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Symphoria Youth Orchestra, Society for New Music, and Setnor School of Music are joining forces for this Young Composers concert. Music by Youth Orchestra composers and Syracuse University student composers will be performed by Youth Orchestra members, Syracuse University students, and Society All-Stars.

Composers are include Ebun Oguntola and Jonathan Mokry, an 8th grade student and a high school junior in the Youth Orchestra respectively; Emily Graham, Ross Chua and Leonardo Marino, undergraduate students at Setnor School of Music; and Sam Lovas, Andrei Skorobogatykh, and Carle Wirshba, graduate students at Setnor.

The performers are from Fayettevile, Liverpool, Chittenango, Whitesboro, Fulton, Jamesville, DeWitt, Fabius-Pompey, Hamilton, Utica, Skaneateles, and Syracuse.

The organizers and curators of the program are Carle Wirshba, graduate composer at Syracuse University and a grad representative on SNM's board; Christian Capocaccia, Youth Orchestra music director; Lana Stafford, Youth Orchestra manager; and Neva Pilgrim, SNM's Program Advisor.


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Tuesday, May 7, 2019


Art
 

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 7



On Tap 2: Works by members of the Independent Potters' Association
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce On Tap 2, featuring ceramics created by the group's members. The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 7



We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988 claimed the lives of 270 individuals from 21 nations. Among those lost were 35 students returning home from a semester abroad through Syracuse University. This exhibition of materials donated to the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster by the victims' families, friends, advocates, and affected communities commemorates the 30th anniversary of the tragedy through an exploration of the ways in which the lives of the victims have been remembered. Whether through scholarship, public advocacy, art, or physical memorials, we ensure their lives and the lessons learned from their deaths are not forgotten.


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



MFA Exhibit 2019: Plans Are Cancelled
Community Folk Art Center

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

The gallery, along with SUArt and Point of Contact Gallery, will be hosting the annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition titled "Plans are Cancelled", featuring works by Leticia Hernandez, Adam Hutchinson, Salome Kokoladze, Hlumela Matika, Seok Wun Au Yong, Haotian Wu, and Yilu Yang.


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



2019 Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present the 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual, featuring work by photography students in S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. This exhibition comprises more than 25 thematically diverse photographs by Newhouse's Multimedia Photography students. The exhibition represents various approaches to photographic practice and technique and showcases the rage of images that today's students are producing.

The exhibiting artists are Michele Abercrombie, Zack Bolton, Emily Elconin, Zach Krahmer, Jordan Larson, Sam Lee, Levingston Lewis, Gavin Liddell, Todd Michalek, Ally Moreo, Skye Schumacher, Liam Sheehan, Jes Sheldon, Maranie Staab, Doug Steinman, and Romy Weidner.

Caroline Smith, editor of photography and visuals at TOPIC, served as juror to select images for Best of Show and Honorable Mention awards. Maranie Staab took Best of Show and Honorable Mentions went to Emily Elconin and Sam Lee.


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



Robert Benjamin: River Walking
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present Robert Benjamin's "River Walking," a solo exhibition of photographs and poems spanning four decades. A self-taught photographer and poet, Benjamin's work, often centered around his family, offers a simple and honest consideration of what it means to live and to love with intention. "I think you have to love your life, and you have to have the courage to find the world beautiful," says Benjamin. Enchanted by color and the beauty of photography itself, Benjamin uncovers poetry in the everyday.

Benjamin never wanted a career in photography. He simply felt that he needed to make pictures. According to Benjamin, one of the great joys of being a photographer is working with cameras. He appreciates the elegance of mechanical objects deeply — their feel, their smell, their sound. Cameras are "exquisite little machines" — like typewriters, he says. Benjamin has been writing poems on his Smith-Corona Clipper longer than he's made photographs. His poems echo the sensitivity and humble directness of his photographs. More recently, Benjamin has begun pairing what he aptly calls "small photographs" with "small poems," a selection of which are included in this exhibition.

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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 7



Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

The juried exhibit showcases the recent artwork of over 110 artists from CNY.


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



Plans Are Cancelled: MFA Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition featuring work by emerging contemporary artists in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.


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



Winslow Homer: Women and American Society During the Civil War Era
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Distinguished Professor of Art and Music Histories Wayne Franits and students from his Senior Seminar studied wood engravings by noted American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) that depict women during the Civil War era. Their research and curatorial writing is featured in this exhibition.


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



Sound and Color
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Whether we are healing or celebrating, the visual arts and music speak to our personal experiences and the connection we have to each other. It is only natural that the visual artist be directly influenced by melody and rhythm.


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



Plans Are Cancelled: MFA 2019
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Featuring the work of six MFA candidates from Syracuse University's VPA School of Art and Department of Transmedia: Taylor Clock, Candice Corgan, Rene Gortat, Megan King, Jeremy Tarr, and Jessie Wang


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Lecture
 

7:30 PM, May 7



Colm Toibin
Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series

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

Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet Colm Tóibín has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize. His novels include The Master, Brooklyn, and The Testament of Mary, all of which have won awards. The film version of Brooklyn was nominated for three Academy Awards. Nora Webster won the Hawthornden Prize, and On Elizabeth Bishop was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. His ninth novel, House of Names appeared in 2017.


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, May 7



The Book of Mormon
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The New York Times calls it "the best musical of this century." The Washington Post says, "It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals." And Entertainment Weekly says, "Grade A: the funniest musical of all time." Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show calls it "Genius. Brilliant. Phenomenal." It's The Book of Mormon, the nine-time Tony Award-winning Best Musical.

This outrageous musical comedy follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. Now with standing room only productions in London, on Broadway, and across North America, The Book of Mormon has truly become an international sensation. Contains explicit language.


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Wednesday, May 8, 2019


Art
 

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 8



On Tap 2: Works by members of the Independent Potters' Association
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce On Tap 2, featuring ceramics created by the group's members. The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels.


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, May 8



We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988 claimed the lives of 270 individuals from 21 nations. Among those lost were 35 students returning home from a semester abroad through Syracuse University. This exhibition of materials donated to the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster by the victims' families, friends, advocates, and affected communities commemorates the 30th anniversary of the tragedy through an exploration of the ways in which the lives of the victims have been remembered. Whether through scholarship, public advocacy, art, or physical memorials, we ensure their lives and the lessons learned from their deaths are not forgotten.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 8



MFA Exhibit 2019: Plans Are Cancelled
Community Folk Art Center

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

The gallery, along with SUArt and Point of Contact Gallery, will be hosting the annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition titled "Plans are Cancelled", featuring works by Leticia Hernandez, Adam Hutchinson, Salome Kokoladze, Hlumela Matika, Seok Wun Au Yong, Haotian Wu, and Yilu Yang.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 8



Robert Benjamin: River Walking
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present Robert Benjamin's "River Walking," a solo exhibition of photographs and poems spanning four decades. A self-taught photographer and poet, Benjamin's work, often centered around his family, offers a simple and honest consideration of what it means to live and to love with intention. "I think you have to love your life, and you have to have the courage to find the world beautiful," says Benjamin. Enchanted by color and the beauty of photography itself, Benjamin uncovers poetry in the everyday.

Benjamin never wanted a career in photography. He simply felt that he needed to make pictures. According to Benjamin, one of the great joys of being a photographer is working with cameras. He appreciates the elegance of mechanical objects deeply — their feel, their smell, their sound. Cameras are "exquisite little machines" — like typewriters, he says. Benjamin has been writing poems on his Smith-Corona Clipper longer than he's made photographs. His poems echo the sensitivity and humble directness of his photographs. More recently, Benjamin has begun pairing what he aptly calls "small photographs" with "small poems," a selection of which are included in this exhibition.

Read a review!


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 8



2019 Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present the 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual, featuring work by photography students in S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. This exhibition comprises more than 25 thematically diverse photographs by Newhouse's Multimedia Photography students. The exhibition represents various approaches to photographic practice and technique and showcases the rage of images that today's students are producing.

The exhibiting artists are Michele Abercrombie, Zack Bolton, Emily Elconin, Zach Krahmer, Jordan Larson, Sam Lee, Levingston Lewis, Gavin Liddell, Todd Michalek, Ally Moreo, Skye Schumacher, Liam Sheehan, Jes Sheldon, Maranie Staab, Doug Steinman, and Romy Weidner.

Caroline Smith, editor of photography and visuals at TOPIC, served as juror to select images for Best of Show and Honorable Mention awards. Maranie Staab took Best of Show and Honorable Mentions went to Emily Elconin and Sam Lee.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 8



From Gilded to Gustav: The Victorian and Arts & Crafts Era in Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This Victorian Era and Arts & Crafts exhibit will highlight several of Syracuse's major contributors to the Arts and Crafts movement, 1900-1920s, as well as feature many fine examples of period clothing, architecture, and furniture of the Victorian Era in Syracuse, 1837-1901.

In many respects, the Arts and Crafts movement was a rebuke of the ornate styling, designs, and increasing mechanization of production in the Victorian period. The displays will allow for museum patrons to see these contrasting styles up close.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 8



From the Vault: Dumbo First Took Flight in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will guide visitors through the long and humble beginnings of this adorable character. Learn about the two Helens, both Syracuse University graduates, who worked together to create the Dumbo that we know today. Helen Aberson wrote the original story of Dumbo the Flying Elephant and Helen Durney drew the illustrations.

For this special exhibit, OHA has worked in collaboration with the Syracuse University Special Collections, where the original documents are housed due to their connection to the S.U. graduates. Due to the extreme fragility of the pieces, duplicates are used in place of the originals, but the story the pieces tell about the origins and evolution of Dumbo is one every Syracusan should know.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 8



Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

The juried exhibit showcases the recent artwork of over 110 artists from CNY.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 8



Plans Are Cancelled: MFA Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition featuring work by emerging contemporary artists in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 8



Sound and Color
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Whether we are healing or celebrating, the visual arts and music speak to our personal experiences and the connection we have to each other. It is only natural that the visual artist be directly influenced by melody and rhythm.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, May 8



Winslow Homer: Women and American Society During the Civil War Era
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Distinguished Professor of Art and Music Histories Wayne Franits and students from his Senior Seminar studied wood engravings by noted American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) that depict women during the Civil War era. Their research and curatorial writing is featured in this exhibition.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 8



Socially Gifted: 75 Years of Gifts from the Social Art Club
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Founded in 1875, the Social Art Club is a women's club dedicated to the study of art in a group setting. The Club has an extensive history of supporting the Everson, including financial support for the acquisition of some of the Museum's most iconic pieces, such as Adrian Saxe's Untitled vessel from 1980, which graces the cover of the Museum's American Ceramics catalog. Over the past decade, the Social Art Club's gifts have strengthened the Everson's connections to Central New York through donations of work by indigenous and regional artists.


Back to list
 

 

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 8



Highlights from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Showcasing the depth of the Everson's collection, Highlights from the Permanent Collection presents 150 years of American art, from early 19th-century portraiture to the Pop Art of the 1960s. This exhibition features many visitor favorites, including work by Albert Bierstadt, Eastman Johnson, Lee Krasner, Grandma Moses, Jackson Pollock, and Gilbert Stuart.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 8



Eddie Dominguez: Garden of Eden
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The youngest of eight children, Eddie Dominguez grew up in Tucumcari, New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Amarillo on historic Route 66. He came to national prominence in the mid–1980s for highly stylized dinnerware sets that also stack into sculptural forms. In his work, Dominguez frequently references his home state's vegetation, landforms, weather, and Hispano–Catholic culture. The dual nature of Dominguez's objects, which inhabit the gray area between utility and art for art's sake, reflects his personal experience as a New Mexican who studied ceramics in the Anglo–dominated East: whether we see "art" or "craft," local Hispano or melting pot American depends completely on the immediate context.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 8



Juan Cruz: A Retrospective
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In the 1980s, Juan Cruz began investigating his past as a method to understand where the tribal and the modern world collide. Born in Puerto Rico, Cruz briefly attended the Art Students League in 1975 and in 1995 he graduated from Syracuse University's School of Visual and Performing Arts. This career-spanning exhibition focuses on Cruz's work as a painter, sculptor, muralist, and community activist.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 8



Key Figures: Representational Ceramics 1932-1972
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Dating back to the Ceramic National exhibitions, which began in 1932, the Everson has a rich history of supporting artists who explore the figure. Artists like Viktor Schreckengost, Edris Eckhardt, and Waylande Gregory routinely received awards and critical acclaim for their work. "Key Figures" examines the larger-than-life artists who shaped an art movement, and features select works from a new generation of artists who are building on this legacy by using the figure to explore identity, narrative, and allegory.

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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 8



Plans Are Cancelled: MFA 2019
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Featuring the work of six MFA candidates from Syracuse University's VPA School of Art and Department of Transmedia: Taylor Clock, Candice Corgan, Rene Gortat, Megan King, Jeremy Tarr, and Jessie Wang


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, May 8



From Gods to Social Justice: Indian Folk Artists Challenging Traditions
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Representing two painting styles of eastern India, this exhibition includes a male tradition of scrolls from Bengal and a female tradition of wall paintings, now done on paper, from the Mithila region of northern Bihar. Both of these art forms have morphed and changed in contemporary India, creating space for artists to use their art to comment on issues facing their lives, their nation and the planet. Their work deals with a variety of injustices such as violence against women, female infanticide, political corruption, climate change, and war.

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Film
 

7:00 PM, May 8



Blood Leaves Its Trail (Khoon Diy Baarav)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Indian-occupied Kashmir is the most militarized piece of territory in the world. Given recent events in Kashmir, especially the Pulwama attack in February of this year, and the possibility of war between the two nuclear armed nations of India and Pakistan that has resulted, understanding Kashmir is vital. This film presents the Kashmiri viewpoint. Professor Susan Wadley of SU will introduce the film with a brief historical context. A discussion will follow.

The long-standing political conflict in Kashmir has taken a heavy toll on lives, on sanity, and on the idea of normalcy. The film Khoon Diy Baarav, made over nine years, enters the vexed political scenario in Kashmir through the lives of families of the victims of enforced disappearances. It explores memory as a mode of resistance, constantly confronting reality and morphing from the personal to the political, the individual to the collective. Struggling to find new ways of expression – storytelling, art, symbol and ritual – sometimes spilling out on to the streets, it looks at the ways in which those affected by violence have no choice but to remember. The chain of memory, often non-linear, is both their defense as well as their act of defiance against powerful instruments of the state that try to erase their individuality.


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Music
 

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, May 8



Jazz at the Plaza: Dave Solazzo Duo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover
LeMoyne Plaza
1135 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse


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12:15 PM, May 8



Onyx Clarinet Quartet
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse


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5:30 PM - 8:30 PM, May 8



Jazz at the Cavalier: Ronnie Leigh
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover
Marriott Hotel Syracuse Cavalier Room
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, May 8



The Book of Mormon
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The New York Times calls it "the best musical of this century." The Washington Post says, "It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals." And Entertainment Weekly says, "Grade A: the funniest musical of all time." Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show calls it "Genius. Brilliant. Phenomenal." It's The Book of Mormon, the nine-time Tony Award-winning Best Musical.

This outrageous musical comedy follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. Now with standing room only productions in London, on Broadway, and across North America, The Book of Mormon has truly become an international sensation. Contains explicit language.


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7:30 PM, May 8



The Humans
Syracuse Stage
Mark Cuddy, director

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

Critically acclaimed winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play, The Humans offers a compelling look at a slice of contemporary life as seen through a family Thanksgiving celebration. The Blakes of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Eric and Deirdre, have come to Chinatown to spend the holiday with their adult daughters, Aimee and Brigid. Along for the celebration are Momo, Eric's mother teetering in and out of consciousness, and Richard, Brigid's boyfriend. Of course, they eat turkey, but when they talk turkey, it really gets interesting. A blisteringly funny and poignant play by Stephen Karam about people we might know and people we could be.

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8:00 PM, May 8



Good Kids
Syracuse University Drama Department
Holly Thuma, director

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

A hard-hitting and clear-eyed look at the troubling aftermath of the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl by members of a high school football team. Based on actual events, Good Kids, by Naomi Iizuka, examines how social media makes private lives public in ways we don't always anticipate and can't always control. At the same time, it sheds light on issues that are often treated as isolated incidents — but which, in truth, reflect attitudes and beliefs prevalent in the culture at large.

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Thursday, May 9, 2019


Art
 

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



On Tap 2: Works by members of the Independent Potters' Association
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Price: Free
Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

The Independent Potters' Association (IPA) is pleased to announce On Tap 2, featuring ceramics created by the group's members. The artwork on view will demonstrate a variety of techniques and styles, ranging from utilitarian forms to sculptural vessels.


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



We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988 claimed the lives of 270 individuals from 21 nations. Among those lost were 35 students returning home from a semester abroad through Syracuse University. This exhibition of materials donated to the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster by the victims' families, friends, advocates, and affected communities commemorates the 30th anniversary of the tragedy through an exploration of the ways in which the lives of the victims have been remembered. Whether through scholarship, public advocacy, art, or physical memorials, we ensure their lives and the lessons learned from their deaths are not forgotten.


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



MFA Exhibit 2019: Plans Are Cancelled
Community Folk Art Center

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

The gallery, along with SUArt and Point of Contact Gallery, will be hosting the annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition titled "Plans are Cancelled", featuring works by Leticia Hernandez, Adam Hutchinson, Salome Kokoladze, Hlumela Matika, Seok Wun Au Yong, Haotian Wu, and Yilu Yang.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 9



2019 Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present the 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual, featuring work by photography students in S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. This exhibition comprises more than 25 thematically diverse photographs by Newhouse's Multimedia Photography students. The exhibition represents various approaches to photographic practice and technique and showcases the rage of images that today's students are producing.

The exhibiting artists are Michele Abercrombie, Zack Bolton, Emily Elconin, Zach Krahmer, Jordan Larson, Sam Lee, Levingston Lewis, Gavin Liddell, Todd Michalek, Ally Moreo, Skye Schumacher, Liam Sheehan, Jes Sheldon, Maranie Staab, Doug Steinman, and Romy Weidner.

Caroline Smith, editor of photography and visuals at TOPIC, served as juror to select images for Best of Show and Honorable Mention awards. Maranie Staab took Best of Show and Honorable Mentions went to Emily Elconin and Sam Lee.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 9



Robert Benjamin: River Walking
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present Robert Benjamin's "River Walking," a solo exhibition of photographs and poems spanning four decades. A self-taught photographer and poet, Benjamin's work, often centered around his family, offers a simple and honest consideration of what it means to live and to love with intention. "I think you have to love your life, and you have to have the courage to find the world beautiful," says Benjamin. Enchanted by color and the beauty of photography itself, Benjamin uncovers poetry in the everyday.

Benjamin never wanted a career in photography. He simply felt that he needed to make pictures. According to Benjamin, one of the great joys of being a photographer is working with cameras. He appreciates the elegance of mechanical objects deeply — their feel, their smell, their sound. Cameras are "exquisite little machines" — like typewriters, he says. Benjamin has been writing poems on his Smith-Corona Clipper longer than he's made photographs. His poems echo the sensitivity and humble directness of his photographs. More recently, Benjamin has begun pairing what he aptly calls "small photographs" with "small poems," a selection of which are included in this exhibition.

Read a review!


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



From the Vault: Dumbo First Took Flight in Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will guide visitors through the long and humble beginnings of this adorable character. Learn about the two Helens, both Syracuse University graduates, who worked together to create the Dumbo that we know today. Helen Aberson wrote the original story of Dumbo the Flying Elephant and Helen Durney drew the illustrations.

For this special exhibit, OHA has worked in collaboration with the Syracuse University Special Collections, where the original documents are housed due to their connection to the S.U. graduates. Due to the extreme fragility of the pieces, duplicates are used in place of the originals, but the story the pieces tell about the origins and evolution of Dumbo is one every Syracusan should know.


Back to list
 

 

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



From Gilded to Gustav: The Victorian and Arts & Crafts Era in Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This Victorian Era and Arts & Crafts exhibit will highlight several of Syracuse's major contributors to the Arts and Crafts movement, 1900-1920s, as well as feature many fine examples of period clothing, architecture, and furniture of the Victorian Era in Syracuse, 1837-1901.

In many respects, the Arts and Crafts movement was a rebuke of the ornate styling, designs, and increasing mechanization of production in the Victorian period. The displays will allow for museum patrons to see these contrasting styles up close.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 9



Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

The juried exhibit showcases the recent artwork of over 110 artists from CNY.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 9



Plans Are Cancelled: MFA Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition featuring work by emerging contemporary artists in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 9



Winslow Homer: Women and American Society During the Civil War Era
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Distinguished Professor of Art and Music Histories Wayne Franits and students from his Senior Seminar studied wood engravings by noted American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) that depict women during the Civil War era. Their research and curatorial writing is featured in this exhibition.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 9



Sound and Color
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Whether we are healing or celebrating, the visual arts and music speak to our personal experiences and the connection we have to each other. It is only natural that the visual artist be directly influenced by melody and rhythm.


Back to list
 

 

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 9



Juan Cruz: A Retrospective
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In the 1980s, Juan Cruz began investigating his past as a method to understand where the tribal and the modern world collide. Born in Puerto Rico, Cruz briefly attended the Art Students League in 1975 and in 1995 he graduated from Syracuse University's School of Visual and Performing Arts. This career-spanning exhibition focuses on Cruz's work as a painter, sculptor, muralist, and community activist.


Back to list
 

 

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 9



Eddie Dominguez: Garden of Eden
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The youngest of eight children, Eddie Dominguez grew up in Tucumcari, New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Amarillo on historic Route 66. He came to national prominence in the mid–1980s for highly stylized dinnerware sets that also stack into sculptural forms. In his work, Dominguez frequently references his home state's vegetation, landforms, weather, and Hispano–Catholic culture. The dual nature of Dominguez's objects, which inhabit the gray area between utility and art for art's sake, reflects his personal experience as a New Mexican who studied ceramics in the Anglo–dominated East: whether we see "art" or "craft," local Hispano or melting pot American depends completely on the immediate context.


Back to list
 

 

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 9



Highlights from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Showcasing the depth of the Everson's collection, Highlights from the Permanent Collection presents 150 years of American art, from early 19th-century portraiture to the Pop Art of the 1960s. This exhibition features many visitor favorites, including work by Albert Bierstadt, Eastman Johnson, Lee Krasner, Grandma Moses, Jackson Pollock, and Gilbert Stuart.


Back to list
 

 

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 9



Socially Gifted: 75 Years of Gifts from the Social Art Club
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Founded in 1875, the Social Art Club is a women's club dedicated to the study of art in a group setting. The Club has an extensive history of supporting the Everson, including financial support for the acquisition of some of the Museum's most iconic pieces, such as Adrian Saxe's Untitled vessel from 1980, which graces the cover of the Museum's American Ceramics catalog. Over the past decade, the Social Art Club's gifts have strengthened the Everson's connections to Central New York through donations of work by indigenous and regional artists.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, May 9



Key Figures: Representational Ceramics 1932-1972
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Dating back to the Ceramic National exhibitions, which began in 1932, the Everson has a rich history of supporting artists who explore the figure. Artists like Viktor Schreckengost, Edris Eckhardt, and Waylande Gregory routinely received awards and critical acclaim for their work. "Key Figures" examines the larger-than-life artists who shaped an art movement, and features select works from a new generation of artists who are building on this legacy by using the figure to explore identity, narrative, and allegory.

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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 9



Plans Are Cancelled: MFA 2019
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Featuring the work of six MFA candidates from Syracuse University's VPA School of Art and Department of Transmedia: Taylor Clock, Candice Corgan, Rene Gortat, Megan King, Jeremy Tarr, and Jessie Wang


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, May 9



From Gods to Social Justice: Indian Folk Artists Challenging Traditions
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Representing two painting styles of eastern India, this exhibition includes a male tradition of scrolls from Bengal and a female tradition of wall paintings, now done on paper, from the Mithila region of northern Bihar. Both of these art forms have morphed and changed in contemporary India, creating space for artists to use their art to comment on issues facing their lives, their nation and the planet. Their work deals with a variety of injustices such as violence against women, female infanticide, political corruption, climate change, and war.

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8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, May 9



Culture Capture: Terminal Addition
Urban Video Project

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

Light Work's Urban Video Project presents "Culture Capture: Terminal Addition" by the New Red Order (NRO). NRO core contributors Adam Khalil (Ojibway), Zack Khalil (Ojibway), and Jackson Polys (Tlingit) use video and performance to collectively challenge European settler and colonialist tendencies — such as "playing Indian" — with what they call "sites of savage pronouncement," the purpose of which is to shift potential obstructions to Indigenous growth and agency.

Created for UVP and shot in and around Syracuse, "Terminal Addition" uses local archives, collections, and locations, including the Columbus Monument in downtown Syracuse and the Saltine Warrior on the Syracuse University campus.

The exhibition will be on view on the north facade of the Everson Museum of Art from dusk until 11:00 pm.


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Lecture
 

6:00 PM, May 9



Design Talks with the CNY American Institute of Architects
Everson Museum of Art

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Design talks by emerging professional architects.

Jeffrey Kruth, Urban Designer, Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative


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Music
 

7:00 PM, May 9



Chris Trapper
The 443 Social Club

Price: $15 presale, $20 at the door
The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, May 9



Death Takes a Bow
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

All the world's a stage, but some stages are worth more than others. Welcome to the historic White Tulip, the seediest theater in London, yet a place everyone seems to want. Tonight, a tycoon temptress and her tawdry toady take on a territorial thespian and his trollop of a treasurer in a tussle for title of this theatrical tenement. What valuable secrets lie behind the scenes, and how far will someone go to unearth them? Let the buyer beware: At this showplace greed steals every scene and dying on stage could be more than a figure of speech.


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7:30 PM, May 9



The Book of Mormon
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The New York Times calls it "the best musical of this century." The Washington Post says, "It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals." And Entertainment Weekly says, "Grade A: the funniest musical of all time." Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show calls it "Genius. Brilliant. Phenomenal." It's The Book of Mormon, the nine-time Tony Award-winning Best Musical.

This outrageous musical comedy follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. Now with standing room only productions in London, on Broadway, and across North America, The Book of Mormon has truly become an international sensation. Contains explicit language.


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7:30 PM, May 9



The Humans
Syracuse Stage
Mark Cuddy, director

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

Critically acclaimed winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play, The Humans offers a compelling look at a slice of contemporary life as seen through a family Thanksgiving celebration. The Blakes of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Eric and Deirdre, have come to Chinatown to spend the holiday with their adult daughters, Aimee and Brigid. Along for the celebration are Momo, Eric's mother teetering in and out of consciousness, and Richard, Brigid's boyfriend. Of course, they eat turkey, but when they talk turkey, it really gets interesting. A blisteringly funny and poignant play by Stephen Karam about people we might know and people we could be.

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8:00 PM, May 9



Puffs or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic
Rarely Done Productions
Krystal Wadsworth, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For seven years a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is not his story. This is the story of the Puffs... who just happened to be there too. A tale for anyone who has never been destined to save the world.

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8:00 PM, May 9



Good Kids
Syracuse University Drama Department
Holly Thuma, director

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

A hard-hitting and clear-eyed look at the troubling aftermath of the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl by members of a high school football team. Based on actual events, Good Kids, by Naomi Iizuka, examines how social media makes private lives public in ways we don't always anticipate and can't always control. At the same time, it sheds light on issues that are often treated as isolated incidents — but which, in truth, reflect attitudes and beliefs prevalent in the culture at large.

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