Saturday, June 4, 2016

Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

Kindred Beasts: The 2016 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial has been an important platform for contemporary art by New York State artists since its inception in 1974, offering an outlet for creative visual expression and facilitating lively conversations about both what contemporary art is and what it has the power to become. "Kindred Beasts" continues this tradition by presenting a carefully selected group of eight artists whose work focuses on the use of fiber and clay. Each artist interprets the medium in unique and innovative ways, while remaining deeply engaged with tradition and respectful of the past. Representing six counties across the state, the artists are Joe Fyfe, Jeffrey Gibson, Sarah Hewitt, Liz Lurie, Matt Nolen, Sarah Saulson, Bobby Silverman, and Linda Sormin.

Kate Gilmore: Touch like this, Hold like that
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Kate Gilmore combines humor and physical endurance in her feminist-inspired works to create strikingly memorable performances and videos. Gilmore's performances typically showcase the artist or other women femininely dressed and engaged in monotonous, physically arduous, and often rather inane tasks that call out and disrupt gender stereotypes. For the Everson, Gilmore presents a selection of video performances spanning more than a decade as well as a new temporary sculptural installation created specifically for the Everson Community Plaza. Linking the indoor and outdoor components, performers will activate the public sculpture throughout the summer.

WaterCRAFT
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

WaterCRAFT combines quilts and model boats in a celebration of creativity and ingenuity inspired by artist Marie Lorenz's journey along the historic Erie Canal. The exhibition features original model boats designed and built by community members and contemporary quilts by some of the finest quilters in the region that explore and interpret the theme of water.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Westcott Art Trail

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

Since its inception in 2002, Westcott Art Trail has grown to be one of the finest and most well-attended art and craft offerings in Syracuse, with over 60 extraordinary artists located in 15 or more locations around the Westcott neighborhood. Artists can be found at locations including Petit Branch Library, Westcott Community Center, and artists' homes and studios that stretch from Meadowbrook Drive to Berkley Drive and from Broad Street to Harvard Place and beyond.

For more information, visit the website.

15th Annual Westcott Art Trail
Westcott Community Center

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

Since its inception in 2002, Westcott Art Trail has grown to be one of the finest and most well attended art & craft offerings in Syracuse, with over 60 artists located in 15 or more locations around the Westcott neighborhood.

Artists can be found at locations including Petit Branch Library, Westcott Community Center, and artists' homes and studios that stretch from Meadowbrook Drive to Berkley Drive and from Broad Street to Harvard Place and beyond.

Throughout the trail you can find items for sale such as: photographs, furniture, stained glass, sculptures, ceramics, jewelry and accessories, mosaics, decoupage boxes, paintings, hand-printed garments, pottery, wall hangings, handwoven linens & wearables, and more.

Many artists will be demonstrate their craft.

Art trail maps available at the website.

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A Good XCuse features ten ceramic artists who are alumni of Syracuse University's Ceramics Program. The work on view will range from ceramic sculpture to functional pottery. Participating artists include Patrick Coughlin, Ed Feldman, Giselle Hicks, Lynne Hobaica, Jee Eun Lee, Brooke Noble, Jeremy Randall, Jeff Schwarz, Tim See, and Katherine Taylor.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.

Work Won't Kill You
SALTQuarters Gallery

Price: Free
SALTQuarters Gallery
115 Otisco St., Syracuse

In this ongoing installation and performance series, Patty Ortiz has constructed a simulated work environment that investigates the interaction between art and work in the lives of individuals and the life of the community. The WWKY workforce applies the tools of art in a forensic fashion through the collection and systematic examination of images from the Near Westside neighborhood; people, places and moments that reflect the history and character of this community. Ortiz and her workforce transform the documentation into an installation/performance to illustrate the similar nature of art, work and life.

In Poor Taste: The Genetically Modified Foods Kitchen
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 7:00-9:00 pm.

Created by Christine Chin, The Genetically Modified Foods Kitchen explores the controversial technology that allows us to transfer genes between species. Part human and part vegetable, Chin's vegetable-human hybrids make visible the usually invisible process of genetic modification. In the familiar context of a cookbook and a cooking show, these creations bring concerns about the ethics and politics of biotechnology into the domestic space. Playing with both humor and the grotesque, Chin's photographs encourage people to consider how technology affects our society and our dinner plates.

Improv Comedy Night
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Don't Feed the Actors specializes in audience-interactive improv and is one of the longest running improv troupes in Central New York. Having toured all over Central New York, their large stable of theatrically trained actors rotate in and out of each show, ensuring a unique experience each time.

2016 Taste of Syracuse

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

ENTERTAINMENT

Main Stage
1:00-2:00 pm: Poor Tim
3:15-3:50 pm: Shawn "Big Sexy" Smith, Salute to the Troops
3:50-4:50 pm: Castle Creek
5:10-6:40 pm: The Reissues
7:00-8:30 pm: Hard Promises
9:00-11:00 pm: Cheap Trick

Erie Stage
12:00-1:15 pm: Colin Aberdeen
1:30-2:30 pm: Lightkeepers
2:45-3:45 pm: Street Rock Mafia
4:05-5:05 pm: Annie in the Water
5:25-6:25 pm: Spring Street Family Band
6:40-7:40 pm: Floodwood
8:00-9:00 pm: Pale Green Stars
9:30-11:00 pm: Sophistafunk

Clinton Square Stage
12:00-1:30 pm: Lori Anne's tribute to the Oldies
1:45-2:45 pm: The Baby Boomers Band
3:00-4:00 pm: Dr. Killdean
4:15-5:15 pm: Carolyn Kelly Band
5:30-6:30 pm: Fabulous Ripcords
6:45-:745 pm: Easy Ramblers
8:00-9:15 pm: Driftwater
9:30-11:00 pm: Dirt Road Ruckus

Paradise, a world premiere interactive installation
Society for New Music

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Immerse yourself in the paradisal Garden of Nature by way of this interactive collage of bird and animal sounds from around the world. Create your own rich sonic/visual tapestry which, like nature, will envelop and draw you in. An interactive sound/light installation by Douglas Quin and Lorne Covington, commissioned by the Society for New Music.

Masterworks Series: Pictures at an Exhibition
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

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

Higdon Blue Cathedral
Ravel Tzigane
Saint Saëns Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso
Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This wildly inventive play with music was adapted by John Glore from the Caldecott Honor-winning book of the same name by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. The show, full of wacky characters and silly songs, turns classic fairy tales on their heads. Among the tales told are "Cinderumplestiltskin" and "The Princess and the Bowling Ball." This crazy musical adventure is sure to delight audiences of all ages.

Read a review!

The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This wildly inventive play with music was adapted by John Glore from the Caldecott Honor-winning book of the same name by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. The show, full of wacky characters and silly songs, turns classic fairy tales on their heads. Among the tales told are "Cinderumplestiltskin" and "The Princess and the Bowling Ball." This crazy musical adventure is sure to delight audiences of all ages.

Read a review!

Disney's The Little Mermaid
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

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

Based on the classic animated film, Disney's The Little Mermaid is a splashy and touching love story for all ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater, and book by Doug Wright, this fishy fable will capture your heart with its irresistible songs including "Under the Sea," "Kiss the Girl," and "Part of Your World."

Read a Review!

Disney's The Little Mermaid
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

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

Based on the classic animated film, Disney's The Little Mermaid is a splashy and touching love story for all ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater, and book by Doug Wright, this fishy fable will capture your heart with its irresistible songs including "Under the Sea," "Kiss the Girl," and "Part of Your World."

Read a Review!

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A Good XCuse features ten ceramic artists who are alumni of Syracuse University's Ceramics Program. The work on view will range from ceramic sculpture to functional pottery. Participating artists include Patrick Coughlin, Ed Feldman, Giselle Hicks, Lynne Hobaica, Jee Eun Lee, Brooke Noble, Jeremy Randall, Jeff Schwarz, Tim See, and Katherine Taylor.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

WaterCRAFT
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

WaterCRAFT combines quilts and model boats in a celebration of creativity and ingenuity inspired by artist Marie Lorenz's journey along the historic Erie Canal. The exhibition features original model boats designed and built by community members and contemporary quilts by some of the finest quilters in the region that explore and interpret the theme of water.

Kate Gilmore: Touch like this, Hold like that
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Kate Gilmore combines humor and physical endurance in her feminist-inspired works to create strikingly memorable performances and videos. Gilmore's performances typically showcase the artist or other women femininely dressed and engaged in monotonous, physically arduous, and often rather inane tasks that call out and disrupt gender stereotypes. For the Everson, Gilmore presents a selection of video performances spanning more than a decade as well as a new temporary sculptural installation created specifically for the Everson Community Plaza. Linking the indoor and outdoor components, performers will activate the public sculpture throughout the summer.

Kindred Beasts: The 2016 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial has been an important platform for contemporary art by New York State artists since its inception in 1974, offering an outlet for creative visual expression and facilitating lively conversations about both what contemporary art is and what it has the power to become. "Kindred Beasts" continues this tradition by presenting a carefully selected group of eight artists whose work focuses on the use of fiber and clay. Each artist interprets the medium in unique and innovative ways, while remaining deeply engaged with tradition and respectful of the past. Representing six counties across the state, the artists are Joe Fyfe, Jeffrey Gibson, Sarah Hewitt, Liz Lurie, Matt Nolen, Sarah Saulson, Bobby Silverman, and Linda Sormin.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

Westcott Art Trail

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

Since its inception in 2002, Westcott Art Trail has grown to be one of the finest and most well-attended art and craft offerings in Syracuse, with over 60 extraordinary artists located in 15 or more locations around the Westcott neighborhood. Artists can be found at locations including Petit Branch Library, Westcott Community Center, and artists' homes and studios that stretch from Meadowbrook Drive to Berkley Drive and from Broad Street to Harvard Place and beyond.

For more information, visit the website.

15th Annual Westcott Art Trail
Westcott Community Center

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

Since its inception in 2002, Westcott Art Trail has grown to be one of the finest and most well attended art & craft offerings in Syracuse, with over 60 artists located in 15 or more locations around the Westcott neighborhood.

Artists can be found at locations including Petit Branch Library, Westcott Community Center, and artists' homes and studios that stretch from Meadowbrook Drive to Berkley Drive and from Broad Street to Harvard Place and beyond.

Throughout the trail you can find items for sale such as: photographs, furniture, stained glass, sculptures, ceramics, jewelry and accessories, mosaics, decoupage boxes, paintings, hand-printed garments, pottery, wall hangings, handwoven linens & wearables, and more.

Many artists will be demonstrate their craft.

Art trail maps available at the website.

Live! At the Everson: CNY Young Artists Live
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A joyful celebration of and by outstanding representatives of our musical future, featuring competition winners of Onondaga County Music Educators Association, CNY Association of Music Teachers, Civic Morning Musicals/Symphoria, Syracuse Youth Orchestra, and Onondaga Civic Symphony orchestra.

In Flight
Syracuse Chorale
Peppie Calvar, conductor

Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Our final concert of the season will showcase pops music including "Come Fly With Me," "Defying Gravity," and other tunes that fit the theme.

Jackyl
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Monday, June 6, 2016

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert

Superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror novel. While most existing prints/versions are of the edited 81 minute reissue version (re-released after the Production Code was put into full effect), we'll be presenting the COMPLETE 98 minute version, fully restored, just as it was seen in theaters back in 1932.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry

Rosamond Gifford Zoo Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

Each January, the zoo invites photographers of all abilities, ages 5 and up, to take part in a photo contest. Winning photos appear in the spring issue of their member publication MyZoo Magazine, on the zoo's website and social media, and are displayed to the public for one year in the zoo's gift shop windows. CFAC is proud to sponsor this event and also take place in the traveling exhibition.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Work Won't Kill You
SALTQuarters Gallery

Price: Free
SALTQuarters Gallery
115 Otisco St., Syracuse

In this ongoing installation and performance series, Patty Ortiz has constructed a simulated work environment that investigates the interaction between art and work in the lives of individuals and the life of the community. The WWKY workforce applies the tools of art in a forensic fashion through the collection and systematic examination of images from the Near Westside neighborhood; people, places and moments that reflect the history and character of this community. Ortiz and her workforce transform the documentation into an installation/performance to illustrate the similar nature of art, work and life.

Cinemagogue: American Masters: Marvin Hamlisch -- What He Did for Love
Temple Society of Concord

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

A musical prodigy accepted to Juilliard at age six, Hamlisch defied classical expectations to create his own music, dedicating his talents to musical theatre and pop music composition. By age 31, he achieved unprecedented success and honors with a string of hits, and then his streak ended. Faced with pressure to repeat his hits, Hamlisch fell into a self-described "period of suffocating despair" before rebounding to find true love worthy of a Broadway musical and renewed passion for creation. This documentary reveals the events that led to both his staggering success and, ultimately, his even greater humanity: his creative process, struggles, inner turmoil and breakthroughs.

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry

Rosamond Gifford Zoo Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

Each January, the zoo invites photographers of all abilities, ages 5 and up, to take part in a photo contest. Winning photos appear in the spring issue of their member publication MyZoo Magazine, on the zoo's website and social media, and are displayed to the public for one year in the zoo's gift shop windows. CFAC is proud to sponsor this event and also take place in the traveling exhibition.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Kindred Beasts: The 2016 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial has been an important platform for contemporary art by New York State artists since its inception in 1974, offering an outlet for creative visual expression and facilitating lively conversations about both what contemporary art is and what it has the power to become. "Kindred Beasts" continues this tradition by presenting a carefully selected group of eight artists whose work focuses on the use of fiber and clay. Each artist interprets the medium in unique and innovative ways, while remaining deeply engaged with tradition and respectful of the past. Representing six counties across the state, the artists are Joe Fyfe, Jeffrey Gibson, Sarah Hewitt, Liz Lurie, Matt Nolen, Sarah Saulson, Bobby Silverman, and Linda Sormin.

Kate Gilmore: Touch like this, Hold like that
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Kate Gilmore combines humor and physical endurance in her feminist-inspired works to create strikingly memorable performances and videos. Gilmore's performances typically showcase the artist or other women femininely dressed and engaged in monotonous, physically arduous, and often rather inane tasks that call out and disrupt gender stereotypes. For the Everson, Gilmore presents a selection of video performances spanning more than a decade as well as a new temporary sculptural installation created specifically for the Everson Community Plaza. Linking the indoor and outdoor components, performers will activate the public sculpture throughout the summer.

WaterCRAFT
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

WaterCRAFT combines quilts and model boats in a celebration of creativity and ingenuity inspired by artist Marie Lorenz's journey along the historic Erie Canal. The exhibition features original model boats designed and built by community members and contemporary quilts by some of the finest quilters in the region that explore and interpret the theme of water.

Work Won't Kill You
SALTQuarters Gallery

Price: Free
SALTQuarters Gallery
115 Otisco St., Syracuse

In this ongoing installation and performance series, Patty Ortiz has constructed a simulated work environment that investigates the interaction between art and work in the lives of individuals and the life of the community. The WWKY workforce applies the tools of art in a forensic fashion through the collection and systematic examination of images from the Near Westside neighborhood; people, places and moments that reflect the history and character of this community. Ortiz and her workforce transform the documentation into an installation/performance to illustrate the similar nature of art, work and life.

In Poor Taste: The Genetically Modified Foods Kitchen
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Created by Christine Chin, The Genetically Modified Foods Kitchen explores the controversial technology that allows us to transfer genes between species. Part human and part vegetable, Chin's vegetable-human hybrids make visible the usually invisible process of genetic modification. In the familiar context of a cookbook and a cooking show, these creations bring concerns about the ethics and politics of biotechnology into the domestic space. Playing with both humor and the grotesque, Chin's photographs encourage people to consider how technology affects our society and our dinner plates.

Thursday, June 9, 2016

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry

Rosamond Gifford Zoo Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

Each January, the zoo invites photographers of all abilities, ages 5 and up, to take part in a photo contest. Winning photos appear in the spring issue of their member publication MyZoo Magazine, on the zoo's website and social media, and are displayed to the public for one year in the zoo's gift shop windows. CFAC is proud to sponsor this event and also take place in the traveling exhibition.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A Good XCuse features ten ceramic artists who are alumni of Syracuse University's Ceramics Program. The work on view will range from ceramic sculpture to functional pottery. Participating artists include Patrick Coughlin, Ed Feldman, Giselle Hicks, Lynne Hobaica, Jee Eun Lee, Brooke Noble, Jeremy Randall, Jeff Schwarz, Tim See, and Katherine Taylor.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

WaterCRAFT
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

WaterCRAFT combines quilts and model boats in a celebration of creativity and ingenuity inspired by artist Marie Lorenz's journey along the historic Erie Canal. The exhibition features original model boats designed and built by community members and contemporary quilts by some of the finest quilters in the region that explore and interpret the theme of water.

Kate Gilmore: Touch like this, Hold like that
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Kate Gilmore combines humor and physical endurance in her feminist-inspired works to create strikingly memorable performances and videos. Gilmore's performances typically showcase the artist or other women femininely dressed and engaged in monotonous, physically arduous, and often rather inane tasks that call out and disrupt gender stereotypes. For the Everson, Gilmore presents a selection of video performances spanning more than a decade as well as a new temporary sculptural installation created specifically for the Everson Community Plaza. Linking the indoor and outdoor components, performers will activate the public sculpture throughout the summer.

Kindred Beasts: The 2016 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial has been an important platform for contemporary art by New York State artists since its inception in 1974, offering an outlet for creative visual expression and facilitating lively conversations about both what contemporary art is and what it has the power to become. "Kindred Beasts" continues this tradition by presenting a carefully selected group of eight artists whose work focuses on the use of fiber and clay. Each artist interprets the medium in unique and innovative ways, while remaining deeply engaged with tradition and respectful of the past. Representing six counties across the state, the artists are Joe Fyfe, Jeffrey Gibson, Sarah Hewitt, Liz Lurie, Matt Nolen, Sarah Saulson, Bobby Silverman, and Linda Sormin.

Work Won't Kill You
SALTQuarters Gallery

Price: Free
SALTQuarters Gallery
115 Otisco St., Syracuse

In this ongoing installation and performance series, Patty Ortiz has constructed a simulated work environment that investigates the interaction between art and work in the lives of individuals and the life of the community. The WWKY workforce applies the tools of art in a forensic fashion through the collection and systematic examination of images from the Near Westside neighborhood; people, places and moments that reflect the history and character of this community. Ortiz and her workforce transform the documentation into an installation/performance to illustrate the similar nature of art, work and life.

In Poor Taste: The Genetically Modified Foods Kitchen
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Created by Christine Chin, The Genetically Modified Foods Kitchen explores the controversial technology that allows us to transfer genes between species. Part human and part vegetable, Chin's vegetable-human hybrids make visible the usually invisible process of genetic modification. In the familiar context of a cookbook and a cooking show, these creations bring concerns about the ethics and politics of biotechnology into the domestic space. Playing with both humor and the grotesque, Chin's photographs encourage people to consider how technology affects our society and our dinner plates.

St. Sophia's Greek Cultural Festival

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

Greek music, dancing, food, and crafts.

For more information, visit syracusegreekfest.com.

Paradise, a world premiere interactive installation
Society for New Music

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Immerse yourself in the paradisal Garden of Nature by way of this interactive collage of bird and animal sounds from around the world. Create your own rich sonic/visual tapestry which, like nature, will envelop and draw you in. An interactive sound/light installation by Douglas Quin and Lorne Covington, commissioned by the Society for New Music.

Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Come a runnin', cousins, 'cause it's time again for the annual family reunion and the whole Freagan family is gonna be there! We're gonna have vittles, singin', hootin' and hollerin' and, of course, no family gathering would be complete without the annual pig-calling contest! Dang, you might even win a big ol' slop bucket full of money! Yeehaw! Best watch your step on the farm this year, though. Pa's been hitting the moonshine a might too hard and is about to lose the farm to that no good snake, Beauregard Hogwallerin! When the girls find out, somebody could end up on the barbecue!

Disney's The Little Mermaid
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

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

Based on the classic animated film, Disney's The Little Mermaid is a splashy and touching love story for all ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater, and book by Doug Wright, this fishy fable will capture your heart with its irresistible songs including "Under the Sea," "Kiss the Girl," and "Part of Your World."

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Friday, June 10, 2016

April Showers: Technically Irrelevant
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Featuring works by Sherry Allen, Lauren Bristol, John Fitzsimmons, Robert Kasprzycki, Ken Nichols, Stephanie Roeser, and Penny Santy.

Avida Dollars: Salvador Dalí, Joseph Forêt, and the Three Most Expensive Books in the World
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the collaboration of Salvador Dalí with Parisian publisher Joseph Forêt, which aimed to produce the three most expensive books in the world between 1956 and 1963. These books are illustrated editions of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Cervantes's Don Quixote, and Saint John's Apocalypse.

Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry

Rosamond Gifford Zoo Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

Each January, the zoo invites photographers of all abilities, ages 5 and up, to take part in a photo contest. Winning photos appear in the spring issue of their member publication MyZoo Magazine, on the zoo's website and social media, and are displayed to the public for one year in the zoo's gift shop windows. CFAC is proud to sponsor this event and also take place in the traveling exhibition.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

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

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A Good XCuse features ten ceramic artists who are alumni of Syracuse University's Ceramics Program. The work on view will range from ceramic sculpture to functional pottery. Participating artists include Patrick Coughlin, Ed Feldman, Giselle Hicks, Lynne Hobaica, Jee Eun Lee, Brooke Noble, Jeremy Randall, Jeff Schwarz, Tim See, and Katherine Taylor.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Kindred Beasts: The 2016 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial has been an important platform for contemporary art by New York State artists since its inception in 1974, offering an outlet for creative visual expression and facilitating lively conversations about both what contemporary art is and what it has the power to become. "Kindred Beasts" continues this tradition by presenting a carefully selected group of eight artists whose work focuses on the use of fiber and clay. Each artist interprets the medium in unique and innovative ways, while remaining deeply engaged with tradition and respectful of the past. Representing six counties across the state, the artists are Joe Fyfe, Jeffrey Gibson, Sarah Hewitt, Liz Lurie, Matt Nolen, Sarah Saulson, Bobby Silverman, and Linda Sormin.

Kate Gilmore: Touch like this, Hold like that
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Kate Gilmore combines humor and physical endurance in her feminist-inspired works to create strikingly memorable performances and videos. Gilmore's performances typically showcase the artist or other women femininely dressed and engaged in monotonous, physically arduous, and often rather inane tasks that call out and disrupt gender stereotypes. For the Everson, Gilmore presents a selection of video performances spanning more than a decade as well as a new temporary sculptural installation created specifically for the Everson Community Plaza. Linking the indoor and outdoor components, performers will activate the public sculpture throughout the summer.

WaterCRAFT
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

WaterCRAFT combines quilts and model boats in a celebration of creativity and ingenuity inspired by artist Marie Lorenz's journey along the historic Erie Canal. The exhibition features original model boats designed and built by community members and contemporary quilts by some of the finest quilters in the region that explore and interpret the theme of water.

Work Won't Kill You
SALTQuarters Gallery

Price: Free
SALTQuarters Gallery
115 Otisco St., Syracuse

In this ongoing installation and performance series, Patty Ortiz has constructed a simulated work environment that investigates the interaction between art and work in the lives of individuals and the life of the community. The WWKY workforce applies the tools of art in a forensic fashion through the collection and systematic examination of images from the Near Westside neighborhood; people, places and moments that reflect the history and character of this community. Ortiz and her workforce transform the documentation into an installation/performance to illustrate the similar nature of art, work and life.

In Poor Taste: The Genetically Modified Foods Kitchen
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Created by Christine Chin, The Genetically Modified Foods Kitchen explores the controversial technology that allows us to transfer genes between species. Part human and part vegetable, Chin's vegetable-human hybrids make visible the usually invisible process of genetic modification. In the familiar context of a cookbook and a cooking show, these creations bring concerns about the ethics and politics of biotechnology into the domestic space. Playing with both humor and the grotesque, Chin's photographs encourage people to consider how technology affects our society and our dinner plates.

Syracuse Polish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

4:00-5:00 pm: Festival Opening Ceremony followed by John Spillett Quartet
5:00-6:00 pm: Melody Lane
6:00-7:00 pm: Salt City Brass
7:00-8:00 pm: "Pole of the Year" Award announced, followed by Melody Lane
8:00-8:15 pm: Miss Polonia presentation
8:15–10:30 pm: The Popshow Band

Join us to celebrate Polish culture, taste traditional Polish cuisine and the best Polish beer. A wide variety of traditional Polish arts and crafts will be sold during the event.

For more information, visit polishscholarship.org.

St. Sophia's Greek Cultural Festival

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

Greek music, dancing, food, and crafts.

For more information, visit syracusegreekfest.com.

Paradise, a world premiere interactive installation
Society for New Music

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Immerse yourself in the paradisal Garden of Nature by way of this interactive collage of bird and animal sounds from around the world. Create your own rich sonic/visual tapestry which, like nature, will envelop and draw you in. An interactive sound/light installation by Douglas Quin and Lorne Covington, commissioned by the Society for New Music.

Concierto: Chamber Music with a Latin Flavor
Geneva Music Festival

First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

GMF artists capture the spirit of Latin America with an evening of chamber music featuring fiery works of the greatest Latin and Spanish composers.

For more information, visit genevamusicfestival.com.

Pops Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Jenny Stockdale, singer/songwriter

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors, children under 9 free, $40 family maximum
Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

Concert will feature the stylings of singer/songwriter Jenny Stockdale, backed by the full OCSO. The orchestra will present a first half of light classics including Rossini's Barber of Seville Overture, some novelties by Leroy Anderson, and the finale to Haydn's Farewell Symphony.

Cabaret Series: That Moment When
Central New York Playhouse
Featuring Kaleigh Johnson and Nicholas Maclane

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Annual Gala: Madeleine Peyroux
Syracuse Stage

Price: $25 (general admission balcony concert tickets)
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Madeleine Peyroux, a blues and jazz singer often compared to Billie Holiday, began her career at 15 as an American in Paris busking on the city streets, spent the next several years traveling around Europe performing jazz standards and was finally discovered in the early 90s in a New York City jazz nightclub. She has released seven studio albums consisting of both original works and cover songs that are soulful, earthy takes on her musical inspirations, and has collaborated with many well-known artists such as former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman. Peyroux's music can be heard in several films and television shows, including Union Square, Last Holiday and HBO's critically acclaimed series Deadwood.

Full evening gala tickets also available:
$200: cocktail hour, silent auction, dinner, and concert, available now at 315-443-2709
$300: above, plus VIP reception with Madeleine after the show

The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This wildly inventive play with music was adapted by John Glore from the Caldecott Honor-winning book of the same name by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. The show, full of wacky characters and silly songs, turns classic fairy tales on their heads. Among the tales told are "Cinderumplestiltskin" and "The Princess and the Bowling Ball." This crazy musical adventure is sure to delight audiences of all ages.

Read a review!

Disney's The Little Mermaid
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

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

Based on the classic animated film, Disney's The Little Mermaid is a splashy and touching love story for all ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater, and book by Doug Wright, this fishy fable will capture your heart with its irresistible songs including "Under the Sea," "Kiss the Girl," and "Part of Your World."

Read a Review!

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Classic Tradition
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Richard Henry and Nikolay Mikushkin: oil painting done in the tradition of plein air landscape, floral and classic still-lifes
Carol Adamec: nature-inspired metal sculpture
Esperanza Tielbaard: nature-themed jewelry

Kindred Beasts: The 2016 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial has been an important platform for contemporary art by New York State artists since its inception in 1974, offering an outlet for creative visual expression and facilitating lively conversations about both what contemporary art is and what it has the power to become. "Kindred Beasts" continues this tradition by presenting a carefully selected group of eight artists whose work focuses on the use of fiber and clay. Each artist interprets the medium in unique and innovative ways, while remaining deeply engaged with tradition and respectful of the past. Representing six counties across the state, the artists are Joe Fyfe, Jeffrey Gibson, Sarah Hewitt, Liz Lurie, Matt Nolen, Sarah Saulson, Bobby Silverman, and Linda Sormin.

WaterCRAFT
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

WaterCRAFT combines quilts and model boats in a celebration of creativity and ingenuity inspired by artist Marie Lorenz's journey along the historic Erie Canal. The exhibition features original model boats designed and built by community members and contemporary quilts by some of the finest quilters in the region that explore and interpret the theme of water.

Kate Gilmore: Touch like this, Hold like that
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

New York-based artist Kate Gilmore combines humor and physical endurance in her feminist-inspired works to create strikingly memorable performances and videos. Gilmore's performances typically showcase the artist or other women femininely dressed and engaged in monotonous, physically arduous, and often rather inane tasks that call out and disrupt gender stereotypes. For the Everson, Gilmore presents a selection of video performances spanning more than a decade as well as a new temporary sculptural installation created specifically for the Everson Community Plaza. Linking the indoor and outdoor components, performers will activate the public sculpture throughout the summer.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Rosamond Gifford Zoo Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

Each January, the zoo invites photographers of all abilities, ages 5 and up, to take part in a photo contest. Winning photos appear in the spring issue of their member publication MyZoo Magazine, on the zoo's website and social media, and are displayed to the public for one year in the zoo's gift shop windows. CFAC is proud to sponsor this event and also take place in the traveling exhibition.

A Good XCuse
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A Good XCuse features ten ceramic artists who are alumni of Syracuse University's Ceramics Program. The work on view will range from ceramic sculpture to functional pottery. Participating artists include Patrick Coughlin, Ed Feldman, Giselle Hicks, Lynne Hobaica, Jee Eun Lee, Brooke Noble, Jeremy Randall, Jeff Schwarz, Tim See, and Katherine Taylor.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

In Poor Taste: The Genetically Modified Foods Kitchen
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Created by Christine Chin, The Genetically Modified Foods Kitchen explores the controversial technology that allows us to transfer genes between species. Part human and part vegetable, Chin's vegetable-human hybrids make visible the usually invisible process of genetic modification. In the familiar context of a cookbook and a cooking show, these creations bring concerns about the ethics and politics of biotechnology into the domestic space. Playing with both humor and the grotesque, Chin's photographs encourage people to consider how technology affects our society and our dinner plates.

Work Won't Kill You
SALTQuarters Gallery

Price: Free
SALTQuarters Gallery
115 Otisco St., Syracuse

In this ongoing installation and performance series, Patty Ortiz has constructed a simulated work environment that investigates the interaction between art and work in the lives of individuals and the life of the community. The WWKY workforce applies the tools of art in a forensic fashion through the collection and systematic examination of images from the Near Westside neighborhood; people, places and moments that reflect the history and character of this community. Ortiz and her workforce transform the documentation into an installation/performance to illustrate the similar nature of art, work and life.

Cuse Comedy Showcase
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The Godmother of local comedy, Anna Phillips, will be headlining. Hosted by 2015 Cuse Comedy Champion Corey Smithson.

Competing comics: Mikael Gregg, Sarah Benson, Joshua Barry, Rico Tigner, Bill Woodcock, Jay Burris, and Jay Merante.

"Summertime" Show
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $10
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The backyard grills are firing up, "Dads and Grads" sales are everywhere ... and miles of orange safety cones line the roadways, &%$#ing up traffic. Yep, it's Summertime here in Central New York.

We love summer! Out with the parkas and gloves., and in with the flip-flops and shorts. Garage sales start popping up on every street. They're a fun, inexpensive way to replace your old, worn out stuff with someone else's old, worn out stuff. The winter drudgery of snowblowers and snow shovels are replaced with the summer drudgery of lawn mowers and rakes.

Headlining is Salt City Improv's house team, Pork Pie Hat (improv comedy, in the style of the hit TV show, "Whose Line Is It, Anyway.") Opening the show is Pasta La Vista.

St. Sophia's Greek Cultural Festival

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

Greek music, dancing, food, and crafts.

For more information, visit syracusegreekfest.com.

Syracuse Polish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

12:00-1:00 pm: Rymanowski Brothers Orchestra
1:00-2:00 pm: John Spillett Quartet
2:00-3:00 pm: Rymanowski Brothers Orchestra
3:00-3:45 pm: Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra
3:45-4:30 pm: Lechowia Dance Polish-Canadian Company from Toronto
4:30-5:15 pm: Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra
5:15–6:00 pm: Mansfield Ave (from Rochester)
6:00-7:00 pm: Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra
7:00-7:15 pm: Scholarship Awards, followed by "Blues Brothers" and Lechowia Dance Polish-Canadian Company from Toronto
8:00-10:30 pm: The Billionaires Band

Join us to celebrate Polish culture, taste traditional Polish cuisine and the best Polish beer. A wide variety of traditional Polish arts and crafts will be sold during the event.

For more information, visit polishscholarship.org.

A Special Day (1977)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $5 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A Special Day, directed by Ettore Scola, and starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni
Set in May 1938, this film takes place on the day Hitler arrives in Italy to meet Mussolini for the first time, and all Rome seems to be present. Yet in a massive apartment complex, two who are alone strike up an unlikely friendship. She, a tired housewife, left behind when her Fascist husband runs off to attend the event. He, a distraught a man facing personal, legal, and professional ruin because he is gay. As day passes into night, their chance meeting evolves into a special relationship that will forever change their views on life, love, and politics. No ordinary romantic drama, but a meaningful, beautifully performed look at what it is like to be an outsider.

Paradise, a world premiere interactive installation
Society for New Music

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Immerse yourself in the paradisal Garden of Nature by way of this interactive collage of bird and animal sounds from around the world. Create your own rich sonic/visual tapestry which, like nature, will envelop and draw you in. An interactive sound/light installation by Douglas Quin and Lorne Covington, commissioned by the Society for New Music.

Gracias a la vida (Thanks to Life) Concert
Syracuse Community Choir
Karen Mihalyi, conductor

Price: Sliding scale $15-$25
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Spring Concert
Liverpool Community Chorus

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Carl Palmer in Concert
Palace Theatre

Price: $50
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Emerson, Lake and Palmer founding member will perform a concert to benefit the Crouse Health Foundation.

The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This wildly inventive play with music was adapted by John Glore from the Caldecott Honor-winning book of the same name by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. The show, full of wacky characters and silly songs, turns classic fairy tales on their heads. Among the tales told are "Cinderumplestiltskin" and "The Princess and the Bowling Ball." This crazy musical adventure is sure to delight audiences of all ages.

Read a review!

The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults, $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This wildly inventive play with music was adapted by John Glore from the Caldecott Honor-winning book of the same name by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. The show, full of wacky characters and silly songs, turns classic fairy tales on their heads. Among the tales told are "Cinderumplestiltskin" and "The Princess and the Bowling Ball." This crazy musical adventure is sure to delight audiences of all ages.

Read a review!

Disney's The Little Mermaid
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

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

Based on the classic animated film, Disney's The Little Mermaid is a splashy and touching love story for all ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater, and book by Doug Wright, this fishy fable will capture your heart with its irresistible songs including "Under the Sea," "Kiss the Girl," and "Part of Your World."

Read a Review!

Disney's The Little Mermaid
Redhouse
Stephen Svoboda, director

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

Based on the classic animated film, Disney's The Little Mermaid is a splashy and touching love story for all ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater, and book by Doug Wright, this fishy fable will capture your heart with its irresistible songs including "Under the Sea," "Kiss the Girl," and "Part of Your World."

Read a Review!