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Events for Thursday, December 8, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7:30 PM Solstice at the Cathedral

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

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

Events for Friday, December 9, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3:00 PM-7:00 PM 6th Annual Fair Trade Sale Days ArtRage Gallery

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

6:00 PM-9:00 PM Jazz@Sitrus: Djangoners CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

7:30 PM Solstice at the Cathedral

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

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

8:00 PM Sawyer Fredericks, with Gabriel Wolfchild and The Northern Light Palace Theatre

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

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

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

Events for Saturday, December 10, 2016

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 6th Annual Fair Trade Sale Days ArtRage Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:00 AM Dasher's Magical Gift CNY Arts

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930 Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM A Charlie Brown Christmas Open Hand Theater

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2:00 PM Vocal Jazz and Broadway Selections LeMoyne College

2:00 PM A Charlie Brown Christmas Open Hand Theater

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

3:00 PM Gret Joy: A Gospel Christmas Syracuse Chorale, featuring SU Brass Ensemble

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

4:00 PM Solstice at the Cathedral

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

7:00 PM Holiday Spirit Concert Spirit of Syracuse Chorus

7:30 PM Vocal Jazz and Broadway Selections LeMoyne College

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

7:30 PM Let There Be Light: The 2nd Shepherds' Play & Other Pieces Studio 24

7:30 PM Christmas Pie Syracuse Vocal Ensemble

7:30 PM Cinemagogue: Son of Saul Temple Society of Concord

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

8:00 PM Solstice at the Cathedral

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

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

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

8:00 PM Second Saturday Series: The Honky Tonk Hindooz Westcott Community Center

Events for Sunday, December 11, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930 Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County Onondaga Historical Association

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

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

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

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

11:30 AM City of Syracuse Stan Colella All-Star Band Erie Canal Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1:00 PM Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker

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

2:00 PM A Charlie Brown Christmas Open Hand Theater

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

3:00 PM Christmas Pie Syracuse Vocal Ensemble

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

5:00 PM Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker

5:00 PM-10:00 PM The Santaland Diaries Theatre Du Jour/Barnes Hiscock Mansion

Events for Monday, December 12, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7:30 PM My Lucky Star (1938) Syracuse Cinephile Society

Events for Tuesday, December 13, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Events for Wednesday, December 14, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:00 PM-2:00 PM Jazz at the Plaza: Edgar Pagan's GPL CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

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

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

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

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

12:30 PM Annual Christmas Concert Civic Morning Musicals

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

4:00 PM-7:00 PM Sean Kirst Book Launch: The Soul of Central New York Onondaga Historical Association

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

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

7:30 PM A Charlie Brown Christmas CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Events for Thursday, December 15, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Thursday, December 8, 2016


Art
 

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



Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

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

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


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



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

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


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



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

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

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

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


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, December 8



Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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


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



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

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

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


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



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

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



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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 8



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

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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 8



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

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

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

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


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



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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


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



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Since the the winter of 2013, "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" has featured oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from local artists and photographers. The scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.


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



Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Resembling the clothing styles portrayed in the critically acclaimed PBS series, Downton Abbey, "Downton Comes Downtown" features men's, women's, and children's clothing worn by citizens of Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930.

Highlights include a maroon evening coat with a mink collar worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes Hiscock to a State Dinner during the presidential administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); a boy's brown wool suit with a vest and knickers purchased from the Peck-Vinney Company, a clothier located on South Salina Street, worn by young Milton Jones in the 1920s; and a black kimono with Japanese images worn by Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1930.

The exhibit is augmented by fashion accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses as well as period furniture from OHA's collection.


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



Holiday Group Show 2016
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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


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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 8



62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

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

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

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


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



Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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



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

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

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

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


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



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

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

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


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



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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



Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



30th Annual Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

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

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


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



Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



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

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

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


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



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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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


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5:00 PM - 11:00 PM, December 8



Marie Lorenz: Tide & Current Taxi
Urban Video Project

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

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

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


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Music
 

7:30 PM, December 8



Count Basie and Thad Jones for Christmas
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble

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

The Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Joe Carello, will perform holiday hits with a twist of jazz.


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7:30 PM, December 8



Solstice at the Cathedral

Price: General admission: $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Reserved seats: $35 in advance, $40 at the door
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A concert of music and light.

Solstice at the Cathedral concert is an annual Syracuse tradition. This concert offers you a moment to reflect on the the beauty of the season and celebrate the Winter Solstice—the return of light after the longest night of the year. Enjoy musical performances by some of Central New York's most critically-acclaimed artists, including Joe Whiting, Matt Vacanti, Bob Halligan Jr., International Guitar Duo (Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb), the Van Norstrand Brothers, Donna Colton, Jeff Stockham, Joe Davoli, Brian Scherer, Jim O'Mahony, Dave DeSiro, Marcia Hagan, Avery Head, Wayne Skinner, Tony Rashad, and Larry Kyle. Collaborations include a mix of pop, jazz, blues, Celtic, and original compositions in a spiritual setting. Creative lighting and a state-of-the-art sound system will enhance the experience.

Parking is available in the garage on Montgomery Street (across the street from St. Paul's) for a special rate of $5 for attendees of Solstice at the Cathedral concert.

For more information, visit www.solsticeatthecathedral.com or call People in the Seats Productions, 315-256-7386.


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, December 8



Nick Saint: Private Elf
Acme Mystery Company

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

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


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7:00 PM, December 8



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

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

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

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

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7:00 PM, December 8



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

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

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

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

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8:00 PM, December 8



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

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

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

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

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8:00 PM, December 8



A Christmas Survival Guide
Rarely Done Productions

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

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

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Friday, December 9, 2016


Art
 

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



Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

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

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


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8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 9



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

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


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



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

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

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

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


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



Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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


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



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

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

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


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



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

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



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



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

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

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

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

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


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



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

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

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

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


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



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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


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



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Since the the winter of 2013, "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" has featured oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from local artists and photographers. The scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.


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



Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Resembling the clothing styles portrayed in the critically acclaimed PBS series, Downton Abbey, "Downton Comes Downtown" features men's, women's, and children's clothing worn by citizens of Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930.

Highlights include a maroon evening coat with a mink collar worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes Hiscock to a State Dinner during the presidential administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); a boy's brown wool suit with a vest and knickers purchased from the Peck-Vinney Company, a clothier located on South Salina Street, worn by young Milton Jones in the 1920s; and a black kimono with Japanese images worn by Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1930.

The exhibit is augmented by fashion accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses as well as period furniture from OHA's collection.


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



Holiday Group Show 2016
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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


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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 9



62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

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

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 9



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

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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 9



Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 9



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 9



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

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

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


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



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



30th Annual Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

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

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


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



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

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

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


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



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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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


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3:00 PM - 7:00 PM, December 9



6th Annual Fair Trade Sale Days
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Come to the ArtRage Gallery for your Holiday Shopping and help craftspeople from all over the world. This year we are hosting four Fair Trade vendors: Muriel Medina selling ¡Qué Colores! Guatemalan goods, Mary Lawyer O'Conner with other offerings from Guatemala through Mayan Hands and Cloth Roads, the Better Brittle Company selling West African Bolga Baskets and finally, crafts and homemade Tamales to sample and order from the folks at the Workers' Center of CNY.

ArtRage will have its gift shop open as well and will be offering Fair Trade cocoa and cookies to our guests.


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5:00 PM - 11:00 PM, December 9



Marie Lorenz: Tide & Current Taxi
Urban Video Project

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

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

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


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Music
 

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



Jazz@Sitrus: Djangoners
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover
Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse


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7:30 PM, December 9



Solstice at the Cathedral

Price: General admission: $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Reserved seats: $35 in advance, $40 at the door
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A concert of music and light.

Solstice at the Cathedral concert is an annual Syracuse tradition. This concert offers you a moment to reflect on the the beauty of the season and celebrate the Winter Solstice—the return of light after the longest night of the year. Enjoy musical performances by some of Central New York's most critically-acclaimed artists, including Joe Whiting, Matt Vacanti, Bob Halligan Jr., International Guitar Duo (Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb), the Van Norstrand Brothers, Donna Colton, Jeff Stockham, Joe Davoli, Brian Scherer, Jim O'Mahony, Dave DeSiro, Marcia Hagan, Avery Head, Wayne Skinner, Tony Rashad, and Larry Kyle. Collaborations include a mix of pop, jazz, blues, Celtic, and original compositions in a spiritual setting. Creative lighting and a state-of-the-art sound system will enhance the experience.

Parking is available in the garage on Montgomery Street (across the street from St. Paul's) for a special rate of $5 for attendees of Solstice at the Cathedral concert.

For more information, visit www.solsticeatthecathedral.com or call People in the Seats Productions, 315-256-7386.


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8:00 PM, December 9



Sawyer Fredericks, with Gabriel Wolfchild and The Northern Light
Palace Theatre

Price: $20 in advance, $25 at the door
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Winner of NBC's "The VOice"


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, December 9



Amahl and The Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

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

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


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8:00 PM, December 9



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

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

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

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

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8:00 PM, December 9



A Christmas Survival Guide
Rarely Done Productions

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

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

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8:00 PM, December 9



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

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

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

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

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8:00 PM, December 9



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

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

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

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

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Saturday, December 10, 2016


Art
 

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



6th Annual Fair Trade Sale Days
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Come to the ArtRage Gallery for your Holiday Shopping and help craftspeople from all over the world. This year we are hosting four Fair Trade vendors: Muriel Medina selling ¡Qué Colores! Guatemalan goods, Mary Lawyer O'Conner with other offerings from Guatemala through Mayan Hands and Cloth Roads, the Better Brittle Company selling West African Bolga Baskets and finally, crafts and homemade Tamales to sample and order from the folks at the Workers' Center of CNY.

ArtRage will have its gift shop open as well and will be offering Fair Trade cocoa and cookies to our guests.


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



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

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

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


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



Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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


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



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

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



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



30th Annual Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

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

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


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



Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 10



Holiday Group Show 2016
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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


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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 10



62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

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

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 10



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Since the the winter of 2013, "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" has featured oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from local artists and photographers. The scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 10



Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Resembling the clothing styles portrayed in the critically acclaimed PBS series, Downton Abbey, "Downton Comes Downtown" features men's, women's, and children's clothing worn by citizens of Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930.

Highlights include a maroon evening coat with a mink collar worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes Hiscock to a State Dinner during the presidential administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); a boy's brown wool suit with a vest and knickers purchased from the Peck-Vinney Company, a clothier located on South Salina Street, worn by young Milton Jones in the 1920s; and a black kimono with Japanese images worn by Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1930.

The exhibit is augmented by fashion accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses as well as period furniture from OHA's collection.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 10



Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 10



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

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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 10



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 10



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, December 10



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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 10



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

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

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


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5:00 PM - 11:00 PM, December 10



Marie Lorenz: Tide & Current Taxi
Urban Video Project

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

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

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


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Dance
 

11:00 AM, December 10



Dasher's Magical Gift
CNY Arts

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

This narrated ballet for children of all ages is directed by Larry Crabtree and performed by dancers from Dance Centre North.

It's a few days before Christmas and Santa is going to choose an extra reindeer to help pull the sleigh. Dasher has just returned to the North Pole, but he has lost his ability to fly! Can Peppermint, his biggest reindeer fan, save the day? Maybe, with the help of a couple of very lost penguins, the Spirit of Christmas will prevail!

With Dasher's Magical Gift, CNY Arts continues its 38-year tradition of providing an affordable, family-friendly event filled with colorful characters, ample doses of humor, and holiday magic—including flying reindeer and a special visit from Santa himself!

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


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Film
 

7:30 PM, December 10



Cinemagogue: Son of Saul
Temple Society of Concord

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

October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners forced to assist the Nazis. While working, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish, and offer the boy a proper burial.


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Music
 

2:00 PM, December 10



Vocal Jazz and Broadway Selections
LeMoyne College
Jazzuits and LeMoyne Singers

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

Two of Le Moyne College's vocal ensembles team up for an unforgettable evening of jazz classics (with the Jazzuits) and Broadway favorites (with the LMC Singers).


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3:00 PM, December 10



Gret Joy: A Gospel Christmas
Syracuse Chorale
Peppie Calvar, conductor
Featuring SU Brass Ensemble

Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt


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4:00 PM, December 10



Solstice at the Cathedral

Price: General admission: $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Reserved seats: $35 in advance, $40 at the door
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A concert of music and light.

Solstice at the Cathedral concert is an annual Syracuse tradition. This concert offers you a moment to reflect on the the beauty of the season and celebrate the Winter Solstice—the return of light after the longest night of the year. Enjoy musical performances by some of Central New York's most critically-acclaimed artists, including Joe Whiting, Matt Vacanti, Bob Halligan Jr., International Guitar Duo (Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb), the Van Norstrand Brothers, Donna Colton, Jeff Stockham, Joe Davoli, Brian Scherer, Jim O'Mahony, Dave DeSiro, Marcia Hagan, Avery Head, Wayne Skinner, Tony Rashad, and Larry Kyle. Collaborations include a mix of pop, jazz, blues, Celtic, and original compositions in a spiritual setting. Creative lighting and a state-of-the-art sound system will enhance the experience.

Parking is available in the garage on Montgomery Street (across the street from St. Paul's) for a special rate of $5 for attendees of Solstice at the Cathedral concert.

For more information, visit www.solsticeatthecathedral.com or call People in the Seats Productions, 315-256-7386.


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7:00 PM, December 10



Holiday Spirit Concert
Spirit of Syracuse Chorus
Nancy Field, conductor

St. Cecilia's Church
1001 Woods Rd., Syracuse

Celebrate the joyful music of the season with the Spirit of Syracuse, CNY's premiere women's a cappella chorus. Come enjoy many of the holiday's beloved songs sung in exciting 4-part harmony. The program will also include selections from our brand new CD "Holiday Spirit".

Performances by special guests Harmonic Collective, Scarlett Chorus, Sound Byte Quartet, Resonance, and more surprises.


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7:30 PM, December 10



Vocal Jazz and Broadway Selections
LeMoyne College
Jazzuits and LeMoyne Singers

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

Two of Le Moyne College's vocal ensembles team up for an unforgettable evening of jazz classics (with the Jazzuits) and Broadway favorites (with the LMC Singers).


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7:30 PM, December 10



Christmas Pie
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Yunn-Shan Ma, conductor

Price: $20 adults, $10 students
Holy Cross Church
4112 E. Genesee St., Dewitt

Revel in the beauty of the season as SVE sings Ariel Quintana's Three Christmas Motets and select works by Robert Shaw and Kirby Shaw, as well as a Christmas arrangement by Pentatonix. The traditional all-you-can-eat pie reception completes the celebration!


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8:00 PM, December 10



Solstice at the Cathedral

Price: General admission: $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Reserved seats: $35 in advance, $40 at the door
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A concert of music and light.

Solstice at the Cathedral concert is an annual Syracuse tradition. This concert offers you a moment to reflect on the the beauty of the season and celebrate the Winter Solstice—the return of light after the longest night of the year. Enjoy musical performances by some of Central New York's most critically-acclaimed artists, including Joe Whiting, Matt Vacanti, Bob Halligan Jr., International Guitar Duo (Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb), the Van Norstrand Brothers, Donna Colton, Jeff Stockham, Joe Davoli, Brian Scherer, Jim O'Mahony, Dave DeSiro, Marcia Hagan, Avery Head, Wayne Skinner, Tony Rashad, and Larry Kyle. Collaborations include a mix of pop, jazz, blues, Celtic, and original compositions in a spiritual setting. Creative lighting and a state-of-the-art sound system will enhance the experience.

Parking is available in the garage on Montgomery Street (across the street from St. Paul's) for a special rate of $5 for attendees of Solstice at the Cathedral concert.

For more information, visit www.solsticeatthecathedral.com or call People in the Seats Productions, 315-256-7386.


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8:00 PM, December 10



Second Saturday Series: The Honky Tonk Hindooz
Westcott Community Center

Price: $10
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The Honky Tonk Hindooz hail from high in the Himalachian mountains of the Indian subcontinent. Comprised of upright bass, guitar, accordion, and sometimes drums, the Hindooz play and eclectic blend of psychedelic garage country and weirdo rock and roll oldies from the 1940s-1980s. They specialize in original countrified arrangements of popular songs by artists as diverse as Johnny Cash, The Kinks, Buddy Holly, and The Clash, all in a jangly, swaggerly roots-Americana stew.


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Theater
 

11:00 AM, December 10



A Charlie Brown Christmas
Open Hand Theater

Price: $15 adults, $10 youth in advance; $17 adults, $12 youth at the door (under age 2 free)
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

This holiday season, Open Hand Theater will bring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the whole Peanuts gang to life in A Charlie Brown Christmas. This special performance will highlight 11 hand-crafted puppets, as well as the puppeteering and acting skills of the Open Hand performers. This heartwarming holiday show contrasts the trappings of materialism with the true meaning of Christmas.


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12:30 PM, December 10



Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.


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2:00 PM, December 10



A Charlie Brown Christmas
Open Hand Theater

Price: $15 adults, $10 youth in advance; $17 adults, $12 youth at the door (under age 2 free)
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

This holiday season, Open Hand Theater will bring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the whole Peanuts gang to life in A Charlie Brown Christmas. This special performance will highlight 11 hand-crafted puppets, as well as the puppeteering and acting skills of the Open Hand performers. This heartwarming holiday show contrasts the trappings of materialism with the true meaning of Christmas.


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2:00 PM, December 10



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

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

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

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

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3:00 PM, December 10



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

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

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

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

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7:30 PM, December 10



Amahl and The Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

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

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


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7:30 PM, December 10



Let There Be Light: The 2nd Shepherds' Play & Other Pieces
Studio 24
Gerard Moses, director

Price: $10
Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse


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8:00 PM, December 10



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

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

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

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

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8:00 PM, December 10



A Christmas Survival Guide
Rarely Done Productions

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

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

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8:00 PM, December 10



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

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

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

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

Read a review!


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8:00 PM, December 10



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

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

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

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

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Sunday, December 11, 2016


Art
 

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 11



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

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



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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 11



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

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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 11



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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 11



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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


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



Holiday Group Show 2016
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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


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



Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Resembling the clothing styles portrayed in the critically acclaimed PBS series, Downton Abbey, "Downton Comes Downtown" features men's, women's, and children's clothing worn by citizens of Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930.

Highlights include a maroon evening coat with a mink collar worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes Hiscock to a State Dinner during the presidential administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); a boy's brown wool suit with a vest and knickers purchased from the Peck-Vinney Company, a clothier located on South Salina Street, worn by young Milton Jones in the 1920s; and a black kimono with Japanese images worn by Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1930.

The exhibit is augmented by fashion accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses as well as period furniture from OHA's collection.


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



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Since the the winter of 2013, "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" has featured oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from local artists and photographers. The scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.


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



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

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

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

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


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



Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 11



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 11



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 11



Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 11



Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 11



Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 11



30th Annual Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

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

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


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



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

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

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


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Music
 

11:30 AM, December 11



City of Syracuse Stan Colella All-Star Band
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

A free performance of holiday music by the City of Syracuse Stan Colella All-Star Band, under the direction of Joe Carello.

Free parking is available in the lot on Erie Boulevard East under routes 81 and 690. Seating is limited, so be sure to arrive early.


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1:00 PM, December 11



Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker

Price: $28-$68
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The biggest Christmas experience of the year, the original Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker, direct from Russia. Enchant the whole family with larger-than-life magical props, a 60-foot growing Christmas tree, and spectacular Russian-made costumes and sets. A must-see event — witness the world's best dancers on stage.

Tickets are available in person at the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), charge by phone 315-435-2121, or online at Ticketmaster.


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3:00 PM, December 11



Christmas Pie
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Yunn-Shan Ma, conductor

Price: $20 adults, $10 students
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Revel in the beauty of the season as SVE sings Ariel Quintana's Three Christmas Motets and select works by Robert Shaw and Kirby Shaw, as well as a Christmas arrangement by Pentatonix. The traditional all-you-can-eat pie reception completes the celebration!


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5:00 PM, December 11



Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker

Price: $28-$68
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The biggest Christmas experience of the year, the original Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker, direct from Russia. Enchant the whole family with larger-than-life magical props, a 60-foot growing Christmas tree, and spectacular Russian-made costumes and sets. A must-see event — witness the world's best dancers on stage.

Tickets are available in person at the Oncenter Box Office (760 S. State Street), charge by phone 315-435-2121, or online at Ticketmaster.


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, December 11



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

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

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

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

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2:00 PM, December 11



A Charlie Brown Christmas
Open Hand Theater

Price: $15 adults, $10 youth in advance; $17 adults, $12 youth at the door (under age 2 free)
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

This holiday season, Open Hand Theater will bring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the whole Peanuts gang to life in A Charlie Brown Christmas. This special performance will highlight 11 hand-crafted puppets, as well as the puppeteering and acting skills of the Open Hand performers. This heartwarming holiday show contrasts the trappings of materialism with the true meaning of Christmas.


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2:00 PM, December 11



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

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

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

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

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4:00 PM, December 11



Amahl and The Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

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

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


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5:00 PM - 10:00 PM, December 11



The Santaland Diaries
Theatre Du Jour/Barnes Hiscock Mansion

Price: $60 includes dinner and show
Barnes Hiscock Mansion
930 James St., Syracuse

Join us for a playful evening of dinner theatre to benefit the Barnes Hiscock Mansion's #savethemansion fund.

The Santaland Diaries, by David Sedaris, is a brilliant evocation of a slacker's Christmas. Out of work, our slacker decides to become a Macy's elf during the holiday crunch. At first the job is simply humiliating, but once the thousands of visitors start pouring through Santa's workshop, he becomes battle-weary and bitter. Finding consolation in the fact that some of the other elves were television extras on One Life to Live, he grins and bears it, occasionally taking out his frustrations on the children and parents alike. The piece ends with yet another Santa being ushered into the workshop, but this one is different from the lecherous or drunken ones with whom he has had to work. This Santa actually seems to care about and love the children who come to see him, startling our hero into an uncharacteristic moment of goodwill, just before his employment runs out.

Cocktail hour starts at 5:00 pm, dinner is served at 6:00 pm, show begins at 7:00 pm.

For tickets and more information, visit www.grbarnes.org/event/theatre-du-jour-presents-the-santaland-diaries.


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Monday, December 12, 2016


Art
 

8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 12



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

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


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 12



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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 12



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 12



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

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



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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 12



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

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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 12



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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 12



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 12



62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

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

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

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


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Film
 

7:30 PM, December 12



My Lucky Star (1938)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Sonja Henie, Richard Greene, Cesar Romero, Joan Davis, Buddy Ebsen, Billy Gilbert, Louise Hovick (Gypsy Rose Lee), Arthur Treacher, George Barbier

Our holiday show is a lively musical-comedy that features Sonja going to college and skating in a big "Alice In Wonderland" ice finale. Great fun with a terrific cast!


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Tuesday, December 13, 2016


Art
 

8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 13



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

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


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 13



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

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

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

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


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, December 13



Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 13



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 13



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

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



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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 13



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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 13



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

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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 13



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 13



62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

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

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 13



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 13



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 13



Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 13



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

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

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

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


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Wednesday, December 14, 2016


Art
 

8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 14



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

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


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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, December 14



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

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

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

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


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, December 14



Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 14



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 14



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

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



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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 14



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

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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 14



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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 14



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 14



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Since the the winter of 2013, "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" has featured oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from local artists and photographers. The scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 14



Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Resembling the clothing styles portrayed in the critically acclaimed PBS series, Downton Abbey, "Downton Comes Downtown" features men's, women's, and children's clothing worn by citizens of Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930.

Highlights include a maroon evening coat with a mink collar worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes Hiscock to a State Dinner during the presidential administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); a boy's brown wool suit with a vest and knickers purchased from the Peck-Vinney Company, a clothier located on South Salina Street, worn by young Milton Jones in the 1920s; and a black kimono with Japanese images worn by Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1930.

The exhibit is augmented by fashion accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses as well as period furniture from OHA's collection.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 14



62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

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

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 14



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

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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 14



Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 14



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 14



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 14



Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 14



Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 14



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 14



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, December 14



Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, December 14



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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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


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Music
 

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, December 14



Jazz at the Plaza: Edgar Pagan's GPL
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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


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12:30 PM, December 14



Annual Christmas Concert
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Directed by Gayle Ross and Jerry Exline.


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7:30 PM, December 14



A Charlie Brown Christmas
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Karl Stabnau Quartet

Price: $20 regular, $15 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Syracuse debut of the Karl Stabnau Quartet, playing their unique blend of jazz arrangements from the acclaimed TV special featuring Charlie, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy and the gang.

Now entering its sixth year of touring, A Charlie Brown Christmas with the Karl Stabnau Quartet brings to life the sounds of Vince Guaraldi's timeless soundtrack. Karl's arrangements re-imagine the songs for jazz quartet while remaining true to the original score. Each member of the Karl Stabnau Quartet is a highly sought-after soloist with extensive performance credits, including Karl on saxophone and woodwinds, Jacob Dupre on piano, Danny Ziemann on bass, and Eric Metzgar on drums.

Those attending are encouraged to bring canned food items that will be donated to the Emergency Food Pantry at the Atonement Ministries.

For more information, visit www.karlstabnau.com/cbchristmas. For ticket reservations, email karl@sonicera.com.


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Poetry/Reading
 

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM, December 14



Sean Kirst Book Launch: The Soul of Central New York
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Award-winning Syracuse journalist Sean Kirst will be at OHA to launch and sign his new book The Soul of Central New York: Syracuse Stories. Copies will be available for purchase at the OHA Gift Gallery.


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Theater
 

7:00 PM, December 14



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

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

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

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

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7:00 PM, December 14



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

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

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

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

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Thursday, December 15, 2016


Art
 

8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, December 15



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

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


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 15



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

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

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

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


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, December 15



Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 15



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 15



31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

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



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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 15



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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 15



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

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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, December 15



Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 15



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Since the the winter of 2013, "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" has featured oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from local artists and photographers. The scenes include downtown Syracuse, parks, rural vistas, and woodland settings. The imagery also is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, December 15



Downton Comes Downtown: What the Fashionable Wore in Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930
Onondaga Historical Association

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

Resembling the clothing styles portrayed in the critically acclaimed PBS series, Downton Abbey, "Downton Comes Downtown" features men's, women's, and children's clothing worn by citizens of Onondaga County from 1900 to 1930.

Highlights include a maroon evening coat with a mink collar worn by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes Hiscock to a State Dinner during the presidential administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); a boy's brown wool suit with a vest and knickers purchased from the Peck-Vinney Company, a clothier located on South Salina Street, worn by young Milton Jones in the 1920s; and a black kimono with Japanese images worn by Mrs. Laura Crouse Durston aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1930.

The exhibit is augmented by fashion accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses as well as period furniture from OHA's collection.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, December 15



Holiday Group Show 2016
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

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


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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, December 15



62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

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

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, December 15



Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, December 15



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

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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, December 15



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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, December 15



21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 15



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 15



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 15



Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 15



Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, December 15



Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, December 15



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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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


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5:00 PM - 11:00 PM, December 15



Marie Lorenz: Tide & Current Taxi
Urban Video Project

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

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

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


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, December 15



Nick Saint: Private Elf
Acme Mystery Company

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

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


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7:00 PM, December 15



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

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

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

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

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7:00 PM, December 15



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

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

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

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

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8:00 PM, December 15



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

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

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

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

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