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Events for Saturday, October 10, 2015

9:00 AM-1:00 PM Mark Topp: Here & There LeMoyne College

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Locally Grown Art Exhibit Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

10:00 AM-2:00 PM A Conscious Allusion Edgewood Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013) Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Three Graces Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Joy, Beauty & Wonder Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-6:00 PM My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales Gallery 54

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)

11:00 AM-6:00 PM The Almighty Cup Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM Jack and the Beanstalk Open Hand Theater, featuring Spring Valley Puppet Theater

11:00 AM-4:30 PM James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM The Portraits of Gregory Heisler Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM The Global Citizen: Graphic Art of Marlena Buczek Smith ArtRage Gallery

12:00 PM-4:00 PM ¡Nuestro Sabor! La Casita Cultural Center

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Continuum Point of Contact Gallery (Read a review!)

12:30 PM Aladdin Magic Circle Children's Theatre

1:00 PM-9:00 PM 2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery

1:00 PM-9:00 PM Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

2:00 PM Kiss Me, Kate Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

7:00 PM Sarode: An Evening of Indian Classical Music Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

7:00 PM-11:00 PM Leviathan Urban Video Project (Read a review!)

7:30 PM Bach Recital

7:30 PM JT Hall Jazzz Consort Steeple Coffee House

7:30 PM Masterworks Series: Albers Returns Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria), featuring Julie Albers, cello

8:00 PM Steadfast Appleseed Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Cuse Comedy Showcase Central New York Playhouse, featuring Jaye McBride

8:00 PM Meñique Community Folk Art Center

8:00 PM Vincent Starry Night Theater

8:00 PM Kiss Me, Kate Syracuse University Drama Department (Read a review!)

8:00 PM A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum TheaterFirst Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Second Saturday Series: Alison and Zoe, with Larry Hoyt and Joanne Basta Westcott Community Center

Events for Sunday, October 11, 2015

10:00 AM-5:00 PM My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales Gallery 54

10:00 AM-5:00 PM City Market

11:00 AM-4:00 PM The Almighty Cup Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM The Portraits of Gregory Heisler Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Three Graces Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Joy, Beauty & Wonder Everson Museum of Art

1:00 PM-5:00 PM Mark Topp: Here & There LeMoyne College

1:00 PM-9:00 PM Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

1:00 PM-9:00 PM 2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery

2:00 PM Steadfast Appleseed Productions (Read a review!)

2:00 PM Meñique Community Folk Art Center

2:00 PM Vincent Starry Night Theater

2:00 PM A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum TheaterFirst Productions (Read a review!)

3:00 PM Extraordinary Live!

3:00 PM Neave Trio

Events for Monday, October 12, 2015

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Locally Grown Art Exhibit Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Black Utopias Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:00 AM-4:00 PM 25: Multi-media artwork by Erin Fassinger Westcott Community Art Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales Gallery 54

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Mark Topp: Here & There LeMoyne College

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community La Casita Cultural Center

7:30 PM Picture Snatcher (1933) Syracuse Cinephile Society

Events for Tuesday, October 13, 2015

8:00 AM-2:00 AM Mark Topp: Here & There LeMoyne College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Locally Grown Art Exhibit Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Black Utopias Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:00 AM-4:00 PM 25: Multi-media artwork by Erin Fassinger Westcott Community Art Gallery

9:30 AM-6:00 PM A Conscious Allusion Edgewood Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales Gallery 54

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

11:00 AM-4:30 PM James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM The Portraits of Gregory Heisler Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community La Casita Cultural Center

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Continuum Point of Contact Gallery (Read a review!)

7:30 PM Social Inequality: The How, Why and What to Do? University Lectures, featuring Charles Blow and Ross Douthat

8:00 PM Ensemble Series: SU Wind Ensemble Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

8:00 PM Metalachi Westcott Theater

Events for Wednesday, October 14, 2015

8:00 AM-2:00 AM Mark Topp: Here & There LeMoyne College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Locally Grown Art Exhibit Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Be the Change: Works by Zachary Skinner Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-7:00 PM Black Utopias Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:00 AM-4:00 PM 25: Multi-media artwork by Erin Fassinger Westcott Community Art Gallery

9:30 AM-6:00 PM A Conscious Allusion Edgewood Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales Gallery 54

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

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

11:00 AM-4:30 PM James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM The Portraits of Gregory Heisler Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-2:00 PM Jazz at the Plaza: John Spillett CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

12:00 PM-5:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Three Graces Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Joy, Beauty & Wonder Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013) Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community La Casita Cultural Center

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Continuum Point of Contact Gallery (Read a review!)

12:00 PM Talking Film Syracuse International Film Festival, featuring Haim Bouzaglo

12:30 PM Alina Plourde, oboe; Jessica Wooldridge King, bassoon; Steve Rosenfeld, piano Civic Morning Musicals

12:30 PM Lunchtime Lecture: Artist Gregory Heisler Syracuse University Art Museum

2:00 PM-7:00 PM The Global Citizen: Graphic Art of Marlena Buczek Smith ArtRage Gallery

5:00 PM Dan Torday Raymond Carver Reading Series

7:00 PM Wildrose Syracuse International Film Festival, featuring Tom Bower

7:30 PM Stephen Greenblatt Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series

Events for Thursday, October 15, 2015

8:00 AM-2:00 AM Mark Topp: Here & There LeMoyne College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Locally Grown Art Exhibit Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Be the Change: Works by Zachary Skinner Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Black Utopias Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:00 AM-4:00 PM 25: Multi-media artwork by Erin Fassinger Westcott Community Art Gallery

9:30 AM-6:00 PM A Conscious Allusion Edgewood Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales Gallery 54

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

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

10:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-8:00 PM James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM The Portraits of Gregory Heisler Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Three Graces Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-8:00 PM He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013) Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-8:00 PM Joy, Beauty & Wonder Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community La Casita Cultural Center

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Continuum Point of Contact Gallery (Read a review!)

2:00 PM-7:00 PM The Global Citizen: Graphic Art of Marlena Buczek Smith ArtRage Gallery

4:15 PM Filmtalk Syracuse International Film Festival, featuring James Niehouse, cinematographer

6:00 PM-8:00 PM Open Figure Drawing Everson Museum of Art

6:00 PM Diversity in Arts Panel Discussion Redhouse, featuring Sphinx Virtuosi

6:30 PM "What If...?" Film Series: We the Owners

6:30 PM Leviathan Syracuse International Film Festival, featuring Lucien Castaing-Taylor

6:45 PM A Tomb With A View Acme Mystery Company

6:45 PM-11:00 PM Leviathan Urban Video Project (Read a review!)

7:00 PM Nancy Kerrigan's Halloween On Ice

7:00 PM The Mark of Zorro: Silent Film with Original Live Music Syracuse International Film Festival

8:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Lizzie Borden Took an Axe Covey Theatre Company (Read a review!)

Events for Friday, October 16, 2015

8:00 AM-8:00 PM Mark Topp: Here & There LeMoyne College

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Locally Grown Art Exhibit Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Be the Change: Works by Zachary Skinner Onondaga Community College

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Black Utopias Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

9:00 AM-4:00 PM 25: Multi-media artwork by Erin Fassinger Westcott Community Art Gallery

9:30 AM-6:00 PM A Conscious Allusion Edgewood Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-6:00 PM My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales Gallery 54

10:00 AM-6:00 PM 2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-6:00 PM Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

10:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

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

11:00 AM-4:30 PM James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM The Portraits of Gregory Heisler Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-5:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013) Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Joy, Beauty & Wonder Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Three Graces Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community La Casita Cultural Center

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Continuum Point of Contact Gallery (Read a review!)

12:15 PM TGIF Tour Everson Museum of Art

2:00 PM-7:00 PM The Global Citizen: Graphic Art of Marlena Buczek Smith ArtRage Gallery

4:00 PM Maestro Syracuse International Film Festival

6:00 PM-9:00 PM Jazz@Sitrus: Ronnie Leigh & Marcus Curry CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

6:30 PM A Complicated Story Syracuse International Film Festival

6:45 PM-11:00 PM Leviathan Urban Video Project (Read a review!)

7:00 PM Barry Crimmins LIVE ArtRage Gallery

7:00 PM Poet Mark Irwin Downtown Writer's Center

7:00 PM A Sea Change Syracuse International Film Festival

7:30 PM Sphinx Virtuosi Redhouse

7:30 PM Special Event: Credo Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

8:00 PM Steadfast Appleseed Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Little Shop of Horrors Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Lizzie Borden Took an Axe Covey Theatre Company (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Buddy Valastro's Bakin' with the Boss Tour

8:00 PM Triassic Parq: The Musical Rarely Done Productions (Read a review!)

9:00 PM Cover Girl Syracuse International Film Festival

9:15 PM Everly Syracuse International Film Festival

11:30 PM An EVILning with Joe Lynch: Chillerama: Zom-B-Movie and The Blob Syracuse International Film Festival

Events for Saturday, October 17, 2015

9:00 AM-8:00 PM Mark Topp: Here & There LeMoyne College

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Locally Grown Art Exhibit Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

10:00 AM-2:00 PM A Conscious Allusion Edgewood Gallery (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Three Graces Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Joy, Beauty & Wonder Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013) Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-6:00 PM My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales Gallery 54

10:00 AM Disney & Pixar Film/Music Special Syracuse International Film Festival, featuring Tom MacDougall

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)

11:00 AM-6:00 PM The Almighty Cup Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection Onondaga Historical Association

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

11:00 AM-4:00 PM A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection Onondaga Historical Association

11:00 AM-4:30 PM James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM The Portraits of Gregory Heisler Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:30 PM Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM The Global Citizen: Graphic Art of Marlena Buczek Smith ArtRage Gallery

12:00 PM-5:00 PM Continuum Point of Contact Gallery (Read a review!)

12:00 PM The Best Offer Syracuse International Film Festival

12:00 PM New Filmmakers Showcase Syracuse International Film Festival

12:30 PM Aladdin Magic Circle Children's Theatre

1:00 PM-9:00 PM 2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou Light Work Gallery

1:00 PM-9:00 PM Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) Light Work Gallery (Read a review!)

1:00 PM-4:30 PM Fall Art Show and Sale Central New York Art Guild

1:00 PM Million Dollar Mayor Syracuse International Film Festival

2:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Lizzie Borden Took an Axe Covey Theatre Company (Read a review!)

2:30 PM Imaging & Disability Showcase Syracuse International Film Festival

4:00 PM The Price We Pay Syracuse International Film Festival

6:30 PM Foreign Films Showcase Syracuse International Film Festival

6:45 PM-11:00 PM Leviathan Urban Video Project (Read a review!)

7:15 PM House of Wishes Syracuse International Film Festival

7:30 PM Schola at 40 Schola Cantorum of Syracuse

7:30 PM ATOS Trio Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

8:00 PM Steadfast Appleseed Productions (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Little Shop of Horrors Central New York Playhouse (Read a review!)

8:00 PM Triassic Parq: The Musical Rarely Done Productions (Read a review!)

9:15 PM Einstein and Eddington Syracuse International Film Festival

9:30 PM Call Me Lucky Syracuse International Film Festival

11:45 PM God Bless America Syracuse International Film Festival

Next week  >>>

Saturday, October 10, 2015


Art
 

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



Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.


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



Locally Grown Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Central New York artists Lucie Wellner and Robert Glisson will display their watercolor and oil paintings.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.


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



A Conscious Allusion
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nicora Gangi: Recent pastel and oil paintings including still-life and landscape imagery
R. Jason Howard and Doug Williams: Collaborative glass "prayer bowls" incorporating Howard's "cage" series and Williams' Fillacello glass drawing
Gail Sustare: Fine jewelry

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



He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, drew from footage obtained while shooting their award-winning movie Leviathan (2012) to create this film. The mesmerizing and haunting footage, filmed both in and from the ocean and projected at 1/50 of the speed at which it was recorded, shows the sea to be a vast and watery expanse full of slow-moving, unidentifiable forms.


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



Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.


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



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.


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



Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri
Everson Museum of Art

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

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.


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



Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

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



Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.


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



My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist, teacher, and entrepreneur Jan Navales has enjoyed a broad artistic career including working as a textile artist, a master screen printer, dyer, block printer, and deconstructive printer for more than 25 years. Jan owned a large screenprinting business in Syracuse and is also a watercolor illustrator. She currently teaches Textile Hand Printing and Dyework Design at Syracuse University.

This will be the last show of fabric art Jan will be exhibiting. Following this show, she will be focusing on watercolor illustration.


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



Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

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



The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University are happy to present The Almighty Cup, a national juried and invitational exhibition. The show presents an eclectic mix of styles of drinking vessels made by 47 ceramic artists from all over the country.

This group exhibition features hand-crafted cups that range from functional to sculptural. Jeremy Randall, a ceramic artist who lives and works in Tully, NY was the juror and selected 100 cups from over 300 submissions. The Shaped Clay Society, a student-run club at Syracuse University, received the entry fees from the juried artists to support student activities and projects. Local business, Clayscapes, is sponsoring the prizes for the exhibition. The pieces in the show will be posted on the Gandee Gallery website and available for online purchase. Call or email to make a purchase.


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



James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.


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



The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.


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



Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.


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



The Global Citizen: Graphic Art of Marlena Buczek Smith
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse


As a medium for social change, posters record our struggles for peace, social justice, environmental defense, and liberation from oppression. From the confrontational and political, to the promotional, persuasive and educational, the poster in all its forms has persisted as a vehicle for the public dissemination of ideas, information, and opinion. The stunning Giclée prints included in this exhibition span a range of political, humanitarian and environmental issues. Buczek Smith is a New Jersey-based artist originally from Poland. She has exhibited her insightful and passionate posters in North America, Asia and Europe, and her work has appeared in publications such as Graphis and Print.


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



Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, October 10



2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, October 10



Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to present Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), a solo retrospective of the work of this seminal and highly influential figure in 1980s Black British and African contemporary art. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains an important influence in contemporary photography.

Curated in collaboration with Mark Sealy and Rene´e Mussai of Autograph ABP, whose co-founder and first chair was Fani-Kayode, the exhibition features a selection of his most important photographic works produced between 1985-1989, including large-scale color works and arresting black and white images. Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation. They depict the black male body as a focal point both to interpret and probe the boundaries of spiritual and erotic fantasy, and of cultural and sexual difference. Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call "the technique of ecstasy." Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing. This exhibition coincides with the introduction of new punitive legislation in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode's country of birth, as well as other countries in Africa in recent years outlawing same-sex marriages and membership in gay rights organizations.

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7:00 PM - 11:00 PM, October 10



Leviathan
Urban Video Project

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

"Leviathan" (2012) is a groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry. Filmed off the coast of New Bedford, MA, "Leviathan" follows a hulking groundfish trawler into the surrounding murky black waters on a weeks-long fishing expedition. But instead of romanticizing the labor, filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor ("Sweetgrass") and Véréna Paravel ("Foreign Parts") of Sensory Ethnography Lab present a vivid, almost kaleidoscopic representation of the work, the sea, the machinery and the players, both human and marine. The film that emerges is unlike anything that has been seen before. Entirely dialogue-free, but mesmerizing and gripping throughout, it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind's oldest endeavors.

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Comedy
 

8:00 PM, October 10



Cuse Comedy Showcase
Central New York Playhouse
Featuring Jaye McBride

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

Local comics compete and the audience will vote on the winner. Winner will get a cash prize and be a featured headliner in a future event.

Headlining the night is Jaye McBride. Competing comedians include Michael MrSwaggcomic, La Mantia, John Sekol, Joshua Barry, Maryanne Donnelly, Travis Worth, James Fedkiw, Justin Jackson.



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Festival
 

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



¡Nuestro Sabor!
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Traditional Caribbean cuisine for all to taste, open domino tournament with cash awards sponsored by CNY Latino, live Flamenco show, and Syracuse University's Brazilian Ensemble, Samba Laranja.


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Music
 

7:00 PM, October 10



Sarode: An Evening of Indian Classical Music
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Suggested donation $5 students, $10 others
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SPIC MACAY at Syracuse University presents "Sarode: An Evening of Classical Indian Music" featuring Arnab Chakrabarty on sarode accompanied by Shahbaz Hussain on tabla.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be re-directed. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.


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7:30 PM, October 10



Bach Recital

Price: Free
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An all-Bach recital featuring Allison Evans Henry, Robert Kerner, Glenn Kime, and Christopher Dranchek.The recital commemorates Arthur Poister's dedication of the Holtkamp organ on October 10, 1965.


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7:30 PM, October 10



JT Hall Jazzz Consort
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $10 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Jazz standards and blues, plus original songbook.


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7:30 PM, October 10



Masterworks Series: Albers Returns
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Julie Albers, cello

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

Mozart Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527
Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104
Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, op. 45


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8:00 PM, October 10



Vincent
Starry Night Theater

Price: $28 regular, $24 students/seniors
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Author Leonard Nimoy, who passed away in February of this year, dramatizes the passionate and turbulent life of Vincent van Gogh in this intimate one-man play adapted from hundreds of letters between Van Gogh and his closest ally, his brother, Theo. The play includes over 100 stunning high-resolution projections of Vincent's artwork on a large screen.

Today, Vincent van Gogh is one of the most recognizable and beloved painters. In Van Gogh's lifetime, however, he sold only one painting and critics labeled his work madness. His story, however, is so much more than that of the misunderstood genius who cut off his own ear. In this play, Vincent's brother Theo movingly reveals Vincent as few knew him. After Vincent's death, Theo defends Vincent's legacy at a gathering of friends and colleagues (an actual historic event). Theo, however, is not interested in telling the small story of the demise of one man. Rather, he argues the bigger meaning and significance of his brother's life to all humankind. As seen through the eyes of Theo, Vincent van Gogh lives on as a symbol of inspiration, courage, passion, and the lust for life that art kindles in all of us.

Originally performed by Mr. Nimoy himself, this production stars James Briggs and has been on tour for over two years. It is headed for an off-Broadway run in 2016.

Vincent runs approximately 85 minutes, with no intermission. While appropriate for all audiences, it is best suited for adults and children ages 10 and up.


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8:00 PM, October 10



Second Saturday Series: Alison and Zoe, with Larry Hoyt and Joanne Basta
Westcott Community Center

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

Alison and Zoe are two Irish-born sisters, singer-songwriters who create enchanting harmonies and weave stores with their poetic original songs. In recent years, they have perforned live on radio and TV, have released their first CD, "Home Is," and have entertained audiences at many of the best music venues in Central New York.


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Theater
 

11:00 AM, October 10



Jack and the Beanstalk
Open Hand Theater
Featuring Spring Valley Puppet Theater

Price: $10 adults, $6 children
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Can beans make wishes come true? They can and do in "Jack and the Beanstalk," the award-winning puppet production of Michael Graham's Spring Valley Puppet Theater. This popular classic features beautifully crafted hand and rod puppets, colorful scenic design, special effects and an original script in which Jack, with the help of a clever Chicken, saves the day! The Spring Valley Puppet Theater production of "Jack and the Beanstalk" holds many surprises in this new approach to this old favorite.

Michael Graham's production of "Jack and the Beanstalk" was awarded in 1994 "Citation of Excellence in the Art of Puppetry" by UNIMA-USA, the American Center of the Union Internationale de la Marionette.


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12:30 PM, October 10



Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.


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2:00 PM, October 10



Kiss Me, Kate
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Lowenstein, director

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

The joys, madness, and the rewards of working in the theater, onstage and off, are celebrated in this heralded musical that can be rightly called a Broadway treasure. Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare, Kiss Me, Kate follows the antics of two feuding romantic couples during a touring production of The Taming of the Shrew. Sparkling with 18 classic Cole Porter songs — including "Another Op'nin', Another Show," "Wunderbar," "So in Love," "Always True to You in My Fashion," "Too Darn Hot," and "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" — Kiss Me, Kate epitomizes the Broadway musical comedy at its irresistible best. A love song to the theater.

Musical direction by Brian Cimmet, choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

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8:00 PM, October 10



Steadfast
Appleseed Productions
C.J. Young, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Inspired by Steve Alpert's painting, "Legacy," The Steadfast, by Mat Smart, is an unflinching look at eight U.S. soldiers across the sweep of American history, from the Revolutionary War to present day — and what happens when the forces of their stories collide. CNY premiere.

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8:00 PM, October 10



Meñique
Community Folk Art Center
La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino

Price: $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

We're celebrating Latino Heritage Month in collaboration with The Spanish Action League of Onondaga County (La Liga) and La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino with Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado's adaptation of the children's story Meñique.

The legendary story of Meñique (known in other stories as Little Tom Thumb), by José Martí, tells the tale of three brothers who, because of poverty and the urging of their father, abandon their homeland to seek better luck elsewhere. They learn that in a foreign kingdom, the king offers a reward to whoever is able to cut down a large tree that keeps the castle in semi-darkness, and, also, the kingdom without water. Meñique represents courage, but he is also the little learned one who, thanks to this trait, confronts the king, providing a moral lesson. The character becomes a hero who effectively demonstrates that knowledge is more important than force.


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8:00 PM, October 10



Kiss Me, Kate
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Lowenstein, director

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

The joys, madness, and the rewards of working in the theater, onstage and off, are celebrated in this heralded musical that can be rightly called a Broadway treasure. Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare, Kiss Me, Kate follows the antics of two feuding romantic couples during a touring production of The Taming of the Shrew. Sparkling with 18 classic Cole Porter songs — including "Another Op'nin', Another Show," "Wunderbar," "So in Love," "Always True to You in My Fashion," "Too Darn Hot," and "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" — Kiss Me, Kate epitomizes the Broadway musical comedy at its irresistible best. A love song to the theater.

Musical direction by Brian Cimmet, choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

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8:00 PM, October 10



A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
TheaterFirst Productions
Tina Lee, director

Price: $30 regular, $28 seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Choreograped by Jim Curtin, musical direction by Dan Williams, and starring Josh Mele, Frank Fiumano, David Minikhiem, Gino Parlato, John Melvin, Peter Moller, and Simon Moody.

For tickets, phone 315-203-2001.

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Sunday, October 11, 2015


Art
 

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



My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist, teacher, and entrepreneur Jan Navales has enjoyed a broad artistic career including working as a textile artist, a master screen printer, dyer, block printer, and deconstructive printer for more than 25 years. Jan owned a large screenprinting business in Syracuse and is also a watercolor illustrator. She currently teaches Textile Hand Printing and Dyework Design at Syracuse University.

This will be the last show of fabric art Jan will be exhibiting. Following this show, she will be focusing on watercolor illustration.


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



City Market

Price: Free
Armory Square
Clinton and Jefferson St., Syracuse

Held the second Sunday of each month through October, the market will offer jewelry, decor, furniture, pottery, lighting, art, and more.


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



The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University are happy to present The Almighty Cup, a national juried and invitational exhibition. The show presents an eclectic mix of styles of drinking vessels made by 47 ceramic artists from all over the country.

This group exhibition features hand-crafted cups that range from functional to sculptural. Jeremy Randall, a ceramic artist who lives and works in Tully, NY was the juror and selected 100 cups from over 300 submissions. The Shaped Clay Society, a student-run club at Syracuse University, received the entry fees from the juried artists to support student activities and projects. Local business, Clayscapes, is sponsoring the prizes for the exhibition. The pieces in the show will be posted on the Gandee Gallery website and available for online purchase. Call or email to make a purchase.


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



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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



James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.


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



Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.


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



The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.


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



Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

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



Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri
Everson Museum of Art

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

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.


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



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.


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



Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.


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



Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.


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



Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, October 11



Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to present Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), a solo retrospective of the work of this seminal and highly influential figure in 1980s Black British and African contemporary art. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains an important influence in contemporary photography.

Curated in collaboration with Mark Sealy and Rene´e Mussai of Autograph ABP, whose co-founder and first chair was Fani-Kayode, the exhibition features a selection of his most important photographic works produced between 1985-1989, including large-scale color works and arresting black and white images. Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation. They depict the black male body as a focal point both to interpret and probe the boundaries of spiritual and erotic fantasy, and of cultural and sexual difference. Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call "the technique of ecstasy." Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing. This exhibition coincides with the introduction of new punitive legislation in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode's country of birth, as well as other countries in Africa in recent years outlawing same-sex marriages and membership in gay rights organizations.

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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, October 11



2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.


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Music
 

2:00 PM, October 11



Vincent
Starry Night Theater

Price: $28 regular, $24 students/seniors
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Author Leonard Nimoy, who passed away in February of this year, dramatizes the passionate and turbulent life of Vincent van Gogh in this intimate one-man play adapted from hundreds of letters between Van Gogh and his closest ally, his brother, Theo. The play includes over 100 stunning high-resolution projections of Vincent's artwork on a large screen.

Today, Vincent van Gogh is one of the most recognizable and beloved painters. In Van Gogh's lifetime, however, he sold only one painting and critics labeled his work madness. His story, however, is so much more than that of the misunderstood genius who cut off his own ear. In this play, Vincent's brother Theo movingly reveals Vincent as few knew him. After Vincent's death, Theo defends Vincent's legacy at a gathering of friends and colleagues (an actual historic event). Theo, however, is not interested in telling the small story of the demise of one man. Rather, he argues the bigger meaning and significance of his brother's life to all humankind. As seen through the eyes of Theo, Vincent van Gogh lives on as a symbol of inspiration, courage, passion, and the lust for life that art kindles in all of us.

Originally performed by Mr. Nimoy himself, this production stars James Briggs and has been on tour for over two years. It is headed for an off-Broadway run in 2016.

Vincent runs approximately 85 minutes, with no intermission. While appropriate for all audiences, it is best suited for adults and children ages 10 and up.


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3:00 PM, October 11



Extraordinary Live!

Price: $10
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

For the third year, "Extraordinary Live!" showcases the burgeoning talents of young performers in Central New York. Singers, dancers and musicians will perform in a show produced by News Channel 9 anchor Carrie Lazarus.

Performers include violinist Shen Dai Wei with pianist Ida Trebicka, dancer Tevin Johnson, vocalist Josh Batstone and guitarist Billy Harrison, dancer Elias Eckert with CMC Dance Company, jazz band NOTEified, vocalist Julia Goodwin, dancer Kameron Triche with Syracuse City Ballet, classical musicians Eastman Quartet, vocalist Josh Batstone and guitarist Billy Harrison, and performers from the Open Jar Institute.

Many of the show's performers have been recipients of scholarships from the Carrie Lazarus Fund for Extraordinary Talent. Lazarus established the fund to give financial support to students without the means to pay for private lessons, attend summer programs, or enroll in professional schools. The Community Foundation of Central New York oversees the fund. Proceeds from "Extraordinary Live!" will be donated to the fund.


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3:00 PM, October 11



Neave Trio

Price: Members free, non-members $15
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Anna Williams, violin, Mikhail Veselov, cello, and Toni James, piano, will feature favorite selections. The Neave Trio has enjoyed international concert and competition success spanning four continents, with recent notable performances in Guatemala, Belgium and Russia, as well as a recital appearance at the British Embassy in Oslo, Norway.


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, October 11



Steadfast
Appleseed Productions
C.J. Young, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students; $12 seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Inspired by Steve Alpert's painting, "Legacy," The Steadfast, by Mat Smart, is an unflinching look at eight U.S. soldiers across the sweep of American history, from the Revolutionary War to present day — and what happens when the forces of their stories collide. CNY premiere.

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2:00 PM, October 11



Meñique
Community Folk Art Center
La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino

Price: $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

We're celebrating Latino Heritage Month in collaboration with The Spanish Action League of Onondaga County (La Liga) and La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino with Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado's adaptation of the children's story Meñique.

The legendary story of Meñique (known in other stories as Little Tom Thumb), by José Martí, tells the tale of three brothers who, because of poverty and the urging of their father, abandon their homeland to seek better luck elsewhere. They learn that in a foreign kingdom, the king offers a reward to whoever is able to cut down a large tree that keeps the castle in semi-darkness, and, also, the kingdom without water. Meñique represents courage, but he is also the little learned one who, thanks to this trait, confronts the king, providing a moral lesson. The character becomes a hero who effectively demonstrates that knowledge is more important than force.


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2:00 PM, October 11



A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
TheaterFirst Productions
Tina Lee, director

Price: $30 regular, $28 seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Choreograped by Jim Curtin, musical direction by Dan Williams, and starring Josh Mele, Frank Fiumano, David Minikhiem, Gino Parlato, John Melvin, Peter Moller, and Simon Moody.

For tickets, phone 315-203-2001.

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Monday, October 12, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 12



Locally Grown Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Central New York artists Lucie Wellner and Robert Glisson will display their watercolor and oil paintings.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.


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



Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 12



25: Multi-media artwork by Erin Fassinger
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, a little girl was born. 25 years later, this is the story of how that girl flourished from the care of her family, of the unforgettable experiences she shared with her friends, of the heavenly refuges she found through her passions. This is a portrait of the artist.


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



My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist, teacher, and entrepreneur Jan Navales has enjoyed a broad artistic career including working as a textile artist, a master screen printer, dyer, block printer, and deconstructive printer for more than 25 years. Jan owned a large screenprinting business in Syracuse and is also a watercolor illustrator. She currently teaches Textile Hand Printing and Dyework Design at Syracuse University.

This will be the last show of fabric art Jan will be exhibiting. Following this show, she will be focusing on watercolor illustration.


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



Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.


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



Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to present Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), a solo retrospective of the work of this seminal and highly influential figure in 1980s Black British and African contemporary art. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains an important influence in contemporary photography.

Curated in collaboration with Mark Sealy and Rene´e Mussai of Autograph ABP, whose co-founder and first chair was Fani-Kayode, the exhibition features a selection of his most important photographic works produced between 1985-1989, including large-scale color works and arresting black and white images. Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation. They depict the black male body as a focal point both to interpret and probe the boundaries of spiritual and erotic fantasy, and of cultural and sexual difference. Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call "the technique of ecstasy." Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing. This exhibition coincides with the introduction of new punitive legislation in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode's country of birth, as well as other countries in Africa in recent years outlawing same-sex marriages and membership in gay rights organizations.

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



2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 12



Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.


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Film
 

7:30 PM, October 12



Picture Snatcher (1933)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Alice White, Patricia Ellis

Lively Pre-Code story of an ex-con (Cagney) who turns his life around by becoming a newspaper photographer ... and gets many of his photos by unorthodox methods! A terrific early Cagney film that skillfully combines thrills and laughs.


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Tuesday, October 13, 2015


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, October 13



Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 13



Locally Grown Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Central New York artists Lucie Wellner and Robert Glisson will display their watercolor and oil paintings.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.


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



Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 13



25: Multi-media artwork by Erin Fassinger
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, a little girl was born. 25 years later, this is the story of how that girl flourished from the care of her family, of the unforgettable experiences she shared with her friends, of the heavenly refuges she found through her passions. This is a portrait of the artist.


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



A Conscious Allusion
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nicora Gangi: Recent pastel and oil paintings including still-life and landscape imagery
R. Jason Howard and Doug Williams: Collaborative glass "prayer bowls" incorporating Howard's "cage" series and Williams' Fillacello glass drawing
Gail Sustare: Fine jewelry

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



Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

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



My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist, teacher, and entrepreneur Jan Navales has enjoyed a broad artistic career including working as a textile artist, a master screen printer, dyer, block printer, and deconstructive printer for more than 25 years. Jan owned a large screenprinting business in Syracuse and is also a watercolor illustrator. She currently teaches Textile Hand Printing and Dyework Design at Syracuse University.

This will be the last show of fabric art Jan will be exhibiting. Following this show, she will be focusing on watercolor illustration.


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



2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.


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



Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to present Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), a solo retrospective of the work of this seminal and highly influential figure in 1980s Black British and African contemporary art. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains an important influence in contemporary photography.

Curated in collaboration with Mark Sealy and Rene´e Mussai of Autograph ABP, whose co-founder and first chair was Fani-Kayode, the exhibition features a selection of his most important photographic works produced between 1985-1989, including large-scale color works and arresting black and white images. Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation. They depict the black male body as a focal point both to interpret and probe the boundaries of spiritual and erotic fantasy, and of cultural and sexual difference. Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call "the technique of ecstasy." Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing. This exhibition coincides with the introduction of new punitive legislation in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode's country of birth, as well as other countries in Africa in recent years outlawing same-sex marriages and membership in gay rights organizations.

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



James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.


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



The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.


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



Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 13



Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 13



Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

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Lecture
 

7:30 PM, October 13



Social Inequality: The How, Why and What to Do?
University Lectures
Featuring Charles Blow and Ross Douthat

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Charles Blow is the visual op-ed columnist for The New York Times, with a weekly column from a liberal perspective covering politics, public opinion, and justice appearing every Saturday, as well as a regular contributor to CNN. Author and influential blogger Ross Douthat is the youngest op-ed columnist in the history of the Times; representing a new generation of conservative commentator, he pens vigorous and penetrating analyses of domestic and international politics and government. For the University Lectures, the two newspaper colleagues and friends will take part in what promises to be a captivating discussion and sharing of perspectives on the topic of social inequality, moderated by SU alumnus and current SU Law student Jesse Feitel '13.


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Music
 

8:00 PM, October 13



Ensemble Series: SU Wind Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Wind Ensemble will perform under Bradley P. Ethington and Justin J. Mertz, conductors, and Andrew Wiley, graduate associate conductor.

Alfred Reed A Festival Prelude
Malcolm Arnold Four Scottish
Ralph Vaughan Williams Rhosymedre
Alfred Reed Armenian Dances

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be re-directed. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.


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8:00 PM, October 13



Metalachi
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse


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Wednesday, October 14, 2015


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, October 14



Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 14



Locally Grown Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Central New York artists Lucie Wellner and Robert Glisson will display their watercolor and oil paintings.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 14



Be the Change: Works by Zachary Skinner
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
Inter-connection is what I cultivate in my artworks. It has led me to create a political space where a viewer is engaged, but has the freedom to draw her/his own conclusion. Expanding on that premise, I believe in an art that can function in a non-polarized, intimate political way. The evidence isn't found within a heroic gesture on the wall by the artist (me), but rather in the inner strength and creativity of the viewer. So I invite the viewers as participants/collaborators, to draw on handmade chalkboards, incorporated within my visual cacophony of imagery, and objects.

The imagery I have been focused on relates to Activist Philosophy, non-violent resistance, mind-maps of Humanitarian Leaders, and recently of what I call "Geo-Robots" which are inspired by Survivalism, and Geo-Engineering. In other words, I am interested in models and catalysts for social change, outside of mainstream media discourse.


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



Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 14



25: Multi-media artwork by Erin Fassinger
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, a little girl was born. 25 years later, this is the story of how that girl flourished from the care of her family, of the unforgettable experiences she shared with her friends, of the heavenly refuges she found through her passions. This is a portrait of the artist.


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



A Conscious Allusion
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nicora Gangi: Recent pastel and oil paintings including still-life and landscape imagery
R. Jason Howard and Doug Williams: Collaborative glass "prayer bowls" incorporating Howard's "cage" series and Williams' Fillacello glass drawing
Gail Sustare: Fine jewelry

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



Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

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



My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist, teacher, and entrepreneur Jan Navales has enjoyed a broad artistic career including working as a textile artist, a master screen printer, dyer, block printer, and deconstructive printer for more than 25 years. Jan owned a large screenprinting business in Syracuse and is also a watercolor illustrator. She currently teaches Textile Hand Printing and Dyework Design at Syracuse University.

This will be the last show of fabric art Jan will be exhibiting. Following this show, she will be focusing on watercolor illustration.


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



2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.


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



Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to present Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), a solo retrospective of the work of this seminal and highly influential figure in 1980s Black British and African contemporary art. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains an important influence in contemporary photography.

Curated in collaboration with Mark Sealy and Rene´e Mussai of Autograph ABP, whose co-founder and first chair was Fani-Kayode, the exhibition features a selection of his most important photographic works produced between 1985-1989, including large-scale color works and arresting black and white images. Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation. They depict the black male body as a focal point both to interpret and probe the boundaries of spiritual and erotic fantasy, and of cultural and sexual difference. Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call "the technique of ecstasy." Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing. This exhibition coincides with the introduction of new punitive legislation in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode's country of birth, as well as other countries in Africa in recent years outlawing same-sex marriages and membership in gay rights organizations.

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



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 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, October 14



James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.


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



Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.


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



The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 14



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 14



Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri
Everson Museum of Art

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

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 14



Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 14



Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 14



He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, drew from footage obtained while shooting their award-winning movie Leviathan (2012) to create this film. The mesmerizing and haunting footage, filmed both in and from the ocean and projected at 1/50 of the speed at which it was recorded, shows the sea to be a vast and watery expanse full of slow-moving, unidentifiable forms.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 14



Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 14



Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 14



Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, October 14



The Global Citizen: Graphic Art of Marlena Buczek Smith
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse


As a medium for social change, posters record our struggles for peace, social justice, environmental defense, and liberation from oppression. From the confrontational and political, to the promotional, persuasive and educational, the poster in all its forms has persisted as a vehicle for the public dissemination of ideas, information, and opinion. The stunning Giclée prints included in this exhibition span a range of political, humanitarian and environmental issues. Buczek Smith is a New Jersey-based artist originally from Poland. She has exhibited her insightful and passionate posters in North America, Asia and Europe, and her work has appeared in publications such as Graphis and Print.


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Film
 

7:00 PM, October 14



Wildrose
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Tom Bower

Price: $10 regular, $8 student/senior
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Young June Lorich (Lisa Eichhorn) goes through a painful divorce with her abusive husband. In order to fully escape his grasp, she gets a job as a machinist at an iron mine in Minnesota, becoming the only female laborer there. As the sole woman, June suffers continuous harassment on the job. Luckily, she finds comfort in fellow miner Rick Ogaard (Tom Bower). But when June and Tom's friendship turns into romance, their colleagues become even more aggressive, pushing June to breaking point. By John Hanson, 1984.

There will be a special guest appearance by Tom Bower.


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Lecture
 

12:00 PM, October 14



Talking Film
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Haim Bouzaglo

Price: Free (limited seating)
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Haim Bouzaglo, from Israel, is this year's recipient of the SIFF Sophia Award for Lifelong Achievement in the Art of Filmmaking.


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12:30 PM, October 14



Lunchtime Lecture: Artist Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Professor Heisler will give a gallery tour and talk about the selected photographs on view in the exhibit "The Protraits of Gregory Heisler."


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7:30 PM, October 14



Stephen Greenblatt
Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series

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

Stephen Greenblatt, an American literary critic, theorist, scholar, and Pulitzer Prize winning author, was born in 1943 and is Cogan University Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. He is also General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition and the author of nine books, including Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Practicing New Historicism; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; and Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture. He has edited six collections of criticism. His honors include the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 National Book Award for The Swerve.


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Music
 

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, October 14



Jazz at the Plaza: John Spillett
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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


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12:30 PM, October 14



Alina Plourde, oboe; Jessica Wooldridge King, bassoon; Steve Rosenfeld, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Poulenc Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano, and other trios and duos.


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Poetry/Reading
 

5:00 PM, October 14



Dan Torday
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The reading will be preceded by a Q&A session at 3:45 pm.


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Thursday, October 15, 2015


Art
 

8:00 AM - 2:00 AM, October 15



Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 15



Locally Grown Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Central New York artists Lucie Wellner and Robert Glisson will display their watercolor and oil paintings.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 15



Be the Change: Works by Zachary Skinner
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
Inter-connection is what I cultivate in my artworks. It has led me to create a political space where a viewer is engaged, but has the freedom to draw her/his own conclusion. Expanding on that premise, I believe in an art that can function in a non-polarized, intimate political way. The evidence isn't found within a heroic gesture on the wall by the artist (me), but rather in the inner strength and creativity of the viewer. So I invite the viewers as participants/collaborators, to draw on handmade chalkboards, incorporated within my visual cacophony of imagery, and objects.

The imagery I have been focused on relates to Activist Philosophy, non-violent resistance, mind-maps of Humanitarian Leaders, and recently of what I call "Geo-Robots" which are inspired by Survivalism, and Geo-Engineering. In other words, I am interested in models and catalysts for social change, outside of mainstream media discourse.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 15



Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 15



25: Multi-media artwork by Erin Fassinger
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, a little girl was born. 25 years later, this is the story of how that girl flourished from the care of her family, of the unforgettable experiences she shared with her friends, of the heavenly refuges she found through her passions. This is a portrait of the artist.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, October 15



A Conscious Allusion
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nicora Gangi: Recent pastel and oil paintings including still-life and landscape imagery
R. Jason Howard and Doug Williams: Collaborative glass "prayer bowls" incorporating Howard's "cage" series and Williams' Fillacello glass drawing
Gail Sustare: Fine jewelry

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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 15



Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 15



My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist, teacher, and entrepreneur Jan Navales has enjoyed a broad artistic career including working as a textile artist, a master screen printer, dyer, block printer, and deconstructive printer for more than 25 years. Jan owned a large screenprinting business in Syracuse and is also a watercolor illustrator. She currently teaches Textile Hand Printing and Dyework Design at Syracuse University.

This will be the last show of fabric art Jan will be exhibiting. Following this show, she will be focusing on watercolor illustration.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, October 15



2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, October 15



Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to present Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), a solo retrospective of the work of this seminal and highly influential figure in 1980s Black British and African contemporary art. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains an important influence in contemporary photography.

Curated in collaboration with Mark Sealy and Rene´e Mussai of Autograph ABP, whose co-founder and first chair was Fani-Kayode, the exhibition features a selection of his most important photographic works produced between 1985-1989, including large-scale color works and arresting black and white images. Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation. They depict the black male body as a focal point both to interpret and probe the boundaries of spiritual and erotic fantasy, and of cultural and sexual difference. Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call "the technique of ecstasy." Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing. This exhibition coincides with the introduction of new punitive legislation in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode's country of birth, as well as other countries in Africa in recent years outlawing same-sex marriages and membership in gay rights organizations.

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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 15



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 15



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 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, October 15



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 15



James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 15



The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 15



Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, October 15



Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, October 15



He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, drew from footage obtained while shooting their award-winning movie Leviathan (2012) to create this film. The mesmerizing and haunting footage, filmed both in and from the ocean and projected at 1/50 of the speed at which it was recorded, shows the sea to be a vast and watery expanse full of slow-moving, unidentifiable forms.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, October 15



Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri
Everson Museum of Art

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

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, October 15



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, October 15



Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, October 15



Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 15



Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 15



Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, October 15



The Global Citizen: Graphic Art of Marlena Buczek Smith
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse


As a medium for social change, posters record our struggles for peace, social justice, environmental defense, and liberation from oppression. From the confrontational and political, to the promotional, persuasive and educational, the poster in all its forms has persisted as a vehicle for the public dissemination of ideas, information, and opinion. The stunning Giclée prints included in this exhibition span a range of political, humanitarian and environmental issues. Buczek Smith is a New Jersey-based artist originally from Poland. She has exhibited her insightful and passionate posters in North America, Asia and Europe, and her work has appeared in publications such as Graphis and Print.


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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, October 15



Open Figure Drawing
Everson Museum of Art

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

Enjoy an evening of figure drawing in the Everson's Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court. The public is invited to create drawings through the study of a nude model. Bring your own sketchbooks and pencils (no charcoal, pastels or paint permitted). Easels will be provided. If you don't want to draw, stop by to see artists at work and enjoy live music. Presented in collaboration with Open Figure Drawing.


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6:45 PM - 11:00 PM, October 15



Leviathan
Urban Video Project

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

"Leviathan" (2012) is a groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry. Filmed off the coast of New Bedford, MA, "Leviathan" follows a hulking groundfish trawler into the surrounding murky black waters on a weeks-long fishing expedition. But instead of romanticizing the labor, filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor ("Sweetgrass") and Véréna Paravel ("Foreign Parts") of Sensory Ethnography Lab present a vivid, almost kaleidoscopic representation of the work, the sea, the machinery and the players, both human and marine. The film that emerges is unlike anything that has been seen before. Entirely dialogue-free, but mesmerizing and gripping throughout, it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind's oldest endeavors.

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Film
 

6:30 PM, October 15



"What If...?" Film Series: We the Owners

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

It's impossible to ignore the current feeling in the America of the 99%, that a change is being called for, a change in the way businesses are operated and a change in the way people are treated; a change that allows for more than just a top few to be owners. This is a timely documentary that addresses ways that some American firms are implementing such change.

The film captures inspiring stories of employee-owners and founders from New Belgium Brewing (CO), Namaste Solar (CO), and DPR Construction (CA) by following their decisions of expansion, succession, recruitment and layoffs. (2013, 45 minutes)


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6:30 PM, October 15



Leviathan
Syracuse International Film Festival
Urban Video Project
Featuring Lucien Castaing-Taylor

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

"Leviathan" (2012) is a groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry. Filmed off the coast of New Bedford, MA, "Leviathan" follows a hulking groundfish trawler into the surrounding murky black waters on a weeks-long fishing expedition. But instead of romanticizing the labor, filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor ("Sweetgrass") and Véréna Paravel ("Foreign Parts") of Sensory Ethnography Lab present a vivid, almost kaleidoscopic representation of the work, the sea, the machinery and the players, both human and marine. The film that emerges is unlike anything that has been seen before. Entirely dialogue-free, but mesmerizing and gripping throughout, it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind's oldest endeavors.

This screening will feature an introduction and Q&A with filmmaker Lucien Castaing-Taylor. Reception follows.


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7:00 PM, October 15



The Mark of Zorro: Silent Film with Original Live Music
Syracuse International Film Festival
Society for New Music

Price: $10 regular, $8 student/senior
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Starring Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery, Marquerite De La Motte, and Robert McKim, this genre-defining swashbuckler adventure was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro, telling the story of Don Diego Vega, a masked Robin Hood of a rogue who scars the faces of evil-doers with his mark: a "Z" carved with his sword.

Based on a story written in 1919, the screenplay was adapted by Douglas Fairbanks (writing as "Elton Thomas"), and Eugene Miller. The film was produced by Fairbanks for his own production company, Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Inc., and was the first film released through United Artists in which Fairbanks' partners were Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith.

The film will be accompanied by an original score by Mark Olivieri, Assistant Professor of Music at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, conducted by Travis Newton, Le Moyne College, with performers from the Society for New Music.


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Lecture
 

4:15 PM, October 15



Filmtalk
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring James Niehouse, cinematographer

Price: Free
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

James Neihouse will be discussing the ups and downs of filming in space for giant screen IMAX films. He will be sharing his experience of training astronauts for filming ground sequences and launches over the past 27 years.


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6:00 PM, October 15



Diversity in Arts Panel Discussion
Redhouse
Featuring Sphinx Virtuosi

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

"Diversity in the Arts" is the subject of an upcoming panel discussion with local arts leaders and executives from the Detroit-based Sphinx Virtuosi, a professional chamber orchestra composed of black and Latino soloists.

Mark Nerenhausen, professor of practice and founding director of the Janklow Arts Leadership Program in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences, and Stephen Svoboda, executive artistic director of the Red House Arts Center, will moderate a discussion with several Sphinx administrators, including President and Artistic Director Afa Sadykhly Dworkin

The event includes an audience Q&A. For more information, call 315-362-2785.


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, October 15



A Tomb With A View
Acme Mystery Company

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

The megacorporation Arrested Developments has come to the old Possum Estate, sight of the tragic mining disaster oh, so many years ago, with the desire to turn it into a shopping mall. This has caused great concern among those living on (and below) the estate. In fact, the zombie descendants of the miners trapped in the disaster have hired a lawyer and plan a class-action lawsuit. The local newspaper is going to have a field day with this one. Gather around, good townsfolk, and let the battle begin!


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7:00 PM, October 15



Nancy Kerrigan's Halloween On Ice

War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

"Spooktacular" fun for the whole family! One of the longest running shows in all of figure staking, Nancy Kerrigan's Halloween On Ice will return this fall with a new story, expanded fan experience opportunities and a star-studded cast of Olympic, World, and U.S. National medalists who will help celebrate one of the biggest holidays of the year.

Joining Kerrigan on the tour is five-time world champion Kurt Browning, three-time U.S. champion Johnny Weir, U.S. champions Alissa Czisny and Nichole Bobek, and Olympic medalist Jozef Sabovcik. Browning will also choreograph and co-direct the show. Additional cast members will be announced shortly.

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


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8:00 PM, October 15



*SOLD OUT* Lizzie Borden Took an Axe
Covey Theatre Company

Barnes Hiscock Mansion
930 James St., Syracuse

In 1892, the most foul and mysterious double axe murders of the 19th century took place in Fall River, MA. To this day, historians and lovers of the macabre still try to understand the events that occurred the morning Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered.

A completely immersive experience, Lizzie Borden Took an Axe at the Barnes-Hiscock Mansion will provide audience members with an experience unlike any other. In this innovative production, director/writer Garrett Heater brings the audience within arm's reach of the complex emotions and events leading up to the Borden's brutal fate. Join us for Covey Theatre's final production before we close for good October 30th.

Limit of 45 patrons per show!

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Friday, October 16, 2015


Art
 

8:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 16



Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 16



Locally Grown Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Central New York artists Lucie Wellner and Robert Glisson will display their watercolor and oil paintings.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 16



Be the Change: Works by Zachary Skinner
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
Inter-connection is what I cultivate in my artworks. It has led me to create a political space where a viewer is engaged, but has the freedom to draw her/his own conclusion. Expanding on that premise, I believe in an art that can function in a non-polarized, intimate political way. The evidence isn't found within a heroic gesture on the wall by the artist (me), but rather in the inner strength and creativity of the viewer. So I invite the viewers as participants/collaborators, to draw on handmade chalkboards, incorporated within my visual cacophony of imagery, and objects.

The imagery I have been focused on relates to Activist Philosophy, non-violent resistance, mind-maps of Humanitarian Leaders, and recently of what I call "Geo-Robots" which are inspired by Survivalism, and Geo-Engineering. In other words, I am interested in models and catalysts for social change, outside of mainstream media discourse.


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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 16



Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 16



25: Multi-media artwork by Erin Fassinger
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, a little girl was born. 25 years later, this is the story of how that girl flourished from the care of her family, of the unforgettable experiences she shared with her friends, of the heavenly refuges she found through her passions. This is a portrait of the artist.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, October 16



A Conscious Allusion
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nicora Gangi: Recent pastel and oil paintings including still-life and landscape imagery
R. Jason Howard and Doug Williams: Collaborative glass "prayer bowls" incorporating Howard's "cage" series and Williams' Fillacello glass drawing
Gail Sustare: Fine jewelry

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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 16



Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, October 16



My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist, teacher, and entrepreneur Jan Navales has enjoyed a broad artistic career including working as a textile artist, a master screen printer, dyer, block printer, and deconstructive printer for more than 25 years. Jan owned a large screenprinting business in Syracuse and is also a watercolor illustrator. She currently teaches Textile Hand Printing and Dyework Design at Syracuse University.

This will be the last show of fabric art Jan will be exhibiting. Following this show, she will be focusing on watercolor illustration.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, October 16



2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, October 16



Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to present Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), a solo retrospective of the work of this seminal and highly influential figure in 1980s Black British and African contemporary art. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains an important influence in contemporary photography.

Curated in collaboration with Mark Sealy and Rene´e Mussai of Autograph ABP, whose co-founder and first chair was Fani-Kayode, the exhibition features a selection of his most important photographic works produced between 1985-1989, including large-scale color works and arresting black and white images. Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation. They depict the black male body as a focal point both to interpret and probe the boundaries of spiritual and erotic fantasy, and of cultural and sexual difference. Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call "the technique of ecstasy." Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing. This exhibition coincides with the introduction of new punitive legislation in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode's country of birth, as well as other countries in Africa in recent years outlawing same-sex marriages and membership in gay rights organizations.

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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 16



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 16



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 16



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 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, October 16



James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, October 16



Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, October 16



The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 16



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 16



Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri
Everson Museum of Art

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

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 16



He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, drew from footage obtained while shooting their award-winning movie Leviathan (2012) to create this film. The mesmerizing and haunting footage, filmed both in and from the ocean and projected at 1/50 of the speed at which it was recorded, shows the sea to be a vast and watery expanse full of slow-moving, unidentifiable forms.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 16



Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 16



Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 16



Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 16



Béisbol at the Heart of Latino Community
La Casita Cultural Center

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

Our gallery-wide collective explores the vital role of the national pastime, baseball, in the life of our Latino communities. A stunning collection of artifacts, photography, and video relate stories about local heroes who inspire us all. The project was documented by La Casita's community outreach team, Luz Encarnacion and Herve Yves Comeau, in close collaboration with Syracuse-based photojournalist and videographer from Puerto Rico, Marilú López Fretts.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 16



Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

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2:00 PM - 7:00 PM, October 16



The Global Citizen: Graphic Art of Marlena Buczek Smith
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse


As a medium for social change, posters record our struggles for peace, social justice, environmental defense, and liberation from oppression. From the confrontational and political, to the promotional, persuasive and educational, the poster in all its forms has persisted as a vehicle for the public dissemination of ideas, information, and opinion. The stunning Giclée prints included in this exhibition span a range of political, humanitarian and environmental issues. Buczek Smith is a New Jersey-based artist originally from Poland. She has exhibited her insightful and passionate posters in North America, Asia and Europe, and her work has appeared in publications such as Graphis and Print.


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6:45 PM - 11:00 PM, October 16



Leviathan
Urban Video Project

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

"Leviathan" (2012) is a groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry. Filmed off the coast of New Bedford, MA, "Leviathan" follows a hulking groundfish trawler into the surrounding murky black waters on a weeks-long fishing expedition. But instead of romanticizing the labor, filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor ("Sweetgrass") and Véréna Paravel ("Foreign Parts") of Sensory Ethnography Lab present a vivid, almost kaleidoscopic representation of the work, the sea, the machinery and the players, both human and marine. The film that emerges is unlike anything that has been seen before. Entirely dialogue-free, but mesmerizing and gripping throughout, it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind's oldest endeavors.

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Comedy
 

7:00 PM, October 16



Barry Crimmins LIVE
ArtRage Gallery

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

ArtRage Gallery presents Barry Crimmins, comedian, political satirist, activist.

Crimmins' life and work in comedy and politics are the subject of a documentary entitled Call Me Lucky (2015), directed by filmmaker and fellow comedian Bobcat Goldthwait. Crimmins and Goldthwait will be in town for the Syracuse International Film Festival where the film will be screened at the Palace Theater on Sat., Oct. 17 at 9:30pm.

Crimmins is also author of Never Shake Hands With a War Criminal, former Air America Radio writer and correspondent, and former comedy club owner. His hellfire brand of comedy has rained verbal lightning bolts on American audiences and politicians for decades, yet you've probably never heard of him. But once you've experienced Bobcat Goldthwait's brilliant character portrait of him and heard Crimmins's secret, you will never forget him.

From his unmistakable bullish frame came a scathingly ribald stand-up style that took early audiences by force. Through stark, smart observation and judo-like turns of phrase, Crimmins's rapid-fire comedy was a war on ignorance and complacency in '80s America at the height of an ill-considered foreign policy.

Local comedian Anna Phillips will open the show.


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Film
 

4:00 PM, October 16



Maestro
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Manlius Art Cinema
135 E. Seneca St., Manlius

By Shotaro Kobayashi (2015, 129 minutes, Japan)


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6:30 PM, October 16



A Complicated Story
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Genesee Grande Hotel
1060 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A young woman who has been hired to be a surrogate mother is kept in a private apartment with an assistant in order to keep the parents' identities secret. When the contract is terminated abruptly, she must make several life-altering decisions. By Kiwi Chow-Wai (1920, 90 minutes, China)


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7:00 PM, October 16



A Sea Change
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The film tells the story of Sven Huseby, a retired history teacher whose love for his 5-year old grandson, Elias, prompts him to travel thousands of miles to investigate ocean acidification—a little known flip side of global warming.

A Meet the Filmmakers VIP Reception to benefit GreeningUSA will be held starting at 5 p.m. This special pre-screening event will include dinner, reserved seating for the film and a chance to mingle with the filmmakers.

For general admission seating doors open at 5:15 p.m. "Green" and energy related information from event sponsors, as well as refreshments, will be available.

Immediately following the film a panel discussion and Q&A with the filmmakers will dig deeper into the documentary and issues of climate change. The panel will consist of Barbara Ettinger, documentary film maker; Sven Huseby, the main protagonist in the film; and Dr. Bruce Monger, climate scientist from Cornell University. Moderating the panel will be Chris Bolt, WAER news and public affairs director.

All proceeds to benefit GreeningUSA


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9:00 PM, October 16



Cover Girl
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Genesee Grande Hotel
1060 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Riches? Or Romance? John Coudair (Otto Kruger) was wounded long ago when his fiancée called off their engagement, and when he spots the woman's granddaughter, comely stage performer Rusty Parker (Rita Hayworth), he's reminded of what he lost. He decides to put her on the cover of his magazine—and her loving boyfriend (Gene Kelly) realizes he might lose her to fame.

Directed by Charles Vidor (1944, 107 minutes, USA)


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9:15 PM, October 16



Everly
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors, $18 all-night Joe Lynch special
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Fighting back after four years as a yakuza sex slave, a woman (Salma Hayek) matches wits and weaponry with a legion of killers who are out to collect the bounty on th heads of her and her family.
By Joe Lynch (2015, 92 minutes, USA)


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11:30 PM, October 16



An EVILning with Joe Lynch: Chillerama: Zom-B-Movie and The Blob
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors, $18 all-night Joe Lynch special
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse


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Lecture
 

12:15 PM, October 16



TGIF Tour
Everson Museum of Art

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

Start your weekend early with the Everson TGIF Tour, led by a member of the Everson's talented staff with a special point-of-view. After a 30-minute tour stay to chat and eat lunch with the Museum's pros in the Everson Lounge. Lunch can be purchased from the Everson Lunch Cart.


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Music
 

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, October 16



Jazz@Sitrus: Ronnie Leigh & Marcus Curry
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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


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7:30 PM, October 16



Sphinx Virtuosi
Redhouse

Price: Free
Fowler High School
227 Magnolia St., Syracuse

The Sphinx Organization is a national non-profit founded in 1996 by Aaron P. Dworkin, a violinist, to help overcome the cultural stereotype of classical music, and to encourage the participation of Blacks and Latinos in the field. The mission of the Sphinx Organization: We transform lives through the power of diversity in the arts

Presented in partnership with Janklow Arts Leadership Program and Syracuse City School District.


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7:30 PM, October 16



Special Event: Credo
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
John Warren, conductor

Price: $20
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Columbus Circle, Syracuse

Composer Joseph Downing creates a new composition that combines the forces of the Syracuse University Oratorio Society and the choirs from Assumption Church, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Park Central Presbyterian Church, St. Daniel's Church, St. Paul's Cathedral, and United Methodist Church.


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Poetry/Reading
 

7:00 PM, October 16



Poet Mark Irwin
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Mark Irwin is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Against the Meanwhile (Wesleyan University Press, 1989), Quick, Now, Always (BOA Editions, 1996), White City (BOA, 2000), Bright Hunger (BOA, 2004), Tall If (New Issues, 2008), and Large White House Speaking (New Issues, 2013). His newest book, American Urn: New & Selected Poems (1987-2013), was published in 2014. Recognition for his work includes four Pushcart Prizes, a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, Colorado and Ohio Art Council Fellowships, two Colorado Book Awards, the James Wright Poetry Award, and fellowships from the Fulbright, Lilly, and Wurlitzer Foundations. He lives in Colorado, and Los Angeles, where he teaches in the Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature Program at the University of Southern California.


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Theater
 

8:00 PM, October 16



Steadfast
Appleseed Productions
C.J. Young, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Inspired by Steve Alpert's painting, "Legacy," The Steadfast, by Mat Smart, is an unflinching look at eight U.S. soldiers across the sweep of American history, from the Revolutionary War to present day — and what happens when the forces of their stories collide. CNY premiere.

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8:00 PM, October 16



Little Shop of Horrors
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $25
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical, Little Shop of Horrors has devoured the hearts of theater goers for over 30 years. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin) are the creative geniuses behind what has become one of the most popular shows in the world.

The meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names "Audrey II", after his coworker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down and out Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it BLOOD. Over time, though, Seymour discovers Audrey II's out-of-this-world origins and intent towards global domination!

Choreography by Jessie Dobryzinski, music direction by Abel Searor.

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8:00 PM, October 16



*SOLD OUT* Lizzie Borden Took an Axe
Covey Theatre Company

Barnes Hiscock Mansion
930 James St., Syracuse

In 1892, the most foul and mysterious double axe murders of the 19th century took place in Fall River, MA. To this day, historians and lovers of the macabre still try to understand the events that occurred the morning Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered.

A completely immersive experience, Lizzie Borden Took an Axe at the Barnes-Hiscock Mansion will provide audience members with an experience unlike any other. In this innovative production, director/writer Garrett Heater brings the audience within arm's reach of the complex emotions and events leading up to the Borden's brutal fate. Join us for Covey Theatre's final production before we close for good October 30th.

Limit of 45 patrons per show!

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8:00 PM, October 16



Buddy Valastro's Bakin' with the Boss Tour

Price: $35-$85
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Join celebrity baker Buddy Valastro for an evening of cakes, stories and fun. In this rare live, interactive event, TLC's Cake Boss will share the stories behind his hit series and his colorful Italian family, answer audience questions, and give a live demonstration of the techniques that have made him one of the most successful and renowned cake artists in the nation. Buddy has a big personality, and an evening bigger heart! Bring the whole family for a night with the Cake Boss.

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


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8:00 PM, October 16



Triassic Parq: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Religion, identity, sex....and raptors! A raucous retelling of that famous dinosaur-themed film, this time seen from the dinos' point of view. Mature themes.

Music by Marshall Pailet; book and lyrics by Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz and Steve Wargo. Musical director Michael Stephan, choreographer Cassie Angerosa.

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Saturday, October 17, 2015


Art
 

9:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 17



Mark Topp: Here & There
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of paintings and pastels of landscape and figurative works by Mark Topp.

For information, call 315-445-4153.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 17



Locally Grown Art Exhibit
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Central New York artists Lucie Wellner and Robert Glisson will display their watercolor and oil paintings.

Although generally open to the public, the program room is occasionally used for nature-themed classes and private parties. Those interested in the gallery may wish to call before their visit to be sure that the program room will not be in use when they arrive.


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10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, October 17



A Conscious Allusion
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nicora Gangi: Recent pastel and oil paintings including still-life and landscape imagery
R. Jason Howard and Doug Williams: Collaborative glass "prayer bowls" incorporating Howard's "cage" series and Williams' Fillacello glass drawing
Gail Sustare: Fine jewelry

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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 17



Gods and Monsters: Three Centuries of Portraiture
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition represents an overview of the portraiture genre for over three centuries, examining how artists have portrayed themselves and others within different contexts and in a variety of media and styles. From 19th-century painted miniatures to contemporary color photographs, these portraits drawn from the Everson collection depict a heterogeneous cast of characters both remembered and forgotten, lauded and reviled. Stretching the conventions of the genre, the exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol, William Wegman and others as well as more traditional portrait paintings by artists such as Cecelia Beaux and Gilbert Stuart.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 17



Three Graces
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Three Graces were known in ancient mythology as enchanting goddesses who personified the primary attributes of creativity: Beauty, Wonder and Joy. In a recasting of this mythical triumvirate, the Everson introduces three contemporary artists from New York – Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher and Carrie Moyer – whose spectacular abstract works embody these qualities. More than just a typical exhibition, Three Graces is also a revelatory experience, as the artists have created new works inspired by pieces from the Museum's collection, which are also included. From Moyer's biomorphic paintings, to Apfelbaum's playful textiles, and Feher's magical installations, Three Graces connects the past and present through beauty, wonder, and joy.

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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 17



Joy, Beauty & Wonder
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A companion community exhibition to "Three Graces: Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Carrie Moyer," "Joy, Beauty & Wonder" is the result of a call to photographers of all ages to share their original photographs expressing the themes of joy, beauty and wonder. Themes are drawn from the exhibition Three Graces. Participants shared their photographs on social media using the hashtags #3GracesJoy, #3GracesBeauty or #3GracesWonder. All submissions were reviewed by a panel of professional artists and a selection will be on display at the Everson Museum.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 17



He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to be Hoary (2013)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, drew from footage obtained while shooting their award-winning movie Leviathan (2012) to create this film. The mesmerizing and haunting footage, filmed both in and from the ocean and projected at 1/50 of the speed at which it was recorded, shows the sea to be a vast and watery expanse full of slow-moving, unidentifiable forms.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 17



Playing With Perception: Photographs by Florence Henri
Everson Museum of Art

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

Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Florence Henri, an accomplished artist of the early 20th century who remains relatively unknown today. Henri studied painting with some of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century, including Fernand Leger and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, before turning to photography. Intrigued by notions of playing with perception in life as well as art, the androgynous Henri frequently utilized mirrors in her works to create reflections, distort images, and challenge reality. Her abstract compositions, portraits, and advertising images exploited the possibilities of photography and share affinities with the works of contemporaries like Herbert Bayer, Adolph Baron de Meyer, and Man Ray.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 17



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 42nd annual On My Own Time exhibit connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors.

On My Own Time highlights original works of visual art created by local employees in a variety of professions who are also amateur artists. Each participating company held its own on-site exhibitions this past spring. This year, 171 artists submitted 370 pieces in a wide range of media. Volunteers who work professionally in different arts fields selected 60 pieces to be included in this grand finale exhibition.


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10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, October 17



My Fabric Art: Works by Jan Navales
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist, teacher, and entrepreneur Jan Navales has enjoyed a broad artistic career including working as a textile artist, a master screen printer, dyer, block printer, and deconstructive printer for more than 25 years. Jan owned a large screenprinting business in Syracuse and is also a watercolor illustrator. She currently teaches Textile Hand Printing and Dyework Design at Syracuse University.

This will be the last show of fabric art Jan will be exhibiting. Following this show, she will be focusing on watercolor illustration.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 17



Resistance: Work by Najee Dorsey
Community Folk Art Center

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

Our exhibition season opens with "Resistance" by artist, collector, and founder/CEO of Black Art in America Najee Dorsey. His mixed media works features a number of the heroes of the civil rights movements as well as 20th century activists. An essay entitled My Art is my Voice, written by Dr. Kamasi C. Hill describes the works stating, "Najee Dorsey's mixed media series "Resistance," is an artistic commentary on the various ways individuals have used their voice and bodies to "resist" and fight against the powers that be. Partially inspired by the Occupy Movement, Dorsey's renditions include the Haitian Freedom Fighter Toussaint L'ouverture, A Native American man taking up modern arms, and an ode to unsung she-ro Claudette Colvin, amongst others."

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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, October 17



The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University are happy to present The Almighty Cup, a national juried and invitational exhibition. The show presents an eclectic mix of styles of drinking vessels made by 47 ceramic artists from all over the country.

This group exhibition features hand-crafted cups that range from functional to sculptural. Jeremy Randall, a ceramic artist who lives and works in Tully, NY was the juror and selected 100 cups from over 300 submissions. The Shaped Clay Society, a student-run club at Syracuse University, received the entry fees from the juried artists to support student activities and projects. Local business, Clayscapes, is sponsoring the prizes for the exhibition. The pieces in the show will be posted on the Gandee Gallery website and available for online purchase. Call or email to make a purchase.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 17



Look at What We Got! New to the OHA Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is displaying some of the unique and exceptional local history objects that curatorial staff collected during the past two years. This exhibit will include unusual items recently donated to OHA, such as a framed potato chip--the first chip produced by Jean's Foods in the 1940s; a "Glass Victory Washboard," as well as a "Camp Fire Girls Ceremonial Gown" from 1944-45. Adorning the walls will be art both by local artists and of local history. Alongside a framed photograph of the last train that rumbled down Washington Street c. 1936 will be a series of paintings by renowned Syracuse impressionist Hall Groat, including "Syracuse City Hall," "Alarm, Syracuse, NY," "Parade Day, Salina St. Syracuse," and "Canal Days, Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY." New additions from the archival collection will introduce sheet music from the 1895 Syracuse Post March and the diary of a local high school student reacting to the 1963 Kennedy assassination.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 17



Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

OHA is proud to present the third annual Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County. The exhibition features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and pastel drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 40 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, October 17



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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, October 17



James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The SU Art Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition "James Rosenquist: Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings." Developed in collaboration with the Oklahoma State Museum of Art and curated by Sarah C. Bancroft, co-curator of the artist's 2003 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, "Illustrious Works on Paper, Illuminating Paintings" investigates the impact Rosenquist has had, and continues to have, on American art. The exhibition presents over 35 works from the artist's long career, including examples of his earliest abstractions from the 1950s and his exploration and evolution into Pop Art.

James Rosenquist (American, b. 1933) became well known in the 1960s as a leader in the American Pop art movement alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, and for more than five decades has created seminal works in printmaking, collage, drawing, and painting.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, October 17



The Portraits of Gregory Heisler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents large-scale images captured by one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. Heisler's iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders are instantly recognizable for their technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness, many of which have appeared as cover images for well-known magazines. Curated by Domenic Iacono, Director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries, this exhibition presents a small but powerful overview of Heisler's career photographing some of the world's most influential persons.

Gregory Heisler's portraits have appeared as cover images on more than 70 issues of Time magazine, and his stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen and others have appeared in Life, Esquire, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and many more. Heisler has been said to combine "the eye of an artist, the mind of a scientist, and the heart of a journalist." His photographic career has spanned over 35 years, and among the many awards he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. A sought-after speaker and educator, teaching classes and seminars throughout the country and overseas, Heisler was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Photography in the Multimedia Photography & Design program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014. His bestselling book, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits, will be available for sale in the Gallery Shop.


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11:00 AM - 4:30 PM, October 17



Hard Earned: The Military Photographs of Stacy Pearsall
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit presents over 15 years of Pearsall's career documenting military events and persons. Curated by Theresa Moir, a second year Syracuse University graduate student pursuing concurrent degrees in Museum Studies and Art History, this exhibition draws its content from Pearsall's combat photography taken overseas on active duty in the Air Force, as well as her more recent Veterans Portrait Project.

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in the service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now combat disabled and retired from military service, Pearsall continues to work worldwide as a freelance photographer, and is an author, educator, military consultant, public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project. Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA's Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. She's been honored as the Air Force Veteran of the Year by the Air Force Band and PBS, presented the Trojan Labor American Hero Award, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award, lauded by the White House as a Champion of Change, and holds an honorary doctoral degree from The Citadel.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 17



The Global Citizen: Graphic Art of Marlena Buczek Smith
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse


As a medium for social change, posters record our struggles for peace, social justice, environmental defense, and liberation from oppression. From the confrontational and political, to the promotional, persuasive and educational, the poster in all its forms has persisted as a vehicle for the public dissemination of ideas, information, and opinion. The stunning Giclée prints included in this exhibition span a range of political, humanitarian and environmental issues. Buczek Smith is a New Jersey-based artist originally from Poland. She has exhibited her insightful and passionate posters in North America, Asia and Europe, and her work has appeared in publications such as Graphis and Print.


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 17



Continuum
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Continuum" tells the story of Point of Contact's journey over the last 40 years through the lens of its permanent art collection. Many of the pieces included in the exhibition have been created specifically for Point of Contact publications and exhibitions and provide a unique perspective on the evolution of the organization. Including artists such as Judy Pfaff, Nam June Paik, Liliana Porter, and Gregory Crewdson, the collection tends to blur visual and verbal, geographic and cross-cultural boundaries, evolving year-after-year, advancing an essential discussion about contemporary art. By revisiting its past, Point of Contact looks toward its future, refining its vision and turning each new encounter into an experimentation with unlimited insights.

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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, October 17



2015 Light Work Grants in Photography Exhibition: Allison Beondé, Thilde Jensen, Costa Sakellariou
Light Work Gallery

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

Allison Beondé is a visual artist currently living in Syracuse. She holds her B.F.A. from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with Tufts University. She has exhibited work in the Boston area and is the recipient of a 2015 Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thilde Jensen was born in Denmark and moved to New York City in 1997. Six years later, her life and career as a documentary and editorial photographer were cut short by a sudden development of severe environmental illness. Jensen's first monograph, The Canaries, is about environmental illness and was published in 2013. It has since received much international acclaim. Her book was selected by many as one of the best photobooks of the year 2013. The Canaries was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2013, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2014, nominated for the Kassel Best Photobook Award 2014, and is in the collection at MoMA. The project has been exhibited in solo shows at Light Work and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; featured in the New York Times, Esquire Russia, Wired.com rawfile, Vision Magazine China, Business Insider, Slate.com; and selected for Slate.com's Best Photography Shows of 2012. The Canaries was featured in the TONY: 2012 exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Jensen is a 2013 NYFA Fellowship recipient.

Costa Sakellariou is a photographer currently living and working in Binghamton, NY. From the mid-1980s until 1992, he was a working photographer based in Athens, Islamabad, and New Delhi. His clients were the weekly news magazines and his work was represented by JB Pictures in New York City. In 1992, he began work on a long-term project on the dwindling Greek population of Istanbul. The project was published as a book titled The Last Greeks of Istanbul, and was one of the first photobooks to be published in Greece. The Benaki Museum plans to acquire a portfolio of the work for their permanent photography collection. In 1998, Sakellariou and his wife moved to Binghamton. A year later, he began teaching photography at Binghamton University, where he continues to teach today.


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, October 17



Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work, in partnership with Autograph ABP, is pleased to present Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), a solo retrospective of the work of this seminal and highly influential figure in 1980s Black British and African contemporary art. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 34, Fani-Kayode nonetheless remains an important influence in contemporary photography.

Curated in collaboration with Mark Sealy and Rene´e Mussai of Autograph ABP, whose co-founder and first chair was Fani-Kayode, the exhibition features a selection of his most important photographic works produced between 1985-1989, including large-scale color works and arresting black and white images. Fani-Kayode's photographic portraits explore complex personal and politically engaged notions of desire, spirituality and cultural dislocation. They depict the black male body as a focal point both to interpret and probe the boundaries of spiritual and erotic fantasy, and of cultural and sexual difference. Ancestral rituals and a provocative, multi-layered symbolism fuse with archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call "the technique of ecstasy." Hence Fani-Kayode uses the medium of photography not only to question issues of sexuality and homoerotic desire, but also to address themes of diaspora and belonging, and the tensions between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing. This exhibition coincides with the introduction of new punitive legislation in Nigeria, Fani-Kayode's country of birth, as well as other countries in Africa in recent years outlawing same-sex marriages and membership in gay rights organizations.

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1:00 PM - 4:30 PM, October 17



Fall Art Show and Sale
Central New York Art Guild

Aspen House, Radisson
8550 N. Entry Rd., Baldwinsville

Central New York Art Guild members from all over Central New York will be showcasing photography, watercolor, acrylics, oils, pastels, and more. There will be a drawing held for works donated by Lynn Harnois, Cynthia Wells, and Steve Verescak. Proceeds from the raffle benefit the guild-sponsored High School Student Exhibition. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, visit cnyartguild.com.


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6:45 PM - 11:00 PM, October 17



Leviathan
Urban Video Project

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

"Leviathan" (2012) is a groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry. Filmed off the coast of New Bedford, MA, "Leviathan" follows a hulking groundfish trawler into the surrounding murky black waters on a weeks-long fishing expedition. But instead of romanticizing the labor, filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor ("Sweetgrass") and Véréna Paravel ("Foreign Parts") of Sensory Ethnography Lab present a vivid, almost kaleidoscopic representation of the work, the sea, the machinery and the players, both human and marine. The film that emerges is unlike anything that has been seen before. Entirely dialogue-free, but mesmerizing and gripping throughout, it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind's oldest endeavors.

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Film
 

10:00 AM, October 17



Disney & Pixar Film/Music Special
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Tom MacDougall

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Film talk with various movie clips.

Wreck It Ralph (11:00AM) followed by a Q&A session.

Special guest appearance by Executive Vice President for Music for Walt Disney & Pixar Animation Studios Tom MacDougall, Grammy Award-winning music producer for Frozen and Music Supervisor for Academy Award winner, UP (Best Original Score, 2009). A graduate of the Syracuse University, Whitman School of Management (1992), Tom oversees all aspects of music—score, songs, and soundtracks for all animated features and short films produced by Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios.


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12:00 PM, October 17



The Best Offer
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Manlius Art Cinema
135 E. Seneca St., Manlius

A master auctioneer becomes obsessed with an extremely reclusive heiress who collects fine art.
By Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso). (2013, 131 minutes, Italy).


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12:00 PM, October 17



New Filmmakers Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Films produced by students in the Department of Transmedia, College of Visual and Performing Arts. Come experience these unique and creative films from the filmmakers of today who may be our stars of tomorrow. Seating is limited so reserve your seat now.


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1:00 PM, October 17



Million Dollar Mayor
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The People's Choice of Spring Fest 2015, this is an intimate documentary feature film about the life of iconic Syracuse mayor Lee Alexander. The compelling film features extensive interviews with family members, friends, colleagues and media observers, and historic archive video footage and photographs. A Q&A session with director Roger Springfield will follow. (84 minutes, documentary)


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2:30 PM, October 17



Imaging & Disability Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This year we will be honoring Doug Biklen for a lifetime of amazing work. He will be presented with a Sophia Award. We will be showing films that Doug made, worked on, or has picked for this special event. Seating is limited so reserve your seat now.


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4:00 PM, October 17



The Price We Pay
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Smart, eye-opening and incendiary, The Price We Pay examines the timely issue of tax avoidance—specifically, the widespread use of tax havens by multinational corporations, who have managed to deprive governments of trillions of dollars in corporate-tax revenues by attributing their profits to countries with low or non-existent tax rates rather than the countries where their operations are located.

Director Harold Crooks—who previously exposed the world of big-time corporate malfeasance with his work on such key political documentaries as The Corporation and Surviving Progress—takes us on a fascinating journey as he analyzes the origins, damaging repercussions, and complex moral issues arising from corporate tax-dodging, following the thread from the dramatic increase in the off-shoring of corporate assets in the 1970s to the Reagan administration's dismantling of the welfare state in the 1980s and up to the present day, where tax avoidance has directly contributed to the dominance of the "one percent" and further deepened income disparity and wealth inequality.

Featuring interviews with leading economists and academics as well as defectors from the world of big finance, The Price We Pay is a compelling, coherent, and forceful call to action. (2014, 93 minutes, Best Canadian Documentary 2015 at Vancouver International Film Festival, U.S. Premiere)


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6:30 PM, October 17



Foreign Films Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Genesee Grande Hotel
1060 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Syracuse International Film Festival presents a special program of short films, new and old (from the SIFF archives), from the Middle East and China. As a program they bring a fresh perspective that sheds light on their country's humanity and humor.

A Happy Life of Collectivism in a New Age
By Guan Tian, 2015, 7 minutes, China/USA
As an ideology, "Collectivism" has faded away in contemporary China. However, as a lifestyle, it still strongly influences the Chinese people who were born in the 1950s. When they were young, they followed a certain creed of "Collectivism" at school, at work and even in their most private domain of life, such as marriage and breeding. Today, although they are no longer bound by the such ideology, instead of embracing "freedom", they inadvertently continue to practice the principles of "Collectivism"in their everyday lives, even when they completely let their guards down in leisure time.

My City Pizza
By AlaMohseni, 2008, 26 minutes, Iran
While a wide range of delicious and well known traditional foods are available, pizza is very popular in Tehran. With the advance of this Italian fast food, Tehranâs pizzerias have become the battleground between cultural traditions and global tastes.

Mondial 2010
By Roy Dib, 2014, 20 minutes, Lebanon
Mondial 2010 is a film on love and place. A Lebanese gay couple decides to take a road trip to Ramallah. The film is recorded with their camera as they chronicle their journey. The viewers are invited through the couple's conversations into the universe of a fading city.

Taste the Revolution
By Buthina Canaan Khoury, 2008, 27 minutes, Palestine
This is the story of Taybeh Brewing Company-the first micro-brewery in Palestine. The beer is sold throughout Palestine and the Middle East as well as some bars and Cafes in Israel.

Drama
By Guan Tian, 2014, 10 minutes, China/USA
Winner of the Warsaw International Film Festival (Poland) and the Los Angeles Film Festival this comedy is about a couple, about to have sex in a car, who realize they do not have a condom.


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7:15 PM, October 17



House of Wishes
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Four episodes of this series, picked up in the US by HBO and to be called "Wish" on that Network.

Director Haim Bouzaglo has received two nominations for the Israeli Academy Award as Best Director. Bouzaglo's popular films include Tzaleket (1995), Fictitious Marriage (1988), Time for Cherries (1991), Janem Janem (2005), Distortion (2005), and Blank Bullet (2010). Working in Syracuse in 2012, Bouzaglo made the film Session starring model and actress Bar Refaeli, and actors Steven Bauer and Tom Bower.


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9:15 PM, October 17



Einstein and Eddington
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Genesee Grande Hotel
1060 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Einstein and Eddington is a British single drama produced by Company Pictures and the BBC, in association with HBO. It features David Tennant as British scientist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Andy Serkis as Albert Einstein. This is the story of Einstein's general theory of relativity, his relationship with Eddington, and the introduction of this theory to the world, against the backdrop of the Great War. By Philip Martin (2008, 94 minutes, England)


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9:30 PM, October 17



Call Me Lucky
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, Call Me Lucky bravely tells Barry Crimmins' incredible story of transformation from a rage-fueled funnyman into an acclaimed proponent of justice who personified the healing power of comedy.


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11:45 PM, October 17



God Bless America
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

God Bless America is a 2011 American dark comedy film that combines elements of political satire with black humor. Frank Murdoch (Joel Murray) is a middle-aged insurance salesman living in Syracuse, NY, who is sick with how the United States has fallen into a state of rudeness based on pop culture, talk radio, television, and internet influences. Things take an unexpected turn after his suicide attempt... Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait.

Special guest appearance by Comedian Barry Crimmons.


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Music
 

7:30 PM, October 17



Schola at 40
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse
Barry Torres, conductor

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

An anniversary celebration of Schola Cantorum's first concert under founding director Barry Torres, featuring works sung at that 1975 performance, including Josquin's Missa Ave maris stella and J.S. Bach's motet Jesu, meine freude.


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7:30 PM, October 17



ATOS Trio
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $15 ages 30 and under, free for full-time students with ID
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Beethoven Trio in B-flat, Op. 97, "Archduke"
Schubert Trio in E-flat, Op. 100


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12:30 PM, October 17



Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.


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2:00 PM, October 17



*SOLD OUT* Lizzie Borden Took an Axe
Covey Theatre Company

Barnes Hiscock Mansion
930 James St., Syracuse

In 1892, the most foul and mysterious double axe murders of the 19th century took place in Fall River, MA. To this day, historians and lovers of the macabre still try to understand the events that occurred the morning Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered.

A completely immersive experience, Lizzie Borden Took an Axe at the Barnes-Hiscock Mansion will provide audience members with an experience unlike any other. In this innovative production, director/writer Garrett Heater brings the audience within arm's reach of the complex emotions and events leading up to the Borden's brutal fate. Join us for Covey Theatre's final production before we close for good October 30th.

Limit of 45 patrons per show!

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8:00 PM, October 17



Steadfast
Appleseed Productions
C.J. Young, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Inspired by Steve Alpert's painting, "Legacy," The Steadfast, by Mat Smart, is an unflinching look at eight U.S. soldiers across the sweep of American history, from the Revolutionary War to present day — and what happens when the forces of their stories collide. CNY premiere.

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8:00 PM, October 17



Little Shop of Horrors
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $25
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical, Little Shop of Horrors has devoured the hearts of theater goers for over 30 years. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin) are the creative geniuses behind what has become one of the most popular shows in the world.

The meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names "Audrey II", after his coworker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down and out Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it BLOOD. Over time, though, Seymour discovers Audrey II's out-of-this-world origins and intent towards global domination!

Choreography by Jessie Dobryzinski, music direction by Abel Searor.

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8:00 PM, October 17



Triassic Parq: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Religion, identity, sex....and raptors! A raucous retelling of that famous dinosaur-themed film, this time seen from the dinos' point of view. Mature themes.

Music by Marshall Pailet; book and lyrics by Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz and Steve Wargo. Musical director Michael Stephan, choreographer Cassie Angerosa.

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