Sunday, November 13, 2016

Gourdlandia: Gourd Lamps by Graham Ottoson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art Days

Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

Featuring Israeli art and jewelry by Moshe Bar-Kochva and 45 Israeli artists as well as local vendors.

The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17" explores Hayter's ideas about contemporary printmaking and the artists who created these works. Using Hayter's own checklist of important prints the exhibition looks at why these images are innovative or essential to understanding how the graphic arts were being transformed throughout the 20th century.

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

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

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

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

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

Messiah Sing-Along with Chamber Orchestra
MasterWorks Chorale
Kip Coerper, conductor

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, free for ages 18 and under
St. James Episcopal Church
94 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Fall Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture
Concerto(s) TBA
Brahms Symphony No. 3 in f minor

Disney Live! Mickey and Minnie's Doorway to Magic

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

Open the door to unforgettable moments and grand illusions with Disney Live! Mickey and Minnie's Doorway to Magic.

Join Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Tinker Bell as surprises captivate at every turn of the knob with 25 of your favorite Disney stars from Cinderella, Toy Story, Tangled, Snow White, and Aladdin.

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

Melagrana
Central New York Playhouse
Len Fonte, director

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

When American student Margie Cameron arrives at an archeological dig in Sicily, she revels in the freedom that suburban America can't provide, but soon learns that she's also unleashed a passion she can't control. Together with Ettore, a Sicilian doctoral student who supervises her work, she finds that on this island the lines between the present and the primitive past begin to blur very quickly. Inspired by the murder case that riveted the world, Melagrana exposes a tangled web of lies and love in the shadow of Mt. Etna. Written and directed by Len Fonte.

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Laura and the Sea
Syracuse University Drama Department
Katherine McGerr, director

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

Join us for a first look at a new play by Kate Tarker, a fresh new voice in the American theater. It's company outing day, and Laura, one of the top travel agents of her generation, is having the best/worst day of her life. So much so that she decides to end it all. Afterwards, her colleagues try to piece things together on a memorial blog, but how do you mourn someone you didn't know that well? Laura and the Sea is many things: a comedy about depression, a meditation on human connection in the digital age, and a treatise on travel agents who don't travel.

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Disney Live! Mickey and Minnie's Doorway to Magic

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

Open the door to unforgettable moments and grand illusions with Disney Live! Mickey and Minnie's Doorway to Magic.

Join Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Tinker Bell as surprises captivate at every turn of the knob with 25 of your favorite Disney stars from Cinderella, Toy Story, Tangled, Snow White, and Aladdin.

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

123: a play about abandonment and ballroom dancing
Black Box Players
Liam Lonegan and Mary McGowan, director

Price: Free, but advance registration required
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

123: a play about abandonment and ballroom dancing follows the fractured childhood and subsequent futures of three sisters whose lives on the run come to a staggering halt when their parents get arrested. 1, 2, and 3 must find reasons to live in a world where dance is their only breath, togetherness is their familiar safety, and becoming "real" is their never-ending need. By Lila Rose Kaplan.

To reserve a seat, visit black-box-players.ticketleap.com/123.

Monday, November 14, 2016

Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

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

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

Art Days

Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

Featuring Israeli art and jewelry by Moshe Bar-Kochva and 45 Israeli artists as well as local vendors.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gourdlandia: Gourd Lamps by Graham Ottoson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

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

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

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

So Proudly We Hail (1943)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, George Reeves, Sonny Tufts

Our Veteran's Day show presents this fine drama that salutes the women who served in the military as Army nurses during WWII.

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gourdlandia: Gourd Lamps by Graham Ottoson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

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

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

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

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

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

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

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

Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17" explores Hayter's ideas about contemporary printmaking and the artists who created these works. Using Hayter's own checklist of important prints the exhibition looks at why these images are innovative or essential to understanding how the graphic arts were being transformed throughout the 20th century.

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

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

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

La Banda Morisca
LeMoyne College

Price: $10 regular, students free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Join us for evening of with La Banda Morisca, a project born of experimentation, innovation and research in the Andalusian traditions. The recovery of both literary and musical traditions of the ancient al-Andalus and Mediterranean fringe heritage is a key component of this project. Since its founding five years ago, the band has released two records. La Banda Morisca is based in Cádiz in Northwest Spain.

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

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

The concert will feature guest conductor Curt Ebersole, conductor/music director of the Westchester Symphonic Winds. The ensemble performs under the direction of Bradley P. Ethington and Justin J. Mertz—faculty members in the Setnor School—and graduate associate conductor Anna K. Bosler.

Michael Daugherty Desi
Ralph Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite
Percy Aldridge Grainger Country Gardens
William Latham Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light
David Biedenbender Luminescence

Rent
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 to $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In 1996, an original rock musical by a little-known composer opened on Broadway, and forever changed the landscape of American theatre. Two decades later, Jonathan Larson's Rent continues to speak loudly and defiantly to audiences across generations and all over the world. And now, this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning masterpiece returns to the stage in a vibrant 20th-anniversary touring production.

A re-imagining of Puccini's La Bohème, Rent follows an unforgettable year in the lives of seven artists struggling to follow their dreams without selling out. With its inspiring message of joy and hope in the face of fear, this timeless celebration of friendship and creativity reminds us to measure our lives with the only thing that truly matters—love.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gourdlandia: Gourd Lamps by Graham Ottoson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

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

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

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

Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17" explores Hayter's ideas about contemporary printmaking and the artists who created these works. Using Hayter's own checklist of important prints the exhibition looks at why these images are innovative or essential to understanding how the graphic arts were being transformed throughout the 20th century.

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

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

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Jazz at the Plaza: Jeff Martin
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Lake Effect Winds
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Beth Scott, flute; Kathryn Dimmel, oboe; Tom McKay, clarinet; Margie Hawthorne, horn; and Jill Bushnell, bassoon play works by Copland, Ligeti, and Jacob.

Ensemble Series: SU Women's Choir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Elisa Dekaney, conductor

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

G.P. Palestrina (1525-1594) Ahi che quest'occhi Miei
C. Monteverdi Qual si può dir maggiore
Francesca Caccini Aure Volanti from La Liberazione di Ruggiero
Beverly A. Patton Exaudi! Laudate!
Medieval Plainsong/German Carol Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
René Clausen Psalm 100
Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944) Da Molchít Vsiakaya Plot, Op. 9, No. 30
Brazilian Folk Song Rosa Amarela
Traditional Spiritual Ride On, King Jesus

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 redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Rent
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 to $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In 1996, an original rock musical by a little-known composer opened on Broadway, and forever changed the landscape of American theatre. Two decades later, Jonathan Larson's Rent continues to speak loudly and defiantly to audiences across generations and all over the world. And now, this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning masterpiece returns to the stage in a vibrant 20th-anniversary touring production.

A re-imagining of Puccini's La Bohème, Rent follows an unforgettable year in the lives of seven artists struggling to follow their dreams without selling out. With its inspiring message of joy and hope in the face of fear, this timeless celebration of friendship and creativity reminds us to measure our lives with the only thing that truly matters—love.

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123: a play about abandonment and ballroom dancing
Black Box Players
Liam Lonegan and Mary McGowan, director

Price: Free, but advance registration required
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

123: a play about abandonment and ballroom dancing follows the fractured childhood and subsequent futures of three sisters whose lives on the run come to a staggering halt when their parents get arrested. 1, 2, and 3 must find reasons to live in a world where dance is their only breath, togetherness is their familiar safety, and becoming "real" is their never-ending need. By Lila Rose Kaplan.

To reserve a seat, visit black-box-players.ticketleap.com/123.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gourdlandia: Gourd Lamps by Graham Ottoson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

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

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

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

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

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

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

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

Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17" explores Hayter's ideas about contemporary printmaking and the artists who created these works. Using Hayter's own checklist of important prints the exhibition looks at why these images are innovative or essential to understanding how the graphic arts were being transformed throughout the 20th century.

Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Marie Lorenz: Tide & Current Taxi
Urban Video Project

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

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

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

Artist Lecture: Marie Lorenz
Everson Museum of Art
Urban Video Project

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

UVP artist-in-residence Marie Lorenz leads a discussion about her work.

Student Recital Series: Jazz Vocal Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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 redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Journey Through Music of the African Diaspora: Shakeif
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free (donations welcome)
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Shakeif Alexander if an R&B singers from Syracuse. Shakeif's sound is where old school meets new school. A fusion of soulful ballads with uptempo songs from the heart. His first album, "New Beginning," was nominated for a SAMMY award.

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
LeMoyne College
Major Arcana

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Major Arcana presents a time-bending, darkly comic examination of the plight and fate of the New Testament's most infamous and unexplained sinner.

Ensemble Series: Percussion Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Michael W. Bull, conductor

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

Anthony Korf Blue Rhythm Quintet
Robert Sutton Agitated
Elliot A. Del Borgo Rondo for Five
Rob Bridge Moto No Refle
David R. Gillingham Sacrificial Rite

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 redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Nick Saint: Private Elf
Acme Mystery Company

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

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

Our Town
Fayetteville-Manlius High School

Price: $11
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

Set in a small New Hampshire town at the turn of the 20th century, Our Town explores the themes of love, loss, and appreciation of life.

Almost, Maine
East Syracuse Minoa High School

Price: $9
East Syracuse-Minoa High School
6400 Freemont Rd., East Syracuse

Annie Jr.
West Genesee Middle School

Price: $6
West Genesee Middle School
500 Sanderson Drive, Camillus

Annie Jr., based on a book and score by Tony Award-winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, features everyone's favorite little redhead. Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie eventually foils Miss Hannigan, finding a new home and family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.

Rent
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 to $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In 1996, an original rock musical by a little-known composer opened on Broadway, and forever changed the landscape of American theatre. Two decades later, Jonathan Larson's Rent continues to speak loudly and defiantly to audiences across generations and all over the world. And now, this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning masterpiece returns to the stage in a vibrant 20th-anniversary touring production.

A re-imagining of Puccini's La Bohème, Rent follows an unforgettable year in the lives of seven artists struggling to follow their dreams without selling out. With its inspiring message of joy and hope in the face of fear, this timeless celebration of friendship and creativity reminds us to measure our lives with the only thing that truly matters—love.

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123: a play about abandonment and ballroom dancing
Black Box Players
Liam Lonegan and Mary McGowan, director

Price: Free, but advance registration required
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

123: a play about abandonment and ballroom dancing follows the fractured childhood and subsequent futures of three sisters whose lives on the run come to a staggering halt when their parents get arrested. 1, 2, and 3 must find reasons to live in a world where dance is their only breath, togetherness is their familiar safety, and becoming "real" is their never-ending need. By Lila Rose Kaplan.

To reserve a seat, visit black-box-players.ticketleap.com/123.

Melagrana
Central New York Playhouse
Len Fonte, director

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

When American student Margie Cameron arrives at an archeological dig in Sicily, she revels in the freedom that suburban America can't provide, but soon learns that she's also unleashed a passion she can't control. Together with Ettore, a Sicilian doctoral student who supervises her work, she finds that on this island the lines between the present and the primitive past begin to blur very quickly. Inspired by the murder case that riveted the world, Melagrana exposes a tangled web of lies and love in the shadow of Mt. Etna. Written and directed by Len Fonte.

Read a Review!

Friday, November 18, 2016

Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

Gourdlandia: Gourd Lamps by Graham Ottoson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

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

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

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

Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17" explores Hayter's ideas about contemporary printmaking and the artists who created these works. Using Hayter's own checklist of important prints the exhibition looks at why these images are innovative or essential to understanding how the graphic arts were being transformed throughout the 20th century.

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

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

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Marie Lorenz: Tide & Current Taxi
Urban Video Project

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

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

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

Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

The Acoustic Guitar Project
Folkus Project

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

"One guitar. One week. One song." is the tagline of the Acoustic Guitar Project, an international songwriting project that originated in New York City and has spread around the world. In each city, a guitar circulates from songwriter to songwriter, and each person has one week to write a song on that guitar and capture it on a handheld recorder. Now, five Syracuse-area songwriters who participated in the project will appear together in a unique concert, where they will perform their new song (as well as two other originals) on one night, on one stage.

The featured songwriters for 2016 are Donna Colton and Sam Patterelli, Bob Halligan Jr., Gina Holsopple, Jon Peterson, and Mike Powell.

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
LeMoyne College
Major Arcana

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Major Arcana presents a time-bending, darkly comic examination of the plight and fate of the New Testament's most infamous and unexplained sinner.

Lil Wayne
Onondaga Community College

Price: $65 floor seats, $45 regular, $25 for OCC students with ID
SRC Arena and Events Center
Onondaga Community College campus, Syracuse

Nationally-known hip-hop artist Lil Wayne has sold over 100 million records worldwide, including more than 15 million albums and 37 million digital tracks in the United States, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time.

Tickets are available at eTix.com or at the SRC Arena box office. For more information, phone 315-498-2772.

Poets Jessica Cuello and Cindy Day
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Jessica Cuello's debut manuscript, Pricking, is new from Tiger Bark Press. Her second collection, Hunt, was the winner of The 2016 Washington Prize from The Word Works and will appear in March 2017. Jessica is also the author of the chapbooks My Father's Bargain (2015), By Fire (2013), and Curie (2011). She was the winner of The 2013 New Letters Poetry Prize, the recipient of a 2015 Saltonstall Writing Fellowship and the recipient of the 2014 Decker Award from Hollins University for outstanding teaching.

Cindy Day's poems and essays have appeared in the Green Mountains Review, Southern Poetry Review, Stone Canoe, and Nine Mile, among other magazines. Four of her poems appear in Last Call: Poems of Alcoholism, Addiction and Deliverance (Sarabande Books, 1997). In 2008 she won the Emerging Poet Award from Stone Canoe. Her chapbook, Amends, is new from Finishing Line Press. A native of Hartford, CT, she has lived and worked in Central New York since 1974.

Cyrano
Jordan-Elbridge High School

Price: $6
Jordan-Elbridge High School
Hamilton Road, Jordan

Romance rules the day in award-winning playwright Barry Kornhauser's portrait of that enduring hero of imperfection and his classic love triangle with the exquisite Roxane and the handsome and earnest, but verbally challenged, Christian.

Fools
Corcoran High School

Price: $8
Corcoran High School
919 Glenwood Ave., Syracuse

In this modern-day fable, a young teacher is hired to a remote village, only to find on arrival that the village is cursed. Their curse, extreme stupidity, becomes the teacher's new mission, along with winning the heart of the town doctor's daughter. A silly and fantastic adventure comedy, "Fools" also has at its heart a thought provoking question: what truly defines the limits of our own intelligence? "Fools" is a classic comedy written by modern American playwriting legend, Neil Simon.

Annie Jr.
West Genesee Middle School

Price: $6
West Genesee Middle School
500 Sanderson Drive, Camillus

Annie Jr., based on a book and score by Tony Award-winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, features everyone's favorite little redhead. Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie eventually foils Miss Hannigan, finding a new home and family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.

Bye Bye Birdie
Christian Brothers Academy Middle School

Price: $8
Christian Brothers Academy auditorium
6245 Randall Rd., Dewitt

It is the late 1950's and teen idol, pop star, Conrad Birdie is drafted into the U.S. Army, a la Elvis Presley. Albert Peterson, Conrad's manager, composes a song called, "One Last Kiss" which Birdie is to sing on the Ed Sullivan Show, with the hopes of making enough money to marry his sweetheart, Rose Alvarez. Albert's mom meddles, trying to split the two up.

Almost, Maine
East Syracuse Minoa High School

Price: $9
East Syracuse-Minoa High School
6400 Freemont Rd., East Syracuse

Zombie Prom
Fowler High School and the Public Service Leadership Academy

Price: $5
Fowler High School
227 Magnolia St., Syracuse

This girl-loves-ghoul rock-n-roll Off Broadway musical is set in the atomic 1950s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down by a zany, tyrannical principal. Pretty senior Toffee has fallen for the class bad boy. Family pressure forces her to end the romance, and he charges off on his motorcycle to the nuclear waste dump. He returns glowing and determined to reclaim Toffee's heart. He still wants to graduate, but most of all he wants to take Toffee to the prom. Part Grease, Part Little Shop of Horrors, All Fun!

Our Town
Fayetteville-Manlius High School

Price: $11
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

Set in a small New Hampshire town at the turn of the 20th century, Our Town explores the themes of love, loss, and appreciation of life.

You Can't Take It With You
Onondaga Jr./Sr. High School

Price: $7 adults, $4 students
Onondaga Central Junior/Senior High School
4479 S. Onondaga Rd., Nedrow

The King Stag
Solvay High School

Price: $7
Solvay High School
600 Gertrude Ave., Solvay

Deramo, the King of Serendippo, is searching for a wife and has already interviewed thousands of candidates. With the help of a magical statue, he chooses Angela to be his bride. Unfortunately, Angela is also loved by the evil Tartaglia, who, with the aid of a magic spell, transforms the king into a stag, and steals into his body to masquerade as the King. Written in the classic Commedia dell'arte form, Carlo Gozzi's Italian comedy has been re-invented with modern language and an updated feel, while still preserving the magic of the fairy tale.

Discovering Amelia
Tully Junior High School

Price: $5
Tully Junior-Senior High School
Elm St., Tully

Amelia Jones is a modern high school student whose life is rapidly spiraling out of control. When she is assigned a school project to research the life of Amelia Earhart, the famed aviator begins appearing to her to lend advice and support. Can Amelia seize this opportunity to turn her life around? If she does, can she ever let her mentor go and stand on her own?

Elektra
Manlius Pebble Hill School

Price: $12
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

"Elektra" is a tragedy written by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles about murder and revenge. Agamemnon, the father of the house, was killed by his unfaithful wife, Clytaemnestra, with the help of her sinister lover, Aegisthus, as retribution for having sacrificed their daughter, Iphigenia, to the gods. Meanwhile, her son Orestes was spirited away by their faithful servant Tutor (Old Man) in order to safeguard him against a similar fate. Though Clytaemnestra's weak-willed daughter, Chrysothemis, has made peace with the situation, her defiant sister, Electra, still bemoans her father's fate. Electra awaits the return of the grown Orestes in the hopes that he will avenge their father's death.

123: a play about abandonment and ballroom dancing
Black Box Players
Liam Lonegan and Mary McGowan, director

Price: Free, but advance registration required
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

123: a play about abandonment and ballroom dancing follows the fractured childhood and subsequent futures of three sisters whose lives on the run come to a staggering halt when their parents get arrested. 1, 2, and 3 must find reasons to live in a world where dance is their only breath, togetherness is their familiar safety, and becoming "real" is their never-ending need. By Lila Rose Kaplan.

To reserve a seat, visit black-box-players.ticketleap.com/123.

Melagrana
Central New York Playhouse
Len Fonte, director

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

When American student Margie Cameron arrives at an archeological dig in Sicily, she revels in the freedom that suburban America can't provide, but soon learns that she's also unleashed a passion she can't control. Together with Ettore, a Sicilian doctoral student who supervises her work, she finds that on this island the lines between the present and the primitive past begin to blur very quickly. Inspired by the murder case that riveted the world, Melagrana exposes a tangled web of lies and love in the shadow of Mt. Etna. Written and directed by Len Fonte.

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Tell Me on a Sunday
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

This one-act musical song-cycle with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice tells the story of an ordinary girl from England who journeys to America in search of love. Her numerous misadventures begin in NYC taking her to Hollywood, and eventually back to Manhattan. Features the Lloyd Webber hits "Tell Me on a Sunday," "Unexpected Song," and "Take That Look Off Your Face." Music directed by Abel Searor and starring Erin Williamson.

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Saturday, November 19, 2016

Ancestral Narrative: Works by Kenny Harris
LeMoyne College

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

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

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

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

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

Holiday Show and Sale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

31st Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

Angela Fraleigh: Between Tongue and Teeth
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Tide and Current Taxi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Home Sweet Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Gourdlandia: Gourd Lamps by Graham Ottoson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Place: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

The Almighty Cup
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

62nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

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

Please note the Art Mart's new location.

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

21 Etchings and Poems
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17" explores Hayter's ideas about contemporary printmaking and the artists who created these works. Using Hayter's own checklist of important prints the exhibition looks at why these images are innovative or essential to understanding how the graphic arts were being transformed throughout the 20th century.

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

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

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

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

Edward Koren: The Capricious Line
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Marie Lorenz: Tide & Current Taxi
Urban Video Project

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

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

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

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

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

There will be an opening receptionthis evening featuring music by pianist Anne Barnes.

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

Sebastian Maniscalco

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

Saying what we're all thinking has always been Sebastian Maniscalco's specialty. Except when he says it, it's a whole lot funnier. In his standup special "Aren't You Embarrassed?," the sophisticated comedian with the chiseled cheekbones gives us a hilarious reality check of the world we find ourselves living in.

The 2014 American Comedy Award nominee for Best Club Comedian has established an avid fan following via national late night television appearances on numerous shows. Sebastian is also a popular guest on ground-breaking podcasts such as "WTF with Marc Maron" in additional to starring in his own wildly popular "The Pete and Sebastian Show" podcast every Friday night.

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

Sebastian Maniscalco

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

Saying what we're all thinking has always been Sebastian Maniscalco's specialty. Except when he says it, it's a whole lot funnier. In his standup special "Aren't You Embarrassed?," the sophisticated comedian with the chiseled cheekbones gives us a hilarious reality check of the world we find ourselves living in.

The 2014 American Comedy Award nominee for Best Club Comedian has established an avid fan following via national late night television appearances on numerous shows. Sebastian is also a popular guest on ground-breaking podcasts such as "WTF with Marc Maron" in additional to starring in his own wildly popular "The Pete and Sebastian Show" podcast every Friday night.

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

Scholastic Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Aspiring improvisers of any age, any level of ability, and playing any instrument get to sit in with a professional jazz group, the CNY Jazz Orchestra rhythm section with Joe Carello on sax, leading the band and emceeing—just bring any music for us to read, and you're the leader of the band! Even if you don't have music, we can just jam on a blues. We'll give you positive, constructive coaching and feedback, right on the spot. You can also bring friends to jam with, a horn section or a whole group, and you can play a number yourselves—but remember, everyone attending has to get up and play solo as well.

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
LeMoyne College
Major Arcana

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Major Arcana presents a time-bending, darkly comic examination of the plight and fate of the New Testament's most infamous and unexplained sinner.

Quatuor Modigliani
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, free for full-time students with ID
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Beethoven String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 18, no. 6
Schumann String Quartet in A Major, op. 41, no. 3
Dvorak String Quartet in F Major "American", op. 96

Parties in the Plaza: Kay Miracle & Penny Jo Pullus
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Kay Miracle has toured the globe with PACAF and USO military shows, where she assimilated her early influences into a unique sound. A veteran of the Five-Time SAMMY-winning local band Reckless Drivin', Kay has global touring experience.

Penny Jo Pullus has earned her props as one of Austin's most-sought after vocalists. She entered the Texas Music Hall of fame with her band The Greezy Wheels, legendary Texas house band for the Armadillo Headquarters. Her early award-winning career in Central New York included numerous SAMMY awards for her group Penny Jo's Trailer Trash.

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
LeMoyne College
Major Arcana

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Major Arcana presents a time-bending, darkly comic examination of the plight and fate of the New Testament's most infamous and unexplained sinner.

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Bye Bye Birdie
Christian Brothers Academy Middle School

Price: $8
Christian Brothers Academy auditorium
6245 Randall Rd., Dewitt

It is the late 1950's and teen idol, pop star, Conrad Birdie is drafted into the U.S. Army, a la Elvis Presley. Albert Peterson, Conrad's manager, composes a song called, "One Last Kiss" which Birdie is to sing on the Ed Sullivan Show, with the hopes of making enough money to marry his sweetheart, Rose Alvarez. Albert's mom meddles, trying to split the two up.

123: a play about abandonment and ballroom dancing
Black Box Players
Liam Lonegan and Mary McGowan, director

Price: Free, but advance registration required
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

123: a play about abandonment and ballroom dancing follows the fractured childhood and subsequent futures of three sisters whose lives on the run come to a staggering halt when their parents get arrested. 1, 2, and 3 must find reasons to live in a world where dance is their only breath, togetherness is their familiar safety, and becoming "real" is their never-ending need. By Lila Rose Kaplan.

To reserve a seat, visit black-box-players.ticketleap.com/123.

Annie Jr.
West Genesee Middle School

Price: $6
West Genesee Middle School
500 Sanderson Drive, Camillus

Annie Jr., based on a book and score by Tony Award-winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, features everyone's favorite little redhead. Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie eventually foils Miss Hannigan, finding a new home and family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.

Elektra
Manlius Pebble Hill School

Price: $12
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

"Elektra" is a tragedy written by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles about murder and revenge. Agamemnon, the father of the house, was killed by his unfaithful wife, Clytaemnestra, with the help of her sinister lover, Aegisthus, as retribution for having sacrificed their daughter, Iphigenia, to the gods. Meanwhile, her son Orestes was spirited away by their faithful servant Tutor (Old Man) in order to safeguard him against a similar fate. Though Clytaemnestra's weak-willed daughter, Chrysothemis, has made peace with the situation, her defiant sister, Electra, still bemoans her father's fate. Electra awaits the return of the grown Orestes in the hopes that he will avenge their father's death.

World of Puppets: Robin Hood
Open Hand Theater
Puppet Showplace Theater

Price: $10 adults, $6 children (under age 2 free)
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Explore the wilds of Sherwood Forest in this rollicking retelling of the classic Robin Hood tale. When the Sheriff of Nottingham begins demolishing woodland homes as part of a grand castle-expansion scheme, the starry-eyed Robin sees his chance to fight back and fulfill his dream of becoming a hero. Of course, he'll need a little help from his friends. Join Maid Marion, Little John, and a mischievous deer with excellent taste in clothes on a medieval mission to save the forest. Featuring original music by composer Paul Watkins and beautifully-crafted costumes and scenery.

Our Town
Fayetteville-Manlius High School

Price: $11
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

Set in a small New Hampshire town at the turn of the 20th century, Our Town explores the themes of love, loss, and appreciation of life.

Zombie Prom
Fowler High School and the Public Service Leadership Academy

Price: $5
Fowler High School
227 Magnolia St., Syracuse

This girl-loves-ghoul rock-n-roll Off Broadway musical is set in the atomic 1950s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down by a zany, tyrannical principal. Pretty senior Toffee has fallen for the class bad boy. Family pressure forces her to end the romance, and he charges off on his motorcycle to the nuclear waste dump. He returns glowing and determined to reclaim Toffee's heart. He still wants to graduate, but most of all he wants to take Toffee to the prom. Part Grease, Part Little Shop of Horrors, All Fun!

You Can't Take It With You
Onondaga Jr./Sr. High School

Price: $7 adults, $4 students
Onondaga Central Junior/Senior High School
4479 S. Onondaga Rd., Nedrow

Discovering Amelia
Tully Junior High School

Price: $5
Tully Junior-Senior High School
Elm St., Tully

Amelia Jones is a modern high school student whose life is rapidly spiraling out of control. When she is assigned a school project to research the life of Amelia Earhart, the famed aviator begins appearing to her to lend advice and support. Can Amelia seize this opportunity to turn her life around? If she does, can she ever let her mentor go and stand on her own?

The King Stag
Solvay High School

Price: $7
Solvay High School
600 Gertrude Ave., Solvay

Deramo, the King of Serendippo, is searching for a wife and has already interviewed thousands of candidates. With the help of a magical statue, he chooses Angela to be his bride. Unfortunately, Angela is also loved by the evil Tartaglia, who, with the aid of a magic spell, transforms the king into a stag, and steals into his body to masquerade as the King. Written in the classic Commedia dell'arte form, Carlo Gozzi's Italian comedy has been re-invented with modern language and an updated feel, while still preserving the magic of the fairy tale.

Fools
Corcoran High School

Price: $8
Corcoran High School
919 Glenwood Ave., Syracuse

In this modern-day fable, a young teacher is hired to a remote village, only to find on arrival that the village is cursed. Their curse, extreme stupidity, becomes the teacher's new mission, along with winning the heart of the town doctor's daughter. A silly and fantastic adventure comedy, "Fools" also has at its heart a thought provoking question: what truly defines the limits of our own intelligence? "Fools" is a classic comedy written by modern American playwriting legend, Neil Simon.

Cyrano
Jordan-Elbridge High School

Price: $6
Jordan-Elbridge High School
Hamilton Road, Jordan

Romance rules the day in award-winning playwright Barry Kornhauser's portrait of that enduring hero of imperfection and his classic love triangle with the exquisite Roxane and the handsome and earnest, but verbally challenged, Christian.

Elektra
Manlius Pebble Hill School

Price: $12
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

"Elektra" is a tragedy written by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles about murder and revenge. Agamemnon, the father of the house, was killed by his unfaithful wife, Clytaemnestra, with the help of her sinister lover, Aegisthus, as retribution for having sacrificed their daughter, Iphigenia, to the gods. Meanwhile, her son Orestes was spirited away by their faithful servant Tutor (Old Man) in order to safeguard him against a similar fate. Though Clytaemnestra's weak-willed daughter, Chrysothemis, has made peace with the situation, her defiant sister, Electra, still bemoans her father's fate. Electra awaits the return of the grown Orestes in the hopes that he will avenge their father's death.

Melagrana
Central New York Playhouse
Len Fonte, director

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

When American student Margie Cameron arrives at an archeological dig in Sicily, she revels in the freedom that suburban America can't provide, but soon learns that she's also unleashed a passion she can't control. Together with Ettore, a Sicilian doctoral student who supervises her work, she finds that on this island the lines between the present and the primitive past begin to blur very quickly. Inspired by the murder case that riveted the world, Melagrana exposes a tangled web of lies and love in the shadow of Mt. Etna. Written and directed by Len Fonte.

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Tell Me on a Sunday
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

This one-act musical song-cycle with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice tells the story of an ordinary girl from England who journeys to America in search of love. Her numerous misadventures begin in NYC taking her to Hollywood, and eventually back to Manhattan. Features the Lloyd Webber hits "Tell Me on a Sunday," "Unexpected Song," and "Take That Look Off Your Face." Music directed by Abel Searor and starring Erin Williamson.

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Sunday, November 20, 2016