Saturday, October 13, 2018

Woods: Oil Paintings by Robert Niedzwiecki
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Touch of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Stenson: stone and metalsmith jewelry
John Fitzsimmons: oil paintings featuring his treetop series and small-scale nature specimen paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: art glass

Time Capsule
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Time Capsule" presents five decades of the Everson's history in its I.M. Pei-designed building with a look back at the significant acquisitions, groundbreaking exhibitions, and pioneering public programs sponsored by the Museum in the last 50 years. Featuring archival material including photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera as well as work from the Museum's collection, "Time Capsule" highlights the important role the Everson has played in both the art world and the Central New York community.

A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, is Onondaga Community College's Common Read for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Everson has partnered with OCC to present an exhibition of works from the Museum's collection that address the themes and rich visual symbolism found within Atwood's novel. "A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale" draws connections between the visual and literary world as a means to deepen our experience of both art forms and to sharpen our thinking about the world we live in today.

The Art of the Tile
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ceramic tiles are one of the world's oldest decorative art forms, dating back to at least the fourth millennium BCE. Tiles served both an ornamental and functional purpose, covering interior and exterior building surfaces as well as tabletops and other pieces of furniture.

The Everson's expansive ceramics collection includes over 500 tiles made in countries around the world between the 17th and 20th centuries. This exhibition presents a selection of these tiles, many of which have never before been on view.

The Very Mirror of Life: Ceramics at the Everson 1968-2018
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

I.M. Pei believed that "Architecture is the very mirror of life." This exhibition uses work from the permanent collection to explore the harmony between art and architecture in Pei's building over the past half century.

Visions of America
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Everson building, "Visions of America" showcases the depth of the Everson's collection of American art. In 1911, the Everson (then known as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts) made history as the first museum in the country to declare that it would collect only work made by American artists, a decision which led to the acquisition of many important works that are today beloved by Everson visitors. This exhibition features many of these visitor favorites, including work by Edward Hicks, Eastman Johnson, Frederick Remington, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Gilbert Stuart.

LaToya Hobbs: Salt of the Earth
Community Folk Art Center

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

A celebration and examination of black women's lives throughout the Diaspora, through the use of the motif of the modern matriarch.

The Almighty Cup 2018
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A national juried and invitational exhibition presented by The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University. The show will present an eclectic mix of styles of drinking and sculptural vessels made by ceramic artists from all over the country. This year's juror, DJ Hellerman, is Curator of Art and Programs at the Everson Museum.

The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I
Onondaga Historical Association

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

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, Onondaga Historical Association will present an exhibit on Onondaga County's role in the Great War.

The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, uniforms, gas masks, helmets and other military accoutrements, war souvenirs, home-front conservation items, letters, diaries, and other archival material and objects. These items will illustrate the impact World War I had on Onondaga County and the world at large. The exhibit will focus on the people, places, and events at home and abroad including military personnel and units, the nurse corps, Camp Syracuse, food conservation, the Split Rock munitions explosion, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

Donald R. Waful: The Remarkable Life Story of a Local Syracusan
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Donald R. Waful has been a dedicated Syracuse citizen for nearly a century. As a young adult, he attended Syracuse University where he earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. He enlisted in the United States army in 1941 and served overseas when the U.S. entered World War II. He met his future wife, army nurse Olga "Cassie" Casciolini, while stationed in Northern Ireland. He then served in the North African campaign where he was taken as a prisoner of war in 1942. He would remain a POW first in Italy, then in Poland, for the duration of the war. He was reunited with Cassie at the end of World War II, afterward settling in Syracuse. Don went on to have a career in insurance and served as President of the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team for 35 years. Waful has remained active in the Syracuse community, both with Syracuse University and the Chiefs baseball team.

This exhibit, designed and installed by SUNY Potsdam undergraduate student Mahala Nyberg, examinies the life of Don Waful, who is nearing 102 years old, and details his experiences during World War II as well as his experiences before and after the war in Syracuse.

The 2018 Members Exhibition of the Society of American Graphic Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition displays the prints of 66 SAGA members with a variety of statements and techniques that reflect their individual approaches to printmaking. All the prints in this exhibition were done in the 21st century and include traditional and contemporary approaches to printmaking. In their prints, members continue to show a wide variety of imagery, mediums and mastery of techniques, demonstrating the highest standards of excellence. SAGA members continually push the medium and contribute to the growth of printmaking.

Rodin: The Human Experience
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Rodin: The Human Experience (Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections) presents 32 figures in bronze by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the French sculptor who left behind 19th century academic traditions to focus on conveying the passion and vitality of the human spirit. Considered in his lifetime to be the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo, Rodin exerted a tremendous influence on artists of subsequent generations, such as Matisse, Brancusi, and Maillol. His vigorous modeling emphasized his personal response to the subject, and he captured movement and emotion by altering traditional poses and gestures. Rodin's sculpture is often considered a crucial link between traditional and modern art.

Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America" explores the life and career of the noted 20th century Japanese American artist through the lens of Forbidden Fruit, 1950. This eerie and confounding late painting from Syracuse University's permanent collection ultimately reveals Kuniyoshi's tortured state of mind close to his untimely passing in 1953.

Paintings, drawings, and prints from lenders including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University develop an engrossing visual narrative explaining the life and work of this unique artist.

Invisible People: Portraits of the Homeless by Neil Shigley
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

San Diego based artist Neil Shigley's work explores the subject of homelessness by giving visibility to homeless individuals through large-scale portraits.

Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is guest-curated by For Freedoms, a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, co-founded in 2016 by former Light Work artists-in-residence Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas.

"Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul" features over 40 photographs from the Light Work Collection. The list of artists includes Laura Aguilar, George Awde, Karl Baden, Lois Barden and Harry Littell, Claire Beckett, Charles Biasing-Rivera, Samantha Box, Deborah Bright, Chan Chao, Renee Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, Jen Davis, Jess Dugan, John Edmonds, Amy Elkins, Nereyda Garcia Ferraz, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Antony Gleaton, Jim Goldberg, David Graham, Mahtab Hussain, Osamu James Nakagawa, Tommy Kha, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Deana Lawson, Mary Mattingly, Jackie Nickerson, Shelley Niro, Suzanne Opton, Kristine Potter, Ernesto Pujol, Irina Rozovsky, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Pacifico Silano, Clarissa Sligh, Beuford Smith, Amy Stein, Mila Teshaieva, Brian Ulrich, Ted Wathen, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Pixy Yijun Liao.

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CNY Art Guild Fine Arts Show and Sale

Price: Free admission
Aspen House, Radisson
8550 N. Entry Rd., Baldwinsville

Acrylic, oil, pastel, photography, watercolor, glass, alcohol inks, ceramics, scratchboard, and much more.

Christopher Harris: Extended Forecast
Urban Video Project

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

The works in this exhibition by the award-winning filmmaker each explore the cosmological resonances of the seemingly mundane. In speaking about the broad goals of his work, Harris said, "These are films that are not there to tell an easy story or to narrate a palatable history. They're there to really make you think about and explore cinema's fundamental relationship to American racial identity, pushing us to turn the medium inside out and see how to stretch its potential for new conversations about film and race."

Sunshine State (Extended Forecast)
(2007, 8 minutes)
Somewhere in a quiet outer suburb of the Milky Way Galaxy, we live our lives in the pleasant warmth of our middle-of-the-road star, the Sun. Slowly but surely we will reach the point when there will be one last perfect sunny day. The sun will swell up, scorch the earth, and finally consume it.

28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark)
(2009, 3 minutes)
This piece approximates a small child's fantasy world in the dark. In a series of close-ups, the nightlight is transformed into a meditative star-spangled sky. An improvisation edited in-camera and shot on a single reel. The stars swirl in silence.

Distant Shores
(2016, 3 minutes)
A sunny afternoon on a tour boat in Chicago is haunted by the specter of other voyages.

On view at UVP's outdoor projection site on the north facade of the Everson Museum of Art from dusk until 11:00 pm.

Short Film Program
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 1
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Reel Stage
Directed by Paul Darrigo (fiction, 17 minutes)
When a traditional Shakespearean stage director dies on stage, the cast is thrown into a turmoil by the new 'Brett Ratner' action film replacement who is toggling to make a comeback.

Still Harlem
Directed by Lynn Dow (fiction, 18 minutes)
Following gentrification, Becky moves to New York City to attend Columbia University and ends up renting a room from a man who yearns for Harlem's past.

Braska
Directed by Dave Fathers (fiction, 7 minutes)
Ales wants to hang out with a group of friends, but is responsible for his younger brother. When his younger brother refuses to leave, Ales' desire for acceptance in this group could come at a cost.

Hunter Gatherer
Directed by Ashley Grace (fiction, 14 minutes)
When Rose stumbles upon the nephew she never knew existed, she struggles with how best to help him.

My Little Life
Directed by David Willing (Australia, fiction, 15 minutes)
A documentary produced by Tokyo Chuo Media about Nancy Matsuyama, a rising star in the world of competitive dollhouse making.

In The Heat of Summer
Directed by John Glen
Tension rises between two couples as they struggle to resist their temptations while on vacation at a remote villa.

Madagasihara
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 3
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Utopia is a surreal drama and an award-winning short film about a woman who is conflicted about her identity and wakes up from a coma in Uganda. It has been screened in festivals in the U.S., Canada, Israel, Belgium, and the U.K. Directed by Aimiende Negbenebor Sela (fiction, 15 minutes).

Madagasikara is the story of three resilient women fighting for the survival of their families and the education of their children against the overwhelming forces of domestic political instability, international political hypocrisy, and the crushing poverty caused by both. Directed by Cam Cowan (documentary, 85 minutes).

Short Film Program
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 2
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Heather Has Four Moms
Directed by Jeanette Buck (documentary, 14 minutes)
When Heather decides to lose her virginity for her 15th birthday, Mom's wife must convince Mom, and Mom's ex, and Mom's ex's partner, that it's time for Heather to have "the talk." Which mom is ready to help Heather make a big decision? It's a mother-daughter story. Times four.

Baby Won't You Please Come Home
Directed by Christopher Piazza (fiction, 22 minutes)
Pearl Simmons, an aging jazz singer in brownstone Brooklyn, fights the early stages of Alzheimer's. While she presents a strong front to her daughter Cynthia, her sense of place and time begin to slip, and her memories of her days as a jazz singer in 1970s New York clash with the present.

The Staying Kind
Directed by Isaac Deitz (fiction, 20 minutes)
A woman left behind during the American Civil War must break the ties to her husband before they become the demise of her son.

Kiko
Directed by Jamil Munoz (science fiction, 10 minutes)
Kiko, a lonely retail service android, longs for the world beyond her store.

American Dresser
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 1
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tom Berenger plays the lead role of John Moore, a Vietnam veteran who impulsively decides to dust off his treasured motorcycle and go on a cross-country trip. Directed by Carmine Cangialosi and Jeff Fahey (fiction, 97 minutes).

Hunter in the Blackness and Left on Pearl
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 2
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Hunter in the Blackness
Seven U.S. veterans share their stories of deployment, life in country, coming home, diagnosis, dreams and nightmares, and recovery. Hunter in the Blackness examines post-traumatic stress and offers a message of resilience and hope. Directed by Federico Muchnik (documentary, 32 minutes).

Left on Pearl
What happens when Boston's 1971 International Women's Day marchers turn "left on Pearl" Street in Cambridge and seize and occupy a Harvard-owned building for a women's center on land sought by the largely African-American Riverside neighborhood for affordable housing? Directed by Susan Rivo (documentary, 55 minutes).

Standing Up
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 3
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Curzon Project is a short documentary which tells the story of the Curzon cinema on Belfast's Ormeau Road which opened in 1936 and closed in 1999. Directed by Jon Beer (Ireland, documentary, 17 minutes).

Standing Up is a feature-length documentary following three unlikely aspiring stand-up comedians — an ultra-Orthodox Jew, a couch surfing custodian, and a personal injury lawyer — as they risk everything to find their voices on the cutthroat New York comedy scene. Directed by Jonathan Miller (documentary/comedy, 78 minutes).

Pottersville
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 1
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Maynard, a beloved local businessman, is mistaken for the legendary Bigfoot during an inebriated romp through town in a makeshift gorilla costume. Directed by Seth Henrikson (fiction, 84 minutes).

Reinventing Rosalee
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 3
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Little Ghost Girl
This video was inspired by Karen McCadden's poem "Little Ghost Girl" as read by McCadden for the video. The video translates the brief and lyrical exchanges between loss and that which haunts us. Directed by Adriana Little (experimental, 4 minutes).

Reinventing Rosalee
Rosalee Glass, a Holocaust survivor taken prisoner to a Siberian gulag during WWII transforms her destiny. In her 80s, she begins an acting career; in her 90s wins a senior beauty pageant; and dares to ride Alaskan sled dogs at 100. Directed by Lillian Glass (documentary, 90 minutes).

Prairie Trilogy
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 2
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

An exploration of the roots of American Socialism, Prairie Trilogy is an important and not to be missed documentary series from famed documentarians John Hanson and Rob Nilsson through three short films that shine a light on an original and rare man, Henry Martinson. Directed by Rob Nilsson and John Hanson (documentary, 120 minutes).

Bikini Moon
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 1
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A charismatic but mentally unstable vet captures the attention of a documentary film crew which is ready to exploit her story for their own shot at independent movie fame in this very modern urban fairy tale set amidst a fractured ideal of family. Directed by Milcho Manchevski (fiction, 102 minutes).

Truth or Dare
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 3
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A Bottle of Love
Mr. Choi, an elderly man, barely makes his ends meet by picking up and selling recycled paper and empty bottles. Because of his blurring vision, he almost got into a car accident. Later he finds out he has cataracts but he is nowhere near to be able to afford the surgery. One day, however, he sees
a gleam of hope — the price of empty bottles will increase greatly in 21 years! With expectations and hope, he goes out in the street early in the morning. Directed by Koh Lak Jung (Korea, fiction, 20 minutes).

Truth or Dare
Urban romantic comedy based on a Hong Kong cyberspace writer's novel. The story is about Alex, who had a strange illness of saying rude words when he saw the girl he liked. Directed by Yun Xie (comedy, 92 minutes)

Hudson
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 2
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Hudson embarks on a trip with his estranged cousin to scatter his late mother's ashes. They meet a hitchhiker along the way who wants to help them. Directed by Sean Cunningham (fiction, 75 minutes).

Cinemagogue: The Year My Parents Went On Vacation
Temple Society of Concord

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

The Wisdom to Know the Difference
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 1
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Wisdom is a story about a man's journey to bring his sobriety full circle and help a young Latino girl kick a serious drug problem. Directed by Daniel Baldwin (fiction, 114 minutes).

Indoors
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 2
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Indoors, the seventh feature film of writer-director Eitan Green, is a movie about an lsraeliness that dreams, aspires, insists, confronts, struggles, and comes to the point of defeat. Directed by Eitan Green (Israel, fiction, 109 minutes).

Hegel's Angel
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 3
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Shadow (Skuggi)
On the waves of the North Atlantic, close to 900 passionate people full of expectations sail to the Faroe Islands and their desolate landscapes and uncertain sky, to meet a rare and spectacular event: a total eclipse of the Sun. Directed by Richard D. Lavole (documentary, 28 minutes).

Hegel's Angel
Inspired by southern Haiti's Vodou and Kanaval cosmologies, and co-written with the entire cast and crew, Zanj Hegel La (Hegel's Angel) is a cinematic fable challenging the boundaries between fiction, ethnography, and reverie. The film follows an inquisitive boy named Widley whose life, suspended between mundane activities and foreign myths, unfolds away from the turmoil of an upcoming presidential election. Directed by Simone Rapisarda Casanova (Canada, fiction, 70 minutes).

The Laplace's Demon
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 3
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A glass in free fall. Have you ever thought if it is possible to calculate how many pieces it can break into? After numerous experiments, a team of researchers succeeds in doing just this apparently impossible task. Directed by Giordano Giulivi (Italy, thriller, 105 minutes).

To Tokyo
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 2
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Kansas Ice Storm
Directed by Tiffany Deater (experimental, 7 minutes)

To Tokyo
Challenged by her step-sister to return home, a young woman hiding from her past in a remote Japanese village is abducted into a fantastic wilderness and pursued by a monster, with only four nights to escape to Tokyo and face her demons. Directed by Casper Seale-Jones (UK, fiction, 95 minutes)

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $30 full day, $10 single screening
Redhouse at City Center Theater 1
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A new feature documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana (music documentary, 103 minutes).

High School Choral Festival
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

This concert will feature choirs from:
Baker High School, Colin Keating, conductor; Hannibal High School, Denise Ellis, conductor; Marcellus High School, Brian Ackles, conductor; as well as the Syracuse University Singers, John Warren, conductor.

Each choir will perform on their own and then combine to perform Handel's Hallelujah, Amen from Judas Maccabaeus, and Flight Song by Kim Arnesen.

For most concert events in Setnor Auditorium, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot. When parking for concert events, please inform parking attendants that you are attending an event at Setnor Auditorium in Crouse College so they may direct you.

Parties in the Plaza: Freney and Lenin
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Marie Ni Chathasaigh and Chris Newman
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $15 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Harp/guitar duo-rooted in Irish tradition

Pops Series: Bernstein to Broadway
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Syracuse Pops Chorus, Dance Centre North
Sean O'Loughlin, conductor
Featuring Bridget Moriarty, soprano; Daniel Bates, tenor

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

Don't miss out on our first Pops concert of our season! Symphoria is celebrating Leonard Bernstein's 100th birthday with a concert that honors this great composer who crossed boundaries between Broadway, movies, and the symphonic stage.

World of Puppets: The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
Open Hand Theater

Open Hand Theater
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 1 (formerly Dick's entrance), Dewitt

An inventive retelling—a "switcharoo"—of an old classic.

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic fairytale.

Kiss of the Spider Woman
Central New York Playhouse
Abel Searor, director

Price: $28
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Kiss of the Spider Woman revamps a harrowing tale of persecution into a dazzling spectacle that juxtaposes gritty realities with liberating fantasies. As cellmates in a Latin American prison, Valentin is a tough revolutionary undergoing torture and Molina is an unabashed homosexual serving eight years for deviant behavior. Molina shares his fantasies about an actress, Aurora, with Valentin. One of her roles is a Spider Woman who kills with a kiss.

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Opening: Into the Woods
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Lowenstein, director

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

A stunningly fresh take on one of Stephen Sondheim's most popular works, this production nudges the familiar characters of Into the Woods a little further into the fearful, dark forest. Sondheim based his sophisticated musical on the unsettling tales of the Brothers Grimm, populated it with slightly skewed versions of storybook favorites, and set them on a course wherein having wishes granted is not the same as having wishes come true. Good storytellers know unforeseen consequences are always lurking deep in the narrative.

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Sunday, October 14, 2018

The Almighty Cup 2018
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A national juried and invitational exhibition presented by The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University. The show will present an eclectic mix of styles of drinking and sculptural vessels made by ceramic artists from all over the country. This year's juror, DJ Hellerman, is Curator of Art and Programs at the Everson Museum.

Donald R. Waful: The Remarkable Life Story of a Local Syracusan
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Donald R. Waful has been a dedicated Syracuse citizen for nearly a century. As a young adult, he attended Syracuse University where he earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. He enlisted in the United States army in 1941 and served overseas when the U.S. entered World War II. He met his future wife, army nurse Olga "Cassie" Casciolini, while stationed in Northern Ireland. He then served in the North African campaign where he was taken as a prisoner of war in 1942. He would remain a POW first in Italy, then in Poland, for the duration of the war. He was reunited with Cassie at the end of World War II, afterward settling in Syracuse. Don went on to have a career in insurance and served as President of the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team for 35 years. Waful has remained active in the Syracuse community, both with Syracuse University and the Chiefs baseball team.

This exhibit, designed and installed by SUNY Potsdam undergraduate student Mahala Nyberg, examinies the life of Don Waful, who is nearing 102 years old, and details his experiences during World War II as well as his experiences before and after the war in Syracuse.

The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I
Onondaga Historical Association

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

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, Onondaga Historical Association will present an exhibit on Onondaga County's role in the Great War.

The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, uniforms, gas masks, helmets and other military accoutrements, war souvenirs, home-front conservation items, letters, diaries, and other archival material and objects. These items will illustrate the impact World War I had on Onondaga County and the world at large. The exhibit will focus on the people, places, and events at home and abroad including military personnel and units, the nurse corps, Camp Syracuse, food conservation, the Split Rock munitions explosion, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

The 2018 Members Exhibition of the Society of American Graphic Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition displays the prints of 66 SAGA members with a variety of statements and techniques that reflect their individual approaches to printmaking. All the prints in this exhibition were done in the 21st century and include traditional and contemporary approaches to printmaking. In their prints, members continue to show a wide variety of imagery, mediums and mastery of techniques, demonstrating the highest standards of excellence. SAGA members continually push the medium and contribute to the growth of printmaking.

Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America" explores the life and career of the noted 20th century Japanese American artist through the lens of Forbidden Fruit, 1950. This eerie and confounding late painting from Syracuse University's permanent collection ultimately reveals Kuniyoshi's tortured state of mind close to his untimely passing in 1953.

Paintings, drawings, and prints from lenders including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University develop an engrossing visual narrative explaining the life and work of this unique artist.

Rodin: The Human Experience
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Rodin: The Human Experience (Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections) presents 32 figures in bronze by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the French sculptor who left behind 19th century academic traditions to focus on conveying the passion and vitality of the human spirit. Considered in his lifetime to be the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo, Rodin exerted a tremendous influence on artists of subsequent generations, such as Matisse, Brancusi, and Maillol. His vigorous modeling emphasized his personal response to the subject, and he captured movement and emotion by altering traditional poses and gestures. Rodin's sculpture is often considered a crucial link between traditional and modern art.

The Very Mirror of Life: Ceramics at the Everson 1968-2018
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

I.M. Pei believed that "Architecture is the very mirror of life." This exhibition uses work from the permanent collection to explore the harmony between art and architecture in Pei's building over the past half century.

Visions of America
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Everson building, "Visions of America" showcases the depth of the Everson's collection of American art. In 1911, the Everson (then known as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts) made history as the first museum in the country to declare that it would collect only work made by American artists, a decision which led to the acquisition of many important works that are today beloved by Everson visitors. This exhibition features many of these visitor favorites, including work by Edward Hicks, Eastman Johnson, Frederick Remington, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Gilbert Stuart.

The Art of the Tile
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ceramic tiles are one of the world's oldest decorative art forms, dating back to at least the fourth millennium BCE. Tiles served both an ornamental and functional purpose, covering interior and exterior building surfaces as well as tabletops and other pieces of furniture.

The Everson's expansive ceramics collection includes over 500 tiles made in countries around the world between the 17th and 20th centuries. This exhibition presents a selection of these tiles, many of which have never before been on view.

A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, is Onondaga Community College's Common Read for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Everson has partnered with OCC to present an exhibition of works from the Museum's collection that address the themes and rich visual symbolism found within Atwood's novel. "A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale" draws connections between the visual and literary world as a means to deepen our experience of both art forms and to sharpen our thinking about the world we live in today.

Time Capsule
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Time Capsule" presents five decades of the Everson's history in its I.M. Pei-designed building with a look back at the significant acquisitions, groundbreaking exhibitions, and pioneering public programs sponsored by the Museum in the last 50 years. Featuring archival material including photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera as well as work from the Museum's collection, "Time Capsule" highlights the important role the Everson has played in both the art world and the Central New York community.

Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is guest-curated by For Freedoms, a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, co-founded in 2016 by former Light Work artists-in-residence Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas.

"Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul" features over 40 photographs from the Light Work Collection. The list of artists includes Laura Aguilar, George Awde, Karl Baden, Lois Barden and Harry Littell, Claire Beckett, Charles Biasing-Rivera, Samantha Box, Deborah Bright, Chan Chao, Renee Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, Jen Davis, Jess Dugan, John Edmonds, Amy Elkins, Nereyda Garcia Ferraz, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Antony Gleaton, Jim Goldberg, David Graham, Mahtab Hussain, Osamu James Nakagawa, Tommy Kha, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Deana Lawson, Mary Mattingly, Jackie Nickerson, Shelley Niro, Suzanne Opton, Kristine Potter, Ernesto Pujol, Irina Rozovsky, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Pacifico Silano, Clarissa Sligh, Beuford Smith, Amy Stein, Mila Teshaieva, Brian Ulrich, Ted Wathen, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Pixy Yijun Liao.

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CNY Art Guild Fine Arts Show and Sale

Price: Free admission
Aspen House, Radisson
8550 N. Entry Rd., Baldwinsville

Acrylic, oil, pastel, photography, watercolor, glass, alcohol inks, ceramics, scratchboard, and much more.

New Filmmakers Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Writer
A writer is haunted by a past filled with success. But now that people seek after his skillful craft, he finds that he can do anything but write. Directed by Louis Kent (11 minutes)

Chewed
A teenage girl in the midst of a high school love triangle. and the evil gum piece trying to corrupt her mind along the way. Directed by Joe Blank (20 minutes)

Touch Me Right
An exploration of sexual assault and its effects on both body image and self-perception. Directed by Lauren Wilson (2 minutes)

Dream Girl
Dream Girl is about the underrepresentation for people of color within the beauty industry. Directed by Ananda Garrison (2 minutes)

The Resort
A young woman resentful of her indentured servitude on a remote island resort desperately searches for an escape into a world she vaguely remembers as free. Directed by Milyana Dolashke (13 minutes)

Blue Toes
Blue Toes is a story that fights to break the rules of gender normative behavior between kids. It follows a young boy named Mickey who is teased for liking things boys usually don't like. Directed by lsobella Antelis (11 minutes)

Sandy
An animated horror short about a man and his dog. Directed by Tee Rodriguez (3 minutes)

The Dick Appointment
The film is a satirical comedy focusing on three black female characters: Jaz, Simone, and Drew. Directed by Jalisa Arnold (16 minutes)

Can You Dig It?
A girl tries to turn her tragic love life into a French New Wave film. Directed by Jasmin Park (16 minutes)

No Accommodations
A film about a father and son who run into trouble at a motel. Directed by Mike Koslov (10 minutes)

Odd Timbre
Two friends display their unique creative process of making music together. Directed by Matthew George (11 minutes)

Imaging Disability in Film: Intelligent Lives
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The documentary profiles three young people. Naieer, 17, attends a Massachusetts public high school and seems headed for a career in visual arts. Naomie, 25, who spent years at a Rhode Island vocational school that was found to be exploiting its students for cheap labor, now works in the state capital building, attends beauty school, and aspires to support herself financially. And 34-year-old Micah studies at Syracuse University, where he works as a teacher's assistant. He has become an advocate for the disabled.

Academy Award winning actor and narrator Chris Cooper contextualizes the lives of these central characters through the emotional story of his son Jesse, as the film unpacks the shameful and ongoing track record of intelligence testing in the U.S.

New Hampshire-based filmmaker Dan Habib, the producer, director, and cinematographer of Intelligent Lives, will present the documentary by Skype. Micah Fialka Feldman will be present for Q&A. Directed by Micha Feldman (70 minutes)

Native American Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The People of the Standing Stone
Directed by Ric Burns (documentary, 25 minutes)
Narrated by Academy Award Winner Kevin Costner and directed by Emmy Award winner Ric Burns, the film explores the little known yet crucial history of the extraordinary contributions of one Native American people, the Oneidas, who during the darkest hours of the Revolutionary War became the only member of the Six Nation Iroquois Confederacy to side with rebelling colonists.

Three Films by Jeffrey Palmer

Isabelle's Garden
Isabelle's Garden is an uplifting story of a community coming together in reciprocity, through the hopes and dreams of a young Choctaw girl and her garden. Directed by Jeffrey Palmer (documentary, 9 minutes)

Grave Misgivings
Grave Misgivings explores the lasting power of Geronimo's name and image. The distinction between his iconographic cultural presence and the life and death of the real man is explored in a young native artist's visit to Fort Sill, OK, where she visits the Old Guardhouse where he was imprisoned, and his grave. Her efforts to reach the real man through real places result in a new painting, which she creates high on Medicine Bluff, suggesting that, in the final analysis, it is in iconic representation that Geronimo's spirit lives. Directed by Jeffrey Palmer (documentary, 11 minutes)

Origins
Origins represents a grandfather's and grandson's perspectives of Kiowa (Native American) history and storytelling, which together form a visual document tracing the director's ancestral beginnings. These perspectives range from oral narratives and historical analyses, to the director's personal memoirs of growing up on Kiowa allotment land in southwestern Oklahoma. These generational voices lead the audience through the expansive landscape of "Kiowa Country," surveying the origins, homelands, and ceremonial sites of Kiowa existence and identity. Directed by Jeffrey Palmer (documentary, 19 minutes)

Sami Blood
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Winner of more than 25 international awards, Sami Blood is about 78-year-old Elle-Marja (who calls herself Christina these days) who returns with her son Olle and granddaughter Sann, to Lapland, and her childhood society, to attend her younger sister's funeral. Elle-Marja doesn't want to be there. She does not like the Sami people, calls them thieves and liars, and even though her first language is Southern Sami, refuses to speak it and pretends to not understand it. She even refuses to spend the night at her late sister's family home and would rather check into a hotel.

In the 1930s, 14-year-old Elle-Marja is sent with her younger sister Njenna to the nomad school. It is a boarding school for Sami children where a blonde teacher from Smaland teaches them Swedish, and to know their place. Speaking Sami, even just among themselves outside of the classroom, results in beatings. Her feeling of alienation is only intensified when scientists from the State Institute for Racial Biology in Uppsala came to the school to measure and photograph the class naked in the presence of each other, teachers, and neighborhood boys.

After threatening a group of boys with her father's old knife because they called her racist names and slurs, they nick the edge of her ear like the Sami people do with reindeer. She changes out of her gakti and takes one of her teacher's dresses from a clothes line.

A group of young soldiers passes her on their way to a dance and asks her to come along — it is the first time anyone who is not Sami has treated her like a human being. Elle-Marja sneaks off to the dance, and for a couple of hours she gets to experience how it feels to have the respect of others and be treated with decency by them without question. That is when she decides that she will leave Lapland, go to Uppsala, and study at the university.

School staff remove her from the dance and she is given a spanking with a switch. The school refuse her request to advance her studies in Uppsala, because the curriculum for the Sami is different from that in other Swedish schools and they feel that the Sami could not cope with urban society. She runs away to town, steals some clothes, burns her gaeptie, and invites herself to stay with Niklas, whom she met at the dance. His parents ask her to leave and he will not lend her the money she needs for her school fees, forcing her to go home. Eventually her mother gives her the money to continue her schooling. Directed by Amanda Kernell (fiction, 110 minutes).

Student Recital Series: Matthew Gartshore, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Matthew Gartshore, a graduate piano performance student, will present a piano recital, including works by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Debussy, Liszt, and Scriabin. Gartshore is a student of Professor Steven Heyman.

For most concert events in Setnor Auditorium, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot. When parking for concert events, please inform parking attendants that you are attending an event at Setnor Auditorium in Crouse College so they may direct you.

William Feasley, guitar and slides
Lakeside Performing Arts Series

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

The Music of Mister Rogers
LeMoyne College
The Jazzuits
Featuring Ronnie Leigh

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Jazzuits perform music from the beloved children's show "Mister Roger's Neighborhood," which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The show will feature guest singer Ronnie Leigh.

Sweet Honey In The Rock
Malmgren Concert Series

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The internationally-acclaimed vocal ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock makes a rare stop in Syracuse as part of its 45th anniversary season. The group's powerful performances rooted in African-American history and culture embrace uplifting messages of equality, empowerment and education, peace, love, and solidarity. Sweet Honey In The Rock has performed across the globe, including at numerous international embassies, Carnegie Hall, and the White House, to name only a few. This performance will be accompanied by American Sign Language interpretation.

Kiss of the Spider Woman
Central New York Playhouse
Abel Searor, director

Price: $25
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Kiss of the Spider Woman revamps a harrowing tale of persecution into a dazzling spectacle that juxtaposes gritty realities with liberating fantasies. As cellmates in a Latin American prison, Valentin is a tough revolutionary undergoing torture and Molina is an unabashed homosexual serving eight years for deviant behavior. Molina shares his fantasies about an actress, Aurora, with Valentin. One of her roles is a Spider Woman who kills with a kiss.

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Into the Woods
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Lowenstein, director

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

A stunningly fresh take on one of Stephen Sondheim's most popular works, this production nudges the familiar characters of Into the Woods a little further into the fearful, dark forest. Sondheim based his sophisticated musical on the unsettling tales of the Brothers Grimm, populated it with slightly skewed versions of storybook favorites, and set them on a course wherein having wishes granted is not the same as having wishes come true. Good storytellers know unforeseen consequences are always lurking deep in the narrative.

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Monday, October 15, 2018

Picture 81 Juried Exhibition
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Artists and photographers document Route 81 as it intersects with our community.

Woods: Oil Paintings by Robert Niedzwiecki
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

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

Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is guest-curated by For Freedoms, a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, co-founded in 2016 by former Light Work artists-in-residence Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas.

"Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul" features over 40 photographs from the Light Work Collection. The list of artists includes Laura Aguilar, George Awde, Karl Baden, Lois Barden and Harry Littell, Claire Beckett, Charles Biasing-Rivera, Samantha Box, Deborah Bright, Chan Chao, Renee Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, Jen Davis, Jess Dugan, John Edmonds, Amy Elkins, Nereyda Garcia Ferraz, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Antony Gleaton, Jim Goldberg, David Graham, Mahtab Hussain, Osamu James Nakagawa, Tommy Kha, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Deana Lawson, Mary Mattingly, Jackie Nickerson, Shelley Niro, Suzanne Opton, Kristine Potter, Ernesto Pujol, Irina Rozovsky, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Pacifico Silano, Clarissa Sligh, Beuford Smith, Amy Stein, Mila Teshaieva, Brian Ulrich, Ted Wathen, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Pixy Yijun Liao.

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Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer" breaks down the barriers between a survivor's public persona and the private struggles with the disease. In 2010, Tula Goenka, herself a breast cancer survivor, was the first of three subjects to be photographed for a prototype of the project. She has relaunched "Look Now" as a photography exhibition and multimedia installation with a new collaborative team. Cindy Bell, also a breast cancer survivor, is the project photographer.

In 2018-19, "Look Now" focuses on the personal stories of survivors from Central New York. Interactive text, graphics, mirrors, and an experimental silent film enhance the exhibition's visual core, which presents 44 participants — 25 with clothed photographic portraits and images of bare chests, and 19 who have chosen to remain anonymous except for their bare-chest close-ups.

Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: John Farrow
Cast: Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Howard da Silva, Barry Fitzgerald, Esther Fernandez, Albert Dekker

Lawyer, politician and writer Richard Henry Dana (Donlevy) goes undercover to expose mistreatment of crew members at sea. Excellent performances from the fine cast in this gripping drama.

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Picture 81 Juried Exhibition
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Artists and photographers document Route 81 as it intersects with our community.

Woods: Oil Paintings by Robert Niedzwiecki
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

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

Touch of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Stenson: stone and metalsmith jewelry
John Fitzsimmons: oil paintings featuring his treetop series and small-scale nature specimen paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: art glass

LaToya Hobbs: Salt of the Earth
Community Folk Art Center

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

A celebration and examination of black women's lives throughout the Diaspora, through the use of the motif of the modern matriarch.

Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is guest-curated by For Freedoms, a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, co-founded in 2016 by former Light Work artists-in-residence Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas.

"Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul" features over 40 photographs from the Light Work Collection. The list of artists includes Laura Aguilar, George Awde, Karl Baden, Lois Barden and Harry Littell, Claire Beckett, Charles Biasing-Rivera, Samantha Box, Deborah Bright, Chan Chao, Renee Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, Jen Davis, Jess Dugan, John Edmonds, Amy Elkins, Nereyda Garcia Ferraz, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Antony Gleaton, Jim Goldberg, David Graham, Mahtab Hussain, Osamu James Nakagawa, Tommy Kha, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Deana Lawson, Mary Mattingly, Jackie Nickerson, Shelley Niro, Suzanne Opton, Kristine Potter, Ernesto Pujol, Irina Rozovsky, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Pacifico Silano, Clarissa Sligh, Beuford Smith, Amy Stein, Mila Teshaieva, Brian Ulrich, Ted Wathen, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Pixy Yijun Liao.

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The 2018 Members Exhibition of the Society of American Graphic Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition displays the prints of 66 SAGA members with a variety of statements and techniques that reflect their individual approaches to printmaking. All the prints in this exhibition were done in the 21st century and include traditional and contemporary approaches to printmaking. In their prints, members continue to show a wide variety of imagery, mediums and mastery of techniques, demonstrating the highest standards of excellence. SAGA members continually push the medium and contribute to the growth of printmaking.

Rodin: The Human Experience
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Rodin: The Human Experience (Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections) presents 32 figures in bronze by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the French sculptor who left behind 19th century academic traditions to focus on conveying the passion and vitality of the human spirit. Considered in his lifetime to be the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo, Rodin exerted a tremendous influence on artists of subsequent generations, such as Matisse, Brancusi, and Maillol. His vigorous modeling emphasized his personal response to the subject, and he captured movement and emotion by altering traditional poses and gestures. Rodin's sculpture is often considered a crucial link between traditional and modern art.

Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America" explores the life and career of the noted 20th century Japanese American artist through the lens of Forbidden Fruit, 1950. This eerie and confounding late painting from Syracuse University's permanent collection ultimately reveals Kuniyoshi's tortured state of mind close to his untimely passing in 1953.

Paintings, drawings, and prints from lenders including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University develop an engrossing visual narrative explaining the life and work of this unique artist.

Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer" breaks down the barriers between a survivor's public persona and the private struggles with the disease. In 2010, Tula Goenka, herself a breast cancer survivor, was the first of three subjects to be photographed for a prototype of the project. She has relaunched "Look Now" as a photography exhibition and multimedia installation with a new collaborative team. Cindy Bell, also a breast cancer survivor, is the project photographer.

In 2018-19, "Look Now" focuses on the personal stories of survivors from Central New York. Interactive text, graphics, mirrors, and an experimental silent film enhance the exhibition's visual core, which presents 44 participants — 25 with clothed photographic portraits and images of bare chests, and 19 who have chosen to remain anonymous except for their bare-chest close-ups.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Poister Competition Winner Ryan Chan, Organ

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

For most concert events in Setnor Auditorium, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot. When parking for concert events, please inform parking attendants that you are attending an event at Setnor Auditorium in Crouse College so they may direct you.

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Picture 81 Juried Exhibition
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Artists and photographers document Route 81 as it intersects with our community.

Woods: Oil Paintings by Robert Niedzwiecki
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

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

Touch of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Stenson: stone and metalsmith jewelry
John Fitzsimmons: oil paintings featuring his treetop series and small-scale nature specimen paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: art glass

LaToya Hobbs: Salt of the Earth
Community Folk Art Center

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

A celebration and examination of black women's lives throughout the Diaspora, through the use of the motif of the modern matriarch.

Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is guest-curated by For Freedoms, a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, co-founded in 2016 by former Light Work artists-in-residence Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas.

"Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul" features over 40 photographs from the Light Work Collection. The list of artists includes Laura Aguilar, George Awde, Karl Baden, Lois Barden and Harry Littell, Claire Beckett, Charles Biasing-Rivera, Samantha Box, Deborah Bright, Chan Chao, Renee Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, Jen Davis, Jess Dugan, John Edmonds, Amy Elkins, Nereyda Garcia Ferraz, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Antony Gleaton, Jim Goldberg, David Graham, Mahtab Hussain, Osamu James Nakagawa, Tommy Kha, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Deana Lawson, Mary Mattingly, Jackie Nickerson, Shelley Niro, Suzanne Opton, Kristine Potter, Ernesto Pujol, Irina Rozovsky, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Pacifico Silano, Clarissa Sligh, Beuford Smith, Amy Stein, Mila Teshaieva, Brian Ulrich, Ted Wathen, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Pixy Yijun Liao.

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The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I
Onondaga Historical Association

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

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, Onondaga Historical Association will present an exhibit on Onondaga County's role in the Great War.

The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, uniforms, gas masks, helmets and other military accoutrements, war souvenirs, home-front conservation items, letters, diaries, and other archival material and objects. These items will illustrate the impact World War I had on Onondaga County and the world at large. The exhibit will focus on the people, places, and events at home and abroad including military personnel and units, the nurse corps, Camp Syracuse, food conservation, the Split Rock munitions explosion, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

Donald R. Waful: The Remarkable Life Story of a Local Syracusan
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Donald R. Waful has been a dedicated Syracuse citizen for nearly a century. As a young adult, he attended Syracuse University where he earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. He enlisted in the United States army in 1941 and served overseas when the U.S. entered World War II. He met his future wife, army nurse Olga "Cassie" Casciolini, while stationed in Northern Ireland. He then served in the North African campaign where he was taken as a prisoner of war in 1942. He would remain a POW first in Italy, then in Poland, for the duration of the war. He was reunited with Cassie at the end of World War II, afterward settling in Syracuse. Don went on to have a career in insurance and served as President of the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team for 35 years. Waful has remained active in the Syracuse community, both with Syracuse University and the Chiefs baseball team.

This exhibit, designed and installed by SUNY Potsdam undergraduate student Mahala Nyberg, examinies the life of Don Waful, who is nearing 102 years old, and details his experiences during World War II as well as his experiences before and after the war in Syracuse.

Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America" explores the life and career of the noted 20th century Japanese American artist through the lens of Forbidden Fruit, 1950. This eerie and confounding late painting from Syracuse University's permanent collection ultimately reveals Kuniyoshi's tortured state of mind close to his untimely passing in 1953.

Paintings, drawings, and prints from lenders including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University develop an engrossing visual narrative explaining the life and work of this unique artist.

Rodin: The Human Experience
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Rodin: The Human Experience (Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections) presents 32 figures in bronze by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the French sculptor who left behind 19th century academic traditions to focus on conveying the passion and vitality of the human spirit. Considered in his lifetime to be the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo, Rodin exerted a tremendous influence on artists of subsequent generations, such as Matisse, Brancusi, and Maillol. His vigorous modeling emphasized his personal response to the subject, and he captured movement and emotion by altering traditional poses and gestures. Rodin's sculpture is often considered a crucial link between traditional and modern art.

The 2018 Members Exhibition of the Society of American Graphic Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition displays the prints of 66 SAGA members with a variety of statements and techniques that reflect their individual approaches to printmaking. All the prints in this exhibition were done in the 21st century and include traditional and contemporary approaches to printmaking. In their prints, members continue to show a wide variety of imagery, mediums and mastery of techniques, demonstrating the highest standards of excellence. SAGA members continually push the medium and contribute to the growth of printmaking.

Visions of America
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Everson building, "Visions of America" showcases the depth of the Everson's collection of American art. In 1911, the Everson (then known as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts) made history as the first museum in the country to declare that it would collect only work made by American artists, a decision which led to the acquisition of many important works that are today beloved by Everson visitors. This exhibition features many of these visitor favorites, including work by Edward Hicks, Eastman Johnson, Frederick Remington, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Gilbert Stuart.

Time Capsule
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Time Capsule" presents five decades of the Everson's history in its I.M. Pei-designed building with a look back at the significant acquisitions, groundbreaking exhibitions, and pioneering public programs sponsored by the Museum in the last 50 years. Featuring archival material including photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera as well as work from the Museum's collection, "Time Capsule" highlights the important role the Everson has played in both the art world and the Central New York community.

A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, is Onondaga Community College's Common Read for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Everson has partnered with OCC to present an exhibition of works from the Museum's collection that address the themes and rich visual symbolism found within Atwood's novel. "A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale" draws connections between the visual and literary world as a means to deepen our experience of both art forms and to sharpen our thinking about the world we live in today.

The Art of the Tile
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ceramic tiles are one of the world's oldest decorative art forms, dating back to at least the fourth millennium BCE. Tiles served both an ornamental and functional purpose, covering interior and exterior building surfaces as well as tabletops and other pieces of furniture.

The Everson's expansive ceramics collection includes over 500 tiles made in countries around the world between the 17th and 20th centuries. This exhibition presents a selection of these tiles, many of which have never before been on view.

The Very Mirror of Life: Ceramics at the Everson 1968-2018
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

I.M. Pei believed that "Architecture is the very mirror of life." This exhibition uses work from the permanent collection to explore the harmony between art and architecture in Pei's building over the past half century.

Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer" breaks down the barriers between a survivor's public persona and the private struggles with the disease. In 2010, Tula Goenka, herself a breast cancer survivor, was the first of three subjects to be photographed for a prototype of the project. She has relaunched "Look Now" as a photography exhibition and multimedia installation with a new collaborative team. Cindy Bell, also a breast cancer survivor, is the project photographer.

In 2018-19, "Look Now" focuses on the personal stories of survivors from Central New York. Interactive text, graphics, mirrors, and an experimental silent film enhance the exhibition's visual core, which presents 44 participants — 25 with clothed photographic portraits and images of bare chests, and 19 who have chosen to remain anonymous except for their bare-chest close-ups.

Invisible People: Portraits of the Homeless by Neil Shigley
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

San Diego based artist Neil Shigley's work explores the subject of homelessness by giving visibility to homeless individuals through large-scale portraits.

Heart of the Country: The Natural History of Onondaga Lake
Onondaga Historical Association
Featuring Catherine L. Landis

Price: Sliding scale $2-$20; children 8 and under free
Ska-nonh Great Law of Peace Center
6680 Onondaga Lake Parkway, Liverpool

The lecture will discuss what Onondaga Lake was like before becoming one of the most degraded lakes in the nation.

Jazz at the Plaza: LuBossa
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Julie McKinstry, voice; Dan Sato, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Ben Moore I am in Need of Music; The Lake Isle of Innisfree; On Music
Samuel Barber Melodies passageres
Hugo Wolf Du denkst mit einem Faedchen; Auch kleine Dinge
Reynaldo Hahn L'heure exquise; La derniere valse
Kevin Puts You Need Song

Jazz at the Cavalier: Maria DeAngelis
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

Setnor Fall Festival Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For most concert events in Setnor Auditorium, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot. When parking for concert events, please inform parking attendants that you are attending an event at Setnor Auditorium in Crouse College so they may direct you.

Fiddler on the Roof
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher and the team behind South Pacific, The King and I and 2017 Tony-winning Best Play Oslo, bring a fresh and authentic vision to this beloved theatrical masterpiece from Tony winner Joseph Stein and Pulitzer Prize winners Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick.

The original production won ten Tony Awards, including a special Tony for becoming the longest-running Broadway musical of all time. You'll be there when the sun rises on this new production, with stunning movement and dance from acclaimed Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter, based on the original staging by Jerome Robbins. A wonderful cast and a lavish orchestra tell this heartwarming story of fathers and daughters, husbands and wives, and the timeless traditions that define faith and family.

Featuring the Broadway classics Tradition, If I Were a Rich Man, Sunrise, Sunset, Matchmaker, Matchmaker and To Life, Fiddler on the Roof will introduce a new generation to this uplifting celebration that raises its cup to joy! To love! To life!

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Preview: Possessing Harriet
Syracuse Stage
Tazewell Thompson, director

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

In 1839, Harriet Powell, a young, mixed-race, enslaved woman slips away from a hotel in Syracuse, New York, and escapes from the Southerner who owns her. With the aid of a mysterious free black man named Thomas Leonard, Harriet finds temporary safe harbor in an attic room at the home of impassioned abolitionist Gerrit Smith. With the slave catchers in pursuit, Harriet awaits her nighttime departure on the dangerous journey to Canada in the company of Smith's young cousin Elizabeth Cady, an outspoken advocate for women's equality. Confronted with new and difficult ideas about race, identity, and equality, and with confusion, fear, and desperation multiplying, Harriet is forced to the precipice of radical self-re-imagination and a reckoning with the heartrending cost of freedom.

A world premiere by award-winning playwright and Syracuse Stage associate artistic director Kyle Bass. Commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Association.

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Into the Woods
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Lowenstein, director

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

A stunningly fresh take on one of Stephen Sondheim's most popular works, this production nudges the familiar characters of Into the Woods a little further into the fearful, dark forest. Sondheim based his sophisticated musical on the unsettling tales of the Brothers Grimm, populated it with slightly skewed versions of storybook favorites, and set them on a course wherein having wishes granted is not the same as having wishes come true. Good storytellers know unforeseen consequences are always lurking deep in the narrative.

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Thursday, October 18, 2018

Picture 81 Juried Exhibition
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Artists and photographers document Route 81 as it intersects with our community.

Woods: Oil Paintings by Robert Niedzwiecki
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

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

Touch of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Stenson: stone and metalsmith jewelry
John Fitzsimmons: oil paintings featuring his treetop series and small-scale nature specimen paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: art glass

LaToya Hobbs: Salt of the Earth
Community Folk Art Center

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

A celebration and examination of black women's lives throughout the Diaspora, through the use of the motif of the modern matriarch.

Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is guest-curated by For Freedoms, a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, co-founded in 2016 by former Light Work artists-in-residence Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas.

"Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul" features over 40 photographs from the Light Work Collection. The list of artists includes Laura Aguilar, George Awde, Karl Baden, Lois Barden and Harry Littell, Claire Beckett, Charles Biasing-Rivera, Samantha Box, Deborah Bright, Chan Chao, Renee Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, Jen Davis, Jess Dugan, John Edmonds, Amy Elkins, Nereyda Garcia Ferraz, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Antony Gleaton, Jim Goldberg, David Graham, Mahtab Hussain, Osamu James Nakagawa, Tommy Kha, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Deana Lawson, Mary Mattingly, Jackie Nickerson, Shelley Niro, Suzanne Opton, Kristine Potter, Ernesto Pujol, Irina Rozovsky, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Pacifico Silano, Clarissa Sligh, Beuford Smith, Amy Stein, Mila Teshaieva, Brian Ulrich, Ted Wathen, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Hank Willis Thomas, Pixy Yijun Liao.

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The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I
Onondaga Historical Association

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

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, Onondaga Historical Association will present an exhibit on Onondaga County's role in the Great War.

The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, uniforms, gas masks, helmets and other military accoutrements, war souvenirs, home-front conservation items, letters, diaries, and other archival material and objects. These items will illustrate the impact World War I had on Onondaga County and the world at large. The exhibit will focus on the people, places, and events at home and abroad including military personnel and units, the nurse corps, Camp Syracuse, food conservation, the Split Rock munitions explosion, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

Donald R. Waful: The Remarkable Life Story of a Local Syracusan
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Donald R. Waful has been a dedicated Syracuse citizen for nearly a century. As a young adult, he attended Syracuse University where he earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. He enlisted in the United States army in 1941 and served overseas when the U.S. entered World War II. He met his future wife, army nurse Olga "Cassie" Casciolini, while stationed in Northern Ireland. He then served in the North African campaign where he was taken as a prisoner of war in 1942. He would remain a POW first in Italy, then in Poland, for the duration of the war. He was reunited with Cassie at the end of World War II, afterward settling in Syracuse. Don went on to have a career in insurance and served as President of the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team for 35 years. Waful has remained active in the Syracuse community, both with Syracuse University and the Chiefs baseball team.

This exhibit, designed and installed by SUNY Potsdam undergraduate student Mahala Nyberg, examinies the life of Don Waful, who is nearing 102 years old, and details his experiences during World War II as well as his experiences before and after the war in Syracuse.

The Almighty Cup 2018
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A national juried and invitational exhibition presented by The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University. The show will present an eclectic mix of styles of drinking and sculptural vessels made by ceramic artists from all over the country. This year's juror, DJ Hellerman, is Curator of Art and Programs at the Everson Museum.

Rodin: The Human Experience
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Rodin: The Human Experience (Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections) presents 32 figures in bronze by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the French sculptor who left behind 19th century academic traditions to focus on conveying the passion and vitality of the human spirit. Considered in his lifetime to be the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo, Rodin exerted a tremendous influence on artists of subsequent generations, such as Matisse, Brancusi, and Maillol. His vigorous modeling emphasized his personal response to the subject, and he captured movement and emotion by altering traditional poses and gestures. Rodin's sculpture is often considered a crucial link between traditional and modern art.

Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America" explores the life and career of the noted 20th century Japanese American artist through the lens of Forbidden Fruit, 1950. This eerie and confounding late painting from Syracuse University's permanent collection ultimately reveals Kuniyoshi's tortured state of mind close to his untimely passing in 1953.

Paintings, drawings, and prints from lenders including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University develop an engrossing visual narrative explaining the life and work of this unique artist.

The 2018 Members Exhibition of the Society of American Graphic Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition displays the prints of 66 SAGA members with a variety of statements and techniques that reflect their individual approaches to printmaking. All the prints in this exhibition were done in the 21st century and include traditional and contemporary approaches to printmaking. In their prints, members continue to show a wide variety of imagery, mediums and mastery of techniques, demonstrating the highest standards of excellence. SAGA members continually push the medium and contribute to the growth of printmaking.

The Art of the Tile
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ceramic tiles are one of the world's oldest decorative art forms, dating back to at least the fourth millennium BCE. Tiles served both an ornamental and functional purpose, covering interior and exterior building surfaces as well as tabletops and other pieces of furniture.

The Everson's expansive ceramics collection includes over 500 tiles made in countries around the world between the 17th and 20th centuries. This exhibition presents a selection of these tiles, many of which have never before been on view.

Visions of America
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Everson building, "Visions of America" showcases the depth of the Everson's collection of American art. In 1911, the Everson (then known as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts) made history as the first museum in the country to declare that it would collect only work made by American artists, a decision which led to the acquisition of many important works that are today beloved by Everson visitors. This exhibition features many of these visitor favorites, including work by Edward Hicks, Eastman Johnson, Frederick Remington, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Gilbert Stuart.

A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, is Onondaga Community College's Common Read for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Everson has partnered with OCC to present an exhibition of works from the Museum's collection that address the themes and rich visual symbolism found within Atwood's novel. "A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale" draws connections between the visual and literary world as a means to deepen our experience of both art forms and to sharpen our thinking about the world we live in today.

Time Capsule
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Time Capsule" presents five decades of the Everson's history in its I.M. Pei-designed building with a look back at the significant acquisitions, groundbreaking exhibitions, and pioneering public programs sponsored by the Museum in the last 50 years. Featuring archival material including photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera as well as work from the Museum's collection, "Time Capsule" highlights the important role the Everson has played in both the art world and the Central New York community.

The Very Mirror of Life: Ceramics at the Everson 1968-2018
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

I.M. Pei believed that "Architecture is the very mirror of life." This exhibition uses work from the permanent collection to explore the harmony between art and architecture in Pei's building over the past half century.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 45th annual On My Own Time exhibition connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors. Original works created by amateur artists working in a variety of professions were displayed at their work sites.

Art Within Art: The Everson at 50
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Art Within Art: The Everson at 50" commemorates the 50th anniversary of architect I.M. Pei's landmark Everson Museum of Art. The exhibition and associated programming explore Pei's radical notion that the structure of a museum is as important as the art it contains, a belief that directly impacts curatorial choices in both art and programs. Including never-before-seen plans, photographs, models, ephemera, and archival materials alongside selected artworks from the Everson's collection, "Art Within Art" examines the aesthetic and conceptual similarities between Pei's building and the art it houses, revealing the lasting impact of great architecture.

Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer" breaks down the barriers between a survivor's public persona and the private struggles with the disease. In 2010, Tula Goenka, herself a breast cancer survivor, was the first of three subjects to be photographed for a prototype of the project. She has relaunched "Look Now" as a photography exhibition and multimedia installation with a new collaborative team. Cindy Bell, also a breast cancer survivor, is the project photographer.

In 2018-19, "Look Now" focuses on the personal stories of survivors from Central New York. Interactive text, graphics, mirrors, and an experimental silent film enhance the exhibition's visual core, which presents 44 participants — 25 with clothed photographic portraits and images of bare chests, and 19 who have chosen to remain anonymous except for their bare-chest close-ups.

Invisible People: Portraits of the Homeless by Neil Shigley
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

San Diego based artist Neil Shigley's work explores the subject of homelessness by giving visibility to homeless individuals through large-scale portraits.

Christopher Harris: Extended Forecast
Urban Video Project

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

The works in this exhibition by the award-winning filmmaker each explore the cosmological resonances of the seemingly mundane. In speaking about the broad goals of his work, Harris said, "These are films that are not there to tell an easy story or to narrate a palatable history. They're there to really make you think about and explore cinema's fundamental relationship to American racial identity, pushing us to turn the medium inside out and see how to stretch its potential for new conversations about film and race."

Sunshine State (Extended Forecast)
(2007, 8 minutes)
Somewhere in a quiet outer suburb of the Milky Way Galaxy, we live our lives in the pleasant warmth of our middle-of-the-road star, the Sun. Slowly but surely we will reach the point when there will be one last perfect sunny day. The sun will swell up, scorch the earth, and finally consume it.

28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark)
(2009, 3 minutes)
This piece approximates a small child's fantasy world in the dark. In a series of close-ups, the nightlight is transformed into a meditative star-spangled sky. An improvisation edited in-camera and shot on a single reel. The stars swirl in silence.

Distant Shores
(2016, 3 minutes)
A sunny afternoon on a tour boat in Chicago is haunted by the specter of other voyages.

On view at UVP's outdoor projection site on the north facade of the Everson Museum of Art from dusk until 11:00 pm.

Christopher Harris: still/here
Urban Video Project

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Indoor screening of Harris' still/here and Q&A with the filmmaker.

Docent-led Tour: Art Within Art: The Everson at 50
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free admission 5:00-8:00 pm
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

George Saunders
University Lectures

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

George Saunders is author of nine books, including the short-story collection Tenth of December—a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the inaugural Folio Prize (for the best work of fiction in English) and the Story Prize (best short story collection)—and his first full-length novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, a No. 1 New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Man Booker Prize.

A member of the College of Arts and Sciences since 1997, Saunders is a professor of English teaching in the college's renowned Creative Writing Program. This past spring, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

In 2013, Saunders was named to Time magazine's TIME 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. That same year, he was awarded the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. He has also won four National Magazine Awards (from seven nominations), a PEN/Malamud Award and a World Fantasy Award.

He has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation

In May 2013, Saunders delivered a memorable convocation address to College of Arts and Sciences graduates. The New York Times posted the transcript on its website a couple months later, and the speech quickly went viral—within days, it was viewed more than one million times. It inspired an animated short voiced by Saunders. And the following spring, his moving essay on kindness was published in book form, Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness, and became a bestseller.

In addition to Tenth of December, Saunders has written several popular short-story collections, including Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, which were New York Times Notable Books. Another collection, In Persuasion Nation (Penguin, 2006), was a finalist for the 2006 Story Prize.

Jazz at the Magnolia: Melissa Gardiner
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover
Sugar Magnolia Bistro
316 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Samba Laranja: SU Brazilian Ensemble

Price: Free, but seating is limited
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

There will be a reception prior to the performance at 6:30 pm.

Seating is limited. To reserve, email membership@wcny.org or phone 315-385-7312.

My Dead Lady
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Professor Barry Biggins has a problem. Azalia Dimwittle has completely failed every attempt to elevate her from Cockney flower girl to aristocratic lady. She simply hasn't gotten it, never will get it, and now everyone has just about had it. To make matters worse, she's invited you and the rest of her conniving family over to the Professor's house for her father's birthday party. By George, I think she's going to get it (if she doesn't get them first).

Fiddler on the Roof
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher and the team behind South Pacific, The King and I and 2017 Tony-winning Best Play Oslo, bring a fresh and authentic vision to this beloved theatrical masterpiece from Tony winner Joseph Stein and Pulitzer Prize winners Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick.

The original production won ten Tony Awards, including a special Tony for becoming the longest-running Broadway musical of all time. You'll be there when the sun rises on this new production, with stunning movement and dance from acclaimed Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter, based on the original staging by Jerome Robbins. A wonderful cast and a lavish orchestra tell this heartwarming story of fathers and daughters, husbands and wives, and the timeless traditions that define faith and family.

Featuring the Broadway classics Tradition, If I Were a Rich Man, Sunrise, Sunset, Matchmaker, Matchmaker and To Life, Fiddler on the Roof will introduce a new generation to this uplifting celebration that raises its cup to joy! To love! To life!

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Preview: Possessing Harriet
Syracuse Stage
Tazewell Thompson, director

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

In 1839, Harriet Powell, a young, mixed-race, enslaved woman slips away from a hotel in Syracuse, New York, and escapes from the Southerner who owns her. With the aid of a mysterious free black man named Thomas Leonard, Harriet finds temporary safe harbor in an attic room at the home of impassioned abolitionist Gerrit Smith. With the slave catchers in pursuit, Harriet awaits her nighttime departure on the dangerous journey to Canada in the company of Smith's young cousin Elizabeth Cady, an outspoken advocate for women's equality. Confronted with new and difficult ideas about race, identity, and equality, and with confusion, fear, and desperation multiplying, Harriet is forced to the precipice of radical self-re-imagination and a reckoning with the heartrending cost of freedom.

A world premiere by award-winning playwright and Syracuse Stage associate artistic director Kyle Bass. Commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Association.

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Kiss of the Spider Woman
Central New York Playhouse
Abel Searor, director

Price: $25
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Kiss of the Spider Woman revamps a harrowing tale of persecution into a dazzling spectacle that juxtaposes gritty realities with liberating fantasies. As cellmates in a Latin American prison, Valentin is a tough revolutionary undergoing torture and Molina is an unabashed homosexual serving eight years for deviant behavior. Molina shares his fantasies about an actress, Aurora, with Valentin. One of her roles is a Spider Woman who kills with a kiss.

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Into the Woods
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Lowenstein, director

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

A stunningly fresh take on one of Stephen Sondheim's most popular works, this production nudges the familiar characters of Into the Woods a little further into the fearful, dark forest. Sondheim based his sophisticated musical on the unsettling tales of the Brothers Grimm, populated it with slightly skewed versions of storybook favorites, and set them on a course wherein having wishes granted is not the same as having wishes come true. Good storytellers know unforeseen consequences are always lurking deep in the narrative.

Read a review!

Friday, October 19, 2018

Picture 81 Juried Exhibition
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Artists and photographers document Route 81 as it intersects with our community.

Woods: Oil Paintings by Robert Niedzwiecki
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

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

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

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

Touch of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Stenson: stone and metalsmith jewelry
John Fitzsimmons: oil paintings featuring his treetop series and small-scale nature specimen paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: art glass

LaToya Hobbs: Salt of the Earth
Community Folk Art Center

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

A celebration and examination of black women's lives throughout the Diaspora, through the use of the motif of the modern matriarch.

The War to End All Wars: Onondaga County Encounters World War I
Onondaga Historical Association

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

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War I, Onondaga Historical Association will present an exhibit on Onondaga County's role in the Great War.

The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, uniforms, gas masks, helmets and other military accoutrements, war souvenirs, home-front conservation items, letters, diaries, and other archival material and objects. These items will illustrate the impact World War I had on Onondaga County and the world at large. The exhibit will focus on the people, places, and events at home and abroad including military personnel and units, the nurse corps, Camp Syracuse, food conservation, the Split Rock munitions explosion, and the Spanish Influenza epidemic.

Donald R. Waful: The Remarkable Life Story of a Local Syracusan
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Donald R. Waful has been a dedicated Syracuse citizen for nearly a century. As a young adult, he attended Syracuse University where he earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. He enlisted in the United States army in 1941 and served overseas when the U.S. entered World War II. He met his future wife, army nurse Olga "Cassie" Casciolini, while stationed in Northern Ireland. He then served in the North African campaign where he was taken as a prisoner of war in 1942. He would remain a POW first in Italy, then in Poland, for the duration of the war. He was reunited with Cassie at the end of World War II, afterward settling in Syracuse. Don went on to have a career in insurance and served as President of the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team for 35 years. Waful has remained active in the Syracuse community, both with Syracuse University and the Chiefs baseball team.

This exhibit, designed and installed by SUNY Potsdam undergraduate student Mahala Nyberg, examinies the life of Don Waful, who is nearing 102 years old, and details his experiences during World War II as well as his experiences before and after the war in Syracuse.

The Almighty Cup 2018
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A national juried and invitational exhibition presented by The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University. The show will present an eclectic mix of styles of drinking and sculptural vessels made by ceramic artists from all over the country. This year's juror, DJ Hellerman, is Curator of Art and Programs at the Everson Museum.

Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America" explores the life and career of the noted 20th century Japanese American artist through the lens of Forbidden Fruit, 1950. This eerie and confounding late painting from Syracuse University's permanent collection ultimately reveals Kuniyoshi's tortured state of mind close to his untimely passing in 1953.

Paintings, drawings, and prints from lenders including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University develop an engrossing visual narrative explaining the life and work of this unique artist.

Rodin: The Human Experience
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Rodin: The Human Experience (Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections) presents 32 figures in bronze by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the French sculptor who left behind 19th century academic traditions to focus on conveying the passion and vitality of the human spirit. Considered in his lifetime to be the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo, Rodin exerted a tremendous influence on artists of subsequent generations, such as Matisse, Brancusi, and Maillol. His vigorous modeling emphasized his personal response to the subject, and he captured movement and emotion by altering traditional poses and gestures. Rodin's sculpture is often considered a crucial link between traditional and modern art.

The 2018 Members Exhibition of the Society of American Graphic Artists
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition displays the prints of 66 SAGA members with a variety of statements and techniques that reflect their individual approaches to printmaking. All the prints in this exhibition were done in the 21st century and include traditional and contemporary approaches to printmaking. In their prints, members continue to show a wide variety of imagery, mediums and mastery of techniques, demonstrating the highest standards of excellence. SAGA members continually push the medium and contribute to the growth of printmaking.

Art Within Art: The Everson at 50
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Art Within Art: The Everson at 50" commemorates the 50th anniversary of architect I.M. Pei's landmark Everson Museum of Art. The exhibition and associated programming explore Pei's radical notion that the structure of a museum is as important as the art it contains, a belief that directly impacts curatorial choices in both art and programs. Including never-before-seen plans, photographs, models, ephemera, and archival materials alongside selected artworks from the Everson's collection, "Art Within Art" examines the aesthetic and conceptual similarities between Pei's building and the art it houses, revealing the lasting impact of great architecture.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 45th annual On My Own Time exhibition connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors. Original works created by amateur artists working in a variety of professions were displayed at their work sites.

Time Capsule
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Time Capsule" presents five decades of the Everson's history in its I.M. Pei-designed building with a look back at the significant acquisitions, groundbreaking exhibitions, and pioneering public programs sponsored by the Museum in the last 50 years. Featuring archival material including photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera as well as work from the Museum's collection, "Time Capsule" highlights the important role the Everson has played in both the art world and the Central New York community.

A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, is Onondaga Community College's Common Read for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Everson has partnered with OCC to present an exhibition of works from the Museum's collection that address the themes and rich visual symbolism found within Atwood's novel. "A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale" draws connections between the visual and literary world as a means to deepen our experience of both art forms and to sharpen our thinking about the world we live in today.

Visions of America
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Everson building, "Visions of America" showcases the depth of the Everson's collection of American art. In 1911, the Everson (then known as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts) made history as the first museum in the country to declare that it would collect only work made by American artists, a decision which led to the acquisition of many important works that are today beloved by Everson visitors. This exhibition features many of these visitor favorites, including work by Edward Hicks, Eastman Johnson, Frederick Remington, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Gilbert Stuart.

The Very Mirror of Life: Ceramics at the Everson 1968-2018
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

I.M. Pei believed that "Architecture is the very mirror of life." This exhibition uses work from the permanent collection to explore the harmony between art and architecture in Pei's building over the past half century.

The Art of the Tile
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ceramic tiles are one of the world's oldest decorative art forms, dating back to at least the fourth millennium BCE. Tiles served both an ornamental and functional purpose, covering interior and exterior building surfaces as well as tabletops and other pieces of furniture.

The Everson's expansive ceramics collection includes over 500 tiles made in countries around the world between the 17th and 20th centuries. This exhibition presents a selection of these tiles, many of which have never before been on view.

Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer
Point of Contact Gallery

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

"Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer" breaks down the barriers between a survivor's public persona and the private struggles with the disease. In 2010, Tula Goenka, herself a breast cancer survivor, was the first of three subjects to be photographed for a prototype of the project. She has relaunched "Look Now" as a photography exhibition and multimedia installation with a new collaborative team. Cindy Bell, also a breast cancer survivor, is the project photographer.

In 2018-19, "Look Now" focuses on the personal stories of survivors from Central New York. Interactive text, graphics, mirrors, and an experimental silent film enhance the exhibition's visual core, which presents 44 participants — 25 with clothed photographic portraits and images of bare chests, and 19 who have chosen to remain anonymous except for their bare-chest close-ups.

Invisible People: Portraits of the Homeless by Neil Shigley
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

San Diego based artist Neil Shigley's work explores the subject of homelessness by giving visibility to homeless individuals through large-scale portraits.

Christopher Harris: Extended Forecast
Urban Video Project

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

The works in this exhibition by the award-winning filmmaker each explore the cosmological resonances of the seemingly mundane. In speaking about the broad goals of his work, Harris said, "These are films that are not there to tell an easy story or to narrate a palatable history. They're there to really make you think about and explore cinema's fundamental relationship to American racial identity, pushing us to turn the medium inside out and see how to stretch its potential for new conversations about film and race."

Sunshine State (Extended Forecast)
(2007, 8 minutes)
Somewhere in a quiet outer suburb of the Milky Way Galaxy, we live our lives in the pleasant warmth of our middle-of-the-road star, the Sun. Slowly but surely we will reach the point when there will be one last perfect sunny day. The sun will swell up, scorch the earth, and finally consume it.

28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark)
(2009, 3 minutes)
This piece approximates a small child's fantasy world in the dark. In a series of close-ups, the nightlight is transformed into a meditative star-spangled sky. An improvisation edited in-camera and shot on a single reel. The stars swirl in silence.

Distant Shores
(2016, 3 minutes)
A sunny afternoon on a tour boat in Chicago is haunted by the specter of other voyages.

On view at UVP's outdoor projection site on the north facade of the Everson Museum of Art from dusk until 11:00 pm.

Sushi-Tushi or How Asia Butted into American Pro Football and Irrefutable Proof

Price: $10
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Can a sumo wrestler offensive line save a losing pro football team? Can they even learn to play football in time? Join us for this really BIG comedy hit in its Syracuse premiere! (Richard Castellane, writer; Ziad Hamzeh, director)

Irrefutable Proof, another collaboration between Castellane and Hamzeh, will be screened at 8:00 pm following Sushi-Tushi. This psychological thriller took home a number of awards including Best Picture at the Beverly Hills Film Festival.

Tickets available at the door or online at CNYTix.

La Camioneta
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free, but donations appreciated
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Engineers Without Borders Syracuse Professional Chapter presents La Camioneta by Mark Kendall. The film is the story of a US school bus that travels to Guatemala and is re-purposed as public transport—the trajectory of many retired US school buses. This event is a fundraiser for EWB Syracuse Professional's second project in the Palajunoj Valley, Guatemala – a potable water supply system for two villages.

There will be a 7:00 pm happy hour/meet-and-greet to find out about the project, followed by the film screening. La Camioneta has received multiple awards, and was judged 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. It is the very enjoyable, fascinating, informative, eye-opening and moving story of the lives of the Guatemalans who take on the transformation and final use of the bus.

Ensemble Series: Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
John Coggiola, conductor

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

The Black Feathers
Folkus Project

Price: $18 regular, $15 members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Black Feathers are an award-winning duo from Gloucestershire, England, by far the farthest away of all the artists we've presented at Folkus. The perfectly paired voices of Ray Hughes and Sian Chandler intertwine effortlessly to create a sound that combines elements of Americana, Folk, and Acoustic Indie Rock.

Verdi's Macbeth
Syracuse Opera

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

Shakespeare's tale of ambition and power proves the quickest way to a man's heart is with a knife.

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Charles Martin and Thomas Centolella, poets
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Charles Martin is a poet and translator whose sixth book of poems, Future Perfect, was published earlier this year by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Among his translations are The Bhagavad Gita (with Gavin Flood) and Ovid's Metamorphoses. He is a recipient of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, and has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Thomas Centolella is the author of four collections of poetry. Terra Firma, Lights & Mysteries, and Views from along the Middle Way were published by Copper Canyon Press. His most recent book, Almost Human (2017), won the Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press, selected by Edward Hirsch. His honors include the American Book Award, Lannan Literary Award, California Book Award, Northern California Book Award, and publication in the National Poetry Series. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies and on NPR's The Writer's Almanac. He teaches creative writing and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Fiddler on the Roof
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher and the team behind South Pacific, The King and I and 2017 Tony-winning Best Play Oslo, bring a fresh and authentic vision to this beloved theatrical masterpiece from Tony winner Joseph Stein and Pulitzer Prize winners Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick.

The original production won ten Tony Awards, including a special Tony for becoming the longest-running Broadway musical of all time. You'll be there when the sun rises on this new production, with stunning movement and dance from acclaimed Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter, based on the original staging by Jerome Robbins. A wonderful cast and a lavish orchestra tell this heartwarming story of fathers and daughters, husbands and wives, and the timeless traditions that define faith and family.

Featuring the Broadway classics Tradition, If I Were a Rich Man, Sunrise, Sunset, Matchmaker, Matchmaker and To Life, Fiddler on the Roof will introduce a new generation to this uplifting celebration that raises its cup to joy! To love! To life!

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Dracula
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie Taylor, director

Price: $22 regular, $18 students/seniors
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Dracula by Steven Dietz closely follows the source material of the novel. The suspenseful story is based on the classic legend of the Transylvanian vampire Dracula. The lead characters in the play work to piece together Dracula's identity. They make a valiant attempt to stop him from taking new victims. Dracula is considered a technically challenging play from a production standpoint.

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Kiss of the Spider Woman
Central New York Playhouse
Abel Searor, director

Price: $28
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Kiss of the Spider Woman revamps a harrowing tale of persecution into a dazzling spectacle that juxtaposes gritty realities with liberating fantasies. As cellmates in a Latin American prison, Valentin is a tough revolutionary undergoing torture and Molina is an unabashed homosexual serving eight years for deviant behavior. Molina shares his fantasies about an actress, Aurora, with Valentin. One of her roles is a Spider Woman who kills with a kiss.

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Opening: Possessing Harriet
Syracuse Stage
Tazewell Thompson, director

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

In 1839, Harriet Powell, a young, mixed-race, enslaved woman slips away from a hotel in Syracuse, New York, and escapes from the Southerner who owns her. With the aid of a mysterious free black man named Thomas Leonard, Harriet finds temporary safe harbor in an attic room at the home of impassioned abolitionist Gerrit Smith. With the slave catchers in pursuit, Harriet awaits her nighttime departure on the dangerous journey to Canada in the company of Smith's young cousin Elizabeth Cady, an outspoken advocate for women's equality. Confronted with new and difficult ideas about race, identity, and equality, and with confusion, fear, and desperation multiplying, Harriet is forced to the precipice of radical self-re-imagination and a reckoning with the heartrending cost of freedom.

A world premiere by award-winning playwright and Syracuse Stage associate artistic director Kyle Bass. Commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Association.

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Into the Woods
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Lowenstein, director

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

A stunningly fresh take on one of Stephen Sondheim's most popular works, this production nudges the familiar characters of Into the Woods a little further into the fearful, dark forest. Sondheim based his sophisticated musical on the unsettling tales of the Brothers Grimm, populated it with slightly skewed versions of storybook favorites, and set them on a course wherein having wishes granted is not the same as having wishes come true. Good storytellers know unforeseen consequences are always lurking deep in the narrative.

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Saturday, October 20, 2018

Woods: Oil Paintings by Robert Niedzwiecki
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Touch of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Stenson: stone and metalsmith jewelry
John Fitzsimmons: oil paintings featuring his treetop series and small-scale nature specimen paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: art glass

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts' 45th annual On My Own Time exhibition connects Central New York businesses in a collaboration that promotes the benefits of the creative process across community sectors. Original works created by amateur artists working in a variety of professions were displayed at their work sites.

Art Within Art: The Everson at 50
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Art Within Art: The Everson at 50" commemorates the 50th anniversary of architect I.M. Pei's landmark Everson Museum of Art. The exhibition and associated programming explore Pei's radical notion that the structure of a museum is as important as the art it contains, a belief that directly impacts curatorial choices in both art and programs. Including never-before-seen plans, photographs, models, ephemera, and archival materials alongside selected artworks from the Everson's collection, "Art Within Art" examines the aesthetic and conceptual similarities between Pei's building and the art it houses, revealing the lasting impact of great architecture.

The Art of the Tile
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ceramic tiles are one of the world's oldest decorative art forms, dating back to at least the fourth millennium BCE. Tiles served both an ornamental and functional purpose, covering interior and exterior building surfaces as well as tabletops and other pieces of furniture.

The Everson's expansive ceramics collection includes over 500 tiles made in countries around the world between the 17th and 20th centuries. This exhibition presents a selection of these tiles, many of which have never before been on view.

The Very Mirror of Life: Ceramics at the Everson 1968-2018
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

I.M. Pei believed that "Architecture is the very mirror of life." This exhibition uses work from the permanent collection to explore the harmony between art and architecture in Pei's building over the past half century.

Visions of America
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Everson building, "Visions of America" showcases the depth of the Everson's collection of American art. In 1911, the Everson (then known as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts) made history as the first museum in the country to declare that it would collect only work made by American artists, a decision which led to the acquisition of many important works that are today beloved by Everson visitors. This exhibition features many of these visitor favorites, including work by Edward Hicks, Eastman Johnson, Frederick Remington, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Gilbert Stuart.

A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, is Onondaga Community College's Common Read for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Everson has partnered with OCC to present an exhibition of works from the Museum's collection that address the themes and rich visual symbolism found within Atwood's novel. "A Look Inside The Handmaid's Tale" draws connections between the visual and literary world as a means to deepen our experience of both art forms and to sharpen our thinking about the world we live in today.

Time Capsule
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Time Capsule" presents five decades of the Everson's history in its I.M. Pei-designed building with a look back at the significant acquisitions, groundbreaking exhibitions, and pioneering public programs sponsored by the Museum in the last 50 years. Featuring archival material including photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera as well as work from the Museum's collection, "Time Capsule" highlights the important role the Everson has played in both the art world and the Central New York community.

LaToya Hobbs: Salt of the Earth
Community Folk Art Center

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

A celebration and examination of black women's lives throughout the Diaspora, through the use of the motif of the modern matriarch.

The Almighty Cup 2018
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

A national juried and invitational exhibition presented by The Gandee Gallery and the Shaped Clay Society at Syracuse University. The show will present an eclectic mix of styles of drinking and sculptural vessels made by ceramic artists from all over the country. This year's juror, DJ Hellerman, is Curator of Art and Programs at the Everson Museum.

Donald R. Waful: The Remarkable Life Story of a Local Syracusan
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Donald R. Waful has been a dedicated Syracuse citizen for nearly a century. As a young adult, he attended Syracuse University where he earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. He enlisted in the United States army in 1941 and served overseas when the U.S. entered World War II. He met his future wife, army nurse Olga "Cassie" Casciolini, while stationed in Northern Ireland. He then served in the North African campaign where he was taken as a prisoner of war in 1942. He would remain a POW first in Italy, then in Poland, for the duration of the war. He was reunited with Cassie at the end of World War II, afterward settling in Syracuse. Don went on to have a career in insurance and served as President of the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team for 35 years. Waful has remained active in the Syracuse community, both with Syracuse University and the Chiefs baseball team.

This exhibit, designed and installed by SUNY Potsdam undergraduate student Mahala Nyberg, examinies the life of Don Waful, who is nearing 102 years old, and details his experiences during World War II as well as his experiences before and after the war in Syracuse.