Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Art Speaks
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

95th anniversary celebration of the CNY branch of the National League of Pen Women.

Works of 10 artist members will be displayed alongside the ekphrasic poetry of 10 writer members based on the paintings.

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Art Speaks
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

95th anniversary celebration of the CNY branch of the National League of Pen Women.

Works of 10 artist members will be displayed alongside the ekphrasic poetry of 10 writer members based on the paintings.

Party in the Square: The Blacklites, with opener The Diana Jacobs Trio

Price: Free (food and drinks available to purchase)
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

For more information, visit syrpartyinthesquare.com

Thursday, July 8, 2021

Art Speaks
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

95th anniversary celebration of the CNY branch of the National League of Pen Women.

Works of 10 artist members will be displayed alongside the ekphrasic poetry of 10 writer members based on the paintings.

Leslie Feinberg: Screened In, Looking Out -- A Disabilities Photo Exhibit
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free, but reservations required
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014) was a renowned trans activist, historian, writer and the author of the groundbreaking gender-nonconforming 1993 novel Stone Butch Blues. Feinberg made this photographic series between summer 2009 and winter 2011, when ze (ze and hir were Feinberg's preferred pronouns) relocated to Syracuse to live with hir spouse, Minnie Bruce Pratt, due to Feinberg's failing health resulting from long term Lyme+ disease.

Hir long-standing illness from Lyme+ disease was intensifying, complicated by anti-trans prejudice embedded in for-profit health care. Hir ability to complete writing projects was impaired and hir ability to visualize waned. Regardless of the impediments Leslie's illness presented for years, ze undertook this last photo project and never stopped organizing and advocating for justice and for liberation from oppression.

This exhibition at ArtRage Gallery, just a few blocks away from where the photographs were taken, features 29 newly created prints selected from the 119 photographs that make up the complete series. Also exhibited are photographs of Feinberg, which document five decades of activism, from the home albums of Minnie Bruce Pratt. Lastly, the exhibition includes several poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt from her recently published book Magnified, which is a collection of love poems written while Feinberg was gravely ill.

Reservations

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based upon the iconic Carrie Mae Weems' 1998 work of the same name, Who What When Where explores questions of identity, place, and time while investigating the four words fundamental to the construction of narratives.

Beyond the Blue
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

After more than a year of COVID-19 isolation, the Everson Museum is grateful to shake off the blues by exhibiting life-affirming works from the permanent collection that are filled with joy, humor, and above all, color. Beyond the Blue is presented in collaboration with Art Macao 2021. In addition to a physical exhibition at the Everson, these works will be shared digitally with millions of visitors to Art Macao, an international art festival presented in museums, hotels, and other popular tourist destinations near Hong Kong.

Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming," the artist's first solo museum exhibition in his hometown of Syracuse, features digital illustrations alongside newly created video works, and a series of his "Jalethal" dolls.

Tête-à-Tête-à-Tête: Drawings by Beatrice Wood
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Although known primarily for her lustrous ceramic vessels, legendary artist Beatrice Wood was a prolific drawer with a penchant for depicting sidelong glances and body language between couples (and thruples!). Particularly relevant during a pandemic that will long be remembered for social distancing, Tête-à-Tête-à-Tête is a celebration of Wood's uncanny ability to capture the inherent drama of social interactions with a few deft strokes of her pen.

Luis Arnias: Terror Has No Shape
Urban Video Project

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

Terror Has No Shape follows a mysterious and grotesque, viscous creature. The film fragments the American horror and sci-fi genres to bring the terror of the lived personal and collective experience of racial trauma to the surface. Through effigy, these horrors materialize and are burned.

2020, 10 minutes, 16mm transferred to HD video, stereo sound

Screening begins at dusk.

Poetry Reading
ArtRage Gallery
Featuring Poetry Reading with Minnie Bruce Pratt

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

As a way to mark the closing of our current exhibition "Leslie Feinberg: Screened In, Looking Out: A Disabilities Photo Exhibit" (closing on July 11) Minnie Bruce Pratt will join us for a reading from her new book of poetry, Magnified. Minnie Bruce Pratt life-partnered with her beloved Leslie Feinberg for 22 fabulous years. Select poems from Magnified are included in the exhibition and books will be available to purchase in the gallery.

Friday, July 9, 2021

Art Speaks
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

95th anniversary celebration of the CNY branch of the National League of Pen Women.

Works of 10 artist members will be displayed alongside the ekphrasic poetry of 10 writer members based on the paintings.

Leslie Feinberg: Screened In, Looking Out -- A Disabilities Photo Exhibit
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free, but reservations required
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014) was a renowned trans activist, historian, writer and the author of the groundbreaking gender-nonconforming 1993 novel Stone Butch Blues. Feinberg made this photographic series between summer 2009 and winter 2011, when ze (ze and hir were Feinberg's preferred pronouns) relocated to Syracuse to live with hir spouse, Minnie Bruce Pratt, due to Feinberg's failing health resulting from long term Lyme+ disease.

Hir long-standing illness from Lyme+ disease was intensifying, complicated by anti-trans prejudice embedded in for-profit health care. Hir ability to complete writing projects was impaired and hir ability to visualize waned. Regardless of the impediments Leslie's illness presented for years, ze undertook this last photo project and never stopped organizing and advocating for justice and for liberation from oppression.

This exhibition at ArtRage Gallery, just a few blocks away from where the photographs were taken, features 29 newly created prints selected from the 119 photographs that make up the complete series. Also exhibited are photographs of Feinberg, which document five decades of activism, from the home albums of Minnie Bruce Pratt. Lastly, the exhibition includes several poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt from her recently published book Magnified, which is a collection of love poems written while Feinberg was gravely ill.

Reservations

Tête-à-Tête-à-Tête: Drawings by Beatrice Wood
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Although known primarily for her lustrous ceramic vessels, legendary artist Beatrice Wood was a prolific drawer with a penchant for depicting sidelong glances and body language between couples (and thruples!). Particularly relevant during a pandemic that will long be remembered for social distancing, Tête-à-Tête-à-Tête is a celebration of Wood's uncanny ability to capture the inherent drama of social interactions with a few deft strokes of her pen.

Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming," the artist's first solo museum exhibition in his hometown of Syracuse, features digital illustrations alongside newly created video works, and a series of his "Jalethal" dolls.

Beyond the Blue
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

After more than a year of COVID-19 isolation, the Everson Museum is grateful to shake off the blues by exhibiting life-affirming works from the permanent collection that are filled with joy, humor, and above all, color. Beyond the Blue is presented in collaboration with Art Macao 2021. In addition to a physical exhibition at the Everson, these works will be shared digitally with millions of visitors to Art Macao, an international art festival presented in museums, hotels, and other popular tourist destinations near Hong Kong.

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based upon the iconic Carrie Mae Weems' 1998 work of the same name, Who What When Where explores questions of identity, place, and time while investigating the four words fundamental to the construction of narratives.

Luis Arnias: Terror Has No Shape
Urban Video Project

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

Terror Has No Shape follows a mysterious and grotesque, viscous creature. The film fragments the American horror and sci-fi genres to bring the terror of the lived personal and collective experience of racial trauma to the surface. Through effigy, these horrors materialize and are burned.

2020, 10 minutes, 16mm transferred to HD video, stereo sound

Screening begins at dusk.

Ladies with a History Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $15, preregistration required
Oakwood Cemetery
940 Comstock Ave., Syracuse

Are you curious about the private lives (and deaths) of those of the female persuasion in the Salt City? Select ladies from our previous Ghostwalk events are returning to share stories about themselves and of the Syracuse of their day.

The walking tours leave every 15 minutes between 6:00 pm and 7:30 pm.
Register here.

The tours are within the historic Oakwood Cemetery, lasting about an hour and half. Please enter the cemetery through the East Colvin Street entrance, closest to I-81. There will be signs to follow through the cemetery. No paper or digital ticket will needed for check-in at the old chapel. Please arrive 10-15 before your tour to allow enough time for parking and check-in.

Tedeschi Trucks: Fireside Live
Apple Valley Park

Price: $80 general admission, $185-$580 for 2-, 4-, or 6-person pods
Apple Valley Festival Grounds
Route 20, Lafayette

Fitz and the Tantrums with special guests Colony House
Beak & Skiff Apple Orchard

Price: Pods of 2: $130-$190; pods of 4: $260-$380
Beak & Skiff
2708 Lords Hill Rd., Lafayette

Poet W. Todd Kaneko
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free (advance registration required)
Online

W. Todd Kaneko is the author of This Is How the Bone Sings (Black Lawrence Press 2020) and The Dead Wrestler Elegies, 2nd Edition (New Michigan Press 2021), and co-author with Amorak Huey of Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic 2018) and Slash / Slash, winner of the 2020 Diode Editions Chapbook Contest. A Kundiman Fellow, he lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches at Grand Valley State University.

Zoom registration.

Comb Your Hair (or You'll Look Like a Slave)
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $20 via check, $23 via PayPal
Online

You're standing there and random people touch your hair. Some even feel requesting permission is honorable. Your hair precedes you: at an interview, at a party! This is the world of Leelee Jackson's Comb Your Hair where asking permission is profoundly the lesser of all evils. It is uniquely an African American "hair" memoir.

The cast includes Nya Jordan, Safia Rahim, Vanessa Johnson, Karin Franklin-King, with music direction by Marcia Hagan.

You're invited to join them and the director for a talkback on July 10 at 7:00 pm. It's the last day the performance will be streamed and everyone is invited to dialogue (ticket holder or not). Talkback Zoom link will be posted on Facebook and sent to ticket-holders.

For tickets or more information, visit theprpac.org/syr/event.

NOTE: For those who cannot stream or would prefer to see the performance with other people, there will be an in-person large-screen viewing at ArtRage gallery on Sunday, July 11 at 4:00 pm. Limited seating, reservations required.

Saturday, July 10, 2021

Art Speaks
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

95th anniversary celebration of the CNY branch of the National League of Pen Women.

Works of 10 artist members will be displayed alongside the ekphrasic poetry of 10 writer members based on the paintings.

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based upon the iconic Carrie Mae Weems' 1998 work of the same name, Who What When Where explores questions of identity, place, and time while investigating the four words fundamental to the construction of narratives.

Beyond the Blue
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

After more than a year of COVID-19 isolation, the Everson Museum is grateful to shake off the blues by exhibiting life-affirming works from the permanent collection that are filled with joy, humor, and above all, color. Beyond the Blue is presented in collaboration with Art Macao 2021. In addition to a physical exhibition at the Everson, these works will be shared digitally with millions of visitors to Art Macao, an international art festival presented in museums, hotels, and other popular tourist destinations near Hong Kong.

Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming," the artist's first solo museum exhibition in his hometown of Syracuse, features digital illustrations alongside newly created video works, and a series of his "Jalethal" dolls.

Tête-à-Tête-à-Tête: Drawings by Beatrice Wood
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Although known primarily for her lustrous ceramic vessels, legendary artist Beatrice Wood was a prolific drawer with a penchant for depicting sidelong glances and body language between couples (and thruples!). Particularly relevant during a pandemic that will long be remembered for social distancing, Tête-à-Tête-à-Tête is a celebration of Wood's uncanny ability to capture the inherent drama of social interactions with a few deft strokes of her pen.

Leslie Feinberg: Screened In, Looking Out -- A Disabilities Photo Exhibit
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free, but reservations required
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014) was a renowned trans activist, historian, writer and the author of the groundbreaking gender-nonconforming 1993 novel Stone Butch Blues. Feinberg made this photographic series between summer 2009 and winter 2011, when ze (ze and hir were Feinberg's preferred pronouns) relocated to Syracuse to live with hir spouse, Minnie Bruce Pratt, due to Feinberg's failing health resulting from long term Lyme+ disease.

Hir long-standing illness from Lyme+ disease was intensifying, complicated by anti-trans prejudice embedded in for-profit health care. Hir ability to complete writing projects was impaired and hir ability to visualize waned. Regardless of the impediments Leslie's illness presented for years, ze undertook this last photo project and never stopped organizing and advocating for justice and for liberation from oppression.

This exhibition at ArtRage Gallery, just a few blocks away from where the photographs were taken, features 29 newly created prints selected from the 119 photographs that make up the complete series. Also exhibited are photographs of Feinberg, which document five decades of activism, from the home albums of Minnie Bruce Pratt. Lastly, the exhibition includes several poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt from her recently published book Magnified, which is a collection of love poems written while Feinberg was gravely ill.

Reservations

Luis Arnias: Terror Has No Shape
Urban Video Project

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

Terror Has No Shape follows a mysterious and grotesque, viscous creature. The film fragments the American horror and sci-fi genres to bring the terror of the lived personal and collective experience of racial trauma to the surface. Through effigy, these horrors materialize and are burned.

2020, 10 minutes, 16mm transferred to HD video, stereo sound

Screening begins at dusk.

Ladies with a History Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $15, preregistration required
Oakwood Cemetery
940 Comstock Ave., Syracuse

Are you curious about the private lives (and deaths) of those of the female persuasion in the Salt City? Select ladies from our previous Ghostwalk events are returning to share stories about themselves and of the Syracuse of their day.

The walking tours leave every 15 minutes between 6:00 pm and 7:30 pm.
Register here.

The tours are within the historic Oakwood Cemetery, lasting about an hour and half. Please enter the cemetery through the East Colvin Street entrance, closest to I-81. There will be signs to follow through the cemetery. No paper or digital ticket will needed for check-in at the old chapel. Please arrive 10-15 before your tour to allow enough time for parking and check-in.

Tedeschi Trucks: Fireside Live
Apple Valley Park

Price: $80 general admission, $185-$580 for 2-, 4-, or 6-person pods
Apple Valley Festival Grounds
Route 20, Lafayette

Comb Your Hair (or You'll Look Like a Slave)
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $20 via check, $23 via PayPal
Online

You're standing there and random people touch your hair. Some even feel requesting permission is honorable. Your hair precedes you: at an interview, at a party! This is the world of Leelee Jackson's Comb Your Hair where asking permission is profoundly the lesser of all evils. It is uniquely an African American "hair" memoir.

The cast includes Nya Jordan, Safia Rahim, Vanessa Johnson, Karin Franklin-King, with music direction by Marcia Hagan.

You're invited to join them and the director for a talkback on July 10 at 7:00 pm. It's the last day the performance will be streamed and everyone is invited to dialogue (ticket holder or not). Talkback Zoom link will be posted on Facebook and sent to ticket-holders.

For tickets or more information, visit theprpac.org/syr/event.

NOTE: For those who cannot stream or would prefer to see the performance with other people, there will be an in-person large-screen viewing at ArtRage gallery on Sunday, July 11 at 4:00 pm. Limited seating, reservations required.

Sunday, July 11, 2021

Leslie Feinberg: Screened In, Looking Out -- A Disabilities Photo Exhibit
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free, but reservations required
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014) was a renowned trans activist, historian, writer and the author of the groundbreaking gender-nonconforming 1993 novel Stone Butch Blues. Feinberg made this photographic series between summer 2009 and winter 2011, when ze (ze and hir were Feinberg's preferred pronouns) relocated to Syracuse to live with hir spouse, Minnie Bruce Pratt, due to Feinberg's failing health resulting from long term Lyme+ disease.

Hir long-standing illness from Lyme+ disease was intensifying, complicated by anti-trans prejudice embedded in for-profit health care. Hir ability to complete writing projects was impaired and hir ability to visualize waned. Regardless of the impediments Leslie's illness presented for years, ze undertook this last photo project and never stopped organizing and advocating for justice and for liberation from oppression.

This exhibition at ArtRage Gallery, just a few blocks away from where the photographs were taken, features 29 newly created prints selected from the 119 photographs that make up the complete series. Also exhibited are photographs of Feinberg, which document five decades of activism, from the home albums of Minnie Bruce Pratt. Lastly, the exhibition includes several poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt from her recently published book Magnified, which is a collection of love poems written while Feinberg was gravely ill.

Reservations

Tête-à-Tête-à-Tête: Drawings by Beatrice Wood
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Although known primarily for her lustrous ceramic vessels, legendary artist Beatrice Wood was a prolific drawer with a penchant for depicting sidelong glances and body language between couples (and thruples!). Particularly relevant during a pandemic that will long be remembered for social distancing, Tête-à-Tête-à-Tête is a celebration of Wood's uncanny ability to capture the inherent drama of social interactions with a few deft strokes of her pen.

Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming," the artist's first solo museum exhibition in his hometown of Syracuse, features digital illustrations alongside newly created video works, and a series of his "Jalethal" dolls.

Beyond the Blue
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Museum admission: $8 regular, $6 student/senior, free for members, children 12 and under, and military with ID
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

After more than a year of COVID-19 isolation, the Everson Museum is grateful to shake off the blues by exhibiting life-affirming works from the permanent collection that are filled with joy, humor, and above all, color. Beyond the Blue is presented in collaboration with Art Macao 2021. In addition to a physical exhibition at the Everson, these works will be shared digitally with millions of visitors to Art Macao, an international art festival presented in museums, hotels, and other popular tourist destinations near Hong Kong.

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Based upon the iconic Carrie Mae Weems' 1998 work of the same name, Who What When Where explores questions of identity, place, and time while investigating the four words fundamental to the construction of narratives.

Family Health Picnic: U.A.D. Kings of the Fall and The BlackLites
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Spirit of Jubilee Park
South Ave. (100 Block), Syracuse

Presented by Syracuse Community Health Center and 100 Black Men of Syracuse, the event will feature COVID vaccinations, live music, a health care village, health education goodie bag distribution, inspirational speakers, minority arts and crafts vendors, and prize incentives for those being vaccinated.

Tedeschi Trucks: Fireside Live
Apple Valley Park

Price: $80 general admission, $185-$580 for 2-, 4-, or 6-person pods
Apple Valley Festival Grounds
Route 20, Lafayette

Comb Your Hair (or You'll Look Like a Slave)
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $20 (limited seating, reservations required)
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

You're standing there and random people touch your hair. Some even feel requesting permission is honorable. Your hair precedes you: at an interview, at a party! This is the world of Leelee Jackson's Comb Your Hair where asking permission is profoundly the lesser of all evils. It is uniquely an African American "hair" memoir.

The cast includes Nya Jordan, Safia Rahim, Vanessa Johnson, Karin Franklin-King, with music direction by Marcia Hagan.

You're invited to join them and the director for a talkback on July 10 at 7:00 pm. It's the last day the performance will be streamed and everyone is invited to dialogue (ticket holder or not). Talkback Zoom link will be posted on Facebook and sent to ticket-holders.

For tickets or more information, visit theprpac.org/syr/event.