Monday, February 6, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Painting of Madeline Silber
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In conjunction with the production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, the gallery space of the Coyne lobby at Syracuse Stage is currently exhibiting nine paintings and four prints by artist Madeline Silber, a resident of Oneonta, NY, whose artwork has been widely exhibited.

"In my paintings I'm wrestling with the predicament of trying to find some balance within the precariousness of our contemporary relationships," Silber writes of her work. Silber's oil-on-canvas works show us representations of colorful orbs, bubbles and other rounded and curved shapes, achieving a three-dimensionality that seem to ignore the laws of physics and defy gravity.

Silber's technical process is one of "layering glazes, scumbling surfaces and developing forms slowly and carefully." She compares it to the "tending of human relationships: organic, fluid, and thoughtful."

Silber received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983 and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1988. After graduate school, she was awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Millay colony. More recently, she was the recipient of three Special Opportunity Stipends from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has had solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, NY; Brink, Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, CA; The Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown, MA; and the Thomas Barry Fine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, phone Lauren Kochian, promotions and special events manager, at 315-443-2709.

Aspects of Love
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Norma Tippett, soprano

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute
Dvorak Rusulka's Song to the Moon
Mozart "Mi tradi quell'alma ingrate" from Don Giovanni
Bizet "Je dis que rien ne m'epouvant" from Carmen
Dvorak Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painting of Madeline Silber
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In conjunction with the production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, the gallery space of the Coyne lobby at Syracuse Stage is currently exhibiting nine paintings and four prints by artist Madeline Silber, a resident of Oneonta, NY, whose artwork has been widely exhibited.

"In my paintings I'm wrestling with the predicament of trying to find some balance within the precariousness of our contemporary relationships," Silber writes of her work. Silber's oil-on-canvas works show us representations of colorful orbs, bubbles and other rounded and curved shapes, achieving a three-dimensionality that seem to ignore the laws of physics and defy gravity.

Silber's technical process is one of "layering glazes, scumbling surfaces and developing forms slowly and carefully." She compares it to the "tending of human relationships: organic, fluid, and thoughtful."

Silber received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983 and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1988. After graduate school, she was awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Millay colony. More recently, she was the recipient of three Special Opportunity Stipends from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has had solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, NY; Brink, Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, CA; The Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown, MA; and the Thomas Barry Fine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, phone Lauren Kochian, promotions and special events manager, at 315-443-2709.

Guest Artist Lecture
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Elinor Carucci, photographer

Price: Free
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Renowned photographer Elinor Carucci, professor of photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, will discuss her work as an artist and her career.

Carucci's images capture a feeling of intimacy through photographs of her family. She started creating images at age 15, viewing her mother as her "natural point of origin" and her "connection to the world." The images of her mother helped Carucci explore her femininity and helped her grow and separate into her own life. Since then, her work has expanded and she now photographs her father, brother and grandparents, among other family members. Her husband, Eran, has also become an important subject and source of inspiration, much like her mother before.

Carucci works in both black-and-white and color photography, and feels that color photography makes her work feel warmer and more vivid. She shoots intuitively, on the spot, with no planning, and her images depict what is happening rather than environments she has created. Through this style, Carucci has created images in which she and her family have discovered more about themselves, learning about attitudes and feelings they couldn't necessarily see until captured in photographs.

Carucci received her B.F.A. in photography from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel, and her work has been exhibited worldwide. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an ICP Infinity Award and a Buhl Foundation Grant, among other awards. Her work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Jewish Museum and International Center of Photography in New York City, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and other institutions.

Paid parking is available in all SU pay lots. For more information, phone Light Work at 315-443-1300.

Vocal Bach Plus
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $10 adults, $5 students, $20 family pass
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

A special mid-winter concert featuring vocal and instrumental music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Outstanding vocal soloists and members of the Syracuse Symphony will perform excerpts from the B-minor Mass, the Wedding Cantata, the Coffee Cantata, A Musical Offering, and other works by Bach.

Vocal soloists will be Janet Brown, Tessa Romano, and Kelly MacDonald, sopranos; Martha Sutter, mezzo-soprano; James Shults, tenor; and Jimi James, bass-baritone. Members of the Syracuse Symphony taking part are Cristina Buciu, violin; Geroge Macero, cello; Deborah Coble, flute; Patricia Sharpe, oboe; and Sar-Shalom Strong, harpsichord.

The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Painting of Madeline Silber
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In conjunction with the production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, the gallery space of the Coyne lobby at Syracuse Stage is currently exhibiting nine paintings and four prints by artist Madeline Silber, a resident of Oneonta, NY, whose artwork has been widely exhibited.

"In my paintings I'm wrestling with the predicament of trying to find some balance within the precariousness of our contemporary relationships," Silber writes of her work. Silber's oil-on-canvas works show us representations of colorful orbs, bubbles and other rounded and curved shapes, achieving a three-dimensionality that seem to ignore the laws of physics and defy gravity.

Silber's technical process is one of "layering glazes, scumbling surfaces and developing forms slowly and carefully." She compares it to the "tending of human relationships: organic, fluid, and thoughtful."

Silber received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983 and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1988. After graduate school, she was awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Millay colony. More recently, she was the recipient of three Special Opportunity Stipends from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has had solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, NY; Brink, Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, CA; The Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown, MA; and the Thomas Barry Fine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, phone Lauren Kochian, promotions and special events manager, at 315-443-2709.

The Poet's Loves
Civic Morning Musicals
Mark Lawrence, tenor; William Cowdery, piano; with Phil Eisenman, baritone

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

Robert Schumann Dichterliebe (The Poet's Love)
Robert Schumann Widmung (Dedication)
Emile Paladilhe Nell from Six Chansons Ecossaises (Six Scottish Songs)
Emile Paladilhe Psyché
Franz Liszt O quand je dors (Oh as I Slumber)
Felix Mendelssohn If With All Your Hearts from Elijah
Ralph Vaughan Williams The Call from Five Mystical Songs
Ralph Vaughan Williams Silent Noon from The House of Life
Georges Bizet Au fond du temple saint (Beneath the Sacred Temple) from The Pearlfishers

Lyric tenor, Mark Lawrence, leads an active career in oratorio, opera, and recital literature. His recording of Nicholas Ascioti's song cycles Musica Mundana, Credo, and One Child's Life is due to be released in 2007. As an oratorio soloist, he has sung Bach's St. John Passion, Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem Mass and Mendelssohn's Elijah. In 2005 he appeared with the Elmira Cantata Singers in Mozart's Grand Mass in C minor, and Bach's Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (BWV 21) and Kaffe-Kantate (BWV 211). Recent opera performances included the title role in Randall Davidson's The Fourth Wise Man with The Society for New Music, the Prince in Warren Martin's The True Story of Cinderella, Alfred in Die Fledermaus and Ferrando in Cosi Fan Tutte. He is in demand as a recitalist and master teacher, having performed at St. Lawrence University, Colgate University, Ithaca College and throughout the northeast. Mark received a M.M. from Ithaca College and has studied with Cornelius Reid, Gary Norden, Richard Crittenden, Roland Bentley and Neva Pilgrim. He lived in New York City for ten years, performing with neXus Arts, Aquarius Opera Studio and NY Metro Vocal Arts Ensemble, but is very pleased to have returned to Central NY.

Pianist William Cowdery serves as musical director and organist of the First Congregational Church in Ithaca, and as adjunct instructor at Cornell University. He has also taught on the music faculties of Ithaca College, Colgate University, and Keuka College. A frequent soloist, accompanist, and lecturer at Bach festivals in the northeast, he has been a three-year fellow of the Bach Aria Festival at Stony Brook. Bill holds a Ph.D. from Cornell for a dissertation on the early cantatas of J. S. Bach and has held a Fulbright Fellowship in England. Recently, he co-edited The Compleat Mozart with Neal Zaslaw (Norton).

The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

Read a Review!

Thursday, February 9, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painting of Madeline Silber
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In conjunction with the production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, the gallery space of the Coyne lobby at Syracuse Stage is currently exhibiting nine paintings and four prints by artist Madeline Silber, a resident of Oneonta, NY, whose artwork has been widely exhibited.

"In my paintings I'm wrestling with the predicament of trying to find some balance within the precariousness of our contemporary relationships," Silber writes of her work. Silber's oil-on-canvas works show us representations of colorful orbs, bubbles and other rounded and curved shapes, achieving a three-dimensionality that seem to ignore the laws of physics and defy gravity.

Silber's technical process is one of "layering glazes, scumbling surfaces and developing forms slowly and carefully." She compares it to the "tending of human relationships: organic, fluid, and thoughtful."

Silber received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983 and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1988. After graduate school, she was awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Millay colony. More recently, she was the recipient of three Special Opportunity Stipends from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has had solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, NY; Brink, Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, CA; The Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown, MA; and the Thomas Barry Fine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, phone Lauren Kochian, promotions and special events manager, at 315-443-2709.

Winter Landscapes and Gardens: Photographs by Linda Adlestein
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The art critic Eric Ernst remarked that in this series of photographs the viewer immediately becomes aware that, from an aesthetic perspective, the subtlety and promise of a garden in winter illustrates more about the space than one is aware of during its season of full bloom.

Now and Then
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring sculptures, mobiles and paintings by Reginald Adams, watercolors by Anne Baldwin, photography by Ron Goodrich, quilts by Holly Knott and paintings by George Vander Sluis.

The Healing Passage/Voices From The Water
Community Folk Art Center

Price: $3
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Award-winning new documentary by writer/actress and filmmaker S. Pearl Sharp, who will be present to introduce and discuss the film.

Water Advocacy, Science and Blessings
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Jack Manno

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Jazz Concert
Central New York Jazz Orchestra with the Skaneateles Central School Middle School and High School jazz bands

Price: Free
Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

For more information, phone 315-291-2306.

Poetry Night
Featuring Mary McLaughlin Slechta

Price: Free
Lucky Moon Cafe
719 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Mary McLaughlin Slechta's short fiction and poetry have appeared in many journals and anthologies. Buried Bones, a chapbook of poems, came out in 2004 by FootHills Publishing. An associate editor of The Comstock Review, she also teaches and lives in Syracuse with her husband and two sons.

The reading will be followed by Poetry Open Mic from 8:30-10PM.

The Strange Case of Sheik Yerbuti
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive comedy/thriller.

The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

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Friday, February 10, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Painting of Madeline Silber
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In conjunction with the production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, the gallery space of the Coyne lobby at Syracuse Stage is currently exhibiting nine paintings and four prints by artist Madeline Silber, a resident of Oneonta, NY, whose artwork has been widely exhibited.

"In my paintings I'm wrestling with the predicament of trying to find some balance within the precariousness of our contemporary relationships," Silber writes of her work. Silber's oil-on-canvas works show us representations of colorful orbs, bubbles and other rounded and curved shapes, achieving a three-dimensionality that seem to ignore the laws of physics and defy gravity.

Silber's technical process is one of "layering glazes, scumbling surfaces and developing forms slowly and carefully." She compares it to the "tending of human relationships: organic, fluid, and thoughtful."

Silber received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983 and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1988. After graduate school, she was awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Millay colony. More recently, she was the recipient of three Special Opportunity Stipends from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has had solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, NY; Brink, Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, CA; The Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown, MA; and the Thomas Barry Fine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, phone Lauren Kochian, promotions and special events manager, at 315-443-2709.

Winter Landscapes and Gardens: Photographs by Linda Adlestein
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The art critic Eric Ernst remarked that in this series of photographs the viewer immediately becomes aware that, from an aesthetic perspective, the subtlety and promise of a garden in winter illustrates more about the space than one is aware of during its season of full bloom.

Now and Then
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring sculptures, mobiles and paintings by Reginald Adams, watercolors by Anne Baldwin, photography by Ron Goodrich, quilts by Holly Knott and paintings by George Vander Sluis.

Asian Short Film Festival
Redhouse

Price: $7
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A series of short films made by Asian artists or about Asian topics ranging from the nightmarish to the high comic. Shorts include the story of a Muslim boy finding help in India (The Little Terrorist), the animated re-telling of an old Chinese folk tale (Bright/Ming), a tale about surviving the American dream (Chinese Dream), and the story of Romeo and Juliet with a Bollywood twist (Library Majnu). The Asian Short Film Festival demonstrates that a well-made short film can tell a story as well - or better - than a full-length narrative. This program is part of Asian Cinevision's 2005-2006 National Festival Tour.

2006 Short Film Selections:

Chinese Dream by director Victor Quinaz
Indentured in a cramped, crowded and confined world, Country Boys life is an endless toil. Yet, his sweat breeds a dream that his overbearing boss cannot stifle. A moving portrait of one mans determination.
2004 winner San Francisco International Film Festival, BEST SHORT
USA, 2004, 17 min., color, Cantonese with English subtitles, documentary

Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity by director Kevin Lee
Documenting a community's struggle against discrimination, the film begins by observing the simple, quiet act of putting on the dastaar, or turban. This daily ritual is imbued with the Sikh values of honor, discipline and faith, contrasting sharply with recent incidents of violence and discrimination against Sikh communities.
USA, 2005, 11 min., color, documentary

The Little Terrorist by director Ashvin Kumar
Based on a true story, the film follows a Pakistani Muslim boy who mistakenly crosses the mine-field strewn border into India and finds unexpected allies in a Hindu school teacher and his niece. When Indian soldiers search for the little terrorist, his allies must face their own prejudices and consider consequences versus conscience.
Nominee, 2005 Academy Awards, Best Live Action Short Film
Grand Prize Winner, 2005 Tehran International Short Film Festival
India, UK, 2004, 15 min., color, Hindi with English subtitles, narrative

Aunty G's by director Geeta Malik
The secret, double life of Dutiful Auntie Jis. Five South Asian ladies go through their everyday routines: making breakfast for their families, playing ball, and throwing back some beers.
USA, 2004, 6 min., color, narrative

Afternoon (Buoi Chieu) by director Kim Spurlock
A rainy afternoon. An unexpected guest. Drawn by her husband's grief and the desire to experience physical sensation, the spirit of the family matriarch comes calling.
USA, 2005, 10 min., color, English/Vietnamese with English subtitles, narrative

Spam-Ku: I Won A Haiku Contest About Spam by director Steven K. Tsuchida
Roy wins a poetry contest with his Spam haiku. The prize: A lifetime supply. Will his life change for the better or will it take a gooey turn?
USA, 2004, 5 min., color, narrative

Pol Pot's Birthday by director Talmage Cooley
After the fall of Phnom Penh in 1979, Pol Pot and his ruthless Khmer Rouge army spent the next decade retreating slowly towards Thailand. In 1985, the office staff of this brutal dictator attempt to throw a surprise birthday party for their boss.
2004 Sundance Film Festival
USA, 2004, 10 min., color, Khmer with English subtitle, narrative

Library Majnu by director Paul Awguwawela
A modern day Romeo and Juliet with a Bollywood twist. A college library, forbidden love and a meddling fathernothing that a little song and dance can't cure.
UK, 2005, 10 min., color, English/Hindi with English subtitles, narrative

The Way by director Qing Huang
Chinese ink painting has never looked more vivid and alluring. Qing Huang marries 3D computer animation with the aesthetic of traditional Chinese art to create a new, exciting media art form. Step into a world where peach blossoms morph into bamboo trees and carps leap out of the screen.
Australia, 2003, 7 min., color, animation

Bright (Ming) by director Qing Huang
Inspired by an age-old Chinese folktale, BRIGHT adds a new twist to how thunder and lightning came about in striking shadow puppet-style animation. Watch as Thunder God pursues Mother Lightning across the sky, and they unleash their powers in a mating dance.
Australia, 2004, 4 min., B/W & Color, animation

Missing by director Kit Hui
To find his missing girlfriend, Samuel follows a mysterious trail of words written on pieces of paper left in unlikely places. As he uncovers the mystery of her disappearance, he catches a haunting glimpse of New York City and realizes something unexpected.
2005 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Competition
2005 Tribeca Film Festival
USA, 2004, 14 min., color, narrative

Onondaga Community College
Remelexio

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Guitar and saxophone duo Pablo Cohen and Steve Mauk excite the senses with energy and vibrancy as they perform captivating repertoire of South American music.

Black History NeoSoul and Jazz Night
J Project Band

Price: $5
Campus Activities Building, SUNY Upstate
155 Elizabeth Blackwell St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-464-5433.

Classics Series: Verdi's Requiem
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club

Price: $16-$50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Verdi Requiem

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Sundance
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular, $10 students and seniors, under 18 free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Matthew Walton's fully staged opera, with a libretto by Leonard Walton, about Native American activist Leonard Peltier begins with the slaughter of Native Americans at Wounded Knee in 1890, followed by the occupation of Alcatraz by Native Americans from Nov. 1969 - June 1971, the occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973 and ends with Peltier's trial and incarceration. As with many operas, no position is taken on the main character's guilt or innocence.

The theme of this fast-paced drama is racism and injustice, and is set against a backdrop of projections of media coverage at the time of the events. Leonard Walton used only primary sources and several of Peltier's writings for his libretto. The title of the opera is taken from Peltier's prison writings in which he compares his life to a sundance.

Beauty and the Beast

Price: $8
East Syracuse-Minoa High School
6400 Freemont Rd., East Syracuse

A prince has been changed into a horrible beast until he can learn to love and be loved in this adaptation of Disney's award-winning musical. For more information, phone 315-656-7242.

Oklahoma!
West Genesee High School

Price: $8 regular, $6 students/seniors
West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-487-4612.

Prelude to a Kiss
Appleseed Productions

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

At a couple's wedding, an old man kisses the bride and they switch bodies. The groom finally figures it out and works to swap his new bride back to her body.

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The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

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Watchin' Waldo
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Author John D. Smitherman will direct the production as well as perform in the role of John Douglas, who is left to care for the company as well as his boss' apartment while the boss is away. Things get out of control very quickly and the laughs are nonstop as John attempts to handle each ridiculous situation that is thrown his way while trying to maintain his relationship with his girlfriend. Add a beautiful yoga instructor, her younger troubled teenage sister and an employee who doesn't speak English and you have the ingredients for a wild evening of entertainment for the entire family.

For more information, phone 315-475-9749.

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Saturday, February 11, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Now and Then
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring sculptures, mobiles and paintings by Reginald Adams, watercolors by Anne Baldwin, photography by Ron Goodrich, quilts by Holly Knott and paintings by George Vander Sluis.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Winter Landscapes and Gardens: Photographs by Linda Adlestein
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The art critic Eric Ernst remarked that in this series of photographs the viewer immediately becomes aware that, from an aesthetic perspective, the subtlety and promise of a garden in winter illustrates more about the space than one is aware of during its season of full bloom.

Asian Short Film Festival
Redhouse

Price: $7
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A series of short films made by Asian artists or about Asian topics ranging from the nightmarish to the high comic. Shorts include the story of a Muslim boy finding help in India (The Little Terrorist), the animated re-telling of an old Chinese folk tale (Bright/Ming), a tale about surviving the American dream (Chinese Dream), and the story of Romeo and Juliet with a Bollywood twist (Library Majnu). The Asian Short Film Festival demonstrates that a well-made short film can tell a story as well - or better - than a full-length narrative. This program is part of Asian Cinevision's 2005-2006 National Festival Tour.

2006 Short Film Selections:

Chinese Dream by director Victor Quinaz
Indentured in a cramped, crowded and confined world, Country Boys life is an endless toil. Yet, his sweat breeds a dream that his overbearing boss cannot stifle. A moving portrait of one mans determination.
2004 winner San Francisco International Film Festival, BEST SHORT
USA, 2004, 17 min., color, Cantonese with English subtitles, documentary

Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity by director Kevin Lee
Documenting a community's struggle against discrimination, the film begins by observing the simple, quiet act of putting on the dastaar, or turban. This daily ritual is imbued with the Sikh values of honor, discipline and faith, contrasting sharply with recent incidents of violence and discrimination against Sikh communities.
USA, 2005, 11 min., color, documentary

The Little Terrorist by director Ashvin Kumar
Based on a true story, the film follows a Pakistani Muslim boy who mistakenly crosses the mine-field strewn border into India and finds unexpected allies in a Hindu school teacher and his niece. When Indian soldiers search for the little terrorist, his allies must face their own prejudices and consider consequences versus conscience.
Nominee, 2005 Academy Awards, Best Live Action Short Film
Grand Prize Winner, 2005 Tehran International Short Film Festival
India, UK, 2004, 15 min., color, Hindi with English subtitles, narrative

Aunty G's by director Geeta Malik
The secret, double life of Dutiful Auntie Jis. Five South Asian ladies go through their everyday routines: making breakfast for their families, playing ball, and throwing back some beers.
USA, 2004, 6 min., color, narrative

Afternoon (Buoi Chieu) by director Kim Spurlock
A rainy afternoon. An unexpected guest. Drawn by her husband's grief and the desire to experience physical sensation, the spirit of the family matriarch comes calling.
USA, 2005, 10 min., color, English/Vietnamese with English subtitles, narrative

Spam-Ku: I Won A Haiku Contest About Spam by director Steven K. Tsuchida
Roy wins a poetry contest with his Spam haiku. The prize: A lifetime supply. Will his life change for the better or will it take a gooey turn?
USA, 2004, 5 min., color, narrative

Pol Pot's Birthday by director Talmage Cooley
After the fall of Phnom Penh in 1979, Pol Pot and his ruthless Khmer Rouge army spent the next decade retreating slowly towards Thailand. In 1985, the office staff of this brutal dictator attempt to throw a surprise birthday party for their boss.
2004 Sundance Film Festival
USA, 2004, 10 min., color, Khmer with English subtitle, narrative

Library Majnu by director Paul Awguwawela
A modern day Romeo and Juliet with a Bollywood twist. A college library, forbidden love and a meddling fathernothing that a little song and dance can't cure.
UK, 2005, 10 min., color, English/Hindi with English subtitles, narrative

The Way by director Qing Huang
Chinese ink painting has never looked more vivid and alluring. Qing Huang marries 3D computer animation with the aesthetic of traditional Chinese art to create a new, exciting media art form. Step into a world where peach blossoms morph into bamboo trees and carps leap out of the screen.
Australia, 2003, 7 min., color, animation

Bright (Ming) by director Qing Huang
Inspired by an age-old Chinese folktale, BRIGHT adds a new twist to how thunder and lightning came about in striking shadow puppet-style animation. Watch as Thunder God pursues Mother Lightning across the sky, and they unleash their powers in a mating dance.
Australia, 2004, 4 min., B/W & Color, animation

Missing by director Kit Hui
To find his missing girlfriend, Samuel follows a mysterious trail of words written on pieces of paper left in unlikely places. As he uncovers the mystery of her disappearance, he catches a haunting glimpse of New York City and realizes something unexpected.
2005 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Competition
2005 Tribeca Film Festival
USA, 2004, 14 min., color, narrative

Casablanca
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

One of the most romantic movies ever made, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. It's a little known fact that Casablanca is actually a b-movie, and possibly the most famous one of all-time. This is a rare opportunity to see an American treasure as it should be seen - up on the largest movie screen in CNY!

CNY in Love short film screening, and Bride of the Monster
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $3.50
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

A screening of the competing shorts for the "CNY in Love" short film contest. The following four shorts will compete for first prize:
With a Thousand Sweet Kisses  Andrew Hookway
A Cinematic Valentine  Ryan Dacko
Holy Matrimony  Tom OMalley
International Super Model  Tim Scanlon

The winner will be chosen by the audience on hand. While the votes are being counted, a bonus movie will be screened: Ed Wood's Bride of the Monster.

Gallery Talk and Artist Reception
Community Folk Art Center
Featuring Napoleon Jones Henderson

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Talk and reception in conjunction with the exhibit "Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors."

Artist Lecture
Redhouse
Featuring Linda Adlestein

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Talk given in conjunction with the "Winter Landscapes & Gardens" exhibit.

CMM/SSO Concerto Competition Final Round
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Use Mulroy Civic Center's Artist's Entrance. For more information, phone 315-682-3535.

Bernard Woma, xylophone and drums
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Bernard Woma, one of Ghana's foremost musicians, returns to OCC by popular demand. Bernard is recognized around the world as an outstanding performer and teacher of Dagara xylophone music and other forms of traditional Ghanaian music.

Folkus Project
Michael Jerling

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

A captivating melodic sense and incisive, clever lyrics place Michael Jerling among America's great song-crafters. Jerling is a keen student of the good and ghastly in American life. He weaves themes like a novelist, evoking our shortcomings and dreams without yielding to cynicism or sentimentality. Jerling is often described as a "songwriter's songwriter" who composes in styles influenced by the wealth of American music.

Based in Saratoga Springs, New York, Jerling has been a noted artist on the club, college, and festival circuits of North America since 1975. His live shows are buoyed by his sharp sense of humor and his smooth baritone voice is backed up with consummate skill on six and twelve string guitars, harmonica and mandolin.

Jerling has been among the winners of the prestigious "New Folk" competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, and his involvement with the seminal Fast Folk Musical Magazine in New York City has led to his song "Long Black Wall" being included on a 2002 Smithsonian Folkways CD celebrating 20 years of Fast Folk. His latest CD, Little Movies, is a collection of fourteen original songs running the gamut of musical styles and topics (ranging from Weather Channel addiction to one mans decision to fly over California in a lawn chair attached to helium balloons).

Other recordings include My Evil Twin (1992) and New Suit of Clothes (1994), on the Shanachie label; and, in 1997, In Another Life, on Waterbug. Early Jerling (1998), also on Waterbug, is a digitally remastered compilation of the best cuts from his earlier, self-released LPs.

For reservations, call the Westcott Community Center at 315-478-8634.

Classics Series: Verdi's Requiem
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club

Price: $16-$50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Verdi Requiem

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Mother Nature Tells All
Open Hand Theater
Purple Rock Productions

Price: $9 adults; $6 children (members get $1 off)
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Stories of ecology presented by the Gossip of the Grapevine and Marvelous Meddler, Mother Nature (with the help of lots of puppets by Purple Rock Productions.)

Hercules, the Maiden and the Lion
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive family show.

Oklahoma!
West Genesee High School

Price: $8 regular, $6 students/seniors
West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-487-4612.

Beauty and the Beast

Price: $8
East Syracuse-Minoa High School
6400 Freemont Rd., East Syracuse

A prince has been changed into a horrible beast until he can learn to love and be loved in this adaptation of Disney's award-winning musical. For more information, phone 315-656-7242.

The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

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Cats
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $24 regular; $20 students/seniors; $16 children
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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Oklahoma!
West Genesee High School

Price: $8 regular, $6 students/seniors
West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-487-4612.

Beauty and the Beast

Price: $8
East Syracuse-Minoa High School
6400 Freemont Rd., East Syracuse

A prince has been changed into a horrible beast until he can learn to love and be loved in this adaptation of Disney's award-winning musical. For more information, phone 315-656-7242.

Prelude to a Kiss
Appleseed Productions

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

At a couple's wedding, an old man kisses the bride and they switch bodies. The groom finally figures it out and works to swap his new bride back to her body.

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Ting -- The Story of an Inept Angel
Open Hand Theater
Purple Rock Productions
Featuring Rolande Duprey

Price: $14 in advance; $16 at the door
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Ting is an inept angel, or so it seems. Her world is confusing, random, chaotic and unfinished.
She has never attained the glories of the greater angels, nor the skill of flight or song.
Yet she has hidden talent and a mission for us all.

Don't miss this outrageously smart puppetry performance for adults! Once in a blue moon!

The Hilarious Hillbilly Massacre
Opening Night Productions
Bob Brown, director

Price: $22 ticket plus restaurant/bar charge depending on package chosen
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

The Birchbumble family, a wild and fun loving clan from deep in the hills of Tennessee, is having a family reunion and you, being a close relative, are invited! Everyone is promised a hog slappin' good time in this audience interactive murder mystery!

However, before the moonshine starts flowin', evil befalls the festivities. A barbaric IRS agent crashes the party and demands that the Birchbumbles pay all the back taxes they owe or the government will confiscate the premises immediately. The Birchbumbles don't take easily to threats, so the agent is bumped off. There's more murder and mayhem and lots of merriment as the evening progresses for the entire extended family  that means you! The Birchbumbles even stage their own auditions for a spot on Hee Haw. Talent like theirs must be seen to be believed!

Be sure to attend this long awaited reunion. It may be the last chance you have to party with
the IN-bred crowd.

Starring Bob Brown, Cathleen O'Brien, David Walker, Lynne Stanistreet, Becky Bottrill. Written by Peter DePietro, author of Clue, The Musical.

Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

There are two ways to enjoy your evening out:

The Complete Dinner Theatre Package includes show ticket and full gourmet dinner of your choosing off the Glen Loch Restaurant's delicious menu. Diners will be seated in the downstairs dining room and the meal prices will be determined by the regular restaurant menu. Those guests choosing to eat must be seated NO LATER than 6:30pm on Saturday evenings and 12:30pm for the Sunday Brunch. Cost: $22 theatre ticket plus cost of meal per person.

The Light Fare Theatre Package: In an agreement with the Glen Loch Restaurant, Opening Night Productions' patrons will no longer be required to purchase a meal with their theater ticket. The cost of the meal will be replaced by a $10 minimum bar/restaurant charge. This may be applied to appetizers, desserts, drinks and/or coffee. The total expense for tickets will be $32 per person.

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The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

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Watchin' Waldo
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Author John D. Smitherman will direct the production as well as perform in the role of John Douglas, who is left to care for the company as well as his boss' apartment while the boss is away. Things get out of control very quickly and the laughs are nonstop as John attempts to handle each ridiculous situation that is thrown his way while trying to maintain his relationship with his girlfriend. Add a beautiful yoga instructor, her younger troubled teenage sister and an employee who doesn't speak English and you have the ingredients for a wild evening of entertainment for the entire family.

For more information, phone 315-475-9749.

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Sunday, February 12, 2006

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Asian Short Film Festival
Redhouse

Price: $7
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A series of short films made by Asian artists or about Asian topics ranging from the nightmarish to the high comic. Shorts include the story of a Muslim boy finding help in India (The Little Terrorist), the animated re-telling of an old Chinese folk tale (Bright/Ming), a tale about surviving the American dream (Chinese Dream), and the story of Romeo and Juliet with a Bollywood twist (Library Majnu). The Asian Short Film Festival demonstrates that a well-made short film can tell a story as well - or better - than a full-length narrative. This program is part of Asian Cinevision's 2005-2006 National Festival Tour.

2006 Short Film Selections:

Chinese Dream by director Victor Quinaz
Indentured in a cramped, crowded and confined world, Country Boys life is an endless toil. Yet, his sweat breeds a dream that his overbearing boss cannot stifle. A moving portrait of one mans determination.
2004 winner San Francisco International Film Festival, BEST SHORT
USA, 2004, 17 min., color, Cantonese with English subtitles, documentary

Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity by director Kevin Lee
Documenting a community's struggle against discrimination, the film begins by observing the simple, quiet act of putting on the dastaar, or turban. This daily ritual is imbued with the Sikh values of honor, discipline and faith, contrasting sharply with recent incidents of violence and discrimination against Sikh communities.
USA, 2005, 11 min., color, documentary

The Little Terrorist by director Ashvin Kumar
Based on a true story, the film follows a Pakistani Muslim boy who mistakenly crosses the mine-field strewn border into India and finds unexpected allies in a Hindu school teacher and his niece. When Indian soldiers search for the little terrorist, his allies must face their own prejudices and consider consequences versus conscience.
Nominee, 2005 Academy Awards, Best Live Action Short Film
Grand Prize Winner, 2005 Tehran International Short Film Festival
India, UK, 2004, 15 min., color, Hindi with English subtitles, narrative

Aunty G's by director Geeta Malik
The secret, double life of Dutiful Auntie Jis. Five South Asian ladies go through their everyday routines: making breakfast for their families, playing ball, and throwing back some beers.
USA, 2004, 6 min., color, narrative

Afternoon (Buoi Chieu) by director Kim Spurlock
A rainy afternoon. An unexpected guest. Drawn by her husband's grief and the desire to experience physical sensation, the spirit of the family matriarch comes calling.
USA, 2005, 10 min., color, English/Vietnamese with English subtitles, narrative

Spam-Ku: I Won A Haiku Contest About Spam by director Steven K. Tsuchida
Roy wins a poetry contest with his Spam haiku. The prize: A lifetime supply. Will his life change for the better or will it take a gooey turn?
USA, 2004, 5 min., color, narrative

Pol Pot's Birthday by director Talmage Cooley
After the fall of Phnom Penh in 1979, Pol Pot and his ruthless Khmer Rouge army spent the next decade retreating slowly towards Thailand. In 1985, the office staff of this brutal dictator attempt to throw a surprise birthday party for their boss.
2004 Sundance Film Festival
USA, 2004, 10 min., color, Khmer with English subtitle, narrative

Library Majnu by director Paul Awguwawela
A modern day Romeo and Juliet with a Bollywood twist. A college library, forbidden love and a meddling fathernothing that a little song and dance can't cure.
UK, 2005, 10 min., color, English/Hindi with English subtitles, narrative

The Way by director Qing Huang
Chinese ink painting has never looked more vivid and alluring. Qing Huang marries 3D computer animation with the aesthetic of traditional Chinese art to create a new, exciting media art form. Step into a world where peach blossoms morph into bamboo trees and carps leap out of the screen.
Australia, 2003, 7 min., color, animation

Bright (Ming) by director Qing Huang
Inspired by an age-old Chinese folktale, BRIGHT adds a new twist to how thunder and lightning came about in striking shadow puppet-style animation. Watch as Thunder God pursues Mother Lightning across the sky, and they unleash their powers in a mating dance.
Australia, 2004, 4 min., B/W & Color, animation

Missing by director Kit Hui
To find his missing girlfriend, Samuel follows a mysterious trail of words written on pieces of paper left in unlikely places. As he uncovers the mystery of her disappearance, he catches a haunting glimpse of New York City and realizes something unexpected.
2005 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Competition
2005 Tribeca Film Festival
USA, 2004, 14 min., color, narrative

Black History Month Jazz Cabaret
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Nicole Henry, vocals

Price: $21 regular, $16 donors, $10 students
Justin's Grille
6400 Yorktown Circle, East Syracuse

National artist jazz vocalist Nicle Henry will be fronting an all-star rhythm section for the Black History Month Cabaret. Nicole is feathering an impressive nest of accolades, and has already performed at the Rainbow Room with Cab Calloway, and shared stages with Jennifer Holliday, Roberta Flack, and Isaac Hayes. She also gives freely of her time and talent to organizations such as the Congressional Black Caucus and International AIDS Alliance. Her latest CD, The Nearness of You topped at #2 on the international charts.

Show is preceded by a cash bar beginning at 4:00 PM. Banquet stations will be available for an extra charge.

The Hilarious Hillbilly Massacre
Opening Night Productions
Bob Brown, director

Price: $22 ticket plus restaurant/bar charge depending on package chosen
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

The Birchbumble family, a wild and fun loving clan from deep in the hills of Tennessee, is having a family reunion and you, being a close relative, are invited! Everyone is promised a hog slappin' good time in this audience interactive murder mystery!

However, before the moonshine starts flowin', evil befalls the festivities. A barbaric IRS agent crashes the party and demands that the Birchbumbles pay all the back taxes they owe or the government will confiscate the premises immediately. The Birchbumbles don't take easily to threats, so the agent is bumped off. There's more murder and mayhem and lots of merriment as the evening progresses for the entire extended family  that means you! The Birchbumbles even stage their own auditions for a spot on Hee Haw. Talent like theirs must be seen to be believed!

Be sure to attend this long awaited reunion. It may be the last chance you have to party with
the IN-bred crowd.

Starring Bob Brown, Cathleen O'Brien, David Walker, Lynne Stanistreet, Becky Bottrill. Written by Peter DePietro, author of Clue, The Musical.

Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

There are two ways to enjoy your evening out:

The Complete Dinner Theatre Package includes show ticket and full gourmet dinner of your choosing off the Glen Loch Restaurant's delicious menu. Diners will be seated in the downstairs dining room and the meal prices will be determined by the regular restaurant menu. Those guests choosing to eat must be seated NO LATER than 6:30pm on Saturday evenings and 12:30pm for the Sunday Brunch. Cost: $22 theatre ticket plus cost of meal per person.

The Light Fare Theatre Package: In an agreement with the Glen Loch Restaurant, Opening Night Productions' patrons will no longer be required to purchase a meal with their theater ticket. The cost of the meal will be replaced by a $10 minimum bar/restaurant charge. This may be applied to appetizers, desserts, drinks and/or coffee. The total expense for tickets will be $32 per person.

Read a review!

Cats
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $24 regular; $20 students/seniors; $16 children
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

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

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

Read a Review!

Monday, February 13, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

Selected Works by Rebekah Clark
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
VPA Dean's Gallery
Room 200, Crouse College, Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of handmade quilts from fiber artist and SU alumna Rebekah Clark. The Peabody, Mass.-based artist is well known to local quilt collectors and recently exhibited work at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn.

Paid parking to view the exhibition is available in Irving Garage.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss and the Musical Rent
University Union Speakers Board
Featuring Anthony Rapp, film and stage actor

Price: $5 regular, $3 for students with SU ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Film and stage actor Anthony Rapp will discuss his career as an actor and how the themes of the musical Rent -- AIDS, homosexuality and death -- have played a role in his life and American culture.

Rapp will share his experiences of performing in Rent, as well as his personal struggle with losing his mother to cancer. His memoir of the same title, which will be released the same day as his lecture at SU, will be available for purchase at the lecture.

Rapp is best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen, the lovestruck filmmaker and narrator in the Tony Award-winning rock opera, a musical about bohemians in New York City's East Village. Rent explores their struggles with life, love and AIDS. Rapp shared an Obie Award with the rest of the Rent cast for his performance. He recently appeared with other members of the original cast in the film version of the musical.

Tickets are available at the Schine Box Office, 315-443-4517. Paid parking is available in Irving Garage.