Sunday, November 6, 2005

2005 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Works by Luke Buffenmyer, Doug DuBois, and Steven Skopik

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

This exhibit features the work of the recipients of the 31st Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The three winners are all Central New York residents.

Waterlog: The Beach Series
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works of Toby Old

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

The black and white images of this exhibition illustrate Toby Old's ability to capture extraordinary moments in human action and social and cultural experiences as they unfold.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

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.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Faculty Show
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The xxhibition features over 90 works by 51 current Syracuse University professors from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Departments of Art, Design and Foundation in the School of Art and Design and the Department of Transmedia. The exhibition presents various styles and media, creating a diverse survey of the faculty's current work.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Off the Wall
Associated Artists

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

The annual holiday sale show features the work of approximately two dozen artists, in a variety of media, which are available for viewing and ready for sale. During this show only, purchased artwork can be taken home immediately. A portion of each sale goes to support the library, which is currently undergoing renovation.

Broadway, the Golden Age
Redhouse

Price: $8
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Directed by Rick McKay, Broadway, the Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film. Follow one filmmaker's search for a Broadway that was lost and the 100 legends that he found.

Cinematographer Rick McKay arrived in New York in 1981 and was disappointed to realize that the Broadway of his boyhood dreams had been replaced by rock operas and musicals that celebrated felines over humans. With no crew on budget and one digital camera, McKay traveled for five years and over four continents to seek out the Broadway of his youth; The Golden Age of triple-threat stars that could sing, dance and act.

Convocation of Rededication
Hendricks Chapel
Hendricks Chapel Choir, Black Celestial Choir, Hendricks Chapel Handbell Ringers, and Christopher Marks, organist

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring the world premiere performance of You Shall Know the Truth by Craig Phillips, commissioned for this celebration of the Chapel's 75th anniversary.

Arts Alive in Liverpool
Ralph D'Mello, clarinet; Jeremy Mastrangelo, violin; Sar-Shalom Strong, piano

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Trios by Bartok, Stravinsky and Ives.

An Evening of Spirituals
MasterWorks Chorale
Christ's Messengers Gospel Choir from Mt. Carmel Seventh Day Adventist
Maureen McCauley, conductor

United Methodist Church of Skaneateles
25 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Choral Evensong and Organ Recital
Featuring St. Paul's Cathedral Choir

Price: Free-will offering
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Music by Hallock, Marlow, Howells and Lewis.

Information: 315-474-6053.

Instinctual Eye
Featuring Frode Gjerstad, alto saxaphone and clarinets; Kevin Norton, drums and vibraphone; Nicholas Stevens, bass.

Price: $12 regular, $10 with student ID
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Information: 315-425-9575.

Forever Plaid
Opening Night Productions

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

One of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory, this deliciously goofy revue centers on four young, eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s on the way to their first big concert, and now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was.

Singing in the closest of harmony, squabbling boyishly over the smallest intonations and executing their charmingly outlandish choreography with over-zealous precision, the "Plaids" are a guaranteed smash, with a program of beloved songs and delightful patter that keeps audiences rolling in the aisles when they're not humming along to some of the great nostalgic pop hits of the '50s.

Cast: Jonathon Baldwin (from NYC) is Frankie, Thomas Greene is Jinx, Terry LaCasse is Sparky, and Rob Searle is Smudge. Directed by Bob Brown. Musical Direction by Doug Pyke.

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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Beauty and the Beast
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

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Hairspray
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Hairspray takes you back to 1962 Baltimore, where the question comes up: Can a big girl, with big hair and bigger dreams, change the world.

Read a review!

Monday, November 7, 2005

Jack White Art Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

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

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

Waterlog: The Beach Series
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works of Toby Old

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

The black and white images of this exhibition illustrate Toby Old's ability to capture extraordinary moments in human action and social and cultural experiences as they unfold.

2005 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Works by Luke Buffenmyer, Doug DuBois, and Steven Skopik

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

This exhibit features the work of the recipients of the 31st Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The three winners are all Central New York residents.

Off the Wall
Associated Artists

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

The annual holiday sale show features the work of approximately two dozen artists, in a variety of media, which are available for viewing and ready for sale. During this show only, purchased artwork can be taken home immediately. A portion of each sale goes to support the library, which is currently undergoing renovation.

Freedom's Call

Price: $10 adults, $5 students
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A locally produced documentary, Freedom's Call examines the turbulence of the 1960's in the Deep South and two veteran journalists who covered the important stories of the civil rights movement -- Dorothy Gilliam, the first African American female reporter at The Washington Post, and renowned photographer Ernest Withers, whose photographs appeared in the black press, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and galleries and museums around the world. The 60-minute documentary takes viewers to Memphis, Little Rock, Oxford, Jackson and the Mississippi Delta, exploring the path of the civil rights movement. Two noteworthy stops along the way are visits with Minniejean Brown Trickey, one of the Little Rock Nine; and James Meredith, the first African American student to attend the University of Mississippi.

Richard Breyer, the film's director and professor of television, radio and film in Syracuse University'’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications;” producer George Kilpatrick, Director of Community Affairs, WCNY-TV (PBS) and Classic FM; and executive producer Robert Short, Jr., owner/manager of Syracuse'’s first black-owned radio station, will all be in attendance at this premiere. The Bethany Baptist Gospel Choir will proecede the film with an opening song.

Following the film, Richard Breyer, Dorothy Gilliam, George Kilpatrick, Robert Short, and
Ernest Withers will be available for questions.

Seating is limited. Those wishing to attend must RSVP by emailing brewproductions@hotmail.com in advance.

Raising the Roof
Habitat for Humanity
Featuring Syracuse Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Russo, piano; Robert Allen, tenor; Doug Logan, narrator

Price: $20, $35, $50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Benefit concert for Syracuse Habitat for Humanity. For more information, phone 315-424-8200.

Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Jack White Art Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

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

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

Africa: Arts and Inspirations
Community Folk Art Center

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

An exhibition featuring art from and inspired by Africa.

2005 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Works by Luke Buffenmyer, Doug DuBois, and Steven Skopik

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

This exhibit features the work of the recipients of the 31st Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The three winners are all Central New York residents.

Waterlog: The Beach Series
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works of Toby Old

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

The black and white images of this exhibition illustrate Toby Old's ability to capture extraordinary moments in human action and social and cultural experiences as they unfold.

Off the Wall
Associated Artists

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

The annual holiday sale show features the work of approximately two dozen artists, in a variety of media, which are available for viewing and ready for sale. During this show only, purchased artwork can be taken home immediately. A portion of each sale goes to support the library, which is currently undergoing renovation.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

On My Own Time
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.

Faculty Show
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The xxhibition features over 90 works by 51 current Syracuse University professors from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Departments of Art, Design and Foundation in the School of Art and Design and the Department of Transmedia. The exhibition presents various styles and media, creating a diverse survey of the faculty's current work.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Broadway, the Golden Age
Redhouse

Price: $8
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Directed by Rick McKay, Broadway, the Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film. Follow one filmmaker's search for a Broadway that was lost and the 100 legends that he found.

Cinematographer Rick McKay arrived in New York in 1981 and was disappointed to realize that the Broadway of his boyhood dreams had been replaced by rock operas and musicals that celebrated felines over humans. With no crew on budget and one digital camera, McKay traveled for five years and over four continents to seek out the Broadway of his youth; The Golden Age of triple-threat stars that could sing, dance and act.

Imposed Borders: Haudenosaunee Perspectives
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Grant Auditorium, College of Law
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A distinguished panel will examine the historic impact of how borders, imposed by non-indigenous people, evolved and influenced the current land claims of the Haudenosaunee.

This appearance is part of Syracuse Symposium, a semester-long intellectual and artistic festival celebrating interdisciplinary thinking, imagining, and creating. The theme this fall is "borders."

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
S.U. Brazilian Ensemble
Josh and Elisa Dekaney, conductor

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

Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

Read a Review!

Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Jack White Art Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

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

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

Africa: Arts and Inspirations
Community Folk Art Center

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

An exhibition featuring art from and inspired by Africa.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

Waterlog: The Beach Series
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works of Toby Old

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

The black and white images of this exhibition illustrate Toby Old's ability to capture extraordinary moments in human action and social and cultural experiences as they unfold.

2005 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Works by Luke Buffenmyer, Doug DuBois, and Steven Skopik

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

This exhibit features the work of the recipients of the 31st Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The three winners are all Central New York residents.

Off the Wall
Associated Artists

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

The annual holiday sale show features the work of approximately two dozen artists, in a variety of media, which are available for viewing and ready for sale. During this show only, purchased artwork can be taken home immediately. A portion of each sale goes to support the library, which is currently undergoing renovation.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

On My Own Time
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.

Faculty Show
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The xxhibition features over 90 works by 51 current Syracuse University professors from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Departments of Art, Design and Foundation in the School of Art and Design and the Department of Transmedia. The exhibition presents various styles and media, creating a diverse survey of the faculty's current work.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Is It Art?
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Joanna Spitzner

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

Professor of Art Joanna Spitzner will discuss artistic practices intertwined with exchange and economies.

Phone Pam McLaughlin at 315-474-6064 to reserve a space.

Alexander McCall Smith
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

Price: $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Zimbabwe-born law professor and author of the internationally best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. In the series, readers travel to Africa to follow the adventures of cunning sleuth Precious Ramotswe, called the "Miss Marple of Botswana," in a New York Times review.

Civic Morning Musicals
Lake Effect Winds

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

Ralph Vaughan Williams Three Vocalises for oboe and clarinet
André Previn Two pieces for clarinet and piano
Gordon Jacob Sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon

Eleanor Robinson Wilcox, flute; Tom McKay, clarinet; Mark Watkins, oboe and English horn; Don Milmore, horn; Susan Crocker, piano; Jennifer Groth, bassoon

Nina Shope, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Reading is preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m.

Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

Read a Review!

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Jack White Art Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

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

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

Africa: Arts and Inspirations
Community Folk Art Center

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

An exhibition featuring art from and inspired by Africa.

2005 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Works by Luke Buffenmyer, Doug DuBois, and Steven Skopik

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

This exhibit features the work of the recipients of the 31st Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The three winners are all Central New York residents.

Waterlog: The Beach Series
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works of Toby Old

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

The black and white images of this exhibition illustrate Toby Old's ability to capture extraordinary moments in human action and social and cultural experiences as they unfold.

Off the Wall
Associated Artists

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

The annual holiday sale show features the work of approximately two dozen artists, in a variety of media, which are available for viewing and ready for sale. During this show only, purchased artwork can be taken home immediately. A portion of each sale goes to support the library, which is currently undergoing renovation.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

On My Own Time
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.

Faculty Show
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The xxhibition features over 90 works by 51 current Syracuse University professors from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Departments of Art, Design and Foundation in the School of Art and Design and the Department of Transmedia. The exhibition presents various styles and media, creating a diverse survey of the faculty's current work.

Art of Gold
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

There have been several notable exhibitions in recent decades where gold, primarily ancient gold, has figured prominently. Yet, for all the exposure this material has received, contemporary American goldsmithing has been largely overlooked. The Art of Gold is an exhibition of jewelry and objects by studio goldsmiths that puts on display some of the finest work being made in the field today. It is the first major exhibition of its kind in 25 years.

Studio goldsmithingdesigning and fabricating objects by hand in a small studio settingis a fairly recent phenomenon. While contemporary goldsmithing has developed into a richly diverse artistic field, showing influences from Pop Art, Minimalism, Neo-Expressionism, and even Conceptual Art, it maintains its own sense of craft and unique historical lineage.

The exhibition is composed of 80 objects, including jewelry, hollowware, vessels, small sculptures and other nonjewelry items. While some pieces include stones and precious gems in their designs, they are not objects in which gold is merely a backdrop or frame for other elements. In all of the pieces, gold is the essential focus. The Art of Gold is a celebration of the inventiveness of contemporary goldsmiths and the beauty of traditional materials and processes.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Richard English: Pastoral Perceptions -- An Exhibition of Watercolors: 1982-2005
Redhouse

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

The words that come to mind immediately when describing the work of Cazenovia-based watercolor artist, Richard English, are the same words that describe the man, Richard English; quiet, thoughtful, reflective. There is a wonderful symbiotic relationship between the man and his watercolors. His deep attachment to the rural landscape, especially Upstate New York and the low country sea coast of South Carolina, is elegantly captured in his masterfully executed works. There is an aura of ease and relaxation that is evident in the presence of both the artist and his landscapes. His paintings are realistic, employing both the wet-in-wet and dry brush techniques of traditional transparent watercolors. English has been painting since the early 1950's and although he's a mainly self-taught artist, his work as an engineer has influenced both his technique and his style.

On the Wild Side
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Peter Allen: drawings
Lisa McLaughlin: wildlife watercolors
Sheila Smith: Animal Metaphors
Leigh Yardley: Abstracts of Changing Land
Rob Morache: copper scuptures

Anne Garrels
University Lectures

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Anne Garrels is a roving foreign correspondent for NPR's foreign desk. She earned international recognition in 2003 by being one of 16 U.S. journalists to remain in Baghdad during the initial invasion of Iraq. Her vivid, around-the-clock reports from the city under siege gave listeners remarkable insight into the impact of the war on Baghdad and those left in the city. Her reports can be heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition Saturday and Weekend Edition Sunday.

Katrina Relief Concert

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

Students and staff of East Syracuse-Minoa Central School District perform choral and instrumental pieces to raise money for the Save the Children Hurricane Relief Fund; a silent auction precedes the concert. For more information, phone 315-463-2128.

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone; Dear Nora; Quiet Jack; The Bikini Carwash Company
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone: Acclaimed solo project from Portland, Oregon performed by Owen Ashworth
Dear Nora: Solo performance by Dear Nora's Katy Davidson of magic marker records.
Quiet Jack: From Philidelphia, PA Quiet Jack will perform.
The Bikini Carwash Company: From Hoboken, NJ. Scott Wiener (Hijack Jupiter, Martha Dumptruck Massacre) returns to Syracuse to promote his solo works.

OCC/SU Concert Collaborative Music Project
Onondaga Community College
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring the music of Gary Nash

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-498-ARTS (2787).

Nick Saint, Private Elf
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $23.95 plus tax and gratuities
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Member of the Wedding
Redhouse

Price: $33 regular; $26 senior (65 or older); $22 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers follows 12-year-old Frankie as she enters adolescence in the steamy summer of 1944 in Georgia. With her older brother's impending marriage day approaching, fantasy, romance and real life collide as Frankie deals with the trials and tribulations of growing up and letting go.

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Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

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Major Arcana
LeMoyne College

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

Student directed/produced evening of one-act plays.

Friday, November 11, 2005

Jack White Art Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

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

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

Africa: Arts and Inspirations
Community Folk Art Center

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

An exhibition featuring art from and inspired by Africa.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

Waterlog: The Beach Series
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works of Toby Old

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

The black and white images of this exhibition illustrate Toby Old's ability to capture extraordinary moments in human action and social and cultural experiences as they unfold.

2005 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Works by Luke Buffenmyer, Doug DuBois, and Steven Skopik

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

This exhibit features the work of the recipients of the 31st Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The three winners are all Central New York residents.

Off the Wall
Associated Artists

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

The annual holiday sale show features the work of approximately two dozen artists, in a variety of media, which are available for viewing and ready for sale. During this show only, purchased artwork can be taken home immediately. A portion of each sale goes to support the library, which is currently undergoing renovation.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

On My Own Time
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.

Art of Gold
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

There have been several notable exhibitions in recent decades where gold, primarily ancient gold, has figured prominently. Yet, for all the exposure this material has received, contemporary American goldsmithing has been largely overlooked. The Art of Gold is an exhibition of jewelry and objects by studio goldsmiths that puts on display some of the finest work being made in the field today. It is the first major exhibition of its kind in 25 years.

Studio goldsmithingdesigning and fabricating objects by hand in a small studio settingis a fairly recent phenomenon. While contemporary goldsmithing has developed into a richly diverse artistic field, showing influences from Pop Art, Minimalism, Neo-Expressionism, and even Conceptual Art, it maintains its own sense of craft and unique historical lineage.

The exhibition is composed of 80 objects, including jewelry, hollowware, vessels, small sculptures and other nonjewelry items. While some pieces include stones and precious gems in their designs, they are not objects in which gold is merely a backdrop or frame for other elements. In all of the pieces, gold is the essential focus. The Art of Gold is a celebration of the inventiveness of contemporary goldsmiths and the beauty of traditional materials and processes.

Faculty Show
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The xxhibition features over 90 works by 51 current Syracuse University professors from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Departments of Art, Design and Foundation in the School of Art and Design and the Department of Transmedia. The exhibition presents various styles and media, creating a diverse survey of the faculty's current work.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Richard English: Pastoral Perceptions -- An Exhibition of Watercolors: 1982-2005
Redhouse

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

The words that come to mind immediately when describing the work of Cazenovia-based watercolor artist, Richard English, are the same words that describe the man, Richard English; quiet, thoughtful, reflective. There is a wonderful symbiotic relationship between the man and his watercolors. His deep attachment to the rural landscape, especially Upstate New York and the low country sea coast of South Carolina, is elegantly captured in his masterfully executed works. There is an aura of ease and relaxation that is evident in the presence of both the artist and his landscapes. His paintings are realistic, employing both the wet-in-wet and dry brush techniques of traditional transparent watercolors. English has been painting since the early 1950's and although he's a mainly self-taught artist, his work as an engineer has influenced both his technique and his style.

On the Wild Side
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Peter Allen: drawings
Lisa McLaughlin: wildlife watercolors
Sheila Smith: Animal Metaphors
Leigh Yardley: Abstracts of Changing Land
Rob Morache: copper scuptures

When In Rome
LeMoyne College
Music Journeys
Featuring Derek Bermel, composer and clarinet

Price: $12 regular, $7 student/senior
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Derek Bermel can be placed among such composers as Debussy and Ravel as a winner of the prestigious Rome Prize. Equally gifted as both clarinettist and composer, Mr. Bermel will be joined by a cast of local artists in performances of pieces by Bartok and Stravinsky as well as his own solo clarinet pieces Thracian Sketches and Theme and Absurdities, his clarinet-piano work SchiZm, a theatrical work for speaking pianist called Fetch (written for pianist Andrew Russo), and his woodwind quintet Wanderings.

Still in his early 30's, Bermel has been hailed by colleagues, critics, and audiences across the globe for his creativity and theatricality as a composer of chamber, symphonic, dance, theater, and pop works, and his versatility and virtuosity as a clarinetist, conductor, and jazz and rock musician. He has received many of today's most important awards, including the 2001 Rome Prize, Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, a Millennium Prize by Faber Music (UK), and several ASCAP Awards, as well as residencies at the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Tanglewood, Bowdoin, Banff, and Yaddo.

OCC/SU Concert Collaborative Music Project
Onondaga Community College
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring the music of Gary Nash

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-498-ARTS (2787).

Pops Series: Big Band Bash
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Joe Carello, saxophone; Ronnie Leigh, jazz vocalist

Price: $16 - $58
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Join the Syracuse Symphony and special guests Joe Carello and Ronnie Leigh for a swingin' Big Band Bash featuring Calvin Custer arrangements of popular hits including Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade, Benny Goodman's Let's Dance and Tommy Dorsey's I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, just to name a few! Don't miss this finger snappin', foot tappin' good time!

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Baron Wormser, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A reading by poet Baron Wormser, author of Subject Matter.

Poetry Reading Celebrating the Syracuse Cultural Workers' Women Artists' Datebook

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

The Women's Artists' Datebook is a collection of artwork and poetry created by women, with inspiring and provocative quotes. This 13th edition celebrates the work of 30 contemporary women artists, among them local poets Rachel Guido DeVries, Deborah Sorrentino, and Kelsea Habecker. They will be reading their own poems and selections from other poets, among them Alison Luterman, Anna Oneglia, Dierdre Luzwick, and Judeth Pekala Hawkins.

Member of the Wedding
Redhouse

Price: $33 regular; $26 senior (65 or older); $22 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers follows 12-year-old Frankie as she enters adolescence in the steamy summer of 1944 in Georgia. With her older brother's impending marriage day approaching, fantasy, romance and real life collide as Frankie deals with the trials and tribulations of growing up and letting go.

Read a Review!

The Wizard of Oz
Vineyard Theatre Arts

Price: $20 regular, $16 students/seniors
Syracuse Vineyard Church
312 Lakeside Rd., Syracuse

Brains. Heart. Courage. Follow the yellow brick road with us as we explore the American classic.

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Major Arcana
LeMoyne College

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

Student directed/produced evening of one-act plays.

Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

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Lend Me a Tenor
Syracuse University Drama Department
Black Box Players

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

The Full Monty
The Talent Company

Price: $23 regular; $21 seniors/students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

"It was a night out for the girls...and a way out for the guys." The Full Monty is the Broadway smash hit musical comedy about six good buddies whose desperate plan to get their lives back together requires them to triumph over their fear, their nerves, and their clothes. The Full Monty is a "feel good" story of unemployed Buffalo steel workers who devise a scheme to make some quick cash when they see how much their wives and girlfriends enjoyed male strippers during their "girls night out". In the process, the guys find a sense of renewed self-esteem, how important friendship is, and how to have fun! Nominated for ten 2001 Tony Awards including Best Musical.

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Bill Does Will: An Evening of Shakepeare
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $10 regular, $6 students and seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bill Does Will is a one-man show starring Bill Molesky in a collaborative creative effort with Neil Novelli, the area's acknowledged expert on Shakespeare, and design consultants Karel Blakeley and Shirley Blakeley. When Molsesky asked Novelli for a solo Shakespearean vehicle replete with men, women, dogs, and ships at sea, Novelli provided the concept: a collection of intimate monologues between the character and the audience. The monologues are Shakespeare's. The connecting commentaries are Novelli's.

The show opens with successive recitations of Hamlet's To Be Or Not To Be  one with the "fourth wall" apparent, the other aimed solely at the audience, demonstrating the power of a character's direct appeal to those hearts in the dark.

Some of the evening's characters include Shakespeare's Villains: Richard III, Lear's bastard, Edmund, and Claudius (as song and dance man); Shakespeare's Clowns: Verona's Launce with his dog, Crab; and of course, John Falstaff: and, in themed groupings, a host of others: Lady MacBeth, Juliet's nurse, Richard II, Much Ado's Benedick, Polonius, Malvolio, ...and a clown has the last word with Feste's closing of Twelfth Night.

For reservations, phone 315-475-9749.

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Saturday, November 12, 2005

On the Wild Side
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Peter Allen: drawings
Lisa McLaughlin: wildlife watercolors
Sheila Smith: Animal Metaphors
Leigh Yardley: Abstracts of Changing Land
Rob Morache: copper scuptures

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.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Off the Wall
Associated Artists

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

The annual holiday sale show features the work of approximately two dozen artists, in a variety of media, which are available for viewing and ready for sale. During this show only, purchased artwork can be taken home immediately. A portion of each sale goes to support the library, which is currently undergoing renovation.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

Africa: Arts and Inspirations
Community Folk Art Center

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

An exhibition featuring art from and inspired by Africa.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Faculty Show
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The xxhibition features over 90 works by 51 current Syracuse University professors from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Departments of Art, Design and Foundation in the School of Art and Design and the Department of Transmedia. The exhibition presents various styles and media, creating a diverse survey of the faculty's current work.

Art of Gold
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

There have been several notable exhibitions in recent decades where gold, primarily ancient gold, has figured prominently. Yet, for all the exposure this material has received, contemporary American goldsmithing has been largely overlooked. The Art of Gold is an exhibition of jewelry and objects by studio goldsmiths that puts on display some of the finest work being made in the field today. It is the first major exhibition of its kind in 25 years.

Studio goldsmithingdesigning and fabricating objects by hand in a small studio settingis a fairly recent phenomenon. While contemporary goldsmithing has developed into a richly diverse artistic field, showing influences from Pop Art, Minimalism, Neo-Expressionism, and even Conceptual Art, it maintains its own sense of craft and unique historical lineage.

The exhibition is composed of 80 objects, including jewelry, hollowware, vessels, small sculptures and other nonjewelry items. While some pieces include stones and precious gems in their designs, they are not objects in which gold is merely a backdrop or frame for other elements. In all of the pieces, gold is the essential focus. The Art of Gold is a celebration of the inventiveness of contemporary goldsmiths and the beauty of traditional materials and processes.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Richard English: Pastoral Perceptions -- An Exhibition of Watercolors: 1982-2005
Redhouse

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

The words that come to mind immediately when describing the work of Cazenovia-based watercolor artist, Richard English, are the same words that describe the man, Richard English; quiet, thoughtful, reflective. There is a wonderful symbiotic relationship between the man and his watercolors. His deep attachment to the rural landscape, especially Upstate New York and the low country sea coast of South Carolina, is elegantly captured in his masterfully executed works. There is an aura of ease and relaxation that is evident in the presence of both the artist and his landscapes. His paintings are realistic, employing both the wet-in-wet and dry brush techniques of traditional transparent watercolors. English has been painting since the early 1950's and although he's a mainly self-taught artist, his work as an engineer has influenced both his technique and his style.

Family Series: Peter vs. The Wolf
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Jimi James as the Wolf; Michael Connor as the District Attorney; Bill Baker as the Judge

Price: $12-$25, half-price for children under 12
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Back by popular demand, this hilarious sequel to Peter and the Wolf takes children inside the courtroom, where the Wolf defends himself against the charge of "duckicide." The performance is set to the original Prokofiev score and you, the audience, decide whether the Wolf goes free!

CMM Statewide Vocal Competition Final Round
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Folkus Project
Westcott Community Center
Paul Geremia

Price: $12
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

For almost 40 years, Paul Geremia has built a reputation as one of the finest finger-style blues guitarists alive. But as he's quick to point out, it's more than just a job. It's a love affair a lifestyle involving decades of practice and miles of hard travelin'. Geremia immersed himself in various styles of country blues since the mid-60's when he was inspired by performances and personal contact with seminal bluesmen like Son House, Skip James, and Pink Anderson. Geremia was particularly drawn to the driving Piedmont style that joined thumping bass lines to swinging ragtime melodies, but he's equally adept at the deeply emotional Delta blues.

What's unique about Geremia's playing is the way his guitar doesn't just accompany his husky, soulful voice but adds dramatic counterpoint through the use of rhythmic flourishes and stunning single-line runs. As if this weren't difficult enough, he's quick to blow a zippy harmonica solo over his intricate fingerpicking. Playing in a variety of tunings, he sets up real conversations between guitar and harmonica that, along with his voice, reach every corner of a song.

Combining his interpretations of music by blues heroes like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Scrapper Blackwell, and Blind Blake with his original compositions, Paul Geremia has created a style which is very much his own and which has received accolades in the U.S.A. and Europe too numerous to mention.

Geremia has recorded ten solo albums, and has appeared on numerous anthologies and compilation discs. His superb recordings have made him a critical favorite and place Geremia firmly among the legends who inspired and influenced him over the past four decades.

Pops Series: Big Band Bash
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Joe Carello, saxophone; Ronnie Leigh, jazz vocalist

Price: $16 - $58
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Join the Syracuse Symphony and special guests Joe Carello and Ronnie Leigh for a swingin' Big Band Bash featuring Calvin Custer arrangements of popular hits including Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade, Benny Goodman's Let's Dance and Tommy Dorsey's I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, just to name a few! Don't miss this finger snappin', foot tappin' good time!

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The Sea Story
Open Hand Theater
Rosalita's Puppets

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

Rosalita's Puppets presents this delightful marionette show with pirates, a mermaid, and all kinds of sea creatures, singing, and audience participation. It is perfect for a family audience of all ages. Charlotte Anne Dore received her theater degree in Great Britain and performs her puppets throughout the greater New England area.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Audience-interactive version of the classic story.

Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

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Member of the Wedding
Redhouse

Price: $33 regular; $26 senior (65 or older); $22 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers follows 12-year-old Frankie as she enters adolescence in the steamy summer of 1944 in Georgia. With her older brother's impending marriage day approaching, fantasy, romance and real life collide as Frankie deals with the trials and tribulations of growing up and letting go.

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Beauty and the Beast
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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The Wizard of Oz
Vineyard Theatre Arts

Price: $20 regular, $16 students/seniors
Syracuse Vineyard Church
312 Lakeside Rd., Syracuse

Brains. Heart. Courage. Follow the yellow brick road with us as we explore the American classic.

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Major Arcana
LeMoyne College

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

Student directed/produced evening of one-act plays.

Forever Plaid
Opening Night Productions

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

One of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory, this deliciously goofy revue centers on four young, eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s on the way to their first big concert, and now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was.

Singing in the closest of harmony, squabbling boyishly over the smallest intonations and executing their charmingly outlandish choreography with over-zealous precision, the "Plaids" are a guaranteed smash, with a program of beloved songs and delightful patter that keeps audiences rolling in the aisles when they're not humming along to some of the great nostalgic pop hits of the '50s.

Cast: Jonathon Baldwin (from NYC) is Frankie, Thomas Greene is Jinx, Terry LaCasse is Sparky, and Rob Searle is Smudge. Directed by Bob Brown. Musical Direction by Doug Pyke.

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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Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

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Lend Me a Tenor
Syracuse University Drama Department
Black Box Players

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

The Full Monty
The Talent Company

Price: $23 regular; $21 seniors/students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

"It was a night out for the girls...and a way out for the guys." The Full Monty is the Broadway smash hit musical comedy about six good buddies whose desperate plan to get their lives back together requires them to triumph over their fear, their nerves, and their clothes. The Full Monty is a "feel good" story of unemployed Buffalo steel workers who devise a scheme to make some quick cash when they see how much their wives and girlfriends enjoyed male strippers during their "girls night out". In the process, the guys find a sense of renewed self-esteem, how important friendship is, and how to have fun! Nominated for ten 2001 Tony Awards including Best Musical.

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Bill Does Will: An Evening of Shakepeare
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $10 regular, $6 students and seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bill Does Will is a one-man show starring Bill Molesky in a collaborative creative effort with Neil Novelli, the area's acknowledged expert on Shakespeare, and design consultants Karel Blakeley and Shirley Blakeley. When Molsesky asked Novelli for a solo Shakespearean vehicle replete with men, women, dogs, and ships at sea, Novelli provided the concept: a collection of intimate monologues between the character and the audience. The monologues are Shakespeare's. The connecting commentaries are Novelli's.

The show opens with successive recitations of Hamlet's To Be Or Not To Be  one with the "fourth wall" apparent, the other aimed solely at the audience, demonstrating the power of a character's direct appeal to those hearts in the dark.

Some of the evening's characters include Shakespeare's Villains: Richard III, Lear's bastard, Edmund, and Claudius (as song and dance man); Shakespeare's Clowns: Verona's Launce with his dog, Crab; and of course, John Falstaff: and, in themed groupings, a host of others: Lady MacBeth, Juliet's nurse, Richard II, Much Ado's Benedick, Polonius, Malvolio, ...and a clown has the last word with Feste's closing of Twelfth Night.

For reservations, phone 315-475-9749.

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Sunday, November 13, 2005

2005 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Works by Luke Buffenmyer, Doug DuBois, and Steven Skopik

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

This exhibit features the work of the recipients of the 31st Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The three winners are all Central New York residents.

Waterlog: The Beach Series
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works of Toby Old

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

The black and white images of this exhibition illustrate Toby Old's ability to capture extraordinary moments in human action and social and cultural experiences as they unfold.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

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.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Art of Gold
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

There have been several notable exhibitions in recent decades where gold, primarily ancient gold, has figured prominently. Yet, for all the exposure this material has received, contemporary American goldsmithing has been largely overlooked. The Art of Gold is an exhibition of jewelry and objects by studio goldsmiths that puts on display some of the finest work being made in the field today. It is the first major exhibition of its kind in 25 years.

Studio goldsmithingdesigning and fabricating objects by hand in a small studio settingis a fairly recent phenomenon. While contemporary goldsmithing has developed into a richly diverse artistic field, showing influences from Pop Art, Minimalism, Neo-Expressionism, and even Conceptual Art, it maintains its own sense of craft and unique historical lineage.

The exhibition is composed of 80 objects, including jewelry, hollowware, vessels, small sculptures and other nonjewelry items. While some pieces include stones and precious gems in their designs, they are not objects in which gold is merely a backdrop or frame for other elements. In all of the pieces, gold is the essential focus. The Art of Gold is a celebration of the inventiveness of contemporary goldsmiths and the beauty of traditional materials and processes.

Faculty Show
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The xxhibition features over 90 works by 51 current Syracuse University professors from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Departments of Art, Design and Foundation in the School of Art and Design and the Department of Transmedia. The exhibition presents various styles and media, creating a diverse survey of the faculty's current work.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Off the Wall
Associated Artists

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

The annual holiday sale show features the work of approximately two dozen artists, in a variety of media, which are available for viewing and ready for sale. During this show only, purchased artwork can be taken home immediately. A portion of each sale goes to support the library, which is currently undergoing renovation.

Broadway, the Golden Age
Redhouse

Price: $8
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Directed by Rick McKay, Broadway, the Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film. Follow one filmmaker's search for a Broadway that was lost and the 100 legends that he found.

Cinematographer Rick McKay arrived in New York in 1981 and was disappointed to realize that the Broadway of his boyhood dreams had been replaced by rock operas and musicals that celebrated felines over humans. With no crew on budget and one digital camera, McKay traveled for five years and over four continents to seek out the Broadway of his youth; The Golden Age of triple-threat stars that could sing, dance and act.

Harmony of Harps, with Jennifer Byrne and Ensemble
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

MFA Reading Series
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Jabberwocky Cafe, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Come hear the Syracuse MFA students in creative writing show their stuff.

Free on-street parking.

Playful Music
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular, $12 students and seniors
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Stephen Hartke The Horse with the Lavender Eye, 1997
Peter Schickele The Emperor's New Clothes, 2002
Richard Danielpour A Child's Reliquary, 1999
Daniel S. Godfrey Arietta, 1990

An Afternoon at the Ballet
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor

Price: $5
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Gluck Ballet Suite
Copland "Prairie Night" and "Celebration Dance" from Billy the Kid
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (Mvmts. I, II, III and VI)
Prokofiev "Montagues and Capulets" from Romeo and Juliet
Stravinsky selections from Pulcinella

The orchestra will join several musical groups for this special benefit concert in support of NAMI-Promise, a mental illness support group.

Theatre Pipe Organ Concert
Syracuse Wurlitzer
Featuring Paul Roberts

Price: Non-members: $10 adults; $2 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Forever Plaid
Opening Night Productions

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

One of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory, this deliciously goofy revue centers on four young, eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s on the way to their first big concert, and now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was.

Singing in the closest of harmony, squabbling boyishly over the smallest intonations and executing their charmingly outlandish choreography with over-zealous precision, the "Plaids" are a guaranteed smash, with a program of beloved songs and delightful patter that keeps audiences rolling in the aisles when they're not humming along to some of the great nostalgic pop hits of the '50s.

Cast: Jonathon Baldwin (from NYC) is Frankie, Thomas Greene is Jinx, Terry LaCasse is Sparky, and Rob Searle is Smudge. Directed by Bob Brown. Musical Direction by Doug Pyke.

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!

Bill Does Will: An Evening of Shakepeare
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $10 regular, $6 students and seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bill Does Will is a one-man show starring Bill Molesky in a collaborative creative effort with Neil Novelli, the area's acknowledged expert on Shakespeare, and design consultants Karel Blakeley and Shirley Blakeley. When Molsesky asked Novelli for a solo Shakespearean vehicle replete with men, women, dogs, and ships at sea, Novelli provided the concept: a collection of intimate monologues between the character and the audience. The monologues are Shakespeare's. The connecting commentaries are Novelli's.

The show opens with successive recitations of Hamlet's To Be Or Not To Be  one with the "fourth wall" apparent, the other aimed solely at the audience, demonstrating the power of a character's direct appeal to those hearts in the dark.

Some of the evening's characters include Shakespeare's Villains: Richard III, Lear's bastard, Edmund, and Claudius (as song and dance man); Shakespeare's Clowns: Verona's Launce with his dog, Crab; and of course, John Falstaff: and, in themed groupings, a host of others: Lady MacBeth, Juliet's nurse, Richard II, Much Ado's Benedick, Polonius, Malvolio, ...and a clown has the last word with Feste's closing of Twelfth Night.

For reservations, phone 315-475-9749.

Read a Review!

Beauty and the Beast
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

Read a Review!

The Full Monty
The Talent Company

Price: $23 regular; $21 seniors/students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

"It was a night out for the girls...and a way out for the guys." The Full Monty is the Broadway smash hit musical comedy about six good buddies whose desperate plan to get their lives back together requires them to triumph over their fear, their nerves, and their clothes. The Full Monty is a "feel good" story of unemployed Buffalo steel workers who devise a scheme to make some quick cash when they see how much their wives and girlfriends enjoyed male strippers during their "girls night out". In the process, the guys find a sense of renewed self-esteem, how important friendship is, and how to have fun! Nominated for ten 2001 Tony Awards including Best Musical.

Read a Review!

Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

Read a Review!