Sunday, May 9, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today's contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Symphoria Youth Orchestras Spring Concert
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Price: Free
Online

Hear the Central New York's most talented young musicians perform a wide variety of chamber music works in the final concert of their 2020-21 season.

More information and streaming links

Symphoria Youth Orchestras Spring Concert
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Price: Free
Online

Hear the Central New York's most talented young musicians perform a wide variety of chamber music works in the final concert of their 2020-21 season.

More information and streaming links

Symphoria Youth Orchestras Spring Concert
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Price: Free
Online

Hear the Central New York's most talented young musicians perform a wide variety of chamber music works in the final concert of their 2020-21 season.

More information and streaming links

CMM Live! Song and Strings
Civic Morning Musicals
Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, soprano; William Knuth, violin; Dan Sato, piano

Price: $25
Online

This varied program includes songs in Swedish, English, Saami (Finland), Hungarian, French, and Italian, representing composers from all over the globe, including an American premiere of song settings of indigenous Lapland, in the far north of Finland. This song and three other sets are by outstanding women composers from America, the U.K., and Finland.

Facebook event

Symphoria Youth Orchestras Spring Concert
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Price: Free
Online

Hear the Central New York's most talented young musicians perform a wide variety of chamber music works in the final concert of their 2020-21 season.

More information and streaming links

I and You
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

Price: $30 individual, $60 household
Online

Isolated due to a life-threatening illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Confined to her room, she relies on Instagram, Facebook and a stuffed turtle for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in—unexpectedly and bearing waffle fries, some Walt Whitman poetry, and a literature project due the next day. He's enthusiastic, athletic, and charming in a nerdy sort of way, but Caroline is wary. Still, an unlikely friendship develops as a run of the mill homework assignment reveals the pair's hopes and dreams, and they come to realize that Whitman's sense of interconnectedness means more to their lives than they could have imagined. This sharp, funny, and tender-hearted play by Lauren Gunderson won the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award in 2014.

Buy video-on-demand tickets.

Monday, May 10, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

I and You
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

Price: $30 individual, $60 household
Online

Isolated due to a life-threatening illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Confined to her room, she relies on Instagram, Facebook and a stuffed turtle for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in—unexpectedly and bearing waffle fries, some Walt Whitman poetry, and a literature project due the next day. He's enthusiastic, athletic, and charming in a nerdy sort of way, but Caroline is wary. Still, an unlikely friendship develops as a run of the mill homework assignment reveals the pair's hopes and dreams, and they come to realize that Whitman's sense of interconnectedness means more to their lives than they could have imagined. This sharp, funny, and tender-hearted play by Lauren Gunderson won the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award in 2014.

Buy video-on-demand tickets.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

I and You
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

Price: $30 individual, $60 household
Online

Isolated due to a life-threatening illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Confined to her room, she relies on Instagram, Facebook and a stuffed turtle for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in—unexpectedly and bearing waffle fries, some Walt Whitman poetry, and a literature project due the next day. He's enthusiastic, athletic, and charming in a nerdy sort of way, but Caroline is wary. Still, an unlikely friendship develops as a run of the mill homework assignment reveals the pair's hopes and dreams, and they come to realize that Whitman's sense of interconnectedness means more to their lives than they could have imagined. This sharp, funny, and tender-hearted play by Lauren Gunderson won the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award in 2014.

Buy video-on-demand tickets.

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

Ilana Joyce Cady, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free
Online

Facebook event

I and You
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

Price: $30 individual, $60 household
Online

Isolated due to a life-threatening illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Confined to her room, she relies on Instagram, Facebook and a stuffed turtle for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in—unexpectedly and bearing waffle fries, some Walt Whitman poetry, and a literature project due the next day. He's enthusiastic, athletic, and charming in a nerdy sort of way, but Caroline is wary. Still, an unlikely friendship develops as a run of the mill homework assignment reveals the pair's hopes and dreams, and they come to realize that Whitman's sense of interconnectedness means more to their lives than they could have imagined. This sharp, funny, and tender-hearted play by Lauren Gunderson won the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award in 2014.

Buy video-on-demand tickets.

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

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

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

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

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

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

Reservations

The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today's contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.

Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Steffani Jemison: Figure 8
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nearly a decade, Brooklyn-based artist Steffani Jemison has been deeply invested in examining the ways knowledge is constructed and legitimized. This interest stems from a fascination with frameworks of interpretation and narration, as well as critical theory and Black vernacular traditions. She explores these concepts through a practice that encompasses sculpture, video, installation, sound, and fiction writing.

Light Work commissioned Steffani Jemison to create new work for Urban Video Project as part of an annual moving image commission program. The new work, Figure 8, comes out of Jemison's collaboration with athlete Alexis Page.

The video will be projected onto the north facade of the Everson Museum beginning at dusk.

Everson Close-Up Artist Series: Ellen Blalock: Conversations Through Creation
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Online

Who: Artist Ellen Blalock's work tells stories of the ignored and underrepresented. Her choice of media include photography, video, drawing, fiber, and installation.

What: Ellen will share about how she uses art to raise awareness of human conditions, social injustices, cultural diversities, and religious and spiritual beliefs. She'll also discuss the meaning and inspiration behind her piece "Bang Bang, You Dead!" (2018), featured in Who What When Where.

Zoom registration closes 10 minutes before start time.

I and You
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

Price: $30 individual, $60 household
Online

Isolated due to a life-threatening illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Confined to her room, she relies on Instagram, Facebook and a stuffed turtle for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in—unexpectedly and bearing waffle fries, some Walt Whitman poetry, and a literature project due the next day. He's enthusiastic, athletic, and charming in a nerdy sort of way, but Caroline is wary. Still, an unlikely friendship develops as a run of the mill homework assignment reveals the pair's hopes and dreams, and they come to realize that Whitman's sense of interconnectedness means more to their lives than they could have imagined. This sharp, funny, and tender-hearted play by Lauren Gunderson won the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award in 2014.

Buy video-on-demand tickets.

Working: A Musical
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: Pay what you wish
Online

Based on Studs Terkel's best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working paints a vivid portrait of the people the world so often takes for granted: the schoolteacher, the phone operator, the food server, the millworker, the mason, and the stay-at-home parent, just to name a few. Nominated for six Tony Awards, Working received a contemporary make-over in 2012 and features new songs by Tony Award-winning Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as favorites by Stephen Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, and James Taylor. With most professions updated, the show's power still resides in the core truths that transcend specific occupations; the key is how people's relationships to their work ultimately reveal key aspects of their humanity, regardless of the trappings of the job itself. Musical Direction by Brian Cimmet; choreography by Bradley Stone.

Please note: the performers are masked and distanced throughout the show.

Get access.

Friday, May 14, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

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

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

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

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

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

Reservations

Minnie Bruce Pratt will be in attendance this afternoon 3:00-6:00 pm.

The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today's contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Steffani Jemison: Figure 8
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nearly a decade, Brooklyn-based artist Steffani Jemison has been deeply invested in examining the ways knowledge is constructed and legitimized. This interest stems from a fascination with frameworks of interpretation and narration, as well as critical theory and Black vernacular traditions. She explores these concepts through a practice that encompasses sculpture, video, installation, sound, and fiction writing.

Light Work commissioned Steffani Jemison to create new work for Urban Video Project as part of an annual moving image commission program. The new work, Figure 8, comes out of Jemison's collaboration with athlete Alexis Page.

The video will be projected onto the north facade of the Everson Museum beginning at dusk.

Downtown Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $15 non-members, $12 members (call OHA for discount code)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Join us as we venture through downtown Syracuse and showcase some of the important figures that walked our city's streets. This tour will began at OHA's Downtown Museum at 321 Montgomery Street.

We are still maintaining social distancing practices with the following:
• Tour groups will be no more than 10 guests and 2 guides.
• Masks will be worn at all times by guests and guides.
• Social distancing required (6 ft + between you and another person), unless within the same family or group.
• No walk ups or late registrants will be allowed.
• You must be present when your group is slotted to begin; late arrivals may not be allowed to join the group and no refunds will be given.

In an attempt to maintain our ghosts' authenticity, they will not be wearing masks and therefore, to ensure safe social distancing, they will be a minimum of 10 feet away from guests. Please respect their space and do not hold back to talk with them when their presentation is over.

Advance purchase required. Get tickets.

Poet Joseph Millar
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
Online

Joseph Millar's poems have won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize. He teaches in Pacific University's Low Residency MFA and in North Carolina State's MFA program. Dark Harvest: New and Selected Poems is due out in fall of 2021 from Carnegie Mellon. His most recent book is Kingdom. Of his work, the poet Philip Levine said, "If you want the real news of how America lives, of what it's like to be here with us ... Millar will tell you with exactitude and delicacy in poems like none you've read before. He knows a country, an America, that's been here all along waiting for its voice. It's time we listened."

Register to receive Zoom link.

I and You
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

Price: $30 individual, $60 household
Online

Isolated due to a life-threatening illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Confined to her room, she relies on Instagram, Facebook and a stuffed turtle for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in—unexpectedly and bearing waffle fries, some Walt Whitman poetry, and a literature project due the next day. He's enthusiastic, athletic, and charming in a nerdy sort of way, but Caroline is wary. Still, an unlikely friendship develops as a run of the mill homework assignment reveals the pair's hopes and dreams, and they come to realize that Whitman's sense of interconnectedness means more to their lives than they could have imagined. This sharp, funny, and tender-hearted play by Lauren Gunderson won the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award in 2014.

Buy video-on-demand tickets.

Working: A Musical
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: Pay what you wish
Online

Based on Studs Terkel's best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working paints a vivid portrait of the people the world so often takes for granted: the schoolteacher, the phone operator, the food server, the millworker, the mason, and the stay-at-home parent, just to name a few. Nominated for six Tony Awards, Working received a contemporary make-over in 2012 and features new songs by Tony Award-winning Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as favorites by Stephen Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, and James Taylor. With most professions updated, the show's power still resides in the core truths that transcend specific occupations; the key is how people's relationships to their work ultimately reveal key aspects of their humanity, regardless of the trappings of the job itself. Musical Direction by Brian Cimmet; choreography by Bradley Stone.

Please note: the performers are masked and distanced throughout the show.

Get access.

Saturday, May 15, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today's contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.

Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reservations

Minnie Bruce Pratt will be in attendance this afternoon 1:00-4:00 pm.

Steffani Jemison: Figure 8
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nearly a decade, Brooklyn-based artist Steffani Jemison has been deeply invested in examining the ways knowledge is constructed and legitimized. This interest stems from a fascination with frameworks of interpretation and narration, as well as critical theory and Black vernacular traditions. She explores these concepts through a practice that encompasses sculpture, video, installation, sound, and fiction writing.

Light Work commissioned Steffani Jemison to create new work for Urban Video Project as part of an annual moving image commission program. The new work, Figure 8, comes out of Jemison's collaboration with athlete Alexis Page.

The video will be projected onto the north facade of the Everson Museum beginning at dusk.

Downtown Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $15 non-members, $12 members (call OHA for discount code)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Join us as we venture through downtown Syracuse and showcase some of the important figures that walked our city's streets. This tour will began at OHA's Downtown Museum at 321 Montgomery Street.

We are still maintaining social distancing practices with the following:
• Tour groups will be no more than 10 guests and 2 guides.
• Masks will be worn at all times by guests and guides.
• Social distancing required (6 ft + between you and another person), unless within the same family or group.
• No walk ups or late registrants will be allowed.
• You must be present when your group is slotted to begin; late arrivals may not be allowed to join the group and no refunds will be given.

In an attempt to maintain our ghosts' authenticity, they will not be wearing masks and therefore, to ensure safe social distancing, they will be a minimum of 10 feet away from guests. Please respect their space and do not hold back to talk with them when their presentation is over.

Advance purchase required. Get tickets.

Mars 2020: NASA's Perseverance Rover and the Search for Ancient Life on Mars
Strathmore Speakers Series
Featuring Jeff Megivern

Price: Free
Online

Join the Strathmore Speakers Series and Onondaga Free Library for an afternoon with NASA engineer and Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover team member, Jeff Megivern. Perseverance's successful landing on Mars on February 18, 2021 was a testament to resourcefulness, technical expertise, and dedication to the pursuit of knowledge. Equipped with a helicopter named Ingenuity, Perseverance is on a mission to seek out signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth. During this talk, Mr. Megivern will provide an overview of the Mars 2020 mission, discuss the challenges inherent in robotic exploration of the Red Planet, describe his role as part of the Perseverance systems team, and give us an insider's look at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A brief Q&A will follow.

Zoom registration.

Natasha Returns
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Natasha Paremski, piano

Price: Live stream: $20 individual, $35 family
Online

Schubert Symphony in B minor, D. 759, "Unfinished"
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1

I and You
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

Price: $30 individual, $60 household
Online

Isolated due to a life-threatening illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Confined to her room, she relies on Instagram, Facebook and a stuffed turtle for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in—unexpectedly and bearing waffle fries, some Walt Whitman poetry, and a literature project due the next day. He's enthusiastic, athletic, and charming in a nerdy sort of way, but Caroline is wary. Still, an unlikely friendship develops as a run of the mill homework assignment reveals the pair's hopes and dreams, and they come to realize that Whitman's sense of interconnectedness means more to their lives than they could have imagined. This sharp, funny, and tender-hearted play by Lauren Gunderson won the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award in 2014.

Buy video-on-demand tickets.

Working: A Musical
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: Pay what you wish
Online

Based on Studs Terkel's best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working paints a vivid portrait of the people the world so often takes for granted: the schoolteacher, the phone operator, the food server, the millworker, the mason, and the stay-at-home parent, just to name a few. Nominated for six Tony Awards, Working received a contemporary make-over in 2012 and features new songs by Tony Award-winning Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as favorites by Stephen Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, and James Taylor. With most professions updated, the show's power still resides in the core truths that transcend specific occupations; the key is how people's relationships to their work ultimately reveal key aspects of their humanity, regardless of the trappings of the job itself. Musical Direction by Brian Cimmet; choreography by Bradley Stone.

Please note: the performers are masked and distanced throughout the show.

Get access.

Working: A Musical
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: Pay what you wish
Online

Based on Studs Terkel's best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working paints a vivid portrait of the people the world so often takes for granted: the schoolteacher, the phone operator, the food server, the millworker, the mason, and the stay-at-home parent, just to name a few. Nominated for six Tony Awards, Working received a contemporary make-over in 2012 and features new songs by Tony Award-winning Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as favorites by Stephen Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, and James Taylor. With most professions updated, the show's power still resides in the core truths that transcend specific occupations; the key is how people's relationships to their work ultimately reveal key aspects of their humanity, regardless of the trappings of the job itself. Musical Direction by Brian Cimmet; choreography by Bradley Stone.

Please note: the performers are masked and distanced throughout the show.

Get access.

Sunday, May 16, 2021

Window Exhibit: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective health of the public is a refreshing show of unity many have made toward fighting the pandemic. These portraits are of many people from many backgrounds; essential workers, educators, neighbors, family, and more are featured.

The portraits are on display in the front windows of the gallery.

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

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

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

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

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

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The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson began collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics in earnest in the mid 1970s, an experimental period when artists were applying geometric forms and conceptual strategies to traditional materials and forms. The exhibition highlights this under-recognized generation of artists who are now credited with laying the groundwork for today's contemporary ceramic movement in Japan.

Who What When Where
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Jaleel Campbell: Homecoming
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Downtown Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $15 non-members, $12 members (call OHA for discount code)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Join us as we venture through downtown Syracuse and showcase some of the important figures that walked our city's streets. This tour will began at OHA's Downtown Museum at 321 Montgomery Street.

We are still maintaining social distancing practices with the following:
• Tour groups will be no more than 10 guests and 2 guides.
• Masks will be worn at all times by guests and guides.
• Social distancing required (6 ft + between you and another person), unless within the same family or group.
• No walk ups or late registrants will be allowed.
• You must be present when your group is slotted to begin; late arrivals may not be allowed to join the group and no refunds will be given.

In an attempt to maintain our ghosts' authenticity, they will not be wearing masks and therefore, to ensure safe social distancing, they will be a minimum of 10 feet away from guests. Please respect their space and do not hold back to talk with them when their presentation is over.

Advance purchase required. Get tickets.

Composer/Performer LIVE Series: Peter Allen and Lana Stafford
Society for New Music

Price: Free (donations appreciated)
Online

The Society for New Music is excited to announce the fourth and final installment of its Composer/Performer LIVE Series, featuring composer/multi-instrumentalist Peter Allen and flutist/improvisor Lana Stafford.

Peter Allen is a multimedia artist from Syracuse. He earned a B.F.A. in Special Studies in Art from Syracuse University. He exhibits his artwork in numerous venues in Central New York and performs regularly in Central New York in bands and for theatrical productions. Look for his recent album, A Time of Sorrows & Joys, by Peter Allen Alt Jazz at cdBaby and also on iTunes, GooglePlay, Apple Music, amazon.com, and all your favorite streaming platforms. The album is expected to release mid-May.

Lana Stafford is a freelance musician and private flute instructor from Skaneateles, NY. She earned her M.M. in Flute Performance from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Lana is a member of the CNY Association of Music Teachers and a Board Member at the Society for New Music. Through SNM, Lana has performed at Colgate University, Hamilton College, Syracuse University, Onondaga Community College, and the Cazenovia Counterpoint Festival.

The performance will be streamed live from the SNM YouTube page.

I and You
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

Price: $30 individual, $60 household
Online

Isolated due to a life-threatening illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Confined to her room, she relies on Instagram, Facebook and a stuffed turtle for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in—unexpectedly and bearing waffle fries, some Walt Whitman poetry, and a literature project due the next day. He's enthusiastic, athletic, and charming in a nerdy sort of way, but Caroline is wary. Still, an unlikely friendship develops as a run of the mill homework assignment reveals the pair's hopes and dreams, and they come to realize that Whitman's sense of interconnectedness means more to their lives than they could have imagined. This sharp, funny, and tender-hearted play by Lauren Gunderson won the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award in 2014.

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Working: A Musical
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: Pay what you wish
Online

Based on Studs Terkel's best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working paints a vivid portrait of the people the world so often takes for granted: the schoolteacher, the phone operator, the food server, the millworker, the mason, and the stay-at-home parent, just to name a few. Nominated for six Tony Awards, Working received a contemporary make-over in 2012 and features new songs by Tony Award-winning Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as favorites by Stephen Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, and James Taylor. With most professions updated, the show's power still resides in the core truths that transcend specific occupations; the key is how people's relationships to their work ultimately reveal key aspects of their humanity, regardless of the trappings of the job itself. Musical Direction by Brian Cimmet; choreography by Bradley Stone.

Please note: the performers are masked and distanced throughout the show.

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