Saturday, July 11, 2026

CNY Artist Initiative: Renqian Yang
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Renqian Yang is an artist and Associate Professor of Ceramics at SUNY Oswego. She earned her BFA from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China (2009), and her MFA from Syracuse University (2014). Her work explores the balance between dualities—restraint and freedom, memory and loss, dislocation and belonging.

   

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

Smörgåsbord
art haus SYR

120 Walton St.
Syracuse

A group exhibition featuring works by Peter Allen, Dennis Kinsey, CJ Hodge, Tyrel De Bique, Steve Pearlman, Marc-Anthony Polizzi, Robert Poormon, and Steve Nyland.

   

Syracuse International Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Beak & Skiff
2708 Lords Hill Rd., Lafayette

1:00 pm: Drew Serafini Quartet
2:00 pm: The Five Families Ensemble
3:00 pm: The Tim Herron Quartet
4:00 pm: Frank Grosso Organ Trio
5:30 pm: Nathan Williams Sr & the Zydeco Cha Cha's
7:00 pm: Sweden's Queen of Swing Gunhild Carling, with the Carling Family Band's tribute to Louis Armstrong featuring the Syracuse Horns
9:00 pm: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
10:30 pm: Los Blancos (late night party)

For more information, visit www.syracusejazzfest.com.

   

Summer Concert
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Price: Free
Beard Park
Fayetteville

The Syracuse Orchestra performs light classical favorites, patriotic tunes, and popular standards.

Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

Rain date: July 12, 7:30 pm.

   

Youth Theater Production: Seussical the Musical
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Ceara Windhausen, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

From the Jungle of Nool to the Whos down below, there's a symphony of music and joy.

Tickets

   

Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical
CNY Playhouse
Christopher James Lupia, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Murder and chaos are pitted against love and virtue in this sweeping gothic musical. The epic struggle between good and evil comes to life on stage in the musical phenomenon based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson. An evocative tale of two men – one, a doctor, passionate and romantic; the other, a terrifying madman – and two women – one, beautiful and trusting; the other, beautiful and trusting only herself – both women in love with the same man and both unaware of his dark secret.

Tickets

   

Sunday, July 12, 2026

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Renqian Yang
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Renqian Yang is an artist and Associate Professor of Ceramics at SUNY Oswego. She earned her BFA from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China (2009), and her MFA from Syracuse University (2014). Her work explores the balance between dualities—restraint and freedom, memory and loss, dislocation and belonging.

   

Return to Community: Gospel to Jazz Syracuse International Jazz Fest

Price: Free, but seating is limited/first-come, first-seated
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The beloved Return to Community: Gospel to Jazz IV program at Hendricks Chapel features performances by Winston-Salem State University Concert Choir, Syracuse Community Choir, and the Black Celestial Choral Ensemble.

Prior to the indoor Gospel program, Syracuse University will host a complimentary picnic lunch on the Quad in a tented area located directly in front of the chapel beginning at 12:00 pm, continuing the festival's tradition of bringing the community together through music and shared experience.

For more information, visit www.syracusejazzfest.com.

   

Youth Theater Production: Seussical the Musical
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Ceara Windhausen, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

From the Jungle of Nool to the Whos down below, there's a symphony of music and joy.

Tickets

   

Monday, July 13, 2026

The Hot Club of Syracuse
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Gypsy swing

   

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

CNY Artist Initiative: Renqian Yang
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Renqian Yang is an artist and Associate Professor of Ceramics at SUNY Oswego. She earned her BFA from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China (2009), and her MFA from Syracuse University (2014). Her work explores the balance between dualities—restraint and freedom, memory and loss, dislocation and belonging.

   

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

Ménage a Soul
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Classic rock and R&B

   

Thursday, July 16, 2026

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Renqian Yang
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Renqian Yang is an artist and Associate Professor of Ceramics at SUNY Oswego. She earned her BFA from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China (2009), and her MFA from Syracuse University (2014). Her work explores the balance between dualities—restraint and freedom, memory and loss, dislocation and belonging.

   

Youth Theater Production: Seussical the Musical
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Ceara Windhausen, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

From the Jungle of Nool to the Whos down below, there's a symphony of music and joy.

Tickets

   

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Town of Manlius Recreation Department
Eric Feola, director

Eagle Hill Middle School
4645 Enders Rd., Manlius

Before she was Carole King — chart-topping music legend — she was Carol Klein, a Brooklyn girl with passion and an extraordinary ear for melody. She fought her way into the record business as a teenager and, by the time she reached her twenties, had the husband of her dreams and a flourishing career writing hits for the biggest acts in rock 'n' roll.

It wasn't until her personal life began to crack that she finally found her own voice. Beautiful tells the inspiring true story of Carole King's remarkable rise to stardom — from her hit songwriting partnership with husband Gerry Goffin, to her friendship with fellow writers Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to her ultimate triumph as one of the most successful solo artists in music history.

Along the way, she didn't just make beautiful music. She wrote the soundtrack to a generation.

   

Friday, July 17, 2026

CNY Artist Initiative: Renqian Yang
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Renqian Yang is an artist and Associate Professor of Ceramics at SUNY Oswego. She earned her BFA from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China (2009), and her MFA from Syracuse University (2014). Her work explores the balance between dualities—restraint and freedom, memory and loss, dislocation and belonging.

   

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

Derek Hough: Symphony of Dance Encore
The Oncenter

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

As a four-time Emmy Award winner and 13-time nominee, Derek Hough holds the record for most choreography nominations in Television Academy history. Hough has also appeared in film, television, and stage projects as an actor. He made his feature film debut for director Duane Adler and producer Robert Cort in the feature film Make Your Move and had a recurring role on the ABC series Nashville and in High School Musical The Musical for Disney+. His stage performances include Radio City Music Hall's Spring Spectacular costarring alongside the Tony Award winning Laura Benanti and the critically acclaimed production of Footloose in which he starred as the male lead in London's West End. In December of 2016, Hough starred with Jennifer Hudson, Ariana Grande, Martin Short and Harvey Fierstein in NBC's Hairspray Live!

Tickets

   

Youth Theater Production: Seussical the Musical
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Ceara Windhausen, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

From the Jungle of Nool to the Whos down below, there's a symphony of music and joy.

Tickets

   

Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical
CNY Playhouse
Christopher James Lupia, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Murder and chaos are pitted against love and virtue in this sweeping gothic musical. The epic struggle between good and evil comes to life on stage in the musical phenomenon based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson. An evocative tale of two men – one, a doctor, passionate and romantic; the other, a terrifying madman – and two women – one, beautiful and trusting; the other, beautiful and trusting only herself – both women in love with the same man and both unaware of his dark secret.

Tickets

   

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Town of Manlius Recreation Department
Eric Feola, director

Eagle Hill Middle School
4645 Enders Rd., Manlius

Before she was Carole King — chart-topping music legend — she was Carol Klein, a Brooklyn girl with passion and an extraordinary ear for melody. She fought her way into the record business as a teenager and, by the time she reached her twenties, had the husband of her dreams and a flourishing career writing hits for the biggest acts in rock 'n' roll.

It wasn't until her personal life began to crack that she finally found her own voice. Beautiful tells the inspiring true story of Carole King's remarkable rise to stardom — from her hit songwriting partnership with husband Gerry Goffin, to her friendship with fellow writers Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to her ultimate triumph as one of the most successful solo artists in music history.

Along the way, she didn't just make beautiful music. She wrote the soundtrack to a generation.

   

Saturday, July 18, 2026

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A Long Look: Documentary Photography, 1888-2016 traces more than a century of photographers turning their lenses toward the world as witnesses, advocates, and storytellers. From the late 19th century, when advances in camera technology first allowed photographers to record spontaneous moments, to the bold and colorful images of today, documentary photography has shaped how people see the world, both its past and its present.

Documentary photographers traditionally immerse themselves in their subjects. Bruce Davidson spent 10 days living in the mining communities of South Wales producing his Welsh Miners portfolio. Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project plays out over nine years, showing the vibrant life of Black Americans in Harlem in the 1930s. Donna Ferrato has spent decades documenting survivors of domestic violence and advocating for their welfare. Documentary photographers reveal how sustained engagement with their subjects, over ten days or several decades, produces images that challenge stereotypes, humanize the unfamiliar, and deepen public understanding.

A Long Look invites viewers to consider the significance of documentary photography as a medium, asking how photographs shape collective memory and inspire social awareness. Documentary photographers must often navigate the tension between art and journalism, frequently occupying a grey area between the two.

   

CNY Artist Initiative: Renqian Yang
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Renqian Yang is an artist and Associate Professor of Ceramics at SUNY Oswego. She earned her BFA from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China (2009), and her MFA from Syracuse University (2014). Her work explores the balance between dualities—restraint and freedom, memory and loss, dislocation and belonging.

   

Folias Duo
Skaneateles Library Guitar Series

Price: Free
Skaneateles Library
49 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Folias Duo is a composer–performer ensemble for flute and guitar, blending classical music with jazz, world music, and improvisation. Flutist Carmen Maret and guitarist Andrew Bergeron have spent two decades developing a singular artistic voice, composing over 70 original works for their instrumentation — more than any duo of their kind worldwide.

   

Youth Theater Production: Seussical the Musical
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Ceara Windhausen, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

From the Jungle of Nool to the Whos down below, there's a symphony of music and joy.

Tickets

   

Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical
CNY Playhouse
Christopher James Lupia, director

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Murder and chaos are pitted against love and virtue in this sweeping gothic musical. The epic struggle between good and evil comes to life on stage in the musical phenomenon based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson. An evocative tale of two men – one, a doctor, passionate and romantic; the other, a terrifying madman – and two women – one, beautiful and trusting; the other, beautiful and trusting only herself – both women in love with the same man and both unaware of his dark secret.

Tickets

   

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Town of Manlius Recreation Department
Eric Feola, director

Eagle Hill Middle School
4645 Enders Rd., Manlius

Before she was Carole King — chart-topping music legend — she was Carol Klein, a Brooklyn girl with passion and an extraordinary ear for melody. She fought her way into the record business as a teenager and, by the time she reached her twenties, had the husband of her dreams and a flourishing career writing hits for the biggest acts in rock 'n' roll.

It wasn't until her personal life began to crack that she finally found her own voice. Beautiful tells the inspiring true story of Carole King's remarkable rise to stardom — from her hit songwriting partnership with husband Gerry Goffin, to her friendship with fellow writers Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to her ultimate triumph as one of the most successful solo artists in music history.

Along the way, she didn't just make beautiful music. She wrote the soundtrack to a generation.