Thursday, April 15, 2021

New Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Wendy Harris: Pastel and acrylic paintings
Tom Slocum: Wood sculpture
Sylvia Hayes-McKean: Sculptural jewelry

Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free, but reservations required for in-person viewing
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America" is a "locked and loaded" conversation through art, showcasing art in all media that addresses the culture of violence, systemic racism, police brutality, and gun issues in the United States—particularly in how it affects women and children.

This exhibition is curated by Karen Gutfreund of Syracuse. She is a partner in Gutfreund Cornett Art, a curatorial partnership that specializes in creating exhibitions in venues around the U.S. ?on themes of "art as activism" to stimulate dialog, ?raise consciousness ?and encourage social change.

Additional work by 12 artists is also on exhibit as part of this exhibition at the Community Folk Art Center Gallery and Point of Contact Gallery.

Make a reservation for in-person viewing.

View the exhibit virtually.

A catalog representing all 36 artists exhibiting in the three galleries can be viewed here.

Portal: The Window in American Photography
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Empty openings or panes of glass in houses, vehicles, skyscrapers, or storefronts, windows are portals to and from other worlds. Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition examines the formal and symbolic potential of a simple aperture.

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.

From Domestic to Divine: Andean Ceramics from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The ancient Andean civilizations of South America were strikingly diverse in their religious beliefs and material cultures, but each developed complex ceramics for both domestic and ritual use. This exhibition features key pieces from the Museum's collection, including several recent acquisitions from the Nazca, Paracas, Moche, Chimu´, and Chavin cultures.

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.

My Body Is Opaque: Steffani Jemison and Alexis Page in Conversation
Urban Video Project

Price: Free on Zoom
Online

Artist Steffani Jemison and athlete Alexis Page will discuss their collaborative creation of a lexicon of movement, which they explore both as a Black feminist research method, art making strategy, and as way of approaching the everyday and the at-hand with virtuosity.

Register for Artist Talk and Q&A on Zoom.

Cruel April: Arthur Flowers
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Online

Arthur Flowers is a novelist, essayist, and performance poet. A native of Memphis, TN, he is the author of novels Another Good Loving Blues and De Mojo Blues; a children's book, Cleveland Lee's Beale Street Band, and a memoir/manifesto, Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman and a graphic nonfiction, I See The Promise Land. He has published shorts and articles and is a blues-based performance poet. He is a founding member/director of New Renaissance Writers Guild, NYC, The Griot Shop, Memphis, and the Pan African Literary Forum. He has been Executive Director of the Harlem Writers Guild. He has been the recipient of NEA and NYSFA awards in fiction and nonfiction.

His novel in progress, Rest for the Weary, is a meditation on prophecy, destiny, fate and the human condition. He is also working on a nonfiction work, The Hoodoo Book of Flowers. He considers having an online literary presence part of being a 21st Century literary man and has a blog, Rootsblog, a cyberhoodoo webspace.

Zoom registration here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Kill Move Paradise
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Stephfond Brunson, director

Price: $20
Online

James Ijames's Kill Move Paradise tells the story of Isa, Daz, Grif, and Tiny, four Black men who find themselves stuck in a cosmic waiting room in the afterlife. Inspired by the ever growing list of slain unarmed Black people, this play depicts these men as symbols of life and hope. Gone but never forgotten, Kill Move Paradise illustrates the possibilities of collective transformation and radical acts of joy.

Get ticket to streaming performance..

Friday, April 16, 2021

New Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Wendy Harris: Pastel and acrylic paintings
Tom Slocum: Wood sculpture
Sylvia Hayes-McKean: Sculptural jewelry

Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free, but reservations required for in-person viewing
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America" is a "locked and loaded" conversation through art, showcasing art in all media that addresses the culture of violence, systemic racism, police brutality, and gun issues in the United States—particularly in how it affects women and children.

This exhibition is curated by Karen Gutfreund of Syracuse. She is a partner in Gutfreund Cornett Art, a curatorial partnership that specializes in creating exhibitions in venues around the U.S. ?on themes of "art as activism" to stimulate dialog, ?raise consciousness ?and encourage social change.

Additional work by 12 artists is also on exhibit as part of this exhibition at the Community Folk Art Center Gallery and Point of Contact Gallery.

Make a reservation for in-person viewing.

View the exhibit virtually.

A catalog representing all 36 artists exhibiting in the three galleries can be viewed here.

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.

Portal: The Window in American Photography
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Empty openings or panes of glass in houses, vehicles, skyscrapers, or storefronts, windows are portals to and from other worlds. Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition examines the formal and symbolic potential of a simple aperture.

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.

From Domestic to Divine: Andean Ceramics from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The ancient Andean civilizations of South America were strikingly diverse in their religious beliefs and material cultures, but each developed complex ceramics for both domestic and ritual use. This exhibition features key pieces from the Museum's collection, including several recent acquisitions from the Nazca, Paracas, Moche, Chimu´, and Chavin cultures.

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.

Poet Minnie Bruce Pratt
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
Online

Born in Selma and raised in Centreville, AL, Minnie Bruce Pratt came out as a lesbian in Fayetteville, NC, in 1975. She received her B.A. from the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa the year after segregationist Gov. George Wallace "stood in the schoolhouse door," and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1979. Her books and poems have received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Library Association, the Poetry Society of America, Lambda Literary and the Publishing Triangle. Her second book, Crime Against Nature, about losing custody of her children as a lesbian mother, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. An anti-racist, anti-imperialist women's liberation activist, Pratt co-authored Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism (1984) with Barbara Smith and Elly Bulkin. Along with lesbian writers Chrystos and Audre Lorde, she received the Lillian Hellman-Dashiell Hammett Award given by the Fund for Free Expression to writers "who have been victimized by political persecution." She is a Managing Editor of Workers World newspaper, and lives in her hometown in Alabama and in Central New York. Her most recent book is Magnified (Wesleyan, March 2021).

Register to receive Zoom link.

The Belle of Amherst
Central New York Playhouse
Lynn Barbato King, director

Price: $15 for streaming link
Online

In her Amherst, Massachusetts home, the reclusive 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson recollects her past through her work, her diaries and letters, and a few encounters with significant people in her life. William Luce's classic play shows us both the pain and the joy of Dickinson's secluded life.

The Belle of Amherst stars Natasia White as Emily Dickinson.

Get streaming link.

Kill Move Paradise
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Stephfond Brunson, director

Price: $20
Online

James Ijames's Kill Move Paradise tells the story of Isa, Daz, Grif, and Tiny, four Black men who find themselves stuck in a cosmic waiting room in the afterlife. Inspired by the ever growing list of slain unarmed Black people, this play depicts these men as symbols of life and hope. Gone but never forgotten, Kill Move Paradise illustrates the possibilities of collective transformation and radical acts of joy.

Get ticket to streaming performance..

Saturday, April 17, 2021

New Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Wendy Harris: Pastel and acrylic paintings
Tom Slocum: Wood sculpture
Sylvia Hayes-McKean: Sculptural jewelry

Portal: The Window in American Photography
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Empty openings or panes of glass in houses, vehicles, skyscrapers, or storefronts, windows are portals to and from other worlds. Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition examines the formal and symbolic potential of a simple aperture.

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.

From Domestic to Divine: Andean Ceramics from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The ancient Andean civilizations of South America were strikingly diverse in their religious beliefs and material cultures, but each developed complex ceramics for both domestic and ritual use. This exhibition features key pieces from the Museum's collection, including several recent acquisitions from the Nazca, Paracas, Moche, Chimu´, and Chavin cultures.

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.

Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free, but reservations required for in-person viewing
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America" is a "locked and loaded" conversation through art, showcasing art in all media that addresses the culture of violence, systemic racism, police brutality, and gun issues in the United States—particularly in how it affects women and children.

This exhibition is curated by Karen Gutfreund of Syracuse. She is a partner in Gutfreund Cornett Art, a curatorial partnership that specializes in creating exhibitions in venues around the U.S. ?on themes of "art as activism" to stimulate dialog, ?raise consciousness ?and encourage social change.

Additional work by 12 artists is also on exhibit as part of this exhibition at the Community Folk Art Center Gallery and Point of Contact Gallery.

Make a reservation for in-person viewing.

View the exhibit virtually.

A catalog representing all 36 artists exhibiting in the three galleries can be viewed here.

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.

Spark Series: Gospel Meets Symphony
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Sean O'Loughlin, conductor
Featuring Vocalists Alza Johnson, Zasha Moore, Corey Hudson, Fred Hintz; Dr. Joan Hillsman's Music Network

Price: Live stream: $20 individual, $35 family
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Musical worlds collide as local gospel experts and Symphoria sing the good news of our culturally rich and vibrant community. This performance features local performers, including Zasha Moore, Alza Johnson, Corey Hudson, Fred Hintz, and a special performance by Joan Hillsman's Music Network.

The virtual doors will open at 6:30 PM. Join us then for special interviews with our soloists for the concert.

*POSTPONED* Sybarite5
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $15 ages 35 and under, free for full-time students with ID and holders of EBT/SNAP cards
Online

Postponed due to illness. Rescheduled date TBA.

Sybarite5 brings the art of the dance center stage for an evening of groove and dance-inspired works. The playlist spans everything from Jessica Meyer's burlesque-influenced Slow Burn and Marc Mellits' Groove Machine to Piazzolla tangos and Bach-inspired dance suite music from the likes of Kenji Bunch, Ljova, and others.

Performance will be available online for ticket holders through Monday evening, April 19.

The Belle of Amherst
Central New York Playhouse
Lynn Barbato King, director

Price: $15 for streaming link
Online

In her Amherst, Massachusetts home, the reclusive 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson recollects her past through her work, her diaries and letters, and a few encounters with significant people in her life. William Luce's classic play shows us both the pain and the joy of Dickinson's secluded life.

The Belle of Amherst stars Natasia White as Emily Dickinson.

Get streaming link.

Sunday, April 18, 2021

Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free, but reservations required for in-person viewing
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America" is a "locked and loaded" conversation through art, showcasing art in all media that addresses the culture of violence, systemic racism, police brutality, and gun issues in the United States—particularly in how it affects women and children.

This exhibition is curated by Karen Gutfreund of Syracuse. She is a partner in Gutfreund Cornett Art, a curatorial partnership that specializes in creating exhibitions in venues around the U.S. ?on themes of "art as activism" to stimulate dialog, ?raise consciousness ?and encourage social change.

Additional work by 12 artists is also on exhibit as part of this exhibition at the Community Folk Art Center Gallery and Point of Contact Gallery.

Make a reservation for in-person viewing.

View the exhibit virtually.

A catalog representing all 36 artists exhibiting in the three galleries can be viewed here.

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.

Portal: The Window in American Photography
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Empty openings or panes of glass in houses, vehicles, skyscrapers, or storefronts, windows are portals to and from other worlds. Drawn from the Everson's collection, this exhibition examines the formal and symbolic potential of a simple aperture.

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.

From Domestic to Divine: Andean Ceramics from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The ancient Andean civilizations of South America were strikingly diverse in their religious beliefs and material cultures, but each developed complex ceramics for both domestic and ritual use. This exhibition features key pieces from the Museum's collection, including several recent acquisitions from the Nazca, Paracas, Moche, Chimu´, and Chavin cultures.

The Belle of Amherst
Central New York Playhouse
Lynn Barbato King, director

Price: $15 for streaming link
Online

In her Amherst, Massachusetts home, the reclusive 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson recollects her past through her work, her diaries and letters, and a few encounters with significant people in her life. William Luce's classic play shows us both the pain and the joy of Dickinson's secluded life.

The Belle of Amherst stars Natasia White as Emily Dickinson.

Get streaming link.

Monday, April 19, 2021

The Belle of Amherst
Central New York Playhouse
Lynn Barbato King, director

Price: $15 for streaming link
Online

In her Amherst, Massachusetts home, the reclusive 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson recollects her past through her work, her diaries and letters, and a few encounters with significant people in her life. William Luce's classic play shows us both the pain and the joy of Dickinson's secluded life.

The Belle of Amherst stars Natasia White as Emily Dickinson.

Get streaming link.

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

New Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Wendy Harris: Pastel and acrylic paintings
Tom Slocum: Wood sculpture
Sylvia Hayes-McKean: Sculptural jewelry

The Belle of Amherst
Central New York Playhouse
Lynn Barbato King, director

Price: $15 for streaming link
Online

In her Amherst, Massachusetts home, the reclusive 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson recollects her past through her work, her diaries and letters, and a few encounters with significant people in her life. William Luce's classic play shows us both the pain and the joy of Dickinson's secluded life.

The Belle of Amherst stars Natasia White as Emily Dickinson.

Get streaming link.

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

New Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Wendy Harris: Pastel and acrylic paintings
Tom Slocum: Wood sculpture
Sylvia Hayes-McKean: Sculptural jewelry

Africa Gray, voice; Hannah Comia, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free
Online

Facebook event

The Belle of Amherst
Central New York Playhouse
Lynn Barbato King, director

Price: $15 for streaming link
Online

In her Amherst, Massachusetts home, the reclusive 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson recollects her past through her work, her diaries and letters, and a few encounters with significant people in her life. William Luce's classic play shows us both the pain and the joy of Dickinson's secluded life.

The Belle of Amherst stars Natasia White as Emily Dickinson.

Get streaming link.

Thursday, April 22, 2021

New Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Wendy Harris: Pastel and acrylic paintings
Tom Slocum: Wood sculpture
Sylvia Hayes-McKean: Sculptural jewelry

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.

From Domestic to Divine: Andean Ceramics from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The ancient Andean civilizations of South America were strikingly diverse in their religious beliefs and material cultures, but each developed complex ceramics for both domestic and ritual use. This exhibition features key pieces from the Museum's collection, including several recent acquisitions from the Nazca, Paracas, Moche, Chimu´, and Chavin cultures.

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.

2021 Poster Unveiling
Syracuse Poster Project

Price: Free
Online

Join us for the unveiling celebration of our 20th annual poster series via YouTube Premiere. The premiere combines poems, posters, video clips from the poets and artists, and a live chat stream.

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: Greenham Common and the Summer of 1983
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Online

Who: Artists Ellen Lesperance and Sheila Pepe along with Shad Reinstein, an organizer of the Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice.

What: In the early 1980s Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was among a series of women-only protest camps established to protest nuclear weapons and the placement of nuclear weapons at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. Artist Ellen Lesperance's in-depth research on their use of creative direct action craftwork and knitwear inspired her work Black Gloves Gods Eyes which will be featured in the exhibition Who What When Where. This talk will bring together Lesperance, fellow feminist and renowned artist Sheila Pepe, and Shad Reinstein, an organizing member of a women's peace camp in Romulus, NY whose 1983 protest made headlines in the New York Times. Together they will discuss their work, their activism, and the evolution and portrayal of women-led protests.

Zoom registration closes 10 minutes before start time.

Composer Reading
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor

Price: Free, but registration required for streaming link
Online

Music Director Lawrence Loh leads Symphoria in a reading of three new works by talented young composers Logan LaFlamm (age 17), Kaelem Michel (age 15), and Ebun Ogantola (age 15). This workshop is the conclusion of the Symphoria/Setnor School of Music Orchestration Workshop, led by Syracuse University faculty members Dr. Natalie Draper and Dr. Nicholas Scherzinger.

Register for streaming link.

Cruel April: David Lloyd
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Online

David Lloyd is the author of eleven books, including four poetry collections: The Body's Compass (forthcoming from Salmon Poetry), Warriors (Salt Publishing, 2012), The Gospel According to Frank (New American Press, 2009), The Everyday Apocalypse (Three Conditions Press, 2002). His fiction titles include Boys: Stories and a Novella (2004); his 2013 novel, Over the Line; and his story collection, The Moving of the Water (2018). In 2000, he received the Poetry Society of America's Robert H. Winner Memorial Award. In 2001 he was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at Bangor University (Wales, UK). He also received a Fulbright Scholar Award for residence at Cardiff University (Wales, UK) in 2021. His poems and stories have appeared in numerous journals including Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He directs the Creative Writing Program at Le Moyne College in Syracuse.

Zoom registration here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Pursuing Change: American Poets on Racism and Healing
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free, but advance registration is required
Online

Readings and discussion with poets Martha Collins, Philip Metres, Oliver de la Paz, Antoinette Brim-Bell, and Iain Haley Pollock

The YMCA's Downtown Writers Center is delighted to partner with the YMCA of the USA and the YWCA to present this special evening as part of the YWCA's 2021 Stand Against Racism. #StandAgainstRacism provides the opportunity for communities across the United States to find an issue or cause that inspires them to unite their voices to educate, advocate, and promote racial justice. This year's event is focused on racism as a public health crisis.

About our Panel of Poets:
Antoinette Brim-Bell is the author of These Women You Gave Me, Icarus in Love, and Psalm of the Sunflower, is a Cave Canem Foundation fellow, a recipient of the Walker Foundation Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is a Professor of English at Capital Community College.

Martha Collins's 10th book of poetry, Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019), won the William Carlos Williams Award. Previous volumes include Blue Front, White Papers, Admit One: An American Scrapbook, and the paired volumes Day Unto Day and Night Unto Night. Collins has also published four volumes of co-translated Vietnamese poetry. She founded the U.Mass.-Boston creative writing program and taught creative writing at Oberlin College for 10 years.

Oliver de la Paz was born in the Philippines and raised in Ontario, OR. His collections of poetry include Names Above Houses (2001), which won the Crab Orchard Award; Furious Lullaby (2007); Requiem for the Orchard (2010), chosen by Martín Espada for the Akron Prize; and Post-Subject: A Fable (2014). He is co-chair of the advisory board of Kundiman, an organization devoted to promoting Asian American writers and writing.

Philip Metres is the author of 10 books, including Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (University of Michigan, 2018), and Sand Opera (Alice James, 2015). His work has garnered a Lannan fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, three Arab American Book Awards, and many other honors. He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University.

Iain Haley Pollock is is the author of two poetry collections, Ghost, Like a Place (Alice James Books, 2018), which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and Spit Back a Boy, winner of the 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He teaches English at Rye Country Day School in Rye, NY, and is a member of the poetry faculty at the Solstice MFA program of Pine Manor College. He also serves as poetry editor at Solstice Literary Magazine

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