Saturday, August 20, 2005

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

The Poster Project: See What Is Possible
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art and the Learning Disabilities Association of Central New York are proud to present The Poster Project: See What Is Possible. Participating in three workshops at the museum, children ages 10-15 from the LDA/CNY created artworks inspired by the museum's permanent collection. Working with the participants, Syracuse University Professor Ann Clarke, who supervised the project, designed this composite poster utilizing artwork created by each of the students. Through this experience, the children learned about the museum, expressed their own creativity through making art, and gained an understanding of digital imaging technology. The young artists whose work will be displayed at the museum are Alex Melnik, Matthew Rushlo, Patrick Stanton, Nick Sheridan, Matthew Bettis, Andrew Roache, Ryan Scholl and Corey Cuipylo.

Georges Rouault -- Cirque de L'Etoile Filante
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

The circus was an important theme in Rouault's work, and when Parisian publisher Ambrose Vollard suggested a portfolio of prints on the subject, Rouault spent 12 years creating designs for Cirque de L'Etoile Filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), color aquatints, and wood engravings.

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Bodies have long been adorned with ink. Body decorations are sometimes purely artistic and often symbolic, but always a personal statement. An individual chooses to be tattooed and selects the subject matter as a manner of self-expression and individuality. In this collection of works, the photographer's intention is to acclaim the art of tattoo in conjunction with the character of the recipient. Soft, bold, gory, surreal, a tattoo is a visual window, a veneer, through which a person wishes to be perceived. Tattoos themselves are proudly displayed on a wall of skin. The images in this exhibition are graphic and emotional art statements that express something personal to those that choose to display them on a wall of their own.

Grace Potter and The Nocturnals
Redhouse

Price: $15 in advance; $20 at the door
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

We knew her when... now Grace Potter and The Nocturnals share their success returning to The Redhouse stage in this encore performance. Fresh off her national tour, Grace Potter and her back-up band, The Nocturnals, perform an effortless blend of jazz, pop, and blues that dares listeners not to tap a toe.

"4 plus Four": An Evening with the Ying and Turtle Island String Quartets
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $24; $18; children under 13 free
Brook Farm
2.5 miles south of the village on Route 41A, Skaneateles

Milhaud La Création du Monde
Mark Summer Julie-O
David Balakrishnan Mara's Garden of False Delights
Evan Price Variations on an Unoriginal Theme
Other selections TBA

Rain location: Skaneateles High School

Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Crossing Delancey
Monday Morning Productions
Jason Cicci, director
Featuring Bob Brown and Gerardine Clark

Price: $15 adults - $10 for students/seniors
Wellwood Middle School
700 S. Manlius St., Fayetteville

The Central New York premiere of Susan Sandler's romantic comedy, the show will feature local theatre celebrity Bob Brown and Syracuse University Professor Gerardine Clark.

For tickets: 315-435-2121; Groups, call: 315-479-5495.

As You Like It
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

As You Like It features the Bard's playful comedy of sibling rivalry, city life vs. country life, wrestling, poetry, song, dance and most of all, love, love, love, love!

Adapted and directed by a veteran Syracuse thespian, Dan Stevens, the sparkling cast began rehearsal on June 15. Oren Robinson is the multi-talented Musical Director and Barbara Toman will dazzle you with her fabulous costumes for the 3rd straight season. Ronald Bell reprises his duties as producer.

Don't miss this fabulous event for the whole family. Bring your lawn chairs and a picnic. Or you can rent or buy an SSF lawn chair from us in addition to snacks, treats, soft drinks, in cooperation with the Thornden Park Association, and exclusive SSF merchandise. Free copies of the play will be raffled off at intermission and after the show courtesy of Penguin Books.

Crossing Delancey
Monday Morning Productions
Jason Cicci, director
Featuring Bob Brown and Gerardine Clark

Price: $20 adults - $15 for students/seniors
Wellwood Middle School
700 S. Manlius St., Fayetteville

The Central New York premiere of Susan Sandler's romantic comedy, the show will feature local theatre celebrity Bob Brown and Syracuse University Professor Gerardine Clark.

For tickets: 315-435-2121; Groups, call: 315-479-5495.

Sunday, August 21, 2005

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

The Poster Project: See What Is Possible
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art and the Learning Disabilities Association of Central New York are proud to present The Poster Project: See What Is Possible. Participating in three workshops at the museum, children ages 10-15 from the LDA/CNY created artworks inspired by the museum's permanent collection. Working with the participants, Syracuse University Professor Ann Clarke, who supervised the project, designed this composite poster utilizing artwork created by each of the students. Through this experience, the children learned about the museum, expressed their own creativity through making art, and gained an understanding of digital imaging technology. The young artists whose work will be displayed at the museum are Alex Melnik, Matthew Rushlo, Patrick Stanton, Nick Sheridan, Matthew Bettis, Andrew Roache, Ryan Scholl and Corey Cuipylo.

Georges Rouault -- Cirque de L'Etoile Filante
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

The circus was an important theme in Rouault's work, and when Parisian publisher Ambrose Vollard suggested a portfolio of prints on the subject, Rouault spent 12 years creating designs for Cirque de L'Etoile Filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), color aquatints, and wood engravings.

The Wild Angels
Redhouse

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

Hell-bent on wreaking havoc, a motorcycle psych-biker named Heavely Blues(Peter Fonda) rounds up his rebellious crew and takes off to the desert to recover a stolen chopper in The Wild Angels directed by Roger Corman. (86 mins, Rated R)

Part of the Redhouse's "Biker Week" celebration.

As You Like It
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

As You Like It features the Bard's playful comedy of sibling rivalry, city life vs. country life, wrestling, poetry, song, dance and most of all, love, love, love, love!

Adapted and directed by a veteran Syracuse thespian, Dan Stevens, the sparkling cast began rehearsal on June 15. Oren Robinson is the multi-talented Musical Director and Barbara Toman will dazzle you with her fabulous costumes for the 3rd straight season. Ronald Bell reprises his duties as producer.

Don't miss this fabulous event for the whole family. Bring your lawn chairs and a picnic. Or you can rent or buy an SSF lawn chair from us in addition to snacks, treats, soft drinks, in cooperation with the Thornden Park Association, and exclusive SSF merchandise. Free copies of the play will be raffled off at intermission and after the show courtesy of Penguin Books.

Crossing Delancey
Monday Morning Productions
Jason Cicci, director
Featuring Bob Brown and Gerardine Clark

Price: $15 adults - $10 for students/seniors
Wellwood Middle School
700 S. Manlius St., Fayetteville

The Central New York premiere of Susan Sandler's romantic comedy, the show will feature local theatre celebrity Bob Brown and Syracuse University Professor Gerardine Clark.

For tickets: 315-435-2121; Groups, call: 315-479-5495.

As You Like It
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

As You Like It features the Bard's playful comedy of sibling rivalry, city life vs. country life, wrestling, poetry, song, dance and most of all, love, love, love, love!

Adapted and directed by a veteran Syracuse thespian, Dan Stevens, the sparkling cast began rehearsal on June 15. Oren Robinson is the multi-talented Musical Director and Barbara Toman will dazzle you with her fabulous costumes for the 3rd straight season. Ronald Bell reprises his duties as producer.

Don't miss this fabulous event for the whole family. Bring your lawn chairs and a picnic. Or you can rent or buy an SSF lawn chair from us in addition to snacks, treats, soft drinks, in cooperation with the Thornden Park Association, and exclusive SSF merchandise. Free copies of the play will be raffled off at intermission and after the show courtesy of Penguin Books.

Monday, August 22, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

Comic Drawings: Little Squares
Westcott Community Center

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

The exhibit features the unique visual imagery and storytelling of four Syracuse alternative cartoonists, Mike Stevens, Phil McAndrew, Tyler McAndrew, and Stuv. The exhibit is a collection of original inked comic strips, doodles, and sketches, many of which have been published in anthology books, alternative newspapers, on the internet, or as printed mini comics and cartoons, and some more polished, illustrative work.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Jordan Bramley Library
15 Mechanic St., Jordan

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

Milton Rogovin Art Exhibit: Photos of the Forgotten Ones
Onondaga Community College

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

The exhibit features 70 black and white images taken by Rogovin throughout his prolific career, including those of people living on Buffalo's Lower West Side, a project that eventually documented the plight of more than 100 families.

Also included in the exhibit are photographs of the Native American and Yemeni communities in western New York, and the "The Family of Miners" series that chronicles the lives of miners and their families in Appalachia, Mexico, Cuba, Zimbabwe and China.

Rogovin, age 95, has spent a lifetime photographing the "forgotten ones" all over the world, saying, "The rich have their own photographers. I photograph the forgotten ones." His work has appeared in more than 160 journals, magazines and other publications.

Comic Drawings: Little Squares
Westcott Community Center

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

The exhibit features the unique visual imagery and storytelling of four Syracuse alternative cartoonists, Mike Stevens, Phil McAndrew, Tyler McAndrew, and Stuv. The exhibit is a collection of original inked comic strips, doodles, and sketches, many of which have been published in anthology books, alternative newspapers, on the internet, or as printed mini comics and cartoons, and some more polished, illustrative work.

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

The Poster Project: See What Is Possible
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art and the Learning Disabilities Association of Central New York are proud to present The Poster Project: See What Is Possible. Participating in three workshops at the museum, children ages 10-15 from the LDA/CNY created artworks inspired by the museum's permanent collection. Working with the participants, Syracuse University Professor Ann Clarke, who supervised the project, designed this composite poster utilizing artwork created by each of the students. Through this experience, the children learned about the museum, expressed their own creativity through making art, and gained an understanding of digital imaging technology. The young artists whose work will be displayed at the museum are Alex Melnik, Matthew Rushlo, Patrick Stanton, Nick Sheridan, Matthew Bettis, Andrew Roache, Ryan Scholl and Corey Cuipylo.

Georges Rouault -- Cirque de L'Etoile Filante
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

The circus was an important theme in Rouault's work, and when Parisian publisher Ambrose Vollard suggested a portfolio of prints on the subject, Rouault spent 12 years creating designs for Cirque de L'Etoile Filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), color aquatints, and wood engravings.

The Wild Angels
Redhouse

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

Hell-bent on wreaking havoc, a motorcycle psych-biker named Heavely Blues(Peter Fonda) rounds up his rebellious crew and takes off to the desert to recover a stolen chopper in The Wild Angels directed by Roger Corman. (86 mins, Rated R)

Part of the Redhouse's "Biker Week" celebration.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

Milton Rogovin Art Exhibit: Photos of the Forgotten Ones
Onondaga Community College

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

The exhibit features 70 black and white images taken by Rogovin throughout his prolific career, including those of people living on Buffalo's Lower West Side, a project that eventually documented the plight of more than 100 families.

Also included in the exhibit are photographs of the Native American and Yemeni communities in western New York, and the "The Family of Miners" series that chronicles the lives of miners and their families in Appalachia, Mexico, Cuba, Zimbabwe and China.

Rogovin, age 95, has spent a lifetime photographing the "forgotten ones" all over the world, saying, "The rich have their own photographers. I photograph the forgotten ones." His work has appeared in more than 160 journals, magazines and other publications.

Comic Drawings: Little Squares
Westcott Community Center

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

The exhibit features the unique visual imagery and storytelling of four Syracuse alternative cartoonists, Mike Stevens, Phil McAndrew, Tyler McAndrew, and Stuv. The exhibit is a collection of original inked comic strips, doodles, and sketches, many of which have been published in anthology books, alternative newspapers, on the internet, or as printed mini comics and cartoons, and some more polished, illustrative work.

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

The Poster Project: See What Is Possible
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art and the Learning Disabilities Association of Central New York are proud to present The Poster Project: See What Is Possible. Participating in three workshops at the museum, children ages 10-15 from the LDA/CNY created artworks inspired by the museum's permanent collection. Working with the participants, Syracuse University Professor Ann Clarke, who supervised the project, designed this composite poster utilizing artwork created by each of the students. Through this experience, the children learned about the museum, expressed their own creativity through making art, and gained an understanding of digital imaging technology. The young artists whose work will be displayed at the museum are Alex Melnik, Matthew Rushlo, Patrick Stanton, Nick Sheridan, Matthew Bettis, Andrew Roache, Ryan Scholl and Corey Cuipylo.

Georges Rouault -- Cirque de L'Etoile Filante
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

The circus was an important theme in Rouault's work, and when Parisian publisher Ambrose Vollard suggested a portfolio of prints on the subject, Rouault spent 12 years creating designs for Cirque de L'Etoile Filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), color aquatints, and wood engravings.

The Wild One
Redhouse

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

An angry young Marlon Brando scorches the screen in the powerful 50's cult classic The Wild One, directed by Laszlo Benedek. (79 mins, not rated)

Part of the Redhouse's "Biker Week" celebration.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

Milton Rogovin Art Exhibit: Photos of the Forgotten Ones
Onondaga Community College

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

The exhibit features 70 black and white images taken by Rogovin throughout his prolific career, including those of people living on Buffalo's Lower West Side, a project that eventually documented the plight of more than 100 families.

Also included in the exhibit are photographs of the Native American and Yemeni communities in western New York, and the "The Family of Miners" series that chronicles the lives of miners and their families in Appalachia, Mexico, Cuba, Zimbabwe and China.

Rogovin, age 95, has spent a lifetime photographing the "forgotten ones" all over the world, saying, "The rich have their own photographers. I photograph the forgotten ones." His work has appeared in more than 160 journals, magazines and other publications.

Comic Drawings: Little Squares
Westcott Community Center

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

The exhibit features the unique visual imagery and storytelling of four Syracuse alternative cartoonists, Mike Stevens, Phil McAndrew, Tyler McAndrew, and Stuv. The exhibit is a collection of original inked comic strips, doodles, and sketches, many of which have been published in anthology books, alternative newspapers, on the internet, or as printed mini comics and cartoons, and some more polished, illustrative work.

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

I Wish That My Sister Would Talk One Day: Photographs by Fifth Graders from the Ed Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

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

To accompany the Wendy Ewald exhibition, the members' wall of Community Darkrooms is currently the exhibition site of photographs made by fifth grade students from Ed Smith Elementary school in Syracuse. The students participated in a project of photographing their lives and then writing about their images with the guidance of their teacher Mary Lynn Mahan.

The Poster Project: See What Is Possible
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art and the Learning Disabilities Association of Central New York are proud to present The Poster Project: See What Is Possible. Participating in three workshops at the museum, children ages 10-15 from the LDA/CNY created artworks inspired by the museum's permanent collection. Working with the participants, Syracuse University Professor Ann Clarke, who supervised the project, designed this composite poster utilizing artwork created by each of the students. Through this experience, the children learned about the museum, expressed their own creativity through making art, and gained an understanding of digital imaging technology. The young artists whose work will be displayed at the museum are Alex Melnik, Matthew Rushlo, Patrick Stanton, Nick Sheridan, Matthew Bettis, Andrew Roache, Ryan Scholl and Corey Cuipylo.

Georges Rouault -- Cirque de L'Etoile Filante
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

The circus was an important theme in Rouault's work, and when Parisian publisher Ambrose Vollard suggested a portfolio of prints on the subject, Rouault spent 12 years creating designs for Cirque de L'Etoile Filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), color aquatints, and wood engravings.

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Bodies have long been adorned with ink. Body decorations are sometimes purely artistic and often symbolic, but always a personal statement. An individual chooses to be tattooed and selects the subject matter as a manner of self-expression and individuality. In this collection of works, the photographer's intention is to acclaim the art of tattoo in conjunction with the character of the recipient. Soft, bold, gory, surreal, a tattoo is a visual window, a veneer, through which a person wishes to be perceived. Tattoos themselves are proudly displayed on a wall of skin. The images in this exhibition are graphic and emotional art statements that express something personal to those that choose to display them on a wall of their own.

Easy Rider
Redhouse

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

Experience the real, uncensored 60's counterculture in this compelling mixture of drugs, sex and armchair politics in Easy Rider directed by Dennis Hopper. (95 mins, Rated R)

Part of the Redhouse's "Biker Week" celebration.

Behind the Scenes: Pre-concert Discussion
Skaneateles Festival

Price: Free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Love and Marriage: A look at the love lives of composers and musicians.

Chamber Music Concert
Skaneateles Festival
Featuring Rosemary Elliott, cello; Pacifica Quartet; Peggy Pearson, oboe; Rose Shlyam Grace, piano; Alex Shuhan, horn; Karin Ursin, flute

Price: $21, $16 regular; $18, $13 students/seniors; children under 13 free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Schubert String Quartet in E-flat major, D. 87
Stephen Paulus Courtship Songs for a Summer's Eve
Brahms Trio in E-flat major for Horn, Violin, and Piano, Op. 40

Death on the Range
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery dinner theater.

Mystery Dinner Theater

Price: $32, dinner and show
Cucina di Amore
Bayberry Plaza, Oswego Rd., Liverpool

Information: 622-9402

Friday, August 26, 2005

CRC Visual Arts Committee Members' Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

Milton Rogovin Art Exhibit: Photos of the Forgotten Ones
Onondaga Community College

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

The exhibit features 70 black and white images taken by Rogovin throughout his prolific career, including those of people living on Buffalo's Lower West Side, a project that eventually documented the plight of more than 100 families.

Also included in the exhibit are photographs of the Native American and Yemeni communities in western New York, and the "The Family of Miners" series that chronicles the lives of miners and their families in Appalachia, Mexico, Cuba, Zimbabwe and China.

Rogovin, age 95, has spent a lifetime photographing the "forgotten ones" all over the world, saying, "The rich have their own photographers. I photograph the forgotten ones." His work has appeared in more than 160 journals, magazines and other publications.

Comic Drawings: Little Squares
Westcott Community Center

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

The exhibit features the unique visual imagery and storytelling of four Syracuse alternative cartoonists, Mike Stevens, Phil McAndrew, Tyler McAndrew, and Stuv. The exhibit is a collection of original inked comic strips, doodles, and sketches, many of which have been published in anthology books, alternative newspapers, on the internet, or as printed mini comics and cartoons, and some more polished, illustrative work.

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

View from Here: Works of Kanako Sasaki
Light Work Gallery

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

Photography has the ability to wrap whole novels into a single image. One look and the viewer can absorb the mood, the narrative, and the key characters. Much like reading a book, the story unfolds and an event unravels. Some stories are short and to the point; others are lengthy and complicated. Kanako Sasaki's images are both. By casting herself as the single protagonist or including just a few characters in each frame, Sasaki is able to build many layers of suggested narrative into each image. These layers hold many surprises built with humor and a quirky, unexpected depth.

In her images Sasaki captures energy and joy, childlike wonder, and naivety. In the world of her pictures social etiquette does not matter, and occasional embarrassment is accepted as a fact of life. Only the expression of emotion as action is important in Sasakis sometimes upside-down world. She sets her figures apart within the grandness of nature, inspired by childhood memories, novels, and Ukiyo-e paintings. Ukiyo, literally translated as "floating world," is a Japanese genre in literature and painting that developed in the sixteenth century. It depicts a reality that embraces the coexistence of life and death. By wrapping whole novels into each of her images, Kanako Sasaki gives us a rich and poetic description of her imagination and memory.

Gallery reception Thurs., Sept. 29, 6-8pm

I Wish That My Sister Would Talk One Day: Photographs by Fifth Graders from the Ed Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

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

To accompany the Wendy Ewald exhibition, the members' wall of Community Darkrooms is currently the exhibition site of photographs made by fifth grade students from Ed Smith Elementary school in Syracuse. The students participated in a project of photographing their lives and then writing about their images with the guidance of their teacher Mary Lynn Mahan.

Secret Games: Collaborative Works With Children 1969-1999
Light Work Gallery

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

The hallway space of Light Work's main gallery features the work of internationally renowned artist and educator Wendy Ewald in an exhibition consisting of about 100 images from Mexico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and the US.

For over 30 years Ewald has taken an unusual artistic path exploring the visual imaginations of children and adults around the world in a sustained evolving artistic project. Addressing conceptual, formal, and narrative concerns, Ewald's work challenges traditional notions of documentary photography and the role of the artist. Using creative collaboration as the basis for the artistic process, she has traveled throughout the world working in communities in Labrador, Appalachia, Colombia, India, South America, Holland, Mexico, and the US.

Starting initially as a documentary investigation of places and communities connected to teaching, Ewald's project has evolved over the years to focus on questions of identity and cultural difference. In all these projects, she partners her keen observational and creative skills with her subjects' visual inventions. She encourages children to use cameras to create portraits of self and community, to articulate their own personal fantasies, dreams, and hopes. Ewald herself makes photographs, sometimes giving her negatives to collaborators to mark and write on, mixing the images in such a way that it is challenging to know who actually "created" a given image. In blurring the distinction of individual authorship and throwing into doubt the artist's identity, Ewald crosses the border that separates the photographer from the subject and creates a new artistic form.

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The Poster Project: See What Is Possible
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art and the Learning Disabilities Association of Central New York are proud to present The Poster Project: See What Is Possible. Participating in three workshops at the museum, children ages 10-15 from the LDA/CNY created artworks inspired by the museum's permanent collection. Working with the participants, Syracuse University Professor Ann Clarke, who supervised the project, designed this composite poster utilizing artwork created by each of the students. Through this experience, the children learned about the museum, expressed their own creativity through making art, and gained an understanding of digital imaging technology. The young artists whose work will be displayed at the museum are Alex Melnik, Matthew Rushlo, Patrick Stanton, Nick Sheridan, Matthew Bettis, Andrew Roache, Ryan Scholl and Corey Cuipylo.

Georges Rouault -- Cirque de L'Etoile Filante
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

The circus was an important theme in Rouault's work, and when Parisian publisher Ambrose Vollard suggested a portfolio of prints on the subject, Rouault spent 12 years creating designs for Cirque de L'Etoile Filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), color aquatints, and wood engravings.

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Bodies have long been adorned with ink. Body decorations are sometimes purely artistic and often symbolic, but always a personal statement. An individual chooses to be tattooed and selects the subject matter as a manner of self-expression and individuality. In this collection of works, the photographer's intention is to acclaim the art of tattoo in conjunction with the character of the recipient. Soft, bold, gory, surreal, a tattoo is a visual window, a veneer, through which a person wishes to be perceived. Tattoos themselves are proudly displayed on a wall of skin. The images in this exhibition are graphic and emotional art statements that express something personal to those that choose to display them on a wall of their own.

Chamber Music Concert
Skaneateles Festival
Featuring Steven Doane, cello; Pacifica Quartet; Rose Shlyam Grace, piano; Karin Ursin, flute; Phillip Ying, viola

Price: $21, $16 regular; $18, $13 students/seniors; children under 13 free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Maurice Duruflé Prélude, Récitatif, et Variations for Flute, Viola, Piano
Janácek String Quartet No. 2,"Intimate Letters"
Brahms Sextet for Strings in G major, "Agathe"

Mystery Dinner Theater

Price: $32, dinner and show
Cucina di Amore
Bayberry Plaza, Oswego Rd., Liverpool

Information: 622-9402

Saturday, August 27, 2005

A City Rises from the Banks of the Canal
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Donations accepted
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Vast stretches of wilderness areas sparsely populated and dotted with small settlements would aptly describe New Yorks interior in early 1800s. Then, in 1825, a man-made waterway stretching 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo was completed. Once ridiculed as "Clinton's Folly," the Erie Canal quickly became known as the "Mother of Cities" as it gave rise to hundreds of canal-side communities and reshaped Upstate New York's geography and economy forever. The history of the City of Syracuse, located on the banks of the Erie and Oswego Canals, is told through its unique canal-era architectural structures. The buildings represented in the exhibition were selected for their proximity to the Erie Canal, as well as, if the buildings use was canal related. Historic images, original paintings and prints feature a host of canal-era banks, warehouses, private residences and businesses, as well as canal structures such as locks and aqueducts. An Exhibition catalog is available.

The Poster Project: See What Is Possible
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art and the Learning Disabilities Association of Central New York are proud to present The Poster Project: See What Is Possible. Participating in three workshops at the museum, children ages 10-15 from the LDA/CNY created artworks inspired by the museum's permanent collection. Working with the participants, Syracuse University Professor Ann Clarke, who supervised the project, designed this composite poster utilizing artwork created by each of the students. Through this experience, the children learned about the museum, expressed their own creativity through making art, and gained an understanding of digital imaging technology. The young artists whose work will be displayed at the museum are Alex Melnik, Matthew Rushlo, Patrick Stanton, Nick Sheridan, Matthew Bettis, Andrew Roache, Ryan Scholl and Corey Cuipylo.

Georges Rouault -- Cirque de L'Etoile Filante
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

The circus was an important theme in Rouault's work, and when Parisian publisher Ambrose Vollard suggested a portfolio of prints on the subject, Rouault spent 12 years creating designs for Cirque de L'Etoile Filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), color aquatints, and wood engravings.

Body Art: Duane Sauro
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Bodies have long been adorned with ink. Body decorations are sometimes purely artistic and often symbolic, but always a personal statement. An individual chooses to be tattooed and selects the subject matter as a manner of self-expression and individuality. In this collection of works, the photographer's intention is to acclaim the art of tattoo in conjunction with the character of the recipient. Soft, bold, gory, surreal, a tattoo is a visual window, a veneer, through which a person wishes to be perceived. Tattoos themselves are proudly displayed on a wall of skin. The images in this exhibition are graphic and emotional art statements that express something personal to those that choose to display them on a wall of their own.

Chamber Orchestra Concert
Skaneateles Festival
Mark Davis Scatterday, conductor, conductor

Price: $24; $18; children under 13 free
Brook Farm
2.5 miles south of the village on Route 41A, Skaneateles

Gounod Petite Symphonie
Mozart Serenade for Winds, No. 10 in B-flat major,"Gran Partita"
Dvorák Serenade for Winds, Cello, and Double Bass

Rain location: Skaneateles High School

Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Mystery Dinner Theater

Price: $32, dinner and show
Cucina di Amore
Bayberry Plaza, Oswego Rd., Liverpool

Information: 622-9402