Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

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

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Selected Works by Rebekah Clark
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
VPA Dean's Gallery
Room 200, Crouse College, Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of handmade quilts from fiber artist and SU alumna Rebekah Clark. The Peabody, Mass.-based artist is well known to local quilt collectors and recently exhibited work at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn.

Paid parking to view the exhibition is available in Irving Garage.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
Urban Bush Woman

Price: $20 general public; $108 SU faculty/staff; $5 students with SU ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Brooklyn-based performance ensemble Urban Bush Women will continue its mission of bringing bold, life-affirming dance theater based on women's experiences, African American history, and cultural influences of the African Diaspora. In addition to performing, the company trains artists in dance and community engagement and produces public projects that encourage cultural activity as an inherent part of community life. UBW seeks to validate the individual by nurturing leadership skills and using art as a means of encouraging social responsibility and civic engagement.

UBW has performed extensively throughout New York City and has toured the United States, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America. It has been commissioned nationwide. UBW won a 1992 New York Dance and Performance Award, the 1994 Capezio Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance, and a 1998 Doris Duke Award for New Work from the American Dance Festival.

Tickets can be purchased at the Schine Student Center Box Office. Paid parking will be available in the Comstock, Marion, Waverly and all other SU pay lots.

For more information, phone the Schine Box Office at 315-443-4517 or visit http://students.syr.edu/pulse.

BLOOM (aka BL,.M)
CNY-Irish American Cultural Institute MacKillop Film Series

Price: $7 regular; free for LeMoyne students, faculty, and staff; free for James Joyce Club members
Reilly Room, Reilly Hall
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A new adaptation of Joyces ULYSSES, with Stephen Rea, 2003.

An Evening of Tribute to August Wilson
Community Folk Art Center

Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In collaboration with Sojourner Truth Storyteller Conference.

The Will Rogers Follies
Broadway in Syracuse
Featuring Larry Gatlin

Price: $25.50-$49.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Award winning country singer and author Larry Gatlin portrays famed cowboy-philosopher Will Rogers in the Will Rogers Follies. The life and career of America's favorite son, Will Rogers, comes to the stage in this all-singing, all-dancing, Broadway extravaganza. Winner of six TONY awards including Best Musical and Best Score, The Will Rogers Follies is a dazzling spectacle about America's first international multimedia sensation whose wit and home spun wisdom still ring true today. Set onstage during one of the legendary Ziegfeld Follies, Will's story comes to life with magnificent sets, luscious costumes and a bevy of beautiful girls. The Will Rogers Follies is an unforgettable show about an unforgettable legend!

Read a review!

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

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

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Selected Works by Rebekah Clark
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
VPA Dean's Gallery
Room 200, Crouse College, Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of handmade quilts from fiber artist and SU alumna Rebekah Clark. The Peabody, Mass.-based artist is well known to local quilt collectors and recently exhibited work at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn.

Paid parking to view the exhibition is available in Irving Garage.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Civic Morning Musicals
Lavender Trio: Beth Carville Evans, flute; Heather Johnsen, clarinet; Judy Marchione, bassoon

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

Music by Jacques Ibert, Darius Milhaud, and Jean Francaix as well as works by two composers from Central New York: Richard Lloyd and Monk Rowe.

Hercules, the Maiden and the Lion
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive family show.

The Will Rogers Follies
Broadway in Syracuse
Featuring Larry Gatlin

Price: $25.50-$49.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Award winning country singer and author Larry Gatlin portrays famed cowboy-philosopher Will Rogers in the Will Rogers Follies. The life and career of America's favorite son, Will Rogers, comes to the stage in this all-singing, all-dancing, Broadway extravaganza. Winner of six TONY awards including Best Musical and Best Score, The Will Rogers Follies is a dazzling spectacle about America's first international multimedia sensation whose wit and home spun wisdom still ring true today. Set onstage during one of the legendary Ziegfeld Follies, Will's story comes to life with magnificent sets, luscious costumes and a bevy of beautiful girls. The Will Rogers Follies is an unforgettable show about an unforgettable legend!

Read a review!

Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

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

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

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Shakespeare's R&J
Black Box Players
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Syracuse University Drama Department will present Shakespeare's R&J, Joe Calarco's all-male adaptation of Shakespeare's most famous love story.

Unlike the traditional Renaissance setting of the tale, Shakespeare's R&J moves the action to modern day, when four students at an all-boys parochial school discover a forbidden copy of Romeo and Juliet. Eager for distraction from reciting their Latin verb conjugations, the boys soon begin performing the play. At first timid in exploring the passionate tale among their teenaged peers, the boys eventually lose their inhibitions and embody the story's characters with a palpable understanding of adolescent love - and lust.

Assistant Director Leslie Noble points out that the all-male cast of R&J relates directly to Romeo and Juliet's beginnings on the stage. "The Elizabethan idea of men playing all the roles coupled with the prep school setting was very compelling and set forth a series of meaty questions," Noble said. "How would the circumstances of their youth and upbringing - the military strictness, the rigid gender roles, the sexual repression, the adolescent innocence - affect the performance of Romeo and Juliet? And how would the act of performing this classic love story affect the boys? What a compelling staging challenge to tell both stories at once!"

To reserve tickets, phone 315-443-2102. The Black Box Theatre has a policy of open seating on a first come, first served basis.

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Onondaga Community College
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Join us for a dynamic theatrical performance by Central New York's nationally acclaimed and longest running musical theater group and dramatic theater company.

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

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

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Selected Works by Rebekah Clark
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
VPA Dean's Gallery
Room 200, Crouse College, Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of handmade quilts from fiber artist and SU alumna Rebekah Clark. The Peabody, Mass.-based artist is well known to local quilt collectors and recently exhibited work at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn.

Paid parking to view the exhibition is available in Irving Garage.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Winter Landscapes and Gardens: Photographs by Linda Adlestein
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The art critic Eric Ernst remarked that in this series of photographs the viewer immediately becomes aware that, from an aesthetic perspective, the subtlety and promise of a garden in winter illustrates more about the space than one is aware of during its season of full bloom.

Now and Then
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring sculptures, mobiles and paintings by Reginald Adams, watercolors by Anne Baldwin, photography by Ron Goodrich, quilts by Holly Knott and paintings by George Vander Sluis.

Onondaga Community College
OCC African Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Concert in Honor of Black History Month
Onondaga Community College
OCC Wind Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Strange Case of Sheik Yerbuti
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive comedy/thriller.

Cultural Roots & Routes
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $10 general public; free for students with SU ID
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This Black History Celebration will take a look at the African American cultural roots from which we
grow and prosper and the cultural routes, the path we as a people travel to reach self
actualization and will feature Guy Davis, blues guitarist and storyteller; Karen Patterson, jazz cellist and lecturer; Michael Wimberly, master percussionist and composer; accompanied by Maia McKinney and Catherine "Cat" Foster, master dancers from The Forces of Nature Dance Troupe and Rodney McCoy, urban jazz violinist.

Karen Patterson is a gifted jazz cellist and lecturer who has performed in Europe, South America, and throughout the United States. She began her cello studies in an experimental school at age 8. She went on to earn an undergraduate degree from Ohio University and a graduate degree from Antioch International University, both of which combined the study of the performance with that of education. As a teacher, she has mentored inner city youth in music programs throughout New Jersey, which she designed under a special initiative for Rutgers University. She has also been a member of the faculty at Manhattan School of Music in New York City.

Guy Davis: his 'all' is the Blues. The routes and roots, of his blues are as diverse as the music form itself. It can be soulful, moaning out a people's cry, or playful and bouncy as a hay-ride. Guy can tell you stories of his great-grandparents and his grandparents, their days as track linemen, and of their interactions with the KKK. He can also tell you that as a child raised in middle-class New York suburbs, the only cotton he's personally picked is his BVDs up off the floor. He's a musician, composer, actor, director, and writer. But most importantly, Guy Davis is a bluesman. The blues permeates every corner of Davis' creativity. Davis performed with his parents, actors/writers Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, entitled "Two Hah Hahs and a Homeboy".

Michael Wimberly, a percussionist and composer of both classical and contemporary music holds both a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Music from Baldwin Wallace Conservatory and a Masters Degree in Music from Manhattan School of Music. As a composer Michael has created commissioned scores for some of New York's most acclaimed dance companies including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Joffrey Ballet, and Philadanco. Accompanying Mr. Wimberly are featured dancers from Forces of Nature Dance Theater Company.

Maia McKinney began dancing practically as soon as she could walk. She was introduced to dance through a traditional West African dance master, Ali Abdullah. She also danced with Maikot Family and Sabsabu Dance Theaters, two children/young adult traditional companies. Her techniques include Dunham and Horton modern, jazz, and hip-hop dance foundations as well as Afro-Cuban and Haitian folkloric dance. As a member of the Detroit Afro-Cuban Dance Theater she visited and performed in Cuba.

Catherine "Cat" Foster received her training from DC Youth Ensemble (DCYE), Baltimore School for the Arts (BSA) and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. She has worked with and performed the works of noted choreographers including Kevin "Lega" Jeff, Donald Bryd, and Hinton Battle. She currently divides her time between the Fred Benjamin Dance Company (Artistic Director, Fred Benjamin) and the Forces of Nature Dance Theater (Artistic Director Abdel Selaam).

The Will Rogers Follies
Broadway in Syracuse
Featuring Larry Gatlin

Price: $25.50-$49.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Award winning country singer and author Larry Gatlin portrays famed cowboy-philosopher Will Rogers in the Will Rogers Follies. The life and career of America's favorite son, Will Rogers, comes to the stage in this all-singing, all-dancing, Broadway extravaganza. Winner of six TONY awards including Best Musical and Best Score, The Will Rogers Follies is a dazzling spectacle about America's first international multimedia sensation whose wit and home spun wisdom still ring true today. Set onstage during one of the legendary Ziegfeld Follies, Will's story comes to life with magnificent sets, luscious costumes and a bevy of beautiful girls. The Will Rogers Follies is an unforgettable show about an unforgettable legend!

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Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

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

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

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Friday, February 24, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

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

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Selected Works by Rebekah Clark
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
VPA Dean's Gallery
Room 200, Crouse College, Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition of handmade quilts from fiber artist and SU alumna Rebekah Clark. The Peabody, Mass.-based artist is well known to local quilt collectors and recently exhibited work at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn.

Paid parking to view the exhibition is available in Irving Garage.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Winter Landscapes and Gardens: Photographs by Linda Adlestein
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The art critic Eric Ernst remarked that in this series of photographs the viewer immediately becomes aware that, from an aesthetic perspective, the subtlety and promise of a garden in winter illustrates more about the space than one is aware of during its season of full bloom.

Now and Then
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring sculptures, mobiles and paintings by Reginald Adams, watercolors by Anne Baldwin, photography by Ron Goodrich, quilts by Holly Knott and paintings by George Vander Sluis.

Poets & Peace Makers
Community Folk Art Center
Rod Rodgers Dance Company

Price: $15
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga Community College
OCC African Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Boy With No Name
Encore Presentations
Tony Brown, conductor

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, $8 LeMoyne students and faculty
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

The story of a mentally challenged boy and his family. Mature themes. For more information, phone 315-952-4228.

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Moon Over Buffalo
Theatre '90

Price: $19 regular, $16 students/seniors, $12 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Shakespeare's R&J
Black Box Players
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Syracuse University Drama Department will present Shakespeare's R&J, Joe Calarco's all-male adaptation of Shakespeare's most famous love story.

Unlike the traditional Renaissance setting of the tale, Shakespeare's R&J moves the action to modern day, when four students at an all-boys parochial school discover a forbidden copy of Romeo and Juliet. Eager for distraction from reciting their Latin verb conjugations, the boys soon begin performing the play. At first timid in exploring the passionate tale among their teenaged peers, the boys eventually lose their inhibitions and embody the story's characters with a palpable understanding of adolescent love - and lust.

Assistant Director Leslie Noble points out that the all-male cast of R&J relates directly to Romeo and Juliet's beginnings on the stage. "The Elizabethan idea of men playing all the roles coupled with the prep school setting was very compelling and set forth a series of meaty questions," Noble said. "How would the circumstances of their youth and upbringing - the military strictness, the rigid gender roles, the sexual repression, the adolescent innocence - affect the performance of Romeo and Juliet? And how would the act of performing this classic love story affect the boys? What a compelling staging challenge to tell both stories at once!"

To reserve tickets, phone 315-443-2102. The Black Box Theatre has a policy of open seating on a first come, first served basis.

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The Vagina Monologues

Price: $25 -- all proceeds benefit Vera House
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

See Eve Ensler's ground-breaking life-altering award-winning play in its premiere Syracuse V-Day World-Wide Campaign production. Performances by local "ladies of prominence" and Vera House staff.

For more information, phone 315-425-8864.

Molly Sweeney
Redhouse

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

This breathtakingly beautiful drama explores the story of one woman's journey from blindness to the seeing world. As the play unfolds from three strikingly different points of view, Brian Friel proves once again why he is considered Ireland's greatest living playwright.

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Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

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

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lisa Anne Porter, director

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

"The course of true love never did run smooth," but who knew it could be quite so chaotic? Certainly not the straight-laced, would-be lovers who flee to the woods where fairies (mis)rule, rude mechanicals play and order is certainly not the order of the day or night. One of the Bard's most beloved comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's most delirious and comic look at love. Set in Athens, the main plot revolves around two sets of couples, Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius. Their entrance into the play's enchanted woods complicates the couples' romantic entanglements when they meet a band of fairies, including impish Puck, not to mention Bottom the weaver and his "rude mechanicals," who stumble into the action when they go into the same magical woods to rehearse a play that is very loosely (and comically) based on the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe. A Midsummer Night's Dream is an exploration of themes of love, dreams, and the creative imagination.

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Saturday, February 25, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Now and Then
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring sculptures, mobiles and paintings by Reginald Adams, watercolors by Anne Baldwin, photography by Ron Goodrich, quilts by Holly Knott and paintings by George Vander Sluis.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Winter Landscapes and Gardens: Photographs by Linda Adlestein
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The art critic Eric Ernst remarked that in this series of photographs the viewer immediately becomes aware that, from an aesthetic perspective, the subtlety and promise of a garden in winter illustrates more about the space than one is aware of during its season of full bloom.

The Boy With No Name
Encore Presentations
Tony Brown, conductor

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, $8 LeMoyne students and faculty
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

The story of a mentally challenged boy and his family. Mature themes. For more information, phone 315-952-4228.

Read a review!

Hercules, the Maiden and the Lion
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive family show.

Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

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

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

Read a Review!

Cats
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $24 regular; $20 students/seniors; $16 children
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Read a Review!

Moon Over Buffalo
Theatre '90

Price: $19 regular, $16 students/seniors, $12 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a Review!

Shakespeare's R&J
Black Box Players
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Syracuse University Drama Department will present Shakespeare's R&J, Joe Calarco's all-male adaptation of Shakespeare's most famous love story.

Unlike the traditional Renaissance setting of the tale, Shakespeare's R&J moves the action to modern day, when four students at an all-boys parochial school discover a forbidden copy of Romeo and Juliet. Eager for distraction from reciting their Latin verb conjugations, the boys soon begin performing the play. At first timid in exploring the passionate tale among their teenaged peers, the boys eventually lose their inhibitions and embody the story's characters with a palpable understanding of adolescent love - and lust.

Assistant Director Leslie Noble points out that the all-male cast of R&J relates directly to Romeo and Juliet's beginnings on the stage. "The Elizabethan idea of men playing all the roles coupled with the prep school setting was very compelling and set forth a series of meaty questions," Noble said. "How would the circumstances of their youth and upbringing - the military strictness, the rigid gender roles, the sexual repression, the adolescent innocence - affect the performance of Romeo and Juliet? And how would the act of performing this classic love story affect the boys? What a compelling staging challenge to tell both stories at once!"

To reserve tickets, phone 315-443-2102. The Black Box Theatre has a policy of open seating on a first come, first served basis.

Read a Review!

The Vagina Monologues

Price: $25 -- all proceeds benefit Vera House
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

See Eve Ensler's ground-breaking life-altering award-winning play in its premiere Syracuse V-Day World-Wide Campaign production. Performances by local "ladies of prominence" and Vera House staff.

For more information, phone 315-425-8864.

The Hilarious Hillbilly Massacre
Opening Night Productions
Bob Brown, director

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

The Birchbumble family, a wild and fun loving clan from deep in the hills of Tennessee, is having a family reunion and you, being a close relative, are invited! Everyone is promised a hog slappin' good time in this audience interactive murder mystery!

However, before the moonshine starts flowin', evil befalls the festivities. A barbaric IRS agent crashes the party and demands that the Birchbumbles pay all the back taxes they owe or the government will confiscate the premises immediately. The Birchbumbles don't take easily to threats, so the agent is bumped off. There's more murder and mayhem and lots of merriment as the evening progresses for the entire extended family  that means you! The Birchbumbles even stage their own auditions for a spot on Hee Haw. Talent like theirs must be seen to be believed!

Be sure to attend this long awaited reunion. It may be the last chance you have to party with
the IN-bred crowd.

Starring Bob Brown, Cathleen O'Brien, David Walker, Lynne Stanistreet, Becky Bottrill. Written by Peter DePietro, author of Clue, The Musical.

Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

There are two ways to enjoy your evening out:

The Complete Dinner Theatre Package includes show ticket and full gourmet dinner of your choosing off the Glen Loch Restaurant's delicious menu. Diners will be seated in the downstairs dining room and the meal prices will be determined by the regular restaurant menu. Those guests choosing to eat must be seated NO LATER than 6:30pm on Saturday evenings and 12:30pm for the Sunday Brunch. Cost: $22 theatre ticket plus cost of meal per person.

The Light Fare Theatre Package: In an agreement with the Glen Loch Restaurant, Opening Night Productions' patrons will no longer be required to purchase a meal with their theater ticket. The cost of the meal will be replaced by a $10 minimum bar/restaurant charge. This may be applied to appetizers, desserts, drinks and/or coffee. The total expense for tickets will be $32 per person.

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Molly Sweeney
Redhouse

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

This breathtakingly beautiful drama explores the story of one woman's journey from blindness to the seeing world. As the play unfolds from three strikingly different points of view, Brian Friel proves once again why he is considered Ireland's greatest living playwright.

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Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

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

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lisa Anne Porter, director

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

"The course of true love never did run smooth," but who knew it could be quite so chaotic? Certainly not the straight-laced, would-be lovers who flee to the woods where fairies (mis)rule, rude mechanicals play and order is certainly not the order of the day or night. One of the Bard's most beloved comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's most delirious and comic look at love. Set in Athens, the main plot revolves around two sets of couples, Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius. Their entrance into the play's enchanted woods complicates the couples' romantic entanglements when they meet a band of fairies, including impish Puck, not to mention Bottom the weaver and his "rude mechanicals," who stumble into the action when they go into the same magical woods to rehearse a play that is very loosely (and comically) based on the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe. A Midsummer Night's Dream is an exploration of themes of love, dreams, and the creative imagination.

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Sunday, February 26, 2006

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Asian Short Film Festival
Redhouse

Price: $7
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A series of short films made by Asian artists or about Asian topics ranging from the nightmarish to the high comic. Shorts include the story of a Muslim boy finding help in India (The Little Terrorist), the animated re-telling of an old Chinese folk tale (Bright/Ming), a tale about surviving the American dream (Chinese Dream), and the story of Romeo and Juliet with a Bollywood twist (Library Majnu). The Asian Short Film Festival demonstrates that a well-made short film can tell a story as well - or better - than a full-length narrative. This program is part of Asian Cinevision's 2005-2006 National Festival Tour.

2006 Short Film Selections:

Chinese Dream by director Victor Quinaz
Indentured in a cramped, crowded and confined world, Country Boys life is an endless toil. Yet, his sweat breeds a dream that his overbearing boss cannot stifle. A moving portrait of one mans determination.
2004 winner San Francisco International Film Festival, BEST SHORT
USA, 2004, 17 min., color, Cantonese with English subtitles, documentary

Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity by director Kevin Lee
Documenting a community's struggle against discrimination, the film begins by observing the simple, quiet act of putting on the dastaar, or turban. This daily ritual is imbued with the Sikh values of honor, discipline and faith, contrasting sharply with recent incidents of violence and discrimination against Sikh communities.
USA, 2005, 11 min., color, documentary

The Little Terrorist by director Ashvin Kumar
Based on a true story, the film follows a Pakistani Muslim boy who mistakenly crosses the mine-field strewn border into India and finds unexpected allies in a Hindu school teacher and his niece. When Indian soldiers search for the little terrorist, his allies must face their own prejudices and consider consequences versus conscience.
Nominee, 2005 Academy Awards, Best Live Action Short Film
Grand Prize Winner, 2005 Tehran International Short Film Festival
India, UK, 2004, 15 min., color, Hindi with English subtitles, narrative

Aunty G's by director Geeta Malik
The secret, double life of Dutiful Auntie Jis. Five South Asian ladies go through their everyday routines: making breakfast for their families, playing ball, and throwing back some beers.
USA, 2004, 6 min., color, narrative

Afternoon (Buoi Chieu) by director Kim Spurlock
A rainy afternoon. An unexpected guest. Drawn by her husband's grief and the desire to experience physical sensation, the spirit of the family matriarch comes calling.
USA, 2005, 10 min., color, English/Vietnamese with English subtitles, narrative

Spam-Ku: I Won A Haiku Contest About Spam by director Steven K. Tsuchida
Roy wins a poetry contest with his Spam haiku. The prize: A lifetime supply. Will his life change for the better or will it take a gooey turn?
USA, 2004, 5 min., color, narrative

Pol Pot's Birthday by director Talmage Cooley
After the fall of Phnom Penh in 1979, Pol Pot and his ruthless Khmer Rouge army spent the next decade retreating slowly towards Thailand. In 1985, the office staff of this brutal dictator attempt to throw a surprise birthday party for their boss.
2004 Sundance Film Festival
USA, 2004, 10 min., color, Khmer with English subtitle, narrative

Library Majnu by director Paul Awguwawela
A modern day Romeo and Juliet with a Bollywood twist. A college library, forbidden love and a meddling fathernothing that a little song and dance can't cure.
UK, 2005, 10 min., color, English/Hindi with English subtitles, narrative

The Way by director Qing Huang
Chinese ink painting has never looked more vivid and alluring. Qing Huang marries 3D computer animation with the aesthetic of traditional Chinese art to create a new, exciting media art form. Step into a world where peach blossoms morph into bamboo trees and carps leap out of the screen.
Australia, 2003, 7 min., color, animation

Bright (Ming) by director Qing Huang
Inspired by an age-old Chinese folktale, BRIGHT adds a new twist to how thunder and lightning came about in striking shadow puppet-style animation. Watch as Thunder God pursues Mother Lightning across the sky, and they unleash their powers in a mating dance.
Australia, 2004, 4 min., B/W & Color, animation

Missing by director Kit Hui
To find his missing girlfriend, Samuel follows a mysterious trail of words written on pieces of paper left in unlikely places. As he uncovers the mystery of her disappearance, he catches a haunting glimpse of New York City and realizes something unexpected.
2005 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Competition
2005 Tribeca Film Festival
USA, 2004, 14 min., color, narrative

The Boy With No Name
Encore Presentations
Tony Brown, conductor

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, $8 LeMoyne students and faculty
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

The story of a mentally challenged boy and his family. Mature themes. For more information, phone 315-952-4228.

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Schubert's Winterreise
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
David Steinau, tenor and Fred Karpoff, piano

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

David Steinau, assistant professor of music at Susquehanna University, and Fred Karpoff, associate professor of piano and ensemble arts in SU's Setnor School of Music, will perform Schubert's song cycle Winterreise, the "Winter Journey" of poet Wilhelm Muller's "wanderer."

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Stained Glass Series: A Haydn Celebration
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Julie Albers, cello

Price: $20 adults, $12 students
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

M. Haydn Symphony in D Major, P. 29
F. J. Haydn Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major
F. J. Haydn Overture to Lo Speziale
F. J. Haydn Symphony No. 96, "The Miracle"

Rising Star Concert
Malmgren Concert Series
Featuring Jonathan Ryan, organ

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Music of J. S. Bach, Maurice Durufle, Louis Vierne, Herbert Howells, Petr Eben, and Charles Tournemire.

Jonathan Ryan received the second prize in the 2005 Arthur Poister National Organ Competition. Other competition awards include first prize in the Young Professional division of the 2004 Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival/USA, first prize in the third annual (2003) Augustana Arts-Reuter National Undergraduate Organ Competition in Denver, CO, both second prize and the audience prize in the 2004 Miami International Organ Competition in Miami, FL, and second prize in the 2004 Wells Competition for Young Organists in Lubbock, TX. Mr. Ryan serves as Director of Music and Choirmaster at St. Anne Roman Catholic Church, Rochester, NY.

Time Capsule and Falling for You
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $5 regular, $4 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

As the one-act drama Time Capsule, by Peter Moller, opens, it's been more than 30 years since Charlie Daniels saw his childhood best friend Donald Baxter. By chance, Charlie, now a state trooper, stops Donald, a New York City lawyer, for speeding one night. Both discover more than the toys of their childhood in the time capsule tin can they buried in a back yard many years ago.

The 10-minute comedy Falling For You, by David Feldman, features Sally, an alien robot whose earthly job is to hook up the right man with the right woman -- as two 50s-somethings walking in a park discover to their surprise when Sally literally drops in on them. But Sally's plan almost goes awry because there is another woman in the picture, and because of the limitations of doing her job in just 10 minutes.

Shakespeare's R&J
Black Box Players
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Syracuse University Drama Department will present Shakespeare's R&J, Joe Calarco's all-male adaptation of Shakespeare's most famous love story.

Unlike the traditional Renaissance setting of the tale, Shakespeare's R&J moves the action to modern day, when four students at an all-boys parochial school discover a forbidden copy of Romeo and Juliet. Eager for distraction from reciting their Latin verb conjugations, the boys soon begin performing the play. At first timid in exploring the passionate tale among their teenaged peers, the boys eventually lose their inhibitions and embody the story's characters with a palpable understanding of adolescent love - and lust.

Assistant Director Leslie Noble points out that the all-male cast of R&J relates directly to Romeo and Juliet's beginnings on the stage. "The Elizabethan idea of men playing all the roles coupled with the prep school setting was very compelling and set forth a series of meaty questions," Noble said. "How would the circumstances of their youth and upbringing - the military strictness, the rigid gender roles, the sexual repression, the adolescent innocence - affect the performance of Romeo and Juliet? And how would the act of performing this classic love story affect the boys? What a compelling staging challenge to tell both stories at once!"

To reserve tickets, phone 315-443-2102. The Black Box Theatre has a policy of open seating on a first come, first served basis.

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The Hilarious Hillbilly Massacre
Opening Night Productions
Bob Brown, director

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

The Birchbumble family, a wild and fun loving clan from deep in the hills of Tennessee, is having a family reunion and you, being a close relative, are invited! Everyone is promised a hog slappin' good time in this audience interactive murder mystery!

However, before the moonshine starts flowin', evil befalls the festivities. A barbaric IRS agent crashes the party and demands that the Birchbumbles pay all the back taxes they owe or the government will confiscate the premises immediately. The Birchbumbles don't take easily to threats, so the agent is bumped off. There's more murder and mayhem and lots of merriment as the evening progresses for the entire extended family  that means you! The Birchbumbles even stage their own auditions for a spot on Hee Haw. Talent like theirs must be seen to be believed!

Be sure to attend this long awaited reunion. It may be the last chance you have to party with
the IN-bred crowd.

Starring Bob Brown, Cathleen O'Brien, David Walker, Lynne Stanistreet, Becky Bottrill. Written by Peter DePietro, author of Clue, The Musical.

Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

There are two ways to enjoy your evening out:

The Complete Dinner Theatre Package includes show ticket and full gourmet dinner of your choosing off the Glen Loch Restaurant's delicious menu. Diners will be seated in the downstairs dining room and the meal prices will be determined by the regular restaurant menu. Those guests choosing to eat must be seated NO LATER than 6:30pm on Saturday evenings and 12:30pm for the Sunday Brunch. Cost: $22 theatre ticket plus cost of meal per person.

The Light Fare Theatre Package: In an agreement with the Glen Loch Restaurant, Opening Night Productions' patrons will no longer be required to purchase a meal with their theater ticket. The cost of the meal will be replaced by a $10 minimum bar/restaurant charge. This may be applied to appetizers, desserts, drinks and/or coffee. The total expense for tickets will be $32 per person.

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Cats
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $24 regular; $20 students/seniors; $16 children
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

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

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lisa Anne Porter, director

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

"The course of true love never did run smooth," but who knew it could be quite so chaotic? Certainly not the straight-laced, would-be lovers who flee to the woods where fairies (mis)rule, rude mechanicals play and order is certainly not the order of the day or night. One of the Bard's most beloved comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's most delirious and comic look at love. Set in Athens, the main plot revolves around two sets of couples, Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius. Their entrance into the play's enchanted woods complicates the couples' romantic entanglements when they meet a band of fairies, including impish Puck, not to mention Bottom the weaver and his "rude mechanicals," who stumble into the action when they go into the same magical woods to rehearse a play that is very loosely (and comically) based on the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe. A Midsummer Night's Dream is an exploration of themes of love, dreams, and the creative imagination.

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Moon Over Buffalo
Theatre '90

Price: $19 regular, $16 students/seniors, $12 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Monday, February 27, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

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

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Women Artists Invitational Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

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

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Women Artists Invitational Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Spare Time Not Wasted
Associated Artists

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

Works by Barbara Emmons and Judith Snedeker Jaquith.

Barbara Emmons works in acrylic, pen and ink, and watercolor. Judith Jaquith works mainly in watercolor, also oil pastel, pencil, and photography.

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Gallery Talk
Lowe Art Gallery
Featuring Murray Tinkelman, curator of Favorite Flix and professor of Illustration, School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Asian Short Film Festival
Redhouse

Price: $7
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A series of short films made by Asian artists or about Asian topics ranging from the nightmarish to the high comic. Shorts include the story of a Muslim boy finding help in India (The Little Terrorist), the animated re-telling of an old Chinese folk tale (Bright/Ming), a tale about surviving the American dream (Chinese Dream), and the story of Romeo and Juliet with a Bollywood twist (Library Majnu). The Asian Short Film Festival demonstrates that a well-made short film can tell a story as well - or better - than a full-length narrative. This program is part of Asian Cinevision's 2005-2006 National Festival Tour.

2006 Short Film Selections:

Chinese Dream by director Victor Quinaz
Indentured in a cramped, crowded and confined world, Country Boys life is an endless toil. Yet, his sweat breeds a dream that his overbearing boss cannot stifle. A moving portrait of one mans determination.
2004 winner San Francisco International Film Festival, BEST SHORT
USA, 2004, 17 min., color, Cantonese with English subtitles, documentary

Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity by director Kevin Lee
Documenting a community's struggle against discrimination, the film begins by observing the simple, quiet act of putting on the dastaar, or turban. This daily ritual is imbued with the Sikh values of honor, discipline and faith, contrasting sharply with recent incidents of violence and discrimination against Sikh communities.
USA, 2005, 11 min., color, documentary

The Little Terrorist by director Ashvin Kumar
Based on a true story, the film follows a Pakistani Muslim boy who mistakenly crosses the mine-field strewn border into India and finds unexpected allies in a Hindu school teacher and his niece. When Indian soldiers search for the little terrorist, his allies must face their own prejudices and consider consequences versus conscience.
Nominee, 2005 Academy Awards, Best Live Action Short Film
Grand Prize Winner, 2005 Tehran International Short Film Festival
India, UK, 2004, 15 min., color, Hindi with English subtitles, narrative

Aunty G's by director Geeta Malik
The secret, double life of Dutiful Auntie Jis. Five South Asian ladies go through their everyday routines: making breakfast for their families, playing ball, and throwing back some beers.
USA, 2004, 6 min., color, narrative

Afternoon (Buoi Chieu) by director Kim Spurlock
A rainy afternoon. An unexpected guest. Drawn by her husband's grief and the desire to experience physical sensation, the spirit of the family matriarch comes calling.
USA, 2005, 10 min., color, English/Vietnamese with English subtitles, narrative

Spam-Ku: I Won A Haiku Contest About Spam by director Steven K. Tsuchida
Roy wins a poetry contest with his Spam haiku. The prize: A lifetime supply. Will his life change for the better or will it take a gooey turn?
USA, 2004, 5 min., color, narrative

Pol Pot's Birthday by director Talmage Cooley
After the fall of Phnom Penh in 1979, Pol Pot and his ruthless Khmer Rouge army spent the next decade retreating slowly towards Thailand. In 1985, the office staff of this brutal dictator attempt to throw a surprise birthday party for their boss.
2004 Sundance Film Festival
USA, 2004, 10 min., color, Khmer with English subtitle, narrative

Library Majnu by director Paul Awguwawela
A modern day Romeo and Juliet with a Bollywood twist. A college library, forbidden love and a meddling fathernothing that a little song and dance can't cure.
UK, 2005, 10 min., color, English/Hindi with English subtitles, narrative

The Way by director Qing Huang
Chinese ink painting has never looked more vivid and alluring. Qing Huang marries 3D computer animation with the aesthetic of traditional Chinese art to create a new, exciting media art form. Step into a world where peach blossoms morph into bamboo trees and carps leap out of the screen.
Australia, 2003, 7 min., color, animation

Bright (Ming) by director Qing Huang
Inspired by an age-old Chinese folktale, BRIGHT adds a new twist to how thunder and lightning came about in striking shadow puppet-style animation. Watch as Thunder God pursues Mother Lightning across the sky, and they unleash their powers in a mating dance.
Australia, 2004, 4 min., B/W & Color, animation

Missing by director Kit Hui
To find his missing girlfriend, Samuel follows a mysterious trail of words written on pieces of paper left in unlikely places. As he uncovers the mystery of her disappearance, he catches a haunting glimpse of New York City and realizes something unexpected.
2005 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Competition
2005 Tribeca Film Festival
USA, 2004, 14 min., color, narrative

Nora
CNY-Irish American Cultural Institute MacKillop Film Series

Price: $7 regular; free for LeMoyne students, faculty, and staff; free for James Joyce Club members
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

On the life of Nora Joyce, adapted from the Brenda Maddox biography, with Ewan McGregor and Susan Lynch, 1999.

Alan Singer, visiting artist
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Alan Singer is a painter, printmaker, lecturer, and educator living in upstate New York. Born in New York City in 1950 to a family of artists and designers, Alan began exhibiting his paintings while still in college at The Cooper Union in New York City. Through college and graduate school at Cornell University, Alan won scholarships, and created work of distinction in programs held at Yale University, Norfolk, CT, at Boston University, Tanglewood, MA, and at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME. Subsequently Alan has illustrated and published books and has worked as a graphic designer. He is also a published writer on the visual arts. Currently he is a professor of art in the School of Art, College of Imaging Arts & Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, NY. Alan's artwork has been featured in museums such as the Everson in Syracuse, and the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. His work has also been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, primarily in the New York area.

For further information, phone the Department of Art at 315-443-2186.

William Schulz
University Lectures

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Dr. William F. Schulz was appointed Executive Director of Amnesty International (USA) in March 1994. An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, he came to Amnesty after serving for 15 years with the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (UUA), the last eight (1985-93) as President of the Association.

As President of the UUA, Dr. Schulz was involved in a wide variety of international and social justice causes. He led the first visit by a U.S. Member of Congress to post-revolutionary Romania in January 1991, two weeks after the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. That delegation was instrumental in the subsequent improvement in the rights of religious and ethnic minorities in Romania.

Dr. Schulz has served on the boards of People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Communitarian Network and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, among others. He is currently a member of the International Advisory Committee for the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.

He has appeared frequently on radio and television, including 60 Minutes, 20/20, The Today Show, Good Morning, America, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, ABC World News, Larry King Live, Nightline, Politically Incorrect, and on the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX News and Bloomberg News. He has published and is quoted widely in newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Review of Books, The Nation, The National Interest and Parade and is the author of several books, including Finding Time and Other Delicacies, Transforming Words: Six Essays on Preaching, Making the Manifesto: The Birth of Religious Humanism, and In Our Own Best Interests: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All. His latest book Tainted Legacy: 9-11 and the Ruin of Human Rights was published by Nation Books in September, 2003.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Jazz Ensemble

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

Under the direction of Joseph Riposo, the ensemble will perform works by Don Menza, Thelonious Monk, Neil Slater, Jerry Coker and Sonny Rollins. The concert will feature many of the ensemble's jazz soloists. For more information, phone 315-443-2191 or 315-652-8567.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

From the Back of the Bus
The Media Unit

Price: Free
Southwest Community Center
401 South Ave., Syracuse

The 10th anniversary performance of the award-winning original production about teens and racism.