Thursday, March 23, 2006

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.

Winter's End: Works of Donal and Shel Little

Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

New art work by popular Syracuse artists Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio. The exhibit will include a piece created especially in honor of St Patrick's Day.

Women Artists Invitational Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Premium Blend: Works by Graduate Painters
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The graduate painters whose works will be on display in the exhibition are Monica Alfonso, Tapati Chowdhury, Seunghee Chung, Allison Fox, Frank McCauley, Elena Peteva, Pepa Santamaria, David Serotkin, Andy Sullivan and Elijah Van Benschoten.

Paid parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact the VPA Dean's Office at 315-443-5889.

Dennis Pullen Painting and Poetry
Westcott Community Center

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

See through the eyes and mind of this talented young artist who paints exquisite pieces of artwork with his mouth.

Central New York Art Guild Exhibition
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Recent works by members of the Guild in a variety of media.

Notion of Family: Family Work 2002-2006 - LaToya Ruby Frazier
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

LaToya Ruby Frazier of Pittsburgh, PA attended Edinboro University of Pennsylvania where she received a B.F.A. degree in Photography and Graphic Design. She was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Photography Award from Edinboro University. Her work has received the Patron's Purchase Award from the Erie Art Museum in Erie, PA. Her work has also been exhibited at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn and Light Work Community Darkrooms in Syracuse. Currently, she is pursuing her M.F.A. degree in Art Photography at Syracuse University, where she has been a recipient of the African American Fellowship. In addition to teaching photography at Syracuse University, Frazier has taught at Light Work Community Darkrooms and the Community Folk Art Center.

"The Notion of Family is a collaborative development between my grandmother, mother and I. It reveals the complexity of our relationships and the different roles we play," says Frazier. Frazier's 26 black and white photographs will be accompanied by her award-winning documentary film, A Mother To Hold, which intensely reveals the complex relationship she has with her drug-addicted mother. "My position and role as daughter and filmmaker transcends the stereotypical objective practice in classic documentary, which has continuously undermined the black family experience by avoiding our emotional realm," Frazier says. The film has been screened at the 2006 Black Maria Film Festival in Jersey City, NJ, the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival in New York City, the Black International Film Festival in New York City, and the Women of Color Film Festival in New York City, where she received the Producer's Choice Award.

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.

Suzanne Opton: Soldier
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition takes an unusual and intimate look at soldiers who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. The series includes a mixture of black-and-white and color photographs that range in style from timeless studio portraits to intimate close-up views of the heads of the soldiers lying on a flat surface. The exhibition features large-format color photographs of the faces of soldiers, evoking a sense of dreaming but also hinting at the transformative experiences of war. Opton has taken the otherwise loaded idea of soldiers and warfare out of a political context and placed it into a silent dialogue from one human being to the next. She says of the images, "We all experience strategic moments when we feel most alive. These are the moments we will always remember, be they transcendent or horrific. Afterall, what are we if not our collection of memories? In making these portraits of soldiers, I simply wanted to look in the face of someone whod seen something unforgettable.

Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Scholastic Art Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For over three decades, the Everson has partnered with the Central New York Regional Scholastic Art Awards, sponsored by Time Warner. This juried exhibition of junior high and high school artists is displayed at Onondaga Community College. The Silver Key finalists have their work displayed at the Everson, while the Gold Key winners advance to the national competition.

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For the Everson's 2004 Biennial exhibition, juror Pavel Zoubok selected Daniel Atyim's mixed-media works for the Best of Show Award. For this prize, the Everson will showcase Atyim's work in a solo exhibition and gallery brochure.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Only an Artist features approximately 80 porcelains by Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865-1929). These exquisite works are drawn largely from the unparalleled collection of her ceramics held by the Everson Museum of Art, with additional key works from other public and private collections. Beginning with Robineau's early experiments dating from 1904 to 1910, Only an Artist offers a selection of both the matte and crystalline glazes Robineau developed during this crucial period. A unique focus of Only an Artist is the representation of almost thirty works from the last three years of Robineau's life.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue containing three essays: by the exhibition's guest curator, Thomas Piché Jr.; noted Art Pottery scholar Ellen Paul Denker; and Syracuse University Professor Elizabeth Fowler.

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During its 80-year history, Rookwood Pottery's artists formed and painted ceramics in such diverse styles as Victorian, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts and Art Deco. Sara Sax (1870-1949) was one of Rookwood's premier artists, painting vases, tiles and jars for this celebrated company from 1896 through 1931. This exhibition of Sax's work is generously on loan to the Everson from a private Massachusetts collection.

The Artist Revealed: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Claire Harootunian Retrospective: Sculpture and Collage Art
Redhouse

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

Come join in the magic of the art works of Claire Harootunian, alumnus and former Syracuse University adjunct professor A consummate hunter, gatherer and collector, Ms. Harootunian is constantly reinventing and reinvigorating new life into "found" objects and materials. Claire Harootunian begins with the possibilities of the material, whether she is layering fine, delicate papers and fabrics or welding heavy steel and bronze she delights in the creative process. Her joy in creating, no matter the medium, is apparent in all she touches.

Different Strokes
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jane Crow: acrylics
Vincent Fitches: mixed media paintings
Cheyne Rood: pen and inks
Members of the Central New York Art Guild: varied works

A LaToya Ruby Frazier Film & Gallery Talk
Community Folk Art Center

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

7th Annual Prism Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Entirely produced by students in the music industry program, Prism is a unique, 360-degree panoramic concert experience where darkness and light intertwine. The setting is completely dark with spotlights that navigate to different sections of the stage and balconies, where one ensemble or soloist performs, then immediately switches to the next group. All angles and performance areas are utilized for musical enjoyment, in addition to the dichotomy between darkness and light.

During the concert, student soloists and ensembles will perform music of all genres. Some of the performances will include an organ solo, the a cappella ensemble Main Squeeze, the SU Brazilian Ensemble, members of the SU Wind Symphony and various soloists and duets including percussion, winds and strings. Composers whose works will be featured include Howard Boatwright, Kurt Wiell and an original composition by SU music students Dane Aconfora and Megan Kimber.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

My Dead Lady
Acme Mystery Company

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

Comedy murder mystery dinner theater.

Peter Pan
Broadway in Syracuse
Featuring Cathy Rigby

Price: $27.50-$52.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In her farewell performance, Cathy Rigby takes flight in the 100th anniversary of the immortal James M. Barrie tale, Peter Pan. Join the three Darling children as they fly away to Never Land, where they encounter the evil Captain Hook, villainous pirates, crocodiles, brave Indians and a sprightly fairy named Tinkerbell. Take off with the ever-youthful Cathy Rigby and revel in the magic and whimsy of this beloved classic of the little boy determined never to grow up.

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Footloose
Liverpool High School

Price: $8
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

For reservations, phone 315-453-1500, ext. 4078.

The First 80 Years Are the Most Difficult
Featuring Carol Channing

Price: $35 regular; $80 patron
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

One-woman autobiographical musical, presented in celebration of Loretto's 80th anniversary. For tickets and other information, phone 315-446-5538, ext. 3031.

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Bad Dates
Syracuse Stage
Mark Rucker, director

Hutchings Auditorium
810 E. Genesee St., adjacent to Syracuse Stage, Syracuse

Meet Haley Walker, funny, smart, sexy, single mom, restaurant owner and connoisseur of fine shoes. She's ready for Mr. Right. Only problem is most of the men she meets are perfect losers. She wants Sex in the City but the guys are strictly Apprentice. Good thing she knows how laugh. Join accomplished actress Nance Williamson in the "before" and "after" of a series of not so successful dates. It's a one-woman comedic journey that goes from practical shoes all the way to lingerie.

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She Stoops to Conquer
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Drama Club

Price: $10 regular; $8 seniors; $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Comedy in which a young lady poses as a serving girl to win the heart of a gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. A classic comedy of manners, class, courtship, and dysfunctional families.

Read a review!

Baylin's Monster
Rarely Done Productions
Ty Marshal, director

Price: $15
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Baylin's Monster is an original musical comedy by Michael Grady about the travails of small town commerce and the appearance of a monster in the marsh! This cast brings us the citizens of Baylin, a fictional Mississippi swamp town that fills its coffers with tourism dollars. Lately, the good people of Baylin have been lunch for a carnivorous monster that lives in its swamp. The media has descended, including network reporter Larry Farrell, a former Baylinite, looking to break the Baylin story, and the townsfolk are scrambling to hide their 60-foot monster. Or are they? Baylin's Monster is a musical without a score, a distinction planned by Grady to encourage singers and non-singers alike to perform his play. It is up to the cast to make up the melodies to Grady's lyrics in each production which will provide for an evening of some tuneful laughs! "This ambitious, intelligent script is full of wonderfully sarcastic humor, and hilarious hillbilly stereotypes". Robert Pela (Phoenix New Times).

Read a Review!

La Petite Piaf
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney S. Hudson, director
Featuring Rachel Moulton

Price: $1
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This performance is part of Honors Student Rachel Moulton's Honors Thesis Project. It is an original adaptation by Moulton and Professor Rodney S. Hudson, who also directs the piece. La Petite Piaf is based on Jean Cocteau's La Voix Humane (The Human Voice), Pam Gem's PIAF, and various biographical texts about the life and career of the famous French chanteuse. Piaf also features over fifteen songs recorded by Edith Piaf during her career, including Hymne a L'amour, Milord, No, Je ne Regrette Rien, and La Vie en Rose.

Friday, March 24, 2006

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.

Winter's End: Works of Donal and Shel Little

Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

New art work by popular Syracuse artists Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio. The exhibit will include a piece created especially in honor of St Patrick's Day.

Women Artists Invitational Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Premium Blend: Works by Graduate Painters
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The graduate painters whose works will be on display in the exhibition are Monica Alfonso, Tapati Chowdhury, Seunghee Chung, Allison Fox, Frank McCauley, Elena Peteva, Pepa Santamaria, David Serotkin, Andy Sullivan and Elijah Van Benschoten.

Paid parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact the VPA Dean's Office at 315-443-5889.

Dennis Pullen Painting and Poetry
Westcott Community Center

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

See through the eyes and mind of this talented young artist who paints exquisite pieces of artwork with his mouth.

Central New York Art Guild Exhibition
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Recent works by members of the Guild in a variety of media.

Notion of Family: Family Work 2002-2006 - LaToya Ruby Frazier
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

LaToya Ruby Frazier of Pittsburgh, PA attended Edinboro University of Pennsylvania where she received a B.F.A. degree in Photography and Graphic Design. She was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Photography Award from Edinboro University. Her work has received the Patron's Purchase Award from the Erie Art Museum in Erie, PA. Her work has also been exhibited at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn and Light Work Community Darkrooms in Syracuse. Currently, she is pursuing her M.F.A. degree in Art Photography at Syracuse University, where she has been a recipient of the African American Fellowship. In addition to teaching photography at Syracuse University, Frazier has taught at Light Work Community Darkrooms and the Community Folk Art Center.

"The Notion of Family is a collaborative development between my grandmother, mother and I. It reveals the complexity of our relationships and the different roles we play," says Frazier. Frazier's 26 black and white photographs will be accompanied by her award-winning documentary film, A Mother To Hold, which intensely reveals the complex relationship she has with her drug-addicted mother. "My position and role as daughter and filmmaker transcends the stereotypical objective practice in classic documentary, which has continuously undermined the black family experience by avoiding our emotional realm," Frazier says. The film has been screened at the 2006 Black Maria Film Festival in Jersey City, NJ, the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival in New York City, the Black International Film Festival in New York City, and the Women of Color Film Festival in New York City, where she received the Producer's Choice Award.

Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Suzanne Opton: Soldier
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition takes an unusual and intimate look at soldiers who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. The series includes a mixture of black-and-white and color photographs that range in style from timeless studio portraits to intimate close-up views of the heads of the soldiers lying on a flat surface. The exhibition features large-format color photographs of the faces of soldiers, evoking a sense of dreaming but also hinting at the transformative experiences of war. Opton has taken the otherwise loaded idea of soldiers and warfare out of a political context and placed it into a silent dialogue from one human being to the next. She says of the images, "We all experience strategic moments when we feel most alive. These are the moments we will always remember, be they transcendent or horrific. Afterall, what are we if not our collection of memories? In making these portraits of soldiers, I simply wanted to look in the face of someone whod seen something unforgettable.

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.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Scholastic Art Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For over three decades, the Everson has partnered with the Central New York Regional Scholastic Art Awards, sponsored by Time Warner. This juried exhibition of junior high and high school artists is displayed at Onondaga Community College. The Silver Key finalists have their work displayed at the Everson, while the Gold Key winners advance to the national competition.

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During its 80-year history, Rookwood Pottery's artists formed and painted ceramics in such diverse styles as Victorian, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts and Art Deco. Sara Sax (1870-1949) was one of Rookwood's premier artists, painting vases, tiles and jars for this celebrated company from 1896 through 1931. This exhibition of Sax's work is generously on loan to the Everson from a private Massachusetts collection.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Only an Artist features approximately 80 porcelains by Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865-1929). These exquisite works are drawn largely from the unparalleled collection of her ceramics held by the Everson Museum of Art, with additional key works from other public and private collections. Beginning with Robineau's early experiments dating from 1904 to 1910, Only an Artist offers a selection of both the matte and crystalline glazes Robineau developed during this crucial period. A unique focus of Only an Artist is the representation of almost thirty works from the last three years of Robineau's life.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue containing three essays: by the exhibition's guest curator, Thomas Piché Jr.; noted Art Pottery scholar Ellen Paul Denker; and Syracuse University Professor Elizabeth Fowler.

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For the Everson's 2004 Biennial exhibition, juror Pavel Zoubok selected Daniel Atyim's mixed-media works for the Best of Show Award. For this prize, the Everson will showcase Atyim's work in a solo exhibition and gallery brochure.

The Artist Revealed: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Claire Harootunian Retrospective: Sculpture and Collage Art
Redhouse

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

Come join in the magic of the art works of Claire Harootunian, alumnus and former Syracuse University adjunct professor A consummate hunter, gatherer and collector, Ms. Harootunian is constantly reinventing and reinvigorating new life into "found" objects and materials. Claire Harootunian begins with the possibilities of the material, whether she is layering fine, delicate papers and fabrics or welding heavy steel and bronze she delights in the creative process. Her joy in creating, no matter the medium, is apparent in all she touches.

Different Strokes
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jane Crow: acrylics
Vincent Fitches: mixed media paintings
Cheyne Rood: pen and inks
Members of the Central New York Art Guild: varied works

Folkus Project
Lisa Moscatiello, with cellist Fred Lieder

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Washington, D.C., vocalist Lisa Moscatiello is an extraordinary song interpreter with a voracious appetite for unusual and emotionally potent songs. Her three solo albums are a joyous foray into the high country of contemporary folk, acoustic pop, jazz, and timeless folk ballads from Celtic, American and European traditions. Sprinkled throughout are Moscatiello's own finely crafted and moving original songs.

Moscatiello is well-known as one of the finest singers in the neo-folk community. Certainly the hometown press in D.C. has made that point, having showered her with nearly two dozen WAMMIE awards over the past several years, mostly in vocal categories. Legendary folk deejay Gene Shay of WXPN lauded her for having "one of the best voices in the business." Billboard Magazine called hers "one of the most gorgeous vocal instruments in all of folk-tinged pop." Words like sultry and subtle, smoky and swinging come to mind as Moscatiello creates adult, jazz-inflected pop, caressed by a touch of Continental romance and perfumed with traces of Chris Connor and other interpreters of the torch song.

For reservations email tickets@folkus.org or phone 315-440-7444.

Hal Casey, Master Fiddler
Redhouse

Price: $15
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

New York State Fiddlers Hall of Famer Hal Casey is Central New York's best-known country fiddler with a career that spans six decades. Credits include five-time New York State Fiddle Champion and induction into the SAMMY's Hall of Fame. During the 1950s, Casey worked as a staff musician at the Grand Ole Opry and later on the Louisiana Hayride, performing with Ernest Tubb, Bill Monroe, Vassar Clements and Billy Walker. Sidelined in recent years with arthritis, Casey is on the comeback performing a retrospective of his favorite fiddle music.

Pops Series: Cherish the Ladies
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Peter Stafford Wilson, conductor

Price: $16 - $54
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Celebrate the haunting melodies, thrilling rhythms and time-honored traditions of Ireland when the award-winning Irish-American group Cherish the Ladies bring the Celtic customs, music and dance to Syracuse. Cherish the Ladies is one of the most sought-after Celtic groups of our time and offers a spectacular blend of virtuosic instrumental talents and captivating vocals that will combine for a performance you will not soon forget!

Ray Smith Symposium Performances
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An evening of performances featuring poetry by Omanii Abdullah, adjunct instructor; African storytelling with Arthur Flowers, associate professor of English; performances by the SU Brazillian Ensemble and Etse Nyadedsor's African Dance Company; African drumming by Nyadedsor & Co., and readings and poetry by Jackie Warren-Moore, local poet and playwright and Jackie Grace, assistant principal at Hughes Magnet Elementary School.

The performances are part of "Insurgent Cross-Cultural Conversations in the Expressive Arts: Contesting Notions of Transnationalism and Citizenship," a symposium presented by The Ray Smith Symposium series, under the Humanities Council in The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University.

For more information, contact Doreen Blenman, 315-443-4302.

God's Trombones
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $15 advance, $18 at door, $12 seniors with ID and groups of 20 or more, $5 for college students with ID and children 12 and under
South Presbyterian Church
Corner of W. Colvin and S. Salina Streets, Syracuse

God's Trombones, by James Weldon Johnson, is a spectacular compilation of seven Negro sermons in verse. Under the creative direction of William H. Rowland, Jackie Warren Moore, and Annette Adams-Brown this production will be a magnificent mixture of oration, song, dance and music. Local ministers from around the community will recite the opening prayer called Listen, Lord - A Prayer. Choral Director Lagreer Cummings will lead a mass Choir, made up of church choral members from across the Syracuse community, that will fill the sanctuary with joyous gospel songs, while prominent actors from the SU campus and Syracuse community engage and delight your senses with the remaining sermons; The Creation, The Prodigal Son, Go Down Death - A Funeral Sermon, Noah Built the Ark, The Crucifixion, Let my People Go, and Judgment Day through recitation, dramatization, narration and storytelling. The play will run approximately 1-1/2 hours.

Aida
Henninger High Drama Club

Price: $8
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

Original Musical

Ray Middle School
7650 Van Buren Rd., Baldwinsville

One-act play performed by students and staff. Music composed by Richard Simiele.

Footloose
Liverpool High School

Price: $8
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

For reservations, phone 315-453-1500, ext. 4078.

Whose Life is it Anyway?
Appleseed Productions

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A brilliant battle of wits takes place in this extraordinary play. Ken Harrison, a successful sculptor, is paralyzed in a car accident and kept alive by support systems in a hospital. Outwardly he's cheerful and often very funny, but he's overwhelmed by the fact that he has lost control of his own life. As the play begins, he is coming to the decision that if he can't live as a man, he does not want to exist as a medical achievement. His physician, however, is utterly determined to preserve Ken's life, regardless of its quality. Finally, despite the pleas of the doctor and his involved nurse, Ken invokes the law of habeas corpus and a judge joins the battle to determine - Whose Life Is It, Anyway?

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She Stoops to Conquer
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Drama Club

Price: $10 regular; $8 seniors; $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Comedy in which a young lady poses as a serving girl to win the heart of a gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. A classic comedy of manners, class, courtship, and dysfunctional families.

Read a review!

Baylin's Monster
Rarely Done Productions
Ty Marshal, director

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Baylin's Monster is an original musical comedy by Michael Grady about the travails of small town commerce and the appearance of a monster in the marsh! This cast brings us the citizens of Baylin, a fictional Mississippi swamp town that fills its coffers with tourism dollars. Lately, the good people of Baylin have been lunch for a carnivorous monster that lives in its swamp. The media has descended, including network reporter Larry Farrell, a former Baylinite, looking to break the Baylin story, and the townsfolk are scrambling to hide their 60-foot monster. Or are they? Baylin's Monster is a musical without a score, a distinction planned by Grady to encourage singers and non-singers alike to perform his play. It is up to the cast to make up the melodies to Grady's lyrics in each production which will provide for an evening of some tuneful laughs! "This ambitious, intelligent script is full of wonderfully sarcastic humor, and hilarious hillbilly stereotypes". Robert Pela (Phoenix New Times).

Read a Review!

Bad Dates
Syracuse Stage
Mark Rucker, director

Hutchings Auditorium
810 E. Genesee St., adjacent to Syracuse Stage, Syracuse

Meet Haley Walker, funny, smart, sexy, single mom, restaurant owner and connoisseur of fine shoes. She's ready for Mr. Right. Only problem is most of the men she meets are perfect losers. She wants Sex in the City but the guys are strictly Apprentice. Good thing she knows how laugh. Join accomplished actress Nance Williamson in the "before" and "after" of a series of not so successful dates. It's a one-woman comedic journey that goes from practical shoes all the way to lingerie.

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Jesus Christ Superstar
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Bring the whole family to experience the pageantry and spectacle of Central New York's most revered theatrical production of the moving and passionate re-telling of the last days of Jesus Christ through music and song, reverently performed by a talented cast of performers of all ages.

For tickets, phone the box office at 315-475-9749.

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La Petite Piaf
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney S. Hudson, director
Featuring Rachel Moulton

Price: $1
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This performance is part of Honors Student Rachel Moulton's Honors Thesis Project. It is an original adaptation by Moulton and Professor Rodney S. Hudson, who also directs the piece. La Petite Piaf is based on Jean Cocteau's La Voix Humane (The Human Voice), Pam Gem's PIAF, and various biographical texts about the life and career of the famous French chanteuse. Piaf also features over fifteen songs recorded by Edith Piaf during her career, including Hymne a L'amour, Milord, No, Je ne Regrette Rien, and La Vie en Rose.

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Winter's End: Works of Donal and Shel Little

Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

New art work by popular Syracuse artists Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio. The exhibit will include a piece created especially in honor of St Patrick's Day.

Different Strokes
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jane Crow: acrylics
Vincent Fitches: mixed media paintings
Cheyne Rood: pen and inks
Members of the Central New York Art Guild: varied works

Central New York Art Guild Exhibition
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Recent works by members of the Guild in a variety of media.

Scholastic Art Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For over three decades, the Everson has partnered with the Central New York Regional Scholastic Art Awards, sponsored by Time Warner. This juried exhibition of junior high and high school artists is displayed at Onondaga Community College. The Silver Key finalists have their work displayed at the Everson, while the Gold Key winners advance to the national competition.

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For the Everson's 2004 Biennial exhibition, juror Pavel Zoubok selected Daniel Atyim's mixed-media works for the Best of Show Award. For this prize, the Everson will showcase Atyim's work in a solo exhibition and gallery brochure.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Only an Artist features approximately 80 porcelains by Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865-1929). These exquisite works are drawn largely from the unparalleled collection of her ceramics held by the Everson Museum of Art, with additional key works from other public and private collections. Beginning with Robineau's early experiments dating from 1904 to 1910, Only an Artist offers a selection of both the matte and crystalline glazes Robineau developed during this crucial period. A unique focus of Only an Artist is the representation of almost thirty works from the last three years of Robineau's life.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue containing three essays: by the exhibition's guest curator, Thomas Piché Jr.; noted Art Pottery scholar Ellen Paul Denker; and Syracuse University Professor Elizabeth Fowler.

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During its 80-year history, Rookwood Pottery's artists formed and painted ceramics in such diverse styles as Victorian, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts and Art Deco. Sara Sax (1870-1949) was one of Rookwood's premier artists, painting vases, tiles and jars for this celebrated company from 1896 through 1931. This exhibition of Sax's work is generously on loan to the Everson from a private Massachusetts collection.

Notion of Family: Family Work 2002-2006 - LaToya Ruby Frazier
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

LaToya Ruby Frazier of Pittsburgh, PA attended Edinboro University of Pennsylvania where she received a B.F.A. degree in Photography and Graphic Design. She was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Photography Award from Edinboro University. Her work has received the Patron's Purchase Award from the Erie Art Museum in Erie, PA. Her work has also been exhibited at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn and Light Work Community Darkrooms in Syracuse. Currently, she is pursuing her M.F.A. degree in Art Photography at Syracuse University, where she has been a recipient of the African American Fellowship. In addition to teaching photography at Syracuse University, Frazier has taught at Light Work Community Darkrooms and the Community Folk Art Center.

"The Notion of Family is a collaborative development between my grandmother, mother and I. It reveals the complexity of our relationships and the different roles we play," says Frazier. Frazier's 26 black and white photographs will be accompanied by her award-winning documentary film, A Mother To Hold, which intensely reveals the complex relationship she has with her drug-addicted mother. "My position and role as daughter and filmmaker transcends the stereotypical objective practice in classic documentary, which has continuously undermined the black family experience by avoiding our emotional realm," Frazier says. The film has been screened at the 2006 Black Maria Film Festival in Jersey City, NJ, the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival in New York City, the Black International Film Festival in New York City, and the Women of Color Film Festival in New York City, where she received the Producer's Choice Award.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

The Artist Revealed: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Claire Harootunian Retrospective: Sculpture and Collage Art
Redhouse

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

Come join in the magic of the art works of Claire Harootunian, alumnus and former Syracuse University adjunct professor A consummate hunter, gatherer and collector, Ms. Harootunian is constantly reinventing and reinvigorating new life into "found" objects and materials. Claire Harootunian begins with the possibilities of the material, whether she is layering fine, delicate papers and fabrics or welding heavy steel and bronze she delights in the creative process. Her joy in creating, no matter the medium, is apparent in all she touches.

Anime Syracuse

Price: $10; $5 if you dress up as your favorite character
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Japanese animation, J-pop and Asian art convention.

11:00 a.m. Panda-Z
11:05 a.m. Full Metal Alchemist
11:30 a.m. Kaleido Star New Wings
12:00 p.m. Galaxy Railways
12:25 p.m. Full Metal Panic
12:50 p.m. Gundam 08th MS Team
1:15 p.m. Samurai 7
1:40 p.m. Count of Monte Cristo
2:05 p.m. Gundam Seed Destiny
2:30 p.m. Tenjho Tenge
3:00 p.m. Macross
3:30 p.m. Desert Punk
4:45 p.m. Kuromi 2
5:30 p.m. Negadon

For more information, phone 315-383-1722 or 315-458-4062.

Ultraman: The Next
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

One of the best monster battles in recent memory.

Family Series: Shamrockin' with Cherish the Ladies
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Featuring Cherish the Ladies, special guests

Price: $12-$25, half-price for children under 12
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Wear you green and enjoy a morning of Irish music, dance, stories and fun with the award-winning and internationally renowned Irish music group Cherish the Ladies. Your feet will be tapping and hands will be clapping at this fun-filled celebration of all things Irish.

Junior Violin Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Meredith Laing, violin

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

Works by Bach, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky. Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-5892.

Scholastic Instrumental Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $6 regular, $3 with student ID
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Aspiring jazz instrumentalists and vocalists can "learn the ropes" of public performance backed by the area's finest professionals. Play the tunes of your choice in a supportive atmosphere. All levels of experience are welcome!

Boston Brass

Price: Free
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

Around the World in 25 Years
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Open Hand Theater
Barbara Marble Tagg, conductor

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Since 1981, the Chorus has traveled internationally, hosted choirs from numerous continents, sung in 18 languages, and performed the music of countless cultures. From the timeless mastery of Bach's German Bist du bei mir to a piece Liu Zhuang composed for our 1998 China tour, from a Welsh song to a Czech lullaby, we circle the globe with music. Joining us will be puppeteers from Open Hand Theater, awarded for their own international collaborations, and also celebrating their 25th season!

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Eroica Piano Trio

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student, children under 13 free
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Haydn Trio in G major, Hob. XV, no. 25
Cassado Trio
Piazzola Primavera portena
Smetana Trio in G minor, op. 15

15th Anniversary Concert: Thank You for the Music
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Carl Johengen, conductor
Featuring The Rochester Gay Men's Chorus and The Nines, an all female Jazz Ensemble

Price: $25 regular; $20 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The concert will be preceded by a wine and cheese reception at 6:30 PM and followed by post-concert desserts and coffee.

Pops Series: Cherish the Ladies
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Peter Stafford Wilson, conductor

Price: $16 - $54
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Celebrate the haunting melodies, thrilling rhythms and time-honored traditions of Ireland when the award-winning Irish-American group Cherish the Ladies bring the Celtic customs, music and dance to Syracuse. Cherish the Ladies is one of the most sought-after Celtic groups of our time and offers a spectacular blend of virtuosic instrumental talents and captivating vocals that will combine for a performance you will not soon forget!

L8R Music Series
Rarely Done Productions
Simplelife

Price: $4 - $8
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Well Aged Words
Open Hand Theater
Featuring Diane Wolkstein

Price: $18 advance sale, $20 at the door
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Diane Wolkstein has occupied a unique place in the world of storytelling and literature. Through her performances, teaching, books, and recordings, she has played a major role in the renewed interest in mythology and the modern storytelling movement. She started her career studying pantomime in Paris with Etienne Decroux, whose best-known student was Marcel Marceau. She is known as a "storyteller's storyteller" and is the author of more than 20 award-winning books of folklore.

Michael Harms Theater Festival
CNY Arts

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

The Michael Harms Theater Festival seeks to foster greater interest in theater work by students and teachers in secondary schools. The program has gained wide recognition as a theater experience of high educational value and fun. The festival provides a rare opportunity for students and teachers to display their outstanding acting and technical achievement in theatre and promise.

2005 Participating Groups:
Nottingham High School
Media Unit
Just A Lil Project-Planned Parenthood
Oswego High School
Dundee High School
Indian River Central School
La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino
Syracuse Children's Theatre
Sherburne-Earlville High School

*Performance sections begin at the assigned times. Each individual performance has a different running length and will begin after the previous performance has ended.

10:25am
Los Zabaticos de Rosa, La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino
We Made it to Broadway, Just A Lil Project
Rosencratz & Guildenstern are Dead, Syracuse Childrens Theatre

3:25pm
A Midsummers Night Dream, Dundee High School
She Stoops to Conquer, Nottingham High School

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

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

Interactive family show.

The Paperbag Princess

Price: Suggested donation $5, maximum $20 per family, children under 5 free
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

What makes a princess? The fine clothes and fancy crown, or what lies inside the heart?

Meet a Princess who, because of her gentle and loving nature, is beautiful even when just wearing a paper bag. Our heroine helps townspeople in need, fights a dragon, and saves a not-so-nice prince while never losing her kind spirit.

A portion of proceeds will benefit Vera House.

Aida
Henninger High Drama Club

Price: $8
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

Bad Dates
Syracuse Stage
Mark Rucker, director

Hutchings Auditorium
810 E. Genesee St., adjacent to Syracuse Stage, Syracuse

Meet Haley Walker, funny, smart, sexy, single mom, restaurant owner and connoisseur of fine shoes. She's ready for Mr. Right. Only problem is most of the men she meets are perfect losers. She wants Sex in the City but the guys are strictly Apprentice. Good thing she knows how laugh. Join accomplished actress Nance Williamson in the "before" and "after" of a series of not so successful dates. It's a one-woman comedic journey that goes from practical shoes all the way to lingerie.

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God's Trombones
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $15 advance, $18 at door, $12 seniors with ID and groups of 20 or more, $5 for college students with ID and children 12 and under
South Presbyterian Church
Corner of W. Colvin and S. Salina Streets, Syracuse

God's Trombones, by James Weldon Johnson, is a spectacular compilation of seven Negro sermons in verse. Under the creative direction of William H. Rowland, Jackie Warren Moore, and Annette Adams-Brown this production will be a magnificent mixture of oration, song, dance and music. Local ministers from around the community will recite the opening prayer called Listen, Lord - A Prayer. Choral Director Lagreer Cummings will lead a mass Choir, made up of church choral members from across the Syracuse community, that will fill the sanctuary with joyous gospel songs, while prominent actors from the SU campus and Syracuse community engage and delight your senses with the remaining sermons; The Creation, The Prodigal Son, Go Down Death - A Funeral Sermon, Noah Built the Ark, The Crucifixion, Let my People Go, and Judgment Day through recitation, dramatization, narration and storytelling. The play will run approximately 1-1/2 hours.

Aida
Henninger High Drama Club

Price: $8
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

Footloose
Liverpool High School

Price: $8
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

For reservations, phone 315-453-1500, ext. 4078.

Whose Life is it Anyway?
Appleseed Productions

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A brilliant battle of wits takes place in this extraordinary play. Ken Harrison, a successful sculptor, is paralyzed in a car accident and kept alive by support systems in a hospital. Outwardly he's cheerful and often very funny, but he's overwhelmed by the fact that he has lost control of his own life. As the play begins, he is coming to the decision that if he can't live as a man, he does not want to exist as a medical achievement. His physician, however, is utterly determined to preserve Ken's life, regardless of its quality. Finally, despite the pleas of the doctor and his involved nurse, Ken invokes the law of habeas corpus and a judge joins the battle to determine - Whose Life Is It, Anyway?

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She Stoops to Conquer
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Drama Club

Price: $10 regular; $8 seniors; $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Comedy in which a young lady poses as a serving girl to win the heart of a gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. A classic comedy of manners, class, courtship, and dysfunctional families.

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T Bone N Weasel
Opening Night Productions

Price: $20 ticket plus restaurant/bar charge depending on package chosen
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Hoping to bring themselves up to at least the poverty level, two ex-convicts, T Bone and Weasel have stolen a rather decrepit Buick and have set off across South Carolina with minor mayhem in mind. On their journey they encounter numerous characters (all played by one actor) and through these encounters they come face-to-face with poverty, prejudice, and the ways human beings use each other coldly and selfishly for personal advancement. T Bone is a black man, somewhat educated and more astute. Weasel, who is white, cannot read or write but is of course afforded the greater respect. Moving swiftly from one adventure to another, they botch an attempted robbery (because the drawer of the cash register is stuck); are swindled out of the Buick by a fast-talking used car dealer; run afoul of a sexually voracious lady farmer (who is "ugly enough to turn a train down a dirt road"); fall into the clutches of a larcenous country preacher; and try to make off with the automobile of a politically ambitious small town doctor who wants to exhibit them as examples of what poverty can do to people. Eventually Weasel is hired on by a construction company (and actually buys a car), but when they refuse to take on T Bone as well, because of his color, it is back on the road again, pausing only to make out their last wills and testaments disposing of all their "worldly goods" which, for T Bone is nothing at all, and, for Weasel, consists primarily of his used Chevette -- with 32 payments still to go. T Bone N Weasel is a study in motivation, an exploration of the meaning of success, a hard and gentle examination of the loyalty of true friendship.

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: $20 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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Baylin's Monster
Rarely Done Productions
Ty Marshal, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Baylin's Monster is an original musical comedy by Michael Grady about the travails of small town commerce and the appearance of a monster in the marsh! This cast brings us the citizens of Baylin, a fictional Mississippi swamp town that fills its coffers with tourism dollars. Lately, the good people of Baylin have been lunch for a carnivorous monster that lives in its swamp. The media has descended, including network reporter Larry Farrell, a former Baylinite, looking to break the Baylin story, and the townsfolk are scrambling to hide their 60-foot monster. Or are they? Baylin's Monster is a musical without a score, a distinction planned by Grady to encourage singers and non-singers alike to perform his play. It is up to the cast to make up the melodies to Grady's lyrics in each production which will provide for an evening of some tuneful laughs! "This ambitious, intelligent script is full of wonderfully sarcastic humor, and hilarious hillbilly stereotypes". Robert Pela (Phoenix New Times).

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Bad Dates
Syracuse Stage
Mark Rucker, director

Hutchings Auditorium
810 E. Genesee St., adjacent to Syracuse Stage, Syracuse

Meet Haley Walker, funny, smart, sexy, single mom, restaurant owner and connoisseur of fine shoes. She's ready for Mr. Right. Only problem is most of the men she meets are perfect losers. She wants Sex in the City but the guys are strictly Apprentice. Good thing she knows how laugh. Join accomplished actress Nance Williamson in the "before" and "after" of a series of not so successful dates. It's a one-woman comedic journey that goes from practical shoes all the way to lingerie.

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CANCELLED (THIS PERFORMANCE ONLY): Jesus Christ Superstar
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Bring the whole family to experience the pageantry and spectacle of Central New York's most revered theatrical production of the moving and passionate re-telling of the last days of Jesus Christ through music and song, reverently performed by a talented cast of performers of all ages.

For tickets, phone the box office at 315-475-9749.

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Sunday, March 26, 2006

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For the Everson's 2004 Biennial exhibition, juror Pavel Zoubok selected Daniel Atyim's mixed-media works for the Best of Show Award. For this prize, the Everson will showcase Atyim's work in a solo exhibition and gallery brochure.

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During its 80-year history, Rookwood Pottery's artists formed and painted ceramics in such diverse styles as Victorian, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts and Art Deco. Sara Sax (1870-1949) was one of Rookwood's premier artists, painting vases, tiles and jars for this celebrated company from 1896 through 1931. This exhibition of Sax's work is generously on loan to the Everson from a private Massachusetts collection.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Only an Artist features approximately 80 porcelains by Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865-1929). These exquisite works are drawn largely from the unparalleled collection of her ceramics held by the Everson Museum of Art, with additional key works from other public and private collections. Beginning with Robineau's early experiments dating from 1904 to 1910, Only an Artist offers a selection of both the matte and crystalline glazes Robineau developed during this crucial period. A unique focus of Only an Artist is the representation of almost thirty works from the last three years of Robineau's life.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue containing three essays: by the exhibition's guest curator, Thomas Piché Jr.; noted Art Pottery scholar Ellen Paul Denker; and Syracuse University Professor Elizabeth Fowler.

Scholastic Art Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For over three decades, the Everson has partnered with the Central New York Regional Scholastic Art Awards, sponsored by Time Warner. This juried exhibition of junior high and high school artists is displayed at Onondaga Community College. The Silver Key finalists have their work displayed at the Everson, while the Gold Key winners advance to the national competition.

The Artist Revealed: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Redhouse

Price: $7 adult; $5 students with ID
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Born Into Brothels, by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski, winner of the 77th annual Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature is a tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art. The most stigmatized people in Calcutta's red light district are not the prostitutes, but their children. In the face of abject poverty, abuse, and despair, these kids have little possibility of escaping their mother's fate or for creating another type of life.

Devoid of sentimentality, Born into Brothels defies the typical tear-stained tourist snapshot of the global underbelly. Briski spends years with these kids and becomes part of their lives. Their photographs are prisms into their souls, rather than anthropological curiosities or primitive imagery, and a true testimony of the power of the indelible creative spirit.

Directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman chronicle the amazing transformation of the children they come to know in the red light district. Briski, a professional photographer, gives them lessons and cameras, igniting latent sparks of artistic genius that reside in these children who live in the most sordid and seemingly hopeless world. The photographs taken by the children are not merely examples of remarkable observation and talent; they reflect something much larger, morally encouraging, and even politically volatile: art as an immensely liberating and empowering force.

Run Time: 85 minutes
Rated R for some sequences of strong language

Fayetteville Free Library
Julia McKinstry, soprano and Mark Smith, piano

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

**POSTPONED UNTIL 5/21 ** Sunday in Recital: Great Music From the World's Stage
Civic Morning Musicals

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Bizet Pearl Fishers Duet; Habanera from Carmen
Delibes Lakme Flower Duet
Donizetti Quartet from Don Pasquale
Gounod Juliet's Walz
Massenet Il est doux, il est bon
Mozart La ci darem la mano
Verdi La Donna e mobile, Di Provenza il mar
Brahms Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer, op. 65

Performers include Ida Trebicka and Susan Crocker, piano; Nancy B. James and Pamela Igelsrud, sopranos; Pamela McLaughlin and Esa Jaffee, mezzo-sopranos; Jonathan English, Jonathan Howell, and Richard Pilgrim, tenors; and William Black and Phil Eisenman, baritones

Mendelssohn's Elijah
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor
Featuring Robert Lieberman, baritone

West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

The work will be presented in its entirety and be accompanied by a full orchestra. Joining the Chorale in this performance will be the select chorus of West Genesee High School and other local singers.

From Shtetl to Metropolis: An Evening of Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Klezmer Ensemble

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

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Michael Harms Theater Festival
CNY Arts

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

The Michael Harms Theater Festival seeks to foster greater interest in theater work by students and teachers in secondary schools. The program has gained wide recognition as a theater experience of high educational value and fun. The festival provides a rare opportunity for students and teachers to display their outstanding acting and technical achievement in theatre and promise.

2005 Participating Groups:
Nottingham High School
Media Unit
Just A Lil Project-Planned Parenthood
Oswego High School
Dundee High School
Indian River Central School
La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino
Syracuse Children's Theatre
Sherburne-Earlville High School

*Performance sections begin at the assigned times. Each individual performance has a different running length and will begin after the previous performance has ended.

10:55am
Que Sera, Sera and Men are from Milwaukee, Women are from Phoenix,Sherburne Earlville Central School
NO!!!, The Media Unit

2:40pm
Three Sisters, Oswego High School
Mother Hicks, Indian River High School

One-Acts from the 2006 New Playwrights Festival
Armory Square Playwrights

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

In an initiative designed to develop new ways to bring SU and the CNY arts and culture community closer together, we will present two short plays from January's SU Drama Department 2006 New Playwrights Festival.

Cardinal Sin takes place inside the minds of a young man and woman the morning after they have spent the night together. As it turns out, this was the first time for both, and the play sensitively presents the foibles, fears and fumbles of the previous evening in a series of interconnected monologues that are both humorous and poignant.

Twice Blest tells of a performer on opening night just as the performer has finished playing Portia in The Merchant of Venice. Portia turns out to be a man, and a knock on the door brings in his former gay lover. Curtis's play turns on the dramatic breakup of the two several years earlier when the visitor decided to return to his wife and family, and their hesitant, but ultimately successful attempt at a reconciliation in the present day.

Both plays will be done with the original student casts from the Drama Department production. Each young playwright will receive a $25 prize from Armory Square Playhouse.

A talk-back discussion with each of the playwrights will follow each performance.

Whose Life is it Anyway?
Appleseed Productions

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A brilliant battle of wits takes place in this extraordinary play. Ken Harrison, a successful sculptor, is paralyzed in a car accident and kept alive by support systems in a hospital. Outwardly he's cheerful and often very funny, but he's overwhelmed by the fact that he has lost control of his own life. As the play begins, he is coming to the decision that if he can't live as a man, he does not want to exist as a medical achievement. His physician, however, is utterly determined to preserve Ken's life, regardless of its quality. Finally, despite the pleas of the doctor and his involved nurse, Ken invokes the law of habeas corpus and a judge joins the battle to determine - Whose Life Is It, Anyway?

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Footloose
Liverpool High School

Price: $8
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

For reservations, phone 315-453-1500, ext. 4078.

T Bone N Weasel
Opening Night Productions

Price: $20 ticket plus restaurant/bar charge depending on package chosen
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Hoping to bring themselves up to at least the poverty level, two ex-convicts, T Bone and Weasel have stolen a rather decrepit Buick and have set off across South Carolina with minor mayhem in mind. On their journey they encounter numerous characters (all played by one actor) and through these encounters they come face-to-face with poverty, prejudice, and the ways human beings use each other coldly and selfishly for personal advancement. T Bone is a black man, somewhat educated and more astute. Weasel, who is white, cannot read or write but is of course afforded the greater respect. Moving swiftly from one adventure to another, they botch an attempted robbery (because the drawer of the cash register is stuck); are swindled out of the Buick by a fast-talking used car dealer; run afoul of a sexually voracious lady farmer (who is "ugly enough to turn a train down a dirt road"); fall into the clutches of a larcenous country preacher; and try to make off with the automobile of a politically ambitious small town doctor who wants to exhibit them as examples of what poverty can do to people. Eventually Weasel is hired on by a construction company (and actually buys a car), but when they refuse to take on T Bone as well, because of his color, it is back on the road again, pausing only to make out their last wills and testaments disposing of all their "worldly goods" which, for T Bone is nothing at all, and, for Weasel, consists primarily of his used Chevette -- with 32 payments still to go. T Bone N Weasel is a study in motivation, an exploration of the meaning of success, a hard and gentle examination of the loyalty of true friendship.

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: $20 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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Dreamprints: A Conversation with Harriet Tubman
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Onondaga Hill Free Library
4840 W. Seneca Tnpk., Syracuse

Interactive performance.

Bad Dates
Syracuse Stage
Mark Rucker, director

Hutchings Auditorium
810 E. Genesee St., adjacent to Syracuse Stage, Syracuse

Meet Haley Walker, funny, smart, sexy, single mom, restaurant owner and connoisseur of fine shoes. She's ready for Mr. Right. Only problem is most of the men she meets are perfect losers. She wants Sex in the City but the guys are strictly Apprentice. Good thing she knows how laugh. Join accomplished actress Nance Williamson in the "before" and "after" of a series of not so successful dates. It's a one-woman comedic journey that goes from practical shoes all the way to lingerie.

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Jesus Christ Superstar
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Bring the whole family to experience the pageantry and spectacle of Central New York's most revered theatrical production of the moving and passionate re-telling of the last days of Jesus Christ through music and song, reverently performed by a talented cast of performers of all ages.

For tickets, phone the box office at 315-475-9749.

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God's Trombones
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $15 advance, $18 at door, $12 seniors with ID and groups of 20 or more, $5 for college students with ID and children 12 and under
South Presbyterian Church
Corner of W. Colvin and S. Salina Streets, Syracuse

God's Trombones, by James Weldon Johnson, is a spectacular compilation of seven Negro sermons in verse. Under the creative direction of William H. Rowland, Jackie Warren Moore, and Annette Adams-Brown this production will be a magnificent mixture of oration, song, dance and music. Local ministers from around the community will recite the opening prayer called Listen, Lord - A Prayer. Choral Director Lagreer Cummings will lead a mass Choir, made up of church choral members from across the Syracuse community, that will fill the sanctuary with joyous gospel songs, while prominent actors from the SU campus and Syracuse community engage and delight your senses with the remaining sermons; The Creation, The Prodigal Son, Go Down Death - A Funeral Sermon, Noah Built the Ark, The Crucifixion, Let my People Go, and Judgment Day through recitation, dramatization, narration and storytelling. The play will run approximately 1-1/2 hours.

La Petite Piaf
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney S. Hudson, director
Featuring Rachel Moulton

Price: $1
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This performance is part of Honors Student Rachel Moulton's Honors Thesis Project. It is an original adaptation by Moulton and Professor Rodney S. Hudson, who also directs the piece. La Petite Piaf is based on Jean Cocteau's La Voix Humane (The Human Voice), Pam Gem's PIAF, and various biographical texts about the life and career of the famous French chanteuse. Piaf also features over fifteen songs recorded by Edith Piaf during her career, including Hymne a L'amour, Milord, No, Je ne Regrette Rien, and La Vie en Rose.

Monday, March 27, 2006

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.

Winter's End: Works of Donal and Shel Little

Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

New art work by popular Syracuse artists Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio. The exhibit will include a piece created especially in honor of St Patrick's Day.

Women Artists Invitational Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Premium Blend: Works by Graduate Painters
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The graduate painters whose works will be on display in the exhibition are Monica Alfonso, Tapati Chowdhury, Seunghee Chung, Allison Fox, Frank McCauley, Elena Peteva, Pepa Santamaria, David Serotkin, Andy Sullivan and Elijah Van Benschoten.

Paid parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact the VPA Dean's Office at 315-443-5889.

Dennis Pullen Painting and Poetry
Westcott Community Center

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

See through the eyes and mind of this talented young artist who paints exquisite pieces of artwork with his mouth.

Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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.

Suzanne Opton: Soldier
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition takes an unusual and intimate look at soldiers who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. The series includes a mixture of black-and-white and color photographs that range in style from timeless studio portraits to intimate close-up views of the heads of the soldiers lying on a flat surface. The exhibition features large-format color photographs of the faces of soldiers, evoking a sense of dreaming but also hinting at the transformative experiences of war. Opton has taken the otherwise loaded idea of soldiers and warfare out of a political context and placed it into a silent dialogue from one human being to the next. She says of the images, "We all experience strategic moments when we feel most alive. These are the moments we will always remember, be they transcendent or horrific. Afterall, what are we if not our collection of memories? In making these portraits of soldiers, I simply wanted to look in the face of someone whod seen something unforgettable.

La Petite Piaf
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney S. Hudson, director
Featuring Rachel Moulton

Price: $1
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This performance is part of Honors Student Rachel Moulton's Honors Thesis Project. It is an original adaptation by Moulton and Professor Rodney S. Hudson, who also directs the piece. La Petite Piaf is based on Jean Cocteau's La Voix Humane (The Human Voice), Pam Gem's PIAF, and various biographical texts about the life and career of the famous French chanteuse. Piaf also features over fifteen songs recorded by Edith Piaf during her career, including Hymne a L'amour, Milord, No, Je ne Regrette Rien, and La Vie en Rose.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

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.

Winter's End: Works of Donal and Shel Little

Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

New art work by popular Syracuse artists Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio. The exhibit will include a piece created especially in honor of St Patrick's Day.

Women Artists Invitational Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Premium Blend: Works by Graduate Painters
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The graduate painters whose works will be on display in the exhibition are Monica Alfonso, Tapati Chowdhury, Seunghee Chung, Allison Fox, Frank McCauley, Elena Peteva, Pepa Santamaria, David Serotkin, Andy Sullivan and Elijah Van Benschoten.

Paid parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact the VPA Dean's Office at 315-443-5889.

Dennis Pullen Painting and Poetry
Westcott Community Center

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

See through the eyes and mind of this talented young artist who paints exquisite pieces of artwork with his mouth.

Central New York Art Guild Exhibition
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Recent works by members of the Guild in a variety of media.

Notion of Family: Family Work 2002-2006 - LaToya Ruby Frazier
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

LaToya Ruby Frazier of Pittsburgh, PA attended Edinboro University of Pennsylvania where she received a B.F.A. degree in Photography and Graphic Design. She was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Photography Award from Edinboro University. Her work has received the Patron's Purchase Award from the Erie Art Museum in Erie, PA. Her work has also been exhibited at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn and Light Work Community Darkrooms in Syracuse. Currently, she is pursuing her M.F.A. degree in Art Photography at Syracuse University, where she has been a recipient of the African American Fellowship. In addition to teaching photography at Syracuse University, Frazier has taught at Light Work Community Darkrooms and the Community Folk Art Center.

"The Notion of Family is a collaborative development between my grandmother, mother and I. It reveals the complexity of our relationships and the different roles we play," says Frazier. Frazier's 26 black and white photographs will be accompanied by her award-winning documentary film, A Mother To Hold, which intensely reveals the complex relationship she has with her drug-addicted mother. "My position and role as daughter and filmmaker transcends the stereotypical objective practice in classic documentary, which has continuously undermined the black family experience by avoiding our emotional realm," Frazier says. The film has been screened at the 2006 Black Maria Film Festival in Jersey City, NJ, the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival in New York City, the Black International Film Festival in New York City, and the Women of Color Film Festival in New York City, where she received the Producer's Choice Award.

Suzanne Opton: Soldier
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition takes an unusual and intimate look at soldiers who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. The series includes a mixture of black-and-white and color photographs that range in style from timeless studio portraits to intimate close-up views of the heads of the soldiers lying on a flat surface. The exhibition features large-format color photographs of the faces of soldiers, evoking a sense of dreaming but also hinting at the transformative experiences of war. Opton has taken the otherwise loaded idea of soldiers and warfare out of a political context and placed it into a silent dialogue from one human being to the next. She says of the images, "We all experience strategic moments when we feel most alive. These are the moments we will always remember, be they transcendent or horrific. Afterall, what are we if not our collection of memories? In making these portraits of soldiers, I simply wanted to look in the face of someone whod seen something unforgettable.

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.

Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Scholastic Art Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For over three decades, the Everson has partnered with the Central New York Regional Scholastic Art Awards, sponsored by Time Warner. This juried exhibition of junior high and high school artists is displayed at Onondaga Community College. The Silver Key finalists have their work displayed at the Everson, while the Gold Key winners advance to the national competition.

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For the Everson's 2004 Biennial exhibition, juror Pavel Zoubok selected Daniel Atyim's mixed-media works for the Best of Show Award. For this prize, the Everson will showcase Atyim's work in a solo exhibition and gallery brochure.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Only an Artist features approximately 80 porcelains by Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865-1929). These exquisite works are drawn largely from the unparalleled collection of her ceramics held by the Everson Museum of Art, with additional key works from other public and private collections. Beginning with Robineau's early experiments dating from 1904 to 1910, Only an Artist offers a selection of both the matte and crystalline glazes Robineau developed during this crucial period. A unique focus of Only an Artist is the representation of almost thirty works from the last three years of Robineau's life.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue containing three essays: by the exhibition's guest curator, Thomas Piché Jr.; noted Art Pottery scholar Ellen Paul Denker; and Syracuse University Professor Elizabeth Fowler.

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During its 80-year history, Rookwood Pottery's artists formed and painted ceramics in such diverse styles as Victorian, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts and Art Deco. Sara Sax (1870-1949) was one of Rookwood's premier artists, painting vases, tiles and jars for this celebrated company from 1896 through 1931. This exhibition of Sax's work is generously on loan to the Everson from a private Massachusetts collection.

The Artist Revealed: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Yves Saint Front in the Louis and Annette Kaufman Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Curated by Domenic J. Iacono, Syracuse University Art Collection

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Redhouse

Price: $7 adult; $5 students with ID
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Born Into Brothels, by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski, winner of the 77th annual Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature is a tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art. The most stigmatized people in Calcutta's red light district are not the prostitutes, but their children. In the face of abject poverty, abuse, and despair, these kids have little possibility of escaping their mother's fate or for creating another type of life.

Devoid of sentimentality, Born into Brothels defies the typical tear-stained tourist snapshot of the global underbelly. Briski spends years with these kids and becomes part of their lives. Their photographs are prisms into their souls, rather than anthropological curiosities or primitive imagery, and a true testimony of the power of the indelible creative spirit.

Directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman chronicle the amazing transformation of the children they come to know in the red light district. Briski, a professional photographer, gives them lessons and cameras, igniting latent sparks of artistic genius that reside in these children who live in the most sordid and seemingly hopeless world. The photographs taken by the children are not merely examples of remarkable observation and talent; they reflect something much larger, morally encouraging, and even politically volatile: art as an immensely liberating and empowering force.

Run Time: 85 minutes
Rated R for some sequences of strong language

Wilma Mankiller
University Lectures

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ms. Mankiller served for two years as the first female elected deputy chief and for ten years as first female principal chief of the 220,000-member Cherokee Nation. Her areas of expertise include community development, public relations, tribal governance, leadership, writing, and the conceptualization and development of an extensive array of projects ranging from basic infrastructure to programs for children and youth. She is a trustee of the Ford Foundation and the Freedom Forum's Newseum. She co-edited A Reader's Companion to the History of Women in the U.S., Houghton-Mifflin, co-authored Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, St. Martins Press, and her newest book, Every Day is a Good Day was published by Fulcrum Press in the fall of 2004. She is one of a handful of Native Americans recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Faculty Organ Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Christopher Marks, university organist; Janet Brown, soprano; Steven Heyman, piano

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

Marks will perform on Setnor's historic 1950 Holtkamp pipe organ. The program will include rarely heard music by John Ireland, Dudley Buck, Marcel Dupré, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Leo Sowerby, William Bolcom and Felix Borowski. The 3,823-pipe organ was built by famed American organ builder Walter Holtkamp and is widely considered his magnum opus. Its influence on organ building in the late 20th century was significant enough for the Organ Historical Society to recognize it as an "instrument of exceptional historical merit." For more information, contact the Setnor School of Music at 315-443-5892.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

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.

Winter's End: Works of Donal and Shel Little

Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

New art work by popular Syracuse artists Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio. The exhibit will include a piece created especially in honor of St Patrick's Day.

Women Artists Invitational Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Premium Blend: Works by Graduate Painters
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The graduate painters whose works will be on display in the exhibition are Monica Alfonso, Tapati Chowdhury, Seunghee Chung, Allison Fox, Frank McCauley, Elena Peteva, Pepa Santamaria, David Serotkin, Andy Sullivan and Elijah Van Benschoten.

Paid parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact the VPA Dean's Office at 315-443-5889.

Dennis Pullen Painting and Poetry
Westcott Community Center

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

See through the eyes and mind of this talented young artist who paints exquisite pieces of artwork with his mouth.

Notion of Family: Family Work 2002-2006 - LaToya Ruby Frazier
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

LaToya Ruby Frazier of Pittsburgh, PA attended Edinboro University of Pennsylvania where she received a B.F.A. degree in Photography and Graphic Design. She was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Photography Award from Edinboro University. Her work has received the Patron's Purchase Award from the Erie Art Museum in Erie, PA. Her work has also been exhibited at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn and Light Work Community Darkrooms in Syracuse. Currently, she is pursuing her M.F.A. degree in Art Photography at Syracuse University, where she has been a recipient of the African American Fellowship. In addition to teaching photography at Syracuse University, Frazier has taught at Light Work Community Darkrooms and the Community Folk Art Center.

"The Notion of Family is a collaborative development between my grandmother, mother and I. It reveals the complexity of our relationships and the different roles we play," says Frazier. Frazier's 26 black and white photographs will be accompanied by her award-winning documentary film, A Mother To Hold, which intensely reveals the complex relationship she has with her drug-addicted mother. "My position and role as daughter and filmmaker transcends the stereotypical objective practice in classic documentary, which has continuously undermined the black family experience by avoiding our emotional realm," Frazier says. The film has been screened at the 2006 Black Maria Film Festival in Jersey City, NJ, the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival in New York City, the Black International Film Festival in New York City, and the Women of Color Film Festival in New York City, where she received the Producer's Choice Award.

Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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.

Suzanne Opton: Soldier
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition takes an unusual and intimate look at soldiers who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. The series includes a mixture of black-and-white and color photographs that range in style from timeless studio portraits to intimate close-up views of the heads of the soldiers lying on a flat surface. The exhibition features large-format color photographs of the faces of soldiers, evoking a sense of dreaming but also hinting at the transformative experiences of war. Opton has taken the otherwise loaded idea of soldiers and warfare out of a political context and placed it into a silent dialogue from one human being to the next. She says of the images, "We all experience strategic moments when we feel most alive. These are the moments we will always remember, be they transcendent or horrific. Afterall, what are we if not our collection of memories? In making these portraits of soldiers, I simply wanted to look in the face of someone whod seen something unforgettable.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Scholastic Art Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For over three decades, the Everson has partnered with the Central New York Regional Scholastic Art Awards, sponsored by Time Warner. This juried exhibition of junior high and high school artists is displayed at Onondaga Community College. The Silver Key finalists have their work displayed at the Everson, while the Gold Key winners advance to the national competition.

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During its 80-year history, Rookwood Pottery's artists formed and painted ceramics in such diverse styles as Victorian, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts and Art Deco. Sara Sax (1870-1949) was one of Rookwood's premier artists, painting vases, tiles and jars for this celebrated company from 1896 through 1931. This exhibition of Sax's work is generously on loan to the Everson from a private Massachusetts collection.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Only an Artist features approximately 80 porcelains by Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865-1929). These exquisite works are drawn largely from the unparalleled collection of her ceramics held by the Everson Museum of Art, with additional key works from other public and private collections. Beginning with Robineau's early experiments dating from 1904 to 1910, Only an Artist offers a selection of both the matte and crystalline glazes Robineau developed during this crucial period. A unique focus of Only an Artist is the representation of almost thirty works from the last three years of Robineau's life.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue containing three essays: by the exhibition's guest curator, Thomas Piché Jr.; noted Art Pottery scholar Ellen Paul Denker; and Syracuse University Professor Elizabeth Fowler.

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For the Everson's 2004 Biennial exhibition, juror Pavel Zoubok selected Daniel Atyim's mixed-media works for the Best of Show Award. For this prize, the Everson will showcase Atyim's work in a solo exhibition and gallery brochure.

The Artist Revealed: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Yves Saint Front in the Louis and Annette Kaufman Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Curated by Domenic J. Iacono, Syracuse University Art Collection

OCC Arts Across Campus
Onondaga Community College
Open Hand Theater
Featuring Much Is Blue About Nothing and the Mysterious Messanger

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Open Hand Theater is back with their fascinating Shakespeare-inspired, masked farce performed in the style of Commedia Dell' Arte - a comic tradition dating back to early 16th century Italian street theater. Followed by The Mysterious Messenger, a slapstick melodrama in the silent film tradition.

Happy 250th Birthday, Mozart!
Civic Morning Musicals
John Harnois, violin; Nancy Pease, piano

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

Music and Mayhem
Allegro Youth Wind Ensemble

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

Bad Dates
Syracuse Stage
Mark Rucker, director

Hutchings Auditorium
810 E. Genesee St., adjacent to Syracuse Stage, Syracuse

Meet Haley Walker, funny, smart, sexy, single mom, restaurant owner and connoisseur of fine shoes. She's ready for Mr. Right. Only problem is most of the men she meets are perfect losers. She wants Sex in the City but the guys are strictly Apprentice. Good thing she knows how laugh. Join accomplished actress Nance Williamson in the "before" and "after" of a series of not so successful dates. It's a one-woman comedic journey that goes from practical shoes all the way to lingerie.

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Thursday, March 30, 2006

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.

Winter's End: Works of Donal and Shel Little

Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

New art work by popular Syracuse artists Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio. The exhibit will include a piece created especially in honor of St Patrick's Day.

Women Artists Invitational Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Premium Blend: Works by Graduate Painters
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The graduate painters whose works will be on display in the exhibition are Monica Alfonso, Tapati Chowdhury, Seunghee Chung, Allison Fox, Frank McCauley, Elena Peteva, Pepa Santamaria, David Serotkin, Andy Sullivan and Elijah Van Benschoten.

Paid parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact the VPA Dean's Office at 315-443-5889.

Dennis Pullen Painting and Poetry
Westcott Community Center

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

See through the eyes and mind of this talented young artist who paints exquisite pieces of artwork with his mouth.

Notion of Family: Family Work 2002-2006 - LaToya Ruby Frazier
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

LaToya Ruby Frazier of Pittsburgh, PA attended Edinboro University of Pennsylvania where she received a B.F.A. degree in Photography and Graphic Design. She was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Photography Award from Edinboro University. Her work has received the Patron's Purchase Award from the Erie Art Museum in Erie, PA. Her work has also been exhibited at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn and Light Work Community Darkrooms in Syracuse. Currently, she is pursuing her M.F.A. degree in Art Photography at Syracuse University, where she has been a recipient of the African American Fellowship. In addition to teaching photography at Syracuse University, Frazier has taught at Light Work Community Darkrooms and the Community Folk Art Center.

"The Notion of Family is a collaborative development between my grandmother, mother and I. It reveals the complexity of our relationships and the different roles we play," says Frazier. Frazier's 26 black and white photographs will be accompanied by her award-winning documentary film, A Mother To Hold, which intensely reveals the complex relationship she has with her drug-addicted mother. "My position and role as daughter and filmmaker transcends the stereotypical objective practice in classic documentary, which has continuously undermined the black family experience by avoiding our emotional realm," Frazier says. The film has been screened at the 2006 Black Maria Film Festival in Jersey City, NJ, the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival in New York City, the Black International Film Festival in New York City, and the Women of Color Film Festival in New York City, where she received the Producer's Choice Award.

Suzanne Opton: Soldier
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition takes an unusual and intimate look at soldiers who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. The series includes a mixture of black-and-white and color photographs that range in style from timeless studio portraits to intimate close-up views of the heads of the soldiers lying on a flat surface. The exhibition features large-format color photographs of the faces of soldiers, evoking a sense of dreaming but also hinting at the transformative experiences of war. Opton has taken the otherwise loaded idea of soldiers and warfare out of a political context and placed it into a silent dialogue from one human being to the next. She says of the images, "We all experience strategic moments when we feel most alive. These are the moments we will always remember, be they transcendent or horrific. Afterall, what are we if not our collection of memories? In making these portraits of soldiers, I simply wanted to look in the face of someone whod seen something unforgettable.

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.

Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Scholastic Art Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For over three decades, the Everson has partnered with the Central New York Regional Scholastic Art Awards, sponsored by Time Warner. This juried exhibition of junior high and high school artists is displayed at Onondaga Community College. The Silver Key finalists have their work displayed at the Everson, while the Gold Key winners advance to the national competition.

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For the Everson's 2004 Biennial exhibition, juror Pavel Zoubok selected Daniel Atyim's mixed-media works for the Best of Show Award. For this prize, the Everson will showcase Atyim's work in a solo exhibition and gallery brochure.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Only an Artist features approximately 80 porcelains by Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865-1929). These exquisite works are drawn largely from the unparalleled collection of her ceramics held by the Everson Museum of Art, with additional key works from other public and private collections. Beginning with Robineau's early experiments dating from 1904 to 1910, Only an Artist offers a selection of both the matte and crystalline glazes Robineau developed during this crucial period. A unique focus of Only an Artist is the representation of almost thirty works from the last three years of Robineau's life.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue containing three essays: by the exhibition's guest curator, Thomas Piché Jr.; noted Art Pottery scholar Ellen Paul Denker; and Syracuse University Professor Elizabeth Fowler.

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During its 80-year history, Rookwood Pottery's artists formed and painted ceramics in such diverse styles as Victorian, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts and Art Deco. Sara Sax (1870-1949) was one of Rookwood's premier artists, painting vases, tiles and jars for this celebrated company from 1896 through 1931. This exhibition of Sax's work is generously on loan to the Everson from a private Massachusetts collection.

The Artist Revealed: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Yves Saint Front in the Louis and Annette Kaufman Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Curated by Domenic J. Iacono, Syracuse University Art Collection

Claire Harootunian Retrospective: Sculpture and Collage Art
Redhouse

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

Come join in the magic of the art works of Claire Harootunian, alumnus and former Syracuse University adjunct professor A consummate hunter, gatherer and collector, Ms. Harootunian is constantly reinventing and reinvigorating new life into "found" objects and materials. Claire Harootunian begins with the possibilities of the material, whether she is layering fine, delicate papers and fabrics or welding heavy steel and bronze she delights in the creative process. Her joy in creating, no matter the medium, is apparent in all she touches.

Different Strokes
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jane Crow: acrylics
Vincent Fitches: mixed media paintings
Cheyne Rood: pen and inks
Members of the Central New York Art Guild: varied works

And The Nominees Are...
Kalabash Dance Troupe

Price: $4
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kalabash Dance Troupe will be celebrating their 18th Anniversary at Syracuse University with a dance showcase that features music and dancing from all across the globe. Authentic Caribbean refreshments will be served at the event.

Conversation on Race and Film
Featuring Rusty Cundieff

Price: Free
Newhouse II, Studio A
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Former Comedy Central "Chappelle's Show" director Rusty Cundieff will join Professor Richard Dubin for the second annual "Conversation on Race and Film." Audience participation is encouraged.

Actor, writer, director and producer Cundieff has spent years in Hollywood's comic trenches. Most recently, he directed Comedy Central's controversial, wildly successful and recently departed sketch comedy "Chappelle's Show," which starred comedian Dave Chappelle. His acting credits include Robert Townsend's "Hollywood Shuffle" and Spike Lee's "School Daze." He was also a correspondent on Michael Moore's Emmy Award-winning "TV Nation."

Cundieff's comedy goes beyond the joke, to provoke thought and evoke deeply rooted feelings about race and culture in American life. He wrote the film "House Party II" and wrote and directed the classic 1994 hip-hop mockumentary "Fear of a Black Hat," in which he also starred. The film chronicles the rise and fall of the "gangsta" group known as NWH"Niggaz Wid Hats."

Paid parking will be available in University Avenue Garage.

Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin, shakuhachi flute
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The shakuhachi flute is used as a tool for Zen Buddhist meditation, as well as playing classical, jazz and traditional Japanese folk music. Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin studied shakuhachi in Japan and in 1975 received the name Nyogetsu and a teaching certificate at the level of Jun Shi-han in the Kinko School of shakuhachi. After his return to New York, Nyogetsu was awarded the rank of Shi-han (Master), as a result of his efforts to spread the teaching of this instrument in America.

In 1980, he received his Dai Shi-han (Grand Master's license) and in 2001 received his Koku-An Dai-Shihan (Grand Master's license at the level of Kyu-Dan) and was given the name Reishin (Heart/Mind of the Bell) at that time. He has performed on the soundtracks of several documentary films including the Academy Award-nominated documentary A Family Gathering (1989) for which he also co-composed the soundtrack. He also appears on the Grammy Award-nominated The Planet Sleeps (SONY).

For more information, phone 315-443-5892.