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Events for Sunday, February 26, 2023

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Common Ground Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Chromania Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Jamie Young: Decivilization Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 50th Anniversary: Selections from Light Work Collection Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM Paw Patrol Live: Heroes Unite Tickets Landmark Theatre

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Take Me to the Palace of Love Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Stephanie H. Shih: My Sweetie Has No Pockmarks Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Collections Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art Syracuse University Art Museum

1:00 PM-9:00 PM 2023 VPA Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

1:00 PM-9:00 PM Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing Light Work Gallery

2:00 PM-5:00 PM Jazz on Tap: Bob Piorun Quartet CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

2:00 PM By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Redhouse

2:00 PM Prokofiev’s Cinderella Syracuse City Ballet

2:00 PM Espejos: Clean Syracuse Stage

2:00 PM Barbecue Syracuse University Drama Department

4:00 PM Black History Month Concert: Music by Black Composers Hendricks Chapel

5:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Black History Month Cabaret: Althea Rene and Jeanette Harris CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

6:00 PM-8:30 PM Steve Grills & the Roadmasters The 443 Social Club

7:30 PM Espejos: Clean Syracuse Stage

Events for Monday, February 27, 2023

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2023 VPA Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing Light Work Gallery

Events for Tuesday, February 28, 2023

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2023 VPA Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Take Me to the Palace of Love Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Stephanie H. Shih: My Sweetie Has No Pockmarks Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Collections Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art Syracuse University Art Museum

7:30 PM Espejos: Clean Syracuse Stage

Events for Wednesday, March 1, 2023

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2023 VPA Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Take Me to the Palace of Love Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Collections Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Stephanie H. Shih: My Sweetie Has No Pockmarks Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-5:00 PM 50th Anniversary: Selections from Light Work Collection Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Jamie Young: Decivilization Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Chromania Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Common Ground Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

2:00 PM-6:00 PM Lida Suchy: Portrait of A Village ArtRage Gallery

6:00 PM-9:00 PM Jazz at Timber Banks: ESP with Kirsten Tegtmeyer CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

7:30 PM Flogging Molly Landmark Theatre

7:30 PM Espejos: Clean Syracuse Stage

Events for Thursday, March 2, 2023

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2023 VPA Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-8:00 PM Take Me to the Palace of Love Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-8:00 PM Stephanie H. Shih: My Sweetie Has No Pockmarks Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-8:00 PM Collections Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Jamie Young: Decivilization Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-8:00 PM 50th Anniversary: Selections from Light Work Collection Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Common Ground Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Chromania Everson Museum of Art

2:00 PM-6:00 PM Lida Suchy: Portrait of A Village ArtRage Gallery

6:15 PM-11:00 PM Sofía Gallisá Muriente: Lluvia con nieve (Rain with Snow) Urban Video Project

7:00 PM By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Redhouse

7:30 PM Espejos: Clean Syracuse Stage

Events for Friday, March 3, 2023

9:30 AM-8:00 PM Opening: Back to the Toon Age Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2023 VPA Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Take Me to the Palace of Love Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Collections Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Stephanie H. Shih: My Sweetie Has No Pockmarks Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-5:00 PM 50th Anniversary: Selections from Light Work Collection Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Jamie Young: Decivilization Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Chromania Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Common Ground Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

2:00 PM-6:00 PM Lida Suchy: Portrait of A Village ArtRage Gallery

3:00 PM-5:30 PM Rina Banerjee In Conversation with Gayatri Spivak Syracuse University Art Museum

6:15 PM-11:00 PM Sofía Gallisá Muriente: Lluvia con nieve (Rain with Snow) Urban Video Project

7:00 PM Poet Ama Codjoe Downtown Writer's Center

7:00 PM By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Redhouse

7:30 PM Ricky Ford Quartet CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

7:30 PM Espejos: Clean Syracuse Stage

8:00 PM Jude Roberts Folkus Project

Events for Saturday, March 4, 2023

10:00 AM-2:00 PM Back to the Toon Age Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Common Ground Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Chromania Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Jamie Young: Decivilization Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 50th Anniversary: Selections from Light Work Collection Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Lida Suchy: Portrait of A Village ArtRage Gallery

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Collections Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Stephanie H. Shih: My Sweetie Has No Pockmarks Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Take Me to the Palace of Love Syracuse University Art Museum

1:00 PM-9:00 PM 2023 VPA Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

1:00 PM-9:00 PM Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing Light Work Gallery

2:00 PM By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Redhouse

2:00 PM Espejos: Clean Syracuse Stage

6:15 PM-11:00 PM Sofía Gallisá Muriente: Lluvia con nieve (Rain with Snow) Urban Video Project

7:00 PM By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Redhouse

7:00 PM-9:30 PM Sean Rowe The 443 Social Club

7:30 PM Espejos: Clean Syracuse Stage

7:30 PM Sing a Song of Jazz Syracuse Vocal Ensemble

Events for Sunday, March 5, 2023

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Common Ground Everson Museum of Art (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Chromania Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM 50th Anniversary: Selections from Light Work Collection Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Jamie Young: Decivilization Everson Museum of Art

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Take Me to the Palace of Love Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Collections Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Stephanie H. Shih: My Sweetie Has No Pockmarks Syracuse University Art Museum

1:00 PM-9:00 PM 2023 VPA Photography Annual Light Work Gallery

1:00 PM-9:00 PM Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing Light Work Gallery

2:00 PM-5:00 PM Jazz on Tap: Edgar Pagan's GPL CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

2:00 PM By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Redhouse

2:00 PM Espejos: Clean Syracuse Stage

3:00 PM Casual Series: Onward Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria), featuring Michael Leopold, lute; Paul Di Folco, piano

4:00 PM Malmgren Concert: Jason Max Ferdinand Singers Hendricks Chapel

4:00 PM Disney Jazz LeMoyne College

6:00 PM-8:00 PM Marissa Mulder in “Tom ... In His Words” The 443 Social Club

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Sunday, February 26, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 26



Common Ground
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To celebrate the new millennium, in the year 2000 artist Neil Tetkowski undertook a Herculean project: gathering clay from all 188 member countries from the United Nations. With these clay samples, Tetkowski created a suitably monumental work that debuted at United Nations headquarters in New York City—the Common Ground World Mandala. Measuring seven feet in diameter and more than nine feet high, Tetkowski's sculpture is a testament to the artist's ability to think beyond boundaries—of scale, of geography, and of politics.

"Common Ground" uses Tetkowski's World Mandala as the centerpiece of an exhibition that showcases the Everson's vast collection of world ceramics. From ancient Mesopotamian and Greek pottery to contemporary Zulu beer brewing vessels and a life-size terracotta horse built by Indian priests, the Everson's collection traces the evolution of ceramics across cultures over thousands of years. Because of Syracuse's focus on welcoming immigrants and refugees to the community, there are over 70 languages spoken in city schools. "Common Ground" uses ceramics, one of humankind's oldest art forms, to remind us of our shared bonds with the earth.

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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 26



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A multibillion-dollar global industry that began as a recreational activity more than a century ago, the game of basketball is deeply rooted in our society and culture. Playing or watching the sport invokes intangible ideas and feelings — beauty, excitement, hope, triumph, joy, pain, defeat — experiences that define what it means to be human.

Artists have drawn creative inspiration from the personas and culture of the game for decades, and many in recent years have used them as a topic or metaphor to interrogate today's pressing social issues, from dismantling racial stereotypes and traditional gender roles to revealing systemic economic inequities, the effects of global commodification, and more. Featuring paintings, sculpture, photography, video, and installation works created by some of the most significant living artists in the United States, Hoop Dreams demonstrates how tightly intertwined contemporary art and life are with the art of the game.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 26



Chromania
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Color is an essential therapy for those cold and gray Central New York winters. The Everson embraces this with Chromania, a riot of kaleidoscopic color guaranteed to chase the winter grays away. In the wake of Impressionism, 20th-century artists developed a range of strategies to explore and employ color. Painter and educator Josef Albers taught that all color is relative, meaning that the appearance of a color can change based on other colors it is surrounded by.

Beginning with Albers' iconic Homage to the Square series, Chromania explores how subsequent generations of artists in the Everson's collection employ color in ways that are subjective and expressive as well as scientific and systematic. From the precise geometry of Peter Pincus' ceramics to the animated gesture of a painting by Jackie Saccoccio, Chromania provides dazzle and inspiration during the long months of winter.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 26



Jamie Young: Decivilization
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Jamie Young is a photographer based in Syracuse. His work has often focused on the natural world as a source of spiritual redemption and renewal in a time of cultural upheavals and challenges. Young has traveled extensively in Iceland over the past 25 years, and his ongoing Icelandic series documents both the extraordinary solace of the country's geology and landscapes and the land's rapid transformations due to climate change. He also runs a professional photography business and teaches photography and wood and metal fabrication at local universities.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, February 26



50th Anniversary: Selections from Light Work Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Remarkable in its breadth and depth, Light Work's 50th Anniversary exhibition is a thoughtful composition of photographic works that have come into Light Work's permanent collection over the past 50 years through the generosity of former artist-in-residence participants, Grant Awardees, and individual donations. The works on view are a reflective curation from over 4,000 objects and photographic prints from an extensive and diverse archive that maps the trends and developments in contemporary photography. The semi-centennial presents a unique opportunity to share the legacy of support the organization has extended to emerging and under-represented artists working in photography and digital image-making. Highlights in the show include early works from acclaimed photographers Dawoud Bey, Carrie Mae Weems, James Welling, and more.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, February 26



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A new exhibition of critical artworks by acclaimed international artist Rina Banerjee explores the meaning of home in diasporic communities and invites viewers to tell their own stories of identity, place, and belonging.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, February 26



Stephanie H. Shih: My Sweetie Has No Pockmarks
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The second iteration of The Art Wall Project features the sculptures made by Stephanie H. Shih. Best known for her ceramic groceries, Shih's work explores ideas of home and nostalgia through the lens of food. Her installation at the museum will feature bags of rice to consider how Asian identity has been flattened through stereotypes and to reclaim this pantry staple as a touchpoint of Asian American identity.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, February 26



Collections Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries, which include rarely seen artworks from the museum's collection and two major loans from the Art Bridges Foundation. This thematic installation touches on ideas of identity, place, gender, race, labor, and lineage.


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, February 26



2023 VPA Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents the 2023 VPA Photography Annual of photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

The exhibiting artists are Ryan Ally, Gavi Azoff, Grace Anita Beckwith, Lillian Benich, Sophie Buchanan, Natalia Claas, Yongxin Deng, Rosely Htoo, Alex Moore, Xylia Xu, and Sophie Walter.


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, February 26



Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jenny Calivas's "Surface Thing" exhibition comprises three photographic projects made between 2018 and 2021, Mouthing, Self-Portraits While Buried, and Birth Rehearsal, all of which portray various types of self-portraits. The show presents works about the body and the earth in ways that are spiritual, feminist, and ecological through a humorous and existential perspective.


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Dance
 

2:00 PM, February 26



Prokofiev’s Cinderella
Syracuse City Ballet

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

A fairy godmother, a noble prince, hilarious stepsisters, and enchanting fairies — The Syracuse City Ballet is bringing Cinderella back after 2020's cancelled production.


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Music
 

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, February 26



Jazz on Tap: Bob Piorun Quartet
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover change
Finger Lakes On Tap
35 Fennell St., Skaneateles


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4:00 PM, February 26



Black History Month Concert: Music by Black Composers
Hendricks Chapel

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Setnor student organists and choral ensembles celebrate Black History History month with a concert of uplifting music in a variety of styles. This program features African-American spiritual settings by Moses Hogan, Rollo Dillworth, and Undine Smith Moore; anthems by David Hurd and Christopher Harris; organ solos by Florence Price and Adolphus Hailstork; and Carl Haywood's stirring organ toccata on We Shall Overcome.


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5:00 PM, February 26



*SOLD OUT* Black History Month Cabaret: Althea Rene and Jeanette Harris
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $35 in advance, $40 at the door, $10 students with ID at the door (admission includes concert and buffet))
Marriott Hotel Syracuse
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

The event is a return engagement for Althea Rene, Detroit-born flutist, paired with saxophonist Jeanette Harris, dubbed the "Queens of Soul Jazz," in a rare all-female smooth jazz double bill.

Rene is well-known to area jazz fans as a Motown music legacy, daughter of Dezie McCullers of the original Funk Brothers, the group that played for many Motown groups from the late 1950s through the 1970s.

Harris, a native of Fresno California, is an instrumentalist and songwriter, having co-written hits with Norman Brown and Gerald Albright, with international touring experience with the legendary Teena Marie. Both artists log thousands of miles annually, appearing in festivals and clubs worldwide.

George Kilpatrick, media pioneer and community affairs activist, will be honored with the 2023 Pioneer Public Service Award.


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6:00 PM - 8:30 PM, February 26



Steve Grills & the Roadmasters
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

For Steve Grills, the Blues has been a lifelong journey. Growing up he heard the music of Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, and Lightnin' Hopkins from his father's record collection. Through the Beatles, Steve discovered Chuck Berry and he hasn't looked back since.


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Theater
 

10:00 AM, February 26



Paw Patrol Live: Heroes Unite Tickets
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse


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2:00 PM, February 26



By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Redhouse

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

By The Way, Meet Vera Stark takes us to the Golden Age of Hollywood and shines the spotlight on aspiring starlet Vera Stark who works as a maid to Gloria Mitchell, an aging star grasping at her fading career. Worlds collide when Vera lands a trailblazing role ... in a movie starring her boss. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage's fast-paced, spritely, sly satire is a journey through Vera's 70-year life and a sharp take on race and culture — both in the past and today. The story behind the cameras leaves Vera with a surprising and controversial legacy historians and scholars will debate for years to come. This "sharp-toothed comedy" (The Wall Street Journal) is both hilarious and poignant and a must-see for our audiences.


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2:00 PM, February 26



Espejos: Clean
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

The lives of two women with vastly different life experiences intersect at a destination wedding in Cancún. Adriana has left her home of Chetumal, Mexico, and is working as the manager of the housekeeping staff at a resort. Sarah, from Vancouver, is the sister of the bride and maid of honor and the self-acknowledged family screw up. A chance encounter during a torrential downpour leads each woman to confront her personal storm and to consider the possibility that, though isolated, she may not be as alone as she believes. Change is hard but possible and hope may be closer than it sometimes seems. An engaging and poignant bi-lingual theatrical experience, Espejos: Clean is performed in English and Spanish with supertitles in both languages. By Christine Quintana.


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2:00 PM, February 26



Barbecue
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gilbert McCauley, director

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

This satirical and wildly funny play by Robert O'Hara introduces the O'Mallery family. Five siblings — four sisters, one brother — all with various addictions, dependencies, and issues, one perhaps more than the others. Is a surprise intervention at a family picnic on behalf of the "troubled" one a good idea? Why does the brother arrive with a taser? Starting with the O'Mallerys themselves, this is a play full of surprises and very good theatrical ideas from the most appropriately inappropriate satirist in American theater today. No one survives untased.


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7:30 PM, February 26



Espejos: Clean
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

The lives of two women with vastly different life experiences intersect at a destination wedding in Cancún. Adriana has left her home of Chetumal, Mexico, and is working as the manager of the housekeeping staff at a resort. Sarah, from Vancouver, is the sister of the bride and maid of honor and the self-acknowledged family screw up. A chance encounter during a torrential downpour leads each woman to confront her personal storm and to consider the possibility that, though isolated, she may not be as alone as she believes. Change is hard but possible and hope may be closer than it sometimes seems. An engaging and poignant bi-lingual theatrical experience, Espejos: Clean is performed in English and Spanish with supertitles in both languages. By Christine Quintana.


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Monday, February 27, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, February 27



2023 VPA Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents the 2023 VPA Photography Annual of photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

The exhibiting artists are Ryan Ally, Gavi Azoff, Grace Anita Beckwith, Lillian Benich, Sophie Buchanan, Natalia Claas, Yongxin Deng, Rosely Htoo, Alex Moore, Xylia Xu, and Sophie Walter.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, February 27



Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jenny Calivas's "Surface Thing" exhibition comprises three photographic projects made between 2018 and 2021, Mouthing, Self-Portraits While Buried, and Birth Rehearsal, all of which portray various types of self-portraits. The show presents works about the body and the earth in ways that are spiritual, feminist, and ecological through a humorous and existential perspective.


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Tuesday, February 28, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, February 28



Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jenny Calivas's "Surface Thing" exhibition comprises three photographic projects made between 2018 and 2021, Mouthing, Self-Portraits While Buried, and Birth Rehearsal, all of which portray various types of self-portraits. The show presents works about the body and the earth in ways that are spiritual, feminist, and ecological through a humorous and existential perspective.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, February 28



2023 VPA Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents the 2023 VPA Photography Annual of photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

The exhibiting artists are Ryan Ally, Gavi Azoff, Grace Anita Beckwith, Lillian Benich, Sophie Buchanan, Natalia Claas, Yongxin Deng, Rosely Htoo, Alex Moore, Xylia Xu, and Sophie Walter.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 28



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A new exhibition of critical artworks by acclaimed international artist Rina Banerjee explores the meaning of home in diasporic communities and invites viewers to tell their own stories of identity, place, and belonging.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 28



Stephanie H. Shih: My Sweetie Has No Pockmarks
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The second iteration of The Art Wall Project features the sculptures made by Stephanie H. Shih. Best known for her ceramic groceries, Shih's work explores ideas of home and nostalgia through the lens of food. Her installation at the museum will feature bags of rice to consider how Asian identity has been flattened through stereotypes and to reclaim this pantry staple as a touchpoint of Asian American identity.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, February 28



Collections Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries, which include rarely seen artworks from the museum's collection and two major loans from the Art Bridges Foundation. This thematic installation touches on ideas of identity, place, gender, race, labor, and lineage.


Back to list
 


Theater
 

7:30 PM, February 28



Espejos: Clean
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

The lives of two women with vastly different life experiences intersect at a destination wedding in Cancún. Adriana has left her home of Chetumal, Mexico, and is working as the manager of the housekeeping staff at a resort. Sarah, from Vancouver, is the sister of the bride and maid of honor and the self-acknowledged family screw up. A chance encounter during a torrential downpour leads each woman to confront her personal storm and to consider the possibility that, though isolated, she may not be as alone as she believes. Change is hard but possible and hope may be closer than it sometimes seems. An engaging and poignant bi-lingual theatrical experience, Espejos: Clean is performed in English and Spanish with supertitles in both languages. By Christine Quintana.


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Wednesday, March 1, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, March 1



2023 VPA Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents the 2023 VPA Photography Annual of photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

The exhibiting artists are Ryan Ally, Gavi Azoff, Grace Anita Beckwith, Lillian Benich, Sophie Buchanan, Natalia Claas, Yongxin Deng, Rosely Htoo, Alex Moore, Xylia Xu, and Sophie Walter.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, March 1



Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jenny Calivas's "Surface Thing" exhibition comprises three photographic projects made between 2018 and 2021, Mouthing, Self-Portraits While Buried, and Birth Rehearsal, all of which portray various types of self-portraits. The show presents works about the body and the earth in ways that are spiritual, feminist, and ecological through a humorous and existential perspective.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, March 1



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A new exhibition of critical artworks by acclaimed international artist Rina Banerjee explores the meaning of home in diasporic communities and invites viewers to tell their own stories of identity, place, and belonging.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, March 1



Collections Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries, which include rarely seen artworks from the museum's collection and two major loans from the Art Bridges Foundation. This thematic installation touches on ideas of identity, place, gender, race, labor, and lineage.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, March 1



Stephanie H. Shih: My Sweetie Has No Pockmarks
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The second iteration of The Art Wall Project features the sculptures made by Stephanie H. Shih. Best known for her ceramic groceries, Shih's work explores ideas of home and nostalgia through the lens of food. Her installation at the museum will feature bags of rice to consider how Asian identity has been flattened through stereotypes and to reclaim this pantry staple as a touchpoint of Asian American identity.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 1



50th Anniversary: Selections from Light Work Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Remarkable in its breadth and depth, Light Work's 50th Anniversary exhibition is a thoughtful composition of photographic works that have come into Light Work's permanent collection over the past 50 years through the generosity of former artist-in-residence participants, Grant Awardees, and individual donations. The works on view are a reflective curation from over 4,000 objects and photographic prints from an extensive and diverse archive that maps the trends and developments in contemporary photography. The semi-centennial presents a unique opportunity to share the legacy of support the organization has extended to emerging and under-represented artists working in photography and digital image-making. Highlights in the show include early works from acclaimed photographers Dawoud Bey, Carrie Mae Weems, James Welling, and more.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 1



Jamie Young: Decivilization
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Jamie Young is a photographer based in Syracuse. His work has often focused on the natural world as a source of spiritual redemption and renewal in a time of cultural upheavals and challenges. Young has traveled extensively in Iceland over the past 25 years, and his ongoing Icelandic series documents both the extraordinary solace of the country's geology and landscapes and the land's rapid transformations due to climate change. He also runs a professional photography business and teaches photography and wood and metal fabrication at local universities.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 1



Chromania
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Color is an essential therapy for those cold and gray Central New York winters. The Everson embraces this with Chromania, a riot of kaleidoscopic color guaranteed to chase the winter grays away. In the wake of Impressionism, 20th-century artists developed a range of strategies to explore and employ color. Painter and educator Josef Albers taught that all color is relative, meaning that the appearance of a color can change based on other colors it is surrounded by.

Beginning with Albers' iconic Homage to the Square series, Chromania explores how subsequent generations of artists in the Everson's collection employ color in ways that are subjective and expressive as well as scientific and systematic. From the precise geometry of Peter Pincus' ceramics to the animated gesture of a painting by Jackie Saccoccio, Chromania provides dazzle and inspiration during the long months of winter.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 1



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A multibillion-dollar global industry that began as a recreational activity more than a century ago, the game of basketball is deeply rooted in our society and culture. Playing or watching the sport invokes intangible ideas and feelings — beauty, excitement, hope, triumph, joy, pain, defeat — experiences that define what it means to be human.

Artists have drawn creative inspiration from the personas and culture of the game for decades, and many in recent years have used them as a topic or metaphor to interrogate today's pressing social issues, from dismantling racial stereotypes and traditional gender roles to revealing systemic economic inequities, the effects of global commodification, and more. Featuring paintings, sculpture, photography, video, and installation works created by some of the most significant living artists in the United States, Hoop Dreams demonstrates how tightly intertwined contemporary art and life are with the art of the game.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 1



Common Ground
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To celebrate the new millennium, in the year 2000 artist Neil Tetkowski undertook a Herculean project: gathering clay from all 188 member countries from the United Nations. With these clay samples, Tetkowski created a suitably monumental work that debuted at United Nations headquarters in New York City—the Common Ground World Mandala. Measuring seven feet in diameter and more than nine feet high, Tetkowski's sculpture is a testament to the artist's ability to think beyond boundaries—of scale, of geography, and of politics.

"Common Ground" uses Tetkowski's World Mandala as the centerpiece of an exhibition that showcases the Everson's vast collection of world ceramics. From ancient Mesopotamian and Greek pottery to contemporary Zulu beer brewing vessels and a life-size terracotta horse built by Indian priests, the Everson's collection traces the evolution of ceramics across cultures over thousands of years. Because of Syracuse's focus on welcoming immigrants and refugees to the community, there are over 70 languages spoken in city schools. "Common Ground" uses ceramics, one of humankind's oldest art forms, to remind us of our shared bonds with the earth.

Read a review!


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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, March 1



Lida Suchy: Portrait of A Village
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

For the past eight years, Ukraine has been represented by images of conflict, war, destruction, and carnage. Lida's images can help viewers to connect to the current situation in Ukraine on a personal level that goes beyond the daily news by putting a human face on the tragic war that is being waged upon the Ukrainian people.

As a first-generation American and daughter of Ukrainian refugees, Lida draws on this background as a resource and inspiration for her creative work. She has photographed in the western village of Kryvorivnya, on and off since 1991. Using a slow and sometimes cumbersome 8×10" analog camera, she captured a detailed description of the village, thus creating a composite portrait of this rural community through individual portraits of its members. With the hope of overturning soviet style authoritarianism, villagers actively participated in the Euromaidan Revolution of Dignity in 2014.

Today many are still defending Ukraine.


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Music
 

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, March 1



Jazz at Timber Banks: ESP with Kirsten Tegtmeyer
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover charge
Persimmons
3536 Timber Banks Pkwy., Baldwinsville


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7:30 PM, March 1



Flogging Molly
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, March 1



Espejos: Clean
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

The lives of two women with vastly different life experiences intersect at a destination wedding in Cancún. Adriana has left her home of Chetumal, Mexico, and is working as the manager of the housekeeping staff at a resort. Sarah, from Vancouver, is the sister of the bride and maid of honor and the self-acknowledged family screw up. A chance encounter during a torrential downpour leads each woman to confront her personal storm and to consider the possibility that, though isolated, she may not be as alone as she believes. Change is hard but possible and hope may be closer than it sometimes seems. An engaging and poignant bi-lingual theatrical experience, Espejos: Clean is performed in English and Spanish with supertitles in both languages. By Christine Quintana.


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Thursday, March 2, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, March 2



Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jenny Calivas's "Surface Thing" exhibition comprises three photographic projects made between 2018 and 2021, Mouthing, Self-Portraits While Buried, and Birth Rehearsal, all of which portray various types of self-portraits. The show presents works about the body and the earth in ways that are spiritual, feminist, and ecological through a humorous and existential perspective.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, March 2



2023 VPA Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents the 2023 VPA Photography Annual of photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

The exhibiting artists are Ryan Ally, Gavi Azoff, Grace Anita Beckwith, Lillian Benich, Sophie Buchanan, Natalia Claas, Yongxin Deng, Rosely Htoo, Alex Moore, Xylia Xu, and Sophie Walter.


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10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, March 2



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A new exhibition of critical artworks by acclaimed international artist Rina Banerjee explores the meaning of home in diasporic communities and invites viewers to tell their own stories of identity, place, and belonging.


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10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, March 2



Stephanie H. Shih: My Sweetie Has No Pockmarks
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The second iteration of The Art Wall Project features the sculptures made by Stephanie H. Shih. Best known for her ceramic groceries, Shih's work explores ideas of home and nostalgia through the lens of food. Her installation at the museum will feature bags of rice to consider how Asian identity has been flattened through stereotypes and to reclaim this pantry staple as a touchpoint of Asian American identity.


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10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, March 2



Collections Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries, which include rarely seen artworks from the museum's collection and two major loans from the Art Bridges Foundation. This thematic installation touches on ideas of identity, place, gender, race, labor, and lineage.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, March 2



Jamie Young: Decivilization
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Jamie Young is a photographer based in Syracuse. His work has often focused on the natural world as a source of spiritual redemption and renewal in a time of cultural upheavals and challenges. Young has traveled extensively in Iceland over the past 25 years, and his ongoing Icelandic series documents both the extraordinary solace of the country's geology and landscapes and the land's rapid transformations due to climate change. He also runs a professional photography business and teaches photography and wood and metal fabrication at local universities.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, March 2



50th Anniversary: Selections from Light Work Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Remarkable in its breadth and depth, Light Work's 50th Anniversary exhibition is a thoughtful composition of photographic works that have come into Light Work's permanent collection over the past 50 years through the generosity of former artist-in-residence participants, Grant Awardees, and individual donations. The works on view are a reflective curation from over 4,000 objects and photographic prints from an extensive and diverse archive that maps the trends and developments in contemporary photography. The semi-centennial presents a unique opportunity to share the legacy of support the organization has extended to emerging and under-represented artists working in photography and digital image-making. Highlights in the show include early works from acclaimed photographers Dawoud Bey, Carrie Mae Weems, James Welling, and more.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, March 2



Common Ground
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To celebrate the new millennium, in the year 2000 artist Neil Tetkowski undertook a Herculean project: gathering clay from all 188 member countries from the United Nations. With these clay samples, Tetkowski created a suitably monumental work that debuted at United Nations headquarters in New York City—the Common Ground World Mandala. Measuring seven feet in diameter and more than nine feet high, Tetkowski's sculpture is a testament to the artist's ability to think beyond boundaries—of scale, of geography, and of politics.

"Common Ground" uses Tetkowski's World Mandala as the centerpiece of an exhibition that showcases the Everson's vast collection of world ceramics. From ancient Mesopotamian and Greek pottery to contemporary Zulu beer brewing vessels and a life-size terracotta horse built by Indian priests, the Everson's collection traces the evolution of ceramics across cultures over thousands of years. Because of Syracuse's focus on welcoming immigrants and refugees to the community, there are over 70 languages spoken in city schools. "Common Ground" uses ceramics, one of humankind's oldest art forms, to remind us of our shared bonds with the earth.

Read a review!


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, March 2



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A multibillion-dollar global industry that began as a recreational activity more than a century ago, the game of basketball is deeply rooted in our society and culture. Playing or watching the sport invokes intangible ideas and feelings — beauty, excitement, hope, triumph, joy, pain, defeat — experiences that define what it means to be human.

Artists have drawn creative inspiration from the personas and culture of the game for decades, and many in recent years have used them as a topic or metaphor to interrogate today's pressing social issues, from dismantling racial stereotypes and traditional gender roles to revealing systemic economic inequities, the effects of global commodification, and more. Featuring paintings, sculpture, photography, video, and installation works created by some of the most significant living artists in the United States, Hoop Dreams demonstrates how tightly intertwined contemporary art and life are with the art of the game.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, March 2



Chromania
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Color is an essential therapy for those cold and gray Central New York winters. The Everson embraces this with Chromania, a riot of kaleidoscopic color guaranteed to chase the winter grays away. In the wake of Impressionism, 20th-century artists developed a range of strategies to explore and employ color. Painter and educator Josef Albers taught that all color is relative, meaning that the appearance of a color can change based on other colors it is surrounded by.

Beginning with Albers' iconic Homage to the Square series, Chromania explores how subsequent generations of artists in the Everson's collection employ color in ways that are subjective and expressive as well as scientific and systematic. From the precise geometry of Peter Pincus' ceramics to the animated gesture of a painting by Jackie Saccoccio, Chromania provides dazzle and inspiration during the long months of winter.


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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, March 2



Lida Suchy: Portrait of A Village
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

For the past eight years, Ukraine has been represented by images of conflict, war, destruction, and carnage. Lida's images can help viewers to connect to the current situation in Ukraine on a personal level that goes beyond the daily news by putting a human face on the tragic war that is being waged upon the Ukrainian people.

As a first-generation American and daughter of Ukrainian refugees, Lida draws on this background as a resource and inspiration for her creative work. She has photographed in the western village of Kryvorivnya, on and off since 1991. Using a slow and sometimes cumbersome 8×10" analog camera, she captured a detailed description of the village, thus creating a composite portrait of this rural community through individual portraits of its members. With the hope of overturning soviet style authoritarianism, villagers actively participated in the Euromaidan Revolution of Dignity in 2014.

Today many are still defending Ukraine.


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6:15 PM - 11:00 PM, March 2



Sofía Gallisá Muriente: Lluvia con nieve (Rain with Snow)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 1955, Paramount News, "the eyes and ears of the world," projected in movie theaters around the United States images of a plane landing in Puerto Rico carrying two tons of snow and a family from New Hampshire and of the thousands of Puerto Rican youth that received them in a baseball field. These 40 seconds of film are possibly the only surviving audiovisual document of an event that persists as a foggy memory in the conscience of most Puerto Ricans.

Rain with Snow is a double projection that tries to visualize the ideological production processes behind these images of political spectacle, zooming in, stretching out, and manipulating the last cinematic vestige of this moment to interrogate the role of images in the formation of national identity. 2014, 13:30

Sofía Gallisá Muriente is a Puerto Rican visual artist whose work resists colonial forces of erasure and claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining.

Screening begins at dusk.


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Theater
 

7:00 PM, March 2



By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Redhouse

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

By The Way, Meet Vera Stark takes us to the Golden Age of Hollywood and shines the spotlight on aspiring starlet Vera Stark who works as a maid to Gloria Mitchell, an aging star grasping at her fading career. Worlds collide when Vera lands a trailblazing role ... in a movie starring her boss. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage's fast-paced, spritely, sly satire is a journey through Vera's 70-year life and a sharp take on race and culture — both in the past and today. The story behind the cameras leaves Vera with a surprising and controversial legacy historians and scholars will debate for years to come. This "sharp-toothed comedy" (The Wall Street Journal) is both hilarious and poignant and a must-see for our audiences.


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7:30 PM, March 2



Espejos: Clean
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

The lives of two women with vastly different life experiences intersect at a destination wedding in Cancún. Adriana has left her home of Chetumal, Mexico, and is working as the manager of the housekeeping staff at a resort. Sarah, from Vancouver, is the sister of the bride and maid of honor and the self-acknowledged family screw up. A chance encounter during a torrential downpour leads each woman to confront her personal storm and to consider the possibility that, though isolated, she may not be as alone as she believes. Change is hard but possible and hope may be closer than it sometimes seems. An engaging and poignant bi-lingual theatrical experience, Espejos: Clean is performed in English and Spanish with supertitles in both languages. By Christine Quintana.


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Friday, March 3, 2023


Art
 

9:30 AM - 8:00 PM, March 3



Opening: Back to the Toon Age
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm.

Dave Hicock: traditional character animation artwork used for webtoons, local and national business advertising, computer games illustration

J.P. Crangle: 3D and wall artwork of original characters

Sharon Alama: fabric sock critters and handmade paper jewelry


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, March 3



Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jenny Calivas's "Surface Thing" exhibition comprises three photographic projects made between 2018 and 2021, Mouthing, Self-Portraits While Buried, and Birth Rehearsal, all of which portray various types of self-portraits. The show presents works about the body and the earth in ways that are spiritual, feminist, and ecological through a humorous and existential perspective.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, March 3



2023 VPA Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents the 2023 VPA Photography Annual of photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

The exhibiting artists are Ryan Ally, Gavi Azoff, Grace Anita Beckwith, Lillian Benich, Sophie Buchanan, Natalia Claas, Yongxin Deng, Rosely Htoo, Alex Moore, Xylia Xu, and Sophie Walter.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, March 3



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A new exhibition of critical artworks by acclaimed international artist Rina Banerjee explores the meaning of home in diasporic communities and invites viewers to tell their own stories of identity, place, and belonging.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, March 3



Collections Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries, which include rarely seen artworks from the museum's collection and two major loans from the Art Bridges Foundation. This thematic installation touches on ideas of identity, place, gender, race, labor, and lineage.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, March 3



Stephanie H. Shih: My Sweetie Has No Pockmarks
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The second iteration of The Art Wall Project features the sculptures made by Stephanie H. Shih. Best known for her ceramic groceries, Shih's work explores ideas of home and nostalgia through the lens of food. Her installation at the museum will feature bags of rice to consider how Asian identity has been flattened through stereotypes and to reclaim this pantry staple as a touchpoint of Asian American identity.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 3



50th Anniversary: Selections from Light Work Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Remarkable in its breadth and depth, Light Work's 50th Anniversary exhibition is a thoughtful composition of photographic works that have come into Light Work's permanent collection over the past 50 years through the generosity of former artist-in-residence participants, Grant Awardees, and individual donations. The works on view are a reflective curation from over 4,000 objects and photographic prints from an extensive and diverse archive that maps the trends and developments in contemporary photography. The semi-centennial presents a unique opportunity to share the legacy of support the organization has extended to emerging and under-represented artists working in photography and digital image-making. Highlights in the show include early works from acclaimed photographers Dawoud Bey, Carrie Mae Weems, James Welling, and more.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 3



Jamie Young: Decivilization
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Jamie Young is a photographer based in Syracuse. His work has often focused on the natural world as a source of spiritual redemption and renewal in a time of cultural upheavals and challenges. Young has traveled extensively in Iceland over the past 25 years, and his ongoing Icelandic series documents both the extraordinary solace of the country's geology and landscapes and the land's rapid transformations due to climate change. He also runs a professional photography business and teaches photography and wood and metal fabrication at local universities.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 3



Chromania
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Color is an essential therapy for those cold and gray Central New York winters. The Everson embraces this with Chromania, a riot of kaleidoscopic color guaranteed to chase the winter grays away. In the wake of Impressionism, 20th-century artists developed a range of strategies to explore and employ color. Painter and educator Josef Albers taught that all color is relative, meaning that the appearance of a color can change based on other colors it is surrounded by.

Beginning with Albers' iconic Homage to the Square series, Chromania explores how subsequent generations of artists in the Everson's collection employ color in ways that are subjective and expressive as well as scientific and systematic. From the precise geometry of Peter Pincus' ceramics to the animated gesture of a painting by Jackie Saccoccio, Chromania provides dazzle and inspiration during the long months of winter.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 3



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A multibillion-dollar global industry that began as a recreational activity more than a century ago, the game of basketball is deeply rooted in our society and culture. Playing or watching the sport invokes intangible ideas and feelings — beauty, excitement, hope, triumph, joy, pain, defeat — experiences that define what it means to be human.

Artists have drawn creative inspiration from the personas and culture of the game for decades, and many in recent years have used them as a topic or metaphor to interrogate today's pressing social issues, from dismantling racial stereotypes and traditional gender roles to revealing systemic economic inequities, the effects of global commodification, and more. Featuring paintings, sculpture, photography, video, and installation works created by some of the most significant living artists in the United States, Hoop Dreams demonstrates how tightly intertwined contemporary art and life are with the art of the game.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 3



Common Ground
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To celebrate the new millennium, in the year 2000 artist Neil Tetkowski undertook a Herculean project: gathering clay from all 188 member countries from the United Nations. With these clay samples, Tetkowski created a suitably monumental work that debuted at United Nations headquarters in New York City—the Common Ground World Mandala. Measuring seven feet in diameter and more than nine feet high, Tetkowski's sculpture is a testament to the artist's ability to think beyond boundaries—of scale, of geography, and of politics.

"Common Ground" uses Tetkowski's World Mandala as the centerpiece of an exhibition that showcases the Everson's vast collection of world ceramics. From ancient Mesopotamian and Greek pottery to contemporary Zulu beer brewing vessels and a life-size terracotta horse built by Indian priests, the Everson's collection traces the evolution of ceramics across cultures over thousands of years. Because of Syracuse's focus on welcoming immigrants and refugees to the community, there are over 70 languages spoken in city schools. "Common Ground" uses ceramics, one of humankind's oldest art forms, to remind us of our shared bonds with the earth.

Read a review!


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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, March 3



Lida Suchy: Portrait of A Village
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

For the past eight years, Ukraine has been represented by images of conflict, war, destruction, and carnage. Lida's images can help viewers to connect to the current situation in Ukraine on a personal level that goes beyond the daily news by putting a human face on the tragic war that is being waged upon the Ukrainian people.

As a first-generation American and daughter of Ukrainian refugees, Lida draws on this background as a resource and inspiration for her creative work. She has photographed in the western village of Kryvorivnya, on and off since 1991. Using a slow and sometimes cumbersome 8×10" analog camera, she captured a detailed description of the village, thus creating a composite portrait of this rural community through individual portraits of its members. With the hope of overturning soviet style authoritarianism, villagers actively participated in the Euromaidan Revolution of Dignity in 2014.

Today many are still defending Ukraine.


Back to list
 

 

6:15 PM - 11:00 PM, March 3



Sofía Gallisá Muriente: Lluvia con nieve (Rain with Snow)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 1955, Paramount News, "the eyes and ears of the world," projected in movie theaters around the United States images of a plane landing in Puerto Rico carrying two tons of snow and a family from New Hampshire and of the thousands of Puerto Rican youth that received them in a baseball field. These 40 seconds of film are possibly the only surviving audiovisual document of an event that persists as a foggy memory in the conscience of most Puerto Ricans.

Rain with Snow is a double projection that tries to visualize the ideological production processes behind these images of political spectacle, zooming in, stretching out, and manipulating the last cinematic vestige of this moment to interrogate the role of images in the formation of national identity. 2014, 13:30

Sofía Gallisá Muriente is a Puerto Rican visual artist whose work resists colonial forces of erasure and claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining.

Screening begins at dusk.


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Lecture
 

3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, March 3



Rina Banerjee In Conversation with Gayatri Spivak
Syracuse University Art Museum

Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Presented in conjunction with the exhibit of works by acclaimed international artist Rina Banerjee, "Take Me to the Palace of Love."


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Music
 

7:30 PM, March 3



Ricky Ford Quartet
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $10 students
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse


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8:00 PM, March 3



Jude Roberts
Folkus Project

Price: Regular $18, members $15
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Jude Roberts' songs are gems of folk craft: melody and dynamic chord changes are front and center, lyrics are insightful, and all of these aspects are brought to life by a voice that is strong, pure and clear.

His sound is influenced by English, Irish and Appalachian folk music, with touches of baroque and Romantic-era classical pieces and European folk/pop. A unique amalgam of style and talent, Jude Roberts draws the listener inward and invites them to dive deep.


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Poetry/Reading
 

7:00 PM, March 3



Poet Ama Codjoe
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
Online


Ama Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude and Blood of the Air, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. She has been awarded support from Cave Canem, Robert Rauschenberg, and Saltonstall foundations as well as from Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Hawthornden, Hedgebrook, Yaddo, and MacDowell. Her recent poems have appeared in the Atlantic, the Nation, the Best American Poetry series, and elsewhere. Among other honors, Codjoe has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council/New York Foundation of the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation.


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Theater
 

7:00 PM, March 3



By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Redhouse

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

By The Way, Meet Vera Stark takes us to the Golden Age of Hollywood and shines the spotlight on aspiring starlet Vera Stark who works as a maid to Gloria Mitchell, an aging star grasping at her fading career. Worlds collide when Vera lands a trailblazing role ... in a movie starring her boss. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage's fast-paced, spritely, sly satire is a journey through Vera's 70-year life and a sharp take on race and culture — both in the past and today. The story behind the cameras leaves Vera with a surprising and controversial legacy historians and scholars will debate for years to come. This "sharp-toothed comedy" (The Wall Street Journal) is both hilarious and poignant and a must-see for our audiences.


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7:30 PM, March 3



Espejos: Clean
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

The lives of two women with vastly different life experiences intersect at a destination wedding in Cancún. Adriana has left her home of Chetumal, Mexico, and is working as the manager of the housekeeping staff at a resort. Sarah, from Vancouver, is the sister of the bride and maid of honor and the self-acknowledged family screw up. A chance encounter during a torrential downpour leads each woman to confront her personal storm and to consider the possibility that, though isolated, she may not be as alone as she believes. Change is hard but possible and hope may be closer than it sometimes seems. An engaging and poignant bi-lingual theatrical experience, Espejos: Clean is performed in English and Spanish with supertitles in both languages. By Christine Quintana.


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Saturday, March 4, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, March 4



Back to the Toon Age
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dave Hicock: traditional character animation artwork used for webtoons, local and national business advertising, computer games illustration

J.P. Crangle: 3D and wall artwork of original characters

Sharon Alama: fabric sock critters and handmade paper jewelry


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 4



Common Ground
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To celebrate the new millennium, in the year 2000 artist Neil Tetkowski undertook a Herculean project: gathering clay from all 188 member countries from the United Nations. With these clay samples, Tetkowski created a suitably monumental work that debuted at United Nations headquarters in New York City—the Common Ground World Mandala. Measuring seven feet in diameter and more than nine feet high, Tetkowski's sculpture is a testament to the artist's ability to think beyond boundaries—of scale, of geography, and of politics.

"Common Ground" uses Tetkowski's World Mandala as the centerpiece of an exhibition that showcases the Everson's vast collection of world ceramics. From ancient Mesopotamian and Greek pottery to contemporary Zulu beer brewing vessels and a life-size terracotta horse built by Indian priests, the Everson's collection traces the evolution of ceramics across cultures over thousands of years. Because of Syracuse's focus on welcoming immigrants and refugees to the community, there are over 70 languages spoken in city schools. "Common Ground" uses ceramics, one of humankind's oldest art forms, to remind us of our shared bonds with the earth.

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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 4



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A multibillion-dollar global industry that began as a recreational activity more than a century ago, the game of basketball is deeply rooted in our society and culture. Playing or watching the sport invokes intangible ideas and feelings — beauty, excitement, hope, triumph, joy, pain, defeat — experiences that define what it means to be human.

Artists have drawn creative inspiration from the personas and culture of the game for decades, and many in recent years have used them as a topic or metaphor to interrogate today's pressing social issues, from dismantling racial stereotypes and traditional gender roles to revealing systemic economic inequities, the effects of global commodification, and more. Featuring paintings, sculpture, photography, video, and installation works created by some of the most significant living artists in the United States, Hoop Dreams demonstrates how tightly intertwined contemporary art and life are with the art of the game.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 4



Chromania
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Color is an essential therapy for those cold and gray Central New York winters. The Everson embraces this with Chromania, a riot of kaleidoscopic color guaranteed to chase the winter grays away. In the wake of Impressionism, 20th-century artists developed a range of strategies to explore and employ color. Painter and educator Josef Albers taught that all color is relative, meaning that the appearance of a color can change based on other colors it is surrounded by.

Beginning with Albers' iconic Homage to the Square series, Chromania explores how subsequent generations of artists in the Everson's collection employ color in ways that are subjective and expressive as well as scientific and systematic. From the precise geometry of Peter Pincus' ceramics to the animated gesture of a painting by Jackie Saccoccio, Chromania provides dazzle and inspiration during the long months of winter.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 4



Jamie Young: Decivilization
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Jamie Young is a photographer based in Syracuse. His work has often focused on the natural world as a source of spiritual redemption and renewal in a time of cultural upheavals and challenges. Young has traveled extensively in Iceland over the past 25 years, and his ongoing Icelandic series documents both the extraordinary solace of the country's geology and landscapes and the land's rapid transformations due to climate change. He also runs a professional photography business and teaches photography and wood and metal fabrication at local universities.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 4



50th Anniversary: Selections from Light Work Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Remarkable in its breadth and depth, Light Work's 50th Anniversary exhibition is a thoughtful composition of photographic works that have come into Light Work's permanent collection over the past 50 years through the generosity of former artist-in-residence participants, Grant Awardees, and individual donations. The works on view are a reflective curation from over 4,000 objects and photographic prints from an extensive and diverse archive that maps the trends and developments in contemporary photography. The semi-centennial presents a unique opportunity to share the legacy of support the organization has extended to emerging and under-represented artists working in photography and digital image-making. Highlights in the show include early works from acclaimed photographers Dawoud Bey, Carrie Mae Weems, James Welling, and more.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, March 4



Lida Suchy: Portrait of A Village
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

For the past eight years, Ukraine has been represented by images of conflict, war, destruction, and carnage. Lida's images can help viewers to connect to the current situation in Ukraine on a personal level that goes beyond the daily news by putting a human face on the tragic war that is being waged upon the Ukrainian people.

As a first-generation American and daughter of Ukrainian refugees, Lida draws on this background as a resource and inspiration for her creative work. She has photographed in the western village of Kryvorivnya, on and off since 1991. Using a slow and sometimes cumbersome 8×10" analog camera, she captured a detailed description of the village, thus creating a composite portrait of this rural community through individual portraits of its members. With the hope of overturning soviet style authoritarianism, villagers actively participated in the Euromaidan Revolution of Dignity in 2014.

Today many are still defending Ukraine.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, March 4



Collections Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries, which include rarely seen artworks from the museum's collection and two major loans from the Art Bridges Foundation. This thematic installation touches on ideas of identity, place, gender, race, labor, and lineage.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, March 4



Stephanie H. Shih: My Sweetie Has No Pockmarks
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The second iteration of The Art Wall Project features the sculptures made by Stephanie H. Shih. Best known for her ceramic groceries, Shih's work explores ideas of home and nostalgia through the lens of food. Her installation at the museum will feature bags of rice to consider how Asian identity has been flattened through stereotypes and to reclaim this pantry staple as a touchpoint of Asian American identity.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, March 4



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A new exhibition of critical artworks by acclaimed international artist Rina Banerjee explores the meaning of home in diasporic communities and invites viewers to tell their own stories of identity, place, and belonging.


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, March 4



2023 VPA Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents the 2023 VPA Photography Annual of photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

The exhibiting artists are Ryan Ally, Gavi Azoff, Grace Anita Beckwith, Lillian Benich, Sophie Buchanan, Natalia Claas, Yongxin Deng, Rosely Htoo, Alex Moore, Xylia Xu, and Sophie Walter.


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, March 4



Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jenny Calivas's "Surface Thing" exhibition comprises three photographic projects made between 2018 and 2021, Mouthing, Self-Portraits While Buried, and Birth Rehearsal, all of which portray various types of self-portraits. The show presents works about the body and the earth in ways that are spiritual, feminist, and ecological through a humorous and existential perspective.


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6:15 PM - 11:00 PM, March 4



Sofía Gallisá Muriente: Lluvia con nieve (Rain with Snow)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 1955, Paramount News, "the eyes and ears of the world," projected in movie theaters around the United States images of a plane landing in Puerto Rico carrying two tons of snow and a family from New Hampshire and of the thousands of Puerto Rican youth that received them in a baseball field. These 40 seconds of film are possibly the only surviving audiovisual document of an event that persists as a foggy memory in the conscience of most Puerto Ricans.

Rain with Snow is a double projection that tries to visualize the ideological production processes behind these images of political spectacle, zooming in, stretching out, and manipulating the last cinematic vestige of this moment to interrogate the role of images in the formation of national identity. 2014, 13:30

Sofía Gallisá Muriente is a Puerto Rican visual artist whose work resists colonial forces of erasure and claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining.

Screening begins at dusk.


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Music
 

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, March 4



Sean Rowe
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

A blessing and curse of a curious mind paired with a sense of adventure is that one becomes a collector of stories. Sean Rowe, an artist and nomad at heart, has made himself into the perfect repository for spun yarns of every variety — hysterical, terrifying, heartbreaking, mystifying, and ridiculous — and he makes it clear that at some point it's hard not to feel them all at once.


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7:30 PM, March 4



Sing a Song of Jazz
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Jeff Welcher, conductor

Price: $10
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring songs from the Great American Songbook and beyond.


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, March 4



By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Redhouse

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

By The Way, Meet Vera Stark takes us to the Golden Age of Hollywood and shines the spotlight on aspiring starlet Vera Stark who works as a maid to Gloria Mitchell, an aging star grasping at her fading career. Worlds collide when Vera lands a trailblazing role ... in a movie starring her boss. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage's fast-paced, spritely, sly satire is a journey through Vera's 70-year life and a sharp take on race and culture — both in the past and today. The story behind the cameras leaves Vera with a surprising and controversial legacy historians and scholars will debate for years to come. This "sharp-toothed comedy" (The Wall Street Journal) is both hilarious and poignant and a must-see for our audiences.


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2:00 PM, March 4



Espejos: Clean
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

The lives of two women with vastly different life experiences intersect at a destination wedding in Cancún. Adriana has left her home of Chetumal, Mexico, and is working as the manager of the housekeeping staff at a resort. Sarah, from Vancouver, is the sister of the bride and maid of honor and the self-acknowledged family screw up. A chance encounter during a torrential downpour leads each woman to confront her personal storm and to consider the possibility that, though isolated, she may not be as alone as she believes. Change is hard but possible and hope may be closer than it sometimes seems. An engaging and poignant bi-lingual theatrical experience, Espejos: Clean is performed in English and Spanish with supertitles in both languages. By Christine Quintana.

(Audio Described)


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7:00 PM, March 4



By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Redhouse

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

By The Way, Meet Vera Stark takes us to the Golden Age of Hollywood and shines the spotlight on aspiring starlet Vera Stark who works as a maid to Gloria Mitchell, an aging star grasping at her fading career. Worlds collide when Vera lands a trailblazing role ... in a movie starring her boss. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage's fast-paced, spritely, sly satire is a journey through Vera's 70-year life and a sharp take on race and culture — both in the past and today. The story behind the cameras leaves Vera with a surprising and controversial legacy historians and scholars will debate for years to come. This "sharp-toothed comedy" (The Wall Street Journal) is both hilarious and poignant and a must-see for our audiences.


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7:30 PM, March 4



Espejos: Clean
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

The lives of two women with vastly different life experiences intersect at a destination wedding in Cancún. Adriana has left her home of Chetumal, Mexico, and is working as the manager of the housekeeping staff at a resort. Sarah, from Vancouver, is the sister of the bride and maid of honor and the self-acknowledged family screw up. A chance encounter during a torrential downpour leads each woman to confront her personal storm and to consider the possibility that, though isolated, she may not be as alone as she believes. Change is hard but possible and hope may be closer than it sometimes seems. An engaging and poignant bi-lingual theatrical experience, Espejos: Clean is performed in English and Spanish with supertitles in both languages. By Christine Quintana.

(Open Captioned)


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Sunday, March 5, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 5



Common Ground
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To celebrate the new millennium, in the year 2000 artist Neil Tetkowski undertook a Herculean project: gathering clay from all 188 member countries from the United Nations. With these clay samples, Tetkowski created a suitably monumental work that debuted at United Nations headquarters in New York City—the Common Ground World Mandala. Measuring seven feet in diameter and more than nine feet high, Tetkowski's sculpture is a testament to the artist's ability to think beyond boundaries—of scale, of geography, and of politics.

"Common Ground" uses Tetkowski's World Mandala as the centerpiece of an exhibition that showcases the Everson's vast collection of world ceramics. From ancient Mesopotamian and Greek pottery to contemporary Zulu beer brewing vessels and a life-size terracotta horse built by Indian priests, the Everson's collection traces the evolution of ceramics across cultures over thousands of years. Because of Syracuse's focus on welcoming immigrants and refugees to the community, there are over 70 languages spoken in city schools. "Common Ground" uses ceramics, one of humankind's oldest art forms, to remind us of our shared bonds with the earth.

Read a review!


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 5



Chromania
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Color is an essential therapy for those cold and gray Central New York winters. The Everson embraces this with Chromania, a riot of kaleidoscopic color guaranteed to chase the winter grays away. In the wake of Impressionism, 20th-century artists developed a range of strategies to explore and employ color. Painter and educator Josef Albers taught that all color is relative, meaning that the appearance of a color can change based on other colors it is surrounded by.

Beginning with Albers' iconic Homage to the Square series, Chromania explores how subsequent generations of artists in the Everson's collection employ color in ways that are subjective and expressive as well as scientific and systematic. From the precise geometry of Peter Pincus' ceramics to the animated gesture of a painting by Jackie Saccoccio, Chromania provides dazzle and inspiration during the long months of winter.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 5



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A multibillion-dollar global industry that began as a recreational activity more than a century ago, the game of basketball is deeply rooted in our society and culture. Playing or watching the sport invokes intangible ideas and feelings — beauty, excitement, hope, triumph, joy, pain, defeat — experiences that define what it means to be human.

Artists have drawn creative inspiration from the personas and culture of the game for decades, and many in recent years have used them as a topic or metaphor to interrogate today's pressing social issues, from dismantling racial stereotypes and traditional gender roles to revealing systemic economic inequities, the effects of global commodification, and more. Featuring paintings, sculpture, photography, video, and installation works created by some of the most significant living artists in the United States, Hoop Dreams demonstrates how tightly intertwined contemporary art and life are with the art of the game.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 5



50th Anniversary: Selections from Light Work Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Remarkable in its breadth and depth, Light Work's 50th Anniversary exhibition is a thoughtful composition of photographic works that have come into Light Work's permanent collection over the past 50 years through the generosity of former artist-in-residence participants, Grant Awardees, and individual donations. The works on view are a reflective curation from over 4,000 objects and photographic prints from an extensive and diverse archive that maps the trends and developments in contemporary photography. The semi-centennial presents a unique opportunity to share the legacy of support the organization has extended to emerging and under-represented artists working in photography and digital image-making. Highlights in the show include early works from acclaimed photographers Dawoud Bey, Carrie Mae Weems, James Welling, and more.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, March 5



Jamie Young: Decivilization
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Jamie Young is a photographer based in Syracuse. His work has often focused on the natural world as a source of spiritual redemption and renewal in a time of cultural upheavals and challenges. Young has traveled extensively in Iceland over the past 25 years, and his ongoing Icelandic series documents both the extraordinary solace of the country's geology and landscapes and the land's rapid transformations due to climate change. He also runs a professional photography business and teaches photography and wood and metal fabrication at local universities.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, March 5



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A new exhibition of critical artworks by acclaimed international artist Rina Banerjee explores the meaning of home in diasporic communities and invites viewers to tell their own stories of identity, place, and belonging.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, March 5



Collections Highlights: 5,500 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries, which include rarely seen artworks from the museum's collection and two major loans from the Art Bridges Foundation. This thematic installation touches on ideas of identity, place, gender, race, labor, and lineage.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, March 5



Stephanie H. Shih: My Sweetie Has No Pockmarks
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The second iteration of The Art Wall Project features the sculptures made by Stephanie H. Shih. Best known for her ceramic groceries, Shih's work explores ideas of home and nostalgia through the lens of food. Her installation at the museum will feature bags of rice to consider how Asian identity has been flattened through stereotypes and to reclaim this pantry staple as a touchpoint of Asian American identity.


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, March 5



2023 VPA Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents the 2023 VPA Photography Annual of photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

The exhibiting artists are Ryan Ally, Gavi Azoff, Grace Anita Beckwith, Lillian Benich, Sophie Buchanan, Natalia Claas, Yongxin Deng, Rosely Htoo, Alex Moore, Xylia Xu, and Sophie Walter.


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, March 5



Jenny Calivas: Surface Thing
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jenny Calivas's "Surface Thing" exhibition comprises three photographic projects made between 2018 and 2021, Mouthing, Self-Portraits While Buried, and Birth Rehearsal, all of which portray various types of self-portraits. The show presents works about the body and the earth in ways that are spiritual, feminist, and ecological through a humorous and existential perspective.


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Music
 

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, March 5



Jazz on Tap: Edgar Pagan's GPL
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover change
Finger Lakes On Tap
35 Fennell St., Skaneateles


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3:00 PM, March 5



Casual Series: Onward
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor
Featuring Michael Leopold, lute; Paul Di Folco, piano

St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Carlos Simon An Elegy: A Cry from the Grave
Vivaldi Lute Concerto in D Major, RV 93
Wagner Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103

The 2023 Civic Morning Musicals Symphoria Concerto Competition winner, pianist Paul Di Folco, will be performing the first movement of Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto.


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4:00 PM, March 5



Malmgren Concert: Jason Max Ferdinand Singers
Hendricks Chapel

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

One of the most sought-after choral ensembles in the nation, the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers are known for their exceptional artistry and passionate commitment to using music as means to healing and community building. A typical concert includes music from Bach to contemporary African-American spirituals. Led by Jason Max Ferdinand, a native of Trinidad & Tobago, this group showcases the nation's top talent.


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4:00 PM, March 5



Disney Jazz
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Jazzuits sing songs from the Disney catalog with a twist of jazz.


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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, March 5



Marissa Mulder in “Tom ... In His Words”
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

With the grit of a sheriff facing down an outlaw, the silky-toned Marissa Mulder takes on the bard of bad Tom Waits, in her show "Tom ... in His Words." Mulder takes Waits at his word, exploring some of his iconic songs ("Downtown Train" and "Ol' 55"), as well as lesser-known treasures like "Broken Bicycles" and "Alice."


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, March 5



By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Redhouse

Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

By The Way, Meet Vera Stark takes us to the Golden Age of Hollywood and shines the spotlight on aspiring starlet Vera Stark who works as a maid to Gloria Mitchell, an aging star grasping at her fading career. Worlds collide when Vera lands a trailblazing role ... in a movie starring her boss. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage's fast-paced, spritely, sly satire is a journey through Vera's 70-year life and a sharp take on race and culture — both in the past and today. The story behind the cameras leaves Vera with a surprising and controversial legacy historians and scholars will debate for years to come. This "sharp-toothed comedy" (The Wall Street Journal) is both hilarious and poignant and a must-see for our audiences.


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2:00 PM, March 5



Espejos: Clean
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Crespo, director

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

The lives of two women with vastly different life experiences intersect at a destination wedding in Cancún. Adriana has left her home of Chetumal, Mexico, and is working as the manager of the housekeeping staff at a resort. Sarah, from Vancouver, is the sister of the bride and maid of honor and the self-acknowledged family screw up. A chance encounter during a torrential downpour leads each woman to confront her personal storm and to consider the possibility that, though isolated, she may not be as alone as she believes. Change is hard but possible and hope may be closer than it sometimes seems. An engaging and poignant bi-lingual theatrical experience, Espejos: Clean is performed in English and Spanish with supertitles in both languages. By Christine Quintana.

(Open Captioned)


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