Saturday, April 29, 2006

In Studio, Class and Camera
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features sculpture by Evamaria Hardin, pastels by Wendy Harris, works by the Congressional winners of the Scholastic Art Awards, photography by the Syracuse Camera Club and the work of students from Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace Elementary Schools in the Syracuse City School District.

Shaped Clay 2006
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Shaped Clay 2006 showcases ceramic art created by high school artists from around the country. This exhibition is organized by Syracuse University Ceramics and the Everson Museum of Art.

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

The Ways of a Brush: Paintings by Marion Simpson
Associated Artists

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

Ms. Simpson, who lives in Vestal, is known as a painter, teacher, and muralist.

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

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

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

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

Painterly Perspectives: The Art of Denise Allen
Community Folk Art Center

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

Painterly Perspectives: The Art of Denise Allen will feature paintings, prints, quilts and dolls by Allen, a renowned American contemporary folk artist and craftswoman. A self-taught artist, Allen has been nationally and internationally recognized as "The High Priestess of Needlework." Her work has been exhibited worldwide, and has also been featured in numerous publications. Many of her works address her African American heritage and are rendered in a unique 19th century folk art style. Allen currently resides in Palatine Bridge, New York, where she operates a general store and folk art gallery on her twenty-three acre farm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Curated by Domenic J. Iacono, Syracuse University Art Collection

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

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

Claire Harootunian Retrospective: Sculpture and Collage Art
Redhouse

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

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

Syracuse Contemporary Dance Company in Concert

Price: $16 adults; $12 children under 12
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Contemporary Dance Company will be celebrating their 20th year anniversary with this performance. The program includes original works by local choreographers: Mary Pat D'Angelo, Georgina Kotoka, Laurie Deyo, Danya Eades, Marisa Guzman-Colegrove, Chelle Naef, Anne Wilcox, guest choreographer Maiya Newstead Silver and live drumming with David Nyadedzor, Josh Williams and Nii Obli. The dances include professional dancers and advanced students from the Syracuse area. The program offers a wide variety of dance styles including Jazz, African, Modern, Flamenco, Ballet and the debut of Belly Ballet.

For more information on SCDC in Concert 2006, please call the school of the Syracuse Contemporary Dance Company at 315-472-0235 or email syracuseschoolofdance@yahoo.com.

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Larry Hoyt in Concert
Westcott Community Center
Featuring Ed Van Cott, mandolin and vocals; Henry Jankiewicz, fiddle; and The Baby Boomers

Price: $10
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Scholastic Vocal Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

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

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
SSO Brass Quintet

Price: Free
Christ Episcopal Church
407 E. Seneca St., Manlius

For more information, phone 315-682-5795.

Stars of Tomorrow Cabaret
CNY Jazz Trio

Price: $10 regular; $5 with student ID
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-479-5299.

James Keelaghan
Folkus Project

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

Folk music tells the stories of people and places, and Canada's James Keelaghan is certainly that kind of storyteller. After 19 years as one of Canada's best-known exports, eight albums, three Juno nominations, and one Juno (the Canadian Grammy), Keelaghan is established as a singer-songwriter with an international following -- and a compelling ability to tell the stories of himself and his land.

Keelaghan is renowned for mining the past for musical inspiration. His most celebrated songs tell the stories of extraordinary events from history through the eyes of ordinary people. Among them is the widely known and covered "Cold Missouri Waters," made into a standard when recorded a few years back by folk supergroup Cry Cry Cry. In this song, Keelaghan captures the true story of a backwoods firefighter who faces the choice of fleeing an out-of-control blaze or burning a circle of brush around himself, in hopes of discouraging the conflagration; it has quickly become one of the most popular songs in the contemporary folk canon.

A commanding performer, James Keelaghan develops an intimate rapport with audiences through his stories and humor -- and leaves them spellbound with passionate renditions of songs that touch on universal emotions and relate historical events to the present.

Growing up in Canada, Keelaghan always knew he¹d pursue either music or theatre as a career, but he studied history at the University of Calgary just in case. Eventually music "just took over." But it's Keelaghan's passion for history that has inspired some of his most celebrated songs; witness "Jenny Bryce," "Red River Rising," or the aforementioned "Cold Missouri Waters."

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

Guys and Dolls
Onondaga Central Junior-Senior High School Drama Club

Price: $5 adults; $3 students
Onondaga Central Junior/Senior High School
4479 S. Onondaga Rd., Nedrow

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $6
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive version of the classic children's tale. Reservations recommended -- phone 315-449-3823.

King Lear
Syracuse Stage
Michael Donald Edwards, director

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

An old man's foolishness and a daughter's momentary recalcitrance upend the order of the universe and induce an avalanche of human suffering. In this towering tragedy, Shakespeare dares us to examine the bounds of everything we think we cherish: the embrace of family, the value of forgiveness and the obligations of one generation to the next. How do we transfer power in a family or in a country? Does absolute certainty enable action or cripple the best of our humanity? Few poets can soar to such dramatic heights while exposing the complex web of human concerns Shakespeare illumines in King Lear. Few poets can make us listen so well to the cries of our own suffering.

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Perfect Wedding
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Bill wakes up on the morning of his wedding in the bridal suite of a hotel, to find a beautiful woman in bed next to him. He has no memory of the night before, and no idea who she is, but he needs to get her out of there fast because his fiancée is due to arrive at any moment to dress for the wedding!

Showboat
Fayetteville-Manlius High School

Price: $5
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

The Mandrake
Black Box Players

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

Written by Niccolo Machiavelli in the 15th century, the bawdy comedy relates a fast-paced tale of scheming plots, desperate lovers, fortunes to be won and lost, and a chase after a mythical potion made from the mandrake root (the Viagra of its time. The adapted script casts a broad satirical net on marriage, quakery and corruption, love and secrets.

Reservations recommended. Phone 315-443-2102.

A Little Night Music
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Civilized, sophisticated, enchanting, and witty: A Little Night Music is all of these. Yet with Ingmar Bergman's film The Smiles of Summer as its inspiration, desire and sensuality pervade. Stephen Sondheim's score is glorious, striking deeply emotional and resonant chords. The musical is set in turn-of-the-century Scandinavia and is a tale of romance and folly and focuses on middle-aged Fredrik Egerman and his virgin bride Anne. The couple has not consummated their marriage despite having been wed for nearly a year. When Frederik reunites with a former flame, an older actress named Desiree Armfeldt, he succumbs to her charms. The married Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, one of Desiree's other lovers, discovers the pair. Malcolm relays the gossip to his wife Charlotte, who happens to be a childhood friend of Anne's, to whom eventually is revealed the truth about her husband's infidelity. The cast of characters eventually ends up at Desiree's country estate for a weekend party in which passion mounts, inevitably leading to startling revelations. Sondheim's music for A Little Night Music is unique in that it is a waltz musical, as Sondheim put all of the music in some form of triple time so that the whole score has the feeling of a long waltz. The score thus has an integrated sound, with each song contributing to the established mood of the show. The musical debuted at the Shubert Theatre in New York City in 1973, and went on to sweep the Tony Awards, including awards for Best Musical, Best Music and Lyrics, and Best Book.

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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
The Talent Company
Bob Durkin, director
Featuring Joey Panek

Price: $25 regular; $22 seniors/full-time students; $14 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Power, sex, ambition, greed... It's just another day at the office when The Talent Company presents this satire of big business and all it holds. The story follows the rise of J. Pierrepont Finch, who uses a little handbook called "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" to climb the corporate ladder from lowly window washer to high-powered executive.

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Sunday, April 30, 2006

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Shaped Clay 2006
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Shaped Clay 2006 showcases ceramic art created by high school artists from around the country. This exhibition is organized by Syracuse University Ceramics and the Everson Museum of Art.

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

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

Curated by Domenic J. Iacono, Syracuse University Art Collection

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

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

The Ways of a Brush: Paintings by Marion Simpson
Associated Artists

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

Ms. Simpson, who lives in Vestal, is known as a painter, teacher, and muralist.

Cavalcade of American Popular Music
Featuring Phil Klein, piano

Price: $10
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Performance and lecture on American songs from the past 200 years.

Spring Concert
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Wind Ensemble and Chamber Singers

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Hendricks Chapel Spring Concert
Hendricks Chapel
Hendricks Chapel Choir
John Warren, conductor
Featuring Janet Brown, soprano; Carolyn Weber, alto; Jon English, tenor; Joseph Rinaldi, baritone

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The program will feature Mozart's Missa Brevis in C Major, a variety of choral works by Pergolesi, Billings, Beethoven, Durufle and Thompson, as well as folk music from Cameroon and Haiti. Accompanists for the program will include University Organist Christopher Marks and a professional orchestra.

Parking will be available in the Irving Garage.

For more information on the concert, call Hendricks Chapel at 315-443-2901.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Flute and Trumpet Ensembles

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The flute ensemble will appear under the direction of Deborah Coble, adjunct instructor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Setnor School of Music. The trumpet ensemble will be directed by Daniel Sapochetti, adjunct instructor in the Setnor School. The concert program will include music by Mozart, Gluck, McGinty, Damare, Scheidt, Needham, Lo Presti and Fitzgerald. There will also be a special closing fanfare by Strauss with full brass conducted by Bradley Ethington, associate professor in the Setnor School.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

For more information, contact the Setnor School at 315-443-5892.

The Marriage of Figaro
Syracuse Opera

Price: $15 - $136
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Figaro, now beyond his days as the Barber of Seville, is employed as a personal servant to the Count Almaviva. Figaro meets Susanna, falls in love and plans to marry. Enter the lusty Count Almaviva, who is also chasing Figaro's bride-to-be. A little espionage, a dash of lying and a hormonally obsessed young Cherubino set the tone for one of the funniest wedding parties ever. The Marriage of Figaro is highlighted by powerful arias and memorable moments that only Mozart can create.

This production reunites two stars of The Magic Flute: baritone Jimi James as Figaro (who was the birdman Papageno) and soprano Malinda Haslett (the beautiful Pamina) as Susanna.

Sung in English with projected words.

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King Lear
Syracuse Stage
Michael Donald Edwards, director

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

An old man's foolishness and a daughter's momentary recalcitrance upend the order of the universe and induce an avalanche of human suffering. In this towering tragedy, Shakespeare dares us to examine the bounds of everything we think we cherish: the embrace of family, the value of forgiveness and the obligations of one generation to the next. How do we transfer power in a family or in a country? Does absolute certainty enable action or cripple the best of our humanity? Few poets can soar to such dramatic heights while exposing the complex web of human concerns Shakespeare illumines in King Lear. Few poets can make us listen so well to the cries of our own suffering.

Read a Review!

A Little Night Music
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Civilized, sophisticated, enchanting, and witty: A Little Night Music is all of these. Yet with Ingmar Bergman's film The Smiles of Summer as its inspiration, desire and sensuality pervade. Stephen Sondheim's score is glorious, striking deeply emotional and resonant chords. The musical is set in turn-of-the-century Scandinavia and is a tale of romance and folly and focuses on middle-aged Fredrik Egerman and his virgin bride Anne. The couple has not consummated their marriage despite having been wed for nearly a year. When Frederik reunites with a former flame, an older actress named Desiree Armfeldt, he succumbs to her charms. The married Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, one of Desiree's other lovers, discovers the pair. Malcolm relays the gossip to his wife Charlotte, who happens to be a childhood friend of Anne's, to whom eventually is revealed the truth about her husband's infidelity. The cast of characters eventually ends up at Desiree's country estate for a weekend party in which passion mounts, inevitably leading to startling revelations. Sondheim's music for A Little Night Music is unique in that it is a waltz musical, as Sondheim put all of the music in some form of triple time so that the whole score has the feeling of a long waltz. The score thus has an integrated sound, with each song contributing to the established mood of the show. The musical debuted at the Shubert Theatre in New York City in 1973, and went on to sweep the Tony Awards, including awards for Best Musical, Best Music and Lyrics, and Best Book.

Read a Review!

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
The Talent Company
Bob Durkin, director
Featuring Joey Panek

Price: $25 regular; $22 seniors/full-time students; $14 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Power, sex, ambition, greed... It's just another day at the office when The Talent Company presents this satire of big business and all it holds. The story follows the rise of J. Pierrepont Finch, who uses a little handbook called "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" to climb the corporate ladder from lowly window washer to high-powered executive.

Read a Review!

Monday, May 1, 2006

Visual Arts Committee Showcase Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

This show features the work of Ellen Agnew, Joan Applebaum, Marna Bell, Mary Lou Colgin, Marilyn Forth, Patricia Gancarz, Shel & Donal Little, Mick Mather, Anna Soltyk, Joan Stier, and Yolanda Tooley
in varied media.

For more information about any of the VAC shows, please contact Mick Mather at 315-435-2154, or Joan Applebaum at 315-656-9527.

Feats of Clay Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

View an impressive exhibition of regional high school ceramic competition entries.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Student Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Two and three-dimensional student projects from Fall 05 and Spring 06 design, graphics, and drafting classes will be on display.

Works by Ken Brzozowski
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The sculpture displayed is part of a new series using minimal changes to the material to evoke a sense of being, to animate the inanimate and to give personality to the materials without making them too human. Brzozowski has been an artist for "as long as he can remember." His first "large work" was painting the landlord's backyard with roof tar when he was three years old. He studied sculpture at VPA under Lawson Smith and the late Rodger Mack. He currently divides his time between an Adirondack studio on the Hudson River and Manhattan. His work has traveled to the corners of the world, including Europe and Japan.

For more information, contact the VPA Dean's Office at 443-5889.

Paid parking is available in Irving Garage.

Art by Nunziata Gallagher
Westcott Community Center

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

Suzanne Opton: Soldier
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The Ways of a Brush: Paintings by Marion Simpson
Associated Artists

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

Ms. Simpson, who lives in Vestal, is known as a painter, teacher, and muralist.

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of 21 original photographic art works by American artists Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Pfaff, Sandy Skoglund and Rob Van Erve.

"Eye on Cinema" is part of the 2006 Syracuse International Film and Video Festival (SIFVF) programming and was also the theme of a 1997 issue of the "Point of Contact" verbal and visual arts journal. Dedicated to the art of film and edited by Pedro Cuperman, gallery curator, and Syracuse University film professor and SIFVF director Owen Shapiro, the issue integrated a series of critical discussions by distinguished filmmakers and film theorists with the set of art works by Colo, Crewdson, Pfaff, Skoglund and Van Erve.

For more information, phone 315-443-2169.

Them (1954)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Weber's Restaurant
820 Danforth St., Syracuse

Joe Klein Talk
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Lecture by the author of Primary Colors and the newly released Politics Lost: How American Democracy was Trivialized by People who Think You're Stupid.

Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Robert Bridge, marimba

Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Gluck/Wagner Ophegenia in Aulis Overture
Rosauro Concerto for Marimba
Beethoven Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

unseenamerica: photos and stories by workers

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photos by local workers who participated in unseenamerica NYS will be on display. "unseenamerica: photos and stories by workers" (ReganBooks; May 1, 2006) offers an intimate, honest and eye-opening look at the everyday lives of working-class men and women across the United States. Edited by Esther Cohen, the book grew from a unique photography program she created at Bread and Roses, the nonprofit cultural arm of Local ll99 of the Service Employees International Union. Over a two-year span, 350 groups -- from janitors in Washington, D.C., to formerly homeless women in Gainesville, Fla. -- were given point-and-shoot cameras and free lessons by professional photographers. Then they were asked to take pictures of what they saw -- favorite places, typical and special activities, neighbors and loved ones. The result is a striking collection of black-and-white images that each has a story to tell.

Unseenamerica NYS is a collaboration of the Bread & Roses Cultural Project of 1199SEIU, the New York State AFL-CIO and the Workforce Development Institute.

Visual Arts Committee Showcase Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

This show features the work of Ellen Agnew, Joan Applebaum, Marna Bell, Mary Lou Colgin, Marilyn Forth, Patricia Gancarz, Shel & Donal Little, Mick Mather, Anna Soltyk, Joan Stier, and Yolanda Tooley
in varied media.

For more information about any of the VAC shows, please contact Mick Mather at 315-435-2154, or Joan Applebaum at 315-656-9527.

Something Old, Something New: Pigment Prints by Donal and Shel Little
Liverpool Public Library

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

The Littles collaborate to produce unique re-imaginings of their original photography.

Feats of Clay Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

View an impressive exhibition of regional high school ceramic competition entries.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Student Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Two and three-dimensional student projects from Fall 05 and Spring 06 design, graphics, and drafting classes will be on display.

Works by Ken Brzozowski
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The sculpture displayed is part of a new series using minimal changes to the material to evoke a sense of being, to animate the inanimate and to give personality to the materials without making them too human. Brzozowski has been an artist for "as long as he can remember." His first "large work" was painting the landlord's backyard with roof tar when he was three years old. He studied sculpture at VPA under Lawson Smith and the late Rodger Mack. He currently divides his time between an Adirondack studio on the Hudson River and Manhattan. His work has traveled to the corners of the world, including Europe and Japan.

For more information, contact the VPA Dean's Office at 443-5889.

Paid parking is available in Irving Garage.

Painterly Perspectives: The Art of Denise Allen
Community Folk Art Center

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

Painterly Perspectives: The Art of Denise Allen will feature paintings, prints, quilts and dolls by Allen, a renowned American contemporary folk artist and craftswoman. A self-taught artist, Allen has been nationally and internationally recognized as "The High Priestess of Needlework." Her work has been exhibited worldwide, and has also been featured in numerous publications. Many of her works address her African American heritage and are rendered in a unique 19th century folk art style. Allen currently resides in Palatine Bridge, New York, where she operates a general store and folk art gallery on her twenty-three acre farm.

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

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

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

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

Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Suzanne Opton: Soldier
Light Work Gallery

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

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

The Ways of a Brush: Paintings by Marion Simpson
Associated Artists

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

Ms. Simpson, who lives in Vestal, is known as a painter, teacher, and muralist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Shaped Clay 2006
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Shaped Clay 2006 showcases ceramic art created by high school artists from around the country. This exhibition is organized by Syracuse University Ceramics and the Everson Museum of Art.

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of 21 original photographic art works by American artists Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Pfaff, Sandy Skoglund and Rob Van Erve.

"Eye on Cinema" is part of the 2006 Syracuse International Film and Video Festival (SIFVF) programming and was also the theme of a 1997 issue of the "Point of Contact" verbal and visual arts journal. Dedicated to the art of film and edited by Pedro Cuperman, gallery curator, and Syracuse University film professor and SIFVF director Owen Shapiro, the issue integrated a series of critical discussions by distinguished filmmakers and film theorists with the set of art works by Colo, Crewdson, Pfaff, Skoglund and Van Erve.

For more information, phone 315-443-2169.

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

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

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

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

Curated by Domenic J. Iacono, Syracuse University Art Collection

Sara Paretsky
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

Price: $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Creator of the popular series of novels featuring tough-talking female detective V.I. Warshawsky. V.I. has appeared in 11 novels so far, from 1982's Indemnity Only to Blacklist in 2003, and a short story collection, Windy City Blues, in 1995. The 12th V.I. novel, Fire Sale (Putnam, $25.95), is due out June 28.

Franklin Magnet School of the Arts 10th Anniversary Showcase

Price: $2 per person, or $5 for a family of 4
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This year's show features 120 students performing in seven groups, including dance, drumming, chorus and band. Syracuse University Students helped design costumes for the performances, taught dance techniques and performed for the students at Franklin.

For more information, phone 315-443-3051.

Glimmerglass Opera in Concert: A Barber, Pirates, Passion... and More!
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artists

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

The program will include semi-staged arias and ensembles from this summer's Glimmerglass productions of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Janácek's Jenufa and the world premiere of Stephen Hartke and Philip Littell's The Greater Good.

Performers include soprano Katherine Skemp, mezzo-soprano Margaret Gawrysiak, tenor Chester Pidduck, baritone Scott Dispensa and pianist Brian DeMaris. R.B. Schlather is stage director.

For more information, visit http://www.glimmerglass.org or contact Young American Artists spring tour manager Nathan Urbach at 607-547-5704, ext. 229.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

unseenamerica: photos and stories by workers

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photos by local workers who participated in unseenamerica NYS will be on display. "unseenamerica: photos and stories by workers" (ReganBooks; May 1, 2006) offers an intimate, honest and eye-opening look at the everyday lives of working-class men and women across the United States. Edited by Esther Cohen, the book grew from a unique photography program she created at Bread and Roses, the nonprofit cultural arm of Local ll99 of the Service Employees International Union. Over a two-year span, 350 groups -- from janitors in Washington, D.C., to formerly homeless women in Gainesville, Fla. -- were given point-and-shoot cameras and free lessons by professional photographers. Then they were asked to take pictures of what they saw -- favorite places, typical and special activities, neighbors and loved ones. The result is a striking collection of black-and-white images that each has a story to tell.

Unseenamerica NYS is a collaboration of the Bread & Roses Cultural Project of 1199SEIU, the New York State AFL-CIO and the Workforce Development Institute.

Visual Arts Committee Showcase Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

This show features the work of Ellen Agnew, Joan Applebaum, Marna Bell, Mary Lou Colgin, Marilyn Forth, Patricia Gancarz, Shel & Donal Little, Mick Mather, Anna Soltyk, Joan Stier, and Yolanda Tooley
in varied media.

For more information about any of the VAC shows, please contact Mick Mather at 315-435-2154, or Joan Applebaum at 315-656-9527.

Something Old, Something New: Pigment Prints by Donal and Shel Little
Liverpool Public Library

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

The Littles collaborate to produce unique re-imaginings of their original photography.

Feats of Clay Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

View an impressive exhibition of regional high school ceramic competition entries.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Student Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Two and three-dimensional student projects from Fall 05 and Spring 06 design, graphics, and drafting classes will be on display.

Works by Ken Brzozowski
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The sculpture displayed is part of a new series using minimal changes to the material to evoke a sense of being, to animate the inanimate and to give personality to the materials without making them too human. Brzozowski has been an artist for "as long as he can remember." His first "large work" was painting the landlord's backyard with roof tar when he was three years old. He studied sculpture at VPA under Lawson Smith and the late Rodger Mack. He currently divides his time between an Adirondack studio on the Hudson River and Manhattan. His work has traveled to the corners of the world, including Europe and Japan.

For more information, contact the VPA Dean's Office at 443-5889.

Paid parking is available in Irving Garage.

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

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

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

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

Painterly Perspectives: The Art of Denise Allen
Community Folk Art Center

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

Painterly Perspectives: The Art of Denise Allen will feature paintings, prints, quilts and dolls by Allen, a renowned American contemporary folk artist and craftswoman. A self-taught artist, Allen has been nationally and internationally recognized as "The High Priestess of Needlework." Her work has been exhibited worldwide, and has also been featured in numerous publications. Many of her works address her African American heritage and are rendered in a unique 19th century folk art style. Allen currently resides in Palatine Bridge, New York, where she operates a general store and folk art gallery on her twenty-three acre farm.

Suzanne Opton: Soldier
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The Ways of a Brush: Paintings by Marion Simpson
Associated Artists

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

Ms. Simpson, who lives in Vestal, is known as a painter, teacher, and muralist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Shaped Clay 2006
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Shaped Clay 2006 showcases ceramic art created by high school artists from around the country. This exhibition is organized by Syracuse University Ceramics and the Everson Museum of Art.

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of 21 original photographic art works by American artists Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Pfaff, Sandy Skoglund and Rob Van Erve.

"Eye on Cinema" is part of the 2006 Syracuse International Film and Video Festival (SIFVF) programming and was also the theme of a 1997 issue of the "Point of Contact" verbal and visual arts journal. Dedicated to the art of film and edited by Pedro Cuperman, gallery curator, and Syracuse University film professor and SIFVF director Owen Shapiro, the issue integrated a series of critical discussions by distinguished filmmakers and film theorists with the set of art works by Colo, Crewdson, Pfaff, Skoglund and Van Erve.

For more information, phone 315-443-2169.

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

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

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

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

Curated by Domenic J. Iacono, Syracuse University Art Collection

Civic Morning Musicals
William Black, baritone; Maurice Black, tenor; John Spradling, piano

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

Schubert Schwanengesang

Thursday, May 4, 2006

unseenamerica: photos and stories by workers

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photos by local workers who participated in unseenamerica NYS will be on display. "unseenamerica: photos and stories by workers" (ReganBooks; May 1, 2006) offers an intimate, honest and eye-opening look at the everyday lives of working-class men and women across the United States. Edited by Esther Cohen, the book grew from a unique photography program she created at Bread and Roses, the nonprofit cultural arm of Local ll99 of the Service Employees International Union. Over a two-year span, 350 groups -- from janitors in Washington, D.C., to formerly homeless women in Gainesville, Fla. -- were given point-and-shoot cameras and free lessons by professional photographers. Then they were asked to take pictures of what they saw -- favorite places, typical and special activities, neighbors and loved ones. The result is a striking collection of black-and-white images that each has a story to tell.

Unseenamerica NYS is a collaboration of the Bread & Roses Cultural Project of 1199SEIU, the New York State AFL-CIO and the Workforce Development Institute.

Visual Arts Committee Showcase Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

This show features the work of Ellen Agnew, Joan Applebaum, Marna Bell, Mary Lou Colgin, Marilyn Forth, Patricia Gancarz, Shel & Donal Little, Mick Mather, Anna Soltyk, Joan Stier, and Yolanda Tooley
in varied media.

For more information about any of the VAC shows, please contact Mick Mather at 315-435-2154, or Joan Applebaum at 315-656-9527.

Something Old, Something New: Pigment Prints by Donal and Shel Little
Liverpool Public Library

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

The Littles collaborate to produce unique re-imaginings of their original photography.

Feats of Clay Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

View an impressive exhibition of regional high school ceramic competition entries.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Student Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Two and three-dimensional student projects from Fall 05 and Spring 06 design, graphics, and drafting classes will be on display.

Works by Ken Brzozowski
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The sculpture displayed is part of a new series using minimal changes to the material to evoke a sense of being, to animate the inanimate and to give personality to the materials without making them too human. Brzozowski has been an artist for "as long as he can remember." His first "large work" was painting the landlord's backyard with roof tar when he was three years old. He studied sculpture at VPA under Lawson Smith and the late Rodger Mack. He currently divides his time between an Adirondack studio on the Hudson River and Manhattan. His work has traveled to the corners of the world, including Europe and Japan.

For more information, contact the VPA Dean's Office at 443-5889.

Paid parking is available in Irving Garage.

Painterly Perspectives: The Art of Denise Allen
Community Folk Art Center

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

Painterly Perspectives: The Art of Denise Allen will feature paintings, prints, quilts and dolls by Allen, a renowned American contemporary folk artist and craftswoman. A self-taught artist, Allen has been nationally and internationally recognized as "The High Priestess of Needlework." Her work has been exhibited worldwide, and has also been featured in numerous publications. Many of her works address her African American heritage and are rendered in a unique 19th century folk art style. Allen currently resides in Palatine Bridge, New York, where she operates a general store and folk art gallery on her twenty-three acre farm.

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

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

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

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

Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Suzanne Opton: Soldier
Light Work Gallery

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

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

The Ways of a Brush: Paintings by Marion Simpson
Associated Artists

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

Ms. Simpson, who lives in Vestal, is known as a painter, teacher, and muralist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Shaped Clay 2006
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Shaped Clay 2006 showcases ceramic art created by high school artists from around the country. This exhibition is organized by Syracuse University Ceramics and the Everson Museum of Art.

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of 21 original photographic art works by American artists Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Pfaff, Sandy Skoglund and Rob Van Erve.

"Eye on Cinema" is part of the 2006 Syracuse International Film and Video Festival (SIFVF) programming and was also the theme of a 1997 issue of the "Point of Contact" verbal and visual arts journal. Dedicated to the art of film and edited by Pedro Cuperman, gallery curator, and Syracuse University film professor and SIFVF director Owen Shapiro, the issue integrated a series of critical discussions by distinguished filmmakers and film theorists with the set of art works by Colo, Crewdson, Pfaff, Skoglund and Van Erve.

For more information, phone 315-443-2169.

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

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

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

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

Curated by Domenic J. Iacono, Syracuse University Art Collection

In Studio, Class and Camera
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features sculpture by Evamaria Hardin, pastels by Wendy Harris, works by the Congressional winners of the Scholastic Art Awards, photography by the Syracuse Camera Club and the work of students from Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace Elementary Schools in the Syracuse City School District.

Blue Collar and Buddha
Onondaga Community College
Reel World: Documentaries with a Difference film series

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-498-ARTS (2787).

Contemporary Film Series: Casablanca
Everson Museum of Art

Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A classic and much-loved romantic melodrama, Casablanca is a mainstay on the top-ten film lists. Depicting a masterful love triangle, this story of political and romantic espionage is set against the backdrop of World War II. Casablanca combines a rich and smoky atmosphere, anti-Nazi propaganda, Max Steiner's superb musical score, suspense, unforgettable characters and memorable dialogue to be one of the most popular films of all time - focused on the themes of lost love, honor and duty, self-sacrifice and romance within a chaotic world. Directed by Michael Curtiz, 102 minutes, 1942.

Blue Collar and Buddha
Onondaga Community College
Reel World: Documentaries with a Difference film series

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-498-ARTS (2787).

My Dead Lady
Acme Mystery Company

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

Comedy murder mystery dinner theater.

Bang Bang, You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Paducah, Kentucky. Jonesboro, Arkansas. And Columbine  once associated with a delicate summer flower, now forever linked with a tragic event at a high school in Littleton, Colorado. In a broken world that's violent, unhealthy, unfair, and beyond the power of anyone to fix, except today's generation, what can we do? How can we help?

Rarely Done Productions, with the support of Vineyard Theatre Arts Executive Director, Mitchell M. Nugent and many other local theatre people, is making a contribution to raising awareness about school violence through its presentation of Bang Bang Youre Dead, a play intended to communicate and allow for discovery about how we've made the world's violence our own - and how we can change it. It's about a theater of life.

A cast of students from Baker, Liverpool, East Syracuse-Minoa, Henninger, and Manlius Pebble Hill high schools will perform.

For tickets, please call 315-546-3224.

Rounding Third
Redhouse

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

This hilarious comedy by Richard Dresser combines two mismatched coaches as they struggle through a season together and ultimately discover the true meaning of success. Don the veteran and Michael the new recruit have markedly different personal circumstances and philosophies about the game of baseball and the game of life. Their clashes drive this funny, touching play through the bumpy terrain of fatherhood and baseball.

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
Syracuse University Drama Department
Joan Hart Willard, director

Price: $2; seating is limited
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A Little Night Music
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Civilized, sophisticated, enchanting, and witty: A Little Night Music is all of these. Yet with Ingmar Bergman's film The Smiles of Summer as its inspiration, desire and sensuality pervade. Stephen Sondheim's score is glorious, striking deeply emotional and resonant chords. The musical is set in turn-of-the-century Scandinavia and is a tale of romance and folly and focuses on middle-aged Fredrik Egerman and his virgin bride Anne. The couple has not consummated their marriage despite having been wed for nearly a year. When Frederik reunites with a former flame, an older actress named Desiree Armfeldt, he succumbs to her charms. The married Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, one of Desiree's other lovers, discovers the pair. Malcolm relays the gossip to his wife Charlotte, who happens to be a childhood friend of Anne's, to whom eventually is revealed the truth about her husband's infidelity. The cast of characters eventually ends up at Desiree's country estate for a weekend party in which passion mounts, inevitably leading to startling revelations. Sondheim's music for A Little Night Music is unique in that it is a waltz musical, as Sondheim put all of the music in some form of triple time so that the whole score has the feeling of a long waltz. The score thus has an integrated sound, with each song contributing to the established mood of the show. The musical debuted at the Shubert Theatre in New York City in 1973, and went on to sweep the Tony Awards, including awards for Best Musical, Best Music and Lyrics, and Best Book.

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Friday, May 5, 2006

unseenamerica: photos and stories by workers

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Photos by local workers who participated in unseenamerica NYS will be on display. "unseenamerica: photos and stories by workers" (ReganBooks; May 1, 2006) offers an intimate, honest and eye-opening look at the everyday lives of working-class men and women across the United States. Edited by Esther Cohen, the book grew from a unique photography program she created at Bread and Roses, the nonprofit cultural arm of Local ll99 of the Service Employees International Union. Over a two-year span, 350 groups -- from janitors in Washington, D.C., to formerly homeless women in Gainesville, Fla. -- were given point-and-shoot cameras and free lessons by professional photographers. Then they were asked to take pictures of what they saw -- favorite places, typical and special activities, neighbors and loved ones. The result is a striking collection of black-and-white images that each has a story to tell.

Unseenamerica NYS is a collaboration of the Bread & Roses Cultural Project of 1199SEIU, the New York State AFL-CIO and the Workforce Development Institute.

Visual Arts Committee Showcase Exhibit
CNY Arts

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

This show features the work of Ellen Agnew, Joan Applebaum, Marna Bell, Mary Lou Colgin, Marilyn Forth, Patricia Gancarz, Shel & Donal Little, Mick Mather, Anna Soltyk, Joan Stier, and Yolanda Tooley
in varied media.

For more information about any of the VAC shows, please contact Mick Mather at 315-435-2154, or Joan Applebaum at 315-656-9527.

Something Old, Something New: Pigment Prints by Donal and Shel Little
Liverpool Public Library

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

The Littles collaborate to produce unique re-imaginings of their original photography.

Feats of Clay Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

View an impressive exhibition of regional high school ceramic competition entries.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Student Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Two and three-dimensional student projects from Fall 05 and Spring 06 design, graphics, and drafting classes will be on display.

Works by Ken Brzozowski
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The sculpture displayed is part of a new series using minimal changes to the material to evoke a sense of being, to animate the inanimate and to give personality to the materials without making them too human. Brzozowski has been an artist for "as long as he can remember." His first "large work" was painting the landlord's backyard with roof tar when he was three years old. He studied sculpture at VPA under Lawson Smith and the late Rodger Mack. He currently divides his time between an Adirondack studio on the Hudson River and Manhattan. His work has traveled to the corners of the world, including Europe and Japan.

For more information, contact the VPA Dean's Office at 443-5889.

Paid parking is available in Irving Garage.

Open Figure Drawing Group Show
Westcott Community Center

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

The purpose for which Open Figure Drawing Inc. was formed is to promote and engage in regular sessions of figure drawing with live models. These activities include artistic motivation mainly focused on sketching and drawing the human form, utilizing materials including but not limited to ink, charcoal, graphite, watercolors, acrylic paints, canvas and paper. The organization provides regular weekly Wednesday sessions at the Westcott Community Center, which are open to the public, to allow any interested party to engage in, practice and display figure drawing.

After nine years of group exhibits at Happy Endings and three years of shows at Syracuse University's Coyne Gallery, OFD Inc is pleased to present a show of portraits drawn at our Wednesday sessions. This family friendly display will concentrate on various renditions of the face.

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

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

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

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

Painterly Perspectives: The Art of Denise Allen
Community Folk Art Center

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

Painterly Perspectives: The Art of Denise Allen will feature paintings, prints, quilts and dolls by Allen, a renowned American contemporary folk artist and craftswoman. A self-taught artist, Allen has been nationally and internationally recognized as "The High Priestess of Needlework." Her work has been exhibited worldwide, and has also been featured in numerous publications. Many of her works address her African American heritage and are rendered in a unique 19th century folk art style. Allen currently resides in Palatine Bridge, New York, where she operates a general store and folk art gallery on her twenty-three acre farm.

Suzanne Opton: Soldier
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Newhouse Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The Ways of a Brush: Paintings by Marion Simpson
Associated Artists

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

Ms. Simpson, who lives in Vestal, is known as a painter, teacher, and muralist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Industrial Design is *: Industrial Design Students' Thesis Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: $4 regular; $3.50 seniors/children; free for MOST members
Museum of Science and Technology (MOST)
500 S. Franklin St., Syracuse

The work featured covers a wide range of design concepts, including furniture, toys, interactive games and household product concepts. Peter Plumley, exhibits manager at the MOST, coordinated the exhibition.

For more information, call the MOST at 315-425-9068.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Shaped Clay 2006
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Shaped Clay 2006 showcases ceramic art created by high school artists from around the country. This exhibition is organized by Syracuse University Ceramics and the Everson Museum of Art.

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of 21 original photographic art works by American artists Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Pfaff, Sandy Skoglund and Rob Van Erve.

"Eye on Cinema" is part of the 2006 Syracuse International Film and Video Festival (SIFVF) programming and was also the theme of a 1997 issue of the "Point of Contact" verbal and visual arts journal. Dedicated to the art of film and edited by Pedro Cuperman, gallery curator, and Syracuse University film professor and SIFVF director Owen Shapiro, the issue integrated a series of critical discussions by distinguished filmmakers and film theorists with the set of art works by Colo, Crewdson, Pfaff, Skoglund and Van Erve.

For more information, phone 315-443-2169.

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

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

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

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

Curated by Domenic J. Iacono, Syracuse University Art Collection

In Studio, Class and Camera
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features sculpture by Evamaria Hardin, pastels by Wendy Harris, works by the Congressional winners of the Scholastic Art Awards, photography by the Syracuse Camera Club and the work of students from Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace Elementary Schools in the Syracuse City School District.

Distilling Truth: 2006 VPA Graduate Film Screening
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

"Distilling Truth" consists of experimental narrative films on 16mm from 11 graduate filmmakers: Chris Aaron, Stacy Barton, Megan Ehrhart, Mu Ge, Jinwook Kim, Yoonkyong Kwon, Jessica Lance, Cesar "Dr. Jules" Medina, Kevin Meegan, Torry Mendoza and Ryan Tebo.

For more information, contact Kevin Meegan at 617-549-2576 or krmeegan@syr.edu.

Folkus Project
The Kennedys, with special guest Ryan Fitzsimmons

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

Even after 10 years, over a thousand gigs and 500,000 miles of touring as a married, music-making couple, singer-guitarists Pete and Maura Kennedy haven't killed each other. The duo savors each instant in life and in each other's company, and it shows in their music. The Kennedys have been charming audiences, record buyers and critics for the past decade with their exuberant mixture of folk, rock, country, pop and their own brand of secular gospel, a philosophical depth in their lyrics, and joyful, kinetic performances and recordings.

Half a Million Miles, The Kennedys¹ eighth CD and Appleseed debut, presents ten sparkling roots-pop originals, plus two complementary covers, that are infused with Pete and Maura¹s ³live in the moment² outlook. They don¹t mind looking back, as on the title track that opens the album, recounting their storybook first date, in which each traveled 500 miles to meet at mutual hero Buddy Holly¹s grave in Lubbock, Texas. But they are most interested in looking around at what they see as an always-vibrant present tense.

The Kennedys' constant touring, coupled with the influence of writers Joseph Campbell, Aldous Huxley, and Eckhart Tolle, among others, has taught them about "the eternal now," just waiting to be noticed. With eyes wide open, they discover wisdom and musical inspiration everywhere. A mysterious greeting at their local East Village sushi bar is transformed into the buoyant "Namaste" (translation: "The divine in me recognizes the divine in you"). A neighborhood merchant becomes "9th Street Billy, the guru of East Side soul" in a lilting bossa nova. "Live" and "Listen" are respectively forceful and delicate reminders to stop and smell the roses. "Here and Now," inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, "Self Reliance," reminds us literally that "We can¹t be happy until, like the rose, we too live with nature in the present, above time."

Proof that profundity needn't be ponderous shines through every song. Maura's lead vocals are sweet and often girlishly playful while displaying a plaintive edge of experience, and Pete's harmonies add a second coating of melodic delight. And the guitars! All those guitars! While Maura lives up to Pete's admiring description of her as "a serious student of rhythm guitar grooves," Pete lays down layers and swarms of chiming, dancing acoustic and 12-string leads, plus filigrees of electric sitar, banjo and mandolin (as well as accordion, organ, bass and drums).

For reservations email < href="mailto:tickets@folkus.org">tickets@folkus.org or call 315-440-7444.

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Schubert's Schwanengeang
LeMoyne College
Music Journeys
Featuring Frederic Chiu, piano; Gerard Moses, narrator

Price: $12 regular, $7 seniors, free for students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A theatrical setting of Schubert's Schwanengeang presented by virtouso pianist Frederic Chiu and Syracuse's own Gerard Moses. Originally a song cycle, this work - one of the last to leave Schubert's pen - will be performed in the solo piano version created by Franz Liszt. The music will be interwoven with dramatic readings of the poetry by Ludwig Rellstab and Heinrich Heine that make up the song cycle's lyrics.

Frederic Chiu's intriguing piano-playing and teaching springs from a diverse set of experiences and interests - his Asian/American/European background, his musical training, and an early and ongoing exploration of artificial intelligence and human psychology, especially the body-mind-heart connection. With over 20 CDs on the market, his repertoire includes the complete work of Prokofiev as well as popular classics of Chopin and Liszt, with a special place for the piano transcription. Many have been singled out, such as "Record of the Year" by Stereo Review, "Top 10 recordings" by the New Yorker, with raves from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

Cruizin' Thru the 1950's and 1960's III

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A new musical show by Art Zimmer. For more information, phone 315-422-7011.

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Perfect Wedding
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Bill wakes up on the morning of his wedding in the bridal suite of a hotel, to find a beautiful woman in bed next to him. He has no memory of the night before, and no idea who she is, but he needs to get her out of there fast because his fiancée is due to arrive at any moment to dress for the wedding!

The Antics of Romantics
Appleseed Productions

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

Appleseed once again explores the uproariously funny genre of Interactive Theater with The Antics of Romantics. This is a Commedia Del Arte show in which the audience will experience a natural vested interest in the hero and heroine, who are cast directly from the audience at the beginning of the play. They are led through a plot in which love conquers all -- from lampooning of the familiar (disapproving in-laws and natural tragedies) to navigating of the absurd (surreally overdone competitors and ridiculous plot twists).

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Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros
Black Box Players

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

Seating is limited. For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

Bang Bang, You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Paducah, Kentucky. Jonesboro, Arkansas. And Columbine  once associated with a delicate summer flower, now forever linked with a tragic event at a high school in Littleton, Colorado. In a broken world that's violent, unhealthy, unfair, and beyond the power of anyone to fix, except today's generation, what can we do? How can we help?

Rarely Done Productions, with the support of Vineyard Theatre Arts Executive Director, Mitchell M. Nugent and many other local theatre people, is making a contribution to raising awareness about school violence through its presentation of Bang Bang Youre Dead, a play intended to communicate and allow for discovery about how we've made the world's violence our own - and how we can change it. It's about a theater of life.

A cast of students from Baker, Liverpool, East Syracuse-Minoa, Henninger, and Manlius Pebble Hill high schools will perform.

For tickets, please call 315-546-3224.

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
Syracuse University Drama Department
Joan Hart Willard, director

Price: $2; seating is limited
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A Little Night Music
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Civilized, sophisticated, enchanting, and witty: A Little Night Music is all of these. Yet with Ingmar Bergman's film The Smiles of Summer as its inspiration, desire and sensuality pervade. Stephen Sondheim's score is glorious, striking deeply emotional and resonant chords. The musical is set in turn-of-the-century Scandinavia and is a tale of romance and folly and focuses on middle-aged Fredrik Egerman and his virgin bride Anne. The couple has not consummated their marriage despite having been wed for nearly a year. When Frederik reunites with a former flame, an older actress named Desiree Armfeldt, he succumbs to her charms. The married Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, one of Desiree's other lovers, discovers the pair. Malcolm relays the gossip to his wife Charlotte, who happens to be a childhood friend of Anne's, to whom eventually is revealed the truth about her husband's infidelity. The cast of characters eventually ends up at Desiree's country estate for a weekend party in which passion mounts, inevitably leading to startling revelations. Sondheim's music for A Little Night Music is unique in that it is a waltz musical, as Sondheim put all of the music in some form of triple time so that the whole score has the feeling of a long waltz. The score thus has an integrated sound, with each song contributing to the established mood of the show. The musical debuted at the Shubert Theatre in New York City in 1973, and went on to sweep the Tony Awards, including awards for Best Musical, Best Music and Lyrics, and Best Book.

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Marriage is Murder
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20, $15
St. Clair Gardens
1119 N. Townsend St., Syracuse

Paul and Polly Butler used to be a husband and wife murder-mystery writing team. Their novel way of testing the realism of the murders in their novels was to try out the murder methods on each other - poisoned chocolates, lethal martinis, alibis, fingerprints, bodies in trunks, and bodies all tied up, daggers, guns, and even an axe.

After 18 months of divorce, Paul reluctantly agrees to get back together with Polly to write one more book. Now that they are divorced, how real will the murder methods be?

This comedy thriller features the real life husband and wife team of Nora O'Dea and Dan Stevens.

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Saturday, May 6, 2006

In Studio, Class and Camera
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features sculpture by Evamaria Hardin, pastels by Wendy Harris, works by the Congressional winners of the Scholastic Art Awards, photography by the Syracuse Camera Club and the work of students from Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace Elementary Schools in the Syracuse City School District.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Shaped Clay 2006
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Shaped Clay 2006 showcases ceramic art created by high school artists from around the country. This exhibition is organized by Syracuse University Ceramics and the Everson Museum of Art.

ARC of Onondaga
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition will display artwork created by the consumers served at the ARC of Onondaga, the largest provider of services to people with developmental disabilities and their families in Onondaga County. The artwork -- made from paint and such non-traditional materials as coffee grounds and orange soda mixed with glue -- is completed as a part of the program's daily activities to stimulate sensory and range of motion needs, as well as creativity.

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Something Old, Something New: Pigment Prints by Donal and Shel Little
Liverpool Public Library

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

The Littles collaborate to produce unique re-imaginings of their original photography.

The Ways of a Brush: Paintings by Marion Simpson
Associated Artists

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

Ms. Simpson, who lives in Vestal, is known as a painter, teacher, and muralist.

Painterly Perspectives: The Art of Denise Allen
Community Folk Art Center

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

Painterly Perspectives: The Art of Denise Allen will feature paintings, prints, quilts and dolls by Allen, a renowned American contemporary folk artist and craftswoman. A self-taught artist, Allen has been nationally and internationally recognized as "The High Priestess of Needlework." Her work has been exhibited worldwide, and has also been featured in numerous publications. Many of her works address her African American heritage and are rendered in a unique 19th century folk art style. Allen currently resides in Palatine Bridge, New York, where she operates a general store and folk art gallery on her twenty-three acre farm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Industrial Design is *: Industrial Design Students' Thesis Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: $4 regular; $3.50 seniors/children; free for MOST members
Museum of Science and Technology (MOST)
500 S. Franklin St., Syracuse

The work featured covers a wide range of design concepts, including furniture, toys, interactive games and household product concepts. Peter Plumley, exhibits manager at the MOST, coordinated the exhibition.

For more information, call the MOST at 315-425-9068.

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

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

Curated by Domenic J. Iacono, Syracuse University Art Collection

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

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

Terra Firma: Two Perspectives
Redhouse
Featuring works by David MacDonald & Daphne Verley Pietrafesa

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An exhibition of fine craft featuring renowned Syracuse ceramicist, David MacDonald and emerging ceramic artist Daphne Verley Pietrafesa. MacDonald's meticulous, elaborately carved vessels echo his African-American heritage in the use of organic, earth-toned clay and glazes and provide a wonderful juxtaposition alongside Pietrafesa's bold, bright, colorfully glazed works reminiscent of French, Italian and Spanish Majolica. The dialogue created between these two very different, yet complimentary perspectives, will give the viewer new insight and appreciation into the world of contemporary ceramic design, and the diverse history from which they both are drawn.

Syracuse ceramist David MacDonald transforms mounds of clay into works of art that have been displayed in museums and galleries all over the country. The beauty and richness of Africa's pottery resonates throughout his ceramic vessels. He discovered his passion for ceramics as an art student in college, and nearly 40 years later, he is still amazed at what he can create from a simple lump of clay. He gleans his ideas from ancient African designs: "I was inspired by it because they made pottery that had a lot of surface decorations, a lot of linear patterns and carvings on it."

Pietrafesas pottery is mainly hand formed, slab construction incorporating colorful slips and under glazes (some utilizing majolica glaze techniques) with patterns ranging from simple to ornate. Her meticulously glazed patterns are a vibrant edition to the rich history of majolica pottery decoration. Included in this exhibition are also pieces from a new series influenced by "Block Island Beach Rocks," where the emphasis is less on pattern and symmetry and more on organic forms, and surfaces.

The Gallery is also open prior to and after all scheduled events.

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It Happened One Night
Alternative Movies and Events

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

A 35mm screening of the 1934 romance classic starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert and directed by Frank Capra (105 mins).

Movie summary: Ellie Andrews has just tied the knot with society aviator King Westley when she is whisked away to her father's yacht and out of King's clutches. Ellie jumps ship and eventually winds up on a bus headed back to her husband. Reluctantly she must accept the help of out-of-work reporter Peter Warne. Actually, Warne doesn't give her any choice: either she sticks with him until he gets her back to her husband, or he'll blow the whistle on Ellie to her father. Either way, Peter gets what (he thinks!) he wants .... a really juicy newspaper story.

Gallery Talk and Artist Reception
Community Folk Art Center
Featuring Denise Allen

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

Held in conjunction with the exhibit Painterly Perspectives: The Art of Denise Allen.

A self-taught artist, Allen has been recognized nationally and internationally as "the high priestess of needlework." Her work has been exhibited worldwide, and has been featured in numerous publications. Many of her works address her African American heritage and are rendered in a unique 19th-century folk art style.

Gallery Talk with David MacDonald and Daphne Verley Pietrafesa
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Talk in conjunction with the opening of the exhibit Terra Firma: Two Perspectives

**POSTPONED** An Evening of Stars

Price: $20 in advance, $23 at the door
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Performance postponed until sometime in the fall, date TBD. For more information, phone 315-465-7980.

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $6
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive version of the classic children's tale. Reservations recommended -- phone 315-449-3823.

Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros
Black Box Players

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

Seating is limited. For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

Perfect Wedding
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Bill wakes up on the morning of his wedding in the bridal suite of a hotel, to find a beautiful woman in bed next to him. He has no memory of the night before, and no idea who she is, but he needs to get her out of there fast because his fiancée is due to arrive at any moment to dress for the wedding!

The Antics of Romantics
Appleseed Productions

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

Appleseed once again explores the uproariously funny genre of Interactive Theater with The Antics of Romantics. This is a Commedia Del Arte show in which the audience will experience a natural vested interest in the hero and heroine, who are cast directly from the audience at the beginning of the play. They are led through a plot in which love conquers all -- from lampooning of the familiar (disapproving in-laws and natural tragedies) to navigating of the absurd (surreally overdone competitors and ridiculous plot twists).

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Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros
Black Box Players

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

Seating is limited. For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

Bang Bang, You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Paducah, Kentucky. Jonesboro, Arkansas. And Columbine  once associated with a delicate summer flower, now forever linked with a tragic event at a high school in Littleton, Colorado. In a broken world that's violent, unhealthy, unfair, and beyond the power of anyone to fix, except today's generation, what can we do? How can we help?

Rarely Done Productions, with the support of Vineyard Theatre Arts Executive Director, Mitchell M. Nugent and many other local theatre people, is making a contribution to raising awareness about school violence through its presentation of Bang Bang Youre Dead, a play intended to communicate and allow for discovery about how we've made the world's violence our own - and how we can change it. It's about a theater of life.

A cast of students from Baker, Liverpool, East Syracuse-Minoa, Henninger, and Manlius Pebble Hill high schools will perform.

For tickets, please call 315-546-3224.

Rounding Third
Redhouse

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

This hilarious comedy by Richard Dresser combines two mismatched coaches as they struggle through a season together and ultimately discover the true meaning of success. Don the veteran and Michael the new recruit have markedly different personal circumstances and philosophies about the game of baseball and the game of life. Their clashes drive this funny, touching play through the bumpy terrain of fatherhood and baseball.

A Little Night Music
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Civilized, sophisticated, enchanting, and witty: A Little Night Music is all of these. Yet with Ingmar Bergman's film The Smiles of Summer as its inspiration, desire and sensuality pervade. Stephen Sondheim's score is glorious, striking deeply emotional and resonant chords. The musical is set in turn-of-the-century Scandinavia and is a tale of romance and folly and focuses on middle-aged Fredrik Egerman and his virgin bride Anne. The couple has not consummated their marriage despite having been wed for nearly a year. When Frederik reunites with a former flame, an older actress named Desiree Armfeldt, he succumbs to her charms. The married Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, one of Desiree's other lovers, discovers the pair. Malcolm relays the gossip to his wife Charlotte, who happens to be a childhood friend of Anne's, to whom eventually is revealed the truth about her husband's infidelity. The cast of characters eventually ends up at Desiree's country estate for a weekend party in which passion mounts, inevitably leading to startling revelations. Sondheim's music for A Little Night Music is unique in that it is a waltz musical, as Sondheim put all of the music in some form of triple time so that the whole score has the feeling of a long waltz. The score thus has an integrated sound, with each song contributing to the established mood of the show. The musical debuted at the Shubert Theatre in New York City in 1973, and went on to sweep the Tony Awards, including awards for Best Musical, Best Music and Lyrics, and Best Book.

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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
Syracuse University Drama Department
Joan Hart Willard, director

Price: $2; seating is limited
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Marriage is Murder
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20, $15
St. Clair Gardens
1119 N. Townsend St., Syracuse

Paul and Polly Butler used to be a husband and wife murder-mystery writing team. Their novel way of testing the realism of the murders in their novels was to try out the murder methods on each other - poisoned chocolates, lethal martinis, alibis, fingerprints, bodies in trunks, and bodies all tied up, daggers, guns, and even an axe.

After 18 months of divorce, Paul reluctantly agrees to get back together with Polly to write one more book. Now that they are divorced, how real will the murder methods be?

This comedy thriller features the real life husband and wife team of Nora O'Dea and Dan Stevens.

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