Saturday, August 3, 2013

Syracuse Poster Project
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

16 poster prints from the 2013 Syracuse Poster Project will be on exhibit. The Poster Project brings together community p'ets and Syracuse University student artists to create an annual series of posters for the citys poster panels. Each of the 16 posters features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city, or the surrounding countryside.

Trois Soeurs d'Été (Three Sisters of Summer)
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Daphné Verley: ceramics
M Bénédicte Verley: photographs
Thérèse Verley Strodel: paintings

Convergence: Where Line Meets Form
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

R. Jason Howard: internationally recognized glass artist using both traditional Italian techniques and self-invented processes

Marilyn Forth: uses the ancient art process of batik in a contemporary fashion--painting dye onto silk

DeeAnn von Hunke: new works in jewelry design exploring combinations of medium, materials, and methods in metalsmithing

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

Read a review!

Simple Pleasures: Watercolor and Acrylic Paintings by Kathleen Schneider
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Although some paintings are bold and others subtle, they all convey images pleasing to the soul.

The Craft of Wood
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"The Craft of Wood" features one-of-a-kind dressers, tables, mirrors, jewelry boxes and clocks by Charlie and Deb DeMinck, of Vineyard View Woodworking.

The DeMincks work with such diverse woods as tiger maple, cherry, black walnut, quarter sawn oak, curly cherry, ambrosia maple, sycamore and ash, and use only environmentally friendly waterborne finishes. They recently took first-place honors in woodworking at the Corn Hill Arts Festival.

Mixed Media Works by Don Meyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Line, color, and compositional experimentation are key words in painter Don Meyer's artist statement. A self-described gardener and "sometimes painter," the artist fills his canvases with mesmerizing shapes and colors. Meyer is a graduate of West Genesee High School and Emporia State and Kansas State universities

Mixed Media Works is a collection of small abstract works, mostly studies, in gouache with various media. As Meyer prefers that his viewers come to their own conclusions about the subjects represented, he displays no titles on the paintings.

The Art of Nicora Gangi
Dalton's

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

Nicora Gangi's work will resonate with those who appreciate her link to European art and her aesthetic kinship with the Hudson River School painters. Yet her oil paintings have a fresh, modern sensibility to which lovers of contemporary realism will surely respond.

Ray Trudell Photography
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Ray is a lifelong local resident whom describes himself as a disgruntled union thug... a better description might be a man who thinks for himself, lives life to his own beat and in his own unique skewed style shows us the way he sees life, through the lens of his camera. He finds those peaceful refuges that are tucked in between the chaos and the hectic. Those bites of peace and nature that make living in Central New York worth all the rain, shoveling and construction!

Give & Take: The Currency of Culture
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Give & Take: The Currency of Culture" features new, site-specific installations and performance art by Aisha Cousins, Nzuji De Magalhaes and Nontsikelelo Mutiti. The exhibition explores the complex and symbiotic relationship between Africans and African Americans. The artists in this exhibit investigate a wide range of topics from Fela Kuti's Africa American lover, Sandra Smith, to misconceptions about Africa and Africans.

Read a review!

Creative Crossings
Community Folk Art Center

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

For this exhibition, the artists have created works of mixed media that include landscapes, still-life, protraits, and abstracts. The group chose the title Creative Crossings because they felt that a crossing must be made in order to heal both mentally and spiritually. This exhibit provides a special opportunity to share their artistic achievements with the community.

Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Bloom" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition features artwork with the theme of renewal and investigates the innate beauty of nature. The show includes drawing, photography, watercolor, sculpture, and ceramics.

Participating artists include Anne Novado Capuccilli, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Kelly Sullivan, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

UVP Annual Summer Review: in Court (Basketball) by Yvonne Buchanan
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Buchanan's video work, she creates micro narratives of the ghostly presence of histories. Individual, family and community experiences of otherness, and the perpetual small and large traumas sustained, is the focus of her recent work. She is particularly interested in the strategies employed to endure these experiences, especially ideas of religiosity and beliefs in the afterlife. Her subject is often the black body as object and symbol, the embodiment of curiosity, and a "dark" and weighty presence. In constructing her work, she frequently uses the loop, in creating a circular story, one that can be read differently, as scenes repeat.

The piece "in Court (Basketball)" features a basketball court, where the hopes and dreams of young black men are played out, at the same time as it seems to fluctuate between a site for sport and a cage. The projection of the piece at the UVP Everson venue, with its close proximity to the Onondaga County jail, takes on a special and literal resonance with the audible but invisible play of the inmates on the rooftop court of the correctional facility.

Buchanan's background in the history and techniques of painting and drawing is a strong influence on her visual form, making her video pieces less cinematic and more spatially related to painting.

Macedonian Festival

Price: Free
St. George Macedonian Church
5083 Onondaga Rd., Onondaga

Macedonian Ethnic Folk dancing groups performing daily
Daily tours of St. George Macedonian Orthodox Church and its beautiful frescoes
Traditional Macedonian merchandise available for purchase
Macedonian ethnic food including lamb and chicken dinners, Macedonian kebobs, and stuffed cabbage
Assorted beverages, including traditional beer and Macedonian wine, soda, and assorted coffee

For more information, visit the website.

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

*CANCELLED* Copperline: A Tribute to James Taylor

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Copperline brings you the ultimate James Taylor experience. The members of Copperline lead you through decades of JT's most memorable songs. Drawing from his greatest hits catalog, they take you from ballads like Fire and Rain, Carolina In My Mind, and Shower the People and get you on your feet with rockers like How Sweet It Is, Your Smiling Face and Steamroller Blues. Come out and listen to Copperline pay homage to one of the greatest singer-songwriters of our time.

For more information, phone 315-475-7980 or visit www.landmarktheatre.org.

Eddie Zacholl, Wendy Ramsay, and host Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
Words and Music Songwriter Showcase

Price: Free
Creekside Books
35 Fennell St., Skaneateles

The Words and Music Songwriter Showcase is a celebration of original music from Central New York and beyond, featuring established and emerging artists of all genres in an up-close-and-personal acoustic setting. Tonight's performance features SAMMY winner Eddie Zacholl (Z-Bones and The Easy Ramblers), Wendy S. Ramsay (Unstoppables, Hysterical Fits, and Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers Trio), and host Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers.

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

In this interactive version, children in the audience help Aladdin find the magic lamp.

Giant Puppet Circus
Open Hand Theater

Price: Free
Ed Smith Elementary School
Corner of Lancaster Ave. and Broad St., Syracuse

Over 50 young people join Open Hand Theater's own menagerie of Circus animals in this fun family performance, created over two weeks of classes and rehearsals with our own specialists in puppetry, juggling, dance, acting, and art. Great fun for young and old!

Shrek the Musical
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $15 members, $10 children under 12
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks film that started it all, brings the hilarious story of everyone's favorite ogre to dazzling new life on the stage. In a faraway kingdom turned upside down, things get ugly when an unseemly ogre--not a handsome prince--shows up to rescue a feisty princess. Throw in a donkey who won't shut up, a bad guy with a SHORT temper, a cookie with an attitude, and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you've got the kind of mess that calls for a real hero. Luckily, there's one on hand...and his name is Shrek. Full of all-new songs, great dancing and breathtaking scenery, Shrek the Musical is part romance, part twisted fairy tale and all irreverent fun for everyone!

Read a review!

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Central New York Playhouse
Stephfond Brunson, director

Price: $39.95 dinner and show, $25 show only
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Tonight's performance will be preceded by dinner at 6:30 pm.

This happy-go-lucky view of small town vice and statewide political side-stepping recounts the good times and the demise of the Chicken Ranch, known since the 1850s as one of the better pleasure palaces in all of Texas. Governors, senators, mayors, and even victorious college football teams frequent Miss Mona's cozy bordello until that puritan nemesis Watchdog focuses his television cameras and his righteous indignation on the institution.

Book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson; music and lyrics by Carol Hall. Abel Searor, music director; Kaleigh Pfohl, choreographer

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*SOLD OUT* Rent
Covey Theatre Company

Price: $30
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

From the company that brought you the last summer's sold-out, award-winning musical Avenue Q, The Covey Theatre Company is proud to present Jonathan Larson's iconic musical RENT.

Focusing on the lives of several New York City bohemians in the early '90s, RENT encapsulates the tribulations and loves of young artists, set to a brilliant musical score including "I'll Cover You," "Out Tonight," and the stunning "Seasons of Love." Don't miss your chance to experience RENT in a vibrant, intimate production like you've never seen it before.

Tickets can be purchased by calling 315-420-3729.

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Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Price: $42
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

When Mars and Venus collide, the adventures are Earth-shatteringly hysterical. Join our favorite Martian, Peter Story, and discover how to get a little "piece" on Earth. Based on the best-selling book by John Gray.

Tickets are available through the OnCenter box office, 760 S. State St., Syracuse, 315-435-2121, or through Ticketmaster.

Shrek the Musical
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $15 members, $10 children under 12
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks film that started it all, brings the hilarious story of everyone's favorite ogre to dazzling new life on the stage. In a faraway kingdom turned upside down, things get ugly when an unseemly ogre--not a handsome prince--shows up to rescue a feisty princess. Throw in a donkey who won't shut up, a bad guy with a SHORT temper, a cookie with an attitude, and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you've got the kind of mess that calls for a real hero. Luckily, there's one on hand...and his name is Shrek. Full of all-new songs, great dancing and breathtaking scenery, Shrek the Musical is part romance, part twisted fairy tale and all irreverent fun for everyone!

Read a review!

Cooking with The Calamari Sisters
The Talent Company

Price: $32.50 regular, $30.50 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Hilarity, failed dishes, and food fights ensue during this "live broadcast" of a public access cable cooking show hosted by two larger-than-life Italian sisters, Delphine and Carmela Calamari. The sisters sing and dance to such beloved Italian favorites as "Volare," "Come On A My House," "Botcha Me," "Que Sera Sera," "That's Amore," and of course, "Mambo Italiano!" as they try to make it through their final broadcast together in one piece. Original cast.

Tickets available at www.thetalentco.com or by calling 1-800-838-3006.

Read a Review!

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Simple Pleasures: Watercolor and Acrylic Paintings by Kathleen Schneider
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Although some paintings are bold and others subtle, they all convey images pleasing to the soul.

Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Bloom" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition features artwork with the theme of renewal and investigates the innate beauty of nature. The show includes drawing, photography, watercolor, sculpture, and ceramics.

Participating artists include Anne Novado Capuccilli, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Kelly Sullivan, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

The Craft of Wood
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"The Craft of Wood" features one-of-a-kind dressers, tables, mirrors, jewelry boxes and clocks by Charlie and Deb DeMinck, of Vineyard View Woodworking.

The DeMincks work with such diverse woods as tiger maple, cherry, black walnut, quarter sawn oak, curly cherry, ambrosia maple, sycamore and ash, and use only environmentally friendly waterborne finishes. They recently took first-place honors in woodworking at the Corn Hill Arts Festival.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

Read a review!

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

Macedonian Festival

Price: Free
St. George Macedonian Church
5083 Onondaga Rd., Onondaga

Macedonian Ethnic Folk dancing groups performing daily
Daily tours of St. George Macedonian Orthodox Church and its beautiful frescoes
Traditional Macedonian merchandise available for purchase
Macedonian ethnic food including lamb and chicken dinners, Macedonian kebobs, and stuffed cabbage
Assorted beverages, including traditional beer and Macedonian wine, soda, and assorted coffee

For more information, visit the website.

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Songs for Josh
Syracuse Opera
Syracuse Opera Chorus

Price: Free-will donation
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Members of the Syracuse Opera Chorus will present greatest hits from the musical theater stage in a tribute to chorister Joshua Fingerhut who passed away in February of 2013.

"Songs for Josh" will feature members of the chorus in both classic and contemporary songs from Broadway's shining stars.

Shows from which selections are chosen include Camelot, Man of La Mancha, Wicked, Sunday in the Park with George, and many more.

Douglas Kinney Frost, Producing and Artistic Director of Syracuse Opera, will host and accompany.

Joshua performed with Syracuse Opera for nine years in main stage operas as a chorister and in small roles. Josh was also featured in leading roles in the company's annual presentation of a musical in Thornden Park. Recent performances included Cervantes in Man of La Mancha and Arthur in Camelot.

A free-will donation will be accepted at the door with the proceeds benefiting the CNY SPCA in Syracuse as directed by Josh's family.

An Afternoon with Bob Milne
Syracuse Wurlitzer

Price: $10 advance, $12 at the door, $5 children and students
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

Bob Milne is known as the top ragtime/boogie-woogie pianist around today. As a student in the 1960s at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, Bob began his musical career not as a pianist, but a French horn virtuoso. He performed in such symphonies as he Rochester Philharmonic and the Baltimore Symphony.

Bob soon found himself at the piano, quickly learning how to accompany singers and entertaining. His favorite style as he later discovered was based on a type of off-the-beat, "ragged" time very similar to the styles of America's early ragtime era of the late 1800s and early 1900s.

As he continued performing night after night, he expanded his repertoire, adding early ragtime pieces, Scott Joplin rags, and John William "Blind" Boone pieces. As he continued to listen and study, he delved into the Dixieland and stride piano styles. Today, Bob enjoys a successful career as a concert pianist, entertaining audiences in concert halls, opera houses and arena stages from coast to coast. As a recording artist, he has produced ten collections of piano rags, blues, boogies and folk/traditional tunes, which are available on cassette and CD.

For advance sale tickets, phone 315-458-4755.

Soul Risin', with The Blind Owl Band
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Cooking with The Calamari Sisters
The Talent Company

Price: $32.50 regular, $30.50 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Hilarity, failed dishes, and food fights ensue during this "live broadcast" of a public access cable cooking show hosted by two larger-than-life Italian sisters, Delphine and Carmela Calamari. The sisters sing and dance to such beloved Italian favorites as "Volare," "Come On A My House," "Botcha Me," "Que Sera Sera," "That's Amore," and of course, "Mambo Italiano!" as they try to make it through their final broadcast together in one piece. Original cast.

Tickets available at www.thetalentco.com or by calling 1-800-838-3006.

Read a Review!

Monday, August 5, 2013

Syracuse Poster Project
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

16 poster prints from the 2013 Syracuse Poster Project will be on exhibit. The Poster Project brings together community p'ets and Syracuse University student artists to create an annual series of posters for the citys poster panels. Each of the 16 posters features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city, or the surrounding countryside.

Trois Soeurs d'Été (Three Sisters of Summer)
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Daphné Verley: ceramics
M Bénédicte Verley: photographs
Thérèse Verley Strodel: paintings

Mentors: 4 Influential Women Artists
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artist-in-Residence and Curator at The Tech Garden, Maria Rizzo is proud to present a group show that celebrates the art of four professional female artists who have greatly influenced Rizzo's young art career: Maria Grazia Facchinetti, Marianne Smith Dalton, Angela Arrey-Wastavino and Linda Bigness. All four of these women share a passion for the arts, strong talent and unyielding professionalism in reaching their goals. They each have a story to share and advice to give for other artists who want to dedicate their lives to the arts.

Ray Trudell Photography
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Ray is a lifelong local resident whom describes himself as a disgruntled union thug... a better description might be a man who thinks for himself, lives life to his own beat and in his own unique skewed style shows us the way he sees life, through the lens of his camera. He finds those peaceful refuges that are tucked in between the chaos and the hectic. Those bites of peace and nature that make living in Central New York worth all the rain, shoveling and construction!

Simple Pleasures: Watercolor and Acrylic Paintings by Kathleen Schneider
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Although some paintings are bold and others subtle, they all convey images pleasing to the soul.

The Craft of Wood
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"The Craft of Wood" features one-of-a-kind dressers, tables, mirrors, jewelry boxes and clocks by Charlie and Deb DeMinck, of Vineyard View Woodworking.

The DeMincks work with such diverse woods as tiger maple, cherry, black walnut, quarter sawn oak, curly cherry, ambrosia maple, sycamore and ash, and use only environmentally friendly waterborne finishes. They recently took first-place honors in woodworking at the Corn Hill Arts Festival.

Mixed Media Works by Don Meyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Line, color, and compositional experimentation are key words in painter Don Meyer's artist statement. A self-described gardener and "sometimes painter," the artist fills his canvases with mesmerizing shapes and colors. Meyer is a graduate of West Genesee High School and Emporia State and Kansas State universities

Mixed Media Works is a collection of small abstract works, mostly studies, in gouache with various media. As Meyer prefers that his viewers come to their own conclusions about the subjects represented, he displays no titles on the paintings.

The Art of Nicora Gangi
Dalton's

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

Nicora Gangi's work will resonate with those who appreciate her link to European art and her aesthetic kinship with the Hudson River School painters. Yet her oil paintings have a fresh, modern sensibility to which lovers of contemporary realism will surely respond.

The Bob Lyna Trio
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Swing

Summer Concert
Syracuse University Summer Festival Orchestra
James Tapia, conductor
Featuring Gabriel DiMartino, trumpet

Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Weber Der Freischutz Overture
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D, op. 47
Vizzutti/Tyzic Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra

Sol Driven Train
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Syracuse Poster Project
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

16 poster prints from the 2013 Syracuse Poster Project will be on exhibit. The Poster Project brings together community p'ets and Syracuse University student artists to create an annual series of posters for the citys poster panels. Each of the 16 posters features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city, or the surrounding countryside.

Trois Soeurs d'Été (Three Sisters of Summer)
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Daphné Verley: ceramics
M Bénédicte Verley: photographs
Thérèse Verley Strodel: paintings

Mentors: 4 Influential Women Artists
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artist-in-Residence and Curator at The Tech Garden, Maria Rizzo is proud to present a group show that celebrates the art of four professional female artists who have greatly influenced Rizzo's young art career: Maria Grazia Facchinetti, Marianne Smith Dalton, Angela Arrey-Wastavino and Linda Bigness. All four of these women share a passion for the arts, strong talent and unyielding professionalism in reaching their goals. They each have a story to share and advice to give for other artists who want to dedicate their lives to the arts.

Ray Trudell Photography
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Ray is a lifelong local resident whom describes himself as a disgruntled union thug... a better description might be a man who thinks for himself, lives life to his own beat and in his own unique skewed style shows us the way he sees life, through the lens of his camera. He finds those peaceful refuges that are tucked in between the chaos and the hectic. Those bites of peace and nature that make living in Central New York worth all the rain, shoveling and construction!

Convergence: Where Line Meets Form
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

R. Jason Howard: internationally recognized glass artist using both traditional Italian techniques and self-invented processes

Marilyn Forth: uses the ancient art process of batik in a contemporary fashion--painting dye onto silk

DeeAnn von Hunke: new works in jewelry design exploring combinations of medium, materials, and methods in metalsmithing

Creative Crossings
Community Folk Art Center

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

For this exhibition, the artists have created works of mixed media that include landscapes, still-life, protraits, and abstracts. The group chose the title Creative Crossings because they felt that a crossing must be made in order to heal both mentally and spiritually. This exhibit provides a special opportunity to share their artistic achievements with the community.

Give & Take: The Currency of Culture
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Give & Take: The Currency of Culture" features new, site-specific installations and performance art by Aisha Cousins, Nzuji De Magalhaes and Nontsikelelo Mutiti. The exhibition explores the complex and symbiotic relationship between Africans and African Americans. The artists in this exhibit investigate a wide range of topics from Fela Kuti's Africa American lover, Sandra Smith, to misconceptions about Africa and Africans.

Read a review!

Simple Pleasures: Watercolor and Acrylic Paintings by Kathleen Schneider
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Although some paintings are bold and others subtle, they all convey images pleasing to the soul.

The Craft of Wood
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"The Craft of Wood" features one-of-a-kind dressers, tables, mirrors, jewelry boxes and clocks by Charlie and Deb DeMinck, of Vineyard View Woodworking.

The DeMincks work with such diverse woods as tiger maple, cherry, black walnut, quarter sawn oak, curly cherry, ambrosia maple, sycamore and ash, and use only environmentally friendly waterborne finishes. They recently took first-place honors in woodworking at the Corn Hill Arts Festival.

Mixed Media Works by Don Meyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Line, color, and compositional experimentation are key words in painter Don Meyer's artist statement. A self-described gardener and "sometimes painter," the artist fills his canvases with mesmerizing shapes and colors. Meyer is a graduate of West Genesee High School and Emporia State and Kansas State universities

Mixed Media Works is a collection of small abstract works, mostly studies, in gouache with various media. As Meyer prefers that his viewers come to their own conclusions about the subjects represented, he displays no titles on the paintings.

The Art of Nicora Gangi
Dalton's

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

Nicora Gangi's work will resonate with those who appreciate her link to European art and her aesthetic kinship with the Hudson River School painters. Yet her oil paintings have a fresh, modern sensibility to which lovers of contemporary realism will surely respond.

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

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Explosions in the Sky
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Syracuse Poster Project
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

16 poster prints from the 2013 Syracuse Poster Project will be on exhibit. The Poster Project brings together community p'ets and Syracuse University student artists to create an annual series of posters for the citys poster panels. Each of the 16 posters features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city, or the surrounding countryside.

Trois Soeurs d'Été (Three Sisters of Summer)
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Daphné Verley: ceramics
M Bénédicte Verley: photographs
Thérèse Verley Strodel: paintings

Mentors: 4 Influential Women Artists
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artist-in-Residence and Curator at The Tech Garden, Maria Rizzo is proud to present a group show that celebrates the art of four professional female artists who have greatly influenced Rizzo's young art career: Maria Grazia Facchinetti, Marianne Smith Dalton, Angela Arrey-Wastavino and Linda Bigness. All four of these women share a passion for the arts, strong talent and unyielding professionalism in reaching their goals. They each have a story to share and advice to give for other artists who want to dedicate their lives to the arts.

Ray Trudell Photography
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Ray is a lifelong local resident whom describes himself as a disgruntled union thug... a better description might be a man who thinks for himself, lives life to his own beat and in his own unique skewed style shows us the way he sees life, through the lens of his camera. He finds those peaceful refuges that are tucked in between the chaos and the hectic. Those bites of peace and nature that make living in Central New York worth all the rain, shoveling and construction!

Convergence: Where Line Meets Form
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

R. Jason Howard: internationally recognized glass artist using both traditional Italian techniques and self-invented processes

Marilyn Forth: uses the ancient art process of batik in a contemporary fashion--painting dye onto silk

DeeAnn von Hunke: new works in jewelry design exploring combinations of medium, materials, and methods in metalsmithing

Give & Take: The Currency of Culture
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Give & Take: The Currency of Culture" features new, site-specific installations and performance art by Aisha Cousins, Nzuji De Magalhaes and Nontsikelelo Mutiti. The exhibition explores the complex and symbiotic relationship between Africans and African Americans. The artists in this exhibit investigate a wide range of topics from Fela Kuti's Africa American lover, Sandra Smith, to misconceptions about Africa and Africans.

Read a review!

Creative Crossings
Community Folk Art Center

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

For this exhibition, the artists have created works of mixed media that include landscapes, still-life, protraits, and abstracts. The group chose the title Creative Crossings because they felt that a crossing must be made in order to heal both mentally and spiritually. This exhibit provides a special opportunity to share their artistic achievements with the community.

Simple Pleasures: Watercolor and Acrylic Paintings by Kathleen Schneider
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Although some paintings are bold and others subtle, they all convey images pleasing to the soul.

The Craft of Wood
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"The Craft of Wood" features one-of-a-kind dressers, tables, mirrors, jewelry boxes and clocks by Charlie and Deb DeMinck, of Vineyard View Woodworking.

The DeMincks work with such diverse woods as tiger maple, cherry, black walnut, quarter sawn oak, curly cherry, ambrosia maple, sycamore and ash, and use only environmentally friendly waterborne finishes. They recently took first-place honors in woodworking at the Corn Hill Arts Festival.

Mixed Media Works by Don Meyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Line, color, and compositional experimentation are key words in painter Don Meyer's artist statement. A self-described gardener and "sometimes painter," the artist fills his canvases with mesmerizing shapes and colors. Meyer is a graduate of West Genesee High School and Emporia State and Kansas State universities

Mixed Media Works is a collection of small abstract works, mostly studies, in gouache with various media. As Meyer prefers that his viewers come to their own conclusions about the subjects represented, he displays no titles on the paintings.

The Art of Nicora Gangi
Dalton's

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

Nicora Gangi's work will resonate with those who appreciate her link to European art and her aesthetic kinship with the Hudson River School painters. Yet her oil paintings have a fresh, modern sensibility to which lovers of contemporary realism will surely respond.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

Read a review!

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

Flicks on the Crick: 21 Jump Street

Price: Free
Sound Garden
310 W. Jefferson St., Syracuse

Bring a lawn chair and enjoy the film projected on the side of Sound Garden's building, beginning at dusk. Rated R.

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Lunchtime Lectures
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Persephone, Moses and Job: Mythology and the Old Testament in the Ivan Mestrovic Sculpture Court

The Summer Lunchtime Lectures series will focus on art on campus, objects installed in campus buildings, or outside or adjacent to the Shaw Quadrangle. The tour and lecture will begin at the SUArt Galleries and then as a group walk to the location of the artwork. Outdoor lectures will be weather permitting.

Behind the Scenes: Open Rehearsal
Skaneateles Festival

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

Open Rehearsal with Festival artists rehearsing chamber music to be performed this week.

Stan Colella All-Star Band

Price: Free
Betts Branch Library
4862 S. Salina St., Syraucse

Mickey Vendetti Band
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Oldies

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Syracuse Poster Project
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

16 poster prints from the 2013 Syracuse Poster Project will be on exhibit. The Poster Project brings together community p'ets and Syracuse University student artists to create an annual series of posters for the citys poster panels. Each of the 16 posters features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city, or the surrounding countryside.

Trois Soeurs d'Été (Three Sisters of Summer)
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Daphné Verley: ceramics
M Bénédicte Verley: photographs
Thérèse Verley Strodel: paintings

Mentors: 4 Influential Women Artists
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

There will be a Q&A with the exhibiting artists this evening 5:00-7:00 pm. This is a unique opportunity for all emerging artists to ask these established professionals questions and to learn the many roads that lead to a life centered on the arts.

Artist-in-Residence and Curator at The Tech Garden, Maria Rizzo is proud to present a group show that celebrates the art of four professional female artists who have greatly influenced Rizzo's young art career: Maria Grazia Facchinetti, Marianne Smith Dalton, Angela Arrey-Wastavino and Linda Bigness. All four of these women share a passion for the arts, strong talent and unyielding professionalism in reaching their goals. They each have a story to share and advice to give for other artists who want to dedicate their lives to the arts.

Ray Trudell Photography
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Ray is a lifelong local resident whom describes himself as a disgruntled union thug... a better description might be a man who thinks for himself, lives life to his own beat and in his own unique skewed style shows us the way he sees life, through the lens of his camera. He finds those peaceful refuges that are tucked in between the chaos and the hectic. Those bites of peace and nature that make living in Central New York worth all the rain, shoveling and construction!

Convergence: Where Line Meets Form
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

R. Jason Howard: internationally recognized glass artist using both traditional Italian techniques and self-invented processes

Marilyn Forth: uses the ancient art process of batik in a contemporary fashion--painting dye onto silk

DeeAnn von Hunke: new works in jewelry design exploring combinations of medium, materials, and methods in metalsmithing

Creative Crossings
Community Folk Art Center

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

For this exhibition, the artists have created works of mixed media that include landscapes, still-life, protraits, and abstracts. The group chose the title Creative Crossings because they felt that a crossing must be made in order to heal both mentally and spiritually. This exhibit provides a special opportunity to share their artistic achievements with the community.

Give & Take: The Currency of Culture
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Give & Take: The Currency of Culture" features new, site-specific installations and performance art by Aisha Cousins, Nzuji De Magalhaes and Nontsikelelo Mutiti. The exhibition explores the complex and symbiotic relationship between Africans and African Americans. The artists in this exhibit investigate a wide range of topics from Fela Kuti's Africa American lover, Sandra Smith, to misconceptions about Africa and Africans.

Read a review!

Simple Pleasures: Watercolor and Acrylic Paintings by Kathleen Schneider
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Although some paintings are bold and others subtle, they all convey images pleasing to the soul.

The Craft of Wood
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"The Craft of Wood" features one-of-a-kind dressers, tables, mirrors, jewelry boxes and clocks by Charlie and Deb DeMinck, of Vineyard View Woodworking.

The DeMincks work with such diverse woods as tiger maple, cherry, black walnut, quarter sawn oak, curly cherry, ambrosia maple, sycamore and ash, and use only environmentally friendly waterborne finishes. They recently took first-place honors in woodworking at the Corn Hill Arts Festival.

Mixed Media Works by Don Meyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Line, color, and compositional experimentation are key words in painter Don Meyer's artist statement. A self-described gardener and "sometimes painter," the artist fills his canvases with mesmerizing shapes and colors. Meyer is a graduate of West Genesee High School and Emporia State and Kansas State universities

Mixed Media Works is a collection of small abstract works, mostly studies, in gouache with various media. As Meyer prefers that his viewers come to their own conclusions about the subjects represented, he displays no titles on the paintings.

The Art of Nicora Gangi
Dalton's

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

Nicora Gangi's work will resonate with those who appreciate her link to European art and her aesthetic kinship with the Hudson River School painters. Yet her oil paintings have a fresh, modern sensibility to which lovers of contemporary realism will surely respond.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Bloom" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition features artwork with the theme of renewal and investigates the innate beauty of nature. The show includes drawing, photography, watercolor, sculpture, and ceramics.

Participating artists include Anne Novado Capuccilli, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Kelly Sullivan, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

Read a review!

UVP Annual Summer Review: in Court (Basketball) by Yvonne Buchanan
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Buchanan's video work, she creates micro narratives of the ghostly presence of histories. Individual, family and community experiences of otherness, and the perpetual small and large traumas sustained, is the focus of her recent work. She is particularly interested in the strategies employed to endure these experiences, especially ideas of religiosity and beliefs in the afterlife. Her subject is often the black body as object and symbol, the embodiment of curiosity, and a "dark" and weighty presence. In constructing her work, she frequently uses the loop, in creating a circular story, one that can be read differently, as scenes repeat.

The piece "in Court (Basketball)" features a basketball court, where the hopes and dreams of young black men are played out, at the same time as it seems to fluctuate between a site for sport and a cage. The projection of the piece at the UVP Everson venue, with its close proximity to the Onondaga County jail, takes on a special and literal resonance with the audible but invisible play of the inmates on the rooftop court of the correctional facility.

Buchanan's background in the history and techniques of painting and drawing is a strong influence on her visual form, making her video pieces less cinematic and more spatially related to painting.

Our "Thursday" Show
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $5
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

We hope this is self-explanatory. We were actually going to call this our "First Thursday" show ... because this is the first time we've done a show on a Thursday night, here at the SCiT. But then we realized that some people might think the show is on the first Thursday of the month ... which it's not. It's on the second. Thursday, that is. Not the date. That's the 8th. Of August. Not the eighth Thursday ... because there aren't that many. (Ahh, the wonderful ambiguities of the English language.)

So, join us as the SCiT house team, Pork Pie Hat, performs their hilarious brand of improv comedy (short-form improv, in the style of the hit TV show "Whose Line Is It, Anyway") on our NEW DAY AND TIME.

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Maria DeSantis Band with Special Guests
Town of Dewitt Concert Series

Price: Free
Ryder Park
5400 Butternut Dr., DeWitt

Classics of the 40s-90s

Flyin' Column
Town of Geddes Summer Concert

Price: Free
St. Charles of Borromeo Church/School parking lot
417 S. Orchard Rd., Syracuse

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Jazz in the City: The Blacklites

Price: Free
Dunk & Bright lawn
2648 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Headliners once again will be The Blacklites, the legendary Syracuse RnB outfit celebrating 40 years in the business! Also appearing will be KC Cuse Line Dance, a volunteer group of ladies dedicated to teaching the joy of line dancing.

The Black Lites started in 1972, merging musicians from Syracuse's east and south sides. In 1999, Syracuse common council member Mike Atkins, brother of guitarist Emmanuel Atkins, convinced them to reunite for Juneteenth. "There were 15 of us on stage," says Eddie "Wall Street" Brown, percussionist and vocalist. "Six of us decided to take it from there and still play." www.theblacklitesband.net.

The Voice, Part I
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $28, 24 regular; $26, $22 students/seniors; free for children under 13 (B seating only)
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Schubert Selected Songs, including Rastlose Liebe (Restless Love); Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel); Szene aus Goethe's Faust (Scene from Goethe's Faust); Suleika; Wanderers Nachtlied I and II (Wanderer's Nightsong); and Der Erlkönig (The ErlKing)
Schubert String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden"

Performers include the Ying Quartet; Jennifer Aylmer, soprano; Randall Scarlata, baritone; Laura Ward, piano

The Winter's Tale
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free (donations welcome)
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

The play's first half is a tragedy of jealousy, while the second half is a romantic comedy. The festival will present each half on alternate nights.

Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

Death Joins the Club
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $32.50 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Noses up, everyone. You and the other members of the posh Pfieffer Hills Country Club are gathering to consider applications for membership and you want to look your snobby best. Members of the wealthy elite are dying to get in, or rather, are waiting for you to die so they can get in. A word to the wise, dear member: some applicants are less patient than others.

Mamma Mia Film Experience
Redhouse

Price: $10, plus $5 participation kit
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The classic movie musical comes to life with live performers and full-on audience participation! Join our special guest performers as they sing and dance to the music of ABBA in front of the film. Audience participation kits will be sold at the door. Bring your dancing shoes!

Cooking with The Calamari Sisters
The Talent Company

Price: $32.50 regular, $30.50 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Hilarity, failed dishes, and food fights ensue during this "live broadcast" of a public access cable cooking show hosted by two larger-than-life Italian sisters, Delphine and Carmela Calamari. The sisters sing and dance to such beloved Italian favorites as "Volare," "Come On A My House," "Botcha Me," "Que Sera Sera," "That's Amore," and of course, "Mambo Italiano!" as they try to make it through their final broadcast together in one piece. Original cast.

Tickets available at www.thetalentco.com or by calling 1-800-838-3006.

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Friday, August 9, 2013

Syracuse Poster Project
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

16 poster prints from the 2013 Syracuse Poster Project will be on exhibit. The Poster Project brings together community p'ets and Syracuse University student artists to create an annual series of posters for the citys poster panels. Each of the 16 posters features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city, or the surrounding countryside.

Trois Soeurs d'Été (Three Sisters of Summer)
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Daphné Verley: ceramics
M Bénédicte Verley: photographs
Thérèse Verley Strodel: paintings

Mentors: 4 Influential Women Artists
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artist-in-Residence and Curator at The Tech Garden, Maria Rizzo is proud to present a group show that celebrates the art of four professional female artists who have greatly influenced Rizzo's young art career: Maria Grazia Facchinetti, Marianne Smith Dalton, Angela Arrey-Wastavino and Linda Bigness. All four of these women share a passion for the arts, strong talent and unyielding professionalism in reaching their goals. They each have a story to share and advice to give for other artists who want to dedicate their lives to the arts.

Ray Trudell Photography
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Ray is a lifelong local resident whom describes himself as a disgruntled union thug... a better description might be a man who thinks for himself, lives life to his own beat and in his own unique skewed style shows us the way he sees life, through the lens of his camera. He finds those peaceful refuges that are tucked in between the chaos and the hectic. Those bites of peace and nature that make living in Central New York worth all the rain, shoveling and construction!

Convergence: Where Line Meets Form
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

R. Jason Howard: internationally recognized glass artist using both traditional Italian techniques and self-invented processes

Marilyn Forth: uses the ancient art process of batik in a contemporary fashion--painting dye onto silk

DeeAnn von Hunke: new works in jewelry design exploring combinations of medium, materials, and methods in metalsmithing

Give & Take: The Currency of Culture
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Give & Take: The Currency of Culture" features new, site-specific installations and performance art by Aisha Cousins, Nzuji De Magalhaes and Nontsikelelo Mutiti. The exhibition explores the complex and symbiotic relationship between Africans and African Americans. The artists in this exhibit investigate a wide range of topics from Fela Kuti's Africa American lover, Sandra Smith, to misconceptions about Africa and Africans.

Read a review!

Creative Crossings
Community Folk Art Center

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

For this exhibition, the artists have created works of mixed media that include landscapes, still-life, protraits, and abstracts. The group chose the title Creative Crossings because they felt that a crossing must be made in order to heal both mentally and spiritually. This exhibit provides a special opportunity to share their artistic achievements with the community.

Simple Pleasures: Watercolor and Acrylic Paintings by Kathleen Schneider
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Although some paintings are bold and others subtle, they all convey images pleasing to the soul.

The Craft of Wood
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"The Craft of Wood" features one-of-a-kind dressers, tables, mirrors, jewelry boxes and clocks by Charlie and Deb DeMinck, of Vineyard View Woodworking.

The DeMincks work with such diverse woods as tiger maple, cherry, black walnut, quarter sawn oak, curly cherry, ambrosia maple, sycamore and ash, and use only environmentally friendly waterborne finishes. They recently took first-place honors in woodworking at the Corn Hill Arts Festival.

Mixed Media Works by Don Meyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Line, color, and compositional experimentation are key words in painter Don Meyer's artist statement. A self-described gardener and "sometimes painter," the artist fills his canvases with mesmerizing shapes and colors. Meyer is a graduate of West Genesee High School and Emporia State and Kansas State universities

Mixed Media Works is a collection of small abstract works, mostly studies, in gouache with various media. As Meyer prefers that his viewers come to their own conclusions about the subjects represented, he displays no titles on the paintings.

The Art of Nicora Gangi
Dalton's

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

Nicora Gangi's work will resonate with those who appreciate her link to European art and her aesthetic kinship with the Hudson River School painters. Yet her oil paintings have a fresh, modern sensibility to which lovers of contemporary realism will surely respond.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Bloom" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition features artwork with the theme of renewal and investigates the innate beauty of nature. The show includes drawing, photography, watercolor, sculpture, and ceramics.

Participating artists include Anne Novado Capuccilli, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Kelly Sullivan, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

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20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

UVP Annual Summer Review: in Court (Basketball) by Yvonne Buchanan
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Buchanan's video work, she creates micro narratives of the ghostly presence of histories. Individual, family and community experiences of otherness, and the perpetual small and large traumas sustained, is the focus of her recent work. She is particularly interested in the strategies employed to endure these experiences, especially ideas of religiosity and beliefs in the afterlife. Her subject is often the black body as object and symbol, the embodiment of curiosity, and a "dark" and weighty presence. In constructing her work, she frequently uses the loop, in creating a circular story, one that can be read differently, as scenes repeat.

The piece "in Court (Basketball)" features a basketball court, where the hopes and dreams of young black men are played out, at the same time as it seems to fluctuate between a site for sport and a cage. The projection of the piece at the UVP Everson venue, with its close proximity to the Onondaga County jail, takes on a special and literal resonance with the audible but invisible play of the inmates on the rooftop court of the correctional facility.

Buchanan's background in the history and techniques of painting and drawing is a strong influence on her visual form, making her video pieces less cinematic and more spatially related to painting.

Bank Show
Syracuse Improv Collective

Price: $5
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The Syracuse Improv Collective brings their monthly "Bank Show" to the CNY Playhouse. The Collective specializes in bringing a show like no other combining long form improv with musical acts and stand up comedy. You never know what the SIC has in store.

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

Skaneateles Community Band

Price: Free
Clift Park
Genesee St., Skaneateles

The music ranges from pops to marches to show tunes to light classical. Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

The Voice, Part II
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $28, 24 regular; $26, $22 students/seniors; free for children under 13 (B seating only)
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Puccini Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums)
Bernstein To What You Said
Previn Vocalise
Donizetti Duet: Pronta son, purch'io from Act I of Don Pasquale
Barber Dover Beach
Verdi String Quartet in E minor

Performers include the Ying Quartet; Jennifer Aylmer, soprano; Randall Scarlata, baritone; Laura Ward, piano

There will be a pre-concert performance at 7:00 pm, open to ticket-holders only, of Leonard Bernstein's last major work, his song cycle Arias and Barcarolles, performed by Jennifer Aylmer, soprano; Randall Scarlata, baritone; and Elinor Freer and Laura Ward, piano.

The Winter's Tale
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free (donations welcome)
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

The play's first half is a tragedy of jealousy, while the second half is a romantic comedy. The festival will present each half on alternate nights.

Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

Angels with Broken Wings: A Westside Story
The Media Unit

Price: Free, but reservations recommended
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A satirical music theater focus on gang violence and police relations with youth sends a positive message through an original script by Media Unit cast captain Mya Eisenberg, with contributions from the other cast members. A bilingual approach explores the roles language and culture play in conflicts within communities.

Seating is limited; phone 315-478-8648 for reservations.

Cooking with The Calamari Sisters
The Talent Company

Price: $32.50 regular, $30.50 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Hilarity, failed dishes, and food fights ensue during this "live broadcast" of a public access cable cooking show hosted by two larger-than-life Italian sisters, Delphine and Carmela Calamari. The sisters sing and dance to such beloved Italian favorites as "Volare," "Come On A My House," "Botcha Me," "Que Sera Sera," "That's Amore," and of course, "Mambo Italiano!" as they try to make it through their final broadcast together in one piece. Original cast.

Tickets available at www.thetalentco.com or by calling 1-800-838-3006.

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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Syracuse Poster Project
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

16 poster prints from the 2013 Syracuse Poster Project will be on exhibit. The Poster Project brings together community p'ets and Syracuse University student artists to create an annual series of posters for the citys poster panels. Each of the 16 posters features an illustrated poem about downtown, the city, or the surrounding countryside.

Trois Soeurs d'Été (Three Sisters of Summer)
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Daphné Verley: ceramics
M Bénédicte Verley: photographs
Thérèse Verley Strodel: paintings

Convergence: Where Line Meets Form
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

R. Jason Howard: internationally recognized glass artist using both traditional Italian techniques and self-invented processes

Marilyn Forth: uses the ancient art process of batik in a contemporary fashion--painting dye onto silk

DeeAnn von Hunke: new works in jewelry design exploring combinations of medium, materials, and methods in metalsmithing

20th-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

To complement "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," the Everson highlights works by American modern artists from the permanent collection. This exhibition presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Eldzier Cortor, Reginald Marsh, Grandma Moses, and John Marin, among others.

An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"An American Look" is a unique exhibition that, for the first time, examines the influence of an Arts & Crafts aesthetic in American fashion during the early 20th century. Color, texture and motif were all adapted from the Arts & Crafts elements of furniture, ceramics and other furnishings of the period for upper-class fashion. Clothing styles of 1910-1914 are particularly representative of the elegant simplicity of Arts and Crafts objects popular in the preceding decade.

"An American Look" includes 34 examples from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection housed at Syracuse University, along with ceramics, Stickley furniture, and other decorative art examples from the Everson's permanent collection. The exhibition is co-curated by Jeffrey Mayer, curator of the Genet Costume Collection and associate professor of fashion design and history at Syracuse University, and Everson Museum Senior Curator Debora Ryan.

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Simple Pleasures: Watercolor and Acrylic Paintings by Kathleen Schneider
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Although some paintings are bold and others subtle, they all convey images pleasing to the soul.

The Craft of Wood
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

"The Craft of Wood" features one-of-a-kind dressers, tables, mirrors, jewelry boxes and clocks by Charlie and Deb DeMinck, of Vineyard View Woodworking.

The DeMincks work with such diverse woods as tiger maple, cherry, black walnut, quarter sawn oak, curly cherry, ambrosia maple, sycamore and ash, and use only environmentally friendly waterborne finishes. They recently took first-place honors in woodworking at the Corn Hill Arts Festival.

Mixed Media Works by Don Meyer
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

Line, color, and compositional experimentation are key words in painter Don Meyer's artist statement. A self-described gardener and "sometimes painter," the artist fills his canvases with mesmerizing shapes and colors. Meyer is a graduate of West Genesee High School and Emporia State and Kansas State universities

Mixed Media Works is a collection of small abstract works, mostly studies, in gouache with various media. As Meyer prefers that his viewers come to their own conclusions about the subjects represented, he displays no titles on the paintings.

The Art of Nicora Gangi
Dalton's

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

Nicora Gangi's work will resonate with those who appreciate her link to European art and her aesthetic kinship with the Hudson River School painters. Yet her oil paintings have a fresh, modern sensibility to which lovers of contemporary realism will surely respond.

Ray Trudell Photography
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Ray is a lifelong local resident whom describes himself as a disgruntled union thug... a better description might be a man who thinks for himself, lives life to his own beat and in his own unique skewed style shows us the way he sees life, through the lens of his camera. He finds those peaceful refuges that are tucked in between the chaos and the hectic. Those bites of peace and nature that make living in Central New York worth all the rain, shoveling and construction!

Creative Crossings
Community Folk Art Center

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

For this exhibition, the artists have created works of mixed media that include landscapes, still-life, protraits, and abstracts. The group chose the title Creative Crossings because they felt that a crossing must be made in order to heal both mentally and spiritually. This exhibit provides a special opportunity to share their artistic achievements with the community.

Give & Take: The Currency of Culture
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Give & Take: The Currency of Culture" features new, site-specific installations and performance art by Aisha Cousins, Nzuji De Magalhaes and Nontsikelelo Mutiti. The exhibition explores the complex and symbiotic relationship between Africans and African Americans. The artists in this exhibit investigate a wide range of topics from Fela Kuti's Africa American lover, Sandra Smith, to misconceptions about Africa and Africans.

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Bloom
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"Bloom" presents an eclectic mix of styles and art media. This group exhibition features artwork with the theme of renewal and investigates the innate beauty of nature. The show includes drawing, photography, watercolor, sculpture, and ceramics.

Participating artists include Anne Novado Capuccilli, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Kelly Sullivan, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Onondaga County at Gettysburg: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Onondaga Historical Association presents a new exhibit with a focus on paintings, photos, diary entries and quotes to illustrate the experience of eight veterans who served at Gettysburg in one of the following locally-based regiments. Also included in the exhibit is a three-part framed battlefield map that shows the military maneuvering that took place over the course of three days of fighting, July 1-3, 1863.

UVP Annual Summer Review: in Court (Basketball) by Yvonne Buchanan
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In Buchanan's video work, she creates micro narratives of the ghostly presence of histories. Individual, family and community experiences of otherness, and the perpetual small and large traumas sustained, is the focus of her recent work. She is particularly interested in the strategies employed to endure these experiences, especially ideas of religiosity and beliefs in the afterlife. Her subject is often the black body as object and symbol, the embodiment of curiosity, and a "dark" and weighty presence. In constructing her work, she frequently uses the loop, in creating a circular story, one that can be read differently, as scenes repeat.

The piece "in Court (Basketball)" features a basketball court, where the hopes and dreams of young black men are played out, at the same time as it seems to fluctuate between a site for sport and a cage. The projection of the piece at the UVP Everson venue, with its close proximity to the Onondaga County jail, takes on a special and literal resonance with the audible but invisible play of the inmates on the rooftop court of the correctional facility.

Buchanan's background in the history and techniques of painting and drawing is a strong influence on her visual form, making her video pieces less cinematic and more spatially related to painting.

CNY Scottish Games and Celtic Festival

Long Branch Park
Liverpool

For more information, visit www.cnyscottishgames.org.

The Ties that Bind: The Heritage of Onondaga County's Bridges
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free (donation accepted)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Onondaga County is a community that has been shaped by a legacy of bridges. In the context of the public discussion about what to do with the elevated section of I-81 in downtown Syracuse, it is important for the public to understand the history of the community's decision-making regarding its transportation infrastructure. The exhibit features photos, diagrams, and models of bridges and takes viewers through the rich heritage of turnpikes, canals, and railroads of Onondaga County. It also examines the post-World War II intersection of two great interstate highways, I-81 and the NYS Thruway. Sponsorship of the exhibit is through the Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council's I-81 Challenge.

A Saturday Serenade
Featuring Ben Brodie, violin

Price: Free
Erwin First United Methodist Church
920 Euclid Ave., Syracuse

Wieniawski Legende
Sarasate Spanish Dances, Op. 21
Paganini Caprice No. 21
Franck Sonata for Violin & Piano

In September, Ben will be a senior at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, majoring in violin performance and math. He studies with Yang Liu, who is also on the faculty of Roosevelt University in Chicago. He last performed in Syracuse in September of 2011. He has also performed in Pittsburgh, both as a solo recitalist and as a soloist with the Mt. Lebanon High School Orchestra when he was a high school senior. In the summers of 2012 and 2013 he attended the prestigious Brevard Music Institute, Brevard, NC, in the College Orchestral Studies program, and played in the Brevard Concert Orchestra and the Brevard Sinfonia. Refreshments will follow.

The DeSantis Orchestra, with DeSantis Star Youth Performers opening
Armory Square Candlelight Series

Price: Free
Corner of Franklin and West Jefferson Streets
Syracuse

7:00 pm: DeSantis Star Youth Performers
8:00 pm: The DeSantis Orchestra

Rain location: Benjamin's on Franklin, 314 S. Franklin St.

For more information, visit www.armorysq.org/candlelight.

Anonymous 4 in Concert
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $25, free for children under 13 (B seating only)
St. Mary's of the Lake Church
81 Jordan St., Skaneateles

ANTHOLOGY 25: To mark their 25th year together, Anonymous 4 has created this unique program featuring ancient, traditional, and modern works from each of their 19 prize-winning, chart-topping CDs. Works range from the 11th century chant to a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang.

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

In this interactive version, children in the audience help Aladdin find the magic lamp.

The Winter's Tale
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free (donations welcome)
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

The play's first half is a tragedy of jealousy, while the second half is a romantic comedy. The festival will present each half on alternate nights.

Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

Cooking with The Calamari Sisters
The Talent Company

Price: $32.50 regular, $30.50 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Hilarity, failed dishes, and food fights ensue during this "live broadcast" of a public access cable cooking show hosted by two larger-than-life Italian sisters, Delphine and Carmela Calamari. The sisters sing and dance to such beloved Italian favorites as "Volare," "Come On A My House," "Botcha Me," "Que Sera Sera," "That's Amore," and of course, "Mambo Italiano!" as they try to make it through their final broadcast together in one piece. Original cast.

Tickets available at www.thetalentco.com or by calling 1-800-838-3006.

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