Thursday, January 10, 2013

Photography by Debra Trichilo

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

The photographs depict the beauty of a Central New York winter. Debra takes pleasure in photographing the nuances of winter -- the frozen lakes, frosty landscapes, swirling snow -- for others to see and enjoy.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

The Simple Things: Photography of Buddy Belonsoff
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Vivid images of the simple things that make central New York unique.

Collage/Assemblage
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Collage works of Michael Sickler and Roy Simmons Jr.
Assemblage 3D pieces and jewelry of Linda Esterley

27th Annual Gingerbread Gallery: 50 Years of Fun
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

One of Syracuse's oldest holiday traditions returns this year with the theme "50 Years of Fun" in honor of the Museum's anniversary. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s street scene with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

Mix & Match
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A salon-style exhibit, bursting walls with well over 50 pieces by a variety of artists. The show features some 20 artists and multiple works of art in different sizes, shapes and media, all hung tightly next to and atop one another.

In this show, look for glass by Carmel Nicoletti; paintings by Fred and Laura J. Wellner, Bob Niedzwiecki, Diana Godfrey, Phil Parsons, Roscha Folger, CJ Hodge III, Diane Menzies, Rob Glisson, Amy E. Bartell, Stephen Perrone and C. Wilkinson; photography by Ray Trudell and Barbara Conte-Gaugel; ceramics by Carol Osborne-Ackles, B. Thomas and Sue Canizares; and much, much more.

Holiday Group Show 2012
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, photography, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include: MaryAnn Carroll, Ed Feldman, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Marie LoParco, Colleen McCall, Laurel Moranz, Bill Perrine, Tim Reese, Time See, Peter Valenti, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7" is the first solo exhibition in New York by Rochester-based artist duo Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint. The exhibition, which will be presented in the Main Gallery as well as the Windows Project, explores the context of an urban campsite that is also a participatory lab for Central New York hikers exploring Syracuse's immediate neighborhood. Curated by Anja Chávez, Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition expands traditional gallery practice by focusing on today's environmental issues and the arts, inviting the spectators to participate and incorporating their feedback into the artwork.

Read a review!

Transitive Flux
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

XL Projects presents the exhibition "Transitive Flux," a conversation about the location of thoughts and objects on the transitional plane. The four-person exhibition is the work of Rebecca Aloisio, Michael Giannattasio, Sarah Camille Wilson, and Davana Wilkins. Each artist's work is a visual negotiation of physical and psychological spaces. Through diverse media and practices, the artists question time, space and the nature of human interaction with objects.

Wilkins and Aloisio are second-year M.F.A. candidates at SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts; Wilson is a third-year M.F.A. candidate. Giannattasio received his M.F.A. from VPA in 2012. "Transitive Flux" arose from exchanges about the shared concerns in their studio practices.

The theme of the transitive and an underlying connection to the human body are present in the work of each artist. Drawing, clay, electronics and large-scale sculpture form the language with which they express ineffable moments in space and time. The exhibition addresses these issues through complex visual and physical systems that resonate with consciousness.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during regular gallery hours.

Adam Magyar: Stainless
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Stainless" is part of Hungarian artist Adam Magyar's larger project of using sophisticated recording technologies to explore the flow of time and life through urban landscapes and the people that inhabit them. Shot in black and white using a high speed camera, "Stainless" stretches the 12 seconds it takes a subway train to arrive into 8 minutes, showing us a world of slowed down motion and candid portraiture: people waiting on a subway platform, caught in a liminal zone between the A and B of everyday life, their small gestures and facial expressions by turns bored, tired, engrossed in thought and expectant. The title refers to the stainless steel from which subway train cars are made, a material that is resistant to corrosion but not altogether impervious. Like the material, these portraits convey both the strength and vulnerability of the subjects.

This exhibition is presented in collaboration with Light Work, which is showing Magyar's work in the exhibition "Kontinuum" from Jan. 14 to Mar. 15.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

Notre Dame Chorale
Alexander Blachly, conductor

Price: Free (donations accepted)
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

The program includes two of Mozart's psalms from the Solemn Vespers, the pages and knights' chorus from Wagner's Parsifal, two of the Latin contrafacts of Monteverdi madrigals, plus a variety of small pieces by Stravinsky, Debussy, Nikolai Kedrov, and others.

Conductor Alexander Blachly is the former director of the Syracuse Schola Cantorum summer workshops.

Americana Groove
Andrew and Noah Band, with special guest Nick Piccininni

Price: $5
Funk 'n Waffles University
727 S. Crouse Ave. (Campus Plaza, behind Marshall , Syracuse

Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand's monthly gig where they try out new material, experiment with old songs and jam with friends they aren't always on stage with. This month's guest is CNY's own Nick Piccininni. Expect a high energy show of acoustic bluegrass, old-time, folk and who knows what else.

For more information, visit www.andrewandnoah.com.

Solar Garlic (Phish Tribute)
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Montana Smith and the Curse of the Golden Crocodile
Acme Mystery Company

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

Montana Smith has snatched the Golden Crocodile of the Amazon from its South American home. Now it's about to be unveiled at the Municipal Museum of Natural History, but everyone's been acting rather strangely. Could it be the dreaded Curse of the Golden Crocodile? Hmm? Join us for the gala event of the season to find out (but don't turn your back on the museum staff).

Friday, January 11, 2013

Photography by Debra Trichilo

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

The photographs depict the beauty of a Central New York winter. Debra takes pleasure in photographing the nuances of winter -- the frozen lakes, frosty landscapes, swirling snow -- for others to see and enjoy.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibit, curated by Teresa Harris, architectural historian and project coordinator for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, showcases original drawings, photographs and documents from Breuer's long career.

Like many modern architects, Marcel Breuer found inspiration in the repetition characteristic of industrial processes, often relying on modular units or a standard kit of parts to create his buildings and interiors. The limits imposed by these systems stimulated subtle formal and spatial innovation so that no two designs were exactly alike, despite common components.

The Simple Things: Photography of Buddy Belonsoff
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Vivid images of the simple things that make central New York unique.

Collage/Assemblage
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Collage works of Michael Sickler and Roy Simmons Jr.
Assemblage 3D pieces and jewelry of Linda Esterley

27th Annual Gingerbread Gallery: 50 Years of Fun
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

One of Syracuse's oldest holiday traditions returns this year with the theme "50 Years of Fun" in honor of the Museum's anniversary. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms into a festive 1800s street scene with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Opening: Mix & Match
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm.

A salon-style exhibit, bursting walls with well over 50 pieces by a variety of artists. The show features some 20 artists and multiple works of art in different sizes, shapes and media, all hung tightly next to and atop one another.

In this show, look for glass by Carmel Nicoletti; paintings by Fred and Laura J. Wellner, Bob Niedzwiecki, Diana Godfrey, Phil Parsons, Roscha Folger, CJ Hodge III, Diane Menzies, Rob Glisson, Amy E. Bartell, Stephen Perrone and C. Wilkinson; photography by Ray Trudell and Barbara Conte-Gaugel; ceramics by Carol Osborne-Ackles, B. Thomas and Sue Canizares; and much, much more.

Holiday Group Show 2012
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, photography, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include: MaryAnn Carroll, Ed Feldman, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Marie LoParco, Colleen McCall, Laurel Moranz, Bill Perrine, Tim Reese, Time See, Peter Valenti, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7" is the first solo exhibition in New York by Rochester-based artist duo Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint. The exhibition, which will be presented in the Main Gallery as well as the Windows Project, explores the context of an urban campsite that is also a participatory lab for Central New York hikers exploring Syracuse's immediate neighborhood. Curated by Anja Chávez, Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition expands traditional gallery practice by focusing on today's environmental issues and the arts, inviting the spectators to participate and incorporating their feedback into the artwork.

Read a review!

Transitive Flux
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

XL Projects presents the exhibition "Transitive Flux," a conversation about the location of thoughts and objects on the transitional plane. The four-person exhibition is the work of Rebecca Aloisio, Michael Giannattasio, Sarah Camille Wilson, and Davana Wilkins. Each artist's work is a visual negotiation of physical and psychological spaces. Through diverse media and practices, the artists question time, space and the nature of human interaction with objects.

Wilkins and Aloisio are second-year M.F.A. candidates at SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts; Wilson is a third-year M.F.A. candidate. Giannattasio received his M.F.A. from VPA in 2012. "Transitive Flux" arose from exchanges about the shared concerns in their studio practices.

The theme of the transitive and an underlying connection to the human body are present in the work of each artist. Drawing, clay, electronics and large-scale sculpture form the language with which they express ineffable moments in space and time. The exhibition addresses these issues through complex visual and physical systems that resonate with consciousness.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during regular gallery hours.

Adam Magyar: Stainless
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Stainless" is part of Hungarian artist Adam Magyar's larger project of using sophisticated recording technologies to explore the flow of time and life through urban landscapes and the people that inhabit them. Shot in black and white using a high speed camera, "Stainless" stretches the 12 seconds it takes a subway train to arrive into 8 minutes, showing us a world of slowed down motion and candid portraiture: people waiting on a subway platform, caught in a liminal zone between the A and B of everyday life, their small gestures and facial expressions by turns bored, tired, engrossed in thought and expectant. The title refers to the stainless steel from which subway train cars are made, a material that is resistant to corrosion but not altogether impervious. Like the material, these portraits convey both the strength and vulnerability of the subjects.

This exhibition is presented in collaboration with Light Work, which is showing Magyar's work in the exhibition "Kontinuum" from Jan. 14 to Mar. 15.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

Jazz@Sitrus
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Nancy Kelly

Price: Free
Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

Rusted Root's Michael Glabicki, with Roses & Revolutions, Jonathan Coleman
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Shakespeare's Will
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Jamie Bruno, director

Price: $20
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Shakespeare's Will, by Vern Thiessen, takes us on a journey through Anne Hathaway's dalliance with and shotgun marriage to William Shakespeare. This is a play with extraordinary highs and lows. Anne is a sexually robust, emotionally healthy woman who is content to live as a "grass widow" while her husband has his own life in London. The show's climax deals with the plague that hit England in the mid 1590s. Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, died during this period of time.

Don't miss Nora O'Dea in her signature role as Anne Hathaway.

For more information and reservations, call 315-476-1835.

Enter on Washington Street side of the building.

Two Into One
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: Dinner theater: $34.95. Show only: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A Brtish sex farce by Ray Cooney. A Member of Parliament tries to arrange a dalliance with a secretary for the P.M. in an out-of-the-way little hotel. Unfortunately, he engages one of his aides to arrange the whole thing. The aide is something of a charming bumbler and he gets everything all mixed up. Also on hand are the pompously disapproving hotel manager, a venal ethnic waiter, and a female Labour politician who crusades against pornography on the one hand, while on the other she is trying to lure the bumbling civil servant into bed!

Located near Macy's, on 2nd floor, above Pet World.

Read a Review!

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Photography by Debra Trichilo

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

The photographs depict the beauty of a Central New York winter. Debra takes pleasure in photographing the nuances of winter -- the frozen lakes, frosty landscapes, swirling snow -- for others to see and enjoy.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

There will be an artist reception this afternoon from 2:00-4:00 pm.

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

Collage/Assemblage
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Collage works of Michael Sickler and Roy Simmons Jr.
Assemblage 3D pieces and jewelry of Linda Esterley

Mix & Match
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A salon-style exhibit, bursting walls with well over 50 pieces by a variety of artists. The show features some 20 artists and multiple works of art in different sizes, shapes and media, all hung tightly next to and atop one another.

In this show, look for glass by Carmel Nicoletti; paintings by Fred and Laura J. Wellner, Bob Niedzwiecki, Diana Godfrey, Phil Parsons, Roscha Folger, CJ Hodge III, Diane Menzies, Rob Glisson, Amy E. Bartell, Stephen Perrone and C. Wilkinson; photography by Ray Trudell and Barbara Conte-Gaugel; ceramics by Carol Osborne-Ackles, B. Thomas and Sue Canizares; and much, much more.

Stone Canoe Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Stone Canoe annual exhibition, in tandem with the launch of the 2013 issue of Stone Canoe Journal, will feature the work of 29 artists, some emerging and some well-established, with connections to the Upstate New York region. The show is curated by Amy Cheng, professor of art at SUNY New Paltz and visual arts editor for Stone Canoe 7. Stone Canoe, an award-winning journal of arts, literature and social commentary, is published each January by University College of Syracuse University.

Holiday Group Show 2012
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, photography, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include: MaryAnn Carroll, Ed Feldman, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Marie LoParco, Colleen McCall, Laurel Moranz, Bill Perrine, Tim Reese, Time See, Peter Valenti, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7" is the first solo exhibition in New York by Rochester-based artist duo Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint. The exhibition, which will be presented in the Main Gallery as well as the Windows Project, explores the context of an urban campsite that is also a participatory lab for Central New York hikers exploring Syracuse's immediate neighborhood. Curated by Anja Chávez, Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition expands traditional gallery practice by focusing on today's environmental issues and the arts, inviting the spectators to participate and incorporating their feedback into the artwork.

Read a review!

Transitive Flux
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

XL Projects presents the exhibition "Transitive Flux," a conversation about the location of thoughts and objects on the transitional plane. The four-person exhibition is the work of Rebecca Aloisio, Michael Giannattasio, Sarah Camille Wilson, and Davana Wilkins. Each artist's work is a visual negotiation of physical and psychological spaces. Through diverse media and practices, the artists question time, space and the nature of human interaction with objects.

Wilkins and Aloisio are second-year M.F.A. candidates at SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts; Wilson is a third-year M.F.A. candidate. Giannattasio received his M.F.A. from VPA in 2012. "Transitive Flux" arose from exchanges about the shared concerns in their studio practices.

The theme of the transitive and an underlying connection to the human body are present in the work of each artist. Drawing, clay, electronics and large-scale sculpture form the language with which they express ineffable moments in space and time. The exhibition addresses these issues through complex visual and physical systems that resonate with consciousness.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during regular gallery hours.

Adam Magyar: Stainless
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Stainless" is part of Hungarian artist Adam Magyar's larger project of using sophisticated recording technologies to explore the flow of time and life through urban landscapes and the people that inhabit them. Shot in black and white using a high speed camera, "Stainless" stretches the 12 seconds it takes a subway train to arrive into 8 minutes, showing us a world of slowed down motion and candid portraiture: people waiting on a subway platform, caught in a liminal zone between the A and B of everyday life, their small gestures and facial expressions by turns bored, tired, engrossed in thought and expectant. The title refers to the stainless steel from which subway train cars are made, a material that is resistant to corrosion but not altogether impervious. Like the material, these portraits convey both the strength and vulnerability of the subjects.

This exhibition is presented in collaboration with Light Work, which is showing Magyar's work in the exhibition "Kontinuum" from Jan. 14 to Mar. 15.

Opening Significant Souls: Paintings by Patrick Fiore
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 7:00-9:00 pm.

Utica-native Patrick Fiore has created a series of 34 paintings inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States 1492-Present, which will be on exhibit.

Patrick does not conceal his intention. He wants, by putting the people and events of the People's History into graphic, startling form, to draw attention to the history of our nation, to the stories omitted, the heroes of dissent missing from the pages of the textbooks. He wants to reach people by his paintings and to inspire them to think for themselves about our society, to tell them about the way people through the centuries have behaved with compassion and kindness, against all odds, have thought for themselves, have organized and agitated, and refused obedience to laws and practices that offend common decency.

This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.

"Lucky 13" Show
Salt City Improv Theater

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

Well...so far, so good! We all survived the Mayan Apocalypse, we were saved from a lemmings-like fate at the edge of the Fiscal Cliff, and we've correctly filled in "2013" on all our checks. This could be our lucky year! So, start buying those lottery tickets, head to the casino, and maybe even answer that email from that Nigerian prince. The, let's sit back and wait for the Law of Attraction to kick in.

Meanwhile, count your lucky stars, and join us for a hilarious night of improv comedy with the Salt City Improv house team, Pork Pie Hat (short-form improv in the style of the hit TV show Whose Line Is It, Anyway).

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

The Big Break: Final Round
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Cadleys with JD Dancks

Price: Donation of non-perishable food for food pantry
Hillview Community Baptist Church
7382 O'Brien Rd., Baldwinsville

Acoustic and bluegrass traditional duets, originals, and favorites.

Joe Davoli & Nick Piccinnini

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
Robinson Memorial Church
126 Terry Rd. (corner of Granger), Syracuse

Joe & Nick will present two sets of bluegrass and newgrass. Fiddles, a banjo, mandolins, a guitar, a dobro -- they'll all be there performing a mix of both original and traditional tunes and songs.

Jazz Blast
Steeple Coffeehouse

Price: $7 in advance, $10 at the door
Fayetteville United Church
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Former White House pianist Bob Price and Syracuse jazz legend Marcus Curry.

Admission includes beverage and dessert.

For more information, phone 315-663-7415.

Second Saturday Series: Andrew & Noah Van Norstrand
Westcott Community Center

Price: $15 regular, $12 WCC members
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand are two of the most exciting and creative musicians on the folk music scene today. This special show will be a rare, all-acoustic performance by the duo, featuring a finely crafted blend of old-time country songs, mountain fiddle tunes, swing, and bluegrass, as well as some originals. The intimate setting of the Westcott Community Center is the perfect venue for this kind of concert.

The VanNorstrands have been bringing their brand of high-energy alternative folk music to concert halls, festival stages, and dance floors across North America for more than a decade, but this concert is a return to the brothers' musical roots. Their stunning abilities as both performers and composers, combined with energetic, heartfelt performances, have built a large and loyal following. This show presents a special opportunity to hear these remarkable musicians in a cozy, close-up setting.

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

A Night at the Sands: Music, Laughter & Drinks with Dean Martin

Price: $18 in advance, $20 at the door
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Michael Patrick Dominick stars as the comical Dean Martin in this re-enactment of the Las Vegas musical variety comedy acts of the 1960s. From "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" to "You're a Nobody Till Somebody Loves You," you'll sing along to the hits and laugh until you cry as Dean takes the stage at the famous Sand Hotel for a performance you're sure to never forget!

For tickets or more information, contact michaelpatrickdominick@gmail.com or 215-272-5032.

Shakespeare's Will
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Jamie Bruno, director

Price: $20
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Shakespeare's Will, by Vern Thiessen, takes us on a journey through Anne Hathaway's dalliance with and shotgun marriage to William Shakespeare. This is a play with extraordinary highs and lows. Anne is a sexually robust, emotionally healthy woman who is content to live as a "grass widow" while her husband has his own life in London. The show's climax deals with the plague that hit England in the mid 1590s. Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, died during this period of time.

Don't miss Nora O'Dea in her signature role as Anne Hathaway.

For more information and reservations, call 315-476-1835.

Enter on Washington Street side of the building.

Two Into One
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: Dinner theater: $34.95. Show only: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A Brtish sex farce by Ray Cooney. A Member of Parliament tries to arrange a dalliance with a secretary for the P.M. in an out-of-the-way little hotel. Unfortunately, he engages one of his aides to arrange the whole thing. The aide is something of a charming bumbler and he gets everything all mixed up. Also on hand are the pompously disapproving hotel manager, a venal ethnic waiter, and a female Labour politician who crusades against pornography on the one hand, while on the other she is trying to lure the bumbling civil servant into bed!

Located near Macy's, on 2nd floor, above Pet World.

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Sunday, January 13, 2013

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

Mix & Match
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A salon-style exhibit, bursting walls with well over 50 pieces by a variety of artists. The show features some 20 artists and multiple works of art in different sizes, shapes and media, all hung tightly next to and atop one another.

In this show, look for glass by Carmel Nicoletti; paintings by Fred and Laura J. Wellner, Bob Niedzwiecki, Diana Godfrey, Phil Parsons, Roscha Folger, CJ Hodge III, Diane Menzies, Rob Glisson, Amy E. Bartell, Stephen Perrone and C. Wilkinson; photography by Ray Trudell and Barbara Conte-Gaugel; ceramics by Carol Osborne-Ackles, B. Thomas and Sue Canizares; and much, much more.

Holiday Group Show 2012
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit and to shop locally.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, photography, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include: MaryAnn Carroll, Ed Feldman, Jen Gandee, Bob Gates, Marie LoParco, Colleen McCall, Laurel Moranz, Bill Perrine, Tim Reese, Time See, Peter Valenti, Lucie Wellner, Pualani Wiley, and Errol Willett.

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Transitive Flux
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

XL Projects presents the exhibition "Transitive Flux," a conversation about the location of thoughts and objects on the transitional plane. The four-person exhibition is the work of Rebecca Aloisio, Michael Giannattasio, Sarah Camille Wilson, and Davana Wilkins. Each artist's work is a visual negotiation of physical and psychological spaces. Through diverse media and practices, the artists question time, space and the nature of human interaction with objects.

Wilkins and Aloisio are second-year M.F.A. candidates at SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts; Wilson is a third-year M.F.A. candidate. Giannattasio received his M.F.A. from VPA in 2012. "Transitive Flux" arose from exchanges about the shared concerns in their studio practices.

The theme of the transitive and an underlying connection to the human body are present in the work of each artist. Drawing, clay, electronics and large-scale sculpture form the language with which they express ineffable moments in space and time. The exhibition addresses these issues through complex visual and physical systems that resonate with consciousness.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during regular gallery hours.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

Sunday Musicale: Joe Riposo and Friends
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: $5 suggested donation
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

If Posters Could Talk
Onondaga Historical Association
Featuring Dik Cool and Karen Kerney

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers Founder/Publisher Dik Cool and Art Director/Poster Artist Karen Kerney will present background information on the creation of the various posters presently on display at the Onondaga Historical Association. They will also engage audience members in a dialogue about the social-political-historic-artistic activity that prompted these posters to "speak."

The talk is being held in conjunction with the exhibit "If Posters Could Talk: Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30."

Artist Lecture
ArtRage Gallery
Featuring Patrick Fiore

Price: Free
Matilda Joslyn Gage House
210 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Artist Patrick Fiore will discuss the inspiration behind his work in the "Significant Souls" exhibit.

Golden Organ Anniversary Celebration
Featuring Will Headlee, organ

Price: Free
Church of the Saviour
437 James St., Syracuse

Celebration of organist and organ designer Ernest White.

Viol Consort: Greatest Hits of the Ars Nova
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Countertenor Barry Torres joins Gamba Obscura's ensemble of fidels, vielles, lutes and psalteries for music from some of the greatest composers of the 14th century, including Machaut, Landini, and Jacobo da Bolgna.

Two Into One
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $15
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A Brtish sex farce by Ray Cooney. A Member of Parliament tries to arrange a dalliance with a secretary for the P.M. in an out-of-the-way little hotel. Unfortunately, he engages one of his aides to arrange the whole thing. The aide is something of a charming bumbler and he gets everything all mixed up. Also on hand are the pompously disapproving hotel manager, a venal ethnic waiter, and a female Labour politician who crusades against pornography on the one hand, while on the other she is trying to lure the bumbling civil servant into bed!

Located near Macy's, on 2nd floor, above Pet World.

(No dinner or bar service available for Sunday shows.)

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Monday, January 14, 2013

Photography by Debra Trichilo

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

The photographs depict the beauty of a Central New York winter. Debra takes pleasure in photographing the nuances of winter -- the frozen lakes, frosty landscapes, swirling snow -- for others to see and enjoy.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

The Simple Things: Photography of Buddy Belonsoff
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Vivid images of the simple things that make central New York unique.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Photography by Debra Trichilo

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

The photographs depict the beauty of a Central New York winter. Debra takes pleasure in photographing the nuances of winter -- the frozen lakes, frosty landscapes, swirling snow -- for others to see and enjoy.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

The Simple Things: Photography of Buddy Belonsoff
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Vivid images of the simple things that make central New York unique.

Collage/Assemblage
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Collage works of Michael Sickler and Roy Simmons Jr.
Assemblage 3D pieces and jewelry of Linda Esterley

Stone Canoe Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Stone Canoe annual exhibition, in tandem with the launch of the 2013 issue of Stone Canoe Journal, will feature the work of 29 artists, some emerging and some well-established, with connections to the Upstate New York region. The show is curated by Amy Cheng, professor of art at SUNY New Paltz and visual arts editor for Stone Canoe 7. Stone Canoe, an award-winning journal of arts, literature and social commentary, is published each January by University College of Syracuse University.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7" is the first solo exhibition in New York by Rochester-based artist duo Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint. The exhibition, which will be presented in the Main Gallery as well as the Windows Project, explores the context of an urban campsite that is also a participatory lab for Central New York hikers exploring Syracuse's immediate neighborhood. Curated by Anja Chávez, Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition expands traditional gallery practice by focusing on today's environmental issues and the arts, inviting the spectators to participate and incorporating their feedback into the artwork.

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Symphony Brass Ensemble
Temple Society of Concord

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

John Raschella, trumpet; Barbara Hull, trumpet; Jon Garland, horn; Heather Buchman, trombone; and Michael Coldren, tuba.

The Firepower Tour: Datsik, with Griz, Rekoil
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Tickets purchased for the 10/3/12 show will be honored at this show.

All tickets previously purchased for the Oct. 3, 201, show will be honored at this show.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Photography by Debra Trichilo

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

The photographs depict the beauty of a Central New York winter. Debra takes pleasure in photographing the nuances of winter -- the frozen lakes, frosty landscapes, swirling snow -- for others to see and enjoy.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

The Simple Things: Photography of Buddy Belonsoff
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Vivid images of the simple things that make central New York unique.

Collage/Assemblage
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Collage works of Michael Sickler and Roy Simmons Jr.
Assemblage 3D pieces and jewelry of Linda Esterley

Stone Canoe Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Stone Canoe annual exhibition, in tandem with the launch of the 2013 issue of Stone Canoe Journal, will feature the work of 29 artists, some emerging and some well-established, with connections to the Upstate New York region. The show is curated by Amy Cheng, professor of art at SUNY New Paltz and visual arts editor for Stone Canoe 7. Stone Canoe, an award-winning journal of arts, literature and social commentary, is published each January by University College of Syracuse University.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

Mix & Match
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A salon-style exhibit, bursting walls with well over 50 pieces by a variety of artists. The show features some 20 artists and multiple works of art in different sizes, shapes and media, all hung tightly next to and atop one another.

In this show, look for glass by Carmel Nicoletti; paintings by Fred and Laura J. Wellner, Bob Niedzwiecki, Diana Godfrey, Phil Parsons, Roscha Folger, CJ Hodge III, Diane Menzies, Rob Glisson, Amy E. Bartell, Stephen Perrone and C. Wilkinson; photography by Ray Trudell and Barbara Conte-Gaugel; ceramics by Carol Osborne-Ackles, B. Thomas and Sue Canizares; and much, much more.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7" is the first solo exhibition in New York by Rochester-based artist duo Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint. The exhibition, which will be presented in the Main Gallery as well as the Windows Project, explores the context of an urban campsite that is also a participatory lab for Central New York hikers exploring Syracuse's immediate neighborhood. Curated by Anja Chávez, Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition expands traditional gallery practice by focusing on today's environmental issues and the arts, inviting the spectators to participate and incorporating their feedback into the artwork.

Read a review!

Transitive Flux
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

XL Projects presents the exhibition "Transitive Flux," a conversation about the location of thoughts and objects on the transitional plane. The four-person exhibition is the work of Rebecca Aloisio, Michael Giannattasio, Sarah Camille Wilson, and Davana Wilkins. Each artist's work is a visual negotiation of physical and psychological spaces. Through diverse media and practices, the artists question time, space and the nature of human interaction with objects.

Wilkins and Aloisio are second-year M.F.A. candidates at SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts; Wilson is a third-year M.F.A. candidate. Giannattasio received his M.F.A. from VPA in 2012. "Transitive Flux" arose from exchanges about the shared concerns in their studio practices.

The theme of the transitive and an underlying connection to the human body are present in the work of each artist. Drawing, clay, electronics and large-scale sculpture form the language with which they express ineffable moments in space and time. The exhibition addresses these issues through complex visual and physical systems that resonate with consciousness.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during regular gallery hours.

Significant Souls: Paintings by Patrick Fiore
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Utica-native Patrick Fiore has created a series of 34 paintings inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States 1492-Present, which will be on exhibit.

Patrick does not conceal his intention. He wants, by putting the people and events of the People's History into graphic, startling form, to draw attention to the history of our nation, to the stories omitted, the heroes of dissent missing from the pages of the textbooks. He wants to reach people by his paintings and to inspire them to think for themselves about our society, to tell them about the way people through the centuries have behaved with compassion and kindness, against all odds, have thought for themselves, have organized and agitated, and refused obedience to laws and practices that offend common decency.

This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

Flute In the Americas Since 1985
Civic Morning Musicals
Jenni Foutch, flute; Maryna Mazhukhova, piano

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

Music of Katherine Hoover, Mario Lavista, Astor Piazzoloa, and Lowell Liebermann.

The Young Rapscallions, with The Vanderbuilts, Homeward
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Preview: W;t
Redhouse

Price: $12.50 regular, $7.50 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A brilliant and brutally demanding professor, specializing in the life-and-death themes of John Donnes Holy Sonnets, suddenly finds herself the subject of a cancer research study designed to save her from ovarian cancer. Written by Margaret Edsen.

There will be a 20-30 minute talkback session following each performance. Panels comprised of physicians, nurses, teachers, social workers, bereavement councilors, non-profit support and advocacy groups, and patients and their families will discuss the underlying issues brought up by the play.

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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Photography by Debra Trichilo

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

The photographs depict the beauty of a Central New York winter. Debra takes pleasure in photographing the nuances of winter -- the frozen lakes, frosty landscapes, swirling snow -- for others to see and enjoy.

Sacred Paradox: Photography by Willson Cummer
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs by local artist Willson Cummer focus on exploring humanity's place in the environment. This group of photographs depicts images of Onondaga Lake and its tributaries, taken from a canoe and from the shore. The exhibit title, Sacred Paradox, refers to the conflicting reality of Onondaga Lake -- it is both a Superfund cleanup site and a holy lake for the nearby Onondaga Indian Nation.

Opening: Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-7:00 pm.

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press. Founded by Barney Rosset in 1951, Grove Press became one of the 20th-century's great avant-garde publishing houses. What began as a small independent publisher on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village grew into a multimillion dollar publishing company that has been credited with introducing important authors from around the world to American readers during the postwar period.

Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable Victorian Library. Each book published by Grove, the exhibition reveals, was in its own way, a "strange victory." For while Grove altered the American literary landscape and its relationship to social mores, equality, and freedom of expression, Grove also aggressively deployed savvy marketing strategies, became embroiled in labor union battles, floundered in its own success, and offended the sensibilities of not only "squares," but feminists, Marxists, academics, and many others. Strange Victories tells the complicated story of Grove's many literary and political achievements, whose profound influence on American culture endures today.

The Simple Things: Photography of Buddy Belonsoff
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Vivid images of the simple things that make central New York unique.

Collage/Assemblage
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Collage works of Michael Sickler and Roy Simmons Jr.
Assemblage 3D pieces and jewelry of Linda Esterley

Stone Canoe Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Stone Canoe annual exhibition, in tandem with the launch of the 2013 issue of Stone Canoe Journal, will feature the work of 29 artists, some emerging and some well-established, with connections to the Upstate New York region. The show is curated by Amy Cheng, professor of art at SUNY New Paltz and visual arts editor for Stone Canoe 7. Stone Canoe, an award-winning journal of arts, literature and social commentary, is published each January by University College of Syracuse University.

2012 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring works by Dennis Krukowski, Tice Lerner, and Sayler/Morris.

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum
Light Work Gallery

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

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse.

Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

Syracuse Cultural Workers 100 @ 30
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

100 posters celebrating 30 years. Since 1982, SCW has published and distributed over 700 posters across North America and a bit on other continents. This selection of 100 titles represents the best, the boldest, and the oldest.

Sight Unseen: Stereographs from the OHA Collection, 1850-1930
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Since OHA's inception, it has amassed a collection of over 2,000 stereographs, or stereo views, of Onondaga County and beyond. Archived in the research holdings, these 3-D photographs have never before been exhibited. Guest curator Colleen Woolpert offers an overview of the collection, providing insight into the little known history of stereo photography while taking us back into the past with the aid of exhibition stereoscopes. The exhibit includes Syracuse views taken by local photographers as well as nationally-marketed views, historic stereoscopes, books, and related 3-D ephemera. It also looks at the combined industries of photography, publishing, manufacturing and marketing that contributed to the enormous popularity of the stereograph.

Mix & Match
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A salon-style exhibit, bursting walls with well over 50 pieces by a variety of artists. The show features some 20 artists and multiple works of art in different sizes, shapes and media, all hung tightly next to and atop one another.

In this show, look for glass by Carmel Nicoletti; paintings by Fred and Laura J. Wellner, Bob Niedzwiecki, Diana Godfrey, Phil Parsons, Roscha Folger, CJ Hodge III, Diane Menzies, Rob Glisson, Amy E. Bartell, Stephen Perrone and C. Wilkinson; photography by Ray Trudell and Barbara Conte-Gaugel; ceramics by Carol Osborne-Ackles, B. Thomas and Sue Canizares; and much, much more.

Angels on the Border
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

"Angels on the Border" is an exhibition of religious paintings commissioned by Mexican immigrants from 1912 to 1996.

Retablos are Mexican folk paintings, usually created on small pieces of tin, offered as votives to the Christ and the Virgin Mary in gratitude for a miracle granted or a favor received. Made by professional retablo artists, immigrant relatives or the immigrants themselves, the artwork is posted on walls inside Catholic churches in Mexico.

ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7" is the first solo exhibition in New York by Rochester-based artist duo Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint. The exhibition, which will be presented in the Main Gallery as well as the Windows Project, explores the context of an urban campsite that is also a participatory lab for Central New York hikers exploring Syracuse's immediate neighborhood. Curated by Anja Chávez, Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition expands traditional gallery practice by focusing on today's environmental issues and the arts, inviting the spectators to participate and incorporating their feedback into the artwork.

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Transitive Flux
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

There will be a reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm, in conjunction with Th3, the Third Thursday citywide art open.

XL Projects presents the exhibition "Transitive Flux," a conversation about the location of thoughts and objects on the transitional plane. The four-person exhibition is the work of Rebecca Aloisio, Michael Giannattasio, Sarah Camille Wilson, and Davana Wilkins. Each artist's work is a visual negotiation of physical and psychological spaces. Through diverse media and practices, the artists question time, space and the nature of human interaction with objects.

Wilkins and Aloisio are second-year M.F.A. candidates at SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts; Wilson is a third-year M.F.A. candidate. Giannattasio received his M.F.A. from VPA in 2012. "Transitive Flux" arose from exchanges about the shared concerns in their studio practices.

The theme of the transitive and an underlying connection to the human body are present in the work of each artist. Drawing, clay, electronics and large-scale sculpture form the language with which they express ineffable moments in space and time. The exhibition addresses these issues through complex visual and physical systems that resonate with consciousness.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during regular gallery hours.

Significant Souls: Paintings by Patrick Fiore
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Utica-native Patrick Fiore has created a series of 34 paintings inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States 1492-Present, which will be on exhibit.

Patrick does not conceal his intention. He wants, by putting the people and events of the People's History into graphic, startling form, to draw attention to the history of our nation, to the stories omitted, the heroes of dissent missing from the pages of the textbooks. He wants to reach people by his paintings and to inspire them to think for themselves about our society, to tell them about the way people through the centuries have behaved with compassion and kindness, against all odds, have thought for themselves, have organized and agitated, and refused obedience to laws and practices that offend common decency.

This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.

Griffin Hill Photography Club: Color and Light
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Each member of the Griffin Hill Photography Club has a distinct style and approach to photography. The photographic use of color and light finds unique and individual expression by each of these photographers: Steve Codner, Bob Kleinberg, Saul Kleinberg, Xander Karkruff, Fran Lawlor, and Kate Woodle.

Adam Magyar: Stainless
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Stainless" is part of Hungarian artist Adam Magyar's larger project of using sophisticated recording technologies to explore the flow of time and life through urban landscapes and the people that inhabit them. Shot in black and white using a high speed camera, "Stainless" stretches the 12 seconds it takes a subway train to arrive into 8 minutes, showing us a world of slowed down motion and candid portraiture: people waiting on a subway platform, caught in a liminal zone between the A and B of everyday life, their small gestures and facial expressions by turns bored, tired, engrossed in thought and expectant. The title refers to the stainless steel from which subway train cars are made, a material that is resistant to corrosion but not altogether impervious. Like the material, these portraits convey both the strength and vulnerability of the subjects.

This exhibition is presented in collaboration with Light Work, which is showing Magyar's work in the exhibition "Kontinuum" from Jan. 14 to Mar. 15.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The life and times of Howard Zinn, historian, activist, and author of several classics including A People's History of the United States. Archival footage and commentary by friends and colleagues Matt Damon and Daniel Berrigan, and Zinn himself. Directed by Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller. (2004, documentary, 78 minutes)

Toys From the Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Featured in this eclectic display are the bookshelf, counter, calliope, and international doll collection from The Magic Toy Shop, Syracuse's local children's TV show from the 1950s through 1980s. Visitors to the exhibit will also see hand-carved trains and boats, Punch & Judy marionettes, Victorian dolls, 1950s board games, and many other vintage toys, some made in central New York. The exhibit also includes historic photos of downtown Syracuse, and boxes from bygone stores such as Chappell's, Dey Bros., Flah's, Madame Netter, and E. W. Edwards.

Journey through Music of the African Diaspora: Akuma Roots
Community Folk Art Center

Price: $5 donation appreciated
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Join us for an exciting and lively performance by popular reggae band Akuma Roots as part of our music series, A Journey Through Music of the African Diaspora. Akuma Roots will perform a fusion of reggae and Afro-Caribbean music. Akuma Roots is a Syracuse-based reggae group that creates upbeat, body-moving music with socially conscious themes. Hailing from Jamaica, Ghana, and Syracuse, the members of Akuma Roots use a diverse set of music influences to create energetic, soulful rhythms.

Umphrey's McGee, with Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad

Price: $23
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

"Umphrey's McGee stand revealed as consummate musical alchemists, deftly reconfiguring sounds from rock's vast panoply of styles." (Entertainment Weekly).

Fans who have followed Umphrey's McGee for any period of time know that there are only two guarantees: you never know what you're going to get, and Umphrey's always delivers.

Tickets are available at www.UpstateShows.com, The Landmark Theatre Box Office, and all Ticketmaster Outlets.

Pirate Jam After-Party
Westcott Theater

Price: $5
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

An All-Star jam featuring members of Roc City, Root Shock, Project Weather Machine, Phantom Chemistry and more.

Montana Smith and the Curse of the Golden Crocodile
Acme Mystery Company

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

Montana Smith has snatched the Golden Crocodile of the Amazon from its South American home. Now it's about to be unveiled at the Municipal Museum of Natural History, but everyone's been acting rather strangely. Could it be the dreaded Curse of the Golden Crocodile? Hmm? Join us for the gala event of the season to find out (but don't turn your back on the museum staff).

Two Into One
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $15
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A Brtish sex farce by Ray Cooney. A Member of Parliament tries to arrange a dalliance with a secretary for the P.M. in an out-of-the-way little hotel. Unfortunately, he engages one of his aides to arrange the whole thing. The aide is something of a charming bumbler and he gets everything all mixed up. Also on hand are the pompously disapproving hotel manager, a venal ethnic waiter, and a female Labour politician who crusades against pornography on the one hand, while on the other she is trying to lure the bumbling civil servant into bed!

Located near Macy's, on 2nd floor, above Pet World.

(No dinner available for Thursday shows.)

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Preview: Baltimore Waltz
Redhouse

Price: $12.50 regular; $7.50 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Baltimore Waltz follows a brother and sister who flee a frightening medical diagnosis by embarking on a fantastical trip across Europe. A third actor plays the quirky characters they encounter, including the Little Dutch Boy (at age 50) and Harry Lime, from the classic movie The Third Man. This is a play about processing grief; about the love between brothers and sisters. Written by Paula Vogel.

There will be a 20-30 minute talkback session following each performance. Panels comprised of physicians, nurses, teachers, social workers, bereavement councilors, non-profit support and advocacy groups, and patients and their families will discuss the underlying issues brought up by the play.

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