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Events for Thursday, May 11, 2023

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-8:00 PM Dreams Deferred Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

11:00 AM-8:00 PM CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet Everson Museum of Art

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

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

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Pick & Mix Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Works of Kelly Justice Gandee Gallery

2:00 PM-6:00 PM Climate Connections: Our Shared Future ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

6:45 PM No Time for Death Acme Mystery Company

7:00 PM-9:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Dead to the Core The 443 Social Club

7:30 PM Dear Evan Hansen Broadway in Syracuse

7:30 PM Tender Rain (World Premiere) Syracuse Stage

8:45 PM-11:00 PM TJ Cuthand: Extractions Urban Video Project

Events for Friday, May 12, 2023

9:30 AM-8:00 PM Opening: Artifact Collection Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Light Work Gallery

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

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Dreams Deferred Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

11:00 AM-5:00 PM CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Pick & Mix Everson Museum of Art

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

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

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Works of Kelly Justice Gandee Gallery

2:00 PM-6:00 PM Climate Connections: Our Shared Future ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

7:00 PM Author James Haywood Rolling, Jr. Downtown Writer's Center

7:00 PM Bridges of Madison County Redhouse

7:00 PM-9:00 PM Simplelife & Corey Paige The 443 Social Club

7:30 PM The Laramie Project Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

7:30 PM Dear Evan Hansen Broadway in Syracuse

7:30 PM Tender Rain (World Premiere) Syracuse Stage

8:45 PM-11:00 PM TJ Cuthand: Extractions Urban Video Project

Events for Saturday, May 13, 2023

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-2:00 PM Artifact Collection Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet Everson Museum of Art

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

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

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Pick & Mix Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Works of Kelly Justice Gandee Gallery

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Climate Connections: Our Shared Future ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Dreams Deferred Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

1:00 PM When Syracuse Ruled the NBA, Remembering the Nats Everson Museum of Art

2:00 PM Dear Evan Hansen Broadway in Syracuse

2:00 PM Bridges of Madison County Redhouse

2:00 PM Tender Rain (World Premiere) Syracuse Stage

7:00 PM Voices of Spring Cabaret Central New York Playhouse

7:00 PM Bridges of Madison County Redhouse

7:00 PM-9:00 PM Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation with the Ramones Book Release Party The 443 Social Club

7:30 PM The Laramie Project Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

7:30 PM Ronnie Leigh Quartet Steeple Coffee House

7:30 PM Pops Series: Queens of Soul Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

7:30 PM Tender Rain (World Premiere) Syracuse Stage

8:00 PM Dear Evan Hansen Broadway in Syracuse

8:45 PM-11:00 PM TJ Cuthand: Extractions Urban Video Project

Events for Sunday, May 14, 2023

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Pick & Mix Everson Museum of Art

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

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

10:00 AM-5:00 PM CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Works of Kelly Justice Gandee Gallery

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

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Dreams Deferred Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

1:00 PM-5:00 PM Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

1:00 PM Dear Evan Hansen Broadway in Syracuse

2:00 PM Bridges of Madison County Redhouse

2:00 PM Tender Rain (World Premiere) Syracuse Stage

6:30 PM Dear Evan Hansen Broadway in Syracuse

7:30 PM Tender Rain (World Premiere) Syracuse Stage

Events for Monday, May 15, 2023

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Light Work Gallery

7:00 PM Son of Fury (The Story of Benjamin Blake) (1942) Syracuse Cinephile Society

Events for Tuesday, May 16, 2023

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Artifact Collection Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Light Work Gallery

7:30 PM Tender Rain (World Premiere) Syracuse Stage

Events for Wednesday, May 17, 2023

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Artifact Collection Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-5:00 PM CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet Everson Museum of Art

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

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Pick & Mix Everson Museum of Art

2:00 PM-6:00 PM Climate Connections: Our Shared Future ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

7:00 PM-9:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Hamell on Trial: The Syracuse Stories The 443 Social Club

7:30 PM Tender Rain (World Premiere) Syracuse Stage

Events for Thursday, May 18, 2023

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Artifact Collection Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Light Work Gallery

11:00 AM-8:00 PM CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Pick & Mix Everson Museum of Art

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

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Works of Kelly Justice Gandee Gallery

2:00 PM-6:00 PM Climate Connections: Our Shared Future ArtRage Gallery (Read a review!)

6:00 PM Salt & Pepper: Finding Common Ground Everson Museum of Art, featuring Habiba’s Ethiopian Kitchen and David MacDonald

6:45 PM No Time for Death Acme Mystery Company

7:00 PM Bridges of Madison County Redhouse

7:30 PM Tender Rain (World Premiere) Syracuse Stage

7:30 PM Cody Johnson The Oncenter

9:00 PM-11:00 PM TJ Cuthand: Extractions Urban Video Project

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Thursday, May 11, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 11



Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An invitational show featuring plein aire paintings in various mediums and styles depicting local scenic and historic settings such as Delphi Falls, Pratt's Falls, Chittenango Falls, and the Lorenzo Estate.

Featured artists include Meg Harris, Diane Davis, Drayton Jones, Doug Davis, Barb Emerson, Eric Schute, Pat Knapp, and Diane Ryan.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 11



Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

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

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.


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10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 11



Dreams Deferred
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Dreams Deferred: Reflections on Liberty, Equality, and Sovereignty in U.S. Art" examines the idea of freedom in the United States as expressed in art, including its possibilities, its oversights, its uneven implementation, and its attacks on Indigenous sovereignty. Curated by incoming Master of Arts students in art history and under the direction of Associate Professor Sascha Scott.

Featuring work drawn from the S.U. Art Museum's extensive permanent collection, including newly acquired artwork, the exhibition highlights how structural inequities, oppressive histories, disenfranchisement, and degradation of personhood are variously perpetuated, elided, and disrupted in U.S. art. "Dreams Deferred" also highlights art that advocates for equality, accentuates personhood, and unmasks structural racism and histories of misogyny, enslavement, dispossession — violences that are still felt today.


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10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 11



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 11



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 11



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 11



CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As the United States fell under the shadow of the Cold War in the early 1950s, politicians like Senator Joseph McCarthy accused untold thousands of people of being communists, but also cast a wider net for "subversives" that included people who did not conform to conventional gender norms. The resulting demonization of LGBTQ+ communities has come to be known as the lavender scare. Over the past decade, conceptual artist Ryan Patrick Krueger has rifled through countless archives, yearbooks, and eBay listings to uncover photographs of men interacting with each other with affection, tenderness, and camaraderie. The assembled images reveal a variety of coded behaviors that bypass the public gaze but speak volumes to queer individuals.

"Documents from the Closet" is Krueger's most ambitious assemblage of images to date. Found photographs are juxtaposed with a variety of ephemera drawn from queer newspapers and magazines. These images, created for specifically queer spaces, acknowledge coded behaviors through camp, satire, or by dispensing with them entirely. Krueger painstakingly arranges and rearranges this printed matter to evoke the march of history through semiotics and visual cues like fashion choices, graphic design, and material culture. From the lavender scare to the AIDS crisis and beyond, Documents from the Closet reminds viewers that despite increased visibility and rights for LGBTQ+ individuals, many of these coded behaviors still exist as coping mechanisms for society that still silences and punishes nonconformity.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 11



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 11



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 11



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 11



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, May 11



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Three local artists, Christine Chin of Ithaca, and Carrie Drake and Anita Welych of Syracuse, explore the natural environment and the consequences of climate change through their art.

Read a review!


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8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, May 11



TJ Cuthand: Extractions
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Extractions traces parallels between natural resource extraction and Canada's booming child apprehension industry. As the filmmaker reviews how these industries have affected him, he reflects on having his own eggs retrieved and frozen to make an Indigenous baby. This work is part of Cuthand's series, NDN Survival Trilogy. (2019, 15:13 minutes)


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Music
 

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, May 11



*SOLD OUT* Dead to the Core
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Dead to the Core is a collective of singer-songwriters and acoustic musicians, led by musician/author Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, that celebrates the music of the Grateful Dead — not through note-for-note recreations but by playing the songs their own way, letting them grow and evolve collaboratively in the true spirit of the Dead.


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, May 11



No Time for Death
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Shirley Maxwell has gathered the media together to announce that her company, Wonder Labs, is back on the map with the unveiling of an incredible new invention: a time machine! Insiders say it was invented by lab assistant Nick Van Castle. Or was it really invented by has-been inventor Nathan Brandmark? Or was it stolen by Nathan who used it to go back in time and claim he invented it? Or the other way around? Whatever happened, one thing's for sure: the clock is ticking down on someone.


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7:30 PM, May 11



Dear Evan Hansen
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Winner of six Tony Awards including Best Musical and Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to finally fit in. Dear Evan Hansen is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it.

Dear Evan Hansen has struck a remarkable chord with audiences and critics everywhere, including The Washington Post who says Dear Evan Hansen is "Theatrical magic. One of the most remarkable shows in musical theatre history." The New York Times calls it "a breathtaking knockout of a musical." And NBC Nightly News declares the musical "an anthem resonating on Broadway and beyond."

Dear Evan Hansen features a book by Tony Award winner Steven Levenson, a score by Grammy, Tony, and Academy Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land,The Greatest Showman), and direction by four-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif (Rent, Next to Normal).


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7:30 PM, May 11



Tender Rain (World Premiere)
Syracuse Stage
Rodney Hudson, director

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

"Rain is like sorrow. It exposes our roots." In this elegiac drama, playwright Kyle Bass introduces Milton Millard, a white banker who lives in a small Southern city with Dolores, his wife whom he can hardly see anymore and who endures alone the memory of loss and unrelenting trepidation. Childless, they are a late-middle-aged couple lost in a fog of what cannot be undone. Is there a way forward for either of them? Can Milton seek aid from Ruthie Mimms, an older Black woman who has profoundly and irrevocably influenced his life? The momentary escape Milton finds in the arms of a younger woman will not spare him the reckoning he must face. Set in the 1950s, Tender Rain explores how pain, violence, and suffering rooted in an oppressive society leach insidiously into domestic lives and intimate relationships. A journey through a richly layered emotional landscape from the author of Possessing Harriet and salt/city/blues.


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Friday, May 12, 2023


Art
 

9:30 AM - 8:00 PM, May 12



Opening: Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Leslie Green Guilbault: mixed-media wall pieces that recall archaeological dig discoveries, using natural elements such as bone, feathers, and porcupine quills; with wheel thrown porcelain vessels

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 12



Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An invitational show featuring plein aire paintings in various mediums and styles depicting local scenic and historic settings such as Delphi Falls, Pratt's Falls, Chittenango Falls, and the Lorenzo Estate.

Featured artists include Meg Harris, Diane Davis, Drayton Jones, Doug Davis, Barb Emerson, Eric Schute, Pat Knapp, and Diane Ryan.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 12



Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

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

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 12



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 12



Dreams Deferred
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Dreams Deferred: Reflections on Liberty, Equality, and Sovereignty in U.S. Art" examines the idea of freedom in the United States as expressed in art, including its possibilities, its oversights, its uneven implementation, and its attacks on Indigenous sovereignty. Curated by incoming Master of Arts students in art history and under the direction of Associate Professor Sascha Scott.

Featuring work drawn from the S.U. Art Museum's extensive permanent collection, including newly acquired artwork, the exhibition highlights how structural inequities, oppressive histories, disenfranchisement, and degradation of personhood are variously perpetuated, elided, and disrupted in U.S. art. "Dreams Deferred" also highlights art that advocates for equality, accentuates personhood, and unmasks structural racism and histories of misogyny, enslavement, dispossession — violences that are still felt today.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 12



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 12



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 12



CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As the United States fell under the shadow of the Cold War in the early 1950s, politicians like Senator Joseph McCarthy accused untold thousands of people of being communists, but also cast a wider net for "subversives" that included people who did not conform to conventional gender norms. The resulting demonization of LGBTQ+ communities has come to be known as the lavender scare. Over the past decade, conceptual artist Ryan Patrick Krueger has rifled through countless archives, yearbooks, and eBay listings to uncover photographs of men interacting with each other with affection, tenderness, and camaraderie. The assembled images reveal a variety of coded behaviors that bypass the public gaze but speak volumes to queer individuals.

"Documents from the Closet" is Krueger's most ambitious assemblage of images to date. Found photographs are juxtaposed with a variety of ephemera drawn from queer newspapers and magazines. These images, created for specifically queer spaces, acknowledge coded behaviors through camp, satire, or by dispensing with them entirely. Krueger painstakingly arranges and rearranges this printed matter to evoke the march of history through semiotics and visual cues like fashion choices, graphic design, and material culture. From the lavender scare to the AIDS crisis and beyond, Documents from the Closet reminds viewers that despite increased visibility and rights for LGBTQ+ individuals, many of these coded behaviors still exist as coping mechanisms for society that still silences and punishes nonconformity.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 12



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 12



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 12



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 12



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, May 12



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Three local artists, Christine Chin of Ithaca, and Carrie Drake and Anita Welych of Syracuse, explore the natural environment and the consequences of climate change through their art.

Read a review!


Back to list
 

 

8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, May 12



TJ Cuthand: Extractions
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Extractions traces parallels between natural resource extraction and Canada's booming child apprehension industry. As the filmmaker reviews how these industries have affected him, he reflects on having his own eggs retrieved and frozen to make an Indigenous baby. This work is part of Cuthand's series, NDN Survival Trilogy. (2019, 15:13 minutes)


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Music
 

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, May 12



Simplelife & Corey Paige
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

The 443 is excited to present our favorite dynamic doubleheader – The Simplelife Duo (aka Mike Frisina and Ben Sumner) and Corey Paige.


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Poetry/Reading
 

7:00 PM, May 12



Author James Haywood Rolling, Jr.
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Dr. James Haywood Rolling, Jr., is a Dual Professor of Arts Education and Teaching & Leadership and the Co-Director of the Lender Center for Social Justice at Syracuse University. Dr. Rolling is a former elementary school art teacher who earned his BFA in art from The Cooper Union, his MFA from Syracuse University, and his doctorate in art education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Rolling served as the 37th President of the National Art Education Association and is a member of the Board of Trustees at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. In 2020, Dr. Rolling wrote Growing Up Ugly: Memoirs of a Black Boy Daydreaming (Simple Word Publications), an inspirational coming-of-age narrative tracing his emergence as a painfully shy child raised in a struggling inner-city New York neighborhood, who learned to rewrite his life story through the development of his own creative superpowers.

The event will be held in person and streamed on Zoom.


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Theater
 

7:00 PM, May 12



Bridges of Madison County
Redhouse

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

Based on the best-selling novel, and developed by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown and Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman, the touching and powerful musical The Bridges of Madison County captures the lyrical expanse of America's heartland along with the yearning entangled in the eternal question, "What if ...?" Francesca Johnson, a beautiful Italian woman who married an American soldier to flee war-ravaged Italy, looks forward to a rare four days alone on her Iowa farm when her family heads to the 1965 State Fair. When ruggedly handsome, National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid pulls into her driveway seeking directions, though, what happens in those four days may very well alter the course of Francesca's life. This stunning two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, featuring gorgeous, soulful music, is a sweeping romance about the roads we travel, the doors we open, and the bridges we dare to cross. It is sure to leave audiences breathless.


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7:30 PM, May 12



The Laramie Project
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Nick Deapo, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

In October 1998, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay.

Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half, in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, while others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of the reactions to the crime is fascinating.

Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences in Laramie. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.


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7:30 PM, May 12



Dear Evan Hansen
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Winner of six Tony Awards including Best Musical and Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to finally fit in. Dear Evan Hansen is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it.

Dear Evan Hansen has struck a remarkable chord with audiences and critics everywhere, including The Washington Post who says Dear Evan Hansen is "Theatrical magic. One of the most remarkable shows in musical theatre history." The New York Times calls it "a breathtaking knockout of a musical." And NBC Nightly News declares the musical "an anthem resonating on Broadway and beyond."

Dear Evan Hansen features a book by Tony Award winner Steven Levenson, a score by Grammy, Tony, and Academy Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land,The Greatest Showman), and direction by four-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif (Rent, Next to Normal).


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7:30 PM, May 12



Tender Rain (World Premiere)
Syracuse Stage
Rodney Hudson, director

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

"Rain is like sorrow. It exposes our roots." In this elegiac drama, playwright Kyle Bass introduces Milton Millard, a white banker who lives in a small Southern city with Dolores, his wife whom he can hardly see anymore and who endures alone the memory of loss and unrelenting trepidation. Childless, they are a late-middle-aged couple lost in a fog of what cannot be undone. Is there a way forward for either of them? Can Milton seek aid from Ruthie Mimms, an older Black woman who has profoundly and irrevocably influenced his life? The momentary escape Milton finds in the arms of a younger woman will not spare him the reckoning he must face. Set in the 1950s, Tender Rain explores how pain, violence, and suffering rooted in an oppressive society leach insidiously into domestic lives and intimate relationships. A journey through a richly layered emotional landscape from the author of Possessing Harriet and salt/city/blues.


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Saturday, May 13, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 13



Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An invitational show featuring plein aire paintings in various mediums and styles depicting local scenic and historic settings such as Delphi Falls, Pratt's Falls, Chittenango Falls, and the Lorenzo Estate.

Featured artists include Meg Harris, Diane Davis, Drayton Jones, Doug Davis, Barb Emerson, Eric Schute, Pat Knapp, and Diane Ryan.


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10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, May 13



Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Leslie Green Guilbault: mixed-media wall pieces that recall archaeological dig discoveries, using natural elements such as bone, feathers, and porcupine quills; with wheel thrown porcelain vessels

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 13



CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As the United States fell under the shadow of the Cold War in the early 1950s, politicians like Senator Joseph McCarthy accused untold thousands of people of being communists, but also cast a wider net for "subversives" that included people who did not conform to conventional gender norms. The resulting demonization of LGBTQ+ communities has come to be known as the lavender scare. Over the past decade, conceptual artist Ryan Patrick Krueger has rifled through countless archives, yearbooks, and eBay listings to uncover photographs of men interacting with each other with affection, tenderness, and camaraderie. The assembled images reveal a variety of coded behaviors that bypass the public gaze but speak volumes to queer individuals.

"Documents from the Closet" is Krueger's most ambitious assemblage of images to date. Found photographs are juxtaposed with a variety of ephemera drawn from queer newspapers and magazines. These images, created for specifically queer spaces, acknowledge coded behaviors through camp, satire, or by dispensing with them entirely. Krueger painstakingly arranges and rearranges this printed matter to evoke the march of history through semiotics and visual cues like fashion choices, graphic design, and material culture. From the lavender scare to the AIDS crisis and beyond, Documents from the Closet reminds viewers that despite increased visibility and rights for LGBTQ+ individuals, many of these coded behaviors still exist as coping mechanisms for society that still silences and punishes nonconformity.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 13



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 13



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 13



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 13



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 13



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Three local artists, Christine Chin of Ithaca, and Carrie Drake and Anita Welych of Syracuse, explore the natural environment and the consequences of climate change through their art.

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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 13



Dreams Deferred
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Dreams Deferred: Reflections on Liberty, Equality, and Sovereignty in U.S. Art" examines the idea of freedom in the United States as expressed in art, including its possibilities, its oversights, its uneven implementation, and its attacks on Indigenous sovereignty. Curated by incoming Master of Arts students in art history and under the direction of Associate Professor Sascha Scott.

Featuring work drawn from the S.U. Art Museum's extensive permanent collection, including newly acquired artwork, the exhibition highlights how structural inequities, oppressive histories, disenfranchisement, and degradation of personhood are variously perpetuated, elided, and disrupted in U.S. art. "Dreams Deferred" also highlights art that advocates for equality, accentuates personhood, and unmasks structural racism and histories of misogyny, enslavement, dispossession — violences that are still felt today.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 13



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 13



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 13



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, May 13



TJ Cuthand: Extractions
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Extractions traces parallels between natural resource extraction and Canada's booming child apprehension industry. As the filmmaker reviews how these industries have affected him, he reflects on having his own eggs retrieved and frozen to make an Indigenous baby. This work is part of Cuthand's series, NDN Survival Trilogy. (2019, 15:13 minutes)


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Lecture
 

1:00 PM, May 13



When Syracuse Ruled the NBA, Remembering the Nats
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Don't let the grainy black-and-white footage fool you. The Syracuse Nationals could play.

Dolph Schayes, star of the Nats, would be dropping 3-pointers and dunking on Joel Embid in today's NBA. The Nats played, in a brutal and entertaining style, before rowdy fans in Syracuse from 1946 to 1963. They ruled the NBA as champions in 1955, winning the title in a comeback victory at Onondaga War Memorial. Many in Central New York lament the day, May 16, 1963, when the Nats departed Syracuse to become the Philadelphia 76ers.

The Nats, gone 60 years, still matter.

Sean Kirst and David Ramsey have written books about the Nats. The authors, friends for more than 30 years, will bring the Syracuse Nationals back to life, and back to gleaming color.

Following the presentation there will be a docent-led tour of "Hoop Dreams: Basketball & Contemporary Art."


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Music
 

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, May 13



Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation with the Ramones Book Release Party
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Come celebrate the publication of local author and This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl co-host Carl Cafarelli's new book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation with the Ramones. It may be the loudest book release party in recent memory, with live music from Boston's 1.4.5. (led by Paul Armstrong of legendary SAMMYs Hall of Famers The Flashcubes) and a rare CNY club appearance by Perilous, featuring members of regional superstars The Trend, Pauline and the Perils, Hurtin' Units, and Screaming Meemies. There'll be Ramones music on the sound system in between sets, and Carl will probably try to read a section from his book if no one stops him. Dana & Carl will be your MCs for the evening.


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7:30 PM, May 13



Ronnie Leigh Quartet
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $15 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville


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7:30 PM, May 13



Pops Series: Queens of Soul
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Sean O'Loughlin, conductor

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

Music made famous by the reigning divas of Soul and R&B from Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston to Amy Winehouse, Alicia Keys and Adele will create an unforgettable experience.


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, May 13



Dear Evan Hansen
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Winner of six Tony Awards including Best Musical and Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to finally fit in. Dear Evan Hansen is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it.

Dear Evan Hansen has struck a remarkable chord with audiences and critics everywhere, including The Washington Post who says Dear Evan Hansen is "Theatrical magic. One of the most remarkable shows in musical theatre history." The New York Times calls it "a breathtaking knockout of a musical." And NBC Nightly News declares the musical "an anthem resonating on Broadway and beyond."

Dear Evan Hansen features a book by Tony Award winner Steven Levenson, a score by Grammy, Tony, and Academy Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land,The Greatest Showman), and direction by four-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif (Rent, Next to Normal).


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2:00 PM, May 13



Bridges of Madison County
Redhouse

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

Based on the best-selling novel, and developed by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown and Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman, the touching and powerful musical The Bridges of Madison County captures the lyrical expanse of America's heartland along with the yearning entangled in the eternal question, "What if ...?" Francesca Johnson, a beautiful Italian woman who married an American soldier to flee war-ravaged Italy, looks forward to a rare four days alone on her Iowa farm when her family heads to the 1965 State Fair. When ruggedly handsome, National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid pulls into her driveway seeking directions, though, what happens in those four days may very well alter the course of Francesca's life. This stunning two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, featuring gorgeous, soulful music, is a sweeping romance about the roads we travel, the doors we open, and the bridges we dare to cross. It is sure to leave audiences breathless.


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2:00 PM, May 13



Tender Rain (World Premiere)
Syracuse Stage
Rodney Hudson, director

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

"Rain is like sorrow. It exposes our roots." In this elegiac drama, playwright Kyle Bass introduces Milton Millard, a white banker who lives in a small Southern city with Dolores, his wife whom he can hardly see anymore and who endures alone the memory of loss and unrelenting trepidation. Childless, they are a late-middle-aged couple lost in a fog of what cannot be undone. Is there a way forward for either of them? Can Milton seek aid from Ruthie Mimms, an older Black woman who has profoundly and irrevocably influenced his life? The momentary escape Milton finds in the arms of a younger woman will not spare him the reckoning he must face. Set in the 1950s, Tender Rain explores how pain, violence, and suffering rooted in an oppressive society leach insidiously into domestic lives and intimate relationships. A journey through a richly layered emotional landscape from the author of Possessing Harriet and salt/city/blues.

(ASL Interpreted)


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7:00 PM, May 13



Voices of Spring Cabaret
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $10 donation requested
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Join us for a cabaret featuring many performers from the CNY theatre community singing modern Broadway songs that you love!

Performers include Pat Catchouny, Alyssa Courter, Dana Comfort, Garrett Coons, Kyra Dominick, Emma Donvito, Haley Georgia, Hali Greenhouse, Emily Harrington, Josh Harris, Rose Hays, Sam Herwood, Michele Lindor, Cole LaVenture, Bella Lupia, Zach Moser, Olivia Semsel, Stephen Shepherd.


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7:00 PM, May 13



Bridges of Madison County
Redhouse

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

Based on the best-selling novel, and developed by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown and Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman, the touching and powerful musical The Bridges of Madison County captures the lyrical expanse of America's heartland along with the yearning entangled in the eternal question, "What if ...?" Francesca Johnson, a beautiful Italian woman who married an American soldier to flee war-ravaged Italy, looks forward to a rare four days alone on her Iowa farm when her family heads to the 1965 State Fair. When ruggedly handsome, National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid pulls into her driveway seeking directions, though, what happens in those four days may very well alter the course of Francesca's life. This stunning two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, featuring gorgeous, soulful music, is a sweeping romance about the roads we travel, the doors we open, and the bridges we dare to cross. It is sure to leave audiences breathless.


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7:30 PM, May 13



The Laramie Project
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Nick Deapo, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

In October 1998, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay.

Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half, in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, while others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of the reactions to the crime is fascinating.

Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences in Laramie. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.


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7:30 PM, May 13



Tender Rain (World Premiere)
Syracuse Stage
Rodney Hudson, director

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

"Rain is like sorrow. It exposes our roots." In this elegiac drama, playwright Kyle Bass introduces Milton Millard, a white banker who lives in a small Southern city with Dolores, his wife whom he can hardly see anymore and who endures alone the memory of loss and unrelenting trepidation. Childless, they are a late-middle-aged couple lost in a fog of what cannot be undone. Is there a way forward for either of them? Can Milton seek aid from Ruthie Mimms, an older Black woman who has profoundly and irrevocably influenced his life? The momentary escape Milton finds in the arms of a younger woman will not spare him the reckoning he must face. Set in the 1950s, Tender Rain explores how pain, violence, and suffering rooted in an oppressive society leach insidiously into domestic lives and intimate relationships. A journey through a richly layered emotional landscape from the author of Possessing Harriet and salt/city/blues.


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8:00 PM, May 13



Dear Evan Hansen
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Winner of six Tony Awards including Best Musical and Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to finally fit in. Dear Evan Hansen is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it.

Dear Evan Hansen has struck a remarkable chord with audiences and critics everywhere, including The Washington Post who says Dear Evan Hansen is "Theatrical magic. One of the most remarkable shows in musical theatre history." The New York Times calls it "a breathtaking knockout of a musical." And NBC Nightly News declares the musical "an anthem resonating on Broadway and beyond."

Dear Evan Hansen features a book by Tony Award winner Steven Levenson, a score by Grammy, Tony, and Academy Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land,The Greatest Showman), and direction by four-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif (Rent, Next to Normal).


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Sunday, May 14, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 14



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 14



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 14



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 14



CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As the United States fell under the shadow of the Cold War in the early 1950s, politicians like Senator Joseph McCarthy accused untold thousands of people of being communists, but also cast a wider net for "subversives" that included people who did not conform to conventional gender norms. The resulting demonization of LGBTQ+ communities has come to be known as the lavender scare. Over the past decade, conceptual artist Ryan Patrick Krueger has rifled through countless archives, yearbooks, and eBay listings to uncover photographs of men interacting with each other with affection, tenderness, and camaraderie. The assembled images reveal a variety of coded behaviors that bypass the public gaze but speak volumes to queer individuals.

"Documents from the Closet" is Krueger's most ambitious assemblage of images to date. Found photographs are juxtaposed with a variety of ephemera drawn from queer newspapers and magazines. These images, created for specifically queer spaces, acknowledge coded behaviors through camp, satire, or by dispensing with them entirely. Krueger painstakingly arranges and rearranges this printed matter to evoke the march of history through semiotics and visual cues like fashion choices, graphic design, and material culture. From the lavender scare to the AIDS crisis and beyond, Documents from the Closet reminds viewers that despite increased visibility and rights for LGBTQ+ individuals, many of these coded behaviors still exist as coping mechanisms for society that still silences and punishes nonconformity.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 14



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 14



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 14



Dreams Deferred
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Dreams Deferred: Reflections on Liberty, Equality, and Sovereignty in U.S. Art" examines the idea of freedom in the United States as expressed in art, including its possibilities, its oversights, its uneven implementation, and its attacks on Indigenous sovereignty. Curated by incoming Master of Arts students in art history and under the direction of Associate Professor Sascha Scott.

Featuring work drawn from the S.U. Art Museum's extensive permanent collection, including newly acquired artwork, the exhibition highlights how structural inequities, oppressive histories, disenfranchisement, and degradation of personhood are variously perpetuated, elided, and disrupted in U.S. art. "Dreams Deferred" also highlights art that advocates for equality, accentuates personhood, and unmasks structural racism and histories of misogyny, enslavement, dispossession — violences that are still felt today.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 14



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 14



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

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

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


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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 14



Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An invitational show featuring plein aire paintings in various mediums and styles depicting local scenic and historic settings such as Delphi Falls, Pratt's Falls, Chittenango Falls, and the Lorenzo Estate.

Featured artists include Meg Harris, Diane Davis, Drayton Jones, Doug Davis, Barb Emerson, Eric Schute, Pat Knapp, and Diane Ryan.


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Theater
 

1:00 PM, May 14



Dear Evan Hansen
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Winner of six Tony Awards including Best Musical and Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to finally fit in. Dear Evan Hansen is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it.

Dear Evan Hansen has struck a remarkable chord with audiences and critics everywhere, including The Washington Post who says Dear Evan Hansen is "Theatrical magic. One of the most remarkable shows in musical theatre history." The New York Times calls it "a breathtaking knockout of a musical." And NBC Nightly News declares the musical "an anthem resonating on Broadway and beyond."

Dear Evan Hansen features a book by Tony Award winner Steven Levenson, a score by Grammy, Tony, and Academy Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land,The Greatest Showman), and direction by four-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif (Rent, Next to Normal).


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2:00 PM, May 14



Bridges of Madison County
Redhouse

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

Based on the best-selling novel, and developed by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown and Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman, the touching and powerful musical The Bridges of Madison County captures the lyrical expanse of America's heartland along with the yearning entangled in the eternal question, "What if ...?" Francesca Johnson, a beautiful Italian woman who married an American soldier to flee war-ravaged Italy, looks forward to a rare four days alone on her Iowa farm when her family heads to the 1965 State Fair. When ruggedly handsome, National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid pulls into her driveway seeking directions, though, what happens in those four days may very well alter the course of Francesca's life. This stunning two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, featuring gorgeous, soulful music, is a sweeping romance about the roads we travel, the doors we open, and the bridges we dare to cross. It is sure to leave audiences breathless.


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2:00 PM, May 14



Tender Rain (World Premiere)
Syracuse Stage
Rodney Hudson, director

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

"Rain is like sorrow. It exposes our roots." In this elegiac drama, playwright Kyle Bass introduces Milton Millard, a white banker who lives in a small Southern city with Dolores, his wife whom he can hardly see anymore and who endures alone the memory of loss and unrelenting trepidation. Childless, they are a late-middle-aged couple lost in a fog of what cannot be undone. Is there a way forward for either of them? Can Milton seek aid from Ruthie Mimms, an older Black woman who has profoundly and irrevocably influenced his life? The momentary escape Milton finds in the arms of a younger woman will not spare him the reckoning he must face. Set in the 1950s, Tender Rain explores how pain, violence, and suffering rooted in an oppressive society leach insidiously into domestic lives and intimate relationships. A journey through a richly layered emotional landscape from the author of Possessing Harriet and salt/city/blues.


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6:30 PM, May 14



Dear Evan Hansen
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Winner of six Tony Awards including Best Musical and Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to finally fit in. Dear Evan Hansen is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it.

Dear Evan Hansen has struck a remarkable chord with audiences and critics everywhere, including The Washington Post who says Dear Evan Hansen is "Theatrical magic. One of the most remarkable shows in musical theatre history." The New York Times calls it "a breathtaking knockout of a musical." And NBC Nightly News declares the musical "an anthem resonating on Broadway and beyond."

Dear Evan Hansen features a book by Tony Award winner Steven Levenson, a score by Grammy, Tony, and Academy Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land,The Greatest Showman), and direction by four-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif (Rent, Next to Normal).


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7:30 PM, May 14



Tender Rain (World Premiere)
Syracuse Stage
Rodney Hudson, director

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

"Rain is like sorrow. It exposes our roots." In this elegiac drama, playwright Kyle Bass introduces Milton Millard, a white banker who lives in a small Southern city with Dolores, his wife whom he can hardly see anymore and who endures alone the memory of loss and unrelenting trepidation. Childless, they are a late-middle-aged couple lost in a fog of what cannot be undone. Is there a way forward for either of them? Can Milton seek aid from Ruthie Mimms, an older Black woman who has profoundly and irrevocably influenced his life? The momentary escape Milton finds in the arms of a younger woman will not spare him the reckoning he must face. Set in the 1950s, Tender Rain explores how pain, violence, and suffering rooted in an oppressive society leach insidiously into domestic lives and intimate relationships. A journey through a richly layered emotional landscape from the author of Possessing Harriet and salt/city/blues.


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Monday, May 15, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 15



Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An invitational show featuring plein aire paintings in various mediums and styles depicting local scenic and historic settings such as Delphi Falls, Pratt's Falls, Chittenango Falls, and the Lorenzo Estate.

Featured artists include Meg Harris, Diane Davis, Drayton Jones, Doug Davis, Barb Emerson, Eric Schute, Pat Knapp, and Diane Ryan.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 15



Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

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

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.


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Film
 

7:00 PM, May 15



Son of Fury (The Story of Benjamin Blake) (1942)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $4 non-members, $3.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Cast: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Frances Farmer, Roddy McDowall, John Carradine, Elsa Lanchester, Harry Davenport, Dudley Digges
Director: John Cromwell

Based on the famous historical novel, this fine adventure drama features an engrossing story with excellent performances from an outstanding cast. A highly recommended classic.


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Tuesday, May 16, 2023


Art
 

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 16



Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Leslie Green Guilbault: mixed-media wall pieces that recall archaeological dig discoveries, using natural elements such as bone, feathers, and porcupine quills; with wheel thrown porcelain vessels

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 16



Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An invitational show featuring plein aire paintings in various mediums and styles depicting local scenic and historic settings such as Delphi Falls, Pratt's Falls, Chittenango Falls, and the Lorenzo Estate.

Featured artists include Meg Harris, Diane Davis, Drayton Jones, Doug Davis, Barb Emerson, Eric Schute, Pat Knapp, and Diane Ryan.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 16



Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

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

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, May 16



Tender Rain (World Premiere)
Syracuse Stage
Rodney Hudson, director

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

"Rain is like sorrow. It exposes our roots." In this elegiac drama, playwright Kyle Bass introduces Milton Millard, a white banker who lives in a small Southern city with Dolores, his wife whom he can hardly see anymore and who endures alone the memory of loss and unrelenting trepidation. Childless, they are a late-middle-aged couple lost in a fog of what cannot be undone. Is there a way forward for either of them? Can Milton seek aid from Ruthie Mimms, an older Black woman who has profoundly and irrevocably influenced his life? The momentary escape Milton finds in the arms of a younger woman will not spare him the reckoning he must face. Set in the 1950s, Tender Rain explores how pain, violence, and suffering rooted in an oppressive society leach insidiously into domestic lives and intimate relationships. A journey through a richly layered emotional landscape from the author of Possessing Harriet and salt/city/blues.


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Wednesday, May 17, 2023


Art
 

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 17



Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Leslie Green Guilbault: mixed-media wall pieces that recall archaeological dig discoveries, using natural elements such as bone, feathers, and porcupine quills; with wheel thrown porcelain vessels

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 17



Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An invitational show featuring plein aire paintings in various mediums and styles depicting local scenic and historic settings such as Delphi Falls, Pratt's Falls, Chittenango Falls, and the Lorenzo Estate.

Featured artists include Meg Harris, Diane Davis, Drayton Jones, Doug Davis, Barb Emerson, Eric Schute, Pat Knapp, and Diane Ryan.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 17



Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

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

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 17



CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As the United States fell under the shadow of the Cold War in the early 1950s, politicians like Senator Joseph McCarthy accused untold thousands of people of being communists, but also cast a wider net for "subversives" that included people who did not conform to conventional gender norms. The resulting demonization of LGBTQ+ communities has come to be known as the lavender scare. Over the past decade, conceptual artist Ryan Patrick Krueger has rifled through countless archives, yearbooks, and eBay listings to uncover photographs of men interacting with each other with affection, tenderness, and camaraderie. The assembled images reveal a variety of coded behaviors that bypass the public gaze but speak volumes to queer individuals.

"Documents from the Closet" is Krueger's most ambitious assemblage of images to date. Found photographs are juxtaposed with a variety of ephemera drawn from queer newspapers and magazines. These images, created for specifically queer spaces, acknowledge coded behaviors through camp, satire, or by dispensing with them entirely. Krueger painstakingly arranges and rearranges this printed matter to evoke the march of history through semiotics and visual cues like fashion choices, graphic design, and material culture. From the lavender scare to the AIDS crisis and beyond, Documents from the Closet reminds viewers that despite increased visibility and rights for LGBTQ+ individuals, many of these coded behaviors still exist as coping mechanisms for society that still silences and punishes nonconformity.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 17



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 17



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.


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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, May 17



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Three local artists, Christine Chin of Ithaca, and Carrie Drake and Anita Welych of Syracuse, explore the natural environment and the consequences of climate change through their art.

Read a review!


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Music
 

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, May 17



*SOLD OUT* Hamell on Trial: The Syracuse Stories
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Take a jaunt down memory lane if you will, which in this context extends from James Street at Thompson to Butternut Circle, and hear the actual stories that started a man's musical journey in Syracuse NY. The bands! The bars! The booze! The drugs! The sex! The hair! Ah…to be young again. You'll get the dirt and guaranteed hilarity will ensue.

Like Damon Runyon's Broadway characters, like Steinbeck's Cannery Row, Hamell escorts you into darker alleys and shares some insight into the joy and laughter that a disenfranchised gang of ne'er-do-wells can create. Winner of the Herald Angel Award from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the artist Rolling Stone magazine called "Bald, Bold and Super bad!" Mr. Hamell brings his unique perspective and abilities for an intimate entertaining evening of humorous and poignant subterranean tales from the mean streets of Syracuse.


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, May 17



Tender Rain (World Premiere)
Syracuse Stage
Rodney Hudson, director

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

"Rain is like sorrow. It exposes our roots." In this elegiac drama, playwright Kyle Bass introduces Milton Millard, a white banker who lives in a small Southern city with Dolores, his wife whom he can hardly see anymore and who endures alone the memory of loss and unrelenting trepidation. Childless, they are a late-middle-aged couple lost in a fog of what cannot be undone. Is there a way forward for either of them? Can Milton seek aid from Ruthie Mimms, an older Black woman who has profoundly and irrevocably influenced his life? The momentary escape Milton finds in the arms of a younger woman will not spare him the reckoning he must face. Set in the 1950s, Tender Rain explores how pain, violence, and suffering rooted in an oppressive society leach insidiously into domestic lives and intimate relationships. A journey through a richly layered emotional landscape from the author of Possessing Harriet and salt/city/blues.


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Thursday, May 18, 2023


Art
 

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 18



Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Leslie Green Guilbault: mixed-media wall pieces that recall archaeological dig discoveries, using natural elements such as bone, feathers, and porcupine quills; with wheel thrown porcelain vessels

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 18



Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An invitational show featuring plein aire paintings in various mediums and styles depicting local scenic and historic settings such as Delphi Falls, Pratt's Falls, Chittenango Falls, and the Lorenzo Estate.

Featured artists include Meg Harris, Diane Davis, Drayton Jones, Doug Davis, Barb Emerson, Eric Schute, Pat Knapp, and Diane Ryan.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 18



Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

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

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 18



CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As the United States fell under the shadow of the Cold War in the early 1950s, politicians like Senator Joseph McCarthy accused untold thousands of people of being communists, but also cast a wider net for "subversives" that included people who did not conform to conventional gender norms. The resulting demonization of LGBTQ+ communities has come to be known as the lavender scare. Over the past decade, conceptual artist Ryan Patrick Krueger has rifled through countless archives, yearbooks, and eBay listings to uncover photographs of men interacting with each other with affection, tenderness, and camaraderie. The assembled images reveal a variety of coded behaviors that bypass the public gaze but speak volumes to queer individuals.

"Documents from the Closet" is Krueger's most ambitious assemblage of images to date. Found photographs are juxtaposed with a variety of ephemera drawn from queer newspapers and magazines. These images, created for specifically queer spaces, acknowledge coded behaviors through camp, satire, or by dispensing with them entirely. Krueger painstakingly arranges and rearranges this printed matter to evoke the march of history through semiotics and visual cues like fashion choices, graphic design, and material culture. From the lavender scare to the AIDS crisis and beyond, Documents from the Closet reminds viewers that despite increased visibility and rights for LGBTQ+ individuals, many of these coded behaviors still exist as coping mechanisms for society that still silences and punishes nonconformity.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 18



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 18



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 18



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, May 18



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Three local artists, Christine Chin of Ithaca, and Carrie Drake and Anita Welych of Syracuse, explore the natural environment and the consequences of climate change through their art.

Read a review!


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9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, May 18



TJ Cuthand: Extractions
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Extractions traces parallels between natural resource extraction and Canada's booming child apprehension industry. As the filmmaker reviews how these industries have affected him, he reflects on having his own eggs retrieved and frozen to make an Indigenous baby. This work is part of Cuthand's series, NDN Survival Trilogy. (2019, 15:13 minutes)


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Lecture
 

6:00 PM, May 18



Salt & Pepper: Finding Common Ground
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Habiba’s Ethiopian Kitchen and David MacDonald

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

They say good food is just another expression of art. We think so, too! That's why the Everson Museum of Art is thrilled to present Salt & Pepper, an art/food series with lively conversations between a chef preparing their meal, and an artist working on their craft!

The artists and chefs will discuss the culture, history, and techniques inherent within their given creative practices.

The chefs will provide samples of their dishes to purchase so you can engage with this program through another sense: taste!


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Music
 

7:30 PM, May 18



Cody Johnson
The Oncenter

War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, May 18



No Time for Death
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Shirley Maxwell has gathered the media together to announce that her company, Wonder Labs, is back on the map with the unveiling of an incredible new invention: a time machine! Insiders say it was invented by lab assistant Nick Van Castle. Or was it really invented by has-been inventor Nathan Brandmark? Or was it stolen by Nathan who used it to go back in time and claim he invented it? Or the other way around? Whatever happened, one thing's for sure: the clock is ticking down on someone.


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7:00 PM, May 18



Bridges of Madison County
Redhouse

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

Based on the best-selling novel, and developed by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown and Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman, the touching and powerful musical The Bridges of Madison County captures the lyrical expanse of America's heartland along with the yearning entangled in the eternal question, "What if ...?" Francesca Johnson, a beautiful Italian woman who married an American soldier to flee war-ravaged Italy, looks forward to a rare four days alone on her Iowa farm when her family heads to the 1965 State Fair. When ruggedly handsome, National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid pulls into her driveway seeking directions, though, what happens in those four days may very well alter the course of Francesca's life. This stunning two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, featuring gorgeous, soulful music, is a sweeping romance about the roads we travel, the doors we open, and the bridges we dare to cross. It is sure to leave audiences breathless.


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7:30 PM, May 18



Tender Rain (World Premiere)
Syracuse Stage
Rodney Hudson, director

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

"Rain is like sorrow. It exposes our roots." In this elegiac drama, playwright Kyle Bass introduces Milton Millard, a white banker who lives in a small Southern city with Dolores, his wife whom he can hardly see anymore and who endures alone the memory of loss and unrelenting trepidation. Childless, they are a late-middle-aged couple lost in a fog of what cannot be undone. Is there a way forward for either of them? Can Milton seek aid from Ruthie Mimms, an older Black woman who has profoundly and irrevocably influenced his life? The momentary escape Milton finds in the arms of a younger woman will not spare him the reckoning he must face. Set in the 1950s, Tender Rain explores how pain, violence, and suffering rooted in an oppressive society leach insidiously into domestic lives and intimate relationships. A journey through a richly layered emotional landscape from the author of Possessing Harriet and salt/city/blues.


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