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Events for Sunday, October 15, 2023

Time TBD The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma Point of Contact Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM A Little Bit of Syracuse Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM CNY Art Guild Fall Fine Art Show and Sale

12:00 PM-6:00 PM On My Own Time Retrospective Art in the Atrium

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Making a Global Pre-Modern World Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Nona Faustine, My Country Syracuse University Art Museum

1:00 PM-9:00 PM Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song Light Work Gallery

1:00 PM-9:00 PM 2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses Light Work Gallery

2:00 PM Rhythm & Ballet Syracuse City Ballet

2:00 PM Guys and Dolls Syracuse University Drama Department

3:00 PM Almost, Maine Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

3:00 PM Sonata and Trios Civic Morning Musicals, featuring Yurie Mitsuhashi, violin; William Ford-Smith, viola; Ida Tili-Trebicka, piano

4:00 PM Malmgren Series: Iberian and Latin American Art Song Hendricks Chapel, featuring Isaí Jesse Muñoz, tenor; Oksana Glouchko, piano

4:00 PM-7:00 PM Dixieland Jam Session Jazz Appreciation Society of Syracuse

8:00 PM A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie: Me vs. Myself: The College Tour The Oncenter

Events for Monday, October 16, 2023

Time TBD The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma Point of Contact Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

10:00 AM-8:00 PM A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song Light Work Gallery

7:00 PM Dinner at Eight (1933) Syracuse Cinephile Society

Events for Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Time TBD The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma Point of Contact Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-8:00 PM A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Nona Faustine, My Country Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Making a Global Pre-Modern World Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion Syracuse University School of Art and Design

6:00 PM-9:00 PM Jazz at Timber Banks: Nancy Kelly CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

7:30 PM Lily King Friends of the Central Library Author Series

Events for Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Time TBD The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma Point of Contact Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-8:00 PM A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Nona Faustine, My Country Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Making a Global Pre-Modern World Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM A Little Bit of Syracuse Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion Syracuse University School of Art and Design

2:00 PM-6:00 PM Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me ArtRage Gallery

6:30 PM Snaps & Taps Open Mic Hosted by Randum Community Folk Art Center

7:30 PM Dirty Dancing in Concert Landmark Theatre

7:30 PM Preview: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill Syracuse Stage

Events for Thursday, October 19, 2023

Time TBD The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma Point of Contact Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-8:00 PM A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Nona Faustine, My Country Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Making a Global Pre-Modern World Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-8:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-8:00 PM A Little Bit of Syracuse Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Roberta Griffith: Trophies Everson Museum of Art

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

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion Syracuse University School of Art and Design

2:00 PM-6:00 PM Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me ArtRage Gallery

6:45 PM-11:00 PM Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria Urban Video Project

7:00 PM Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion Acme Mystery Company

7:00 PM *SOLD OUT* The Rollin' Rust The 443 Social Club

7:30 PM Preview: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill Syracuse Stage

Events for Friday, October 20, 2023

Time TBD The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma Point of Contact Gallery

9:00 AM-4:00 PM Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-8:00 PM A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s Community Folk Art Center

10:00 AM-9:00 PM 2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song Light Work Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Nona Faustine, My Country Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Making a Global Pre-Modern World Syracuse University Art Museum

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum Syracuse University Art Museum

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM A Little Bit of Syracuse Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel Everson Museum of Art

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

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Roberta Griffith: Trophies Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan Gandee Gallery

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion Syracuse University School of Art and Design

12:00 PM-8:00 PM On My Own Time Retrospective Art in the Atrium

2:00 PM-6:00 PM Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me ArtRage Gallery

6:00 PM-9:45 PM Ghost Walk 2023 Baldwinsville Center for the Arts

6:30 PM Disney Encanto: The Sing-Along Film Concert Landmark Theatre

6:30 PM-7:45 PM Candlelight Series: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics

6:45 PM-11:00 PM Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria Urban Video Project

7:00 PM Prescription: Murder Central New York Playhouse

7:00 PM Poets Letisia Cruz and Jackson Holbert Downtown Writer's Center

7:00 PM Donna & Sam The 443 Social Club

7:30 PM Almost, Maine Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

7:30 PM Emma Rush Skaneateles Library Guitar Series

7:30 PM I am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams Syracuse Opera

7:30 PM A Gospel Symphony Celebration Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

7:30 PM Opening: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill Syracuse Stage

8:00 PM John McCutcheon Folkus Project

9:00 PM-10:15 PM Candlelight Series: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics

Events for Saturday, October 21, 2023

Time TBD The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma Point of Contact Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

10:00 AM-2:00 PM Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM A Little Bit of Syracuse Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Roberta Griffith: Trophies Everson Museum of Art

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

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan Gandee Gallery

11:30 AM-3:30 PM A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s Community Folk Art Center

12:00 PM-6:00 PM On My Own Time Retrospective Art in the Atrium

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me ArtRage Gallery

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Nona Faustine, My Country Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Making a Global Pre-Modern World Syracuse University Art Museum

1:00 PM-9:00 PM Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song Light Work Gallery

1:00 PM-9:00 PM 2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses Light Work Gallery

2:00 PM Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill Syracuse Stage

3:00 PM Jeff Dunham: Still Not Canceled The Oncenter

6:00 PM-9:45 PM Ghost Walk 2023 Baldwinsville Center for the Arts

6:45 PM-11:00 PM Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria Urban Video Project

7:00 PM Prescription: Murder Central New York Playhouse

7:00 PM *CANCELLED* GoldenOak The 443 Social Club

7:30 PM Almost, Maine Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

7:30 PM Old & New: Sephardic Reflections NYS Baroque

7:30 PM Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill Syracuse Stage

8:00 PM Benefit Cabaret for Upstate Foundation Black Box Players

8:00 PM Rock Out for Sock Out Cancer Landmark Theatre

Events for Sunday, October 22, 2023

Time TBD The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma Point of Contact Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM On My Own Time Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM A Little Bit of Syracuse Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Off the Rack Everson Museum of Art

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel Everson Museum of Art

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

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Roberta Griffith: Trophies Everson Museum of Art

11:00 AM-4:00 PM Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan Gandee Gallery

12:00 PM-6:00 PM On My Own Time Retrospective Art in the Atrium

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Making a Global Pre-Modern World Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse Syracuse University Art Museum

12:00 PM-4:00 PM Nona Faustine, My Country Syracuse University Art Museum

1:00 PM-9:00 PM 2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses Light Work Gallery

1:00 PM-9:00 PM Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song Light Work Gallery

1:00 PM Historical Halloween Happening Onondaga Historical Association

1:00 PM *SOLD OUT* Shakedown Sunday The 443 Social Club

2:00 PM Blippi: The Wonderful World Tour Landmark Theatre

2:00 PM Dublin Guitar Quartet Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

2:00 PM Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill Syracuse Stage

2:00 PM Setnor Student Recital Series: Ryan McQuay Meredith, composition Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

3:00 PM Almost, Maine Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

3:00 PM I am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams Syracuse Opera

5:00 PM Setnor Student Recital Series: Samuel Evans, composition Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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Sunday, October 15, 2023


Art
 

Time TBD, October 15



The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.


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



A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.


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



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"On My Own Time" is a community arts program that links the business and cultural sectors of Central New York to spotlight local workforce members who create visual art 'on their own time.' Its goal is to promote appreciation and support of visual arts and recognize individual creativity in our region. It seeks to create a bridge between the business and arts communities in a collaborative setting that encourages, recognizes, and celebrates creativity in the local workforce. This joint effort promotes an appreciation of the importance of arts and culture to the economy and quality of life of the Central New York community. This year, On My Own Time rings in its 50th annual celebration of the creative talents of the Central New York workforce and the beauty of art in our lives!


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



Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.


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



Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ithaca-based artist Christine Chin creates works that explore the evidence of climate change and its impact on the environment. "Invasive Impressions" presents two bodies of Chin's work: her "Invasive Species Cyanotypes" and "Native Species Cyanotypes." Chin's "Invasive Species" series uses the cyanotype process to document invasive species in the Finger Lakes region. She uses actual specimens, collected herself or through collaborations with organizations that work to monitor and control invasive species, including the Finger Lakes Institute and the Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management. The "Native Species" series focuses on species that coexist in ecosystems affected by invasive species. Shown together, these works draw attention to the relationships that form between species competing for the same ever-dwindling resources.

"Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions" is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 15



Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Dan Shanahan's paintings highlight the quiet beauty found in scenes of everyday life. His plein air watercolors depict residential and downtown neighborhoods throughout the city of Syracuse, focusing on distinctive buildings and houses.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 15



CNY Art Guild Fall Fine Art Show and Sale

Price: Free admission
Aspen House, Radisson
8550 N. Entry Rd., Baldwinsville

Acrylic and oil paintings, watercolors, stained glass, photography, and ceramics


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12:00 PM - 6:00 PM, October 15



On My Own Time Retrospective
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

This year marks the 50th anniversary of On My Own Time, a creative showcase produced by CNY Arts. For a half-century, On My Own Time has offered a unique forum for avocational artists to display their original visual artwork.

Each artist is a member of the local workforce, and businesses are encouraged to participate and celebrate the creative achievement of their employees. On My Own Time was inspired by individuals who make art outside of the hours dedicated to their career. On My Own Time welcomes nonprofessional artists of all levels of expertise and experience who share the joy of creative expression in common.

This fall, join CNY Arts and participants of On My Own Time - past and present - to celebrate our avocational creative community! The On My Own Time 50th Anniversary Retrospective will run at the new Art in the Atrium gallery and programming space, located right in the heart of downtown!


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 15



Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 15



Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 15



Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 15



Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 15



Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, October 15



Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, October 15



2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.


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Dance
 

2:00 PM, October 15



Rhythm & Ballet
Syracuse City Ballet

Price: $30 regular, $15 children 12 and under
Syracuse City Ballet Studios
932 Spencer St., Syracuse

Imagine a swanky night club, in the 1920s or there around, you're listening to some of your favorite jazz, blues, and swing music, when all the sudden the floor clears and the dancers of Syracuse City Ballet appear. "Rhythm & Ballet" will be some of the most impressive, expressive, and sensual ballet you've ever seen; set to music loved by every generation.


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Music
 

3:00 PM, October 15



Sonata and Trios
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Yurie Mitsuhashi, violin; William Ford-Smith, viola; Ida Tili-Trebicka, piano

Price: $20
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Shostakovich 5 Pieces for 2 Violins and Piano
Beethoven Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 30, No. 3
Grant Chocolates, 1998
Bruch 8 Pieces for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, Op. 83


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4:00 PM, October 15



Malmgren Series: Iberian and Latin American Art Song
Hendricks Chapel
Featuring Isaí Jesse Muñoz, tenor; Oksana Glouchko, piano

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Works by Manuel De Falla, Eduard Toldrà, Frederic Mompou, Carlos Guastavino, and others.

Parking is available in the Irving Garage.


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4:00 PM - 7:00 PM, October 15



Dixieland Jam Session
Jazz Appreciation Society of Syracuse

Price: Free
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

All musicians and singers welcome.


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8:00 PM, October 15



A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie: Me vs. Myself: The College Tour
The Oncenter

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


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, October 15



Guys and Dolls
Syracuse University Drama Department
Banji Aborisade, director

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

Topping Entertainment Weekly's list of the "Greatest Musicals of All Time," Guys and Dolls is everything we love about musical theater. Nathan Detroit needs serious dough to keep his craps game afloat and his marriage-minded girlfriend, Adelaide, happy. When Nathan makes a bet with high-roller Sky Masterson, his problems appear to be solved. Featuring unforgettable showtunes like "Luck Be a Lady" and the irrepressible "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat," Guys and Dolls will put a spring in your step and a smile on your face.


Based on story and characters by Damon Runyon, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Choreographed by Banji Aborisade; music direction by Brian Cimmet.


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3:00 PM, October 15



Almost, Maine
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Chris Spring, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

A woman carries her heart, broken into 19 pieces, in a small paper bag. A man shrinks to half his former size, after losing hope in love. A couple keep the love they have given each other in large red bags, or compress the mass into the size of a diamond.

These playful and surreal experiences are commonplace in the world of John Cariani's Almost, Maine, where on one deeply cold and magical midwinter night, the citizens of Almost — not organized enough for a town, too populated for a wilderness — experience the life-altering power of the human heart. Relationships end, begin, or change beyond recognition, as strangers become friends, friends become lovers, and lovers turn into strangers. Propelled by the mystical energy of the aurora borealis and populated with characters who are humorous, plain-spoken, thoughtful, and sincere, Almost, Maine is a series of loosely connected tales about love, each with a compelling couple at its center, each with its own touch of sorcery.


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Monday, October 16, 2023


Art
 

Time TBD, October 16



The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 16



Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings inspired by landscapes of Central New York.


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10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 16



A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.


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



2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.


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



Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.


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Film
 

7:00 PM, October 16



Dinner at Eight (1933)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe, Jean Hersholt, Billie Burke, Madge Evans
Director: George Cukor

MGM's all-star comedy-drama hit concerning the lives of various guests invited to an elegant dinner party. In addition to the wonderful performances, our screening will be a recent studio restoration that returns this beloved classic to its original pristine glory.

Plus, George O'Hanlon in the 1950 "Joe McDoakes" comedy short So You Want to Throw a Party.


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Tuesday, October 17, 2023


Art
 

Time TBD, October 17



The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 17



Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings inspired by landscapes of Central New York.


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



Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Stephen Carpenter: visual interpretations of the rich and nuanced sound of Pierre Cochereau's organ improvisation of Bolero, presented as digital imagery on canvas
Michael Hughes: textural wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain
Lily Tsay: glass bead and homemade porcelain bead jewelry with select materials


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10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 17



A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.


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



Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.


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



2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 17



Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 17



Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 17



Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 17



Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 17



Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 17



Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
The Warehouse Genet Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Discover the remarkable influence of Piet Mondrian's art on fashion and design. This exhibition, curated by Professor Jeffrey Mayer and featuring the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, addresses the effect that Piet Mondrian's utopian neoplastic art has had on design and fashion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Mondrian (1872-1944) was a visionary Dutch painter known for pioneering the De Stijl movement. His iconic grid-based compositions using only straight lines, primary colors plus black, white and grey, transformed the art world. His work embodies simplicity, harmony, and a universal language of abstraction.

The exhibition features not only fashion from the 1980s and 1990s but is also filled with additional "design" objects that have been influenced by Mondrian's work, including dinnerware from Kate Spade; toys from Mattel, LOL and Thomas the Train; sneakers by Nike; and packaging from the beauty brand L'Oreal's Studio Line.


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Lecture
 

7:30 PM, October 17



Lily King
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

Lily King received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then her M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. King's first novel, The Pleasing Hour, was published in 1999, followed by The English Teacher [2005] and Father of the Rain [2010]. Gaining awards and accolades with each, she hit big with her fourth novel, Euphoria in 2014. That year, it won the Kirkus Award for Fiction, and was also named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by The New York Times Book Review and TIME's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2014. Her most recent novel, Writers & Lovers was published in 2020 and her first collection of short stories, Five Tuesdays in Winter was released in 2021.


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Music
 

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, October 17



Jazz at Timber Banks: Nancy Kelly
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Persimmons
3536 Timber Banks Pkwy., Baldwinsville


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Wednesday, October 18, 2023


Art
 

Time TBD, October 18



The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 18



Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings inspired by landscapes of Central New York.


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



Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Stephen Carpenter: visual interpretations of the rich and nuanced sound of Pierre Cochereau's organ improvisation of Bolero, presented as digital imagery on canvas
Michael Hughes: textural wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain
Lily Tsay: glass bead and homemade porcelain bead jewelry with select materials


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 18



A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.


Back to list
 

 

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



2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.


Back to list
 

 

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



Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 18



Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 18



Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 18



Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 18



Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 18



Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.


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



Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ithaca-based artist Christine Chin creates works that explore the evidence of climate change and its impact on the environment. "Invasive Impressions" presents two bodies of Chin's work: her "Invasive Species Cyanotypes" and "Native Species Cyanotypes." Chin's "Invasive Species" series uses the cyanotype process to document invasive species in the Finger Lakes region. She uses actual specimens, collected herself or through collaborations with organizations that work to monitor and control invasive species, including the Finger Lakes Institute and the Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management. The "Native Species" series focuses on species that coexist in ecosystems affected by invasive species. Shown together, these works draw attention to the relationships that form between species competing for the same ever-dwindling resources.

"Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions" is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists.


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



Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.


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



A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.


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



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"On My Own Time" is a community arts program that links the business and cultural sectors of Central New York to spotlight local workforce members who create visual art 'on their own time.' Its goal is to promote appreciation and support of visual arts and recognize individual creativity in our region. It seeks to create a bridge between the business and arts communities in a collaborative setting that encourages, recognizes, and celebrates creativity in the local workforce. This joint effort promotes an appreciation of the importance of arts and culture to the economy and quality of life of the Central New York community. This year, On My Own Time rings in its 50th annual celebration of the creative talents of the Central New York workforce and the beauty of art in our lives!


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 18



Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
The Warehouse Genet Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Discover the remarkable influence of Piet Mondrian's art on fashion and design. This exhibition, curated by Professor Jeffrey Mayer and featuring the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, addresses the effect that Piet Mondrian's utopian neoplastic art has had on design and fashion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Mondrian (1872-1944) was a visionary Dutch painter known for pioneering the De Stijl movement. His iconic grid-based compositions using only straight lines, primary colors plus black, white and grey, transformed the art world. His work embodies simplicity, harmony, and a universal language of abstraction.

The exhibition features not only fashion from the 1980s and 1990s but is also filled with additional "design" objects that have been influenced by Mondrian's work, including dinnerware from Kate Spade; toys from Mattel, LOL and Thomas the Train; sneakers by Nike; and packaging from the beauty brand L'Oreal's Studio Line.


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



Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Employing vivid color, rich pattern, stunning beauty, and admiring love, Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib has brought her father's childhood stories of Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s and 40s to life. In 1981, Zughaib received a BFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and has since become one of the world's most renowned Arab American artists. Her work is in the collections of the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, and the Arab American National Museum. We welcome Helen back to Syracuse where we will exhibit her full series of 25 gouache paintings, each illustrating a story as told by her father, Elia Zughaib.


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Music
 

6:30 PM, October 18



Snaps & Taps Open Mic Hosted by Randum
Community Folk Art Center

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

Join us for an awesome evening of creativity and talent at the Community Folk Art Center. Get ready to be blown away by the incredible performances at this in-person event. Whether you're a poet, musician or just love to appreciate raw talent, this open mic is the place to be. Hosted by the one and only Randum, this event promises to be a night filled with laughter, inspiration and unforgettable moments. So grab your friends, bring your snaps and taps and let's make some magic together.


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7:30 PM, October 18



Dirty Dancing in Concert
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Join us for Dirty Dancing in Concert, the classic film's first live film-to-concert experience. Enjoy the digitally remastered hit film like never before on a full-size cinema screen, with a live band and singers performing the film's iconic songs. With a soundtrack that marked a generation, Dirty Dancing in Concert promises to bring a thrilling new and unique experience to the 80s classic.


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, October 18



Preview: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Syracuse Stage
Jade King Carroll, director

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

Chronicle Billie Holiday's life story through the songs that made her famous. 1959, in a small, intimate bar in Philadelphia, Holiday puts on a show that unbeknownst to the audience, will leave them witness to one of the last performances of her lifetime. One of the greatest jazz and blues singers of all time shares her loves and losses through her poignant voice and moving songs, including "Strange Fruit," "God Bless the Child," "When a Woman Loves a Man," and "Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do."

Written by Lanie Robertson, with musical arrangements by Danny Holgate.


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Thursday, October 19, 2023


Art
 

Time TBD, October 19



The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 19



Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings inspired by landscapes of Central New York.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, October 19



Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Stephen Carpenter: visual interpretations of the rich and nuanced sound of Pierre Cochereau's organ improvisation of Bolero, presented as digital imagery on canvas
Michael Hughes: textural wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain
Lily Tsay: glass bead and homemade porcelain bead jewelry with select materials


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 19



A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, October 19



Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, October 19



2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 19



Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 19



Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 19



Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 19



Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 19



Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 19



Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 19



Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ithaca-based artist Christine Chin creates works that explore the evidence of climate change and its impact on the environment. "Invasive Impressions" presents two bodies of Chin's work: her "Invasive Species Cyanotypes" and "Native Species Cyanotypes." Chin's "Invasive Species" series uses the cyanotype process to document invasive species in the Finger Lakes region. She uses actual specimens, collected herself or through collaborations with organizations that work to monitor and control invasive species, including the Finger Lakes Institute and the Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management. The "Native Species" series focuses on species that coexist in ecosystems affected by invasive species. Shown together, these works draw attention to the relationships that form between species competing for the same ever-dwindling resources.

"Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions" is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 19



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"On My Own Time" is a community arts program that links the business and cultural sectors of Central New York to spotlight local workforce members who create visual art 'on their own time.' Its goal is to promote appreciation and support of visual arts and recognize individual creativity in our region. It seeks to create a bridge between the business and arts communities in a collaborative setting that encourages, recognizes, and celebrates creativity in the local workforce. This joint effort promotes an appreciation of the importance of arts and culture to the economy and quality of life of the Central New York community. This year, On My Own Time rings in its 50th annual celebration of the creative talents of the Central New York workforce and the beauty of art in our lives!


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 19



A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 19



Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 19



Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 19



Pick and 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 ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 19



Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Dan Shanahan's paintings highlight the quiet beauty found in scenes of everyday life. His plein air watercolors depict residential and downtown neighborhoods throughout the city of Syracuse, focusing on distinctive buildings and houses.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 19



Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
The Warehouse Genet Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Discover the remarkable influence of Piet Mondrian's art on fashion and design. This exhibition, curated by Professor Jeffrey Mayer and featuring the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, addresses the effect that Piet Mondrian's utopian neoplastic art has had on design and fashion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Mondrian (1872-1944) was a visionary Dutch painter known for pioneering the De Stijl movement. His iconic grid-based compositions using only straight lines, primary colors plus black, white and grey, transformed the art world. His work embodies simplicity, harmony, and a universal language of abstraction.

The exhibition features not only fashion from the 1980s and 1990s but is also filled with additional "design" objects that have been influenced by Mondrian's work, including dinnerware from Kate Spade; toys from Mattel, LOL and Thomas the Train; sneakers by Nike; and packaging from the beauty brand L'Oreal's Studio Line.


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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, October 19



Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Employing vivid color, rich pattern, stunning beauty, and admiring love, Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib has brought her father's childhood stories of Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s and 40s to life. In 1981, Zughaib received a BFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and has since become one of the world's most renowned Arab American artists. Her work is in the collections of the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, and the Arab American National Museum. We welcome Helen back to Syracuse where we will exhibit her full series of 25 gouache paintings, each illustrating a story as told by her father, Elia Zughaib.


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6:45 PM - 11:00 PM, October 19



Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Hysteria is an original video by Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO). In this work, the institute uses image, movement, and sound to construct an ecofeminist retelling of the poorly understood "dancing plagues" that swept through Europe between the 10th and the 17th centuries. The afflicted dancers are subtly recast as pointedly subversive agents entangled in environmental contagion and contamination that drive these wild, manic uprisings.

Dancing plagues (also referred to as dancing mania, choreomania, and tarantism) were spontaneous social phenomena in which groups of people, at times in the thousands, danced erratically and without restraint. The mania affected people of all ages and genders, and they often danced until they collapsed from exhaustion or suffered injury and even death.

Shot in and around Syracuse as part of Light Work UVP's Residential Media Art Commission program, Hysteria features many iconic Central New York locations, including the Syracuse Metro Water Treatment Plant on Onondaga Lake, Pratt's Falls, and Stone Quarry Art Park. (12:33, 2023)

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.


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Music
 

7:00 PM, October 19



*SOLD OUT* The Rollin' Rust
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

The Rollin' Rust is an indie/folk group from the foothills of Central New York. Being led by singer-songwriter James VanDeuson, The Rollin' Rust celebrates the distinguished writing style of a vagabond folk artist. Joined by his talented friends, Jim Hearn (lead guitarist) and Kyle Dennis (percussion) James' songs now have a distinct edginess to them, sounding almost as if you took a classic folk song and corrupted its mind with years of crazed festivals and long nights in smoky southern bar rooms. The Rollin' Rust boys have been playing music together since they were just teenagers, crafting a truly unique sound that could only be formed by such long-lasting friendship and intimate evenings with the highway itself.?


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Theater
 

7:00 PM, October 19



Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Come a runnin', cousins, 'cause it's time again for the annual family reunion and the whole Freagan family is gonna be there! We're gonna have vittles, singin', hootin' and hollerin' and, of course, no family gathering would be complete without the annual pig-calling contest! Dang, you might even win a big ol' slop bucket full of money! Yeehaw! Best watch your step on the farm this year, though. Pa's been hitting the moonshine a might too hard and is about to lose the farm to that no good snake, Beauregard Hogwallerin! When the girls find out, somebody could end up on the barbecue!


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7:30 PM, October 19



Preview: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Syracuse Stage
Jade King Carroll, director

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

Chronicle Billie Holiday's life story through the songs that made her famous. 1959, in a small, intimate bar in Philadelphia, Holiday puts on a show that unbeknownst to the audience, will leave them witness to one of the last performances of her lifetime. One of the greatest jazz and blues singers of all time shares her loves and losses through her poignant voice and moving songs, including "Strange Fruit," "God Bless the Child," "When a Woman Loves a Man," and "Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do."

Written by Lanie Robertson, with musical arrangements by Danny Holgate.


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Friday, October 20, 2023


Art
 

Time TBD, October 20



The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.


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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 20



Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings inspired by landscapes of Central New York.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, October 20



Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Stephen Carpenter: visual interpretations of the rich and nuanced sound of Pierre Cochereau's organ improvisation of Bolero, presented as digital imagery on canvas
Michael Hughes: textural wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain
Lily Tsay: glass bead and homemade porcelain bead jewelry with select materials


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10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, October 20



A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, October 20



2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, October 20



Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 20



Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 20



Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 20



Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 20



Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 20



Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 20



Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ithaca-based artist Christine Chin creates works that explore the evidence of climate change and its impact on the environment. "Invasive Impressions" presents two bodies of Chin's work: her "Invasive Species Cyanotypes" and "Native Species Cyanotypes." Chin's "Invasive Species" series uses the cyanotype process to document invasive species in the Finger Lakes region. She uses actual specimens, collected herself or through collaborations with organizations that work to monitor and control invasive species, including the Finger Lakes Institute and the Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management. The "Native Species" series focuses on species that coexist in ecosystems affected by invasive species. Shown together, these works draw attention to the relationships that form between species competing for the same ever-dwindling resources.

"Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions" is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 20



Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 20



A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 20



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"On My Own Time" is a community arts program that links the business and cultural sectors of Central New York to spotlight local workforce members who create visual art 'on their own time.' Its goal is to promote appreciation and support of visual arts and recognize individual creativity in our region. It seeks to create a bridge between the business and arts communities in a collaborative setting that encourages, recognizes, and celebrates creativity in the local workforce. This joint effort promotes an appreciation of the importance of arts and culture to the economy and quality of life of the Central New York community. This year, On My Own Time rings in its 50th annual celebration of the creative talents of the Central New York workforce and the beauty of art in our lives!


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 20



Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 20



Pick and 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 ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 20



Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 20



Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Dan Shanahan's paintings highlight the quiet beauty found in scenes of everyday life. His plein air watercolors depict residential and downtown neighborhoods throughout the city of Syracuse, focusing on distinctive buildings and houses.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 20



Mondrian: Art, Design, Fashion
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
The Warehouse Genet Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Discover the remarkable influence of Piet Mondrian's art on fashion and design. This exhibition, curated by Professor Jeffrey Mayer and featuring the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, addresses the effect that Piet Mondrian's utopian neoplastic art has had on design and fashion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Mondrian (1872-1944) was a visionary Dutch painter known for pioneering the De Stijl movement. His iconic grid-based compositions using only straight lines, primary colors plus black, white and grey, transformed the art world. His work embodies simplicity, harmony, and a universal language of abstraction.

The exhibition features not only fashion from the 1980s and 1990s but is also filled with additional "design" objects that have been influenced by Mondrian's work, including dinnerware from Kate Spade; toys from Mattel, LOL and Thomas the Train; sneakers by Nike; and packaging from the beauty brand L'Oreal's Studio Line.


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12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, October 20



On My Own Time Retrospective
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

This year marks the 50th anniversary of On My Own Time, a creative showcase produced by CNY Arts. For a half-century, On My Own Time has offered a unique forum for avocational artists to display their original visual artwork.

Each artist is a member of the local workforce, and businesses are encouraged to participate and celebrate the creative achievement of their employees. On My Own Time was inspired by individuals who make art outside of the hours dedicated to their career. On My Own Time welcomes nonprofessional artists of all levels of expertise and experience who share the joy of creative expression in common.

This fall, join CNY Arts and participants of On My Own Time - past and present - to celebrate our avocational creative community! The On My Own Time 50th Anniversary Retrospective will run at the new Art in the Atrium gallery and programming space, located right in the heart of downtown!


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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, October 20



Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Employing vivid color, rich pattern, stunning beauty, and admiring love, Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib has brought her father's childhood stories of Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s and 40s to life. In 1981, Zughaib received a BFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and has since become one of the world's most renowned Arab American artists. Her work is in the collections of the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, and the Arab American National Museum. We welcome Helen back to Syracuse where we will exhibit her full series of 25 gouache paintings, each illustrating a story as told by her father, Elia Zughaib.


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6:45 PM - 11:00 PM, October 20



Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Hysteria is an original video by Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO). In this work, the institute uses image, movement, and sound to construct an ecofeminist retelling of the poorly understood "dancing plagues" that swept through Europe between the 10th and the 17th centuries. The afflicted dancers are subtly recast as pointedly subversive agents entangled in environmental contagion and contamination that drive these wild, manic uprisings.

Dancing plagues (also referred to as dancing mania, choreomania, and tarantism) were spontaneous social phenomena in which groups of people, at times in the thousands, danced erratically and without restraint. The mania affected people of all ages and genders, and they often danced until they collapsed from exhaustion or suffered injury and even death.

Shot in and around Syracuse as part of Light Work UVP's Residential Media Art Commission program, Hysteria features many iconic Central New York locations, including the Syracuse Metro Water Treatment Plant on Onondaga Lake, Pratt's Falls, and Stone Quarry Art Park. (12:33, 2023)

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.


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History
 

6:00 PM - 9:45 PM, October 20



Ghost Walk 2023
Baldwinsville Center for the Arts

Price: $18 (pre-registration required)
Baldwin Canal Square
Baldwinsville

Walking tours leave every 15 minutes, 6:00-9:45 pm, from under the big tent in Baldwin Canal Square. The total walking time for each is approximately 75 minutes.

The tour features ghost stories told at eight spots around the village and performed for you by live actors and narrated by tour guides. By popular demand, these stories are more scary, more spooky, and ton more creepy than in years past.

This year's Ghost Walk will reach back into past and remind us all that the earliest occupants of this land we now call Baldwinsville warned newcomers of the ancient evil inhabiting the surrounding woods that feeds on the dark heart's of men. Many a local can tell you of the legends of the Witch of Whiskey Hollow and many more can share a story or two of their own frightening encounters. A guide will lead each tour group stopping to be chilled at each location along the Ghost Walk route.

Due to the scary nature of these stories and the creepy atmosphere created by the actors, this event is not appropriate for children under 11.


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Music
 

6:30 PM, October 20



Disney Encanto: The Sing-Along Film Concert
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Disney Concerts presents "Encanto: The Sing-along Film Concert" national tour. Encanto lovers of all ages have the opportunity to sing along with their favorite GRAMMY®-Award winning songs performed by a live band while watching the full film.

"Encanto: The Sing-Along Film Concert" will include all the music of the Academy Award®-winning film, including iconic hits like "We Don't Talk About Bruno" and "Surface Pressure" performed live.

Fans are encouraged to dress up as Mirabel, Luisa, Isabela, or any of their favorite characters from the film and to use their voices to transform each venue into one big celebration of the Madrigal family.


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6:30 PM - 7:45 PM, October 20



Candlelight Series: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Candlelight Concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations in Syracuse. Discover Halloween-inspired music under the gentle glow of candlelight.

Tentative Program:
Michael Jackson Thriller
Charles Gounod Funeral March of a Marionette
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: II. Allegro Molto
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells theme from "The Exorcist"
S U R V I V E Stranger Things theme
Danny Elfman Beetlejuice theme
Vic Mizzy The Addams Family theme
John Carpenter Halloween theme
Bernard Herrmann Psycho prelude
Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters theme
Camille Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre
Modest Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain
Franz Schubert Der Erlkönig
Danny Elfman Medley from The Nightmare Before Christmas
Edvard Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King


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7:00 PM, October 20



Donna & Sam
The 443 Social Club

Price: $10
The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Gritty, buttery, and soul-piercing have all been used to describe the vocals of Donna Colton. A seasoned veteran of the local music scene, her songwriting and CDs have garnered national and international attention. Solo showcases at the legendary Bitter End and Spiral Club in New York City and at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville led to live performances for national TV and radio shows. In 2009 she became one of the few women to be inducted into the Syracuse Area Music Awards Hall of Fame.

Colton will be joined on stage by her husband and bandmate, Sam Patterelli, AKA Sam Troublemaker, making music they call an acoustic tangle of Broken Folk and Twang Rock.


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7:30 PM, October 20



Emma Rush
Skaneateles Library Guitar Series

Price: Free
Skaneateles Library
49 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Over the past decade, Emma Rush has established herself as one of Canada's preeminent classical guitarists. Known for her innovative programming and powerful stage presence, along with her warm sound and virtuosic technique, an event with Emma Rush is one to remember.

Emma Rush's concert career has commanded world recognition. Recent touring highlights include a four-city tour in China, starting with the Altamira Shanghai International Guitar Festival, appearances at major guitar festivals including Festival de Guitarras Lagos de Moreno (Mexico), the Nyköping Gitaarseminarium (Sweden), and a prestigious concert at the Internationales Gitarren Symposion, Iserlohn (Germany). She performs frequently in Europe and tours throughout North America.

Composers are eager for Emma Rush to perform their music and she has had works dedicated to her by the Canadian composers William Beauvais and Timothy Phelan, Mexican composer Winy Kellner, and Jaime Zenamon from Brazil. Rush is enthusiastic about expanding the Canadian guitar catalogue and has commissioned new works from Amy Brandon, Dale Kavanagh, Jeffrey McFadden, and Craig Visser.


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7:30 PM, October 20



A Gospel Symphony Celebration
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Dr. Henry Panion, conductor

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

Dr. Henry Panion returns to the podium to lead the Symphoria Orchestra, some of Syracuse's most recognized Gospel singers, and a 75-member community Gospel Choir assembled by Syracuse gospel music maven, Cora Thomas.


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8:00 PM, October 20



John McCutcheon
Folkus Project

Price: $25 regular, $22 Folkus members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

John McCutcheon has emerged as one of our most respected and loved folksingers. As an instrumentalist, he is a master of a dozen different traditional instruments, most notably the rare and beautiful hammer dulcimer. His songwriting has been hailed by critics and singers around the globe. His 30 recordings have garnered every imaginable honor, including seven Grammy nominations. He has produced over 20 albums of other artists, from traditional fiddlers to contemporary singer-songwriters to educational and documentary works. His books and instructional materials have introduced budding players to the joys of their own musicality. And his commitment to grassroots political organizations has put him on the front lines of many of the issues important to communities and workers.


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9:00 PM - 10:15 PM, October 20



Candlelight Series: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Candlelight Concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations in Syracuse. Discover Halloween-inspired music under the gentle glow of candlelight.

Tentative Program:
Michael Jackson Thriller
Charles Gounod Funeral March of a Marionette
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: II. Allegro Molto
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells theme from "The Exorcist"
S U R V I V E Stranger Things theme
Danny Elfman Beetlejuice theme
Vic Mizzy The Addams Family theme
John Carpenter Halloween theme
Bernard Herrmann Psycho prelude
Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters theme
Camille Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre
Modest Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain
Franz Schubert Der Erlkönig
Danny Elfman Medley from The Nightmare Before Christmas
Edvard Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King


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Opera
 

7:30 PM, October 20



I am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams
Syracuse Opera

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

I Am a Dreamer Who no Longer Dreams is the first production of the season exploring intimate portraits of hopes and dreams. This poignant and topical work navigates both compassion and the dark side of humanity through the intersecting lives of two immigrants. The story chronicles the complicated parallels and experiences of Rosa, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico; and her court-appointed attorney, Singa, herself an immigrant from Indonesia with a green card. As their voices blend and connect, we all experience the oneness that is the human condition, the storytelling and song of our collective inner child.

With music composed by Jorge Sosa and a libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs, the opera will be performed in English.


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Poetry/Reading
 

7:00 PM, October 20



Poets Letisia Cruz and Jackson Holbert
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
Online


Letisia Cruz is a Cuban-American writer and artist. She is the author of Migrations & Other Exiles (Lost Horse Press, 2023), selected by Dzvinia Orlowsky as winner of the 2022 Idaho Prize for Poetry, and The Lost Girls Book of Divination (Tolsun Books, 2018). She is the recipient of a 2022 artist grant from the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance and was selected as a 2022 Dali Dozen Emerging Artist for her project Rituales: An Exploration of Faith in the Caribbean. Her writing and artwork have appeared in [PANK], Ninth Letter, The Acentos Review, Gulf Stream, Saw Palm, Third Coast, Duende, Moko, 300 Days of Sun, and Black Fox Literary Magazine, among others. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Jackson Holbert was born and raised in eastern Washington. His poems, essays, and fiction have appeared in The Nation, Daily Science Fiction, and Poetry Magazine. His first book, Winter Stranger, won the 2022 Max Ritvo Prize, and was published by Milkweed Editions. He received his MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers, and is currently a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University.


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Theater
 

7:00 PM, October 20



Prescription: Murder
Central New York Playhouse

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Providing the inspiration for the TV series Columbo, the theatrical predecessor Prescription: Murder tells the story of a brilliant psychiatrist and his mistress who hatch a plot to murder his neurotic, possessive wife. The execution of their plan and the creation of their perfect alibi depends on a bizarre impersonation. Lt. Columbo must engage the psychiatrist in a duel of wits until the doctor succeeds in having Columbo removed from the case. However, it is the mistress who proves to be the weak link that leads to a trap and a surprising climax!


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7:30 PM, October 20



Almost, Maine
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Chris Spring, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

A woman carries her heart, broken into 19 pieces, in a small paper bag. A man shrinks to half his former size, after losing hope in love. A couple keep the love they have given each other in large red bags, or compress the mass into the size of a diamond.

These playful and surreal experiences are commonplace in the world of John Cariani's Almost, Maine, where on one deeply cold and magical midwinter night, the citizens of Almost — not organized enough for a town, too populated for a wilderness — experience the life-altering power of the human heart. Relationships end, begin, or change beyond recognition, as strangers become friends, friends become lovers, and lovers turn into strangers. Propelled by the mystical energy of the aurora borealis and populated with characters who are humorous, plain-spoken, thoughtful, and sincere, Almost, Maine is a series of loosely connected tales about love, each with a compelling couple at its center, each with its own touch of sorcery.


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7:30 PM, October 20



Opening: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Syracuse Stage
Jade King Carroll, director

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

Chronicle Billie Holiday's life story through the songs that made her famous. 1959, in a small, intimate bar in Philadelphia, Holiday puts on a show that unbeknownst to the audience, will leave them witness to one of the last performances of her lifetime. One of the greatest jazz and blues singers of all time shares her loves and losses through her poignant voice and moving songs, including "Strange Fruit," "God Bless the Child," "When a Woman Loves a Man," and "Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do."

Written by Lanie Robertson, with musical arrangements by Danny Holgate.


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Saturday, October 21, 2023


Art
 

Time TBD, October 21



The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 21



Field and Forest: Oil Paintings by Karen Burns
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Oil paintings inspired by landscapes of Central New York.


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10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, October 21



Visual Music: Bolero de Cochereau
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Stephen Carpenter: visual interpretations of the rich and nuanced sound of Pierre Cochereau's organ improvisation of Bolero, presented as digital imagery on canvas
Michael Hughes: textural wheel thrown stoneware and porcelain
Lily Tsay: glass bead and homemade porcelain bead jewelry with select materials


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 21



A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 21



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"On My Own Time" is a community arts program that links the business and cultural sectors of Central New York to spotlight local workforce members who create visual art 'on their own time.' Its goal is to promote appreciation and support of visual arts and recognize individual creativity in our region. It seeks to create a bridge between the business and arts communities in a collaborative setting that encourages, recognizes, and celebrates creativity in the local workforce. This joint effort promotes an appreciation of the importance of arts and culture to the economy and quality of life of the Central New York community. This year, On My Own Time rings in its 50th annual celebration of the creative talents of the Central New York workforce and the beauty of art in our lives!


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 21



Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 21



Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ithaca-based artist Christine Chin creates works that explore the evidence of climate change and its impact on the environment. "Invasive Impressions" presents two bodies of Chin's work: her "Invasive Species Cyanotypes" and "Native Species Cyanotypes." Chin's "Invasive Species" series uses the cyanotype process to document invasive species in the Finger Lakes region. She uses actual specimens, collected herself or through collaborations with organizations that work to monitor and control invasive species, including the Finger Lakes Institute and the Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management. The "Native Species" series focuses on species that coexist in ecosystems affected by invasive species. Shown together, these works draw attention to the relationships that form between species competing for the same ever-dwindling resources.

"Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions" is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 21



Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 21



Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 21



Pick and 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 ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 21



Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Dan Shanahan's paintings highlight the quiet beauty found in scenes of everyday life. His plein air watercolors depict residential and downtown neighborhoods throughout the city of Syracuse, focusing on distinctive buildings and houses.


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11:30 AM - 3:30 PM, October 21



A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s
Community Folk Art Center

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

The traveling exhibition "A Love Supreme" re-imagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC's manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.


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12:00 PM - 6:00 PM, October 21



On My Own Time Retrospective
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

This year marks the 50th anniversary of On My Own Time, a creative showcase produced by CNY Arts. For a half-century, On My Own Time has offered a unique forum for avocational artists to display their original visual artwork.

Each artist is a member of the local workforce, and businesses are encouraged to participate and celebrate the creative achievement of their employees. On My Own Time was inspired by individuals who make art outside of the hours dedicated to their career. On My Own Time welcomes nonprofessional artists of all levels of expertise and experience who share the joy of creative expression in common.

This fall, join CNY Arts and participants of On My Own Time - past and present - to celebrate our avocational creative community! The On My Own Time 50th Anniversary Retrospective will run at the new Art in the Atrium gallery and programming space, located right in the heart of downtown!


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 21



Helen Zughaib: Stories My Father Told Me
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Employing vivid color, rich pattern, stunning beauty, and admiring love, Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib has brought her father's childhood stories of Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s and 40s to life. In 1981, Zughaib received a BFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and has since become one of the world's most renowned Arab American artists. Her work is in the collections of the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, and the Arab American National Museum. We welcome Helen back to Syracuse where we will exhibit her full series of 25 gouache paintings, each illustrating a story as told by her father, Elia Zughaib.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 21



Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 21



Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 21



Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 21



Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 21



Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, October 21



Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, October 21



2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.


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6:45 PM - 11:00 PM, October 21



Institute of Queer Ecology: Hysteria
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Hysteria is an original video by Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO). In this work, the institute uses image, movement, and sound to construct an ecofeminist retelling of the poorly understood "dancing plagues" that swept through Europe between the 10th and the 17th centuries. The afflicted dancers are subtly recast as pointedly subversive agents entangled in environmental contagion and contamination that drive these wild, manic uprisings.

Dancing plagues (also referred to as dancing mania, choreomania, and tarantism) were spontaneous social phenomena in which groups of people, at times in the thousands, danced erratically and without restraint. The mania affected people of all ages and genders, and they often danced until they collapsed from exhaustion or suffered injury and even death.

Shot in and around Syracuse as part of Light Work UVP's Residential Media Art Commission program, Hysteria features many iconic Central New York locations, including the Syracuse Metro Water Treatment Plant on Onondaga Lake, Pratt's Falls, and Stone Quarry Art Park. (12:33, 2023)

Screening begins at dusk on the Everson Museum facade.


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Comedy
 

3:00 PM, October 21



Jeff Dunham: Still Not Canceled
The Oncenter

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


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History
 

6:00 PM - 9:45 PM, October 21



Ghost Walk 2023
Baldwinsville Center for the Arts

Price: $18 (pre-registration required)
Baldwin Canal Square
Baldwinsville

Walking tours leave every 15 minutes, 6:00-9:45 pm, from under the big tent in Baldwin Canal Square. The total walking time for each is approximately 75 minutes.

The tour features ghost stories told at eight spots around the village and performed for you by live actors and narrated by tour guides. By popular demand, these stories are more scary, more spooky, and ton more creepy than in years past.

This year's Ghost Walk will reach back into past and remind us all that the earliest occupants of this land we now call Baldwinsville warned newcomers of the ancient evil inhabiting the surrounding woods that feeds on the dark heart's of men. Many a local can tell you of the legends of the Witch of Whiskey Hollow and many more can share a story or two of their own frightening encounters. A guide will lead each tour group stopping to be chilled at each location along the Ghost Walk route.

Due to the scary nature of these stories and the creepy atmosphere created by the actors, this event is not appropriate for children under 11.


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Music
 

7:00 PM, October 21



*CANCELLED* GoldenOak
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

With harmonies derived only from the genetic intricacies of a brother-sister duo, Zak and Lena Kendall have evolved from homespun, family-oriented folk music to deliver roots-revival styled sophistication for a hyper-conscious generation. The Kendalls, beloved within their quickly expanding fandom as GoldenOak, were raised in part by the western Maine landscape.

GoldenOak began as two children playing around backyard bonfires and was more firmly established with their 2016 debut, Pleasant St. In response to their coming-of-age chronicle, Dispatch Magazine coined the duo "one of Portland's most important upcoming bands." As purveyors of age-old tradition sharing contemporary messaging, the pair has landed spots on stage with Lady Lamb, The Dustbowl Revival, The Ghost of Paul Revere, and The Mallett Brothers Band.


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7:30 PM, October 21



Old & New: Sephardic Reflections
NYS Baroque
fivebyfive contemporary music ensemble

May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm.

Early and contemporary music from the Jewish Sephardic tradition. A collaboration with NYS Baroque, contemporary music ensemble fivebyfive, and artist Lynne Feldman.

Sephardic music has its roots in the musical traditions of the Jewish communities in medieval Spain and medieval Portugal. The two ensembles will treat audiences to "old" and "new" versions of the Sephardic tunes featured in the concert, with artist Lynne Feldman's original tapestries celebrating Jewish life shared as part of the performance. Soprano Nell Snaidas, who is well-known for her work in early Sephardic music, will join the ensemble.

Music includes a new arrangement of Brazilian composer Clarice Assad's Sephardic Suite, and a new setting of three Sephardic songs by Eastman graduate Keane Southard.


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8:00 PM, October 21



Benefit Cabaret for Upstate Foundation
Black Box Players

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

Performance will also be livestreamed on Facebook and Instagram.

Make a donation.


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8:00 PM, October 21



Rock Out for Sock Out Cancer
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Sock Out Cancer proudly announces the return of their annual concert series. This year's concert will feature Fran Cosmo, former vocalist from Boston, and John Elefante, former vocalist from Kansas.

100% of the net proceeds will go directly to Sock Out Cancer whose mission is to assist financially distressed cancer patients and their families pay for non-medical necessities such as food, transportation, and housing, so that patients can focus their energy on fighting cancer.


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, October 21



Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Syracuse Stage
Jade King Carroll, director

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

Chronicle Billie Holiday's life story through the songs that made her famous. 1959, in a small, intimate bar in Philadelphia, Holiday puts on a show that unbeknownst to the audience, will leave them witness to one of the last performances of her lifetime. One of the greatest jazz and blues singers of all time shares her loves and losses through her poignant voice and moving songs, including "Strange Fruit," "God Bless the Child," "When a Woman Loves a Man," and "Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do."

Written by Lanie Robertson, with musical arrangements by Danny Holgate.


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7:00 PM, October 21



Prescription: Murder
Central New York Playhouse

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Providing the inspiration for the TV series Columbo, the theatrical predecessor Prescription: Murder tells the story of a brilliant psychiatrist and his mistress who hatch a plot to murder his neurotic, possessive wife. The execution of their plan and the creation of their perfect alibi depends on a bizarre impersonation. Lt. Columbo must engage the psychiatrist in a duel of wits until the doctor succeeds in having Columbo removed from the case. However, it is the mistress who proves to be the weak link that leads to a trap and a surprising climax!


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7:30 PM, October 21



Almost, Maine
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Chris Spring, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

A woman carries her heart, broken into 19 pieces, in a small paper bag. A man shrinks to half his former size, after losing hope in love. A couple keep the love they have given each other in large red bags, or compress the mass into the size of a diamond.

These playful and surreal experiences are commonplace in the world of John Cariani's Almost, Maine, where on one deeply cold and magical midwinter night, the citizens of Almost — not organized enough for a town, too populated for a wilderness — experience the life-altering power of the human heart. Relationships end, begin, or change beyond recognition, as strangers become friends, friends become lovers, and lovers turn into strangers. Propelled by the mystical energy of the aurora borealis and populated with characters who are humorous, plain-spoken, thoughtful, and sincere, Almost, Maine is a series of loosely connected tales about love, each with a compelling couple at its center, each with its own touch of sorcery.


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7:30 PM, October 21



Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Syracuse Stage
Jade King Carroll, director

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

Chronicle Billie Holiday's life story through the songs that made her famous. 1959, in a small, intimate bar in Philadelphia, Holiday puts on a show that unbeknownst to the audience, will leave them witness to one of the last performances of her lifetime. One of the greatest jazz and blues singers of all time shares her loves and losses through her poignant voice and moving songs, including "Strange Fruit," "God Bless the Child," "When a Woman Loves a Man," and "Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do."

Written by Lanie Robertson, with musical arrangements by Danny Holgate.


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Sunday, October 22, 2023


Art
 

Time TBD, October 22



The Border is a Weapon / La frontera es un arma
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A multi-media art exhibit representing the different realities of a region divided by the Río Grande but united by culture, history, and its people.

The exhibit features works from a collective of South Texas-based artists. Curated by Gil Rocha of the Laredo Center for the Arts.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 22



On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"On My Own Time" is a community arts program that links the business and cultural sectors of Central New York to spotlight local workforce members who create visual art 'on their own time.' Its goal is to promote appreciation and support of visual arts and recognize individual creativity in our region. It seeks to create a bridge between the business and arts communities in a collaborative setting that encourages, recognizes, and celebrates creativity in the local workforce. This joint effort promotes an appreciation of the importance of arts and culture to the economy and quality of life of the Central New York community. This year, On My Own Time rings in its 50th annual celebration of the creative talents of the Central New York workforce and the beauty of art in our lives!


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 22



A Little Bit of Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Drawing on the visual narrative techniques of Japanese graphic novels and traditional Chinese landscape painting, students in the Syracuse University School of Architecture developed A Little Bit of Syracuse, an artistic tableau of the city.

Consisting of an 80-foot scroll drawing and 80 hand-made models of local buildings, the exhibition is a narrative study of the often-overlooked structures that form the backdrop of everyday life in Syracuse. Under the direction of visiting studio professors Li Han and Hu Yan, principals of acclaimed Beijing-based Drawing Architecture Studio, 10 students explored the city, each selecting eight normal, unremarkable buildings — coffee shops, laundromats, residences, etc. — to use as architectural elements in their visual narrative of the city.

Those familiar with Syracuse will immediately recognize many, if not all, the building models — the Dunkin Donuts drive-through, CNY Jazz Central, the Byrne Dairy Deli and Convenience Store.

These and other familiar structures can also be identified in the Syracuse cityscape depicted in the 80-foot scroll drawing, which stitches together each building into a visual story that is at once both realistic and abstract, familiar and unfamiliar.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 22



Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Ithaca-based artist Christine Chin creates works that explore the evidence of climate change and its impact on the environment. "Invasive Impressions" presents two bodies of Chin's work: her "Invasive Species Cyanotypes" and "Native Species Cyanotypes." Chin's "Invasive Species" series uses the cyanotype process to document invasive species in the Finger Lakes region. She uses actual specimens, collected herself or through collaborations with organizations that work to monitor and control invasive species, including the Finger Lakes Institute and the Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management. The "Native Species" series focuses on species that coexist in ecosystems affected by invasive species. Shown together, these works draw attention to the relationships that form between species competing for the same ever-dwindling resources.

"Christine Chin: Invasive Impressions" is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 22



Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 22



Pepe Mar: Magic Vessel
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, collage is a mechanism of transformation—and the origin story of the fiery character he calls his alter-ego: Paprika.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 22



Pick and 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 ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

The Turner's Prize: Art Pottery from the Bill and Dorothy Paul Collection
As the keeper of potter Adelaide Alsop Robineau's legacy, the Everson has a heavy investment in American Art Pottery of the early and mid-20th century. The Turner's Prize highlights the extraordinary collection of Athens, Georgia-based Bill Paul. Instead of following mainstream collectors and market trends, Paul and his late wife Dorothy spent decades gathering rare and exotic works from the Art Pottery era that highlight hand-turned forms and experimental glazes.

Holding Space, Holding Pattern: Radical Decoration Strikes Back
Holding Space, Holding Pattern springs from a moment in the 1970s when pattern became a political and cultural weapon in the hands of feminist artists like Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. The Pattern and Decoration movement kicked open the doors for women to move past the Japanese-inspired stonewares and muscular abstract sculptures that dominated ceramics throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Natural Synthesis: African Stoneware from the Ramage Collection
Natural Synthesis tells the story of a group of talented Nigerian potters who apprenticed at a colonial British pottery school led by Michael Cardew. Potters like Danlami Aliyu and Ladi Kwali blended British forms and firing techniques with motifs and functional elements from their own aesthetic heritage, then opened their own studios and handed down their legacy to their own students.

Feelies
Over a career that spanned more than seven decades, Arizona-based potter Rose Cabat perfected the Feelie, a matte-glazed pottery form that begs to be held and touched. Feelies brings together more than 100 of Cabat's pots in a show-stopping array highlighting her mastery of glaze and form.

Cosmic Pipes: Pipes from the Clayton and Betty Bailey Collection
The Everson's recently acquired collection of Cosmic Pipes from the late 1960s joins other clay pipes from Indigenous and European cultures in the permanent collection. Ceramist Clayton Bailey created these pipes along with friends Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, and Maija Peeples-Bright in 1969. Legend has it that Bailey's wife, Betty, an artist in her own right, encouraged the group to make what she called "paranoid pipes" in the form of everyday objects like ice cream cones and flowers to disguise their purpose and blend into their surroundings.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, October 22



Roberta Griffith: Trophies
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For 42 years, Roberta Griffith served as a professor of ceramics and drawing at Hartwick College, cementing her status as a Central New York legend. Griffith now splits her time between Otego, NY, and Kaua'i, Hawaii. After receiving her Master's degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1960, Griffith was awarded a Fulbright grant that brought her to Spain to study with ceramist Josep Llorens i Artigas, who was then at the height of a 30-year collaboration with painter Joan Miró. Griffith returned to the United States in 1964 and has always retained ties to Surrealism and abstraction.

In 1971, Griffith produced "Trophies," a body of work combining inverted stoneware vessels with ethereal constellations of feathers to evoke both body adornments and undersea organisms. While Griffith's Trophies are in tune with 1970s aesthetics, they also challenged the orthodoxy of a field dominated by men. More than 50 years later, this exhibition celebrates Griffith's work for its bold innovation and continuing ability to shock, surprise, and delight.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, October 22



Architecture in Central New York: Watercolors by Dan Shanahan
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Dan Shanahan's paintings highlight the quiet beauty found in scenes of everyday life. His plein air watercolors depict residential and downtown neighborhoods throughout the city of Syracuse, focusing on distinctive buildings and houses.


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12:00 PM - 6:00 PM, October 22



On My Own Time Retrospective
Art in the Atrium

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

This year marks the 50th anniversary of On My Own Time, a creative showcase produced by CNY Arts. For a half-century, On My Own Time has offered a unique forum for avocational artists to display their original visual artwork.

Each artist is a member of the local workforce, and businesses are encouraged to participate and celebrate the creative achievement of their employees. On My Own Time was inspired by individuals who make art outside of the hours dedicated to their career. On My Own Time welcomes nonprofessional artists of all levels of expertise and experience who share the joy of creative expression in common.

This fall, join CNY Arts and participants of On My Own Time - past and present - to celebrate our avocational creative community! The On My Own Time 50th Anniversary Retrospective will run at the new Art in the Atrium gallery and programming space, located right in the heart of downtown!


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 22



Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition will feature the ceramic works by Onondaga artist Peter B. Jones that comment on and actively resist the impact of colonialism on Haudenosaunee communities, past and present. His art presents Haudenosaunee culture as a continuum that has resisted and persisted despite serious attacks on Haudenosaunee lands, sovereignty, and cultural identity.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 22



Making a Global Pre-Modern World
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Drawing from the museum's collections, this exhibition focuses on select moments in the global histories from the 9th through the 19th centuries. The included artworks, many of which are on view in the gallery for the first time, complicate ideas of empire, highlight the importance of trade, and foreground how cross-cultural influences inform artistic practices.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 22



Beyond the Classroom: Teaching and Learning at the Museum
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In its second iteration, this exhibition will showcase the artworks that Syracuse University Art Museum's 2023-2024 Faculty Fellows will teach from during the academic year. Launched in Summer 2022, the museum's Faculty Fellows program supports innovative curriculum development and the fuller integration of the museum's collection into the University's academic life.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 22



Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum's permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the 19th-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, October 22



Nona Faustine, My Country
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Art Wall Project at the Syracuse University Art Museum continues for its third presentation and will feature photographs and silk-screen prints made by Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer. For this iteration, Faustine will consider the legacy of monuments in the United States and explore how, as she has described, "history is turned around. What is left out, what is included, what are the lies. And who gets celebrated."


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, October 22



2023 Light Work Grants in Photography: Amy Kozlowski, Tahila Mintz, Linda Moses
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work's annual Grant in Photography awards exhibition. This year's recipients are: Amy "Koz" Kozlowski, Linda Moses, and Tahila Mintz. The Grants in Photography are part of Light Work's continuing support of Central New York lens-based artists.


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, October 22



Eduardo L Rivera: The Sun Echoed Like A Song
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Sun Echoed Like A Song" is an exhibition of photographs exploring the personal history of his family, community, and the landscape made in Phoenix, Arizona, the artist's childhood hometown.


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History
 

1:00 PM, October 22



Historical Halloween Happening
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $5 (advance purchase required)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Put on your best Halloween costume for a Historical Halloween Happening at OHA! Trick or Treat around the museum for magical symbols, hear about Halloween tales and hijinks from the past, magically summon our special museum characters, and help perform a trick for treats to appear – all in one historically spooky afternoon!

Recommended for trick-or-treaters 6 years old above.


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Music
 

1:00 PM, October 22



*SOLD OUT* Shakedown Sunday
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Hosted by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers and members of Syracuse's own Dead to the Core, with special guests each month, Shakedown Sunday celebrates the music of the Grateful Dead—not just the band's originals but songs from across the roots and rock worlds they made their own.

The October 2023 Shakedown Sunday features the Dead to the Core acoustic trio of Rodgers, Wendy Sassafras Ramsay, and Tim Burns with Brian Welch (drummer with Burns' band Two Hour Delay) and special guest Liz Fiddle Simchik.

Liz Fiddle Simchik is a dynamic violinist/fiddler and singer from Central New York whose music is a melting pot of swing jazz, blues, outlaw country, and pop, grounded in both traditional fiddle styles and classical training. She performs with Opus Black String Trio, Fish Creek Rodeo, Mark Hoffman's Swing This, Lipstick and Whiskey, and many others.

Expect deep cuts, fresh collaborations, and old favorites reimagined.


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2:00 PM, October 22



Dublin Guitar Quartet
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Bryce Dessner Aheym
Wojciech Kilar Orawa
Philip Glass Piano Etudes nos. 2, 9, 16, 20
Rachel Grimes Book of Leaves
Marc Mellits (New arrangement)
Arvo Pärt Summa
Philip Glass String Quartet no. 3, "Mishima"


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2:00 PM, October 22



Setnor Student Recital Series: Ryan McQuay Meredith, composition
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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5:00 PM, October 22



Setnor Student Recital Series: Samuel Evans, composition
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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Opera
 

3:00 PM, October 22



I am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams
Syracuse Opera

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

I Am a Dreamer Who no Longer Dreams is the first production of the season exploring intimate portraits of hopes and dreams. This poignant and topical work navigates both compassion and the dark side of humanity through the intersecting lives of two immigrants. The story chronicles the complicated parallels and experiences of Rosa, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico; and her court-appointed attorney, Singa, herself an immigrant from Indonesia with a green card. As their voices blend and connect, we all experience the oneness that is the human condition, the storytelling and song of our collective inner child.

With music composed by Jorge Sosa and a libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs, the opera will be performed in English.


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, October 22



Blippi: The Wonderful World Tour
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Round Room Live and Moonbug Entertainment are proud to announce that a new live show, "Blippi: The Wonderful World Tour," will again bring the vivacious, energetic, and educational antics of global sensation Blippi to Syracuse.


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2:00 PM, October 22



Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Syracuse Stage
Jade King Carroll, director

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

Chronicle Billie Holiday's life story through the songs that made her famous. 1959, in a small, intimate bar in Philadelphia, Holiday puts on a show that unbeknownst to the audience, will leave them witness to one of the last performances of her lifetime. One of the greatest jazz and blues singers of all time shares her loves and losses through her poignant voice and moving songs, including "Strange Fruit," "God Bless the Child," "When a Woman Loves a Man," and "Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do."

Written by Lanie Robertson, with musical arrangements by Danny Holgate.


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3:00 PM, October 22



Almost, Maine
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Chris Spring, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

A woman carries her heart, broken into 19 pieces, in a small paper bag. A man shrinks to half his former size, after losing hope in love. A couple keep the love they have given each other in large red bags, or compress the mass into the size of a diamond.

These playful and surreal experiences are commonplace in the world of John Cariani's Almost, Maine, where on one deeply cold and magical midwinter night, the citizens of Almost — not organized enough for a town, too populated for a wilderness — experience the life-altering power of the human heart. Relationships end, begin, or change beyond recognition, as strangers become friends, friends become lovers, and lovers turn into strangers. Propelled by the mystical energy of the aurora borealis and populated with characters who are humorous, plain-spoken, thoughtful, and sincere, Almost, Maine is a series of loosely connected tales about love, each with a compelling couple at its center, each with its own touch of sorcery.


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