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Events for Tuesday, May 16, 2023

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

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

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

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

Events for Wednesday, May 17, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Events for Thursday, May 18, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6:45 PM No Time for Death Acme Mystery Company

7:00 PM Bridges of Madison County Redhouse

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

7:30 PM Cody Johnson The Oncenter

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

Events for Friday, May 19, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7:00 PM Bridges of Madison County Redhouse

7:30 PM The Laramie Project Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

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

8:00 PM Dar Williams Folkus Project

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

Events for Saturday, May 20, 2023

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

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

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Doug Muir: Coming Home Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

1:00 PM Selected Favorites for Violin Civic Morning Musicals, featuring Edgar Tumajyan, violin

2:00 PM Bridges of Madison County Redhouse

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

7:00 PM Bridges of Madison County Redhouse

7:30 PM The Laramie Project Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

7:30 PM Lynn McGrath, guitar Skaneateles Library Guitar Series

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

7:30 PM Music from Venice for Brass and Choir Syracuse Vocal Ensemble

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

Events for Sunday, May 21, 2023

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

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

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

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Doug Muir: Coming Home Everson Museum of Art

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

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

2:00 PM Bridges of Madison County Redhouse

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

3:00 PM The Laramie Project Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

3:00 PM OCSO at the Movies Pops Concert Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra

Events for Monday, May 22, 2023

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

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

7:00 PM Sally, Irene and Mary (1938) Syracuse Cinephile Society

Events for Tuesday, May 23, 2023

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

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

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

Next week  >>>

Tuesday, May 16, 2023


Art
 

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



Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry


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



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

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

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

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


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



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

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

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


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, May 16



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

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

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


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Wednesday, May 17, 2023


Art
 

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



Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry


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



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

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

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

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


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



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

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

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


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



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Read a review!


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Music
 

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



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

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

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

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


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, May 17



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

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

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


Back to list
 


 

Thursday, May 18, 2023


Art
 

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



Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry


Back to list
 

 

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



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

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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

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



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

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



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


Back to list
 

 

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



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


Back to list
 

 

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



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Read a review!


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



TJ Cuthand: Extractions
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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Lecture
 

6:00 PM, May 18



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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


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Music
 

7:30 PM, May 18



Cody Johnson
The Oncenter

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


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Theater
 

6:45 PM, May 18



No Time for Death
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

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


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7:00 PM, May 18



Bridges of Madison County
Redhouse

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

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


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7:30 PM, May 18



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

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

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


Back to list
 


 

Friday, May 19, 2023


Art
 

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



Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 19



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

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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 19



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

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



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


Back to list
 

 

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



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


Back to list
 

 

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



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Read a review!


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9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, May 19



TJ Cuthand: Extractions
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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Music
 

8:00 PM, May 19



Dar Williams
Folkus Project

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

Since the 1990s, her warm, witty and socially conscious songs have made her one of the most influential figures in the contemporary folk world.


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Theater
 

7:00 PM, May 19



Bridges of Madison County
Redhouse

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

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


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7:30 PM, May 19



The Laramie Project
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Nick Deapo, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

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

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

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


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7:30 PM, May 19



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

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

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


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Saturday, May 20, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 20



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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, May 20



Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 20



Doug Muir: Coming Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For photographer Doug Muir (1940-2016), Syracuse was always home, even though he moved away in 1967.

Muir grew up on Syracuse's South Side where — as a 12-year-old — he embarked on a lifelong passion for capturing moments of daily life.

His early snapshots of places and people familiar to him evolved into sophisticated and compelling photographs that documented a changing America while speaking to a fundamental humanity shared by all. Spanning more than 30 years, "Doug Muir: Coming Home" surveys Muir's journey as a keen observer of humankind, from his beginnings in Central New York to his adopted home on the West Coast where he made his living as a steamfitter.

Although Muir photographed places all over the country throughout his lifetime, Syracuse remained his touchstone and he returned countless times to visit family and friends and reconnect with the source that gave his works such poignancy. "Doug Muir: Coming Home" marks a final return for the artist to his hometown, a place his heart never left.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 20



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 20



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 20



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 20



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Read a review!


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9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, May 20



TJ Cuthand: Extractions
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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Music
 

1:00 PM, May 20



Selected Favorites for Violin
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Edgar Tumajyan, violin

Price: $10
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Violinist Edgar Tumajyan performs works of Komitas, Kreisler, Mozart, Poulenc, and Sarasate.


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7:30 PM, May 20



Lynn McGrath, guitar
Skaneateles Library Guitar Series

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

Classical guitarist Lynn McGrath is being heralded as a phenom. Blending expressive musicianship with her passion for Spanish Language, literature, and theater, she has shared the poetry and music of "Platero y yo" with audiences on four continents in the role of both guitarist and theatrical narrator. She has brought the poetry of Nobel laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez to life for diverse audiences that have included children in a Peruvian orphanage to classical guitar connoisseurs.


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7:30 PM, May 20



Music from Venice for Brass and Choir
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Syracuse University Brass Ensemble
Julie Pretzat, conductor

Price: $10
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A collaboration with Syracuse University Brass Ensemble, featuring polychoral works from 16th-century Venice.

A collaboration with Syracuse University's Brass Ensemble featuring polychoral works from 16th-century Venice.


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, May 20



Bridges of Madison County
Redhouse

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

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


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2:00 PM, May 20



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

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

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

(Audio Described)


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7:00 PM, May 20



Bridges of Madison County
Redhouse

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

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


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7:30 PM, May 20



The Laramie Project
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Nick Deapo, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

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

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

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


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7:30 PM, May 20



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

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

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

(Open Captioned)


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Sunday, May 21, 2023


Art
 

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



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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



Doug Muir: Coming Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For photographer Doug Muir (1940-2016), Syracuse was always home, even though he moved away in 1967.

Muir grew up on Syracuse's South Side where — as a 12-year-old — he embarked on a lifelong passion for capturing moments of daily life.

His early snapshots of places and people familiar to him evolved into sophisticated and compelling photographs that documented a changing America while speaking to a fundamental humanity shared by all. Spanning more than 30 years, "Doug Muir: Coming Home" surveys Muir's journey as a keen observer of humankind, from his beginnings in Central New York to his adopted home on the West Coast where he made his living as a steamfitter.

Although Muir photographed places all over the country throughout his lifetime, Syracuse remained his touchstone and he returned countless times to visit family and friends and reconnect with the source that gave his works such poignancy. "Doug Muir: Coming Home" marks a final return for the artist to his hometown, a place his heart never left.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 21



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM, May 21



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

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

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

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


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Music
 

3:00 PM, May 21



OCSO at the Movies Pops Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor

St. Cecilia's Church
1001 Woods Rd., Syracuse


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, May 21



Bridges of Madison County
Redhouse

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

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


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2:00 PM, May 21



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

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

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

(Open Captioned)


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3:00 PM, May 21



The Laramie Project
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Nick Deapo, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

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

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

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


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Monday, May 22, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 22



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

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

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

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


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



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

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

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


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Film
 

7:00 PM, May 22



Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Cast: Alice Faye, Tony Martin, Joan Davis, Fred Allen, Jimmy Durante, Marjorie Weaver, Gregory Ratoff, Louise Hovick (Gypsy Rose Lee), the Brian Sisters
Director: William A. Seiter

Three young ladies who are trying to make it big in show business (Faye, Davis, and Weaver) struggle until one of them inherits a broken-down ferry boat which their manager (Allen) plans on turning into a floating night club. There's plenty of comedy and music in this star-filled treat from 20th Century-Fox.

PLUS the comedy short Our Gang Follies of 1936.


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Tuesday, May 23, 2023


Art
 

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 23



Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, May 23



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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 23



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

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

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


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