Sunday, June 22, 2014

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

REnewal features work by regionally recognized artists that incorporates recycled materials and utilizes appropriated vintage imagery.

Works include assemblages by Dan Bacich, illustrative collage by Marty Blake, one-of-a-kind and limited edition furniture and jewelry by Unite Two Design (Theresa and Keith Traub), pots by Jen Gandee, up-cycled jewelry by Betsy Menson Sio, and hand-painted, digital collage by Lucie Wellner.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Polish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

12:00–1:00 pm: Lechowia Dancers
1:00–2:30 pm: John Gora & Gorale
2:30-3:00 pm: Scholarship & Miss Polonia Awards & announcement of Raffle winners
3:00–4:00 pm: John Gora & Gorale
4:00–5:00 pm: Noisy Boys

For more information, visit polishscholarship.org.

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: Casablanca
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Long Branch Jam

Price: $10
Long Branch Park
Liverpool

2:30–3:20 pm: The Rad Trads
3:40–4:30 pm: Underground System
4:50–6:00 pm: Mosaic Foundation
6:20–7:30 pm: Pitchblak Brass Band
8:00–9:30 pm: Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds

For more information, visit longbranchjam.com.

And Then There Were None
Central New York Playhouse
Jon Wilson, director

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

In Agatha Christie's classic tale, ten guilty strangers are trapped on an island. One by one they
are accused of murder; one by one they start to die.

In this superlative mystery, statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten "soldiers" met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other or their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island and, along with the two house servants, marooned. A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead—poisoned. One down and nine to go!

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As You Like It
Redhouse

Price: Free
All Saints Church
1340 Lancaster Ave., Syracuse

Don't miss Shakespeare's most beloved comedy about flirtation, friendship, and mistaken identity in this 60-minute lighthearted look at the fickle and passionate nature of love.

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A Year With Frog and Toad
Redhouse
The District Festival

Price: $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In this Theater For Young Audiences version, A Year With Frog and Toad remains true to the spirit of the original stories as it follows two great friends, the cheerful and popular Frog and the rather grumpy Toad, through four fun-filled seasons. Waking from hibernation in the spring, they proceed to plant gardens, swim, rake leaves and go sledding, learning life lessons along the way, including a most important one about friendship and rejoicing in the attributes that make each of us different and special. Book and lyrics by Willie Reale, music by Robert Reale, based on the books by Arnold Lobel.

This production features professional actors, community actors, actors with developmental disabilities from Arc of Onondaga, and students from Elmcrest all performing together.

Tickets are available online at www.theredhouse.org or by calling the Redhouse box office at 315-362-2785. See all three festival shows for $60 for the general public, and $40 for students/seniors. The three-show discount is only available by calling the Redhouse box office.

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Measure for Measure
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Jamie Bruno, director

Price: Pay what you can
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Shakespeare's drama of sex and justice is set in stagflation Texas in the 1970s. A novice nun pleads for the life of her brother on death row. She is offered a devil's bargain: her brother's life in exchange for her virginity. Often billed as a "problem play," Measure for Measure is the funniest meditation on public and private morality you'll see this side of George Bernard Shaw.

Les Miserables
Wit's End Players

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Wit's End Players are proud to present a semi-staged production of Les Misérables, the beloved global stage sensation, which sweeps its audience through an epic tale of broken dreams, passion, and redemption, set against the backdrop of a nation in the grip of revolution. This enthralling story is a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit, and features the now-classic songs "I Dreamed a Dream," "On My Own," "Stars," "Bring Him Home," "Do You Hear the People Sing?," "One Day More," "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables," "Master of the House," and more.

Tickets available at www.ticketmaster.com, 1-800-745-3000, or from the Oncenter Box Office, open Monday-Friday 10:00 am-4:00 pm and Saturday 10:00 am-2:00 pm, 315-435-2121.

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Company
Rarely Done Productions
The District Festival

Price: $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Company opens on the night of confirmed bachelor Robert's 35th birthday as he contemplates his unmarried state. Over the course of a series of dinners, drinks, and even a wedding, his friends -- "those good and crazy people, [his] married friends" -- explain the pros and cons of taking on a spouse. The habitually single Robert is forced to question his adamant retention of bachelorhood during a hilarious, yet accurate, array of interactions. Book by George Furth, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Tickets are available online at www.theredhouse.org or by calling the Redhouse box office at 315-362-2785. See all three festival shows for $60 for the general public, and $40 for students/seniors. The three-show discount is only available by calling the Redhouse box office.

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Monday, June 23, 2014

Works of Tina Strutz
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Tina Strutz will display her acrylic landscape paintings of her travels in the US and abroad. A self-taught painter and educated in the Netherlands, Strutz's past visual displays include window dressing for Dey Brothers and other local department stores in the Syracuse area.

Explorations of a Nemesis: Works by Karen Jean Smith
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Onondaga Art Guild's 50th Anniversary Show
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibit showcases the work of 32 Guild Artists representing a variety of mediums from watercolor, oil paintings and sculpture, including works by Linda Abbey, Carol Adamec, Angela Arrey-Wastavino, Joan Back, Maureen Barcza, Barbara Bickford, Susi Buschbacher, Deb Dahlin, Patrice Downes Centore, Donna Egan, Bonnie Goetske, Geraldine Greig, Judy Hand, Karen Harris, Mary Haven, Marge Hill, Elizabeth Hughes, Peter Huntington, Brian Madigan, Jane McCarthy, Geraldine Meday, Adriana Meiss, Susan Murphy, Candace O'Brien, Toloa Perry, Maria Rizzo, Allison Sarenski, Gale Shuba, Mary Beth Sorber, Tina Strutz, Mary Touchette, Kathryn Wehrung.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

Learning to See
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for Learning to See, an exhibition of work produced by students participating in EL PUNTO Art Studio 2014, a contemporary arts workshop hosted by Point of Contact. Exhibited works include photography, video, and performance arts. This innovative arts program is facilitated to local youths in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, the Near West Side Initiative, and the Pal Project.

Flashback Mondays: Gran Torino
Palace Theatre

Price: $5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Fritzs Polka Band
Liverpool is the Place

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

Swiss-style polka

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Works of Tina Strutz
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Tina Strutz will display her acrylic landscape paintings of her travels in the US and abroad. A self-taught painter and educated in the Netherlands, Strutz's past visual displays include window dressing for Dey Brothers and other local department stores in the Syracuse area.

Explorations of a Nemesis: Works by Karen Jean Smith
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Onondaga Art Guild's 50th Anniversary Show
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibit showcases the work of 32 Guild Artists representing a variety of mediums from watercolor, oil paintings and sculpture, including works by Linda Abbey, Carol Adamec, Angela Arrey-Wastavino, Joan Back, Maureen Barcza, Barbara Bickford, Susi Buschbacher, Deb Dahlin, Patrice Downes Centore, Donna Egan, Bonnie Goetske, Geraldine Greig, Judy Hand, Karen Harris, Mary Haven, Marge Hill, Elizabeth Hughes, Peter Huntington, Brian Madigan, Jane McCarthy, Geraldine Meday, Adriana Meiss, Susan Murphy, Candace O'Brien, Toloa Perry, Maria Rizzo, Allison Sarenski, Gale Shuba, Mary Beth Sorber, Tina Strutz, Mary Touchette, Kathryn Wehrung.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

See Me
Community Folk Art Center

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

Presented in partnership with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Syracuse, this exhibition highlights local artists and families facing mental illness. "See Me" reinforces the celebration of these artists. There is no shame in having mental illness; the shame is how little people know.

NAMI is a grass-roots, self-help, support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of families who have relatives with a brain disorder (mental illness).

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

Learning to See
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for Learning to See, an exhibition of work produced by students participating in EL PUNTO Art Studio 2014, a contemporary arts workshop hosted by Point of Contact. Exhibited works include photography, video, and performance arts. This innovative arts program is facilitated to local youths in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, the Near West Side Initiative, and the Pal Project.

Matt Chase & Thunder Canyon
Town of Clay

Price: Free
Clay Central Park Amphitheater
Wetzel Road near Henry Clay Blvd., Clay

Country

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Works of Tina Strutz
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Tina Strutz will display her acrylic landscape paintings of her travels in the US and abroad. A self-taught painter and educated in the Netherlands, Strutz's past visual displays include window dressing for Dey Brothers and other local department stores in the Syracuse area.

Explorations of a Nemesis: Works by Karen Jean Smith
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Onondaga Art Guild's 50th Anniversary Show
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibit showcases the work of 32 Guild Artists representing a variety of mediums from watercolor, oil paintings and sculpture, including works by Linda Abbey, Carol Adamec, Angela Arrey-Wastavino, Joan Back, Maureen Barcza, Barbara Bickford, Susi Buschbacher, Deb Dahlin, Patrice Downes Centore, Donna Egan, Bonnie Goetske, Geraldine Greig, Judy Hand, Karen Harris, Mary Haven, Marge Hill, Elizabeth Hughes, Peter Huntington, Brian Madigan, Jane McCarthy, Geraldine Meday, Adriana Meiss, Susan Murphy, Candace O'Brien, Toloa Perry, Maria Rizzo, Allison Sarenski, Gale Shuba, Mary Beth Sorber, Tina Strutz, Mary Touchette, Kathryn Wehrung.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

See Me
Community Folk Art Center

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

Presented in partnership with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Syracuse, this exhibition highlights local artists and families facing mental illness. "See Me" reinforces the celebration of these artists. There is no shame in having mental illness; the shame is how little people know.

NAMI is a grass-roots, self-help, support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of families who have relatives with a brain disorder (mental illness).

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Blindness/Insight: Works by Andrea Deschambeault-Porter
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

New and recent collages and oil paintings by artist Andrea Deschambeault-Porter. Working intuitively, the artist develops a vibrant pictorial experience by moving between abstraction and representation of various subjects such as still life, landscape, and the figure, involving some combination of conscious and unconscious thought.

Andrea Deschambeault-Porter lives and works Manlius. She grew up in the Catskills Mountain region of NY, and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase and her MFA from Syracuse University. She studied in Venice, Italy, for a year in 1984. This is her first exhibition at Gallery 4040.

Learning to See
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for Learning to See, an exhibition of work produced by students participating in EL PUNTO Art Studio 2014, a contemporary arts workshop hosted by Point of Contact. Exhibited works include photography, video, and performance arts. This innovative arts program is facilitated to local youths in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, the Near West Side Initiative, and the Pal Project.

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Leon Day: Christmas in Summer

Price: Free
Salt Museum lawn
Onondaga Lake Park, Liverpool

Family-friendly "Christmas in Summer" celebration. Kidz Bop band will perform, and there will be bounce houses, face painting, magicians, and other activities for children. The event will end with fireworks.

Play Again
Syracuse City Parks and SUNY-ESF Center for Community Design Research

Price: Free
Southwest Community Center
401 South Ave., Syracuse

A screening of the film Play Again, followed by a discussion about the role of urban parks, your current experience with parks, and your hopes for the future of Syracuse parks. City Parks, SUNY ESF and community volunteers are gathering information from the community for a parks study. We will determine how the City will advance environmental and botanical park project activities that encourage revitalization of parks and neighborhoods connected by the Onondaga Creek waterways.
Phase I of the project engages the community in the discovery process and seeks input from community members and city partners to determine next steps and priorities.

For more information contact Glen Lewis at GLewis@syrgov.net or visit www.celebrateyourparks.org.

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: A Night at the Opera
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

McLovins, with Lee Terrace
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Works of Tina Strutz
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Tina Strutz will display her acrylic landscape paintings of her travels in the US and abroad. A self-taught painter and educated in the Netherlands, Strutz's past visual displays include window dressing for Dey Brothers and other local department stores in the Syracuse area.

Explorations of a Nemesis: Works by Karen Jean Smith
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

See Me
Community Folk Art Center

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

Presented in partnership with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Syracuse, this exhibition highlights local artists and families facing mental illness. "See Me" reinforces the celebration of these artists. There is no shame in having mental illness; the shame is how little people know.

NAMI is a grass-roots, self-help, support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of families who have relatives with a brain disorder (mental illness).

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

REnewal features work by regionally recognized artists that incorporates recycled materials and utilizes appropriated vintage imagery.

Works include assemblages by Dan Bacich, illustrative collage by Marty Blake, one-of-a-kind and limited edition furniture and jewelry by Unite Two Design (Theresa and Keith Traub), pots by Jen Gandee, up-cycled jewelry by Betsy Menson Sio, and hand-painted, digital collage by Lucie Wellner.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Blindness/Insight: Works by Andrea Deschambeault-Porter
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

New and recent collages and oil paintings by artist Andrea Deschambeault-Porter. Working intuitively, the artist develops a vibrant pictorial experience by moving between abstraction and representation of various subjects such as still life, landscape, and the figure, involving some combination of conscious and unconscious thought.

Andrea Deschambeault-Porter lives and works Manlius. She grew up in the Catskills Mountain region of NY, and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase and her MFA from Syracuse University. She studied in Venice, Italy, for a year in 1984. This is her first exhibition at Gallery 4040.

Learning to See
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for Learning to See, an exhibition of work produced by students participating in EL PUNTO Art Studio 2014, a contemporary arts workshop hosted by Point of Contact. Exhibited works include photography, video, and performance arts. This innovative arts program is facilitated to local youths in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, the Near West Side Initiative, and the Pal Project.

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Summer Review 2014
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

If you missed one of this year's exhibitions, now's your chance to see it!

This year's UVP Summer Review will feature the following videos from our 2013-2014 programming year:

Dani Leventhal: Platonic
Phil Solomon: Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth and other works
Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Ann Hamilton: table

Spatial Profiling 2.0
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Upstate NY comedy staples Anna Phillips returns to Syracuse Fringe with Samantha Ruddy to make everybody feel weird in all the right ways. Clever and quirky stand up comedy in high definition color.

HackPolitik
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

HackPolitik is a unique contemporary dance performance inspired by the hacktivist collective Anonymous and the organization's acts of online political protest between 2010 and 2012. Composer Peter Van Zandt Lane and choreographer Kate Ladenheim set the politics and drama of cyberspace to the stage in an abstract investigation of how we engage politics through technology in the modern world. The characters of the piece are the online personas created by members of Anonymous, and the work demonstrates their relationships, ideologies, and interactions. HackPolitik explores themes of activism and anarchy, anonymity and ego, gender identity and personality. All of the choreography is a physical interpretation of the inherently abstract interactions occurring in cyberspace.

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: A Night at the Opera
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A Summer Soirée Benefit
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Symphoria Brass Quintet

Price: Free
Carol Watson Greenhouse
2980 Sentinel Heights Rd., LaFayette

The Summer Soirée fundraiser will be held for the second time this year. Symphoria will be performing with a 5-piece brass ensemble from 8:00-9:00 pm. A silent art auction will be held in the greenhouse. All proceeds from the auction as well as a percentage of food and beverage sales will be donated directly to Symphoria in order to help them continue their mission of providing Central New York with the highest level of artistic performance as our community orchestra. Carol Watson Greenhouse will also donate 10% of any retail sales made during the event to Symphoria.

Food will be available from Broadway Valley Coffee Cafe. Arctic Island will be on site with a specially created Honeysuckle Ice Cream, and Beak & Skiff will be on hand with their apple vodka.

Lake Street Dive
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Behind the Curtain
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A Freudian retelling of the iconic film classic, The Wizard of Oz. Through visits with her therapist, Dorothy explores the root causes of the tension with her step-mom, her nightmares, anxieties, libidinous urges, and other odd behaviors in a darkly humorous twist on the classic story and characters.

Fallible Gods
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
Dolce Vita
907 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Nico's a painter with a bright future and a bad attitude. When a grisly incident leaves her with an overwhelming case of artist's block and a paralyzing fear of leaving her apartment, her ex-girlfriend's ex-boyfriend and a musician in limbo take it on themselves to get her back on track. A staged reading in one act.

An Evening of Psychopathy
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An Evening of Psychopathy is three 10-minute plays that explore the inner workings of a psychopath. From childhood to adulthood, cases will be presented that will make audiences question society as they know it.

Big Louie and the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight
Acme Mystery Company

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

You and the rest of the Bangalone Gang are in deep trouble. Big Louie's been beaned by a bocci ball and now he ain't thinking so good. The gang's got to figure out what to do before arch rival gang leader "Muscles" Marinara has you rubbed out. You better move fast. Word on the street is that ruthless hitman Jake "The Weasel" is on the way.

How to be Fabulous [in an unfabulous world]
Wise Gals Dinner Theater
Jenn DeCook & Nora O'Dea , director

Price: $34.95
Stein's (formerly McNamara's Pub)
5600 Newport Rd., Camillus

Join us as Sara Caliva presents you with her uniquely snarky view of the world and challenges you to be the weirdest version of yourself. Written by Sara and Katie Caliva.

The Cherry Orchard
Redhouse

Price: Members $15, non-members $25
Mandana Barn
1274 State Route 359 (Lacy Road), Skaneateles

The work of Anton Chekhov continues to be cherished for its brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. The Cherry Orchard lovingly portrays some of his most memorable characters as they struggle against clashing desires and lose their balance in the shifting eruptions of society and a modernizing Russia. This comedic play has a hint of Downton Abbey that you won't want to miss.

Frackenstein
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
Syracuse Stage patio
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In an absurdist "What If" Mr. Sticks and Splendito are simply trying to survive a post afrackalyptic world. They are alone and fresh water is scarce. While asking questions and seeking answers, of themselves, the universe and maybe even the audience, lies are unveiled, truths are contemplated and the profundity of their situation is assuaged (even if only for a moment). A co-production with The Building Company and Move First! Special Thanks to CirqOvation for their space and support.

Antigone
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Antigone, the story of a young girl that defies the overwhelming power of the state in pursuit of what is right, has been the subject of debate since 441 BCE. Jean Anouilh's challenging version, first performed in occupied France in 1944, is reimagined and rebuilt for the 21st century by this promising ensemble, the Wandering Theatre Company. Transferred to a timeless America; a place both real and imagined, both desired and feared, a nation divided by politics and faith, Wandering Theatre Company explores the question "How far is too far when we're fighting for what we believe?" Working as a dedicated ensemble with the Viewpoints Technique, Wandering Theatre Company combines text and physical performance to explore both the beauty and horror of Anouilh's vision. We promise a performance that is striking in its aesthetic, challenging in its delivery and inventive in its interpretation of one of the most powerful stories ever written: a story of courage, conviction and consequence.

And Then There Were None
Central New York Playhouse
Jon Wilson, director

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

In Agatha Christie's classic tale, ten guilty strangers are trapped on an island. One by one they
are accused of murder; one by one they start to die.

In this superlative mystery, statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten "soldiers" met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other or their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island and, along with the two house servants, marooned. A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead—poisoned. One down and nine to go!

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The Walls of Palestine
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Walls of Palestine is a new theater work based on the journal entries of a university student who visited the West Bank in the summer of 2013. It relates a personal experience of the Israel-Palestine conflict from the perspective of a young westerner confronted with the contradictions in pursuing the American Dream while modeling principled global citizenship. It tells several stories at once, weaving together a narrative by examining the nature of conquest and occupation through various current and historical events. These include the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, and the 2008 global financial collapse. At the center of the piece, unyielding and symbolic is the Israeli Wall and the archaic colonizing attitudes that support it. Also at the center is evidence that young people – students and activists – are, as always, the agents of change. Only they are capable of altering world history – by recognizing and rejecting the destructive systems they've inherited and by naming the unjust conditions that fill them with indignation and voicing their outrage.

The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

With the ritual catharsis of a Greek tragedy, The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide by Chicago playwright Sean Graney explores the depths of the human experience as seen through the eyes of fourth graders. At times funny, at times horrifying, this haunting new play is a unique theatrical experience that should not be missed.

How I Lost My Virginity at 29 and Other Embarrassing Tales
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

How I Lost My Virginity at 29 and Other Embarrassing Tales is stand-up comedian Brian Schiller's blisteringly funny coming-of-age story about his social and sexual development. As bold as it is razor sharp, Schiller goes on a journey of self-discovery that takes him through a slew of awkward experiences and plenty of therapy. Leading his audience to uncharted territory, Schiller presents a stunning portrait layered with humor, depth, and surprise.

Which Side Are You On?
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

All bets are off when the ghost of Joe Hill, a Wobbly union organizer, who was executed by the state of Utah in 1915, shows up at an Occupy Rally. This raucous tale takes you on journey from the 21st century backwards to the founding of our country and back again. Based upon historical events, it's a foot-stomping, hand-clapping, sing-along journey told through the eyes of Joe Hill. See how far we've come and how far we have yet to go. Music, story-telling, and historic images tell the tale of the struggles of the American worker and often forgotten, but legendary, figures such as Big Bill Haywood, Lucy Parsons, Eugene Debs, and Mother Jones. This is the history you didn't learn in school and the songs they didn't teach you at Summer camp! Appropriate for all ages.

Friday, June 27, 2014

Works of Tina Strutz
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Tina Strutz will display her acrylic landscape paintings of her travels in the US and abroad. A self-taught painter and educated in the Netherlands, Strutz's past visual displays include window dressing for Dey Brothers and other local department stores in the Syracuse area.

Explorations of a Nemesis: Works by Karen Jean Smith
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

See Me
Community Folk Art Center

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

Presented in partnership with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Syracuse, this exhibition highlights local artists and families facing mental illness. "See Me" reinforces the celebration of these artists. There is no shame in having mental illness; the shame is how little people know.

NAMI is a grass-roots, self-help, support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of families who have relatives with a brain disorder (mental illness).

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

REnewal features work by regionally recognized artists that incorporates recycled materials and utilizes appropriated vintage imagery.

Works include assemblages by Dan Bacich, illustrative collage by Marty Blake, one-of-a-kind and limited edition furniture and jewelry by Unite Two Design (Theresa and Keith Traub), pots by Jen Gandee, up-cycled jewelry by Betsy Menson Sio, and hand-painted, digital collage by Lucie Wellner.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Blindness/Insight: Works by Andrea Deschambeault-Porter
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

New and recent collages and oil paintings by artist Andrea Deschambeault-Porter. Working intuitively, the artist develops a vibrant pictorial experience by moving between abstraction and representation of various subjects such as still life, landscape, and the figure, involving some combination of conscious and unconscious thought.

Andrea Deschambeault-Porter lives and works Manlius. She grew up in the Catskills Mountain region of NY, and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase and her MFA from Syracuse University. She studied in Venice, Italy, for a year in 1984. This is her first exhibition at Gallery 4040.

Learning to See
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Join us for Learning to See, an exhibition of work produced by students participating in EL PUNTO Art Studio 2014, a contemporary arts workshop hosted by Point of Contact. Exhibited works include photography, video, and performance arts. This innovative arts program is facilitated to local youths in close collaboration with local Latino artists and community organizations including La Casita Cultural Center, The Spanish Action League of Upstate NY, the Near West Side Initiative, and the Pal Project.

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Multi-Faceted
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Reginald Adams exhibits his many talents with paintings, sculptures, mobiles, furniture and more;
Caroline Tauxe displays her colorful mixed media jewelry.

Summer Review 2014
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

If you missed one of this year's exhibitions, now's your chance to see it!

This year's UVP Summer Review will feature the following videos from our 2013-2014 programming year:

Dani Leventhal: Platonic
Phil Solomon: Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth and other works
Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Ann Hamilton: table

Mom: Uncorked
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Mom: Uncorked was conceived how most awesome things are – while a little tipsy. Join crazy mom-edian Jocelyn Rauch as she recounts the past 10 years the only way she can handle it – with a good laugh and an equally good bottle (or 2) of wine.

On the Verge of Flight
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Choreographers Ruth Arena and Melissa Gould present a collection of tap, jazz and contemporary modern dance pieces. Join a world of movement and music that will transport you. Come soar with us!

HackPolitik
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

HackPolitik is a unique contemporary dance performance inspired by the hacktivist collective Anonymous and the organization's acts of online political protest between 2010 and 2012. Composer Peter Van Zandt Lane and choreographer Kate Ladenheim set the politics and drama of cyberspace to the stage in an abstract investigation of how we engage politics through technology in the modern world. The characters of the piece are the online personas created by members of Anonymous, and the work demonstrates their relationships, ideologies, and interactions. HackPolitik explores themes of activism and anarchy, anonymity and ego, gender identity and personality. All of the choreography is a physical interpretation of the inherently abstract interactions occurring in cyberspace.

Jamesville Balloonfest

Price: $10 regular, free for ages 12 and under, $20 weekend pass
Jamesville Beach
Apulia Rd., Jamesville

Syracuse's kick off to summer event features non-stop musical entertainment with national acts and top local music groups. The event also features over two dozen special shape and hot air balloons, arts & crafts fair, amusement rides, food and beverages.

Balloon flight times: 6:00-7:30 pm (weather permitting)

Empire Brewfest

Chevy Court
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Craft beer festival.

MUSIC
5:00-6:30 pm: Happy Hour with Tommy Connors
7:00-8:15 pm: Dave Hanlon's Cookbook
8:30-10:00 pm: Gridley Paige

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: West Side Story
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Solar Garlic (Phish Tribute), with Spring Street Family Band
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Behind the Curtain
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A Freudian retelling of the iconic film classic, The Wizard of Oz. Through visits with her therapist, Dorothy explores the root causes of the tension with her step-mom, her nightmares, anxieties, libidinous urges, and other odd behaviors in a darkly humorous twist on the classic story and characters.

Fallible Gods
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
Dolce Vita
907 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Nico's a painter with a bright future and a bad attitude. When a grisly incident leaves her with an overwhelming case of artist's block and a paralyzing fear of leaving her apartment, her ex-girlfriend's ex-boyfriend and a musician in limbo take it on themselves to get her back on track. A staged reading in one act.

An Evening of Psychopathy
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An Evening of Psychopathy is three 10-minute plays that explore the inner workings of a psychopath. From childhood to adulthood, cases will be presented that will make audiences question society as they know it.

Measure for Measure
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Jamie Bruno, director

Price: Pay what you can
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Shakespeare's drama of sex and justice is set in stagflation Texas in the 1970s. A novice nun pleads for the life of her brother on death row. She is offered a devil's bargain: her brother's life in exchange for her virginity. Often billed as a "problem play," Measure for Measure is the funniest meditation on public and private morality you'll see this side of George Bernard Shaw.

Absolutely
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A couple of high school friends go for a weekend trip to a lake house. Molly, the hot dog lovin' friend, awkward Ben, beautiful Nate, and his girlfriend, Rachel. All worried about what they have and haven't done, and what to do about it.

The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

With the ritual catharsis of a Greek tragedy, The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide by Chicago playwright Sean Graney explores the depths of the human experience as seen through the eyes of fourth graders. At times funny, at times horrifying, this haunting new play is a unique theatrical experience that should not be missed.

How to be Fabulous [in an unfabulous world]
Wise Gals Dinner Theater
Jenn DeCook & Nora O'Dea , director

Price: $34.95
Stein's (formerly McNamara's Pub)
5600 Newport Rd., Camillus

Join us as Sara Caliva presents you with her uniquely snarky view of the world and challenges you to be the weirdest version of yourself. Written by Sara and Katie Caliva.

The Cherry Orchard
Redhouse

Price: Members $15, non-members $25
Delavan Studios
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The work of Anton Chekhov continues to be cherished for its brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. The Cherry Orchard lovingly portrays some of his most memorable characters as they struggle against clashing desires and lose their balance in the shifting eruptions of society and a modernizing Russia. This comedic play has a hint of Downton Abbey that you won't want to miss.

Frackenstein
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
Syracuse Stage patio
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In an absurdist "What If" Mr. Sticks and Splendito are simply trying to survive a post afrackalyptic world. They are alone and fresh water is scarce. While asking questions and seeking answers, of themselves, the universe and maybe even the audience, lies are unveiled, truths are contemplated and the profundity of their situation is assuaged (even if only for a moment). A co-production with The Building Company and Move First! Special Thanks to CirqOvation for their space and support.

And Then There Were None
Central New York Playhouse
Jon Wilson, director

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

In Agatha Christie's classic tale, ten guilty strangers are trapped on an island. One by one they
are accused of murder; one by one they start to die.

In this superlative mystery, statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten "soldiers" met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other or their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island and, along with the two house servants, marooned. A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead—poisoned. One down and nine to go!

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Which Side Are You On?
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

All bets are off when the ghost of Joe Hill, a Wobbly union organizer, who was executed by the state of Utah in 1915, shows up at an Occupy Rally. This raucous tale takes you on journey from the 21st century backwards to the founding of our country and back again. Based upon historical events, it's a foot-stomping, hand-clapping, sing-along journey told through the eyes of Joe Hill. See how far we've come and how far we have yet to go. Music, story-telling, and historic images tell the tale of the struggles of the American worker and often forgotten, but legendary, figures such as Big Bill Haywood, Lucy Parsons, Eugene Debs, and Mother Jones. This is the history you didn't learn in school and the songs they didn't teach you at Summer camp! Appropriate for all ages.

Antigone
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Antigone, the story of a young girl that defies the overwhelming power of the state in pursuit of what is right, has been the subject of debate since 441 BCE. Jean Anouilh's challenging version, first performed in occupied France in 1944, is reimagined and rebuilt for the 21st century by this promising ensemble, the Wandering Theatre Company. Transferred to a timeless America; a place both real and imagined, both desired and feared, a nation divided by politics and faith, Wandering Theatre Company explores the question "How far is too far when we're fighting for what we believe?" Working as a dedicated ensemble with the Viewpoints Technique, Wandering Theatre Company combines text and physical performance to explore both the beauty and horror of Anouilh's vision. We promise a performance that is striking in its aesthetic, challenging in its delivery and inventive in its interpretation of one of the most powerful stories ever written: a story of courage, conviction and consequence.

How I Lost My Virginity at 29 and Other Embarrassing Tales
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

How I Lost My Virginity at 29 and Other Embarrassing Tales is stand-up comedian Brian Schiller's blisteringly funny coming-of-age story about his social and sexual development. As bold as it is razor sharp, Schiller goes on a journey of self-discovery that takes him through a slew of awkward experiences and plenty of therapy. Leading his audience to uncharted territory, Schiller presents a stunning portrait layered with humor, depth, and surprise.

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Works of Tina Strutz
Onondaga County Central Library

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

Tina Strutz will display her acrylic landscape paintings of her travels in the US and abroad. A self-taught painter and educated in the Netherlands, Strutz's past visual displays include window dressing for Dey Brothers and other local department stores in the Syracuse area.

Multi-Faceted
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Reginald Adams exhibits his many talents with paintings, sculptures, mobiles, furniture and more;
Caroline Tauxe displays her colorful mixed media jewelry.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

See Me
Community Folk Art Center

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

Presented in partnership with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Syracuse, this exhibition highlights local artists and families facing mental illness. "See Me" reinforces the celebration of these artists. There is no shame in having mental illness; the shame is how little people know.

NAMI is a grass-roots, self-help, support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of families who have relatives with a brain disorder (mental illness).

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

REnewal features work by regionally recognized artists that incorporates recycled materials and utilizes appropriated vintage imagery.

Works include assemblages by Dan Bacich, illustrative collage by Marty Blake, one-of-a-kind and limited edition furniture and jewelry by Unite Two Design (Theresa and Keith Traub), pots by Jen Gandee, up-cycled jewelry by Betsy Menson Sio, and hand-painted, digital collage by Lucie Wellner.

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Blindness/Insight: Works by Andrea Deschambeault-Porter
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

New and recent collages and oil paintings by artist Andrea Deschambeault-Porter. Working intuitively, the artist develops a vibrant pictorial experience by moving between abstraction and representation of various subjects such as still life, landscape, and the figure, involving some combination of conscious and unconscious thought.

Andrea Deschambeault-Porter lives and works Manlius. She grew up in the Catskills Mountain region of NY, and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase and her MFA from Syracuse University. She studied in Venice, Italy, for a year in 1984. This is her first exhibition at Gallery 4040.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Summer Review 2014
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

If you missed one of this year's exhibitions, now's your chance to see it!

This year's UVP Summer Review will feature the following videos from our 2013-2014 programming year:

Dani Leventhal: Platonic
Phil Solomon: Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth and other works
Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Ann Hamilton: table

150 Scenes 24 Seconds Each for 3600 Seconds
Syracuse Improv Collective

Price: Free
Armory Square Park
400 block of S. Franklin St., Syracuse

By the 24-second shot clock. Weather permitting.

24 seconds is so little time for a scene. The scene has to be nothing but lean, because there is no time for fat. You have time to maybe establish a character and hint at an action before you're being shoved aside for the next scene. You'll have to wait for another opportunity to explore relationships. Don't worry if you miss your chance, another one will be coming along in 24...23...22...

Any chance at developing themes and through lines is going to have to work across multiple scenes, and that shouldn't be a problem because there will be 150 of them. How many characters are going to be created in 150 scenes? How many flashbacks?

And this thing is going to take an hour? For the performers, that's an hour of intense concentration in a highly distracting outdoor downtown environment. Tracking characters, tracking plot, listening to the scene -- when god knows what is happening around us. A much as the shot clock is keeping us focused on individual scenes, that hour hand is going to keep us focused on the larger picture. 150 disjointed scenes is not a thing people will want to see, it's the cohesive piece that's going to blow your minds.

Anyways, that's all for us to worry about. All you have to do is grab a coffee or a slice and enjoy some free art created live right before you. 24 seconds 150 times for 3600 seconds and then it's gone.

Mom: Uncorked
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Mom: Uncorked was conceived how most awesome things are – while a little tipsy. Join crazy mom-edian Jocelyn Rauch as she recounts the past 10 years the only way she can handle it – with a good laugh and an equally good bottle (or 2) of wine.

On the Verge of Flight
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Choreographers Ruth Arena and Melissa Gould present a collection of tap, jazz and contemporary modern dance pieces. Join a world of movement and music that will transport you. Come soar with us!

HackPolitik
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

HackPolitik is a unique contemporary dance performance inspired by the hacktivist collective Anonymous and the organization's acts of online political protest between 2010 and 2012. Composer Peter Van Zandt Lane and choreographer Kate Ladenheim set the politics and drama of cyberspace to the stage in an abstract investigation of how we engage politics through technology in the modern world. The characters of the piece are the online personas created by members of Anonymous, and the work demonstrates their relationships, ideologies, and interactions. HackPolitik explores themes of activism and anarchy, anonymity and ego, gender identity and personality. All of the choreography is a physical interpretation of the inherently abstract interactions occurring in cyberspace.

Empire Brewfest

Chevy Court
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Craft beer festival.

MUSIC
12:00-1:00 pm: Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers Trio
1:00-2:30 pm: Michael Crissan
3:00-4:30 pm: Pale Green Stars
5:00-6:30 pm: Vagabond Station
7:00-9:00 pm: Los Blancos

Jamesville Balloonfest

Price: $10 regular, free for ages 12 and under, $20 weekend pass
Jamesville Beach
Apulia Rd., Jamesville

Syracuse's kick off to summer event features non-stop musical entertainment with national acts and top local music groups. The event also features over two dozen special shape and hot air balloons, arts & crafts fair, amusement rides, food and beverages.

Balloon flight times: 5:30 am and 6-7:30 pm (weather permitting)

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: Cartoon Classics
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: The Pink Panther
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: West Side Story
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

TJ Sacco
1911 Summer Concert Series

Price: $5 at the door
Beak & Skiff
2708 Lords Hill Rd., Lafayette

Homemade Jam Acoustic Music Jamboree

Price: Free
Otisco Lake Community Center
2223 Amber Rd., Marietta

4:00 pm: The Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers Trio
5:15 pm: Jodogs
6:30 pm: Boots-n-Shorts
7:45 pm: The Easy Ramblers

Bring a chair. Food vending and a kids' area with activities are available.

For more information, see the Facebook event.

The Princess and the Pea
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Behind the Curtain
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A Freudian retelling of the iconic film classic, The Wizard of Oz. Through visits with her therapist, Dorothy explores the root causes of the tension with her step-mom, her nightmares, anxieties, libidinous urges, and other odd behaviors in a darkly humorous twist on the classic story and characters.

Absolutely
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
Dolce Vita
907 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A couple of high school friends go for a weekend trip to a lake house. Molly, the hot dog lovin' friend, awkward Ben, beautiful Nate, and his girlfriend, Rachel. All worried about what they have and haven't done, and what to do about it.

Which Side Are You On?
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

All bets are off when the ghost of Joe Hill, a Wobbly union organizer, who was executed by the state of Utah in 1915, shows up at an Occupy Rally. This raucous tale takes you on journey from the 21st century backwards to the founding of our country and back again. Based upon historical events, it's a foot-stomping, hand-clapping, sing-along journey told through the eyes of Joe Hill. See how far we've come and how far we have yet to go. Music, story-telling, and historic images tell the tale of the struggles of the American worker and often forgotten, but legendary, figures such as Big Bill Haywood, Lucy Parsons, Eugene Debs, and Mother Jones. This is the history you didn't learn in school and the songs they didn't teach you at Summer camp! Appropriate for all ages.

Measure for Measure
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Jamie Bruno, director

Price: Pay what you can
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Shakespeare's drama of sex and justice is set in stagflation Texas in the 1970s. A novice nun pleads for the life of her brother on death row. She is offered a devil's bargain: her brother's life in exchange for her virginity. Often billed as a "problem play," Measure for Measure is the funniest meditation on public and private morality you'll see this side of George Bernard Shaw.

The Walls of Palestine
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Walls of Palestine is a new theater work based on the journal entries of a university student who visited the West Bank in the summer of 2013. It relates a personal experience of the Israel-Palestine conflict from the perspective of a young westerner confronted with the contradictions in pursuing the American Dream while modeling principled global citizenship. It tells several stories at once, weaving together a narrative by examining the nature of conquest and occupation through various current and historical events. These include the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, and the 2008 global financial collapse. At the center of the piece, unyielding and symbolic is the Israeli Wall and the archaic colonizing attitudes that support it. Also at the center is evidence that young people – students and activists – are, as always, the agents of change. Only they are capable of altering world history – by recognizing and rejecting the destructive systems they've inherited and by naming the unjust conditions that fill them with indignation and voicing their outrage.

Fallible Gods
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
Dolce Vita
907 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Nico's a painter with a bright future and a bad attitude. When a grisly incident leaves her with an overwhelming case of artist's block and a paralyzing fear of leaving her apartment, her ex-girlfriend's ex-boyfriend and a musician in limbo take it on themselves to get her back on track. A staged reading in one act.

The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

With the ritual catharsis of a Greek tragedy, The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide by Chicago playwright Sean Graney explores the depths of the human experience as seen through the eyes of fourth graders. At times funny, at times horrifying, this haunting new play is a unique theatrical experience that should not be missed.

The Cherry Orchard
Redhouse

Price: Members $15, non-members $25
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

The work of Anton Chekhov continues to be cherished for its brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. The Cherry Orchard lovingly portrays some of his most memorable characters as they struggle against clashing desires and lose their balance in the shifting eruptions of society and a modernizing Russia. This comedic play has a hint of Downton Abbey that you won't want to miss.

Frackenstein
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
Syracuse Stage patio
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In an absurdist "What If" Mr. Sticks and Splendito are simply trying to survive a post afrackalyptic world. They are alone and fresh water is scarce. While asking questions and seeking answers, of themselves, the universe and maybe even the audience, lies are unveiled, truths are contemplated and the profundity of their situation is assuaged (even if only for a moment). A co-production with The Building Company and Move First! Special Thanks to CirqOvation for their space and support.

And Then There Were None
Central New York Playhouse
Jon Wilson, director

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

Tonight's show will be preceded by dinner at 6:45 pm.

In Agatha Christie's classic tale, ten guilty strangers are trapped on an island. One by one they
are accused of murder; one by one they start to die.

In this superlative mystery, statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten "soldiers" met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other or their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island and, along with the two house servants, marooned. A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead—poisoned. One down and nine to go!

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An Evening of Psychopathy
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An Evening of Psychopathy is three 10-minute plays that explore the inner workings of a psychopath. From childhood to adulthood, cases will be presented that will make audiences question society as they know it.

Antigone
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Antigone, the story of a young girl that defies the overwhelming power of the state in pursuit of what is right, has been the subject of debate since 441 BCE. Jean Anouilh's challenging version, first performed in occupied France in 1944, is reimagined and rebuilt for the 21st century by this promising ensemble, the Wandering Theatre Company. Transferred to a timeless America; a place both real and imagined, both desired and feared, a nation divided by politics and faith, Wandering Theatre Company explores the question "How far is too far when we're fighting for what we believe?" Working as a dedicated ensemble with the Viewpoints Technique, Wandering Theatre Company combines text and physical performance to explore both the beauty and horror of Anouilh's vision. We promise a performance that is striking in its aesthetic, challenging in its delivery and inventive in its interpretation of one of the most powerful stories ever written: a story of courage, conviction and consequence.

How I Lost My Virginity at 29 and Other Embarrassing Tales
Syracuse Fringe Festival

Price: One-time $2 access button, plus $8 single ticket or $20 three-performance pass
CFAC Dance Studio
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

How I Lost My Virginity at 29 and Other Embarrassing Tales is stand-up comedian Brian Schiller's blisteringly funny coming-of-age story about his social and sexual development. As bold as it is razor sharp, Schiller goes on a journey of self-discovery that takes him through a slew of awkward experiences and plenty of therapy. Leading his audience to uncharted territory, Schiller presents a stunning portrait layered with humor, depth, and surprise.

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

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

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

Stained Glass Garden Art by Liz and Rich Micho
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

REnewal features work by regionally recognized artists that incorporates recycled materials and utilizes appropriated vintage imagery.

Works include assemblages by Dan Bacich, illustrative collage by Marty Blake, one-of-a-kind and limited edition furniture and jewelry by Unite Two Design (Theresa and Keith Traub), pots by Jen Gandee, up-cycled jewelry by Betsy Menson Sio, and hand-painted, digital collage by Lucie Wellner.

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Why We Dance
Redhouse

Price: $10
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Tehmekah MacPherson's "Why We Dance" Project is a summer endeavor that involves two parts: recorded interviews through and about dance, and an original dance theater performance that is based on the given answers and stories.

A talkback will follow the performance.

Jamesville Balloonfest

Price: $10 regular, free for ages 12 and under, $20 weekend pass
Jamesville Beach
Apulia Rd., Jamesville

Syracuse's kick off to summer event features non-stop musical entertainment with national acts and top local music groups. The event also features over two dozen special shape and hot air balloons, arts & crafts fair, amusement rides, food and beverages.

Balloon flight times: 5:30 am and 6-7:30 pm (weather permitting)