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Events for Sunday, April 23, 2023

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways Erie Canal Museum

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

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Alison Altafi: Reverie Everson Museum of Art

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

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Chromania Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

1:00 PM-5:00 PM Members Exhibit: Spring Fever Associated Artists of Central New York

1:00 PM-9:00 PM Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Light Work Gallery

2:00 PM Aktion

2:00 PM Panacea Syracuse City Ballet

2:00 PM Setnor Student Recital Series: Laura Freeman, piano Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

4:00 PM Hendricks Chapel Choir Tour Preview Concert Hendricks Chapel

5:00 PM Setnor Student Recital Series: Seth Velez, voice Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

8:00 PM Setnor Student Recital Series: Jacob Dean, cello Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Events for Monday, April 24, 2023

9:00 AM-4:00 PM An Abundance of Birds Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Members Exhibit: Spring Fever Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-8:30 PM Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways Erie Canal Museum

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Light Work Gallery

7:00 PM Road to Morocco (1942) Syracuse Cinephile Society

Events for Tuesday, April 25, 2023

9:00 AM-4:00 PM An Abundance of Birds Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Members Exhibit: Spring Fever Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-8:30 PM Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways Erie Canal Museum

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

8:00 PM Setnor Ensemble Series: Percussion Ensemble Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Events for Wednesday, April 26, 2023

9:00 AM-4:00 PM An Abundance of Birds Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Members Exhibit: Spring Fever Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-8:30 PM Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways Erie Canal Museum

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Alison Altafi: Reverie Everson Museum of Art

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

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Chromania Everson Museum of Art

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

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

5:00 PM Chinelo Okparanta Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

6:30 PM Snaps & Tap Community Folk Art Center

7:00 PM-9:30 PM Selwyn Birchwood The 443 Social Club

8:00 PM Setnor Faculty Recital Series: Spencer Phillips, bass Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Events for Thursday, April 27, 2023

9:00 AM-4:00 PM An Abundance of Birds Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Members Exhibit: Spring Fever Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-8:30 PM Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways Erie Canal Museum

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Alison Altafi: Reverie Everson Museum of Art

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

11:00 AM-8:00 PM Chromania Everson Museum of Art

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

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

7:00 PM-9:00 PM Upstate The 443 Social Club

7:30 PM Macbeth in Concert LeMoyne College

8:00 PM Setnor Student Recital Series: Giovanna Maropo, voice Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

8:30 PM-11:00 PM TJ Cuthand: Extractions Urban Video Project

Events for Friday, April 28, 2023

9:00 AM-4:00 PM An Abundance of Birds Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

9:30 AM-6:00 PM Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Members Exhibit: Spring Fever Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-8:30 PM Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways Erie Canal Museum

10:00 AM-9:00 PM Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Alison Altafi: Reverie Everson Museum of Art

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

11:00 AM-5:00 PM Chromania Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

5:00 PM Setnor Ensemble Series: JCM Jazz Guitar Ensemble Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

6:00 PM JCM Rock Ensemble Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

7:00 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Resilience Breadcrumbs Productions

7:00 PM Artist Talk with Vanessa Johnson Community Folk Art Center

7:00 PM Poets Cynthia Manick and Sherre Vernon Downtown Writer's Center

7:00 PM-9:00 PM *SOLD OUT* The Barndogs The 443 Social Club

7:30 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Come Like Shadows Breadcrumbs Productions

7:30 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Dirty Legal Secrets Breadcrumbs Productions

7:30 PM Macbeth in Concert LeMoyne College

8:00 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Salt City Burlesque presents AppeTEASERS Breadcrumbs Productions

8:00 PM Preview: Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical Syracuse University Drama Department

8:00 PM JCM Jazz Funk Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

8:30 PM-11:00 PM TJ Cuthand: Extractions Urban Video Project

Events for Saturday, April 29, 2023

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Members Exhibit: Spring Fever Associated Artists of Central New York

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective Community Folk Art Center (Read a review!)

10:00 AM-2:00 PM Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit Edgewood Gallery

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways Erie Canal Museum

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

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

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Alison Altafi: Reverie Everson Museum of Art

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

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Chromania Everson Museum of Art

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

11:00 AM Setnor Student Recital Series: Amanda Becker, voice Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

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

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

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

1:00 PM An Afternoon with the Lake Effect Winds Civic Morning Musicals

1:00 PM-9:00 PM Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Light Work Gallery

2:00 PM Setnor Student Recital Series: Madison Karten, voice Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

5:00 PM Setnor Student Recital Series: Sunny Robertson, voice Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

6:00 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Resilience Breadcrumbs Productions

7:00 PM-9:00 PM Robinson Treacher The 443 Social Club

7:30 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Come Like Shadows Breadcrumbs Productions

7:30 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Dirty Legal Secrets Breadcrumbs Productions

7:30 PM Macbeth in Concert LeMoyne College

7:30 PM Mark Hoffman and Swing This Steeple Coffee House

7:30 PM Pacifica Quartet with Anthony McGill Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

8:00 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Salt City Burlesque presents AppeTEASERS Breadcrumbs Productions

8:00 PM Opening: Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical Syracuse University Drama Department

8:00 PM Setnor Student Recital Series: Aidan Elwell, guitar Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

8:30 PM-11:00 PM TJ Cuthand: Extractions Urban Video Project

Events for Sunday, April 30, 2023

10:00 AM-4:00 PM Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways Erie Canal Museum

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

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Alison Altafi: Reverie Everson Museum of Art

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

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Chromania Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

1:00 PM-9:00 PM Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land) Light Work Gallery

1:30 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Resilience Breadcrumbs Productions

2:00 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Come Like Shadows Breadcrumbs Productions

2:00 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Dirty Legal Secrets Breadcrumbs Productions

2:00 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Push, Pull, Together, Apart Breadcrumbs Productions

2:00 PM Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical Syracuse University Drama Department

2:00 PM Setnor Student Recital Series: Asriel Davis, organ Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

3:00 PM The Marriage of Figaro Syracuse Opera

3:00 PM Casual Series: Symphoria in the Spotlight Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

4:00 PM Malmgren Concert: Ken Meyer, guitar Hendricks Chapel

5:00 PM Setnor Student Recital Series: Owen Hucke, organ Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

6:00 PM-8:00 PM Professor Louie & the Crowmatix The 443 Social Club

7:00 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Salt City Burlesque presents AppeTEASERS Breadcrumbs Productions

8:00 PM Setnor Student Recital Series: Tales Eduardo Navarro, violin Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

8:30 PM-10:00 PM Visual Arts Electronic Garden presents: kicking the air; folding index fingers Urban Video Project

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Sunday, April 23, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 23



Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways
Erie Canal Museum

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

Explore the journey of artist Augusta W. Brown up the Erie Canal into Quebec in 1890, through gorgeous sketches and watercolors of New York and the workers on the Canal. Augusta's journal, not seen since 1930, showcases her trip on a logging boat and the people she met along the way through detailed descriptions and drawings.


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



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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



Alison Altafi: Reverie
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Alison Altafi is a self-taught fiber artist based in Syracuse. She explores fibers in unexpected ways, creating weavings-in-the-round that appear to be portals to other worlds. Their magical, otherworldly, textured, and fantastical abstract surfaces could be microcosms for the universe.

Altafi's unique process involves transforming metal frames into looms, which she then weaves onto. Unlike traditional weaving, where the tapestry is removed from the loom upon completion, with Altafi's process, the loom becomes a part of the internal structure of the work, providing both a frame and a structure. She uses the loom like a canvas, and the yarn becomes her paint.

For Altafi, the weaving process is just as important as the final work. It functions as a form of escapism, and is cathartic and meditative.


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



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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



Chromania
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Color is an essential therapy for those cold and gray Central New York winters. The Everson embraces this with Chromania, a riot of kaleidoscopic color guaranteed to chase the winter grays away. In the wake of Impressionism, 20th-century artists developed a range of strategies to explore and employ color. Painter and educator Josef Albers taught that all color is relative, meaning that the appearance of a color can change based on other colors it is surrounded by.

Beginning with Albers' iconic Homage to the Square series, Chromania explores how subsequent generations of artists in the Everson's collection employ color in ways that are subjective and expressive as well as scientific and systematic. From the precise geometry of Peter Pincus' ceramics to the animated gesture of a painting by Jackie Saccoccio, Chromania provides dazzle and inspiration during the long months of winter.


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 23



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, April 23



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, April 23



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, April 23



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, April 23



Dreams Deferred
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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


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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM, April 23



Members Exhibit: Spring Fever
Associated Artists of Central New York

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


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, April 23



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

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

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


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Dance
 

2:00 PM, April 23



Panacea
Syracuse City Ballet

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

The premiere of Panacea, an original ballet accompanied by a screening of the award-winning short documentary.

The film follows the journey of a Syracuse dancer who finds inspiration in the earliest days of the pandemic and discovers how love, passion, and resiliency can overcome all; see the film's premiere in Syracuse and the full-length ballet.


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Music
 

2:00 PM, April 23



Setnor Student Recital Series: Laura Freeman, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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4:00 PM, April 23



Hendricks Chapel Choir Tour Preview Concert
Hendricks Chapel

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Hendricks Chapel choir presents a festive concert featuring music they will take on their May 2023 tour to London, Edinburgh, and Lockerbie. The program includes music for choir and organ by Judith Weir, Craig Phillips, Elaine Hagenberg, Undine Smith Moore, and Paul Simon, among others.


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5:00 PM, April 23



Setnor Student Recital Series: Seth Velez, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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8:00 PM, April 23



Setnor Student Recital Series: Jacob Dean, cello
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, April 23



Aktion

Price: $25
Rock Center (formerly Rockefeller United Methodist Church)
350 Nottingham Rd., Syracuse

World premiere of a new play by Garrett August Heater.

Set in Germany in 1943, Aktion is a gripping new drama, following young German newlyweds who receive a package from the Nazi government. As the origins of the items are uncovered, devastating secrets are revealed, bringing this suspenseful world premiere to its thrilling conclusion. This is a full production.


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Monday, April 24, 2023


Art
 

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 24



An Abundance of Birds
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs taken at Onondaga Lake by Tim Corcoran, Joe Fratianni, Sarah Beth Moses, Jeff Perkins, and Steve Ratliff.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, April 24



Members Exhibit: Spring Fever
Associated Artists of Central New York

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


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10:00 AM - 8:30 PM, April 24



Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

Read a review!


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 24



Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways
Erie Canal Museum

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

Explore the journey of artist Augusta W. Brown up the Erie Canal into Quebec in 1890, through gorgeous sketches and watercolors of New York and the workers on the Canal. Augusta's journal, not seen since 1930, showcases her trip on a logging boat and the people she met along the way through detailed descriptions and drawings.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, April 24



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

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

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


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Film
 

7:00 PM, April 24



Road to Morocco (1942)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Anthony Quinn, Dona Drake
Director: David Butler

The third "Road" movie finds Hope and Crosby getting involved with a beautiful princess (Lamour), a dangerous sheik (Quinn) and all kinds of wild surprises. This one's great fun and brought the Paramount series to the next level of zaniness.


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Tuesday, April 25, 2023


Art
 

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 25



An Abundance of Birds
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs taken at Onondaga Lake by Tim Corcoran, Joe Fratianni, Sarah Beth Moses, Jeff Perkins, and Steve Ratliff.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, April 25



Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and be juried by the CNY Art Guild for cash awards and recognition.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, April 25



Members Exhibit: Spring Fever
Associated Artists of Central New York

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


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10:00 AM - 8:30 PM, April 25



Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

Read a review!


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 25



Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways
Erie Canal Museum

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

Explore the journey of artist Augusta W. Brown up the Erie Canal into Quebec in 1890, through gorgeous sketches and watercolors of New York and the workers on the Canal. Augusta's journal, not seen since 1930, showcases her trip on a logging boat and the people she met along the way through detailed descriptions and drawings.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, April 25



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 25



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 25



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 25



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 25



Dreams Deferred
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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


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Music
 

8:00 PM, April 25



Setnor Ensemble Series: Percussion Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Michael W. Bull, performs.


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Wednesday, April 26, 2023


Art
 

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 26



An Abundance of Birds
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs taken at Onondaga Lake by Tim Corcoran, Joe Fratianni, Sarah Beth Moses, Jeff Perkins, and Steve Ratliff.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, April 26



Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and be juried by the CNY Art Guild for cash awards and recognition.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, April 26



Members Exhibit: Spring Fever
Associated Artists of Central New York

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


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10:00 AM - 8:30 PM, April 26



Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

Read a review!


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 26



Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways
Erie Canal Museum

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

Explore the journey of artist Augusta W. Brown up the Erie Canal into Quebec in 1890, through gorgeous sketches and watercolors of New York and the workers on the Canal. Augusta's journal, not seen since 1930, showcases her trip on a logging boat and the people she met along the way through detailed descriptions and drawings.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, April 26



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 26



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 26



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 26



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 26



Dreams Deferred
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 26



Alison Altafi: Reverie
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Alison Altafi is a self-taught fiber artist based in Syracuse. She explores fibers in unexpected ways, creating weavings-in-the-round that appear to be portals to other worlds. Their magical, otherworldly, textured, and fantastical abstract surfaces could be microcosms for the universe.

Altafi's unique process involves transforming metal frames into looms, which she then weaves onto. Unlike traditional weaving, where the tapestry is removed from the loom upon completion, with Altafi's process, the loom becomes a part of the internal structure of the work, providing both a frame and a structure. She uses the loom like a canvas, and the yarn becomes her paint.

For Altafi, the weaving process is just as important as the final work. It functions as a form of escapism, and is cathartic and meditative.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 26



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 26



Chromania
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Color is an essential therapy for those cold and gray Central New York winters. The Everson embraces this with Chromania, a riot of kaleidoscopic color guaranteed to chase the winter grays away. In the wake of Impressionism, 20th-century artists developed a range of strategies to explore and employ color. Painter and educator Josef Albers taught that all color is relative, meaning that the appearance of a color can change based on other colors it is surrounded by.

Beginning with Albers' iconic Homage to the Square series, Chromania explores how subsequent generations of artists in the Everson's collection employ color in ways that are subjective and expressive as well as scientific and systematic. From the precise geometry of Peter Pincus' ceramics to the animated gesture of a painting by Jackie Saccoccio, Chromania provides dazzle and inspiration during the long months of winter.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 26



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, April 26



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Read a review!


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Music
 

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, April 26



Jazz at Timber Banks: JoeZoe
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover charge
Persimmons
3536 Timber Banks Pkwy., Baldwinsville


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7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, April 26



Selwyn Birchwood
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Groundbreaking young blues visionary Selwyn Birchwood released his highly anticipated third Alligator album, Living In A Burning House in January 2021. The rising guitar and lap steel player calls his original music "electric swamp funkin' blues," defined by raw and soulful musicianship played with fire-and-brimstone fervor. His gritty, unvarnished vocals draw his audience deep inside his unforgettable tales of love, passion, pain, and pleasure. No other band on the current blues scene is built quite like Birchwood's. In addition to Selwyn's electrifying guitar and lap steel playing, the other featured instrument is Regi Oliver's driving baritone sax. The group is rounded out by bass, drums, and for the first time, keyboards.


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8:00 PM, April 26



Setnor Faculty Recital Series: Spencer Phillips, bass
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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Poetry/Reading
 

5:00 PM, April 26



Chinelo Okparanta
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Born and raised in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Chinelo Okparanta received her BS from Pennsylvania State University, her MA from Rutgers University, and her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is currently Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program in Creative Writing at Swarthmore College.

?She is a winner of a 2014 Lambda Literary Award, a 2016 Lambda Literary Award, the 2016 Jessie Redmon Fauset Book Award in Fiction, the 2016 Inaugural Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award from the Publishing Triangle, and a 2014 O. Henry Prize. Her debut short story collection, Happiness, Like Water, was cited as an editors' choice in the New York Times Book Review and was named on the list of The Guardian's Best African Fiction of 2013. The book was nominated for the Nigerian Writers Award (Young Motivational Writer of the Year), longlisted for the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was a finalist for the 2014 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award as well as the Etisalat Prize for Literature.

?She has published work in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, the Kenyon Review, AGNI, and other venues. In 2017, Okparanta was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. Under the Udala Trees is her first novel. Her second novel is Harry Sylvester Bird (HarperCollins/Mariner Books USA, 2022).

The reading will be preceded by a question-and-answer session beginning at 4:00 pm.


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6:30 PM, April 26



Snaps & Tap
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

April is National Poetry Month and Snaps & Taps is back with an open mic for all poets, singers and comedians, hosted by Symphonie.


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Thursday, April 27, 2023


Art
 

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 27



An Abundance of Birds
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs taken at Onondaga Lake by Tim Corcoran, Joe Fratianni, Sarah Beth Moses, Jeff Perkins, and Steve Ratliff.


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9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, April 27



Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and be juried by the CNY Art Guild for cash awards and recognition.


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10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, April 27



Members Exhibit: Spring Fever
Associated Artists of Central New York

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


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10:00 AM - 8:30 PM, April 27



Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

Read a review!


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 27



Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways
Erie Canal Museum

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

Explore the journey of artist Augusta W. Brown up the Erie Canal into Quebec in 1890, through gorgeous sketches and watercolors of New York and the workers on the Canal. Augusta's journal, not seen since 1930, showcases her trip on a logging boat and the people she met along the way through detailed descriptions and drawings.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, April 27



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, April 27



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, April 27



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, April 27



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, April 27



Dreams Deferred
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, April 27



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, April 27



Alison Altafi: Reverie
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Alison Altafi is a self-taught fiber artist based in Syracuse. She explores fibers in unexpected ways, creating weavings-in-the-round that appear to be portals to other worlds. Their magical, otherworldly, textured, and fantastical abstract surfaces could be microcosms for the universe.

Altafi's unique process involves transforming metal frames into looms, which she then weaves onto. Unlike traditional weaving, where the tapestry is removed from the loom upon completion, with Altafi's process, the loom becomes a part of the internal structure of the work, providing both a frame and a structure. She uses the loom like a canvas, and the yarn becomes her paint.

For Altafi, the weaving process is just as important as the final work. It functions as a form of escapism, and is cathartic and meditative.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, April 27



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, April 27



Chromania
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Color is an essential therapy for those cold and gray Central New York winters. The Everson embraces this with Chromania, a riot of kaleidoscopic color guaranteed to chase the winter grays away. In the wake of Impressionism, 20th-century artists developed a range of strategies to explore and employ color. Painter and educator Josef Albers taught that all color is relative, meaning that the appearance of a color can change based on other colors it is surrounded by.

Beginning with Albers' iconic Homage to the Square series, Chromania explores how subsequent generations of artists in the Everson's collection employ color in ways that are subjective and expressive as well as scientific and systematic. From the precise geometry of Peter Pincus' ceramics to the animated gesture of a painting by Jackie Saccoccio, Chromania provides dazzle and inspiration during the long months of winter.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 27



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, April 27



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Read a review!


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8:30 PM - 11:00 PM, April 27



TJ Cuthand: Extractions
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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Music
 

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, April 27



Upstate
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Transitions are both inevitable and startling– like a scenic drive before a hairpin bend, an abrupt storm, a rediscovered love. For Upstate, the past three years have been a litany of transitions as members Mary Webster, Melanie Glenn, Harry D'Agostino and Dylan McKinstry patiently navigated the unfolding hurdles of the pandemic and some of life's most pivotal moments. Amid a whirlwind of marriages, babies, funerals, and spiritual awakenings, mourning, and celebration, was a long, uncertain pause. This restful time apart from the demands of the road fostered for Upstate the chance to make a record that could touch on every corner of their lives, a deeply honest portrait.


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8:00 PM, April 27



Setnor Student Recital Series: Giovanna Maropo, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, April 27



Macbeth in Concert
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The whole Department of Visual and Performing Arts comes together to create an unforgettable
evening of the arts. Theatre, music, dance, and visual art combine for and abridged adaptation of Shakespeare's taut thriller of murder, magic, and madness.


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Friday, April 28, 2023


Art
 

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 28



An Abundance of Birds
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

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

Photographs taken at Onondaga Lake by Tim Corcoran, Joe Fratianni, Sarah Beth Moses, Jeff Perkins, and Steve Ratliff.


Back to list
 

 

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, April 28



Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and be juried by the CNY Art Guild for cash awards and recognition.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 28



Members Exhibit: Spring Fever
Associated Artists of Central New York

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 8:30 PM, April 28



Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

Read a review!


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 28



Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways
Erie Canal Museum

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

Explore the journey of artist Augusta W. Brown up the Erie Canal into Quebec in 1890, through gorgeous sketches and watercolors of New York and the workers on the Canal. Augusta's journal, not seen since 1930, showcases her trip on a logging boat and the people she met along the way through detailed descriptions and drawings.


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 9:00 PM, April 28



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 28



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 28



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 28



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 28



Dreams Deferred
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 28



Alison Altafi: Reverie
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Alison Altafi is a self-taught fiber artist based in Syracuse. She explores fibers in unexpected ways, creating weavings-in-the-round that appear to be portals to other worlds. Their magical, otherworldly, textured, and fantastical abstract surfaces could be microcosms for the universe.

Altafi's unique process involves transforming metal frames into looms, which she then weaves onto. Unlike traditional weaving, where the tapestry is removed from the loom upon completion, with Altafi's process, the loom becomes a part of the internal structure of the work, providing both a frame and a structure. She uses the loom like a canvas, and the yarn becomes her paint.

For Altafi, the weaving process is just as important as the final work. It functions as a form of escapism, and is cathartic and meditative.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 28



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 28



Chromania
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Color is an essential therapy for those cold and gray Central New York winters. The Everson embraces this with Chromania, a riot of kaleidoscopic color guaranteed to chase the winter grays away. In the wake of Impressionism, 20th-century artists developed a range of strategies to explore and employ color. Painter and educator Josef Albers taught that all color is relative, meaning that the appearance of a color can change based on other colors it is surrounded by.

Beginning with Albers' iconic Homage to the Square series, Chromania explores how subsequent generations of artists in the Everson's collection employ color in ways that are subjective and expressive as well as scientific and systematic. From the precise geometry of Peter Pincus' ceramics to the animated gesture of a painting by Jackie Saccoccio, Chromania provides dazzle and inspiration during the long months of winter.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 28



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 28



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, April 28



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Read a review!


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8:30 PM - 11:00 PM, April 28



TJ Cuthand: Extractions
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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Lecture
 

7:00 PM, April 28



Artist Talk with Vanessa Johnson
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse


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Music
 

5:00 PM, April 28



Setnor Ensemble Series: JCM Jazz Guitar Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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6:00 PM, April 28



JCM Rock Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, April 28



*SOLD OUT* The Barndogs
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

The Barndogs are one of CNY's favorite classic rock bands. Andy Comstock, Mark Westers, John Kapusniak and Pete Szymanski are going to ROCK the 443, so put your party pants on and join us for a fun night of all your favorites.


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8:00 PM, April 28



JCM Jazz Funk
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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Poetry/Reading
 

7:00 PM, April 28



Poets Cynthia Manick and Sherre Vernon
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
Online


Winner of the Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry, Cynthia Manick is the author of No Sweet Without Brine (Amistad-HarperCollins, 2023), editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry, and author of Blue Hallelujahs. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Château de la Napoule. A storyteller and performer, Manick's work has been featured in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, Wall Street Journal, and other outlets.

Sherre Vernon is the award-winning author of Green Ink Wings (Elixir Press) and The Name is Perilous (Power of Poetry). Her debut full-length poetry collection, Flame Nebula, Bright Nova was released in 2022. Sherre has been published in journals such as Tahoma Literary Review and The Chestnut Review, nominated for Best of the Net, and anthologized in several collections including Fat & Queer and Best Small Fictions. Sherre teaches poetry at the Downtown Writers Center.


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Theater
 

7:00 PM, April 28



Saltland Theatre Festival: Resilience
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: $15
Muse Lab, Nancy Cantor Warehouse
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Resilience is an autobiographical solo performance that follows the experience of an African American woman accessing mental health care for her anxiety disorder, while highlighting the correlation between race, anxiety, and the healthcare disparities that communities of color face while trying to find treatment. Taking place in Queens, NY, with over 19 different characters, the performance depicts multiple experiences in various therapeutic settings, in addition to reimagining the strength that is needed on a journey of uncomfortable couches.


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7:30 PM, April 28



Saltland Theatre Festival: Come Like Shadows
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: $15
Wunderbar
201 S. West St., Syracuse

As the Gold Rush brings thousands of new settlers to San Francisco, a secretive young woman begins to work at a high-end brothel in the burgeoning city. As she draws closer to her companions there, the past and present hungers of men — socially, politically, romantically — begin to cast a shadow upon the brothel. Come Like Shadows offers an alternate take on the history of Shakespeare's most infamous character, Lady Macbeth.


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7:30 PM, April 28



Saltland Theatre Festival: Dirty Legal Secrets
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: $15
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tech startups disrupt our lives, phones, and privacy. These businesses are often plagued with egos and scandals. The public, however, cannot access the full truth. Insiders have witnessed legal and moral issues, but they are sworn to secrecy.

Until now...

Dirty Legal Secrets merges secrets, screw ups, startups, and the law. The show follows an attorney on her tortuous final day working at a startup. Friends reminisce with stories of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.


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7:30 PM, April 28



Macbeth in Concert
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The whole Department of Visual and Performing Arts comes together to create an unforgettable
evening of the arts. Theatre, music, dance, and visual art combine for and abridged adaptation of Shakespeare's taut thriller of murder, magic, and madness.


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8:00 PM, April 28



Saltland Theatre Festival: Salt City Burlesque presents AppeTEASERS
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: $15
Muse Lab, Nancy Cantor Warehouse
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Experience a saucy preview of what burlesque has to offer with a weekend of three different mini shows serving up fun, comedy, and glamour!

AppeTEASERS showcases Salt City Burlesque core members and an array of performers and artists from neighboring burlesque troupes from across the state. These nights will be just a sampling of the strong network of creative minds who come together to thrill and entertain audiences time and again!

Must be over 18 with proper ID to attend this event. For more information on Salt City Burlesque, please visit www.saltcityburlesque.com.


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8:00 PM, April 28



Preview: Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rebecca Aparicio, director

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

Who says sadness isn't fun? Certainly not award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl. In her absurd, sensual, and heartfelt play Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical, Ruhl endows melancholy with aphrodisiac power in the person of Tilly, a bank teller whose lingering sadness attracts everyone around her. So acute is the attraction that when Tilly suddenly finds happiness, she throws the others into despair. One even transforms into an almond. Yes, the nut. It will be up to Tilly to restore her. With characteristic whimsy and nuanced seriousness, Ruhl considers the many different ways to find joy and how sadness is a necessary component of happiness. Cue cello.

Music by Todd Almond, music directed by Brian Cimmet.


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Saturday, April 29, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 29



Members Exhibit: Spring Fever
Associated Artists of Central New York

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 29



Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

Read a review!


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10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, April 29



Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and be juried by the CNY Art Guild for cash awards and recognition.


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 29



Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways
Erie Canal Museum

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

Explore the journey of artist Augusta W. Brown up the Erie Canal into Quebec in 1890, through gorgeous sketches and watercolors of New York and the workers on the Canal. Augusta's journal, not seen since 1930, showcases her trip on a logging boat and the people she met along the way through detailed descriptions and drawings.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 29



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 29



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 29



Alison Altafi: Reverie
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Alison Altafi is a self-taught fiber artist based in Syracuse. She explores fibers in unexpected ways, creating weavings-in-the-round that appear to be portals to other worlds. Their magical, otherworldly, textured, and fantastical abstract surfaces could be microcosms for the universe.

Altafi's unique process involves transforming metal frames into looms, which she then weaves onto. Unlike traditional weaving, where the tapestry is removed from the loom upon completion, with Altafi's process, the loom becomes a part of the internal structure of the work, providing both a frame and a structure. She uses the loom like a canvas, and the yarn becomes her paint.

For Altafi, the weaving process is just as important as the final work. It functions as a form of escapism, and is cathartic and meditative.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 29



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 29



Chromania
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Color is an essential therapy for those cold and gray Central New York winters. The Everson embraces this with Chromania, a riot of kaleidoscopic color guaranteed to chase the winter grays away. In the wake of Impressionism, 20th-century artists developed a range of strategies to explore and employ color. Painter and educator Josef Albers taught that all color is relative, meaning that the appearance of a color can change based on other colors it is surrounded by.

Beginning with Albers' iconic Homage to the Square series, Chromania explores how subsequent generations of artists in the Everson's collection employ color in ways that are subjective and expressive as well as scientific and systematic. From the precise geometry of Peter Pincus' ceramics to the animated gesture of a painting by Jackie Saccoccio, Chromania provides dazzle and inspiration during the long months of winter.


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 29



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, April 29



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Read a review!


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, April 29



Dreams Deferred
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, April 29



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, April 29



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, April 29



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

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

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


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, April 29



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

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

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


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8:30 PM - 11:00 PM, April 29



TJ Cuthand: Extractions
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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Music
 

11:00 AM, April 29



Setnor Student Recital Series: Amanda Becker, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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1:00 PM, April 29



An Afternoon with the Lake Effect Winds
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Central New York's own Lake Effect Winds quintet presents a program of music by Albéniz, J.S. Bach, Hindemith, Michael Kibbe, and Anton Reicha. The Hindemith piece, Kleine Kammermusik (1922), will be performed as a (slightly late) centenary performance.

Lake Effect Winds is made up of Beth Scott, flute; Kathryn Dimmel, oboe; Tom McKay, clarinet; Audrey Turner, French horn; and Jennifer Groth, bassoon.

Note: This concert was originally scheduled for April 22, 2023.


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2:00 PM, April 29



Setnor Student Recital Series: Madison Karten, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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5:00 PM, April 29



Setnor Student Recital Series: Sunny Robertson, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, April 29



Robinson Treacher
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Born and raised in New York, Robinson Treacher's musical honesty and vocal grit reflect his musical influences from Nashville, downtown New York City to the upstate Adirondacks. On the heels of his last release, "Porches", Robinson released "Born", a purposefully "stripped down" collection of songs that rarely contains more than an acoustic guitar, an upright bass, and of course his powerfully distinct vocal. His EP "Born" received the honor of 2018's Independent Music Award for BEST EP (Roots/Americana/Singer-songwriter).


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7:30 PM, April 29



Mark Hoffman and Swing This
Steeple Coffee House

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


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7:30 PM, April 29



Pacifica Quartet with Anthony McGill
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $15 ages 35 and under, free for full-time students with ID
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Dvorák String Quartet no. 12, op. 96, "American"
James Lee III Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet
Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op. 115


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8:00 PM, April 29



Setnor Student Recital Series: Aidan Elwell, guitar
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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Theater
 

6:00 PM, April 29



Saltland Theatre Festival: Resilience
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: $15
Muse Lab, Nancy Cantor Warehouse
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Resilience is an autobiographical solo performance that follows the experience of an African American woman accessing mental health care for her anxiety disorder, while highlighting the correlation between race, anxiety, and the healthcare disparities that communities of color face while trying to find treatment. Taking place in Queens, NY, with over 19 different characters, the performance depicts multiple experiences in various therapeutic settings, in addition to reimagining the strength that is needed on a journey of uncomfortable couches.


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7:30 PM, April 29



Saltland Theatre Festival: Come Like Shadows
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: $15
Wunderbar
201 S. West St., Syracuse

As the Gold Rush brings thousands of new settlers to San Francisco, a secretive young woman begins to work at a high-end brothel in the burgeoning city. As she draws closer to her companions there, the past and present hungers of men — socially, politically, romantically — begin to cast a shadow upon the brothel. Come Like Shadows offers an alternate take on the history of Shakespeare's most infamous character, Lady Macbeth.


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7:30 PM, April 29



Saltland Theatre Festival: Dirty Legal Secrets
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: $15
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tech startups disrupt our lives, phones, and privacy. These businesses are often plagued with egos and scandals. The public, however, cannot access the full truth. Insiders have witnessed legal and moral issues, but they are sworn to secrecy.

Until now...

Dirty Legal Secrets merges secrets, screw ups, startups, and the law. The show follows an attorney on her tortuous final day working at a startup. Friends reminisce with stories of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.


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7:30 PM, April 29



Macbeth in Concert
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The whole Department of Visual and Performing Arts comes together to create an unforgettable
evening of the arts. Theatre, music, dance, and visual art combine for and abridged adaptation of Shakespeare's taut thriller of murder, magic, and madness.


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8:00 PM, April 29



Saltland Theatre Festival: Salt City Burlesque presents AppeTEASERS
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: $15
Muse Lab, Nancy Cantor Warehouse
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Experience a saucy preview of what burlesque has to offer with a weekend of three different mini shows serving up fun, comedy, and glamour!

AppeTEASERS showcases Salt City Burlesque core members and an array of performers and artists from neighboring burlesque troupes from across the state. These nights will be just a sampling of the strong network of creative minds who come together to thrill and entertain audiences time and again!

Must be over 18 with proper ID to attend this event. For more information on Salt City Burlesque, please visit www.saltcityburlesque.com.


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8:00 PM, April 29



Opening: Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rebecca Aparicio, director

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

Who says sadness isn't fun? Certainly not award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl. In her absurd, sensual, and heartfelt play Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical, Ruhl endows melancholy with aphrodisiac power in the person of Tilly, a bank teller whose lingering sadness attracts everyone around her. So acute is the attraction that when Tilly suddenly finds happiness, she throws the others into despair. One even transforms into an almond. Yes, the nut. It will be up to Tilly to restore her. With characteristic whimsy and nuanced seriousness, Ruhl considers the many different ways to find joy and how sadness is a necessary component of happiness. Cue cello.

Music by Todd Almond, music directed by Brian Cimmet.


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Sunday, April 30, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 30



Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways
Erie Canal Museum

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

Explore the journey of artist Augusta W. Brown up the Erie Canal into Quebec in 1890, through gorgeous sketches and watercolors of New York and the workers on the Canal. Augusta's journal, not seen since 1930, showcases her trip on a logging boat and the people she met along the way through detailed descriptions and drawings.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 30



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 30



Alison Altafi: Reverie
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Alison Altafi is a self-taught fiber artist based in Syracuse. She explores fibers in unexpected ways, creating weavings-in-the-round that appear to be portals to other worlds. Their magical, otherworldly, textured, and fantastical abstract surfaces could be microcosms for the universe.

Altafi's unique process involves transforming metal frames into looms, which she then weaves onto. Unlike traditional weaving, where the tapestry is removed from the loom upon completion, with Altafi's process, the loom becomes a part of the internal structure of the work, providing both a frame and a structure. She uses the loom like a canvas, and the yarn becomes her paint.

For Altafi, the weaving process is just as important as the final work. It functions as a form of escapism, and is cathartic and meditative.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 30



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 30



Chromania
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Color is an essential therapy for those cold and gray Central New York winters. The Everson embraces this with Chromania, a riot of kaleidoscopic color guaranteed to chase the winter grays away. In the wake of Impressionism, 20th-century artists developed a range of strategies to explore and employ color. Painter and educator Josef Albers taught that all color is relative, meaning that the appearance of a color can change based on other colors it is surrounded by.

Beginning with Albers' iconic Homage to the Square series, Chromania explores how subsequent generations of artists in the Everson's collection employ color in ways that are subjective and expressive as well as scientific and systematic. From the precise geometry of Peter Pincus' ceramics to the animated gesture of a painting by Jackie Saccoccio, Chromania provides dazzle and inspiration during the long months of winter.


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, April 30



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 30



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, April 30



Dreams Deferred
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, April 30



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, April 30



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, April 30



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, April 30



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

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

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


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8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, April 30



Visual Arts Electronic Garden presents: kicking the air; folding index fingers
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Bringing together artists from Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Kurdistan, and Morocco, the videos in kicking the air; folding index fingers enact a series of ritualistic gestures between passivity/resistance, absurdity/futility, and caring/neglecting, performing resistance and resilience.

Curated by Fatemeh Kazemi and Zelikha Zohra Shoja, participating artists include Nooshin Askari, Mohammad Al Faraj, Maryam Faridani and Fatemeh Kazemi, Alaa Mansour, Leila Mousa, Gazelle Samizay, Maryam Tafakory, Rojda Yavuz, and Imane Zoubai.

Co-sponsored by Syracuse University Department of Film and Media Arts, Syracuse University Humanities Center, and Visual Arts Experimental Garden


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Music
 

2:00 PM, April 30



Setnor Student Recital Series: Asriel Davis, organ
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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3:00 PM, April 30



Casual Series: Symphoria in the Spotlight
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Lawrence Loh, conductor

St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

This program features Symphoria musicians performing concerti in various forms.

Muzquiz Auburn Runout
Karlin Percussion
Saint-Saens Tarentelle
Bruch Kol Nidre
Grondahl Finale from Concerto for Trombone
Haydn Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor, "Farewell"


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4:00 PM, April 30



Malmgren Concert: Ken Meyer, guitar
Hendricks Chapel

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Hailed by the Washington Post as playing "with impressive gravity and power," classical guitarist Ken Meyer is a national prize-winner and beloved instructor at the Setnor School of Music. Known for his commitment to new music, Meyer has graced leading concert stages in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and South America. Meyer will be joined by his Setnor School of Music faculty colleagues Will Knuth, violin, and Anne Laver, organ.


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5:00 PM, April 30



Setnor Student Recital Series: Owen Hucke, organ
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, April 30



Professor Louie & the Crowmatix
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Professor Louie & The Crowmatix from Woodstock NY have been performing since the year 2000 at numerous Festivals, Theaters, Clubs and Art Centers averaging 150 shows a year.

Professor Louie & The Crowmatix shows' presents a diverse set list from this stellar roots crew of Original songs, Blues, and select songs that Louie learned directly from The Band and material he helped create with them including their comeback hits Atlantic City and Blind Willie McTell.


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8:00 PM, April 30



Setnor Student Recital Series: Tales Eduardo Navarro, violin
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse


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Opera
 

3:00 PM, April 30



The Marriage of Figaro
Syracuse Opera

Price: $25-$200
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Mozart's masterpiece, coming to you in grand style with glorious costumes and sets! Another timeless story of betrayal, forgiveness and the vagaries of the human condition, the human heart and soul.

Performed in Italian, with English supertitles.


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Theater
 

1:30 PM, April 30



Saltland Theatre Festival: Resilience
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: $15
Muse Lab, Nancy Cantor Warehouse
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Resilience is an autobiographical solo performance that follows the experience of an African American woman accessing mental health care for her anxiety disorder, while highlighting the correlation between race, anxiety, and the healthcare disparities that communities of color face while trying to find treatment. Taking place in Queens, NY, with over 19 different characters, the performance depicts multiple experiences in various therapeutic settings, in addition to reimagining the strength that is needed on a journey of uncomfortable couches.


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2:00 PM, April 30



Saltland Theatre Festival: Come Like Shadows
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: $15
Wunderbar
201 S. West St., Syracuse

As the Gold Rush brings thousands of new settlers to San Francisco, a secretive young woman begins to work at a high-end brothel in the burgeoning city. As she draws closer to her companions there, the past and present hungers of men — socially, politically, romantically — begin to cast a shadow upon the brothel. Come Like Shadows offers an alternate take on the history of Shakespeare's most infamous character, Lady Macbeth.


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2:00 PM, April 30



Saltland Theatre Festival: Dirty Legal Secrets
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: $15
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tech startups disrupt our lives, phones, and privacy. These businesses are often plagued with egos and scandals. The public, however, cannot access the full truth. Insiders have witnessed legal and moral issues, but they are sworn to secrecy.

Until now...

Dirty Legal Secrets merges secrets, screw ups, startups, and the law. The show follows an attorney on her tortuous final day working at a startup. Friends reminisce with stories of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.


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2:00 PM, April 30



Saltland Theatre Festival: Push, Pull, Together, Apart
Breadcrumbs Productions

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

Specifically designed for the youngest audiences and their families, Push, Pull, Together, Apart is about connection. How many different ways are we connected with each other and the world around us? In this participatory experience, young audience members will join in exploring the different ways in which brand new eyes find connection in the spontaneous.

This 30-minute non-verbal performance will involve interactive sounds, props, and storytelling.


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2:00 PM, April 30



Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rebecca Aparicio, director

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

Who says sadness isn't fun? Certainly not award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl. In her absurd, sensual, and heartfelt play Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical, Ruhl endows melancholy with aphrodisiac power in the person of Tilly, a bank teller whose lingering sadness attracts everyone around her. So acute is the attraction that when Tilly suddenly finds happiness, she throws the others into despair. One even transforms into an almond. Yes, the nut. It will be up to Tilly to restore her. With characteristic whimsy and nuanced seriousness, Ruhl considers the many different ways to find joy and how sadness is a necessary component of happiness. Cue cello.

Music by Todd Almond, music directed by Brian Cimmet.


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7:00 PM, April 30



Saltland Theatre Festival: Salt City Burlesque presents AppeTEASERS
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: $15
Muse Lab, Nancy Cantor Warehouse
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Experience a saucy preview of what burlesque has to offer with a weekend of three different mini shows serving up fun, comedy, and glamour!

AppeTEASERS showcases Salt City Burlesque core members and an array of performers and artists from neighboring burlesque troupes from across the state. These nights will be just a sampling of the strong network of creative minds who come together to thrill and entertain audiences time and again!

Must be over 18 with proper ID to attend this event. For more information on Salt City Burlesque, please visit www.saltcityburlesque.com.


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