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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 Alison Altafi: Reverie Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

11:00 AM-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

Events for Monday, May 1, 2023

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

7:00 PM The Desperadoes (1943) Syracuse Cinephile Society

7:30 PM Le Moyne Rock Ensemble LeMoyne College

Events for Tuesday, May 2, 2023

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

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-5:00 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

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

7:30 PM Spring Choral Concert LeMoyne College

7:30 PM Garry Trudeau Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series

8:00 PM Setnor Student Recital Series: Micayla MacDougall, lecture recital Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

8:30 PM-9:30 PM Locate Yourself: New Work from Art Video Urban Video Project

Events for Wednesday, May 3, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6:00 PM-9:00 PM Jazz at Timber Banks: Chuck Schiele's Trio CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

7:00 PM Setnor Ensemble Series: String Chamber Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

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

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

Events for Thursday, May 4, 2023

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

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-5:00 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 Chromania Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Events for Friday, May 5, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7:00 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: La familia de Emanual Breadcrumbs Productions

7:00 PM Poet Shara McCallum Downtown Writer's Center

7:00 PM-9:00 PM Ward Hayden & The Outliers The 443 Social Club

7:30 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Sundowning Breadcrumbs Productions

7:30 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: The Queen of England Breadcrumbs Productions

7:30 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Forgive Me! Live! One of the Dogs Breadcrumbs Productions

7:30 PM Spring Jazz Concert LeMoyne College

7:30 PM SNM Prize Winners Society for New Music

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

8:00 PM Le Vent du Nord Folkus Project

8:00 PM Suor Angelica

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

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

9:00 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Revelatory Readings: A Night of Improv Comedy Breadcrumbs Productions

Events for Saturday, May 6, 2023

10:00 AM-5:00 PM Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale 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-4:00 PM Augusta W. Brown: Watercolorist on the Waterways Erie Canal Museum

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

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

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

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

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

12:00 PM-4:00 PM 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

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

1:00 PM Syracuse Piano LIT with Dr. Dan Civic Morning Musicals, featuring Dan Sato, piano

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

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

3:00 PM Resetting Goals: Basketball Stewardship as Social Art Practice Everson Museum of Art, featuring Jeremy John Kaplan

7:00 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Revelatory Readings: A Night of Improv Comedy Breadcrumbs Productions

7:00 PM Singer's Choice Concert Syracuse Pops Chorus

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

7:30 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Forgive Me! Live! One of the Dogs Breadcrumbs Productions

7:30 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: The Queen of England Breadcrumbs Productions

7:30 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Sundowning Breadcrumbs Productions

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

8:00 PM Suor Angelica

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

8:30 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: La familia de Emanual Breadcrumbs Productions

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

Events for Sunday, May 7, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

1:30 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: La familia de Emanual Breadcrumbs Productions

2:00 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Sundowning Breadcrumbs Productions

2:00 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: The Queen of England Breadcrumbs Productions

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

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

2:00 PM Setnor Student Recital Series: Joseph Maxwell Ossei-little, organ Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

3:30 PM Saltland Theatre Festival: Revelatory Readings: A Night of Improv Comedy Breadcrumbs Productions

3:30 PM Symphoria Youth Orchestras Spring Concert Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

4:00 PM The Sighs in Music for Four Strings Civic Morning Musicals

4:00 PM Spring Concert Syracuse Chorale

8:45 PM-11:00 PM North Side Learning Center Youth Photo + Poetry Showcase Urban Video Project

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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



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



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



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



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 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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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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Monday, May 1, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 8:30 PM, May 1



Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 1



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, May 1



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

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

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


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Film
 

7:00 PM, May 1



The Desperadoes (1943)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Cast: Randolph Scott, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, Evelyn Keyes, Edgar Buchanan, Guinn Williams, Raymond Walburn
Director: Charles Vidor

Columbia's first Technicolor feature is this entertaining Western with a top-notch cast. A reformed outlaw (Ford) joins forces with the local sheriff (Scott) to clean up a crooked town. There's plenty of action, excitement and even some laughs in this rip-roaring crowd pleaser.

Plus the Three Stooges in their 1943 comedy short Phony Express.


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Music
 

7:30 PM, May 1



Le Moyne Rock Ensemble
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Join the Rock Ensemble for a selection of rock music from 1955 to the present.


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Tuesday, May 2, 2023


Art
 

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 2



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 - 8:30 PM, May 2



Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 2



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, May 2



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, May 2



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, May 2



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, May 2



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, May 2



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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8:30 PM - 9:30 PM, May 2



Locate Yourself: New Work from Art Video
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A one-night-only screening of new work from students in Art Video at Syracuse University created for the Everson Museum of facade.

Artists featured include Nora Benko, Alexander Degterev, Sarah Goldman, Shakoronhiokewen Jacobs Jr, Isa Mooney, Loraine Novas, Evan Pitzer, Owen Poland, Chloe Smith, Meredith Tokac, Nya Fitzgerald, Loraine Novas.


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Lecture
 

7:30 PM, May 2



Garry Trudeau
Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series

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

Garry Trudeau is a comic writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the Doonesbury cartoon. First launched in 1970, the groundbreaking comic currently appears in nearly 1,200 daily and Sunday newspaper clients in the U.S. and abroad. For over five decades, Trudeau has been on the cutting edge of political content. In 2013 he created "Alpha House" — a political sitcom, the first streaming-only production of Amazon Studios. He has contributed writing to publications such as, Harpers, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Time Magazine.


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Music
 

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, May 2



*SOLD OUT* Vanessa Collier
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

As a 7-time Blues Music Award (BMA) nominee and a 2-time BMA Award Winner for Horn Player of the Year (2020 & 2019), Vanessa Collier is excited to tour in celebration of her highly anticipated and self-produced fourth album, Heart on the Line. In addition to her BMA awards, Vanessa is also a multi-award-winning songwriter, master musician, and multi-instrumentalist, known for seamlessly weaving together funk, soul, rock, and blues styles through soulful vocals, searing saxophone solos, and witty songwriting skills. With her career still in its infancy, Vanessa has already turned many heads, garnering tremendous accolades for her trademark high energy, powerful, fiery, and passionate live shows.


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7:30 PM, May 2



Spring Choral Concert
LeMoyne College

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

The Le Moyne College Singers and Chamber Singers perform sacred selections and songs of hope and inspiration.


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8:00 PM, May 2



Setnor Student Recital Series: Micayla MacDougall, lecture recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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


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Wednesday, May 3, 2023


Art
 

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 3



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 - 8:30 PM, May 3



Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 3



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, May 3



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, May 3



Dreams Deferred
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 3



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, May 3



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, May 3



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 3



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 3



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, May 3



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, May 3



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, May 3



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

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Music
 

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, May 3



Jazz at Timber Banks: Chuck Schiele's Trio
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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


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7:00 PM, May 3



Setnor Ensemble Series: String Chamber
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, May 3



*SOLD OUT* Vanessa Collier
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

As a 7-time Blues Music Award (BMA) nominee and a 2-time BMA Award Winner for Horn Player of the Year (2020 & 2019), Vanessa Collier is excited to tour in celebration of her highly anticipated and self-produced fourth album, Heart on the Line. In addition to her BMA awards, Vanessa is also a multi-award-winning songwriter, master musician, and multi-instrumentalist, known for seamlessly weaving together funk, soul, rock, and blues styles through soulful vocals, searing saxophone solos, and witty songwriting skills. With her career still in its infancy, Vanessa has already turned many heads, garnering tremendous accolades for her trademark high energy, powerful, fiery, and passionate live shows.


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Theater
 

7:30 PM, May 3



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

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

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


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8:00 PM, May 3



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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Thursday, May 4, 2023


Art
 

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 4



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 - 8:30 PM, May 4



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, May 4



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, May 4



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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 4



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 - 8:00 PM, May 4



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 4



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 4



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, May 4



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.


Back to list
 

 

11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 4



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 4



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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11:00 AM - 8:00 PM, May 4



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 4



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, May 4



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Read a review!


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8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, May 4



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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Theater
 

7:30 PM, May 4



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

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

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


Back to list
 

 

8:00 PM, May 4



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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Friday, May 5, 2023


Art
 

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, May 5



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 - 8:30 PM, May 5



Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 5



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, May 5



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, May 5



Dreams Deferred
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 5



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, May 5



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, May 5



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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



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, May 5



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, May 5



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, May 5



Climate Connections: Our Shared Future
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

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

Read a review!


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8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, May 5



TJ Cuthand: Extractions
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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Music
 

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, May 5



Ward Hayden & The Outliers
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Acclaimed band Ward Hayden & The Outliers are New England's premier classic Country outfit. Winners of several Boston Music Awards, the band tours relentlessly in the U.S. and Europe on their own and supporting established artists such as Los Lobos, The Mavericks, and Marty Stuart.


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7:30 PM, May 5



Spring Jazz Concert
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Join the Jazz Ensemble and Jazzuits for an evening of classic jazz standards.


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7:30 PM, May 5



SNM Prize Winners
Society for New Music

Price: $20 regular, $15 students/seniors, children free
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Steve Ferre Shadows of Innocence
Octavio Vazquez Migrant
Christian-Frederic Bloquert Serenade: Recomposed


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8:00 PM, May 5



Le Vent du Nord
Folkus Project

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

This award winning and highly acclaimed band are a leading force in Québec's exciting and progressive Francophone folk movement. The group's vast repertoire draws from both traditional sources and original compositions, while their highly rhythmic and soulful music, rooted in the Celtic diaspora, is enhanced with a broad range of global influences.

Since first launching 20 years ago, Le Vent du Nord have enjoyed meteoric success, performing well over 2,200 concerts over four continents and racking up several prestigious awards.

On stage these five friends create intense, joyful and dynamic live performances that expand the bounds of tradition in striking global directions. It will be a night to remember. And yes, they sing both in English and in French.


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Opera
 

8:00 PM, May 5



Suor Angelica

Price: $35 regular, $30 seniors, $20 students
Inspiration Hall (formerly St. Peter's Church)
709 James St., Syracuse

Opera by Giacomo Puccini.


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Poetry/Reading
 

7:00 PM, May 5



Poet Shara McCallum
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
Online


From Jamaica, and born to a Jamaican father and Venezuelan mother, Shara McCallum is the author of six books of poetry published in the US and UK, most recently No Ruined Stone, winner of the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry and named a finalist for the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. McCallum's poems and essays have appeared in journals, anthologies, and textbooks throughout the US, Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. La historia es un cuarto/History is a Room, an anthology of her poems translated into Spanish by Adalber Salas Hernández, was published in 2021 by Mantis Editores in Mexico. McCallum's poems have also been translated into French, Italian, Romanian, Turkish, and Dutch. The many awards given to her work include the Silver Musgrave Medal from the Jamaican government, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the US Library of Congress, and an NEA Fellowship in Poetry. She is currently an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor at Penn State University and a faculty member in the Pacific University Low-Residency MFA Program. From 2021-22, McCallum served as the Penn State Laureate.


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Theater
 

7:00 PM, May 5



Saltland Theatre Festival: La familia de Emanual
Breadcrumbs Productions

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

Based on true events and performed in Spanish, La familia de Emanual has entertained audiences in Los Angeles, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Mexico City, Guatemala City, and Dominican Republic. Emanuel Loarca plays seven colorful characters of a Latino family that migrates to New York in pursue of their American Dream; in the interim the adults try to preserve their traditions and culture, the youngsters face the challenges of balancing the references of the homeland as they try to adjust to the pragmatism and individuality of a first world society. An irreverent dramedy in which, faith, addictions, domestic violence and wit go hand by hand.


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7:30 PM, May 5



Saltland Theatre Festival: Sundowning
Breadcrumbs Productions

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

When a woman with advanced dementia is discovered wandering in a park, she is taken to the memory unit of a posh private nursing home. A DNA test shows that she was the subject of a famous missing person case 37 years earlier. Her husband was accused of killing her and after years of suspicion, he committed suicide, leaving their two children presumed orphans. When the now-adult children arrive looking for answers, she can tell them nothing about where she's been or what she has done. She doesn't even know who they are. For those adult children, wounds that have never healed are reopened. A tabloid TV show is sending cameras to capture the reunion.


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7:30 PM, May 5



Saltland Theatre Festival: The Queen of England
Breadcrumbs Productions

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

The world premiere of a new and uniquely contemporary American comedy for all of us searching for the essentials in life: adventure, friendship, and a boy who's kind of like Hugh Grant! Join best friends, Drew and Jeffrey, as they journey across the pond on an outrageously funny quest for all three.


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7:30 PM, May 5



Saltland Theatre Festival: Forgive Me! Live! One of the Dogs
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: $15
McCarthy Mercantile
217 1/2 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A live performance of a brand new episode of the confessional podcast sitcom, Forgive Me! This series follows Father Ben, a young, relatively try-hard priest recently reassigned from Binghamton to St. Patrick's, a new parish in an unnamed Upstate New York town, under mysterious circumstances. Each episode follows Ben into the confessional with another eccentric parishioner from around town, exploring the intertwined lives of this new community and the funny, sad, and sometimes painful experiences that come out of the Catholic experience. One of the Dogs sees Ben take a series of escalating confessions from participants in the local Salty Dog Central New York Canine Expo. This cut-throat competition sees its contestants go to the absolute extreme in order to secure their animals' entry into the coveted Eastminster Dog Show. With a cast made up of all local Syracuse talent, see Forgive Me! performed live for the first time in front of a local audience in the city where their show's first season was born.


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7:30 PM, May 5



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

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

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


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8:00 PM, May 5



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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9:00 PM, May 5



Saltland Theatre Festival: Revelatory Readings: A Night of Improv Comedy
Breadcrumbs Productions

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

Revelatory Readings: A Show of Improvised Comedy and Storytelling combines the arts of improv and storytelling in a show of live comedy. It explores engaging works of art read by the show's storyteller. Inspired by words from an intriguing love letter, poem, diary entry, or text message, performers create improvised characters and scenes. The show takes themes, premises, and ideas from the individual work into new places, scenarios, and situations. This production invites audience members to come along for the experience, as storytellers and improvisers give a "revelatory" reading that's never been performed before. Join us for one night or more as each show offers a unique experience that features a new revelatory reading.

Improvisors: Bobbi B, Jill Tibbett Balsano, Laura Brewster, Lauren Esposito, Ana Guerrero, Michelle Kivisto, Genevieve Sponsler
Storytellers: Sam Herwood and Linda Lowen


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Saturday, May 6, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 6



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

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

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

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


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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 6



Straddling Oceans: A Vanessa Johnson Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 6



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, May 6



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 6



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 6



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, May 6



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 6



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 6



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 6



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, May 6



Take Me to the Palace of Love
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 6



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 6



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 6



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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8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, May 6



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
 

3:00 PM, May 6



Resetting Goals: Basketball Stewardship as Social Art Practice
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Jeremy John Kaplan

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A lecture and conversation with Jeremy John Kaplan about his social practice initiative, the Gold Nets Project.

Gold Nets Project is a practice of gratitude and effort to renew and improve a cherished fixture in a public space. One of the fundamental goals of the project is the invitation to reimagine the idea of stewardship in community and social environments.


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Music
 

1:00 PM, May 6



Syracuse Piano LIT with Dr. Dan
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Dan Sato, piano

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

Pianist Dan Sato presents solo works of Natalie Draper, George N. Gianopoulos, Meredith Monk, Ravel, and Earl Wild.

Described by the legendary American virtuoso, André Watts as a musician of "exuberant spontaneity, deep conviction, and serious compositional understanding," Dan indulges in a rich career performing solo, chamber music, art song, and operatic repertoire. As a pianist, educator, and researcher, he embodies the motto written on his favorite T-shirt, "88 keys, 10 fingers — no problem."

He has been heard internationally through BBC, WQXR, CBC, KHPR, and major streaming media platforms, and has performed at music festivals across the US, including Brevard Music Center, Chautauqua Music Festival, Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival, Castleman Quartet Program, and Taconic Music's Summer Festival. He frequently collaborates with artists of his generation including Joohyun Lee, Yeil Park, Rachel Doehring, and Hannah Tarley, and has recorded critically acclaimed albums with Diane Hunger (Deviations) and Leah Plave (Impressions: The Rediscovery of Henriëtte Bosmans).

Appreciated among his colleagues as a human archive of pianistic knowledge and culture, he is a frequent resource for technical solutions, programming, historical recordings, and obscure scores. "Dr. Dan" (as students affectionately call him) has coached students and taught keyboard literature at Syracuse University and has been a faculty artist at the Perlman Music Program, ArtsAhimsa, and Notes By The Bay Music Festival.


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7:00 PM, May 6



Singer's Choice Concert
Syracuse Pops Chorus

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

The Syracuse Pops Chorus presents Singers' Choice, a concert in which all of the music was selected by the singers — an eclectic mix of classic and modern Broadway, spirituals, Americana, and classic rock.


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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, May 6



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

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

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

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


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Opera
 

8:00 PM, May 6



Suor Angelica

Price: $35 regular, $30 seniors, $20 students
Inspiration Hall (formerly St. Peter's Church)
709 James St., Syracuse

Opera by Giacomo Puccini.


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Theater
 

2:00 PM, May 6



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

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

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


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2:00 PM, May 6



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, May 6



Saltland Theatre Festival: Revelatory Readings: A Night of Improv Comedy
Breadcrumbs Productions

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

Revelatory Readings: A Show of Improvised Comedy and Storytelling combines the arts of improv and storytelling in a show of live comedy. It explores engaging works of art read by the show's storyteller. Inspired by words from an intriguing love letter, poem, diary entry, or text message, performers create improvised characters and scenes. The show takes themes, premises, and ideas from the individual work into new places, scenarios, and situations. This production invites audience members to come along for the experience, as storytellers and improvisers give a "revelatory" reading that's never been performed before. Join us for one night or more as each show offers a unique experience that features a new revelatory reading.

Improvisors: Bobbi B, Jill Tibbett Balsano, Laura Brewster, Lauren Esposito, Ana Guerrero, Michelle Kivisto, Genevieve Sponsler
Storytellers: Sam Herwood and Linda Lowen


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7:30 PM, May 6



Saltland Theatre Festival: Forgive Me! Live! One of the Dogs
Breadcrumbs Productions

Price: $15
McCarthy Mercantile
217 1/2 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A live performance of a brand new episode of the confessional podcast sitcom, Forgive Me! This series follows Father Ben, a young, relatively try-hard priest recently reassigned from Binghamton to St. Patrick's, a new parish in an unnamed Upstate New York town, under mysterious circumstances. Each episode follows Ben into the confessional with another eccentric parishioner from around town, exploring the intertwined lives of this new community and the funny, sad, and sometimes painful experiences that come out of the Catholic experience. One of the Dogs sees Ben take a series of escalating confessions from participants in the local Salty Dog Central New York Canine Expo. This cut-throat competition sees its contestants go to the absolute extreme in order to secure their animals' entry into the coveted Eastminster Dog Show. With a cast made up of all local Syracuse talent, see Forgive Me! performed live for the first time in front of a local audience in the city where their show's first season was born.


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7:30 PM, May 6



Saltland Theatre Festival: The Queen of England
Breadcrumbs Productions

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

The world premiere of a new and uniquely contemporary American comedy for all of us searching for the essentials in life: adventure, friendship, and a boy who's kind of like Hugh Grant! Join best friends, Drew and Jeffrey, as they journey across the pond on an outrageously funny quest for all three.


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7:30 PM, May 6



Saltland Theatre Festival: Sundowning
Breadcrumbs Productions

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

When a woman with advanced dementia is discovered wandering in a park, she is taken to the memory unit of a posh private nursing home. A DNA test shows that she was the subject of a famous missing person case 37 years earlier. Her husband was accused of killing her and after years of suspicion, he committed suicide, leaving their two children presumed orphans. When the now-adult children arrive looking for answers, she can tell them nothing about where she's been or what she has done. She doesn't even know who they are. For those adult children, wounds that have never healed are reopened. A tabloid TV show is sending cameras to capture the reunion.


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7:30 PM, May 6



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

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

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


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8:00 PM, May 6



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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8:30 PM, May 6



Saltland Theatre Festival: La familia de Emanual
Breadcrumbs Productions

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

Based on true events and performed in Spanish, La familia de Emanual has entertained audiences in Los Angeles, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Mexico City, Guatemala City, and Dominican Republic. Emanuel Loarca plays seven colorful characters of a Latino family that migrates to New York in pursue of their American Dream; in the interim the adults try to preserve their traditions and culture, the youngsters face the challenges of balancing the references of the homeland as they try to adjust to the pragmatism and individuality of a first world society. An irreverent dramedy in which, faith, addictions, domestic violence and wit go hand by hand.


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Sunday, May 7, 2023


Art
 

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 7



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, May 7



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 7



Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 7



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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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


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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, May 7



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, May 7



Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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


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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, May 7



Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 7



Dreams Deferred
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 7



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 7



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

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

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


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12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, May 7



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 - 5:00 PM, May 7



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

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

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

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


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8:45 PM - 11:00 PM, May 7



North Side Learning Center Youth Photo + Poetry Showcase
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A showcase of photos and poetry produced by youth participating in North Side Learning Center visual literacy programs.


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Music
 

2:00 PM, May 7



Setnor Student Recital Series: Joseph Maxwell Ossei-little, organ
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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


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3:30 PM, May 7



Symphoria Youth Orchestras Spring Concert
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)

Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

Hear Central New York's most talented young musicians perform a wide variety of orchestral music in their final concert of the 2022-23 season. This performance features Symphoria Youth String Orchestra, Symphoria Youth Repertory Orchestra, and the Symphoria Young Artists Orchestra.

Symphoria Youth String Orchestra, Rebecca Dodd, conductor
Webber/Hart/Moore The Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera
Schwartz/Ricketts Medley from Wicked
Bishop Artemis Rising
Grieg/Frost In the Hall of the Mountain King

Symphoria Youth Repertory Orchestra, Paul McShee, conductor
Prokofiev Montagues & Capulets from Romeo & Juliet Suite No. 2
Beethoven Allegro from Symphony No. 5, Op. 67

Symphoria Young Artists Orchestra, Paul McShee, conductor
Mozart Allegro from Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216, with Alexa Rose Battaglia, violin (Winner of the SYO '22-'23 Concerto Competition)


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4:00 PM, May 7



The Sighs in Music for Four Strings
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: $25
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A string quartet featuring violinists Jonathan Hwang and Noemi Miloradovic, violist Victoria Miskolczy, and cellist Elizabeth Simkin presents music by Bartók, Beethoven, and Osvaldo Golijov.


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4:00 PM, May 7



Spring Concert
Syracuse Chorale
Sean Linfors, conductor

Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt


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Theater
 

1:30 PM, May 7



Saltland Theatre Festival: La familia de Emanual
Breadcrumbs Productions

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

Based on true events and performed in Spanish, La familia de Emanual has entertained audiences in Los Angeles, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Mexico City, Guatemala City, and Dominican Republic. Emanuel Loarca plays seven colorful characters of a Latino family that migrates to New York in pursue of their American Dream; in the interim the adults try to preserve their traditions and culture, the youngsters face the challenges of balancing the references of the homeland as they try to adjust to the pragmatism and individuality of a first world society. An irreverent dramedy in which, faith, addictions, domestic violence and wit go hand by hand.


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2:00 PM, May 7



Saltland Theatre Festival: Sundowning
Breadcrumbs Productions

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

When a woman with advanced dementia is discovered wandering in a park, she is taken to the memory unit of a posh private nursing home. A DNA test shows that she was the subject of a famous missing person case 37 years earlier. Her husband was accused of killing her and after years of suspicion, he committed suicide, leaving their two children presumed orphans. When the now-adult children arrive looking for answers, she can tell them nothing about where she's been or what she has done. She doesn't even know who they are. For those adult children, wounds that have never healed are reopened. A tabloid TV show is sending cameras to capture the reunion.


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2:00 PM, May 7



Saltland Theatre Festival: The Queen of England
Breadcrumbs Productions

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

The world premiere of a new and uniquely contemporary American comedy for all of us searching for the essentials in life: adventure, friendship, and a boy who's kind of like Hugh Grant! Join best friends, Drew and Jeffrey, as they journey across the pond on an outrageously funny quest for all three.


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2:00 PM, May 7



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

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

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


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2:00 PM, May 7



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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3:30 PM, May 7



Saltland Theatre Festival: Revelatory Readings: A Night of Improv Comedy
Breadcrumbs Productions

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

Revelatory Readings: A Show of Improvised Comedy and Storytelling combines the arts of improv and storytelling in a show of live comedy. It explores engaging works of art read by the show's storyteller. Inspired by words from an intriguing love letter, poem, diary entry, or text message, performers create improvised characters and scenes. The show takes themes, premises, and ideas from the individual work into new places, scenarios, and situations. This production invites audience members to come along for the experience, as storytellers and improvisers give a "revelatory" reading that's never been performed before. Join us for one night or more as each show offers a unique experience that features a new revelatory reading.

Improvisors: Bobbi B, Jill Tibbett Balsano, Laura Brewster, Lauren Esposito, Ana Guerrero, Michelle Kivisto, Genevieve Sponsler
Storytellers: Sam Herwood and Linda Lowen


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