Saturday, August 2, 2025

The Natural World
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Alan D. Hart: photo-realistic acrylic paintings on board illuminating specimens of nature
Sylvia Hayes-McKean: multi-media jewelry celebrating nature
Satina Tseng: ceramic sculpture capturing the intimate details of nature

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.

John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 1943, LIFE photographer John Florea set aside Hollywood and celebrity portraiture to serve as a war correspondent in World War II. Although he spent most of his career directing episodes of popular television shows from the 1960s to the 1980s, he is best remembered for his stark photographs of the horrors of war. Beginning with his photographs on American soil and ending at the Battle of the Bulge, this exhibition traces how Florea's photography shifted from the polished and posed portraits of Marines training in California and women working for the USO in Texas to the gritty, haunting photos of bombed out cities and military executions.

Marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, "John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians" examines the role of photojournalism in shaping the public's understanding of war.

D. Lee DuSell: Benediction
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

D. Lee DuSell (1927-2024) was a prolific designer and woodworker who made significant contributions to the interiors of religious shrines, chapels, and temples around the world. But Everson audiences may know him best as the creator of the bronze sculpture Spiritual Freedom (1969) that graces the Museum's Plaza. Benediction honors DuSell's large-scale work in wood during a particularly fertile period in the 1970s when his sculptures became kinetic, interactive, and overtly spiritual. This exhibition includes three rocking chairs that originally appeared here at the Everson in his 1980 solo show entitled Doxology—notably, the chairs contain musical elements powered by their rocking motion.

CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anna Warfield (she/they), a visual artist and poet based in Binghamton, creates text-based fiber sculptures that examine identity, the body, and unlearning. Warfield's recent solo exhibitions include "UNDOINGS" at SUNY Oneonta and "Placid Thoughts from Inside Her Eyelids" at the Roberson Museum. Their work has been featured in group shows at MAG Rochester, Schweinfurth Art Center, and Site Gallery. Warfield is the 2025 Antigravity artist at the Rockwell Museum and has an upcoming residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. They are the recipient of numerous awards, including a NYSCA Individual Artist grant and a Saltonstall Residency and Fellowship.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Dead End
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Curated by William Strobeck, and featuring work by Larry Clark, Mark Gonzales, William Strobeck, Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley, EARSNOT IRAK, Ari Marcopoulos, Julien Stranger, Dave Schubert, Tobin Yelland, Jonathan Cannon, and Spike Jonze.

During the 1990s, a teen-aged William Strobeck spent a good part of his time on the Everson Museum's Community Plaza. Here, the young filmmaker and photographer discovered a skateboarding crew of "weirdos and outcasts" who introduced him to a global diaspora of creative individuals sharing a similar DIY ethos and punk rock spirit.

Fast forward 30 years and Strobeck is now one of the key chroniclers of skate culture in the 21st century. After first capturing Syracuse's skate scene in the 1990s, he now travels internationally to make videos and images that transcend skating's mere physical gymnastics. His work stands out for its beauty, emotional nuance, and psychological introspection.

For "DEAD END," Strobeck was invited to curate an exhibition that spoke to the Everson's history as a hospitable venue for skateboarding, which the museum has always considered a creative enterprise. Strobeck's exhibition, while including a few of his own works, focuses on the artists and events that indelibly shaped him as a burgeoning artist. Strobeck's vision is fundamentally about youth and its uncertainties, boundaries, possibilities, and essential limitlessness.?In unguarded and casual images, these subjects point to skate culture's influence on the popular culture of today—handheld skate videos are today's TikTok and Instagram reels, while the microcultures of Substack, Reddit, and Tumblr echo the DIY skatezines of the past.

DEAD END. is intentionally participatory and egalitarian. The free-for-all nature of skateboarding goes hand in hand with a worldview that repurposes the built environment for its own use. Part of the Museum's collection, a new sculpture by artist and professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales now awaits the skaters who still gather on the Everson Community Plaza today.

Courtney Rile: In Conversation
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"In Conversation" is new work created by Courtney Rile. This work explores the moving image and our human relationship to technology through the language of the canon of video art.

In the early 1970s, Syracuse was a center of innovation — the Everson Museum hired one of the first curators of video art and hosted seminal media artists from around the world. At the same time, Synapse, an experimental media collective at Syracuse University, provided fertile ground for explorations of this new technology as both art form and revolutionary tool of communication.

"In Conversation" is a dialogue with the work of Bill Viola, Shigeko Kubota, and Peter Campus, all of whom exhibited at the Everson Museum in the early '70s. Structured in a series of modules that function like musical movements or songs on an album, motifs recur throughout "In Conversation": reflections, the distortion of time, video as an extension of self, and video as an observational tool, exploring the individual, intimate experience of video as a way to see ourselves from another perspective or in another time, a step beyond the present tense of the mirror. These explorations, which trace their lineage to the earliest days of video art, are more relevant than ever in today's world, a world in which audiovisual technologies have become integral to nearly every facet of our lives.

Screening begins at dusk.

Macedonian Festival

Price: Free
St. George Macedonian Church
5083 Onondaga Rd., Onondaga

Macedonian music, folk dances, and ethnic food.

For more information, visit stgeorgemoc.com

Listen to the Wind
Skaneateles Festival
Skaneateles Festival Orchestra
Featuring Soyeon Kate Lee, piano

Robinson Pavilion at Anyela's Vineyards
2433 W. Lake Rd., Skaneateles

Vivaldi Selection from The Seasons
Theofaniidis The Wind and Petit Jean
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish")

Into the Woods
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett August Heater, director

BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Stephen Sondheim's tuneful tale of wishes and their consequences receives an immersive Covey production in the intimate Bevard Studio. The single-minded desires of Grimm's fairytale characters give way to fight against a common enemy in a story that seems to carry fresh relevance today. Featuring an all-star cast of local performers, Into the Woods will resonate long after curtain call. Due to some adult themes, including death, the show may not be suitable for children under 10 years of age.

Twelfth Night
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Lynn King, director

Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Sunday, August 3, 2025

CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anna Warfield (she/they), a visual artist and poet based in Binghamton, creates text-based fiber sculptures that examine identity, the body, and unlearning. Warfield's recent solo exhibitions include "UNDOINGS" at SUNY Oneonta and "Placid Thoughts from Inside Her Eyelids" at the Roberson Museum. Their work has been featured in group shows at MAG Rochester, Schweinfurth Art Center, and Site Gallery. Warfield is the 2025 Antigravity artist at the Rockwell Museum and has an upcoming residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. They are the recipient of numerous awards, including a NYSCA Individual Artist grant and a Saltonstall Residency and Fellowship.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Dead End
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Curated by William Strobeck, and featuring work by Larry Clark, Mark Gonzales, William Strobeck, Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley, EARSNOT IRAK, Ari Marcopoulos, Julien Stranger, Dave Schubert, Tobin Yelland, Jonathan Cannon, and Spike Jonze.

During the 1990s, a teen-aged William Strobeck spent a good part of his time on the Everson Museum's Community Plaza. Here, the young filmmaker and photographer discovered a skateboarding crew of "weirdos and outcasts" who introduced him to a global diaspora of creative individuals sharing a similar DIY ethos and punk rock spirit.

Fast forward 30 years and Strobeck is now one of the key chroniclers of skate culture in the 21st century. After first capturing Syracuse's skate scene in the 1990s, he now travels internationally to make videos and images that transcend skating's mere physical gymnastics. His work stands out for its beauty, emotional nuance, and psychological introspection.

For "DEAD END," Strobeck was invited to curate an exhibition that spoke to the Everson's history as a hospitable venue for skateboarding, which the museum has always considered a creative enterprise. Strobeck's exhibition, while including a few of his own works, focuses on the artists and events that indelibly shaped him as a burgeoning artist. Strobeck's vision is fundamentally about youth and its uncertainties, boundaries, possibilities, and essential limitlessness.?In unguarded and casual images, these subjects point to skate culture's influence on the popular culture of today—handheld skate videos are today's TikTok and Instagram reels, while the microcultures of Substack, Reddit, and Tumblr echo the DIY skatezines of the past.

DEAD END. is intentionally participatory and egalitarian. The free-for-all nature of skateboarding goes hand in hand with a worldview that repurposes the built environment for its own use. Part of the Museum's collection, a new sculpture by artist and professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales now awaits the skaters who still gather on the Everson Community Plaza today.

D. Lee DuSell: Benediction
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

D. Lee DuSell (1927-2024) was a prolific designer and woodworker who made significant contributions to the interiors of religious shrines, chapels, and temples around the world. But Everson audiences may know him best as the creator of the bronze sculpture Spiritual Freedom (1969) that graces the Museum's Plaza. Benediction honors DuSell's large-scale work in wood during a particularly fertile period in the 1970s when his sculptures became kinetic, interactive, and overtly spiritual. This exhibition includes three rocking chairs that originally appeared here at the Everson in his 1980 solo show entitled Doxology—notably, the chairs contain musical elements powered by their rocking motion.

John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 1943, LIFE photographer John Florea set aside Hollywood and celebrity portraiture to serve as a war correspondent in World War II. Although he spent most of his career directing episodes of popular television shows from the 1960s to the 1980s, he is best remembered for his stark photographs of the horrors of war. Beginning with his photographs on American soil and ending at the Battle of the Bulge, this exhibition traces how Florea's photography shifted from the polished and posed portraits of Marines training in California and women working for the USO in Texas to the gritty, haunting photos of bombed out cities and military executions.

Marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, "John Florea: Soldiers, Spies, and Civilians" examines the role of photojournalism in shaping the public's understanding of war.

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.

Macedonian Festival

Price: Free
St. George Macedonian Church
5083 Onondaga Rd., Onondaga

Macedonian music, folk dances, and ethnic food.

For more information, visit stgeorgemoc.com

Twelfth Night
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Lynn King, director

Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Monday, August 4, 2025

The Archive as Liberation
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Archive as Liberation" is a publication and exhibition organized by Aaron Turner. Turner has gathered a unique group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. Contributors include Andre Bradley, calista lyon, Raymond Thompson Jr., Harrison D. Walker, and Savannah Wood, alongside writing by Chisato Hughes, Alec Kaus, Andrew Martinez, Aaron Turner, Amelia Wallin, and Wendel A. White, with a foreword by the book's editor, Donasia Tillery. The publication was designed by Elana Schlenker.

2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy
Light Work Gallery

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

With enormous pleasure, we present the 50th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2025 recipients are Sarah Knobel (St. Lawrence), Joe Librandi-Cowan (Onondaga County), and Lida Suchy (Onondaga County). The two runners-up are Marna Bell (Onondaga County) and Adrian Francis (Onondaga County).

This year's judge was Marina Chao (a curator at CPW in Kingston, NY), who writes: "From an unexpected approach to plastic waste to portraits of Ukrainian civic leaders to an exploration of home, family, and memory, this year's grantees address subjects that are intimate and personal, urgent and political, in innovative, collaborative, and deeply felt ways."

The Light Work Grants are part of our ongoing effort to support and encourage Central New York artists working in photography and related mediums within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse. Established in 1975, the Light Work Grants are among the oldest photography fellowships in the country.

Letizia and the Z Band
Liverpool is the Place

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

Dance tunes.

Bring blankets or lawn chairs for seating. Please call 315-457-3895 starting at 5:30 pm for rain cancellation.

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy
Light Work Gallery

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

With enormous pleasure, we present the 50th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2025 recipients are Sarah Knobel (St. Lawrence), Joe Librandi-Cowan (Onondaga County), and Lida Suchy (Onondaga County). The two runners-up are Marna Bell (Onondaga County) and Adrian Francis (Onondaga County).

This year's judge was Marina Chao (a curator at CPW in Kingston, NY), who writes: "From an unexpected approach to plastic waste to portraits of Ukrainian civic leaders to an exploration of home, family, and memory, this year's grantees address subjects that are intimate and personal, urgent and political, in innovative, collaborative, and deeply felt ways."

The Light Work Grants are part of our ongoing effort to support and encourage Central New York artists working in photography and related mediums within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse. Established in 1975, the Light Work Grants are among the oldest photography fellowships in the country.

The Archive as Liberation
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Archive as Liberation" is a publication and exhibition organized by Aaron Turner. Turner has gathered a unique group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. Contributors include Andre Bradley, calista lyon, Raymond Thompson Jr., Harrison D. Walker, and Savannah Wood, alongside writing by Chisato Hughes, Alec Kaus, Andrew Martinez, Aaron Turner, Amelia Wallin, and Wendel A. White, with a foreword by the book's editor, Donasia Tillery. The publication was designed by Elana Schlenker.

The Natural World
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Alan D. Hart: photo-realistic acrylic paintings on board illuminating specimens of nature
Sylvia Hayes-McKean: multi-media jewelry celebrating nature
Satina Tseng: ceramic sculpture capturing the intimate details of nature

*SOLD OUT* Nikki Hill
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Nikki Hill is sweet seduction, sweeter threat, and smoldering energy. An original force in American music, she is tender and tough, flamboyant, witty, and dangerous. To put it plainly, Hill brings daggers back to the stage and studio. Overlapping soulful, sensual, and bold vocal tones with powerful chrome-plated riffs and swagger, her voice finds a home in it – a soul singing, bar rocking, roots revivalist, that writes with frank self-reflection at a dancing tempo.

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

The Archive as Liberation
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Archive as Liberation" is a publication and exhibition organized by Aaron Turner. Turner has gathered a unique group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. Contributors include Andre Bradley, calista lyon, Raymond Thompson Jr., Harrison D. Walker, and Savannah Wood, alongside writing by Chisato Hughes, Alec Kaus, Andrew Martinez, Aaron Turner, Amelia Wallin, and Wendel A. White, with a foreword by the book's editor, Donasia Tillery. The publication was designed by Elana Schlenker.

2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy
Light Work Gallery

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

With enormous pleasure, we present the 50th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2025 recipients are Sarah Knobel (St. Lawrence), Joe Librandi-Cowan (Onondaga County), and Lida Suchy (Onondaga County). The two runners-up are Marna Bell (Onondaga County) and Adrian Francis (Onondaga County).

This year's judge was Marina Chao (a curator at CPW in Kingston, NY), who writes: "From an unexpected approach to plastic waste to portraits of Ukrainian civic leaders to an exploration of home, family, and memory, this year's grantees address subjects that are intimate and personal, urgent and political, in innovative, collaborative, and deeply felt ways."

The Light Work Grants are part of our ongoing effort to support and encourage Central New York artists working in photography and related mediums within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse. Established in 1975, the Light Work Grants are among the oldest photography fellowships in the country.

The Natural World
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Alan D. Hart: photo-realistic acrylic paintings on board illuminating specimens of nature
Sylvia Hayes-McKean: multi-media jewelry celebrating nature
Satina Tseng: ceramic sculpture capturing the intimate details of nature

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.

Dead End
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Curated by William Strobeck, and featuring work by Larry Clark, Mark Gonzales, William Strobeck, Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley, EARSNOT IRAK, Ari Marcopoulos, Julien Stranger, Dave Schubert, Tobin Yelland, Jonathan Cannon, and Spike Jonze.

During the 1990s, a teen-aged William Strobeck spent a good part of his time on the Everson Museum's Community Plaza. Here, the young filmmaker and photographer discovered a skateboarding crew of "weirdos and outcasts" who introduced him to a global diaspora of creative individuals sharing a similar DIY ethos and punk rock spirit.

Fast forward 30 years and Strobeck is now one of the key chroniclers of skate culture in the 21st century. After first capturing Syracuse's skate scene in the 1990s, he now travels internationally to make videos and images that transcend skating's mere physical gymnastics. His work stands out for its beauty, emotional nuance, and psychological introspection.

For "DEAD END," Strobeck was invited to curate an exhibition that spoke to the Everson's history as a hospitable venue for skateboarding, which the museum has always considered a creative enterprise. Strobeck's exhibition, while including a few of his own works, focuses on the artists and events that indelibly shaped him as a burgeoning artist. Strobeck's vision is fundamentally about youth and its uncertainties, boundaries, possibilities, and essential limitlessness.?In unguarded and casual images, these subjects point to skate culture's influence on the popular culture of today—handheld skate videos are today's TikTok and Instagram reels, while the microcultures of Substack, Reddit, and Tumblr echo the DIY skatezines of the past.

DEAD END. is intentionally participatory and egalitarian. The free-for-all nature of skateboarding goes hand in hand with a worldview that repurposes the built environment for its own use. Part of the Museum's collection, a new sculpture by artist and professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales now awaits the skaters who still gather on the Everson Community Plaza today.

CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anna Warfield (she/they), a visual artist and poet based in Binghamton, creates text-based fiber sculptures that examine identity, the body, and unlearning. Warfield's recent solo exhibitions include "UNDOINGS" at SUNY Oneonta and "Placid Thoughts from Inside Her Eyelids" at the Roberson Museum. Their work has been featured in group shows at MAG Rochester, Schweinfurth Art Center, and Site Gallery. Warfield is the 2025 Antigravity artist at the Rockwell Museum and has an upcoming residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. They are the recipient of numerous awards, including a NYSCA Individual Artist grant and a Saltonstall Residency and Fellowship.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Walking and Talking Wednesday: Footsteps in Freedom Walking Tour
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $20 regular, $15 OHA members
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Tour covers a wide array of topics including abolition, architecture, and the role of the Erie Canal.

Spend your midweek lunch hour with Curator of History Robert Searing, listening to some local history as you get in a midday walk around town. Tours leave at noon from 321 Montgomery Street and last for 45-60 minutes.

Dewitt Summer Music: Fritz's Polka Band

Price: Free
Ryder Park
5400 Butternut Dr., DeWitt

Dewitt Summer Music: End of Summer Bash

Price: Free
Ryder Park
5400 Butternut Dr., DeWitt

The Shylocks
Liverpool is the Place

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

Acoustic blues.

Bring blankets or lawn chairs for seating. Please call 315-457-3895 starting at 5:30 pm for rain cancellation.

The Chris O'Leary Band
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Devastatingly soulful vocalist, dynamic harmonica master, and superlative songwriter Chris O'Leary is among the blues and roots world's most talented unsung heroes. The award-winning O'Leary—disciple and friend of both The Band's legendary drummer/vocalist/songwriter Levon Helm and iconic blues harmonica giant James Cotton—has been playing professionally since the 1990s, with five previous solo albums to his credit. The Marine veteran, ex-Federal police officer, former lead singer of The Barn Burners (featuring Levon Helm on drums), and loving father has walked a hard line from his upstate New York home to stages all over the world.

Thursday, August 7, 2025

2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy
Light Work Gallery

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

With enormous pleasure, we present the 50th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2025 recipients are Sarah Knobel (St. Lawrence), Joe Librandi-Cowan (Onondaga County), and Lida Suchy (Onondaga County). The two runners-up are Marna Bell (Onondaga County) and Adrian Francis (Onondaga County).

This year's judge was Marina Chao (a curator at CPW in Kingston, NY), who writes: "From an unexpected approach to plastic waste to portraits of Ukrainian civic leaders to an exploration of home, family, and memory, this year's grantees address subjects that are intimate and personal, urgent and political, in innovative, collaborative, and deeply felt ways."

The Light Work Grants are part of our ongoing effort to support and encourage Central New York artists working in photography and related mediums within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse. Established in 1975, the Light Work Grants are among the oldest photography fellowships in the country.

The Archive as Liberation
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Archive as Liberation" is a publication and exhibition organized by Aaron Turner. Turner has gathered a unique group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. Contributors include Andre Bradley, calista lyon, Raymond Thompson Jr., Harrison D. Walker, and Savannah Wood, alongside writing by Chisato Hughes, Alec Kaus, Andrew Martinez, Aaron Turner, Amelia Wallin, and Wendel A. White, with a foreword by the book's editor, Donasia Tillery. The publication was designed by Elana Schlenker.

The Natural World
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Alan D. Hart: photo-realistic acrylic paintings on board illuminating specimens of nature
Sylvia Hayes-McKean: multi-media jewelry celebrating nature
Satina Tseng: ceramic sculpture capturing the intimate details of nature

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.

Dead End
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Curated by William Strobeck, and featuring work by Larry Clark, Mark Gonzales, William Strobeck, Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley, EARSNOT IRAK, Ari Marcopoulos, Julien Stranger, Dave Schubert, Tobin Yelland, Jonathan Cannon, and Spike Jonze.

During the 1990s, a teen-aged William Strobeck spent a good part of his time on the Everson Museum's Community Plaza. Here, the young filmmaker and photographer discovered a skateboarding crew of "weirdos and outcasts" who introduced him to a global diaspora of creative individuals sharing a similar DIY ethos and punk rock spirit.

Fast forward 30 years and Strobeck is now one of the key chroniclers of skate culture in the 21st century. After first capturing Syracuse's skate scene in the 1990s, he now travels internationally to make videos and images that transcend skating's mere physical gymnastics. His work stands out for its beauty, emotional nuance, and psychological introspection.

For "DEAD END," Strobeck was invited to curate an exhibition that spoke to the Everson's history as a hospitable venue for skateboarding, which the museum has always considered a creative enterprise. Strobeck's exhibition, while including a few of his own works, focuses on the artists and events that indelibly shaped him as a burgeoning artist. Strobeck's vision is fundamentally about youth and its uncertainties, boundaries, possibilities, and essential limitlessness.?In unguarded and casual images, these subjects point to skate culture's influence on the popular culture of today—handheld skate videos are today's TikTok and Instagram reels, while the microcultures of Substack, Reddit, and Tumblr echo the DIY skatezines of the past.

DEAD END. is intentionally participatory and egalitarian. The free-for-all nature of skateboarding goes hand in hand with a worldview that repurposes the built environment for its own use. Part of the Museum's collection, a new sculpture by artist and professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales now awaits the skaters who still gather on the Everson Community Plaza today.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anna Warfield (she/they), a visual artist and poet based in Binghamton, creates text-based fiber sculptures that examine identity, the body, and unlearning. Warfield's recent solo exhibitions include "UNDOINGS" at SUNY Oneonta and "Placid Thoughts from Inside Her Eyelids" at the Roberson Museum. Their work has been featured in group shows at MAG Rochester, Schweinfurth Art Center, and Site Gallery. Warfield is the 2025 Antigravity artist at the Rockwell Museum and has an upcoming residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. They are the recipient of numerous awards, including a NYSCA Individual Artist grant and a Saltonstall Residency and Fellowship.

Courtney Rile: In Conversation
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"In Conversation" is new work created by Courtney Rile. This work explores the moving image and our human relationship to technology through the language of the canon of video art.

In the early 1970s, Syracuse was a center of innovation — the Everson Museum hired one of the first curators of video art and hosted seminal media artists from around the world. At the same time, Synapse, an experimental media collective at Syracuse University, provided fertile ground for explorations of this new technology as both art form and revolutionary tool of communication.

"In Conversation" is a dialogue with the work of Bill Viola, Shigeko Kubota, and Peter Campus, all of whom exhibited at the Everson Museum in the early '70s. Structured in a series of modules that function like musical movements or songs on an album, motifs recur throughout "In Conversation": reflections, the distortion of time, video as an extension of self, and video as an observational tool, exploring the individual, intimate experience of video as a way to see ourselves from another perspective or in another time, a step beyond the present tense of the mirror. These explorations, which trace their lineage to the earliest days of video art, are more relevant than ever in today's world, a world in which audiovisual technologies have become integral to nearly every facet of our lives.

Screening begins at dusk.

Jazz in the City: Marion Meadows
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Syracuse Community Health Center
930 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Dead to the Core: An Acoustic Celebration of the Grateful Dead
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Dead to the Core is a collective of singer-songwriters and acoustic musicians, led by musician and author Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, who share a love of the Grateful Dead.

In intimate concerts, the musicians celebrate the band's music not through note-for-note re-creations but by playing the songs their own way—with creative arrangements featuring unexpected instrumental colors and lush vocal harmonies.

This show features an all-star Syracuse-based band. Joining Rodgers (guitar, Strumstick) are Tim Burns of Two Hour Delay (guitar, mandolin), Wendy Sassafras Ramsay (flute, clarinet, accordion), Josh Dekaney (percussion kit), and John Dancks (upright bass).

From Beethoven to John Williams
Skaneateles Festival
Calidore String Quartet

First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Beethoven String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127
John Williams With Malice Toward None, from the film "Lincoln"
Korngold String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 34

Friday, August 8, 2025

The Archive as Liberation
Light Work Gallery

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

"The Archive as Liberation" is a publication and exhibition organized by Aaron Turner. Turner has gathered a unique group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. Contributors include Andre Bradley, calista lyon, Raymond Thompson Jr., Harrison D. Walker, and Savannah Wood, alongside writing by Chisato Hughes, Alec Kaus, Andrew Martinez, Aaron Turner, Amelia Wallin, and Wendel A. White, with a foreword by the book's editor, Donasia Tillery. The publication was designed by Elana Schlenker.

2025 Light Work Grants in Photography: Sarah Knobel, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Lida Suchy
Light Work Gallery

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

With enormous pleasure, we present the 50th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The 2025 recipients are Sarah Knobel (St. Lawrence), Joe Librandi-Cowan (Onondaga County), and Lida Suchy (Onondaga County). The two runners-up are Marna Bell (Onondaga County) and Adrian Francis (Onondaga County).

This year's judge was Marina Chao (a curator at CPW in Kingston, NY), who writes: "From an unexpected approach to plastic waste to portraits of Ukrainian civic leaders to an exploration of home, family, and memory, this year's grantees address subjects that are intimate and personal, urgent and political, in innovative, collaborative, and deeply felt ways."

The Light Work Grants are part of our ongoing effort to support and encourage Central New York artists working in photography and related mediums within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse. Established in 1975, the Light Work Grants are among the oldest photography fellowships in the country.

The Natural World
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Alan D. Hart: photo-realistic acrylic paintings on board illuminating specimens of nature
Sylvia Hayes-McKean: multi-media jewelry celebrating nature
Satina Tseng: ceramic sculpture capturing the intimate details of nature

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.

Dead End
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Curated by William Strobeck, and featuring work by Larry Clark, Mark Gonzales, William Strobeck, Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley, EARSNOT IRAK, Ari Marcopoulos, Julien Stranger, Dave Schubert, Tobin Yelland, Jonathan Cannon, and Spike Jonze.

During the 1990s, a teen-aged William Strobeck spent a good part of his time on the Everson Museum's Community Plaza. Here, the young filmmaker and photographer discovered a skateboarding crew of "weirdos and outcasts" who introduced him to a global diaspora of creative individuals sharing a similar DIY ethos and punk rock spirit.

Fast forward 30 years and Strobeck is now one of the key chroniclers of skate culture in the 21st century. After first capturing Syracuse's skate scene in the 1990s, he now travels internationally to make videos and images that transcend skating's mere physical gymnastics. His work stands out for its beauty, emotional nuance, and psychological introspection.

For "DEAD END," Strobeck was invited to curate an exhibition that spoke to the Everson's history as a hospitable venue for skateboarding, which the museum has always considered a creative enterprise. Strobeck's exhibition, while including a few of his own works, focuses on the artists and events that indelibly shaped him as a burgeoning artist. Strobeck's vision is fundamentally about youth and its uncertainties, boundaries, possibilities, and essential limitlessness.?In unguarded and casual images, these subjects point to skate culture's influence on the popular culture of today—handheld skate videos are today's TikTok and Instagram reels, while the microcultures of Substack, Reddit, and Tumblr echo the DIY skatezines of the past.

DEAD END. is intentionally participatory and egalitarian. The free-for-all nature of skateboarding goes hand in hand with a worldview that repurposes the built environment for its own use. Part of the Museum's collection, a new sculpture by artist and professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales now awaits the skaters who still gather on the Everson Community Plaza today.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anna Warfield (she/they), a visual artist and poet based in Binghamton, creates text-based fiber sculptures that examine identity, the body, and unlearning. Warfield's recent solo exhibitions include "UNDOINGS" at SUNY Oneonta and "Placid Thoughts from Inside Her Eyelids" at the Roberson Museum. Their work has been featured in group shows at MAG Rochester, Schweinfurth Art Center, and Site Gallery. Warfield is the 2025 Antigravity artist at the Rockwell Museum and has an upcoming residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. They are the recipient of numerous awards, including a NYSCA Individual Artist grant and a Saltonstall Residency and Fellowship.

Courtney Rile: In Conversation
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"In Conversation" is new work created by Courtney Rile. This work explores the moving image and our human relationship to technology through the language of the canon of video art.

In the early 1970s, Syracuse was a center of innovation — the Everson Museum hired one of the first curators of video art and hosted seminal media artists from around the world. At the same time, Synapse, an experimental media collective at Syracuse University, provided fertile ground for explorations of this new technology as both art form and revolutionary tool of communication.

"In Conversation" is a dialogue with the work of Bill Viola, Shigeko Kubota, and Peter Campus, all of whom exhibited at the Everson Museum in the early '70s. Structured in a series of modules that function like musical movements or songs on an album, motifs recur throughout "In Conversation": reflections, the distortion of time, video as an extension of self, and video as an observational tool, exploring the individual, intimate experience of video as a way to see ourselves from another perspective or in another time, a step beyond the present tense of the mirror. These explorations, which trace their lineage to the earliest days of video art, are more relevant than ever in today's world, a world in which audiovisual technologies have become integral to nearly every facet of our lives.

Screening begins at dusk.

Summer Films at the Library: The Full Monty

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Bill Wharton, The Sauce Boss
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Bill Wharton is a powerhouse entertainer, mixing his Bluesy slide guitar and soulful voice into an unforgettable, high energy show. His very own hot sauce spices up a big pot of gumbo while he spices up the show with his own original Blues. It's a soul-shouting picnic of Rock and Roll brotherhood, with the audience stirring the pot, and at the end of the show, everyone eats. All across the US, into Canada, Europe and Asia, he has served hundreds of thousands of people for free at his legendary live shows. Bill Wharton mixes media like cornbread in his performance. Hot sauce, blues, chicken, funk, onions and okra, peppers and gospel, soul and seafood. . . and slide guitar, all go into the gumbo pot that we call community. All of this is the reason they call him The Sauce Boss.

Duos and Duets
Skaneateles Festival
Featuring Ziggy and Miles, guitar duo; Julia Bruskin, cello; Aaron Wunsch, piano

First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

J.S. Bach Gottes Zeit, ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106
Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 99
Debussy Suite bergamasque
Nigel Westlake Mosstrooper Peak
Radames Gnattali Suite Retratos
Piazzolla Tangos

Lil Wayne: Tha Carter VI Tour
Lakeview Empower FCU Amphitheater

Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

Twelfth Night
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Lynn King, director

Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Into the Woods
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett August Heater, director

BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Stephen Sondheim's tuneful tale of wishes and their consequences receives an immersive Covey production in the intimate Bevard Studio. The single-minded desires of Grimm's fairytale characters give way to fight against a common enemy in a story that seems to carry fresh relevance today. Featuring an all-star cast of local performers, Into the Woods will resonate long after curtain call. Due to some adult themes, including death, the show may not be suitable for children under 10 years of age.

Saturday, August 9, 2025

Dead End
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Curated by William Strobeck, and featuring work by Larry Clark, Mark Gonzales, William Strobeck, Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley, EARSNOT IRAK, Ari Marcopoulos, Julien Stranger, Dave Schubert, Tobin Yelland, Jonathan Cannon, and Spike Jonze.

During the 1990s, a teen-aged William Strobeck spent a good part of his time on the Everson Museum's Community Plaza. Here, the young filmmaker and photographer discovered a skateboarding crew of "weirdos and outcasts" who introduced him to a global diaspora of creative individuals sharing a similar DIY ethos and punk rock spirit.

Fast forward 30 years and Strobeck is now one of the key chroniclers of skate culture in the 21st century. After first capturing Syracuse's skate scene in the 1990s, he now travels internationally to make videos and images that transcend skating's mere physical gymnastics. His work stands out for its beauty, emotional nuance, and psychological introspection.

For "DEAD END," Strobeck was invited to curate an exhibition that spoke to the Everson's history as a hospitable venue for skateboarding, which the museum has always considered a creative enterprise. Strobeck's exhibition, while including a few of his own works, focuses on the artists and events that indelibly shaped him as a burgeoning artist. Strobeck's vision is fundamentally about youth and its uncertainties, boundaries, possibilities, and essential limitlessness.?In unguarded and casual images, these subjects point to skate culture's influence on the popular culture of today—handheld skate videos are today's TikTok and Instagram reels, while the microcultures of Substack, Reddit, and Tumblr echo the DIY skatezines of the past.

DEAD END. is intentionally participatory and egalitarian. The free-for-all nature of skateboarding goes hand in hand with a worldview that repurposes the built environment for its own use. Part of the Museum's collection, a new sculpture by artist and professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales now awaits the skaters who still gather on the Everson Community Plaza today.

CNY Artist Initiative: Anna Warfield
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anna Warfield (she/they), a visual artist and poet based in Binghamton, creates text-based fiber sculptures that examine identity, the body, and unlearning. Warfield's recent solo exhibitions include "UNDOINGS" at SUNY Oneonta and "Placid Thoughts from Inside Her Eyelids" at the Roberson Museum. Their work has been featured in group shows at MAG Rochester, Schweinfurth Art Center, and Site Gallery. Warfield is the 2025 Antigravity artist at the Rockwell Museum and has an upcoming residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. They are the recipient of numerous awards, including a NYSCA Individual Artist grant and a Saltonstall Residency and Fellowship.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombian American artist who explores her heritage through works that combine Colombia's material culture, history, and natural world. For the works featured in "Dream Map and Cornucopia," Friedemann-Sánchez begins with an image of a ceramic vessel that speaks to the complex history of Latin America and its diaspora. She then transforms these vessels into bountiful cornucopia, bursting with flora and fauna that evoke Colombia's rich ecosystems. Together with the Everson's Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Garth Johnson, Friedemann-Sánchez has also selected an array of ceramic works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect her interest in Latin America's tapestry of Indigenous and colonial cultures.

Courtney Rile: In Conversation
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"In Conversation" is new work created by Courtney Rile. This work explores the moving image and our human relationship to technology through the language of the canon of video art.

In the early 1970s, Syracuse was a center of innovation — the Everson Museum hired one of the first curators of video art and hosted seminal media artists from around the world. At the same time, Synapse, an experimental media collective at Syracuse University, provided fertile ground for explorations of this new technology as both art form and revolutionary tool of communication.

"In Conversation" is a dialogue with the work of Bill Viola, Shigeko Kubota, and Peter Campus, all of whom exhibited at the Everson Museum in the early '70s. Structured in a series of modules that function like musical movements or songs on an album, motifs recur throughout "In Conversation": reflections, the distortion of time, video as an extension of self, and video as an observational tool, exploring the individual, intimate experience of video as a way to see ourselves from another perspective or in another time, a step beyond the present tense of the mirror. These explorations, which trace their lineage to the earliest days of video art, are more relevant than ever in today's world, a world in which audiovisual technologies have become integral to nearly every facet of our lives.

Screening begins at dusk.

esperanza spalding
Skaneateles Festival

Robinson Pavilion at Anyela's Vineyards
2433 W. Lake Rd., Skaneateles

Five-time Grammy winner esperanza spalding is a defining musician of our time. This singer, songwriter, bassist, and guitarist moves fluidly through style and genres, using jazz as a springboard to other musical places. As she says, "Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all." She performs with her duo partner, brilliant Argentine pianist Leonardo Genovese.

Twelfth Night
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Lynn King, director

Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Into the Woods
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett August Heater, director

BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Stephen Sondheim's tuneful tale of wishes and their consequences receives an immersive Covey production in the intimate Bevard Studio. The single-minded desires of Grimm's fairytale characters give way to fight against a common enemy in a story that seems to carry fresh relevance today. Featuring an all-star cast of local performers, Into the Woods will resonate long after curtain call. Due to some adult themes, including death, the show may not be suitable for children under 10 years of age.