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09/20/2008, 09/21/2008, 09/22/2008, 09/23/2008, 09/24/2008… more View All Dates
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Internationally acclaimed artist and fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer presents an exhibition of 20th and 21st-century fashion design inspired by the 18th-century fashion aesthetic of Marie Antoinette.
09/20/2008, 09/21/2008, 09/22/2008, 09/23/2008, 09/24/2008… more View All Dates
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Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol’s penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women’s fashion in New York.
11/29/2008
8 pm – none
admission
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra with Cheris the Ladies
11/28/2008, 11/29/2008, 11/30/2008
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Playing at the Imax. Call for times
11/28/2008, 11/29/2008, 11/30/2008
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Showing at the iMax. Call for times.
11/28/2008, 11/29/2008, 11/30/2008
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Playing at the Imax.
Call for times
11/29/2008
8 pm – none
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David Byrne is perhaps best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1974 and 1991.
10/07/2008, 10/08/2008, 10/09/2008, 10/10/2008, 10/11/2008… more View All Dates
5:30pm – 8:00pm
11/20/2008, 11/21/2008, 11/22/2008, 11/23/2008, 11/26/2008… more View All Dates
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free
Kid Stuff: Toys from Your Childhood opening
11/28/2008, 11/29/2008, 12/01/2008, 12/02/2008, 12/03/2008… more View All Dates
10 am – 5 pm
admission
The sweet smell of gingerbread fills the air as over 40 delighful confectionary creations are on display in Victorian Village storefronts.
11/29/2008, 12/06/2008, 12/13/2008, 12/20/2008
Noon – 5 pm
free
Shoppers & visitors to Armory Square can enjoy a refreshing respite from the holiday bustle while relaxing and savoring Jefferson Clinton Hotel's hospitality in its beautiful lobby setting.
11/28/2008, 11/29/2008, 11/30/2008, 12/01/2008, 12/02/2008… more View All Dates
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Located in the heart of downtown Syracuse, the Clinton Square Ice rink is one of the city’s most popular destinations.
The rink opened in 2001 as part of a complete renovation in an effort to attract visitors downtown. More than 20,000 skaters enjoy the open air facility each year.
11/07/2008, 11/08/2008, 11/09/2008, 11/10/2008, 11/11/2008… more View All Dates
11 am – 4 pm
FREE
A unique sale of arts and crafts by CNY artists and craftspeople, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, woodworking, ceramics, candles, soaps, and more!
10/04/2008, 10/06/2008, 10/07/2008, 10/08/2008, 10/09/2008… more View All Dates
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The Everson Museum of Art presents Sitting Still, a contemplative video project funded by a grant from the New York State Council for the Arts. The project is led by Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor at Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. The project begins October 4, 2008 and culminates with an exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in June, 2009.
“This project addresses the question of what the world would look like from a non-violent point of view,” said Pam McLaughlin, Everson Museum of Art Curator of Education and Public Programs. “Sitting Still looks at what would happen if Syracuse city youth and Syracuse University joined together to explore this concept.”
Beffel and McLaughlin have worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands of Syracuse youth throughout the month of October 2008, so that they will stop, look, and listen as scenes unfold before them ranging from those that inspire awe to those that compel us to participate and intervene. Students from Central Tech, Henninger, Corcoran and Nottingham high schools have been invited to participate.
Within the context of four Saturday workshops at the SU Warehouse E-tags studio, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse, students will engage in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then use their art works as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. Beffel, who initiated the Sitting Still project last spring in collaboration with University of Memphis and Overton High School students at the Art Museum of University of Memphis, says the conversations in previous workshops are lively, inspired, and attuned.
“Participants experience something attuned because the youth encounter something unusual with the cameras: they concentrate completely on being right here, right now, moment by moment. The video camera becomes a focusing tool,” said Beffel. “The atmosphere is collaborative, and students often tell me after the workshops that they walk around noticing small things they had overlooked previously. They seem to open up to one another.”
Beffel drew inspiration for Sitting Still from a variety of sources, including her interest in the sit-ins at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., the Nashville sit-ins of 1960. Also of inspiration have been the Dalai Lama, and Rosa Parks. Although these individuals come from very different environments and positions, they have drawn strength and courage from stillness, which has impacted the world in profound ways.
Sitting Still is supported by a Syracuse University Initiative Grant with support from the Kauffman Foundation Center for Contemplative Mind in Society with support from the Fetzer Institute, Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts Interdisciplinary Research Group, NYSCA, and the Everson Museum of Art. Additional support has been provided by the iSchool atSyracuse University.
About Anne Beffel
Anne Beffel is associate professor of art at Syracuse University. Beffel received her B.F.A. from the University of Michigan’s School of Art and her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Beffel participated in the Studio Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, and taught at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Beffel has had several exhibitions, including public arts residencies at the World Financial Center and at the New York Downtown Hospital in Lower Manhattan. She has received grants from the Gunk Foundation and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and has recently co-founded the Interdisciplinary Research Group at Syracuse University. For more information on Anne Beffel, please visit www.annebeffel.typepad.com/default.html. For more information on the Memphis project please visit www.memphis.edu/releases/feb08/beffel.htm.
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