Arts & Culture
Syracuse Stage to Host Sensory-Friendly ‘Mary Poppins’ Performance
Syracuse Stage will host the first sensory-friendly live production in the region with a performance of “Mary Poppins.” Welcoming to individuals with sensory, social and learning disabilities and their families, the performance will have special accommodations that create a more…
Acclaimed Novelist Dana Spiotta to Read at YMCA Arts Branch Sept. 30
Dana Spiotta, a highly acclaimed novelist and an associate professor in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing, will present a reading on Friday, Sept. 30, as part of the YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center (DWC)’s visiting author series. The free event…
Architecture Students Bring Public Housing Proposals to People of Brownsville
On Saturday, Sept. 10, students and faculty from the Syracuse Architecture NYC Summer 2016 program displayed their work on Livonia Avenue in Brownsville as part of the public festival Live! On Livonia and the HOPE Summit, organized by Brownsville Partnership/…
SUart Galleries Opens ‘Maurice Sendak: 50 Years; 50 Works; 50 Reasons’
Now on view at The Syracuse University Art Galleries is the exhibition “Maurice Sendak: 50 Years; 50 Works; 50 Reasons,” a comprehensive retrospective of select works by the late artist. The original work is supplemented with accompanying comments by celebrities,…
Q&A with New VPA Dean Michael Tick
New College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean Michael S. Tick wants to get to know members of the VPA community in their element—whether it’s at a concert, play, exhibition, film screening, symposia or other performance or event.
Pioneering Composer to Speak on ‘Music and Social Justice’
Composer and experimental pianist Anthony Davis will give a talk titled “Opera and Black Lives Matter: Music and Social Justice” on Monday, Sept. 26, in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons at Bird Library. The talk, which begins at 5:30 p.m.,…
The Gift that Will Last ‘Forever’
Joan Kibbe was a graduate music student at Syracuse University in the early 1960s when she discovered the music of Gustav Mahler. While taking classes in what is now the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music…
Landscape of Urban Education Series to Kick Off Sept. 22 with Shawn Ginwright
The Douglas Biklen Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series will start up for the year with a talk on Thursday, Sept. 22, by Shawn Ginwright, associate professor at San Franscisco State University. Ginwright will speak on “Radical Healing in Schools…
Night Of Musical Fusion by J.A.S.S Quartet
A group of leading young musicians who call themselves the J.A.S.S. Quartet will perform at 8 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 18, at Setnor Auditorium. The group brings a modern musical collaboration rooted in Indian classical-folk and jazz styles. Doors open at…
Urban Video Project Presents Year-Long Program ‘Interzones’
Urban Video Project (UVP) and parent organization Light Work have announced “Interzones,” a year-long program at UVP and partner organizations that will feature the work of established and emerging artists who explore exploring liminal states, haunted places and the space…