Arts & Culture
Syracuse Youth Orchestras to Present Spring Concert April 10
The Syracuse Youth Orchestra (SYO) and Syracuse Youth String Orchestra (SYSO) will present their spring concert on Sunday, April 10, at 3:30 p.m. at West Genesee High School, 5201 W. Genesee St., Camillus. The concert will serve as a celebration…
Actor Anthony Anderson to Speak for ‘Truth Be Told’ Series April 5
The fifth annual “Truth Be Told” event, organized by the Delta Zeta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, welcomes actor and producer Anthony Anderson. Anderson will speak in Goldstein Auditorium in the Schine Student Center on Tuesday, April 5, at…
Music Industry Executives Martin Bandier ’62, Julie Swidler, Joel Klaiman ’90 to Speak April 5
The Bandier Program will present a lecture on Tuesday, April 5, by program founder and SU Trustee Martin Bandier ’62, chairman and CEO of Sony/ATV, the world’s No. 1 music publishing company; Julie Swidler, executive vice president of business affairs…
‘Rising from the Rubble’
Celebrated author, essayist and Judaic studies scholar, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett will be the featured speaker for the 2016 B.G. Rudolph Lecture. The annual address, sponsored by the Jewish studies program in the College of Arts and Sciences, will happen on Monday,…
National Book Award-Winning Author Jacqueline Woodson to Speak April 5
Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning author of “Brown Girl Dreaming,” will speak on Tuesday, April 5, at 5:30 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium. Her talk, titled “Brown Girl Dreaming,” after her award winning memoir, is free and open to the public. Free…
914Works Exhibition by Artist Tom Hall Extended to April 2
914Works has extended the closing date of its exhibition by artist Tom Hall to Saturday, April 2. “It Could Be Paradise, but It’s Only California” was originally scheduled to close March 31. The exhibition is free and open to the…
Cruel April 2016 Kicks Off at Point of Contact Gallery
Cruel April, Point of Contact’s annual poetry event, will open to the public on April 7 at the Point of Contact Gallery in downtown Syracuse. The program will host poetry readings on every Thursday in April at 6 p.m., followed…
NVRC Finalist William Sharples to Give Architecture Lecture March 31
William Sharples, the principal of SHoP, one of the three firms recently chosen as finalists in the competition to design the future National Veterans Resource Complex at the University, will give a lecture Thursday, March 31, at 6 p.m. in…
Syracuse Stage Presents Acclaimed New American Play ‘The Christians’
One of the most talked-about new plays in American theater comes to Syracuse when Syracuse Stage presents Lucas Hnath’s critically acclaimed “The Christians,” April 6-24, in the Archbold Theatre at the Syracuse Stage/SU Drama Complex, 820 E. Genesee St. Since…
Two Classes Meet to Hear Hip-Hop Activist Harry Allen
Journalist and hip-hop activist Harry Allen recently spoke with students in both African American studies and music history and cultures classes. In this video, you can hear Allen discuss the influential nature of hip-hop music and his experience with one…