Arts & Culture
Stone Canoe hosts public literary showcases in community
Poets and writers featured in Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, will read from their works at two separate events scheduled locally. Stone Canoe Poetry Night will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 7- 8:30…
Imagining America announces board developments, strategic directions
A new chair, vice chair and three new members have been elected to the National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). The board is responsible for ensuring that IA realizes its potential to animate…
Sixth annual ‘Bird After Dark’ to take place Nov. 4
Syracuse University Library and the Office of Residence Life in the Division of Student Affairs will host the sixth annual “Bird After Dark” on Friday, Nov. 4, from 9:45 p.m.-1 a.m. in Bird Library. Students interested in participating should register…
Syracuse Youth Orchestras to perform Nov. 6
The Syracuse Youth Orchestra (SYO) and Syracuse Youth String Orchestra (SYSO) will present a concert on Sunday, Nov. 6, at 4:30 p.m. in the West Genesee High School auditorium, 5201 W. Genesee St., Camillus. The concert program features Berlioz’s “La…
New spring course offers drumming as cross-cultural community building
Beginning Nov. 9, students can register for a new spring course, EDU 200, “Rhythm and Roots: Building Cross-Cultural Community through Drumming.” Instructed by renowned music educator Nisha Purushotham, this one-credit course uses African diaspora drumming to create community across difference,…
Workshop exploring spirituality and dance will be held Oct. 25 in Hendricks Chapel
Hendricks Chapel will host a discussion and workshop on “Exploring Spirituality and Dance” with the Buglisi Dance Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 25, from 6-8 p.m. in the Hendricks main chapel. Artistic director Jacqulyn Buglisi will explore the intersections of faith…
Syracuse Symposium, Society for New Music collaborate to present ‘Geography of the Imagination’
The Syracuse Symposium™ and the Society for New Music will present “The Geography of the Imagination,” a performance featuring the world premiere of a commissioned musical work by Gregory Wanamaker and visuals by renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems, on Sunday,…
Dekaney named interim director of Center for Live Music in the 21st Century
The Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced that Joshua Dekaney has been named interim director of the Setnor School’s new Center for Live Music…
SU Drama to present reading of ‘It Can’t Happen Here’
Event is part of nationwide celebration of Federal Theatre Project The Syracuse University Department of Drama in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will present a staged reading of Sinclair Lewis and John C. Moffitt’s “It Can’t Happen…
UVP features video by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle at Everson site
Urban Video Project will present “Always After (the Glass House)” by internationally recognized multimedia artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, through November and December. It will be shown Sunday-Thursday, dusk-11 p.m., outside the Everson Museum of Art. Employing footage shot on a high-speed…