Arts & Culture
SU Brass Ensemble kicks off 2011-12 season with ‘Silver Screen’ concert in Rome Oct. 23
The Syracuse University Brass Ensemble (SUBE), a 35-piece group housed in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, kicks off the 2011-12 season with its popular “Silver Screen” program. The concert—emceed by WCNY-FM’s Bruce Paulsen, with projected images coordinated by…
Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series presents award-winning novelist Terese Svoboda
The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series will continue on Oct. 26 with novelist Terese Svoboda, author of the recently published “Bohemian Girl” (Bison Books, 2011), which critics describe as a cross between “True Grit” and “Huckleberry Finn.” The reading…
VPA announces associate dean appointments
The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced two associate dean appointments. The appointments will allow Arthur Jensen, VPA’s senior associate dean of academic affairs and a professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the Department of Communication…
Syracuse, Colgate University art students present cross-campus exhibition of work
Art students from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other’s campuses. For the exhibition “SU @ CU; CU @…
SU’s Ray Smith Symposium explores homosexuality, male culture in Renaissance Italy Oct. 20-21
The Ray Smith Symposium in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences continues its yearlong examination of “Sex and Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment” with a mini residency by Italian Renaissance scholar Michael Rocke. Rocke—the Nicky Mariano…
SU symposium explores legacy of Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa Oct. 21
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian writer who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the subject of a daylong symposium, organized and presented by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (LLL) in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and…
Sayler participates in the panel ‘What Ifs: Climate Change and Creative Agency’
Susannah Sayler, assistant professor of art photography in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Transmedia, participated in the panel “What Ifs: Climate Change and Creative Agency” on Oct. 12.
Syracuse Stage’s ‘The Boys Next Door’ finds comedy, compassion
Meet Arnold Wiggins. He’s basically a nervous person. He lives with Lucien P. Smith, who fancies very big books; and Norman, who works in the doughnut shop; and Barry, who has schizophrenia and has convinced himself that he is a…
Th3 events for October announced
Third Thursday (Th3), a consortium of 20 Syracuse arts venues that coordinate free monthly visual arts events from 5-8 p.m. on the third Thursday of every month, has slated the following special events for this month’s Th3 (Oct. 20): ArtRage—The Norton…
New music, improvisation ensemble Open End to perform Oct. 20
Open End, a new music and improvisation ensemble featuring Andrew Waggoner and Caroline Stinson, faculty members in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will perform…