Arts & Culture
Hip-hop artist/actor/author Common, founder of Common Ground Foundation, to speak at SU
Grammy Award-winning recording artist, actor and author Common (Lonnie Rashid Lynn) will speak March 30 at Hendricks Chapel.
SU alumnus Sugarman to read from noted book on civil rights struggle in lecture at Bird Library
Tracy Sugarman ’43, author of “We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi” (Syracuse University Press, 2009), will speak and read excerpts from his book on Wednesday, March 24 at 6 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons in E.S. Bird Library.
M.F.A. students show work in SUArt Galleries exhibition ‘MFA MMX’
The SUArt Galleries is presenting “MFA MMX (2010),” an exhibition that represents the culmination of three years of art making and research to achieve a masters of fine arts from VPA.
SU Florence School of Architecture hosts international student workshop in Medieval city in Tuscany
The focus of the third edition of the Florence Architecture Workshop was the historical center of San Miniato, a Medieval city set on hills in the Tuscan countryside west of Florence.
Boston College professor Charles Morris to lead Queer Memory: An Afternoon Symposium on March 26
On Friday, March 26, Syracuse University will host Queer Memory: An Afternoon Symposium, with speaker Charles E. Morris III of Boston College addressing “Meditations on the Prospects and Perils of Queer Memory.”
SU Drama presents classic comedy ‘Room Service’
The Department of Drama will present “Room Service” by John Murry and Allen Boretz March 26-April 3. It will be directed by Robert Moss.
In ‘Almost, Maine,’ loves blooms in tiny town
By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle and altogether surprising, “Almost, Maine” is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart.
VPA’s Tom Sherman wins Canada’s 2010 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts
Tom Sherman, professor of art video in the School of Art and Design’s Department of Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, has been named one of eight recipients of Canada’s 2010 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
‘Women of Sand: Testimonies of Women in Ciudad Juárez’ to be presented at CFAC
“Mujeres de Arena” (Women of Sand) will be presented at the Community Folk Art Center.
Legacy of civil rights activist George Wiley honored at 12th annual Sojourner Storytelling Conference March 24-25
SU’s 12th annual Sojourner Storytelling Conference will honor an SU organic chemistry professor whose scientific and teaching accomplishments were eclipsed only by his political activism.