Arts & Culture

The School of Art and Design in is presenting “Fresh: First-Year Students in the School of Art and Design Juried Exhibition 2009” at XL Projects, the college’s venue at 307–313 S. Clinton St.

Syracuse Stage will host local Equity auditions, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Dec. 16 and 17.

Visit Bedford Falls this holiday season for a charming stage telling of Frank Capra’s Hollywood classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

Programs were ranked numbers 10 and 14.

“Faculty Works,” a new series of informal presentations by Syracuse University humanities scholars, gets under way at the SU Humanities Center.

Salt Hill, a quarterly journal published by writers affiliated with Syracuse University’s creative writing program in The College of Arts and Sciences, was recently recognized by The Best American Short Stories 2009 and The Best American Essays 2009.

Plastic and plasticity are the twin subjects of a weekend symposium at Syracuse University.

One of the world’s leading experts on how the brain comprehends, produces and acquires language—Yosef Grodzinsky—is visiting Syracuse University.

Kala Pierson, a New York City-based composer and sound/media artist, has been announced as the winner of the inaugural Gregg Smith Choral Competition Contest in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Approximately 50 young cellists from across New York State will come to Syracuse on Saturday, Nov. 14, for Cello Fest.