Student Art Open 2008: (Un)doing Fashion
February 1
12:00 PM
401 Harrison St NY , 13210
Sponsor: The Everson Museum of Art
Ticket Price: Free with a suggested donation of $5 per person
Ticket info: 315-474-6064
Description: This is the last day this exhibition will be opened to the public. This is the sixth art competition for Onondaga County high school students. Student Art Open is a biannual high school program.
Jesus Christ Superstar
February 5
7:30 PM
Landmark Theatre
362 South Salina St. Syracuse NY, 13202
Sponsor: NAC Entertainment
Ticket Price: $55, $45, $30
Ticket info: Box Office 315-475-7980
Description: Starring Ted Neeley, cast member from the original movie.
A reading by poet SUSAN DEER CLOUD
February 6
7:00 PM
340 Montgomery St. Syracuse NY, 13202
Sponsor: The YMCA's Downtown Writer's Center
Ticket Price: Free and open to the public.
Ticket info: 474-6851 x328
Description: Susan Deer Cloud is the author of the poetry collection “The Last Ceremony" (FootHills Publishing). Her many awards and honors include Prairie Schooner's Reader's Choice Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Opening Night Lecture & Reception 50/50: Nancy Jurs and Anne Cofer
February 6
5:30 PM
401 Harrison St NY, 13210
Sponsor: The Everson Museum of Art
Ticket Price: $10 non-members, Free for members
Ticket info: 315-474-6064
Description: Art historian, J. Susan Isaacs, PhD, of Towson University, and curator of 50/50: Nancy Jurs, will discuss the artist's interest in narrative and meaning in her work. Enjoy the exhibitions over hors d'oeuvres catered by Alto Cinco and live entertainment.
50/50: Nancy Jurs
February 7
12:00 PM
401 Harrison St NY, 13210
Sponsor: The Everson Museum
Ticket Price: Free with a suggested donation of $5 per person
Description: Nancy Jurs displays her signature large-scale, hand-built ceramic sculptures with recent site specific installations composed of ceramic, mixed-media and found objects. Her work addresses female strength and power. She is a Rochester-based artist.
Carles Vives: Ceramic Sculpture
February 7
12:00 PM
401 Harrison St NY, 13210
Sponsor: The Everson Museum of Art
Ticket Price: Free with a suggested donation of $5 per person
Description: Carles Vives, a Spanish sculpture, who created ceramic sculptures while as an artist-in-resident at Onondaga Community College in 2008. His sculptures were inspired by the Central New York winter. Vives lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
Anne Cofer: Concealed Objects
February 7
12:00 PM
401 Harrison St NY, 13210
Sponsor: The Everson Museum of Art
Ticket Price: Free with a suggested donation of $5 per person
Description: Anne Cofer's exhibit is a provocative new site-specific installation inspired by British artists such as Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread. Cofer's installation is a combination of cloth and clay suspended from the ceiling in grid fashion.
Film: Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
February 8
2:00 PM
401 Harrison St NY, 13210
Sponsor: The Everson Museum of Art
Ticket Price: Free
Description: In celebration of Black History Month, The Everson will show the film Zora Hurston: Jump at the Sun. This film intersperses insights from leading scholars and rare footage of the rural South. This is a film full of inspiration.
Romeo & Juliet Opera Preview
February 12
12:30 PM
Setnor Auditorium/Crouse School of Music, Syracuse University
Sponsor: Syracuse Opera and Pulse
Ticket info: not a ticketed event
Description: Douglas Kinney Frost and Syracuse Opera’s Resident Artists will discuss and perform arias from the company’s upcoming production of Charles Gounod’s Romeo & Juliet. Vocal highlights from the opera include Juliet's Waltz and The Ballad of Queen Mab
Garth Fagan Dance
February 12
8:00 PM
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center Syracuse University
Sponsor: Pulse Performing Arts Series
Tickets: $5 students with SU ID, $15 faculty/staff/alumni/pulse partners, $20 general
* specials
$4 student organization discount tickets (groups of 6 or more)
$6 dance group discount tickets (groups of 10 or more – please email saross01@syr.edu for information)
photo credit GREG BARRETT
Second Saturday Concert
February 14
8:00 PM
826 Euclid Ave
Syracuse NY, 13210
Sponsor: Westcott Community Center & the FOLKUS Project
Ticket Price: $10/$8 WCC Members
Ticket info: 315-478-8634
Description: Larry Hoyt and the Good Acoustics with special guest Colleen Kattau -- A Special Sing-Along Concert
Syracuse Crunch vs. Hershey Bears
February 16
7:00 PM
War Memorial at Oncenter
Syracuse NY, 13202
Sponsor: Syracuse Crunch
Ticket Price: $17 (day of game $19)
Ticket info: Oncenter Box Office
Description: Join the Syracuse Crunch on President's Day.
Rain-A Tribute to the Beatles
February 19
7:30 PM
The Landmark Theatre
362 South Salina St.
Syracuse NY, 13202
Sponsor: NAC Entertainment
Ticket Price: $48, $38, $28
Ticket info: Box Office 315-475-7980
Description: A tribute to the Beatles
Artist Open: Anne Cofer
February 19
6:00 PM
401 Harrison St NY, 13210
Sponsor: The Everson Museum of Art
Ticket Price: Free
Ticket info: 315-474-6064
Description: Join 2008 Everson Biennial winner Anne Cofer for an engaging gallery talk, which will explore the concept, process and materials used in the making of the experimental mixed media/ceramic work in her exhibition, Anne Cofer: Concealed Objects.
Reading by poets JUDITH HARRIS and SARAH FRELIGH
February 20
7:00 PM
340 Montgomery St. Syracuse NY, 13202
Sponsor: The YMCA's Downtown Writer's Center
Ticket Price: Free and open to the public.
Ticket info: 474-6851 x328
Description: Judith Harris is the author of the poetry collections “The Bad Secret" and “Atonement” both from LSU Press. Sarah Freligh's first book of poems, “Sort of Gone," was published in 2008 by Turning Point Books.
Society Sounds III
February 20
8:00 PM
Setnor Auditorium/Crouse School of Music, Syracuse University
Sponsor: Society for New Music
Ticket Price: $15, $12 students/seniors
Ticket info: 315-245-1689 or 446-5733
Description: Concert featuring music by 3 Society commissioned composers (Sally Lamb, Nicolas Scherzinger, Marc Mellits) & Israel winner Andy Akiho, who performs on steel pan. Cynthia Johnston Turner will conduct the Society's All-Star performers.
How to Kill Someone in Five Easy Steps: Secrets of a Mystery Writer
University Neighbors Lecture Series
February 22
3:00 PM
826 Euclid Ave
Syracuse NY, 13210
Sponsor: Westcott Community Center
$10, $5 students with ID
Ticket info: 315-478-8634
Description: The Westcott Community Center and The University Neighbors Lecture Series Committee present Barbara Block a.k.a. Isis Crawford
“A Conversation with Shen Wei"
February, 26
7:30 PM
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse NY, 13244
Sponsor: University Lectures
Ticket Price: free
Description: Shen Wei, principal choreographer of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremonies, will be interviewed about his life and philosophy of dance by Anna Kisselgoff, former chief dance critic for the New York Times.
Reading by novelist DORAN LARSON
February 27
7:00 PM
340 Montgomery St. Syracuse NY, 13202
Sponsor: The YMCA's Downtown Writer's Center
Ticket Price: Free and open to the public.
Ticket info: 474-6851 x328
Description: Doran Larson is the author of two novels and a novella, including “The Big Deal" (Bantam, 1985), “Marginalia” (Permanent Press, 1997) and “Syzygy” (The Iowa Review, 1998). He teaches at Hamilton College, and also at Attica Correctional Facility.
Joe Bonamassa in concert
February 28
8:00 PM
Landmark Theatre
362 South Salina St. Syracuse NY, 13202
Sponsor: J&R Adventures
Ticket Price: $4.50, $37, $29.50 (students 20% discount)
Ticket info: Box Office 315-475-7980
Description: Blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa
