Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Tough Skin, Soft Ribs
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents "Tough Skin, Soft Ribs," a selection of photographs from our collection by Marcus Xavier Chormicle, Jeremy Dennis, Amy Elkins, Tarrah Krajnak, Shelley Niro, Wendy Red Star, Pamela Shields, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Kathy Vargas, and Cristina Velásquez. This exhibition is curated by Cali M. Banks, who manages communications and outreach at Light Work.

Resistant to 19th-century staged portraits of Indigenous people and the posed photographic work of Edward S. Curtis, the chosen artists confront colonial frameworks of Northern, Central, and Southern Indigeneity. This grouping of artists points back to the Four Directions, a cultural foundation that honors a holistic view of our interconnectedness; a place where borders do not exist, and we can join together as relatives. Through spectacles of Indigenous tropes, satire, religious testaments, diasporic histories, and fantasy, these artists are unpacking stereotypes, forcing a reclamation of personal and collective identities.

   

Everything Nice: Sasha Phyars-Burgess
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Sasha Phyars-Burgess's photographic project "Everything Nice" traces her family history through Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana, following the paths of sugarcane farmed on colonial plantations and the transatlantic slave trade in relation to her ancestors. The photographs are taken in various locations: Madeira, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana. The pictures provide clues and details that are layered into a larger story.

Looking back at history and locating the present, Phyars-Burgess is thinking through the idea that we are all living in a history, whether it is acknowledged or not. Once acknowledged, and if we allow ourselves to live with the past, with choices made by and for others, we can access a wider view of the present day.

   

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"What If I Try This?" explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

   

Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing on the museum's extensive collection that encompasses almost 45,000 historic and contemporary artworks made around the globe, this exhibition explores how humans have interacted with and shaped the environment in which they live. Thematic sections focus on plants, home, population centers, and human figures.

   

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"A Sense of Arrival" brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne's exhibition combines photographs, sculpture, and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being, and rhetorical expression.

   

Bhen Alan: Why Does My Adobo Taste Different?
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The fifth iteration of the Art Wall Project features textiles made by the Filipino-American artist Bhen Alan. Through the creation of a monumental banig, or a traditional Filipino handwoven mat made from plant fibers, Alan grapples with the traumas of immigration and explores how diasporic communities work to recover a lost idea of home.

   

Corpórea
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Corpórea is a showcase of powerful, large-scale works in mixed media, body maps created by a collaborative of local Latino artists, community members, SU faculty and students through a series of adult workshops that integrate the principles of Art Therapy. Facilitated by Syracuse University graduate student in Creative Art Therapy, Bennie Guzmán, the workshops explored themes of healing, identity, and embodiment, and the transformative power of creativity.

   

Clue
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A mansion. A murder. A mystery.

Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they'll never forget! Was it Mrs. Peacock in the study with the knife? Or was it Colonel Mustard in the library with the wrench? Based on the fan-favorite 1985 Paramount Pictures movie and inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is the ultimate whodunit that will leave you dying of laughter and keep you guessing until the final twist.

   

The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Benjamin Hanna, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Alfred Hitchcock's classic is given the madcap treatment in this award-winning comedy from playwright Patrick Barlow.

London, 1935: Retired British Army Officer Richard Hannay has settled into quiet civilian life, but that tranquility is shattered when he's unwittingly pulled into an international web of state secrets, double agents, and murder. Will Hannay go down for a crime he didn't commit? Can he trust the beautiful, mysterious woman from the train? And what is the meaning behind the cryptic 39 Steps? Performed by a cast of four actors, this dizzying, hysterical parody is packed with non-stop thrills—a warmly comic love letter to the fiendishly fun spy stories of a bygone era.

   

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Tough Skin, Soft Ribs
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents "Tough Skin, Soft Ribs," a selection of photographs from our collection by Marcus Xavier Chormicle, Jeremy Dennis, Amy Elkins, Tarrah Krajnak, Shelley Niro, Wendy Red Star, Pamela Shields, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Kathy Vargas, and Cristina Velásquez. This exhibition is curated by Cali M. Banks, who manages communications and outreach at Light Work.

Resistant to 19th-century staged portraits of Indigenous people and the posed photographic work of Edward S. Curtis, the chosen artists confront colonial frameworks of Northern, Central, and Southern Indigeneity. This grouping of artists points back to the Four Directions, a cultural foundation that honors a holistic view of our interconnectedness; a place where borders do not exist, and we can join together as relatives. Through spectacles of Indigenous tropes, satire, religious testaments, diasporic histories, and fantasy, these artists are unpacking stereotypes, forcing a reclamation of personal and collective identities.

   

Everything Nice: Sasha Phyars-Burgess
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Sasha Phyars-Burgess's photographic project "Everything Nice" traces her family history through Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana, following the paths of sugarcane farmed on colonial plantations and the transatlantic slave trade in relation to her ancestors. The photographs are taken in various locations: Madeira, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana. The pictures provide clues and details that are layered into a larger story.

Looking back at history and locating the present, Phyars-Burgess is thinking through the idea that we are all living in a history, whether it is acknowledged or not. Once acknowledged, and if we allow ourselves to live with the past, with choices made by and for others, we can access a wider view of the present day.

   

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"What If I Try This?" explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

   

Bhen Alan: Why Does My Adobo Taste Different?
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The fifth iteration of the Art Wall Project features textiles made by the Filipino-American artist Bhen Alan. Through the creation of a monumental banig, or a traditional Filipino handwoven mat made from plant fibers, Alan grapples with the traumas of immigration and explores how diasporic communities work to recover a lost idea of home.

   

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"A Sense of Arrival" brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne's exhibition combines photographs, sculpture, and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being, and rhetorical expression.

   

Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing on the museum's extensive collection that encompasses almost 45,000 historic and contemporary artworks made around the globe, this exhibition explores how humans have interacted with and shaped the environment in which they live. Thematic sections focus on plants, home, population centers, and human figures.

   

Corpórea
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Corpórea is a showcase of powerful, large-scale works in mixed media, body maps created by a collaborative of local Latino artists, community members, SU faculty and students through a series of adult workshops that integrate the principles of Art Therapy. Facilitated by Syracuse University graduate student in Creative Art Therapy, Bennie Guzmán, the workshops explored themes of healing, identity, and embodiment, and the transformative power of creativity.

   

The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Benjamin Hanna, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Alfred Hitchcock's classic is given the madcap treatment in this award-winning comedy from playwright Patrick Barlow.

London, 1935: Retired British Army Officer Richard Hannay has settled into quiet civilian life, but that tranquility is shattered when he's unwittingly pulled into an international web of state secrets, double agents, and murder. Will Hannay go down for a crime he didn't commit? Can he trust the beautiful, mysterious woman from the train? And what is the meaning behind the cryptic 39 Steps? Performed by a cast of four actors, this dizzying, hysterical parody is packed with non-stop thrills—a warmly comic love letter to the fiendishly fun spy stories of a bygone era.

   

Clue
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A mansion. A murder. A mystery.

Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they'll never forget! Was it Mrs. Peacock in the study with the knife? Or was it Colonel Mustard in the library with the wrench? Based on the fan-favorite 1985 Paramount Pictures movie and inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is the ultimate whodunit that will leave you dying of laughter and keep you guessing until the final twist.

   

The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Benjamin Hanna, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Alfred Hitchcock's classic is given the madcap treatment in this award-winning comedy from playwright Patrick Barlow.

London, 1935: Retired British Army Officer Richard Hannay has settled into quiet civilian life, but that tranquility is shattered when he's unwittingly pulled into an international web of state secrets, double agents, and murder. Will Hannay go down for a crime he didn't commit? Can he trust the beautiful, mysterious woman from the train? And what is the meaning behind the cryptic 39 Steps? Performed by a cast of four actors, this dizzying, hysterical parody is packed with non-stop thrills—a warmly comic love letter to the fiendishly fun spy stories of a bygone era.

   

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Tough Skin, Soft Ribs
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents "Tough Skin, Soft Ribs," a selection of photographs from our collection by Marcus Xavier Chormicle, Jeremy Dennis, Amy Elkins, Tarrah Krajnak, Shelley Niro, Wendy Red Star, Pamela Shields, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Kathy Vargas, and Cristina Velásquez. This exhibition is curated by Cali M. Banks, who manages communications and outreach at Light Work.

Resistant to 19th-century staged portraits of Indigenous people and the posed photographic work of Edward S. Curtis, the chosen artists confront colonial frameworks of Northern, Central, and Southern Indigeneity. This grouping of artists points back to the Four Directions, a cultural foundation that honors a holistic view of our interconnectedness; a place where borders do not exist, and we can join together as relatives. Through spectacles of Indigenous tropes, satire, religious testaments, diasporic histories, and fantasy, these artists are unpacking stereotypes, forcing a reclamation of personal and collective identities.

   

Everything Nice: Sasha Phyars-Burgess
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Sasha Phyars-Burgess's photographic project "Everything Nice" traces her family history through Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana, following the paths of sugarcane farmed on colonial plantations and the transatlantic slave trade in relation to her ancestors. The photographs are taken in various locations: Madeira, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana. The pictures provide clues and details that are layered into a larger story.

Looking back at history and locating the present, Phyars-Burgess is thinking through the idea that we are all living in a history, whether it is acknowledged or not. Once acknowledged, and if we allow ourselves to live with the past, with choices made by and for others, we can access a wider view of the present day.

   

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"What If I Try This?" explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

   

Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing on the museum's extensive collection that encompasses almost 45,000 historic and contemporary artworks made around the globe, this exhibition explores how humans have interacted with and shaped the environment in which they live. Thematic sections focus on plants, home, population centers, and human figures.

   

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"A Sense of Arrival" brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne's exhibition combines photographs, sculpture, and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being, and rhetorical expression.

   

Bhen Alan: Why Does My Adobo Taste Different?
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The fifth iteration of the Art Wall Project features textiles made by the Filipino-American artist Bhen Alan. Through the creation of a monumental banig, or a traditional Filipino handwoven mat made from plant fibers, Alan grapples with the traumas of immigration and explores how diasporic communities work to recover a lost idea of home.

   

Corpórea
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Corpórea is a showcase of powerful, large-scale works in mixed media, body maps created by a collaborative of local Latino artists, community members, SU faculty and students through a series of adult workshops that integrate the principles of Art Therapy. Facilitated by Syracuse University graduate student in Creative Art Therapy, Bennie Guzmán, the workshops explored themes of healing, identity, and embodiment, and the transformative power of creativity.

   

Emma's Revolution

Price: $22 in advance, $25 at the door
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Emma's Revolution, an American folk music and social justice activist duo, will be performing with special guest Colleen Kattau.

Tickets

   

Special Event: The Ordering of Moses
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Syracuse University Oratorio Society

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Columbus Circle, Syracuse

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Petite Suite de Concert
Nathaniel Dett The Ordering of Moses, op. 58

Tickets

   

Gabby's Dollhouse Live!
The Oncenter

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Terrapin Station Entertainment and TEG Life Like Touring, in association with Universal Destinations and Experiences, present Gabby's Dollhouse Live! Presented by Walmart, a brand-new stage show inspired by the magical world of the global preschool sensation from DreamWorks Animation.

In this a-MEOW-zing live show, Gabby unboxes a special acorn that needs the magical touch of a rainbow to grow. But when CatRat causes a color cat-astrophe and breaks the rainbow, Gabby and the Gabby Cats must find the colors again to set things right.

The show brings to life an original story featuring incredible puppets, dynamic staging, and songs from the beloved series, including "Hey Gabby", "You Can't Spell Meow Without Me" and "Sprinkle Party".

Tickets

   

Clue
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A mansion. A murder. A mystery.

Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they'll never forget! Was it Mrs. Peacock in the study with the knife? Or was it Colonel Mustard in the library with the wrench? Based on the fan-favorite 1985 Paramount Pictures movie and inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is the ultimate whodunit that will leave you dying of laughter and keep you guessing until the final twist.

   

The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Benjamin Hanna, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Alfred Hitchcock's classic is given the madcap treatment in this award-winning comedy from playwright Patrick Barlow.

London, 1935: Retired British Army Officer Richard Hannay has settled into quiet civilian life, but that tranquility is shattered when he's unwittingly pulled into an international web of state secrets, double agents, and murder. Will Hannay go down for a crime he didn't commit? Can he trust the beautiful, mysterious woman from the train? And what is the meaning behind the cryptic 39 Steps? Performed by a cast of four actors, this dizzying, hysterical parody is packed with non-stop thrills—a warmly comic love letter to the fiendishly fun spy stories of a bygone era.

   

Beowulf
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 LeMoyne faculty and staff, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The 1000-year-old epic comes to life in a new 21st-century multimedia retelling of the ancient tale of heroes and monsters and the power community in the face of fear.

Tickets

   

Friday, October 31, 2025

Everything Nice: Sasha Phyars-Burgess
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Sasha Phyars-Burgess's photographic project "Everything Nice" traces her family history through Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana, following the paths of sugarcane farmed on colonial plantations and the transatlantic slave trade in relation to her ancestors. The photographs are taken in various locations: Madeira, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana. The pictures provide clues and details that are layered into a larger story.

Looking back at history and locating the present, Phyars-Burgess is thinking through the idea that we are all living in a history, whether it is acknowledged or not. Once acknowledged, and if we allow ourselves to live with the past, with choices made by and for others, we can access a wider view of the present day.

   

Tough Skin, Soft Ribs
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents "Tough Skin, Soft Ribs," a selection of photographs from our collection by Marcus Xavier Chormicle, Jeremy Dennis, Amy Elkins, Tarrah Krajnak, Shelley Niro, Wendy Red Star, Pamela Shields, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Kathy Vargas, and Cristina Velásquez. This exhibition is curated by Cali M. Banks, who manages communications and outreach at Light Work.

Resistant to 19th-century staged portraits of Indigenous people and the posed photographic work of Edward S. Curtis, the chosen artists confront colonial frameworks of Northern, Central, and Southern Indigeneity. This grouping of artists points back to the Four Directions, a cultural foundation that honors a holistic view of our interconnectedness; a place where borders do not exist, and we can join together as relatives. Through spectacles of Indigenous tropes, satire, religious testaments, diasporic histories, and fantasy, these artists are unpacking stereotypes, forcing a reclamation of personal and collective identities.

   

Bhen Alan: Why Does My Adobo Taste Different?
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The fifth iteration of the Art Wall Project features textiles made by the Filipino-American artist Bhen Alan. Through the creation of a monumental banig, or a traditional Filipino handwoven mat made from plant fibers, Alan grapples with the traumas of immigration and explores how diasporic communities work to recover a lost idea of home.

   

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"A Sense of Arrival" brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne's exhibition combines photographs, sculpture, and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being, and rhetorical expression.

   

Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing on the museum's extensive collection that encompasses almost 45,000 historic and contemporary artworks made around the globe, this exhibition explores how humans have interacted with and shaped the environment in which they live. Thematic sections focus on plants, home, population centers, and human figures.

   

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"What If I Try This?" explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

   

Corpórea
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Corpórea is a showcase of powerful, large-scale works in mixed media, body maps created by a collaborative of local Latino artists, community members, SU faculty and students through a series of adult workshops that integrate the principles of Art Therapy. Facilitated by Syracuse University graduate student in Creative Art Therapy, Bennie Guzmán, the workshops explored themes of healing, identity, and embodiment, and the transformative power of creativity.

   

Clue
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A mansion. A murder. A mystery.

Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they'll never forget! Was it Mrs. Peacock in the study with the knife? Or was it Colonel Mustard in the library with the wrench? Based on the fan-favorite 1985 Paramount Pictures movie and inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is the ultimate whodunit that will leave you dying of laughter and keep you guessing until the final twist.

   

The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Benjamin Hanna, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Alfred Hitchcock's classic is given the madcap treatment in this award-winning comedy from playwright Patrick Barlow.

London, 1935: Retired British Army Officer Richard Hannay has settled into quiet civilian life, but that tranquility is shattered when he's unwittingly pulled into an international web of state secrets, double agents, and murder. Will Hannay go down for a crime he didn't commit? Can he trust the beautiful, mysterious woman from the train? And what is the meaning behind the cryptic 39 Steps? Performed by a cast of four actors, this dizzying, hysterical parody is packed with non-stop thrills—a warmly comic love letter to the fiendishly fun spy stories of a bygone era.

   

Beowulf
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 LeMoyne faculty and staff, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The 1000-year-old epic comes to life in a new 21st-century multimedia retelling of the ancient tale of heroes and monsters and the power community in the face of fear.

Tickets

   

Saturday, November 1, 2025

Associated Artists of CNY Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free admission
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Members' original paintings, drawings, fiber art, fused enamel, and photography, as well as handcrafted jewelry and cards for all occasions, will be available for immediate sale. NOTE: Cash or check only.

   

Everything Nice: Sasha Phyars-Burgess
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Sasha Phyars-Burgess's photographic project "Everything Nice" traces her family history through Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana, following the paths of sugarcane farmed on colonial plantations and the transatlantic slave trade in relation to her ancestors. The photographs are taken in various locations: Madeira, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana. The pictures provide clues and details that are layered into a larger story.

Looking back at history and locating the present, Phyars-Burgess is thinking through the idea that we are all living in a history, whether it is acknowledged or not. Once acknowledged, and if we allow ourselves to live with the past, with choices made by and for others, we can access a wider view of the present day.

   

Tough Skin, Soft Ribs
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents "Tough Skin, Soft Ribs," a selection of photographs from our collection by Marcus Xavier Chormicle, Jeremy Dennis, Amy Elkins, Tarrah Krajnak, Shelley Niro, Wendy Red Star, Pamela Shields, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Kathy Vargas, and Cristina Velásquez. This exhibition is curated by Cali M. Banks, who manages communications and outreach at Light Work.

Resistant to 19th-century staged portraits of Indigenous people and the posed photographic work of Edward S. Curtis, the chosen artists confront colonial frameworks of Northern, Central, and Southern Indigeneity. This grouping of artists points back to the Four Directions, a cultural foundation that honors a holistic view of our interconnectedness; a place where borders do not exist, and we can join together as relatives. Through spectacles of Indigenous tropes, satire, religious testaments, diasporic histories, and fantasy, these artists are unpacking stereotypes, forcing a reclamation of personal and collective identities.

   

Bhen Alan: Why Does My Adobo Taste Different?
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The fifth iteration of the Art Wall Project features textiles made by the Filipino-American artist Bhen Alan. Through the creation of a monumental banig, or a traditional Filipino handwoven mat made from plant fibers, Alan grapples with the traumas of immigration and explores how diasporic communities work to recover a lost idea of home.

   

Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing on the museum's extensive collection that encompasses almost 45,000 historic and contemporary artworks made around the globe, this exhibition explores how humans have interacted with and shaped the environment in which they live. Thematic sections focus on plants, home, population centers, and human figures.

   

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"A Sense of Arrival" brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne's exhibition combines photographs, sculpture, and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being, and rhetorical expression.

   

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"What If I Try This?" explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

   

Candlelight Series: Classical By Candlelight
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor

Inspiration Hall (formerly St. Peter's Church)
709 James St., Syracuse

Ruth Crawford Seeger Rissolty Rossolty
Mendelssohn Midsummer's Night Dream Selections
Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana
Debussy Petit Suite
Dvorak Slavonic Dance No. 8

Tickets

   

America: The Encore Tour 2025
The Oncenter

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The iconic multi-platinum-selling group America will celebrate their 55th anniversary.

From their formative years, America has been a band capable of transcending borders with its uplifting music and positive message. Embracing a rainbow of divergent cultures, America's audiences continue to grow, comprising a loyal legion of first, second and third generation fans, all bearing testament to the group's enduring appeal.

Tickets

   

Clue
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A mansion. A murder. A mystery.

Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they'll never forget! Was it Mrs. Peacock in the study with the knife? Or was it Colonel Mustard in the library with the wrench? Based on the fan-favorite 1985 Paramount Pictures movie and inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is the ultimate whodunit that will leave you dying of laughter and keep you guessing until the final twist.

   

Beowulf
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 LeMoyne faculty and staff, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The 1000-year-old epic comes to life in a new 21st-century multimedia retelling of the ancient tale of heroes and monsters and the power community in the face of fear.

Tickets

   

The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Benjamin Hanna, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Alfred Hitchcock's classic is given the madcap treatment in this award-winning comedy from playwright Patrick Barlow.

London, 1935: Retired British Army Officer Richard Hannay has settled into quiet civilian life, but that tranquility is shattered when he's unwittingly pulled into an international web of state secrets, double agents, and murder. Will Hannay go down for a crime he didn't commit? Can he trust the beautiful, mysterious woman from the train? And what is the meaning behind the cryptic 39 Steps? Performed by a cast of four actors, this dizzying, hysterical parody is packed with non-stop thrills—a warmly comic love letter to the fiendishly fun spy stories of a bygone era.

   

Clue
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A mansion. A murder. A mystery.

Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they'll never forget! Was it Mrs. Peacock in the study with the knife? Or was it Colonel Mustard in the library with the wrench? Based on the fan-favorite 1985 Paramount Pictures movie and inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is the ultimate whodunit that will leave you dying of laughter and keep you guessing until the final twist.

   

The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Benjamin Hanna, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Alfred Hitchcock's classic is given the madcap treatment in this award-winning comedy from playwright Patrick Barlow.

London, 1935: Retired British Army Officer Richard Hannay has settled into quiet civilian life, but that tranquility is shattered when he's unwittingly pulled into an international web of state secrets, double agents, and murder. Will Hannay go down for a crime he didn't commit? Can he trust the beautiful, mysterious woman from the train? And what is the meaning behind the cryptic 39 Steps? Performed by a cast of four actors, this dizzying, hysterical parody is packed with non-stop thrills—a warmly comic love letter to the fiendishly fun spy stories of a bygone era.

   

Beowulf
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 LeMoyne faculty and staff, $5 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The 1000-year-old epic comes to life in a new 21st-century multimedia retelling of the ancient tale of heroes and monsters and the power community in the face of fear.

Tickets

   

Sunday, November 2, 2025

Associated Artists of CNY Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free admission
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Members' original paintings, drawings, fiber art, fused enamel, and photography, as well as handcrafted jewelry and cards for all occasions, will be available for immediate sale. NOTE: Cash or check only.

   

Everything Nice: Sasha Phyars-Burgess
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Sasha Phyars-Burgess's photographic project "Everything Nice" traces her family history through Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana, following the paths of sugarcane farmed on colonial plantations and the transatlantic slave trade in relation to her ancestors. The photographs are taken in various locations: Madeira, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana. The pictures provide clues and details that are layered into a larger story.

Looking back at history and locating the present, Phyars-Burgess is thinking through the idea that we are all living in a history, whether it is acknowledged or not. Once acknowledged, and if we allow ourselves to live with the past, with choices made by and for others, we can access a wider view of the present day.

   

Tough Skin, Soft Ribs
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents "Tough Skin, Soft Ribs," a selection of photographs from our collection by Marcus Xavier Chormicle, Jeremy Dennis, Amy Elkins, Tarrah Krajnak, Shelley Niro, Wendy Red Star, Pamela Shields, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Kathy Vargas, and Cristina Velásquez. This exhibition is curated by Cali M. Banks, who manages communications and outreach at Light Work.

Resistant to 19th-century staged portraits of Indigenous people and the posed photographic work of Edward S. Curtis, the chosen artists confront colonial frameworks of Northern, Central, and Southern Indigeneity. This grouping of artists points back to the Four Directions, a cultural foundation that honors a holistic view of our interconnectedness; a place where borders do not exist, and we can join together as relatives. Through spectacles of Indigenous tropes, satire, religious testaments, diasporic histories, and fantasy, these artists are unpacking stereotypes, forcing a reclamation of personal and collective identities.

   

Bhen Alan: Why Does My Adobo Taste Different?
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The fifth iteration of the Art Wall Project features textiles made by the Filipino-American artist Bhen Alan. Through the creation of a monumental banig, or a traditional Filipino handwoven mat made from plant fibers, Alan grapples with the traumas of immigration and explores how diasporic communities work to recover a lost idea of home.

   

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"A Sense of Arrival" brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne's exhibition combines photographs, sculpture, and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being, and rhetorical expression.

   

Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing on the museum's extensive collection that encompasses almost 45,000 historic and contemporary artworks made around the globe, this exhibition explores how humans have interacted with and shaped the environment in which they live. Thematic sections focus on plants, home, population centers, and human figures.

   

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"What If I Try This?" explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

   

Fall Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Heidi Hoffmann, cello

St. Cecilia's Church
1001 Woods Rd., Syracuse

Celebrating Erik's 25th season with two selections from his first season including Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony, and a nod to Halloween with Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain.

   

The 39 Steps
Syracuse Stage
Benjamin Hanna, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Alfred Hitchcock's classic is given the madcap treatment in this award-winning comedy from playwright Patrick Barlow.

London, 1935: Retired British Army Officer Richard Hannay has settled into quiet civilian life, but that tranquility is shattered when he's unwittingly pulled into an international web of state secrets, double agents, and murder. Will Hannay go down for a crime he didn't commit? Can he trust the beautiful, mysterious woman from the train? And what is the meaning behind the cryptic 39 Steps? Performed by a cast of four actors, this dizzying, hysterical parody is packed with non-stop thrills—a warmly comic love letter to the fiendishly fun spy stories of a bygone era.

   

Monday, November 3, 2025

Tough Skin, Soft Ribs
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents "Tough Skin, Soft Ribs," a selection of photographs from our collection by Marcus Xavier Chormicle, Jeremy Dennis, Amy Elkins, Tarrah Krajnak, Shelley Niro, Wendy Red Star, Pamela Shields, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Kathy Vargas, and Cristina Velásquez. This exhibition is curated by Cali M. Banks, who manages communications and outreach at Light Work.

Resistant to 19th-century staged portraits of Indigenous people and the posed photographic work of Edward S. Curtis, the chosen artists confront colonial frameworks of Northern, Central, and Southern Indigeneity. This grouping of artists points back to the Four Directions, a cultural foundation that honors a holistic view of our interconnectedness; a place where borders do not exist, and we can join together as relatives. Through spectacles of Indigenous tropes, satire, religious testaments, diasporic histories, and fantasy, these artists are unpacking stereotypes, forcing a reclamation of personal and collective identities.

   

Everything Nice: Sasha Phyars-Burgess
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Sasha Phyars-Burgess's photographic project "Everything Nice" traces her family history through Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana, following the paths of sugarcane farmed on colonial plantations and the transatlantic slave trade in relation to her ancestors. The photographs are taken in various locations: Madeira, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana. The pictures provide clues and details that are layered into a larger story.

Looking back at history and locating the present, Phyars-Burgess is thinking through the idea that we are all living in a history, whether it is acknowledged or not. Once acknowledged, and if we allow ourselves to live with the past, with choices made by and for others, we can access a wider view of the present day.

   

Corpórea
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Corpórea is a showcase of powerful, large-scale works in mixed media, body maps created by a collaborative of local Latino artists, community members, SU faculty and students through a series of adult workshops that integrate the principles of Art Therapy. Facilitated by Syracuse University graduate student in Creative Art Therapy, Bennie Guzmán, the workshops explored themes of healing, identity, and embodiment, and the transformative power of creativity.

   

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Tough Skin, Soft Ribs
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work presents "Tough Skin, Soft Ribs," a selection of photographs from our collection by Marcus Xavier Chormicle, Jeremy Dennis, Amy Elkins, Tarrah Krajnak, Shelley Niro, Wendy Red Star, Pamela Shields, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Kathy Vargas, and Cristina Velásquez. This exhibition is curated by Cali M. Banks, who manages communications and outreach at Light Work.

Resistant to 19th-century staged portraits of Indigenous people and the posed photographic work of Edward S. Curtis, the chosen artists confront colonial frameworks of Northern, Central, and Southern Indigeneity. This grouping of artists points back to the Four Directions, a cultural foundation that honors a holistic view of our interconnectedness; a place where borders do not exist, and we can join together as relatives. Through spectacles of Indigenous tropes, satire, religious testaments, diasporic histories, and fantasy, these artists are unpacking stereotypes, forcing a reclamation of personal and collective identities.

   

Everything Nice: Sasha Phyars-Burgess
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Sasha Phyars-Burgess's photographic project "Everything Nice" traces her family history through Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana, following the paths of sugarcane farmed on colonial plantations and the transatlantic slave trade in relation to her ancestors. The photographs are taken in various locations: Madeira, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Florida, and Louisiana. The pictures provide clues and details that are layered into a larger story.

Looking back at history and locating the present, Phyars-Burgess is thinking through the idea that we are all living in a history, whether it is acknowledged or not. Once acknowledged, and if we allow ourselves to live with the past, with choices made by and for others, we can access a wider view of the present day.

   

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"What If I Try This?" explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

   

Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drawing on the museum's extensive collection that encompasses almost 45,000 historic and contemporary artworks made around the globe, this exhibition explores how humans have interacted with and shaped the environment in which they live. Thematic sections focus on plants, home, population centers, and human figures.

   

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"A Sense of Arrival" brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne's exhibition combines photographs, sculpture, and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being, and rhetorical expression.

   

Bhen Alan: Why Does My Adobo Taste Different?
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The fifth iteration of the Art Wall Project features textiles made by the Filipino-American artist Bhen Alan. Through the creation of a monumental banig, or a traditional Filipino handwoven mat made from plant fibers, Alan grapples with the traumas of immigration and explores how diasporic communities work to recover a lost idea of home.

   

Corpórea
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Corpórea is a showcase of powerful, large-scale works in mixed media, body maps created by a collaborative of local Latino artists, community members, SU faculty and students through a series of adult workshops that integrate the principles of Art Therapy. Facilitated by Syracuse University graduate student in Creative Art Therapy, Bennie Guzmán, the workshops explored themes of healing, identity, and embodiment, and the transformative power of creativity.