Arts Engage, in collaboration with Phi Beta Kappa and the College of Visual and Performing Arts, will host renowned pianist Stephanie Trick on Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 8 p.m. in Setnor Auditorium, in Crouse College. Arts Engage, the portal of Syracuse University’s Office of the Arts Presenter, engages and inspires the SU community through diverse [...]

Syracuse University’s Judaic Studies Program and the Jewish Federation of Central New York are coming together to present the “Great Jewish Writers” lecture series. Supported by the federation’s Community Program Grant, the series begins with a free lecture about Franz Kafka by Ken Frieden, the B.G. Rudolph Professor in Judaic Studies, on Sunday, Oct. 23, [...]

The Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University will sponsor a screening of “Dolphin Boy,” the award-winning documentary by Israeli director, screenwriter and producer Dani Menkin, at the 2011 Syracuse International Film Festival. “Dolphin Boy” will be shown 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, at the Palace Theater in Syracuse. Menkin will be present for the film [...]

Here’s how Marc Blitzstein described his 1937 musical: “a labor opera composed in a style that falls somewhere between realism, romance, vaudeville, comic strip, Gilbert & Sullivan, Brecht and agitprop [agitation and propaganda].” In other words, it has great laughs, terrific songs and plenty of bite. Unabashedly unionist in outlook, “The Cradle Will Rock” was [...]

The creative writing M.F.A. program in the Department of English in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences was recently named one of the top programs in the nation by Poets & Writers magazine. The program was tied for fifth place with Cornell University. SU’s program was ranked seventh last year. “This ranking confirms something [...]

Syracuse Symposium continues its exploration of the theme of “Identity” with a multimedia presentation by the husband-and-wife team of Christoph Keller and Jan Heller Levi. The program, “Corresponding Perspectives: Poetry, Prose and Photography,” is Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium. It is free and open to the public. Syracuse Symposium is an [...]

Ulrika Davidsson, a versatile musician and assistant professor of historical keyboards at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, will present a harpsichord recital on Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 8 p.m. in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. The concert is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in [...]

The relationship between American music and Spanish poetry will be explored at a major conference at Syracuse University and Le Moyne College. The program, “Jazz and Blues Rhythms: The Influence of Contemporary North American Music on 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish Poetry,” runs Sept. 27-29 on both campuses. It is free and open to the public. [...]

Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat Roshi, author of “Life Lessons: the Art of Jerome Witkin” (Syracuse University Press, 1994), will give two talks in conjunction with the exhibition “Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin” at XL Projects, 307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse. The talks will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. [...]

Starting this semester, the Department of English in The College of Arts and Sciences is adding two new tracks that students can pursue within the English and textual studies (ETS) major: film and screen studies and creative writing. The tracks are intended to respond to the growing number of students drawn to the ETS major primarily [...]

Beginning in the fall semester, a national search will begin for a new director of Imagining America.

The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series will continue with award-winning fiction writer Dana Spiotta, assistant professor of creative writing in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 28 in Gifford Auditorium in H.B. Crouse Hall on the SU campus. The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session [...]

Organist Adam Pajan, winner of the 2011 Arthur Poister Scholarship Competition in Organ Playing, will present an organ recital on Sunday, Sept. 25, at 4 p.m. on the historic Holtkamp organ in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. The recital is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in [...]

As part of Syracuse University’s disability-themed Shared First Year Experience, the documentary film “Wretches & Jabberers: And Stories from the Road” will be shown on Monday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Goldstein Auditorium of Schine Student Center. The event is free and open to the public, and the film will be shown in [...]

The Lawrence B. Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education is hosting the photography exhibit "PHOTOVOICE Changing the Image of Disabilities: Reflections and Resolutions," a national project that gives community groups a voice through photography and poetry. PHOTOVOICE is free and open to the public and will be on display in the Hoople Special Education Building, [...]

Verbal Blend, a spoken word poetry program out of Syracuse University's Office of Multicultural Affairs, will host its annual Ayo Technology Skype Open Mic, in collaboration with Voices Merging at the University of Minnesota and Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). On Sept. 22 at 8:30 p.m., two spoken word poetry student groups, [...]

Syracuse University has announced the creation of two new orchestras for young musicians in Central New York: the Syracuse Youth Orchestra (SYO) and the Syracuse Youth String Orchestra (SYSO). Both orchestras are part of the Community Music Division of the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in SU’s College of Visual [...]

The 39th season at Syracuse Stage opens Sept. 21 with the classic Henry James psychological thriller “The Turn of the Screw,” a riveting story of a young governess and two small children set on a remote English estate. In this wildly entertaining stage adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher, two actors, led by Director Michael Barakiva (director [...]

Margie Hughto, professor of ceramics in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Art, will show new work in the solo exhibition “Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape” Oct. 1-Jan. 12 at the Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse. An opening reception will be held Friday, Sept. 30, from 5:30-8 p.m. The [...]

Mexican-born, New York City-based artists Gabriela Alva C. and Natalia Porter present their collaborative project, EDIFICE, at the Point of Contact Gallery. Curated by Pedro Cuperman, the show features Alva and Porter in response to the work of Boston artist Andrew Witkin’s writings. An opening reception with the artists, free and open to the public, [...]

CFAC launching its 40th exhibition season

Artist Sarah Oppenheimer, known for challenging one’s perceptions of physical space within existing structures, will speak at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 5 p.m. in Slocum Hall Auditorium. The lecture, co-sponsored by SU's  College of Visual and Performing Arts, will focus on her recent work. It is free and open [...]

The Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will offer live audio and video streaming of the discussion “Preparing Students for the Changing Role of Orchestral Musicians in the 21st Century” with Daniel Hege and Patrick Jones on Friday, Sept. 9, at [...]

Th3 (The Third Thursday: Syracuse's Citywide Art Opening) has announced the start of the 2011-12 season of bringing cultural and visual arts events and attractions to the Syracuse and greater Central New York communities. Th3 is a consortium of Syracuse arts venues that coordinate free monthly visual arts events from 5-8 p.m. on the third Thursday [...]

Jerome Witkin, one of America’s leading figurative painters and a longtime professor of painting in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ (VPA) Department of Art, will present an artist’s talk on Tuesday, Sept. 6, at 6:30 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium in the Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building. The free, public talk is sponsored by [...]

The eighth annual Syracuse International Film Festival will take place Oct. 13-16, and festival organizers have planned an “Italian Appertivo” to preview the festival for the community and press. The “Italian Appertivo” will be held on Thursday, Sept. 22, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Mayflower Lobby at the Genesee Grande Hotel, 1060 East Genesee St., [...]

Valerie Traub, the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women’s Studies and chair of women’s studies at the University of Michigan, will lead off the 2011-12 Ray Smith Symposium with her lecture “Shakespeare’s Sex,” Sept. 8-9 on the Syracuse University campus.  The history of queer sexuality is the subject of the 2011-12 Ray [...]

Rahul Mehta G’03 will open the Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series with readings from his short story collection, “Quarantine” (Harper Perennial, 2011), at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 14 in Huntington Beard Crouse (HBC) Gifford Auditorium. The reading will be preceded by a question-and-answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the [...]

Members of the Syracuse University and Central New York communities will have an opportunity to view award-winning films from around the world during “Illuminating Oppression: 9th Annual Human Rights Film Festival,” Thursday, Sept. 15, through Saturday, Sept. 17. This three-day festival is part of Syracuse Symposium 2011: Identity, and is presented by the SU Humanities [...]

The Syracuse International Film Festival has commissioned composer Phillip Rothman to write a score for the 1920 D.W. Griffith silent film “Way Down East.” Rothman will debut the original composition, scored for eight musicians, with the film screening Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Palace Theatre, 2384 James St., Eastwood. Rothman’s music has been [...]

“Preparing Students for the Changing Role of Orchestral Musicians in the 21st Century” will be the topic of a conversation led by Daniel Hege and Patrick Jones of the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) on Friday, Sept. 9, at 1 [...]

The SYRFILM organization that brings year-round programming to Central New York, in collaboration with Art Rage Gallery, will present “The Man Who Knew How to Fly,” directed by Robi Michael, (USA, fiction, 24 minutes) a selection of the 2011 film festival, and “To Catch a Billionaire,” directed by Tomas Vorel (Czech Republic, fiction, 96 minutes, [...]

The Syracuse International Film Festival (SIFF) has announced its second annual scriptwriting workshop. It will be hosted by Syracuse University alumnus Rob Edwards, writer of “Treasure Planet” and Academy Award-nominated “The Princess and the Frog.” Dani Menkin, writer and director of “39 Pounds of Love,” and Gil Kofman, screenwriter for “The Memory Thief,” will also [...]

Kola Owolabi, Syracuse University organist and assistant professor of music in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will present organ recitals on Tuesday, Sept. 6, and Wednesday, Sept. 7, on the historic Holtkamp organ in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor [...]

While in Italy for SU Abroad's new program in Cinema Studies & Filmmaking, Owen Shapiro was presented with the Mario Dall'Argine Award in recognition of his efforts to promote culture through the art of cinema.

XL Projects will present works of the SUArt Galleries' exhibition "Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin" Sept. 7-Oct. 16.

Up-and-coming theater artists anxiously awaiting their big break in the industry now have a new way to enhance their professional development. The Araca Project, a new initiative of the Department of Drama in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), and the Araca Group, one of New York City’s leading entertainment production and [...]

Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced that conductor and scholar Patrick M. Jones has been named director of the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music. Jones, who assumed the duties of director on July 1, is responsible for the creative and academic leadership and vision of [...]

“Motifs, Evocations,” a collective show by six local Latina/o artists, will be on display Aug. 5-Sept. 18.

The exhibition features stunning tintype portraits created by photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley.

Take these cameras. Tell your story. That is what clients involved in Syracuse Behavioral Healthcare’s (SBH) photo program were asked to do this past winter. Clients could take cameras wherever they wanted and take photos of whatever they wished, as long as the photos told a piece of their recovery story. The result is an [...]

Students of Syracuse University Abroad's new summer program, Italian Film Studies and Restoration in Bologna, are spending five weeks immersed in one of Italy's most vibrant cultural cities learning about classic cinema and attending sessions on film restoration. Nine SU students are currently in Italy participating in the program, which began on June 18 and [...]

Festival to be held during Syracuse ArtsWeek, July 25-31 Syracuse Stories: An All Arts Festival, part of the community-based initiative Art Across Borders, is a communitywide storytelling festival modeled on the International Literary Festival of Paraty, Brazil (FLIP).  Syracuse Stories is scheduled for Syracuse ArtsWeek, July 25-31. Through its multi-media arts programming, Syracuse Stories provides [...]

The Department of Art and Music Histories in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences has announced the appointment of Mark Nerenhausen as founding director and professor of practice of the new Janklow Arts Leadership Program. Nerenhausen brings more than two decades of professional arts administration experience to SU, having most recently served as president [...]

Retrospective exhibition first to examine crucial aspect of artist's career

Margaret Moreno, a senior at Corcoran High School, has attended SU’s Summer Dance Intensive Program for three years. She is so dedicated to her art that at age 15, she cashed in her $1,000 life savings to pay the tuition to attend the program. This year Moreno, who has been accepted at SUNY Brockport in [...]

A consortium of 21 Syracuse arts venues will once again coordinate free, monthly visual arts events from 5-8 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month, June 16. They include: ArtRage—The Norton Putter Gallery 505 Hawley Ave. At 6 p.m., Ellen M. Blalock, photographer, videographer and quilt artist, will give an artist talk exploring her [...]

Two dancers from Bulgaria will arrive at Syracuse University in July to study with world-renowned faculty during the three-week Summer Dance Intensive Program, which is administered by University College.  Greta Georgieva, a 19-year-old classical ballet student, has been studying since she was 11 years old. Georgieva is a graduate of the State Dance Art School [...]

SU to open headquarters in Dubai and create new opportunities for students Syracuse University has announced the expansion of its educational presence in the Arab Gulf. In June, an information center will open in Dubai, providing resources and background on the University to prospective students and parents. Punctuated by a ribbon cutting on June 17, [...]

Israeli film director Dani Menkin has been selected to receive a visiting artist grant that will bring him to Syracuse for four months to live and work in the community. Menkin recently was awarded a Schusterman Visiting Artist Grant from the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. The Schusterman Visiting Artist Program will join with [...]