Featured Events
Gallery Exhibition: Mary Giehl
October 12 – November 11
Mary Giehl's work has taken on themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. She had often cared for children after they had been abused. Much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.
Opening Receptions: Thursday, October 15, 11-12 and 5-8 pm
Monday – Friday, 9 am – 4 pm
Gallery at the Ann Felton Multicultural Center
The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall. Click here for a full campus map.
Lecture/Performance: David Lang
Photo Courtesy of James Poke
Friday, February 19, 11:15 am
Storer Auditorium
"There is no name yet for this kind of music," writes Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed. But audiences around the globe are hearing more and more of David Lang's work: In performances by organizations such as the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Santa Fe Opera, and the New York Philharmonic. This lecture/performance is a part of a consortium with SUNY Oswego and LeMoyne College that brings musicians to Syracuse for 3-4 days to perform and educate at each venue.
The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall. Click here for a full campus map.
Concert: Richie Havens
Wednesday, October 21, 7:00 pm
This event is sold out
Richie Havens is gifted with one of the most recognizable voices in popular music. His fiery, poignant, always soulful singing style has remained unique and ageless since he first emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960s. It’s a voice that has inspired and electrified audiences from the Woodstock Music & Arts Fair in 1969 to the Clinton Presidential Inauguration in 1993 – coming full circle with the 30th Woodstock Anniversary celebration, "A Day In The Garden," in 1999. For over three decades, Richie has used his music to convey messages of brotherhood and personal freedom. With more than twenty-five albums released and a touring schedule that would kill many a younger man, he continues to view his calling as a higher one.
The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall. Click here for a full campus map.
Lecture/Performance: Joanne Shenandoah
Photo Courtesy of Jason
Thursday, November 5, 7:00 pm
A Grammy Award and 11 Time Native American Music award winning artist, Joanne Shenandoah has fulfilled the promise of her Native American name, Tekaliwah-kwa (She Sings). A Wolf Clan member of the Iroquois Confederacy, Shenandoah emerged as an artist in 1990. She has performed at such high-profile gigs at Carnegie Hall, the White House, Kennedy Center, Earth Day on the Mall, Woodstock '94, the Parliament of the Worlds Religions in South Africa, the famous Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona Spain, Istanbul, Hwa Eom Temple, S. Korea and thousands of venues in the U.S.
"She's become one of the most acclaimed Native American recording artists of her time." – Associated Press.
The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall. Click here for a full campus map.
Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
January 25 – February 17
James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a fathers identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife’s identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.
Opening Receptions: Thursday, February 11, 11-12.
Monday – Friday, 9 am – 4 pm
Gallery at the Ann Felton Multicultural Center
The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall. Click here for a full campus map.
Concert: Lorin Sklamberg
Wednesday, March 10, 11:15 am
Accordionist and vocalist Lorin Sklamberg has been a member of the Klezmatics since the beginning. As a teenager in California, Sklamberg was involved with Jewish and Israeli folk-dancing, but it wasn't until the late '80s, upon moving to NYC and joining the Klezmatics that he became immersed in klezmer. Since the early '90s, Sklamberg has been co-Director of Living Traditions, Inc., a Yiddish folk arts non-profit organization that sponsors the annual KlezKamp, and releases archival CDs of music including rescued recordings of Yiddish radio programs from the 1920s-1950s. He has performed under pianist Zalman Mlotek, and appears on a variety of releases such as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Remember the Children.
The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall. Click here for a full campus map.
Concert: New Orleans' Own Hot 8 Brass Band
Photo Courtesy of Will Templin
Thursday, March 25, 7:00 pm
The Hot 8 Brass Band epitomized New Orleans street music for over a decade. The band plays the traditional Second Line parades, hosted each Sunday afternoon by Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs, infusing their performances with the funk and energy that makes New Orleans music loved around the world. The members of the Hot 8 Brass Band were born and raised in New Orleans and many began playing together in high school. What makes the Hot 8 so special are the sounds they coax from their well-loved, well-worn horns. An evening with the Hot 8 is like no other.
Second lines trace their roots back to the 19th century and the fraternal societies and neighborhood organizations that collectively provided insurance and burial services to members, especially among the African American community. The "first line" of a funeral consisted of the people who were an integral part of the ceremony, such as the members of the club or krewe, or family and friends of the deceased. The "second line" originally referred to people who were attracted to the music. Led by a "Grand Marshal," the band and mourners would move to the burial site, with the band playing a dirge to signal the struggles, the hardships, the ups and downs of life. On the way back, the music became more joyful. Relatives, friends, and acquaintances would become the second line and dance with wild abandon. The second line, usually sporting umbrellas and handkerchiefs, became traditional at these jazz funerals.
The noun second line, is also the name of a "unique dance", performed to the beat of New Orleans traditional jazz. The dance is an evolved version of an old African dance known as the, "Bambula."
The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall. Click here for a full campus map.
