Events Week of 11/16-11/22
CAMPUS EVENTS
Howard Bond Retrospective
November 16, 2009 9 am-5 pm
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Twenty-two pieces of Bond’s work was donated to the SU’s Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond’s creative work highlighting the photographer’s mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.
This American Life Featuring Ira Glass
November 17, 2009 7:30 pm
Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University
Ira Glass’s This American Life premiered on Chicago’s public radio station WBEZ in late 1995 and is now heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week by more than 1.7 million listeners. Glass began his career as an intern at National Public Radio’s network headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 1978, at age 19. Over the years, he worked on nearly every NPR network news program and held virtually every production job.
“Two Spirits” Film Screening
November 18, 2009 7 pm
Watson Theaterl, Syracuse University
Two Spirits interweaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown history of a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female. Fred Martinez was a nadleehi, a male-bodied person with a feminine essence, a special gift according to this ancient Navajo culture. He was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at sixteen by a young man who bragged to his friends that he had “bug smashed” a fag.
State of Democracy Lecture: Leonard Burman
November 19, 2009 4pm
Maxwell Auditorium
“Is the United States Headed for a Catastrophic Budget Failure?” Leonard Burman, The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, director emeritus of the Tax Policy Center, and affiliated scholar at the Urban Institute, will discuss.
A Conversation: Posing Beauty
November 19, 2009 7pm
Watson Theater
“A Conversation: Posing Beauty,” featuring photographer and historian Deborah Willis, and photographer and folklorist Carrie Mae Weems.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
The Picture Man: Photographs of Milton Rogovin
November 18, 2009 2pm- 7pm
ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse
Milton Rogovin is a social documentary photographer, with a focus of photographing the poor and working class for 50 years. His choice of subject was summed up in his words, “The rich have their own photographers. I have chosen to photograph the poor.” Rogovin has photographed miners in 10 nations, collaborated with the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, photographed a six-square block neighborhood in Buffalo for 30 years, and so much more.
Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
November 19, 2009 12pm – 6 pm
The Warehouse Gallery
Improv Comedy Night
November 20, 2009 8pm
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Co. Black Box Theater
Saltine Warrior is an improv comedy troupe. A Saltine Warrior show is a hilarious blend of short-form games (think the best parts of the hit TV show, “Who’s Line Is It, Anyway?”), with the long-form scene styles in the tradition of Second City and Upright Citizen’s Brigade.
Classics Series: Impressionist Masters
November 21, 2009 8pm
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
Syracuse University Oratorio Society, Daniel Hege, conductor featuring Lianne Coble, soprano; Tim LeFebvre, baritone. Faure Requiem, Debussy Nocturnes, amd Ravel Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2
The Bald Soprano and The Chairs
November 22, 2009 8pm
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
These master works from theatre of absurd soar to heights of the ridiculous with word-twisting, innovative comedy. Eugene Ionesco is a giant of 20th century playwriting who took all the conventions of the stage and turned them upside down to offer stunning perspectives on theatre and the world it reflects. With a strong sense of the outrageous, Ionesco reminds us that, “The human drama is as absurd as it is painful.”
