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2 PM
INFORMANCE: Billy Childs & American Brass Quintet
Springside at Seneca Hill, Route 45 off Route 481, Oswego
This intimate program previews the formal concert on April 2.

7PM
A CONVERSATION: Billy Childs and Phillip Heimes
Safe Haven Museum and Education Center, Fort Ontario via East 7th Street
For directions visit www.oswegohaven.org
Phillip Heimes, graphic novel instructor at SUNY Oswego, talks with jazz great Billy Childs about his composition Hope in the Face of Despair that he based on Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Maus.

2

12:40-1:35 PM
VISITING ARTIST: Ceramicist Eva Kwong
Room 118, Campus Center Auditorium
Eva Kwong works in ceramic sculpture with brilliantly colored and painted surfaces using imagery that relates to biological life forms, informed by her undergraduate training in biology. She teaches at Kent State and has shown her work very widely.

12:40-1:35 PM
INFORMANCES: Billy Childs & American Brass Quintet
Rooms 40 and 41, Tyler Hall
Billy Childs discusses his compositions, and the American Brass Quintet coaches a rehearsal with the Oswego State Brass Quintet.

7:30 PM
PERFORMING ARTS: Billy Childs and the American Brass Quintet
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
Presented by ARTSwego

"the high priests of brass"
—Newsweek

Two-time Grammy Award-winning composer and pianist Billy Childs joins one of the most distinguished chamber music ensembles of our time. Childs fuses elements of jazz and classical music into a convincing, seamless and organic whole that transcends arbitrary stylistic barriers. Well-matched with the quintet, Childs dazzles with rhythmic flair, ringing intonation and a kaleidoscope of shifting tonal color.

The Tarandi Foundation is supporting an Informance at Fulton High School.

The commissioning of the new work by Mr. Childs and this appearance of the American Brass Quintet with Mr. Childs is made possible in part by a grant from The New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

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6-8 PM Awards Presentation at 7 PM
GALLERY OPENING RECEPTION
Tyler Art Gallery
Invited outside jurors, chosen by the Student Art Exhibition Committee, make the final selection and present awards during the reception from the 45th annual Juried Student Art Exhibition. See description below.

7:30 PM
CONCERT: Collage Concert
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
Presented by the Music Department

“We take great pride in the accomplishments of our students and thank you for helping us to support them in their musical journey.”
—Julie Pretzat, Chair

Diverse and polished offerings include chamber music, classical and jazz performances delivered in an energetic format that packs a wallop. This musical collage features the College Choir, State Singers, Jazz Orchestra, College-Community Orchestra, Concert Band, faculty members and student soloists.

April 5- April 27

45th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition
For many years, the Student Association has been a proud sponsor and active participant in the most popular exhibition of the year. Any undergraduate student enrolled in the college may submit work to this annual art competition.

Spring Masters of Arts Thesis Exhibition
The art department requires candidates for the degree of master of arts to exhibit a representation of their work in Tyler Art Gallery. The variety and quality of the work exemplify the high standards established at SUNY Oswego. This semester’s graphic design students exhibiting are Roey Bannon, Gail Bering-Porter and Brian Schwartz.

5 & 6

7 PM
COMPETITION: New Voices Playwriting Festival
Lab Theater, Tyler Hall
The English and theater departments join forces to present the final stage of a student playwriting competition. Student directors lead staged readings of the six final works.

8

7 PM
ORI FILM SERIES: Red Hook Justice
Location TBD
Meema Spadola’s one-hour documentary goes behind the scenes of the Red Hook Community Justice Center, opened in 2000 in Brooklyn under the watchful eye of the Department of Justice. The film provides a realistic picture of the frustrations, failures and successes of community justice in action, and invites reflection on where theory and reality diverge in this attempt to make the dispensing of justice more fair.

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12:40-1:35 PM
VISITING ARTIST: Kay WalkingStick
Room 102, Tyler Hall
Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick is one of the leading contemporary Native American artists. Her diptych paintings, two-paneled works that combine landscape images with abstract forms, have in more recent years included the human figure. WalkingStick explores a range of complex concepts including aesthetic ideas and gender roles as well as sexual and ethnic identity, Native American culture and history, spirituality and transcendental experience.
(photo Kathy Morris)

7:30 PM
JAM SESSION: Oswego Jazz Project
King Arthur's Steakhouse Brewery, 7 West Bridge Street
Provides SUNY Oswego students and community members with an opportunity to play jazz with a faculty-led quartet.

15

7 PM
FILM SCREENING: Filmmaker Borritt on Budapest to Gettysburg: One Man's New Birth of Freedom
Room 118, Campus Center Auditorium
The life and work of world-renowned historian Dr. Gabor Borritt, who came of age under the Nazi regime, is explored in this film. His son, filmmaker Jake Boritt, captures his story on film and presents it at an open screening followed by a discussion of the film, the process of filmmaking and the themes of film, history, and memory.

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5 PM
LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION: The Balinese Gamelan
Sheldon Hall Ballroom
Sylvia Alajaji, director of Gamlean Lila Muni, introduces and demonstrates the instruments of the Balinese gamelan angklung orchestra.

7 PM
Pre-Concert Chat
7:30 PM
KE-NEKT’ CONCERT: Gamelan Lila Muni/Heavenly Sound
From Eastman School of Music
Sheldon Hall Ballroom
Hosted by Eric Schmitz
Founded in 1993, the Eastman School of Music Gamelan Lila Muni (Heavenly Sound), directed by Sylvia Alajaji, is a Balinese gamelan angklung orchestra. This kind of ensemble is one of more than 25 distinct types found on the island of Bali. Once limited to ritual functions, the angklung ensemble now performs music ranging from traditional, ceremonial pieces to modern secular dances. Gamelan at Eastman, as in Bali, is a communal effort. The ensemble includes Eastman students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the Rochester community.
TICKETS: Adults $15, seniors/students $12, SUNY Oswego students $7.

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3 PM
RECITAL: The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell
Featuring the Oswego Chamber Singers
Presented by Oswego Opera
First United Methodist Church, 7111 Route 104, Oswego
TICKETS: Adults $15, seniors $10, students $5.

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7:30 PM
JAM SESSION: Oswego Jazz Project
King Arthur's Steakhouse Brewery, 7 West Bridge Street
Provides SUNY Oswego students and community members with an opportunity to play jazz with a faculty-led quartet.

24 (Preview), 25, 26

8 PM
Theatre: Cabaret
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
Presented by the Theatre and Music Departments

Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Edd
Book by Joe Masterhoff
Directed & Choreographed by Jonel Langenfeld-Rial
Music Direction by Todd Graber

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!

Welcome to the Kit Kat Club and Berlin of the late 1920s. Seen through the gaudy and decadent glaze of a cabaret, young American writer Cliff Bradshaw experiences love, loss and a world on the edge of chaos. It’s an unsentimental education fueled by a high-voltage score and dominated by the insidious and unforgettable Emcee. A breakthrough musical when it premiered in 1966, Cabaret is a modern classic.
TICKETS: Adults $14, seniors $12, students $7. Preview $5

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7:30 PM
JAM SESSION: Oswego Jazz Project
King Arthur's Steakhouse Brewery, 7 West Bridge Street
Provides SUNY Oswego students and community members with an opportunity to play jazz with a faculty-led quartet.

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