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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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 6 PM
ARTIST TALK: Charly Palmer
Tyler Art Gallery South
See description below
 7-9 PM
GALLERY OPENING RECEPTION
Tyler Art Gallery South
See descriptions below
September 7 to October 21
Shades of Clay: A Multicultural Look at Contemporary Clay
The exhibition celebrates contemporary ceramic art by twenty multicultural artists. The styles and themes are individual to each artist, but share the common thread of ethnicity and directly reflect the cultures from which they are inspired. Curated by Paul Andrew Wandless and toured by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, MO. (at left: David MacDonald)
P ride & Perseverance: Civil Rights Paintings by Charly Palmer
Through his paintings, Charly Palmer presents a visual portrayal of events that are part of African American history, in particular, the Civil Rights Movement. His paintings complement SUNY Oswego’s Reading Initiative selection for this year, Bombingham by Anthony Grooms. (at left: Charly Palmber, $600 Reward)
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  7:30 PM
CONCERT: Music Alumni Concert
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
Music Department Alumni perform a reunion concert that features choral and instrumental groups playing music of all eras. See “old” friends grace the Waterman Theatre stage one more time!
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  12:45-2:05 PM
INFORMANCE: Britten & Poulenc
Ballroom, Sheldon Hall
Todd Graber performs and talks about Britten & Poulenc.
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 7 PM
Pre-Concert Chat
7:30 PM
KE-NEKT’ CONCERT: Britten & Poulenc Interlude
Ballroom, Sheldon Hall
Faculty host Todd Graber with featured artist, Wendy Bloom, mezzo soprano
The Ke-nekt’ season begins with an evening of vocal and instrumental works by Benjamin Britten and Francis Poulenc, two composers who kept in touch with their public by performing both solo and chamber music throughout their careers.
TICKETS: Adults $15, seniors/students $10, SUNY Oswego students $5
A Ke-nekt’ Young Professionals (KYP) gathering follows the concert. For details contact Rob Auler: auler@oswego.edu
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6:30 PM
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION: Playing for Time
Room 102, Tyler Hall
Starring Vanessa Redgrave with teleplay by Arthur Miller, this film won multiple Emmy awards and a Peabody award. A Jewish cabaret singer who worked in Paris at the time of the Nazi invasion inspired the film. Acclaimed actress Elaine Bromka and Amy Shore of Cinema Studies lead a discussion following the screening.
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 10 AM-1 PM
ON CAMERA WORKSHOP: Prime Time, Soap and Sitcom with Elaine Bromka
Room 102, Tyler Hall
Explores the style and tone of television acting, working with a cross section of prime-time material (drama and sitcom) as well as daytime TV scenes. Participants will have the opportunity to experiment and sharpen acting technique on camera, with individual coaching and feedback. Includes a discussion of commercial/television career opportunities and tactics. PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Contact Jonel Langenfeld-Rial at 312-2221 or langenfe@oswego.edu.
1-3 PM
 WORKSHOP: The Arts as Provoker w/ Jane Comfort
Graphics Lab, Room 34, Lanigan Hall
Comfort explores the use of the arts as a catalyst to help us see our world in startling ways. Students will create 3-D computer shorts that combine images, text and voice to bring into focus a political or social issue. Students in the workshop receive free tickets to the performance of Jane Comfort and Company’s An American Rendition on Tuesday night and participate in a screening and critique of their work in Waterman Theatre following the performance.
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Contact Kelly Roe at x2850 or roe@oswego.edu
2:30-5 PM
ON CAMERA WORKSHOP: Prime Time, Soap and Sitcom with Elaine Bromka
Room 102, Tyler Hall
See description for workshop at 10 AM
3 PM
FACULTY RECITAL: Rob Auler
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
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12:45-2:05
PANEL: Eyewitness to the Civil Rights Era
Room 104, Lanigan Hall
The African American Studies Program is hosting this panel that features stories from people who lived in the South and the ways in which they dealt with Jim Crow segregation and engaged in (or not) civil rights activism.
12:45-2:05
LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION: Torture & American Idol w/Jane Comfort & Company
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
With her newest work, An American Rendition, Jane Comfort investigates our unwillingness (or inability) to look at what is going on by using a remote control as a theatrical device to flip from reality to reality show, bringing to stage the notion that we avoid looking at torture and coffins coming back from Iraq as we change the channel to something more “fun.” She talks about the issue of torture that is central to her newest piece and the company performs excerpts from the performance later in the evening.
7:30 PM
 PERFORMING ARTS: Jane Comfort & Company
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
Comfort seamlessly fuses spoken word and fluid movement to create a new art form that offers pure magic. Here she presents here newest piece, the emotionally packed, An American Rendition. In this provocative work, an American citizen is kidnapped, interrogated and tortured in a secret prison while we distract ourselves with reality shows. Using a channel changer, Comfort’s company of singers and dancers flip from reality (too hard to watch) to reality show (so much more fun) as they offer up savage parodies of such shows as American Idol, Fear Factor and America’s Next Top Model.
TICKETS: Adults $15; children/seniors $12; SUNY Oswego students $7
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 7 PM
TALK: Retrospect on My Life as a Photographer
Room 104, Lanigan Hall
Pablo Bartholomew’s talk begins with his B&W documentary work from the 1970s (called “a luminous exercise in visual diary-keeping,” by the Telegraph) and continues to his work as a photo journalist in South Asia from 1983 to 2000. He also discusses two major projects: the Nagas of Northeast India, and Indian immigrants in North America.
7:30 PM
JAM SESSION: Oswego Jazz Project
Provides SUNY Oswego students and community members with an opportunity to play jazz with a faculty-led quartet.
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 7:30 PM
CONCERT: The Virtuoso in Chamber Music, String Duos and Trios
Church of the Resurrection, 120 West 5th Street
Jon Shallit, violin; Linda Kirwood, viola; and James Kirkwood, cello present a recital that includes the Beethoven Trio, the Francaix Trio and the Kodalyi Duo. These pieces represent the most important virtuoso chamber works of the Classical, Post-Impressionist and 20th Century Naturalistic styles of music.
SUGGESTED DONATION: $5; SUNY Oswego students free.
 8 PM
ALANA KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Esmeralda Santiago
Ballroom, Hewitt Union
Esmeralda Santiago is a best-selling author and award-winning screenwriter and essayist. Her books include, When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a Woman, The Turkish Lover and America’s Dream. She writes with a powerful fusion of wit and poignancy when recalling the challenges of merging her Puerto Rican and American identities. Charismatic and inspirational, Santiago encourages open dialogues about race, culture, identity and social justice.
TICKETS FREE BUT REQUIRED: Available through Tyler Box Office. Tickets not picked up by 9/14 will be released.
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 12:45-2:05 PM
ARTIST TALK: Painting & Cultural
Iconography with Neil Bender
Room 201, Swetman Hall
Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at USF, Bender recently participated in CircaPR, San Juan’s first international art fair, and will be included in the Bridge Art Fair in Miami during Art Basel this winter. His drawing-based installations have been featured at the Boston Center for the Arts, Bleu Acier Gallery, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and the Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa.
 5 PM
FILM & DISCUSSION: Turtles Can Fly
Campus Center Meeting Room
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Soran is a 13-year-old Kurdish boy who orders other children around as he installs an antenna for villagers keen to hear of Saddam’s fall. Eventually, he falls for Agrin but is disturbed by her brother Henkov, who was left armless after he stepped on a land mine and who can now seemingly predict the future. Light refreshments available between film and discussion.
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 3-4:20 PM
VISITING WRITER: Stephen Kuusisto
Steeper Bell Auditorium, Hewitt Union
Stephen Kuusisto, who has been blind since birth, is the author of the acclaimed memoir Planet of the Blind, a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year,” Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening, and Only Bread, Only Light, a collection of poems from Copper Canyon Press.
7:30 PM
JAM SESSION: Oswego Jazz Project
Provides SUNY Oswego students and community members with an opportunity to play jazz with a faculty-led quartet.
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 7 PM
ORI FILM SERIES: Palante, Siempre Palante by Iris Morales
Room 305, Park Hall
This documentary explores the history of the Young Lords. In the midst of the African American civil rights struggle, protests to end the Vietnam War and the women’s movement for equality, Puerto Rican and Latino communities fought for economic and social justice. Morales will be present to speak about her film.
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