Ongoing-September 27

SUNY OSWEGO DOWNTOWN EXHIBIT
186 West First Street
A Sense of Place: Images of the North Country by Lawrence Barone

Tuesday, September 1 • 7 PM
ORI FILM: Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
Based on this year’s Oswego Reading Initiative book selection, The Complete Persepolis.

Wednesday, September 2 • 3 PM
LIVING WRITERS SERIES: Screening & Talk, Battlestar Galactica
Room 118, Campus Center Auditorium
Television episodes screened and discussed prior to visit by director Jeff Woolnaugh.
See September 14 for details.

Part of this year's Arts, Identity & Diaspora

Wednesday, September 9 • 12:40 PM
PANEL DISCUSSION: Reflecting Poe, Multimedia Explorations
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
SUNY Oswego alumnus, Emmett Van Slyke, leads a panel discussion with actors and dancers from his multimedia show, Reflecting Poe, that opens on September 12. View and sample some of the extensive electronic music and video gear used in the show.

Wednesday, September 9 • 3 PM
LIVING WRITERS SERIES: Screening & Talk, Battlestar Galactica
Room 118, Campus Center Auditorium
Television episodes screened and discussed prior to visit by director Jeff Woolnaugh.
See September 14 for details.

Part of this year's Arts, Identity & Diaspora

Friday, September 11
5-7 PM, Opening
6 PM Gallery Talk: Bartow + Metzgar
TYLER ART GALLERY RECEPTION
Art Gallery, Tyler Hall

September 11–October 11
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
Kara Walker: The Emancipation Approximation Series
A provocative and controversial artist, Walker uses her trademark silhouette format combined with visceral imagery that recalls the antebellum South to address issues of race and gender in America.

Getting Around: Transportation in the 1930s
Depression-era prints depicting public and commercial transportation from the Grant Arnold Collection. Includes images of railroads, ferries and subways.

September 11 – October 18
GALLERY EXHIBITION
Bartow + Metzgar, Spatio Geographica:
An Experimental Archive of Human and Nonhuman Agents in North America
This two-person collaborative, Bartow + Metzgar, is interested in what composes the collective of the human and nonhuman. This interest arises out of a concern for how we engage things (human and nonhuman) from multi-scaled and varied perspectives.
For related symposium see October 9.

Funding for the exhibition brochure and related symposium have been provided by ARTSwego and Auxiliary Services. This program is funded by the Student Arts Fee.

Friday, September 11 • 7:30 PM
DRESS REHEARSAL & DANCE DISCUSSION: Reflecting Poe
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
This open rehearsal provides an opportunity to learn about the choreography that is part of Reflecting Poe.
See September 12 for details.

Saturday, September 12 • 7:30 PM
Sunday, September 13 • 3 PM
PERFORMANCE: Reflecting Poe
Music composed and performed by Emmett Van Slyke
Choreography by Erin Reid
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
This multi-media journey into the life of Edgar Allen Poe includes dramatic soliloquies of tales and poetry, modern dance, projected video and a sweeping cinematic score, performed live on electronic and acoustic instruments by Emmett Van Slyke. Van Slyke, attended SUNY Oswego, Syracuse University, and Morrisville College, and earned an ACTF Kennedy Center Award for his score for The Crucible.
Adults $15, Seniors/Students $10, SUNY Oswego Students $5
Suggested for ages 8 and older
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Monday, September 14 • 3 PM
LIVING WRITERS SERIES: Jeff Woolnough, Battlestar Galactica Director
Room 118, Campus Center Auditorium
An illustrated presentation by Woolnough provides an opportunity to explore this year’s “Arts, Identity & Diaspora” theme through the abstract lens of science fiction.

Part of this year's Arts, Identity & Diaspora

Wednesday, September 16 • 3 PM
LIVING WRITERS SERIES: Battlestar Galactica and the Creation of Science Fiction Universes
Room 118, Campus Center Auditorium
SUNY Oswego Novelist, Robert O’Connor, explores science fiction writing as it relates to Battlestar Galactica.

Part of this year's Arts, Identity & Diaspora

Wednesday, September 16 • 7:30 PM
Pre-concert talk begins at 7 PM
KE-NEKT’ CONCERT: An Evening of String Trios
Ballroom, Sheldon Hall
Hosted by SUNY Oswego faculty member, Jon Shallit, this performance includes works by Beethoven, Boccherini, and Ermano Wolf-Ferrari. The trio includes Jonathan Shallit, violin; Linda Kirkwood, viola; and James Kirkwood, cello.
Adults $15, Seniors/Students $10, SUNY Oswego Students $5
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Friday, September 18 • 7:30 PM
PERFORMANCE: The Holmes Brothers
Presented in cooperation with ALANA
With special appearance by SUNY Oswego’s Gospel Choir and Praise Dancers
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
Undisputed masters of blues-based American roots music, The Holmes Brothers bring with them an energetic mix of secular and sacred music, including roadhouse rock, blues, deep soul, Americana/country, sanctified gospel, and pure pop.
Adults $15, Seniors/Students $12, SUNY Oswego Students $7
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Part of this year's Arts, Identity & Diaspora

Wednesday, September 23 • 12:40 PM
ORI TALK: The Graphic Novel by Calvin Reid
Presented by the Student Association Programming Board
Room 118, Campus Center Auditorium
An American artist, journalist, writer and editor, Reid talks about graphic novels as one of the fastest growing categories in publishing and storytelling.

Wednesday, September 23 • 12:40 PM
TALK: The Roles of a Modern Jazz Musician
Room 41, Tyler Hall
Memphis-based composer and trumpeter David Lisik talks about his recent project, “Coming Through Slaughter.” He explains the process from contracting musicians (NY Jazz Greats: Matt Wilson, Tim Hagans, and Donny McCaslin) to recording and editing his 10-movement composition that was inspired by Canadian author Michael Ondaaje’s book.

Wednesday, September 23 • 7:30 PM
FACULTY CONCERT SERIES: Oswego Jazz Project with Special Guest Dave Lisik
Room 118, Campus Center Auditorium
The Oswego Jazz Project performs original and standard jazz works, including several compositions by guest artist trumpeter and composer Dave Lisik.
Adults $7, Seniors/Students $5
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SHEN WEI DANCE ARTS Free Tickets Available!
Friday, September 25 • 7 PM
Landmark Theatre in Syracuse
Syracuse University is graciously making available 20 tickets for SUNY Oswego students. They are available on a first-come, first served basis through the ARTSwego Office at 105 Mahar Hall.

The Washington Post has praised Shen Wei as “one of the great artists of our time.” His company’s work crosses boundaries not only of artistic expression and technology, but of cultures and currents of thought, resonating across the range of disciplines and the human experiences on which they focus.

Tuesday, September 29 • 3 PM
LIVING WRITERS SERIES: Charles Plymell, Beat Generation Poet
Room 118, Campus Center Auditorium
Spun out of the Wichita Vortex Movement in the 1940s that energized the Beat Generation, Charles Plymell--poet, novelist, critic, publisher, friend of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Dylan--is the hippest elder statesman in American literature.