2009

ArtsWeek along the Connective Corridor combines the long-standing Syracuse Arts & Crafts Festival and the popular Northeast Jazz and Wine Festival with nearly 20 interactive arts activities that are sure to bring out the creativity in everyone who visits.  An Arts Walk serves as a pedestrian conduit between the two festivals from Columbus Circle to Clinton Square.  In its second year, ArtsWeek now extends over two weekends.

Activities include:

• The Connective Corridor Arts Shuttle – Providing a free park-n-ride service from the Syracuse University campus at Manley Field House to over 25 arts and cultural venues, including all the ArtsWeek events.  The Arts Shuttle is free and picks up every 20 minutes.  The Connective Corridor is connecting University Hill with downtown Syracuse.
  Friday, July 23 through Sunday, July 26 
   
• Syracuse Arts & Crafts Festival – A spectacular three-day showcase by some of the country’s most talented artists, craftspeople, and entertainers. Visitors can shop and browse among the arts and crafts exhibits and enjoy the diversity of music and multi-cultural performances, a variety of the best summer refreshments and interactive public art projects for children and families. 
  Friday, July 24, 10 am to 6 pm
  Saturday, July 25, 10 am to 5 pm
  Sunday, July 26, 10 am to 5 pm
  Columbus Circle 
    
• Northeast Jazz & Wine Festival - The East Coast’s first international, multi-day free event combining great jazz with fine wine for 22 hours of first-class jazz performances, starting with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra Pops.  The festival also includes a scholastic festival, late night pub crawls, jam sessions and an air-conditioned Wine Pavilion.
  Thursday, July 23 from 5 pm to 11 pm
  Friday, July 24 from 5 pm to 11 pm
  Saturday, July 25 from 12 noon to 11 pm
  Clinton Square
   
• Urban Video Project – When the sun goes down the lasers come out at UVP. The Urban Video Project will be hosting the laser art event of a lifetime. Feel free to stop by the UVP Monroe venue at 333 E. Onondaga Street and get a chance to “paint” your own digital laser graffiti on the gigantic 3,600-square-foot brick wall. On July 23^rd local artists will be working on a laser drawing that will be projected all night. Then, on July 24^th and 25^th, come down and create your own. We’ll provide the laser, the music, and the food. You provide the imagination.
  July 23 – 25, after dark
  333 E. Onondaga Street
   
• Blue Rain ECOfest – Upstate New York’s first Ecofest and Expo will feature vendors and exhibitors showing products and techniques designed to raise sensitivity and awareness of how every family can lead a more eco-efficient lifestyle. This event includes exhibits about green technology for homes and businesses, health and wellness, and energy efficient vehicle test drives. Organic foods and beverages will be available.
  Friday, July 24 from 5 pm to 10 pm
  Saturday, July 25 from 12 noon to 10 pm
  Hanover Square & City Hall Commons

§    The Everson Museum – Plein Air Painting (Painting in the Open Air) – Learn to paint like the Impressionists!  As the Everson Museum of Art
gears up for the upcoming exhibition of Impressionist works, Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales, the community is invited to “learn by doing,” and step into the role of the artist. Visitors will capture the feeling of a city abuzz in their paintings, as the summer sun illuminates the life and architecture of the downtown area. Everson volunteers and staff will be on hand to answer questions, share painting tips and techniques, and explain the concept of Impressionism. Visitors will be provided all the materials needed to
create their very own plein air painting. Take your painting home, or leave it with the Everson for display.

Saturday, July 25; 10 am to 5 pm

Sunday, August 1; 10 am to 1 pm

City Hall Commons

• The Syracuse International Film Festival will feature a program of family-rated animated and short films, collected from the best of 5 year’s entries in the film festival.  Bring lawn chairs for seating.
  Friday, July 24 from 8:30 to 11:00 pm
  City Hall Commons
   
• Totem Project – Artist Peter Michael will design and direct the installation of the Children’s Totem, consisting of interlocking silhouettes of children at play.  Children visiting Artsweek will be invited to paint the unassembled plywood figures during the morning and early afternoon.  The painted figures will then be assembled and erected as a 21’-tall totem that will tower over ArtsWeek for the remainder of the day.  The finished totem will be erected again at Clinton Square during Family Friendzy festival in Clinton Square on August 1, 2009.  ArtsWeek would like to thank the Rosamond Gifford Foundation for its generous support of the Children’s Totem.
  Saturday, July 25, 10 am to 5 pm, City Hall Commons
  Saturday, August 1, 10 am to 6 pm, Clinton Square
   
• Syracuse New Times 19^th Annual Street Painting Festival – A Sidewalk Art Contest where artists will create masterpieces in chalk.  The contest is limited to 125 participants of all ages who will compete for prize money.  Spectators are encouraged and welcome. 
  Saturday, July 25; Registration begins at 8 am; Winners announced at 3 pm
  (Rain date Sunday, July 26)
  200 block of Montgomery Street 
   
• The Art Store will offer visitors the opportunity to create a wish flag. Based on the Tibetan tradition of prayer flags, visitors are encouraged to write, paint, and decorate flags with their wishes for others. The flags can be hung from the Art Store wishing tree or taken home to share. Also featured will be demonstrations of various art forms by artists at work. On Friday learn about watercolor and hand building with air dry clay. Saturday, Sharon Blair will share her talents in panpastels and mixed media art. On Sunday come see block printing, graphite pencil drawings, and De/Reconstruction Art.
  Friday, July 24 from 10 am to 6 pm
  Saturday, July 25 from 10 am to 5 pm
  Sunday, July 26 from 10 am to 5 pm
  300 Block of E. Onondaga Street
   
• The Syracuse Community Mandala Project is a unifying visual representation of the value each person brings to the central New York community as a whole. Children and adults are invited to express themselves by decorating their own mandala at ArtsWeek. These will be combined with approximately 1,500 other mandala designs created through many local organizations and schools into a large combined structure.  
  Friday, July 24 from 10 am to 6 pm, 300 block of E. Onondaga Street
  Saturday, July 25 from 10 am to 5 pm, City Hall Commons
  Sunday, July 26 from 10 am to 5 pm, 300 block of E. Onondaga Street
   
• The CNY Arts Covenant invites every citizen throughout CNY to fulfill four arts-based agreements during a year’s time. All four should support the arts, artists, or cultural institutions and to expand people’s experiences with the arts. The sign-up event will use an art-form to “seal the deal.” Political and community leaders, children and adults, from our many cultural communities will commit themselves to the Covenant by using the most ancient form of personal signature, their painted handprint on a growing quilt which will become a piece of public artwork. 
  Friday, July 24 at 12 pm
  City Hall Commons, near the Tectonic Hand Sculpture
   
• TH3 & Arts Covenant Event – Adults and children are invited to “make their mark” on the Syracuse Arts scene by “signing” up for CNY Arts Covenant in one of two ways: by adding a handprint to the Covenant Quilt or by creating a flag that will be hung throughout City Hall Commons. These individual art objects that becomes part of a community expression of support for public arts and fulfills their first CNY Arts Covenant agreement.
  Saturday, July 25, 10 am to 5 pm, City Hall Commons
  Sunday, July, 10 am to 5 pm, 300 block of E. Onondaga Street 
   
• The Downtown Writer’s Center at the YMCA will feature faculty books for signing and purchase and readings by local writers, as well as free workshops on found poetry, poetry collage, ekphrastic writing, and family storytelling.  Free copies will be available of the DWC’s AnthologY, featuring work from this season’s visiting writers. Festival goers will have the opportunity to create magnetic poetry or their own six-word memoirs to take home. Those interested can pick up summer and fall writing class schedules.
  Friday, July 24 from 10 am to 6 pm
  Saturday, July 25 from 10 am to 5 pm
  Sunday, July 26 from 10 am to 5 pm
  300 Block Montgomery Street & the Writer’s Center & the YMCA
   
• Media Unit Dancestravaganza - A tribute to Michael Jackson and an audience participation finale dancing to big screen television projections of Jackson’s Thriller music video.  The Johnson Irish Step Dancers kick off the event, followed by the Media Unit’s Oz Nation Dancers, who will be anointing a path between the Arts and Crafts Festival on Columbus Circle and the Jazz Festival on Clinton Square as the Yellow Brick Road. The afternoon will provide a range of dance styles from ballet to hip-hop, African to Middle Eastern, step to jazz and modern.
  Saturday, July 25, from noon to 5 pm at Hanover Square
   
• Redhouse Art Radio, an internet radio station sponsored through The Redhouse Arts Center, will be broadcasting live from City Hall Commons during ArtsWeek, covering the ArtsWeek events and collecting audio profiles from participants.
  Saturday, July 25, 10 am to 5 pm
  City Hall Commons
   
• ArtsWeek ‘Zine – Urban Arts Rangers will be dispatched again this year to go around the festival gathering stories from exhibiting artists, musicians, and people attending the festivals to create an art newspaper that captures the experience of the festival. Everyone is encouraged to help write the stories, take the pictures, and create drawings.
  Saturday, July 25 from 10 am to 5 pm
  City Hall Commons
   
• Participate in a Live Mural - Gossamer Wings Interior Design Studio is proud to present the free Live Mural, where kids of all ages are welcome to express their artistic minds. Free face painting will also be held.
  Friday, July 24 from 1 to 6 pm, 300 block of E. Onondaga Street
  Saturday, July 25 from 10 am to 2 pm, City Hall Commons
  Sunday, July 26 from 10 am to 2 pm, 300 block of E. Onondaga Street
   
• Delavan Art Gallery will host a Hawaiian Luau to support and celebrate the creativity of local artists. The $10 admission charge includes light refreshments and non-alcoholic beverages. Remember to wear your Hawaiian shirts. The featured exhibits, “Reflections” and “Pen and Ink Drawings by Brian Butler” will remain up through August 1. www.delavanartgallery.com
  Friday, July 24 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm, 501 West Fayette Street
   
• Syracuse University Book Store Book Fair – The literary and creative talents of local and regional authors and illustrators will be showcased.  Many will be on hand to discuss, and personally autograph their books.  Books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and those for children will be featured.  (See list of authors below.)
  Friday, July 24, 10 am to 6 pm
  Saturday, July 25, 10 am to 5 pm
  Sunday, July 26, 10 am to 5 pm
  300 block of Montgomery Street 
  
  Childrens  Books - Graphic Novels:
  Frank Cammuso is comic book series Max Hamm Fairy Tale Detective.
  
  Childrens Books – Illustrator:
  London Ladd, has partnered with Christine King Farris, older sister of Martin Luther King Jr, for a children’s book, March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World, to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. 
  
  Roger Demuth, author and illustrator of Please Don’t Eat Me,  Messy Bessie, Where’s My Homework? and Dinner For Eight. 
  
  Poetry:
  Marv Druger published Strange Creatures and Other Poems. 
  
  Alice Fulton, author of Nightingales of Troy, Cascade Experiment, Felt and Sensual Math.
  
  Aken Wariebi, author of Think as Your Heart Beats.
  
  Nature and Environment:
  Donald Leopold is the author of Native Plants of the Northeast, and Trees of New York State Native & Naturalized, a comprehensive identification guide to nearly 150 tree species of New York. He is coauthor of The Landowner’s Guide to State-Protected Plants of Forests in New York State and Trees of the Central Hardwood Forests of North America: An Identification and Cultivation Guide.
  
  The University Bookstore offers a variety of services and an extensive selection of books designed to support the diverse interests and vibrant climate of our community.

Saturday, August 1, 2009:

• Family Friendzy – Presented by City of Syracuse Dept. of Parks, Recreation & Youth Services, this first-time event will feature multi-cultural live entertainment and lots of hands-on arts activities, including many of the above mentioned ArtsWeek events.  Headling the day will be 15 year old singing phenomenon national recording artist Justin Bieber.  There will be a Storybook Corner and local celebrities reading from their favorite storybooks.  Fun for the whole family!
  Saturday, August 1 from 10 am to 6 pm, Clinton Square
   
• Candlelight Opera Armory Square – Syracuse Opera will sing areas from “La Boheme,” “I Pagliacci,” “Hansel & Gretel,” “Carmen,” “The Marriage of Figaro” and “Rigoletto.”  Opening performance by Lilly Patrick.
  Saturday, August 1; opening act at 6:30 pm; Syracuse Opera Co. at 8 pm
  Armory Square, Corner of W. Jefferson & Franklin Streets.

Many other area organizations worked with the Downtown Committee to coordinate ArtsWeek events, including the Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse Public Arts Commission, the City of Syracuse Parks & Recreation Department, CNY Jazz Arts Foundation, the Gifford Foundation and the Syracuse New Times.  Major funding for both anchor festivals was provided by a New York State Community Events Program Grant through Senator John A. DeFrancisco.