As a member of the Third Thursday group, ArtRage will host a celebration of Syracuse Cultural Worker’s 2009 Women Artist’s Datebook as our Th3 event on November 20, 2008. The gallery will be open from 5-8pm with music, datebook poetry and food offered from 6-7pm. Join us for the event and don’t forget to enter the Th3 free drawing for dinner gift certificates.

(One entry per person)

With this exhibit, titled SCW INSIDE-OUT, we celebrate our 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international “peace and justice publisher and distributor.” Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when we don’t get it right (and when we do); the poster backlist/greatest flops, and more! Join us for what promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives!

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Syracuse Cultural Workers’ 25^th Anniversary Exhibit

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards and T-shirts we publish are well known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

GUIDED TOURS OF InsideOUT:

Join us on Thursdays to experience the exhibit with commentary from the founders and publishers at SCW:

Dik Cool, Co-Founder & SCW Publisher

Karen Kerney, Co-Founder & SCW Art Department Head

Donna Tarbania, SCW Associate Publisher

Schedule:

Thursday, December 4^th, 5 to 6pm with Dik

Thursday, December 11^th, 5 to 6pm with Karen & Donna

Thursday, December 18^th, 5 to 6pm with Karen & Dik

As a special event, the ArtRage Gallery will present a screening of the documentary on the Syracuse Community Choir, “Giving Voice” by the artist’s husband Miso Suchý. It chronicles the range of people who find a sense of community with each other and the music they share with us. 30 minutes.

As an added bonus, the Syracuse Community Choir will offer us a small concert.

This exhibit is a composite photographic portrait of the Syracuse Community Choir by the acclaimed photographer Lida Suchy. It is made up of a large number of 8×10″ view camera portraits of individual members in an attempt to visually articulate some of what makes the Community Choir unique, both as individuals and as a group. For more than 20 years, the Syracuse Community Choir has been an important voice in the Central New York community, actively promoting the ideas of social justice, peace and inclusiveness. This photography exhibition foregrounds the potential of art/singing as a powerful tool for fostering broad social inclusiveness and community building.

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