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The Cazenovia College Art Gallery in Reisman Hall will host the Annual Juried Student Exhibition from Monday, Feb. 20 through Friday, March 2. An opening reception is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 20, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., in the Gallery

The Annual Juried Student Exhibition will include work by students majoring in studio art, photography, fashion design, interior design, and from several majors outside the Art and Design Division. Student work will be juried by program faculty from which the work was generated.

Image: One of the pieces accepted for exhibition is "Memory," India ink on 18 x 24" watercolor paper, created in Foundation Studies drawing class by Lauren Rabideau, freshman interior design major.

The gallery will be closed from March 5 through 12, reopening on March 13 with an exhibition of work by bachelor of fine arts 2012 degree candidates. The Cazenovia College Art Gallery in Reisman Hall, 6 Sullivan St., is on the corner of Sullivan and Seminary streets in Cazenovia. Hours during the academic year are: Monday through Thursday, 1-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m.; Friday, 1-4 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday, 2-6 p.m. Summer hours vary.

For information, contact Jen Pepper, gallery director, by e-mail to jpepper@cazenovia.edu. Information is also on the Web at www.cazenovia.edu/art-gallery.

_ Act UP! Youth Theater Camp will be offered during winter break for kids eight to fourteen years of age at The Palace Theater in Hamilton. During the weekdays, February 20 – 25, there will be two different camp sessions, with each set of campers producing a theater production. The first session is 9am – noon and the second session is 1-4pm. The main show presenting both productions will be Saturday, February 25 at 3pm and is open to the public with tickets available for $5. Following the performance audience members can meet the cast at the Act UP cast party.

This theater experience welcomes two new directors: Dr. Robert Garland (Colgate University) and Dominick Pangallo (BA in Theater from Bates College and co-founder of the Salem Theatre Company). Robert Garland will be directing an original play called To Hades and Back. Dominick Pangallo will direct a selection that is yet be determined. Cost for each camp session is $75. Space is limited. For more information and to register, please contact Patricia von Mechow at The Palace Theater, 315.824.1420.

Act UP! traditionally offers a summer theater camp experience for children that inspires them to create and produce an original script. Dates for the summer camp are being determined now. If you are interested, please contact The Palace Theater to be added to the growing list to receive an application form for your child(ren).

The Palace Theater is located at 19 Utica Street in historic downtown Hamilton, within walking distance of boutiques, fine casual dining and a relaxing Village Green. Visit www.palacetheater.org to learn more about upcoming shows and events.

_ Winter Festival

Art Exhibition

St. Peter's Episcopal Church

12 Mill Street, Cazenovia, N.Y. 13035



You are cordially invited to join us for our  36th Annual Winter Festival Art Exhibition

 Come meet the Artists at our Opening Night Reception

on February 9th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm

Show hours are 

 Friday, February 10th from 12:00 – 6:00 pm

Saturday, February 11th from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

and Sunday, February 12th from 12:00 – 3:30 pm

Sponsored by Cazenovia Arts

for more information please call 315-558-8310 or

email BCW13035@gmail.com

Admission is free

_ Every so often, just when you think the well is dry and the tradition is dead, you are gratefully reminded that there is still water down there and that the tradition was only sleeping. Morgan O’Kane from Charlottesville, Virginia is one of those reminders. A virtuoso banjo player, shouter and activist now based in  New York City, Morgan recalls two other transplanted legendary southern artists; Reverend Gary Davis and Aunt Molly Jackson. Like the reverend, Morgan honed his skills making a living as a busking street artist. Like Aunt Molly, he has kept his connection to his Appalachian home and its issues, taking part in the campaign to ban mountaintop removal mining, which destroys the land and the people who live on it.

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“If Jimi Hendrix played the banjo, he might resemble O’Kane, a high-intensity musician who looks like a mechanic in a rural gas station, sings like a man possessed and plays mountain music like it was an avalanche” - Robert Reid, The Record

While Morgan  O’kane clearly knows his way around the old tunes, he is more interested in creating his own. That’s how the tradition survives – new songs being created on old foundations. This ain’t no revival; this is a contemporary artist who knows where he comes from.

Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 8:00 PM  Tix $18

_ The Palace Players announce a delightful, impromptu cabaret filled with nostalgic songs that celebrate musical favorites of the past. Flashback—Celebrate Music of the 40’s – 60’s is Saturday, February 4 at 7pm. Three talented musicians, come together for this rare treat: Jenni Larchar (Sherburne) is the lead vocalist, Mason McDowell (Lebanon) will tickle the 88’s on his electric piano, and Carl Pickett (Earlville) brings the sound home with his stand-up bass.

Jenni, Mason, and Carl are excited to perform together for Flashback and invite all of you to 70+ minutes of great entertainment. Enjoy tunes such as I've Got You Under My Skin, Star Dust, Georgia On My Mind, Someone to Watch Over Me, Blue Moon

Taking a Chance on Love, and other timeless favorites.

The Colgate Inn will be providing light drinks at a cash bar. Tickets are $10 and available at the door, but reservations are welcome. Seating is general admission, cabaret style (tables and chairs) and first come-first served. Doors open at 6:30pm.

The 5th season of live theater continues at The Palace Theater with its excellent line-up of Broadway and community theater. The touring Off-Broadway musical, Girls Night: the Musical comes to Hamilton for a one night only show on Saturday, February 18 and is two-thirds sold out. The Palace Players, Hamilton’s premier community theater produces The Odd Couple (March 9 & 10) and 12 Angry Men (April 27 & 28). Tickets are available for all of the shows.

The Palace Theater is located at 19 Utica Street in historic downtown Hamilton, within walking distance of boutiques, fine casual dining and a relaxing Village Green. Visit www.palacetheater.org to learn more about upcoming shows and events

_ The Palace Players are pleased to announce the cast for their upcoming production of Neil Simon’s comic masterpiece The Odd Couple.

Michael McCormack (Norwich) and Mark Walden (Hamilton) will portray Oscar Madison and Felix Ungar respectively. Vito Bolognone (Earlville), Christopher Farrell (Hamilton), Mason McDowell (Eaton), and Bruce Ward (Hamilton) will appear as Oscar and Madison’s poker buddies Speed, Vinnie, Roy, and Murray. Jan Webb Guistwite (Sherburne) and Shari Taylor (Earlville) will play Cecily and Gwendolyn Pigeon, Oscar’s upstairs neighbors.

Dominick Pangallo (Hamilton) directs the production, with stage management by Kate Reynolds (Sherburne) and set design by Colgate University student Andrada Danila (Class of 2015).

The Odd Couple will take the stage on Friday March 9 and Saturday March 10 at 8:00pm and on Sunday March 11 at 2:00pm. Tickets are $12 for adults (18+) and $8 for students (with ID). Reservations at palacetheater.org/tickets.php or 315-824-1420 are highly recommended. Tickets may also be purchased at the Palace box office (Mondays-Fridays, 9am-4pm, and two hours prior to each show); payment is accepted by VISA, Mastercard, Colgate Gatecard, cash, or check payable to The Palace Theater. Seating is general admission and the house will open 30 minutes before show time.

The Palace Players are Hamilton’s independent community theater group, performing at the Palace Theater on Utica Street. They strive to enrich the cultural and economic fabric of the greater Hamilton community through the performing arts. Next on stage from the Palace Players is 12 Angry Men, April 27 and 28.

_ The Cazenovia College Art Gallery in Reisman Hall opens Thursday, Jan. 26 with the Sabbatical Returns Exhibition, this year showing the work of Corky Goss, professor of studio art; Karen Steen, professor of fashion design; and Anita Welych, professor of art. A reception, free and open to the public, on Jan. 26, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. will include lectures by the professors. The show runs through Feb. 17.

The Cazenovia College Art Gallery in Reisman Hall, 6 Sullivan St., is on the corner of Sullivan and Seminary streets, one block north of Route 20, in Cazenovia. Hours during the academic year are: Monday through Thursday, 1-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m.; Friday, 1-4 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday, 2-6 p.m. Summer hours vary. All exhibitions are free and open to the public. For information contact Jen Pepper, gallery director, by email to jpepper@cazenovia.edu, or visit http://www.cazenovia.edu/art-gallery (in Quick Links).

_ Cazenovia College’s spring dramatic production is Our Town, the classic three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. The play uses the device of a character dubbed Stage Manager to create the town of Grover’s Corners and its citizens, including George Gibbs, the doctor’s son, and Emily Webb, the daughter of the town’s newspaper editor, following their lives, and the life of the town from 1901 to 1913.

Auditions will be held in the Catherine Cummings Theatre at Cazenovia College, 16 Lincklaen St. in Cazenovia. Open auditions for community actors will be held Wednesday, Jan. 25 from 7 to 10 p.m.

Auditions reserved for College students will be held on Monday, Jan. 23, and Wednesday, Jan. 25 from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. each day.

Callbacks on will be on Thursday, Jan. 26 from 7 to 10 p.m.

Show dates for Our Town are the weekends of April 13, 14, 15, and April 20, 21, 22. Show times and other details will be announced as they become available. The show will be directed by David Lowenstein, Cazenovia College’s artist in residence, and produced by Colleen Prossner, theatre manager. For more information please contact Prossner at 315-655-7238, or email cprossner@cazenovia.edu.

Cazenovia College, founded in 1824, is an independent, co-educational, baccalaureate college near Syracuse, N.Y., offering a comprehensive liberal arts education in an exceptional community environment, with academic and co-curricular programs devoted to developing leaders in their professional fields.  Cazenovia, named one of "America’s Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report, is also a national College of Distinction.  For more information, visit www.cazenovia.edu. 

_ The Cazenovia College Chorale will present Amahl and the Night Visitors,  and sing other seasonal selections, at the Cazenovia United Methodist Church, corner of Lincklaen and Seminary streets, in Cazenovia, on Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public. 

The Chorale, under the direction of Bruce Campbell, is a 65-plus-voice vocal ensemble. The semi-staged concert version of Menotti's opera will make up the majority of the concert, with the Chorale and a student group, the Cazenovia College Singers, offering other seasonal selections. Call Campbell at 391-8047 for information about the production.

This will be the fourth area production of this wonderful opera under Campbell’s direction.  The title role of Amahl will be sung by Zach Simms, a sixth grader from Cazenovia Middle School. The role of Amahl’s mother will be sung by Amanda Benoit, a graduate of Cazenovia High School and St. Rose College. The three kings, a trio of male voices, are sung by Eric Feola, Glenn Hirt and John Melvin.  The role of the Page will be sung by Jake Ammann.  Bill Verity is the accompanist. 

The  New York Prints of Mind Exhibition at the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park will close on Sunday, November 13th  at 5:00 PM.  Gallery hours will be Noon to 4 PM during the week, by appointment, and from Noon - 5:00 PM on Saturday and Sunday, November 12th and 13th .  Non-members pay $5 to park their car.
For more information, contact Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, 3883 Stone Quarry Road, Cazenovia, NY 13035, +1.315.655.3196, office@stonequarryhillartpark.org, http://www.stonequarryhillartpark.org.