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Fine Arts Events Calendar 2008-2009
Tickets available from the Tower Fine Arts Box Office unless otherwise indicated. Call (585) 395-ARTS today!
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- September 2008
- October 2008
- November 2008
- December 2008
- January 2009
- February 2009
- March 2009
- April 2009
- May 2009
SEPTEMBER 2008
Wednesday, September 3 – Tuesday, October 7
Archive: 40 Years of the Visual Studies Workshop
Founded by Nathan Lyons in 1969, Rochester’s Visual Studies Workshop has built an archive of artists’ books, photographs, film and video, and various printed ephemera. The collections of the VSW represent an age of exploratory advancement and oft-times provocative visual phenomena.
Wednesday, September 3 – Tuesday, October 7
Tower Fine Arts Gallery
Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 2, 5 - 8 pm
Friday, September 12
The Krazy Firemen
Best known for their authentic German Oktoberfest music, their repertoire spans the "big band" sound of the '30's to the present, plus a collection of waltzes, polkas and marches. Amongst its players are alumni from The Juilliard School and The Eastman School of Music.
Friday, September 12 at 7:30 pm
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Friday - Sunday, September 19 - 21
Color Blind: The Katrina Monologues
The turmoil that Hurricane Katrina wrought in its aftermath is explored by playwright Tom Flannery. The dossier of cases that he has assembled for this docudrama will rend your hearts with their plaintive cries: Where was the help? Where was our government? How could this happen in America?
September 19 – 21
Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm, Sunday at 2 pm
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Thursday, September 25
Stage Directions: Conversations with Theater Professionals
As part of the Department of Theatre’s relationship with Geva Theatre Center, this series of interactive panels allows attendees to discover various aspects of making theatre. Open to the public.
Thursday, September 25 at 10 am
Free
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
Sunday, September 28
Bringing it Home: Tom Honeck in Concert
An alumnus of the theatre department, Honeck takes his audience on a journey from his idyllic hometown of Brockport, NY, to the mythic New York City. His storytelling, punctuated with songs from the worlds of pop and Broadway, will leave you looking at the world from a slightly different perspective.
This benefit performance will raise funds for the Friar’s Club Foundation, which provides scholarships to students in the Department of Theatre.
Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 2 pm
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
OCTOBER 2008
September 3 – October 7
Archive: 40 Years of the Visual Studies Workshop
Founded by Nathan Lyons in 1969, Rochester’s Visual Studies Workshop has built an archive of artists’ books, photographs, film and video, and various printed ephemera. The collections of the VSW represent an age of exploratory advancement and oft-times provocative visual phenomena.
Wednesday, September 3 – Tuesday, October 7
Tower Fine Arts Gallery
October 1 – 4
Harlequins Student Theatre Productions
Fall Production:
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday,
October 1, 2, and 4 at 7:30 pm
Tower Fine Arts Center Lab Theatre
Tickets: Brockport Student Government
Box Office (585) 395-2487
Thursday - Saturday, October 2 - 4
Latina Dance Project presents
Coyolxauhqui ReMembers
Coyolxauhqui ReMembers is a full evening piece that blends dance (contemporary, Aztec, Samba and aerial), original music and text to re-interpret the Aztec myth of the Moon Goddess Coyolxauhqui, drawing parallels between her story and stories that serve as an awakening to the condition of contemporary women.
Thursday – Saturday, October 2 – 4 at 7:30 pm
Post-concert reception: October 3
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Hartwell Dance Theater
Friday, October 3
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Since its founding in 1922, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has been committed to enriching and inspiring our community through the art of music. For more than 85 years, the RPO has been known for its high standard of artistic excellence, unique tradition of musical versatility and deep commitment to education and community engagement.
Friday, October 3 at 7:30 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
Wednesday, October 8
Music at Noon
Whether you are brown-bagging it, or just taking a break from the rest of your day, these informal concerts are the perfect way to let music wash over you to soothe your cares away!
Wednesday, October 8
Free
Drake Memorial Library Lobby
Thursday - Saturday, October 16 – 18
DANCE/Strasser
Burgeoning student choreographers set dances on their fellow students in this informal concert setting. Dynamics between choreographers and dancers are explored in post-performance talkbacks.
Thursday – Saturday, October 16 – 18 at 7:30 pm
Post-concert reception: October 17
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Rose L. Strasser Studio, Hartwell Hall
October 22 - December 2
The College at Brockport Department of Art Alumni Exhibition
The Department of Art is proud to present a sampling of works by these former students who have developed an extensive record of professional artistic activity. Featuring works by Jolene Beckman, ’03; Jim DeLucia, ’02; Jason Flack ’94; Renee Ruillier, ’98.
Wednesday, October 22 – Tuesday, December 2
Opening reception: Tuesday, October 21, 5 – 7 pm
Tower Fine Arts Gallery
Thursday – Saturday, October 23 – 25
DANCE/Hartwell
Inspiration and innovation manifest themselves through movement. Choreography by MFA candidates Kelly Kavanaugh and Crystal Malone will be featured.
Thursday – Saturday, October 23 – 25 at 7:30 pm
Post-concert reception: October 24
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Hartwell Dance Theater
NOVEMBER 2008
October 22 - December 2
The College at Brockport Department of Art Alumni Exhibition
The Department of Art is proud to present a sampling of works by these former students who have developed an extensive record of professional artistic activity. Featuring works by Jolene Beckman, ’03; Jim DeLucia, ’02; Jason Flack ’94; Renee Ruillier, ’98.
Wednesday, October 22 – Tuesday, December 2
Opening reception: Tuesday, October 21, 5 – 7 pm
Tower Fine Arts Gallery
Friday, November 5
Music at Noon
Whether you are brown-bagging it, or just taking a break from the rest of your day, these informal concerts are the perfect way to let music wash over you to soothe your cares away!
Wednesday, November 5
Free
Drake Memorial Library Lobby
Thursday – Saturday, November 6 – 8
New Dancers’ Showcase
Thursday – Saturday, November 6 – 8 at 7:30 pm
Post-concert reception: November 7
Donations accepted at the door
Rose L. Strasser Studio, Hartwell Hall
November 7 – 9 and November 13 – 15
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
What fools these mortals be! And immortals too, sometimes! Shakespeare’s romantic comedy is full of lovers, unrequited lovers, magically united lovers, the King of the faeries, actors, and young Greeks. Oh, and a donkey.
November 7 – 9 and 13 – 15
Thursday through Saturday Evenings at 7:30 pm
Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
Thursday, November 13
Stage Directions: Conversations with Theater Professionals
As part of the Department of Theatre’s relationship with Geva Theatre Center, this series of interactive panels allows attendees to discover various aspects of making theatre. Open to the public.
Thursday, November 13 at 10 am
Free
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
Wednesday - Friday, November 19 - 21
DANSCORE
The finest dance faculty in western New York performs and choreographs works that leave audiences mesmerized and enthralled.
Wednesday – Friday, November 19 – 21 at 7:30 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Saturday, November 22
Friends of Brockport Dance Golden Circle Scholarship Fundraising Performance
Saturday, November 22 at 7:30pm, followed by post-concert reception
$20/$8 Students
Hartwell Dance Theater
Friday, November 21
Rochester Flute Association
Amongst the over 200 members of the Rochester Flute Association are students, professional musicians, educators and adult amateurs. Their concert will feature a more compact flute choir, playing repertoire composed specifically for flute choir, as well as transcriptions of other works.
Friday, November 21 at 7:30 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
DECEMBER 2008
December 4 - 5
Dime-a-Dance
Thursday and Friday
December 4 and 5 at 7:30 pm
Donations accepted at the door
Rose L. Strasser Studio, Hartwell Hall
Sunday, December 7
Very Merry Music featuring
The Brockport College-Community Chorus
Join us for a concert of songs of the season, after a day of festivities throughout the Village, including a tree-lighting and candlelight walk.
Sunday, December 7 at 7:30 pm
All tickets $5, sold at the door
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 14 State Street, Brockport
JANUARY 2009
January 30 – February 24
Monroe and Vicinity Biennial Exhibition
Western New York is rich with talented and adventurous artists. In this exhibition, we celebrate the accomplishments of four artists in our region: Dan deZarn, Geneseo; Barbara Rowe, Buffalo; Peter Byrne, Rochester; and Minna Resnick, Ithaca.
Friday, January 30 – Tuesday, February 24
Opening reception: Thursday, January 29, 5 – 7 pm
Tower Fine Arts Gallery
FEBRUARY 2009
January 30 – February 24
Monroe and Vicinity Biennial Exhibition
Western New York is rich with talented and adventurous artists. In this exhibition, we celebrate the accomplishments of four artists in our region: Dan deZarn, Geneseo; Barbara Rowe, Buffalo; Peter Byrne, Rochester; and Minna Resnick, Ithaca.
Friday, January 30 – Tuesday, February 24
Opening reception: Thursday, January 29, 5 – 7 pm
Tower Fine Arts Gallery
Friday, February 6
Jazz Day @ Brockport featuring
The Aaron Goldberg Trio
Workshops, lectures and a concert
Wynton Marsalis has said that “Aaron Goldberg is a modern improviser of great clarity, finesse and dexterity.” With the other members of his trio, this talented young pianist and composer will weave the magic of jazz to fans and musicians from all walks of life -- novice to professional -- at a series of lecture/demonstrations, a master class and a concert.
Friday, February 6
Lectures and master class to take place at various campus locations
For information about the workshops and master class, please refer to www.brockport.edu/finearts,
or call (585) 395-2797.
Concert at 7:30 pm,
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
This concert is sponsored in part by the Mark and Ann Iacona Family.
Thursday - Saturday, February 19 - 21
Dance Awareness Days
Thursday – Saturday
February 19 – 21
Free. Participants must be at least 16.
Hartwell dance studios, classrooms and Dance Theater
Thursdsay - Saturday, February 26 - 28
Student Dance Organization Guest Artist Larry Keigwin and Company
The company lives to create provocative, witty and engaging dances. Utilizing a collaborative process, they combine physicality with theatricality, sample a variety of mediums and, ultimately, fuse art with entertainment.
Thursday - Saturday, February 26 - 28 at 7:30 pm
$20/$8 Students
Hartwell Dance Theater
Tickets: Brockport Student Government
Box Office: (585) 395-2487
February 27 – March 1 and March 5 – 7
Festival of Ten: An Evening of Ten 10-minute Plays
After an international search, and reviewing hundreds of plays, the sixth biennial Festival of Ten has culled these scripts down to ten. The ten 10-minute plays you will see are at times thought-provoking; at times sly and witty. But they are always the result of a writer putting words on paper and thus creating a living, breathing thing: a play.
February 27 – March 1 and March 5 – 7
Thursday through Saturday Evenings at 7:30 pm
Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
MARCH 2009
March 1 and March 5 – 7
Festival of Ten: An Evening of Ten 10-minute Plays
After an international search, and reviewing hundreds of plays, the sixth biennial Festival of Ten has culled these scripts down to ten. The ten 10-minute plays you will see are at times thought-provoking; at times sly and witty. But they are always the result of a writer putting words on paper and thus creating a living, breathing thing: a play.
February 27 – March 1 and March 5 – 7
Thursday through Saturday Evenings at 7:30 pm
Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
March 4 – 31
Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?
and Jim Dusen: Brockport Game Face
Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like? is a unique photographic celebration of sports and physical daring in the lives of girls and women. The exhibition was inspired by the 30th anniversary of Title IX, in which Congress mandated the equality of girls and boys in schools, both in classes and on the playing fields. As a companion piece, Brockport campus photographer Jim Dusen has taken a series of photographs for Brockport Game Face that depict the anguish, strength and victory that some of our own female athletes have faced.
Wednesday, March 4 – Tuesday, March 31
Opening reception: Tuesday, March 3, 4 – 6 pm
Tower Fine Arts Gallery
Wednesday, March 4
Music at Noon
Whether you are brown-bagging it, or just taking a break from the rest of your day, these informal concerts are the perfect way to let music wash over you to soothe your cares away!
Wednesday, March 4
Free
Drake Memorial Library Lobby
Thursday, March 5
Stage Directions: Conversations with Theater Professionals
As part of the Department of Theatre’s relationship with Geva Theatre Center, this series of interactive panels allows attendees to discover various aspects of making theatre. Open to the public.
Thursday, March 5 at 10 am
Free
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
Thursday - Saturday, March 5 - 7
DANCE/Hartwell
Reaching outward or inward, a dancer’s every thought and motion serves a choreographer’s vision. Their athletic grace is astonishing to behold.
Thursday – Saturday, March 5 – 7 at 7:30 pm
Post-concert reception: March 6
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Hartwell Dance Theater
Thursday - Saturday, March 26 - 28
DANCE/Strasser
What causes creativity to flow forth from a choreographer? How do they adapt their vision when the variable of dancers is added to the equation? This concert is your chance to find out, at the talkbacks that follow.
Thursday – Saturday, March 26 – 28 at 7:30 pm
Post-concert reception: March 27
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Rose L. Strasser Studio, Hartwell Hall
Friday, March 27
Plymouth Brass Quintet
As one of the resident faculty ensembles from the Hochstein School of Music, the Plymouth Brass Quintet brings their special brand of musicianship to the Mainstage. Their concert program will survey brass ensembles written through the centuries, including our own.
Friday, March 27 at 7:30 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
APRIL 2009
Wednesday, April 1
Music at Noon
Whether you are brown-bagging it, or just taking a break from the rest of your day, these informal concerts are the perfect way to let music wash over you to soothe your cares away!
Wednesday, April 1
Free
Drake Memorial Library Lobby
Best of Brockport Dance 2009
Thursday and Friday, April 2 and 3
This second biennial concert has a dual purpose: it is a way to show the spectacular achievements of both students and faculty to the greater Rochester community, but it is also — even more importantly — a way to raise funds for incoming student scholarships.
Thursday and Friday, April 2 and 3 at 7:30 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Hartwell Dance Theater
Saturday, April 4
Best of Brockport Gala Performance and Reception
Saturday, April 4 at 7:30pm
$75 General includes a pre-concert reception at 6:30pm
Jewish Community Center
1200 Edgewood Avenue, Rochester
Click here for information on purchasing tickets
This performance is not subject to subscription or any other promotional discounts.
Sunday, April 5
When The College at Brockport began the poet & painter restoration project, 72 pieces of art created by famed poet E.E. Cummings had not seen the light of day for over two decades, due to deterioration. After the October 2007 poet and painter gala, more than half the collection had been “adopted” for restoration. Yet there are still pieces to be restored, and in order to raise funds to do so, we are thrilled to bring Anthony Zerbe to Rochester in his tour-de-force performance, It’s All Done With Mirrors, in which he gives insight into the artist behind the poet.
Emmy Award-winning stage and screen actor Anthony Zerbe in
It’s All Done With Mirrors...
an avalanche of E.E. Cummings
“A delicious evening of theatre”
–San Diego Union
With this performance, the audience gains joyous access to the art and energy of one of America’s most beloved poets. Zerbe moves through a parade of characters, accents and dazzling word play, capturing some of Cummings’ favorite subjects: Paris, New York, the moon, spring, and first loves. Like Cummings, Anthony Zerbe is an accomplished raconteur and his asides and anecdotes recall a time when conversation was considered an art form.
In addition to Mr. Zerbe’s captivating presentation, this fund raising event will feature an exhibition of the approximately 35 works that will have been restored thus far. Additional Cummings works in need of conservation will be available for “adoption” during the post-performance wine and hors d’oeuvres reception.
For more information on the project, please visit www.brockport.edu/cummings or call Michael D. Andriatch, executive director of alumni relations and major projects, at (585) 395-5809.
Sunday, April 5 at 2 pm
Memorial Art Gallery
500 University Avenue, Rochester
Ticket price to be announced.
Thursday - Saturday, April 2 - 4
Harlequins Student Theatre Productions
Spring Production:
Thursday – Saturday,
April 2 – 4 at 7:30 pm
Tower Fine Arts Center Lab Theatre
Tickets: Brockport Student Government
Box Office (585) 395-2487
Friday, April 17 - Wednesday, May 6
Annual Student Art Exhibition
Whether sculpture or photography, painting or bookmaking, ceramics or jewelry design, The College at Brockport’s students always save their best work for this juried exhibition. Their talents will not fail to impress you.
Friday, April 17 – Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, April 17, 7 – 9 pm
Awards Ceremony: 7:45 pm
Tower Fine Arts Gallery
Thursday - Sunday, April 23 – 26
Sankofa African Dance and Drum Ensemble
The joy. The drums. The rituals. The color. The exuberance. These aspects combine to form the phenomenon that is Sankofa. Under the artistic direction of Clyde Alafiju Morgan and musical direction of Khalid N’Faly Saleem, these concerts are perennial sell-outs.
Thursday – Saturday, April 23 – 25 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 26 at 2 pm
Post-concert reception: April 24
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Hartwell Dance Theater
April 25 – May 2
The Cover of Life by R.T. Robinson
When three brothers from Louisiana enlist to fight in World War II, their wives move in with their mother. A reporter for Life magazine is dispatched to write a feature story about the “women left behind,” only to realize that the men aren’t the only ones fighting the war. In their own ways, the ones keeping the home fires burning also have their own minefields to negotiate.
April 24 – 26 and April 30 – May 2
Thursday through Saturday Evenings at 7:30 pm
Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
Saturday, April 25
GospelFest
Featuring the Brockport Gospel Choir
Saturday, April 25 at 7 pm
Free
Seymour College Union Ballroom
Thursday, April 30
Stage Directions: Conversations with Theater Professionals
As part of the Department of Theatre’s relationship with Geva Theatre Center, this series of interactive panels allows attendees to discover various aspects of making theatre. Open to the public.
Thursday, April 30 at 10 am
Free
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
MAY 2009
Friday and Saturday, May 1 and May 2
The Cover of Life by R.T. Robinson
When three brothers from Louisiana enlist to fight in World War II, their wives move in with their mother. A reporter for Life magazine is dispatched to write a feature story about the “women left behind,” only to realize that the men aren’t the only ones fighting the war. In their own ways, the ones keeping the home fires burning also have their own minefields to negotiate.
April 24 – 26 and April 30 – May 2
Thursday through Saturday Evenings at 7:30 pm
Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
Friday, May 1 - Wednesday, May 6
Annual Student Art Exhibition
Whether sculpture or photography, painting or bookmaking, ceramics or jewelry design, The College at Brockport’s students always save their best work for this juried exhibition. Their talents will not fail to impress you.
Friday, April 17 – Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, April 17, 7 – 9 pm
Awards Ceremony: 7:45 pm
Tower Fine Arts Gallery
Wednesday and Thursday, May 7 and 8
Dime-a-Dance
7:30 pm
Rose L. Strasser Studio
Donations accepted at the door
Saturday, May 9
One Enchanted Evening featuring
The Brockport College-Community Chorus
When spring hits the air, music blooms alongside the crocuses and daffodils. Join us for an evening of chamber opera and other vocal pyrotechnics. A fitting finale to the Fine Arts season, as voices are lifted in song.
Saturday, May 9 at 7:30 pm$8, all tickets
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
Friday, May 15
Senior Solo Concert
Friday, May 15 at 7:30
Post-concert reception: May 15
Donations accepted at the door
Hartwell Dance Theater
