Past Events

  1. Dislocation Location: A Discussion Series on Art as a Refuge and Rallying Point.

    January 9, 2020 - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

    Join us for a reading and discussion group in conjunction with our current exhibition, JEROME WITKIN: THIS TIME, THIS WORLD. We will read short stories and excerpts by contemporary authors such as Grace Paley, Joan Silber, and Valeria Luiselli and discuss the relationship between displacement…

  2. Artist Talk with Jerome Witkin

    January 8, 2020 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

    Jerome Witkin (born September 13, 1939) is an American figurative artist whose paintings deal with political, social and cultural themes, along with serious portraiture that melds the sitter’s social position with a speaking likeness that reveals inner character. Witkin has been succinctly characterized as “a…

  3. HEAR US ROAR: Women’s Suffrage Centennial Celebration

    October 27, 2019 - 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    The Syracuse Cultural Workers invites you to an event celebrating the upcoming Women’s Suffrage Centennial and the publication of Syracuse Cultural Workers’ Hear Us Roar 2020 Calendar, 2020 Peace Calendar, Women Artists Datebook and Lunar Calendar. The event will feature: • Quilter/photographer Ellen Blalock •…

  4. Human Flow – Film Screening

    September 25, 2019 - 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM

    Presented in partnership with Hopeprint. Artist, activist and director Ai Weiwei captures the global refugee crisis – the greatest human displacement since World War II – I in this breathtakingly epic film journey HUMAN FLOW. Over 65 million people around the world have been forced…

  5. ArtRageous Extravaganza and Silent Auction

    July 13, 2019 - 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

    Join us for our 11th Annual benefit celebration and extravaganza! Silent Auction – Live Music – Food – Cash Bar $20 at the door   Bid on great Silent Auction items before the event from June 25 – July 12 at our online auction site!…

  6. Tig – Film Screening

    June 12, 2019 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

    “Good evening. Hello. I have cancer.” Comedian Tig Notaro used those words to open her stand-up set at Largo in Los Angeles in August 2012 The performance made her a viral sensation. This documentary focuses on the year that followed that night. Notaro performs at clubs…

  7. Fifty years of LGBTQ+ Family Stories

    June 11, 2019 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

    Join us for an evening of sharing; sharing memories, pain, strength and hope for the future, even in these troubled times. A panel of  local LGBTQ+ community members will begin the evening by talking about the events and experiences that got them to where they…

  8. From Selma to Stonewall: Are We There Yet? – Film Screening

    June 5, 2019 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

    Civil Rights and LGBTQ equality movements; are the two similar, or are they fundamentally different? Do they have the same goals? Why are they often in conflict with one another? From Selma to Stonewall, explores these questions through the journey of two unlikely friends; Gil…

  9. Cree Hunters of Mistassini – Film Screening

    February 13, 2019 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

    Photographer Michael Greenlar will host a film screening of Cree Hunters of Mistassini. Cree Hunters of Mistassini is an award winning documentary film from 1974 that follows a group of three Cree families from the Mistassini region of Quebec, as they set up a winter…

  10. Eyewitness Report from the Border & the Fight for Free Movement

    December 11, 2018 - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

    Presented by the CNY Solidarity Coalition, the Syracuse Immigrant and Refugee Defense Network, Syracuse Democratic Socialists of America, the International Socialist Organization-Syracuse, the Workers’ Center of CNY, the Green Party of Onondaga County ,Black Lives Matter Syracuse, New York and the Syracuse Peace Council. Since…