Events and Activities in Syracuse, New York

Continues thru 12/23/2010
Event:     56th Annual Art Mart
Location:  The Atrium at City Hall Commons, 201 E. Washington St., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-422-8284

Continues thru 1/9/2011
Event:  Exhibits:  From the Studio to the Salon & Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Location:  SUArt Galleries, SUArt Galleries, Syracuse University, Shaffer Art Building, Syracuse
For More Info:  315-443-4097

Continues thru 2/6/2011
Event:     Exhibit:  Rigo 23: The Tate Wikikuwa (Leonard Peltier) Museum: North America 2024
Location:  The Warehouse Gallery, 350 W Fayette St, Syracuse
For More Info:  315-443-6450

Continues thru 12/30/2010
Event:     Lights on the Lake
Location:  Onondaga Lake Park, 106 Lake Drive, Liverpool
For More Info:  315-453-6712

Continues thru 12/18/2010
Event:     Christmas Around the World (Friday & Saturday evenings only)
Location:  Ste. Marie among the Iroquois, 6680 Onondaga Lake Parkway, Liverpool
For More Info:  315-453-6768

Continues thru 1/2/2011
Event:     Gingerbread Gallery
Location:  Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Blvd. East, Syracuse
For More Info:  315-471-0593

Continues thru 12/19/2010
Event:     Dickens Christmas in Skaneateles (Saturday & Sunday afternoons only)
Location:  Streets of Skaneateles, Jordan and Fennell Streets, Skaneateles
For More Info:  315-685-0552

Continues thru 12/23/2010
Event:     Syracuse Stage presents:  A Christmas Story
Location:  Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-443-3275

Continues thru 12/11/2010
Event:     Play:  Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and then some)
Location:  Jazz Central, 441 E. Washington Street, Syracuse
For More Info:  315-546-3224

Continues thru 12/12/2010
Event:     Holiday Festival of Trees
Location:  Shoppingtown Mall, former Bon Ton location, 3649 Erie Boulevard East, DeWitt
For More Info:  315-474-6064

Continues thru 12/31/2010
Event:     Inspired Tidings: Annual Holiday Show at Gallery 54
Location:  Gallery 55, 54 E. Genesee St, Skaneateles
For More Info:  315-685-5470

Continues thru 12/11/2010
Event:     Breakfast with Santa (Saturday only – reservations strongly suggested)
Location:  Beaver Lake Nature Center, 8477 East Mud Lake Rd, Baldwinsville
For More Info:  315-638-2519

Continues thru 12/19/2010
Event:     Breakfast with Santa (Saturday & Sunday only – reservations strongly suggested)
Location:  Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park, 1 Conservation Place, Syracuse
For More Info:  315-435-8511 ext.180

Continues thru 12/19/2010
Event:     Santa’s Magical Workshop (Saturday & Sunday only)
Location:  Rt. 80 Quarry Ridge Stables, 5016 South Onondaga Road, Nedrow
For More Info:  315-492-3404

Starts:  12/9/2010  Ends: 12/10/2010
Event:     The Adventures of Rudolph
Location:  Mulroy Civic Center at Oncenter, 800 S. State St., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-424-8200

Starts:  12/10/2010  Ends: 12/10/2010
Event:     “BREW & VIEW” 35mm Film Series and SYRFILM present: DEATH WISH 3 & VICE SQUAD,  Location:  Palace Theater, 2384 James St., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-436-4723

Starts:  12/10/2010  Ends: 12/12/2010
Event:     Syracuse Ice Fishing Show
Location:  Pirro Convention Center at Oncenter, 800 S. State St., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-435-2121

Starts:  12/11/2010  Ends: 12/11/2010
Event:     Concert:  Andrew Halliday
Location:  Red House Arts Center, 201 S. West Street, Syracuse
For More Info:  315 425 0405

Starts:  12/11/2010  Ends: 12/11/2010
Event:     Dan Duggan and Peggy Lynn in concert
Location:  Robinson Memorial Presbyterian Church, 126 Terry Road, Syracuse
For More Info:  315-468-2509

Starts:  12/11/2010  Ends: 12/11/2010
Event:     Gratitude Dinner – Mexican Posada
Location:  Plymouth Church, 232 E. Onondaga St., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-218-5708

Starts:  12/11/2010  Ends: 12/11/2010
Event:     NYS Indoor Go-Kart Racing Championship
Location:  Empire Expo Center/NYS Fairgrounds, 581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-676-1061

Starts:  12/11/2010  Ends: 12/11/2010
Event:     Syracuse University Men’s Basketball vs Colgate
Location:  Carrier Dome, 900 Irving Ave., Syracuse
For More Info:  888-366-3849

Starts:  12/11/2010  Ends: 12/11/2010
Event:     The Adventures of Rudolph
Location:  Mulroy Civic Center at Oncenter, 800 S. State St., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-424-8200

Starts:  12/11/2010  Ends: 12/12/2010
Event:     2010 Ice Fishing Show
Location:  Pirro Convention Center at Oncenter, 800 S. State St., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-435-2121

Starts:  12/12/2010  Ends: 12/12/2010
Event:     The Syracuse Symphony Presents: Handel’s Messiah
Location:  Mulroy Civic Center at Oncenter, 800 S. State St., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-424-8200

Starts:  12/15/2010  Ends: 12/15/2010
Event:     Irish Tenors 2010 Reunion
Location:  Mulroy Civic Center at Oncenter, 800 S. State St., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-435-2121

Starts:  12/16/2010  Ends: 12/16/2010
Event:     Movie Poster Sale
Location:  Red House Arts Center, 201 S. West Street, Syracuse
For More Info:  315-425-0405

Starts:  12/16/2010  Ends: 12/16/2010
Event:     Trail Tales
Location:  Beaver Lake Nature Center, 8477 East Mud Lake Rd, Baldwinsville
For More Info:  315-638-2519

Starts:  12/18/2010  Ends: 12/18/2010
Event:     Concert:  Leo Crandall
Location:  Red House Arts Center, 201 S. West Street, Syracuse
For More Info:  315 425 0405

Starts:  12/18/2010  Ends: 12/18/2010
Event:     Syracuse University Men’s Basketball vs Iona
Location:  Carrier Dome, 900 Irving Ave., Syracuse
For More Info:  888-366-3849

Starts:  12/19/2010  Ends: 12/19/2010
Event:     CNY Theater Organ Society Christmas Concert
Location:  Empire Expo Center/NYS Fairgrounds, 581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-487-7711

Starts:  12/19/2010  Ends: 12/19/2010
Event:     “BREW & VIEW” 35mm Film Series with SYRFILM present: PROM NIGHT & SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT,   Location:  Palace Theater, 2384 James St., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-436-4723

Starts:  12/19/2010  Ends: 12/19/2010
Event:     Holidays with the Animals
Location:  Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park, 1 Conservation Place, Syracuse
For More Info:  315-435-8511

Starts:  12/19/2010  Ends: 12/19/2010
Event:     Play:  “Christmas Morning Live!”
Location:  Fabius Christian Church, 7803 Main Street, Fabius
For More Info:  315-677-0194

Starts:  12/20/2010  Ends: 12/20/2010
Event:     Syracuse University Men’s Basketball vs Morgan State
Location:  Carrier Dome, 900 Irving Ave., Syracuse
For More Info:  888-366-3849

Starts:  12/22/2010  Ends: 12/22/2010
Event:     Syracuse University Men’s Basketball vs Drexel
Location:  Carrier Dome, 900 Irving Ave., Syracuse
For More Info:  888-366-3849

Starts:  12/23/2010  Ends: 12/23/2010
Event:     Comedy Christmas Spectacular
Location:  Jazz Central Theater, 441 East Washington Street, Syracuse
For More Info:  315-479-5299

Starts:  12/26/2010  Ends: 12/30/2010
Event:     Syracuse Stage presents “A Christmas Story”
Location:  Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-443-3275

Starts:  12/28/2010  Ends: 12/28/2010
Event:     Syracuse University Men’s Basketball vs Providence College
Location:  Carrier Dome, 900 Irving Ave., Syracuse
For More Info:  888-366-3849

Starts:  12/30/2010  Ends: 12/30/2010
Event:     Concert:  7 Walkers featuring Bill Kreutzmann
Location:  Westcott Theater & Performing Arts Center, 524 Westcott Street, Syracuse
For More Info:  315-299-8886

Starts:  12/31/2010  Ends: 12/31/2010
Event:     Barnes Foundation New Year’s Eve Celebration
Location:  George & Rebecca Barnes Foundation (Corinthian Club), 930 James St., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-4222445

Starts:  12/31/2010  Ends: 12/31/2010
Event:     First Night CNY
Location:  Onondaga Lake Park, 106 Lake Drive, Liverpool
For More Info:  315-471-9597

Starts:  12/31/2010  Ends: 12/31/2010
Event:     WCNY New Year’s Eve Celebration
Location:  Pirro Convention Center at Oncenter, 800 S. State St., Syracuse
For More Info:  315-453-2424 x268

Linda Woodrow
Executive Assistant & Marketing Coordinator
Syracuse Convention & Visitors Bureau
CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity
572 South Salina St., Syracuse, NY 13202
Phone: 315-470-1913 | Fax: 315-471-8545
LWoodrow@VisitSyracuse.org
www.VisitSyracuse.org
 
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Twitter:  www.Twitter.com/SyracuseNY

On-going Onondaga County Events!

• The Everson Museum of Art is featuring two wonderful exhibits – Good Designs: Stories from Herman Miller & On My Own Time. Call 474-6064 or www.Everson.org for details.

• Onondaga Historical Museum is featuring the exhibit Toys from the 1970′s. For specifics, call 428-1864 or go to www.CNYHistory.org.

• Syracuse Crunch Hockey is back with great slammin’ action at the War Memorial at Oncenter! For specific times & dates, call 435-2121 or on their website at www.SyracuseCrunch.com.

• Highland Forest County Park is a great place to snowshoe, cross country ski or toboggan. Call 683-5550 or www.OnondagaCountyParks.com.

• Syracuse Symphony Orchestra performs at the Mulroy Civic Center at Oncenter several times per month. For specifics, call 424-8200 or go to www.SyracuseSymphony.org.

• The Community Folk Art Center will feature the exhibit Dogs in Transition-Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs by Cyrus Mejia through December 11th. For details, call 442-2230.

• IMAX Movies: Alaska, Aliens of the Deep, Wild Ocean, Magic of Flight & Polar Express are currently showing at the Museum of Science & Technology (MOST). Call 425-9068 or www.most.org for specific times and dates. Visit their new exhibit Spectacular Saturn.

• So much to do at Beaver Lake Nature Center! Enjoy many fantastic seasonal programs – call 638-2519 or visit www.OnondagaCountyParks.com for details.

• CNY Regional Farmers Market is open from 7am to 2pm each Saturday & Sunday (flea market); Market Common shops open daily. Call 422-8647 for information. Enjoy this unique shopping experience!

• Every season is a great time of year to visit the Rosamond Gifford Zoo. For details, go to website (www.RosamondGiffordZoo.org) or call them at 435-8511.

• Spaghetti Warehouse features Acme Mystery Dinner Theater and Magic Circle Children’s Theater on Saturdays about noon. Call 475-1807 for details.

• Onondaga Lake Park – Central New York’s premier park conveniently located on Rt. 370 in Liverpool; currently home to Lights on the Lake. Call 453-6712 or go to www.OnondagaCountyParks.com for details.

Look-it … it’s right here at www.VisitSyracuse.org!

Linda Woodrow
Executive Assistant & Marketing Coordinator
Syracuse Convention & Visitors Bureau
CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity
572 South Salina St., Syracuse, NY 13202
Phone: 315-470-1913 | Fax: 315-471-8545
LWoodrow@VisitSyracuse.org
www.VisitSyracuse.org

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Fun Fact about the Syracuse area …. did you know …..

… that downtown Syracuse continued to grow as the center of the city, which by the pre-World War II days, had a population of more than 210,000 within the city limits. Besides a number of prominent local department stores, the downtown area offered fine entertainment through such theaters as the Bastable, the Wieting Opera House and later the movie palaces such as the Loew’s, Keith’s Paramount, and the Strand. There were great restaurants including the original Schrafft’s, and hotels such as the Empire and the Yates were joined in 1922 by the Hotel Syracuse.

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Continuing Thru 3/31/2011
Event: Spectacular Saturn
Location: Museum of Science & Technology (MOST), 500 S. Franklin St., Syracuse
For More Info: 315-425-9068

Continuing Thru 11/7/2010
Event: Syracuse Stage presents: The 39 Steps
Location: Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse
For More Info: 315-443-3275

Continuing Thru 11/7/2010
Event: Holidays at the Mansion
Location: The Barnes-Hiscock Mansion, 930 James Street, Syracuse
For More Info: 315-682-0556

Continuing Thru 12/3/2010
Event: Paintings by Adam Francey and Installations by Diane Banks
Location: Limestone Art & Framing Gallery, 207 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville
For More Info: 315-632-4445

Starts: 11/3/2010 Ends: 11/7/2010
Event: Syracuse Sporthorse Invitational Tournament
Location: War Memorial at Oncenter, 800 S. State St., Syracuse
For More Info: 800-234-4797

Starts: 11/5/2010 Ends: 11/5/2010
Event: Concert: Roy Book Binder
Location: May Memorial Unitarian Universalists Society, 3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse
For More Info: 315-440-7444

Starts: 11/5/2010 Ends: 11/5/2010
Event: First Friday Glass Studio Art Event
Location: Snake Oil Glassworks, 4251 Jordan Road, Skaneateles
For More Info: 315-685-5091

Starts: 11/5/2010 Ends: 11/5/2010
Event: Opening reception for exhibition by Michael DiGiorgio
Location: Imagine That… Gallery, 38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles
For More Info: 315-685-6264

Starts: 11/5/2010 Ends: 11/6/2010
Event: Dinner & Comic at Toggenburg Mountain
Location: Toggenburg Mountain, 1135 Toggenburg Road, Fabius
For More Info: 315-683-5842 x13

Fun Fact about Syracuse & Onondaga County …. did you know …..

… the hamlet of Cardiff, which lies within the town of LaFayette, is the home to one of the biggest hoaxes in American History – the Cardiff Giant. George Hull, an atheist, hired a sculptor in Chicago and had the finished “giant” shipped by rail to the farm of William Newell where it was buried. About a year later (October 16, 1869), he had workers dig a well on the site and they found the giant. Hull set up a tent and charged 25 cents per person to see it. The premise was that this was evidence of a giant race of peoples that were mentioned in the Bible, Genesis 6:4. Eventually the exhibit was sold and moved to Syracuse where P.T. Barnum offered the new owner $50,000. When Barnum was turned down, he had a plaster replica made, noting that his was the original. In 1870, after much litigation, both were declared fakes. The original piece can be seen today at the Farmers Museum in Cooperstown.

Attached, please find this week’s edition of the Friday Facts. For details on any of these events or others down the road, take a gander at our website at www.VisitSyracuse.org.

Check out our FINE ON-LINE STORE (http://store.visitsyracuse.org/home.php?cat=249) featuring great Syracuse items such as T’s, hoodies, fleece items, tote bag & more! If you’re looking for Syracuse items, we got ‘em right on the website (items available for purchase on-line only). Check it out TODAY!!!

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