Events at CSMA

The concert also includes an Ithaca premiere: Small Catastrophes delves into the geological forces shaping the Finger Lakes landscape, telescoping from human to geologic scale through movement, percussion and song. Choreographed, composed and performed by Cynthia Stevens, with performance by Emily Healy.

Source is a film exploring the essential and peculiar ways water animates our world. It draws on years of dancing in Six Mile Creek, the water source of Ithaca, NY, dwelling with the ecology, form and processes of the water and its inhabitants. Danced by Anna Marie Shogren, Audrey Pincus and Stevens with cinematography by David Brown.

The concert also includes an Ithaca premiere: Small Catastrophes delves into the geological forces shaping the Finger Lakes landscape, telescoping from human to geologic scale through movement, percussion and song. Choreographed, composed and performed by Cynthia Stevens, with performance by Emily Healy.

Source is a film exploring the essential and peculiar ways water animates our world. It draws on years of dancing in Six Mile Creek, the water source of Ithaca, NY, dwelling with the ecology, form and processes of the water and its inhabitants. Danced by Anna Marie Shogren, Audrey Pincus and Stevens with cinematography by David Brown.

Puppet show! Puppet show! The Bread & Puppet Theater is excited to announce that the company’s 61st year will commence with a tour traversing the Northeast and Eastern Seaboard for a brand-new play:  The Hope Principle Show: Citizens’ Shame and Hope in the Time of Genocide. Of the show-–director Peter Schumann says, “With mother dirt prologue, citizen despair gymnastics, massmurder victim’s traditional dance of death celebration, absentee humanity dance. Featuring a flock of disaster ravens and hope principle caribou and exorcism rites for the genociders.” 

The tour also includes cities from Rutland, VT to Washington, DC, with the full tour schedule available at BreadAndPuppet.org/Tour. After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale.

Ivy Stevens-Gupta “Art and the Science Behind Color (A Multisensory Experience)”

Ithaca artist Ivy Stevens-Gupta invites you to experience the connections between color, art, science and inclusivity in the main gallery at CSMA. Learn about endangered animals, listen to mosquitoes mating, explore tactile surfaces, scratch and sniff, mazes, word searches, secret messages, and bioluminescent creatures. Stevens-Gupta is a 2023 NYSCA grant recipient. The artist’s talk will be at 6:30pm on Friday, April 5. The exhibit will be on display from April 1-May 26, 2024. Visit the gallery Tuesday thru Friday, from 2:30 pm to 7:00 pm, and on Saturdays from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm. To learn more about the artist, visit her website: Ivycreativedesigns.com or connect with her on Instagram @Ivystevensgupta.art.

May, 2024 – Lower Gallery

Francisco Búrquez, a.k.a. Burkeaux, is a Mexican American artist born in Chula Vista, California. Now calling Canandaigua, NY his home, Burkeaux will be exhibiting his work in the lower gallery at CSMA.  To learn more about the artist, visit: https://www.burkeaux.com/.

“Qui Sommes Nous?”, translated, “Who Are We?” in French, is the question that sits at the epitome of all human mysteries. Where do we come from? What is our purpose? For millennia, religion, philosophy and science have ventured to answer this enigma without success. This compilation of art is an attempt to process this riddle using the manipulation of design, sound, language, photography, and any other media that serve in this exploration.

Visit the show at CSMA, 330 East State Street, about a block away from the Commons, May 3 – May 31.  Gallery Night, debuts May 3 from 5:00-8:00 pm, with an artist talk starting at 6:30 pm.

Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, 2:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Saturday, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Closed Sundays and Mondays

Let’s Make Memories at the Ithaca Festival Parade!

• Please join CSMA in marching in the Ithaca Festival Parade on Thursday, May 30. 

• All are welcome!

• Decorate your wagon or stroller, lead the group by carrying our banner, or hold one of our fun pinwheels.

• Line-up is at 5:00 pm at the Ithaca’s Tabernacle Baptist Church at 1019 North Cayuga St. 

• Please be aware that the traffic will be increased during this time, with several road closures, so plan extra time to arrive. 

• The parade starts at 6:00 pm and runs straight down Cayuga St (approximately 0.8 mile).  Depending on our order in the parade, it may be a bit before we start moving forward.

• At the end of the parade, we turn left onto Buffalo Street, just past DeWitt Park.  We will pass out water and disperse close to DeWitt Park near the corner of East Buffalo St and North Tioga St.

• Attire:  Solid color top and dark pants/shorts.

• For more details contact Carrie at cnatale@csma-ithaca.org.

• We’d LOVE to see you there!!!

Maria Barbosa • Cathy Bebout • Sas Colby • Scout Dunbar • Margo Klass • Kumi Korf • Matéa Lebeau • Mary Ellen Long • Miriam Schaer • Christa Wolf

In Japanese, Tagasode translates to “whose sleeves?” a phrase used in classical love poetry to evoke the memory of a woman through her empty kimono. For this exhibition, Kumi Korf gathered nine women artists, sent them kimonos and invited them to create artwork with the garments as the catalyst. Though the kimono itself seems a precious work of art, the prompt was to “be free”; an invitation to adventure, playful chaos, a brave step into the unknown.

This is a free, BIPOC-only hoop meditation workshop & intimate discussion diving into honoring the ways trans identity deepens practices of expansiveness through self sovereignty. Led by educator Sol Alexandria.