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12:40
TALK: The Economics of Immigration by Ranjit Dighe
Room 118, Campus Center Auditorium
In response to issues raised by Alex Escalante’s Clandestino, faculty member Ranjit Dighe explores the economic dynamics behind the rhetoric and politics of immigration.

Part of this year's Arts, Identity & Diaspora 

12:40 PM
KE-NEKT’ CONCERT PREVIEW
Room 41, Tyler Hall
Guest composer/arranger/pianist Dr. Robert Washut discusses jazz composition and his new works commissioned for this evening's performance.

7:30 PM
KE-NEKT’ CONCERT: Big Band & Latin Jazz: Bob Washut and Special Guests
Hosted by Eric Schmitz
Pre-concert talk begins at 7 PM
Ballroom, Sheldon Hall
Celebrate the excitement of Latin jazz through the music of Robert Washut that includes two pieces specially commissioned for this concert. Bob Washut is an accomplished jazz composer and arranger who has received numerous commissions. He is an active jazz pianist and founder of the Latin jazz band, Orquesta Alto Maiz. Special guests include acclaimed saxophonist Jose Encarnacion and percussionist Freddy Colon.
TICKETS: Adults $15, Seniors/Students $10, SUNY Oswego Students $5
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April 8-May 16
SUNY OSWEGO DOWNTOWN EXHIBIT
Paintings by SUNY Oswego Students
186 West First Street

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2 PM
FACULTY ARTIST SERIES: Bicentennial Celebration
Room 118, Campus Center Auditorium
Robert Auler, Assistant Professor of Music at SUNY Oswego, performs selections from the solo piano repertoire in this installation of the Faculty Artist Series. Included in the program is Carter Pann’s Upstate: A Slow Drag, commissioned by the Oswego College Foundation, and included on Auler’s recent solo piano release, American Century. Also featured is solo material of Frederic Chopin, celebrating the 200th year of his birth.
TICKETS: Adults $7; Seniors/SUNY Oswego Students $5
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2 PM
CONCERT: OperaTUNESities
Ralph M. Faust Theatre for the Performing Arts,
Oswego High School
The Oswego Opera Theatre presents opera for kids and their families in this fully-staged and costumed program that includes The Three Little Pigs told to music by Mozart and Never Tickle a Mule, a musical story of the Erie Canal.
TICKETS: $7, KidsTix $3. Discounted tickets available for families and other groups. For more information go to www.OswegoOpera.org

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4 PM
FILM SCREENING & TALK: KT Auleta
Room 118, Campus Center Auditorium
Auleta talks about fashion photography and film and offers a screening of her short that was shot in Oswego. Runaround is a narrative short that explores the sexual maturation of Jay (age 15), a promiscuous, small town American girl, and her 2 b est friends, Jean-Marie and Kim as they spend the summer pursuing a golden tan and the opposite sex. Interpreting adolescent thought and emotion through a poetic stream of images and sounds, Runaround balances between reality and the abstract; visually investigating the relationship between the world we see and the world Jay sees.

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6–8 PM
RECEPTION: Prints by Rick Metzgar and photographs by Mindy Ostrow and Jane Winslow
Metro Center, 1 Atrium Square, Syracuse
For more information, call 315-399-4100

April 15 - June 11

EXHIBITION: Prints by Rick Metzgar and photographs by Mindy Ostrow and Jane Winslow
Metro Center, 1 Atrium Square, Syracuse
For more information, call 315-399-4100

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8 PM
CONCERT: Indie Series
Ballroom, Sheldon Hall
Stay tuned! Artistic Director Jasmyn Belcher of WRVO fame and our campus radio station WNYO are on the prowl for a great Indie group to bring to campus.
TICKETS: Adults $10, Seniors/SUNY Oswego Students $5
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2 PM
CONCERT: Mozart’s Leading Ladies & Gentlemen
First United Methodist Church. 7111 State Route 104, Oswego
The Oswego Opera Theatre presents a concert of leading characters from The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Cosi fan tutte. Sung by Oswego Opera Theatre’s leading artists.
TICKETS: $10, Students & Children $5. Discounted tickets available for families and other groups. For more information www.OswegoOpera.org

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7 PM
TALK: The Mask of the Great D’mba as Matrix of Baga Womanhood: Gateways to the Spirit World
Room 106, Lanigan Hall
Professor Emeritus David Conrad is welcomed back for a talk about this mask tradition with support from ARTSwego, the History Department, the Office of International Education and Programs together with African and African American Studies.

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7 PM
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE: Ganga
Ballroom, Sheldon Hall
Ganga is a group of musicians, from the state of West Bengal in India, who perform traditional Bengali folksongs using folk instruments. Their repertoire includes songs from north Bengal, where women decry the unfairness of the bride price that guarantees they will marry older men, as well as songs by Bauls, religious mystics who wander and sing of the “intense yearning of the heart for the divine.”

22 Preview Night

23, 24

THEATRE: She Stoops to Conquer
or The Mistakes of a Night
Written by Oliver Goldsmith
Waterman Theatre, Tyler Hall
The mischievous Tony Lumpkin convinces Mr. Marlow that the home of Marlow’s fiancé, Kate Hardcastle, is an inn. Thus begins the mistakes of a night. Marlow is bashful with the refined Kate. When Kate stoops to the disguise of a barmaid to observe Marlow’s true colors, she finds him audacious and bold. The comic complications gather steam as Marlow aggressively pursues his seduction of the barmaid and makes a fool of himself in the process. 
TICKETS: Preview $6: Adults $12, Seniors/Students $10, SUNY Oswego Students $7
Suggested for ages 16 and over.
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5-7 PM
TYLER ART GALLERY RECEPTION
6 PM AWARDS CEREMONY

April 23 – May 14

GALLERY EXHIBITION
Spring Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition
Tyler Art Gallery, Tyler Hall
Student’s final step before receiving a BFA, show features work in an array of artistic media and showcases the high level of commitment by SUNY Oswego’s art students.

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7:30 PM
CONCERT: Mozart Requiem
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 103 W. 7th Street, Oswego
Conducted by Kelly Hudson
The Oswego College Choir, along with the Nazareth College (Rochester, NY) Chamber Singers and the Oswego High School Chamber Choir, presents Mozart’s final masterpiece with orchestra and soloists Elisabeth Kisselstein, soprano, Ann Marie Wilcox-Daehn, mezzo-soprano, Rob Strauss, tenor, and JJ Hudson, bass. The concert will be presented again, joined by Nazareth’s Women’s and Men’s ensembles, Saturday, April 24, 7:30 pm at Nazareth College’s Linehan Chapel. Suggested donation: $5

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7:30 PM
CONCERT: Festival Chorus Spring Concert
Ballroom, Sheldon Hall
Conducted by Kelly Hudson
The Festival Chorus presents their spring concert featuring Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria with organ and student soloists. Contact 312-2983 or kelly.hudson@oswego.edu for location information. Suggested donation: $5

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7:30 PM
CONCERT: State Singers Spring Concert
Room 118, Campus Center Auditorium
Conducted by Kelly Hudson
The State Singers present a concert of classical, pop, and jazz a cappella music, including selections from their spring semester tour. Suggested donation: $5