2022 Festival of Trees & Light

Sunday, December 4

Ceramic Menorah and Dreidel Making
12:00 - 3:00pm, Danial Family Education Center

In Yiddish the word is dreidel, in Hebrew it is sivivon and in English it is top, the center piece of the spinning game that is played during the festival of Chanukah! Anyone is welcome to participate and make their own dreidel out of clay.

The Chanukah menorah or “chanukiah" is a nine-branch candelabra that Jews use to celebrate the festival of Chanukah. Join us for this drop-in workshop where you can create a unique menorah out of clay that will be decorated with colorful glazes and baked in a kiln! Families who don’t celebrate Chanukah are welcome to create their very own candle holders.

In Judaism, “hiddur mitzvah” means that the beautification of a ritual object will enhance the celebration itself. Come enhance your Chanukah celebration by making a one-of-a-kind menorah, candle holder, or dreidel at the Everson, taught by Nancy Modlin Katz .

Tawn Marie Dance Studio
12:30-3:30pm, Hosmer Auditorium

Tawn Maries Dance Centre provides award winning dance training in ballet, jazz, tap and children's dance styles to the Liverpool, NY area. Come enjoy the show!

Bright Forever
12:30-2:00pm, Sculpture Court

Megan Hook is a singer/songwriter releasing music under her band name "The Bright Forever."  Megan sings, writes the songs, plays guitar, piano, and adds other bells and whistles.

Drop in Winter Art-Making for Kids
2:00-4:00pm, Danial Family Education Center

All ages are welcome to drop in anytime to enjoy winter themed art-making activities taught by local educators and high school students from the Everson Teen Arts Council!

Sudha Raj Dance School
4:00pm, Hosmer Auditorium

Thursday, December 8

Elden Elementary School Choir
10:30am, Hosmer Auditorium

A Capella Jam
5:30-8:00pm, Hosmer Auditorium

Where are all of our aca-nerds at?! This Pitch Perfect meets the Everson event will leave you feeling energized and filled with the type of joy that only ensemble music performances can create. We will be joined by an incredible roster of a capella groups from Syracuse University (Main Squeeze, The Mandarins, Groovestand, Orange Appeal), Barbershop Harmony Society, Harmonic Collective, Spirit of Syracuse, Christian Brothers Academy, and more!

Friday, December 9

Onondaga Central High School Choir
11:00am, Sculpture Court

Saturday, December 10

Porcupine Quill Demonstrations (all ages)
10:00am-Noon, Danial Family Education Center

Quillwork is an ancient art form exclusive to North America. Michael Galban has been practicing this art for over 25 years. His work has focused on the Eastern Woodland traditions from the colonial era. The demonstration and informal discussion will focus on that tradition.

Michael (Mono Lake Paiute/Washoe) is the Historic Site Manager of Ganondagan State Historic Site, the curator of the Seneca Art & Culture Center, an internationally-acclaimed artist, and a renowned scholar who has helped tribal communities revive traditional crafts. Michael will be demonstrating traditional porcupine quill embroidery that kids, families, and guests can enjoy!

Cornhusk Doll Making Workshop (all ages)
Led by Everson Artist in Residence, Natasha Smoke Santiago
10:00am-Noon, Danial Family Education Center

Everson Artist-in-Resident Natasha Smoke Santiago teaches kids how to create their own Cornhusk Dolls! A member of the Turtle Clan of the Haudenosaunee, Smoke Santiago creates paintings, cloth work, beadwork, and pottery that is heavily influenced by her heritage, history, and teachings.

Carol Rothwell Piano Studio
10:00-11:00am, Hosmer Auditorium

Enjoy performances by the students of Carol Rothwell Studio. Carol Rothwell provides private music lessons in voice, piano, clarinet, flute, and saxophone at her home studio in Manlius, NY and at Fabius Pompey school.

The Music School of CNY Guitar Ensemble
10:30am, Sculpture Court
www.musicschoolofcny.com

Santa in Residence
11:00am-3:00pm, The Beadel Gallery

Come and snap fun family photos with Santa in our Santa's workshop themed photo booth in our quaint Beadel gallery. Come by even when Santa isn't there to enjoy the photo booth on your own!

The Fayetteville-Manlius HS Brass Quintet and Quartet
11:30am, Sculpture Court

GEM DUO 
1:00-2:00pm, Sculpture Court

The Ballet and Dance Center
1:30-3:30pm, Hosmer Auditorium

The Ballet and Dance Center offers lessons in Ballet, Tap, Modern, Jazz, Musical Theatre, Hip Hop, Zumba, and Pilates in a state of the art dance facility featuring Harlequin brand sprung dance floors, studio quality sound systems, and a fantastic location on Erie Blvd. East. Come see what they are all about!

Quarantine Quartet
2:30-3:30pm, Sculpture Court

Jhankar Rhythms Dance Ensemble
4:00-5:00pm, Hosmer Auditorium

Sunday, December 11

Ceramic Menorah and Dreidel Making
12:00 - 3:00pm, Danial Family Education Center

In Yiddish the word is dreidel, in Hebrew it is sivivon and in English it is top, the center piece of the spinning game that is played during the festival of Chanukah! Anyone is welcome to participate and make their own dreidel out of clay.

The Chanukah menorah or “chanukiah" is a nine-branch candelabra that Jews use to celebrate the festival of Chanukah. Join us for this drop-in workshop where you can create a unique menorah out of clay that will be decorated with colorful glazes and baked in a kiln! Families who don’t celebrate Chanukah are welcome to create their very own candle holders.

In Judaism, “hiddur mitzvah” means that the beautification of a ritual object will enhance the celebration itself. Come enhance your Chanukah celebration by making a one-of-a-kind menorah, candle holder, or dreidel at the Everson, taught by Nancy Modlin Katz .

Harmony Katz Vocal Ensemble
12:00pm, Sculpture Court

Syracuse University Opera Workshop Performance of Hansel and Gretel

1:00-3:00pm, Hosmer Auditorium

Barney and Peter Duet
2:00-3:30pm, Sculpture Court

Drop in Winter Art-Making for Kids
2:00-4:00pm, Danial Family Education Center

All ages are welcome to drop in anytime to enjoy winter themed art-making activities taught by local educators and high school students from the Everson Teen Arts Council!

Tom Dooley Singers
3:00pm, Sculpture Court

Syracuse Pops Chorus
4:00-4:45pm, Hosmer Auditorium
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Thursday, December 15

Due to inclement weather, the Everson will close to the public at 5:00pm, Thursday, December 15, 2022. All evening activities will be cancelled. Thank you.

Camillus Middle School and West Genesee High School Bands
10:00-11:00am, Hosmer Auditorium

Chittenango High School String Orchestra
11:30am, Hosmer Auditorium

Auburn Middle School 8th Grade Orchestra
11:30am, Sculpture Court

Porter Elementary School Choir
12:30pm, Sculpture Court

Fayetteville-Manlius High School Chamber Ensembles
3:15pm, Sculpture Court

Holiday Night Out at the Museum
6:00-8:00pm 

Join us for an evening of holiday-themed programs! Adult guests can pre-register to drop-off their kiddos (ages 7+ only) with our amazing instructors for winter-themed activities and then explore the museum and all it has to offer. Experience live music, beer and sour ale tastings with @buriedacornbrewing, docent-led tours of the current Everson exhibition Raymon Elozua: Structure/Dissonance, celebrate Winter Solstice with petition candle preparation wit Daddy Doyenne, interactive performances by multidisciplinary artist Tina Dillman, and a live jazz performance. Events included with Festival of Trees & Light admission.

Please note, guardians must fill out a registration form to drop off kids. Only ages 7+ are allowed. Drop-off will only last two hours 6:00-8:00pm. Everson has a capacity 20 kids maximum for the drop-off. As policy it is first registered, first served. Register here.

Jazz Duo with Joey Arcuri and Andrew Carroll

Celebrate Winter Solstice: Come Greet the Sun with Your Community
With Daddy Doyenne

Join Daddy Doyenne, local community activist, spiritual worker, and owner of The Kinky Kafe, as they lead participants in preparing their own Solstice petition candle. The celebration of Winter Solstice in pagan tradition is a celebration of the sun. Guests will prepare a candle as a petition to invite the sun into the next year. The sun represents light, love, abundance, and blessings. Guests will be led in a blessing of their candle, then will take their candles home, to be lit next to a window on December 21st.

I LOVE ME with Tina Dillman

I LOVE ME is an interactive performance by multidisciplinary artist Tina Dillman, that explores the notion of self-care through game-like exercises, where participants will choose their own path of adventure, while engaging and exploring the museum from a different perspective. While it is the season of giving this work will expand your awareness on the importance of self-care.
This work is inspired by the artist’s life and her realization that even art can burn you out. In recognizing that the notion of taking care of oneself is not something that we are taught nor have ever been encouraged to undertake, she would like to share ideas of ways that we can better show up for ourselves, so that we are able to show up for others. And there is no better gift than self-love.

Docent-Led Tours of Raymon Elozua: Stucture/Dissonance 
Enjoy docent-led tours of Structure/Dissonance by artist Raymon Elozua that focuses on three of his conceptual bodies of work that explore the visual nature of industrial decay through the combined physical properties of ceramic, glass, and steel.

Owera Vineyards Wine Tasting

Owera Vineyards is a picturesque rural and groomed farm winery, located at the northeast corner of Cazenovia Lake. This 57-acre farm winery has a rustic, chic tasting room and cafe, apple orchards, a garden, a state-of-the-art event facility, and six acres of grapevines that provide Le Crescent, Frontenac and Frontenac Gris grapes.

Friday, December 16

Woodland Elementary Second Grade Singers
10:00am, Hosmer Auditorium

Jamesville DeWitt High School-In Achord
11:00am, Sculpture Court

Liverpool High School String Orchestras
11:15am, Hosmer Auditorium

East Syracuse Minoa High School Choir
11:45am, Sculpture Court

Salt City New Horizons Orchestra
4:00pm, Sculpture Court

Amanda Dunlap Voice Studio Performances
4:15pm, Hosmer Auditorium

Saturday, December 17

The Music School of CNY Guitar Ensemble
10:30am, Sculpture Court

A Kwanzaa Karamu: A Community Celebration
11:00am – 2:00pm, Danial Family Education Center

Vanessa Johnson, griot (storyteller) and artist invites families to celebrate Kwanzaa. During this interactive experience, children will create Sankofa birds from Ghana, ornaments, and listen to animal stories from across the African continent.

12:30pm: Kwanzaa candle-lighting ceremony of 7 principles
1:30pm: Kwanzaa candle lighting ceremony of 7 principles

Jeannine Abbott Strings Studio
11:30am, Sculpture Court

Santa in Residence
11:00am-3:00pm, The Beadel Gallery

Come and snap fun family photos with Santa in our Santa's workshop themed photo booth in our quaint Beadel gallery. Come by even when Santa isn't there to enjoy the photo booth on your own!

Bones East Trombone Ensemble
11:00am-Noon, Hosmer Auditorium

Bones East will perform a family friendly holiday concert featuring popular Christmas music to include Jingle Bells, The Twelve Days of Christmas and Silent Night with soloist Dave De Ginerro.

The Brig Juice Brass Ensemble
12:15-1:15pm, Hosmer Auditorium

Anjani Dance Academy
2:00-3:45pm, Hosmer Auditorium

Be blown away by performances from Anjani Dance Academy, the region's premier Indian Dance Ensemble, based in Syracuse, New York. Instructor, Seema Sureshkaumar, is a member of the International Dance Council and offers training in Indian Classical Dance Kathak, Bollywood Dance, Rajasthani Folk Dance, Bhangra and Yoga Dance.

Bright Forever
12:30-2:00pm, Sculpture Court

Megan Hook is a singer/songwriter releasing music under her band name "The Bright Forever."  Megan sings, writes the songs, plays guitar, piano, and adds other bells and whistles.

SpeakDance CNY
4:00-5:00pm, Hosmer Auditorium