5/7 – 5/9 Suffolk County Community College Performing Arts: The Breath of Stars

THE BREATH OF STARS
by CARIDAD SVICH
Recipient of the 2024 Guggenheim Prize for Drama
Tuesday, May 7th @ 6:00 pm
Wednesday, May 8th @ 12:30 pm & 6:00 pm
Thursday, May 9th @ 12:30 pm & 6:00 pm

Blackbox Theatre / Sagtikos Arts & Sciences 100 – Michael J. Grant Campus (Map)

THE BREATH OF STARS is an immersive drama that looks at the workings of memory through stories of love and loss in the contemporary world. Shot through the lens of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and reconfigured for the digital age, we see Ariel 1 has lost Prospero who is gone, absent. Ariel 2 has also lost him. A Boy named Caliban wanders the desert and dreams while a girl named Miranda sits on a terrace sending signs to her brother in a hospital. A woman named Sycorax cannot remember and re-imagines a life she never led. The Breath of Stars is a play about the spinning globe, a lost city of strings, electric dreams, and finding a lover again in the body of a stranger. This text is an invitation to dream, or as Julio Cortazar insists, “Memory is the language of feeling.”

Original Music and Musical Design by Drew Chadwick
Choreography by Litzy Galeano with Jules Martino and Ciara Boltz
Multimedia Design by Joan Wozniak Lighting Design by Jay Moser
Sound Design by Jay Moser and Drew Chadwick
Poster and Web Design by Alyssa Guise-Ohlenschlager and Adrienne Lojeck
Direction by Jason Ramírez de Arellano

Caridad Svich has received the OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre, the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, the American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize, and the 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama. She has won the National Latino Playwriting Award twice and has been short-listed for the PEN Award in Drama four times. As founder of the theatre alliance, No Passport Press (www.nopassport.org), Caridad’s work has intersected with communities of multiple diversities including veterans and their families, survivors of trauma, and those committed to artistic expression of precarity,
advocacy for U.S. Latin@ writing voices, and engagement with representations of the “fragile shores” in our lives. Caridad is an alumna playwright of New Dramatists and has received fellowships from Harvard/Radcliffe, NEA/TCG, PEW Charitable Trust, and California Arts Council. She holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from the University of California San Diego and trained with the iconic María Irene Fornés in INTAR’s legendary Hispanic Playwrights in Residence Fellowship. Caridad teaches creative writing and playwriting at Rutgers University, Primary Stages’ Einhorn School of Performing Arts, Bard College,
Barnard College, Bennington College, Denison College, Ohio State University, ScriptWorks, and the Yale School of Drama. Website: http://www.caridadsvich.com

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Consider a donation to Michael Sodders ’79 Scholarship

Suffolk County Community College’s Sagtikos Art Gallery on the Michael J. Grant Campus in Brentwood Hosts the Work of Artist Brianna L. Hernández

Photo Caption: Consequences, digital performance, 2023 by Brianna L. Hernández

Suffolk County Community College’s Sagtikos Art Gallery will host artist Brianna L. Hernández through March 15, 2024. A reception and artist talk will be held on Tuesday, February 26, 2024 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Gallery hours are: Monday -Thursday 12 noon – 4 p.m.

Intertwined: Facets of Grief and Mourning visualizes the anticipatory grief of caregiving and reimagined end-of-life planning through performative videos and biodegradable sculptures. Drawn from Hernández’s series Anticipatory | Después, each featured video shares the physical and emotional state of the dying, the caregiver, and at times the two concurrently. Ranging from fast and aggressive dance-like movement to slow and meditative contemplation, the enacted scenes capture a range of emotions and thought processes of understanding and untangling the intertwined traumas of caregiving and acute grief. Integrated within and surrounding the videos are sculptural works from Aquí Descansamos, burial vessels including caskets, urns, and shrouds crafted from organic, ephemeral materials such as moss, soap, sand, seaweed, and beeswax. Introducing the elements of whimsy and humor into funerary artifacts, Hernández invites visitors to consider end-of-life planning as an opportunity for empowerment.

Blending these series together, Hernández presents a nonlinear and nuanced relationship to the topic of death that holds space for pain, remembrance, joy of living, and love for those who have died.

Hernández states that while we will all eventually experience the pains of loss, preparing for the logistics of death and nurturing supportive communities for grievers can provide comfort and lessen the unnecessary stressors attached to loss.

Brianna L. Hernándezis a Chicana artist, curator, and death doula guided bysocially-engaged practices. In the studio, Hernández creates multi-media installations focused on end-of-life care, grief, and mourning rituals based on lived experience, cultural research, and collaborations with peers including death education workshops. She proudly serves as Director of Curation and Board Secretary of Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, New York and as Assistant Curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Watermill, NY. Additionally, Ms. Hernandez is the Board Treasurer at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Committee Member for the Gente Chicana/SOYmos Chicanos Arts Fund of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.

About Suffolk County Community College

Suffolk County Community College is the largest community college in the State University of New York (SUNY) system, enrolling approximately 21,000 students at its three campuses in Selden, Brentwood and Riverhead. Suffolk offers the Associate in Arts (A.A.), Associate in Science (A.S.), and Associate in Applied Science (A.A.S.) degrees, as well as a variety of certificate programs. Offering affordable college tuition, a highly respected Honors program, workforce training programs, extensive extracurricular activities, championship athletic teams, and numerous transfer programs, Suffolk is a first-choice college for Long Island students. Visit us online at sunysuffolk.edu.

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Consider supporting Visual Arts scholarships

• Sonia Hoefman Art Foundation Scholarship
• Frank Livernoche Scholarship
• Gail Cohen Edelman Memorial Scholarship
• Lawrence Foundation Scholarship
• Maurice N. Flecker Scholarship
• Michael Sodders ’79 Scholarship
• The Noriko Okada Scholarship for Courageous Pursuit of the Study of Art
• Vanessa Todd Memorial Scholarship for Fine Art
• William Teason Memorial Scholarship for Art

Suffolk Credit Union supports scholarships you can too!

Learn about the Education Without Limits Campaign

Suffolk County Community College Black History Month 2024

Suffolk County Community College Black History Month 2024

Sponsored by Multicultural Affairs and the Office of Campus Activities

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For additional information contact banksj@sunysuffolk.edu, batchim@sunysuffolk.edu, banksc@sunysuffolk.edu

Eastern Campus Faculty and Staff Art Exhibit February 1 – March 2

Eastern Campus Faculty and Staff Art Exhibit Feb 1 – March 2

Works of art created by Suffolk County Community College art faculty and staff members will be on exhibit at the Eastern Campus’ Lyceum Gallery in Riverhead from February 1 to March 2.

Exhibiting artists and their works include:

• Professor John Stefanik of Center Moriches, who teaches 2D Design and History of Photography, shows his black and white photographs of Long Island’s East End
  
• Professor Beth Giles of North Haven, who teaches Drawing and Art History, exhibits handmade paper reliefs
  
• Professor Chris Bors of Brooklyn, who teaches Drawing, Painting and Digital Illustration, shows his acrylic paintings on canvas
  
• Principal Library Clerk Jeannette Fischer of Center Moriches, exhibits oil paintings on canvas.
  
• Professor Margery Gosnell-Qua of Remsenburg, who teaches Drawing and Art History, shows her large oil paintings on canvas
  
• Professor Ralph Masullo of Howard Beach who teaches Photography, exhibits color photographs
  
• Professor Chris Vivas of Patchogue, who teaches 3D Design, presents ceramic sculptures
  
• Professor Ruth Makofski of Wading River, who teaches Drawing, presents her acrylic paintings.
  
• Professor Annemarie Waugh, of East Setauket, who teaches 3D Design and Digital Illustration exhibits her collages
  
• Professor Kathryn Odell-Hamilton, of Hampton Bays, who teaches Digital Illustration exhibits her oil paintings on paper
  
• Professor Andrea Cote, of East Quogue, shows her printmaking works on paper
  

An artists’ reception open to the public will be held on Thursday, February 8, from 4 – 6 p.m. 

Gallery hours are:                                                           

• Monday – Thursday from 9 am – 7 pm.
  (exceptions: closes at 4 pm on Tuesday, February 6, and closed Monday, February 19)
  
• Fridays from 10 am – 4 pm
  
• Saturdays from 11 am – 4 pm

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SUNY Suffolk Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

Thursday, September 21, 2023 11:00 AM

Who  Am I? Quien Soy Yo?

Hosted by Multicultural Affairs

Facilitated by

Vanessa Diaz, Admissions Counselor & SUNY Suffolk Alum

Chiara Castilla-Brooks, Bilingual Counselor in the Counseling Center

Thursday, September 21, 2023 6:00 PM

Suffolk County Hispanic Advisory Board Hispanic Heritage Celebration

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 11:00 AM

Empowerment and Wellness Through Movement- Discover RitmoFit XP!

Montauk Point Room 11-12:30  (Map)

Discover the transformative power of RitmoFitXP, where fitness, art, live drumming, and self-expression converge, fostering powerful growth, connections, & cultural diversity. Presented by SCCC alumni Vanessa Acero and Mila Tina. Dress for movement!

Register to attend at batchim@sunysuffolk.edu

Hosted by Multicultural Affairs

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 3:30 PM

Suffolk County Community College, Michael J. Grant Campus
Black Box, Sagtikos Building (Map)

¡A Bachateo! Join us for our Latinx Heritage Month Opening Celebration, a Bachata dance workshop facilitated by Vanessa Diaz, Grant Campus Admissions Counselor and SUNY Suffolk alumna.

9/21 Reception for Scott Sandell: Measures on Instability at Suffolk’s Lyceum Gallery

Scott Sandell: Measures on Instability at Suffolk’s Lyceum Gallery

Scott Sandell is a printmaker, collage artist, and papermaker. Layering natural motifs into abstract compositions that harken to otherworldly forests, Sandell creates atmospheric tapestries that envelope the viewer in sizes up to seven feet high.

Scott Sandell: Measures of Instability, an exhibit of large-scale collages will be exhibited at the Lyceum Gallery on Suffolk County Community College’s Eastern Campus from August 30 through October 31, 2023. An artist’s reception will be held on Thursday, September 21, 2023.

Scott Sandell is a printmaker, collage artist, and papermaker. Layering natural motifs into abstract compositions that harken to otherworldly forests, Sandell creates atmospheric tapestries that envelope the viewer in sizes up to seven feet high.  Sandell hand-etches compositional elements that he prints onto handmade paper using an etching press with lithography inks, super saturated with pigment creating delicate tonal nuances. The works in the exhibition hang without frames adding a sense of physical lightness to Sandell’s perceptually weightless compositions. Most are sewn together, which is a process the artist, an avid sailor brought from sail making.

“The seams create another type of line that directs your eye through the work, and one of my hopes is that the viewer will think about the thin thread that holds their world, their clothes, their family, and their relationships together,” Sandell said.  “Here, the thread becomes a considered gesture in an image made by an artist.”

Scott Sandell grew up in Minnesota, lived in Oregon, and settled in Sag Harbor where he has resided for more than 40 years.  Educated at the University of Minnesota, Sandell studied printmaking with Universal Limited Art Editions’ master printer Zigmunds Priede, then printed his work at Robert Blackburn’s Printmakers Workshop in New York City, until founding his own press, Deepwater Editions.  Sandell received a Pollock Krasner grant in 2015 to create an expansive body of work entitled “The Shipwrecked Voices.” His work has appeared in films and television shows, and on the CD covers of composer John Adams, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and jazz pianist Jacques Loussier. Sandell’s art has wrapped two Hampton Jitneys, and appears on the wine labels of Long Island’s Roanoke Vineyards. The artist’s largest works include a 26’ x 52’ piece in the Pittsburgh Penguin’s arena, and sixty large scale 3D works that hang from the walls and ceilings of the Internal Revenue Service’s main campus in Kansas City. 

Scott Sandell’s work is in the collections of the Walker Art Center; the Brooklyn Museum; the Nelson-Atkins Museum; the Frederick Weisman Museum; The Plains Museum; the Minneapolis Institute of Art; the Chrysler Museum; the U.S. State Department in Havana, Cuba; the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela; Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas; Frank Lloyd Wright’s Monona Terrace, the Ritz Carlton in Doha, Qatar, and hundreds of private and corporate collections.  Sandell is represented by James Gallery in Pittsburgh PA (www.jamesgallery.net).

For more information about Scott Sandell’s work visit:  www.deepwaterprojects.net.

The Lyceum Gallery hours are:
Monday – Thursday 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Saturday 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Closed Sundays and holidays

Call the gallery at Suffolk’s Multi Learning Resource Center for more information: (631) 548-2536

Eastern Campus
121 Speonk-Riverhead Road
Riverhead, NY 11901
MLRC 1st Floor

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Free Reception Thurs 2/9 – Noriko Okada ’17: Small Narratives Art Exhibition

Noriko Okada ’17: Small Narratives

Opening Thursday, Feb. 9, 3PM with light refreshments

Exhibition dates: Feb. 9 – Mar. 9, 2023

Flecker Gallery is hosting a solo exhibition of recent works by Noriko Okada including a selection of abstract paintings as well as ceramic and mixed media sculptures.  Noriko is a 2017 SCCC alumna, who has completed an MA in Art History and an MFA in Studio Art from SUNY Purchase and is currently pursuing her PhD in Art History at the University of Maryland. 

We are delighted to present this exhibition and hope that you can join us for the reception.

Suffolk County Community College, Ammerman Campus

Southampton Building, Maurice N. Flecker Memorial Gallery

533 College Road Selden, NY 11784

For additional information please contact:

Matthew Neil Gehring, Gallery Director

(631) 451-4093 gehrinm@sunysuffolk.edu

Suffolk County Community College Black History Month 2023

Suffolk County Community College Black History Month 2023

Sponsored by Multicultural Affairs and the Office of Campus Activities

Download PDF Calendar

For additional information contact banksj@sunysuffolk.edu, batchim@sunysuffolk.edu, banksc@sunysuffolk.edu 

Express Yourself Through Music at Suffolk County Community College

The College offers a wide variety of musical activities and events for student participation, including being an active member in a music club, attending music concerts and/or performing in any of seven music groups listed below. These groups are offered through the College Music Program and provide a solid and comprehensive foundation for both music majors who intend to pursue music as a career and non-majors who are interested in performing. Each group is attached to a specific music course as indicated. These courses may have prerequisites and may require an audition. Concerts are normally given once a semester in December and May unless otherwise noted. 

Check the Arts and Entertainment Schedule for specific details. 

All events are free and open to the public.

All Suffolk County Community College students, faculty, and staff, as well as members of the community, are welcome to participate in a music ensemble.

Did you graduate from the Suffolk County Community College Music Department? Are you an alumni performing artist? Fill out your alumni profile, let us know where you are and what you have been doing.

Consider donations to support:

Kelly Family Recital Scholarship

Kenny Rogers Scholarship

Leonard Goldberg Memorial Scholarship

Michael Sodders ’79 Scholarship

Paul Satzman Scholarship

Raymond Rienecker Music Scholarship

5/16 Deadline for Suffolk County Community College Class of 2022 Graduation Cap Challenge #SUNYSFLK

Suffolk County Community College Class of 2022

Decorate those caps and submit by Monday May 16 #SUNYSFLK

Hosted by Office of Campus Activities and Student Leadership Development

Congratulations Graduate! Please fill out this form if you would like to enter our Graduation Cap
Decorating Challenge.  When done, upload a picture on any social media platform with #SUNYSuffolk and email the picture to CAMPUSACTIVITIES@SUNYSUFFOLK.EDU. You must email the picture to us in order to be awarded prizes. 

Winners will be awarded a $50 AMAZON GIFT CARD. One winner for each category: most creative cap, most inspirational, most school spirit, and best overall design. A panel of distinguished administrators and students will be judging the submissions. Winners will be notified by email. Don’t forget to email us your picture from your sunysuffolk.edu email address. Winners must be current SUNYSuffolk students and we must be able to verify your entry by email. Winner must complete a gift prize acceptance form prior to receiving the gift card.  Don’t forget to email a picture to campusactivities@sunysuffolk.edu.

Timeline:

• *Challenge opens on April 19
• *Submissions accepted for competition April 11 through May 16 
• *Submissions received after May 16 will be added to the viewing website, but will not be eligible judging and prizes.  

Submit your photo to campusactivities@sunysuffolk.edu and post on social media using #SUNYSuffolk by May 16th. Winners will be notified by email & gift cards will be issued approximately one week following the commencement event on May 19, 2022.

Please visit our viewing website after April 19 and comment on your favorites.  Please allow everyone celebrate this moment.  Cap decorations can be a creative way to celebrate  success, personalize the experience and express yourself.  Please keep your comments uplifting, supportive and positive in nature for everyone.  We, SUNYSuffolk, reserve the right to remove comments, images and to not add cap photo submissions to the viewing website. 

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June 6 – 38th Annual Suffolk Community College Foundation Golf Classic