Gina Rivers
Congratulations to Gina Rivers, one of the founding advisors to SIF. Here is a photo of her from her birthday last week.
Archive for April, 2012
Milestones
Monday, April 16th, 2012Are You Experienced
Friday, April 13th, 2012
Jeff Houston plays Sitrus Lounge at the Sheraton Hotel Friday.
1 Week Old
Friday, April 13th, 2012
Yellow-Spotted Amazon River Turtles, the newest members of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo family.
Image Conscious
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
Newseum
Schoolhouse Rap
Saturday, April 7th, 2012Education consultant Erik Cork brings a fresh approach to learning.
Schoolhouse Rap from Syracuse in Focus on Vimeo.
Saturday School
Saturday, April 7th, 2012
Erick Cork: Born to InspireThose who can do; those who can’t teach. Those who can’t teach administrate; and those who administrate should hire Erik Cork.
Cork, who plays the role of a walking Hip-Hop thesaurus, dj, preacher, high-0ctane story-teller and teacher, brought his Rap, Rhythm and Rhyme Workshop at Bethany Baptist Church today.
Hundreds of students from several Central New York school districts and their parents attended. The day was an educational experience today that was exciting, refreshing and pure edu-tain-ment.
Rap, Rhythm & Rhyme: Children learn in different ways
I saw parents stare in unanimous disbelief as they watched elementary age to high school-aged children enthusiastically participate in learning vocabulary words and study skills to the beat of contemporary music.
Cork’s philosophy illustrates that children be excited about learning. All it takes is a fresh approach, flexibility in formula and higher expectations (by parents and educators).
Rap, Rhythm & Rhyme: No child left in the background
Laughing without limits
Saturday, April 7th, 2012
Toronto’s Chrissie Cunningham: Was it something I said?
Anna Phillips (pictured below) produced a comedy show at Jazz Central last night that featured homegirl Jessimae Peluso, Amy Carlson (New Rochelle) and Chrissie Cunningham (Toronto).
Anna Phillips said she thinks she is smarter than Lil’ Wayne, but she’s not sure.
Jessimae Peluso, who now lives in NYC, danced on stage, then reminisced about CNY and summers at Green Lakes making the human chain.
The laughs were punctated by stories about Hip Hop, relationships, parties and pet dogs.
Amy Carlson, who lives in New Rochelle, wrote a poem about Syracuse. Want to hear it, here it goes…
Cunningham, who happens to be hearing-impaired, was making her U.S. and Syracuse premiere.
Chrissie Cunningham from Syracuse in Focus on Vimeo.
When a Poet’s Fed Up
Saturday, April 7th, 2012
Rae Sunshine, gave us a conversation between Mr. Do Nothing and Ms. Say Something on Friday.
During an intermission at a comedy show last night at Jazz Central, Rae Sunshine performed one her poems , which was an imaginary conversation between Mr. Do Nothing and Ms. Say Something.
Her group Underground Poetry Spot will be performing a full show later this month at Art Rage Gallery.
VP Chronicles
Thursday, April 5th, 2012Last night Chris Godsick and Jay Feather, two SU grads-turned Hollywood insiders, attended an advanced showing of their series “VEEP, ” starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus (as a Vice President).
Here they talk with Professor Robert Thompson about the freedom of working with HBO.
VP Chronicles from Syracuse in Focus on Vimeo.
Athlete in Action
Monday, April 2nd, 2012Here is a column by former Orangeman and author, poet, activist Etan Thomas about the Trayvon Martin case.