ARTSwego Performing Arts Series Presents

Magdalen

Thursday, September 17th, 7PM
Waterman Theatre

Magdalen is a layered, one-woman play written and performed by Erin Layton, inspired by the true stories of the women and girls who labored in one of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries in the mid-twentieth century. A narrator invites us into an abandoned building in present-day Dublin, inside what used to operate as a Magdalene Laundry run by the order of the Good Shepherd Sisters. Its ghosts, the young “penitent” washer-women, a parish priest, and the Reverend Mother of the convent, tell their stories in this multi-character performance about this largely unknown and shameful period of a nation’s history.

$20 general public, $15 faculty/staff/alumni, $5 non-SUNY Oswego Students, Free for SUNY Oswego Students. Reserve your tickets through the SUNY Oswego Box Office. 
Run time: Approximately 80 minutes 

ARTSwego Performing Arts Series Presents

Kings Return

Thursday, November 5th, 7PM
Waterman Theatre
Opened by the Oswego High School Choir

Dynamic and soothing four-piece vocal group Kings Return take pride in crafting a diverse yet supremely cohesive a cappella sound: The blend of their unique vocal timbres is so rich and so smooth that, at times, it sounds more like a full choir than a mere four men. Drawn to the flexibility of a cappella music, they take full advantage of the genre-mixing aspects of the tradition. Their brand of R&B is entwined with free moments of jazz, soulful bursts of gospel, and bright touches of pop—all built on a solid, classical foundation. Composed of tenor Vaughn Faison, bass Gabe Kunda, tenor JE McKissic, and baritone Jamall Williams, the Dallas-based quartet has since captured the hearts of millions of fans in-person and online.

This project was made possible with support from the Richard S. Shineman Foundation. The Foundation’s mission is to be a catalyst for change to enhance the quality of life in Oswego County.

$20 general public, $15 faculty/staff/alumni, Free for SUNY Oswego Students, Free for everyone 18 and younger. Reserve your tickets through the SUNY Oswego Box Office.

ARTSwego Performing Arts Series Presents

Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance

Thursday, February 25th, 7PM
Waterman Theatre

Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance envisions dance as a powerful force that can help move us toward a more embodied, sustainable and equitable future. Their work aims to investigate the relationship of the moving body to the ecologies we inhabit through performance, media, education and activism. They have an ongoing commitment to advocate for climate justice through the creation of choreography—for stage, screen and street—that merges scientific and artistic research. Their work is deeply collaborative and cross-disciplinary, combining dance, environmental physics, music, visual art, lighting and media. Through all these modes, the work creates visual-kinetic narratives that bridge the gap between human and nature, art and science, mind and body.

$20 general public, $15 faculty/staff/alumni, $5 non-SUNY Oswego Students, Free for SUNY Oswego Students. Reserve your tickets through the SUNY Oswego Box Office.

ARTSwego Performing Arts Series Presents

Liminal Blue 

Projection Animation by Isabel Beavers
On view April 2nd - April 30th, 7:30PM to 10:00PM daily
Glimmerglass Lagoon

Isabel Beavers is a transdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles working at the intersections of new media, ecology, and collective action. During the fall of 2026, she will visit Oswego to complete research for a site-specific animation based on Lake Ontario. Her animation will be projected onto a waterscreen, designed by SUNY Oswego Technology students, floating on Glimmerglass Lagoon throughout April 2027. 

Beavers' artistic practice combines emerging technologies with in-situ research and collective learning. They have led projects in Jordan as the ZERO1 2022 Creative Impact Lab - Amman Lead Artist; in Seattle, WA, USA as the 2021 AICAD/NOAA Art + Science Fellow, and cross-nationally as a CreaTures EU ExP Artist. Their research-based practice has been awarded with support in the form of grants, residencies, and presentations in Iceland, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Italy and most recently, Athens, Greece and Cyprus. Exhibited widely through the USA and globally, their work addresses the climate crisis through myth, spirituality, and more-than-human perspectives.

This project is presented in partnership with the concurrent exhibition HYDROS: A World Held by Water in Tyler Art Gallery, co-curated by Isabel Beavers and Gallery Director Davana Robedee.

Free and open to all for viewing; no tickets required.