Arts + culture

*UPDATE (Jan. 19): Due to forecast winter storm, this performance has been postponed to a future date.* SUNY Oswego music faculty member Paul Leary has been finishing a composition that meshes music and science, computer programming and artistic skills -- all set to visual and audio offerings from NASA's vast public archives.

Choral singers from SUNY Oswego and area high schools will offer Mendelssohn's "Magnificat" and other holiday music in a free Oswego Festival Chorus Holiday Concert.

Renowned alto saxophonist Dick Oatts will join the Oswego Jazz Project at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, in SUNY Oswego's Sheldon Hall ballroom concert for the Ke-Nekt Chamber Music Series.

The SUNY Oswego theatre department will present a one-performance staged reading at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, of famed playwright George Bernard Shaw’s “The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama.”

SUNY Oswego faculty member Juliet Aires Giglio and her husband, Keith Giglio, teamed as screenwriters for the comedy romance "A Very Nutty Christmas," premiering at 8 p.m. Nov. 30 on the Lifetime network and starring Melissa Joan Hart and Barry Watson.

Artist Marcela Hanford will display her figurative ink drawings and paintings -- created by using "a gestural and urgent approach" -- in an exhibition Nov. 14 through Jan. 25 at SUNY Oswego’s campus in Syracuse.

The SUNY Oswego theatre department next month will present playwright Neil LaBute's romantic drama "The Shape of Things," a "shocking" production that exposes four college students entangled in relationships to harsh life lessons about moral conflicts.

The upcoming SUNY Oswego production "The Shape of Things," running Nov. 7 to 11 in Tyler Hall's Waterman Theatre. looks at love, choices and identity.

As the SUNY Oswego theatre department approaches opening night Wednesday, Nov. 7, for Neil Labute's "The Shape of Things," the students on the production team help mold a play that emphasizes the power of manipulation in relationships.

A SUNY Oswego storytelling class will bring the tales of local historical figures to life during "A Night at the Oswego Town Rural Cemetery" on Friday, Oct. 26.