The Other Side

The Last Portrait - Gallery Hours (click for all upcoming dates)
2024-02-15 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | The Other Side, 2011 Genesee St, Utica, New York, 13501
Mark DiOrio – Photography
February 9 – March 2, 2024
Opening Reception – Friday, February 9 – 5-7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, March 2 – 1-2pm
Gallery Hours – 12-2pm:
Saturday, 2/10/24
Thursday, 2/15/24
Saturday, 2/17/24
Thursday, 2/22/24
Thursday, 2/29/24
Saturday, 3/2/24

Hamilton at The Other Side
2024-02-21 19:30 - 21:00
Finally returning to The Other Side!!!
Inside Knowledge: Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison — with author Doran Larson, Professor of Literature
“Most analysis of prisons and criminal justice comes from professionals and singular voices. Larson presents us with the diverse voices of those whose lives are most impacted by the carceral system, incarcerated people themselves.” (Booklist)
Books available for purchase and signing.
Free & Open to the public.

Isle De Formaggio -- The Cheese Man
2024-02-24 08:00 - 17:00
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The Last Portrait - Artist Talk
2024-03-02 13:00 - 14:00
Mark DiOrio – Photography
February 9 – March 2, 2024
Opening Reception – Friday, February 9 – 5-7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, March 2 –1-2pm
Gallery Hours – 12-2pm:
Saturday, 2/10/24
Thursday, 2/15/24
Saturday, 2/17/24
Thursday, 2/22/24
Saturday, 2/24/24
Thursday, 2/29/24
Saturday, 3/2/24

Complementary -- Opening Reception
2024-03-08 17:00 - 19:00
John Fitzsimmons
Paintings
March 8 – 30, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, March 8, 2024; 5-7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday March 30 @ 1pm
Gallery Hours from 12-2:
Saturday – 3/9
Thursday – 3/14
Saturday – 3/16
Thursday – 3/21
Saturday – 3/23
Thursday – 3/28
Saturday – 3/30

Complementary -- Gallery Hours (click for all upcoming dates)
2024-03-09 12:00 - 14:00

Hendrik Meurkens -- Jazz at The Other Side
2024-03-16 19:30 - 21:30
Jazz Harmonica Legend Hendrik Meurkens is “…one of the world’s leading exponents of the jazz harmonica…” – Jazz Times
featuring:
Bill Dobbins – piano
August Bish – bass
Mike Cortese – drums
Mike Dubaniewicz – sax

Tickets are $20 or $10 for students
To reserve tickets, call 315-735-4825, or email kodomenico@verizon.net

Isle De Formaggio - The Cheese Man
2024-03-23 08:00 - 17:00
Mike Haritos returns with his incomparable selection of imported cheeses and other food imposts. Kneady Baker artisanal breads also on hand!

Price Per Barrel: The Human Cost of Extraction -- Book Event
2024-03-24 16:00 - 17:00
Author Event with Robin Behl, Physician Assistant
Reading and book signing session
Books available for purchase with cash, credit card, or Venmo.
Paperback $20. Hardcover $25.
The event is free with donations encouraged to support The Other Side.

About the book “Price Per Barrel”
There are human stories that come out of the repeated cycle of boom and bust that has shaped our movement across the North American continent for the last four hundred years. Whether it’s the gold for our banks, the copper for our cell phones, the oil that powers our lives, our quest for the Moon, or our human need for entertainment, we come together to dig for it, drill for it, and race for it.
In each community impacted by the extractive industries, there are men and women in blue shirts & steel-toed boots, in white coats & stethoscopes, in booney hats & badges, who sacrifice themselves to care for their neighbors. Price Per Barrel: The Human Cost of Extraction looks at what a sudden population boom can do to a town and the people who care for it.
This book is broad in theme, reflecting the breadth of work that first responders and healthcare workers do for their communities. It touches on controversial topics like fracking, mining, and radioactive waste. It visits the drivers of the Indy 500 and the astronauts of the new space race. It covers housing crises and social protests. And it explores sexual harassment in the pre-&-post #MeToo era.
What emerges is evidence that first responders, once called to duty, refuse to abandon their posts, even when their towns change around them. They rise far and above their job descriptions, putting aside their own PTSD until the boom is over. But the trauma they endure at the hands of the newcomers and outsiders is real, persistent, and contagious. For that reason, it is incumbent upon us to examine our own lives; how much we use, how much we waste, and how we vote.
Price Per Barrel is part travelogue, part mental health journey. Robin spent years on the road, including six months living in her truck, talking to the people on the front lines and having new adventures of her own. By telling their story, perhaps we can more fully understand the price of extracting each barrel of oil or each shovel of ore and be better equipped when the next boom train stops in our town.

Author Bio
Robin grew up in southeastern New Mexico, where she got her first taste of emergency response as a volunteer firefighter, just after she graduated from High School. That early passion for helping people was solidified during her undergraduate tenure at New Mexico State University, where she continued her service and training as a firefighter and EMT. She would go on to spend thirteen years in emergency services with a variety of agencies around the country, becoming a paramedic and a dispatcher. She earned a master’s degree in medicine at the University of New England, in Maine and worked as a Physician Assistant in cardiovascular medicine for seven years, including in Utica.

In that time, she had the opportunity to train and work in the Arctic, both in Alaska and in Greenland. Her love for remote northern climates, and her insatiable wanderlust, inspired “Price Per Barrel: The Human Cost of Extraction,” her first non-fiction book. Robin was previously published in academic journals related to her medical practice including, “The Hidden Field of View: Challenges in Sustaining a Robotic Open-Heart Program” for the Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and “Robotic surgery: Would Any Other (more accurate) Name Smell as Sweet?” for the Journal of Robotic Surgery.

In her travels, Robin has visited every state in the union, every province in Canada and more than three dozen countries. She has left the practice of medicine and now works in documentary filmmaking, which allows her to tell stories in a whole new way. She is a dancer and a choreographer who feels most at home when she’s on a stage.

She is currently working on her next book, “Insensible Loss: Why Doctors Quit.” It’s a critical look at medicine in the United States and what drives providers like her out of the field and into work they find more rewarding.

Private Event
2024-03-25 17:30 - 19:00

Wonderful Women and a Few Great Men in Music
2024-03-26 19:00 - 21:00
presented by Chelsea Opera and Chelsea Arts Live!
With:
Leonarda Priore – mezzo soprano
Maria Russo – soprano

These hometown women, who have been on opera stages around the globe have come “home” to share their favorite standard and cabaret song selections joined with some of the finest musicians. The ladies will graciously give the stage to the band to wow you with some jumping jazz.

The evening is brought to you by Chelsea Opera and Chelsea Arts Live along with The Music Performance Trust Fund in honor of Women’s History Month and in remembrance of Nicholas S. Priore, Esq.
It will be an evening of wonderful music!

Band:
Tom Brigandi – bass
Barry Blumenthal – electric piano
Jim Abate – drums
Joe Carello – saxophone/flute
Jeff Stockham – trumpet/flugelhorn

This event is free and open to the public!

To reserve tickets contact Lee Priorie:
Leepriore@aol.com
917-797-3152 (leave a message)

Rebuilding a Cinema Culture in Cambodia
2024-03-27 19:30 - 21:00
Hamilton at The Other Side presents:
Rebuilding a Cinema Culture in Cambodia:
from Golden Age to Decimation to Emerging Art-House Cinema
a talk by Martine Guyot-Bender
professor of French and Francophone Studies
Cambodia’s cinematic history is a tale of extremes, oscillating between the heights of a post independent ‘Golden Age’ and the destruction led by the Khmer Rouge regime.
Today, a prudent social cinema is slower reclaiming its place in Cambodian cultural identity. Not an easy task in an environment where “freedom of expression is still fragile” Professor Guyot-Bender’s work was funded by the Center for Khmer Studies.
Free and open to the public

Complementary -- Artist Talk
2024-03-30 13:00 - 14:00

Killdeer Trio - Live at The Other Side
2024-03-30 19:30 - 21:30
Killdeer Trio is an instrumental trio co-led by bassist Evan Jagels, drummer Sebastian Green, and guitarist Wyatt Ambrose.
Tickets are $15 at the door. Pre-sale tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/killdeer-trio-live-at-the-other-side-tickets-850376287367?aff=oddtdtcreator
About the band:
Individually the members of the Trio have worked with acclaimed musicians of various styles including Stacy Dillard, John Stowell, Arlen Roth, Eric Finland, and Palehound. As a band, they aim to draw from their wide-reaching influences to create an experience that is accessible to audiences of all kinds.
The name Killdeer Trio comes from the “Killdeer” bird, commonly found in the Upstate NY — the region each member was raised, and now currently resides. Their music is deeply influenced by the rural environment in which it was conceived, reflecting both its quiet serenity, and constant invitation to explore the surrounding unknown. Killdeer Trio blends deep grooves, folk-like melodies, searing electric guitar, and free improvisation into a unique sound that rides the line between Modern Jazz, and popular music.
Killdeer Trio released their debut self-titled album on May 11th, 2023, which is available on all streaming platforms.
In February 2024 Killdeer Trio opened for the legendary saxophonist Joel Frahm at the Alias Winter Jazz Festival in Troy NY.
To read more about Killdeer Trio, visit killdeertrio.com.

Opening Reception -- Phantasies-Dreams-Nightmares
2024-04-05 17:00 - 19:00
Collages by Steven Specht
Opening Reception: Friday, April 5th from 5-7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 27th from 1-2pm
Gallery Hours are 12-2pm on:
Saturday, 4/6
Thursday, 4/11
Saturday, 4/13
Thursday, 4/18
Saturday, 4/20
Thursday, 4/25
Saturday, 4/27

Gallery Hours -- Phantasies-Dreams-Nightmares (click for all upcoming dates)
2024-04-06 12:00 - 14:00

Levern Williams -- Jazz at The Other Side
2024-04-13 19:30 - 21:30
Levern “The Entertainer” Williams
with special guest Roger Lent on piano
featuring:
Peter Chwazik – bass
Mike Melito – drums
Mike Dubaniewicz – sax
Tickets are $20 or $10 for students:
To reserve tickets call 315-735-4825 or email: kodomenico@verizon.net

The Invention of the Bible
2024-04-17 19:30 - 21:00
Hamilton at The Other Side
with Professor of Classics and Religion Ian Mills
“The Bible is an anthology of books. Each book — written centuries apart by diverse persons in various languages – has its own origin story. But the bible too had to be invented.
Wherefrom the idea of a closed corpus of uniquely authoritative texts? Professor Mills tells a story of evolving information technologies, heresy, apocrypha, and the invention of the Bible by Jews and Christians in the second century CE.”
Free and open to the public!

Artist Talk -- Phantasies-Dreams-Nightmares
2024-04-27 13:00 - 14:00

Benefit Concert featuring Elevator
2024-04-28 16:00 - 18:00
Hits and obscurities for your transistor radio! Songs from the 60s and more with Elevator. This blast from the past will be not only nostalgic, but educational!
Don’t miss out on this performance that will include 60’s music trivia,
valuable prizes and an appearance by a Utica jazz legend.
Come support The Other Side with this fun benefit concert featuring music by Elevator!
Jim and Ray Barnes have been performing as Elevator for many years, originally with local legend Alan Cooke on guitar and vocals. The Barnes brothers have performed with many local bands and were also original members of No Reply, a Beatles tribute band, with their cousin Mark Barnes.
The current configuration of Elevator includes singer Ed Townsend, known in Pittsburgh as lead singer of the infamous Eddie and The Otters, as well as guitarist Matt Giedraitis, known as Matt Gridley, because no one can spell his name. Matt is a current and founding member of local favorites, Gridley Page.
Ed is the only member old enough to have actually heard these songs when they were first released! The band’s repertoire includes a range of offerings from the Beatles, The Kinks, The Zombies, The Hollies, The Beau Brummell’s, The Who, The Lovin’ Spoonful, the Classics IV and many more.

Frank Bianco and Friends
2024-05-03 19:00 - 21:00
Join Frank Bianco and friends to celebrate the release of his new album “Couchfly”! The show will begin with featuring performances by Earl Klein, Ryan Oliver and “Lady Cat” Rachel Livermore. Then Frank will be performing his entire album in sequence with added instrumentation from special guest Anthony Bianco.

The Cheese Man
2024-05-04 08:00 - 17:00
Cheese man Mike Haritos returns with his vast array of imported cheeses, Kneady Baker Joe Silberlicht will be on hand with his artisanal breads.

The Rules of Esthetics – Gallery Opening
2024-05-10 17:00 - 19:00
Paintings by Everett Mayo
Opening Reception: Friday May 10th – 5 to 7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday June 1st – 1pm
Gallery Hours – 12 to 2pm:
Saturday 5/11
Thursday 5/16
Saturday 5/18
Thursday 5/23
Saturday 5/25
Thursday 5/30
Saturday 6/1

The Rules of Esthetics – Gallery Hours (click for all upcoming dates)
2024-05-11 12:00 - 14:00

Temenos Talk
2024-05-19 09:00 - 11:00

Vinnie Sperazza & Ember -- Jazz at The Other Side
2024-05-25 19:30 - 21:30
Direct from Brooklyn, NY, Ember has “…a sound that defies a convention or category”. – Downbeat
Featuring:
Vinnie Sperrazza – drums
Caleb Curtis – alto sax
Noah Garabedian – Bass

Tickets are $20 or $10 for students
To reserve call 315-735-4825 or email kodomenico@verizon.net

The Rules of Esthetics – Artist Talk
2024-06-01 13:00 - 14:00

Big and Glassy Book Club
2024-06-04 18:30 - 21:00
Open to the public!
Contact Sherman at thesteins3@outlook.com for information on the current book and all other questions.

Blues at The Other Side presents: Tom Townsley Band
2024-06-06 19:30 - 21:30
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SIX YEARS, Tom Townsley is bringing blues back to THE OTHER SIDE OF UTICA!
Tom and his buddies Todd Fitzsimmons & Morris Tarbell have shared the stage with Muddy Waters’ alumni Jimmy Rogers & Pinetop Perkins, and they’ve opened for many of the major blues acts to come through CNY. For twenty-six years, Tom hosted WAER’s Sunday Night Blues.
Come help us welcome Tom back to The Other Side!
Tom Townsley (harmonica/vocals)
Todd Fitzsimmons (guitar/vocals)
Morris Tarbell (guitar/vocals)
Sean Peters (bass)
Lenny Milano (drums)
Tickets are $20 or $10 for students
Seating is limited * First come, first serve

Intimate Moments - Opening Reception
2024-06-07 17:30 - 19:30
Photographs by Lawrence Pacilio
June 7 – 29, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, June 7, 2024 from 5-7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 29 at 1pm
Gallery Hours:
Saturday, June 8
Thursday, June 13
Saturday, June 15
Thursday, June 20
Saturday, June 22
Thursday, June 27
Saturday, June 29
