Things to Do, Oct. 10-17

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Argentinian director Matías Piñeiro introduces a Cornell Cinema screening of his film “Viola,” based on Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," Oct. 15 at at 7:15 p.m.

Before and after break

Before closing for fall break, Oct. 11-14, Cornell Cinema is screening animator Signe Baumane’s “Rocks in My Pockets” and the documentary “Vinylmania,” Oct. 10 in Willard Straight Theatre.

The schedule resumes Oct. 15 at 7:15 p.m. with a special guest, Argentinian director Matías Piñeiro, showing his 2013 romance “Viola.” ILR professor Jeff Cowie will introduce the 1979 Cannes Film Festival winner “Northern Lights” Oct. 16 at 7 p.m., followed by “Ghost in the Shell” at 9:15 p.m.

Schedule change: The Willy Wonka Chocolate Soirée, a Cornell Cinema special event previously scheduled for Oct. 18, has been postponed to Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. More details will be available in November. Two screenings of “The Lego Movie” (2014) will instead be shown Oct. 18.

Magic surrealism

Artist, cultural historian and author Celia Rabinovitch will give a talk, “Surrealism Through the Mirror of Magic: Alternative Paths to Knowledge,” Oct. 16 at 5 p.m. in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art’s Wing Lecture Room. Free and open to the public.

Rabinovitch is the author of “Surrealism and the Sacred: Power, Eros and the Occult in Modern Art” (2002). Her visit is being hosted in conjunction with the Johnson Museum exhibition “Surrealism and Magic.”

Wearable art

Fiber science and apparel design majors in the College of Human Ecology are showing their design work through Oct. 24.

The ninth annual Barbara L. Kuhlman Student Scholars’ Fiber Arts and Wearable Art Exhibition is open to the public Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. in the Human Ecology Building’s Jill Stuart Gallery.

The Kuhlman Foundation provides scholarship support each year to students submitting design proposals to craft wearable art.

Prized poet

Poet, writer and editor Luis Urrea will give a reading of his work Oct. 16 at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. Free and open to the public. Presented by the Department of English Program in Creative Writing’s Fall 2014 Barbara and David Zalaznick Reading Series.

Born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica, Dawes is the award-winning author of 17 books of poetry, including “Duppy Conqueror,” and numerous books of fiction, nonfiction, criticism and drama. He won an Emmy in 2009 for LiveHopeLove.com, an interactive website based on his Pulitzer Center project “HOPE: Living and Loving with AIDS in Jamaica.”

The Glenna Luschei Editor of the journal Prairie Schooner, Dawes also serves as associate poetry editor for Peepal Tree Press in the United Kingdom, a faculty member of Cave Canem and programming director of the Calabash International Literary Festival.

War, race and freedom

Robin D.G. Kelley will present “John (and Michael) Brown’s Body: Meditations on War, Race and Freedom,” Oct. 16 at 4:30 p m. at the Africana Studies and Research Center. Free and open to the public.

Kelley is the author of the award-winning “Thelonius Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original” (2009) and “Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times” (2012). He has received numerous honors for his research on the history of social movements in the United States and other work with emphasis on black intellectuals, music, visual culture, contemporary urban studies, organized labor, colonialism, Surrealism and Marxism.

The Gary B. Nash Professor of U.S. history at the University of California, Los Angeles, he is the first African-American historian to have held the Harmsworth Chair of American History at Oxford University (2009-10).

Kelley’s talk is the first Reuben A. and Cheryl Casselberry Munday Distinguished Lecture, an annual lectureship bringing a leading scholar in the field of Africana studies to campus to highlight issues pertaining to Africa and African diaspora communities.

Fall Employee Celebration

Tickets are on sale through Oct. 24 for Cornell’s Fall Employee Celebration Nov. 1, open to all staff, faculty, retirees and their families. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the Athletic Ticket Office in Bartels Hall (open Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.) or by calling 607-255-4247.

The ticket price includes a community dinner and several athletic events Nov. 1:

  • Cornell football vs. Princeton University at 12:30 p.m.
  • Women’s soccer vs. Princeton at 2:30 p.m.
  • Women’s ice hockey vs. Quinnipiac University at 3 p.m.
  • Men’s soccer vs. Princeton at 5 p.m.

The dinner, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. in Barton Hall, features Cornell barbecue chicken and pasta with grilled vegetables and marinara sauce.

Volunteers receive a free Employee Celebration T-shirt and a complimentary ticket for the football game and community dinner. Helpers are needed in Barton Hall, generally for two-hour shifts, for tasks including setup, cleanup, children’s activities, taking tickets and serving food. Contact empcelebration@cornell.edu.

Ladyfest Cornell

The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts will host the first-ever Ladyfest Cornell, April 11, 2015 – a one-day festival of performance, activism, music and film, featuring original works by women and LGBTQ Cornell students.

Ladyfest is seeking proposals from interested students. Proposals are due Oct. 15. For more information and the proposal form, visit ladyfestcornell.wordpress.com.

Questions can be sent to Annie Lewandowski, lecturer in music, at apl72@cornell.edu.

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