Things to Do, Dec. 6-13
By Daniel Aloi
Art downtown
Undergraduate (BFA) art students at Cornell will display a selection of their new and recent work in downtown Ithaca Dec. 6 during the city’s monthly Gallery Night.
The exhibition, “Wasted Hours,” is open from 6 to 8 p.m. at 123 S. Cayuga St. at Green Street, across from the Tompkins County Public Library.
Carols service
The seasonal tradition of Christmas Vespers returns to Sage Chapel Sunday and Monday, Dec. 8-9, at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.
The candlelit lessons and carols service features audience participation on familiar Christmas hymns and traditional readings by members of the Cornell community. Carols and hymns will be sung by the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club, led by conductor Robert Isaacs and accompanied by organist Annette Richards. Presented by the Department of Music.
‘Company’ concert
The Flexible Theatre Company will present Stephen Sondheim’s “‘Company’: Live in Concert,” Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. in Kiplinger Theatre at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $3, available at http://flexibletheatre.com.
Directed by Danny Bernstein ’14, the musical production features a cast of 14, with performers from Cornell and Ithaca College.
Also at the Schwartz Center: The Fall Dance Theatre Concert, with work by student and faculty choreographers, Dec. 6-7 at 7:30 pm. in the Class of '56 Dance Theatre. Tickets are $5, available at the box office, 430 College Ave.; by calling 607-254-2787 or at www.SchwartzTickets.com. Information: http://pma.cornell.edu
‘Safety Last’
Cornell Cinema’s Ithakid Film Fest presents Harold Lloyd’s stunt-filled 1923 comedy “Safety Last” in a new digital restoration, Saturday, Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre. Admission is $4 for adults and $3 for children ages 12 and under. Recommended for ages 6 and up. The film also screens Dec. 8 at 4:30 p.m.; regular ticket prices apply.
Also at Cornell Cinema this week: “The Big Lebowski,” Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m.; “District 9” director Neil Blomkamp’s science fiction thriller “Elysium,” with Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, Dec. 6-9; Wong Kar-Wai’s kung fu drama “The Grandmaster,” Dec. 7, 8 and 12; Ron Howard’s 1970s auto-racing epic “Rush,” Dec. 11-14; and “In a World,” Lake Bell’s comedy about voiceover actors, Dec. 12-14. Information: cinema.cornell.edu. There is a study break discount Dec. 9, with $3 admission for all at the 7 p.m. screening of “Elysium.”
Birds and climate change
Kim Bostwick will present “Three Climate Change Stories: Mine, Yours and the Birds’,” Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. at Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca. Free and open to the public, her Science Cabaret talk will be followed by audience discussion.
Relating her love of science, nature and birds to the current climate crisis and its implications for biodiversity, Bostwick will share her personal response to the climate crisis from her perspective as a parent, a bird-watcher, scientist and ornithologist. She will describe a simple plan to use in response to climate change. Bostwick is a research associate in ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell and curator of birds and mammals at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates.
Information: http://www.sciencecabaret.org/
Chinese dress
A new exhibition, “Chinese Traditional Dress and Its Influence (1840-1960)” is on display on the Terrace Level of the Human Ecology Building through Feb. 28.
The exhibition shows Chinese costume culture and its influence on Western countries in and after the late Qing Dynasty era. Four displays showcase Manchu style, Han woman style, Chinoiserie and symbolic motif.
Curator Yehong Wang, a visiting fellow in the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design, can provide personal tours of the exhibition; contact her at yw577@cornell.edu
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