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Percussionist Ji Hye Jung is featured in a guest artist recital Oct. 1 and will perform with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra Oct. 5.

Pigeon lit

The book display at Adelson Library in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity honors the 100th anniversary this month of the death of Martha, the last confirmed living passenger pigeon.

The display continues through Sept. 30 and is free and open to the public. The library is open Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m.

Among the books on view from the lab’s collection of printed materials are “The Great House of Birds: Classic Writings About Birds,” which features an essay on the passenger pigeon by John James Audubon; “On Rare Birds” by Anita Albus; and “Silent Wings: A Memorial to the Passenger Pigeon” published by the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology.

Day of Caring

The annual United Way Day of Caring is Tuesday, Sept. 30, at noon at Stewart Park, Ithaca, kicking off the communitywide campaign. A recent Ithaca Voice story on hunger reported that 18.4 percent of Tompkins County children – 3,040 boys and girls – struggle with food insecurity at home.

Donation boxes to collect nonperishable food, personal care and household items and school supplies for the community event are located in several Cornell buildings. Other campus locations can still add donation boxes – boxes and need lists are available from the campus United Way office, 110 Day Hall, and will be picked up Sept. 29 and the morning of Sept. 30.

A bus for Cornell United Way campaign supporters will leave Lynah Rink Sept. 30 at 11:30 a.m. and return from Stewart Park no later than 1:30 p.m. Contact Penny Givin by noon Friday, Sept. 26, to reserve a seat on the bus.

Volunteers are needed Sept. 30, 8 a.m.-noon or 12:30-4 p.m., to help with setup at Stewart Park, carry in donated items and help sort items for delivery to local food pantries and community organizations.

Jon Savage on 1966

Author, broadcaster and music journalist Jon Savage discusses his current book project, “1966: The Simple Things You See Are All Complicated,”Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 5 p.m. in B20 Lincoln Hall. Free and open to the public.

Each essay in the book focuses on one month of 1966, beginning with the release, recording or prominence of a particular 45rpm single, and expanding to a wider exploration of the year’s events in American and British pop culture.

Savage’s books include “England’s Dreaming” (1991), an award-winning history of the Sex Pistols, punk rock and Britain in the late ’70s; “Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture” (2007) and, as co-author, “Punk: Chaos to Couture” (2013). He participated on a Cornell University Library panel, “Punk: An Aesthetic,” in 2012.

His talk is presented by the Department of Music and co-sponsored by the LGBT Studies Program and the Department of Performing and Media Arts.

Tech vs. the legal system

Programming prodigy Aaron Swartz, the pioneering developer behind RSS and Reddit, also did work in political organizing around information access that ensnared him in a two-year legal nightmare that ended when he took his own life at age 26.

Cornell Cinema shows a recent documentary, “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz,” Oct. 1 at 7:15 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre, with an introduction and post-screening discussion led by Tracy Mitrano, director of IT policy and of the Institute for Computer Policy and Law at Cornell.

Also at Cornell Cinema, director Anthony Chen will do a Q&A via Skype at a screening of his new film “Ilo Ilo,” Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. Set in Singapore during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Chen’s film follows a middle class family and a Filipino immigrant they hire as a live-in maid and nanny. The film, part of the Contemporary World Cinema series, won the Caméra d’Or for Best First Feature at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

Percussion recital

The Department of Music presents percussionist Ji Hye Jung in a guest artist recital featuring solo and duo works for percussion, Oct. 1 at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall Auditorium. She will be joined by Cornell lecturer in percussion performance Michael Compitello.

An assistant professor of percussion at the University of Kansas, Jung has performed more than 100 concerts as a soloist with every major orchestra in her native Korea. She relocated to the United States in 2004 and won first prizes at the 2006 Linz International Marimba Competition and the 2007 Yale Gordon Concerto Competition.

Jung and Compitello also will be featured in a performance of Bela Bartók’s Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra at a Cornell Symphony Orchestra concert Oct. 5, 7 p.m. in Bailey Hall. The concert, with guest conductor Andrés Tolcachir, also features pianists Xak Bjerken and Miri Yampolsky.

Both events are free and open to the public.

Ten minutes on stage

The Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) presents The Ten-Minute Playfest, Oct. 1-2 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 4 at 8:30 p.m. in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts’ Black Box Theatre.

Tickets are $5 each, available at SchwartzTickets.com, by calling 607-254-2787 or at the box office, open Monday-Friday from noon to 4 p.m. at the Schwartz Center, 430 College Ave.

Produced by PMA graduate student Nick Fesette, the festival features six plays written, directed and performed by students. Nearly 40 graduate and undergraduate students came together to create and stage a wide range of comedic and tragic stories. See some of last year’s Playfest on YouTube.

The plays are “Turtle Beach” by graduate student Aoise Stratford; “Ear for an Ear” by Scott Chiusano ’15; “The Championship Match” by Julia Moser ’15; “Herstory” by Addy Davidoff ’15; “Stubborn Men and the Daughters Who Raise Them” by Jessica Evans ’15 and “Waiting for ‘Waiting for Godot’” by graduate student Seth Soulstein.

PMA also presents a staged reading of a work in progress by Anna Alison Brenner ’16, ”Still Life: A New Play,” Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre. Free and open to the public. The coming-of-age story “is about an artist’s struggle to come to terms with the ghosts – literal and metaphorical – of her past,” Brenner says.

For details on PMA’s 2014-15 events, see pma.cornell.edu/150events.

Fresh from the farm

The Farmers’ Market at Cornell continues through October, Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Ag Quad.

The weekly market features locally grown produce and fresh baked goods, live music and prepared food and products from a variety of local vendors, including Iron Owl Kitchen, Tellez, Honey Rock Farm and Good Life Farm.

Information: cufarmersmarket@gmail.com or ear253@cornell.edu.