Provided/Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

The Johnson Museum celebrates its print collections with ‘Impressions in Print,’ a family event Sept. 19. Shown: Armin Landeck’s ‘The Lithographer,’ a lithograph on paper from 1932 in the museum’s print collection.

Rock for Homecoming

The band Passion Pit and opening act Robert DeLong perform Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. in Barton Hall in a Homecoming Weekend concert, presented by the Cornell Concert Commission.

General admission tickets are $22 in advance for Cornell students and alumni, $27 at the door (if available); $30 advance, $35 at the door for the general public, including Cornell staff and faculty. Advance tickets are available online at www.cornellconcerts.com

Printed impressions

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art hosts a free family event, “Impressions Through Prints,” Saturday, Sept. 19 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Open to the public.

Visitors can learn about printing techniques and tools, and explore the prints on display in three current exhibitions including “Imprint/In Print,” a five-century overview of the printmaking arts. Bring a T-shirt or tote to produce original fabric art, or make your own paper prints to take home, using Standard Art Supply materials or the Wells Book Arts Center’s portable letterpress.

Performances inspired by prints in the museum’s collections will feature local and campus groups and artists. Michelle Courtney Berry, former poet laureate of Tompkins County, performs at 12:45 p.m., followed by a poetry workshop.

The museum will be open until 8 p.m. Saturday of Homecoming Weekend. Regular hours are Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., extended hours on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. through Dec. 3 (closed Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26).

Pepper party

Cornell Plantations will throw a Family Pepper Party, Sept. 19 from 1 to 5 p.m., with pepper-themed activities for all ages, including dancing and tastings from Agava. The free Judy’s Day Program wraps up a week of pepper-themed events featuring food historian and author Dave Dewitt.

A special exhibition in the Nevin Welcome Center, “Peppers Around the World,” traces how cultivated peppers traveled from Central and South America and made their way around the globe, and became key ingredients of signature dishes worldwide including salsas, curries and pastes.

Art and activism

Artist Sharon Hayes gives a public lecture, “Women’s Liberation is a Lesbian Plot and Other Anachronisms,” Sept. 21 at 5:15 p.m. in Milstein Auditorium. Her talk is free and open to the public.

Hayes is the Fall 2015 Teiger Mentor in the Arts in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Based in New York City, she works in photography, sculpture, video, performance and installation; addressing history, politics and speech in political events and movements from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Venues for her solo exhibitions have included the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. She also has shown work in the 2013 Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, among others.

Beyond body image

Former championship ice skater Jamie Silverstein ’08 shares her story of Olympic competition and anorexia in “Beyond the Body: Eating Disorders, Olympics and the Life Underneath,” Monday, Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room. Her talk is free and open to the public.

In her presentation, she debunks the myths associated with eating disorders while inspiring people to know themselves and meet their potential.

Silverstein won gold, silver and bronze medals in figure skating and ice dancing competition before quitting the sport in 2001, realizing anorexia and bulimia had sapped the strength she needed to train for the Olympics. She attended Cornell for two years, found ways to take care of herself and started skating again at the end of 2004, training and then competing in early 2006 as an ice dancer at the XX Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy.

After the Olympics she earned her degree as a College Scholar from the College of Arts and Sciences and now leads a vinyasa yoga studio, The Grinning Yogi, in Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon.

Her talk is part of the Healthy and Disordered Eating lecture series sponsored by Cornell Minds Matter and Cornell Students for Eating Disorder Awareness, Support and Recovery, student-led organizations that host regular activities on campus related to healthy nutrition and body image. 

World cinema

A French architect’s quest for renewal and redemption through his study of 17th-century Italian architect Francesco Borromini.is the subject of “La Sapienza,” Sept. 24 and 27 in Willard Straight Theatre.

The 2014 France-Italy co-production is the first of five films Cornell Cinema is showing this semester in its Contemporary World Cinema series.

The film series “Orson Welles: A Centenary Celebration” continues Sept. 26-27, with two screenings of a new restoration of Carol Reed’s “The Third Man” (1949), starring Welles as Harry Lime. 

Prized fiction

Award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead reads from his work Thursday, Sept. 24 at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. The reading is free and open to the public.

Whitehead is the author of the New York Times best-seller “Zone One” as well as “John Henry Days,” a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are “The Intuitionist,” “The Colossus of New York,” “Apex Hides the Hurt,” “Sag Harbor” and the recent “The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death.” His honors include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Faulkner Awards and a Whiting Writers Award.

Presented by the Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series, organized by the Creative Writing Program and Department of English.