Wedding songs

The Vet Players will perform “The Wedding Singer” March 30 and 31 at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall Auditorium. Tickets are $10 general admission, on sale in the College of Veterinary Medicine atrium.

The Cornell production stars Alexander Quilty, DVM ’19, as Robbie and Hannah Brodlie, DVM ’18, as Julia. Adapted from the 1998 hit film with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, the Tony-nominated stage musical was co-written by original screenwriter Tim Herlihy.

The musical is directed by Gabriella Patricia Carr, with choreography by Carr, Gray Ryan, Ali Lindsay, Emily Herrold, Olivia Lenz and Paige Winn. The cast includes Cornell vet students, faculty and staff, and Ithaca community members.

A student-run organization at the veterinary college, the Vet Players debuted in 1989 with a production of “Little Shop of Horrors.” The troupe presents a full-length production each spring as a creative outlet for students, faculty, staff and friends of the veterinary college.

For more information, email Brian Balduzzi.

Cinema break

Cornell Cinema will be dark over spring break, with no screenings March 31 through April 9 in Willard Straight Theatre.

Two area premieres of films released in 2017 are being shown March 30: “Leaning Into the Wind,” a documentary on artist Andy Goldsworthy, at 7 p.m.; and the Finnish comedy “The Other Side of Hope” at 9:15 p.m.

Screenings resume Tuesday, April 10, with the 1968 Cuban film “Memories of Underdevelopment” and the 2018 thriller “Truth or Dare,” the latter free for Cornell students. Passes are available from the Cornell Cinema office, the Willard Straight Resource Center and at West Campus houses.

Watch the Cornell Cinema site for new titles coming this spring including “Call Me By Your Name,” “Phantom Thread,” “Black Panther,” “Mary and the Witch’s Flower,” and the Ithaca premiere of “RBG,” a portrait of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg ’54.

Employee recognition day

The Spring RED (Recognizing Employees Day) is Tuesday, April 3. Free cupcakes and fresh fruit are available for staff at locations across campus from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. or while supplies last.

Tables will be located in the Olin Library lobby, Humphreys Service Building atrium, Mann Library lobby and the upstairs entry of Helen Newman Hall.

The event is hosted by the Employee Recognition Team of the Division of Human Resources.

Bowling for lunch

The Cornell Recreation Connection hosts a lunchtime bowling activity for staff and faculty, Tuesday, April 3, from noon to 1 p.m. at Helen Newman Bowling Center on campus.

The $5 cost includes bowling and pizza. To reserve a lane, preregistration is encouraged. Walk-in bowlers are welcome, available lanes permitting.

For entry forms or more information, contact Cheryl McGraw. Bring entry forms with payment to the bowling center and make checks payable to Cornell University.

James Baldwin’s America

The History Center in Tompkins County and the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell will host “James Baldwin’s America,” a reading and discussion series beginning April 3.

In the series, developed and sponsored by Humanities New York, participants will explore themes in Baldwin’s major essays in works including “Notes of A Native Son,” “Nobody Knows My Name” and “The Fire Next Time,” and previously uncollected nonfiction.

The six-part series is held Tuesday evenings, 6:30-8 p.m. The schedule: April 3, 17 and 24 at the History Center, 401 E. State St., Ithaca; and April 10, May 1 and May 8 at the Africana Center, 310 Triphammer Road.

Discussions are facilitated by Eric Acree, director of the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library; Kimerly Cornish, education and outreach coordinator at the Tompkins County Office of Human Rights; and doctoral student Marquis Bey, M.A. ’17.

The program is free and advance registration is required. The first 15 participants to register receive a copy of “James Baldwin: Collected Essays.” Register online or contact Ksenia Ionova at 607-273-8284, ext. 227, or community@thehistorycenter.net.

The Africana Center also hosts free public screenings in the Multipurpose Room of “James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket,” a documentary with archival footage evoking the writer’s formative years, April 5 at 6:30 p.m.; and “I Am Not Your Negro” on May 3, a film based on Baldwin’s unfinished book on Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

Shaping the body

The Human Ecology Building is hosting an exhibition exploring perceptions and representations of Euro-American beauty ideals and fashion imposed on women’s bodies over time.

Curated by Rachel Doran ’19, “Go Figure: The Fashion Silhouette & the Female Form” features 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century outerwear and undergarments, and shows how women’s bodies have been manipulated and shaped to fit fashionable silhouettes at different moments in time. From corsetry and girdles to diet and exercise, the display conveys that shaping the human body is critical to fashion change and illustrates the fluctuating and dynamic nature of sociocultural conceptions of beauty.

On display on Terrace Level T through May 31, the exhibition is made possible by the Charlotte Jirousek Undergraduate Research Fellowship in the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection.