Free Glee

The Cornell University Glee Club will perform a concert Jan. 26 in Ithaca in celebration of its recent national 150th anniversary tour.

The Return from Tour Concert will be at 3 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, 315 N. Cayuga St., and is free and open to the public.

The Sesquicentennial Tour from Jan. 5-19 took the Glee Club to concert venues in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.

Festival24

Students in the Department of Performing and Media Arts present Festival24, Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Admission is free and open to the public.

The event in the Flex Theatre features performances of a variety of original works all written, cast, directed and rehearsed by students in the 24 hours leading up to the show. Students interested in participating can email Festival24@cornell.edufor details.

Doors open at 7 p.m.; arriving 15-20 minutes earlier is recommended to ensure a seat. Students expect a full house.

Festival24 is produced by Milo Reynolds-Dominguez ’20. Sarah Marino ’19 is the production stage manager.

Also this week: PMA auditions for spring productions, Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. in the Flex Theatre; and the Feb. 1 deadline for submissions to the 6th Centrally Isolated Film Festival in April.

Local folk music

The spring season of “Bound For Glory” live performances on campus kicks off with local singer, songwriter and musician Travis Knapp, Jan. 27 in Anabel Taylor Hall. A Best of Bound for Glory Award winner, Knapp performs original songs and traditional music on guitar, banjo and piano.

There will be three sets of music beginning at 8:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to all ages. Refreshments are available.

The folk music program, now in its 52nd season, is broadcast live on WVBR 93.5 FM and streams online, 8-11 p.m. Sundays. Upcoming performers include Janet Batch, Feb. 3; and Andrew VanNorstrand, Feb. 10, artists based in the Ithaca area and upstate New York, respectively.

Deep tech showcase

Deep Tech Takeover, Jan. 28, 11:30 a.m to 1:30 p.m. in Duffield Atrium, highlights technology being developed at Cornell and showcases entrepreneurship resources and programs available to engineering faculty, staff and students to train and support them in commercializing their research. 

The event is free and open to the public. Sponsors include Cornell Regional Economic Advancement.

Some of the programs featured include Cornell Technology Licensing, the Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture at Cornell Agritech, W.E. Cornell for women entrepreneurs, Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, the McGovern Center, eLab, eShip@Cornell, and business incubators and accelerators.

South Hill filmmakers

Cornell Cinema presents a series on Ithaca College filmmakers this semester, beginning with “Love, Gilda” (2018) on Jan. 28 at 6:45 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre.

Marlena Grzaslewicz, assistant professor of media arts, sciences, and studies (MASS), was supervising sound editor on the documentary portrait of late comedian Gilda Radner. The feature is preceded by “The Women of Titmouse Animation,” a short documentary introduced by filmmaker and MASS assistant professor Chrissy Guest.

Also in the series: “The Manhattan Front” (2018), Jan. 31 at 7 p.m., with guest filmmaker and associate professor Cathy Crane; Independent Spirit Award nominee “Madeline’s Madeline” (2018), Feb. 5, with cinematographer and Ithaca alum Ashley Connor; and “Onward Loneliness Follows” (2017) by Ithaca alum Michael Robinson, as part of a March 26 program of recent experimental shorts.

Also showing this week: Ithaca premieres of Jean-Luc Godard’s latest film, “The Image Book,” Jan. 29-30; and RaMell Ross’ acclaimed documentary, “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” Jan. 30 at 7 p.m.

Soup & Hope

The 2019 Soup & Hope series continues Jan. 31 with Bill Alberta, M.S. ’77, retired associate director of Cornell Career Services and founder of the Cornell Elves Program.

The series is open to the public and features speakers from the community sharing their stories of hope, with free hot soup and rolls provided by Cornell Dining. Talks are held biweekly in Sage Chapel, noon to 1 p.m. on alternating Thursdays at the start of each spring semester.

Over the past 11 years, more than 50 speakers – Cornell staff, faculty, students and alumni and residents of the greater Ithaca area – have inspired and motivated campus and community members.

The next speaker, Feb. 14, is Village at Ithaca co-founder Cal Walker, former Learning Strategies Center associate director and Office of Community Relations outreach liaison. The 2019 series also features Imani Majied ’19, co-founder of Everybody Eats, Feb. 28; Angela Winfield, director of inclusion and workforce diversity at Cornell, March 14; and Riché Richardson, writer, quilt artist and associate professor of Africana studies, March 28.

Art faculty show, Indian textiles

Works by Department of Art faculty are on display at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art through April 7 in the Gold Gallery. Museum admission is free.

Cornell art faculty are deeply engaged in studio-based teaching and strive to develop students into confident and independent artists. Faculty in the department are invited to exhibit their work in a group show at the museum every few years. The exhibition highlights recent work, and the relationship between education and practice.

The exhibition was organized by Andrea Inselmann, curator of modern and contemporary art, and curatorial assistant Laura Libert. It includes artwork by Michael Ashkin, Roberto Bertoia, Leslie Brack, Robin Cameron, Christine Elfman, Renate Ferro, Gail Fitzgerald, Bill Gaskins, Branden Hookway, Anna Huff (in collaboration with Nancy Lee Kelly), Joanna Malinowska, Elisabeth H. Meyer, Chris Oliver, Carl Ostendarp, Gregory Page, Maria Park, Barry Perlus, Jolene K. Rickard, Stan Taft, Dan Torop and Jaret Vadera.

Also at the museum: Printed, painted and woven designs on fine cotton and silk in “Traded Treasure: Indian Textiles for Global Markets,” opening Jan. 26 in the Bartels Gallery.