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Canoeing on Beebe Lake near Sacketts Bridge.

Get outdoors

Preregister for the following May 26 Cornell Outdoor Education (COE) activities by calling 607-255-6183. COE instructors will be on hand; all equipment will be provided; and no experience is necessary. Spaces are limited; preregistration recommended. For climbing, register at least 24 hours in advance. Contact the special programs coordinator at rjc288@cornell.edu with questions.

• Canoeing: Paddle around Beebe Lake, May 26, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $15/hour per person for preregistered, or $18/hour on site.
• Zip line: Glide over the water at the Sackett Foot Bridge on a zip line, May 26, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Minimum age 8 years. $10 per person for preregistered, or $12 on site.
• Learn to climb: Interested in learning to climb but don't know where to start? Learn to Climb sessions at the Lindseth Climbing Wall in Bartels Hall are offered to participants at least 13 years old May 26, 1-3 p.m. $35 includes two hours of instruction, all necessary equipment and two day-passes.

Concerts

The CU Winds: Wind Ensemble, conducted by Cynthia Johnston Turner, will play May 26 at 3 p.m. on the Arts Quad (in case of rain, Barton Hall). The concert will feature international and American music and Cornell songs. Free and open to the public; no tickets required.

The Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club, conducted by Scott Tucker, will perform May 26 at 8 p.m. at Bailey Hall. Admission: $10, available at BaileyTickets.com, in person at Ticket Center Ithaca (273-4497) and at the door.

Last chance

The exhibit "Self-Taught Artists of the U.S. South," featuring works from Associate Professor Riché Richardson's collection of paintings and painted quilts by such Southern self-taught artists as Mose Tolliver, Bernice Sims, Ruby C. Williams, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, and Chris Clark, will be on display daily through June 1 at the Carol Tatkon Center Gallery, South Balch Hall.

Johnson exhibits

Six exhibits are on display at the Johnson Museum daily, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., through mid-summer:

• "[space]: Constructing the Intangible," through July 22, explores new conceptions of space in visual culture and fine art.
• "Age of Discontent: German Expressionist Works from a Private Collection," through July 29, describes the devastating effects of World War I and includes prints, watercolors, and paintings created between 1908 and 1930 by Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel, Ernst Kirchner, Emil Nolde and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.
• "Memory and the Photographic Image," through Sept. 9, explores how such artists as Julia Margaret Cameron, Alexander Gardner, Alfred Stieglitz, Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams and Andy Goldsworthy see and translate personal memories onto film.
• "Cornell Art Faculty 2012," through Aug. 12, features recent faculty work.
• "Witness: 20th-Century Photographic Images from the Collection of Gary and Ellen Davis," through Aug. 12, features photographers Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Steichen, Pierre Dubreuil, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott and Garry Winogrand.
• "When Ithaca Went by Train: The Lehigh Valley Remembered," through July 15, explores the importance of the train to the Cornell student experience in the first half of the twentieth century.

Blood drives

An American Red Cross Blood Drive for double-red blood, sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Students, will be held May 31, 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at Okenshields, Willard Straight Hall. Schedule appointments at http://redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS.

The Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics will sponsor a blood drive for all types of blood, June 1, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., 700 Clark Hall. Contact cew2@cornell.edu to make an appointment.

Mindlessly eating

Brian Wansink and David Just, faculty members in Applied Economics and Management, will present the annual Consumer Camp, focused on "Nudging nutrition from mindless eating to mindlessly eating better," May 31, 1-4 p.m., 102 Mann Library. Topics include: Psyching Kids Towards Healthy Eating: What Would Batman Eat? 1-2 p.m.; The Magic Lunch Tray, 2-3 p.m.; Restaurant and Supermarket Danger Zones, 3-4 p.m. Sponsored by the Food and Brand Lab; free and open to the public. No registration needed. Information: http://foodpsychology.cornell.edu.