Celebrate Halloween by catching a classic spooky movie at the Willard Straight Hall Theatre and enter costume and office/door decoration contests. Below, find a selection of upcoming non-Halloween events that are open to the public. 

Canine Crawl

Bring your dog to Stewart Park on Saturday for the Student American Veterinary Medical Association’s Canine Crawl. All proceeds of the fun run/walk benefit the Patient Assistance Fund at Cornell, which helps cover medical and surgical costs for clients with economic need.

• Saturday, Oct. 26, check-in at 8:30 a.m., race/walk at 9 a.m.
• Registration

Belnick presidential forum

Four political experts will discuss “The 2024 Election and the Future of American Democracy” in this year’s Belnick Family LaFeber/Lowi Presidential Forum. The speakers include Jamelle Bouie, a columnist for The New York Times; Molly Donlin, founder and president of political and public affairs firm Regent Strategies; Nicole Hemmer, associate professor of history and director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University; and Lynn Vavreck, the Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. 

• Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 5 p.m. in Ives Hall, Room 305

Hear the music of Chao Yuen-Ren

Chao Yuen-Ren (Class of 1914) was a Chinese-American polymath who experimented with merging Chinese and Western musical traditions. The concert will bring Chao’s experimental compositions to life, alongside works by Chinese composers who were also studying in the U.S. at the time, and select European songs that inspired him.

Check out Saturday’s symposium to hear an interdisciplinary panel examine Chao’s music within the broader contexts of early 20th-century Chinese-American intellectual life, East-West musical exchange and the keyboard’s role in the global spread of musical knowledge and creativity.

• Concert: Friday, Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m., Barnes Hall

Find more events at events.cornell.edu.