Furthur coming to Barton Hall

Tickets are on sale for An Evening with Furthur, starring Bob Weir and Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead, on Sunday, Feb. 14, in Barton Hall, presented by the Cornell Concert Commission.

Lesh and Weir will be joined by keyboard player Jeff Chimenti, Dark Star Orchestra guitarist John Kadlecik and drummers Jay Lane and Joe Russo. Barton Hall hosted a landmark May 8, 1977, Grateful Dead concert that Dark Star Orchestra re-created at Ithaca's State Theatre on the show's 30th anniversary in 2007.

Tickets for Cornell students are $19 advance, $23 day of show; general public tickets are $25 advance, $28 day of show (prices include all service fees). Electronic tickets are only available at http://CornellConcerts.com.

For information, visit http://www.cornell-concert.com or http://www.furthur.net.

Holidays at the museum

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art has announced its holiday hours: Christmas Eve (Thursday, Dec. 24) 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and regular weekend hours (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) Dec. 26-27 and Jan. 2-3. The museum will be closed Christmas Day and from Monday, Dec. 28, to Friday, Jan. 1.

The Johnson is closed Mondays and will resume its regular schedule (Tuesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) on Tuesday, Jan. 5. The Two Naked Guys Café will be closed for winter break and reopens Jan. 25.

Admission is free and open to the public. Current exhibitions include "Peggy Preheim: Little Black Book"; "Africana at 40: Looking Back, Moving Forward" (celebrating the Africana Studies and Research Center's 40th anniversary); and "Carved on Copper: Renaissance Engravers and Collectors in the Low Countries," all through Jan. 3; "Cornell Art Faculty," a group show through Jan. 17; and "Omer Fast: Looking Pretty for God (After G.W.)," video art, through Jan. 24. Information: 607-255-6464 or museum@cornell.edu, or visit http://museum.cornell.edu.

Employee celebration

The Winter Employee Celebration on Saturday, Jan. 16, in Bartels Hall will feature men's and women's basketball games against Columbia University and a Cornell Community Dinner. Tickets are on sale through Jan. 8.

Women's basketball begins at 2 p.m.; the men's game is at 4 p.m.; both in Newman Arena. Dinner (chicken parmesan and pasta with grilled vegetables marinara) will be served 1:30-3:30 p.m. in the Ramin Room. All faculty, staff, retirees and their families are invited.

Tickets are $5 (including dinner and both games) and $3 (either dinner or athletic events); available at the Athletic Department Ticket Office in Bartels Hall (10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays; bring your CU ID) or call 607-255-4247. Volunteers are needed and receive a complimentary ticket; contact Cheryl McGraw at 255-7565 or crm54@cornell.edu. Information: http://www.ohr.cornell.edu/commitment/staffEvents/ECD.html.

Light in Winter returns

The contemporary Jewish music group The Klezmatics, international juggling champion Greg Kennedy and the science of chocolate, snowflakes, artistic expression and beer are all featured in the 2010 Light in Winter Festival, Jan. 21-24, at multiple locations in Ithaca. Tickets are available now.

The festival celebrates science and the arts, showcasing cutting-edge ideas with more than 20 accessible and entertaining events.

The Klezmatics will perform Jan. 23 at the State Theatre; tickets are $25. The group's nine albums include "Rhythm and Jews" and two CDs of Woody Guthrie's unrecorded songs of Jewish life, faith and tradition.

Spherus, with Cirque de Soleil member Kennedy and two aerial acrobats, performs Jan. 22 at the State Theatre; tickets are $20. Kennedy, a trained engineer, will present "The Kinetics of Juggling" Jan. 23 at 11 a.m. in Statler Auditorium ($10).

"Living with Chance," Jan. 24 at 3 p.m. in Statler Auditorium ($10) with composer/drummer Ron Riddle (Blue Oyster Cült) and natural resources researcher Jody Enck, explores the interspecies bond Riddle and his wife, Andrea, formed with a timber wolf they adopted.

Other highlights include "Of Sound Mind," Jan. 23 in Statler ($10), with Frederic Chiu demonstrating a holistic understanding of the art of piano playing on a unique new hybrid piano; "The Bitter Sour Salt Suite," eight musical vignettes about food and drink, Jan. 21 at WildFire Lounge ($10); and "Sexing the Demon," chance, choice and the future of nanotechnology, with Cornell physicist Paul McEuen and electronic music by microbiologist Sharinne Sukhnanand (aka DJ Laika), Jan. 24 in Statler ($10).

National Audubon Society conservationist Steve Kress (who teaches a popular field ornithology course at Cornell) presents "The Sweet Voiced Bird Has Flown," Jan. 23 at the Lab of Ornithology, with artwork of 20 bird species in decline by the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators of the Finger Lakes; free. "Structural Intuitions in Art, Science and Technology," Jan. 23 in Statler, with art historian Martin Kemp, is also free.

Other free events include the Hall of Wonders, a science fair Jan. 23-24 in Statler; "Flowers in Winter," art and a lecture, Jan. 24 in Mann Library; "The Calculus of Friendship" with Cornell applied mathematics professor Steve Strogatz, Jan. 23 in Statler Hall; "One of a Kind," showing how nature creates beauty out of thin air, Jan. 24 in Statler Auditorium; local art gallery shows Jan. 22 and Johnson Museum tours Jan. 21-22.

Information: http://lightinwinter.com/.