Athletics garage sale

The annual Department of Athletics and Physical Education garage sale will be held March 11, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Bartels gymnasium, offering gear from almost all varsity sports, including ice and field hockey, lacrosse, football, baseball, volleyball and soccer.

Carnival in Barton

The annual Hilltop Jamboree Community Carnival will be March 12, noon-5 p.m., at Barton Hall to raise money for the local child welfare agencies in Tompkins County. Games, activities, face painting, moon bounces, various contests, arts and crafts will be provided by Cornell departments, local businesses and organizations. Open to the public. Admission: $3.

Organ concerts

The inaugural festival for Cornell's baroque organ concludes with three concerts in Anabel Taylor Chapel, March 11 at 12:30, 6:30 and 8:30 p.m., and two March 12: Jean Ferrard, professor at the Royal Conservatory, Brussels, will perform "The Roaring Twenties of the 1600s," at 12:30 p.m. and Harald Vogel, professor of organ at the University of the Arts Bremen, and Annette Richards, professor of music at Cornell, will perform the keynote concert at 5:30 p.m. The keynote concert is repeated March 13 at 8 p.m. Information: http://baroqueorgan.cornell.edu/news/events.cfm

Cornell orchestras

The Cornell Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Rachel C. Lauber, will perform March 12 at 8 p.m., Bailey Hall. The program features Haydn's Symphony No. 46 and Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony, op. 110a, Barber's Essay No. 2, op. 17, and Hindemith's Symphony: Mathis der Maler. Emily Choi, winner of the seventh annual Cornell Concerto Competition, will perform the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. Information: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/orchestra. Free and open to the public.

Winds at Bailey

Conducted by Cynthia Johnston Turner, the Cornell University Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony will perform at Bailey Hall, March 13, 3-4:45 p.m. The Wind Symphony will present David Maslanka's "Mother Earth"; Nancy Galbraith's Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble, with soloist Blaise Bryski; Chesnokov's "Salvation is Created" and Vaughan Williams' "English Folk Song Suite." The Wind Ensemble will perform Thomas Doss' "Romanian Overture," the premiere of Takuma Itoh's "Daydreams" and Maslanka's Symphony No. 4. Information: http://www.cuwinds.com. Free and open to the public.

Sunday Artbreak

Educator Jessica Evett-Miller will explore objects in the Johnson Museum's collection related to entrees and main courses in the second of a series focused on food, March 13, 3-4 p.m., with tastings of related items. Free and open.

Inequality, immigration lectures

David Card, professor of economics, University of California-Berkeley, and recipient of national and international awards in economics, will present two open lectures: "Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction" March 14 at 4:15 p.m., 105 Ives Hall, and "Immigration: Economics, Attitudes and Policies" March 15 at 4:30 p.m., 305 Ives Hall.

The road ahead

Matt Dellinger, author of "Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway" (Scribner 2010), will talk about the future of transportation in America -- how the built environment shapes people's lives and how politics shapes the built environment, March 14 at 4:30 p.m., G22 Goldwin Smith. A writer, photographer and multimedia producer, Dellinger has contributed articles to the The New Yorker, Atlantic, The New York Times, Oxford American and Smithsonian. He worked as an illustrations editor and manager of The New Yorker's website for 11 years.

Democracy in the Middle East

Steven Zunes, Ph.D. '90, professor of politics and international studies and chair of Middle Eastern Studies, University of San Francisco, will present the lecture, "Pro-Democracy Struggles, Strategic Non-violent Action and Prospects for Change in the Middle East," March 15 at 5 p.m., Bache Auditorium, 420 Malott Hall. Zunes is the author of several books and numerous articles on Middle Eastern politics, U.S. foreign policy, international terrorism, nuclear nonproliferation, nonviolent action and human rights. He has been a frequent guest on National Public Radio, PBS, BBC and MSNBC.

Music in Romeo and Juliet

Simon Morrison, professor of music at Princeton University, will speak on "Romeo and Juliet, Music and Dance, and Happy Endings" March 15 at 4:30 p.m., Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, as part of the College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture series. A reception at A.D. White House will follow the lecture.

Morrison's pioneering work in Soviet music has made him a sought-after speaker at Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera; his restoration of Sergei Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" ballet to its pre-Stalinist, original form has been widely acclaimed. Free and open to the public.

Whistler's works

Nancy Green, the Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, will present "Eccentric Genius: Whistler and His Graphic Work," March 15 at 10 a.m., at the museum. The museum has more than 90 of his etchings and lithographs as well as two pastels, many of which will be on view to attendees. There is limited parking south of the museum but spaces may be available in the Willard Straight lot. Use of TCAT or carpooling is recommended.

Poetry readings

Christian Campbell, prize-winning Caribbean poet and assistant professor of English at the University of Toronto, and John Murillo, Cornell poet-in-residence, will give a poetry reading, March 15 at 6:30 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room of the Africana Studies and Research Center. Campbell, a writer of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage, will read from his first book, "Running the Dusk" (2010).
 Murillo, a visiting assistant professor of English at Cornell, will read from his collection "Up Jump the Boogie" (2010).
Information: http://mitws.arts.cornell.edu.

Talk on 'A Horse's Husband'

Nick Salvato, assistant professor of theater and a member of the graduate faculty of English, will discuss David Greenspan's recent play, "A Horse's Husband," March 16 at 11:30 a.m., 391 Uris Hall. He will situate the play alongside the historically informed and politically charged debates about same-sex marriage, as well as within the theoretically rich, ongoing academic discourse about queer temporalities.

Robotic discovery

Hod Lipson, associate professor, mechanical and aerospace engineering, will speak March 17 at 10:30 a.m., Boyce Thompson Institute Auditorium, on "The Robotic Scientist: Can Scientific Discovery be Automated?" His talk about using computers to find natural laws and their corresponding equations is part of a series coordinated by the Cornell Association of Professors Emeriti.

Sustainability in development

Ken Green, president of SusDevTech Inc., former assistant professor at Howard University and visiting professor in Delhi, India, at TERI as a Fulbright senior specialist, will talk about his career and efforts to link environmental sustainability and international development, March 17 at 4:45 p.m., 233 Plant Science. Green has 35 years of experience in international development in more than 40 countries, focusing on environment, natural resources, disaster management, health, water and sanitation, agriculture, rural development, transportation and energy. Information: http://www.cipa.cornell.edu.

Dragon Day Parade

The 110th Dragon Day is March 18, beginning at 1 p.m. First-year architecture students will parade the dragon they have designed and fabricated from Rand Hall, south on East Ave., right on Campus Road and then north on the South Central walkway through Ho Plaza to the Arts Quad. T-shirts designed by the students are $12 and can be purchased online at http://www.aap.cornell.edu/arch/programs/dragon.cfm. T-shirt sales help fund the construction of the dragon.