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The Cornell Savoyards will perform "The Mikado" June 24-25 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Hit the trail

The Reunion 5K will be run on a loop through Cornell Plantations, Saturday, June 7, from 7:30-8:30 a.m. The 3.1-mile run is open to alumni and guests of all ages, faculty, staff and the public.

The event was formerly a 2- and 5-mile race known as the Reunion Run. “We wanted to make it more of a fun run,” said Laura Beth Sitzman, program assistant for Class Programs in Alumni Affairs and Development. Holding the 5K in Plantations and offering such giveaways as Cornell Dairy Bar milk coupons to the runners, she said, “was an opportunity to connect alumni to parts of the campus that they may not have intended to visit during Reunion.”

The cost to register for the run is $20; registered entrants will receive Reunion 5K T-shirts, first-come, first-served. Register on campus Friday, June 6, between noon and 6 p.m. at Barton Hall or 6:30-9 p.m. at the Carol Tatkon Center, Balch Hall.

Astronomers have answers

Is life possible outside our solar system? Can asteroids hit the Earth? What is the Big Bang?

 Learn the answers to these questions and about the field of astronomy at “Ask an Astronomer – Live!” Tuesday, June 10, at 7 p.m. at Lot 10 Lounge, 112 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca. Free. Presented by Science Cabaret and co-sponsored by the Astronomy Grads Network.

Astronomers Amit Vishwas, Sean Marshall, Thea Kozakis and Eva-Maria Mueller will join emcee Jason Hofgartner to field questions in this fun, interactive and stellar evening, based on the “Ask An Astronomer” website hosted by Cornell’s Department of Astronomy.

The Science Cabaret series is presented with support from the Downtown Ithaca Alliance and the Boyce Thompson Institute.

Movies on the terrace

Cornell Cinema’s popular Cinema Under the Stars series brings back outdoor screenings on the Willard Straight Hall Terrace, with classic films on four Wednesdays this summer, starting June 18 with “Dial M for Murder.”

Also showing: “Airplane!” June 25; “The Maltese Falcon,” July 9; and “Psycho,” July 16.

All screenings feature a cash bar and free snacks. Doors open at 8:15 p.m., films start at approximately 9:30 p.m. Rain location: Willard Straight Theatre.

Tickets are $13 each, $11 for students and senior citizens, available at CornellCinemaTickets.com. Remaining tickets (if any; terrace screenings typically sell out in advance) will be sold at the door; tickets purchased online and not claimed at the will call table by 9:15 p.m. may be resold.

All attendees at terrace shows will be entered in a drawing to win one of three pairs of guest passes for regular-price screenings this fall at Cornell Cinema. Information: 607-255-3522.

Summer folk

WVBR’s “Bound for Glory” will have six live concert broadcasts over the summer, Sunday nights from Anabel Taylor Café from 8-11 p.m. Admission is free and open to all ages.

The lineup features Ithaca-based singer-songwriter Joe Crookston and Friends, June 22; Finnish duo The Sillanpaas, June 29; local old-time banjo player Mac Benford and Friends, July 6; contemporary folk duo Neptune’s Car, July 13; two-man jug band Jomo and Johnnycake, July 20; and bluegrass band Chad Darou and Stealing Time, July 27.

The weekly program features live sets at 8:30, 9:30 and 10:30 p.m., airing on WVBR-FM 93.5 and streaming online at www.wvbr.com.

Now in its 47th year and hosted since its inception by Phil Shapiro, M.A. ’69, “Bound for Glory” is the longest-running live folk music broadcast in North America. The 48th season of live music begins Aug. 31. Information: Phil Shapiro, 607-844-4535, pds10@cornell.edu

Free events series

Cornell’s free summer events series begins June 24 with a Cornell Savoyards production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera “The Mikado” at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. A second performance will be held Wednesday, June 25.

Sponsored by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, the series is open to the public and features performances at the Schwartz Center, Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.; lectures in Bailey Hall, Wednesdays at 7 p.m.; and outdoor concerts on the Arts Quad, Fridays at 7 p.m., through Aug. 1.

Also coming to the Schwartz Center: Americana and world music ensemble Matuto, July 1; and accordionist Jeremiah McLane and classical pianist Annemieke Spoelstra, July 8. Tickets are required for all Schwartz Center summer events and will be available in the lobby the day of each show. Limit four tickets per person.

Free lectures in Bailey Hall include “Fifty Shades of Gray Matter: The Seductive Appeal of Popular Neuroscience,” July 2, with psychiatrist and author Sally Satel discussing the promise and the limits of brain imaging; and “‘I Have a Dream’: The Speech and Personal Reflections,” July 9, with playwright Samuel Kelley, a professor of Africana studies and communication studies at SUNY Cortland, on the continuing impact of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous speech.

Arts Quad concerts begin Friday, June 27, with the folk and country duo of Terry Burns (formerly of The Burns Sisters Band) and her Nashville collaborator, Ron Kristy. There is no concert July 4; the Sim Redmond Band performs July 11.