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Cornell Cinema's Cinema Under the Stars series screens Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” June 24 on Willard Straight Terrace.

Concert series presales

Subscriptions and early bird single tickets are available for the Cornell Concert Series (CCS) 2015-16 season.

The season features Jack DeJohnette’s “Made in Chicago” free jazz collective, Sunday, Oct. 4; classical duo Steven Isserlis and Robert Levin, Tuesday, Oct. 27; famed concert pianist Emanuel Ax, Friday, Nov. 6; and three spring semester concerts by pianist Sara Davis Buechner, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra with baritone Christian Gerhaher, and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra.

Patrons can choose among several subscription options; early bird single tickets (save $2 per ticket) also are available in limited quantities. CCS offices in 101 Lincoln Hall will be closed June 11 to Aug. 12; during that time ticket sales will be online only.

Order forms are included in CCS season brochures and available for download online. Tickets will be mailed beginning in mid-August.

Bias on the trail

The short film “In the Hollow,” written and directed by assistant professor Austin Bunn, will screen June 14 at 4 p.m. at Cinemapolis in downtown Ithaca.

The film concerns the 1988 shooting of girlfriends Claudia Brenner and Rebecca Wight, who were stalked by a man while camping on the Appalachian Trail. Wight was killed and Brenner shot five times. Brenner, now an Ithaca-based architect, became an anti-bias-crime activist, and the film shows her returning to hike the trail for the first time since the shooting. Miasarah Lai ’14 plays Wight.

Bunn teaches screenwriting and playwriting in the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA). The film was funded by a Cornell Council for the Arts grant, with support from PMA and the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and LGBT Studies programs.

On May 31, “In the Hollow” received the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the 25th InsideOut Film Festival in Toronto, Canada’s largest LGBT film festival.

Grand, ‘Notorious,’ classic

Cornell Cinema will show four classic films outdoors on Willard Straight Terrace this summer, beginning Wednesday, June 17, with director John Huston’s “The African Queen” (1952), starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.

Also in the Cinema Under the Stars series: Wes Anderson’s comic fantasy “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (2014) with Ralph Fiennes, June 24; the Alfred Hitchcock espionage thriller “Notorious” (1946) with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, July 8; and “Caddyshack” (1980) directed by Harold Ramis, with Bill Murray and Chevy Chase, July 22.

Terrace screenings start at 9:30 p.m. and feature a cash bar and complimentary snacks. Patrons also are welcome to bring picnic dinners. Doors open at 8:15 p.m. In the event of rain, screenings will be held in Willard Straight Theatre. A drawing for three pairs of Cornell Cinema guest passes will be held at each show.

Tickets are $13, $11 for students and senior citizens, on sale now at CornellCinemaTickets.com. Shows typically sell out in advance. Tickets ordered in advance will be held for pickup the night of the show and if unclaimed by 9:15 p.m. may be resold; cash only accepted at the door. Information: 607-255-3522.

Art from nature

More than 40 drawings and paintings of birds, butterflies and amphibians are featured in “Sapsuckers to Swallowtails,” a new exhibition by artist Sue deLearie Adair in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology auditorium.

Creating artworks inspired by a love of the natural world, Adair has been an avid birder for 30 years, a “butterflier” over the last two decades and portrays many different animals in her work.

Adair’s art is on display through Aug. 31. Admission is free. The Lab of Ornithology is at 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca; hours are Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday, 1-4 p.m.

Free summer events

The School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions begins its 2015 summer events series with the Cornell Savoyards performing “Princess Ida,” June 23-24 at 7:30 p.m. in Kiplinger Theatre at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

The sesquicentennial adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta investigates the social and political milieu of Cornell’s founding, reproduces the campus culture of several regional colleges, and honors the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention. Tickets are free (limited to four per person), available in the theater lobby at 6:30 p.m. day of show.

Free summer events on campus continue through July 31, with 7:30 p.m. Tuesday performances at the Schwartz Center, 7 p.m. Wednesday lectures at Call Auditorium in Kennedy Hall, and 7 p.m. Friday concerts on the Arts Quad.

Also featured this month: Violin and piano duo Emil Altschuler and Thomas Pandolfi, June 30 at the Schwartz Center; “A Romance With Spiders: Fifty Shades of Arachnids,” with senior lecturer in entomology Linda Rayor, July 1 in Call Auditorium; and a concert by Rockwood Ferry, June 26. For more information, email cusce@cornell.edu or call 607-255-4987.

From wired to wireless

The fourth annual IT@Cornell Community Conference June 25, “Connecting the Past, Present and Future,” will explore Cornell’s information technology history, from early networks on campus to the uses of technology in future research and teaching.

Registration is free; attendance is open to the public. The conference features two plenary sessions with national leaders in educational and research technologies, afternoon workshops, and a closing “cool tools” session where participants can play with new technologies.

“Cornell’s Past: The Creation of the Internet,” a conversation between Ken King, vice president for computer services at Cornell 1980-87, and BITNET co-founder Ira Fuchs, kicks off the conference at 9 a.m. in Bailey Hall. At 10:30 a.m., Maria Klawe, computer scientist and president of Harvey Mudd College, and Irene Qualters of the National Science Foundation will discuss “The Future of Technology in Education and Research.”