16 minute read
Times Table
from March 23, 2022
by Ithaca Times
Music
Bars/Bands/Clubs
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3/25 Friday
Friday Night Music - The
Beauchesnes | 6 p.m. | Hopshire Farms and Brewery, 1771 Dryden Rd 3/26 Saturday
Elevate Monthly | House & Techno Music | 4th Saturday | 9 p.m. | Forest City Lodge, 536 W Green Street | $5.00
Concerts/Recitals
3/23 Wednesday
Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano: The Manley and Doriseve Thaler
Vocal Concert at Ford Hall | 8:15 p.m.| Ithaca College 3/24 Thursday
Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano: The Manley and Doriseve Thaler Vocal Concert at Hockett Family
Recital Hall | 7 p.m. | | Ithaca College
Annette Richards, organ: CU Music
| 7 p.m. | Anabel Taylor Chapel, 548 College Ave | Free 3/25 Friday
CCHK Salon Series: The Viennese
Piano | 5 p.m. | A.D. White House, 121 Presidents Drive | Free
Junior Recital: Robert Irvin, jazz piano at Hockett Family Recital
Hall | 7 p.m. | | Ithaca College
WEEK THIS
Feelin’ Groovy Cabaret| 7:30pm| Center for the Arts of Homer | Join a long list of talented theater performers from throughout Central New York as they explore Broadway Hits of the 60’s and 70’s in a cabaret style event!
The Fab Four - The Ultimate
Tribute at State Theatre | 8 p.m. | $29.50 - $54.50 | See Weekend Planner for more details.
3/26 Saturday
Elective Recital: Rebecca Kantor, mezzo-soprano at Nabenhauer
Recital Room | 3 p.m.|| Ithaca College
Festival Chamber Orchestra: CU
Music | 3 p.m. | Barnes Hall, 129 Ho Plaza | Free
Graduate Recital: Zhuoqing Yang, piano at Hockett Family Recital
Hall | 4 p.m. | | Ithaca College
Graduate Recital: Jairui Han, piano at Hockett Family Recital
Hall | 7 p.m. | | Ithaca College
Reginald Mobley, Countertenor
| 7:30 p.m. | First Unitarian Society of Ithaca, 306 N. Aurora St. | $15.00- $25.00| See Weekend Planner for more details.
Symphony Orchestra at Ford Hall |
8:15 p.m.| Ithaca College 3/27 Sunday
Trumpet Studio of Chris Coletti at
Hockett Family Recital Hall | 1 p.m. | | Ithaca College
Junior Recital: Lydia Arnts, soprano at Hockett Family Recital
Hall | 3 p.m. | | Ithaca Colleg
The Pleasures of the Quarrel:
CU Music | 3 p.m. | Bailey Hall, 230 Garden Ave | Free Jazz Summit: CU Music | 7:30 p.m. | Klarman Hall, 232 Feeney Way | Free| See Weekend Planner for more details. Tab Benoit | 8:00pm| Center for the Arts of Homer
3/28 Monday
Pianist Stephen Prutsman Masterclass for the Louis K. Thaler Concert Violinist Series at Ford
Hall | 7 p.m. | | Ithaca College 3/29 Tuesday
Thomas Feng, piano: CU Music |
7:30 p.m. | Barnes Hall, 129 Ho Plaza | Free
Violinist Pamela Frank and pianist Stephen Prutsman: The Louis K. Thaler Concert Violinist
Series at Ford Hall | 8:15 p.m.| Ithaca College
3/30 Wednesday
Graduate Recital: Vasileios Pigkas Balanikas, piano at Hockett Fam-
ily Recital Hall | 8:15 p.m. | | Ithaca College
4/1 Friday
Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia -
Blood Brothers Tour | 8 p.m. | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St
4/2 Saturday
Ithacappella 25th Anniversary
Concert at Ford Hall | 4 p.m.| Ithaca College
4/3 Sunday
Dakhabrakha at State Theatre | 7 p.m. | $25.00 - $35.00
Stage
The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh |
7:30 p.m., 3/23 Wednesday | Kitchen Theatre Company, 417 W. State / W. MLK, Jr. Street | Upon arrival as the first Chinese woman on U.S. soil, Afong Moy has been put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” She believes herself an ambassador to life in her native China however, to her visitors, she becomes their entertainment. Contact theater for showtimes. The Wetsuitman | 7:30 p.m., 3/25 Friday | The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St | The Wetsuitman begins as a Nordic noir mystery and unpeels like an onion, switching between perspectives and genres to become a meditation on race, migration, and expectation. Suspenseful, humorous, and thought-provoking, the play is based on a European Press Prize-winning magazine article. | $20.00 - $35.00
Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion Mystery Dinner
Theatre! | 6:30 p.m., 3/26 Saturday | Cortland Repertory Theatre Downtown | Come a runnin’, cousins, ‘cause it’s time again for the annual family reunion and the whole Freagan family is gonna be there!
Encore Players Community Theatre Presents: Recipes For A
Beautiful Life | 3 p.m., 3/27 Sunday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, 1 Congress St | A humorous and joyful story of balancing a creative life with the messy business of raising a family. This event includes readings from the book by Rebecca Barry herself, with additional readings by Encore actors. Admission free, donations at the door to benefit Encore Players and TCFA. | Free
Two Shows: Invitational Exhibition and Connie Zehr, Glass Act |
12 p.m., 3/24 Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 West State Street | The State of the Art Gallery will host two exhibits for the month of March: the Salon features Glass Acts, four pedestal size installations by Connie Zehr; the Main Gallery showcases the 2022 Invitational Exhibit. | Free A41 Life Drawing | 12:30 p.m., 3/24 Thursday | Community School of Music-Arts, 330 E State St | Art Studio 10 First Thursday of the month is portrait session; all following are nude sessions. Drop in any Thursday!
Film
Cinemapolis
120 E. Green St., Ithaca March 25-31, 2022. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films listed first. * Compartment No. 6* | A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection. | 107 mins NR Infinite Storm* | As an experienced climber (Naomi Watts) ascends Mt. Washington, she turns back before she reaches the summit as a huge blizzard approaches. But on her way down, she encounters a lone, stranded man, and takes it upon herself to get them both down the mountain before nightfall arrives and they succumb to the storm. Based on a true story. | 104 mins R You Are Not My Mother* | Char’s mother, Angela, has inexplicably disappeared, and all that remains is her abandoned car. When she returns home without explanation the following evening, it becomes clear to Char and her grandmother, Rita, that something is amiss. She might look and sound the same, but Angela’s behavior has become increasingly frightening, as if she has been replaced by a malevolent force.| 93 mins NR The Unmaking of A College* | PART OF THE 2022 FINGER LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL - One showing: Sunday, March 27 at 4 pm. Students at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA confront their new president’s underhanded attempt to shut down the school, and discover other forces pulling the strings of their administration. | 84 mins NR X | In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives. | 107 mins R The Outfit | A gripping and masterful thriller in which an expert tailor must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.| 105 mins R Cyrano | In this re-imagining of the timeless tale of a heartbreaking love triangle, a man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac (Peter Dinklage) dazzles, whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. |124 mins PG-13
The Worst Person in the World
| Chronicles four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.| 127 mins R
Cornell Cinema
All films are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus.
Rocks, Stars, and Other Feelings
| 3/23,5 p.m.| Artist-scholar Jessica Bardsley just joined the Department of Performing & Media Arts, and this program traces her poetic pathways of thought and practice through five of her films made between 2007 – 2021. Film descriptions online. Free admission with filmmaker Jessica Bardsley in person. 35 Shots of Rum | On demand thru 4/1. http://cinema.cornell.edu/ | Starring the wonderful Alex Descas as a long-widowed African immigrant who works as a train conductor, and Mati Diop as his daughter, a college student, the two live in a suburb of Paris where their easy relationship is on the brink of change, as Diop’s character is wooed by a handsome neighbor.
The City Without Jews (w/live original music composed & performed by klezmer violinist
THE FAB FOUR - THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE
FRIDAY, MARCH 25TH AT 8:00PM
State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 W. State St. | If the recent “Get Back” documentary has revived your Beatlemania, this might be the show for you! Their incredible stage performance includes three costume changes representing every era of the Beatles ever-changing career, and this loving tribute to the Beatles will make you think you are watching the real thing. (Photo: Provided)
NYS BAROQUE: REGINALD MOBLEY, COUNTERTENOR
FRIDAY, MARCH 25TH AT 7:30PM
First Unitarian Society, 306 N. Aurora St, Ithaca
| English vocal music of three generations by Purcell, Handel, and Sancho! Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) is perhaps the least well-known composer on the bill. Born into slavery in the British colonies, he later went to England where he eventually gained his freedom and became a noted abolitionist, writer, composer, and shopkeeper. (Photo: Provided)
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Alicia Svigals and silent film pia-
nist Donald Sosin) | 3/24, 7:00PM | Set in the fictional Austrian city of Utopia, this recently rediscovered and restored silent satire, based on the controversial and best-selling novel by Hugo Bettauer, follows the consequences of an anti-Semitic law passed by the National Assembly that forces all the Jews to leave the country. Spirited Away | 3/24, 9:30pm; 3/26, 9:20pm; 3/27, 4:30pm | IAn animated tale of a young girl named Chihiro whose fantastic adventures are reminiscent of those in Alice in Wonderland. Winner of Best Animated Feature Oscar in 2002. The original Japanese language will be shown on March 24 & 26, and the English dubbed version on March 27. Chess of the Wind | 3/25, 7:00 pm.; 3/27, 7:15pm | A hypnotically stylized murder mystery awash in shivery period atmosphere, Chess of the Wind unfolds in an ornate, candlelit mansion where a web of greed, violence, and betrayal ensnares the heirs to a family fortune as they vie for control of their recently-deceased matriarch’s estate. The Tragedy of Macbeth | 3/25, 9:15pm; 3/26, 7:00pm | Joel Coen goes solo and delivers a noirish and fantastical version of Shakespeare’s dark tragedy starring Frances McDormand as Lady Macbeth and Denzel Washington as an intense, magnetic Thane. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Homo Sapiens | 3/29, 5:15pm | A wordless assemblage of beautifully devastating fixed shots, that depicts a disquieting scenario whereby the world made by people is slowly won back by nature. The Ukranian Time Machine | 3/29, 7:30p.m. | In 2006, filmmaker Naomi Uman retraced her great grandparents’ emigration from Eastern Europe in reverse, settling in the tiny village of Legedzine, Ukraine (350 miles south of Kyiv), where she lived and photographed for four years. Your Eyes Are Spectral Machines – a live projection performance | 3/30, 7 p.m.| Three projection performances - involving 16mm, 35mm and slide projectors - by artist Luis Macías, an image recycler who specializes in experimental cinema. His artistic concerns focus on the physical work on film, film recycling, and re-invention of new relationships between moving images. Chess of the Wind | 7 p.m., 3/25 Friday | Cornell University, 144 East Ave | Screened publicly just once before it was banned and then lost for decades, this rediscovered jewel of Iranian cinema reemerges to take its place as one of the most singular and astonishing works The Tragedy of Macbeth | 9:15 p.m., 3/25 Friday | Cornell University, 144 East Ave | Shakespeare’s Macbeth has drawn leading cinema directors, including Kurosawa, Welles and Polanski. Homo Sapiens | 5:15 p.m., 3/29 Tuesday | Cornell University, 144 East Ave | Empty spaces, ruins, cities increasingly overgrown with vegetation, crumbling asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit, though humanity has disappeared.
Your Eyes Are Spectral Machines
| 7 p.m., 3/30 Wednesday | Cornell University, 144 East Ave | This special program consists of three projection performances by artist Luis Macias, who is a co-founder of Crater Lab-an independent film development laboratory in Barcelona.
Special Events
The Finger Lakes Boat Show |
10 a.m., 3/24 Thursday | Cliff Street Retreat, 407 Cliff Street | Explore, Excite, Experience | Free
Streets Alive! Virtual Film Fest
| 7 p.m., 3/25 Friday | Bike Walk Tompkins, 315 N Aurora St | The 9th Annual Streets Alive! Film Festival will be held virtually on Friday, March 25, 2022 at 7PM. Bike Walk Tompkins will host locally-selected bike films and selections from Portland’s Filmed By Bike ‘Bike Love’ series, via Bike Walk Tompkins YouTube. | Free
Cayuga Trails Club Hike at Various
trails in the Ithaca region. | 10 a.m., 3/26 Saturday | Explore local trails on weekly Saturday hikes starting at 10:00am. Hike length varies from 2.5-4 miles. Click here to see the location of the hikes for each week. 2022 Ithaca Polar Plunge | 10 a.m., 3/26 Saturday | Taughannock Falls State Park Beach, 1740 Taughannock Boulevard | Join us for a “Freezin’ for a Reason” for the 2022 Ithaca Polar Plunge to benefit Special Olympics New York! CNY Maple Festival | 9 a.m., 4/2 Saturday | Village of Marathon, Main Street | Celebrating 50 Years of the CNY Maple Festival
Skunk Cabbage Classic 10K and
Half Marathon Race | 8:30 a.m., 4/3 Sunday | Schoellkopf Crescent, Cornell University | The Finger Lakes Runners Club has opened registration for this year’s Skunk Cabbage Classic road race on April 3, 2022, with 10K and half marathon options.
THE WETSUITMAN
OPENS FRIDAY,, MARCH 25TH AT 7:30PM
The Cherry Arts, 102 Cherry St, Ithaca | Be sure to catch the Cherry’s final show of their ‘21-22 season. 2015. On the coast of Norway, an architect walks his dog. What looks like an oil slick by the cliffs turns out to be a wetsuit, a human bone protruding from the leg-hole… (Photo: Provided)
STEAM Book Club: Music for
Tigers | 3:45 p.m., 3/23 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |
Virtual Nonfiction Book Club Reads Killers of the Flower Moon
| 6 p.m., 3/24 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |
Author Talk with David Mould on Postcards from the Borderlands
| 6:30 p.m., 3/24 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main Street | In his latest book on travel, history and culture, “Postcards from the Borderlands,” historian and journalist David Mould explores the meaning of borders. David Mould will join us via Zoom, and patrons can join in-person or via Zoom. | Free
Book Club - The Warmth of Other
Suns | 7 p.m., 3/28 Monday | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St | Participation is FREE. You need to obtain your own books. All are welcome!
Virtual Teen Writing Workshop |
4:30 p.m., 3/29 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |
Hidden Voices: Stories From the Margins: An Adult Reading &
Discussion Series | 6:30 p.m., 3/29 Tuesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main St. | Women’s Suffrage - We will be reading Achieving Beulah Land: The Long Struggle for Suffrage in Tompkins County, New York by Carol Kammen and Elaine D. Engst. Using extensive historical research, the authors outline the role women in Tompkins County played in achieving the right to vote.
Kids
LGBTQ Youth Group | 4 p.m., 3/23 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Virtual Live Family Storytime | 11 a.m., 3/29 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |
TCPL Robotics Club: AppBot Bash
for Teens | 4 p.m., 3/29 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |
Notices
Songwriting with SingTrece at Southside Community Center |
6 p.m., 3/23 Wednesday | Southside Community Center, 305 S. Plain St. | In this seven-week course, international performer and songwriter SingTrece McLaurin will help you find your songs and share them with the world. The seven-week course will cover the basics of lyric songwriting, using poetry, spoken word, and all those loose ideas floating around in your head.
Beautification Brigade Trainings
| 7 p.m., 3/23 Wednesday | This event is online | http://ccetompkins.org/ events/ The Beautification Brigade takes care of public flower plantings in Ithaca. Have fun, learn gardening techniques, and help keep Ithaca gorgeous. No experience required. | Free
Marijuana Anonymous Meeting
| 10 a.m., 3/24 Thursday | Ithaca Community Recovery (518 W. Seneca St), 518 West Seneca St | Marijuana Anonymous in-person meeting every Thursday @ 10am (beginning March 3, 2022) at Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca St, 2nd floor in the “Seeds of Hope” room. Enter from back door of building. For more info: maithacany@gmail.com Makerspace One-on-One | 11 a.m., 3/24 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |
Cortland County Board of Relators
- Awards Luncheon | 12 p.m., 3/24 Thursday | Community Restaurant, 10 North Main Street | Cortland County Board of Realtors “Award Luncheon” Join us for Lunch at the Community Restaurant Menu Includes: Salads Chicken Kebabs Rice Vegetables Vegetarian Lasagna Coffee, Tea, Soda Awards: | $20.00
Berger Speaker Series: Access to Justice for Survivors of GenderBased Violence – Lessons from
the United States | 12:15 p.m., 3/24 Thursday | Virtual, Cornell Law School | This talk will examine current legal barriers to justice for survivors of gender-based violence, including sexual assault and intimate partner violence, and assess national approaches and strategies for advancing survivors’ civil and human rights. Cardio Dance Class | 5:30 p.m., 3/24 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Taught by YMCA fitness instructor Kate A., attendees are invited to this light-hearted, dance-based, cardio fitness class that will boost your mood and improve brain function. This class is appropriate for all skill levels.
THE ITHACA BIG BAND SUMMIT
SUNDAY, MARCH 27TH AT 7:00PM
Klarman Hall, 232 East Ave, Cornell | The Ithaca Big Band Summit finally returns! The jazz ensembles from Ithaca College, Cornell and Ithaca High School reunite & play together, once again… again! (Photo: Provided)