Free Events at Light in Winter 2008
January 18–20, 2008
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Take the TCAT shuttle to all Cornell and Ithaca College events!
Friday, January 18, 2008
All events Downtown
1:00–3:00 p.m.
The Big I... A Writing Circle
Break down boundaries with pen, paper, and complicit companions
Led by Irene Zahava
Bookery II Reading Room, DeWitt Mall, corner of North Cayuga and Buffalo Streets, free admission
Sponsored by Bookery I Used and Rare Books and Bookery II New Books
Where does your story end and the world begin? Join a circle of strangers to create a group autobiography. Supplies provided, no writing experience needed. Save a seat by contacting zee@twcny.rr.com.
1:30–3:30
The Seeing Ripple: a workshop on moments
Identity is a enduring ripple on a fast-moving stream
Led by Paul Hamill, Poet Laureate of Tompkins County
Community School of Music and Art conference room, 330 East State Street, free admission
This workshop on starting poems is for anyone (of any age) who can imagine his/her identity as a lens through time. Save a spot by contacting hamill@ithaca.edu.
5:00–7:00 pm
Art Gallery Receptions
Festival–inspired shows at downtown Art Galleries
Free admission
Clinton House ArtSpace corner of North Cayuga and Seneca Streets
Identities. 13 fine artists join together to exhibit work that speaks to the idea of "Identities". Watercolors, photographs, paintings, digital prints and mixed media are represented. Visit www.artspartner.org to find out more about the show.
Community School of Music and Art 330 East State Street
Time Lines. Is there a constant self or are we each an ever–changing work of art? How does our image or awareness of ourselves change as we grow and age? The Community School of Music and Art presents visual and performance art by students and local artists on changing identities across the life span. Performances 6–7 pm.
The Ink Shop 102 West State Street
The Birth Portfolio, a collection of 36 prints by women printmakers from all over the world visualizing and writing about the experience of giving birth. The portfolio was organized by Pat Hunsinger and Sylvia Taylor and includes four Ink Shop artists.
State of the Art 120 West State Street
States of Identity: Real and Imagined. In this country we tend to identify ourselves by what we do rather than who we are. Artists are no different: we say "I am an artist" rather than "I make paintings" or "I make sculpture" or "I make prints". But who are we really? Don't we all identify with different aspects of ourselves at different times? The twenty–four member–artists of Ithaca's co–operative fine art gallery will explore this theme through a variety of media.
Solá corner of North Cayuga and Buffalo Street
Drawings of Children: an international notebook. Solá has always had pen in hand during her international travels. In these drawings of the young you will see universals as well as the stamp of national identity.
Tompkins County Public Library North Cayuga and Green Streets
Unnamable Name is a group exhibition organized by the Ithaca/NYC based installation artist Todd Ayoung that includes works by visual artists working
locally and internationally and using a variety of different media.
Artists were asked to create work for underused non-art spaces inside the Tompkins County Public Library that addresses the repetition, persistence and
notion of the "unnamable", as a sighting between identity, or the naming of a category.
Participating artists include: Martha Rosler, Phill Niblock, Johan Grimonprez, Elisabeth Cohen, Jane Jin Kaisin, Ayisha Abraham, Greg Sholette,
Rit Premnath, Kim Asbury, Buzz Spector, Janet Koenig, Toby Greenberg, Katherine Liberovskaya, Kenseth Amstead, David Diao, Jacob Tell, Mierle
Ukeles, Jenny Polak and Jeff de Castro with a Catalogue essay by Jelena Stojanovic and opening music by Chris White.
Upstairs Gallery corner North Cayuga and Buffalo Streets
Small Works and Miniatures featuring work by five Ithaca artists: Nerys Gregory, Harry McCue, Paul McMillan, Betty Boggs, and Marsha Van Vorce.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
11:00 am–5:00pm
"Hall of Identity"
Statler Atrium, Cornell University
Sponsored by M&T Bank
- Sketching superheroes with Jim Houghton, 11:00am-1:30pm
- Worlds of Difference listening booth, ongoing
- LEMUR musical robot demonstrations, 11:00am-1:00pm
- Guided Tours of Computer Aided Virtual Environment (CAVE) at Cornell's Center for Advanced Computing, 12:00pm-2:30pm
- The History Center "Sense of Place"—exploring the roots of Tompkins County, ongoing
- Kevin Ernste Electronic music demonstration, 2:30pm-3:30pm
- Code Red High School Robot Team, 2:30pm-3:30pm
Code Red Robotics (FIRST Team 639) is a high school robotics team based at Ithaca High School. They compete annually in the FIRST Robotics Competition, designing and building a robot to play a game, which is reminiscent of a sports match, against robots from other schools. Competition emphasizes teamwork, cooperation, and sportsmanship, with all FIRST teams playing the game with each other rather than against each other. Mentors include teachers, engineers and other professionals from the community. The team's goal is to inspire the next generation of engineers by teaching valuable, practical skills and providing students with the opportunity to experience a true engineering environment. For more information about FIRST Robotics, visit www.usfirst.org/robotics and www.team639.org. - Robot playground—bring your favorite robot, ongoing
- Electron Explosions
View colorful displays produced by the collision of high-energy electrons and antimatter positrons at Cornell's Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics. For more information about the Lab and upcoming events at the Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory, visit: http://www.lepp.cornell.edu. - DNA Files from NPR.
Robot playground-bring your favorite robot! (on-going)
12:00–1:00 p.m.
Lunch Panel: Balancing Acts
Four feisty women take on color, gender, culture and sexual orientation
Statler Atrium, Cornell University, free admission
Sponsored by Nancy and Joe McAfee and Lila Fox Olson
Michelle Berry (night writing momma, passionate poet, charismatic catalyst), Zillah Eisenstein (in–body traveler, fluid thinker, global activist), Lis Maurer (gender rebel, ally/activist, and voice for those without one), and Gail Holst–Warhaft (mother, poet, Greek dreamer) discuss the joys and challenges of multiple identities.
Sunday January 20, 2008
10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon, free admission
Family events at Discovery Trail Sites
» Identifying With Trees
Cornell Plantations Botanical Garden area (inside and out), Plantations Road
All trees have stories to be told, from the myths and fables of ages past to today's natural histories. This program will explore our human relationship with trees through both folklore and science. Come inside our heated tent to hear area storytellers Lee–Ellen Marvin, Kevin Moss, and Regi Carpenter share folk tales and myths about the magic and mystery of trees. Then bundle-up and join naturalists outside to discover the real–life trees of the winter world. We will become bud detectives, using keys to unlock the mysteries of tree identification. Storytelling and tree identification are half–hour programs starting at 10:10am, 10:50am and 11:30am.
» Collage Your Self Workshop with Pamela Moss
Tompkins County Public Library, Green Street, Downtown
Sponsored by Wegmans
Explore who you are and why you're here through guided journaling, then create a collage self–portrait that expresses your higher self. When life gets busy, your collage will remind you of who you love to be — and can be at any moment. For adults, teens and reflective older kids.» DNA, Fingerprints, Voiceprints
Sciencenter, 601 First Street, Downtown
Sponsored by Sue and Scott Hamilton
Extract some DNA. Record and classify your fingerprint. See on a computer what makes your voice unique. Designed for families, this hands–on session will let you test various ways that science helps us determine the identity of people.» Who were they? The faces and Identities of Human Ancestors
Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Rte. 96 north)
Artist/anatomist John Gurche demonstrates how to rebuild a face over ancient skulls as a powerful way to make contact with individuals who have found their way into our time.
ALL OF THE ABOVE EVENTS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
