Archive: Arts & Entertainment

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On the weekends of October 11th, 12th and October 18th and 19st, from 11am to 5pm travelers from all over the region will tour the Greater Ithaca Art Trail , now in its tenth season. The Greater Ithaca Art Trail gives art enthusiasts the opportunity to take a self guided tour of 49 artists' studios throughout Tompkins County. With over 5,000 visitors in 2007 from areas extending well beyond Tompkins County, the Art Trail grows with artists and visitors every year.

"There's no better time than during the fall, when the foliage is at its peak, to take a drive in the country or walk around downtown Ithaca with wonderful artists' studios as your destination. It's a great adventure," says Robin Schwartz, Program Director of the Community Arts Partnership, which coordinates the Art Trail. 54 artists will open their studio doors from 11am to 5pm on each of the four days, giving the public a chance to see each artist's creative space and witness not only the finished product, but also part of the artistic process.

Aurora, New York - The Wells College Arts & Lecture Series Committee is pleased to present the award-winning Baltimore Consort on Friday evening, September 26. The concert, entitled "¡Cancionero! A Songbook for the King of Spain," features counter tenor José Lemos. The performance will take place in Phipps Auditorium, Macmillan Hall, at 7:30 p.m.

A virtuoso ensemble, the Baltimore Consort specializes in the courtly and popular music of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, as well as traditional music rooted to earlier times. Their variety of instruments - lute, viol, flute, cittern, early guitar, recorder, and more - and their lively performances have delighted audiences on both sides of the Atlantic and earned them recognition as Billboard magazine's 1993 "top classical crossover artist."

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Smart TalkSMART TALK
by Dr. Clara Dix

ADDRESS:  Alfred Kahn is one of our heroes.  A longtime board member for the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, he served as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board under President Carter.  While there, he made waves trying to get bureaucrats to speak English as if it were their first language. 

Many of Dr. Kahn's memos to staff now reside here at the Institute.  We recently moved the archive from Warriner House to its permanent home in the Alfred Kahn Clinic, where we built a proper research library.  Part of one memo reads:

"Some of you would...have all the people in the world do nothing but address things.  How about handle, deal with, confront, treat, analyze, discuss, consider, solve...  Try to think of others - you'll like it.  I would not object if you confined your addressing in the future to envelopes, audiences and golf balls."

Who could wonder why we named a building after this man?

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In Samuel Beckett’s HAPPY DAYS, Winnie is buried in a mound up to her waist. Her memory may or may not be failing her. The sun blasts down and she cannot escape it.   It is a lonely spot on the Earth.    Perhaps the daily routine is really just a ritual performed in anticipation of an inevitable end—death?    And, yet, Winnie begins by saying, “Another heavenly day!”

How does the human race survive?   Beckett’s forever optimistic and forever helpless Winnie demonstrates her recipe for life in a play that is a celebration and a warning, hilarious and heart breaking.

ITHACA—The Tompkins County Public Library will hold a closing reception and panel discussion with the artists behind the popular exhibit Manipulated Realities, Thursday, September 18, 2008 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM in the Borg Warner Community Meeting Room.

Manipulated Realities, an exhibition of photography manipulated by artists, was curated by David Watkins, Jr., and has been on display at the library since the beginning of July.  Holding a closing reception is a first for the library.  The intention was to give patrons and visitors of the exhibit an opportunity to appreciate the photography before attending the panel discussion.  During the panel discussion, artists will explore their motivation and artistic goals for the pieces on display, and discuss with audience members the success of this manipulation.

AURORA, NY – Wells College announced that the Peachtown Native American Festival will return to campus on Sunday, September 21. The formerly annual event is making a comeback and will be held rain or shine on the front lawn of Main Building from 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. on the beautiful Wells campus in Aurora. The festival is free and the public is invited to join in the fun.

In conjunction with the Native American Homecoming Festival taking place at Tutelo Park in Ithaca the day before, Wells is pleased to offer this important educational event as an opportunity to honor the First Nations people of the area, increase awareness and unity, and to recognize the past and present contributions of Native American culture and the history of Aurora, or Deawendote: “village of constant dawn.”

(Ithaca, NY) The 26th annual Downtown Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival is expanding in several ways, to include more crafters and food vendors; tours of haunted downtown Ithaca, three full days of music and performances, and a committed effort to composting.

The festival runs from Friday, September 26th through Sunday, September 28th, 2008, and will be held on the Ithaca Commons. The Tompkins Trust Company, who will be hosting activities in their lobby during the festival, sponsors it.

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Smart TalkSMART TALK
by Dr. Viva Palaver

ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE:  As staff psychologist at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, I keep noticing proof of the truism that we criticize most the faults in others that deep down, we most despise in ourselves.  And that in swearing, we most like to denigrate that which is most sacred to ourselves.  Otherwise, it wouldn't shock.

In America, advertising almost amounts to a national religion - almost, thanks to the official religion here in Texas, and maybe the whole USA, football.  So my attack on the ad biz, as they like to call it, probably betrays my deep-seated shame of my profession's grandiose labels for minor anxieties and its pretense to be an exact science.

But advertising's redundancy, absolute guarantee, invites both a psychologist's attention and a linguistic therapist's attack.  First, its redundancy undermines its meaning.  It sounds like Honest Al Johnson, here in Underbelly, Texas:  "No kidding.  Honest.  It's a great car.  Really."  Ironclad guarantee has the same effect of protesting too much and making the advertiser look sleazy.

Second, absolute guarantee, being a redundancy, is anathema here at the institute.  My therapist colleagues have no more love for redundancies than they do for fire ants.

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