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Local Leaders Are Tompkins Residents Using Their Right To Know?

At Odds Over Newest Cuomo Mandate

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s part of the 2017 budget, Governor Andrew Cuomo has put a plan in place with the intention of saving the state money by consolidation or shared services for both counties and municipalities.

For local officials, especially in Tompkins County, this money-saving measure presents a conundrum: The sanction for not complying with the plan is a loss of state aid. “ T he gove r nor h a s put forward a plan where really, responsibility lies with the counties, specif ica l ly w it h county CEOs, county administrators, county executives who are being told ‘you have to develop a plan for consolidations or shared services that will save money,” explained Joe Mareane, Tompkins County administrator, during the Jan. 26 meeting of the Tompkins County Council of Governments (TCCOG).

He added there’s “no definition” of how much money specifically needs to be saved by the responsible municipalities.

Despite this, plans are to be presented to the county legislature on Aug. 1 and will then go on the November ballot later this year for ratification.

“If the voters approve, then we have to implement by Jan. 1 of next year,” Mareane said.

“If the voters don’t approve, we have to do it again. We’d have to go back and find something else to do in the next cycle.”

Mareane said his biggest concern is t hat t he plan is rushed.

“We know, because we have done these things, how complicated and delicate these plans are if they work,” he said. “You have to respect that delicacy. continued on page 4

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here is a popular document among journalistic circles that f lows like poetry, a call to action that instills a sense of responsibility for the press and the citizenry it serves to hold those that govern them accountable. It reads: “A free society is maintained when government is responsive and responsible to the public, and when the public is aware of governmental actions. The more open a government is with its citizenry, the greater the understanding and participation of the public in government.”

T h is doc u ment isn’t a n excer pt f rom some g reat speech, not some Dan Rather-

esque declaration on a Facebook feed or a page ripped from a top-shelf tome on an editor’s shelf. This is one of the opening paragraphs of the New York State Freedom of Information Law, a piece of legislation that is oftentimes the only means for the public to understand the machinations of its government.

FOIL, or FOIA as it’s known at the federal level, requires no license to utilize. FOIL is by design one of the checks on power available to the general public, the surest way of responsible questioning and staying informed about the activities your government undergoes.

T a k e ▶ The Ithaca City Of Asylum is having a benefit concert featuring the Cornell University Middle East Music Ensemble on Thursday, February 9 at 7:00 p.m. at Cinemapolis, located at 120 E Green St. We’ll be running an in-depth piece on this online and in next week’s print edition, but wanted to be sure to keep you in the loop. ▶ Bird Lovers will be delighted to hear Nestwatch,

To find out how often the residents of Tompkins County take advantage of this right, the Ithaca Times performed an independent survey of all public agencies in the county to learn A) what people are FOILing for and B) how often they’re FOILing. The conclusion we found was thus: it happens quite a bit in some places, not so much in others.

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a joint project of the Cornell Ornithology Lab and the Smithsonian, will be presented over dinner on February 16 at Appleridge, out in Horseheads.

The event begins at 7 p.m. ▶ A Queer Storytelling Open Mic is happening Thursday, February 2nd, 2017 from 7 to 9 p.m. at The First Unitarian Society of Ithaca, 306 North Aurora Street. Stories can be told in in prose, poetry,

song or any other way you’d like, and listeners are welcome. ▶ TCPL invites children and their caregivers to “TCPL’s Traveling Storytime With Miss Kelly,” a fun-filled family storytime, Tuesday, February 14 at 11 a.m. in the atrium at Center Ithaca while the library is being renovated. ▶ The Chamber Of Commerce just released its annual report. If you’re into that.

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Consolidation

PHOTOGRAPHER Could Tompkins Become A Sanctuary County?

By C a se y Mar tin

It’s an hour after school on a Friday and you’re in 10th grade.

What year is it, and what are you doing?

“It’s 1979, I’m home reading a Sci-Fi novel.” ­—Jim Napier

“In 2011, I was running track in Riverdale, NY. It was my only season running.” ­—Pablo Tamarin

“It’s 1986, playing Nintendo with my two friends Carol and Diane.” ­—Priscilla Henry

“In 1980 we were up to no good! We were probably headed to the local hang called ‘The Pit’” ­—Rebecca Schwed

“It’s 2014 - I’m looking for a party… still looking for it.” ­—Tristan Kisloski

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t a meeting of the Workforc e D i ver sit y a nd Inclusion Committee of the Tompkins County Legislature last week, Committee ViceChair Anna Kelles spoke about the early stages of her efforts to draft a resolution declaring Tompkins County a sanctuary county for immigrants.

The discussion came the same day President Donald Trump issued executive orders cracking down on undocumented immigrants and moving to strip federal grant money from sanctuary cities across the country that promise to protect them.

A resolution that had been passed by the committee “condemning violence and hate speech, expressing solidarity with Muslims and all those targeted for their ethnicity, race or religion” was scheduled to be on the agenda at the last meeting of the full Tompkins County Legislature but was pulled because legislators thought it

was not broad enough because it focused mainly on Muslims.

She sa id t he resolut ion, which was first brought to the committee in August 2016, had been based on a template for a resolution that was passed by cities and counties across the country last year. “A lot has happened since,” she said.

“I personally felt that it was no longer appropriate and not broad enough,” said Kelles of the former resolution. “There were a lot of comments made [by Tompkins County legislators] about other marginalized groups that have received disdain from the current administration.”

Kelles said that she has been working with a small team of pro-bono lawyers to draft a resolution that would “have some teeth.”

“I’ve been working on it for the last month, and I can tell you that it is much more complicated than it seems on the surface,” she said, adding that

“I personally felt that [current legislation] was no longer appropriate and not broad enough,” said Kelles of the former resolution. “There were a lot of comments made [by Tompkins County legislators] about other marginalized groups that have received disdain from the current administration.”

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Anna Kelles (Photo: Jaime Cone)

she is grateful to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for taking the time to issue a documents called “Guidance Concerning Local Authority Participation on Immigration Enforcement and Model Sanctuary Provisions,” which offers model language that can be used to enact local laws or policies that limit participation in immigration enforcement activities.

Kelles mentioned that Cornell University is looking at p o t e nt i a l l y c h a n g i n g t h e way applicants are reviewed for financial aid just in case Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which protects eligible immigrants who came to the United States as children from deportation, is repealed; on Sunday, Cornell University Interim President Hunter R. Rawlings issued a statement saying that the university’s commitment to students in the DACA program remains firm.

“The long-standing practice of the Cornell University Police Department (CUPD) has been not to seek immigration status information in the course of its law enforcement activities, unless related to criminal violations or threats of violent continued on page 5

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This says you really have to get this on the ballot by November… and we all know how quickly November comes.”

Mareane said he is supposed to get “ratification of some kind from the county legislature,” but added no matter what is said, the proposal will still be on the ballot mandating consolidation.

“I’m still uncertain about what happens if the legislature affirmatively says no,” Mareane said. “I don’t know what happens then. It looks to me like whatever that plan turns out to be that I present, will find its way to the ballot.”

Mareane added if there are Constitutional items being considered, they occur after the November ballot and said if approved, it would then come back to the municipality to “do whatever has to be done” under the Constitution to make it so.

“It’s heavy-handed,” Mareane said about the governor’s plan. “It’s kind of backward.

The premise is wrong.”

The problem, Mareane said, is that all municipalities within the counties have to deal with high cost mandates, adding if Cuomo wanted to get serious about property tax relief, he should look into getting serious about mandate relief. He added when it comes to adding items on the ballot, the state should also be talking about issues such as the Medicaid takeover.

As for where consolidation could occur, Mareane added there’s a “spectrum of options” for consolidating or sharing services, going from something as simple as digitizing records county wide to the extreme end of consolidating courts or even an entire police force, an option the City of Ithaca and the county is currently exploring.

Liz Thomas, supervisor for the Town of Ulysses, asked if two municipalities worked together and there were enough savings, if that would also help the county.

“I think so,” Mareane said.

“I haven’t found if there’s a dollar threshold the state’s looking for. Last time it was two percent of the levy, which was huge, but I haven’t found that in the legislation [for this plan] yet.”

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n mid-December at a table i n t he dow ntow n C ollegetow n Bagels, Leslie Danks-Burke – a local attorney and onetime state senate candidate – laid out a vision of political action grounded in the grassroots.

She expressed a desire for a progressively-backed populist movement, focusing her attention on building local campaigns from the ground up in the mold of the past several decades of conservative campaigns that had successfully changed the political culture of not just New York State, but of the nation itself. Her aim, she said, was to serve as advisor and mentor to prospective candidates looking to break into local politics, naming a “no race is too small mentality” as the key to long term political success.

“It might take a while,” she said at the time. “But over an eight or 12 year period, you can build something like this to a place that’s capable of taking hold of an entire state.”

As of this week, she now has

a plan and a vehicle she says will help accomplish this goal.

On Tuesday, Danks-Burke formally announced the creation of Trailblazers PAC, a nonpartisan political action committee dedicated to the f unding a nd promotion of rookie candidates committed, first and foremost, to campaign finance transparency. Centered primarily in local races, Trailblazers PAC is pitched as a funding channel that “trains as it funds,” serving as a sort of farm program for ordinary citizens looking to take on more seasoned politicians.

T he k e y to it s suc c e s s , Danks-Burke said, is changing the model of political fundraising. Noting many upstart local campaigns are often funded by a single donor and the candidates t hey support of ten lack experience, Danks-Burke wants to provide the resources, both fiscal and intangible, to compete at the same level as their opponents.

All of this, she said, will be done while simultaneously setting an example for transpa renc y i n W h at is a PAC? campaign A Political Action Committee is a political committee organized finance.

Only for the purpose of raising and spending money to elect and defeat candidates. Most PACs represent business, labor or ideologi- endorsing cal interests. PACs can give $5,000 to a candidate committee per candidates election (primary, general or special). They can also give up to deemed $15,000 annually to any national party committee, and $5,000 acceptable annually to any other PAC. PACs may receive up to $5,000 from by the PAC any one individual, PAC or party committee per calendar year. (si m i la r to other PACs (Source: Center For Responsive Politics) run by EmiSanctuary

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behavior,” the release states.

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick has pledged his dedication to making Ithaca a sanctuary city, saying that the threat of cuts to federal funding is “not a big enough stick” to make the city back down.

At Ithaca College, President Tom Rochon issued a statement announcing the college would be looking into a plan to maintain what it called a policy of inclusiveness.

“As a result of this executive order we have students,

faculty, and staff at IC who are particularly vulnerable, and many who are fearful of what the future may hold for them or their friends and loved ones,” Rochon said in a statement, outlining various steps administration had taken to support the campus community. “Additional efforts and resources are being planned, and will be shared with you as soon as they are confirmed.”

The resolution being drafted by Kelles is currently three pages long, the legislator said, but it’s main purpose will be to protect residents from the threat of deportation if their

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ly’s List or the National Rif le Association) all funds raised must be clearly disclosed by the candidates and all donors to the PAC held to an elevated standard of transparency. To avoid pursuing a select few, influential donors, recipients of funds will be matched according to the amount raised through “small contributions,” the total amount donated determined by an algorithm set by New York State law, which dictates specific donor limits for races from the assembly to the senate.

I n t he or y t h i s , D a n k s Burke said, will help diminish the need for candidates to be accountable to donors and instead stresses a populist, boots on the ground approach to campaign finance.

“Our political system right now is corrupt and broken,” Danks-Burke said. “We’ve seen our leaders indicted and jailed for campaign finance corruption and we need to take our government back.”

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only suspected crime is illegally immigrating to the United States, making Tomkins County a safer place for them to live.

“The issue is that undocumented immigrants still have human rights,” she said, posing the question of what an undocumented person should do if he or she is mistreated or raped.

“What if there’s wage docking at a restaurant, and she feels like she can’t tell anybody?” Kelles asked. “What are her rights? We would like to separate those two things, of human rights and immigration status.”

art-vent session, part call to action, Saturday’s Listening Meeting for Tompkins County Democrats was filled with the mix of angst and defiance that has been a trademark of liberals nationwide in the months since November’s presidential election.

A s t a n d i n g-r o o m o n l y crowd of about 150 people at the Tompkins County Public Library voiced various frustrations with the opening moves of President Trump’s administra-

“Republicans have done a much better job of infiltrating these local or statewide elections over the last several years. They’ve been much better at communicating a simple, emotional message that appeals to those who are really disgusted at the state of affairs in this country.” tion, as well as local-level issues.

As expected with a crowd that size, the meeting was at times unfocused, though consistently enthusiastic with calls for a single-payer healthcare system to election reforms.

Trump, and Republicans in general, were not the only target at the meeting, as Governor Andrew Cuomo caught his fair share of criticism throughout the session. Anger over the failure of the local Democratic establishment to unseat Republican Congressman Tom Reed in November also led to a rather uncomfortable reckoning of local and national democratic strategy. Resentment lingered over the nomination of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders, who had amassed significant support even in New York, widely considered a Clinton stronghold.

Ups&Downs ▶ Everybody For standing up to what is by all objective observation, an unjust ban on travellers from seven primarily Muslim countries. Cornell, Ithaca College and the City of Ithaca responded immediately, and there may be some legislative resistance in the works. A brave move by all in the face of discriminatory policies resulting from an unprecedented bulldozer of misplaced rage.

Heard&Seen ▶ The Fraternal Order Of Eagles which last weekend said it may be ending its Sunday brunch service, agreed to extend the tradition after a small contingent of locals lobbied them to keep it going. Located at 161 Cecil Malone Drive, breakfast is $6 and all you can eat from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Help them keep it going.

If you aren’t free Sundays, the group also offers up a pretty generous Wednesday night meal for $8 a pop. According to their Facebook page, this week’s meal is roast turkey with all the fixins’, a salad bar and dessert. ▶ The Masonic Temple has been subject to some showings lately, raising some eyebrows in the Ithaca Times offices over the notion that one day, the long-vacant former nightclub will one day be host to something in its unique confines. We missed an opportunity to interrupt people working on a potential business transaction to flesh out the rumors, but will keep our eyes peeled.

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, write upsanddowns@ithacatimes. com, with a subject head “U&D.”

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The Healing power of the pen G

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rowing up in rural Katonah, New York, Ellen had chickens and goats, but New York City was not out of reach. The children of European immigrants, her parents had many guests from around the world as she grew up. She developed a strong interest in how others in the world lived. In high school she lived on a farm outside of Helsinki in Finland, and in college spent a year in Southern Germany, studying at the university in Tubingen.

After graduating from Tufts University with a degree in German Literature, Ellen returned to Tubingen and married native Oskar Schmidt in 1970.

For the first 10 years of Ellen and Oskar’s marriage Ellen worked in Tubingen in a psychiatric hospital and a school for children with multiple disabilities. She came to realize that the worst suffering they experienced was from the attitudes of others who didn’t see them as whole people, but saw only the disability. For Ellen they weren’t stutterers, cerebral palsy or spina bifida victims, but Hans-Jorg, Elke, and Heike. They loved what others kids loved; they laughed, played

pranks, argued, made up, helped each other; they were gifted in ways that often went unnoticed.

When Ellen and Oskar’s first child, Nora, was two years old, the family returned to Ellen’s childhood home and began 18 years of intergenerational, bi-lingual family life.

In Katonah the extended family watched farmland be cut up as wealth moved in, jacking up taxes and making for a homogenous community. After their son Robin was born, they wanted to find an affordable area that highlighted more than affluence.

After Ellen’s father died, Ellen, Oskar, Nora, 14, Robin, 4, and Ellen’s mother Jeanne, 81, a retired social worker, decided to move to a college town. They considered other college towns before focusing on Ithaca, but loved the four state parks, the forests nearby. They felt Ithaca had many of the advantages of a big city without the challenges of city life.

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his is a newspaper, so we’re supposed to tell you things you don’t already know, but while you probably already know that Ithaca is a very progressive and activist town, let’s re-emphasize it, at this apt political juncture.

To wit: there was an anti-inaugural protest against Donald Trump in Washington last month. You might have heard about it.

Ithacans went in such numbers that every rental bus in the area was hired and filled. Shut-out locals went to Elmira and Corning to catch conveyances there, adding time and inconvenience to their travel; but they did it.

Meanwhile, that Saturday, back here in Ithaca, even with all those people gone, 10,000 people demonstrated downtown on the day of national protest. That’s one-third the size of the city.

No one expected that. The city and police sure didn’t; and while there was quick response and reaction, there was no trouble.

I spoke with a number of people who went to Washington that weekend who said they would have stayed here and participated with the community if they’d known the local action would be so vast.

That’s an admirable thought, but the trekkers to D.C. deserve a lot of credit. Buses left here at 2 and 3 a.m.,

and returned late the same night, beginning and ending in the cold and dark, a seven-hour trip, at least, each way.

People had to bring food and water.

They had to be prepared for discomfort, emergencies, police action, separation, and the unknown.

It was a big, unpredictable day. Metro - the D.C. subway system - reported its largest day of use ever, with over a million fares. This is a system that did not even exist until 1977 and is still so small and not used to crowds that it shuts down at night.

I am a veteran of D.C., having lived there a decade or so. I want to tell you, don’t think officials in Washington don’t notice, care, or worry about such turnouts. They do, and always have.

In 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (the occasion of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech) brought 250,000 people to the National Mall. Eleanor Holmes Norton, an organizer of the march (and later Washington’s representative to Congress), said the Kennedy administration was “almost morbidly afraid of this march.” The march helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

In 1968, Lyndon Johnson, who

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we expect, for starters, an analysis of racial disparities in rates and length of incarceration. The testimony of ex-inmates and their family members indicates that groups like (URO) Ultimate Re-entry Opportunity have important critical perspective to offer CGR. The message of these groups and individuals is clear: build effective social programs including, but not limited to, detox and mental health treatment, not jails, and educate for anti-racist consciousness. Just as militarization of police forces will increase the likelihood of violence and war, we know that increased jail cells will fill.

Social programs like those of URO prevent people from returning to jail.

We expect the Jail Study Committee to reflect these concerns, not just the bureaucratic concerns of CGR. Let’s be clear that this community will not be bamboozled by a faux democratic process around such a critical public concern.

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applaud the excellent coverage by Jaime Cone of the public comments delivered to the Jail Committee and county legislature on Jan. 19 about the possible jail expansion. Her article correctly reports that all of the 20+ presenters (representing a wide array of community expertise) were opposed to the building of additional jail cells.

In one respect, however, the article falls short. The legislature’s discussion was framed by the report of representatives of CGR, a Rochester consulting firm hired by the county for purpose of investigating the advisability and feasibility of jail expansion. This presentation was bureaucratic in nature and, more importantly, did not address the concerns of the public comments, namely, that the system of jails and prisons is racist and part of a national prison industrial complex, including a school-to-prison-pipeline.

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in succeeding Kennedy fulfilled a lifelong ambition for the presidency, shocked the nation by not running for re-election. He had won a landslide victory in 1964.

In a nationally televised address in March, 1968, Johnson said, “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president.” He didn’t say it was because of virulent opposition to the war in Vietnam, but he didn’t have to.

“Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?” was a refrain at countless demonstrations. Six months before his tacit resignation, 100,000 anti-war protesters met at the Lincoln Memorial, and 30,000 marched in the dark of night to the Pentagon, where hundreds were arrested.

I was living in DC when George Bush Sr. ordered the bombing of Iraq in January 1991. Protesters took over Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House. I went there most nights with food from the store where I worked.

Without let-up, people shouted, chanted, and banged buckets, cans, and boxes, in spontaneous demonstration, 24 hours a day: every minute, all day and night.

A cease-fire was announced a few

weeks later.

President Bush was asked at the time about the protesters. He said he wasn’t aware of them.

Years later it was revealed that Bush was obsessed by the protesters, peering from behind curtains at them throughout the day, and from darkened rooms at night, not working or sleeping, with the noise and his own anxiety.

Donald Trump, currently president, is maybe not smart or attuned enough for such awareness, but no doubt the people around him are. Maybe not the flunkies he’s imported and promoted, but government officials with jobs they care about and wish to keep.

These are the people the protesters will reach. Remember, Nixon didn’t want to go. It was professional politicians, his friends, the people he needed, who forced him, with the writing on the wall.

So keep writing. Keep calling. Keep convening. Keep chanting and banging those buckets. They hear you, see you, and fear you. Not that you want to be feared, per se, but enough to have the people in Washington do right.

They will, if you make them.

Stephen P. Burke is a columnist for the Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears biweekly.

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s a past Medical Director of Planned Parenthood in Ithaca, I know firsthand that Planned Parenthood health centers are a vital resource for women in our community and nationwide. Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes (PPSFL) provides nearly 10,000 patients annually in Tompkins, Chemung, Steuben and Schuyler counties with access to the following: full range of birth control options, screenings for cervical and breast cancer, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections and the compassionate provision of safe medical or surgical abortion.

Approximately 40 percent of PPSFL’s patients are insured through Medicaid. The bill being considered in Congress would deny Medicaidfunded patients the right to obtain any care at Planned Parenthood clinics.

Proponents of the bill, intended to severely decrease funding for Planned Parenthood, argue patients will be able to access care elsewhere. In our region, this is false. There are too few providers who accept Medicaid to meet the demand that would be caused if PPSFL were unable to provide care for them. More than half of the country’s Planned Parenthood centers are in medically underserved areas.

Planned Parenthood clinicians are specialists trained in the provision of

all methods of contraception, including Intrauterine Devices (IUDs) and hormonal implants (both known as Long Acting Reversible Contraception or LARC, the most effective forms of contraception available). A study by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital showed that “many outpatient primary care practices do not offer LARC.” Patients would need to be referred elsewhere, and many of them come to Planned Parenthood clinics.

Tom Reed, congressional representative for the area served by PPSFL, has already voted once to defund Planned Parenthood. On his website, he stated then the funds would be diverted to other health centers, “ensuring access to care for rural women.” It clearly would not have ensured access and neither will the current bill under consideration. Defunding an organization that does more than any other to prevent the need for abortion makes no sense.

Our leaders in Congress have the responsibility to keep Americans safe and healthy, and they must therefore reject a bill that would cut millions of predominantly low-income women from access to effective birth control as well as to general reproductive health care. This leaves them vulnerable to unplanned pregnancy and sometimes to life-threatening diseases.

Wendy Robertson, Ithaca

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cooperation with the Mental Health Association ,sponsored the group and Ellen soon became the coordinator and director. She knew a powerful role playing with the Cayuga Community Role Players could help community groups visualize new ways to solve problems. Four years later she was hired as coordinator of community education at Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service, and brought the CCRP under a new umbrella agency.

Area teens and adults of all ages volunteered to assist Ellen by role playing in training Ellen would present on, topics ranging from causes such as bullying in school, or an elderly person’s fear of moving to a nursing home. The scenes were tailor crafted by Ellen in advance of each training program – people with drug problems applying for jobs, nurses or police officers training to communicate effectively, prison inmates feeling powerless to raise their children from inside prison. Each Role Player was given a specific role – bully, victim, bystander, patient in pain, nurse, the overwhelmed parent, angry teen. Ellen would prepare the audience for the scenes they would see, saying “You’re going to see some scenes that may be familiar to you, but you might want to handle things differently. A lot of times in life you don’t get to say what you really think, but this isn’t one of them. You can talk with the players who will remain in character throughout, and provide suggestions because you are the experts.”

Since the family’s arrival in 1989 Ellen and Oskar have thrived despite many challenges which could easily destroy less determined people. Ellen’s older sister was killed in a train-car collision, rocking the family in many ways. She has faced some challenging times raising teens, dealing with severe illness, and caring for her mother as her health declined and as she died.

As her mot her aged, El len beca me increasingly impressed by the stores of experience older people hold within them. For 15 years she volunteered in a local nursing home helping elders write their life stories.

The process of collecting their stories, dictated to Ellen, led to friendships with people till the ends of their lives. One woman was a blind Holocaust survivor. Another woman told stories of growing up in the mountains of Virginia. When she suffered a stroke and could no longer speak, Ellen read to her the stories from her life that she had dictated, validating her life to her and helping staff see that she was more than the wordless woman they cared for.

After 15 years guiding Cayuga Community Role Players, Ellen envisioned a quieter, deeper way to help people gain insight into heartfelt issues. Ellen had always loved to write, taken many writing workshops, and written professionally. Most of all she found that writing can create clarity in challenging times. “I became very interested in the midwifery of writing,” she said. During difficult times writing had helped her see things more clearly, manage something that felt overwhelming, or by writing from another’s Th e

perspective understand that point of view better. She decided that her background as a teacher, workshop facilitator, and writer wove together well.

Ellen designed Writing Through the Rough Spots, a workshop based writing class to help writers address challenges in their lives. “I wanted to shape a class that I would feel comfortable attending. I didn’t want people to feel pressed to publish or perform.

Instead I think of the classes as mirrors and windows – mirrors into self discovery and windows connecting to others in ways unlike other situations. We write quite differently than we speak or think and are often surprised to understand something through the process of writing about it.”

Writing Through the Rough Spots has drawn an enthusiastic audience since Ellen first offered writing courses year-round in 2006. Her venues have broadened over the years to include a conference center on an island off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire; workshops at the Tompkins County Public Library, the Cancer Resource Center and an annual weekend workshop in Morristown, New Jersey. The Dean of Students Office at Cornell brings Ellen’s workshop each semester to campus to alleviate the feelings of isolation students, especially international students, experience as they cope with school and relationship pressures and emerge into adulthood.

Workshop participants have recreated joyous and funny times, explored confusing, tragic and hopeful times in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The writers in Ellen’s workshops say they came to know themselves in a deeper way, and were able to gain clarity about sensitive issues in their lives through the act of writing about the concern. Ellen likes to quote E.M. Forster: “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” Writers reported they found their writing helpful in their daily lives and in their inner thoughts.

Fledg ling a nd ex perienced w riters describe Ellen’s workshops as warm, relaxed, supportive. “No one is pressed to share their work, but I have found that when you read aloud you often hear yourself for the first time.”

Marjorie Olds is a columnist for the Ithaca Times. Her column, Community Connections, appears monthly.

CorRections In an article which appeared last week on Marco Benevento’s upcoming show at the Rongovian Embassy, the author named Dave Dreiwitz as his bassist, though Karina Rykman has been on tour with the band since his most recent album.

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Regardless of your affiliation, the world changed indelibly on November 8, 2016, as a populist candidate improbably snatched the fabled position of Leader of the Free World from the widely-favored choice of the establishment. Donald J. Trump overcame any and all scandals during the campaign while developing a following that, in contrast, was framed as a group fueled by a hatred of the alternative, yet equally reviled candidate Hillary Clinton. The subsequent weeks teemed with an onslaught of left-wing infighting and fingerpointing, out of which emerged a select few who chose to organize instead of blaming.

Amanda Champion (Ithaca March organizer): “At first I kept thinking, ‘Oh, it’s going to be okay, this isn’t the final result,’ just trying to make myself feel better. Then as it became more and more clear, it became disbelief, just complete disbelief. […] As the night went on, it felt terrible, like we were

election, but elections and presidents come and go, and we’re America. Things are going to be different. This is a temporary setback, but it’s not the future.”

Conni Allen (Ithaca March organizer and Newfield resident): “[Grief] turned

tional march in D.C., Champion almost immediately went to work over the next several days to activate the Ithaca community.

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place. I did what I could, I brought the megaphone, just little things. Everybody did something. It was a great experience to all be able to do something. And to tell people what we were going to do, what we had done. And a lot of people didn’t respond online, so when somebody got the permit, it was for under 1000 people. We had no idea.”

Taylor: “The focus really was pro-women [...] It was just to let women know that they are not alone, and that we’re all standing together.”

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The country once again turned its head to Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2017, though this time for a much different reason than November’s phenomenon.

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Champion: “We weren’t really fully understanding the full scope. We were still trying to come up with our feelings about the election. So that first meeting was great, lots of ideas, but there was only five of us there. It wasn’t like a war cry or anything like that.”

April Taylor (Ithaca March organizer): “The first meeting was at Cafe Press in Press Bay Alley, there were maybe four or five of us. Honestly, at that point, we had no idea where it was going to go.”

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Hundreds of thousands of people, primarily women, assembled in the nation’s capital to protest a litany of issues, highlighted by a disdain for newlyinaugurated President Donald Trump’s administration and his stated intention of defunding Planned Parenthood. The Washington March was nominally the national event, though dozens of other marches and rallies were taking place across the country and the world as well, including in Ithaca, the notoriously bubble-bound city con-

fronting the reality around it.

Champion: “[The night before] It was very hard to sleep, I was up pretty late and I woke up pretty early. I think the day was just fully run on adrenaline.”

Allen: “I had my purple helmet on, that’s my Warrior Woman Helmet. I wear it on special occasions.”

Champion: “When I filled out the permit, I think I put that 300-400 people would be there, that was all I thought.”

Allen: “I turned the corner and saw all those people…. I just said ‘holy crap!’”

As the march continued, guesses began to circulate at the possible attendance numbers of the March. Champion’s permit estimation had turned out to be wrong, but it was unclear exactly how far off the mark she had been. In the days leading up to the event, the Facebook RSVP list had grown to 2,800. As marchers began to congregate, the crowd swelled to 4,000, according to initial reports. By the end of it, the police department, normally in charge of a quiet city of 30,000 Ithacans, were saying 10,000 people had shown up. At one point, the po-

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ner and turned onto Cayuga Street, I was blown away […] When we got back around to State Theatre, I was blown away again.

That the front end would reach the tail end… that never even crossed my mind.”

Allen: “We couldn’t even see all the people beyond the parking garage.”

Robertson (who attended the national event in Washington): “There was a sense of joy and anger all mixed together, and just kind of a fierce empowerment that we’re just not going to take this from him. […] We’re not going to be controlled by other people anymore, and there was the sense of joy and of being together.”

Taylor: “Solidarity would be a good way to get that sentiment. Everybody was on the same page, even if they were there for a different reason. They are all excited, some people were chanting and had signs, they all marched. And no incidents.”

Leslie Danks-Burke (political organizer): “I think it’s an uplifting moment. I see lots and lots of people engaged [...] It’s not a bad thing. We had record number of people on the right turn out to vote in 2016 and we now have a really vibrant conversation happening on the left.”

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Champion: “I was in the parking lot by City Hall, and we were going to be the ones to lead the March, and that parking lot was packed. And when it came time to actually start, and when we walked around the cor-

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While the Women’s March appeared to build momentum, it is uncertain exactly where that will take its leaders and participants. An organization which rose from the march, Rise Up Ithaca! seems poised to become a leading voice in the area’s activism community, serving as a social justice hub for issues around Ithaca and New York’s Southern Tier. In mediums such as Facebook, numerous groups organizing members of the movement have formed, advocating for assembly and resistance in the wake of the president’s more contentious mandates.

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Champion had stayed off Twitter and away from the news during the March, feeling a desire to be “present.” When she got home and found wall-to-wall coverage of the global marches on television, she said she realized what they had been a part of.

First things first, however.

Champion: “To be quite honest, my chickens had gotten out of their pen. So I had to get them back in.”

tional standpoint it was exhausting but we still have to keep going at this point. We have to keep moving forward.”

Allen: “It was amazing, but now I know I have to do more. And I will. I want a national movement, not just Ithaca.”

Danks-Burke: “What we need to do is focus local. I just can’t emphasize that enough [...] We have so many layers of government in New York that there are many, many local candidates that you can work for.”

Taylor: “The group of organizers had a meeting this past Saturday because we did this, and now people are looking at us and thinking ‘Are they going to do anything else in Ithaca?’”

So far, President Trump’s time in office has been plagued by nearly-constant protesting, sowing a fertile ground for those interested in activism around the country to start the grassroots movements that are so often treated as unachievable relics of decades past.

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Champion: “I feel very empowered by what we accomplished. I’ve never organized anything of this caliber before, and I’ve had so much wonderful feedback and gratitude from people. People told me they were feeling positive and hopeful for the first time since November.”

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was abandoned by the Clintons, and without a way to yoke people around common Contin u ed from page 5 beliefs and not an identity, they’ll continue being wrong: the Democrats gave up a class-based coalition of struggling people from the middle-class down.” as long as t hey a re com mit ted to “If it’s up to rich people to raise the transparency in government, Elizabeth money to support these movements,” she Sanders, a political commentator and added, “the movement will fail.” professor in Cornell’s Department of At a cursory glance, Trailblazers PAC Government said a movement like this seems to shy away from that mentality. could work to the advantage of a party According to a press release, it should be such as the Democrats. Echoing Danks- no surprise in the current political cliBurke’s view people are tired of decisions mate many candidates become beholden being made behind closed doors, Sanders to large-donor interests, because so often said in the past several decades Demo- local candidates cut their teeth in camcrats had become a party of social, rather paigns entirely financed by a single local political committee or a few local “If it’s up to rich people to raise donors. Teaching candidates to develop a broad grassroots base, the money to support these the release states, will result in a movements, the movement will solid foundation of good-governfail.” ment officeholders who can shape the country for the future.

“Too often, politicians see their than of socioeconomic equity. She said message to voters as divorced from their the party has alienated any potential for a fundraising message,” said Danks-Burke populist movement through pushing for in the release. “Trailblazers PAC recsocial progress while ignoring the work- ognizes that powerful relationships are ing class, something she chalks up to the built with the transfer of money, and we “biggest problem” facing the Democratic will educate candidates in building the party: its accountability to large donors. donor relationship with their voter base.

“Money is not what we need to build The outcome is a more successful candia grassroots democratic movement: what date, and an office holder accountable to the Democrats need is a philosophy, constituents.” which they don’t have,” Sanders said.

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Beginning this Wednesday, WR FI Communit y Radio w i l l begin broadcasting the syndicated Thom Hartmann Program live every weekday from noon to 2:00 p.m., with the program’s third hour heard in the overnight beginning at midnight.

Hartmann “hosts the nation’s most popular syndicated talk radio program with a progressive political perspective,” according to a news release from WRFI, airing on more than two hundred outlets across the country as well as Sirius XM Satellite radio.

The program could previously be found on the progressive talk station WNYY, whose owners, the Cayuga Radio Group, recently decided to cancel the station’s progressive talk format. In response to this decision, a news release said, both WNYY and WRFI received many inquiries from

dedicated listeners in the community, including some local legislators, hoping to keep the Hartmann show available on the local airwaves.

As the station is commercial-free and community supported, Hartmann will run without ads on the community station. In place of ads, listeners will hear local headlines, weather and more.

“While WRFI’s daytime programming has enjoyed a dedicated listenership, as a community station, it’s our mission to adapt our programming to community interests and concerns,” said General Manager Felix Teitelbaum. “Our schedule has remained largely static for years. Given these changing times, I’m happy to see some change on the air. I also hope that the increased interest in WRFI will lead to more voices in our community being heard and more new programming –particularly local shows.”

Program Director Domenic Gagliano said, “Adding the Thom Hartmann show to our roster strengthens the quality of our syndicated lineup while further fulfilling the interests of our community. It also gives us the chance to broaden our listenership to more community members who will not only tune in for Hartmann but also our wide variety of locally produced news, public affairs and music shows.”

In 2007, Hartmann replaced Al Franken as the flagship program of the liberal Air America network, after the comedian gave up his show to run for the U.S. Senate.

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South Hill Recreation Way, which garAccording to the New York State Comnered requests from several other municimittee on Open Government, “all records palities along the route. In Enfield, which are subject to the FOIL,” a record defined received 13 total FOIL requests last year, more than half were for any available by the law as “any information kept, held, information on the proposed Black Oak filed, produced or reproduced by, with or for an agency in any physical form whatWind Farm.

As expected for larger agencies, the soever.” To obtain a record, citizens must requests were much more diverse. The first make a request, typically in writing, Ithaca City School District’s 50 or so FOIL to the agency they wish to request inforrequests from last year involved employ- mation from through FOIL. While many smaller agencies process ment records, student information, salary and benefit data, lead testing results and requests through handwritten appeals various school presentations. At the coun- or even through requests made through ty level — where 197 requests were pro- email, the county and city use an autocessed — requests ranged from the health mated system available on their individdepartment (22 total) to the sheriff’s office ual websites, which helps streamline their (35) and district attorney (11). Of these 68 ability to take large volumes of requests and stay in compliance with the FOIL. requests, 28 were denied or rejected.

Writing a records request isn’t comKrin Flaherty, an assistant attorney for the City of Ithaca, works in the office that plicated: citizens simply need to know a handled the most FOIL requests – 822 record exists and describe it as specifically – out of any entity in Tomp- “Once we release as possible in order to get what they’re looking for. kins County last year. She Flaherty says that for the something said though most requests fastest fulfillment of your through FOIL, do get filled, whether in full request, giving as much or in part, some documents it’s public for information as possible — can be denied on a handwhatever that including searchable terms ful of criteria as dictated like names or dates — could person chooses to through the FOIL law itself. prove to be helpful in searchdo with it.”

This is known as the public ing for records, especially officer’s law. Exemptions, given that many documents Flaherty said, can include areas such are maintained in digital format. The more as police reports containing extensive difficult FOILs to fulfill are the vague ones, personal information, intra-agency comshe said.

This includes requests for documunications between city staff and other municipalities, or anything that would ments that may exist but, because they are impair pending contractual negotiations requested in such a vague fashion, they or criminal investigations, which are are challenging to find. FOIL, Flaherty typically evaluated by the staff of the City says, mandates public access only to documents and not to information. This means Attorney.

“Once we release something through the city attorney or clerk won’t be on the FOIL, it’s public for whatever that person hook to generate a document if it doesn’t chooses to do with it,” Flaherty said. “So already exist. For instance, in researching we try to make sure when we put some- this story, the Ithaca Times requested any thing out there it won’t be an invasion of existing datasets for FOILs each munici-

pality received this year: most municipalities, to protect the personal information of those requesting information, don’t keep a specific list. The municipalities denied the request initially because the record the Times requested did not exist, and had to be produced.

Each office, eventually, did fulfill our needs primarily because knowing how the FOIL structure works is clearly public information.

“Oftentimes when it’s easy, we can usually just produce that [type of] information,” Flaherty said. “I understand the public doesn’t necessarily know how our files are structured, but hopefully we can communicate how we do organize our documents so they can help refine their request.”

Within five days of receiving a request, a public agency is by law required to respond to the request. After, the agencies get to work. While some documents can be produced almost instantly, Flaherty said in most cases city records can take approximately three weeks to produce. At the state and federal level as some journalists can attest, requests can sometimes take months to fulfill.

Occasionally, documents may cost money to produce if printed on multiple sheets of paper or on a compact disc. This cost can sometimes be waived if, in your request, you give a rationale for why the cost would be either a financial burden or unnecessary expense. If information is redacted or a request is denied, the party requesting records can appeal with their own rationale for why a piece of rescinded information is in the public interest. And, if you feel the public agency isn’t acting within reasonable compliance of the law, the Committee on Open Government gives advice, and can be reached at their Albany office at 518-474-2518.

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One distinct characteristic of the crowd, mentioned by several speakers, was its age.

Some representatives of Cornell’s democrats were present, along with a few other young, but voting-age, adults. For the most part, however, the crowd was heavily populated by the elder generation concerned about the county and country’s direction.

As for future plans, much of the discussion centered around the popular topic of letter-writing and calling the offices of New York’s national legislators, such as Tom Reed, to voice displeasure with his stances on such things as the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Some of the more pointed propositions from the crowd included diluting Muslim or immigrant registries, should the Trump administration actually install any such policy, by instructing everyone to sign up.

Russ Friedell, 33, of Ithaca, said he didn’t consider the older-skewing turnout a problem, though he acknowledged that engaging the younger population should probably be a priority for a political party that has seemed to lose its grip on that population in recent years. Democrats, he said, have lost sight of some of their working class principles and must work to regain that without losing their inclusive ideals.

Friedell said he hopes November’s losses inspire a reformation in Democratic strategy, which he said has fallen behind the more direct, identifiable Republican designs recently.

“Republicans have done a much better job of infiltrating these local or state-wide elections over the last several years,” Friedell said. “They’ve been much better at communicating a simple, emotional message that appeals to those who are really disgusted at the state of affairs in this country.”

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ruth be told, Friday evening was a bone-chiller and my woodstove beckoned, but the Ithaca High boy’s basketball team is having a season for the ages and I just had to get there to see them take on Binghamton. The Patriots beat the Little Red by three points in their own gym a few weeks ago, the only blemish on Ithaca’s season.

Binghamton came out fast and hot, looking to prove that their earlier win was no fluke, and eager to snap the host Ithaca’s 13-game winning streak. The Little Red came out looking a bit flat, the crowd had not yet tuned into the action, and the visitors – looking poised and fresh – stormed out to a 9-point lead. Ithaca did not panic.

Looking like a team that has been playing together since they were gradeschoolers (that is indeed the case), the Little Red turned up the intensity and focus and chipped away at the lead. There is nothing like above-the-rim play to energize a crowd, and when Jordan Ayers threw down a slam on a breakaway, it was “game on.” Jordan saved his best for last,

scoring 17 of his game-high 27 points in the 4th quarter.

Ithaca regained control of the game, and although the Patriots did experience a resurgence of their own, regaining the lead briefly, the Little Red picked it up, poured it on and made their statement with a 61-51 victory. The win avenged their lone loss, and set up a division title showdown with Corning (to be played just after we go to press).

I want to extend my heartiest thanks to the hundreds of people that made it out to the Moakley House on Saturday for the dual celebration of Richie Moran’s 80th birthday and the release of his autobiography, “It’s Great To Be Here.” It was an incredible event, and friends and well-wishers stood in line for up to two hours to get a book, wish Richie a happy birthday and spend a moment with the legendary coach. As Richie’s “wing man” on this project since Day 1, I greeted guests in the line many times and told them, “I’m sorry this is taking so long, but it’s just Richie being Richie. He is not one to

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A new research study is meant to clarify some of the murkiness surrounding aquatic therapy’s effectiveness as opposed to treadmill-based land interventions,

Amelia Habicht suffered a stroke in 2009. She’s since begun participating in aquatic therapy at the local YMCA. (Photo: Casey Martin)

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Fishel said one of the goals of the study is building evidence to give stroke survivors more options for their rehabilitation regimens. When they enter rehab, the patients must choose their treatment route, and more information a lways proves valuable, equally for patients and therapists.

Aquatic therapy’s additional safety benefits may also increase the efficiency with which specialists can treat patients, Fishel said, as there is less chance for a harmful accident. One therapist could theoretically train more than one patient at a time, while on a treadmill it can only be one-on-one interventions. This is complicated, McNamara said, by insurance company rules, but the potential could be there in the future.

Despite aquatic therapy’s existing utilization in the field, and McNamara’s own successful usage of the methods with patients, there is still a lack of published research material that backs up its clinical validity.

“I can’t go to the base of evidence and say, ‘This intervention for this patient has been proven to be effective in general for other patients,’” she said. “That’s what we want to contribute to […] It’s a resource that we want to provide to physical therapists.”

Amelia Habicht suffered a stroke in June 2009, which resulted in some temporary cognitive losses as well as the loss of use in her left side, much of which she has recovered. She is now participating in the aquatic therapy study after taking part in the pilot program.

Before her stroke, she was the picture of health, working out often and generally avoiding the sort of behaviors commonly associated with risks until she suffered a spontaneously dissected carotid artery out of the blue. She said personally, she does not notice much of a difference in terms of the effectiveness between aquatic or normal therapy.

“I can’t say one has been better, or not as good,” she said. “They each have their value for their own reasons.”

Despite st i l l recoveri ng f rom her stroke, she is training for an upcoming Iron Man competition, and said she enjoys the feeling of exhaustion after a workout, something she doesn’t get from the water interventions. That, and the increased prep time of the water interventions, make her prefer the normal land routine for now, though she said that could change as the study goes on.

For Habicht, it comes down to her future functionality and not much more.

“What I’m looking for, in any kind of physical therapy I seek out, is the effect of gaining some skill or habit that will help me throughout the day, every day,” she said. •

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(Left) Guitars abound. The VIDA quartet is a spectacular group that’s toured the world with their amazing chops and deft form.

Mark Ashford, Mark Eden, Amanda Cook, and Christopher Stell are a special force. They play February 23 at Barnes Hall (Photo provided)

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he classical music concert schedule for the late winter and spring promises several unique events, plus an unusually large number and variety of chamber and vocal performances. Here is a rundown of season’s highlights. Be sure to check dates and venues, as schedules frequently change.

Special Events

To start off with something really different, the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies presents an afternoon symposium on February 3 in Barnes Hall called “Four-Hand Keyboarding in the Long 19th Century.” Eight pairings of performer-scholars will be discussing duets and playing them on historical keyboard instruments. The center also offers a conference on May 4–6 in Lincoln Hall B20, “Ghosts in the Machine—Technology, History, and Aesthetics of the Player-Piano.” The director of the Pianola Institute will participate, and a May 4 concert features newly commissioned music for playerpiano and piano, and works for pianola.

“Yield Troubled Shadows: Bach and Modern Society,” a program with lectures that make connections between themes of two Bach cantatas (BWV 202 and BWV 168) and current issues in American society, is on March 17 in Barnes with a performance featuring musicians from the Cornell Early Music Lab, the Cornell Chamber Singers, and guest artists.

Orchestral and Ensemble Presentations The IC Symphony Orchestra, Keehum Nam, conductor, offers young competition winner

Raymond Feng as soloist in the 1st movement of Grieg’s piano concerto, plus Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite on February 5. Conducted by Michael Hall, the ensemble will play Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, and another concerto competition offering on March 5, and also accompanies IC Choir in April (see Vocal and Choral Offerings). All concerts are in Ford Hall. On February 27 the ensemble LeStrange Viols presents “Hold Fast: Music of the Elizabethan Avant-Garde,” a program exploring the unusual musical experimentation of the late 16th century.

The Cornell Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Chris Younghoon Kim, also has programmed a concerto competition winner, Irene Jeong, who plays Shostakovich, plus a work of Cornell graduate student Tonia Ko, on March 5 in Bailey Hall. The orchestra performs in Bailey on May 6, featuring a work by Missy Mazzoli, and will accompany the Cornell Glee Club and Chorus (see Vocal and Choral Offerings).

The Cornell Chamber Orchestra, directed

by Kim, on March 11 in the afternoon at the Johnson Museum, presents a program that includes a work by Cornell DMA in Composition student Barry Sharp and Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 459, with soloist Roger Moseley.

On April 30 in Barnes the ensemble features Schumann’s Piano Concerto with Cornell pianist Miri Yampolsky.

The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra (CCO), under the leadership of music director Cornelia Laemmli Orth, on March 11 at Ford Hall offers music by Haydn and Prokofiev, plus performances by Youth Competition winners— pianist Feng, cellist Benjamin Doane, and violinist Sophia Werner. The orchestra closes its 40th season on May 11, with music by Ravel and

Ginastera and the rare opportunity to hear Met Opera star baritone Nathan Gunn.

Cornell pianist Xak Bjerken and guest mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway are joined by the contemporary music group Ensemble X on March 18 in Barnes Hall to offer “Songs of the Land: Poems of Ishion Hutchinson.” Music’s Recreation presents “Jorinde and Joringel / Night on Bald Mountain” on April 2 at CSMA, a narrative with music based on a Grimm fairy tale, followed by a chamber orchestration of Mussorgsky’s creepy piece.

Chamber Music The Cornell Concert Series gives us a double bass duo, Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer, in a concert on February 3 in Bailey Hall, with a diverse program including original music composed for them. On February 5 in Barnes Hall, the Momenta Quartet performs string quartets by Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875–1965).

A series of organ concerts in Anabel Taylor Chapel, “Reformations 1517–2017,” begins on March 10 with guest organist Thomas Gaynor playing J. S. Bach’s Clavierübung III. On March 11 guest Rhonda Sider Edgington plays music old and new including Bach, Scheidemann, Buxtehude, and Barry Jordan. University organist Annette Richards performs music from 17th and 18th-century England, Italy, and Germany on March 21.

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In Ford Hall that evening the Thaler Concert Pianist Series presents Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski in a program of music by Mozart, Chopin, and J. S. Bach. His master class earlier that evening is in the Hockett Recital Hall. The annual Hockett Chamber Music Series offers the Akropolis Reed Quintet—clarinet, oboe, bass clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon— performing arrangements of Rameau and Gershwin’s American in Paris in Ford Hall on February 19. The group holds a workshop in the afternoon and master classes in the evening of February 18. The VIDA Guitar Quartet performs in the Cornell Concert Series on February 23 in Barnes Hall, providing arrangements of traditional British folksongs and works from Bach to Gershwin.

NYS Baroque, on February 25 in the Unitarian Church, presents world-famous Paul O’Dette playing 17th-century lute music from England, Italy, and France.

The ensemble offers “The Sweetest Sounds” on March 25, with soprano Laura Heimes and six instrumentalists, including artistic director and theorbo player Deborah Fox, in music of Bach, Handel, Arne, and Telemann. The final concert on April 29, “Just the Two of Us,” will feature longtime friends—Fox, theorbo, and Lisa Terry, viola da gamba— playing music by Marais, deVisée, and Telemann. Also on April 29 guest duo Jin

Hi Kim on Korean kumungo and Min Xiao-Fen on Chinese pipa/sanxian present traditional and innovative music on ancient Asian fretted string instruments in Barnes Hall.

Pianist Bjerken is joined in Barnes Hall on February 26 by graduate student cellist Elizabeth Lyon and her violinist father and Penn State faculty member James Lyon in a concert featuring Chopin and Brahms. On March 5 at the Carriage House guest ensemble Aizuri Quartet—Cornell’s violinist Ariana Kim is member—presents Mozart, Beethoven, Carolyn Shaw, and the world premiere of Quartet No. 19 by American composer Stephen Dankner. The Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble, now in its 25th season, performs also on March 5 in the Unitarian Church, with regulars members—pianist Michael Salmirs, violist Roberta Crawford, and cellist Stefan Reuss—joined by guest artists, violin Janet Sung and flutist Barry Crawford, in music by Beethoven, Duruflé, and Brahms. Fortepianist Mike Cheng-Yu Lee plays works by Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann on March 13. Cornell cellist John Haines-Eitzen, joined by guest pianist Matthew Bengtson, performs Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Arthur Foote, a Niccolo Athens premiere on March 15. Fortepianist Malcolm Bilson performs Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin on March 16. All concerts are in Barnes Hall.

On March 20 Kim gives a guest violin recital at IC in the Hockett Recital Hall.

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The Cornell Concert Series presents the Jersalem Quartet, a prize-winning Israeli ensemble that debuted in 1996, in Barnes Hall on March 25.

The Karel Husa Memorial Concert takes place in Hockett Recital Hall on March 27, when IC faculty musicians perform to honor the Pulitzer-prize winning composer, who taught for years at both Cornell and IC and died in December. Pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough plays music including new works by John Liberatore, Dante De Silva, and Nicholas Vines in Barnes Hall on March 30.

The CCO Chamber Music Series closes on April 2 in the Unitarian Church with all-Beethoven program of early music including the E-flat Major Sextet, Op. 20. On April 13 fortepianist Shin Wang performs works by Beethoven and Haydn, while on April 15 Bjerken is joined by violinist Renée Jolles and cellist Steven Doane (from Eastman and well known here for his performances with the CCO and in Mayfest) to play trios by Beethoven, Schumann, and Russian composer Alexander Krein (1879–1951). Both concerts are in Barnes Hall. The guest trio sTem perform music of Schubert Schoenberg, Isenberg, and others on March 21 in Barnes and new works by Cornell graduate composers on March 22 at the Carriage House.

Vocal and Choral Offerings “New York Young Men Singing” presents

its annual free concert on February 25 in Sage Chapel, the culmination of a daylong workshop where Cornell Glee Club members sing with high school boys from the region under the guidance of guest clinician Anthony Trecek-King, director of the award-winning Boston Children’s Chorus. The Collegiate Treble Choir Conference, hosted by the Cornell Chorus, features concerts in Sage Chapel by the women’s choruses from Smith, Mount Holyoke, and NYU on March 3 and from Harvard, Vassar, and Cornell on March 4. The various IC choruses perform in Ford Hall on March 6 and 7, April 24, and May 3.

On March 21 in Barnes Hall guest artists from the IC faculty—bass Marc Webster and mezzo-soprano Nicole Asel, with pianist Christopher Zemliauskas— present a recital of works by Fauré, Duparc, Mahler, Britten, and Ricky Ian Gordon. They perform again in Ford Hall on March 22.

The Cornell Chorus, conducted

by Robert Isaacs, gives a Return-fromTour concert on April 12 at Ithaca’s First Baptist Church. Named “Up!” it features music about stars and the Aurora Borealis, and a commission from Finnish composer Mia Makaroff, who will be present. On April 23 is the Lincoln Center Preview Concert in Ford Hall, with the IC Choir, accompanied by the IC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Janet Galván, performing Barber’s Prayers of Kierkegaard and the premiere of a work

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Masters of the Form

Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer visit Ithaca

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer, Friday, February 3, 8:00 p.m., Bailey Hall, Cornell University

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irtuosity is like a dream: the place where complexity and technique blend together into a swirling horizon. Innovation jumps forward twentyfold. A bag of nothing is filled with invisible weight, and it is heavy. Jazz musicians dance on this virtuosic road regularly. It

man, that’s extremely difficult.”

McBride is a musician of similar talents. He’s a five-time Grammy award winning jazz bassist who’s appeared on over 300 records as a sideman and leader.

Perhaps the preemptive jazz musician of his time, McBride has recorded and toured with legends like Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Joshua Redman, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Isaac Hayes, Bruce Hornsby, and James Brown, among

tions when we get together. It’s truly amazing how many options we have, and it’s always wonderful and eye opening playing with him.”

McBride was introduced to Meyer’s music by the jazz musician Ray Brown, the founder of the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet. It was immediately clear to McBride that Meyer had a special ability and distinct vision.

“Sometime back in the late ‘90s Ray asked me if I was hip to Edgar Meyer,” McBride explained. “I said I wasn’t. So we watched a video of Meyer and bassist Victor Wooten from ’91, and I was floored man, seriously. In 2007 I played an improv-jam with Edgar, and after that I kept running into him on the road. I think we both knew it was only a matter of time before we collaborated on something.”

The two bassists are bonafide jazz masters, but have explored a wide range of music styles as well. McBride has worked with hip-hop, soul and pop artists, and Meyer has composed and worked in the fields of classical, bluegrass and world music. Together, the two explore a deep and varied sonic palette.

“We’ll run through all sorts of stuff,”

McBride noted. “With Edgar’s background in bluegrass and classical there’s so many avenues we can go. We’ll touch on jazz, blues, and progressive material, and we’ll also be switching it up a little.

I’ll be playing the piano for a song, as will Edgar. It mixes it up and creates a different dimension to the concert.”

McBride considers bass playing to be a family tradition. His father and great uncle are dynamic Philadelphia based bassists. Growing up on Motown and funk records, McBride’s playing has an extra-wide feel that oozes with the spirit of those two forms. He’s just as adept at electric bass as he is double bass. The love of music is his perpetual drive: a virtuoso with the propulsion of a jet engine.

“I come from a long line of great jazz bassists, he said. “My dad and family were my mentors, and I approach and respect the music in the same way. To see these young guys like Ben Williams and Thundercat out there, ripping it up, it’s just amazing. They call me Mr. McBride, which is a trip, but I think it’s important to pass this history on to the next generation.” •

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unk is the dimension of constant groove. It’s the kingdom of realness, the music of moving people, and a prayer to the freeness of individuality.

Cincinnati’s Chris Sherman, better know as Freekbass, is one of funk’s highest practitioners, a bassist and singer of color, magic, and mystery. He’s shared the stage with legends like Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell and Buckethead, bringing his progressive and deft technique to ears all over the world. His current trio, The Bump Assembly, features Joel “Razor Sharp” Johnson on keys and synth, and Rico Lewis on drums.

“Funk is very geographic,” Sherman noted. “Everyone puts their own personal spin on the form. The stuff coming out of Boston, Minnesota, San Francisco, and Detroit is all very particular; every style has it’s own thing going on. Being from Ohio, I’m not exactly East or West or North or South, so I just have to play a little louder [laughs]. Rico’s from the Midwest and Razor’s originally from Baltimore, and both have played with legends like George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars, Bernie, Bootsy. The band

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has a really dynamic background. It’s a spectacular group.”

Sherman combines superior technical skill with an abstract and almost comedic personality. His style is as dark and mysterious as it is lush and animated.

There’s wizardry to his approach that catches the imagination and harnesses a certain psychedelic vibe. Universality permeates his performance, and it’s a thrilling and virtuosic ride. The visual quality to Freekbass is another intense dimension to the artist’s totality. It’s here where comic book fantasy meets the edgy funk world of the ‘70s.

“I’m a huge comic book geek,” Sherman laughs. “I’m always listening to super hero podcasts, always checking out what’s new with Batman and Star Wars. I mean as a kid I was really, really geeked out [laughs]. It’s funny, I was talking to Vernon Reid from Living Colour a while back, and we were waxing philosophical about super heroes. It was amazing. The whole comic-verse usually makes its way into my music and lyrics in some form.

I look at songs as mini soundtracks, and comics have been very influential in that respect.”

In ways similar to Buckethead—the wild guitar shredder who famously dons a creepy white mask and KFC bucket

atop his head—Sherman prefers a slight anonymity. There’s a magical sensibility to his approach, as if he’s some supernatural enchanter from the planet Orth. Funk music calls for a certain amount of fantastical width. P-Funk is like some acid soul circus, while Bootsy Collins and Buckethead are in many ways, characters from different dimensions. Sherman has always paid homage to funk’s deep past with his overall tendencies and wild methodology.

“I was always attracted to bands like the Talking Heads, P-Funk, and KISS,” Sherman stated. “Bands that were all encompassing. I don’t want to see the person behind the mask, you know. I want the whole trip to be magic. I think of myself as a magician in a lot of ways, and my whole approach really belongs to a different world, a different galaxy.”

Hip-hop and electronic music is also influential to Sherman. He cites rap and hip-hop from the ‘90s as hugely inspiring, particularly the funk based instrumentation of West Coast legends like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog. “Dre’s The Chronic and Snoop’s Doggystyle were mind blowing man,” he said. “I played those albums non stop, and they certainly inspired my feel for the bass. I listened to a lot of British electronic music as well, stuff like Tricky and Portishead; and of course I had my Jaco Pastorius and Geddy Lee phases. I’ve always searched for new stuff—music is my life man.”

Freekbass and the Bump Assembly lift off for the Nexus dimension this Friday at The Haunt. Better get on board the ship. •

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Joyce Manor continues to Evolve

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Joyce Manor, AJJ, Mannequin Pussy, Tuesday, February 7, 8:00 p.m., The Haunt

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orrence, CA pop-punkers Joyce Manor are artists of quick definition. The band gets to the point, flashes its strength, and moves on.

The quartet doesn’t particularly care for repetition, eternally moving towards the center, making every corner bend dynamic and swift. It’s refreshing to listen to a band with such immediate intuition.

“I think short songs just come natural to me,” lead singer and guitarist Barry Johnson noted. “I think in a lot of ways, the quicker you can say something in a song, the better. I mean I grew up listening to punk bands like Operation Ivy that were playing songs around the one minute, forty-second mark, so it’s really just what I’m used to; but I can be coached into different approaches, different avenues for song structures. It really just comes down to what works best for each song.”

Joyce Manor released its first album in 2011 to wide acclaim. With intricate instrumentation, poppy harmonies and

an underground punk vibe, the band found enthusiasm from varying fan bases.

Showcasing a deft softness and heavy overtone, the band has exhibited a distinct taste throughout the years. Their newest album, Cody, pushes towards a more exacting sound. The record is cleaner and less gritty than their debut, though on the whole, more intricate and widely spaced. It’s not progressive rock, but there’s certainly something progressive going on.

“People think we’re always pulling all this Mars Volta stuff off [laughs], but I think the intricacies and progression comes through when we’re just trying to figure out the songs,” Johnson explained.

“What’s changed most is our ability as musicians. Our capabilities to record in the studio now help shape our sound a lot. When our first record came out I personally thought it sounded like a million bucks. I felt like it was U2 or something [laughs]. To me it didn’t sound jagged and raw like every review I read said it did. But you know, when I listen to it now I can hear stuff that’s totally out of tune, totally sloppy. Stuff I didn’t realize

at the time wasn’t perfect, but it’s obvious now.”

Cody maximizes its length. Coming in at under 25 minutes, the album is filled with classic Joyce Manor numbers: quick, fresh and intricate pop excursions that deliver memorable little tales. It’s poppy as hell, but not cheesy at all. The distinction is remarkable. Hardcore fans can find absolution in this stuff. There’s just something real about the music.

There’s a grace that’s unmistakable, and the band finds a courageous edginess in their pursuit of the details.

“For Joyce Manor there has to be something compelling and memorable for a song to work,” Johnson reflected.

“And we’ve gotten stronger at recognizing those things in our songs. Our tastes have changed over the years as well. Nirvana was the first band I was ever super

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obsessed with, then I got into more punk stuff like AFI, Misfits, and the Cure. I guess I was into bands that wore makeup [laughs]. But you know, these days I notice a lot more interesting stuff on the radio than what’s coming out of the guitardriven world. I’m way more excited about a new Chance the Rapper song, than say a LVL UP song. It’s not that I don’t like LVL UP, I do, but when I hear a song that makes me think ‘man, why is this song so good, where does this stuff come from’, that’s an exciting thing.”

Joyce Manor can riff with the best of them, but their pursuit goes further: finding a voice that moves, and making it happen memorably, is their real strength. •

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Ava DuVernay’s 13th is one of the most thorough and well-researched documentaries you will ever see. It left my blood boiling as I reflected in shame how little I paid attention to the kinds of details that really shaped our society. Why did I bury my nose in movies, TV and comic books? Why didn’t I know about all the unspeakable evil that resulted from a carefully hidden clause in the 13th Amendment?

DuVernay knows all about it, and 13th — which was just nominated for Best Documentary at the Oscars — is the result.

She traces this hidden clause, which was a way to keep slavery alive in the United States without calling it such. The full 13th Amendment reads as follows: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

This allowed blacks to be considered slaves if they were convicts, and people were rounded up, were used as free labor and effectively embodied slavery. The film moves methodically, step by step, through Jim Crow laws, the obscene American jail system wherein big business profits from punishment, right through to the recent rash of police shootings and Trump’s arrogant bellowing about “The way things

(Top) A still from the film “Tower” (Photo provided)

used to be.”

Watching the film, I was nearly moved to tears by my own ignorance, and I couldn’t help but hope that this film is shown to school kids everywhere. *** I can’t remember when I first heard of Charles Whitman, the ex-Marine sniper who climbed the University Tower in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 1, 1966 and started shooting. It may have been a song by Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys (“There was a rumor/about a tumor/Nestled at the base of his brain”). More’s the pity that we’ve been so inundated by gun violence that the whole story seems so routine and so normal.

Keith Maitland’s Tower — screening Feb. 6 at Cornell Cinema — takes the documentary form into the kind of rotoscoped animation seen in Richard Linklater’s Waking Life and Slacker. The film restages the shootings from the perspective of the people who were there: students, kids and journalists. The effect is eerie and powerful. There are dozens of details in the mix, from The Mamas and The Papas’ “Monday, Monday” and copies of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. You’ll also hear archival radio broadcast detailing the scene.

Actors recreate the voices of those who were there, and Maitland even divides the interviews and photographs them in black and white so as to stand out against the color recreation footage — the way that a “real” documentary might have been assembled. The result is one of the most affecting and confounding documentaries you are likely to see. •

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What’s Really Going on?

New documentary visits American education

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Photosynthesis Productions and Ferro edited the film, which has been in the works for three years. You can see it at a pair of screenings at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, and 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at Cinemapolis. Both screenings will feature Q&A with Hoard and Ferro and cast members.

Ithaca Times: When did the idea for the film come to you?

Deborah Hoard: We’ve done other things for the Santa Fe institute, and then I saw my grandchildren entering the American public school system, and reflected back on how much my own kids despised many parts of it, just thinking about what stretches out before all of these young lives. It really inspired me.

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Rachel Ferro: My wife, [teacher] Bronwen Exeter was pregnant with our son when I started working on the film and thinking about how to make it a movie. I started filming him a lot and it just naturally became the metaphor for the whole film. My wife is a teacher at Lehman Alternative Community School (LACS), so I was able to spend a lot of time in her classroom, documenting her teachers and some other classes there.

DH: You’re never really sure what the film will be like. It’s a process and a journey, and we’re really happy with the way this one has evolved.

IT: What was the biggest surprise during the process?

DH: I’ve been really surprised by the emotional response from people, especially educators. People cry quite a bit. There are many tears in the audience in our early focus groups. I knew it was emotional for me, but I guess I was surprised and really pleased with the impact it has had.

RF: I’m surprised at how closely it ended up aligning with the things that are happening in the world, and the election and everything. We’re screening this for the first time this week since the election.

In our wildest dreams, we did not imagine it would coincide with the bigger themes that are going on.

DH: In a democracy, an involved and critical-thinking citizenry is the only way that it’s gonna work — thinking is patriotic.

IT: I don’t even have kids, and I was unbelievably moved, even thinking about my own spotty education and how little I was paying attention.

DH: Everybody went to school. Everybody has an opinion on it.

IT: What were the criteria for choosing the schools?

DH: We chose three schools that made thinking the heart of the education.

Both Green Hills and LACS had students and staff who were specifically trained to use thinking skills in their teaching. And Bard was a perfect addition to the mix, an urban high school with thinking at its heart as well.

IT: What are the distribution plans for the film?

DH: We think it’s best suited for showing to interested groups, like PTAs and community groups. We’re still looking at whether we want to go with distributors, or do it ourselves. As you know, there’s lots of opportunities for selfdistribution. I really like the review we got from one of our colleagues who said, “Everybody should see this movie.” That’s our goal. •

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The premise is simple and clearly laid out at the beginning: as infants, we teach ourselves how to walk, talk and other skills, and the interest in learning drops off the minute we are faced with any kind of formal education. Hoard is a founding member of the local production company

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2/01 Wednesday

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing.

Wednesday Night Acoustic Open Jam with host Mathias Kamin | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Barry Family Cellars, 3821 Main St., Burdett | Folk, Old-Time, Bluegrass.

Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | www.DamodarDas.com.

Adam Tinkle, Chris Corsano, Beau Mahadev | 7:00 PM-11:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St, #2, Ithaca | Experimental, Avant Garde, Sound Collage, Sound Sculpture, Ithaca Underground Presents.

Marco Benevento, Maybird | 7:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Fusion, Jazz, Funk, Experimental, Rock, Progressive.

Folk ‘n Kava | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Nate Marshall and Friends play Traditional and Original Folk, Jazz, and Gospel Music.

Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Featuring local bands, soloists, and other musical groups.

Reggae Night with The Crucial Reggae Allstars | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Reggae, Dub, Roots Rock.

2/02 Thursday

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CTB Jazz Thursdays with Who Let the Cats Out | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz.

Brooke Albright | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Country.

Joey Purdy | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Folk, Folk Rock.

2/03 Friday

The Tarps | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Classic Rock, Covers.

Notorious String Busters | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | HiVE 45, 45 East Main Street, Trumansburg | Old-Time, Bluegrass.

Nick Kody & The Creek Road Band | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Roots, Rock, Country, Blues.

A Country Mile | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Country.

Freekbass & The Bump Assembly | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Funk, Rock, Progressieve Rock.

The Small Kings | 10:00 PM | Atlas Bowl, 61 W Main St., Trumansburg | Rock, Funk, Progressive Pop. Winter Warm Up Hosted by Mr607ENT | 10:15 PM-12:55 AM | Bisrtro 223, 223 West Water ST, Elmira | Feat Artists from Syracuse,Cortland and Indy Blak from Elmira. This is a HipHop & R&B Show.

2/04 Saturday

The Purple Valley | 7:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Blues, Swing, Rock and Roll,

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Qwister | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Reggae, Roots, Folk.

Hi-way Fruit Market, Woodshed Prophets | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Classic Rock, Alternative Country, Rock.

Dapper Dan | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Funk, Rock, Reggae, Progressieve Rock.

Edick | 9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Two of Hector’s Finest.

StereoArk SoundSystem Presents A Bob Marley Tribute | 10:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Reggae, Dub.

2/05 Sunday

The Family Ties | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Indie Rock, Jazz.

Floating Down | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Folk, Acoustic.

John Bolger Band | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Rock, Blues, Swing.

Vocal Jazz Jam with Diana Leigh and Jesse Collins | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | The Range, The Commons, Ithaca | Jazz.

2/07 Tuesday

Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday.

Melanie and the Boys | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Bluegrass, Rock, Folk.

Irish Music Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by members of Traonach.

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Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

Joyce Manor, AJJ, Mannequin Pussy | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Punk Rock, Emo, Indie Rock. concerts

Villalobos Brothers | 7:30 PM | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | See 2/02.

Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer | 8:00 PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer are two singular voices in the double bass universe. Both musicians are based in well-known traditions, but they desire to move these templates ahead to the present day.

Elective Recital: Catherine Sangiovanni and Stefanie Nicou | 7:00 PM | Nabenhauer Recital Room, Danby Road , Ithaca | Classical.

Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players | 7:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Features recent works by composers Jihyun Kim, Charles Peck, Corey Keating, Sergio Cote, and Barry

2/05 Sunday

Momenta Quartet | 2:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Features three string quartets by Julian Carrillo (1875-1965), performed by the NYC-based string quartet.

Annual Women’s Works Concert | 4:00 PM | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | The winter 2017 Women’s Works concert brings together women’s voices from Upstate New York, both past and present.

Special guest, Kanienkeha:ka (Mohawk) musician Bear Fox, will share original songs drawing from Haudenosaunee tradition.

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Guest Recital: Five Sax | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca |

2/02 Thursday

Vera Hsu | 12:30 PM | Lincoln Hall Rm B20, Cornell, Ithaca | Features music for solo piano by J. S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin.

Villalobos Brothers | 7:30 PM | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | By incorporating different genres and blending them with their Mexican roots, the group hopes to bridge the divide, inviting audiences to cross into their creative universe.

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Four-Hand Keyboarding in the Long Nineteenth-Century | 1:00 PM-5:30 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell University Department of Music will explore the history, aesthetics and culture of piano duets in a half-day symposium entitled Four-Hand Keyboarding in the Long Nineteenth-Century.

Pete’s Posse House Concert | 7:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | Vermont based trio, Pete’s Posse is composed of acclaimed musician Pete Sutherland, his talented protégé Oliver Scanlon, and the uber-dynamic Tristan Henderson.

Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey” is an experience like nothing else. On the big screen, it’s an experience beyond nothing else. Light years ahead of its time, the film explores the outer reaches of the universe, technology, and man’s mind. The film is playing two nights at Cornell Cinema this week. Thursday Feb. 3 at 9:25, and Friday, Feb. 4 at 6:45. Experience the film as it was meant to be shown. (Photo provided)

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Alash Ensemble | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Alash Ensemble are masters of Tuvan throat singing (xöömei), a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. What distinguishes this gifted trio from earlier generations of Tuvan throat singers is the subtle infusion of modern influences into their traditional music.

Players | 7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Features recent works by composers Jihyun Kim, Charles Peck, Corey Keating, Sergio Cote, and Barry Sharp.

2/07 Tuesday

Cornell Jazz Faculty Showcase | 8:00 PM-9:30 PM | Klarman Hall, Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, 232 East Ave, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell Jazz Faculty Showcase. Paul Merrill, trumpet; Joe Salzano, saxophones;

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Film First Annual Ithaca Student Film Festival | 5:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | The Studio, Ithaca College, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Program of short films made by Ithaca College students and presented

by The Studio. This program showcases an astonishing range of talent. Dramas, documentaries, comedies, experimental and animated films: there’s something here for everyone. After the screening, meet the filmmakers and our jury of Ithaca College alumni. cinemapolis

Friday, 2/03 to Thursday, 2/09.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Lion | A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home.

He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family | 118 mins PG-13 | 20th Century Woman | The story of three women who explore love and freedom in Southern California during the late 1970s. | 118 mins R | Manchester by the Sea | An uncle

is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy’s father dies. | 137 mins R | La La Land | A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. | 128 mins PG-13 |

Moonlight | A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world. | 111 mins R | Cornell Cinema

Wednesday, 2/01 to Tuesday, 2/07. Contact Cornell Cinemas for Showtimes Imitation of Life | A struggling young actress with a six year-old daughter sets up housekeeping with a homeless black widow and her lightskinned eight year-old daughter who rejects her mother by trying to pass for white. | 125 mins NR | Moonlight | A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world. | 111 mins R | The Handmaiden | A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.| 144 mins NR | 2001: A Space

Odyssey | Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. | 149 mins G | The Eagle Huntress | The Eagle Huntress follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter. | 87 mins G | Tower | Animation, testimony, and archival footage combine to relate the events of August 1, 1966 when a gunman opened fire from the University of Texas clock tower, killing 16 people. | 96 mins NR | Command and Control | Documentary of 1980’s near-launch of a nuclear missile from Arkansas, based on Eric Shlosser’s award-winning book of the same name. | 92 mins NR | Get Out | A young African-American man visits his Caucasian girlfriend’s mysterious family estate. | R |

Stage Disgraced | Runs January 25 February 12 | Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Amir Kapoor is a deeply assimilated Pakistani-American with the perfect job, the perfect apartment, and the

perfect wife—until it all unravels over the course of a single dinner party.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize (2013), Disgraced is a timely and taut (90 minutes) drama that engages mind and heart with refreshing and stunning candor as it explores the cultural and personal fracturing Amir encounters as he pursues his ideal of the American Dream. Showtimes at syracusestage.org The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution | Feb. 1 | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is the first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. Showtimes at auburnpublictheater.org Birds of East Africa | Runs January 29 - February 12 | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | World Premiere Marion, an accomplished ornithologist, finds herself without a place that feels like home. Not knowing where to land, she arrives on the doorstep of her college friend Stephen and his husband Nick. Three mid-40’s friends discover they are standing at a crossroads, and that what once seemed permanent and secure in their lives is now fragile and vulnerable. In a series of tightly wrought scenes moving back and

forth in time, with actor/dancers transforming into the birds so central to Marion’s life, Wendy Dann’s new play explores how we heal, find hope and move on. Showtimes at kitchentheatre. org Water On Mars: Juggling | 7:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Water on Mars is a new circus performance with six hands and thousands of catches. The tricks are as physical as break dance and as stylized as Japanese pop art.

The trio brings a performance full of dynamic airborne images.

Ithaca Ballett Presents: Winterdance | 7:30 PM, 2/04 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Under the direction of Cindy Reid comes Winterdance 2017.

Cocoa Brown | 8:00 PM, 2/04 Saturday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | When actress and comedian Cocoa Brown takes the stage, the world stands still. Brown is undeniably one of the most talented comics and performers of this generation.

The Homecoming Players present: From the Mississippi Delta | 7:30 PM, 2/06 Monday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Described by Dr. Holland as a dramatic biography, From the Mississippi Delta uses three women in 11 anecdotal scenes to provide a compelling glimpse at the early days of the Civil Rights movement, told from the perspective of individuals born and raised in the muck and mire of Mississippi’s lethal brand of white supremacy and racial hatred.

Notices Ihaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 2/01 Wednesday | Ciao’s, 2 Hickory Hollow Ln, Ithaca | RSVP jon.h.humphrey1@gmail.com Over 30s Basketball | 4:30 PM-6:00 PM, 2/02 Thursday, 4:30 PM-6:00 PM, 2/06 Monday | Henry St. John’s Gym, 301 S. Geneva St., Ithaca | Every Monday and Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

One Billion Rising: Revolution | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 2/02 Thursday | Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, 302 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Join LACS student, Isabella Gold, for the Ithaca continent of One Billion Rising: Revolution, an international Valentines Day flash mob dance to end violence and abuse against women and girls. The flash mob will take place on the Ithaca Commons in front of Center Ithaca at

12:00 PM Valentine’s day, February 14, 2016. Upcoming rehearsals for the flash mob will be, Tuesdays: 2/2 and 2/9 6:30-7:30 PM, BJM Elementary School Library stage, 302 W Buffalo St and Sunday: 2/7, 2:00-3:00 PM, Ithaca Ballet Studio, 506 N Plain St. You can come to as many or as few rehearsals or just the V-Day flash mob.

For more information send an email to isabellagold22@gmail.com and go to onebillionrising.org. Co-sponsored by CODEPINK - Women for Peace.

Square and Contra Dance | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, 2/04 Saturday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Everyone Welcome (members and non-members). No experience or partner needed. For more information call 273-1511 Open Meditation | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, 2/05 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | All are welcome to meditate according to their own practice. Class begins with 20 minutes of silent meditation, after which everyone reads and discuss related texts. Class ends with 15 or 20 minutes of silent or guided meditation.

Beginners are welcome and instruction in basic meditation will be provided.

For more information, email Lynne at ltaetzsch@gmail.com or call her at 607-273-1364.

Tompkins County Amateur Radio Association | 7:00 PM, 2/07 Tuesday | Tompkins County Department of Emergency Response, 92 Brown Road, Ithaca | The Association meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m.

All are welcome to attend.

Learning Cold War Nostalgia: The Ends of History and Global Disorder Since 1989 | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, 2/02 Thursday | Uris Hall G08, Cornell, Ithaca | Speaker: Penny von Eschen, L. Sanford & Jo Mills Reis Professor of Humanities, History Department, Cornell University.

Theorizing the Lyric: The World Novel | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | Guerlac Room, A.D. White House, Cornell University, Ithaca | Runs Feb. 3 at 2:00 p.m. and Feb. 4 at 11:00 a.m. This conference, organized by professors Elizabeth S. Anker (English) and Grant Farred (Africana Studies), brings together scholars from the U.S., Canada, and Europe to address a series of debates about the theoretical impact and importance of Culler’s groundbreaking work. For more information: visit english.cornell.edu/english-

Ithaca’s First Friday,

Birds of East Africa,

Downtown Ithaca, Friday, February 3, 5:00 p.m.

Kitchen Theatre, Through February 12

Ithaca’s classic monthly art celebration hits the city at just the right time. It’s a good chance to not entirely get your mind off the political insanity that’s going on right now, but at least a chance to stretch in out a little bit with some creativity, mindfulness, and non-technological infusion. There’s a plethora of great shows going on, including Craig Mains’ “Snake | Alligator | Elevator” (pictured), currently showing at New Roots Charter School.

The season kicks off in style for the Kitchen Theatre with Wendy Dann’s deft and moving play “Birds of Africa”. Directed by Rachel Lampert, the play follows the ornithologist Marion, after the sudden death of her husband. She finds herself in the company of two old college friends who are having major life transformations as well. The play showcases depth and grace. Don’t miss it!

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Film Making For Beginners | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | Acting Out New York, 171 East State St. #19 Center Ithaca, Ithaca | AONY teams up with local filmmaker and teaching artist Becky Lane for this unique opportunity for adults. Learn the basics of filmmaking, whether you’re interested in submitting to festivals, or just want to step up your home movie game. Fridays through March 3.

Autism Support Sessions | 2:00 PM, 2/04 Saturday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | In partnership with Play ‘n’ Talk, a local support group for families with children on the autism spectrum, TCPL will host monthly “Play ‘n’ Talk” programs. Play ‘n’ Talk is free, but space is limited, and advance registration is required. To register, contact playntalkithaca@gmail.com.

For more information, contact the Library’s Youth Services Reference Desk at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Panel Discussion: Businesses in Our Midst | 2:00 PM-3:30 PM, 2/04 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | There are Tompkins County businesses for which place matters from any number of perspectives such as location, workforce, access to technology, branding, entrepreneurial spirit, lifestyle and community connections. There will be a panel presentation followed by a discussion with the audience.

Phil Shapiro’s Group Folk Guitar Lessons | 7:00 PM-, 2/06 Monday | Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Learn to play acoustic guitar, or improve your guitar playing, with this inexpensive course. There are eight one-hour lessons, on Monday evenings, starting Monday, Feb. 6. Registration is at the first lesson. Just come, and bring a guitar. www.shapiroandshore.com/ guitarclass.html Cornell Lab of Ornithology Monday Night Seminar: Of Islands and Undergrads: A decade of bird study in the Isles of Shoals | 7:30 PM-, 2/06 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | For the past decade, Dr. David Bonter has taught Field Ornithology and mentored the research of Cornell undergraduate students studying the eiders, swallows, gulls, and warblers that invade the islands during the breeding season.

This presentation will virtually transport you to Appledore Island where you’ll learn about the students’ findings and experience their journey

The Villalobos Brothers are a spectacular experience for all. A highly acclaimed and decorated contemporary Mexican ensemble, the brothers blend Mexican folk music with colors of jazz and classical music. They were the first Mexican band to ever play at the Apollo Theatre in NYC, and have played in numerous historic venues across the United States and beyond. They play two shows at the Hangar Theatre this week: Thursday, Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m., and Friday, Feb 3 at 7:30 p.m. Don’t miss out! . (Photo provided) through the trials and tribulations of ornithological field work.

Raj Yoga Meditation Class with Amita Shukla | 10:00 AM-11:00 AM, 2/07 Tuesday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Raj Yoga meditation is a form of meditation that is accessible to people of all backgrounds. It is a meditation without rituals or mantras and can be practiced anywhere at any time. Raja Yoga meditation is practiced with ‘open eyes’, which makes this method of meditation versatile, simple and easy to practice. Meditation is a state of being in that place just beyond every day consciousness, which is where spiritual empowerment begins.

Gerontology Institute Workshop | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, 2/07 Tuesday | Country Inn and Suites, 1100 Danby Road, Ithaca | The BREATH Pathway: Mindfulness Practices for Veterans.

Presenter: Janice Elich Monroe, Ph.D., Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Ithaca College.

Spring 2017 Workshop Series: The BREATH Pathway: Mindfulness Practices for Veterans | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, 2/07 Tuesday | Country Inn and Suites, 1100 Danby Rd (Route 96B), Ithaca | Presenter: Janice Elich Monroe, Ph.D., Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Ithaca College. The BREATH Pathway is designed to aid

in the recognition and elimination of stressors and the development of coping strategies. Register for the workshops online at ithaca.edu/ agingworkshops.

Groundswell’s Developing A Farm/ Food Business Course | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 2/07 Tuesday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | This 5-session course is specifically for people in the early stages of developing a farm or food business. Whether you are just launching your business or have been operating a few years and want to become more strategic in how you move forward, this course will help you expand and increase viability. Info at groundswellcenter.org/farmertraining/ businessplanning/

Kids Teen Writing Workshops | 4:45 PM, 2/02 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Young adults are invited to exercise their creative muscles during weekly teen writing workshops.

For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 274.

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM-, 2/03 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library,

State Theatre, Friday, February 3, 7:00 p.m.

Psychedelic, dazzling, and organic, Water on Mars is a hip new circus performance by three young jugglers forging wildness and technique with utter originality. Tony Pezzo, Wes Peden and Patrik Elmnert met while studying in the Dance and Circus University in Stockholm. They quickly formed Water On Mars and the rest is history. Expect rings a plenty, backflips galore, break dancing, pop art and more during this mesmerizing evening.

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Special Events Oven Fresh Jobs Job Fair | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 2/01 Wednesday | Hotel Ithaca, 222 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Job fair with the support of Cayuga Radio Group allows for strong reach of working professionals designed to make them aware of potential better job opportunities. The event is free to attend, and there are prizes for the first 100 job seekers for attending as well as prizes throughout the day.

Snow Leopard Days | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 2/02 Thursday | Rosamond Gifford Zoo, One Conservation Place, Syracuse | Zoo goers enjoy half-price admission in January and February. Bundle up this

winter and visit the zoo.

Painting the Way to a Healthy Heart | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 2/02 Thursday | Uncorked Creations, 75 E. Court St., Cortland | Discover women’s heart health tips while learning to paint. To sign up visit uncorkedcortland. com.

Ithaca Beer Company: The Spirit of the Finger Lakes | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | In conjunction with the current exhibit “Made in Tompkins County: A Timeline of Local Enterprise”, The History Center will host a 6:00 PM presentation on Ithaca Beer Company.

Gregg Stacy, Marketing Director of Ithaca Beer, will talk about the history and current initiatives of the Company.

Ithaca Beer & Soda tasting will be available at The History Center starting at 5:30 PM. Cornell University Women’s Hockey vs. Union College | 6:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | Lynah Rink, Cornell Univ., Ithaca | Cornell Men’s Basketball vs. Brown University | 7:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | Newman Arena, Bartels Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Snow Leopard Days | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 2/04 Saturday | Rosamond Gifford Zoo, One Conservation Place, Syracuse | Zoo goers enjoy half-price admission in January and February. Bundle up this winter and visit the zoo.

Cornell University Women’s Hockey vs. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 3:00 PM, 2/04 Saturday | Lynah Rink, Cornell Univ., Ithaca | Ithaca College Men’s Basketball vs.

Stevens Institute of Technology | 4:00 PM, 2/04 Saturday | Ben Light Gymnasium, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Cornell Men’s Basketball vs. Yale University | 6:00 PM-, 2/04 Saturday | Newman Arena, Bartels Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Indoor Winter Carnival | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 2/04 Saturday | J.M. McDonald Sports Complex, 4292 Fairgrounds Dr., Cortland | Bounce Houses, Snow Cones, Carnival Games, Selfie Station, Special Guests and more.

More info at jmmcomplex.com.

Post-Groundhog-Day Show: Hosted

by The Savage Club of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, 2/04 Saturday | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | The Savage Club’s annual Winter Variety Show! The results will be in. Come mourn or celebrate with us. Tickets are available at Pastimes Antiques, from Savage Club Members,

Alash Ensemble,

The Dock, Friday, February 3, 9:00 p.m.

Alash Ensemble is the dynamic and mesmerizing Tuvan throat singing trio that dazzles the world over. Masters of traditional and experimental Tuvan instruments, and magically gifted in the art of throat singing, this group combines these obscure forms with western music to deliver a mix of absolute intensity. The group is progressive and open minded, believing that traditional music must grow constantly evolve. Alash Ensemble is an experience that showcases a deep and rich historical tradition.

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101 E Green St, Ithaca | During these fun-filled 30-minute sessions, Library staff will share books, songs, rhymes, baby signs and early literacy tips. Baby Storytime programs are followed by hour-long Baby and Toddler Playtimes, which encourage socialization and learning through unstructured play. For more information, contact the Library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Take Your Child to the Library Day | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 2/04 Saturday | Aurora Free Library, 370 Main St., Aurora | Fun crafts and activities all day.

Family Storytime | 11:00 AM, 2/04 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to celebrate reading and build their early-literacy skills at Family Storytime. All children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver.

For more information, contact the Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Nature Journaling for Kids: Animal Tracking | 1:00 PM-2:30 PM, 2/04 Saturday | Mulholland Wildflower Preserve, Giles St., Ithaca | Nature Journaling for Kids: Animal Tracking with Linda Spielman. There’s lots going on outside in winter, but it takes a detective’s mind to find and understand the clues. We’ll look for tracks, chews,

scat, and other kinds of evidence to help us figure out what kinds of wild animals live near us and what they are doing. Nature Journaling for Kids will introduce children to the natural history of the Six Mile Creek Natural Area.

Facilitated by Laurie Rubin, participants will observe and learn about animals and plants while they record their impressions in words and pictures.

Animal Tracking with Linda Spielman | 1:00 PM, 2/04 Saturday | Six Mile Creek Wildflower Preserve, Preserve off Giles St, Ithaca | Laurie Rubin will guide kids ages 7-12 in a nature journaling activity, as Linda Spielman leads a hunt for animal tracks and other evidence of mammal activity in the Six Mile Creek Wildflower Preserve. Bring a notebook or journal.

For questions contact Laurie: 607-2728491.

Construction-Themed Storytime | 11:00 AM, 2/06 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Toddlers, preschoolers and their caregivers will help TCPL say “so-long” to its old carpet, while enjoying stories, songs and crafts about building and construction. The Library will provide construction hats for children to wear while they learn and play. For more information, please contact the Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 ext. 275.

Toddler & Preschool Storytime | 11:00 AM, 2/07 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and children ages 24 months to 4 years are invited to TCPL for early literacy-based stories, songs, finger plays and much more. After storytime, stay for an hour of play and social time.

or at the door.

Ithaca Folk Song Swap | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 2/05 Sunday | Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Snow Leopard Days | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 2/06 Monday | Rosamond Gifford Zoo, One Conservation Place, Syracuse | Zoo goers enjoy half-price admission in January and February. Bundle up this winter and visit the zoo.

Cornell Men’s Hockey vs. Colgate University | 7:00 PM, 2/07 Tuesday | Lynah Rink, Cornell Univ., Ithaca | Ithaca College Men’s Basketball vs. Elmira College | 8:00 PM, 2/07 Tuesday | Ben Light Gymnasium, Ithaca College, Ithaca |

Art Guest curator Brian Arnold: Identity Crisis: Reflections on Public and Private Life in Contemporary Javanese Photography | 4:30 PM, 2/02 Thursday | Organized by the Johnson Museum, this exhibition is the first in the United States to focus on the recent emergence of photography as an art form in Java, Indonesia.

Jewelry for your Sweetheart: Beading Techniques with Julie Knittel | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | Handwork, Ithaca Commons, 102 W State St., Ithaca | Julie Knittel creates intricate beaded jewelry designs that are sure to swoon your Valentine.

Watch Julie demonstrate the process behind an ‘xoxo’ bracelet, double zig-zag bracelet, and a beaded choker necklace with ribbon. Finished pieces will be available for purchase. www. handwork.coop Art in Tompkins County: Then and Now | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Gallery artists continue to exhibit art that represents Ithaca’s past and present to celebrate Tompkins County’s Bicentennial. Show dates are February 1 through 26, 2017. www. soagithaca.org I See You (IC/CU) | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | The Ink Shop Studio Gallery (2nd floor), 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca | The Ink Shop is pleased to host the 2nd joint show of prints by students of two strong printmaking programs at Ithaca College and Cornell University. These works are richly diverse with unique approaches using traditional methods, ranging from

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by Christopher J. Harrington Nick Finzer, Wednesday, February 8, 8:00 p.m. Carriage House

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rombonist Nick Finzer’s newest album Here and Now has a perfectly nostalgic feel to it. It counters in waves of classic post-bop. Yet it’s also widely progressive and aims for deeper introspection. The elements that glue the record together are also the ones that untie its formality. It’s a great listen because of its variance and seriousness.

Finzer’s debut record Exposition, was released in 2013, followed by the sharp and detailed The Chase in 2014. What’s clear is that Finzer isn’t satisfied. His albums grow more dynamic with each release. He’s a musician with a deft regimen and new voice.

“I certainly need a deadline,” Finzer noted recently while on tour with the jazz and ragtime collective Postmodern Jukebox. “It helps the writing process

beginner to advanced practitioners.

Little Gems | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 2/03 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | A group exhibit featuring a beautiful collection of miniature paintings, sculptures and vessels by more than 30 regional artists. Music performed by William Groome. Exhibit runs through March 10th.

Auburn’s First Friday | 5:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | Downtown Auburn, Auburn | Various venues offer their own spin on entertainment with free refreshments & discounted merchandise, contributing to this ongoing festival of art & culture. Activities include exhibit receptions, art making & live music.

Info at auburndowntown.org Brook Long | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Brook uses simple methods to fragment, arrange, construct, and abstract architectural space. The use of transitional shifts evoke ambiguity within the spaces. She creates the illusion of continuously changing environments using lines, geometric forms, and a quirky color palette.

Sarah Oros, From Within the Stone: Photography on Paper, Canvas and White Aluminum |

for me and ties everything together.

Hear and Now is ultimately about positivity. I wanted to write an album about reflection—about the political climate of the past year, and about my environment. I wanted the new material to be about growth and about new beginnings. Positivity was the absolute key.”

Finzer is one of the leaders of the millennial generation of jazz musicians, blending historic forms with new and exploratory ones. His compositions have the dexterity of classic Blue Note recordings from the ‘60s, while showcasing the edge of more contemporary ECM material. It’s a solid mix of forms, and soars through the trombonist’s wide lens.

“People think a trombone fronted band is a little strange, but it’s really not,” Finzer explained. “There have been trombone fronted groups from all time periods: Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, and Jack Teagarden were all trombonists and composers with their own groups.

People just aren’t really familiar with the trombone in a classic jazz setting.

They think of it as some gut-belching instrument that only plays the blues, but it’s got so many colors and tones. You just have to experience it.”

There’s timelessness to Finzer’s

5:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | Padma Center for Natural Therapies, 114 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Sarah Oros is a graduate of the Biomedical Photographic Communications program at Rochester Institute of Technology with a concentration in Magnified Imaging.

Marika Chew | 5:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | Collegetown Bagels, 203 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Marika is an artist based in the Ithaca area. She received a BFA in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010. Her work is inspired by art nouveau motifs and world textile designs and often features animals from the local area and beyond.

Kodi Molyneaux & Kayla Darling | 5:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | Breathe, 171 E State St., Ithaca | Kayla Darling and Kodi Molyneaux find expression through painting using watercolor and acrylic paint. All of the pieces are done collaboratively when both girls have spare time. They find painting a colorful way to de-stress their lives.

Michael Sampson: Paintings on Paper | 5:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | Cellar d’Or, 136 E State St, Ithaca | This series of paintings on paper use multiple mediums ranging from oils, acrylic, ink,

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music. It has the swing of old jazz and the playfulness of a time past. Duke Ellington plays an integral part in Finzer’s story, and Finzer’s music is in many ways reminiscent of the legend’s adaptability.

“Duke was my entranceway to jazz,“ Finzer said. “I’ve always admired his range and the many textures he would create with his bands. He always had something to say with his music, whether it was a solo-piece or with an

watercolor and gouache. Abstracted directly from the figure, these small scale works were completed over the course of the last year.

Craig Mains | 5:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | Elevator Music and Art Gallery - at New Roots Charter School, 116 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Snake | Alligator | Elevator.

Damaris Vazquez Photography: Sensuality of Image | 5:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | An image is a gateway of self. A seed in this exploration of fine-art nude portraiture. As a professional photographer, Damaris Vazquez communicates in many visual languages.

Annie Eller: Stillness and Flight | 5:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | The Rook, 404 W State St, Ithaca | Local artist, Annie Eller pursued her education in the Fine Arts, receiving her B.F.A. in Painting from Boston University, 2008. The natural world, being the artist’s chief source of inspiration, lays the foundation for the works on exhibit that study the beauty and solitude of trees and wings engaging in flight. Runs through March.

Elizabeth McMahon: Magic Potions | 5:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | Decorum-Too,

orchestra. His music truly started me on the path I walk today.”

Hear and Now ends with the soulful and moving “Love Wins”. It’s an effortless dream, and a beautiful closer for a stellar album. The song is an enduring jazz composition, as well as call to the people of the world. In this age especially, love is the only answer. •

215 N Cayuga Street, The DeWitt Mall, Ithaca | Elizabeth McMahon is a painter of bright and bold paintings but in this show she is delving into the ”painterly print” the monotype, a one of a kind form of printmaking. The spontaneity of the process sets the stage for surprises.

Erik Lehmann: rePURPOSE your ARTdrive | 5:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Erik Lehmann lives a life of passion, purpose, and possibility wherever he is called to serve! He has spent the most recent 3.5 years launching a global initiative known as the Game Changer Movement. The vision is to inspire at least one million youth to change their game by trading in violent video games and redirecting their time towards the making of mosaic art and the creation of a new gaming platform that will crowdsource solutions to the real-world challenges facing humanity.

Pamela Drix: Red and Black Series | 5:00 PM, 2/03 Friday | CAP ArtsSpace, 171 The Commons, Ithaca | Featuring color woodcuts, with additional inclusions of sewn elements, sculptural constructions, and original wood matrices. The series explores the

ongoing The History Center | 401 E. State St, Ithaca | Made in Tompkins County: “A Timeline of Local Enterprise”. Through February 18th, 2017. “Early American Decorative Arts”. Through September 24th, 2017. The Central New York chapter of the Historical Society of Early American Decoration is proud to display original pieces of tin, glass and wood alongside reproductions done by our members. | www. historicithaca.org or www.thehistorycenter.net.

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Cornell Jazz Faculty Showcase,

Hangar Theatre, Saturday, February 4, 7:30 p.m.

Klarman Hall, Tuesday, February 7, 8:00 p.m.

The always-spectacular Ithaca Ballet presents the dynamic and lush “Winterdance 2017”, under the direction of Cindy Reid.

Innovative dance meets the contemporary edge of modern ballet in this evening of works by Larry Brantley, Amy O’Brien, Lena Rose Polzonetti and more. Sit back and be swept away be this fantastical and technically progressive Ithaca collective.

The air is cool, the ice is smooth, and the moon hangs high in the sky. Winterdance is upon us.

The dynamic and stellar Cornell Jazz Faculty Showcase is sure to wow and bend your jazz soul. Featuring the talents of Paul Merill on trumpet, Joe Salzano on alto sax, James Spinazzola on tenor sax, Melissa Gardiner (pictured)on trombone, Dave Solazzo on piano, Bob Keefe on guitar, Devin Kelly on and Greg Evans on drums, the showcase will explore a range of vision and horizon.

Jazz is the breathe of the universe, and these teachers and players bring that voice to the people of the earth.

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is accepting applications for the following opening: GIAC Program AssistantFood Service Program: Currently, there is one opening at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC). Duration: Temporary position January 2017-June 2017/ September 2017-December 2017. Salary: $15.00/hr. Hours: Mon-Fri 1:00pm-6:30pm. Min Quals: None.

Preferred Quals: Visit www.cityofithaca. org. Special Requirement: Valid driver license. Application Deadline: February 8, 2017. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 E. Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607)274-6539www.cityofithaca.org The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce

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