THIS WEEK

3/5 Sunday

Gabriel Tavares | 7 p.m. | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St.

Concerts/Recitals

3/1 Wednesday

Midday Music for Organ, David Yearsley: CU Music | 12:30 p.m. |

Anabel Taylor Chapel, 548 College Ave | Free

Piano Studio of Charis Dimaras | 7 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

Regina Spektor | 8 p.m. | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 West State St

3/2 Thursday

Cornell Concert Series presents Quartetto di Cremona a | 8 p.m. | Bailey Hall, 230 Garden Avenue | $19.00 - $34.00

Faculty Recital: Rachel Schutz, soprano | 8:15 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

3/3 Friday

Ulysses Quartet Masterclass | 4 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

Ithaca Music Forum | Nabenhauer Recital Room | 5 p.m.

Choral Concert at Ford Hall | 7 p.m.

Only The Beginning Tour | 7 p.m. |

First Baptist Church of Johnson City, 1321 Reynolds Rd

Junior Recital: Sarah Flynn, trumpet | 8:15 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

3/4 Saturday

Junior Recital: Megan Burghdorf, trumpet | 12 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

Junior Recital: Olivia Hutchings, violin | 2 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

Junior Recital: Pax Jones, clarinet | 4 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

Guest Recital: Ulysses Quartet | 7 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

The Wood Brothers | 8 p.m. | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 West State St Jazz Ensemble | Ford Hall | 8:15 p.m.

3/5 Sunday

Symphony Orchestra at Ford Hall | 4 p.m.

Junior Recital: Anchal Dhir, soprano | 7 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

Dakhabrakha | 8 p.m. | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 West State St | $25.00 - $45.00

Emily Scott Robinson / Alisa Amador / Violet Bell | 8 p.m. | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St

3/6 Monday

Faculty Recital: Martha Guth, soprano; Javier Arrebola, piano | 7 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

Percussion Ensemble at Ford Hall | 8:15 p.m.

3/7 Tuesday

Jiarui Han, piano | 7 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd Concert Band | Ford Hall | 8:15 p.m.

3/8 Wednesday

Vanessa Carlton | 8 p.m. | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St Wind Symphony | Ford Hall | 8:15 p.m.

Stage

THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE | Dillingham Center | 8 p.m., 3/1 Wednesday | Open Mic Stand Up Comedy Night | 7 p.m., 3/7 Tuesday | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St | First and third Tuesdays of the month! Kenneth McLauren hosts Open Mic Stand Up Comedy Night at The Downstairs. | Free Lansing High School - “Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical” | 6:30 p.m., 3/8 Wednesday | Lansing Middle School Auditorium, 6 Ludlowville Rd. | Lansing High School’s performance of “Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical” | $5.00 - $10.00

ComedyFLOPs Presents All You Can Eat Improv | 7 p.m., 3/8 Wednesday | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St | ComedyFLOPs presents All You Can Eat Improv, a live, entirely made-up show based on your suggestions. We do our shows in support of local non-pro t organizations so join us for laughs and music as we raise money to support a local organization. | $5.00

Art

Erin Miller: Casino | 1 p.m., 3/1 Wednesday | The Ink Shop, 330 E. MLK/State St | The Ink Shop Printmaking Center is pleased to present “Casino”, an exhibition of recent collages by 2022-2023 Kahn Family Fellow, Erin Miller. | Free 2023 Invitational Exhibit at State of the Art Gallery | 12 p.m., 3/2

FAMILY WORKSHOP AT THE JOHNSON MUSEUM: STORIES AND STORYWORK

SATURDAY, MARCH 4TH FROM 10AM-NOON

John Museum of Art, 114 Central Ave, Ithaca | Listen to cultural educator and traditional storyteller Perry Ground of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, then explore the new related Museum exhibition. This free family program is appropriate for ages 3+. (Photo: Provided)

Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 West State Street | Eight artists will Show their work by invitation at the State of the Art Gallery: C. Ann Carter, Robert Grant, Linda Fazzary, Rob Licht, Claudine Metrick, Jari Poulin, Emma Pure, and Lauren Reid. | Free

Pliny the Elder: Art and Nature in Ancient Rome | 5:15 p.m., 3/2

Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, 114 Central Avenue | Join the Johnson Museum of Art and Dr. Verity J.

March Gallery Night at Grayhaven Motel | 4 p.m., 3/3 Friday | Grayhaven Motel, 657 Elmira Rd / Rt 13 | Join us at Grayhaven from 4-7pm on Friday, March 3rd for Sue Stocum’s solo exhibition, Landscape: A Witness to Light. | Free

Gallery Night Ithaca - First Friday of Every Month | 5 p.m., 3/3 Friday | Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, Center Ithaca Box 107, 171 East State St | Gallery Night Ithaca is a walkable tour of art openings and other special cultural events in and around downtown Ithaca, New York from 5:00-8:00 PM on the rst Friday of every month.

Planned Chaos | 5 p.m., 3/3 Friday | CAP ArtSpace, in downtown Ithaca at 110 N. Tioga Street, on the Ithaca Commons, 110 N. Tioga Street | Do not miss this art opening. | Free CREATIVE CORTLAND A Community Visual Arts Exhibition

Theme: “CONNECTION” | 5 p.m., 3/3

Friday | Cortland Repertory Theatre - Downtown, 24 Port Watson St. | CRT Downtown proudly presents our 5th Annual Creative Cortland Visual Arts Exhibition, showcasing some of Cortland’s best visual artists! This juried exhibition continues to evolve as a platform for artistic and imaginative expression and appreciation. |

$5.00 - $10.00

Gallery Night (First Fridays in Downtown Ithaca) ( | 3/3 Friday

| The History Center in Tompkins County, 401 East State Street | The History Center is a regular participant inFirst Friday Gallery Nights

The Gallery at South Hill presents Brian Arnold’s “Bright, Bright Day” | 12 p.m., 3/4 Saturday | The Gallery at South Hill, 950 Danby Road

| The Gallery at South Hill presents Brian Arnold’s “Bright, Bright, Day”. A one person exhibit of photographs by internationally renowned artist Brian Arnold. www.southhillbusinesscampus.com/gallery-at-shbc | Free

Drawing Workshop: Museum as Atelier | 12 p.m., 3/4 Saturday |

Johnson Museum of Art, 114 Central Avenue | Sharpen your basic drawing skills in shading, creating shadows, mark-making techniques, and more using works from the Museum’s collection and the Cornell Plaster Cast Collection .

Johnson Museum: Birds of a Feather | 3:30 p.m., 3/8 Wednesday | New eld Public Library, 198 Main Street | Join us Weds, 3/8 at 3:30 pm for “Birds of a Feather.” Look at birds in art and life, and make your own bird masterpiece. With printmaking and an origami apping bird! More info: 607-564-3594. | Free

Film

Cinemapolis

120 E. Green St., Ithaca

March 3-March 9. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New lms listed rst.*

One Fine Morning* | Sandra is a widowed young mother raising her daughter on her own, while also caring for her sick father. At the same time, she reconnects an old friend, now married, with whom she begins a passionate a air. | 112 mins R

Close| The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi’s mother..| 104 mins PG-13

Emily | Emily imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a mis t, one of the world’s most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers who died too soon at the age of 30.| 130 mins R

Cocaine Bear | An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens converges in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine. | 95 mins R 2023 Oscar Shorts | The collection of 2023 nominations in the Animation, Live Action and Documentary short lms will be shown on various dates.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 lm starring current Oscar nominee for Best Actress, Michelle Yeoh.| 120 mins PG-13

25th Annual Chili Cookoff In Downtown Ithaca

MARCH 4TH FROM NOON-4:30 PM Downtown Ithaca Commons | Enjoy chili from 40+ restaurants, and delicious drinks and chili-inspired snacks from regional craft breweries, local cideries, wineries, and local favorites as well! Chili makers are vying for Best Meat Chili, Best Vegetarian, or Vegan Chili, as well as being crowned The People’s Choice! (Photo: Provided)

Cornell Cinema

All lms are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus. The Runner| 3/1, 7:00PM | Part of Cornell Cinema’s ongoing series on Revolutionary Visions in Iranian Cinema and Restorations & Rediscoveries. Amiro is an 11-year-old orphan living alone in an abandoned tanker in the Iranian port city of Abadan. He survives by shining shoes, selling water, and diving for deposit bottles, while being bullied by both adults and competing older kids.

Matter Out of Place | 3/2, 7:00PM | Over four years and several continents, lmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter followed the track of garbage (in cities, on shores, on mountains, in oceans), its collection, its transport and its disposal—often to remote corners of the planet.

nds herself back in her childhood home, tasked with planning a traditional, Ghanaian funeral and having inherited a lively, Christian bookstore despite her plan to move to Ohio with her married lover.

2023 Oscar Shorts: Live Action | 3/4, 5:00PM

Princess Mononoke | 3/5, 2:30PM| Part of our Studio Ghibli series. Screened in English dubbed version.

2023 Oscar Shorts: Animation| 3/5, 5:30PM

Special Events

cideries, wineries, and local favorites as well!

Sports

Ithaca Women’s Lacrosse vs SUNY Cortland | 4 p.m., 3/1 Wednesday | Higgins Stadium |

Cornell Men’s Polo vs Texas A&M University | 7 p.m., 3/3 Friday |

Ithaca, N.Y., Oxley Equestrian Center |

Ithaca Men’s Lacrosse vs SUNY

Geneseo | 12 p.m., 3/4 Saturday | Higgins Stadium |

Ithaca Women’s Lacrosse vs FDU-Florham | 3 p.m., 3/4 Saturday | Higgins Stadium | rst Thursday of each month at 7pm is Zine Night at The Downstairs. Come get crafty. Learn from skilled makers of all kinds. Learn something new or bring current creative projects. Suggested donation: $5-$10/PWYC

101 East Green Street | Bring your own favorite STEM cartoons by your favorite artists to the Comic Book Club meeting, and we will check out deep questions such as why every gathering is a family gathering, the real reason(s) the dinosaurs became extinct, and what Einstein is thinking when he reads a Superman comic strip. | Free

Kids

Winter Baby Storytime | 10:30 a.m., 3/3 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Caregivers and their babies are invited to join Cassie for songs, rhymes, movement and books. Following storytime each week, we’ll have a baby playtime from 11 am - noon.

Family Workshop: Stories and Storywork | 10 a.m., 3/4 Saturday | Johnson Museum of Art, 114 Central Avenue | Listen to cultural educator and traditional storyteller Perry Ground of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, then explore the exhibition Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt .

Crankies for Kids! | 10:30 a.m., 3/4

Saturday | The Cherry, 102 Cherry St. |

Public Library, 101 East Green Street | TCPL is inviting families to a weekly LEGO build night! Buckets of LEGO will be provided for participants to borrow for their builds.

Tween Book Club | 4:30 p.m., 3/8 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Children ages 9-13 are welcome to join our Tween Book Club! Book Club will meet virtually via Zoom. Participants are welcome to bring suggestions for future books or genres to read together!

Notices

Public Works | 7 p.m., 3/1 Wednesday | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St. | Public Works is free event in the style of Nerd Nite but designed just for Ithaca! | Free

Spiritual Wellness Fair at the 1890 House | 11 a.m., 3/4 Saturday | 1890 House Museum, 37 Tompkins St, Cortland | Learn the lost arts of Victorian Spirituality, Divination, Journaling and Healing in a historic Victorian Mansion.

Cornell Men’s Basketball vs Columbia University | 3/4 Saturday | Ithaca, NY, Newman Arena at Bartels Hall |

Two crankies with live music and puppetry: meet the Snail in Dreamland and hear the tale of The Biggest Beet in this dynamic show for kids! | $4.00 - $12.00

Family Storytime | 11 a.m., 3/4

Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to celebrate reading and build their early literacy skills every week at Family Storytime!

Families Learning Science

Together | 1 p.m., 3/4 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | COMIC RELIEF - FAMILY FRIENDLY COMEDIAN, DAREN STREBLOW |

YWCA Cortland’s 21st Annual Girls Day Out | 8:45 a.m., 3/4 Saturday | Tompkins Cortland Community College, 170 North St | YWCA Cortland’s Girls Day Out to Take Place at TC3 on 3/4 for girls in 6th-9th grade | Free Family Health Community Cafe | 10:30 a.m., 3/4 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Free event for pregnant and parenting persons to learn about Moms PLUS+ Program and receive free giveaway items! Film showing of local lm maker Shira Evergreen’s “Helpful Help”, including panel discussion with lm participants. Pop in for a warm drink or stay for awhile! | Free Ithaca Chess Club | 12 p.m., 3/5 Sunday | DeWitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga St | The Ithaca Chess Club meets every Sunday from 12 noon to 4 pm, at the Dewitt Mall ( rst oor above the shops, o ce area). The club is free and open to everyone, all ages and all skill levels. Play other chess lovers, and get free chess instruction. Details at the club website: IthacaChessClub. com. | Free

Lola Montes | 3/2, 9:00PM; 3/3, 7:00 PM| Director Max Ophuls’s nal lm, his rst in color and Cinemascope, is a daring evocation of the life of the scandalous 19th century courtesan Lola Montès.

Queen of Glory | 3/3, 9:30PM; 3/4, 7:00PM| 1Sarah Obeng’s life as a doctoral student at Columbia feels worlds away from her Ghanaian-American roots in the Bronx. But when her mother unexpectedly passes, Sarah

Downtown Ithaca Chili Cooko | 3/4 Saturday | Ithaca Commons | The Downtown Ithaca Chili Cook-O returns for its 25th year as an in-person outdoor wintertime festival! Enjoy chili from 40+ restaurants, and delicious drinks and chili-inspired snacks from regional craft breweries, local

Ithaca Gymnastics vs Spring eld College - Senior Day | 1 p.m., 3/5 Sunday | Ben Light Gymnasium |

Books

Reading by Victoria Chang | 5 p.m., 3/2 Thursday | Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium (G70 Klarman Hall), 232 Feeney Way | Free

Zine Night | 6 p.m., 3/2 Thursday | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St. | The

Local Author Story Time | 11 a.m., 3/4 Saturday | Dutton S. Peterson Memorial Library, 106 First Street | The Odessa Library is pleased to welcome local author, Maria Antonio to read her new book, If Dreams Could Fly at the library. Maria is a teacher and author of two inspiring books. | Free Barbara Page book signing and lecture | 4 p.m., 3/5 Sunday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, 1 Congress St | Author Barbara Page will be giving a talk about her book Book Marks: An Artist’s Card Catalog and her process. All proceeds from this event will bene t the Conservatory. Refreshments will be served. This free event kicks o our Women’s History Month celebration. | Free Poetry & Prose Open Mic with Jimmy Jordan | 7 p.m., 3/6 Monday | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St | Jimmy Jordan hosts the Poetry & Prose Open Mic. Every First Monday of the Month | Free CBC Meeting: Cartoons About the STEM Fields | 7 p.m., 3/7 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library,

7:00pm., 3/5 Sunday | Thrive , 318 Johnson Rd | Family Friendly Comedian Daren Streblow as seen on Disney and Universal coming to Ithaca at Thrive Church! | $10.00 - $20.00

Early Readers Book Club | 2:45 p.m., 3/7 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Children in grades K-2 are welcome to join our Early Readers Book Club.

LEGO Build Night for Families | 5 p.m., 3/7 Tuesday | Tompkins County

Career Exploration Week | 3/6 Monday | The Forum, TC3, Dryden | Week-long Events with a di erent focus each day: Mon- STEM Careers; Tue- Business, Hospitality, and Law; Wed - Communications and Creative Arts; Thurs - Health, Human Services, and and Wellness; Fri - Education and Childcare.

Trumansburg Winter Farmers Market | 4 p.m., 3/7 Tuesday | Trumansburg Fire House, West Main St. |

Dakhabrakha

SUNDAY, MARCH 5TH AT 8:00PM

SATURDAY, MARCH 4TH AT 8:15PM

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State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 W State St.| DakhaBrakha is a Ukrainian folk quartet which combines the musical styles of several ethnic groups. DakhaBrakha is a project of the DAKh Center for Contemporary Art, led by Vladyslav Troitskyi and born as a live theater music crew.