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from March 8, 2023

from March 8, 2023, page 19

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Streets Alive! Film Festival | 8 p.m., 3/10 Friday | Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green Street. | Bike Walk Tompkins is hosting our 10th Streets Alive! Film Fest on March 10th @ 8pm. Tickets ($10 each) will be available for purchase at the Cinemapolis box o ce @ 7pm on the day of the event. | $10.00

Cinemapolis

120 E. Green St., Ithaca

March 9-March 16. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New lms listed rst.*

NTL: The Crucible* | Two showings: 3/9 at 6:30PM and 3/11 at 1:30PM.| 180 mins

The Quiet Girl* | 2000 lm starring current Oscar nominee for Best Actress, Michelle Yeoh.| 95 mins PG-13

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.

Cornell Cinema

All lms are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus. The Bridge on the River Kwai| 3/09, 8:00 pm; 3/11, 4:30 pm | Alec Guinness copped an Oscar for his brilliant performance as Colonel Nich-

Elmira Little Theatre Presents Misery

RUNNING MARCH 10-12; FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AT 7:30PM; SUNDAY AT 2:00PM on olson, a rigid military man, leading a group of WWII British soldiers trapped in a Japanese POW camp in Burma. It’s one of seven Oscars the lm won, including Best Picture.

2023 Oscar Shorts: Live Action | 3/10, 7:00 pm

Brian and Charles | 3/10, 9:00 pm; 3/12, 5:00 pm | The story of Brian, a lonely inventor, and Charles, his ramshackle robot friend with a washing machine for a tummy. Built in Brian’s cowshed with materials from the scrapyard, Charles suddenly comes alive as a cheeky, homespun AI, transforming Brian’s life of seclusion into a grand adventure through a series of hilarious mishaps.

The Conformist (Il conformista)

| 3/11, 8:00 pm | Adapted from the novel by Alberto Moravia, Bertolucci’s 1970 luminous, political thriller explores political violence, eroticism, and social conformity in Mussolini’s Italy.

Spirited Away | 3/12, 2:30 pm | The worldwide smash hit is one of the most critically acclaimed lms of all time. Winner of the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Tour of Duty | 3/15, 7:00 pm |This documentary by Kim Dong-ryung and Park Kyoung-tae chronicles the lives of three women impacted by the US military presence in South Korea. The Seonyu-ri red light district located at the Paju U.S. military camp town became a well-known site after the Korean War. Now it awaits its fate to be demolished.

Sports

Cornell Men’s Polo vs Work to Ride | 7 p.m., 3/10 Friday | Ithaca, N.Y., Oxley Equestrian Center |

Cornell Men’s Ice Hockey vs TBDQuarter nals - Game 1 - Best-of-

Three Series | 3/10 Friday | Lynah Rink |

Ithaca Women’s Lacrosse vs University of Rochester | 12 p.m., 3/11 Saturday | Higgins Stadium |

Cornell Men’s Lacrosse vs Penn State University | 12 p.m., 3/11 Saturday | Ithaca, NY, Schoellkopf Field |

Cornell Women’s Polo vs University of Maryland | 6 p.m., 3/11 Saturday | Ithaca, N.Y., Oxley

Equestrian Center |

Cornell Women’s Polo vs Yale University | 6 p.m., 3/11 Saturday |

Ithaca, N.Y., Oxley Equestrian Center |

Cornell Men’s Ice Hockey vs TBD -

Quarter nals - Game 2 - Best-of-

Three Series | 3/11 Saturday | Lynah Rink |

Cornell Women’s Tennis vs Colgate University | 12 p.m., 3/12 Sunday | Ithaca, N.Y., Reis Tennis Center |

Cornell Men’s Ice Hockey vs TBD (if necessary) - Quarter nals - Game

3 - Best-of-Three Series | 3/12 Sunday | Lynah Rink |

Cornell Women’s Lacrosse vs Binghamton University | 5 p.m., 3/14 Tuesday | Ithaca, NY, Schoellkopf Field |

Special Events

Sweet Bough Collective Wedding Showcase | 3 p.m., 3/12 Sunday | New Park Event Venue and Suites, 1500 Taughannock Blvd. | Sweet Bough Collective Wedding Showcase returns March 12th 3-6pm at New Park Event Venue. Come meet Ithaca’s best wedding vendors: caterers, orists, planners, photographers and more. Fun for all: food samples, music, scavenger hunt/ra e. Early tickets $7 at www.sweetboughcollective.com | $7.00 - $10.00

Books

Fierce Consciousness by Trebbe Johnson - Book Launch | 3:30 p.m., a story and play Mozart, ending with an instrument petting zoo!

Winter Baby Storytime | 10:30 a.m., 3/10 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.

Free Family Story Time | 10:30 a.m., 3/10 Friday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Adelson Library, second oor, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road | Come to the Cornell Lab fo Ornithology for Family Story Time and meet our special guest, Caron Levis. She will read from her picture book Feathers Together. | Free

Second Saturday Family Fun | honoring women from New York who were instrumental in securing rights and freedoms for girls and women.

10:30 a.m., 3/11 Saturday | Cortland Free Library, 32 Church St | This month we will be celebrating with St Patrick’s Day fun! Join us as we read stories, listen to music, play games and eat snacks. Program geared to ages 3-8 yrs. but all families are welcome.

IPEI Adult Spelling Bee at Liquid State Brewing | 6 p.m., 3/11 Saturday | Liquid State Brewing, 620 W Green St | Spelling Bee on tap! Your participation in IPEI’s fundraisers supports grants and awards programs to students and educators in the Ithaca School District! REGISTER or SPONSOR a team at www.ipei.org/spelling-bee/ Ithaca Chess Club | 12 p.m., 3/12 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

3/10 Friday | Bu alo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga Street | In her new book Trebbe Johnson o ers 34 surprising, bold, and simple practices for not only surviving tough challenges to our personal lives and our ailing planet, but also engaging with them in ways that give new meaning and beauty to daily experience. | Free

Author Visit: Jean O’Connor | 11:30 a.m., 3/11 Saturday | New eld Public Library, 198 Main Street | Author Jean O’Connor gives a brief presentation about her book The Remarkable Cause: A Novel of James Lovell and the Crucible of the Revolution, Sat. 3/11 at 11:30. Info: 607-564-3594. | Free

Kids

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!

Family Concert with Cayuga Chamber Orchestra | 4 p.m., 3/9 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Margaret Wakely and CCO Musicians read

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

LEGO Build Night for Families | 5 p.m., 3/14 Tuesday | Tompkins County 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.

Notices

Week-long Events with a di erent focus each day: Wed - Communications and Creative Arts Thurs - Health, Human Services, and Fri - Education & Chilcare

Women’s History Month: “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.” | 3 p.m., 3/11 Saturday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, 1 Congress St | A free celebration

American Red Cross Blood Drive | 10 a.m., 3/13 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

Dryden Senior Citizens Lunch | 11:45 a.m., 3/13 Monday | Dryden Veterans Memorial Home, Route 13 | The Dryden Senior Citizens will meet on Monday, March 13, 2023 at the Dryden Veterans Memorial Home, Route 13, Dryden with Lunch served at 12:15 p.m.

Cayuga Bird Club Virtual Meetings | 7:30 p.m., 3/13 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 156 Sapsucker Woods Rd. | THE CAYUGA BIRD CLUB is now holding their monthly meetings VIRTUALLY, each 2nd Monday of the month. For information, refer to the bird club’s website: http://www. cayugabirdclub.org/

Trumansburg Winter Farmers Market | 4 p.m., 3/14 Tuesday | Trumansburg Fire House, West Main St. | The Really Free Market | 6 p.m., 3/14 Tuesday | Cortland Free Library, 32 Church St | The Really Free Market is a free bi-monthly distribution of food, personal care items, and household supplies. You can take as much as you want and we will never ask you to “prove” your need.

Live in Ithaca: Welcome Home Wednesday AND A MOVIE at the State Theatre | 8:30 p.m., 3/15 Wednesday | Have you relocated to the area in the past year to live or work in Tompkins County? | Free

CAYUGA

Chamber

ORCHESTRA - MOZART AND MORE.

SATURDAY, MARCH 11TH AT 7:30PM

Ford Hall, Ithaca College | One of America’s nest concert artists Paul Neubauer teams up with rising star and CCO Concertmaster Christina Bouey for a virtuosic and passionate program with the orchestra. The concert will begin with Stravinsky’s Danses Concertantes, followed by selections from Romani Folk Songs, and ending with Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. (Photo: Provided)

TOIVO – SPRING AHEAD COMMUNITY DANCE-PARTY FUNDRAISER

SUNDAY, MARCH 12TH AT 3:00PM

Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress & McLallen Streets, T-burg | TOiVO, playing traditional social dance music of the Finger Lakes and more, will present a “spring ahead” Community Dance-Party Fundraiser for the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts (TCFA). (Photo: Provided)

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March 8, 2023

by Ithaca Times