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Ceramics by Marc Peter Keane '79 go on display March 1 at Cornell Plantations.

Flame on clay

Landscape architect, writer and artist Marc Peter Keane '79 has a new exhibition of ceramics March 1-April 30 at Cornell Plantations' Nevin Welcome Center, 124 Comstock Knoll Drive.

"Ceramics from the Garden" features works made from substrates of leaves and meadow grasses, some of them harvested at Plantations. Resembling nests and cocoons, the works are fired for five days in a traditional Japanese wood-burning kiln, with color patterns and surface textures resulting from the effects of flame on raw clay. The exhibit includes two ceramic pieces by Keane's wife, noted sculptor Momoko Takeshita Keane.

The artists will speak at an opening reception March 1, 5-7 p.m. Marc Keane will also discuss his proposed design for the Six Friends East Asian Garden, a contemporary garden at Plantations based on traditional designs and cultures of China, Japan and Korea.

Marc Keane lived and worked in Kyoto, Japan, for 18 years and has written several books. He designed The Tiger Glen Garden, completed in 2011, adjacent to the new wing of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Kyoto native Momoko Takeshita Keane studied pottery in the kiln town of Shigaraki and at the Kyoto Laboratory of Traditional Crafts.

Information: 607-255-2400, http://www.cornellplantations.org.

V-Day

The Cornell Women's Resource Center production of "The Vagina Monologues," March 2 at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall, features a cast of 48 Cornellians.

By turns funny, provocative and emotional, V-Day founder Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning play explores and celebrates women's sexuality through stories based on interviews with women around the world.

General admission tickets are $9 in advance, $10 at the door. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets, information: http://baileytickets.com, https://www.facebook.com/events/340230819419169/.

All proceeds will go to the Ithaca Advocacy Center and V-Day, to help continue and expand their work to end violence against women and girls.

Bird songs

The Cornell Folk Song Society presents Tony Bird in concert March 2, 8 p.m. in 165 McGraw Hall.

Bird is a white African musician and internationally known poet born in Malawi and now living in New York City. A unique performer and songwriter with music rooted in southern Africa and the Rift Valley, his style of "African folk rock" fuses African pop, Southern rhythm and blues, and ethereal world music. His recordings have featured Ladysmith Black Mambazo and members of Hugh Masekela's band and Paul Simon's "Graceland" band. Information: http://www.mangotime.net/.

Tickets are $15 in advance, $17 at the door, $10/$12 for students; ages 12 and under free. CFSS members, seniors and teens receive a $3 rebate. Advance tickets are available at Ithaca Guitar Works, GreenStar, Autumn Leaves and online at http://www.cornellfolksong.org/. Information: 607-351-1845.

Digital conservation

Media art conservators and curators will launch the new series "Conversations in Digital Humanities: Exploring the Intersections of Digital Technology and Cultural Understanding," March 4 at 4:30 p.m. in the A. D. White House. Free and open to the public.

Ben Fino-Radin, digital conservator for Rhizome ArtBase (http://rhizome.org/), will discuss "Conservation in Collections of Born-Digital Contemporary Art," followed by a conversation with Richard Rinehart, director, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University; and Timothy Murray, curator, Cornell's Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art and director of the Society for the Humanities. Co-sponsors include Cornell Library's Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services and The Central New York Humanities Corridor.

Information: Mickey Casad, mir9@cornell.edu, 607-255-3155.

Animation and animus

Cornell Cinema welcomes collage artist and animator Lewis Klahr for a program of his newest short films, March 7 at 7 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre.

Klahr's work was recently showcased at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and written about in Artforum. Before his visit, Klahr's recent feature-length film "The Pettifogger" will be shown at Cornell Cinema's Elegant Winter Party, March 2 at 7:30 p.m.; the benefit also includes food, a cocktail reception, silent auction and screening of "The Sting." Tickets: $50 for the general public, $90 per pair; $30 for students, $50 per pair, available at http://CornellCinemaTickets.com. Information: http://cinema.cornell.edu.

Writer/producer Adam Schomer '97 presents "The Highest Pass," a 2012 spiritual travelogue following a motorcycle journey in the Himalayas, March 9 at 7 p.m. Schomer is now developing a sequel, "The Four Peaks of Freedom."

Latin bebop

Pancho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band will pay tribute to the legacy of Chano Pozo and Dizzy Gillespie in "Cubano Be! Cubano Bop!" March 8 at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall. Presented by the Cornell Concert Series.

Featuring trumpeter Christian Scott, Sanchez's band will perform a program of Afro-Cuban standards, original compositions and new collaborations. Information: http://www.ponchosanchez.com.

Tickets are $25-$35 for the general public; $17 for students, all seats reserved. A Cornell discount rate is available online only with a valid netID. Information and ticket orders: http://ConcertSeries.Cornell.edu, http://www.baileytickets.com or 607-255-5144.

Carnaval celebration

Quisqueya: The Dominican Students' Association and the Puerto Rican Student Association will host "Carnaval en Las Islas," a banquet and cultural celebration, Saturday, March 9, 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m. in the Statler Hotel Carrier Grand Ballroom.

The event celebrates Puerto Rican and Dominican culture, with food, dance, music, colorful dress and carnival entertainment by guest performers. Tickets are free. Information, RSVP: https://carnavalenlasislas-estw.eventbrite.com/.