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Cornell Cinema shows Isao Takahata's “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” Feb. 14-15 among other films over Winter Break weekend.

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Cornell Cinema is showing a digital restoration of “Casablanca” at 7 p.m. on St. Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14) among a variety of films screening over the Winter Break weekend in Willard Straight Theatre.

“That Man From Rio,” a French classic digitally restored to vibrant, widescreen glory, Feb. 13 and 15; a program of animated shorts for young children, Feb. 14 at 2 p.m.; a new film from Isao Takahata, “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya,” Feb. 14-15; and Jake Gyllenhaal in “Nightcrawler,” Feb. 13 and 15. Coming up: Local musician, composer and dramatist Mary Lorson presents “Signals: A Performance Memoir,” Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. Advance tickets at cornellcinematickets.com. Lorson will narrate and sing personal tales and family anecdotes from her (dysfunctional) upbringing in Westchester County, New York, accompanied by an eight-piece jazz/rock band and a visual backdrop.

Winter recess programs

A pair of local winter recess programs will offer fun and hands-on learning for ages 5-12 from Feb. 16-20.

Cayuga Nature Center’s School's Out Winter Camp is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Campers will learn to make snow shelters, visit the center’s maple-tapping operation, meet feathered ambassadors from the Cornell Raptor Program and more on the 100-acre site. Information: 607-273-6260.

At the Museum of the Earth, participants will explore daily topics from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., such as changes in the oceans affecting marine life, how tadpoles grow into frogs and how birds are related to dinosaurs. Information: 607-273-6623.

Guitar recital

Isaac Sharp will perform a recital of traditional and contemporary classical guitar works and pieces originally written for the Renaissance lute, Feb. 19 at noon for Midday Music at Lincoln in B20 Lincoln Hall. Free and open to the public.

The program will include music by J.S. Bach, Mauro Giuliani, Leo Brouwer and Francesco da Milano.

Sharp began teaching classical guitar at Cornell in September as a visiting lecturer in the Department of Music. He also offers lessons in classical guitar and instruction in other guitar styles to students. Information: www.isaacsharp.com.

‘Listening to Killers’

Emeritus professor James Garbarino provides an analysis of how killers travel a path from childhood innocence to lethal violence in adolescence or adulthood in “Listening to Killers: Bringing Developmental Psychology into the Courtroom in Murder Cases,” Feb. 19 from noon-1 p.m. at Cornell Plantations’ Nevin Welcome Center. His presentation is free and open to the public and is presented by the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research’s BCTR Talks at Twelve series. Lunch will be served.

Garbarino’s new book is “Listening to Killers: Lessons Learned from My 20 Years as an Expert Psychological Witness in Murder Cases.” The book and presentation are based on his efforts to bridge the gap in legal proceedings between the social history of accused murderers and clinical diagnoses. Garbarino places the emotional and moral damage of each individual killer within a larger scientific framework of social, psychological, anthropological and biological research on human development. In doing so, he highlights the humanity we share with killers and the role of understanding and empathy in breaking the cycle of violence.

The Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Development Emeritus and former co-director of the Family Life Development Center at Cornell, Garbarino is the Maude C. Clarke Professor of Humanistic Psychology at Loyola University, Chicago. He has written or edited 23 books, including “Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them” (1999).

Reading series

Poet and essayist Dawn Lundy Martin reads from her work Feb. 19 at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. Free and open to the public.

Martin is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Her honors include the 2008 Academy of American Arts and Sciences May Sarton Prize for Poetry, and the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for “A Matter of Gathering/A Gathering of Matter,” one of several poetry collections she has written. She is currently at work on a memoir.

The Spring 2015 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series is presented by the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English.

Swiss mix

The Cornell Concert Series welcomes one of Switzerland's leading orchestras, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, to campus Feb. 19. Tickets for the 8:30 p.m. concert in Bailey Hall are $28-$40 general, $22 for students, available at www.baileytickets.com. Information: 607-255-5144.

Appearing in Ithaca on its first American tour in 12 years, the ensemble, led by Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit, will perform its interpretations of early 20th century French and Russian repertoire. The concert program features works by Ravel (“La valse” or “Daphnis et Chloé,” Suite No. 2), Debussy (“Ibéria”) 
and Stravinsky (“The Song of the Nightingale”). Russian pianist Nikolaï Lugansky is featured on Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.”

New poetry

Cornell professor of English Alice Fulton celebrates the publication of her new poetry collection, “Barely Composed,” with a book party Feb. 28, 3-4 p.m. at Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca’s DeWitt Mall. The event was originally scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 14.

Fulton will read from and sign copies of the book. She is the author of a short story collection, “The Nightingales of Troy: Stories of One Family’s Century,” as well as poetry and essay collections.