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Arts Events Around the Ivies
• Brown’s imPulse Dance Company will perform its 5th Annual Spring Show, Chaos Theory, tomorrow at Alumnae Hall. The dancing and choreography is straight from the students, which will make for an exciting event. The chaos will ensue at 6 p.m.
• Tomorrow at 8 p.m. Greg Graffin, lead singer of punk rock band Bad Religion, who received a Ph.D from Cornell, will speak, answer questions and perform acoustic guitar at Harvard’s Memorial Church. Harvard is presenting Graffin with the 2008 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism. Go support a Cornell alum and check this out tomorrow.
• Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art will be hosting the kid-friendly “I Spy: Riddles and Searches at the Art Museum” this Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Children can test their brain power and learn about art through fun activities involving riddles, puzzles, matching games, drawing, storytelling and much more. Fun for the whole family!
• Penn welcomes the American Composers Orchestra to the Annenberg Center this Sunday for “Orchestra Underground: Playing it UNSafe.” The show is all about improvisation and imagination. The American Composers Orchestra looks to expand people’s definition of music with this show of experimental music. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m.
Arts Events Around Upstate New York
• Syracuse’s Goldstein Auditorium, in the Schine Student Center, will be the setting for the 2008 Senior Fashion Show this weekend. The show, sponsored by the Fashion Association of Design Students, starts at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Try not to be fashionably late.
• Jimmy Eat World will be at the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Gordon Field House tonight. The band is best known for hit “The Middle,” which came out in 2001 and spent some time atop the modern rock charts. Grammy-nominated, Jimmy Eat World-influenced Paramore is accompanying the group on their current tour that will hit Rochester at 7 p.m. tonight.
• Visiting Director Chen Lincang, from The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, will be adding a pinch Beijing Opera to Shakespeare’s classic “Romeo & Juliet” tonight at Binghamton University’s Watters Theatre. It would be a tragedy if you got there later than 8 p.m.
• Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library will begin its 2008 Spring Sale tomorrow at 8 a.m. The sale will offer used books, movies, CDs and records, computer software, puzzles and games, magazines, posters and more at decreasing prices over the next three weekends. This weekend, prices range from 75 cents to $4.50, depending on the day and item. Friends of the Library will lower prices each day until Tuesday May 13, when you can purchase as much as will fit in a Wegman’s bag for just one dollar. Go this weekend, however, if you want a better selection.