Tuesday, April 17
Sexual Assault Awareness Month Film: “Miss Representation,” Sperry Center, Room 105, 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Open Mic Night: Corey Union Exhibition Lounge, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, April 18
Sandwich Seminar: “Turkish Invasion of Syria: Afrin, Syria -An Experiment,” lecture by Edward Erickson, Scholar-in-Residence at the Clark Center for Global Engagement, Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Lecture: “The People and Culture of Pakistan,” presented by Ayesha Mazhar, a biological sciences major and Fulbright Scholar, Moffett Center, Room 205B, 7 p.m.
Sexual Assault Awareness Month Presentation: Sexual assault and its lasting impacts will be presented by Justin Prentice, a star of the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why,” a teen drama about rape and suicide, Corey Union Function Room, 8 p.m.
Thursday, April 19
Union Matters Lunch Presentation: “Academic Workload,” presented by Darryl Wood, Labor Relation Specialist, Corey Union Function Room, noon to 1 p.m., buffet opens 11:45 a.m.
Sandwich Seminar: Getting New York to 50% Renewables by 2030 – What Will It Really Take? Presented by Associate Professor of Physics Brice Smith and sustainable energy systems graduate student Sameer Hairan, Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge, noon to 1 p.m.
Holocaust Remembrance Film: “In Darkness,” Sperry Center, Room 106, 7 p.m.
Friday, April 20
Sexual Assault Awareness Month Lecture: “Feminism, Film, Men and the Media: Telling our Stories Through Film,” presented by filmmaker and screenwriter Jessica Congdon, Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge, 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Blackbird Film Festival: New York State Filmmakers Roundtable at 3:30 p.m.; Welcome ceremony, 6 to 6:30 p.m.; Block A Premiere, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Sperry Center; Kickoff Party at Bru, 8:30 to 11 p.m.
Musical Performance: 9 to 5, Dowd Fine Arts Center Theatre, 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 21
Blackbird Film Festival: Films from 9 a.m. through 10:30 p.m., Sperry Center
Musical Performance: 9 to 5, Dowd Fine Arts Center Theatre, 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 22
Blackbird Film Festival: Films from 9 a.m. through 5:30 p.m., Award Ceremony 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Sperry Center
The Big Event: Community cleanup. Volunteers will meet at Bru64 for complimentary regular coffee and treats before receiving assignments to clean up the Historic Downtown Cortland area, 9 a.m.
Musical Performance: 9 to 5, Dowd Fine Arts Center Theatre, 2 p.m.
Tuesday, April 24
Tobacco-Free Awareness Activity: Kick Butts Day, an annual campus cleanup focused on tobacco debris and celebration of SUNY Cortland’s tobacco-free policy.
Spring Planting Event: Hosted by the SUNY Cortland Garden Advisory Committee, at the model gardens in front of Memorial Library, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wednesday, April 25
Air Plant Giveaway: Air plants that need little care, but remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will be given away for free as part of the week’s Wellness Wednesday programming. Plants and information will be available from noon to 3 p.m. at the Student Life Center.
Holocaust Remembrance Lecture: “Central Europe Swinging Right,” presented by Anna Orla-Bukowska, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, Old Main Colloquium, 12:30 p.m.
Distinguished Voices in Literature Reading: By Bob Proehl, author of A Hundred Thousand Worlds, Corey Union Exhibition Lounge, 5 p.m.
Holocaust Remembrance Lecture: “Polish-Jewish Relations,” presented by Anna Orla-Bukowska, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, Sperry Center, Room 106, 5 p.m.
Thursday, April 26
Sandwich Seminar: “I Learned by Doing,” presented by the Institute for Civic Engagement Action Team interns, Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge, Noon to 1 p.m.
Dowd Gallery Student Select 2018: Opening Reception and Award Announcements, show opens and continues through May 12.
Friday, April 27
Arbor Day: SUNY Cortland’s official Arbor Day celebration, Bowers Hall front quad, time TBD.
College Singers Concert: Dowd Fine Arts Center Theatre, 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 29
Lecture, Demonstration and Performance: Shostakovich String Quartet # 8, Clinton String Quartet, in remembrance of the Holocaust, Corey Union Fireplace Lounge, 1 p.m.
Monday, April 30
Deliberative Dialogue: A civil and informed way for people with opposing views to discuss controversial issues: the topic of mass shootings was the number one concern voiced by SUNY Cortland students in a recent survey conducted by Institute for Civic Engagement Action Team interns, Corey Union Fireplace Lounge, 4 to 6 p.m.
Environmental Documentary: “Who Killed the Electric Car?” (2006) unravels the history of the battery-powered vehicle that was to set a new precedent for energy efficiency before its mysterious discontinuation in the mid-1990s. In this investigative film, director Chris Paine attempts to uncover a possible conspiracy orchestrated against electric car manufacturers. A discussion facilitated by Sociology/Anthropology Visiting Assistant Professor Brock Ternes will take place following the video. Moffett Center, Room 2125, 7 p.m.