On February 22,

A Panamanian mola showing shamans dancing, from the Museum of Cultural and Natural History. Photograph by Hillel Burger

the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations presents its twelfth annual celebration of diversity, Cultural Rhythms, a festival of poetry, music, dance, and martial arts, performed by students, that reflects the many ethnic groups at the College. Sanders Theatre is the site of the 3 p.m. event; a food festival in the Science Center follows. Call (617) 495-1527 for details.

At the Fogg, David Rabinowitch: Sculptures and Templates, 1968 closes January 12. Remaining on view are The Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection; Invaluable Prints; Investigating the Renaissance; Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the Nineteenth Century; France and the Portrait, 1799-1870; Circa 1874: The Emergence of Impressionism; and The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures. At the Sackler, Masterworks of East Asian Painting closes January 12 and Masterworks of Ukiyo-e finishes up on February 16. Severan Silver Coinage and Coins of Alexander the Great remain on view. At the Busch-Reisinger, Building the Collective: Soviet Graphic Design 1917-1937: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection debuts on January 18 (with additional works displayed at the Sackler). For information, call 495-9400.

Among the myriad exhibits at the Harvard Museum of Cultural and Natural History are Encounters with the Americas; Modeling Nature: Slices of Glass History from the Collections; and Living with Ants and the Science of E.O. Wilson. Call 495-3045 for details.

The Pyramids and the Sphinx: 100 Years of American Archaeology at Giza continues at the Harvard Semitic Museum. For hours, call 495-4631.

Guillaume Apollinaire's portrait, by Louis Marcoussis, at the Fogg.Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Wick / Courtesy of the Harvard University Art Museums

The Maurine and Robert Rothschild Gallery of the Bunting Institute and the Women's Caucus for the Arts open The Sixth International Women's Day Exhibit with a gallery reception on February 23 from 3 to 5 p.m. Call 495-8212 for gallery hours.

Their Valentine's Day Jamboree shows off the Harvard Krokodiloes at their crooning best. Call Sanders Theatre at 496-2222 for tickets to the 8 p.m. concert on February 14.

The February 28 concert of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra features the 1997 Undergraduate Concerto Competition winner in a performance including works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Fussell, and Strauss. At 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre; call 496-2222 for ticket information.

On February 14 at 8 p.m. the Schoenberg Quartet performs works by Berg and Shostakovich as part of the Houghton Library chamber music series. Call 495-2449 for tickets.

The Mendelssohn Quartet, the Blodgett Artists-in-Residence, perform Beethoven, Dvorak, and compositions by the winners of the 1996 Blodgett Composers Competition on February 28 at 8 p.m. in Paine Hall. Call 496-6013 for information.

This January and February are lucky months for organ music enthusiasts. The roster of performers at Memorial Church includes Harvard associate choirmaster Nancy Granert, on January 8 at 10 p.m., and Yale's Eric Suter, on January 15 at 10 p.m.; both concerts are free. Adolphus Busch Hall houses Sunday-afternoon concerts, with choirmaster Murray Forbes Somerville on January 19; James Abbington of the Hartford Avenue Baptist Church, Detroit, on February 2; and Stanislas Deriemaeker of the Antwerp Chapel on February 16; all concerts begin at 3 p.m. Call 495-5508 for ticket prices or other details.

On January 26 African Rhythm, a Boston-based West African music and dance company, will perform at the Fogg in conjunction with the exhibition The Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection. The concert begins at 5:30 p.m. Call 495-4544 for specifics.

WHRB's Winter Orgy begins January 3. Call 495-4818 to get a complete program. WHRB broadcasts over 95.3 FM.

Hardy types, please note: the Arnold Arboretum hosts free monthly walking tours, even during the winter. Planned tours, beginning on the front steps of the Hunnewell Building at 10:30 a.m., include a winter landscape walk on January 25 and another, featuring vernal witch hazel, on February 22. Call the Arboretum's general information message, at 524-1718, to find out if tours have been canceled due to weather. To learn about Arboretum classes and programs, call 524-1718, ext. 162.

The Radcliffe Dance Program and Learning from Performers offers a lecture by dance choreographer Elizabeth Streb on January 8 at 7:30 p.m., at the Graduate School of Education. Streb also leads a workshop from January 6 to 10, from 3 to 5 p.m. daily, at the Radcliffe Dance Center. The fee for the workshop is $55 for students, $60 for the Harvard-Radcliffe community; the lecture is free. For details, call 495-8683 or 495-8676.

Spring-semester registration for courses at the Radcliffe Dance Program is January 30 and 31, from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m., and classes begin on February 3 at the Gilman Room in Agassiz House. Call 495-8683 for more details.

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics continues its observatory nights on the third Thursday of each month. The January 16 lecture is entitled "Meteorites from Mars: Do They Carry Signs of Ancient Life?" by Ursula Marvin; on February 20 Daniel Green (see page 19) delivers a talk, "Hale-Bopp: Another Bright Comet for Press and Public." Call 495-7461 for details, or 496-star for a recorded guide to the night sky.

Call 495-8212 for a complete listing of Radcliffe College's Bunting Institute weekly lectures and colloquia, held throughout the winter.

The music department continues its colloquium series with a lecture on February 10 at 4:15 p.m. Professor Voker Blumenthaler, of the Meistersinger Konservatorium Nürnberg, will speak on "Jason: Failing and the Magic of Chance." Call 496-6013 for further details.

The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus presents two speakers: author Chandler Burr on February 5 at 7:30 p.m. and Brandeis University professor of Christian studies Bernadette J. Brooten on February 24, at 7 p.m. For more information about Burr's talk, call 624-9652; for details regarding Brooten's lecture, call 489-9445.

Moshe Halbertal, professor of philosophy at Hebrew University, lectures on February 20 at 4:30 p.m. at the Kennedy School of Government as part of the Program in Ethics and the Professions. Call 495-1336 for more information.

January brings a series of films examining human rights violations to the Harvard Film Archive. February features a series on autobiography in cinema. Call 495-4700 for up-to-date listings and ticket prices.

In conjunction with the Busch-Reisinger exhibition Building the Collective: Soviet Graphic Design, 1917-1937, the Harvard University Art Museums silent film series begins with a lecture, on January 30 at 6 p.m., by art historian Roberta

Vernal witch hazel, at the Arnold Arboretum. Photograph by Chris Stand

Reeder, on the stylistic interaction between posters and films created after the Russian Revolution. Two films by Sergei Eisenstein follow the lecture: Strike at 7 p.m. and The General Line (a.k.a. The Old and the New) at 9 p.m. The series continues January 31, with Alexander Dovzhenko's films Zvenigora, at 7 p.m., and Earth, at 9 p.m. Call 495-4700 for details.

The American Repertory Theatre opens Woyzeck, by Georg Büchner, on January 31, and the world premiere of the stage adaptation, by John Moran and Bob McGrath, of the 1919 German silent film classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on February 21. Closing are Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, on January 14, Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck, on January 17, and Carlo Gozzi's The King Stag, on January 19. Call 547-8300 for tickets.

Captain Anteneel and his crew romp about the newly discovered planet Alpha Cryinoutloud when Hasty Pudding Theatricals #149, Me and My Galaxy, takes the stage. Regular performances begin February 19, but all ticket orders must be received by January 15 (please list two alternate dates, to be guaranteed a seat.) To request a ticket order form, call 495-5205.

The Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association Players present Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, in the Agassiz Theatre; performed nightly on January 3, 4, and 9-11 at 8 p.m. General admission is $7. Call 496-2222 for details.