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Stories through movement Orchesis presents ‘Back to Our Roots’

Reading Time: 2 minutes[metaslider id=5994] SHENECA SHARPE Special to The Leader   Orchesis Dance Company debuted its long awaited Orchesis Spring show: Back to Our Roots. The event varied from ballet, pop and African inspirations that kept viewers enthralled with the performances. The intimacy of the dance studio made the dancing even more......
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Headliners Spectrum should have chosen Spring Concert featuring a Lupe Fiasco hologram

Reading Time: 2 minutesG. EMMO Staff Lampoonist   Spectrum may have had the best intentions when choosing the headliner for the Spring Concert (not FREDFest), but unfortunately it missed the mark by choosing the white Boston rapper Sammy Adams. (Disclaimer: not the beer — which you’ll need plenty of to enjoy the show.)......
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Reality star finds out what’s on Sunny’s D-floor Kim Kardashian sues Sunny’s after nude photo shoot

Reading Time: 2 minutes  MISSY FEOLA Staff Lampoonist   Over the weekend, Kim Kardashian made a visit to Sunny’s, Fredonia’s very own infamous bar, for a nude photoshoot. “We wanted to try a different, creative approach for this photoshoot, and I thought this ‘Sunny’s’ we’ve been hearing about would be the perfect setting,”......
Sports

The madness has begun: Selection Sunday recap Monmouth among biggest tournament snubs

Reading Time: 4 minutes  CURTIS HENRY Distribution Manager   Sunday night confirmed one thing that has always been thought about the NCAA tournament selection committee: It doesn’t know what it wants. The experts who project brackets have no idea what the committee wants. The fans have no idea what the committee wants. Even......
Life & Arts

The passage of time in Dunkirk and Fredonia: Sala Wong and Peter Williams in, and outside, the gallery

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Reading Time: 3 minutes[metaslider id=5916] CLAIRE O’REILLY Special to The Leader Originally hailing from China and Canada respectively, artists Sala Wong and Peter Williams have brought a different sort of art experience to the Marion Art Gallery on campus this month. “They interact with their audiences,” said animation illustration major Katie McDonough. “They......
Life & Arts

‘Back to our roots’ Orchesis to present Spring performance

Reading Time: 2 minutes  AMBER MATTICE Assistant Reverb Editor   On March 12, in the dance studio in Dods Hall, Orchesis will be presenting its 2016 Spring performance. This year’s performance will be particularly interesting, as it will feature eight different pieces choreographed by students as well as an intermission during which other......
Life & Arts

‘Feminist and Womanist sensibilities’ Fredonia Big Read events include Hurston, stage-adaption of novel

Reading Time: 3 minutes  MARIA MELCHIORRE Staff Writer   The Big Read, a program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, provides grants for unique community reading initiatives. This year, Fredonia was honored with a grant to be a Big Read community. Each community in the program has a single, classic novel......
News

Accounting and artwork for the win: Fredonia alumni receive Chancellor’s Award

Reading Time: 4 minutesLERON WELLINGTON Special to The Leader   This year, two professors have won the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching. Both faculty members, Louann Laurito-Bahgat and Raymond Bonilla, are Fredonia graduates and have returned here after following their own different paths. Laurito-Bahgat has been teaching accounting classes at Fredonia......
Life & Arts

A simple backdrop for a shining message: ‘The Laramie Project’ opens in Barlett Theatre

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMARIA MELCHIORRE Staff Writer   The black space of Bartlett Theatre darkened as cast members, one by one, blew out a candle. “The Laramie Project” ended as it began: Cast members in a circle on a dimmed stage hummed “Amazing Grace.” The stage was simple: a painted satellite image of......

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