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Pulitzer Prize winner to reside in Fredonia

Reading Time: 2 minutesKORI BARKLEY Staff Writer Winner of a 1978 Pulitzer Prize and 1982 Emmy Award (among other awards), Michael Colgrass is an American-born Canadian musician, composer and educator known for his work as a percussionist with ensembles like the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera, as well as his......
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Chautauqua Citizens Respond to Climate Crisis Community group aims to combat climate change

Reading Time: 3 minutesAMANDA DEDIE Special to The Leader The beloved Bill Nye the Science Guy has said it on shows and in interviews everywhere: “Climate change is our most urgent, number one priority right now.” Yet the question in everyone’s minds seems to be, “What can I do?” Many tend to think......
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‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ premieres Back to the Summer of Love

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Reading Time: 3 minutesPicture taken by Adrea Adinolfe/ Special to The Leader REBECCA HALE Assistant Reverb Editor Students, faculty and alumni experienced the psychedelic culture of the ‘60s, coupled with a Shakespearean classic, in Marvel Theatre last weekend. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is set in Ohio, at Athens College. The characters are separated......
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‘We Were All – Endi Poskovic: Printworks’

Reading Time: 2 minutesPicture taken by Gabbie Lee/ Assistant Photo Editor CARLY KNASZAK Special to The Leader Marion Art Gallery presented “We Were All – Endi Poskovic: Printworks,” on Friday, Oct. 17. Poskovic’s work consists of hand carved woodblock prints, in which he puts ink on the blocks with rollers and then transfers......
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‘It’s okay to be different’ ‘Trans: The Movie’ documents transgender lives

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Reading Time: 4 minutesKRISTEN SHULTIS Staff Writer “It’s okay to be different,” were the wise words of an eight-year-old transgender girl in “Trans: The Movie,” a film shown on Tuesday, Oct. 7, in McEwen Hall as part of TransDiscovery: Exploring Gender Variant Lives. “Trans” is a documentary about transgenders either transitioning, in the......
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An artist’s life after Fredonia: Greg Paladino

Reading Time: 2 minutesKORI BARKLEY Staff Writer It is evident to most students pursuing the arts that finding a career to fit one’s area of study will be a challenge, especially in today’s society where arts programs in schools and communities are continuously diminishing. Greg Paladino, a graduate from the School of Music......
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Hastings receives prestigious grant Grant will be put towards ‘Morphologies’ series

Reading Time: 2 minutesAMANDA DEDIE Special to The Leader Phil Hastings, associate professor of Film and Video Arts, isn’t just a professor — he’s an artist. Hastings has always wanted to be a teacher, following in the footsteps of his father who taught high school. “My interest was seeing how I could affect......

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