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SUNYWide Film Festival 2014 to bring opportunities

Reading Time: 3 minutesREBECCA HALE Staff Writer This weekend brings forth the fifth annual SUNYWide Film Festival and Symposium 2014 — this year with added workshops and opportunities for more students and even faculty to showcase their work and to receive critiques. From this Thursday, April 10, through Saturday, April 12, the festival......
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Relay’s honorary survivor organizes ‘Cabaret for a Cure’

Reading Time: 5 minutesMAGGIE GILROY Reverb Editor While most two-year-olds spend their time in daycare or on play dates, Tanner Jubert spent his in hospitals amongst radiologists and surgeons. A few weeks after his second birthday Jubert was diagnosed with Leukemia, a disease he battled for four years until he went into remission......
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Opera Scenes 2014 presents something old, something new

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Reading Time: 5 minutesSean Doyle, a theory professor and composer of “The Orphans in Autumn,” rehearses his original opera with cast members. Photo courtesy of Courtnee Cesta / Assistant Reverb Editor COURTNEE CESTA Assistant Reverb Editor SUNY Fredonia’s Student Opera Theatre Association will present its annual Opera Scenes production this weekend, featuring scenes......
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Blue Devil swimmers and divers take SUNYACs

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Reading Time: 3 minutesERIN BISCHOFF Special to The Leader On Thursday, Feb. 20, the Blue Devil swimming and diving teams began their final and biggest meet of the season: the SUNYAC championship held at the Burt Flickinger Aquatic Center in Buffalo, NY. At the close of the three-day long competition, the women swimmers......
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Fredonia celebrates Valentine’s Day weekend with The Vagina Monologues

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Reading Time: 3 minutesHanna Neumann and other members of the cast perform “My First Period.” Mary Laing / Special to The Leader CHRISTINA CONCEICAO Sports Editor This past weekend, SUNY Fredonia put on its 13th annual performance of “The Vagina Monologues,” a play written by Eve Ensler, a Tony Award winning playwright, performer......
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GRAMMY win brings Fredonia alumnus praise, swag and Twitter trends

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Reading Time: 5 minutesMAGGIE GILROY Reverb Editor The cafeteria of Westfield Secondary School added a new addition to its decor Friday evening: a red carpet fit for a GRAMMY winner. Members of the Westfield community filled the quaint school’s cafeteria eager to greet Kent Knappenberger, recent winner of the first ever GRAMMY Music......
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‘Sound of Music’ telecast garners huge ratings and mixed reviews

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Reading Time: 5 minutesMAGGIE GILROY Reverb Editor The hills are alive with … a former American Idol? As soon as the casting was announced for NBC’s live telecast of “The Sound of Music,” with former American Idol winner and country superstar Carrie Underwood in the leading role of Maria, fans of the beloved......
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Fairytale took King in the form of an opera

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Reading Time: 3 minutesKRISTEN SHULTIS and MAGGIE GILROY Special to The Leader and Reverb Editor On Friday night, King concert hall erupted with sounds of idle chatter and the warming up of an orchestra. On the stage in front of that orchestra sat a lonely fireplace just waiting for the singers to arrive......

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