‘The Rape of Europa’
The engrossing documentary “The Rape of Europa” is the next featured film in the Cinema Series at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House. It will be screened Saturday at 8 p.m. and again Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. SUNY-Fredonia Assistant Professor of Visual Art & New Media Leesa Rittelmann will lead a brief talk and Q&A immediately following the Sept. 9 screening. “The Rape of Europa” tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich and the Second World War. In a journey through seven countries, the film takes the audience into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe. For 12 long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history. But young art professionals as well as ordinary heroes, from truck drivers to department store clerks, fought back with an extraordinary effort to safeguard, rescue and return th
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SUNY Fredonia Arts Gallery exhibit will feature interactive video
An interactive video installation in which gallery-goers can manipulate the images will open the 2008-09 season at Rockefeller Arts Center on the campus of the State University of New York at Fredonia.
"The Synergy Project," an installat
23 Skidoo Dixieland band to perform Wednesday
SOUTH DAYTON — At Music in the Park on Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the South Dayton Village Park Gazebo, there will be music by 23 Skidoo Dixieland Band.
The summer music program is sponsored by the Town of Dayton, the Town of Vi


