Silver Creek Central School District will present "Heaven Can Wait" by Harry Segall on May 9. In this comedy, the main character, Joe Pendelton, a prize-winning boxer, finds himself in quite a conundrum when he finds himself dead 60 years before he is actually supposed to pass on. This play ...
Six Western New York students received awards at the 5th annual SUNYWide Film Festival and Sym-posium held at SUNY Fredonia April 10 to 12.SUNY Fredonia students honored included Maisy Keller of Kingston, who received First Place in the Experimental Category for "Infectivity," which she created ...
Nonesuch Records will release Jamestown native Natalie Merchant's new self-titled album on May 6.The recording is the multi-platinum singer's sixth solo collection, and her first of entirely original songs in 13 years. In celebration, NPR Music is premiering the brand new Dan Winters-directed ...
Fredonia High School's production of "Bye, Bye Birdie" has been honored with 12 nominations, including Outstanding Musical Production, as Shea's Performing Arts Center and The Lipke Foundation present the 21st Annual Kenny Awards ceremony.The 21st Annual Kenny Awards ceremony will be held at ...
JAMESTOWN - The Prendergast Library Art Gallery will feature a group exhibit by the Chautauqua County Society of Artists May 2 through May 30.There will be an opening reception from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday in the Library's Fireplace Room.The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will ...
The 16th Annual Student Research and Creativity Exposition will be held at SUNY Fredonia on Thursday in the William Center Multipurpose Room. The free event is from 1 to 6 p.m. All are welcome to attend.Over 350 students will be participating in the exposition. There will be presentations, ...
The Liberal Arts and Sciences Brown Bag Lecture Series will hold a "Medicine and Technology" free lecture on Tuesday at noon in Williams Center Room S204.The lecture is open to students, faculty, staff, administrators and the general public.Anyone interested in medicine or the impact of ...
The 1891 Fredonia Opera House will present Ithaca-based singer/song-writer Joe Crookston & the BlueBird Jubilee with Peter Glanville in concert on Friday at 7:30 p.m. James-town duo SYMBA will serve as the concert's opening act.Award-winning singer/-songwriter Crookston makes his ...
One of the most important issues for current citizens to deal with is education.Pittsburgh's Public Television station, WQED has recently released a beautifully filmed documentary film dealing with some of the education programs at Chautauqua Institution. It's title is ''Chautauqua: Charting a ...
Professor Elizabeth Lee of the Department of Visual Arts and New Media was awarded the SUNY Fredonia Inaugural Marion Fellowship for the Visual and Performing Arts for the 2013-2014 year. On May 1 she will be presenting, "Cosmological Process," at 5:30 p.m. in Marvel Theatre.The new Art Gallery ...
JAMESTOWN - "The Battle Within," a presentation by concussion awareness advocate and former middleweight boxer Ray Ciancaglini at 6 p.m. on May 1, will also feature a screening of the documentary "Head Games."The program and film, both of which are free and open to the public, will be held in ...
The works of 15 students from the Department of Visual Arts and New Media at SUNY Fredonia will be displayed in the Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery at Rockefeller Arts Center beginning May 2.The exhibition, titled "Senior Show II: Have a Good Summer," will open with a reception in the art ...
Educational fads go in cycles. Right now, for instance, we are replaying much of what went on in the late 1950's after the launch of Sputnik. Then the frenzy was over science education. Now it's over STEM-science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. These are all, to be sure, ...
The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Cinema Series will present "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me," a documentary on the bawdy Broadway legend, on Saturday and Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.Now in her late 80s, Broadway legend Elaine Stritch remains as ferociously funny as ever. Whether dominating the stage, ...
Live at the Met, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live, high definition opera transmissions to theaters around the world, continues its 2013-14 season at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House on Saturday at 1 p.m., with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's popular Cosi fan tutte."We're very ...
DEAR ABBY: I am a woman in a loving relationship with another woman. My family has been harsh in their remarks to me, saying they would rather I was dead than doing this, or that I should move away if this is the way I am going to live.I have been married twice. Neither marriage worked out. ...
The Northern Chautauqua County Band Director's Association will present the ninth annual Dunkirk Jazz Invitational on Saturday at Forestville High School.This annual event, which celebrates National Jazz Appreciation Month, will bring together more than 200 student musicians from 10 school ...
JAMESTOWN - On Friday, the Spire Theater Friday Night Jazz Concert Series at 317 E. 3rd St. will feature jazz vocalist Barbara Jean at the at 7 p.m.Barbara Jean will sing standards from the Great American Songbook and some of her original songs that people tell her "sound like old ...
The Musical Journeys Program of the SUNY Fredonia School of Music concludes its eighth season of free concerts designed to appeal to very young children.Selected student ensembles from the Fredonia School of Music will perform half-hour Children's Concerts on four Saturday mornings with two ...
JAMESTOWN - Jamestown Community College's Weeks Gallery will host an opening reception for the annual student art exhibition at 6 p.m. on Thursday.The reception, free and open to the public, will feature performances by JCC music students.The exhibition features works from all JCC campuses and ...