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Comedy Center now part of Museums for All

The National Comedy Center, the nation’s official cultural institution dedicated to the art of comedy, has announced its participation in Museums for All, a signature access program of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), administered by the Association of Children’s Museums (ACM), to encourage people of all backgrounds to visit museums regularly and build lifelong museum-going habits. The National Comedy Center museum and the Center’s Lucy Desi Museum, celebrating the lives, careers and legacy of the “First Couple of Comedy” are both participating in the ...

Fredonia Music Composition faculty member receives award

A State University of New York at Fredonia faculty member and an alumna received two of the 10 prizes for instrumental, electronic or vocal compositions awarded by the Annual Search for New Music conducted by the International Alliance for Women in Music. School of Music Adjunct Instructor ...

Watch the ‘Holiday Sounds of Fredonia’ concert on PBS

Plan to watch the choral ensembles at the State University of New York at Fredonia School of Music in their annual “Holiday Sounds of Fredonia” concert, which was recorded earlier in December in King Concert Hall. The program will be broadcast on WNED PBS on Tuesday, Dec. 20 at 9 p.m., ...

Barker Museum exhibit features Twain’s Fredonia connections

The Darwin R. Barker Museum is welcoming visitors to its newest exhibit, “Mark Twain in Fredonia: An Exhibition to be Inspected by Anybody Who Feels an Interest in Miraculous Inanimate Objects,” which highlights the impact the famous author had on the village in only six visits. Twain first came to Fredonia in 1870, lecturing at the Fredonia Normal School chapel – today’s One Temple Square – as a guest of the Fredonia Library Association, which had welcomed suffrage leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton a week earlier. Fredonia won over the famous author with its “intelligent, ...

‘Hometown’ holiday

Submitted Photo Collage Performing Arts Center will be performing their Annual Christmas Show, “Christmas in Our Hometown” at The 1891 Fredonia Opera House on Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m.. Tickets are $15 and will be available at the door. For additional information call (717) ...

Opera House Met season continues with world premiere

Live at the Met, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live, high definition (HD) opera transmissions to theaters around the world, continues at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center on Saturday at 1 p.m., with the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer ...