The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) opened with a wild, laugh-filled ride on October 13. For over a quarter of a century, this show has delighted and surprised audiences with its un-Shakespeare-like references to hip-hop, football, TV cooking shows and psychology.  Director Paul Mockovak puts his own stamp on the production by adding three women to the traditional cast of three men and, in his words, “doubling the fun.” Viewers are sure to enjoy this fast-paced, madcap version of the Bard’s classic texts.
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Canadian family entertainer Lawrence Smythe will bring his hilarious new one-man show, “Mr. Smythe: The Caretaker” on Friday, Oct. 13.
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An original exhibition featuring works from SUNY Fredonia permanent collection and the private collections of area art collectors, will open with a free public reception on Friday, Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. in the Art Gallery.
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The Psychology Club and Office of Volunteer and Community Services will sponsor the Out of the Darkness Community Walk for Suicide Prevention on Saturday, Oct. 14.  The walk will benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s research, prevention and support projects.  
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A new round of funding from the U.S. Justice Department will allow SUNY Fredonia officials to provide rape prevention training for university police, athletic coaches, and key campus personnel while increasing similar programs for incoming freshmen, upperclassmen and transfer students. The $199,996 expands the Campus Education, Awareness, Support and Effect (CEASE) project, which was originally subsidized with a $200,000 Department of Justice grant in 2004.
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Free and open to all, the concert will feature a variety of samplings from the Fredonia School of Music student body and distinguished faculty.
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To open the Classical Guitar Convention in Columbus, Ga., Oct. 10, the Fredonia Chamber Singers have been invited to perform with Guitar Professor James Piorkowski, under the direction of Dr. Donald P. Lang. The concert will be recorded and broadcast on public radio on Oct. 12.
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Slavery in ancient Egypt

Slavery is not a pleasant subject.  The suffering of slaves and the brutality of slavery is a black page writ large in American history, and most SUNY Fredonia freshmen come into Markus Vink’s history classes carrying powerful images of slavery as it was practiced in their own country in the 19th century.

But, in his research seminar, Dr. Vink takes them on a different journey across time and space.  He directs their attention eastward across the Atlantic, across the continent of Africa and into the world of the early modern Indian Ocean. He points them back to a time earlier than the American colonies. Here they find a world in which slaves are already ubiquitous, and where the practice of slavery is traditional.

His research has traced slavery as far back as 1500 B.C.E., to the beginnings of (recorded) history and to the times of stateless peoples, hunter-gatherers, and pastoral nomads. Since then, a steady stream of captive humanity continued to flow through the rise and fall of empires, sultanates, confederations and kingdoms

“Slavery,” Dr. Vink maintains, “is the world’s oldest trade.”

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SUNY Fredonia’s School of Music will host special guest guitarist James Marron in  a performance at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 28 in Rosch Recital Hall.  The renowned guitarist/composer will perform his original works from his recording “Six Poems for the Angels,” which has been called “an impeccable CD of classical and neoclassical guitar music” by 20th Century Guitar Magazine. 
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New interest in drilling natural gas from black shale is pumping energy into the geosciences department at SUNY Fredonia.

Two recent gifts of industry-level software valued at $54,000 have come into the lab of Dr. Gary Lash in Houghton Hall. Papers describing his work on fractured Devonian black shale deposits are being presented to packed rooms at major meetings, and his students and graduates are reaping the benefits.

“We’re looking at the Marcellus Shale, which is one of the black shale units attracting industry attention,” Dr. Lash said. “It’s buried pretty deep and is very organic rich. You can smell the gas in the shales. You break that black shale on the beach and you can smell the gas coming out of it. So it’s in there. The problem is getting it out. The Marcellus is extremely tight.” 

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The Fredonia School of Music's annual “String Experience,” a special event for high school violinists, violists, cellists, and bassists, takes place Sunday, Oct. 15 in Mason Hall.  A free, public recital with nationally acclaimed musicians from the SUNY Fredonia School of Music will end the day-long exploration at 4 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. All are invited.
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In a recent study conducted by Business First, a Buffalo business newspaper, the quaint, southern tier village was ranked the most favorable urban center in which to live in Western New York. Within the region’s eight counties, every village, town, and city meeting the population criteria was considered in the periodical’s search for exceptional communities.
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The State Employee Federated Appeal (SEFA,) chaired by Patricia Lefferts (purchasing) and Ray Rushboldt (political science), is gearing up for the Fall 2006 campaign with a Solicitor’s Brunch to be held Thursday, Sept. 28 at 9:30 a.m. at the Alumni House.
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Cheryl Campo is the speaker at the Fall Gathering of the Women’s Studies Program on Wednesday, Sept. 27 from 5 to 7 p.m.  Her talk is titled,  “Wine, Women and Song…Mixtures, Men and Science,” as her topic. 
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The evening length song cycle, featuring music by Schubert and poetry by Wilhelm Muller, comes from an historic 1830 printed edition by the Viennese publishing house Diabelli and Co. Admission to the concert on Sunday, Oct. 1, at 4 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall is free.
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Filmmaker Rick Ray will screen and discuss his award-winning documentary “10 Questions for the Dalai Lama” at the State University of New York at Fredonia on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in King Concert Hall.
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Music for the evening will include such selections as “Largo” from Dvorak’s “Symphony to the New World,” Franz Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2,” Dizzy Gillespie and Gil Fuller’s “Manteca” and Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol’s “Caravan,” among many others.
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Sherri Mason (chemistry) has funding from the Great Lakes Commission to improve and validate an atmospheric model that will predict the movement of pollutants coming into the air from cars, industry, and even Great Lakes evaporation.

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Dr. James Zull, biochemist who has done studies on changes in the brain that take place during learning, is giving two workshops for faculty on Friday, Sept. 22
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