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The 2008-09 Lake Shore Savings Season will feature events in the Kaleidoscope Family Series sponsored by Howard Hanna Holt Real Estate, the World Travel Series sponsored by Fredonia Place, and the Pops Series, sponsored by DFT Communications.  Season or single-event tickets are available at the SUNY Fredonia Ticket Office at 673-3501 (1-866-441-4928).

For as long as she can remember, music major Katherine Petersen has been intrigued by Africa. “The pictures that we see in the States are always beautiful and the music is captivating and always makes me want to dance.”  It was a Lundquist International Fellowship that created the pathway for the adventure-seeking senior from Gowanda to have an extended stay in that faraway place.

A reception Friday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m. opens the next exhibit of mixed media works by artist Amy Hauber in the  Art Gallery at Rockefeller Arts Center. The work by Ms. Hauber is a mixture of media including digital papercraft prints, sculpture, ceramics and digital video and installation

Rockefeller Arts Center Director Jefferson Westwood said he is pleased to welcome Fredonia Place back as the corporate sponsor of the World Travel Series.

SUNY Fredonia faculty members and students will be hosting “Double Reed Day,” a workshop for middle and high school players of double reed woodwind instruments, on Oct. 18, beginning at 9 a.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. 

The Musical Journeys Program of the SUNY Fredonia School of Music will kick off its third 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 at 10:30 a.m. beginning on Saturday, Oct. 4 in Darwin R. Barker Library.

A new SUNY Fredonia Ticket Office has returned to the Williams Center, but in a larger, more customer-friendly "digs." The office is now located in room G-144, which is directly across from its previous Williams Center location.

The SUNY Fredonia School of Music announced a vocalist, a horn player and four saxophone students who play as a quartet are the 2008 winners of its annual Concerto Competition, held every fall to select “the cream of the crop” among music students for solo performances in spring concerts.

Lake Shore Savings has again made a $10,000 commitment to support the arts and entertainment programming at the Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center at the State University of New York at Fredonia.

Child’s Play Touring Theatre, which specializes in performing original works written by young authors, will bring “Kids for President” to Marvel Theatre at the State University of New York at Fredonia for a 7 p.m. performance on Friday, Oct. 3.

The SUNY Fredonia Department of Visual Arts and New Media will welcome Emily Hubley — a 30-year veteran of the animation industry — to campus to speak on Oct. 2 at 8:30 p.m. in room 209 of McEwen Hall. The event is free and open to the public

Nine faculty and guest artists will explore German Expressionism in a concert of 20th century chamber music Saturday, Oct. 4, opening with a discussion by Dr. Gordon Root at 7 p.m.  The exploration of the European creative movement of the first half of the 20th century opens Friday, Oct. 3, with the showing of the film, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." Both events in Rosch Recital Hall, and both are free.

The Best of Broadway will perform its program “Broadway Showstoppers” on Saturday, Sept. 27 at 8 p.m. in King Concert Hall. The show follows last November’s Best of Broadway performance of “The Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber,” which proved to be the most popular single event in the 2007-08 season.

Todd Proffitt (theatre arts and dance) was the lighting designer this summer for the Cortland Repertory Theatre Company.  He designed the lighting for “8 Track Sounds of the 70’s”, “Leading Ladies”, Mousetrap” and “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." While there, he worked alongside SUNY Fredonia alumni Jessica Mykins and Marcus Goldhaber, and current student Mark Andrew Reeve.

Ray Stewart (School of Music) is a member and co-founder of the group, Meridian Arts Ensemble, which was recently featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."