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Kitchener Public Library partners with Laurier to host virtual concerts
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Wilfrid Laurier University will be offering a series of virtual concerts featuring talented students from the faculty of music. Partnering with the Kitchener Public Library (KPL), this series will be held in the library’s Reading Lounge and broadcasted through Facebook Live. Kimberly Barber, associate dean at the faculty of music, offered an in-depth look at…
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Laurier announces academic pathway agreement with Randolph College for Performing Arts
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Wilfrid Laurier University’s faculty of music has announced that they have created a partnership with Randolph College for the Performing Arts, allowing students at both institutions to receive both a degree and a diploma from each school in certain programs. The pathway agreement will allow Randolph College students to complete an additional two years of…
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Teaching music from the comfort of your home
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For many university students, they know the struggle of not being able to access a lot of things they can at home; a car, their own bathroom and even hobby items that just don’t have any room in student housing. For Emilee Feely, her inaccessibility to a piano while trying to become a piano teacher…
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When crowdfunding for a good cause goes wrong
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We are living in a time where providing services for strangers, like driving them from place to place with the help of an app, or crowdfunding for any cause imaginable, is almost too effortless to do. Unfortunately, as with all things, sometimes the evolving conveniences of society come with downsides. GoFundMe, the website that gives…
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School for Scandal is a smashing success
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On Sept. 22 and 23, Student Budget Productions hosted their rendition of School for Scandal, a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan written in 1777. Unlike most comedies in his time, Sheridan had taken the focus from court life and put it onto the newly influential merchant class. When the play opened in the eighteenth…
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Giving back to the Caribbean islands during hurricane season
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When hurricane Harvey hit Texas, every news channel was reporting the devastation. People panicked and some even planned long drives down just to help the people there. Then hurricane Irma blasted through the Caribbean, but the focus was on the destruction in the sunshine state of Florida. Hurricane Irma was a category 5 hurricane that…
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