The Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company held its third annual Jackie Warren-Moore Poetry and Monologue Festival Friday. It honored Warren-Moore, Onondaga County’s first poet laureate, who died three years ago.
Yolanda Stewart
Yolanda Stewart was raised in the Bronx, New York City. Before choosing a career path in journalism she found a voice in writing plays, short stories, and a myriad of other creative outlets. She is a 2022 alumnae of Syracuse University's Newhouse graduate program. Yolanda was hired as the arts and culture reporter in January 2023; since then, she has continued to integrate herself into the Syracuse community. Her coverage focus area spans an array of topics that highlight Syracuse's culture through storytelling. Yolanda has covered a host of events, art galleries, plays, written profile stories about Syracusans, and important community-wide issues.
She can be reached at ystewart@centralcurrent.org.
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Mithila paintings on display at SU Art Museum explore gender-based violence
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17th-century Spanish-language play comes alive at Syracuse’s Community Folk Art Center
The play will be directed by Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado, who is also the director of a local theater group.
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Retired Syracuse journalist reflects on the decline of print news in ‘Final Edition’ at the Everson
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At 443 Social Club’s Shakedown Sunday, Deadheads find community
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National Book Award-winning author Justin Torres comes home to Syracuse area to talk about new novel
Torres will speak at the Central Library at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
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Artist behind ArtRage exhibit ‘Another World is Possible’ blends activism with art
Ricardo Levins Morales has always believed in using art as political medicine. For the last five decades, Morales has created art for groups like the Young Lords, the Black Panthers, and the Northland Poster Collective, a group that used art to support justice and labor. “It’s about you telling the stories that we need in […]
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Meet the artist behind Syracuse’s newest murals in the Lakefront neighborhood
The mural will be unveiled Sunday at noon at 412 Spencer St.
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New documentary to show how Central New Yorkers picked solutions to increase testing for lead poisoning
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Black Artist Collective’s Freedom Fest returns but this time with comedy
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