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Wizarding Weekend

Wizarding Weekend

How Wizarding Weekend Was Wiped Out: Lack of Support Leads to Cancellation of Ithaca Festival

By Meghana Srivastava | February 2, 2020

Amidst legal battles with Warner Bros. and a lack of sufficient volunteer support, the annual Wizarding Weekend is canceled for the foreseeable future.

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After Five Years of Magic, Ithaca Wizarding Weekend Discontinued for 2020 Onwards

By Meghana Srivastava | January 28, 2020

Ithaca’s Wizarding Weekend, a magical festival held annually in the Ithaca Commons is being discontinued as of 2020, to be replaced by the Gorgekeep Festival.

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Annual Wizarding Weekend Set to Enthrall Enthusiasts With New Interactive Activities

By Lin Ai | October 16, 2019

This year’s highlights include a scroll ceremony and guardian quest, a Fan Arts Show and, as before, a wide range of costumes to add lively colors to Ithaca’s fall season.

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Wizarding Weekend Brings Rainy Magic to Ithaca Commons

By Rochelle Li | October 28, 2018

“Rain or shine it is so fun to be with fans, because fandom is the best part about doing this,” Muzio told The Sun.

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Wizarding Weekend: Potter’s Pupusas and Magical Mac and Cheese

By Annika Pinch | November 2, 2017

All in all, if you don’t want to go to Wizarding weekend for the people dressed up as wizards living out their Harry Potter fantasies, then at least go for the the variety of food and the atmosphere of excitement during the day.

Wizarding Weekend

Rain Fails to Overwhelm Magic as Wizarding Weekend Charms Ithaca

By Stacey Blansky | October 29, 2017

The event kicked off on Friday in Downtown Ithaca with a costume parade, where participants fashioned their Halloween costumes as they walked from the Greater Ithaca Activities Center to the Commons.

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Commons Transforms Into Diagon Alley During Wizarding Weekend

By Multimedia Department | November 4, 2016


Last weekend, hundreds flooded the streets of downtown Ithaca for the second annual Wizarding Weekend, a four-day celebration of J. K. Rowling’s phenomenon, Harry Potter.

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A Magical Experience: Food at Ithaca’s First Wizarding Weekend

By Qijia Yu | November 5, 2015

For Harry Potter fans like me, Wizarding Weekend was not just a reenactment of scenes from a favorite read. It also offered good food that reunited fans with the world of Harry Potter.

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2 Jan

From a crowded ClubFest and winning hockey games to weekly protests and deserted classrooms — here’s a look back at 2020, in photos.

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1 Jan

A raging pandemic. Climate justice protests. A racial justice movement. A nail-biter election week. This was 2020.

Here is a glimpse — beyond Instagram stories and Zoom backgrounds — of what the year actually looked like for Cornellians.

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1 Jan

The year ticked by in numbers — so The Sun tallied them. The 22 emails from President Martha Pollack. The 351 coronavirus cases on campus this fall. Here’s 2020 in the numbers that defined it.
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