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Gainesvillegrad, playwrightto research 9 months in Canada aboutnative rights
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Isaac B. Hopkins, 22, of Gainesville won a Fulbright Grant, a federal grant for international research. The award is a yearlong grant for which he will live and study at a native reservation in Ontario, Canada. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Shinning a light into the dark is one of the themes Gainesville playwright Isaac Hopkins explores with his work. The 22-year-old recently received a Fulbright Grant Award, allowing him to travel to Caledonia, Ontario, in Canada to work for nine months on his latest project — a play about a native rights land claim protest in 2006. “So the story about the protest in Caledonia, Ontario, is about a community that never came together,” Hopkins said.