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The Weis Center for the Performing Arts, in collaboration with the Columbia-Montour Visitors Bureau and the Susquehanna River Arts initiative, will host a free art exhibit and installation featuring the work of 10 local artists from Tuesday, April 3 through Friday, May 25 in the Weis Center’s upper Atrium Lobby.

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Circa, a contemporary circus/cirque ensemble from Australia, will perform on Tuesday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets can be purchased online at Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice or by calling 570-577-1000.Tickets are also available in person from several locations including the Weis Center lobby and the CAP Center Box Office, located on the ground floor of the Elaine Langone Center.

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Carolyn M. Finney, writer, performer, and assistant professor of geography at the University of Kentucky, will speak on “All Things Considered: Black Faces, White Spaces…

Continue reading March 8: Writer, Performer, and Assistant Geography Professor To Lecture on “Green” Conversations »

Air Play, a whimsical contemporary cirque performance, will float into the Weis Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online at Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice or by calling 570-577-1000. They also may be purchased in-person from several locations including the Weis Center lobby and the CAP Center Box Office, located on the ground floor of the Elaine Langone Center.

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Joined by Grammy Award-winning Parker String Quartet, American Gamelan Institute Director Jody Diamond, Bucknell Artist-in-Residence I Gusti Nyoman Darta, and guest scholars, Bucknell celebrates the…

Continue reading March 25-27: Debussy Centenary Symposium Celebrates French Composer 100 Years Later »

The President’s Diversity Council and the MLK Week Committee will lead a moment of silence and reflection on the 50th year since the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Wednesday, April 4, at 11:45 a.m. at the Brawley/King Bust, Vaughn Literature Garden, in the Humanities Quad. The rain location will be the lobby of the Weis Center for the Performing Arts.

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Contemporary artist Dread Scott will deliver a free, public talk titled "Activism and the Erasure of Subversive Art: Imagine a World without America" on Wednesday, April 4, at 7 p.m. in the Gallery Theatre of the Elaine Langone Center. A reception with Scott will follow in the Samek Art Museum.

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Traditional hula ensemble Hālau Hula Ka No‘eau will perform on Thursday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts. There will be a free pre-performance talk on the same day as the performance from 1-2 p.m. in the Weis Center Atrium Lobby. The talk will include a brief history of hula and an informal hula dance lesson.

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The Mivos Quartet, "one of America's most daring and ferocious new-music ensembles" according to Chicago Reader, will perform on Thursday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rooke Recital Hall, Sigfried Weis Music Building.

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Jazz saxophonist Melissa Aldana will perform on Wednesday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Weis Center Atrium Lobby. The performance is free and tickets are not required. There will be a free pre-performance talk immediately before the performance, from 6:45 to 7:15 p.m., also in the Atrium Lobby.

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Dr. Simone Kraus, professor of translation studies, translator and writer, will present a free, public lecture entitled, “Philip Roth and ‘The Other Europe:’ New Perspectives…

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All are invited to participate in art and activism workshops from 3 to 5 p.m. on Friday April 13, and 20 at the 7th Street…

Continue reading April 13 and 20: DiazLewis Conducting Art and Activism Workshops »

Silkroad Ensemble, featuring musicians and composers from more than 20 countries, will perform on Saturday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Weis Center for…

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World music from Tunisia will be featured in a performance called “Suite for Abu Sadiya” on Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Weis…

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Avery Fisher grant winner Xavier Foley will perform a classical repertoire on Sunday, April 22 at 2 p.m. in the Weis Center for the Performing…

Continue reading April 22: Double Bassist Xavier Foley Offers Classical Performance in the Weis Center »

Professor Peter Iver Kaufman, George Matthews and Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair in Leadership Studies, Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, will…

Continue reading April 23: Richmond Professor to Discuss the Reformation »

The third biennial Bucknell Intercollegiate Film Festival (BIFF) will take place on Sunday, April 29 at 7 p.m. at the historic Campus Theatre in downtown Lewisburg. A post-festival catered reception is scheduled at the Samek Art Museum’s Downtown Art Gallery across the street from the theatre.

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