The Bucknell Department of Theatre & Dance will present their first Mainstage performance of the year, Antigone by Sophocles, translated by Anne Carson, Oct. 19-22. The Friday, Saturday and Monday performances will take place at 7:30 p.m., while the Sunday performance is at 2 p.m. All performances will be held in the Harvey M. Powers Theatre, which is located in Coleman Hall. Tickets are $12 for adults and $7 for seniors and may be purchased online, or at the theatre prior to the show.
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Electroacoustic composer/musician Christopher Tignor will perform a free concert as a Gallery Series Guest Artist on Friday, Oct. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rooke Recital Hall of the Weis Music Building.
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The Bucknell University Choir and Camerata will present their free, public Homecoming Concert on Saturday, Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rooke Recital Hall, located in the Sigfried Weis Music Building.
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Margo Anderson ’67, distinguished professor emerita of history at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, will discuss her book The American Census: A Social History during…
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The Jazz at Bucknell fall 2018 series will welcome bassist, composer and arranger Ben Allison and his quartet, Think Free, for a free, public performance on Monday, Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Bucknell Hall.
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The Bucknell Office of Multicultural Student Services will host Dr. Joy DeGruy — an internationally renowned researcher, educator, author and presenter — for a free,…
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Rich Robbins, associate dean of Bucknell University's College of Arts and Sciences and a certified parapsychologist, will present his annual "Ghosts and Hauntings: Decide for Yourself" talk on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. in Trout Auditorium of the University's Vaughan Literature Building. His talk is free and open to the public.
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Theatre Re will take to the Bucknell Weis Center for the Performing Arts stage on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. for a performance of…
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Bucknell University will host the 13th Annual Susquehanna River Symposium, “Science, Conservation, & Heritage,” on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26 and 27 in the Elaine…
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The Bucknell University Orchestra will present a free, public concert titled "Science and the Symphony" on Saturday, Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts.
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Bucknell University students will be conducting a vigil to support the Jewish community and the students at the University most directly affected by Saturday's shootings at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Tuesday evening, Oct. 30, at 6:30 p.m. in the Science Quad.
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Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives will bring their unique blend of Americana music – blended with bluegrass, country, honkytonk and rockabilly – to the Weis Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the performance are $30 for adults, $24 for seniors 62+, $20 for youth 18 and under, $20 for Bucknell employees and retirees (limit 2), $10 for Bucknell students (limit 2), and $20 for non-Bucknell college students (limit 2). Tickets can be purchased online at Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice or by calling 570-577-1000.
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Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia will present The Rainbow Fish and two other companion stories, Rainbow Fish Discovers the Deep and Opposites on Saturday, Nov. 3 at 11 a.m. at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets for the performance are $20 for adults, $16 for seniors 62+, $10 for youth 18 and under, $10 for Bucknell employees and retirees (limit 2), $10 for Bucknell students (limit 2), and $10 for non-Bucknell college students (limit 2). Tickets can be purchased online at Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice or by calling 570-577-1000.
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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will be joined by the unconventional duo of Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital and Latvian accordionist Ksenija Sidorova in a program called Stars…
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Famed Canadian pianist Jane Coop will present a free Bucknell Piano Series concert at Rooke Recital Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m. The program will include piano works by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. She will be on the Bucknell campus for a two-day residency through Nov. 7, sponsored by the Kushell Music Endowment.
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The China Institute at Bucknell University will present a free screening of the documentary Art in Smog, which will be followed by a conversation with the the film's director, Lydia Chen, on Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. in the Elaine Langone Center Forum.
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Alsarah and the Nubatones will perform as part of the Weis Center’s annual season on Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Campus Theatre, 413 Market Street, in downtown Lewisburg. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. A pre-performance talk with the artists will take place from 6:45-7:15 p.m. that evening. General admission tickets for the performance are $20 for adults, $16 for seniors 62+, $10 for youth 18 and under, $10 for Bucknell employees and retirees (limit 2), free for Bucknell students (limit 2), and $10 for non-Bucknell college students (limit 2).
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Mark Bauerlein, an English professor at Emory University and author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30): How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30) will present a free, public talk on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. in Bucknell Hall as part of "The ’60s at 50: Reflections on America a Half-Century Later."
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The Samek Art Museum will hold the second of three events related to its Women's Work Lecture Series on Thursday, Nov. 8 at 6 p.m. at the Iron Front Cowork Space, 434 Market St.,
in downtown Lewisburg. Ashli Baker, an assistant professor of classics and ancient Mediterranean studies at Bucknell, will present a free, public talk entitled "The Myth and Art of Cupid and Psyche."
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The Bucknell Opera Theatre will present Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 9 and 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts.
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The Bucknell University theatre & dance program will present its Fall Dance Showcase on Friday, Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 10 at 2 p.m. in Harvey M. Powers Theatre in Coleman Hall. Tickets are $7 and all seats are reserved. Tickets are available by calling 570-577-1000, online at bucknell.edu/boxoffice, or at any campus box office location.
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Bucknell University will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War I with a ceremony in the Rooke Chapel Meditation Grove on Sunday, Nov. 11, starting at 10:30 a.m. The ceremony will honor the 718 members of the Bucknell community who participated in the Great War, including the 40 who died during, or as a direct result of, the war.
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The Bucknell University Small Business Development Center (SBDC) will host the BizPitch 2018 finals on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 5:30 p.m. in the Terrace Room,…
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Bucknell's Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts will present renowned poet, essayist, professor of classics and translator Anne Carson as its 2018–19 Sojka Visiting Poet. She will present her performance piece "A Lecture on the History of Skywriting," with collaborator Robert Currie, on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. in the Weis Center for Performing Arts. Book sales in the Wes Center Atrium will precede the reading. Carson will also engage in a Q&A on Antigonick, her recent version of the Sophocles’ Antigone, with Bucknell English professor G.C. Waldrep and classics professor Stephanie Larson on Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 12 noon in the Elaine Langone Center Forum. Time will be allotted for audience questions. Please note that locations for these events have changed to reflect expected audience sizes. Both events are free and open to the public.
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Dubbed the “new soul of Americana,” Kaia Kater will perform folk music as part of the Weis Center’s annual season on Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Campus Theatre, 413 Market Street, downtown Lewisburg. General admission tickets for the performance are $20 for adults, $16 for seniors 62+, $10 for youth 18 and under, $10 for Bucknell employees and retirees (limit 2), free for Bucknell students (limit 2), and $10 for non-Bucknell college students (limit 2).
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