Famed Columbia University climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, whose 1988 Congressional testimony on climate change helped raise broad awareness of global warming, will be the keynote speaker when Bucknell University’s Center for Sustainability and the Environment (BCSE) presents its seventh annual Sustainability Symposium Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27. This year’s symposium theme is “Envisioning the Future: Energy, Climate, & Human Rights.”
The Bucknell University Rooke Chapel Ringers will present their free, public spring concert on Saturday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall, Sigfried Weis Music Building.
The Bucknell Department of Music will host a free, public piano studio showcase featuring students from the studios of Sangyoung Kim and Kristen Stephenson in two unique performances on Saturday and Sunday, April 27-28, at 2 p.m. in the Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall, Sigfried Weis Music Building.
The Bucknell Dance Company will perform its spring dance concert on Saturday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 28 at 2 p.m. in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts. The concert is part of the Department of Theatre and Dance's mainstage season. Tickets are $12 regular admission or $7 for students, senior citizens and children and are available by calling 570-577-1000, at bucknell.edu/boxoffice or at any campus box office location.
Bucknell University music students will perform a chamber music showcase on Sunday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall, Sigfried Weis Music Building.
Panda’s Home, an enchanting and interactive performance that allows audience members to take a journey to ancient China, following the footprints left by a panda, will be presented by Italian-based company Compagnia TPO on Saturday, May 11 during three public performances: 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts. This performance will take place on the Weis Center stage, therefore seating is limited to 100 patrons per performance. Tickets for the performances 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.
Celebrating the academic achievements of nearly 900 students from the Class of 2019 representing 37 states and 27 countries, Bucknell University’s 169th Commencement will begin at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 19, on Malesardi Quadrangle.
The Bucknell Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Samek Art Museum have partnered for an exhibition called “Women’s Work,” from Tuesday, Oct. 2 through Sunday,…
Jonathan Frey, an art professor at Bucknell, is presenting a solo exhibition entitled Language and Other Games at the Samek Art Museum's Downtown Gallery, 416 Market Street, Lewisburg, through Sunday, May 19. The Downtown Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday between 12 noon and 5 p.m. and all exhibitions and public programs are free and open to the public.
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Orthodox Christians in the area will commemorate the centennial with an Akathist prayer service led by the Very Rev. Archpriest Claude Vinyard and conducted by vocalist Matushka Anna Sharonoff at Bucknell's Rooke Chapel on Sunday, July 17, from 7-8 p.m. The service will include brief historical talks by Bucknell English professor Alf Siewers and Father George Sharonoff.
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Bucknell University will welcome more than 2,300 alumni and family members to campus for its annual Reunion Weekend May 31 to June 3. Reunions will be celebrated for class years ending in 3 and 8, as well as all classes who graduated more than 50 years ago.
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Comedian and author Chelsea Handler will participate in a fireside chat on social activism on Tuesday, April 3, at 7 p.m. in Bucknell University’s Weis Center for the Performing Arts. The discussion will be moderated by Bucknell philosophy professor and department chair Sheila Lintott and a 20-minute Q&A will follow. Free tickets are available for the Bucknell community on April 3 from 12 to 4 p.m. at the CAP (Campus Activities and Programs) Center, Weis Center, and online through the campus box office. One hundred tickets will be available at 6 p.m. for the general public and Bucknell community the day of the event at the Weis Center Box Office.
