Welcome to our 27th installment of Weis Center Sessions! Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. Today, we feature Bucknell student Sami Wurm ’22 performing an original piece. Sami Wurm ’22 is an R&B/Pop singer, producer, and songwriter from New York. She is majoring in Computer Science and Multimedia Music Composition at Bucknell, and she is so excited to share the first live version of her original music with you. She began singing when she was cast as the Tin Man in a local production of The Wizard of Oz at 4 […]

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Welcome to our 26th installment of Weis Center Sessions! Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. Today, we feature Joe Scapellato reading “One of the Days I Nearly Died,” from Big Lonesome. Joseph Scapellato is the author of the novel, The Made-Up Man, and the story collection, Big Lonesome. He earned his MFA in Fiction at New Mexico State University and teaches at Bucknell as an assistant professor in the English Department. Recorded at and produced by the Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell University. ENJOY! #WeisCenterSessions

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Welcome to our 25th installment of Weis Center Sessions! Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell community. Today, we feature a tap dance performance by Professor Benae Beamon. Benae Beamon is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Bucknell. Her research focuses on black queer ethics, which explores moral and social thought surrounding gender and sexuality.  As a performance artist and tap dancer, she uses movement, rhythm, and language as tools to highlight the intersection of identity and ritual, focusing on the way that the mundane can be sacred ritual. As […]

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Welcome to our 24th installment of Weis Center Sessions. Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell community. This week, we feature Bucknell students Chiara Evans ’21 and Clare Merante ’21 in a dance piece choreographed by Professor Er-Dong (Tony) Hu.    The title of the piece is “Clair de Lune” or “Moonlight” from Debussy’s Suite bergamasque. Professor Er-Dong Hu’s piece is a gentle and cerebral meditation on the dual qualities of illumination and beauty as brought to life by Bucknell dancers. During this time of despair and hopelessness, we look to these virtues to sustain us […]

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Welcome to our 23rd installment of Weis Center Sessions. Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. This week, we feature Bucknell student Rah Hite ’23. Rah Hite is a sophomore from Wilmington, Delaware. Having started piano at age five, Rah has had a life dedicated to music, picking up several instruments along the way. He is a double major in Contemporary Music Composition and Computer Science, in hopes to use both to keep up with the rapidly changing music industry. In this piece, ‘Inevitable’, Rah will be playing piano, saxophone, and performing […]

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We are excited to unveil our newest series, Weis Center Snaps, featuring Bucknell faculty displaying passion for their craft with a 3-5 minute snap talk. We kick off Weis Center Snaps with Professor of Physics Tom Solomon (Bucknell University Department of Physics & Astronomy) as he answers the question, “What is a Miracle?” More info about Professor Solomon here. Enjoy! #WeisCenterSnaps

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Check out this wonderful web article to hear from Bucknell students who have been featured in Weis Center Sessions, a weekly video series highlighting talented Bucknell students, faculty and staff.

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Welcome to our 22nd installment of Weis Center Sessions. Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. This week, we feature Flora and the Gleaners, featuring Flora Eyster-Newburgh on flute, Mark Doncheski on vocals and acoustic guitar and Mary Hermann on acoustic upright bass. Flora shared that nine members of her family attended Bucknell over the decades. Her great uncle, botanist Dr. William Eyster, was a professor at Bucknell and he was the first Burpee partner growing at Bucknell grounds and on the Eyster family farm in Sunbury, PA where they coordinated hybrid […]

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The Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell University will host a virtual holiday performance of Manual Cinema’s A Christmas Carol on: Saturday, December 5, 8 p.m. Sunday, December 13, 4 p.m. Thursday, December 17, 8 p.m. The runtime for the performance is one hour and is suggested for ages 5+. The performance is sponsored, in part, by Martha and Alan Barrick and Coldwell Banker Penn One Real Estate. In this world premiere online event created for audiences of all ages, interdisciplinary performance collective Manual Cinema takes on Charles Dickens’ holiday classic with a visually inventive adaptation made to […]

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Welcome to our 21st installment of Weis Center Sessions. Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. This week, we feature Bucknell Music Professor Paul J. Botelho performing a vocal improvisation. Praised for his “vocal virtuosity,” Azorean-American composer/performer Paul J. Botelho performs worldwide. His work includes acoustic and electro-acoustic music, vocal improvisation, multimedia installation pieces, visual art works, and one-act operas. As a countertenor, he performs vocally primarily through extended technique and incorporates the voice into much of his music. His recent work explores vocal responses to composed and prerecorded sonic environments and […]

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