The Weis Center will welcome classical ensemble Trio Bohémo on Sunday, Sept. 20 at 2 p.m. in the Weis Center Concert Hall. The performance is sponsored, in part, Sam and Nancy Craig.    Trio Bohémo, with Jan Vojtek (piano), Matouš Pěruška (violin), and Kristina Vocetková (cello), has swiftly emerged as a force on the international chamber music scene. Within just five years, the ensemble has garnered prestigious accolades including First Prize and the Audience Prize at the “International Joseph Haydn Competition” in Vienna, “International Parkhouse Award” in London and “International Johannes Brahms Competition” in Austria. Moreover, they are prize winners […]

The Weis Center will welcome jazz ensemble Endea Owens and The Cookout on Thursday, Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Weis Center Concert Hall. The performance is sponsored, in part, by Teri MacBride and Steve Guattery.   Known as one of Jazz’s most vibrant emerging artists, Endea Owens is a Detroit-raised Recording Artist, Bassist, and Composer. She has been mentored by Jazz Icons the likes of Marcus Belgrave, Rodney Whitaker, and Ron Carter. She has toured and performed with Wynton Marsalis, Jennifer Holliday, Diana Ross, Rhonda Ross, Solange, Jon Batiste, Jazzmeia Horn, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Cyrus Chestnut to […]

The 2026-27 season at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts includes 26 professional performances – including world music, classical, contemporary cirque, Americana/folk music, contemporary dance, ballet, world dance, jazz, and much more. Tickets go on sale to the public on Monday, July 13 for subscribers (5+ performances, 20% discount) and on Monday, August 10 for single tickets. At that time, patrons may call 570-577-1000, go online at Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice or use a mail-order form available at Bucknell.edu/WeisCenter.   The full lineup is as follows: BLUEGRASS/AMERICANABronwynFriday, Sept. 11, 7:30 p.m.Weis Center Concert HallBronwyn Keith-Hynes is renowned as a prolific instrumentalist, earning […]

Watching Ephrat Asherie and her company at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts felt unexpectedly familiar. From the opening sequence, where the performers entered with loose confidence and settled into a shared groove, the stage carried an energy that felt both contemporary and nostalgic. The movement drew from breaking, hip hop and social dance traditions, but it never felt like a history lesson. It felt lived in. What stood out most was the precision within the looseness. The performers shifted in and out of formation with ease. At one point, the entire group moved in tight unison, their footwork […]

Walking into the Weis Center for the Performing Arts to watch Drum Tao, I noticed the crowd before anything else. On a night when the cold felt especially unforgiving, when staying inside would have been easier, the hall was full. Families sat beside students. Faculty members greeted neighbors. Coats were folded over armrests. Programs were already open in people’s hands. Everyone had come ready to give the evening their attention. When the performance began, the sound moved through the room like a wave. It started at the stage and spread outward, passing through the seats, the floor and the walls […]

At Bucknell University, some weekends are spent studying, some are spent celebrating, but this one is about storytelling. On October 24, the campus will once again transform into a living film set as the Bucknell Film Club launches its 48-Hour Film Challenge, with this year marking an exhilarating collaboration with the Weis Center for the Performing Arts that dares students to write, shoot, and edit an entire short film within just two days. The challenge begins with a mandatory prop reveal at 7 p.m. on Friday, October 24, at the Weis Center. The props are random, sometimes ridiculous, and always […]

Some performances feel less like concerts and more like ceremonies, moments that blur the line between past and present, between what is sung and what is remembered. Kurbasy’s Songs of the Ukrainian Forest was one of those rare evenings. It didn’t simply perform; it reached, branching outward from deep cultural roots and carrying with it echoes of survival, sorrow, and hope. Before the first note was sung, the Weis Center was already steeped in reflection. The pre-talk, led by Heather Almer, Assistant Director of International Student & Scholar Services, set the tone for the evening with both warmth and understanding. […]

The Weis Center for the Performing Arts will welcome folk/Americana artist Yasmin Williams on Wednesday, November 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Weis Center Atrium. Yasmin Williams is an innovative guitarist and composer known for her unique compositional approach and expansive instrumental style. Her latest album Acadia, released on Nonesuch Records, showcases her evolution from solo performer to collaborative artist, featuring partnerships with notable musicians like Aoife O’Donovan and Immanuel Wilkins. Williams’ distinctive creative process involves “ruminating” on single notes until compositions naturally emerge. Beyond traditional fingerpicked guitar, she demonstrates mastery of multiple instruments including kora, harp guitar, banjo, and […]

The Weis Center Atrium had never felt so alive. Before the performance even began, the space pulsed with an energy that was warm and contagious. Conversations intertwined, laughter filled the air, and a gentle hum moved through the crowd like the sound of anticipation itself. It was not noise but life, a kind of harmony that emerges when people gather for something they love. Children weaved through clusters of adults, friends called out to one another across the room, and strangers exchanged smiles that needed no introduction. Under that roof, the evening became a celebration of togetherness and of the […]

This year, the Samek Art Museum and the Weis Center for the Performing Arts have cometogether under one unifying theme: trees. It is more than coincidence, more than a sharedimage. It is a collaboration that asks us to think about growth, process, and connection acrossart forms, and to experience how these lessons move between the museum and the stage. At the Samek, Gina Siepel’s exhibition To Understand a Tree anchors the season. The project,created over six years in communion with a single tree, blends ecology, queer experience, andenvironmental philosophy into a living portrait of interconnection. But the exhibition does notstand […]