Bucknell releases October schedule of public events

Lewisburg, Pa. — Bucknell University has several events planned for October including musical performances, guest speakers, church services, an acrobatics show, a poetry reading, and an art exhibition. The schedule of events is listed below.

Music Gallery Series presents composer, improviser, and performer Lucie Vítková Wednesday, Oct. 2, 7:40 p.m., Sigfried Weis Music Building Lobby

Vítková is a performer on accordion, hichiriki, synthesizer, and harmonica who also is a vocal performer and dancer from the Czech Republic, living in New York. The concert is free and open to the public.

Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Gender presents UCLA professor Natalie Masuoka on politics of race, identity, and belonging Thursday, Oct. 3, 7 p.m., Elaine Langone Center, Forum (Room 272)

Natalie Masuoka, an author and associate professor of political science and Asian American studies at UCLA, will present a free, public talk titled "Where Do Asian Americans Fit? The Construction of Asian Americans as a Racialized Minority Group."

Jazz Bucknell presents Albert Marquès and Keith LaMar Freedom First Concert, Thursday, Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m., Sigfried Weis Music Building, Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall (Room 100)

"Freedom First, music from death row" is a collaboration by Catalan jazz pianist Albert Marquès and writer, activistm and poet Keith LaMar, who spent the past 30 years in solitary confinement on death row in Ohio for a crime he alleges he didn't commit. The event is free and open to the public. During the concert, LaMar will perform live by phone from the Ohio State Penitentiary.

Piano Series presents award-winning Chinese pianist Zhu Wang Friday, Oct. 4, 7:30 p.m., Sigfried Weis Music Building, Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall (Room 100)

Bucknell's Department of Music Piano Series opens the 2024-25 season with Chinese pianist Zhu Wang — first prize winner of the 2020 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions — in a free, public concert. The concert will feature a piano work by composer and multimedia artist Nina Shekhar along with other monumental works such as Bartok's Piano Sonata, Brahms' Variations, and Fugue on a Theme by Handel.

Bucknell Alumni Choir, University Choir performs world premiere during Sunday Rooke Chapel worship service Sunday, Oct. 6, 11 a.m., Rooke Chapel

The Center for Alumni & Family Engagement is partnering with the Department of Music for the Bucknell University and Chapel Choir Alumni Reunion taking place on Oct. 4-6. This is the first reunion of its kind, which the department of music hopes to make an annual event. Alumni will team up with current Bucknell students to perform during the Rooke Chapel worship service, featuring the world premiere of a commissioned composition from Jackson Hill. The choir will be under the direction of both Professor Caleb Hopkins, music, director of the Bucknell University Choir; and Bill Payn, emeritus director of choral activities.

Machine de Cirque presents "Ghost Light: Between Fall and Flight" Tuesday, Oct. 8, 7 p.m. at Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Guinness World Record-holder and award-winner Maxim Laurin will perform a spectacular duet with Guillaume Larouche on a spinning teeterboard that brings audiences into the elusive world between fall and flight. One hour in length, Ghost Light premiered in fall 2020 in France. It had its North American premiere at Tohu in Montreal in November 2021.

Tickets for Ghost Light are $30 for adults, $24 for seniors 62+ and subscribers, $20 for youth 18 and under, $20 for Bucknell employees and retirees (limit 2), free for Bucknell students (limit 1) and $20 for non-Bucknell students (limit 2).

Tickets can be reserved by calling 570-577-1000 or online at Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice .

Tickets are also available in person from several locations including the Weis Center lobby (weekdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and the CAP Center Box Office, located on the ground floor of the Elaine Langone Center (weekdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.).

Award-winning poet Danez Smith presents Sojka Poet-in-Residence reading and Q&A Tuesday, Oct. 8, 7 p.m., Bucknell Hall

Danez Smith, the winner of a Pushcart Prize, will present the Stadler Center for Poety & Literary Arts' Sandra & Gary Sojka Poet-in-Residence reading and Q&A. The event is free and open to the public.

There will also be a craft talk & workshop on Thursday, Oct. 10 at noon in Hildreth-Mirza Hall's Great Room.

Artist Maggie Cardelús presents Ekard Artist in Residence talk Wednesday, Oct. 9, 5 p.m., Holmes Hall, Hislop Family Auditorium (Room 116)

Bucknell's Department of Art & Art History will present Maggie Cardelús, a many-media artist currently based in Paris, who will give a free, public Ekard Artist-in-Residence talk. Her artist talk will focus on her practice, which incorporates and transforms unexpected craft-based processes like needlepoint, leatherwork, and paper folding into ambitiously scaled artworks that deal with themes of feminist and capitalist critique.

Cardelús' residency runs from Oct. 2-Nov. 15, followed by a small exhibition which will run until the end of the semester in The 103, art & art history's Holmes Hall gallery space in Room 103 (open weekdays 9-5).

Bucknell Voice Music Majors present Night Song free concert Wednesday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m.,Siegfried Weis Music Building, Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall (Room 100)

Bucknell's Department of Music will present an evening of melodies — from classical arias to contemporary ballads — during a free, public concert by Bucknell's voice music majors.