Weis Center for the Performing Arts
Arts & Performances
The Weis Center's 2023-24 Season has been announced! The season includes 25 live performances, including world music and dance, modern dance, classical, jazz, soul, Americana/roots, family-friendly performances and so much more. Hope to see you at the Weis Center soon!
Spring 2024 Weis Center Performances
Bringing the World to Central Pennsylvania
For more than 35 years, the Weis Center has presented world-class artists to Bucknell University and Central Pennsylvania audiences.
In our programming and within our community, our goal is always to inspire:
- Artists to do their best work and to share it with the University.
- Audiences to recognize the spiritual power of art and its capacity to change lives.
- Our communities to become active participants, rather than passive spectators, through the deep integration of arts activities between our campus and region.
Through this inspiration, we believe we can transform the nature of the world in which we live. Our hope is that when you attend a Weis Center performance, you share in an experience and moment in time with hundreds of others. When that happens, you'll leave inspired, moved and energized.
Great Performances and Beyond
While on campus, visiting artists participate in a variety of residency activities, including master classes, lecture demonstrations, pre-performance talks and post-performance receptions. Together, these moments increase involvement in and knowledge of the arts within the University, local community and the region.
Spring 2024 Artists
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Fall 2023 Artists
Spotify Playlist
Weis Center Performances
Performances
Season 2023-24
The Weis Center's 2023-24 Season will include 25 live performances, including world music and dance, modern dance, classical, jazz, Americana/roots, family discovery performances and so much more.
Weis Center 2023-24 Season
2023-24 Season
Brochure
The 2023-24 line-up includes a diverse schedule of nearly 25 live performances designed to inspire your mind, energize your body and restore your heart.
Curricular Connections
Building Curricular Connections
Spring 2024
Many of the performances presented at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts feature additional programming where Bucknell’s faculty and students can connect with visiting artists through masterclasses, pre-show talks, class visits, and community meals. These active-learning opportunities support the core values of a liberal arts curriculum as they engage students with real-world problems and ideas, challenge students to think critically and increase cultural intelligence. Curricular Connections with artists are designed to enrich the educational experience at Bucknell by expanding the walls of the classroom.
We’re happy to help forge future Curricular Connections to help achieve the learning goals of your courses. Please contact us if you see a curricular connection we may pursue together. E-mail Rachel Martine at rm053@bucknell.edu to organize your class connection.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts Blog
- Mar 25, 2024 6:14 p.m.
Arrive Early for World Music Performance: Taco Truck Parked On-Site!
Bucknell students may receive one food voucher per person and a free performance ticket with BU ID The Weis Center for the Performing Arts will welcome Caña Dulce y Caña Brava from Veracruz, Mexico on Thursday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Weis Center. Arrive early!Patrons are encouraged to arrive early for a free pre-performance talk from 6:45-7:15 p.m. in the Weis Center Atrium. Also available before the show – dinner! Real Taste 570’s food truck will be parked on the Weis Center Plaza from 6:30-7:20 p.m. offering their Mexican Street menu for purchase. The menu includes tacos, burritos, […] - Mar 22, 2024 9:58 p.m.
World Music from Veracruz, Mexico Ends Weis Center’s 23-24 Season
The Weis Center for the Performing Arts will welcome Caña Dulce y Caña Brava from Veracruz, Mexico on Thursday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Weis Center. The performance is sponsored, in part, by Geisinger and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. This engagement of Caña Dulce y Caña Brava is made possible in part through the Iber Exchange program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with Ibermúsicas. Arrive early!Patrons are encouraged to arrive early for a free pre-performance talk from 6:45-7:15 p.m. in the Weis Center Atrium. Also available before the […] - Mar 22, 2024 9:50 p.m.
Cellist and Pianist Will Present Classical Works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Franck and Others at Weis Center
The Weis Center for the Performing Arts will welcome Cellist Jonathan Swensen and Pianist Adam Golka on Sunday, April 7 at 2 p.m. at the Weis Center. They will perform: ABOUT JONATHAN SWENSEN, CELLO Rising star of the cello Jonathan Swensen is the recipient of the 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant and was recently featured as both Musical America’s ‘New Artist of the Month’ and ‘One to Watch’ in Gramophone Magazine. Jonathan first fell in love with the cello upon hearing the Elgar Concerto at the age of six, and ultimately made his concerto debut performing that very piece with […]
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Sessions & Snaps
A series of performance videos that features Bucknell faculty, staff, students and alumni. Weis Center Sessions are recorded at and produced by the Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell University.
Sessions
A series that features Bucknell faculty and staff displaying a passion for their craft with 3-5 minute snap talks, professionally produced by the Weis Center from the beautiful Weis Center stage.
Snaps