Recent Events

Green Lunch Bag Seminar

Jess Scott '08, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Monday, Jan. 28, at noon, Environmental Center middle room

A presentation about Bard Center for Environmental Policy's graduate programs. Bard offers innovative master of science degrees in environmental policy and climate science and policy, as well as a new MBA in sustainability based in NYC.

Green Lunch Bag Seminars provide an opportunity for University students, alumnae/i, and faculty to share current research and projects related to the environment. Attendees are invited to bring lunches; beverages are provided by the Environmental Center, which is located on Fraternity Road across from the Observatory. No registration is necessary.

Arts

"Same River"
Directed by guest artist Leese Walker
Performed by the Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble and students from Bucknell.
February 2, 2013 at 8 p.m. and February 3, 2013 at 2 p.m., Harvey M. Powers Theatre

"We have water; it's just, we can't drink it, we can't touch it, we can't bathe in it." - Western Pennsylvania resident.

Melding live music, modern dance, physical theater, video and visual art, the NYC-based collective Strike Anywhere teams up with Bucknell's Department of Theatre and Dance, the Residential Colleges, and the Environmental Center to present "Same River." Using first person accounts as source material, "Same River" is a multi-media improvisation on Pennsylvania's rush to extract natural gas through the process known as fracking.

Over the course of the fall semester, Bucknell students conducted dozens of interviews with residents whose lives have been directly impacted by fracking. Strike Anywhere will weave the collected stories into the existing show when the professional ensemble and student group unite to revise and perform Same River together. A town-hall style discussion will follow each performance.

Sponsored by the Place Studies Initiative of the Environmental Center, the Residential Colleges, and the Department of Theatre and Dance.

Speakers

Katie Faull and Alf Siewers: "Interpreting the Susquehanna: Renewing the Liberal Arts & Humanities in Regional Studies"
Thursday, Feb. 7 at 4 p.m., Smith Library, Vaughan Literature Building

Sponsored by the Place Studies Initiative of the Environmental Center as part of the "Stories of the Susquehanna Valley" book and lecture series. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided; no registration is necessary.