Weis Center for the Performing Arts
Arts & Performances
The Weis Center's 2025–26 season has been announced!
The new Season will offer 24 professional performances, including world music, world dance, contemporary dance, contemporary cirque, jazz, classical, Americana/folk, and so much more!
Subscriptions for five or more performances, which receive a 20% discount, will go on sale on Monday, July 7.
Single tickets will go on sale on Wednesday, Aug. 13.
Orders will be accepted online at Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice, by phone at 570-577-1000, and by mail order form.
Weis Center Season 2025-26 Publications
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.
Weis Center presents
Season 2025-26
The new Season will offer 24 professional performances, including world music, world dance, contemporary dance, contemporary cirque, jazz, classical, Americana/folk and so much more!
Subscriptions for five or more performances, which receive a 20% discount, will go on sale on Monday, July 7. Orders will be accepted online at Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice, by phone at 570-577-1000, and by mail order form.
Single tickets will go on sale on Wednesday, Aug. 13.
Season Perfomances Brochure
Weis Center for the Performing Arts
2025–26
The 2025–26 line-up includes a diverse schedule of 24 live performances designed to inspire your mind, energize your body and restore your heart. Join us for this enriching experience!
Curricular Connections
Building Curricular Connections
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.
Fall 2025 Artists
Spotify Playlist
Special Trees Series
As biologist Merlin Sheldrake says, “Trees make meaning as well as oxygen.”
Everyone has a tree story or a point of connection to trees.
As part of its 2025–26 season, the Weis Center will host a series of programs including performances, creative projects, walks and lectures centered on the theme of trees, just as we did 10 years ago with the Coal Collections series.
Many of our season performances will align with the theme of trees and are noted as such with a leaf symbol.
Additional tree-themed programming will be announced in early fall — stay tuned for much more!
Trees, such as the venerable elders that stand in The Grove on our campus, connect us to a larger-than-human scale, embodying a geologic time we can see, smell and touch. Since our University is situated in a beloved section of Penn’s Woods, we seek to highlight the history, culture, science and meaning of trees.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts Blog
- Oct 1, 2025 2:51 p.m.
From Root to Stage: How the Samek and Weis Center Grow Together
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 alone. […] - Sep 30, 2025 9:14 p.m.
Weis Center Presents World Music from Ukraine on Friday, October 17
The Weis Center will welcome world music ensemble Kurbasy from Lviv, Ukraine on Friday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the Weis Center. A free pre-performance talk will take place in the Atrium from 6:30-7 p.m. The performance is sponsored, in part, Gary and Sandy Sojka and Center Stage. Kurbasy is on tour in the USA as part of Center Stage, an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs with funding provided by the U.S. Government. It is administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts in cooperation with the U.S. Regional […] - Sep 29, 2025 11:59 p.m.
Nat Geo Explorer at Large Nalini Nadkarni Interacts with 100+ Bucknell Students Through Res College Common Hour Program
On Monday, September 29, Nalini Nadkarni, National Geographic Explorer at Large, met and interacted with more than 100 Bucknell University students through the Residential College Common Hour program. She met with students from the Discovery Res College, Society and Technology Res College, and Nature and Innovation Res College. Nalini will present her multimedia presentation “From Roots to Canopy” at the Weis Center on Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the Weis Center. Professor Chris Martine will introduce Nalini and facilitate a post-show Q&A. Nalini talked about growing up in Bethesda, MD and climbing the eight trees lining her parents’ […]