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!
Single tickets for all performances are now on sale. Subscriptions for five or more performances receive a 20% discount. Order 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 receive a 20% discount.
Orders can be placed online at Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice, by phone at 570-577-1000, or by mail using a completed order form.
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 20, 2025 3:25 p.m.
Modigliani Quartet to Perform Works by Haydn, Beethoven, and Brahms at the Weis Center
The Weis Center for the Performing Arts will welcome classical ensemble Modigliani Quartet on Sunday, November 9 at 4 p.m. at the Weis Center. There will be a pre-performance talk with the artists from 3:15-3:45 p.m. in the Atrium. The Paris-based Modigliani Quartet features Amaury Coeytaux on violin, Loïc Rio on violin, Laurent Marfaing on viola and François Kieffer on cello. The performance is sponsored, in part, by Sam and Nancy Craig. Founded in 2003, the Modigliani Quartet is recognized as one of today’s most sought-after quartets, regularly performing in leading international concert series and on the world’s most prestigious […] - Oct 20, 2025 3:20 p.m.
Folk/Americana Artist Yasmin Williams Will Perform in Weis Center Atrium
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 […] - Oct 10, 2025 8:08 a.m.
Sprout of Movement: The Living Language of Ailey II
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 […]