CAMPUS EVENTS
February 2015
NOTE
Schedules and information are subject to change. If you're driving from some distance to attend an event at
Bucknell, you may want to call to confirm time and place. Call 570-577-3260 before 4:30 p.m. or 570-577-2000
after 4:30 p.m.; check bucknell.edu/EventsAndCalendars.xml for calendar updates. Events listed below are free
unless noted otherwise.
ART EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS
Now through March 1. Downtown Gallery, 416 Market St., Lewisburg. Esther Traugot: Arboretum, a solo
exhibition of meticulously crafted installations that combine crochet, roots, seed and shells which investigate
conflicting impulses to nurture and control nature. Now – Feb. 27: Samek Knitting Circle Fridays from 3 to 5 p.m.
as part of the Arboretum exhibition. Participants can bring knitting and crocheting supplies or use those offered by
the Museum. Refreshments will be provided. Co-sponsored by the Bucknell University Seventh Street Studio. Feb.
7. Family Art-making Activity, 1 to 4 p.m., Downtown Gallery, as part of the Lewisburg Ice Festival. Participants
can make crocheted arts and crafts.
Now through March 22. Samek Gallery, Elaine Langone Center. Rachel Sussman: The Oldest Living Things in
the World, featuring epic photographs of living organisms 2,000 years old and older.
Now through May 1. Special Collections/University Archives Exhibit, Bertrand Library, Lower Level I. Bucknell
and World War I, a display of materials from University Archives collections representing Bucknell University's
response to World War I and student participation in war efforts. Available for viewing during Bertrand Library's
open hours.
DANCE
Feb. 26. Black Arts Festival Event. African Dance Workshop, with The Bisonettes Dance Team, time TBA, Tustin
Dance Studio.
FILMS
Feb. 10. Tuesday Film/Media Series. History is Made at Night, directed by Frank Borzage, 1978, 7 p.m., Campus
Theatre, 413 Market St., Lewisburg. Admission: $2.
Feb. 12. Third World Film Series. Oil & Water, written and directed by Laurel Spellman Smith and Francine
Strickwerda, 2014, 4 and 7 p.m., Room 214, Academic West.
Feb. 13. Documentary and Avant-garde Film Series. Fireworks, directed by Kenneth Anger, 1947, followed by
Paris is Burning, directed by Jennie Livingston, 1990, and Downs are Feminine, directed by Lewis Klahr, 1994, 2
p.m., Campus Theatre, 413 Market St., Lewisburg.
Feb. 13. Hilltop Film Series. Les Saveurs de Palais, directed by Christian Vincent, France, 2012 7:30 p.m., Gallery
Theatre (Room 301), Elaine Langone Center.
Feb. 17. Tuesday Film/Media Series. Duck Soup, directed by Leo McCarey, 1933, 7 p.m., Campus Theatre, 413
Market St., Lewisburg. Admission: $2. Introduced by Bucknell Provost Mick Smyer.
Feb. 19. Third World Film Series. Last Train Home, directed by Lixin Fan, 2010, 4 and 7 p.m., Room 214,
Academic West.
Feb. 20. Documentary and Avant-garde Film Series. Point of Order, directed by Emile de Antonio, 1964, followed
by Light is Waiting, directed by Michael Robinson, 2007, 2 p.m., Campus Theatre, 413 Market St., Lewisburg.
Feb. 20. Hilltop Film Series. Yves Saint Laurent, directed by Jalil Lespert, France, 2014, 7:30 p.m., Gallery
Theatre (Room 301), Elaine Langone Center.
Feb. 23. Introduction to Film/Media Studies. The Maltese Falcon, directed by John Huston, 1941, 7 p.m., Campus
Theatre, 413 Market St., Lewisburg.
Feb. 24. Tuesday Film/Media Series. The Singing Blacksmith, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, 1938, 7 p.m., Campus
Theatre, 413 Market St., Lewisburg. Admission: $2. Co-sponsored by the Department of Languages, Cultures and
Linguistics, and introduced by Rivka Ulmer, professor of Jewish Studies.
Feb. 26. Third World Film Series. Black Gold: Wake up and Smell the Coffee, produced and directed by Marc and
Nick Francis, 2006, 4 and 7 p.m., Room 214, Academic West.
Feb. 27. Documentary and Avant-garde Film Series. Forest of Bliss, directed by Robert Gardner, 1986, followed
by A Depression in the Bay of Bengal, directed by Mark LaPore, 1996, 2 p.m., Campus Theatre, 413 Market St.,
Lewisburg.
Feb. 27. Hilltop Film Series. Examined Life, directed by Astra Taylor, Canada, 2008, 7:30 p.m., Gallery Theatre
(Room 301), Elaine Langone Center.
GENERAL
Feb. 18. Library & IT New Horizons Faculty Lunch. "Deep Time," noon, Traditional Reading Room, Bertrand
Library. In conjunction with the Samek Gallery exhibition, The Oldest Living Things in the World, experts from
the Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum/University of Maine, and Rhizome.org will discuss the longterm sustainability of digital art and culture.
Feb. 21. Black History Month Event. Hip-Hop Workshop, featuring student-led presentations on dancing, lyrics
and other aspects of hip-hop culture, 3:30 to 5 p.m., Center Room, Elaine Langone Center.
Feb. 26. Samek Museum Fashion Show. "Time Travelers' Ball," noon, Samek Gallery, presented as part of the
Museum's Culture and Technology Intersections series. A fashion show of costumes made by engineering students
and the sounds of the music department's Laptop Ensemble.
LECTURES
Feb. 10. Women's and Gender Studies Series. "Asking for it: The Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent," Harry
Brod, men's studies scholar, University of Northern Iowa, 7 p.m., Trout Auditorium, Vaughan Literature Building.
Co-sponsored by the departments Psychology, Anthropology and Sociology, The University Lectureship
Committee, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, and the Office of the President.
Feb. 11. Griot Institute Post-Obama Series. "Barack Obama, Ferguson and Evidence of Things Unsaid," Ta-Nehisi
Coates, The Atlantic national correspondent, 7 p.m., Trout Auditorium, Vaughan Literature Building. Cosponsored with the Department of Economics. [NOTE location change]
Feb. 12. Digital Humanities Institute Series. "Feminist Data Visualization: The Theoretical Work of Female
Educators in the 19th-century United States," Lauren Klein, Georgia Tech, 4:30 p.m., Room 210, Academic West.
Feb. 19. Darwin Day Lecture/Presentation. "The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human," Jonathan
Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal and Professor in the Cage, noon, Trout Auditorium, Vaughan
Literature Building. Co-sponsored by the University Lectureship Committee, the Departments of Biology and
English, and the Bucknell Innovation Group.
Feb. 19. RESCHEDULED to November. CSREG Series. "Challenges to the 1965 Voting Rights Act," Lani
Guinier, Harvard University.
Feb. 23. Digital Humanities Institute Series. "From Parchment to Cyberspace: Medieval Literature in the Digital
Age," Stephen Nichols, Johns Hopkins University, 7 p.m., Room 210, Academic West.
Feb. 24. First-year Common Reading Series. Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 7:30 p.m.,
Trout Auditorium, Vaughan Literature Building. Hamid will sign copies of his book after the lecture. [NOTE time
change]
Feb. 25. Griot Institute Post-Obama Series. "The Obamas, Race and Slights," Charles Blow, New York Times
visual op-ed columnist, 7 p.m., Trout Auditorium, Vaughan Literature Building. Co-Sponsored with Multicultural
Student Services and the Department of Economics. [NOTE location change]
Feb. 26. BILL Tea & Talk Series. "Past, Present and Future of the West Branch Susquehanna River," Jessica
Newlin, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, 3:30 p.m. Buffalo Valley Lutheran Village
Common, 6 Tressler Blvd. in Lewisburg. Presentation is free and open to the public; no registration is needed.
Doors open at 3 p.m.; teatime refreshments are provided free of charge; no registration is necessary. [NOTE date
change]
MUSIC
Feb. 11. Weis Center Series. "An Evening with Raul Midon," singer-songwriter and guitarist, 7:30 p.m., Campus
Theatre, 413 Market St., Lewisburg. Tickets: $10 for adults, $8 for seniors 62+, $5 for youth 18 and under, $5 for
Bucknell employees and retirees (limit 2), $5 for non-Bucknell students (limit 2) and free for Bucknell students
(limit 2).
Feb. 14. Concert. "The Music of Mad Crazy Love," with the Bucknell University Orchestra, conducted by
Christopher Para, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center. The program, which features pianist Sezi Seskir, includes Mozart's
Piano Concerto in A Major, Berlioz's March to the Scaffold and Witches' Sabbath from Symphonie Fantastique,
and the world premiere of Bucknell Overture, composed and conducted by Christian Humcke '15.
Feb. 15. Weis Center Series. Nordic Voices, six voice a cappella ensemble with a repertoire ranging from the
medieval to the contemporary, 2 p.m., Weis Center. Tickets: $20 for adults, $16 for seniors 62+, $10 for youth 18
and under, $10 for Bucknell employees and retirees (limit 2), $10 for non-Bucknell students (limit 2) and $10 for
Bucknell students (limit 2).
Feb. 20. Weis Center Series. Gregory Porter, jazz vocalist, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center. Tickets: $20 for adults, $16 for
seniors 62+, $10 for youth 18 and under, $10 for Bucknell employees and retirees (limit 2), $10 for non-Bucknell
students (limit 2) and $10 for Bucknell students (limit 2).
Feb. 22. Weis Center Series. Trio Solisti, classical ensemble performing works by Rachmaninoff, Turina,
Liebermann and Mussorgsky, 2 p.m., Weis Center. The program includes Rachmaninoff's Trio No. 1 in G minor;
Turina's Trio No. 2 in B minor, Op. 76; Liebermann's Trio No. 3, Op. 122; and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an
Exhibition. Tickets: $20 for adults, $16 for seniors 62+, $10 for youth 18 and under, $10 for Bucknell employees
and retirees (limit 2), $10 for non-Bucknell students (limit 2) and $10 for Bucknell students (limit 2).
Feb. 22. Guest Artist Concert. Genevieve Lee, piano, 4 p.m., Rooke Recital Hall, Weis Music Building. The
program – performed on piano, harpsichord and toy piano – includes the Sixth Prelude from L'Art de toucher le
Clavecin by François Couperin; Microgrooves – diverse dances, ditties and discourses – by Ivan Bozicevic;
Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33 by Rachmaninoff; Sonata in A. Major, Op. 101 by Beethoven; and selections from
Famous Last Words by Kurt Rohde, with text by Paul Mann.
Feb. 25. Jazz@Bucknell Series. Nadje Noordhuis Quintet, 7:30 p.m., Bucknell Hall. Trumpeter Noordhuis will be
joined by violinist Sara Caswell, pianist Vitor Gonçalves, bassist Matt Clohesy, and drummer Jared Schonig.
Feb. 27. Bucknell Opera Company Performance. "Garrett Fisher's The Ghosts of Monticello," directed by Emily
Martin, 7:30 p.m., Bucknell Hall. With composition by Garrett Fisher and libretto by Carmen Gillespie, the opera
tells the story of Sally Hemings and her white half-sister Martha Wayles Jefferson.
Feb. 28. Bucknell Opera Company Performance. "Garrett Fisher's The Ghosts of Monticello," directed by Emily
Martin, 7:30 p.m., Bucknell Hall. With composition by Garrett Fisher and libretto by Carmen Gillespie, the opera
tells the story of Sally Hemings and her white half-sister Martha Wayles Jefferson.
Feb. 28. Weis Center Series. Clarinetist David Krakauer's "The Big Picture," an exploration of the relationship
between music and movies, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center. Tickets: $20 for adults, $16 for seniors 62+, $10 for youth 18
and under, $10 for Bucknell employees and retirees (limit 2), $10 for non-Bucknell students (limit 2) and $10 for
Bucknell students (limit 2).
SPORTS
Feb. 10. Women's lacrosse vs. Wagner, 5 p.m.
Feb. 11. Women's basketball vs. Navy, 7 p.m.
Feb. 13. Bucknell Tune-Up — men's and women's track; wrestling vs. Franklin & Marshall, 7 p.m.; Bison
Invitational — women's water polo vs. Notre Dame College, 7 p.m.
Feb. 14. Bison Invitational – women's water polo vs. George Washington, 12:30 p.m., vs. Siena, 5:30 p.m.; men's
lacrosse vs. Bryant, 1 p.m.; wrestling vs. Army, 2 p.m.; women's lacrosse vs. Manhattan, 3 p.m.
Feb. 15. Bison Invitational – women's water polo vs. Hartwick, 8 a.m., vs. VMI, 11:45 a.m., vs. St. Francis
Brooklyn, 4:45 p.m.; women's basketball vs. Army, 2 p.m.
Feb. 18. Patriot League Championships – men's and women's swimming and diving, 6 p.m.; men's basketball vs.
Loyola (Md.), 7 p.m.
Feb. 19. Patriot League Championships – men's and women's swimming and diving prelims, 10:30 a.m., finals 6
p.m.
Feb. 20. Patriot League Championships – men's and women's swimming and diving prelims, 10:30 a.m., finals 6
p.m.; wrestling vs. Binghamton, 7 p.m.
Feb. 21. Patriot League Championships – men's and women's swimming and diving prelims, 10:30 a.m., finals 6
p.m.; women's lacrosse vs. Johns Hopkins, 1 p.m.
Feb. 22. Men's basketball vs. Boston University, noon.
Feb. 25. Women's lacrosse vs. St. Francis (Pa.), 5 p.m.; women's basketball vs. Lehigh, 7 p.m.
Feb. 28. Women's water polo vs. Princeton, 10:20 a.m., vs. George Washington, 5 p.m.; baseball vs. Buffalo (2),
noon; men's lacrosse vs. Colgate, 1 p.m.
Advance basketball tickets available weekdays at the Campus box office in the Weis Center 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
online at bucknell.edu/boxoffice, or at the stadium on game day. Call 570-577-1000 for ticket information. For
complete Bucknell athletics schedules and results, see BucknellBison.com.
THEATRE
Feb. 13, 14, 16. Theatre Production. Dead Man's Cell Phone, directed by John Brunner '15, 7:30 p.m., Tustin
Studio Theatre. Admission: $10, $5 for students and senior citizens.
Feb. 15. Theatre Matinee. Dead Man's Cell Phone, directed by John Brunner '15, 2 p.m., Tustin Studio Theatre.
Admission: $10, $5 for students and senior citizens.
Feb. 21. National Theatre Live screening. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by Bryony Lavery,
2 p.m., Campus Theatre, 413 Market St., Lewisburg. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. Admission is adults $15; senior
citizens $12; students $10; students with ID $5. NOTE: For this production only, an adult who accompanies
students between the ages of 10-14 will be be admitted for $10.
WORSHIP SERVICES
The following services are held each week during the school year, with the public invited to attend:
Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18: Catholic Mass, noon, Rooke Chapel;
Ecumenical Ash Wednesday Service, 5 p.m., Rooke Chapel. Both services with distribution of Ashes.
Catholic Mass: Saturday, 4:30 p.m., Rooke Chapel; Sunday, 4 p.m., Rooke Chapel.
Jewish Services: Shabbat Service at 5:30 p.m.; dinner at 6:30 p.m. Berelson Center for Jewish Life, 632 St.
George St.
Orthodox Vespers: Saturday, 6 p.m., Meditation Chapel, Rooke Chapel. Divine Liturgy: Feb. 15 and Feb. 22, 10
a.m., Bucknell Hall.
Protestant Worship Service: Sunday, 11 a.m., Rooke Chapel.
Feb. 15. Rev. Dr. John Patrick Colatch, University Chaplain.
Feb. 22. Rev. John Dromazos. Rooke Chapel Choir and Rooke Chapel Ringers.
HOURS
Barnes & Noble at Bucknell University bookstore [downtown Lewisburg]: weekdays and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9
p.m., Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
Bertrand Library (570-577-1881): See bucknell.edu/x71082.xml for schedule.
Campus Box Office (570-577-1000): Weis Center lobby, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.;
www.bucknell.edu/boxoffice
CAPS Center Box Office (570-577-1000): ground floor, Elaine Langone Center, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m.
Downtown Gallery: 416 Market St., Lewisburg, Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. during the academic
year.
Samek Gallery (570-577-3792): third floor, Elaine Langone Center, Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
during the academic year.