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 27, 2025 2:37 p.m.
Jazz Saxophonist BIRCKHEAD to Perform in the Weis Center Atrium
The Weis Center for the Performing Arts will welcome BIRCKHEAD on Wednesday, November 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Weis Center Atrium. The performance is sponsored, in part, by Teri MacBride and Steve Guattery. Saxophonist Brent Birckhead is an award-winning artist, whose aesthetic is an intersectional amalgam of traditional and popular styles. Unbound by genre, Birckhead’s approach to woodwind artistry is driven by his compulsion for creative risk and deep respect for legacy. His place in the continuum of a storied lineage begins with his surname, Birckhead, and extends to his extensive musical education and work ethic as a […] - Oct 27, 2025 2:30 p.m.
Folk/Americana Artist Charly Lowry to Perform at Weis Center, Eric Ian Farmer will Open the Performance
The Weis Center for the Performing Arts will welcome Charly Lowry on Thursday, November 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the Weis Center. The performance is sponsored, in part, by the Sun Gazette. There will be a pre-show artist talk with Charly Lowry from 6:45-7:15 p.m., facilitated by Eric Ian Farmer in the Weis Center Atrium. At 7:30 p.m. Eric Ian Farmer will open the engagement, followed by Charly Lowry, both in the Concert Hall. This engagement is part of the Weis Center’s year-long Trees Series. Charly Lowry, a musical powerhouse from Pembroke, NC, is proud to be an Indigenous woman […] - Oct 24, 2025 10:30 p.m.
Lights, Camera, 48 Hours: Inside Bucknell’s Most Thrilling Film Challenge
At Bucknell University, some weekends are spent studying, some are spent celebrating, but this one is about storytelling. On October 24, the campus will once again transform into a living film set as the Bucknell Film Club launches its 48-Hour Film Challenge, with this year marking an exhilarating collaboration with the Weis Center for the Performing Arts that dares students to write, shoot, and edit an entire short film within just two days. The challenge begins with a mandatory prop reveal at 7 p.m. on Friday, October 24, at the Weis Center. The props are random, sometimes ridiculous, and always […]