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What are 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.

Examples of past Curricular Connections During the 2018-19 Season Series, 19 faculty across 11 Bucknell University academic departments involved their students in programming with 84 individual performing artists. Some of the many ways students engaged with our visiting artists include the following: • Practiced Arabic with Egyptian musicians while discussing the Arab Spring • Learned the nuanced relationship of Indian and Sri Lankan dance and participated in masterclasses with professional dancers • Addressed immigration with a Sudanese-refugee and musician • Dissected the process of film scoring with a composer and Oud master • Shared a meal with a world-renowned wildlife photographer and conservation activist • Engaged with masters of Spanish cultural traditions of flamenco and Galician bagpipes

We’re happy to help forge future Curricular Connections to help achieve the learning goals of your courses. Click here for a carefully curated list of potential connections for the current season. You may access the entire 2019-20 Season Series at bucknell.edu/WeisCenter Please contact us if you see a curricular connection we may pursue together. E-mail Rachel Martine at [email protected] to organize your class connection.

How to engage in Curricular Connections • Participate in pre- or post-concert discussions or share community meals with artists • Schedule in-class workshops/lectures with visiting artists for face-to-face discussions about process, historical influence or cultural context • Use a performance to enhance classroom discussion • Offer extra credit for students who attend performances and complete critical analysis

Ticketing Bucknell students always receive a special ticket rate, deeply-discounted from the regular public ticket charge. Additionally, there are five free performances this academic year. Workshops, lecture/demonstrations and classroom visits with Weis Center artists are always free of charge. curricular connections

Ryan Flannery Trio Thursday, Aug. 29, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center Atrium • FREE A native of Lewisburg, Pa., and a graduate of the College of Charleston School of Music, guitarist/composer Ryan Flannery is steadily building his name as one of the most compelling and impressive young jazz artists in the southeast. Flannery possesses a strong technique, a RELATED EVENT warm luminous tone and a natural sense of swing and distinctive LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION chording. The trio includes Ron Nihoff on drums and McCarthy Fitch Thursday, Aug. 29, 1 – 2 p.m. on bass. They will perform a memorable set that includes funk, ballads Weis Center Atrium and uptempo hard bop. ryanflannerymusic.com

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Jazzmeia Horn Thursday, Sept. 12, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center RELATED EVENT Grammy Award-nominated vocalist Jazzmeia Horn has a name that LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION captures her very essence. Since winning the Thelonious Monk Thursday, Sept. 12, 1 – 2 p.m. Competition in 2015, Horn’s star has continued to rise, along with Weis Center Atrium her reputation as an artist with an assured maturity and a vocal confidence far beyond her years. Her debut album, A Social Call, was released to overwhelming acclaim, earning Horn her first Grammy AFST/MUSC 257 Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album with its great story- JAZZ, ROCK & RACE telling, inspired message, fluid vocals, scat-singing, and spirited group MUSC 146 performances. theartistryofjazzhorn.com VOICE METHODS MUSC 172 VOICE MUSC 170 PIANO MUSC 178 STRING BASS MUSC 187 SAXOPHONE MUSC 197 PERCUSSION MUSC 199 IMPROVISATION MUSC 201 CHROMATIC THEORY MUSC 260 JAZZ ENSEMBLE WMST 227 RACE & SEXUALITY © Tim Walter © Tim

jazz vocalist curricular connections

RELATED EVENT Jane Bunnett & Maqueque LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION Thursday, Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center Thursday, Sept. 19, 1 – 2 p.m. Weis Center Atrium

AFST 199 INTRO TO AFRICANA STUDIES AFST 222 CARIBBEAN LITERATURE AFST/MUSC 257 JAZZ, ROCK & RACE AFST 271 POLITICS OF ANTI-BLACKNESS ANTH 109 INTRO TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY EDUC 318/618 MULTICULTURALISM & EDUCATION ENLS US LATINX MEMOIR GEOG 101 GLOBALIZATION, PEOPLE & PLACE GEOG 316 GEOGRAPHIES OF NATIONALISM LAMS 150 Five-time Juno Award winner, Jane Bunnett has turned her bands LATIN AMERICA: AN INTRO and recordings into showcases for the finest musical talent from MUSC 201 Canada, the United States and Cuba. Maqueque, which started out CHROMATIC THEORY five years ago as a project to record and mentor young Cuban female musicians, has become one of the top groups on the North American MUSC 260 jazz scene. In the last year, they have played in major festivals; been JAZZ ENSEMBLE featured on NPR; were nominated for a Grammy Award and were SPAN 280 voted as one the top 10 jazz groups by DownBeat magazine. LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL The members of Maqueque are: Jane Bunnett, soprano TRADITIONS saxophone and flute; Melvis Santa, vocals and percussion; Mary Paz, congas and vocals; Dánae Olano, piano; Tailin Marrero, acoustic and electric bass; and Yissy García, drums. janebunnett.com afro-cuban jazz © Shervin Lainez Sonata •Schumann:Fantasy Suite •Ligeti: EtudesBookone•Liszt:Mephisto Waltz No. 1•Berg: While attheWeis Center, Bach:A minorEnglish hewillperform Cleveland Orchestra. jeremydenk.net Philharmonic, Los AngelesPhilharmonic,SanFrancisco Symphonyand Carnegie Hallandhasappeared withtheChicagoSymphony, York New andSciences. DenkfrequentlyAmerican AcademyofArts playsat the Avery FisherPrize, Jeremy Denkhas alsobeenelected to the FellowshipastheGeniusGrant)Winner ofaMacArthur and (known Sunday, Sept.22,2p.m., Weis Center Jeremy Denk classical curricular connections INTRO TOFUNDAMENTALS pianist Saturday, Sept.21, Time CHANT TOBEETHOVEN MASTER CLASS RELATED EVENT MUSC 252 MUSC 121 Location curricular connections

Steel Betty Friday, Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center With music flavored by bluegrass, folk, blues, Tex-Mex and classic country, Steel Betty is a reflection of today’s American music scene. The hip, virtuosic trio, includes David McD, guitar and vocals; Maddy Froncek, banjo, upright bass and vocals; and Micah Motenko, MUSC 172 mandolin, piano and vocals. Steel Betty’s performances are filled VOICE with the melodies of Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, spirituals, the Conjunto tradition and more. The trio regularly conducts workshops MUSC 170 for aspiring musicians and students. steelbettyband.com PIANO MUSC 178 STRING BASS MUSC 196 GUITAR MUSC 258 MUSIC & CULTURE IN AMERICAN LIFE

traditional folk/ bluegrass curricular connections

Kat Edmonson Thursday, Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center Critically acclaimed vocalist and songwriter, actor and dancer, Kat Edmonson has played major stages across the United States, Europe and Japan. She’s appeared in major motion pictures, performed on radio and television and released four groundbreaking albums. Her RELATED EVENT newest album is Old Fashioned Gal which was written and produced LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION by Edmonson with associate production by band member and Thursday, Oct. 17, 1 – 2 p.m. drummer Aaron Thurston. The album follows her critically acclaimed Weis Center Atrium 2014 release The Big Picture, which debuted at no. 1 on Billboard’s Heatseekers and Contemporary Jazz Chart and no. 2 on the Total Jazz Chart. katedmonson.com MUSC 170 PIANO MUSC 172 VOICE MUSC 178 STRING BASS MUSC 258 MUSIC & CULTURE IN AMERICAN LIFE UNIV 199 ARTS LEADERSHIP

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50TH ANNIVERSARY PHILADANCO! The Philadelphia Dance Company Tuesday, Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center The Philadelphia Dance Company, better known as PHILADANCO!, DANC 120 is celebrated for its innovation, creativity, and preservation of MODERN DANCE TECHNIQUE predominantly African-American traditions in dance. Founded by Joan Myers Brown in 1970, PHILADANCO! has a legacy of breaking barriers DANC 275 and building bridges across cultural divides. philadanco.org DANCE CONDITIONING DANC 250 HISTORY OF DANCE THEA 255 ART OF COSTUME CRAFT

While at the Weis Center, the dance company will perform: • Super 8 • With(in) Verse • Suite en Bleu contemporary • Enemy Behind Gates dance curricular connections

RELATED EVENT PUPPET WORKSHOP Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein Sunday, Nov. 3, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center Weis Center Love, loss and creation merge in unexpected ways in this thrilling retelling of this classic gothic tale, as conceived by Manual Cinema. ARST 131 DRAWING The stories of Mary Shelley and of Victor Frankenstein and his ARTH 222 PHILOSOPY OF ART monster expose how the forces of family, community, and education BIOL 220 HUMAN ANATOMY shape personhood — or destroy it by their absence. BIOL 375 NEUROBIOLOGY In a special world premiere presentation, internationally renowned multimedia company Manual Cinema stitches together the classic BIOL 618 PHYSIOLOGY story of Frankenstein with Mary Shelley’s biography to create an BMEG 250 BIOMECHANICS unexpected story about the beauty and horror of creation. The show BMEG 400 BIOTRANSPORT combines handmade shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and CHEG 472 GENETIC ENGINEERING innovative sound and music to create immersive visual stories for this sweeping stage production. manualcinema.com ENCW 102 WRITING FICTION FOUN 098 CREATING A LIFE, UTOPIA: IMAGINE THE IMPOSSIBLE, SCIENCE & THE NEWS NEUR 250 BIOPSYCHOLOGY PHIL 100 LAW MORALITY SOCIETY, GODS, HUMANS ANIMALS PHIL 225 METAPHYSICS PSYC 325 PERSONALITY, PSYCHOPATHS & SERIAL KILLERS RESC 098-01 THEATRE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE RESC 098-04 THE ART OF SOCIAL JUSTICE RESC 098-26 CREATIVITY & THE BEAST RESC 098-10 ILLUSIONS: THE SCIENCE AND ART OF DECEPTION RESC 098-11 SCIENCE AND SERENDIPITY RESC 098-16 WHAT IS THE HUMAN? RES 098-28 THE FUTURE IS NOW THEA 101 TECHNICAL THEATRE/SCENE PAINTING THEA 145 BUCKNELL BACKSTAGE THEA 255 ART OF COSTUME CRAFT THEA 342 DEVISING PERFORMANCES UNIV 199 ARTS LEADERSHIP WMST 150 INTRO TO WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES WMST 220 FEMINIST THEORY IN PRACTICE multimedia/ puppetry/ live music curricular connections

Nobuntu Tuesday, Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center FREE pre-performance music featuring Bucknell University’s ensemble Voices of Praise, in the Atrium Lobby from 6:45 – 7:15 p.m. Nobuntu, the female a cappella quintet from Zimbabwe, has drawn international acclaim for its inventive performances that range from RELATED EVENT traditional Zimbabwean songs to Afro jazz to gospel. The ensemble’s LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION concerts are performed with pure voices, augmented by minimalistic Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1 – 2 p.m. percussion, traditional instruments such as the mbira (thumb piano) and Weis Center Atrium dance movements. Nobuntu was nominated for Musician of the Year at the Zimbabwe International Women Awards in London in 2015. Nobuntu is an African concept that values humbleness, love, unity AFST 199 and family from a woman’s perspective. The ensemble represents a new INTRO TO AFRICANA STUDIES generation of young African women singers who celebrate and preserve their culture, beauty and heritage through art, believing that music is ANTH 109 an important vehicle for change that transcends racial, tribal, religious, INTRO TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY gender, and economic boundaries. nobuntu-music.com GEOG 101 GLOBALIZATION, PEOPLE & PLACE GEOG 218 GEOGRAPHY OF JUSTICE GEOG 316 GEOGRAPHIES OF NATIONALISM GEOG 322 URBAN AFRICA FOUN 098 GLOBAL DRESS & FASHION SYSTEMS RESC 098-20 THE EMPIRE OF HUMAN RIGHTS WMST 150 INTRO TO WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES

world music curricular connections

Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy: A Celtic Family Christmas Tuesday, Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center Join Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy, the award-winning GEOG 101 fiddle virtuosos, in an intimate and unique Christmas concert series. GLOBALIZATION, PEOPLE & PLACE McMaster, one of the most important exports from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada and a superstar in the Celtic music world, is a fiddler and GEOG 316 step-dancer who has built a sterling, multi-decade career on electrifying GEOGRAPHIES OF NATIONALISM playing and must-see live performances. Her extensive discography MUSC 174 showcases her as a soloist and a marquee collaborator, most notably VIOLIN with Leahy, her husband and fellow fiddler. He is recognized as one of the best Celtic fiddlers in the world. The accomplished duo has toured UNIV 199 extensively together and separately. ARTS LEADERSHIP Accompanied by an incredible array of talented musicians — and their children — “A Celtic Family Christmas” will guide the audience through a true MacMaster-Leahy Christmas celebration with a mix of song and dance, including a lineup of familiar Christmas and classic Celtic songs. natalieanddonnell.com

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