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The Weis Center for the Performing Arts and the Place Studies program of the Bucknell Center for Sustainability and the Environment are collaborating on a year-long series related to anthracite coal.

PRESENTING

bucknell.edu/CoalCollections

DOCUMENTARY

Harlan County USA Barbara Kopple (U.S. 1976) 104 min. 35MM.Tuesday, Sept. 20, 7 p.m. • Campus Theatre, 413 Market St., Lewisburg

Associate Provost Robert Midkiff will introduce this Academy Award- winning film, which focuses on the 1973 strike of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company’s Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky. The film is part of the University’s Tuesday Film/Media Series. Admission is free for Bucknell students and $2 for others.

WEIS CENTER PERFORMANCE

Coal Town Rounders and Van WagnerThursday, September 22, 7:30 p.m. • Weis Center

With a foundational repertoire of bluegrass material you’d expect in a group twice their age, the Coal Town Rounders is poised to expand the reach and relevance of traditional music with their unique and hard-driving sound. Van Wagner’s music has been featured on the History Channel, WVIA, and Country Music Television. He has released 20 original albums and published a book entitled Coal Dust Rust and Saw Dust.

Adults: $20 • Seniors 62+: $16 • Youth 18 and Under: $10 • Bucknell Employees and Retirees (limit 2): $10 • Bucknell Students (limit 2): $10

Tickets: 570-577-1000, Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice, or at a Campus Box Office location OPENING ACT

Hard Coal: The ConcertThursday, September 22, 6 p.m. • Weis Center Atrium Lobby • FREE!A performance by the sometimes folksy, sometimes haunting, always beautiful music that Guy Klucevsek composed for the play Hard Coal: Life in the Region along with singer/performers from the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble.

NOON LECTURE SERIES

Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Coal Region: Past to PresentThursday, Sept. 29, Noon • Weis Center Atrium Lobby • FREE! Overview of the social and environmental histories of PA’s anthracite coal region.

SPEAKER SERIES

Shannon Bell: “Bridging Activism and the Academy: Exposing Environmental Injustices through the Feminist Ethnographic Method of Photovoice”Thursday, Oct. 13, Noon • 113 Dana Engineering (Gardner Lecture Hall) • FREE!Dr. Shannon Bell demonstrates how photovoice ethnography can provide an opportunity for research participants’ stories to be heard — and acted upon — by those with political power. Co-sponsored by Field Research Teaching Lab.

2016–17 SUMMARY OF EVENTS For more information, please visit bucknell.edu/CoalCollections

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SPEAKER SERIES

Shannon Bell: “Fighting King Coal: The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia”Thursday, Oct. 13, 5 – 6:15 p.m. followed by a reception • Weis Center Atrium Lobby • FREE!A discussion of her new book, which examines why so few of the many people who suffer from industry-produced environmental hazards and pollution participate in social movements aimed at bringing about social justice and industry accountability. Book signing to follow.

NOON LECTURE SERIES

Bucknell in the Coal Region: Community-Based ResearchThursday, Oct. 27, Noon • Weis Center Atrium Lobby • FREE!A panel of students, faculty, and community partners will discuss incorporating the anthracite coal region into student learning through classes and summer projects.

NOON LECTURE SERIES

Molly Maguires in the Pennsylvania Coal RegionThursday, Nov. 17, Noon • Weis Center Atrium Lobby • FREE!A panel of community members and faculty discuss the Molly Maguire secret society and nationalism related to the Irish diaspora.

NOON LECTURE SERIES

Sports Talk: Athletes from the Anthracite Coal RegionThursday, Jan. 26, Noon – 2 p.m. • Weis Center Atrium Lobby • FREE!

NOON LECTURE SERIES

Silencio Blanco PuppeteersThursday, Feb. 16, Noon • Weis Center Atrium Lobby • FREE!Chilean puppeteers discuss coal mining and representing stories through puppetry.

WEIS CENTER PERFORMANCE

Silencio Blanco: Chiflón, El Silencio del CarbónFriday, Feb. 17, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. • Weis CenterThis Chilean-based puppetry ensemble is known for working with white marionettes, constructed with a newspaper base, that perform in silence; no dialogue is used and the marionettes do not speak. The work explores the story of a young miner forced to find work in one of the most dangerous mines in Chile after the mine where he worked collapses. Adults: $15 • Seniors 62+: $12 • Youth 18 and Under: $5 • Bucknell Employees and Retirees (limit 2): $5 • Bucknell Students (limit 2): $5

Tickets: 570-577-1000, Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice, or at a Campus Box Office location

ART EXHIBIT

Dust and Light: Images of Pennsylvania Coal CommunitiesMarch 14 onward • Weis Center Atrium Lobby • FREE!

NOON LECTURE SERIES

Art and Visual Culture of the Anthracite Coal RegionThursday, March 23, Noon • Weis Center Atrium Lobby • FREE!Greg Stuart, Samek Art Museum

NOON LECTURE SERIES

Immigrant Experiences of the Anthracite Coal RegionTuesday, March 28, Noon • Weis Center Atrium Lobby • FREE!A panel of community members and faculty discuss the enduring legacy of the immigrant experience.

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NOON LECTURE SERIES

Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Coal Region: Present to FutureThursday, March 30, Noon • Weis Center Atrium Lobby • FREE! An interdisciplinary panel of faculty and community members to discuss present and future prospects of PA’s anthracite coal region.

NOON LECTURE SERIES

The Creation of Anthracite FieldsFriday, March 31, Noon • Weis Center Atrium Lobby • FREE! G.C. Waldrep, Associate Professor of English, will interview Julia Wolfe, composer of Anthracite Fields, Laurie McCants, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble and advisor to the project, and Beth Willer, conductor for the Weis Center performance.

WEIS CENTER PERFORMANCE AND POST-PERFORMANCE TALK

Anthracite Fields Performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars, featuring Bucknell University CamerataSaturday, April 1Performance: 7:30 p.m., Weis Center • Post-Performance Talk with Julia Wolfe: 9:30 p.m., Weis Center Atrium Lobby Haunting, poignant and relentlessly physical, Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields is a lovingly detailed oratorio about turn-of-the-20th-century Pennsylvania coal miners, and a fitting recipient of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Adults: $25 • Seniors 62+: $20 • Youth 18 and Under: $15 • Bucknell Employees & Retirees (limit 2): $15 • Bucknell Students (limit 2): $10 Tickets: 570-577-1000, Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice, or at a Campus Box Office location

OPENING ACT

Jay Smar Saturday, April 1, 6 p.m. • Weis Center Atrium Lobby • FREE! Jay serves his audiences an “acoustic buffet” of traditional American and original folk, ol’ time mountain music, bluegrass and gospel tunes, as well as coal mining songs of Northeast PA.

Black Diamond Cavalcade of BandsSaturday, Sept. 17, 6 p.m., Kemp Memorial Stadium, Shamokin

Covered Bridge Festival Oct. 6 – 9, Knoebels Amusement Resort, Elysburg

Ashland ApplefestThursday, Oct. 15, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., Eighth & Centre Streets, Ashland

Christmas FaireSunday, Nov. 13, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m., Divine Redeemer Church, Mount Carmel

ChristkindlmarketDec. 3 & 4, Schuylkill County Council for the Arts, 1440 Mahantongo Street, Pottsville

Holiday Train DisplaysClover Hose Company, Sixth & Oak Streets, Mount Carmel

Lower Anthracite Model Railroad, Club,above Shamokin-Coal Township Public Library, Shamokin

Coal Drop New Year’s Eve, Downtown Shamokin

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