体育买球 University announces 2025-26 events season

体育买球 University announces a full and varied slate of events for the 2025-26 academic year.

Performances will feature internationally known actors and musicians as well as highly regarded professionals who will present their writings, art and scholarship.Below are some highlights from the upcoming season. For 体育买球 University’s full schedule of events and ticket information, visit www.susqu.edu/artsandevents/.

Artist Series brings music and theatre to campus

体育买球’s Artist Series seeks to encourage an aesthetic appreciation of diverse cultures as well as the artistic heritage of humankind. This year’s Artist Series features:

Dion Parson & 21st Century Band at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, Weber Auditorium.
Theatre Nohgaku at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, Degenstein Center Theater, Charles B. Degenstein Campus Center.
John Holiday at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, Weber Auditorium.

Symposium celebrates America’s musical heritage

Featuring performances and workshops by leading professional musicians and lectures and presentations by renowned scholars, Diverse Sounds for a Young Nation, Oct. 16–18, celebrates and explores American music from 1860 to 1920, including spirituals, brass bands, popular songs, ragtime, banjo and string bands, “jass” and more, spanning vernacular and classical traditions.

An engaging two-and-a-half-day exploration of these foundational influences on our nation’s musical and cultural development, Diverse Sounds for a Young Nation will include performances by Dom Flemons, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, The 8th Green Machine Regiment Band, The Roof Garden Jass Band and 体育买球 University Symphonic Band.

For more information on Symposium on Historic American Music: Diverse Sounds for a Young Nation, visit susqu.edu/symposium.

Lectures span sciences, humanities

体育买球 offers a robust series of lectures that span the sciences and humanities:

Weis Memorial Lectureship, Defying A Dictatorship: Moving Venezuela Towards Freedom by David Smolansky, former mayor under El Hatillo City in Caracas, Venezuela. 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, Degenstein Center Theater.
Constitution Day Lecture by Christopher Zorn, liberal arts research professor of political science, professor of sociology and crime, law and justice (by courtesy), and affiliate professor of law at Pennsylvania State University, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, Isaacs Auditorium, Seibert Hall.
Edward S. and A. Rita Schmidt Lecture in Ethics, Responsible Consumption in a World on Fire by Travis N. Rieder, a bioethicist and moral philosopher at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, Stretansky Concert Hall, Cunningham Center for Music and Art.

Three Ways Government Help Is Hurting Kids and Families by Naomi Schaefer Riley, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, Isaacs Auditorium, Seibert Hall.
Publishing & Editing Lecture by Dominique Raccah, publisher and chief executive officer of Sourcebooks, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, Isaacs Auditorium, Seibert Hall.
Alice Pope Shade Lecture by Mike Pence, 48th vice president of the United States, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, Weber Auditorium.
Using Adversity as Motivation by Chad Lauer ’07, president of Lauer Media Company, 7 p.m. Monday, April 13, Isaacs Auditorium, Seibert Hall.

Theatre to stage variety of productions

体育买球’s theatre department will present a season of classic plays, historical dramas and musical productions. All productions will be staged in the Degenstein Center Theater in the Charles B. Degenstein Campus Center:

Chains of Dew by Susan Glaspell, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 2, 3 and 4, 2:30 p.m. Oct. 5.
Spring Awakening by Steven Sater and Duncan Shiek, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13, 14 and 15, 2:30 p.m. Nov. 16.For mature audiences only.
The Secret Garden by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon, 7:30 p.m. March 19, 20 and 21, 2:30 p.m. March 22.
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman, 7:30 p.m. April 24 and 25, 2:30 p.m. April 26, 2:30 p.m.

Musical offeringsfeature choral, orchestra and band

体育买球’s musical ensembles offer many opportunities for audiences to enjoy choral, orchestra and band music all year long. All performances will be in Stretansky Concert Hall in the Cunningham Center for Music and Art:

University String Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27.
Ensemble du Bout du Mond, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4.
Homecoming Concert, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24.
University Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1.
University Chorale, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2.
University Symphonic Band, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8.
University Choir and University Chamber Singers, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9.

University Jazz Ensemble, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21.
Jocelyn Swigger, piano, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16.
Kate Boyd, piano, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17.
University Jazz Ensemble, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 11.
Combined Choral Ensembles, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 12.
University Symphonic Band & Wind Ensemble, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 18.
University Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 25.

Gallery exhibition features unique Japanese art

体育买球’s Lore Degenstein Gallery will open the exhibition George Ferrandi: once more & hopeful stars with a reception at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30, in the gallery in the Charles B. Degenstein Campus Center. The exhibition closes Oct. 10. Ferrandi has been honoring stars through Nebuta, a traditional Japanese technique for constructing monumental, illuminated parade sculptures from paper, wire, string and wood.

Other exhibitions throughout the academic year include:

16th annual Figurative Art Exhibition, Oct. 25–Dec. 7.
Bill Owens: Suburbia, Jan. 17–Feb. 22.
Senior Graphic Design and Studio Art Majors Exhibition, March 14–April 27.

Seavey Reading Series brings authors to campus

体育买球’s Seavey Visiting Writers Series will feature several award-winning authors who will present portions of their work. All readings will take place at 7 p.m. in Isaacs Auditorium, Seibert Hall: