Please join the Music Department and The Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives and Cultures as we host Charlotte Hill O'Neal aka Mama C aka Iya Osotunde Fasuyi, a musician, visual artist, poet, film maker, ATR priestess and peace builder through her Art and her Life Example! Mama C is a veteran Black Panther from the Kansas City Chapter which she joined at the age of 18. She is cofounder of the United African Alliance Community Center (UAACC). See her full bio here. (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1noQ82N_m-iIh4wwQy4sNdL7SWKjD3gbc4VFBrxhosvs/edit?usp=sharing) This event is open to the public.

Security Blanket is a collaborative women's art project that stitches together a broad range of issues of concern to women and families. The organizers Lynn Estomin and Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh invited 30 artists and quilters to collaborate on an artwork modeled on a baby quilt. The quilt demonstrates how abortion rights are nestled within a range of needs which a just society would publicly fund, and which would benefit society as a whole. Each artist/quilter chose an issue of concern starting with a particular letter of the alphabet and then designed a block illustrating that issue. As a whole, the quilt offers an ABC guide to a more just and equitable society. The Security Blanket quilt is traveling to communities across the country, sparking dialogue and reflection on the interconnected needs of women and families in a just society. Each exhibition offers an opportunity for viewers to experience the artwork firsthand, engage with the issues it represents, and connect with others working toward equity and human rights. This project is sponsored by The Women's Film Project and is traveling across the US.

Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree encapsulates 6 years in communion with a single tree. Bridging art, ecology, and queer experience, the project approaches wood as a living being and explores interconnection, habitat, and environmental responsibility. Organized by the Museum for Art in Wood and curated by Jennifer-Navva Milliken.

Join three recent Bucknell graduates who went on to pursue the Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. Julia Cirillo '20, Amber Cutler '24, and Mercedes Rodriguez '23 will discuss their experiences in their respective MFA programs, including the application process. Please feel free to bring a lunch. Our guests will present a poetry and fiction reading the same day at 7pm in Bucknell Hall.Julia Cirillo has a dual degree in French and creative writing from Bucknell and an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University-Newark. Currently, she teaches in the Writing Program at Rutgers. She lives in New Jersey.Amber Cutler is pursuing her MFA in Fiction at the University of Nevada, Reno. She majored in creative writing and psychology at Bucknell, where she received a Julia Fonville Smithson Prize for fiction and interned for West Branch. Mercedes Rodriguez's poetry appears in New England Review, Washington Square Review, New Delta Review, wildness, Bellingham Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for Best New Poets. They hold an MFA from North Carolina State University.

Star Gazing: Pennsylvania Quilts RevisitedThis exhibition – featuring quilts from Pennsylvania quilters and collectors – turns the eyes of post-internet contemporary art to look anew at traditional quilts and quilt making.

BIPP Conference: Policy Challenges in a Complex WorldPanel A: Social Policy and Political DynamicsThursday, October 2nd from 3:00 PM – 4:30 PMWalls Lounge (ELC 213)Sponsored by the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy (BIPP)

39th Annual Black Experiences Lecture Darrick Hamilton, (Economics and Urban Policy, The New School) Thursday, October 2 at 5:00pm, ELC Terrace Room Prof. Hamilton is the Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, and founding director of The Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School. Prof. Hamilton's lecture is also the keynote address for the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy's inaugural public policy conference: "Policy Challenges in a Complex World."

Tree Time with Fiona Powell4:30 p.m.Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Elaine Langone Center, top floor701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, PALocal folk historian & storyteller Fiona Powell recounts ancient Celtic tree stories.

R.T. Arnold, founder of Cap Year will be in campus to talk about how to get relevant medical experience.

Bio:  Prof. Hamilton is the Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, and founding director of The Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School.