Join the Griot Institute for an exciting experience with West African drumming! Lessons will be held weekly on Mondays throughout the semester. This opportunity is free of charge! No experience necessary and instruments are provided. Register by emailing griot@bucknell.edu.

Writers in Conversation: The Ongoing Ancient Srikanth Reddy & Michael Bazzett, moderated by Dan Beachy-Quick Tuesday, December 3, 7pm on ZOOMhttps://bucknell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsd-GsrjMpG91idEtMgUsjL-PgGce5FWqc (https://bucknell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsd-GsrjMpG91idEtMgUsjL-PgGce5FWqc) Poets Srikanth Reddy and Michael Bazzett will join West Branch contributing editor Dan Beachy-Quick will discuss the persistence of the ancient in contemporary poetry. Moderator Dan Beachy-Quick is Professor of English at Colorado State University and the author of many publications in multiple genres, including six collections of poetry. Michael Bazzett is the author of four collections of poetry and the translator of the Mayan origin epic The Popol Vuh, which was acclaimed by The New York Times. Srikanth Reddy's latest book of poetry is Underworld Lit, a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry. Reddy is the poetry editor of Paris Review and a professor at the University of Chicago.

He has recorded and/or performed with Junior Wells, George Porter Jr., Dr. John, Willie Nelson, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Billy Joe Shaver, Maria Muldaur, James Cotton, Cyril Neville, Kenny Aronoff, Allen Toussaint, Kim Wilson, Jimmy Thackery, Charlie Musselwhite, Kenny Neal, Chris Layton, Ivan Neville, Jimmy Hall, Jim Lauderdale, Anders Osborne and Alvin Youngblood Hart, to name a few. Benoit's accomplishments as a musician are matched only by his devotion to the environmental health of his native Louisiana wetlands. He is the founder and driving force behind Voice of the Wetlands, an organization working to preserve the coastal waters of his home state. He received the Governor's Award for Conservationist of the Year from the Louisiana Wildlife Federation. Benoit also starred in the iMax motion picture Hurricane on the Bayou, a documentary of Hurricane Katrina's effects and a call to protect and restore the wetlands.

Join the Griot Institute for an exciting experience with West African drumming! Lessons will be held weekly on Mondays throughout the semester. This opportunity is free of charge! No experience necessary and instruments are provided. Register by emailing griot@bucknell.edu.

Join the Griot Institute for an exciting experience with West African drumming! Lessons will be held weekly on Mondays throughout the semester. This opportunity is free of charge! No experience necessary and instruments are provided. Register by emailing griot@bucknell.edu.

Giménez holds degrees in classical and flamenco guitar from the Conservatory of Granada and the Conservatory of Córdoba, respectively. Additionally, he has studied at Codarts Conservatory in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with guitarists David Martínez, Oscar Ghiglia and Paco Peña. Giménez performed his solo Spanish guitar repertoire at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center in New York in 2016. The show, Inspired by Flamenco, has also been performed in China, Taiwan, Poland, Germany and Spain. In 2017, he was awarded the Young Granada Prize for Art by the Instituto Andaluz. That same year, he formed the trio, Corazon de Granada, which made its world debut at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Join the Griot Institute for an exciting experience with West African drumming! Lessons will be held weekly on Mondays throughout the semester. This opportunity is free of charge! No experience necessary and instruments are provided. Register by emailing griot@bucknell.edu.

Drawn to the flexibility of a cappella music, they take full advantage of the genre-mixing aspects of the tradition. Their brand of rhythm and blues is entwined with free moments of jazz, soulful bursts of gospel and bright touches of pop — all built on a solid, classical foundation. Theirs is the kind of talent that makes virtuosic performance look (and sound) like sublime, effortless playtime, defying the constraints of any single genre to explore a myriad of sonic shades and textures. The group's name perfectly embodies their intentions as artists. "Kings" because they possess a charismatic power, moving forward with confidence to conquer whatever challenges arise. The "Return" signifies another important part of their mission: to give back to the communities that have supported them along the way.

Join the Griot Institute for an exciting experience with West African drumming! Lessons will be held weekly on Mondays throughout the semester. This opportunity is free of charge! No experience necessary and instruments are provided. Register by emailing griot@bucknell.edu.

She is a Visa Brazilian Music Award recipient and a celebrated finalist, known for critically acclaimed albums like Fruto, Candeias and Inzu. With a rich repertoire, collaborations and contributions to award-winning projects like the Project Ms. Mozart, which was recognized at D&AD in London in 2021, Fernandes continues to make a profound impact on the world stage.

Working with the U.S. State Department and under their own nonprofit, Bluegrass Ambassadors, the Prowlers have toured more than 25 countries across the globe. The group's experiences with people and musicians in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East have shaped the band's worldview and broadened the group's direction towards bridging cultural gaps with music, educational programs and workshops. Using traditional American music as a foundation and connecting folk music, customs and history the world over, the Prowlers incorporate international elements into their already robust repertoire of unique traditional American music.   Whether playing live or presenting seminars, the Henhouse Prowlers find and spread the commonality we share as human beings through the universal language of music.

Join the Griot Institute for an exciting experience with West African drumming! Lessons will be held weekly on Mondays throughout the semester. This opportunity is free of charge! No experience necessary and instruments are provided. Register by emailing griot@bucknell.edu.

O'Leary is the chairman of O'Shares Investments and Beanstox, an automated internet-based investment advisory service. He also holds investments in over 50 private venture companies across a wide range of sectors. He is a member of Boston's 120-year-old Hamilton Trust, the oldest investment club in the U.S. He has been a contributor to CNBC, ABC News and Good Morning America and a venture capitalist. O'Leary is also an investor/host of ABC Television's five-time Emmy Award-winning venture capital reality programs Shark Tank and Beyond the Tank, produced by MGM/Sony/ABC. O'Leary is author of three No. 1 New York Times best-selling books: Cold Hard Truth, Men, Women and Money, and Family Kids and Money. After completing his MBA at the Ivey Business School of the University of Western Ontario in 1980, O'Leary worked briefly as an assistant product manager at Nabisco Brands. He left to pursue a career in television production and became a founding partner in Special Event Television, an independent production company that produced original sports programming. In 1986, he co-founded SoftKey Software, the first software company to apply the principles of consumer goods marketing to the software industry. SoftKey grew quickly as the price of personal computers declined and millions of North American families began to buy software for family education and entertainment. After a series of acquisitions, SoftKey changed its name to The Learning Company in 1996. In May 1999, The Mattel Toy Company acquired The Learning Company for $4.2 billion. In 2003, O'Leary became co-investor and a director in Storage Now, a leading developer of climate-controlled storage facilities. Through a series of development projects and acquisitions, Storage Now became an owner/operator of storage services with facilities located in 11 cities serving such companies as Merck and Pfizer when it was acquired by the In-Storage REIT in March 2007 for $110 million. In July 2007, O'Leary became a founding Special Purpose Acquisition Company investor and director of Stream Global Services Inc., focused on the growing outsourcing business services market.Event Information O'Leary is one of four nationally renowned speakers participating in this year's Bucknell Forum — a speaker series that since 2007 has featured national leaders, scholars and commentators who have examined various issues from multidisciplinary and diverse viewpoints. All Bucknell Forum events are free and open to the public, although tickets are required. Current Bucknell students and employees may receive up to two free tickets at any campus box office location, or online, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. one day prior to the event. A valid Bucknell University ID is required to receive advance tickets. Use of multiple Bucknell IDs to pick up additional sets of tickets is prohibited. Remaining tickets will be available for the general public at the Weis Center box office beginning at 6 p.m. on the day of the event. All individuals may receive up to two free tickets, depending on availability. Questions regarding this event may be directed to the Division of Marketing & Communications (mailto:https://www.bucknell.edu/azdirectory/marketing-communications) at 570-577-3260 or theforum@bucknell.edu (mailto:theforum@bucknell.edu).

His latest album, Kinfolk 2: See the Birds, is the highly anticipated follow-up to his 2017 Grammy Award-nominated album, Kinfolk: Postcards From Everywhere. Smith's videos have been viewed by millions of people, underscoring his popularity as one of the most influential drummers of his generation.

Join the Black Student Union for its annual celebration of Black life and culture through a visual production of fashion, style, and aesthetic.

Join the Griot Institute for an exciting experience with West African drumming! Lessons will be held weekly on Mondays throughout the semester. This opportunity is free of charge! No experience necessary and instruments are provided. Register by emailing griot@bucknell.edu.

Drew Darrow Memorial Poetry Reading Leslie Sainz February 27, 2024 Leslie Sainz is the author of Have You Been Long Enough at Table (Tin House, 2023), winner of the 2024 Audre Lorde Award and a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award and the Vermont Book Award. The daughter of Cuban exiles, her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Yale Review, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Miami, she lives in Vermont and works as the managing editor of New England Review. She is a former Stadler Fellow at Bucknell. The annual Drew Darrow Memorial Reading is organized by the Bucknell Writing Center and co-sponsored by the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts. The reading honors the memory of Drew Darrow, a 1986 graduate of Bucknell and Writing Center student-employee who died in 1997. His parents, Carl and Mimi Darrow, along with family and friends, established the fund that supports the reading in Drew's memory.

The quartet is based in Germany and has rapidly gained a worldwide reputation as a chamber ensemble of exceptional artistry and achievement. In spring 2018, the group won first prize as well as sweeping four special prizes at the prestigious Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition in London, and in the same year, it became HSBC Laureate of the Académie du Festival d'Aix. This recognition followed prizes at the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition and the 55th Possehl Musikpreis Lübeck. In October 2020, the quartet was awarded the first Hans-Gál Prize by the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and Villa Musica.

Join the Griot Institute for an exciting experience with West African drumming! Lessons will be held weekly on Mondays throughout the semester. This opportunity is free of charge! No experience necessary and instruments are provided. Register by emailing griot@bucknell.edu.

Join the Griot Institute for an exciting experience with West African drumming! Lessons will be held weekly on Mondays throughout the semester. This opportunity is free of charge! No experience necessary and instruments are provided. Register by emailing griot@bucknell.edu.