Category: Events
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BTE: As You Like It
Read more: BTE: As You Like ItShakespeare’s As You Like It is a beguiling comedy in which a smart and spirited young girl, disguised as a boy and on the run from a tyrannical duke, finds herself in an enchanting forest in the company of her fiercely loyal best friend, a world-weary clown, a heart-sick shepherd and a disdainful shepherdess, a band of exiled upper-crust gents who all imagine themselves to be Robin Hoods, and wonder of wonders, her own true love– another runaway, who has festooned the forest with love-poems in her honor. But danger lurks in the shadows of these sun-dappled woods, and true…
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BTE to Perform Atsumori in Bloomsburg Town Park
Read more: BTE to Perform Atsumori in Bloomsburg Town ParkOn Friday and Saturday, August 3 and 4, the Noh Training Project (NTP), an international program hosted by BTE and Bloomsburg University, will perform the classic Noh drama Atsumori in Bloomsburg Town Park, at 8pm. Preceding the performance each night at 7pm will be two Noh excerpts featuring visiting Japanese professionals, and a recital of this year’s NTP students. Atsumori will be performed with projected English supertitles; the recital and Noh excerpts will be untitled. Free translations of the play are available at the Bloomsburg Public Library. On August 7th at the Bloomsburg Public Library, the Socrates Café will meet…
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The Latest Buzz from BTE: In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
Read more: The Latest Buzz from BTE: In the Next Room, or The Vibrator PlayAt the dawn of the age of electricity, Dr. Givings performs some experimental treatments. Dr. Givings’ wife, Catherine, will soon discover the “shocking” side-effects of her husband’s revolutionary gadget.
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GC Hartman Students Raise Money for School
Read more: GC Hartman Students Raise Money for SchoolG. C. Hartman Elementary School, a part of the Southern Columbia School District, held its first Hartman Hustle today. Students from kindergarten through fourth grade went out and solicited donations in support of their school and then each grade had 15 mins on the High School track to run a far as they could. The event raised over $8000 that will go into the HART organization, the parent teachers group, and will be used toward student activities. Principal Joe Shiruinski ran with all four classes and the T-Shirt worn by the participants was designed by student Gina Gratti. Photographs by…
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When the River Runs Dry
Read more: When the River Runs DryWomen in Kenya face the everyday daunting task of collecting water for their families. BU students Chelsea Walters and Robert Kernaghan highlight a special program that shares in a little way this unique challenge.
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Love In Bloom: Six Stories on Love, Lust and Relationships
Read more: Love In Bloom: Six Stories on Love, Lust and RelationshipsPremiering on Thursday, April 26, at 8:00 p.m. in Carver Hall, students of the Telecommunications Department at Bloomsburg University directed this series of short films about love, lust, and relationships on a college campus.
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Historian Karol K. Weaver to Host Book Talk
Read more: Historian Karol K. Weaver to Host Book TalkThe Susquehanna University Medical Humanities Initiative will sponsor a book talk by historian Karol K. Weaver.
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Lights, Camera, Legos!
Read more: Lights, Camera, Legos!Enter Box of Light’s first ever Lego Competition!
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Renaissance Jamboree: Townsfolk, BU Students Ready for Annual Celebration
Read more: Renaissance Jamboree: Townsfolk, BU Students Ready for Annual CelebrationThe Renaissance Jamboree, Bloomsburg’s annual one-day street fair celebrates its 34th year this month. On Saturday April 28th the festival will stretch for 8 blocks along Main Street, hosting over 100 art, craft and food vendors, artists, musicians, local businesses and non-profit groups – plus games, children’s entertainment, folk dancing from around the world, a martial arts demonstration, and even a high flying trampoline performance by Flippenout. In past years, the Jamboree sometimes fell on the same weekend as Bloomsburg University’s Block Party. As a result, the Jamboree never became part of the lexicon handed down from class to class.…
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Dodgeball Raises Money for Students in Need
Read more: Dodgeball Raises Money for Students in Need“What’s better than Dodgeball? It’s the All-Star Sport of Gym Class!” Ben Eshelman laughs happily as he describes the go-to rainy-day sport of Phys-Ed teachers everywhere. For those that know Ben, a Personal Trainer at Bloom Health & Fitness on Old Berwick Road, his excitement is infectious but unsurprising. “It’s something that’s fun, gets kids and families involved!” You can’t help but notice the energy. Ben’s words bounce, impossible to avoid. “It’s a ball. You dodge it.” He smiles at you as he lets his Zen-like oversimplification of a simple game sink in. “Yes,” you think. “I get it. I…