Rick Steves, Public TV & Radio host, best-selling author & activist,speaking in anticipation of his visit to NEPA as the guest of theLackawanna County Library System to deliver the 2025 AmericanMasters Lecture on Wednesday, April 30th at 7:00 pm at the ScrantonCultural Center. The event is free but tickets are required and areavailable at any libra…

Joel Guldin, music educator, organizer &chair of the annual Les Brown Big Band Festival,and David Minnich, Les Brown's cousin & FestivalCommittee member, speaking about the 17th annual Les Brown Big Band Festival, April 24through April 26, 2025. The 5th annual FilmFestival will be held April 24th at 7 pm at thePine Grove Movie Theater, 213 S. Tulpe…

Dr. Bill Conlogue of Northeastern PA, English Professorand Author, speaking about his most recent book titled,Working Watersheds: Water and Energy in the LackawannaValley, issued by Temple University Press.For more information: tupress.temple.edu/

Melisse Brunet, Music Director & Conductor, & Chason Goldschmitz, Executive Director,both of the Northeastern PA Philharmonic, speaking about the upcoming Masterworksconcert featuring Carmina Burana by Carl Orff; Dvorak's Carnival Overture & DoloresWhite's "Give Birth to the Dream." The performance will take place on Friday, April25, 2025, at the F…

Jerry Wemple, poet, nonfiction writer & editor, Professor of English at the Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania—Bloomsburg campus,speaking about his new collection, with Anne Dyer Stuart, titled, "Rivers,Ridges & Valleys: Essays on Rural Pennsylvania" issued by CatamountPress. There will be a reading with writers from the volume on Friday,April…

Dr. Rick Hoffenberg, Director of Choral Activitiesat Marywood University in Scranton, speakingabout the Spring concerts of the MarywoodChamber Singers to be held on Sunday,April 27, 2025, at 3:00 at St. John the EvangelistChurch, 35 William Street in Pittston.Also Sunday, May 4 at 2:00 in the Marian Chapelat Marywood University in Scranton.www.mary…

Selinda Kennedy, distinguished ceramic artist,speaking about her work in anticipation of the2025 Lewisburg Arts Festival, presented bythe Lewisburg Arts Council. Kennedy has beenchosen as the Featured Artist for this year'sFestival, which will take place onSaturday, April 26th. From 9 am to 4 pm,she can be found at her booth near4th & Market Street…

Selinda Kennedy, distinguished ceramic artist,speaking about her work in anticipation of the2025 Lewisburg Arts Festival, presented bythe Lewisburg Arts Council. Kennedy has beenchosen as the Featured Artist for this year'sFestival, which will take place onSaturday, April 26th. From 9 am to 4 pm,she can be found at her booth near4th & Market Street…

Patrick Hamilton, Professor of English at MisericordiaUniversity in Dallas, PA, speaking about his new bookGeorge Perez, about one of the most importantsuperhero artists of the 1970s & 1980s.The book was issued by the University Press ofMississippi and for information: www.upress.state.ms.us/Dr. Hamilton & Dr. Allan Austin are featured on theweekly…

George Saunders, author of 12 books, including thenovel, Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the 2017Man Booker Prize, speaking about his work inanticipation of a visit to NEPA. He will be the featured guest as part of the WilkesUniversity English Department's AllanHamilton Dickson Spring Writer's Series, onTuesday, April 15, 2025 at 7:00 pm, at theDor…

Poet Marjorie Hafer Maddox, Professor Emeritus ofEnglish & Creative Writing at the Lock Haven campusof Commonwealth University, speaking about--andreading from--three new books: Seeing Things;Small Earthly Space (with Karen Elias) andHow Can I Look It Up When I Don't Know HowIt's Spelled. There will be a book launch inWilliamsport for Seeing Things…

Tannis Kowalchuk, Theater-Maker & Founding Artistic Director of the Farm Arts Collective on Willow Wisp Organic Farm in Damascus, PA,speaking about the annual production in theFAC's Dream on the Farm series, and about her solo work,Decompositions, that she will present on April 11, 2025, atthe Greenhouse Project, 200 Arthur Avenue in Scranton.Doors…

Tannis Kowalchuk, Theater-Maker & Founding Artistic Director of the Farm Arts Collective on Willow Wisp Organic Farm in Damascus, PA,speaking about the annual production in theFAC's Dream on the Farm series, and about her solo work,Decompositions, that she will present on April 11, 2025, atthe Greenhouse Project, 200 Arthur Avenue in Scranton.Doors…

Brink Powell, Director, & Harry Powell, Actor, speaking about the new original comedy,Doc Franklin Escapes Cambridge by BarbaraPease Weber at Diva Theater, 226 W. Market Street in Scranton, April 4, 5, 10 & 11, 2025at 7:30 pm; Sunday matinees April 6 & 13at 2:00; Facebook.com/DivaTheaterScranton

Sarah Elizabeth Yorke, Director, & Alejandro Christopher Ridolfi, Lighting Designer,speaking about the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble production of The Little Princeadapted from the book by Saint-Exupery at the Alvina Krause Theatre, 226 Center Streetin Bloomsburg, running April 5 through April 27, 2025, with preview performancesApril 3 & 4. Thursdays…

Thomas Putman, Artistic Director of Hamilton-GibsonProductions, speaking about the play "Birthday Candles"by Noah Haidle, that he directs at the Warehouse Theatre,3 Central Avenue in Wellsboro, PA, April 4, 5, 11, 12 2025,at 7:30 pm; Sunday, April 6 at 2:30.www.hamiltongibson.org/

Thomas Putman, Artistic Director of Hamilton-GibsonProductions, speaking about the play "Birthday Candles"by Noah Haidle, that he directs at the Warehouse Theatre,3 Central Avenue in Wellsboro, PA, April 4, 5, 11, 12 2025,at 7:30 pm; Sunday, April 6 at 2:30.www.hamilton-gibson.org/

Dr. Larry Lipkis, Starner Professor of Music at Moravian University in Bethlehem, PA, composer-in-residence & member of the Baltimore Consort, speaking about the concert of dance music of the Renaissance & Early Baroque to be presented by the Early Music ensembles at Moravian, on Sunday, April 6, 2025, at 7:00 pm in Peter Hall. There will be a Rena…

Dr. Paul Salerni of Lehigh University & Ty Kim, filmmaker,speaking about the award-winning documentary Earl!about the life & work of esteemed American composer& educator Earl Kim, before a screening Thursday, March27, 2025 at the Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh Universityin Bethlehem, PA. The event begins at 7 pm & will include a panel discussion wi…

Adam Randis, PTPA Artistic Director & Director of Cabaret, & Joshua Plesce, PTPABoard Member & the Emcee in Cabaret, speaking about the Kander & Ebb musicalthat will be presented by the PA Theatre of Performing Arts at the JJ Ferrara Center,212 W. Broad Street in Hazleton, March 28, 29 & 30, 2025, Friday & Saturday at 7 pm;Sunday at 3 pm. www.ptpas…