Our fourth Live from Lewisburg Variety Show was another fantastic evening of performance and celebration of the arts in the Central Susquehanna Valley! Our house band, organist, and guest performers were all amazing, drawing cheers from the audience throughout, and our host, Monica Prince, had a great time leading it all and interacting with the crowd. Thank you to everyone who came out for this latest production!
For the time being, the Variety Show is going on hiatus as other live events take the forefront, but keep your eyes out for updates!
For the time being, the Variety Show is going on hiatus as other live events take the forefront, but keep your eyes out for updates!
Collaboration - The Arts - Community
At the heart of the Live from Lewisburg Variety Show is a message and ideal of community. We're drawing inspiration from the history of the arts and theatres, hearkening to a time when the community theatre was truly the center stage for news and entertainment. We firmly believe that even in the darkest of troubled times, arts and entertainment can be our guiding light to a better tomorrow, and we can all work together to lift that light up for all to see!
We are thrilled to be partnering with two fellow organizations - the Campus Theatre and the Lewisburg Downtown Partnership - to bring this performance to our community. We're also showcasing local artists and the show is receiving patronage and sponsorship from local businesses. This show is sponsored by the CommUnity Zone, Lewisburg Downtown Partnership, Campus Theatre and is generously supported by the Degenstein Foundation.
At the heart of the Live from Lewisburg Variety Show is a message and ideal of community. We're drawing inspiration from the history of the arts and theatres, hearkening to a time when the community theatre was truly the center stage for news and entertainment. We firmly believe that even in the darkest of troubled times, arts and entertainment can be our guiding light to a better tomorrow, and we can all work together to lift that light up for all to see!
We are thrilled to be partnering with two fellow organizations - the Campus Theatre and the Lewisburg Downtown Partnership - to bring this performance to our community. We're also showcasing local artists and the show is receiving patronage and sponsorship from local businesses. This show is sponsored by the CommUnity Zone, Lewisburg Downtown Partnership, Campus Theatre and is generously supported by the Degenstein Foundation.
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Traffic Performance on October 18, 2019 by Paulo Botelho
A musical response to Lewisburg traffic through voice, electro-acoustic sound, and projected video art. Composer and vocalist Paul J. Botelho will perform a new work where he will respond musically to the traffic sounds of Lewisburg. The outdoor performance will reimagine downtown Lewisburg as a stage and its traffic as performers. The performance will be a real time reaction to the sounds of Market Street traffic through live voice, computer manipulated sound, and projected video art. Praised for his vocal virtuosity, Azorean-American composer and countertenor Paul J. Botelho performs worldwide. His recent work explores live performed vocal responses to composed and prerecorded sonic environments and includes the Visby Project (Visby, Sweden; 2017-18), Walmart 3 AM (2016), and in Moscow we marched (Moscow, Russia; 2019). His work has been performed, presented, and exhibited in concerts, festivals, galleries, and museums across the Americas, Europe, Oceania, and Asia. pauljbotelho.com |
Milton Fringe Festival
Presented by the Milton Art Bank and the CommUnity Zone
This event was an amazing success Be sure not to miss the next Fringe Festival in our valley.
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Milton Fringe Festival (MFF) is a spectacular three-day event in Milton, PA, a small town in central Pennsylvania with a burgeoning reputation for delivering both renowned and experimental art from around the world. The inaugural edition of MFF showcases the diverse talent of local and international boundary-breaking artists, with a focus on the best of drag, burlesque, and vaudeville clowning. There is also a rich slate of daytime programming that includes workshops, classes, a curated film series, and art talks in order to encourage the exchange of diverse and thought-provoking ideas. MFF embraces diversity, inclusivity, respect, empowerment, education, expression, and the importance of visibility. This year’s festival will take place from Thursday, October 10 through Saturday, October 12, 2019.
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The Neighbors Helping Neighbors Event May 2019!
"Neighbors Helping Neighbors" is an opportunity to be awakened to the community and gather those who
have been isolated, marginalized, and put out. This experience was a night of celebrating
the community we’ve been looking for and hoping to build in the future. On May 18th, we all gathered at "Jim's Church"
on North 3rd Street for a night of food, drink, the arts, and awareness. It was a great success.
have been isolated, marginalized, and put out. This experience was a night of celebrating
the community we’ve been looking for and hoping to build in the future. On May 18th, we all gathered at "Jim's Church"
on North 3rd Street for a night of food, drink, the arts, and awareness. It was a great success.
Watch some of the live performances and short films that were
featured during the show on our youtube page.
featured during the show on our youtube page.
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Opening Video of Mary Lapos
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Closing Performance
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Being Mortal
FREE Screening
Film Explores End-of-Life Care
October 3, 2018 @ 7 pm
Campus Theatre, 413 Market Street, Lewisburg
The CommUnity Zone, Caring Choices, Bucknell University, Evangelical Community Hospital and Geisinger Hospital are coming together to hold a free community screening of this thought provoking documentary. After the screening, audience members can participate in a guided conversation led by Cindy Moyer, MSW LSW-CDP, Dr. Kathryn Girogini, Evangelical Hospital, Dr Catherine O’Neil of Bucknell University’s Student Health Center and Chaplain Jacqueline Heitmann on how to take concrete steps to identify and communicate wishes about end-of-life goals and preferences.
“Being Mortal” delves into the hopes of patients and families facing terminal illness. The film investigates the practice of caring for the dying and explores the relationships between patients and their doctors. It follows a surgeon, Dr. Atul Gawande, as he shares stories from the people and families he encounters. When Dr. Gawande’s own father gets cancer, his search for answers about how best to care for the dying becomes a personal quest. The film sheds light on how a medical system focused on a cure often leaves out the sensitive conversations that need to happen so a patient’s true wishes can be known and honored at the end.
“Being Mortal” underscores the importance of people planning ahead and talking with family members about end-of-life decisions.
FREE Screening
Film Explores End-of-Life Care
October 3, 2018 @ 7 pm
Campus Theatre, 413 Market Street, Lewisburg
The CommUnity Zone, Caring Choices, Bucknell University, Evangelical Community Hospital and Geisinger Hospital are coming together to hold a free community screening of this thought provoking documentary. After the screening, audience members can participate in a guided conversation led by Cindy Moyer, MSW LSW-CDP, Dr. Kathryn Girogini, Evangelical Hospital, Dr Catherine O’Neil of Bucknell University’s Student Health Center and Chaplain Jacqueline Heitmann on how to take concrete steps to identify and communicate wishes about end-of-life goals and preferences.
“Being Mortal” delves into the hopes of patients and families facing terminal illness. The film investigates the practice of caring for the dying and explores the relationships between patients and their doctors. It follows a surgeon, Dr. Atul Gawande, as he shares stories from the people and families he encounters. When Dr. Gawande’s own father gets cancer, his search for answers about how best to care for the dying becomes a personal quest. The film sheds light on how a medical system focused on a cure often leaves out the sensitive conversations that need to happen so a patient’s true wishes can be known and honored at the end.
“Being Mortal” underscores the importance of people planning ahead and talking with family members about end-of-life decisions.
Seventy percent of Americans say they would prefer to die at home, but nearly 70 percent die in hospitals and institutions. Ninety percent of Americans know they should have conversations about end-of-life care, yet only 30 percent have done so.
In February 2015, “Being Mortal” aired nationally on the PBS program “Frontline.” For more information about the film, visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/being-mortal/. The film is adapted from Dr. Gawande’s 2014 nationally best-selling book of the same name.
More information about the book can be found here. For more information about this free screening, contact Cynthia Peltier at [email protected]
In February 2015, “Being Mortal” aired nationally on the PBS program “Frontline.” For more information about the film, visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/being-mortal/. The film is adapted from Dr. Gawande’s 2014 nationally best-selling book of the same name.
More information about the book can be found here. For more information about this free screening, contact Cynthia Peltier at [email protected]
Unity Gathering
Free and Open to ALL
Come join the beginning of the future!
Tuesday, October 2 @ 7 pm
RAIN LOCATION:
Trout Auditorium, Bucknell University
The challenges facing us today are unprecedented. These great challenges
include climate change and the acceleration of technology – particularly AI and biotechnology. These things alone will change what it means to be human as our
cognitive abilities are matched and decision-making is automated. As these changes accelerate, we will fumble for new meaning in the world. That meaning will need to come from each other.
Putting an end to nationalistic and religious hostility – and other forms of divisive fake news – is too great a problem to be solved by one clever person. Instead, it must come from all of us.
None of the religions or nations of today are providing all the answers for all people. Morality, art, spirituality and creativity will be the only source of digging out.
This year, the 20th anniversary of the beginning of this event here in Lewisburg,Bucknell University students, staff, faculty and community members are planning on gathering together for a time of connecting with each other on a broader and more personal level than we have before. Our goal is to continue the conversations of unity beyond our time at Hufnagle Park because too often, the voices we listen to point out where we differ or are
opposed continue to try and divide us. Our goal is to remember that we are more alike than we are different.
At the Unity Gathering, we see people from all walks of life but when we have gathered together in the past, we often sit with those who are like us and we leave with people like us. This year, we want to encourage Bucknell Students and Community members to sit among each other. We want those of a diverse
faith to share together in conversation.
This year, we are inviting you because you are a unique and precious individual. We want the fullness of our community to be present for this event and also to help facilitate the conversations that will continue because of our coming together. Wherever you are, you can help make this dream of unity a reality. Let's show the future generations, and ourselves, that we can do better than be
at odds with each other.
“Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” -- Mattie Stepanek
Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek (July 17, 1990 – June 22, 2004), known as Mattie J.T. Stepanek, was an American poet (or as he wanted to be remembered as "a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played") who published seven best-selling books of poetry and peace essays. Before his death (at the age of 13) he had become known as a peace advocate and motivational speaker.
As reported by the Daily Item - October 3, 2018
Groups hold unity rally for social, political justice
By Rick Dandes
[email protected]
LEWISBURG — Lewisburg’s most visible progressive groups and leaders met Bucknell student groups for a night of solidarity Tuesday night, vowing to work together for social and political justice in the Valley and beyond.
Thunder and lightning prevented the rally from being staged at its normal venue, Hufnagle Park, but the bad weather outside Trout Auditorium on the Bucknell Campus couldn’t douse the good feeling inside of more than 200 engaged students and community stakeholders.
The rally, said Cynthia Peltier, cofounder of the CommUnity Zone is part of the Stop the Hate movement, calling for people of good will to act nonviolently as agents of healing in their communities. “To speak up for the victims of hatred,” she said, “and to raise a united voice against hate inspired violence.” The national rallies began the year after the hate crimes and killings of James Byrd and Matthew Shepard in 1998.
Groups addressing LGBT, hunger, climate change, mental health, victims of domestic violence (Transitions) and gun safety (Moms Demand Action) gave impassioned speeches about their core issues and implored others to join in and volunteer to help others.
Before the speeches began, the groups divided up and invited community members and others in the audience to learn more about specific issues.
Bucknell students Maya McKeever and Ralph Corbelle noted that among the student population, a certain percentage had what they called “food insecurity. That is, they had trouble affording nutritious food,” said McKeever. “You shouldn’t have to worry about such things. You should be here, as a student and not have to wonder about eating good food in this community.”
Shari Jacobson of Moms Demand Action, spoke about the national movement to enact laws that will help prevent gun violence. Moms is a grassroots movement, she said. “We’re moms. We get things done.”
Meanwhile, Peltier told the crowd, “It is no longer good enough to stand on the sidelines. We must be bold and act when we see inequities. And above all else, please vote. Do not throw your vote away.”
dailyitem-cnhi.newsmemory.com/
Free and Open to ALL
Come join the beginning of the future!
Tuesday, October 2 @ 7 pm
RAIN LOCATION:
Trout Auditorium, Bucknell University
The challenges facing us today are unprecedented. These great challenges
include climate change and the acceleration of technology – particularly AI and biotechnology. These things alone will change what it means to be human as our
cognitive abilities are matched and decision-making is automated. As these changes accelerate, we will fumble for new meaning in the world. That meaning will need to come from each other.
Putting an end to nationalistic and religious hostility – and other forms of divisive fake news – is too great a problem to be solved by one clever person. Instead, it must come from all of us.
None of the religions or nations of today are providing all the answers for all people. Morality, art, spirituality and creativity will be the only source of digging out.
This year, the 20th anniversary of the beginning of this event here in Lewisburg,Bucknell University students, staff, faculty and community members are planning on gathering together for a time of connecting with each other on a broader and more personal level than we have before. Our goal is to continue the conversations of unity beyond our time at Hufnagle Park because too often, the voices we listen to point out where we differ or are
opposed continue to try and divide us. Our goal is to remember that we are more alike than we are different.
At the Unity Gathering, we see people from all walks of life but when we have gathered together in the past, we often sit with those who are like us and we leave with people like us. This year, we want to encourage Bucknell Students and Community members to sit among each other. We want those of a diverse
faith to share together in conversation.
This year, we are inviting you because you are a unique and precious individual. We want the fullness of our community to be present for this event and also to help facilitate the conversations that will continue because of our coming together. Wherever you are, you can help make this dream of unity a reality. Let's show the future generations, and ourselves, that we can do better than be
at odds with each other.
“Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” -- Mattie Stepanek
Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek (July 17, 1990 – June 22, 2004), known as Mattie J.T. Stepanek, was an American poet (or as he wanted to be remembered as "a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played") who published seven best-selling books of poetry and peace essays. Before his death (at the age of 13) he had become known as a peace advocate and motivational speaker.
As reported by the Daily Item - October 3, 2018
Groups hold unity rally for social, political justice
By Rick Dandes
[email protected]
LEWISBURG — Lewisburg’s most visible progressive groups and leaders met Bucknell student groups for a night of solidarity Tuesday night, vowing to work together for social and political justice in the Valley and beyond.
Thunder and lightning prevented the rally from being staged at its normal venue, Hufnagle Park, but the bad weather outside Trout Auditorium on the Bucknell Campus couldn’t douse the good feeling inside of more than 200 engaged students and community stakeholders.
The rally, said Cynthia Peltier, cofounder of the CommUnity Zone is part of the Stop the Hate movement, calling for people of good will to act nonviolently as agents of healing in their communities. “To speak up for the victims of hatred,” she said, “and to raise a united voice against hate inspired violence.” The national rallies began the year after the hate crimes and killings of James Byrd and Matthew Shepard in 1998.
Groups addressing LGBT, hunger, climate change, mental health, victims of domestic violence (Transitions) and gun safety (Moms Demand Action) gave impassioned speeches about their core issues and implored others to join in and volunteer to help others.
Before the speeches began, the groups divided up and invited community members and others in the audience to learn more about specific issues.
Bucknell students Maya McKeever and Ralph Corbelle noted that among the student population, a certain percentage had what they called “food insecurity. That is, they had trouble affording nutritious food,” said McKeever. “You shouldn’t have to worry about such things. You should be here, as a student and not have to wonder about eating good food in this community.”
Shari Jacobson of Moms Demand Action, spoke about the national movement to enact laws that will help prevent gun violence. Moms is a grassroots movement, she said. “We’re moms. We get things done.”
Meanwhile, Peltier told the crowd, “It is no longer good enough to stand on the sidelines. We must be bold and act when we see inequities. And above all else, please vote. Do not throw your vote away.”
dailyitem-cnhi.newsmemory.com/
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Beloved Community 2015
In 2015, 47 participants (including food vendors) reported an average of 43.8 community members with whom they had meaningful contact at our Beloved CommUnity event on 7 June. Attendance was over 300, and 100% of participants said they are looking forward to being present next year; we were also approached by several other organizations requesting space in 2016. This year, a professional development conference is being organized. We intend to provide our Partner and Patrons with meaningful information and resources to increase their effectiveness and with an opportunity to network and share existing resources. |
Third Annual
Neighbors Helping Neighbors Event 2017 Protect -Preserve - Play Your Community - Your Environment June 2017, Lewisburg, PA PRESS: Interview with Erika Funke of WVIA https://soundcloud.com/wvia-public-media/going-there-52817-communityzone?in=wvia-public-media/sets/stories-of-civic-engagement Here's a link to the (Protect, Preserve, and Play) video on environmental agencies and public knowledge made by the Environmental Studies students for their senior capstone seminar: https://youtu.be/XsKDQ-YfGu4 |
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Community Circle Singing
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The CommUnity Zone in partnership with the Donald Heiter Community Center will host a yearly Youth Winter Talent Show with student acts between the ages of 5 and 16. If your talent is not quite ready for prime time, we do need and desire an enthusiastic audience, so please plan to come and see what we are sure will be a special night of fun.
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Community Circle Singing is a joyful expression of art and mindfulness. Its roots go back to human’s first utterances and campfires, It is a viable tool for community building as it calls us into heart to heart relationship as we breathe together. As we sing in the circle chants and improvised moments of song--we create beauty while at the same time gather strength for daily life in our troubled world. Circle Singing is open to anyone wanting to experience the act of singing, that is not only for the professional pushing a product, but is for all of us seeking self and communal expressions of being in the now with hope for the future and reverence for the past. All ages and abilities welcome!
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2016 Solidarity Rally
Lewisburg PA • October 2016 PRESS: Rally offers opportunity for young to connect over social issues
Emma Ginader Oct 5, 2016 |
Don't Just Live - THRIVE!
A Healthy Community Event June 2016 Kit Sisson is a retired zoologist and her classes included teaching human anatomy and physiology. She began learning tai chi in Chicago at age 65 to help with arthritis and a compression fracture in her spine. Her instructor was from Hong Kong and taught the 37 position tai chi chuan form of Cheng Man Ching. In 2000, Kit moved to Lewisburg and soon began teaching tai chi at the Senior Center and the public library. A few years ago, she moved the classes to the Heiter center. She gives free lessons in the 37 position tai chi, the 32 position sword form she learned from YouTube, and Qigong. Even private lessons are free. |
2015 Youth Talent Show
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2015 Solidarity March70th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski
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