James Lansing, Everhart Museum Curator, speaking about the

exhibition, "Peace, Love & Music," running from August 15 to December 27, 2024.

The opening of the show coincides with the 55th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival in 1969, and there will be a reception on August 15 outside the museum in Nay Aug Park in Scranton from 5:30 to 8:00 pm--The Flower Power Happy Hour.

For more information: www.everhart-museum.org/

Tannis Kowalchuk, Founder & Artistic Director of the Farm Arts Collective, and Yurika Sase, Rice Farmer & Artist from Japan who volunteers each summer with the FAC, speaking about the Dream on the Farm series and this year's production, "Conference for Those Still Living," at Willow Wisp Organic Farm in Damascus, PA, from August 8th to 18th, 2024, starting at 6:30 pm, Thursdays to Sundays. Each  performance concludes with a shared farm-fresh meal. www.farmartscollective.org/

Rev. Bill Carter, Jazz Pianist, Band Leader & Pastor of the First

Presbyterian Church of Clarks Summit, speaking about his

recent book, "Thriving on a Riff: Jazz & the Spiritual Life" issued

in 2024 by Broadleaf Books. For more information:

www.presbybop.com/

The interview first aired in April to coincide with the book's

release.

Kathryn Maguet, Executive Director of the Weis Center for the

Performing Arts at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA,

speaking about the 2024-2025 season that gets underway

on September 13th with bluegrass performer Sierra Hull.

For more information: www.bucknell.edu/weiscenter

Dr. William Kashatus speaking about his study titled,

"Jackie & Campy: The Untold Story of Their Rocky

Relationship & the Breaking of Baseball's Color Line,"

issued in 2015 by the University of Nebraska Press.

WVIA-TV will broadcast a new documentary on

the Negro Leagues titled, "Never Drop the Ball," on Thursday,

August 8, 2024, at 7 pm.

For more information www.wvia.org/

The interview was originally recorded in 2015.

Mary Ann Moran-Savakinus, Director of the Lackawanna Historical Society; Michael Gilmartin, President of the Board and Architect Martina Bacarella, speaking about "Sacred Sites & Sounds," taking place in Carbondale, PA.

There will be a reception and choral performance on Thursday, August 22, 2024, and then a walking tour of 6 different churches on Saturday, August 24th. The tour will be led by Martina Barcarella.

For tickets and more information: www.lackawannahistory.org/

Walter Mitchell Jr., Artistic Director, and David Parmelee,

General Manager, speaking about the Weekend of One-Acts

to be presented August 9, 10 & 11, 2024, at the Little Theatre

of Wilkes-Barre, 537 North Main Street. Shows Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm; Sunday at 3:00.

www.ltwb.org/

Violinist Barbara Sonies of the Philadelphia Trio,

remembering acclaimed cellist Deborah Reeder

who passed away in January of 2024.

There will be a concert in her memory on Friday, August 2,

at the Dewire Center, 891 Laporte Avenue in Eagles

Mere, PA, with a reception at 7:30 pm and the

performance at 8:00. Featured will be the

Eagles Mere Chamber Players, former students

at the Music in the Mountains summer camp run

by Reeder and Sonies. On the program Brahms, Beethoven,

Schumann and others.

The event is part of the Eagles Mere Friends of the Arts

summer series, and for more information: www.emfoa.org/

Tenor T.J. Capobianco, a native of Scranton, speaking with

Haley O'Brien of the WVIA News Department about

the Metropolitan Opera in NY where he is a Full Plan

Artist. Capobianco returned this summer as a vocal coach at the Lyceum School for Visual & Performing Arts in Scranton,

and he will perform at La Festa Italiana on Courthouse

Square on September 1, 2024, at 5:00 pm.

www.thomasjcapobianco.com/

www.broadwaynepa.com/

Domenic Salerni, violinist, composer, arranger & member of the award-winning Attacca Quartet, speaking about recent initiatives including the album project, "A Change is Gonna Come" for the Palaver Strings and soloists Nicholas Phan and Farayi Malek, issued by Azica Records. For more information: www.palaverstrings.org/ www.domenicsalerni.com/