Dr. Lalaine Little, Director of the Pauly Friedman Art Gallery at Misericordia University in Dallas, PA, and Dr. Mateusz Wosik, Paleontologist & Assistant Professor of Biology at Misericordia, speaking about an exhibition of photographs

and artifacts titled "Lost Worlds" on the campus in 2022. They will be guests on the Keystone Edition Arts TV program, "Getting Creative with the Past: Dinosaurs!" that will be

recorded at the WVIA studios in Pittston on Tuesday, December 19, 2023, at 7:00 pm. The public is invited to be part of the studio audience. There is no admission charge. To make reservations and learn more: wvia.org/events.

Matt Vashlishian, jazz musician and composer, speaking about the annual holiday concert presented by the Water Gap Jazz Orchestra at East Stroudsburg University featuring

Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite and The Grinch Suite by Matt Vashlishian.

The ESU performance will take place on Saturday, December 16, 2023, at 7 pm.

The program will be repeated on Sunday, December 17th at 3:00 at the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ.

For more information: www.wgjo.org/

Billie Aken-Tyers, playwright with the Scranton

Shakespeare Festival, speaking with WVIA's

Fiona Powell about "Jack and the Beanstalk," an

original Fairy Tale Pantomime for Scranton in the

2023 Holiday Season.

There will be performances for two weekends at the

Shakes Space at the Marketplace at Steamtown in

downtown Scranton.

December 8th through the 17th: 12/8 & 12/9 at 6 pm;

Sunday 12/10 at 2 pm. Again 12/15 at 6 pm; 12/16 at 2 & 6 pm,

& 12/17 at 2. www.scrantonshakes.com.

Greg Zelek, Principal Organist of the Madison Symphony Orchestra in Wisconsin & Curator of the Overture Concert Organ, speaking about pipe organs and their capabilities in a recording from October 2022. He will return to St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, 35 William Street in Pittston, PA, to present a Christmas Celebration featuring a sing-a-long of

sacred carols and organ selections by Bach, Purvis and Bedard. The Nativity story will be read and children will take part. The concert will be held on Sunday, December 10, 2023, at 3:00 and for more information: www.stjohnspittston.com/ and www.gregzelek.com/

Dr. Christopher Jackson, Artistic Director & Conductor of the

Bach Choir of Bethlehem & the Bach Festival Orchestra,

speaking about the 2023 Christmas Concerts on Saturday,

December 9th at the First Presbyterian Church, Allentown,

and Sunday, December 10th at the First Presbyterian Church,

Bethlehem, at 4:00 each afternoon. The Sunday performance

will feature a Live Stream option. www.bach.org/

Dr. Olapeju Simoyan, a member of the founding faculty

of the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine in

Scranton, speaking about the second edition of her book

"Scranton, A Place to Call Home."

Dr. Simoyan will take part in The Local History

Emporium presented by the Lackawanna Historical Society

on Saturday, December 9, 2023, at the Catlin House,

232 Monroe Avenue in Scranton from 11 am to 2 pm.

www.lackawannahistory.org/ and www.thedoctorwriter.com/

Gerardo Edelstein, Music Director & Conductor of the

Williamsport Symphony Orchestra, speaking with

WVIA's Fiona Powell about the annual Holiday

Concert on Friday, December 8, 2023, featuring

a Broadway theme, with special guest soloists.

The performance will take place at the Community

Arts Center, 220 W. 4th Street in downtown

Williamsport at 7:30 pm,.

www.williamsportsymphony.org/

David Parmelee, General Manager of Little Theatre, Walter Mitchell Jr., Artistic Director & Asst. Director, & Director Mark Finkelstein, speaking about "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. This will be the first US production of a new adaptation by Justin Haigh, a Toronto-based playwright.

The show runs from December 8 through 17, 2023--Fridays and

Saturdays at 8 pm & Sundays at 3 pm at The Little Theatre of

Wilkes-Barre, 537 N. Main Street.

www.ltwb.org/

Matthew Rupcich, Music Director & Conductor

of the Arcadia Chorale, speaking about the 2023

holiday concert program titled, "A Christmas Rose,"

to be presented on Saturday, December 2 at 7:30 pm

at St. Luke's Church, Wyoming Avenue in Scranton,

& also on Sunday, December 3 at 3:00 pm at the

First Presbyterian Church of Wilkes-Barre on

South Franklin Street.

The audience will be invited to join in singing

some favorite carols, and there will be a reception

to follow. www.arcadiachorale.org/

Jeffrey L. Bowman, Co-founder and CEO of REFRAME. He's a two-time award-winning Wiley author & a former senior partner and managing director at Ogilvy & Mather in NYC. Bowman is a national arts and cultural consultant, & he was the keynote speaker for the ArtScene Conference at WVIA in September 2023.

The panel discussion from the conference will air on Keystone Edition Arts on Monday, November 27th at 7 pm on WVIA TV. The show is available on the WVIA website and app---wvia.org/

For more information: www.GetReframe.com