Phoebe Wagner, author, editor & Assistant Professor at Lycoming College in Williamsport, speaking about her new novel, "A Shot of Gin" published by Parliament House Press. There will be a book signing at Otto Bookshop, W. 4th Street in Williamsport, Saturday,

October 28, 2023, from 1 - 3 pm; a book event and dance party on October 28 at about 10 pm presented by Femme Vital, and a book signing, reading & conversation on Tuesday, October 31st at 3:00 on the Lycoming campus at the Humanities Research Center.

www.phoebe-wagner.com/

Julie Schumacher Cohen, Project Director, and Kimberly Crafton, Oral Histories Coordinator, for "Scranton's Story, Our Nation's Story," made possible through a grant from the NEH, speaking about the premiere of oral history interviews and an exhibition of photographs titled, ""Scranton Stories" at the University of Scranton on Friday, October 27, 2023, with a panel discussion in Brennan Hall at 5:00 pm, and an opening reception in Hyland Hall at 6:00. The exhibition runs through November 17th.

The events are free and open to the public.

www.scranton.edu/scrantonstory/

Meg Davis & Tyler Floryan, directors, and Dan Nudo, Amanda Alfano & Michael Speranzo, actors, speaking about the 9th annual production of "The Rocky Horror Show" at the LIttle Theatre of Wilkes-Barre, 537 North Main Street, on

Friday, October 27, 2023, at 8:00 pm, and Saturday, October 28 at 7:00 and again at Midnight.

Prop bags will be for sale with a ticket to the show.

For more information and tickets: www.LTWB.org/ or 570-823-1875.

Brian Carso, Associate Professor of History and Pre-Law

Program Director at Misericordia University in Dallas, PA,

speaking about his new novel, "Gideon's Revolution,"

issued by Cornell University Press. Dr. Carso will

present a program and reading on Thursday, October

26, 2023, at 7:00 pm, in Insalaco Hall on the campus.

The event is free and open to the public.

www.briancarso.com/ www.misericordia.edu/

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/

Gerardo Edelstein, Music Director & Conductor of the

Williamsport Symphony Orchestra, speaking with WVIA's

Fiona Powell about the opening concert of the 2023-2024

season on Tuesday, October 24, at 7:30 pm at the

Community Arts Center, 220 West Fourth Street in

downtown Williamsport.

The program will feature music by Beethoven & Rachmaninoff.

www.caclive.com/ www.williamsportsymphony.org/

John Pullo, Sr, President of Keystone College, Karl Neuroth, Professor Emeritus, and Ward Roe, Professor of Art, speaking about the new initiative, "ReImagining the Arts," to be celebrated on Sunday, November 5, 2023, at 5:00 pm in the Theatre in Brooks on the Keystone Campus in La Plume. For information and reservations: www.keystone.edu/reimaginingthearts

Christopher Jend, Senior Associate and Lead Designer at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects in NYC, speaking about a presentation titled, "Architect E.G.W.Dietrich: From Steel City to the Electric City" to be offered on Saturday,October 21, 2023, at the Albright Memorial Library on Vine Street in Scranton at 2:00 pm. The event is filled, but there is a waiting list on the website and the program will be presented live online.  For more information and to register: www.albright.org/

And to learn more about the architect who is the subject of the talk, www.egwdietrich.org/ The program is co-sponsored by the Albright Memorial Library and the Lackawanna Historical Society.

Composer Steven Sametz, Ronald J. Ulrich Professor of Music, and Hana J. Cai, Associate Director of Choral Activities, at Lehigh University in Bethlehem,

speaking about the opening concert of the 2023-24 season of Lehigh Choral Arts with a program titled, "Sacred & Profane," on October 21 at 8:00 pm and October 22 at 4:00 pm, at the Zoellner Arts Center on the Lehigh campus.

www.lehigh.edu/

Composer Steven Sametz, Ronald J. Ulrich Professor of Music, and Hana J. Cai, Associate Director of Choral Activities, at Lehigh University in Bethlehem,

speaking about the opening concert of the 2023-24 season of Lehigh Choral Arts with a program titled, "Sacred & Profane," on October 21 at 8:00 pm and October 22 at 4:00 pm, at the Zoellner Arts Center on the Lehigh campus.

www.lehigh.edu/

William Payn, Music Director & Conductor of the Susquehanna Valley Chorale, speaking with WVIA's Fiona Powell about the Fall concert featuring Handel's Messiah at Zion Lutheran Church in Sunbury on Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, October 22 at 3:00pm.

There will be a pre-concert talk by Dr. Gary Boerckel on the 21st & 22nd.

The Saturday performance is "pay-what-you-decide".

www.SVCMusic.org/