Jon White-Spunner, Managing Director, & Aaron White, Member of the Resident Acting Company, speaking about the mortgage burning for the Alvina Krause Theatre in Bloomsburg and the opening of the 2023-24 Season of the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble with a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" in the Bloomsburg Town Park September 7 & 8 at 6 pm and September 9 at 4 pm. Admission is free.

BTE will tour with the production to the Community Theatre League in Williamsport and to the River Stage Community Theatre in Lewisburg in the weeks to follow. For more information:

www.bte.org/

Dana Feigenblatt, Director, and Larry Vojtko, Musical Director,

speaking about the production of "Cinderella" by Rodgers and

Hammerstein at the Music Box Dinner Playhouse, 196 Hughes

Street in Swoyersville, PA. The show runs from September 8

to September 24, 2023.

Curtain time Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 pm; Sundays at 3:00 pm.

For the dinner option, the meals begin at 6:30 Fridays & Saturdays;

at 1:30 on Sundays, www.musicbox.org/

Kathryn Maguet, Executive Director of the Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, speaking with WVIA's Fiona Powell about the Fall 2023 Season that begins on September 7th on the Weis Center Plaza.  For more information:   www.bucknell.edu/WeisCenter

Reverend Bill Carter, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Clarks Summit, PA, and jazz pianist and band leader, speaking about a tradition that is over 30 years old--the annual Labor Day weekend jazz service at the church at 300 School Street. This year the Presbybop Jazz Ensemble will perform music

by the esteemed jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan.

The service begins at 10:00 am and the public is invited.

The event is also available online for viewing in real time

or at a later date.

For more information: www.fpccs.org/

Beth Burkhauser, Executive Director & Founder of the Interdependence Hexagon Project; Elizabeth Hughes, Director of Communications at The Earth Conservancy in Luzerne County; and Nancy Petalver, Art Educator in the Scranton School System, speaking about the Hexagon Project and its annual art exhibition to celebrate Interdependence Month. The show will open on September 1, 2023, and run through the month at ArtWorks, 236 Penn Avenue in downtown Scranton.

Throughout September, a series of free hands-on environmentally-themed workshops will be offered. Registration is required.

For more information: www.HexagonProject.org/

Kat Bolus, Community Reporter with the WVIA News Department, sharing a story from Honesdale in Wayne County, PA, about a public

art project involving a street piano for the public to enjoy.

www.wvia.org/news/local

www.waynecountyartsalliance.org/

George Aulisio, Dean of the Weinberg Memorial Library and Director of the Schemel Forum at the University of Scranton, speaking about the Fall 2023 season offerings of the Schemel Forum, featuring 3 six-week courses, the World Affairs Luncheon Seminars, two collaborative programs and a bus trip on September 30 to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Rodin

Museum. For more information: www.scranton.edu/schemelforum

Nancy Sanderson, Executive Director of the Northeastern PA Philharmonic, speaking about the 2023-2024 season that will get underway on September 29 with the first of the PNC Pops series and will conclude with a Masterworks concert on June 1. Melisse Brunet is the music director and conductor.

For more information: www.nepaphil.org/

Rudy Caporaso & Rosey Hay, Co-Artistic Directors of REV Theatre Company, speaking about their return to Scranton to work with a multigenerational cast at United Neighborhood Centers of NEPA on a production of REV's "Lil' Ol' Rodeo Show" to be presented on Saturday, August 26, 2023, at UNC's Oppenheim Center, 1004 Jackson Street on Scranton's West Side. Doors open at 5:30 & the show starts at 6:00 pm. Admission is free. For more information: www.uncnepa.org/

Carl Achhammer and James Gavern of the NEPA Bonsai Society, speaking about the group's 2023 Open House on Saturday, August 26, from 10 am to 4 pm at Keller's Garden Center, 7 Kern Street in Exeter, PA. There will be demonstrations, a display of 78 trees, a contest to

judge the finest specimens, music, pottery displays and more.

For information: www.nepabonsai.com/