Dr. Joshua Harper, Artistic Director & Conductor of the Choral Society ofNortheast PA, and Assistant Professor at Wilkes University, speaking aboutthe opening concert of the 2025-2026 season, featuring the Requiem ofMaurice Durufle. The performance will include a full orchestra, guestsoloists, & organist Mark Laubach, with the Choral Society of NEPA andthe Wilkes University Chorus under Dr. Harper's direction.The concert will feature the premiere of a work commissioned by theChoral Society in memory of Francis McMullen: "O Lord support us"by Katherine Webb. The performance will take place on Sunday,November 23, 2025 at 3:00 pm at St. Stephen's EpiscopalPro-Cathedral, 35 S. Franklin Street in downtown Wilkes-Barre.Admission is free. www.choralsociety.net/

Thomas Speicher, award-winning writer and video producerin Public Relations and Marketing at Pennsylvania Collegeof Technology in Williamsport, speaking about his seriesof three children's books: "A Week with Waffles,""A Day with Waffles and Alexis" and the most recent,"Waffles Goes to the Beach." There are illustrationsby Marina Saumell, and the books are available onlineand at the Otto Bookstore in Williamsport.For more information: www.pct.edu/

Pianist Jason Sherwin speaking about a program titled,"Echoes Along the Delaware," weaving stories from theAmerican Revolution and D & H Canal with chamber musicfrom across the Atlantic from the same eras. There will bestories told by John Conway, Sullivan County Historian,with music of Handel and Schubert performed bymezzo-soprano Ava Pressman and pianist Jason Sherwin.The program will be held at Krause Hall of the DelawareValley Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg, NY, on Saturday,November 22, 2025, at 3:00. The concert is free, butdonations will be gladly accepted.www.delawarevalleyartsalliance.org/

Caleb Hopkins, Music Director & Conductor of the Williamsport Civic Chorus, speakingabout a concert program titled, "Sacred Voices: Divine Harmony from Martines to Mozart," to be presented on Sunday, November 9, 2025, at 3:00 pmat St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 142 Market Street in Williamsport.For more information: www.williamsportcivicchorus.org/

Director Dave Reynolds, Chair of the Theatre Department & Production Managerat King's College, and actor Noah McGinnis, who has the role of Caliban, speaking about the current production of Shakespeare's The Tempest that is running November 13through 21, 2025, at the George Maffei II Theatre, 133 N. River Street in Wilkes-Barre. Shows November 13, 14 & 15--and 20 & 21 at 7:30 pm with a Sundaymatinee November 16 at 2:00.For more information: www.kings.edu/

Brenda Grunza, Co-President, & Ann Manganiello, Music Director & Conductor of the Catholic Choral Society of Scranton, speaking about the22nd Annual "The Generations Sing" concert on Sunday, November 16, 2025, at 3:00 pm,at Holy Rosary Church, 316 William Street in Scranton. There will be special guestchoirs from regional schools and an organ performance by Michael Sowa.Admission is free and a free will offering will be taken. www.catholicchoralsociety.org/

Melisse Brunet, Music Director & Conductor of the NEPA Philharmonic,speaking about the recent candlelit performances of Mozart'sRequiem in Wilkes-Barre & Scranton and the rest of the 2025-26season. The orchestra has just announced that Melisse Brunet hasextended her contract through June 2029.The next concert of the season—(Candle)LIT Brass—will take place on November 21st at 7 pm at the Luzerne County Courthouse in Wilkes-Barre, featuring the NEPAPhilharmonic Brass Quintet. For information about the entire season,www.nepaphil.org/

Award-winning playwright Stephen Karam, a native of Scranton, PA, speaking about his work and his ties to his hometown, in anticipation of his return to NEPAas the guest for the 2025 Visiting Writer Series at King's College in Wilkes-Barre.There will be a free public presentation on Wednesday, November 19th, at7:00 pm in Burke Auditorium in the McGowan School of Business, 131North River Street. The program will include a talk, a Q & A session and a book signing.For information: www.kings.edu/

Organist Christopher Johnson speaking about a program titled, "Phantom of the Pipes,"that he will present at the University of Scranton on Friday, October 31, 2025, at 7:30 pm.The concert will feature music by Bach, Messiaen and others, and admission is free.Th performance will be held in the Houlihan-McLean Center, Mulberry Street & JeffersonAvenue, on the campus in downtown Scranton. www.scranton.edu/music

Rick Markham and Bill Jeffery, playwrights andboard members of the Legion Theatre Groupin White Haven, speaking about a program of4 plays under the title, "Nightfall BeforeChristmas: Haunting Holiday Plays byWilliam Jeffery and Rick Markham" tobenefit the Legion Theatre Group.Shows will be Saturday, November 8, 2025,at 8 pm and Sunday, November 9 at 2 pm,at the Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre,537 North Main Street.www.legiontheatregroup.org/