WKU Cultural Enhancement Series History
24th Season: 2022-2023
- February 8, 2023: Dr. William H. Turner
- February 27, 2023: Ada Limón
- March 28, 2023: Willie Carver
- April 26, 2023: The Paul Brock Band
25th Season: 2023-2024
- August 31, 2023: Larry & Joe
- October 12, 2023: Cassie Chambers
- Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers:
- September 22, 2023:The Elephant 6 Recording Co.
- November 2, 2023:Black Barbie
- November 16, 2023:A Run for More
- February 8, 2024:Butterfly in the Sky: The Story of Reading Rainbow
- March 7, 2024:Master of Light
- April 11, 2024:King Coal
26th Season: 2024-2025
- September 19, 2024: Quiara Alegría Hudes
- February 13, 2025: Charles Blow
- Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers:
- September 5, 2024:Family Tree
- October 17, 2024:Santos: Skin to Skin
- November 14, 2024:City of a Million Dreams
- February 11, 2025:O Pioneer
- March 13, 2025:This World is Not My Own
- April 10, 2025:Where the Butterflies Go
27th Season: 2025-2026
- September 6, 2025: Sam Bush (in partnership with the Kentucky Museum)
- October 16, 2025: Caitlin Dickerson
- March 5, 2026: Rebekah Taussig
September 23, 2019- Melissa Marshall
October, 15, 2019- Dr. Eve L. Ewing
February 3, 2020- Swedish Jam Factory
February 17, 2020- Grapes of Wrath- American Shakespeare Center
July 2018- Nobel Laureate Kosterlitz--Co-sponsor
October 1-19, 2018- Patrick Dougherty Stickwork Project
April 2, 2019- Silkroad
April 15 and 16, 2019- Obsesión (Cuban band)
Dates TBA- Arte Cubano Exhibit at Ky Museum—Co-sponsor
September 19, 2017- Roxane Gay
October 8, 2017- Robert Reich
February 2, 2018- Yamato Drummers
February 13, 2018- Paul Alan Cox
March 5, 2018- Daniel Levitin
IYO Bosnia Event- TBD
Alan Teiger @ GRH Auditorium
Co-sponsor Southern Circuit Film Festival Bowling Green
September 27, 2016- Anne Lamott
October 20, 2016- Ben Sollee
November 7, 2016- Joel Sartore
February 15, 2017- Sarah Parcak
February 21, 2017- Black Violin
April 22, 2017- David Sedaris
Sam Bush
Nina Totenberg
Neil Gaiman
Martha Graham Dance Company
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
September 20, 2014- Jazz at Lincoln Center featuring Wynton Marsalis
October 15, 2014- Bill Nye
November 2014- Kentucky Glory: Gospel Music from the Commonwealth (Ky Folklife Program)
February 5, 2015-Melissa Harris-Perry
February 10, 2015- Mummenschanz
Kentucky Strings: Bluegrass Music and Beyond (Festival)
September 17, 2013- Ozomatli
November 5, 2013- Soledad O’Brien
February 4, 2014- Abigail Wasburn with Kai Welch feature Wu Fei- the Wu Force
February 21, 2014- Dr. Cornel West (co-sponsor WKU Black History Celebration & Cultural Presercation Committee)
March 17, 2014- Dr. Michio Kaku
October 15, 2012- Birdland Jazz Band
October 29, 2012- Jon Meacham
March 4, 2013- Ailey II
March 26, 2013- Garrison Keillor
April 11, 2013- Chanticleer
September 20, 2011- James Fallows (co-sponsor ICSR)
March 19, 2012- Jerry Greenfield
April 9, 2012- Ntozake Shange (co-sponsor WS)
October 12, 2010- Richard Rodriguez
November 17, 2010- Natalie MacMaster
February 16, 2011- Bernice Johnson Reagon (co-sponsor WS)
February 21, 2011- Imani Winds
March 22, 2011- Chuck Klosterman
October 26, 2009- Neil deGrasse Tyson
November 17, 2009- American Revival (Sierra Hull, Dixie Bee-Liners, Uncle Earl)
February 9, 2010- Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
April 13, 2010- Billy Collins
September 23, 2008- Carolina Chocolate Drops
November 18, 2008- Kenneth Miller
February 17, 2009- Richard Norton Smith
March 17, 2009- TAIKOPROJECT
October 16, 2007- Mamadou Diabate
October 30, 2007- Jeff Corwin
April 1, 2008- Gloria Steinem
April 8, 2008- Cantus
November 13, 2006- Abraham Verghese, M.D.
March 14, 2007- Los Lobos
April 23, 2007- Azar Nafisi
September 8, 2005- J.D. Crowe and the New South
March 2, 2006- Barbara Ehrenreich
April 6, 2006- The Lark Quartet
October 14, 2004- Blind Boys of Alabama
February 15, 2005- Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
March 2, 2005- Edward O. Wilson
Henry Louis Gates
March 2004- BeauSoleil
April 2004- Steven Pinker
Laurie Garrett
Anoushka Shankar
Baltimore Consort
The Del McCoury Band
Brian Greene
Jared Diamond
Taylor 2
Doc Watson
Walter Alvarez
Susan Faludi
Frank McCourt
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Behind the Broken Words-Zerbe and Browne
Gumbo, Grits & Gravy
David Halberstam
Alvin Ailey
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Stephen Jay Gould
Robert Bly
Nexus
Jane Smiley
Bob Williams
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