BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18708-db1e1c1400b678c4b6865e8491ac47c8@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260515T194439Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T173000 SUMMARY:A Conversation with Leah Wellbaum on Music, Communication, and Creativit y DESCRIPTION:\nLeah Wellbaum (she/they) is a professional musician\, visu al artist\, writer\, and teacher - a Billboard Top 40 artist who has bee n has been profiled in Guitar World\, Premier Guitar\, Consequence of So und\, Out\, and many other publications and has been described by fellow artist Lzzy Hale as a "force of nature." As principal songwriter\, guit arist\, and singer for the band Slothrust (“Sloth-rust”)\, Wellbaume has recorded multiple critically praised albums\, sold out headline tours n ationally and internationally\, and performed at such festivals as Lolla palooza\, BottleRock\, and Shaky Knees for more than a decade.\n\nWellba um is also the guitar specialist at experimental instrument development company Eternal Research\, working with filmmaker David Lynch’s custom-b uilt five-neck guitar among other unique endeavors. She has taught music and creativity practices for nearly two decades\, admires long-form imp rovisation\, and is devoted to helping others free themselves from creat ive hang-ups with a curiosity-forward approach.\n\nThis free event is ho sted by the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences and generously co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts\, the Josephine Berry Weiss Chair of the Humanities\, the Humanities Institute\, and the Department of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies.\n\nFor more details: https ://events.la.psu.edu/event/a-conversation-with-leah-wellbaum-on-music-co mmunication-and-creativity/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Leah We llbaum (she/they) is a professional musician, visual artist, wr iter, and teacher - a Billboard Top 40 artist who has been has been prof iled in Guitar World, Premier Guitar, Consequence of Sound, Out, and many other publications and has been de scribed by fellow artist Lzzy Hale as a "force of nature." As principal songwriter, guitarist, and singer for the band Slothrust (“Sloth-rust”), Wellbaume has recorded multiple critically praised albums, sold out hea dline tours nationally and internationally, and performed at such festiv als as Lollapalooza, BottleRock, and Shaky Knees for more than a decade.

Wellbaum is also the guitar specialist at experimental instrument development company Eternal Research, working with filmmaker David Lync h’s custom-built five-neck guitar among other unique endeavors. She has taught music and creativity practices for nearly two decades, admires lo ng-form improvisation, and is devoted to helping others free themselves from creative hang-ups with a curiosity-forward approach.

This fre e event is hosted by the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences a nd generously co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, the Josephine Berry Weiss Chair of the Humanities, the Humanities Institute, and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

For more det ails: https://events.la.psu.e du/event/a-conversation-with-leah-wellbaum-on-music-communication-and-cr eativity/

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