Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 – Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
British and American Art Song from the Middle Ages to Now
Monday, December 2, 2019 6–8 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building The student singers and pianists of Professor Rufus Müller’s Performance Class, and players from Bard Conservatory, present a collection of songs from Britain and North America, from medieval monody to lush romantic to soulful contemporary, including Bard’s very own Kyle Gann. Come and be soothed before the final onslaught of the semester!Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail muller@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Monday, December 2, 2019 – Tuesday, December 3, 2019 7–9 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Please join us for a post-screening discussion of College Behind Bars, a PBS documentary featuring the Bard Prison Initiative. The discussion will include students, faculty, representatives of BPI, and alumnus Dyjuan Tatro '18. All are encouraged to come, even if you were not able to make it to the screening events last week. Sponsored by: Bard Prison Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail as2833@bard.edu.
Monday, December 2, 2019 – Tuesday, December 3, 2019 7–9 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Please join us for a post-screening discussion of College Behind Bars, a PBS documentary featuring the Bard Prison Initiative. The discussion will include students, faculty, representatives of BPI, and alumnus Dyjuan Tatro '18. All are encouraged to come, even if you were not able to make it to the screening events last week. Sponsored by: Bard Prison Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail as2833@bard.edu.
Montgomery Place Fall Salon Series: Renewable Energies: Balancing Outputs and Historic Landscapes
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 3–5 pm
Montgomery Place, Mansion Panel Speakers Please note: Session 1 in this series takes place on November 12.
Session 2: Hydro Energy December 3, 3–5 p.m. Emily Majer ’95 Jan Borchert, head of hydro facility design and permitting, Current Hydro Tracy Brown, restoration manager, Connecticut and New York Northeast Coldwater Habitat Program, Trout Unlimited Weston Davey, historic site restoration coordinator, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation Moderated by Robyn Smyth, assistant professor of environmental and urban studies, Bard College
Screening in Honor of the 30th Annual Day With(out) Art: Still Beginning
Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12–2 pm
CCS Bard, Classroom 102
CCS Bard is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the 30th annual Day With(out) Art by presenting STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters / Victor F. M. Torres, and Derrick Woods-Morrow.
From Visual AIDS: “The seven short videos range in subject from anti-stigma work in New Orleans to public sex culture in Chicago, highlighting pioneering AIDS activism and staging intergenerational conversations. Recalling Gregg Bordowitz’s reminder that “THE AIDS CRISIS IS STILL BEGINNING,”* the video program resists narratives of resolution or conclusion, considering the continued urgency of HIV/AIDS in the contemporary moment while revisiting resonant cultural histories from the past three decades.
Visual AIDS is a New York–based nonprofit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. In 1989, Visual AIDS organized the first Day Without Art, a call to the art world for mourning and action in response to the AIDS crisis. For Day With(out) Art’s 30th year, over 100 institutions worldwide will screen STILL BEGINNING,recognizing the important and necessary work of artists, activists, and cultural workers who have responded to AIDS while emphasizing the persistent presence of the epidemic.
This year’s program will be screened at CCS Bard on December 1 at 2:00pm, and December 4 at 12:00pm, both in Classroom 102. Free admission. Seating is first-come, first-served.
*Gregg Bordowitz, The AIDS Crisis Is Still Beginning (2019) was recently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. Hear Bordowitz discuss the work here. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
EMPAC/RPI CURTIS R. PRIEM EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER at Rensselaer Bard College Electronic Music faculty Sarah Hennies performs an evening of her work for solo percussion and electronics featuring her works Falsetto and Fleas. Through slowly evolving textures, Hennies’s music opens up a space where small changes become events. Her music often explores the act of performance, whether through showing the amount of energy it takes to maintain a constant appearance in front of others, the exhaustion of maintaining a sound once it has been established, or the vulnerability of having one’s every small move amplified through observation.
Working with both traditional orchestral percussion instruments and found objects, Hennies challenges rigid definitions by relating the structure of her work to themes of queer and trans identity, love and intimacy. Hennies has mentioned in interviews that percussionists are unique in that they don’t have a specific instrument. Their identity and role changes constantly with the context of different pieces and even within a single piece. The standard definition of a musician identified by their instrument does not hold.
In Hennies’s performance, listeners and performers are encouraged to enter a shared space that reflects everyday life. Her music begins to expose the exhaustion and virtuosity of maintaining even simple actions. A gentle sound, such as the ringing of a small bell, is sustained beyond virtuosity to expose the exhaustion of maintaining even simple actions that are thought of as societal norms. As these sounds are challenged by the addition of other actions, Hennies’s performance becomes more and more mesmerizing: an act of determination. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail shennies@bard.edu.
From the Collection: CCS Bard First Year Practicum 2019
Thursday, December 5, 2019 – Sunday, December 15, 2019 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Galleries From the Collection: First Year Practicum 2019is comprised of four exhibitions each drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. Curated in groups by the fourteen M.A. candidates in the Class of 2021, the exhibitions examine the museum’s collection through themes of migration, race, transformation, and pain. Extending from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Reception Atrium to the entry gallery in the CCS Bard Galleries, But the skin of the earth is seamless proposes an approach to global migration that focuses on its generative and creative potential,. In the following gallery, White people are ____asks viewers to consider how whiteness has operated in the respective artist’s practices, and how their identity has been implicated, or not, in discussions of their work. Persons in the Presence of a Metamorphosis includes a diverse range of artistic approaches that grapple with various forms of transformation, emphasizing the importance of remaining receptive to change, difference, and possibility. In the final gallery, the works in throbbing_quivering_pulsing_beating give language to the sensorial dimensions and rhythmic patterns of pain and pleasure in the body. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Thursday, December 5, 2019 – Friday, February 14, 2020 3–5 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library The Curiosity Cabinet uses objects from Montgomery Place to explore the early modern concepts of wonder and curiosity, the origins of museums in colonial attitudes and practices, and the historical nature of objects. Curated by the students of Professor Susan Merriam’s class, The Curiosity Cabinet, ARTH 324: Catherine Baum, María Bernedo, Gabby Goldberg, Maya Howard, Ruth Kohl, Virginia Manning, Ella McGrail, Hannah Mills, Ella Okoli, Vita Sherin-Jones, Bel Simek, Abigail Stanley, Victoria Wayland, Anaka Wetch, and Sam Wilkins.
First-floor lobby and second-floor Sussman Reading Room, Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program and the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
For more information, call 845-758-7163, or e-mail merriam@bard.edu.
Social Work, Mental Health, and Academic Behavioral Medicine: A Social Justice Approach to Clinical Practice, Research, and Teaching in Graduate Medical Education
Cynthia Kim, LCSW-R, Associate Program Director and Director of Behavioral Science, and Michelle Miller, LCSW, Behavioral Science Faculty and Mental Health Clinician Mid Hudson Family Medicine Residency Program – Institute for Family Health
Thursday, December 5, 2019 4:45–6 pm
Preston Theater Alternate pathways for using undergraduate psychology education and experience exist in multiple professional realms. One such pathway is in using a graduate degree in social work or psychology to transform, teach, and practice in the field of academic family medicine. Family doctors are at the forefront of research and practice in the evidence base that informs integrative healthcare, providing services ranging from care coordination to mental health—all predicated on the development of trauma-informed, culturally conscious, therapeutic relationships with their patients. This talk will provide insight into a social justice pathway and mission that hopes to help transform the future of health and mental health care.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Campus Center, Lobby More than 60 local and student vendors show their handmade wares in the Campus Center from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. Perfect for holiday shopping!
Over 60 Local and Student Artists will join us for this fun and festive fair. Come by and support local artists and students. Guaranteed you'll find something you love that you can't live without. Be sure to bring your tote so we reduce waste at the fair.
Nathan Ben-Yehuda, Francis Huang, Jiangli Liu, Vera Lu, Keyan Ivy Wu, and Sindy Yang perform works by J. S. Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Mendelssohn, and Messiaen
Friday, December 6, 2019 12–2 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Medicine from Without and Within: A Talk by Ashley Oliver, MD
Friday, December 6, 2019 3–5 pm
Olin, Room 102 Dr. Ashley Oliver, a medical resident and social justice advocate, will give a talk entitled “Medicine from Without and Within: A Series of Arguments about the Role of the Liberal Arts Education in Diversifying Modes of Analysis and Knowledge and in Advancing Social Justice.”
Abstract What is a “healing imperative”? Dr. Oliver will use her autobiography to trace an arc of striving for social justice in medicine. She will begin by describing the ways that medicine has been studied from without, as part of liberal arts curricula, and argue that institutions like Bard are well equipped to help students and their faculty open new frontiers to our understanding of what medicine is, as practiced, and to imagine what it could be. She will then consider a particularly alarming challenge to the health-care landscape coming from within: the rapidly growing integration of bioinformation collected from private companies into the traditional methods by which medicine predicts and even molds future behavior. Because of the drive to improve diagnosis and efficacy of treatment, including the prerogatives of “precision medicine,” we risk reinforcing or possibly even worsening inequities of power and health care domestically and internationally. Dr. Oliver will close with a plea for us to continue to nurture minds both within and without medicine in order to better analyze the complex landscape of the healing imperative. Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym The Bard basketball teams host Liberty League foe Ithaca College. The women's game starts at 5:30, and the men's game follows at 7:30. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym The Bard basketball teams host Liberty League foes William Smith and Hobart. The women's game starts at 2, and the men's game follows at 4. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Pre-Performance Conversation; 7 pm Florence Price and the Emergence of African American Composers in the 21st Century
James Bagwell, Whitney Slaten, Kyle Gann and Myra Young Armstead.Performance; 8 pm
James Bagwell, conductor
Jackson Spargur ’20 Polaris premiere Florence Price Symphony No. 1 in E minor Aaron Copland Billy the KidSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Faculty and Student Pianists Perform Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-Jésus
20 Pianists of the Bard Conservatory and Music Program, including faculty members Blair McMillen and Isabelle O'Connell, perform Messiaen's epic cycle of piano works. Opening Remarks by Christopher Gibbs, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music.
Sunday, December 8, 2019 3–5 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Annual Interfaith Service LIGHT AND HOPE IN THE MIDST OF DARKNESS
All are invited to bring light to others by donating the following items to People’s Place, Kingston: peanut butter and granola bars or board games; crafts; toys for children age infant to three years old. Please bring your contributions to the Bard Chapel and place them on the altar.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
A Talk by Dr. Ute Huesken Head of Department, Cultural and Religious History of South Asia Heidelberg University
Monday, December 9, 2019 3:10–4:30 pm
Olin, Room 102 The festival Adi Atti Varadar Utsava is celebrated only once in 40 years. At that time, the original wooden image of Viṣṇu, the main deity of the Varadarāja temple in the South Indian city Kanchipuram, emerges from the huge temple tank and is venerated for 40 days, only to be immersed again in the temple tank for another 40 years. I will talk about the different myths connected to this second statue of Viṣṇu and trace the historical roots of this event, which in summer 2019 attracted more than one million visitors from all over India.
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Religion Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail rdavis@bard.edu.
Reem-Kayden Center Come see what students in Experimental Humanities classes have been working on this semester!Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Zachary Schwartzman, music director Erica Kiesewetter, associate conductor
Featuring soloists Marka Gustavsson, Bard Music Program faculty, and Viktor Toth ’16
Emilie Mayer, Faust Overture, Op. 46 Max Bruch Concerto for Viola, Clarinet, and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 88. Jean Sibelius, Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43Estimated run time is 90 minutes, with one 15-minute intermission.Sponsored by: Bard College Community Orchestra; Music Program.
Levy Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy
Online Information Session and Webinar
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12–1 pm
Website Professor Ajit Zacharias will host an informal chat about the academic programs of the MA and MS in Economic Theory and Policy. We will also answer questions about admission requirements, financial aid, and prerequisites for international students.
Your application fee will be waived if you attend.
Alternatively, join us on the Levy Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy page to participate through Facebook LIVE!Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Come join Professor Susan Merriam's class to celebrate the opening of the exhibition The Cabinet of Curiosities. Students have been researching items in the Montgomery Place collection this semester, and have designed an exhibition highlighting some of the fascinating objects. Refreshments and good cheer guaranteed. Sponsored by: Art History Program; Division of the Arts; Libraries at Bard College.
Carolyn Dewald, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies Chiara Ricciardone, Hannah Arendt Center Teaching Fellow James Romm, Professor of Classics
Reflections on how the Greeks, inventors of democracy, lost that system of government and reverted to monarchy, and how their experience may help us understand the current political moment.
Free and open to the public!Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-7283, or e-mail romm@bard.edu.
A photography project made by the refugee children forced into the Greek hot spot of Samos
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 – Friday, December 20, 2019
Campus Center, Lobby Opening on Wednesday, December 11, from 6pm to 7pm.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
RKC 111 Professor Frank Scalzo will introduce pathways leading to post-baccalaureate degrees in the health professions and offer suggestions for pursuing a career in the health professions. The discussion will be tailored to the interests of the audience and questions about Spring 2020 course selections are welcome.Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-758-7222, or e-mail scalzo@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym The Bard basketball teams host Liberty League foe Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The women's game starts at 5:30, and the men's game follows at 7:30. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard Dance Program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.
Featuring Choreography by: Gemma Allen Olivia Berkey Molly Rockwood Liv Troiano Kate WilliamsSponsored by: Dance Program.
Olin, Room 102 Join student writers from Mary Caponegro's Fiction I Workshop as they read from their varied and thought-provoking work!
READERS Noah Arrell Maddy Erke MarQuel Horton Alexandra Jimenez Masha Kurbatova Bernard Pollara Gio Rinaldi-Rose Julia Sands Melissa Sidley Faye Thompson Mel Torres Max Trosman Tallulah WoitachSponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, or e-mail ccape@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard Dance Program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.
Featuring Choreography by: Gemma Allen Olivia Berkey Molly Rockwood Liv Troiano Kate WilliamsSponsored by: Dance Program.
“The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” — Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is the first iteration of a multifaceted, interactive land art and community-based project, including a 72-foot-long line of indigenous crops (corn, beans, and squash, known as “the three sisters”) planted in the shape of the U.S.-Mexico border line on the Bard College Farm. It includes the harvesting, sharing, and clearing of crops and land; a mobile paleta cart-turned-drawing studio upon which persons of any background are invited to memorialize real or imagined borders; and the documentation and archive from various stages of the project. Continuing the legacy of Chicana feminist writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa, the work seeks to unearth histories of immigration, labor rights, borders, land sovereignty, and systemic oppression.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) was created in collaboration with the Bard Farm (Rebecca Yoshino, Farm Coordinator) and The Center for the Study of Land, Air and Water, with the participation of students Mary Elizabeth Klein Meghan Mercier, Kaitlyn McClelland, Gabrielle Reyes, Alexi Piirimae, Midori Barandiaran, and Austin Sumlin.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
Da Capo Chamber Players Presents PREMIERES of Student Composers!
Prokhor Protasov Jackson Spargur Liri Ronen Adriana Tampasis Guang Yang Luke Haaksma Meghan Mercier
Friday, December 13, 2019 5–7 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Da Capo Chamber Players: Patricia Spencer Marianne Gythfeldt Curtis Macomber Chris Gross with Molly Morkoski, guest pianist Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard Dance Program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.
Featuring Choreography by: Gemma Allen Olivia Berkey Molly Rockwood Liv Troiano Kate WilliamsSponsored by: Dance Program.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard Dance Program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.
Featuring Choreography by: Gemma Allen Olivia Berkey Molly Rockwood Liv Troiano Kate WilliamsSponsored by: Dance Program.
Chamber Music Marathon: Twelve Chamber Groups Perform Works by Beethoven, Dutilleux, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Hindemith, Ewazen, Mauricio Kagel, and Philip Glass
Saturday, December 14, 2019 11:30 am – 3:30 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
***During the December Residency we are inviting prospective students to join us on Saturday 12/14 for a class visit day and on Sunday 12/15 to attend the Disrupt to Sustain Pitch Competition Finals and Community Holiday party. Visitors are invited to attend both days over this weekend. Please indicate which day(s) you plan to join us for on the RSVP form linked above***
During the Saturday or Sunday of each Residency Weekend, we invite visiting prospective MBA students to:
sit in on a first or second-year MBA class
meet with Program Director Eban Goodstein + admissions staff
have lunch with current MBA students
participate in the Bard MBA Community Meeting
Please click here to reserve your spot for the visit day. Send an email to Caitlin O'Donnell, Graduate Admissions Counselor, with any questions.
Location: LMHQ 150 Broadway NY, NY 10038Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
***During the December Residency we are inviting prospective students to join us on Saturday 12/14 for a class visit day and on Sunday 12/15 to attend the Disrupt to Sustain Pitch Competition Finals and Community Holiday party. Visitors are invited to attend both days over this weekend. Please indicate which day(s) you plan to join us for on the RSVP form linked above***
During the Saturday or Sunday of each Residency Weekend, we invite visiting prospective MBA students to:
sit in on a first or second-year MBA class
meet with Program Director Eban Goodstein + admissions staff
have lunch with current MBA students
participate in the Bard MBA Community Meeting
Please click here to reserve your spot for the visit day. Send an email to Caitlin O'Donnell, Graduate Admissions Counselor, with any questions.
Location: LMHQ 150 Broadway NY, NY 10038Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater James Bagwell, conductor
Bard Conservatory Orchestra with members of Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program Bard College Symphonic Chorus Bard College Chamber Singers Bard Preparatory Chorus
James Bagwell conducts this special holiday program featuring works by Berlioz, Bach, excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, and more.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Opera Workshop in France: Scenes and arias from French opera, including L’amour de loin, Carmen, Dialogues des Carmélites, Orfée et Euridice, Pelléas et Mélisande, and Werther.
A culminating performance of the Opera Workshop by the singers of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and the Collaborative Piano Fellows, directed by Stephanie Blythe.
Monday, December 16, 2019 2–3:30 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Benjamin Hochman Piano Studio Recital: Jimmy Berger, Anna-Sofia Botti, Leonard Gurevich, Yilin Li, Carol Hanqi Liu, Nita Vemuri, and Jingyi Zhou perform works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Scriabin
Monday, December 16, 2019 7–9 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Dr. Whitney Slaten T.K. Blue Quintet Souleymane Badolo / Kongo Ba Téria and the art of James Ransome
1619: A Commemoration in Sound is a remembrance event to mark the 400th anniversary of the first arrival of enslaved people from Africa in the North American British Colonies—the beginning of slavery in what would become the United States of America.
African descendants’ virtuosic negotiations with Western tonality and forms, as well as cosmopolitan explorations of different sounds, aesthetics, and cultures, have shaped vital contributions to the art, music, and dance of America. Dr. Whitney Slaten, Assistant Professor of Music, brings together virtuosic jazz artist T.K. Blue, choreographer and Visiting Artist in Dance Souleymane Badolo, and lauded illustrator and Dutchess County resident James Ransome for an exploration of history, memory, legacy, and gestures between the U.S. and Africa.
Presented in partnership with the Difference and Media Project, the Office of Inclusive Excellence, and the Ethnomusicology Area, with support from The Music Program, Historical Studies, Art History, Africana Studies, American Studies, The Arts Division, the Center for Civic Engagement, and the Center for Experimental Humanities.Sponsored by: Fisher Center.
Poetry in Song: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Emily Dickinson
First-year singers in the Vocal Arts Program and pianists from the Collaborative Piano Fellowship perform songs written on the poetry of Germany's greatest literary figure, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and America's most iconic and original poetic voice, Emily Dickinson.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 12–1 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Reem-Kayden Center Join our December graduating seniors in presenting their senior projects. Light refreshments will be servedSponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-758-7224, or e-mail lane@bard.edu.
Student Performers - Alex Parke, Annie Dodson, Clare Herzog, Elizabeth Zimmerman, Francesca Houran, Gabriel Geissler-Camer, Melonie Bisset, Michael Melchiondo, Niall Ransford, Patrick Staples, Sabayo Matiku, Minhao Pang and Sebastien Dufour.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 7:30–9:30 pm
Bard Hall This is an opportunity for different “currents” in the Music Program to share an informal concert and hear each other. Jazz groups, chamber groups, violinists, oboists, flutists, pianists, and more—all are welcome, on a first-come first served basis. Ensembles or individuals may sign up.
Sign up by December 13 so that we may plan the concert order and put together a program. The sign-up sheet is outside the Music Program office in Blum.
Works by Mozart, Judith Shatin, John Cage, Arcangelo Corelli, Jennifer Higdon.
Any questions, please email Pat Spencer, newflute@earthlink.net Sponsored by: Music Program.
RKC 200 Podcasts, Paintings, Weaving, Fiction, Nonfiction, Installation, Websites, Short Films, and More...Sponsored by: Division of Social Studies; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 – Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
British and American Art Song from the Middle Ages to Now
Monday, December 2, 2019 6–8 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building The student singers and pianists of Professor Rufus Müller’s Performance Class, and players from Bard Conservatory, present a collection of songs from Britain and North America, from medieval monody to lush romantic to soulful contemporary, including Bard’s very own Kyle Gann. Come and be soothed before the final onslaught of the semester!Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail muller@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Monday, December 2, 2019 – Tuesday, December 3, 2019 7–9 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Please join us for a post-screening discussion of College Behind Bars, a PBS documentary featuring the Bard Prison Initiative. The discussion will include students, faculty, representatives of BPI, and alumnus Dyjuan Tatro '18. All are encouraged to come, even if you were not able to make it to the screening events last week. Sponsored by: Bard Prison Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail as2833@bard.edu.
Monday, December 2, 2019 – Tuesday, December 3, 2019 7–9 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Please join us for a post-screening discussion of College Behind Bars, a PBS documentary featuring the Bard Prison Initiative. The discussion will include students, faculty, representatives of BPI, and alumnus Dyjuan Tatro '18. All are encouraged to come, even if you were not able to make it to the screening events last week. Sponsored by: Bard Prison Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail as2833@bard.edu.
Montgomery Place Fall Salon Series: Renewable Energies: Balancing Outputs and Historic Landscapes
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 3–5 pm
Montgomery Place, Mansion Panel Speakers Please note: Session 1 in this series takes place on November 12.
Session 2: Hydro Energy December 3, 3–5 p.m. Emily Majer ’95 Jan Borchert, head of hydro facility design and permitting, Current Hydro Tracy Brown, restoration manager, Connecticut and New York Northeast Coldwater Habitat Program, Trout Unlimited Weston Davey, historic site restoration coordinator, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation Moderated by Robyn Smyth, assistant professor of environmental and urban studies, Bard College
Screening in Honor of the 30th Annual Day With(out) Art: Still Beginning
Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12–2 pm
CCS Bard, Classroom 102
CCS Bard is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the 30th annual Day With(out) Art by presenting STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters / Victor F. M. Torres, and Derrick Woods-Morrow.
From Visual AIDS: “The seven short videos range in subject from anti-stigma work in New Orleans to public sex culture in Chicago, highlighting pioneering AIDS activism and staging intergenerational conversations. Recalling Gregg Bordowitz’s reminder that “THE AIDS CRISIS IS STILL BEGINNING,”* the video program resists narratives of resolution or conclusion, considering the continued urgency of HIV/AIDS in the contemporary moment while revisiting resonant cultural histories from the past three decades.
Visual AIDS is a New York–based nonprofit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. In 1989, Visual AIDS organized the first Day Without Art, a call to the art world for mourning and action in response to the AIDS crisis. For Day With(out) Art’s 30th year, over 100 institutions worldwide will screen STILL BEGINNING,recognizing the important and necessary work of artists, activists, and cultural workers who have responded to AIDS while emphasizing the persistent presence of the epidemic.
This year’s program will be screened at CCS Bard on December 1 at 2:00pm, and December 4 at 12:00pm, both in Classroom 102. Free admission. Seating is first-come, first-served.
*Gregg Bordowitz, The AIDS Crisis Is Still Beginning (2019) was recently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. Hear Bordowitz discuss the work here. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
EMPAC/RPI CURTIS R. PRIEM EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER at Rensselaer Bard College Electronic Music faculty Sarah Hennies performs an evening of her work for solo percussion and electronics featuring her works Falsetto and Fleas. Through slowly evolving textures, Hennies’s music opens up a space where small changes become events. Her music often explores the act of performance, whether through showing the amount of energy it takes to maintain a constant appearance in front of others, the exhaustion of maintaining a sound once it has been established, or the vulnerability of having one’s every small move amplified through observation.
Working with both traditional orchestral percussion instruments and found objects, Hennies challenges rigid definitions by relating the structure of her work to themes of queer and trans identity, love and intimacy. Hennies has mentioned in interviews that percussionists are unique in that they don’t have a specific instrument. Their identity and role changes constantly with the context of different pieces and even within a single piece. The standard definition of a musician identified by their instrument does not hold.
In Hennies’s performance, listeners and performers are encouraged to enter a shared space that reflects everyday life. Her music begins to expose the exhaustion and virtuosity of maintaining even simple actions. A gentle sound, such as the ringing of a small bell, is sustained beyond virtuosity to expose the exhaustion of maintaining even simple actions that are thought of as societal norms. As these sounds are challenged by the addition of other actions, Hennies’s performance becomes more and more mesmerizing: an act of determination. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail shennies@bard.edu.
From the Collection: CCS Bard First Year Practicum 2019
Thursday, December 5, 2019 – Sunday, December 15, 2019 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Galleries From the Collection: First Year Practicum 2019is comprised of four exhibitions each drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. Curated in groups by the fourteen M.A. candidates in the Class of 2021, the exhibitions examine the museum’s collection through themes of migration, race, transformation, and pain. Extending from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Reception Atrium to the entry gallery in the CCS Bard Galleries, But the skin of the earth is seamless proposes an approach to global migration that focuses on its generative and creative potential,. In the following gallery, White people are ____asks viewers to consider how whiteness has operated in the respective artist’s practices, and how their identity has been implicated, or not, in discussions of their work. Persons in the Presence of a Metamorphosis includes a diverse range of artistic approaches that grapple with various forms of transformation, emphasizing the importance of remaining receptive to change, difference, and possibility. In the final gallery, the works in throbbing_quivering_pulsing_beating give language to the sensorial dimensions and rhythmic patterns of pain and pleasure in the body. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Thursday, December 5, 2019 – Friday, February 14, 2020 3–5 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library The Curiosity Cabinet uses objects from Montgomery Place to explore the early modern concepts of wonder and curiosity, the origins of museums in colonial attitudes and practices, and the historical nature of objects. Curated by the students of Professor Susan Merriam’s class, The Curiosity Cabinet, ARTH 324: Catherine Baum, María Bernedo, Gabby Goldberg, Maya Howard, Ruth Kohl, Virginia Manning, Ella McGrail, Hannah Mills, Ella Okoli, Vita Sherin-Jones, Bel Simek, Abigail Stanley, Victoria Wayland, Anaka Wetch, and Sam Wilkins.
First-floor lobby and second-floor Sussman Reading Room, Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program and the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.
For more information, call 845-758-7163, or e-mail merriam@bard.edu.
Social Work, Mental Health, and Academic Behavioral Medicine: A Social Justice Approach to Clinical Practice, Research, and Teaching in Graduate Medical Education
Cynthia Kim, LCSW-R, Associate Program Director and Director of Behavioral Science, and Michelle Miller, LCSW, Behavioral Science Faculty and Mental Health Clinician Mid Hudson Family Medicine Residency Program – Institute for Family Health
Thursday, December 5, 2019 4:45–6 pm
Preston Theater Alternate pathways for using undergraduate psychology education and experience exist in multiple professional realms. One such pathway is in using a graduate degree in social work or psychology to transform, teach, and practice in the field of academic family medicine. Family doctors are at the forefront of research and practice in the evidence base that informs integrative healthcare, providing services ranging from care coordination to mental health—all predicated on the development of trauma-informed, culturally conscious, therapeutic relationships with their patients. This talk will provide insight into a social justice pathway and mission that hopes to help transform the future of health and mental health care.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Campus Center, Lobby More than 60 local and student vendors show their handmade wares in the Campus Center from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. Perfect for holiday shopping!
Over 60 Local and Student Artists will join us for this fun and festive fair. Come by and support local artists and students. Guaranteed you'll find something you love that you can't live without. Be sure to bring your tote so we reduce waste at the fair.
Nathan Ben-Yehuda, Francis Huang, Jiangli Liu, Vera Lu, Keyan Ivy Wu, and Sindy Yang perform works by J. S. Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Mendelssohn, and Messiaen
Friday, December 6, 2019 12–2 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Medicine from Without and Within: A Talk by Ashley Oliver, MD
Friday, December 6, 2019 3–5 pm
Olin, Room 102 Dr. Ashley Oliver, a medical resident and social justice advocate, will give a talk entitled “Medicine from Without and Within: A Series of Arguments about the Role of the Liberal Arts Education in Diversifying Modes of Analysis and Knowledge and in Advancing Social Justice.”
Abstract What is a “healing imperative”? Dr. Oliver will use her autobiography to trace an arc of striving for social justice in medicine. She will begin by describing the ways that medicine has been studied from without, as part of liberal arts curricula, and argue that institutions like Bard are well equipped to help students and their faculty open new frontiers to our understanding of what medicine is, as practiced, and to imagine what it could be. She will then consider a particularly alarming challenge to the health-care landscape coming from within: the rapidly growing integration of bioinformation collected from private companies into the traditional methods by which medicine predicts and even molds future behavior. Because of the drive to improve diagnosis and efficacy of treatment, including the prerogatives of “precision medicine,” we risk reinforcing or possibly even worsening inequities of power and health care domestically and internationally. Dr. Oliver will close with a plea for us to continue to nurture minds both within and without medicine in order to better analyze the complex landscape of the healing imperative. Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym The Bard basketball teams host Liberty League foe Ithaca College. The women's game starts at 5:30, and the men's game follows at 7:30. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym The Bard basketball teams host Liberty League foes William Smith and Hobart. The women's game starts at 2, and the men's game follows at 4. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Pre-Performance Conversation; 7 pm Florence Price and the Emergence of African American Composers in the 21st Century
James Bagwell, Whitney Slaten, Kyle Gann and Myra Young Armstead.Performance; 8 pm
James Bagwell, conductor
Jackson Spargur ’20 Polaris premiere Florence Price Symphony No. 1 in E minor Aaron Copland Billy the KidSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Faculty and Student Pianists Perform Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-Jésus
20 Pianists of the Bard Conservatory and Music Program, including faculty members Blair McMillen and Isabelle O'Connell, perform Messiaen's epic cycle of piano works. Opening Remarks by Christopher Gibbs, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music.
Sunday, December 8, 2019 3–5 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Annual Interfaith Service LIGHT AND HOPE IN THE MIDST OF DARKNESS
All are invited to bring light to others by donating the following items to People’s Place, Kingston: peanut butter and granola bars or board games; crafts; toys for children age infant to three years old. Please bring your contributions to the Bard Chapel and place them on the altar.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
A Talk by Dr. Ute Huesken Head of Department, Cultural and Religious History of South Asia Heidelberg University
Monday, December 9, 2019 3:10–4:30 pm
Olin, Room 102 The festival Adi Atti Varadar Utsava is celebrated only once in 40 years. At that time, the original wooden image of Viṣṇu, the main deity of the Varadarāja temple in the South Indian city Kanchipuram, emerges from the huge temple tank and is venerated for 40 days, only to be immersed again in the temple tank for another 40 years. I will talk about the different myths connected to this second statue of Viṣṇu and trace the historical roots of this event, which in summer 2019 attracted more than one million visitors from all over India.
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Religion Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail rdavis@bard.edu.
Reem-Kayden Center Come see what students in Experimental Humanities classes have been working on this semester!Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Zachary Schwartzman, music director Erica Kiesewetter, associate conductor
Featuring soloists Marka Gustavsson, Bard Music Program faculty, and Viktor Toth ’16
Emilie Mayer, Faust Overture, Op. 46 Max Bruch Concerto for Viola, Clarinet, and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 88. Jean Sibelius, Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43Estimated run time is 90 minutes, with one 15-minute intermission.Sponsored by: Bard College Community Orchestra; Music Program.
Levy Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy
Online Information Session and Webinar
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12–1 pm
Website Professor Ajit Zacharias will host an informal chat about the academic programs of the MA and MS in Economic Theory and Policy. We will also answer questions about admission requirements, financial aid, and prerequisites for international students.
Your application fee will be waived if you attend.
Alternatively, join us on the Levy Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy page to participate through Facebook LIVE!Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Come join Professor Susan Merriam's class to celebrate the opening of the exhibition The Cabinet of Curiosities. Students have been researching items in the Montgomery Place collection this semester, and have designed an exhibition highlighting some of the fascinating objects. Refreshments and good cheer guaranteed. Sponsored by: Art History Program; Division of the Arts; Libraries at Bard College.
Carolyn Dewald, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies Chiara Ricciardone, Hannah Arendt Center Teaching Fellow James Romm, Professor of Classics
Reflections on how the Greeks, inventors of democracy, lost that system of government and reverted to monarchy, and how their experience may help us understand the current political moment.
Free and open to the public!Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-7283, or e-mail romm@bard.edu.
A photography project made by the refugee children forced into the Greek hot spot of Samos
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 – Friday, December 20, 2019
Campus Center, Lobby Opening on Wednesday, December 11, from 6pm to 7pm.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
RKC 111 Professor Frank Scalzo will introduce pathways leading to post-baccalaureate degrees in the health professions and offer suggestions for pursuing a career in the health professions. The discussion will be tailored to the interests of the audience and questions about Spring 2020 course selections are welcome.Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-758-7222, or e-mail scalzo@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym The Bard basketball teams host Liberty League foe Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The women's game starts at 5:30, and the men's game follows at 7:30. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard Dance Program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.
Featuring Choreography by: Gemma Allen Olivia Berkey Molly Rockwood Liv Troiano Kate WilliamsSponsored by: Dance Program.
Olin, Room 102 Join student writers from Mary Caponegro's Fiction I Workshop as they read from their varied and thought-provoking work!
READERS Noah Arrell Maddy Erke MarQuel Horton Alexandra Jimenez Masha Kurbatova Bernard Pollara Gio Rinaldi-Rose Julia Sands Melissa Sidley Faye Thompson Mel Torres Max Trosman Tallulah WoitachSponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, or e-mail ccape@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard Dance Program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.
Featuring Choreography by: Gemma Allen Olivia Berkey Molly Rockwood Liv Troiano Kate WilliamsSponsored by: Dance Program.
“The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” — Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is the first iteration of a multifaceted, interactive land art and community-based project, including a 72-foot-long line of indigenous crops (corn, beans, and squash, known as “the three sisters”) planted in the shape of the U.S.-Mexico border line on the Bard College Farm. It includes the harvesting, sharing, and clearing of crops and land; a mobile paleta cart-turned-drawing studio upon which persons of any background are invited to memorialize real or imagined borders; and the documentation and archive from various stages of the project. Continuing the legacy of Chicana feminist writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa, the work seeks to unearth histories of immigration, labor rights, borders, land sovereignty, and systemic oppression.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) was created in collaboration with the Bard Farm (Rebecca Yoshino, Farm Coordinator) and The Center for the Study of Land, Air and Water, with the participation of students Mary Elizabeth Klein Meghan Mercier, Kaitlyn McClelland, Gabrielle Reyes, Alexi Piirimae, Midori Barandiaran, and Austin Sumlin.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
Da Capo Chamber Players Presents PREMIERES of Student Composers!
Prokhor Protasov Jackson Spargur Liri Ronen Adriana Tampasis Guang Yang Luke Haaksma Meghan Mercier
Friday, December 13, 2019 5–7 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Da Capo Chamber Players: Patricia Spencer Marianne Gythfeldt Curtis Macomber Chris Gross with Molly Morkoski, guest pianist Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard Dance Program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.
Featuring Choreography by: Gemma Allen Olivia Berkey Molly Rockwood Liv Troiano Kate WilliamsSponsored by: Dance Program.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard Dance Program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.
Featuring Choreography by: Gemma Allen Olivia Berkey Molly Rockwood Liv Troiano Kate WilliamsSponsored by: Dance Program.
Chamber Music Marathon: Twelve Chamber Groups Perform Works by Beethoven, Dutilleux, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Hindemith, Ewazen, Mauricio Kagel, and Philip Glass
Saturday, December 14, 2019 11:30 am – 3:30 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
***During the December Residency we are inviting prospective students to join us on Saturday 12/14 for a class visit day and on Sunday 12/15 to attend the Disrupt to Sustain Pitch Competition Finals and Community Holiday party. Visitors are invited to attend both days over this weekend. Please indicate which day(s) you plan to join us for on the RSVP form linked above***
During the Saturday or Sunday of each Residency Weekend, we invite visiting prospective MBA students to:
sit in on a first or second-year MBA class
meet with Program Director Eban Goodstein + admissions staff
have lunch with current MBA students
participate in the Bard MBA Community Meeting
Please click here to reserve your spot for the visit day. Send an email to Caitlin O'Donnell, Graduate Admissions Counselor, with any questions.
Location: LMHQ 150 Broadway NY, NY 10038Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
***During the December Residency we are inviting prospective students to join us on Saturday 12/14 for a class visit day and on Sunday 12/15 to attend the Disrupt to Sustain Pitch Competition Finals and Community Holiday party. Visitors are invited to attend both days over this weekend. Please indicate which day(s) you plan to join us for on the RSVP form linked above***
During the Saturday or Sunday of each Residency Weekend, we invite visiting prospective MBA students to:
sit in on a first or second-year MBA class
meet with Program Director Eban Goodstein + admissions staff
have lunch with current MBA students
participate in the Bard MBA Community Meeting
Please click here to reserve your spot for the visit day. Send an email to Caitlin O'Donnell, Graduate Admissions Counselor, with any questions.
Location: LMHQ 150 Broadway NY, NY 10038Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater James Bagwell, conductor
Bard Conservatory Orchestra with members of Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program Bard College Symphonic Chorus Bard College Chamber Singers Bard Preparatory Chorus
James Bagwell conducts this special holiday program featuring works by Berlioz, Bach, excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, and more.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Opera Workshop in France: Scenes and arias from French opera, including L’amour de loin, Carmen, Dialogues des Carmélites, Orfée et Euridice, Pelléas et Mélisande, and Werther.
A culminating performance of the Opera Workshop by the singers of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and the Collaborative Piano Fellows, directed by Stephanie Blythe.
Monday, December 16, 2019 2–3:30 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Benjamin Hochman Piano Studio Recital: Jimmy Berger, Anna-Sofia Botti, Leonard Gurevich, Yilin Li, Carol Hanqi Liu, Nita Vemuri, and Jingyi Zhou perform works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Scriabin
Monday, December 16, 2019 7–9 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Dr. Whitney Slaten T.K. Blue Quintet Souleymane Badolo / Kongo Ba Téria and the art of James Ransome
1619: A Commemoration in Sound is a remembrance event to mark the 400th anniversary of the first arrival of enslaved people from Africa in the North American British Colonies—the beginning of slavery in what would become the United States of America.
African descendants’ virtuosic negotiations with Western tonality and forms, as well as cosmopolitan explorations of different sounds, aesthetics, and cultures, have shaped vital contributions to the art, music, and dance of America. Dr. Whitney Slaten, Assistant Professor of Music, brings together virtuosic jazz artist T.K. Blue, choreographer and Visiting Artist in Dance Souleymane Badolo, and lauded illustrator and Dutchess County resident James Ransome for an exploration of history, memory, legacy, and gestures between the U.S. and Africa.
Presented in partnership with the Difference and Media Project, the Office of Inclusive Excellence, and the Ethnomusicology Area, with support from The Music Program, Historical Studies, Art History, Africana Studies, American Studies, The Arts Division, the Center for Civic Engagement, and the Center for Experimental Humanities.Sponsored by: Fisher Center.
Poetry in Song: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Emily Dickinson
First-year singers in the Vocal Arts Program and pianists from the Collaborative Piano Fellowship perform songs written on the poetry of Germany's greatest literary figure, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and America's most iconic and original poetic voice, Emily Dickinson.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 12–1 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Reem-Kayden Center Join our December graduating seniors in presenting their senior projects. Light refreshments will be servedSponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-758-7224, or e-mail lane@bard.edu.
Student Performers - Alex Parke, Annie Dodson, Clare Herzog, Elizabeth Zimmerman, Francesca Houran, Gabriel Geissler-Camer, Melonie Bisset, Michael Melchiondo, Niall Ransford, Patrick Staples, Sabayo Matiku, Minhao Pang and Sebastien Dufour.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 7:30–9:30 pm
Bard Hall This is an opportunity for different “currents” in the Music Program to share an informal concert and hear each other. Jazz groups, chamber groups, violinists, oboists, flutists, pianists, and more—all are welcome, on a first-come first served basis. Ensembles or individuals may sign up.
Sign up by December 13 so that we may plan the concert order and put together a program. The sign-up sheet is outside the Music Program office in Blum.
Works by Mozart, Judith Shatin, John Cage, Arcangelo Corelli, Jennifer Higdon.
Any questions, please email Pat Spencer, newflute@earthlink.net Sponsored by: Music Program.
RKC 200 Podcasts, Paintings, Weaving, Fiction, Nonfiction, Installation, Websites, Short Films, and More...Sponsored by: Division of Social Studies; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
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