Bard Events Calendar

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.

For more information, call 845-758-7281.

Thanksgiving Recess (classes end at 5 p.m. on Wednesday)

Thursday, November 28, 2019 – Sunday, December 1, 2019

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Christian Services

Sunday, September 1, 2019 – Monday, May 25, 2020
3–5 pm

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.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.

Meditation Group

Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 18, 2020
5–7 pm

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.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail Sankai@dharma.net, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.

Meditation Group

Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 18, 2020
5–7:30 pm

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.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail Sankai@dharma.net, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.

Shabbat

Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 25, 2020
6:30–8:30 pm

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.

For more information, call 717-760-9359, e-mail nelson@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.

Tomato Tomahto, Potato Potahto
 

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.

College Behind Bars: Post-Screening Discussion

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.

College Behind Bars: Post-Screening Discussion

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

Programs are free to all Bard students and open to the public. Limited seating available; registration required. Email montgomeryplace@bard.edu to register or call 845-758-7505 for more information.
For more information, call 845-758-7505, e-mail montgomeryplace@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/montgomeryplace/.

Aconi Kaminoff Moderation Concert

Tuesday, December 3, 2019
8:30–9:30 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Screening in Honor of the 30th Annual Day With(out) Art: Still Beginning

Wednesday, December 4, 2019
12–2 pm

CCS Bard, Classroom 102

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.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events.

Jennie Brent Senior Concert I

Wednesday, December 4, 2019
5:30–7:30 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Tony Henry Senior Concert

Wednesday, December 4, 2019
7–9 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Falsetto

Wednesday, December 4, 2019
7:30–9:30 pm

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.

Patrick Toohey Moderation Concert

Wednesday, December 4, 2019
8–9 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@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 2019 is 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.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/540-from-the-collection-first-year-practicum-2019.

Student Talks

Thursday, December 5, 2019
12–1 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Biology Program.

For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.

The Curiosity Cabinet : An Exhibition

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.

For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail jdainerbest@bard.edu.

Max Satow Senior Concert I

Thursday, December 5, 2019
8–10 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Bard College 16th Annual Art + Craft Fair

Friday, December 6, 2019
11 am – 6 pm

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!
 cloverbrookefarm.com
retropagehandmade.com
cheyennemallo.com/
cookiesbymabelcsb.wordpress.com
Drawingtenthousandbirds.com
cindyhoosestudio.com
MadeInHudson.Etsy.com
hughhopkins.com
queerbookcommittee.com
janwilcox.com
facebook.com/jewelsbyjen23/
snackaddict.storenvy.com/
karmabee.com
etsy.com/hasbeanebooks
Etsy.com/shop/knitincolor
Greymousefarm.com
Stitchinthekitchen.com
bos.bard.edu/reduce-reuse-recycle/
Lindamenschjewelry.com
foxfarmapiary.com
lorashelley.com
etsy.com/shop/HudsonPulpAndRockets
maryleary.com
marysasacerdote.com/
asialuna.com
deepearthdesigns.vpweb.com
romanhrabstudio.com
sawpottery.com
oldeyorkfarm.com
digiliodesigns.etsy.com
facebook.com/littleemsdiapercakes
komonoart.etsy.com
caitlinharrisart.com
etsy.com/shop/FayeCrochetShop
 @sixsageSponsored by: Dean of Student Affairs.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nohlgren@bard.edu.

From Structure to Function: Optics in the Sea

Amanda Jones
University of Pennsylvania

Friday, December 6, 2019
12–1 pm

Hegeman 107
Sponsored by: Physics Program.

For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.

Peter Serkin Piano Studio Recital

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.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/conservatory.

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.

For more information, call 646-321-1465, e-mail ktabb@bard.edu, or visit https://www.kathryntabb.com/uploads/2/7/0/2/27021076/medicine_from_without_and_within.jpg.

Maeve Schallert Senior Concert I

Friday, December 6, 2019
5–7 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Women's & Men's Basketball Doubleheader

Friday, December 6, 2019
5:30–9:30 pm

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.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.

Lillya Galechyan Senior II Concert

Friday, December 6, 2019
6–8 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Women's & Men's Basketball Doubleheader

Saturday, December 7, 2019
2–6 pm

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.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.

CMIA – Lines of Transmission: Cinema and Art History

Saturday, December 7, 2019
4–5:30 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center

• Public lecture

Please check bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.

CMIA – Masterworks of Japanese Cinema

Saturday, December 7, 2019
6–8:30 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center

• The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
  (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939, Japan, 143 minutes)

Please check bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.

Bard Conservatory Orchestra

Saturday, December 7, 2019
8 pm

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.

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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.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/BCOM-Conservatory-Orchestra/.

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.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.

Festival of Lights Interfaith Service

Sunday, December 8, 2019
6–8 pm

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.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.

Senior Projects Due

Monday, December 9, 2019

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

A God’s Second Life: Adi Atti Varadar Utsava

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.

Experimental Humanities Fall Share Event

Monday, December 9, 2019
5–7 pm

Reem-Kayden Center
Come see what students in Experimental Humanities classes have been working on this semester!Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail experimentalhumanities@bard.edu, or visit https://eh.bard.edu/events/event/fall-2019-share-event/.

Sam Gohl Senior Concert

 

Monday, December 9, 2019
7–8 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Edgar Guzman Senior Concert

Monday, December 9, 2019
7–9 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

The Bard College Community Orchestra

Monday, December 9, 2019
8 pm

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. 43

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Estimated run time is 90 minutes, with one 15-minute intermission.Sponsored by: Bard College Community Orchestra; Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bcco-dec-2019/.

Rapheal Lelan-Cox Senior Concert I

Monday, December 9, 2019
9–10:30 pm

Manor House
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

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. 

Registration is required

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.

For more information, call 845-758-7776, e-mail levygrad@bard.edu, or visit https://connect.bard.edu/register/DEC10.

Cabinet of Curiosities Exhibition Opening

Tuesday, December 10, 2019
3–5 pm

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.

For more information, call 845-758-7505, e-mail ahusten@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/montgomeryplace.

How Democracy Dies: The View from Ancient Greece

Tuesday, December 10, 2019
5–6:30 pm

Olin, Room 102
A Conversation With:

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.

CMIA – Masterworks of Japanese Cinema

Tuesday, December 10, 2019
7–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center

• Humanity and Paper Balloons
  (Sadao Yamanaka, 1937, Japan, 86 minutes, 35mm)*
• Love Letter
  (Kinuyo Tanaka, 1953, Japan, 98 minutes, 16mm)*
  *Imported archival prints courtesy of the Japan Foundation
   

Please check bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.

Alicia Rodriguez Senior Concert I

 

Tuesday, December 10, 2019
8–10 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Advising Day

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Through Our Eyes

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.

For more information, call 508-451-1080, or e-mail raimondie6@gmail.com.

Pre-health Professions 101: How to Prepare

Professor Frank Scalzo
Health Professions Adviser

Wednesday, December 11, 2019
3:30–4:30 pm

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.

Women's & Men's Basketball Doubleheader

Wednesday, December 11, 2019
5:30–9:30 pm

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.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.

CMIA - Europe's Darkest Hour

Wednesday, December 11, 2019
7–11:30 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center

• Listen to Britain
  (Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister, 1942, UK, 20 minutes)
• One of Our Aircraft is Missing
  (Michael Powell,1942, UK, 102 minutes, 35mm)*
  *Preserved by the Library of Congress
• Day of Wrath
  (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943, Denmark, 97 minutes, 35mm)

Please check http://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.

Kat Davila Senior Concert I

Wednesday, December 11, 2019
8–10 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Yidao Ho  Senior Concert I

 

Wednesday, December 11, 2019
8–10 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Registration for Spring Classes Opens at 8 a.m.

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

you can have it all

Thursday, December 12, 2019
7:30 pm

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.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fall-senior-dance-2019/.

The Georgian Choir Winter Concert

Thursday, December 12, 2019
7–9 pm

Olin Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail clinich@bard.edu.

Fiction Workshop I Reading

Thursday, December 12, 2019
7–8:30 pm

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.

Emma Nicole Houton Senior Concert I

Thursday, December 12, 2019
8–10 pm

Old Gym
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

you can have it all

Friday, December 13, 2019
7:30 pm

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.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fall-senior-dance-2019/.

Saw Kill Water Sampling

Friday, December 13, 2019
10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Saw Kill

As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.

Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.

Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.

Open to everyone. Free training is available.

If interested, please contact:
Lindsey Drew
Bard Water Lab Manager
ldrew@bard.eduSponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Stacking Van der Waals Atomic Layers: Quest for New Materials by Designing

Philip Kim, Harvard University

Friday, December 13, 2019
12–1 pm

Hegeman 107
Sponsored by: Physics Program.

For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.

Emilio Rojas

The Return to Land Ritual

Friday, December 13, 2019
2 pm

Bard Farm
LAB Commission / World Premiere

“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.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/naturalized-borders-ritual/.

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.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail newflute@earthlink.net.

Nick Fopeano Senior Concert I

Friday, December 13, 2019
8–10 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

you can have it all

Saturday, December 14, 2019
7:30 pm

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.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fall-senior-dance-2019/.

you can have it all

Saturday, December 14, 2019
2 pm

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.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fall-senior-dance-2019/.

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.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.

Bard MBA in Sustainability: December Residency Visit

Join Us to experience the Bard MBA program in action!

Saturday, December 14, 2019 – Sunday, December 15, 2019
12–6 pm

LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10038

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.

For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/residency-visit-12-15-19.

Bard MBA in Sustainability: December Residency Visit

Join Us to experience the Bard MBA program in action!

Saturday, December 14, 2019 – Sunday, December 15, 2019
12–6 pm

LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10038

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.

For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/residency-visit-12-15-19.

Winter Songfest

A Bard Holiday Tradition

Sunday, December 15, 2019
3 pm

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.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/BCOM-Winter-Songfest-2019/.

Gamelan Concert 

Sunday, December 15, 2019
3–5 pm

Olin Hall
Sponsored by: Division of the Arts; Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams

All students and faculty remain on campus

Monday, December 16, 2019 – Friday, December 20, 2019

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

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.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.

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.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.

Electroacoustic Ensemble Concert

Monday, December 16, 2019
7–8 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sargent@bard.edu.

1619: A Commemoration in Sound

Monday, December 16, 2019
7:30 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Featuring 

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.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/1619-Commemoration/.

Meghan Mercier Senior Concert I

 

Monday, December 16, 2019
8–10 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Bard College Community Jazz Orchestra

Monday, December 16, 2019
8–10 pm

Blum N211
The Bard College Community Jazz Orchestra will perform the music of Benny Golson, John Coltrane, Horace Silver and Thurman Barker.

 Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail tbarker@bard.edu.

Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams

All students and faculty remain on campus

Monday, December 16, 2019 – Friday, December 20, 2019

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

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.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.

Senior Project Poster Session

Tuesday, December 17, 2019
6–7:30 pm

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.

CMIA – Masterworks of Japanese Cinema

Tuesday, December 17, 2019
7–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center

• Kikujiro
  (Takeshi Kitano, 1999, Japan, 121 minutes, 35mm)*
  *Imported archival print courtesy of the Japan Foundation
• Eijanaika
  (Shohei Imamura, 1981, Japan, 151 minutes, 35mm)*
  *Imported archival print courtesy of the Japan Foundation

Please check bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.

Open Concert

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, Bard College Campus
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.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail newflute@earthlink.net.

Contemporary Jazz Composers Concert

Tuesday, December 17, 2019
8:30–10:30 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail lindsay@bard.edu.

Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams

All students and faculty remain on campus

Monday, December 16, 2019 – Friday, December 20, 2019

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

CMIA - Films by Raoul Walsh

Wednesday, December 18, 2019
7–11:30 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center

• The Strawberry Blonde
  (Raoul Walsh, 1941, USA, 100 minutes, 35mm)*
  *Preserved by the Library of Congress
• They Died with Their Boots On
  (Raoul Walsh, 1941, USA, 140 minutes, 35mm)

Please check http://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.

Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams

All students and faculty remain on campus

Monday, December 16, 2019 – Friday, December 20, 2019

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams

All students and faculty remain on campus

Monday, December 16, 2019 – Friday, December 20, 2019

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Last Day of Classes

Friday, December 20, 2019

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.