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American Writer Martha Beck said, "Every day brings new choices." Up until now, Up until now, every choice different people have made led to different results, which we call "history." What could we learn from looking back on these different results?
The Alternative History Club is a community of students and faculty advisers who revisit different choices that our past and contemporary generations have made through various means such as putting historical figures on a mock trial, answering the question "What if this ever or not happened" in either a magazine or a blog post, and inviting local historians and other community members with a passion for history to offer different perspectives on the historical choices that formed our current society.
Life is about making choices. Everyone who has ever existed has had to make choices and accept the consequences, no matter what they were. And everyone has asked themselves at one time or another, "what would be different had they made a different choice?"
Students who know or are interested in learning American Sign Language come together to practice and learn from each other. Our teacher, a local translator for the surrounding communities, will guide any level signer to become a better conversationalist. Then come test out your skills at a monthly meet up in Kingston and sign with fellow students as well as deaf community members!
This club provides an opportunity for students interested in architecture to gather and practice architecture design together. This semester, we plan to focus on proposing potential architecture or public art projects for the Bard campus intended to strengthen the social and physical environment of Bard.
The Bard Debate Union is a community of students, faculty, and staff committed to promoting the values of civic discourse, dialogue, and debate throughout the Bard College community, the greater Hudson Valley region of New York, and the world at large.
The Bard Debate Union represents a union of both a student club and a college-sponsored team. As a club, the BDU organizes meetings, workshops, and events on campus and in the local community. As a team, the BDU prepares for, attends, and participates in inter-collegiate debate competitions.
Classics club will be group translating dramas from the classical world this semester, in order to engage with the academic material that we study in a more casual setting.
The Bard Economics Club is a student-run organization that will supplement the economics program at Bard. Our goals are to enhance the undergraduate economics experience with speakers from various fields within economics such as finance, economic policy, and academia. We also want to raise money so that we can attend major economic conferences such as the Hyman Minsky Conference in Washington, D.C., amongst other talks and conferences in the NYC area. We also aim to help students develop networking skills, and organize networking events with students through Bard alumni working in economics-related fields. The CDO is also willing to work with us on building essential career-oriented skills such as resume-buildling, utilizing LinkedIn, interviews, etc. Besides all of these great opportunities, we also want to create an environment where economics majors can just talk about current events, their economics homework, their weekend, the stock market, cereal, their hedgehog and whatever else.
The Girls Math Club (GMC), run by women math majors at Bard College, aims to foster a community of local middle school girls who are interested in learning math. Since the world of STEM is predominantly male, we want to show that women and girls have a place in this world too; this is an opportunity to tip the scale. We also want to inspire them to continue learning mathematics, even when difficult.
The Nicaragua Education Initiative is a project that engages in a multicultural exchange between Bard students and the community of Chacraseca, Nicaragua. While staying with host families in Chacraseca during the winter intersession, the project takes Bard students to Chacraseca every January to foster creative learning experiences where students can express themselves in new and collaborative ways. Students in Chacraseca express creativity through science, math, English, and art lessons. Although the trip is only three weeks, the project is a year-long process. Throughout the year, the project raises funds for university students and other scholarships that promote sustainable education. The Nicaragua Education Initiative values learning both inside and outside of the classroom. The connections and relationships we build cannot be learned at a desk, and this multicultural exchange widens the perspectives of each individual involved in the project. Every January for three weeks a group of 12 students from Bard go to Chacraseca, a small village in Nicaragua, where we stay with host family. We teach from 9:00am through 1:00pm during the weekdays. Although the trip is only three weeks, the project is a year-long process. Throughout the year, the project raises funds for university students and other scholarships that promote sustainable education.
We are a group of students comprising mostly of students majoring in philosophy, but not exclusive to majors. The Philosophy Club hosts events each semester including: student debates, student presentations, and guest lectures.
Information about careers in animal welfare, internships, community involvement, and certification in collaboration with nearby animal care facilities. Volunteer trips to nearby farms and rescues.
The goal of Women in STEM is to empower and support Bard College women planning to pursue a career in science, technology, engineering, and/or mathematics.
This club is for all Bardians who are hoping to take advantage of the beautiful Hudson Valley and surrounding areas for outdoor adventuring and camping. We will overnight camp, backpack and host wilderness skills workshops.
Bard Cheerleaders will bring school spirit and pep to all indoor games. Our mission is bring excitement and entertainment to the spectators. We plan to preform during games, ISO, and maybe even during the Women of Color Gala.
Bard's Hudson Valley location lands it in the middle of one of the largest climbing communities in the world. Residing just forty minutes from the Shawangunks, a world-class climbing location, as well as many others both indoor and outdoor, we have the amazing ability to take advantage of year-round climbing. We have some experience in rock climbing, but are looking to grow, as we are sure many other Bardians are. Rock climbing is amazing sport that upon acquiring the basic skill set will get you strong and be a blast at the same time. Once you start, you'll be hooked!
The Bard College Cycling Team (BCCT) is one of the most promising new teams in the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference. Our first season of racing saw 11 top-ten finishes across five races, including two first place finishes by first-time Bard racers. In an unprecedented move, the BCCT also hosted its own, extremely successful race with over 150 competitors from schools all across the Northeast. We put Bard on the map with this race and established ourselves as a competitive member of the ECCC. All Bard racers enjoy race support from the team and local bicycle shops as well as one-on-one and group coaching from retired racer Martin Bruhn. We also host on-campus events and weekly group rides for all Bard students and community members. The BCCT consists of students, faculty, and community members and we welcome cyclists of all skill levels.
The Bard College Field Hockey Team is an intramural sport that is open and welcoming to players that range from beginners to high-level skill sets. The goal of the team is to challenge ourselves in learning new skills as well as creating a competitive and strong team connection that helps push our players to their full potential.
Bard Fight Club is a group of students who are passionate about martial arts, or simply interested in trying out martial arts. Train with friends in a safe and organised space while learning different fighting techniques.
Club Head Information
Tyler Williams , Tw7155@bard.edu 443-525-8795 Type(s): Athletic/Recreational
Birdies and Eagles, and Raptors, oh my! Are you in a love/hate relationship with the game of Golf? Come to play and improve your swing or if you like just to relax for a while and enjoy the outdoors with friends. Everyone is welcome to join up, those physically coordinated and those who are well, not. Even if you've never golfed before you're more than welcome to come by and test your luck. We envision the club becoming Bard's Golf team in the near future. And who knows, perhaps Bard will eventually create it's own tailored Golf course and host a tour event!
For all hikers, nature enthusiasts, or adventurous people. Hiking difficulty will vary greatly to accommodate participants' experience levels and access to equipment (friends don't let friends hike in jeans!). We will mostly be hiking in the Catskills, but trips to the Adirondacks, Berkshires, Poconos, Green Mountains, etc. could be planned for the future. See you on the trail! :)
At its core, the Bard Video Game Club strives to connect the many people at Bard College who partake in the recreation of playing video games. There are a great many people at Bard who partake in the same activities, such as gaming, that aren't even aware that like minds exist. This is why we are dedicated to creating communication among people who may not otherwise know each other.
As the gaming club, we plan campus-wide gaming events that all are welcome to join, including tournaments, non-competitive sessions and general gatherings to raise the awareness of niche interests such as video games.
In the end, our goal is simple: Forge new friendships and make Bard a more inclusive community for people of all intrigues.
Bard College Women’s Soccer Club is a club designed to empower and support Bard College women. We will meet every Monday, Thursday and Saturday for some soccer warm-ups, drills, and scrimmages. This club is meant to provide students with a fun and exciting opportunity to unwind and exercise. We will all come together to release some stress, kick a ball around, and have fun. Most importantly, this club is a place for anyone and everyone to feel welcomed and supported!
This club can be for students who need to relieve some stress from either school work, personal issue or social issues. Also, for kids who simply want to learn how to box. We can all learn the techniques of being a boxer and maybe even have a couple sessions where we spar with each other. All safety measures will be taken.
Club Head Information
Adam Fallah , af9131@bard.edu 504-355-6033 Type(s): Athletic/Recreational
This is a fun club for all levels of skaters! Whether you want to learn how to skate, just want to skate for fun, or get in a good workout, this club is for you!
The Bard Ski and Snowboard Club's mission is to allow Bardians to experience the many joys of downhill skiing and snowboarding in a relaxed and fun environment. We plan to take trips over the course of the winter to the available mountains in the area while exploring the natural beauty here in the Hudson Valley. Skiers and riders of all abilities are welcome.
More than a game, chess is a discipline, a world of its own; or, rather, a philosophy. You are in charge of the meaning you give to the board and its valued pieces. Chess isn’t only a fun competitive game, it has countless benefits too: it sharpens critical thinking skills, it builds self-confidence, it improves problem-solving abilities, it exercises both sides of the brain, it boosts memory and creativity; and, most importantly, it makes you a better decision maker. Chess is, among many things, about creativity.
A group for yoga students of all levels to learn about the philosophy of yoga, explore the strength and flexibility of the body through asana practice, and discover the power of the Self using yogic methods.
AfroPulse hopes to provide a forum through which African students, those of the African Diaspora, and all other interested students can come together to explore the continent in a multi-dimensional context.
Our goals include spreading awareness of the continent’s rich and diverse history and culture to the wider Bard community, as well as celebrating this culture through food, music, film, dance, and fashion. We also hope to educate on the contemporary issues faced by countries on the continent, and shed light on the place of Africa and its people in our world today through panel discussions, documentary/TED talk screenings, live speakers, and debates. Community service will be a priority in our agenda, and we hope to find practical ways to contribute back to communities across Africa. We will also attempt to reach out to the larger Hudson Valley community through community service activities that promote the continent, and by engaging with similar African student groups in surrounding colleges.
Welcome to the home page of our site! Open to all Bard students Asian Student Organization (ASO) is focused on achieving an awareness of the Asian populations at Bard College, which includes students, faculty, and off-campus neighbors. ASO also aims to create a space that facilitates a dialogue between Asian and Asian American students with the larger Bard community. From various angles, we will try to demonstrate Asian culture and identity by holding events to educate, entertain, and provide community outreach to all students at Bard. We are conscious of the cultures that exist in Bard College and hope to increase understanding between Asian and non-Asian students.
An offshoot of the Bard Educational Opportunities Program, this club works to extend resources of the BEOP office and make a greater presence in the greater Bard Community. Club activities include workshops, networking activities, and social events. BEOP scholars are a strong presence in campus life, being representatives of several campus organizations, and this is a good opportunity for the Bard community to learn more about this organization.
Our mission is to stimulate members of the Bard College community to explore intellectual, political, cultural and social issues that are of importance to the Black community and America as a whole. Black History and current race issues are articulated through dialogue, cultural performances, music, lectures, and art. Race and politics are issues that are often recognized on our campus in through our academic curriculum. However, we as an organization feel that it is necessary to find creative ways to take that experience beyond the classroom brining the links between race, politics, academics, and social life to fruition in the hopes that awareness will spark action and ignite change in our communities.
The Caribbean Student Association (CSA) seeks to provide a sense of social solidarity and academic support among West Indian/Caribbean students at Bard, while promoting interactions with the Bard community as a whole. We hope to achieve this goal through (1) the education of Caribbean culture, society, and politics, (2) hosting events that celebrate the diversity which Caribbean students contribute to Bard and (3) raising awareness about issues past and present of importance to West Indians and the world. The CSA is inclusive to all Bard students, Caribbean or otherwise.
We hope to serve the cultural and social objectives: to promote interests and understandings across cultures and disciplines, to create opportunities for Bardians to ask questions and discuss, and to share our cultural and social understandings and differences. Rather than representing the Chinese government,we represent our own perspectives. We hope to enrich Bardians' knowledge of China by means of film, lecture and party.
The Italian Club, in conjunction with the Italian department, works to celebrate Italian culture and language each semester. This club is not limited to Italian speakers and students of Italian, but rather it is open to the entire Bard community! Members will be able to share and/or gain knowledge and experience of Italian culture through film screenings, meetings, socializing, food, field trips, and much more! Each event will be widely advertised with posters and online announcements!
Salut! Join us in reviving the French club this year! Would you like to see your favorite French movie on the big screen? Chat over coffee and pastries? Trips might include the Met Opera for Massenet, the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Manet, or Albertine's for a conference on Choderlos de Laclos. Our mascot is Mlle. Poppy le chien :)
Representing the versatility that International Students bring to the Bard community through campus events and gatherings. You don't have to be international to attend!
We are planning to hold club meetings every other week. And the club aims to bring students with different cultural backgrounds to join the karaoke. Karaoke is a great opportunity for networking and getting to know about different cultures and languages. We plan to provide snacks and tea from different countries.
The “Kulturforum” is an interdisciplinary club and forum open to all students who are curious about culture at large. The name KULTURFORUM originates from German and can be translated as a “forum of culture” and was originally created because there was no German language club. But we have long shifted our focus to exploring the arts beyond borders. For more than two years this club has been a flourishing community of creatives from all geographical backgrounds and walks of life who come together for film screenings, translation workshops, communal poetry readings, dinners and more. This year we have really exciting things planned: a student art show (there will be food!), a poetry performance art project, a visit to the DIA in Beacon and next semester a one day conference on “Language in Exile”.
Club Head Information
April Perin Wogenburg , ap0403@bard.edu 917-446-4009 Type(s): Cultural/Affinity
This is the club affiliated with La Voz magazine. We help organize events relevant to the Hispanic community such as concerts, lectures and more. In addition we seek writers, journalists, and artists for the magazine´s content.
LASO's goal is to share the Latin American culture with the rest of Bard. LASO is NOT an exclusive club and is therefore for both students who pertain to the culture and those who are interested in it. We strive to represent Latin America and show different aspects of its culture from its traditions to its politics.
This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.
A student-run space for queer students to organize, discuss, and unwind. We host weekly meetings in the campus center and a variety of events (movie screenings, bake sales, and collaborations with other clubs on campus to name a few), working towards a goal of both strengthening and supporting the LGBTQ+ community on campus and building bonds with other groups in the Hudson Valley. Allies are welcome, with the condition that they realize their voices will not be centered.
The Trans Life Collective is a student and faculty organization working to create an environment that is accepting and comfortable for individuals of all gender identities. In the past, we have advocated gender inclusive spaces in bathrooms and housing, we were instrumental in adding gender identity and expression to Bard's Anti-Discrimination Policy, we held film screenings, hosted trivia events, panels, and performances/workshops, supported grassroots education via teach-ins, organized a library of books and films for the Bard community, and developed educational materials for students and staff. All are welcome to attend our weekly meetings.
Women of Color United (WOC) seeks to provide an inclusive environment for members to exchange personal and collective experiences that occur on and off Bard’s campus. We seek to share with each other issues and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality surrounding the positions of women from diverse backgrounds. WOC aims to facilitate conversations with the community on topics that are important to us and focus on self-care and self-love throughout the semester. We seek to uplift women and not degrade them, this is not a space for negative vibes. We aim to cultivate positive energy.
Dance club is responsible for bringing forms of dance, that are not already offered at Bard, to the Bard community; through workshops and festivals. We also want to create a space for our budding choreographers to teach their work or lead workshops in the style of their choosing.
this club caters to anybody who is a kpop fan, interested in learning new dances, performing, or just socializing with fellow kpop stans. We perform for events on campu as well.
In Ru Meng Ling, you can learn various types of Chinese traditional dances and their history. Recomposing and original choreography are also encouraged. Besides, we pursue the effective combination of eastern traditional dance and western contemporary and street dance, as well as the productive integration of dance and other disciplines, such as music, literature, math, psychology, visual art and so forth. Hopefully, we could hold a dance showcase every semester.
The Bard Community Garden is a public space maintained by student and community member volunteers. It is a space for students to plant, tend, and harvest edible and medicinal plants, relax, study, play music, host events, gather, and learn about herbalism, permaculture, and gardening via workshops put on by the club each semester. The club also hosts potlucks and weekly work parties throughout the growing season. New to the community garden is the growing and harvesting of medicinal herbs to supply the Trade Based Student Run Herbal Apothecary Project which the Wild Roots Wellness Collective has put together. The Community Garden is currently a branch of the Wild Roots Wellness Collective which focuses on all things relating to wellness, self-care, herbal and holistic minded medicine, healing arts, earth based spirituality, tending an intimate connection to land and place, and more! Help us grow our efforts, nourishing foods, and powerful medicines.
ARTISTS OF COLOR AT BARD, or ACB, aims to engage POC peer collaboration and unity in art departments across campus and outside of the classroom. The existence of this club aims to form a safe artistic environment and welcoming space to all POC artists, whether they deal with photography, dance, filmmaking, music, writing, sculpting, performance, and graphic design. ACB is also constituted by an annual student-run publication through the physicality of a magazine that spotlights the work of POC creators.
At ACB, we are aware that engaging with our community is vital to growing as a club, magazine, and as young creators. For that reason, we have decided to team up with other clubs on campus to provide different artistic media services. As a club, we are looking forward to hosting POC guest lecturers, provide workshops, conduct art critiques, and present artistic feedback. We will be ending each semester with a show that displays the artwork that our members have made. Our goals are to extend the dialogue regarding art literacy in the POC community and expand connection with art entities outside the campus. We hope to establish a long-lasting community that nurtures the importance of POC in the arts.
Club Head Information
Johan Orellana , jo3450@bard.edu 646-953-1631 Type(s): Media/Publications
Bard Science Journal is a student publication dedicated to all genres of science writing including news articles, essays, fiction, science-inspired art & poetry, and peer-reviewed research papers. It's intended as a forum for students to explore different ways of writing and thinking about science and its effects on individuals and society. The Bard Science Journal wants to emphasize access to quality science for everyone. Open to both majors and non-majors.
The Bard Zine Library maintains an archival collection of self-published magazines, as well as a current collection of local and relevant works. Our club also supports zine-makers on campus by providing resources and promoting student works.
BOTV is a media club who's goal is to bring entertainment, creativity, and also a platform for soical thought
to Bard by utilizing video, the Internet, and photography. We record and publicize Bard events for the community to watch at their leisure in addition to creating original content created by our staff and Bard students within the community for the enjoyment of the Bard Community. We also are here to provide pertinent news
information ranging from the Bard Hub to global news. The
content of our network aims to entertain, capture, and diversify the environment in which we live
and change the way we associate with media, our peers, and the world.
Gradient, a new club, aims to engage peer collaboration in the photography program outside of the classroom. We host guest lecturers, provide workshops, and conduct critiques, with an end result of a publication and show at the end of each semester reflecting our photographic work. Meetings are held weekly to discuss our ongoing work –– be it critiques, publications, shows, or our occasional workshops and lecturers. Our goal is to extend the dialogue regarding photography beyond simply the classroom experience. We hope to establish lasting connections between artists in order to continue our work together post-graduation.
A student run magazine that acts as a platform for many different voices. Students will be encouraged to write and submit personal, editorial, opinion, news, creative, visual, etc. pieces of work. The magazine will act as a platform that will allow students to write about issues relevant to them, which in turn will promote campus-wide conversations and form student connections. Students will write, edit, and format all pieces to be published both in an online magazine and in special printed editions. The main goal of Hive Magazine is to provide a safe and supportive space for students to share their stories and have their voices heard while engaging in ongoing political, personal, and creative conversations with their peers.
Club Head Information
Eliza Watson , ew1597@bard.edu 518-763-2030 Type(s): Media/Publications
Sonnet Literary Magazine is an annual, student-run literary publication which aims to create a platform for both written and visual artists by and for Bard students. We seek to publish creative fiction, poetry, works of translation, and art. Our hope is to compose a final creative project that represents the many literary and artistic talents at Bard College.
TFC is a club dedicated to bringing a fun and welcoming space to those interested in fashion/design with a focus on student creativity. This year, TFC will focus on providing a platform in areas like modelling, sewing, event planning, and collaboration.
On campus we are fortunate to have multiple large orchestras and small chamber ensembles in the college and conservatory, but we are lacking a student-run orchestra of a medium size. That space is what we are hoping to fill! The Bard Chamber Orchestra is a student-run ensemble comprised of musicians from the college and conservatory. Clare Herzog is the orchestra manager and David Banoczi-Ruof is the music director. We are hoping to include anyone who wishes to join!
This club aims to gather people who are interested in West African drums (djembe and dunun) to have a chance to play traditional West African music together.
This club is connected with the Georgian Choir ensemble at Bard! Our teacher, Carl Linich, travels to Georgia every summer and brings us back new music, so this club exists as a support system for him and for any students who are interested in pursuing Georgian music outside of class
Club Head Information
Genevieve Chiola , gc7088@bard.edu 802-398-7841 Type(s): Music
Bard Music Composition Club is open to anyone who has experience of writing music or interested in music improvisation. The "music composition" here can be referred to any kinds of sounds with human's intention of creating it. The aim of the club is to bring together the songwriters and composers at Bard and provide a space of communication. The club activities are going to include discussion and study of different topics such as improvisation and other composing techniques. We are going to talk about these composing techniques through the form of discussion and games while providing refreshments to participants. Besides composing techniques, we are also going to move our attention into something that are relate to music but are rarely discussed formally, such as concert space, body gestures, and explore how these elements could bring out different effects in the music performances. We are also going to have casual jam sessions with everyone who has or has no previous experience in instruments.
BUMP is an organization that exists as a resource for students and clubs looking to host live-music on campus. BUMP also hosts events and works to maintain safe-spaces. We are a collective of music clubs and venues on campus including SMOG, Root Cellar, Entertainment Committee, WXBC, and Bard Bars. You can reach us at bardbump@gmail.com
There is an ancient tradition of Jewish music rooted from eastern Europe, the genre is called 'Klezmer'. Music that is traditionally played and danced too at celebrations; such as Jewish weddings. The spirit of Klezmer music is filled with beautiful melodies, happiness, and excitement. If done with the right energy klezmer can bring a delirious experience; be it while playing klezmer or dancing to the crazy melodies of its repertoire.
The Root Cellar is a completely student-run space that houses one of the largest zine libraries on the east coast. The Root Cellar is also a multipurpose space for student use: we host shows, performances, and club meetings.
SMOG is a student run music venue and performance space. Students of Bard College may schedule time in this space to have shows or house other happenings.
The Orcapelicans is the only A Cappella group on campus. This gender inclusive group is audition-based and regularly performs on and off campus. This group also provides a stress-free and non-judgmental space for people who love to sing with others. We sing all genres!
We teach and experiment with fire poi, as well as several other fire dancing tools such as fire fans, fire staff, fire hoop, and contact fire. We are always willing to explore new forms and continue to expand our skills!
Bard Bards is a Shakespeare club aimed at deepening and strengthening Bard students' understanding of performing the material. We put on one large-scale production per semester and want to get people involved who have varying levels of experience.
The Bard dance club is a way to bring dance that is not offered at Bard to the student body. It also functions as a way of meeting the needs of the dance community at Bard that would otherwise be overlooked by the department itself.
Club Heads will facilitate the work of a group of students committed to creating work in ceramics. We will host workshops as well as help people learning how to work in the medium. Members do not have to know how to throw or handbuild but must be committed to the completion of their projects. Part of the clubs mission is also to work on creating more ceramics classes and opportunities in the art department.
Bard STEP Team is dedicated to bringing entertainment to the Bard community with this from of dance style that combines stomping and clapping to create rhythm, beats, and music using just our bodies. We teach all those who are interested in Step and perform in cultural shows hosted by ASO and ISO. Also,the Bard Step Team is for anyone who wants to meet new excited and interesting people as well as show school spirit.
This is a theater and art festival put up every Spring that is created, performed, and devised by Bard students. The first semester is spent creating the plan for the following semester and building up the board of producers and associate producers to create further collaboration opportunities for students. We are currently in our seventh year, and as of last year the theater festival has expanded to include an art show prior to the live performance.
New Underground Arts is primarily an interdisciplinary platform to connect art: artist to influence, artist to artist, artist to audience. It has put on several events in past years, usually involving music and sound but hope to expand into other realms of art. We are interested in supporting artists with integrity who we feel are pushing the boundaries of art and culture today. By bringing these bands, artists, and film-makers to campus, we hope to open the minds of Bard students and other community members to the vanguard of American, independent art. Our goal is to bring together local projects as well as groups from across the country. Bringing these various artists and groups will hopefully stimulate the campus, encouraging students to experiment with their own work and push themselves to be the best artist they can be.
The goal of People Of Color Theatre Ensemble is to facilitate an environment of inclusion within the Bard theatre community- particularly for people of color. As we are tired of seeing a lack of representation within the theatre community at Bard, we hope to create more opportunities for people of color who are interested in performance. POC Theatre Ensemble is primarily focused on theater written for and by people of color. We aim to have a core group of about 15 people who will work together to put on productions. Within this group, people will be shifting roles each show to learn the in’s and out’s of theatre, performance, and technical theater. This is not exclusive to theater majors and we want all persons of color on Bard’s campus with a passion for performance!
Club Head Information
Jadyn Gray-Hough , jg3586@bard.edu 404-519-0066 Immanuel Williams , mw7867@bard.edu 518-409-3022 Type(s): Performing/Visual Arts
THE ST. TULA FILM SOCIETY was reestablished in 2010 by Film & Electronic Arts students to encourage viewership and criticism of past and current student work. The society holds screenings twice a month: the first screening consists of films from former Bard students whose works are in the archive, the second screening is devoted to showing current student work. All films are welcome, including works in progress — all are equal in the eyes of Saint Tula. Adolfas Mekas, an avant-garde filmmaker and former professor of film at Bard, initiated Saint Tula in the 1970s to encourage his students to become involved in each other’s projects. The mission is the same 40 years later.
The Surrealist Training Circus is a forum for creative performance on campus. Circus members train for the surreal apocalypse through an ongoing study of puppetry, costuming, stilt-walking, acrobatics and theater. The circus puts on formal theatrical events and informal interventions around campus, culminating in a giant spectacle at the end of the year. We aim to create community and inspire wonder within the public spaces of this private institution.
At Surviving Artists, we provide an open studio for anyone, art major or not, to use! We promote collaboration, and anyone coming in to learn new techniques and skills from others. We will then work with members to promote them on our collective website and social media where our creations can be sold or promoted! Come in and check it out!
Club Head Information
Benni Perkins , cp1750@bard.edu 303-842-9597 Finn Williams , aw2330@bard.edu 207-400-4230 Type(s): Performing/Visual Arts
For students interested in learning Argentine Tango, attending Tango dances and events on and off campus, bringing artists to Bard, and creating a Tango community on campus. We add fun, passion, and musicality to everyday life.
The Bard Musical Theatre Company (BMTC) strives to bring together a diverse group of multidisciplinary student artists to produce full-length musicals, cabarets, and other performance based events on campus.
Theater Artists Guild is a club that funds student run theater on campus.We also advertise different student run projects and theatrical opportunities. If you're interested in running your own project and need funding, let us know! Additionally, if you want to be more involved in student run theater, but aren't sure how to get involved, join our mailing list, and we will send you updates on projects and their open positions or auditions!
Bard Democrats is a student-led grassroots political association dedicated to helping students exert agency in politics. We organize and promote opportunities to make a real difference at the local, state, and federal level.
Formally known as Organizing for Undocumented Students' Rights (OUSR), Bard Immigrant Coalition continues the original mission of OUSR to promote the rights of undocumented students on Bard's campus, in the Hudson Valley, and to follow the national movements on immigrants rights. However, we now seek to expand our efforts in fundraising and raising awareness of the broader issue of immigration in the United States.
This club is dedicated to the planning of the Black Body Experience Conference that takes place every Spring Semester. This conference discusses many different issues amongst people of color with a different theme taking place each year.
CodeRed aims to address the need for free and available period products for all. We provide tampons and pads in the bathrooms of most of campus and are working towards providing more environmentally sustainable products for free as well
IGNITE is a movement of young women who are ready and eager to become the next generation of political leaders. The IGNITE Bard College Chapter is non-partisan and aims to engage Bard undergraduates with current political issues and to empower women to participate in politics and activism. During meetings, we will provide relevant tools for women pursuing politically-oriented careers. We will also organize community service projects.
It's On Us is a nation wide movement to empower and mobilise student's toward taking action to create a safe, supportive and consensual sex positive campus.
Bard's chapter forms part of a Nation wide network of students dedicated to taking back our bodies and uplifting survivors. Our campus is especially interested in shining a light on how assault functions in the Queer community and assessing the unique paradigms in which sexual violence occurs.
Peace Action is a club that will aim towards inspiring and directing student activists. We will teach students how to write letters and call their representatives, as well as discuss various political movements and crises in the world that need immediate attention and activist action. This club wants to not only bring together activists on campus but also teach people who are interested in politics about how to become an activist and take political action. Peace Action New York State is a national organization from which I have learned a lot about activism and I plan to bring this knowledge with me when starting this Peace Action chapter at Bard.
The Student Labor Dialogue (SLD) was founded in 2005 as a response to a need for better communication between students and laborers so that the two could work collaboratively to bring about change to on-campus labor issues.
Bard Students for Justice in Palestine is a diverse organization of faculty and students that advocates for justice, freedom, liberation, and self-determination of Palestinians. We oppose israeli colonialism and occupation on the principles set by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The Sunrise Movement is a national youth climate movement dedicated to fighting for good jobs and a livable future, as well as ensuring that the United States government face the climate crisis as the existential threat to humanity that it is. Through peaceful, non-violent actions, lobbying and public outreach, sunrise is committed to centering The Green New Deal - a broad social, economic platform that would both transform our economy to clean energy within 12 years and rebuild the American middle class - as the key platform of any candidate vying for the 2020 democratic presidential nomination. As a chapter of sunrise, we would aide the national organization, push our representative Antonio Deladgo, to support the Green New Deal and hold discussions on the climate crisis.
The Draft is a student publication interested in disseminating inter-disciplinary approaches to questions of human rights. Our goal is to provide a space where student work pertaining to both international and local issues of social, political, economic and cultural inequality can be shared with a larger audience. We are a student organization with a unique horizontal structure and we seek to incorporate collaborations of all kinds on campus. We hope to provide a space where radical politics on campus can flourish and where student work can leave the classroom and enter a space of peer engagement and conversation. As a student-collective we are both a print and online publication and a community of activists, organizers, aspiring journalists, and artists.
This club will examine the role of socioeconomic status and class on Bard's campus. We will hold discussion groups, conduct interviews, collect institutional data, invite experts on the subject to speak at Bard, and hold fundraisers. This club will collaborate with the faculty/staff group Council for Inclusive Excellence.
HSO helps raise campus awareness of Hindu religion and culture through venues such as major Hindu festivals, speakers, movie screenings, and similar events throughout the semester. Our goal is not only to enjoy the festive celebrations of Hinduism but to foster an understanding of the impact that one of the oldest religions in the world has on modern culture and society.
The Bike Co-op is a free resource for the Bard community's bike-related needs. Anybody is welcome to stop by during open hours (Tuesdays and Wednesdays 7pm-9pm) to get help fixing their bike, learn about bike maintenance or get involved in any of our bike outreach programs; which include hosting informal alleycat races, offering free bike maintenance classes to the greater community, and other bike related activities. The Bike Co-op is located in the basement of the Old Gym, enter through the south side of the security building, down the stairs. All are welcome to learn and volunteer! Get in touch with us at bardbicycle@gmail.com or on Instagram @bardbikecoop
The Bard New Orleans Exchange (BNOE) is one of the longest running TLS projects at Bard. Since 2005, students have been going down to NOLA for 5 weeks in the summer and 3 weeks each winter to work for various causes.
In its birth, the project focused on the rebuilding of schools and running summer programs for students. Recently, the program has taken a turn to focus on criminal justice reform in the most incarcerated city in the U.S. (and the world); Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate in the country, and New Orleans more specifically has the highest rate within the state.
While in New Orleans, students intern for a variety of criminal justice reform organizations run for and by formerly incarcerated people including, Voice of the Experienced (commonly known as VOTE www.vote-nola.org), The Power Coalition, and The First 72+ These groups work to end mass incarceration through policy creation and reform, direct services, and social justice actions.
While on campus, BNOE members and allies facilitate anti-mass incarceration and general criminal justice reform actions which Bard students can learn from and participate in such as informative panels, fundraising initiatives, and movie screenings.
Within the Bard Student Government, the Central Assembly is made up of: the Speaker of the Student Body, the chairs of the Student Life, Fiscal, Education Policies, & Multicultural Diversity committees, the Peer Review & Student Judiciary Board chairs as well and the Treasurer. Each member of the Central Assembly works to serve the student body in each of their respective branches around student life, conduct, and fiscal spendings. Each member of the Central Assembly holds weekly office hours and attends meetings to aid in assessing the campus climate, discussing curricular concerns within the College, and simply supporting the student body as holistically as possible.
Building up Hudson is a program that that mentor and tutor middle school and high school students in Hudson, New York. Our volunteers prepare and present workshops that will hopefully aid in our students' future success in college. We are a team dedicated to the personal and academic growth of the young scholars we work with and hope to instill values that will foster
confidence in impacting the world.
Club Head Information
Giavonni Williams , gw4793@bard.edu 504-908-3025 Type(s): Service
Everybody Eats will be a place where Bardians can find food from different cultures in an environment that is wholly comprised of what students have brought to the table.
Harm Reduction at Bard is a body of students committed towards addressing the needs of those in the recovery community. This includes but is not limited to the sponsorship of recovery meetings and social/sober events. We also want to help shape the culture of substance use on campus to make it more safe and more informed.
Club Head Information
Gabriel Braunstein , gb4436@bard.edu 781-697-4140 Type(s): Service
LiNK stands for Liberty in North Korea. It is an international non-governmental organization that focuses primarily in rescuing North Korean refugees and aiding in their resettlement to a new life.
In addition, LiNK strives to bring awareness that includes but are not limited to the violations of human rights and personal freedoms for the North Korean citizens and refugees to a more global audience. With both a rescue (chapter) team and an awareness aspect, we envision to fund and support these rescues as well as expose the struggles North Korean refugees face.
The mission of Senior Class Council is simple: promote a philanthropic spirit among the graduating class by providing seniors an opportunity to leave their legacy at the College they call home. Through a collective effort Senior Class Council with the help of their classmates has the opportunity to give both their time and financial resources in order to leave their mark on Bard College and take their first step toward becoming proud alumni/ae.
All of the money raised from the following events will be donated back to the College in the form a senior gift: pub nights, one a semester, Seniors vs Faculty/Staff basketball game, and the selling of pint glasses. All of our events are open to the entire Bard community.
This is the revival of the Student Run Darkroom, a darkroom space and club organized and ran by students independent of the photography program. The club was conceptualized by Bard alum Nicole Novak in 1998, and then organized by Bard alum Emily Steinfeld and Paolo Vidali in 2002, with the help of the former Dean of First-Year Students John Kelly. Novak, Steinfeld, and Vidali saw the Student Run Darkroom as a place for students outside of the photography program to come together and be passionate about analog photography. We'll be continuing with this goal, as we strive to provide workshops and darkroom facilities for Bard students and locals. We hope to cultivate an inclusive community of photographers.
We provide free prophylactics to the student body via an anonymous online order form. The orders are then delivered to the student's on campus mail box.
The Board Game Library will be a club dedicated to providing students with the materials needed to enjoy the pleasures of table top gaming on their own time. This club differs from Bard Games because it will not have set meeting times. Students can rent games for free in play them wherever they'd like whenever they'd like, with whomever they'd like.
Club Head Information
Philip Carroll , pc3851@bard.edu 845-389-6335 Type(s): Social
The Bubble Tea Club aims to provide a pleasant environment for students with the inspiration of bubble teas. We will have bubble tea DIY workshops to make our own delicious bubble tea. Tea parties will also be held weekly. Members of the club will be able to experience the bubble tea culture and have some wonderful time with other bubble tea lovers.
We will be practicing techniques to cultivate self Love, Love towards others, and awareness and Love for our planet. This will include informal discussions, meditations on Love, and walks around campus picking up litter while practicing meditative Love techniques. Energetic healing such as Reiki will be offered as well. Through these methods both our inner and outer environments will be healthier and well-tended with Love and care.
Poker Nights is a club dedicated to turning the hobby of poker into an activity that gives back to the community and connects individuals of all backgrounds. We will accomplish this by bringing people together to learn about, strategize, and grow together through the game of poker, as well as using all of the clubs revenue for charity. The club will focus on both strategic elements of poker as well as fostering a fun environment to grow and challenge each others poker ability. We welcome players of all skill levels, and will be hosting a multitude of weekly non-mandatory events, including theory based training sessions, cash games, tournaments, casino trips, and monthly special events such as high stakes poker, charity based exhibition matches, and mixed games.
Sawkill Coffee House is a student run cafe located in Sawkill (a 24 hour open space dedicated to students!) We serve specialty coffee, teas, and snacks. Additionally, Sawkill runs various events for students to enjoy! Sawkill is committed to creating a safe, inviting, space made for students by students.
We organize a variety of events monthly that are available to the student population. We are also a resource for members of the student body planning other activities.
We screen terrible movies every week so anybody can come to laugh at the stupidity! Students can expect movies that are so bad they're more fun to watch than great movies. We ask the real questions: How did this ever make it on the big screen? Did the director ever make another movie or just wallow in shame? Come ask these questions with us!
Alpha Theta Kappa- Is a multicultural collegiate Greek-lettered fraternity oriented on uniting college men to promote community enrichment, academic excellence, and development of leadership. Through this ideal we are dedicated to A.C.T meaning we are Accountable Committed and Trustworthy.
Please note: this is not an official fraternity connected to a national organization.
Want to learn how radio works? Want to get your own certification to talk on your own frequencies? Want to learn to build and set up antennas?
Members of the club will work with amateur radio equipment, make contact on-the-air, and build antennas to contact other people on different frequencies over ham radio.
Club Head Information
Eamonn Nugent , en4614@bard.edu 646-872-6849 Type(s): Special Interest/Other
Bard Barbers is a club for students that have an interest in learning how to cut hair. We hope to have certified barbers come to campus and offer workshops on specific haircuts and techniques. The club will also focus on sharing knowledge among it's own members. This club will act to create and facilitate barber shop culture on campus by bringing a laid back atmosphere to the Bard environment. Our mission is to bring affordable and accessible haircuts to the campus.
In the years prior to 1990, Bard Emergency Medical Services consisted of Andy Malloy. Andy was a Bard student from Maine who was certified as an EMT in high school and joined Red Hook EMS when he came to Bard. He conveniently lived in a dorm next to Bard Security, who would drag Andy to all of their calls, willing, unwilling, or sleeping.
Bard EMS began to coalesce in the fall of 1989, when Andy Malloy and Matt Becker, both Bard students, arranged for an instructor to teach a first responder class during the fall of 1990. David Ames, who arrived as a freshman to Bard certified as a paramedic, helped organize a cohesive squad. They took over a storage room in the basement of Albey and used it as a makeshift office.
The new EMS squad started off with only basic equipment: a few hard plastic jump boxes and decent radios.
When Andy, Matt, and David graduated, a number of dedicated students picked up the slack and continued to organize and refine Bard EMS.
Today, the squad is entirely student funded and run. Bard EMS receives its semesterly budget from the Bard Convocation Fund, as decided by the Bard student population and the Fiscal Committee.
Bard College Emergency Medical Services (BEMS) is a Certified First Responder unit which responds to any accident or medical emergency in Annandale-on-Hudson, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, during the spring and fall semesters. Within the above parameters, BEMS will render aid to anyone who requests it.
The Duties of BEMS are threefold:
To stabilize and package critical, unstable, or potentially unstable patients (as defined by New York State BLS Protocols [see 3.A]) for transport by ambulance.
To render emergency aid to stable patients (as defined by New York State BLS Protocols [see 3.A]) who need prompt hospital care, and arrange transport to an appropriate care facility.
To render minor interim aid to patients who refuse transport during the hours when Bard Student Health Services is closed.
The Bard Wellness Club, in affiliation with Peer Health, will serve to provide Bard students with wellness-oriented events for bettering mental and physical health. These events will promote healthy living with everything from lectures by experts in nutrition, meditation, and psychology, to outdoor events, smoothies, s'mores,and self-care workshops. We also will be having therapy dogs (so keep a lookout for our emails). We are a group focused on growing as individuals but with community support. :)
Club Head Information
Grace Carter , Gc4291@bard.edu 347-962-9588 Type(s): Special Interest/Other
The goal of this club will be to train your skills in data analytics. Our focus will be analyzing baseball data. Through the use of the computer software R, we will analyze data from a few different perspectives. Another goal will be to understand what kind of technology is being used in sports and learn the best way to analyze the data that comes along with the new tech.
Brothers at Bard is both an outreach TLS program focused on the mentorship and character development of young men of color from underserved backgrounds and
communities, as well as an oncampus club devoted to spreading awareness on racial
issues and positively impacting campus life for all Bard students. Our TLS program targets high school boys of color from Kingston, New York. The project is made up by active members of the BAB Club members on campus. The members on campus play the role of “big brothers,” or mentors to the young men in high school. As a collective, we travel to the schools these students attend and run workshops for them. The project promotes academic excellence and college readiness through exposure to Bard’s campus, student body, and events coordinated for the cohort. BAB also helps its members on campus deal with any issues they might have by providing a support network. The objective is to create a safe space and brotherhood circle amongst the students that will serve as a cultivating atmosphere for character and identity development. On campus as a club, BAB aims to not only inform the rest of the student body and raise awareness about the issues men of color face, but also organize events for all of campus life to enjoy and engage in. These events range from informative movie screenings, to parties and other recreational activities.
Club Head Information
Michael Barriteau , mb1525@bard.edu Jeremias Brea De Los Angeles , jb8040@bard.edu 518-334-4072 Type(s): Special Interest/Other
Campus Curlz, Inc. is a national collegiate natural hair and service-based organization who
aims to enhance, educate, and uplift individuals on campus and in the community through educational
support and community service.
Club Head Information
Sakinah Bennett , sb2755@bard.edu 470-385-9869 Type(s): Special Interest/Other
CEAP is currently a TLS project, but we want to expand our mission to the campus! We practice expressive arts together with professional facilitators then use the skills we've learned to volunteer off campus. Our main goal is to create an inclusive and empowering environment for people to openly create and connect with one another. We want to create a genuine space for voicing expression while supporting the experiential nature of Expressive Arts.
Club Head Information
Alexis Maresca , am1339@bard.edu 203-610-5225 Miranda Sanborn , ms3547@bard.edu 510-316-6911 Type(s): Special Interest/Other
Do you love comic books? Are you interested, but find that first step too daunting? Whether you're a seasoned True Believer or just starting out, this club is here for you. We discuss and appreciate all kinds of comics, from superhero comics to indie comics to experimental graphic novels. We hope to start supplying weekly comics to read, and possibly even go to film screenings or events at local comic book shops.
New year, new focus. More emphasis on other topics in finance. We host stock picking competition with prizes. Field trips to networking events and conferences. Range of experience.
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The purpose of Bard College Investment Club is to establish a sustainable club that continues to provide something of value to Bard students/alumni interested in finance and to provide students with little knowledge an opportunity to learn through coached practice.
This semester, Bard College Investment Club is attempting a more streamlined approach. One structural innovation we’ve introduced is how the CEO is rotated monthly giving every officer an opportunity to experiment with different leadership styles. Our goal is to nurture a club that will continue our legacy at Bard after we graduate.
Members in the club create and collaboratively work on new ideas and projects. Projects can be designed to help students on campus or to be used in social outreach work. They can also be based on pure curiosity.
Club Head Information
Vishrut Tiwari , vt7433@bard.edu 845-663-6189 Type(s): Special Interest/Other
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) at Bard
NAMI at Bard empowers students to speak openly about mental health in order to educate others and encourage help-seeking. We aim to decrease stigmas surrounding mental health on campus and in our communities through educational events, advocacy work, and thought provoking discussions.
Not Just Dungeons and Dragons is Bard's hub for all manner of role playing games. Through ongoing drop-in campaigns, special events and a sizable lending library of sourcebooks, the club aims to foster a sense of community among Bard's players of RPGs, and to provide opportunities and resources which would otherwise be unavailable.
It will a club housed in Root Cellar. Where we read newspaper extracts, articles, experts from different political thinkers and things that are happening around the world. Also important for the spirit of o openness we want to foster, as it also will be international current events will be to hear different political opinions from opposing sides, and views. And read everything from Marxism and Neo-liberal thinkers. Also to educate about, current events happening Internationally not broadcasted on american radio, like what is happening in Europe, or Asia or any other place in the world.
Also there will be food, sometimes of coffee for entertainment and making discussions easier.
This is a student-run social-pre health club on campus. The club is designed to bring together social events and public health issues through community-building events, field trips, and invited speakers/seminars.
Another club goal is to educate ourselves and explore the lesser known medical careers and programs. We also aim to provide support for students for post-graduation, such as grad-school interview prep, entrance exam study guides (MCAT), and application review.
Teaching Kitchen designs cooking events that celebrate culture, community, and, of course, food. Events are held all around Bard’s campus, from Kline to Montgomery Place to Graystone Cottage, and are open to both students and the general public. We facilitate in-dorm cooking classes, rent out cooking equipment, and bring in chefs and food lovers from outside of Bard to share lessons about how sustainability, social justice, and science (among other topics) relate to food. Club members are both learners and teachers. Each person brings something to the table!
Magic The Gathering is one of the most popular trading card games in the world appreciated by its complexity, amazing art, and demand for dexterity. The game is navigated around creativity, luck, and strategy. The club is dedicated to creating a both friendly and competitive environment where both experienced and inexperienced players can enjoy and learn the game freely. We are looking forward to provide pre-made decks for new players as well as teach people how to play, find and purchase good cards, and build a deck, host several Magic events for people to enjoy.
We are a collective that focuses on self-care, wellness, holistic health care for body-mind-spirit-emotion and soul all equally considered, herbal medicine, earth based skills, intersectionality of our diverse rich backgrounds, connecting to land and place, aligning with the seasonal and cosmic flow of everything, ancestral remembrance, dream working, mysticism, ritual, magic, community gathering, circling up to honor life, each other, and more! We are a web that includes many projects woven together for the same ends. We run a student organized herbal apothecary project that supplies loose herbs for tea, some simple tinctures, syrups, balms and more for the community members who participate in the collective in some form or organize a trade or donation based exchange for our efforts so we can continue to sustainably do all the work we put forth. We are also in the midst of proposing the building of a Wellness Center on campus -