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Dean Aldebot Open HoursMonday, April 1, 2024Kappa House |
Disability Access Services (DAS) and Title IX & Non-Discrimination Drop-In SessionTuesday, April 2, 2024Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI) |
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MABU Weekly MeetingMen of Color at Bard UnitedThursday, April 4, 2024Olin Humanities, Room 202 |
Neurodivergent GroupFriday, April 5, 2024Olin Hall |
“Once and still upon this land (For Montgomery Place)”: A Poetry Reading with Bonney HartleyPart of “Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition”Saturday, April 6, 2024Montgomery Place Estate |
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Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography ExhibitionSaturday, April 6, 2024 – Sunday, April 7, 2024Montgomery Place Estate |
Dean Aldebot Open HoursMonday, April 8, 2024Kappa House |
Disability Access Services (DAS) and Title IX & Non-Discrimination Drop-In SessionTuesday, April 9, 2024Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI) |
Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography ExhibitionWednesday, April 10, 2024 – Friday, April 12, 2024Montgomery Place Estate |
MABU Weekly MeetingMen of Color at Bard UnitedThursday, April 11, 2024Olin Humanities, Room 202 |
Neurodivergent GroupFriday, April 12, 2024Olin Hall |
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Dean Aldebot Open HoursMonday, April 15, 2024Kappa House |
Disability Access Services (DAS) and Title IX & Non-Discrimination Drop-In SessionTuesday, April 16, 2024Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI) |
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MABU Weekly MeetingMen of Color at Bard UnitedThursday, April 18, 2024Olin Humanities, Room 202 |
Neurodivergent GroupFriday, April 19, 2024Olin Hall |
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Trans SwimSunday, April 21, 2024Stevenson Athletic Center, Pool |
Dean Aldebot Open HoursMonday, April 22, 2024Kappa House |
Disability Access Services (DAS) and Title IX & Non-Discrimination Drop-In SessionTuesday, April 23, 2024Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI) |
Exploring Indigenous Arts: Indigenous Cooking Workshop and Conversation with Lucille GrignonWednesday, April 24, 2024Montgomery Place Estate |
MABU Weekly MeetingMen of Color at Bard UnitedThursday, April 25, 2024Olin Humanities, Room 202 |
Neurodivergent GroupFriday, April 26, 2024Olin Hall |
Multicultural Community BrunchSaturday, April 27, 2024Campus Center, Multipurpose Room |
Bard Community Arts Collective PresentsHudson Valley Youth Jazz OrchestraSunday, April 28, 2024Olin Hall |
Dean Aldebot Open HoursMonday, April 29, 2024Kappa House |
Disability Access Services (DAS) and Title IX & Non-Discrimination Drop-In SessionTuesday, April 30, 2024Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI) |
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Monday, April 1, 2024
Kappa House
Dean Aldebot will be available at Kappa House Room 102 every Monday from 1–3 pm. Come connect! If these hours don't work for you, email [email protected] to schedule a meeting.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 1, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Join us!
About the CSA
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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 1, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 1, 2024
Join us for an interactive Climate Week Event that asks audience members to reenact transcripts of local government meetings as a way to understand and intervene in structures of power and democracy. Dinner by BardEats, performance by you.Sponsored by: Bard Farm; Bard Graduate Programs; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center; Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI)
Drop-in session for questions and concerns regarding DAS/Title IX.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Room 402
A structured, quiet study space opened to all students presented by Disability Access Services!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202
This meeting will go over Union goals and issues. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202
MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Olin Language Center, Room 118
Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Gilson Place
Join us for a trivia night!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Olin Hall
Two hour Friday group meeting and activity session to support our neurodiverse students.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 5, 2024
Barringer House
Safe space for men of color on campus. Biweekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Blithewood
Affinity Weekend begins with Thee Cosmopolitan Zodiac Gala! Come dressed in your astrological best (formal wear) to this event kick-starting of a week of communal celebration! Located at the illustrious Blithewood Manor, we hope you join us for this honorary night and moment of campus camaraderie.
Unfortunately, Blithewood Manor as a venue can only sustain a total of 60 attendees, thus it is important that you RSVP as soon as you can. Once the limit has been reached, the form will close. If you come without RSVPing, you will be turned away at the door!
All reserved attendees will receive an email confirmation, along with personal invitations placed in their respective mailbox. Information regarding gala attire will be in the invitations.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 5, 2024
SMOG
Mina, Arisleida, and Kay: DJ set of garage, house, jungle, and techno!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Campus Center, Lawn
Join QPOC and the Affinity Clubs for a field day on the quad!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate
Bonney Hartley is a ’25 MFA-Creative Writing candidate at Institute of American Indian Arts and holds an MSocSci in International Relations from University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is an enrolled member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community and serves as a Tribal repatriation specialist. She is a founding member of Mohican Writers Circle and has forthcoming work in the Boundless exhibit catalogue (Smith College Mead Museum), The Last Milkweed (Tupelo Press), and North Berkshire Landscapes: A Celebration (Tupelo Press &Williamstown Rural Lands). Bonney lives within Mohican homelands in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Artist’s Statement:
My piece is offered to foreground and activate Returning Home with an archaeological reflection through layers of home, the land, inhabitation, removal, memory, and continuance.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6th & 7th, 1:00-5:00pm (timed entry every 15 minutes - register here)
April 10-12th, 1:30-4:00pm
Schedule of Events:
April 6th, 1:30pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (reservation required, doors open at 1:00pm)
April 6th, 4:00pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite
April 7th, 3:00pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the webinar here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
Saturday, April 6, 2024 – Sunday, April 7, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate
Register for Timed Entry
Returning Home is the first small scale contemporary Native photography exhibition to take place in the Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College. The exhibition addresses long standing Indigenous child removal policies and practices of Canada and the United States, whose governments strategically implemented the kidnapping of Native children to be sent to Indian boarding schools during the 19th and 20th centuries to sever familial ties and dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and lifeways. By introducing the history of the United States’ settler colonial past and ongoing present alongside the works of four contemporary Native photographers—Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke(Crow))—and poet Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee), this exhibition provides narratives of resistance, resilience, dissent, subversion, memorialization, and what Anishinabe writer Gerald Vizenor calls “survivance,” that disrupt historic and contemporary notions that Native peoples are helpless victims who are unfit to raise their own children – often infantilized by a paternalistic US government through colonial welfare practices. This exhibition is an intervention in a house museum whose history is intertwined with the forced removal of the Mohican peoples in early colonial New York.
Returning Home aims to highlight Indigenous representation, narrative, survivance, futurism, and resilience through contemporary Native art. The show will include pieces from the Forge Project's collection, as well as a written commission from Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Candidate Bonney Hartley. An accompanying publication will provide in-depth contextualization of land dispossession in the US, forced removal of Native peoples in New York State, and the impact of Indian boarding schools.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6th, 2:00-3:30pm (timed entry every 15 mins - register here)
April 7th, 1:00-5:00pm (timed entry every 15 mins - register here)
April 10-12th, 1:30-4:00pm (timed entry every 15 mins - register here)
Schedule of Events:
April 6th, 1:30pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (reservation required, doors open at 1:00pm)
April 6th, 4:00pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite - registration required
April 7th, 3:00pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the webinar here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.
Sponsored by Hudson Valley Greenway and the Mellon Foundation, as a part of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate
Sponsored by Hudson Valley Greenway and the Mellon Foundation, as a part of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6th & 7th, 1:00-5:00pm (timed entry every 15 minutes - register here)
April 10-12th, 1:30-4:00pm
Schedule of Events:
April 6th, 1:30pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (doors open at 1pm - registration required)
April 6th, 4:00pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite - registration required
April 7th, 3:00pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the zoom talk here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.
Returning Home is the first small scale contemporary Native photography exhibition to take place in the Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College. The exhibition addresses long standing Indigenous child removal policies and practices of Canada and the United States, whose governments strategically implemented the kidnapping of Native children to be sent to Indian boarding schools during the 19th and 20th centuries to sever familial ties and dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and lifeways. By introducing the history of the United States’ settler colonial past and ongoing present alongside the works of four contemporary Native photographers—Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke(Crow))—and poet Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee), this exhibition provides narratives of resistance, resilience, dissent, subversion, memorialization, and what Anishinabe writer Gerald Vizenor calls “survivance,” that disrupt historic and contemporary notions that Native peoples are helpless victims who are unfit to raise their own children – often infantilized by a paternalistic US government through colonial welfare practices. This exhibition is an intervention in a house museum whose history is intertwined with the forced removal of the Mohican peoples in early colonial New York.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 860-992-6472, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
Lost in the jungle, danger lurks in every area. Can you withstand the fury of the jungle or will you be EATEN ALIVE...
AFROPULSE x BSO x QPOC invites you to the Spring Equinox Ball 2024...
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 6, 2024 – Sunday, April 7, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate
Register for Timed Entry
Returning Home is the first small scale contemporary Native photography exhibition to take place in the Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College. The exhibition addresses long standing Indigenous child removal policies and practices of Canada and the United States, whose governments strategically implemented the kidnapping of Native children to be sent to Indian boarding schools during the 19th and 20th centuries to sever familial ties and dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and lifeways. By introducing the history of the United States’ settler colonial past and ongoing present alongside the works of four contemporary Native photographers—Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke(Crow))—and poet Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee), this exhibition provides narratives of resistance, resilience, dissent, subversion, memorialization, and what Anishinabe writer Gerald Vizenor calls “survivance,” that disrupt historic and contemporary notions that Native peoples are helpless victims who are unfit to raise their own children – often infantilized by a paternalistic US government through colonial welfare practices. This exhibition is an intervention in a house museum whose history is intertwined with the forced removal of the Mohican peoples in early colonial New York.
Returning Home aims to highlight Indigenous representation, narrative, survivance, futurism, and resilience through contemporary Native art. The show will include pieces from the Forge Project's collection, as well as a written commission from Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Candidate Bonney Hartley. An accompanying publication will provide in-depth contextualization of land dispossession in the US, forced removal of Native peoples in New York State, and the impact of Indian boarding schools.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6th, 2:00-3:30pm (timed entry every 15 mins - register here)
April 7th, 1:00-5:00pm (timed entry every 15 mins - register here)
April 10-12th, 1:30-4:00pm (timed entry every 15 mins - register here)
Schedule of Events:
April 6th, 1:30pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (reservation required, doors open at 1:00pm)
April 6th, 4:00pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite - registration required
April 7th, 3:00pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the webinar here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.
Sponsored by Hudson Valley Greenway and the Mellon Foundation, as a part of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Gilson Place
Celebrate with BSO, AfroPulse, and QPOC, bringing together the broader Bard community!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Gilson Place
Come plant and paint pots with us at Gilsion to welcome spring! You're welcome to take home your painted pot and plant with you. Homemade Thai boba provided!!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Online Event
Sponsored by Hudson Valley Greenway and the Mellon Foundation, as a part of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.
This event will be via Zoom, with viewing available at the Montgomery Place visitor's center. Register for the Zoom talk here.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6 & 7, 1:00-5:00 pm (timed entry every half hour—register here)
April 10–12, 1:30–4:00 pm
Schedule of Events:
April 6, 1:30 pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (doors open at 1pm - registration required)
April 6, 4:00 pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite - registration required
April 7, 3:00 pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the zoom talk here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.
Returning Home is the first small scale contemporary Native photography exhibition to take place in the Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College. The exhibition addresses long standing Indigenous child removal policies and practices of Canada and the United States, whose governments strategically implemented the kidnapping of Native children to be sent to Indian boarding schools during the 19th and 20th centuries to sever familial ties and dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and lifeways. By introducing the history of the United States’ settler colonial past and ongoing present alongside the works of four contemporary Native photographers—Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke(Crow))—and poet Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee), this exhibition provides narratives of resistance, resilience, dissent, subversion, memorialization, and what Anishinabe writer Gerald Vizenor calls “survivance,” that disrupt historic and contemporary notions that Native peoples are helpless victims who are unfit to raise their own children – often infantilized by a paternalistic US government through colonial welfare practices. This exhibition is an intervention in a house museum whose history is intertwined with the forced removal of the Mohican peoples in early colonial New York.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
Monday, April 8, 2024
Kappa House
Dean Aldebot will be available at Kappa House Room 102 every Monday from 1–3 pm. Come connect! If these hours don't work for you, email [email protected] to schedule a meeting.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 8, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI)
Drop-in session for questions and concerns regarding DAS/Title IX.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Room 402
A structured, quiet study space opened to all students presented by Disability Access Services!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Olin Auditorium
This lecture on the term “Genocide” is part of the Spring 2024 common course Keywords for Our Times: Understanding Israel/Palestine and will be open to the Bard College community as a whole. The course critically explores the ongoing conflict in Israel/Palestine with a focus on contemporary Gaza, and the vocabularies we use to understand it. The course brings scholars from a range of disciplines together to help students understand the histories of and contestations around important concepts and ideas that define our contemporary moment, and to stimulate informed dialogue within our community. Presenting the lecture on the term "genocide" to the course and the wider campus community will be Omer Bartov, the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.
Omer Bartov's early research concerned the crimes of the German Wehrmacht, the links between total war and genocide, and representation of antisemitism in twentieth-century cinema. More recently, he has focused on interethnic relations and violence in Eastern Europe, population displacement in Europe and Palestine, and the first generation of Jews and Palestinians in Israel. His books include Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past (2022), and Genocide, The Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis (2023). Bartov is currently writing a book tentatively titled The Broken Promise: A Personal-Political History of Israel and Palestine. His novel, The Butterfly and the Axe, was published this year in the United States and Israel.
This event is cosponsored by the Politics Program, the Middle Eastern Studies Program, the Global and International Studies Program, the Human Rights Program, and the Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 – Friday, April 12, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate
Register for timed entry here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/865614204387?aff=oddtdtcreator
Returning Home is the first small scale contemporary Native photography exhibition to take place in the Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College. The exhibition addresses long standing Indigenous child removal policies and practices of Canada and the United States, whose governments strategically implemented the kidnapping of Native children to be sent to Indian boarding schools during the 19th and 20th centuries to sever familial ties and dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and lifeways. By introducing the history of the United States’ settler colonial past and ongoing present alongside the works of four contemporary Native photographers—Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke(Crow))—and poet Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee), this exhibition provides narratives of resistance, resilience, dissent, subversion, memorialization, and what Anishinabe writer Gerald Vizenor calls “survivance,” that disrupt historic and contemporary notions that Native peoples are helpless victims who are unfit to raise their own children – often infantilized by a paternalistic US government through colonial welfare practices. This exhibition is an intervention in a house museum whose history is intertwined with the forced removal of the Mohican peoples in early colonial New York.
Returning Home aims to highlight Indigenous representation, narrative, survivance, futurism, and resilience through contemporary Native art. The show will include pieces from the Forge Project's collection, as well as a written commission from Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Candidate Bonney Hartley. An accompanying publication will provide in-depth contextualization of land dispossession in the US, forced removal of Native peoples in New York State, and the impact of Indian boarding schools.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6th & 7th, 1:00-5:00pm (timed entry every 15 minutes- register here)
April 10-12th, 1:30-4:00pm
Schedule of Events:
April 6th, 1:30pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (reservation required, doors open at 1:00pm)
April 6th, 4:00pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite - registration required
April 7th, 3:00pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the webinar here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.
Sponsored by Hudson Valley Greenway and the Mellon Foundation, as a part of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202
MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Olin Language Center, Room 118
Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 – Friday, April 12, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate
Register for timed entry here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/865614204387?aff=oddtdtcreator
Returning Home is the first small scale contemporary Native photography exhibition to take place in the Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College. The exhibition addresses long standing Indigenous child removal policies and practices of Canada and the United States, whose governments strategically implemented the kidnapping of Native children to be sent to Indian boarding schools during the 19th and 20th centuries to sever familial ties and dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and lifeways. By introducing the history of the United States’ settler colonial past and ongoing present alongside the works of four contemporary Native photographers—Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke(Crow))—and poet Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee), this exhibition provides narratives of resistance, resilience, dissent, subversion, memorialization, and what Anishinabe writer Gerald Vizenor calls “survivance,” that disrupt historic and contemporary notions that Native peoples are helpless victims who are unfit to raise their own children – often infantilized by a paternalistic US government through colonial welfare practices. This exhibition is an intervention in a house museum whose history is intertwined with the forced removal of the Mohican peoples in early colonial New York.
Returning Home aims to highlight Indigenous representation, narrative, survivance, futurism, and resilience through contemporary Native art. The show will include pieces from the Forge Project's collection, as well as a written commission from Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Candidate Bonney Hartley. An accompanying publication will provide in-depth contextualization of land dispossession in the US, forced removal of Native peoples in New York State, and the impact of Indian boarding schools.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6th & 7th, 1:00-5:00pm (timed entry every 15 minutes- register here)
April 10-12th, 1:30-4:00pm
Schedule of Events:
April 6th, 1:30pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (reservation required, doors open at 1:00pm)
April 6th, 4:00pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite - registration required
April 7th, 3:00pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the webinar here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.
Sponsored by Hudson Valley Greenway and the Mellon Foundation, as a part of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Bito
Please join American and Indigenous Studies and the Center for Indigenous Studies for a workshop with our guest composers and performers Raven Chacon, Marshall Trammell, and John Dieterich. Their group, White People Killed Them, is one of several imaginings of new designations, calamities, and celebrations. We encourage surprise inventions and innovations towards erecting, maintaining, and defending democratic spaces (beyond the limits of the band stand) in your community with other frontline warriors.
White People Killed Them will perform on Friday, April 12, at 7 pm in CCS Classroom 102.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Olin Auditorium
Scholars have been concerned either to criticize or to praise Morrison’s sparing inclusion of Native Americans in her novels. Are they beneath her notice? Or have they gone unnoticed by us? Following Morrison’s own methods in arguing that the “real or fabricated” “Africanist presence” in white American literature is crucial to writers’ “sense of Americanness,” we might pursue how the “Native American presence” works in her literature not only in historical and political terms, but also in aesthetic and cultural terms. This talk considers how, across her oeuvre and career, the Native American figure—meaning literary character; racial type; literary trope; and silhouette or profile—shapes her “sense of blackness.”
A reception catered by Samosa Shack Kingston to follow talk beginning at 4:30pm.
This event is the 2024 lecture of the Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Toni Morrison lecture series.Sponsored by: Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/namwali-serpell/.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
This club will be started to create representation for Indigenous students that are a part of Bard’s campus. Cultural representation has been taken away from us, and the spark of cultural appropriation hides the truth of who we are and what our traditions are. Bard has many organizations for other students of color on campus, each having their own unique identity. I want to give a place where there is representation for specifically Indigenous students on campus. This association is not only made for students with Native blood, but for those who want to help us break the generations worth of misinformation, to become educated, hopefully getting inspired to educate the rest of the Bard community. People not only should know the true history, but the culture of different Indigenous peoples. I want to give students confidence, to not be ashamed of their heritage, but instead, be proud of it.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Come learn how to make dreamcatchers with the ISA members!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Olin Hall
Two hour Friday group meeting and activity session to support our neurodiverse students.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 – Friday, April 12, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate
Register for timed entry here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/865614204387?aff=oddtdtcreator
Returning Home is the first small scale contemporary Native photography exhibition to take place in the Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College. The exhibition addresses long standing Indigenous child removal policies and practices of Canada and the United States, whose governments strategically implemented the kidnapping of Native children to be sent to Indian boarding schools during the 19th and 20th centuries to sever familial ties and dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and lifeways. By introducing the history of the United States’ settler colonial past and ongoing present alongside the works of four contemporary Native photographers—Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke(Crow))—and poet Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee), this exhibition provides narratives of resistance, resilience, dissent, subversion, memorialization, and what Anishinabe writer Gerald Vizenor calls “survivance,” that disrupt historic and contemporary notions that Native peoples are helpless victims who are unfit to raise their own children – often infantilized by a paternalistic US government through colonial welfare practices. This exhibition is an intervention in a house museum whose history is intertwined with the forced removal of the Mohican peoples in early colonial New York.
Returning Home aims to highlight Indigenous representation, narrative, survivance, futurism, and resilience through contemporary Native art. The show will include pieces from the Forge Project's collection, as well as a written commission from Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Candidate Bonney Hartley. An accompanying publication will provide in-depth contextualization of land dispossession in the US, forced removal of Native peoples in New York State, and the impact of Indian boarding schools.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6th & 7th, 1:00-5:00pm (timed entry every 15 minutes- register here)
April 10-12th, 1:30-4:00pm
Schedule of Events:
April 6th, 1:30pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (reservation required, doors open at 1:00pm)
April 6th, 4:00pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite - registration required
April 7th, 3:00pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the webinar here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.
Sponsored by Hudson Valley Greenway and the Mellon Foundation, as a part of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
Friday, April 12, 2024
CCS Classroom 102
White People Killed Them is one of several imaginings of new designations, calamities, and celebrations by group members recorded in 2019 when we all happened to be in New Mexico. We encourage surprise inventions and innovations towards erecting, maintaining, and the defending of democratic spaces (beyond the limits of the band stand) in your community with other front line warriors. The name of the band is a group of words commonly paraphrased on many monuments across the United States.
CCS Classroom 102, April 12th, 7:00pm. Doors open at 6:30.
Limited entry is available on a first-come first-served basis, please arrive early.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 12, 2024
Manor Parlor
Party collab with Bell inspired by Rauw Alejandro's album!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Kappa House
Dean Aldebot will be available at Kappa House Room 102 every Monday from 1–3 pm. Come connect! If these hours don't work for you, email [email protected] to schedule a meeting.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 15, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Join us!
About the CSA
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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI)
Drop-in session for questions and concerns regarding DAS/Title IX.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Room 402
A structured, quiet study space opened to all students presented by Disability Access Services!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Kappa House
Join us to decorate your own pot, grow your own plant, and other DIY activities while enjoying some snacks!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202
MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Olin Language Center, Room 118
Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Vassar College
The ALANA Center at Vassar College is organizing heritage month celebration that CASO members are attending to showcase the beauty of central Asian culture.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
The Walkway Outside of the Campus Center AND George Ball Lou
Join us for our spring SmorgasBard event! We will have a spring roll making station, flower making craft station, lemonade stand, and more. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 19, 2024
Olin Hall
Two hour Friday group meeting and activity session to support our neurodiverse students.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 19, 2024
Kappa House
The PI team will be preparing mocktails that will inspire you to create different pieces of art. Come by for some paintings and activities!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Barringer House
Safe space for men of color on campus. Biweekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Anna Jones Memorial Meditation Garden; in case of rain George Ball Lounge
Come have some free Three Sisters soup and frybread! Enjoy some ceremonial songs and traditional Native American teachings!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Gilson Place
No Homework Zone, where there will be empanadas, jewelry making, and crafting!!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Stevenson Athletic Center, Pool
The Stevenson Athletics Center Pool is reserved exclusively for trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people to use for two hours. No reservation is required. If desired, there is a gender neutral changing room and shower on the ground floor of the gym.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Kappa House
We will be catering homemade Cuban foods to celebrate and highlight Cuban Culture.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Kline Commons
The ISO will be hosting its annual international food fair on April 21. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 22, 2024
Kappa House
Dean Aldebot will be available at Kappa House Room 102 every Monday from 1–3 pm. Come connect! If these hours don't work for you, email [email protected] to schedule a meeting.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 22, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Kappa House
Come have some snowcones at Kappa house!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate
Learn the basics of Nahuatl (Mexican Indigenous language) through the traditional Mexican game of loteria, a game of bingo using Nahuatl words with images.
Luis Chavez is a current postdoctoral fellow at Bard College, whose research and teaching interests include ethnic studies, music and sound studies, border studies, Chicanx studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, gender and sexuality, and performance studies. He comes to Bard from California State University School of Music, where he taught courses in music history and literature, world music, and Latin American music. He has also served as lecturer in the Department of American Indian Studies, College of Ethnic Studies, at San Francisco State University.
Join us at Bard College Montgomery Place Campus for unique opportunities to explore regional and indigenous identity through history, art, education, agriculture, foodways, and placemaking as part of the 2024 Being Human Festival sponsored by the National Humanities Center.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI)
Drop-in session for questions and concerns regarding DAS/Title IX.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Room 402
A structured, quiet study space opened to all students presented by Disability Access Services!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate
Lucille Grignon is a homesteader at Ancient Roots Homestead, which is located on the Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation. She has transitioned from teaching in a modern colonial classroom into working as an educator of Ancient Indigenous skills, ideas, and traditions guided by the ways of her ancestors.
Join us at Bard College Montgomery Place Campus for unique opportunities to explore regional and indigenous identity through history, art, education, agriculture, foodways, and placemaking as part of the 2024 Being Human Festival sponsored by the National Humanties Center.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202
MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Olin Language Center, Room 118
Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate
Dr. Beth Piatote (Nez Perce enrolled Colville) is associate professor of English and comparative literature and director of the Arts Research Center at the University of California Berkeley.
Join us at Bard College Montgomery Place Campus for unique opportunities to explore regional and indigenous identity through history, art, education, agriculture, foodways, and placemaking as part of the 2024 Being Human Festival sponsored by the National Humanities Center.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Weis Cinema
The timeless and profound themes expressed in Antigone, the great tragedy by Sophocles, has made it one of the most adapted plays in theater, speaking to political and ethical problems around the world. In my talk, I will describe my own engagement with the play in my revision, Antikoni, which centers a Nez Perce-Cayuse family debating the fate of ancestral remains, family loyalty, and what it means to live between spiritual law and the law of the State. I will explore the ways in which the play is an adaptation, but is also about adaptation--about Native people struggling to adapt and find a way through systems that are hostile to them, and the price that is paid along the way.Sponsored by: Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Blithewood Manor
Scenes from Antíkoni
Performed by Kahelelani Mahone and Ciko Sidzumo
Contextualization by Beth Piatote, Julie Burelle, and Laurie Arnold
Codirected by Jack Ferver, assistant professor of theater and performance, and Brandi Norton, curator of public programs at Bard Center for Indigenous StudiesSponsored by: Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Blithewood Manor
It is invaluable to Tribal citizens to welcome home lost or looted family heirlooms as part of collective cultural heritage. Bonney Hartley, repatriation representative for Stockbridge-Munsee Community, will share insights from the community’s repatriation efforts in the region and highlight ways that the Tribal Historic Preservation Program has approached matters of possession and belonging in claiming items under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The presentation will also offer recent insights and opportunities in light of the new NAGPRA regulations that took effect in January.Sponsored by: Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
This club will be started to create representation for Indigenous students that are a part of Bard’s campus. Cultural representation has been taken away from us, and the spark of cultural appropriation hides the truth of who we are and what our traditions are. Bard has many organizations for other students of color on campus, each having their own unique identity. I want to give a place where there is representation for specifically Indigenous students on campus. This association is not only made for students with Native blood, but for those who want to help us break the generations worth of misinformation, to become educated, hopefully getting inspired to educate the rest of the Bard community. People not only should know the true history, but the culture of different Indigenous peoples. I want to give students confidence, to not be ashamed of their heritage, but instead, be proud of it.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Olin Hall
Two hour Friday group meeting and activity session to support our neurodiverse students.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 26, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate
Join us for a community Indigo Dip Dye workshop using locally sourced natural dye materials. Attendees will dye materials that they can take home while gaining a deeper understanding of these Indigenous historical practices and uses of the dyed goods.
Join us at Bard College Montgomery Place Campus for unique opportunities to explore regional and indigenous identity through history, art, education, agriculture, foodways, and placemaking as part of the 2024 Being Human Festival sponsored by the National Humanities Center.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 26, 2024
Gilson Place
We will be serving food from different Latin countries with music and games!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Bito ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center 103
Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf is a Hiraacá (Hidatsa), Nu’eta (Mandan), and Sosore (Eastern Shoshone) mother, language and culture activist, curator, artist, and writer. She is a member of the Ih-dhi-shu-gah (Wide Ridge) Clan and is a child of the Ah-puh-gah-whi-gah (Low Cap) Clan, with close relations to her Apsáalooke (Crow) families. Her cultures, languages, and education in the arts, collection management, and language revitalization are integral to her journey beyond the impacts of being a fourth-generation Indian boarding school survivor. At the University of Oklahoma, she received her MA in Native American Studies focused on the Shoshonean Language Reunions and the cultural survivance of her Newe, Numu, and Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche) relations. Her PhD in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology focused on the impacts of colonization on intergenerational knowledge transmission, and cultural and language vitality. She continues to expand upon this research and connections made through her dissertation titled, Pursuing an Understanding of Relationship Making within Language Revitalization: Conversations with Indigenous Language Activists.
Dr. Young Wolf is a recipient of the Cobell Scholarship, the Plains Anthropological Society Native American Student Research Award, the University of Oklahoma Social Sciences Graduate Student Research Award, and is a member of the United Nations Global Indigenous Languages Caucus. She is a founding member alongside her elders who created the MHA Nation Language Department and the MHA Interpretive Center. In 2021, Dr. Young Wolf was selected to be the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral fellow in Native American Art and Curation and a Presidential Visiting fellow at Yale University. She is currently the inaugural Native North American Collection Manager and Assistant Curator of Native American Arts, a duel appointment at the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Peabody Museum. Dr. Young Wolf continues to prioritize Indigenous language and culture revitalization throughout her curatorial and collection management work which centers on culturally responsive care, decolonization, rematriation, survivance, and relationship (re)making.Sponsored by: Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
This annual event, hosted by the Institute for International Liberal Education (IILE) in partnership with a multitude of Bard community organizations and departments, provides a space for people to learn about different cultures and connect with others who share their interests and values while enjoying food from around the world.
We encourage anyone who would like to wear clothing representing their culture for this event.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Dean of Graduate Studies; Dean of Student Affairs; Dean of the College; Health, Counseling, and Wellness; International Student and Scholar Services; Office of International Student and Scholar Services; Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Come join us, the Asian Student Organization, for a pan-Asian event with performances, food, and more!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Saturday, April 27, 2024
SMOG
ASO Afterparty at SMOG. Come unwind and dance the night away to music from all around the globe!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Olin Hall
Director Dan Shaut with Roland Vazquez Band
Featuring Tristen Napoli (tpt), Nathan Childers (sax), Jessica Jones (sax), Dan Shaut (sax), Elliott Steele (pno), Nick Edwards (bss), Pito Castillo (cga), and Roland Vazquez (dms).
Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month! Special Thanks to Local A.F.M. 238-291, La Voz, Radio Kingston, and Bridge Arts & Education for their generous support.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 29, 2024
Kappa House
Dean Aldebot will be available at Kappa House Room 102 every Monday from 1–3 pm. Come connect! If these hours don't work for you, email [email protected] to schedule a meeting.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 29, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 29, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Join us!
About the CSA
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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI)
Drop-in session for questions and concerns regarding DAS/Title IX.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Room 402
A structured, quiet study space opened to all students presented by Disability Access Services!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Dean Aldebot Open Hours
Monday, April 1, 2024
1–3 pm
Kappa HouseDean Aldebot will be available at Kappa House Room 102 every Monday from 1–3 pm. Come connect! If these hours don't work for you, email [email protected] to schedule a meeting.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CSA Meeting
Caribbean Student Association
Monday, April 1, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeJoin us!
About the CSA
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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Black Student Organization Club Meeting
Monday, April 1, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeOur 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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Play a Part in Climate Action
Monday, April 1, 2024
6 pm
Join us for an interactive Climate Week Event that asks audience members to reenact transcripts of local government meetings as a way to understand and intervene in structures of power and democracy. Dinner by BardEats, performance by you.Sponsored by: Bard Farm; Bard Graduate Programs; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center; Office of Sustainability.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Disability Access Services (DAS) and Title IX & Non-Discrimination Drop-In Session
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
12–2 pm
Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI)Drop-in session for questions and concerns regarding DAS/Title IX.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Study Group: A Place to Think!
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
2:30–4 pm
Room 402A structured, quiet study space opened to all students presented by Disability Access Services!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
5–6 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Disabled Student Union Monthly Meeting
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
7–8 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202This meeting will go over Union goals and issues. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
MABU Weekly Meeting
Men of Color at Bard United
Thursday, April 4, 2024
5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Thursday, April 4, 2024
5–6 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 118Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
LASO - Slang Trivia
Latin American Student Organization
Thursday, April 4, 2024
5:30–7 pm
Gilson PlaceJoin us for a trivia night!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Neurodivergent Group
Friday, April 5, 2024
1–3 pm
Olin HallTwo hour Friday group meeting and activity session to support our neurodiverse students.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Brothers@Bard Meeting
Friday, April 5, 2024
5–7 pm
Barringer HouseSafe space for men of color on campus. Biweekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Affinity Weekend: Thee Cosmopolitan Zodiac Gala
BSO (Black Student Organization) x QPOC (Queer People of Color) x Afropulse
Friday, April 5, 2024
6:30–9 pm
BlithewoodAffinity Weekend begins with Thee Cosmopolitan Zodiac Gala! Come dressed in your astrological best (formal wear) to this event kick-starting of a week of communal celebration! Located at the illustrious Blithewood Manor, we hope you join us for this honorary night and moment of campus camaraderie.
Unfortunately, Blithewood Manor as a venue can only sustain a total of 60 attendees, thus it is important that you RSVP as soon as you can. Once the limit has been reached, the form will close. If you come without RSVPing, you will be turned away at the door!
All reserved attendees will receive an email confirmation, along with personal invitations placed in their respective mailbox. Information regarding gala attire will be in the invitations.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Affinity Weekend: 1-800 HOUSE PARTY
SMOG x QPOC (Queer People of Color) x BSO (Black Student Organization) x Afropulse
Friday, April 5, 2024
9 pm – 2 am
SMOGMina, Arisleida, and Kay: DJ set of garage, house, jungle, and techno!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC - Field Day
Queer People of Color
Saturday, April 6, 2024
11 am – 3:30 pm
Campus Center, LawnJoin QPOC and the Affinity Clubs for a field day on the quad!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
“Once and still upon this land (For Montgomery Place)”: A Poetry Reading with Bonney Hartley
Part of “Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition”
Saturday, April 6, 2024
1–2 pm
Montgomery Place EstateBonney Hartley is a ’25 MFA-Creative Writing candidate at Institute of American Indian Arts and holds an MSocSci in International Relations from University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is an enrolled member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community and serves as a Tribal repatriation specialist. She is a founding member of Mohican Writers Circle and has forthcoming work in the Boundless exhibit catalogue (Smith College Mead Museum), The Last Milkweed (Tupelo Press), and North Berkshire Landscapes: A Celebration (Tupelo Press &Williamstown Rural Lands). Bonney lives within Mohican homelands in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Artist’s Statement:
My piece is offered to foreground and activate Returning Home with an archaeological reflection through layers of home, the land, inhabitation, removal, memory, and continuance.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6th & 7th, 1:00-5:00pm (timed entry every 15 minutes - register here)
April 10-12th, 1:30-4:00pm
Schedule of Events:
April 6th, 1:30pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (reservation required, doors open at 1:00pm)
April 6th, 4:00pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite
April 7th, 3:00pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the webinar here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition
Saturday, April 6, 2024 – Sunday, April 7, 2024
1–5 pm
Montgomery Place EstateRegister for Timed Entry
Returning Home is the first small scale contemporary Native photography exhibition to take place in the Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College. The exhibition addresses long standing Indigenous child removal policies and practices of Canada and the United States, whose governments strategically implemented the kidnapping of Native children to be sent to Indian boarding schools during the 19th and 20th centuries to sever familial ties and dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and lifeways. By introducing the history of the United States’ settler colonial past and ongoing present alongside the works of four contemporary Native photographers—Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke(Crow))—and poet Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee), this exhibition provides narratives of resistance, resilience, dissent, subversion, memorialization, and what Anishinabe writer Gerald Vizenor calls “survivance,” that disrupt historic and contemporary notions that Native peoples are helpless victims who are unfit to raise their own children – often infantilized by a paternalistic US government through colonial welfare practices. This exhibition is an intervention in a house museum whose history is intertwined with the forced removal of the Mohican peoples in early colonial New York.
Returning Home aims to highlight Indigenous representation, narrative, survivance, futurism, and resilience through contemporary Native art. The show will include pieces from the Forge Project's collection, as well as a written commission from Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Candidate Bonney Hartley. An accompanying publication will provide in-depth contextualization of land dispossession in the US, forced removal of Native peoples in New York State, and the impact of Indian boarding schools.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6th, 2:00-3:30pm (timed entry every 15 mins - register here)
April 7th, 1:00-5:00pm (timed entry every 15 mins - register here)
April 10-12th, 1:30-4:00pm (timed entry every 15 mins - register here)
Schedule of Events:
April 6th, 1:30pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (reservation required, doors open at 1:00pm)
April 6th, 4:00pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite - registration required
April 7th, 3:00pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the webinar here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.
Sponsored by Hudson Valley Greenway and the Mellon Foundation, as a part of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
In Conversation: Cara Romero & Suzanne Kite
Part of “Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition”
Saturday, April 6, 2024
4–5:30 pm
Montgomery Place EstateSponsored by Hudson Valley Greenway and the Mellon Foundation, as a part of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6th & 7th, 1:00-5:00pm (timed entry every 15 minutes - register here)
April 10-12th, 1:30-4:00pm
Schedule of Events:
April 6th, 1:30pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (doors open at 1pm - registration required)
April 6th, 4:00pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite - registration required
April 7th, 3:00pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the zoom talk here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.
Returning Home is the first small scale contemporary Native photography exhibition to take place in the Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College. The exhibition addresses long standing Indigenous child removal policies and practices of Canada and the United States, whose governments strategically implemented the kidnapping of Native children to be sent to Indian boarding schools during the 19th and 20th centuries to sever familial ties and dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and lifeways. By introducing the history of the United States’ settler colonial past and ongoing present alongside the works of four contemporary Native photographers—Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke(Crow))—and poet Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee), this exhibition provides narratives of resistance, resilience, dissent, subversion, memorialization, and what Anishinabe writer Gerald Vizenor calls “survivance,” that disrupt historic and contemporary notions that Native peoples are helpless victims who are unfit to raise their own children – often infantilized by a paternalistic US government through colonial welfare practices. This exhibition is an intervention in a house museum whose history is intertwined with the forced removal of the Mohican peoples in early colonial New York.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 860-992-6472, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
Afropulse x BSO x QPOC - Spring Equinox Vogue Ball
Black Student Organization, Queer People of Color
Saturday, April 6, 2024
9 pm – 2 am
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymLost in the jungle, danger lurks in every area. Can you withstand the fury of the jungle or will you be EATEN ALIVE...
AFROPULSE x BSO x QPOC invites you to the Spring Equinox Ball 2024...
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition
Saturday, April 6, 2024 – Sunday, April 7, 2024
1–5 pm
Montgomery Place EstateRegister for Timed Entry
Returning Home is the first small scale contemporary Native photography exhibition to take place in the Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College. The exhibition addresses long standing Indigenous child removal policies and practices of Canada and the United States, whose governments strategically implemented the kidnapping of Native children to be sent to Indian boarding schools during the 19th and 20th centuries to sever familial ties and dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and lifeways. By introducing the history of the United States’ settler colonial past and ongoing present alongside the works of four contemporary Native photographers—Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke(Crow))—and poet Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee), this exhibition provides narratives of resistance, resilience, dissent, subversion, memorialization, and what Anishinabe writer Gerald Vizenor calls “survivance,” that disrupt historic and contemporary notions that Native peoples are helpless victims who are unfit to raise their own children – often infantilized by a paternalistic US government through colonial welfare practices. This exhibition is an intervention in a house museum whose history is intertwined with the forced removal of the Mohican peoples in early colonial New York.
Returning Home aims to highlight Indigenous representation, narrative, survivance, futurism, and resilience through contemporary Native art. The show will include pieces from the Forge Project's collection, as well as a written commission from Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Candidate Bonney Hartley. An accompanying publication will provide in-depth contextualization of land dispossession in the US, forced removal of Native peoples in New York State, and the impact of Indian boarding schools.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6th, 2:00-3:30pm (timed entry every 15 mins - register here)
April 7th, 1:00-5:00pm (timed entry every 15 mins - register here)
April 10-12th, 1:30-4:00pm (timed entry every 15 mins - register here)
Schedule of Events:
April 6th, 1:30pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (reservation required, doors open at 1:00pm)
April 6th, 4:00pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite - registration required
April 7th, 3:00pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the webinar here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.
Sponsored by Hudson Valley Greenway and the Mellon Foundation, as a part of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
QPOC - Affinity Weekend Brunch
Queer People of Color
Sunday, April 7, 2024
11 am – 2:45 pm
Gilson PlaceCelebrate with BSO, AfroPulse, and QPOC, bringing together the broader Bard community!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Gilson Place - Plant & Paint!
Sunday, April 7, 2024
2:30–5 pm
Gilson PlaceCome plant and paint pots with us at Gilsion to welcome spring! You're welcome to take home your painted pot and plant with you. Homemade Thai boba provided!!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Dana Claxton: Artist Talk with Returning Home
Sunday, April 7, 2024
3 pm
Online EventSponsored by Hudson Valley Greenway and the Mellon Foundation, as a part of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.
This event will be via Zoom, with viewing available at the Montgomery Place visitor's center. Register for the Zoom talk here.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6 & 7, 1:00-5:00 pm (timed entry every half hour—register here)
April 10–12, 1:30–4:00 pm
Schedule of Events:
April 6, 1:30 pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (doors open at 1pm - registration required)
April 6, 4:00 pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite - registration required
April 7, 3:00 pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the zoom talk here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.
Returning Home is the first small scale contemporary Native photography exhibition to take place in the Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College. The exhibition addresses long standing Indigenous child removal policies and practices of Canada and the United States, whose governments strategically implemented the kidnapping of Native children to be sent to Indian boarding schools during the 19th and 20th centuries to sever familial ties and dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and lifeways. By introducing the history of the United States’ settler colonial past and ongoing present alongside the works of four contemporary Native photographers—Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke(Crow))—and poet Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee), this exhibition provides narratives of resistance, resilience, dissent, subversion, memorialization, and what Anishinabe writer Gerald Vizenor calls “survivance,” that disrupt historic and contemporary notions that Native peoples are helpless victims who are unfit to raise their own children – often infantilized by a paternalistic US government through colonial welfare practices. This exhibition is an intervention in a house museum whose history is intertwined with the forced removal of the Mohican peoples in early colonial New York.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
Dean Aldebot Open Hours
Monday, April 8, 2024
1–3 pm
Kappa HouseDean Aldebot will be available at Kappa House Room 102 every Monday from 1–3 pm. Come connect! If these hours don't work for you, email [email protected] to schedule a meeting.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Black Student Organization Club Meeting
Monday, April 8, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeOur 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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Disability Access Services (DAS) and Title IX & Non-Discrimination Drop-In Session
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
12–2 pm
Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI)Drop-in session for questions and concerns regarding DAS/Title IX.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Study Group: A Place to Think!
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
2:30–4 pm
Room 402A structured, quiet study space opened to all students presented by Disability Access Services!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
5–6 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Keywords in Understanding Israel/Palestine: Omer Bartov on “Genocide”
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
1:30–3 pm
Olin AuditoriumThis lecture on the term “Genocide” is part of the Spring 2024 common course Keywords for Our Times: Understanding Israel/Palestine and will be open to the Bard College community as a whole. The course critically explores the ongoing conflict in Israel/Palestine with a focus on contemporary Gaza, and the vocabularies we use to understand it. The course brings scholars from a range of disciplines together to help students understand the histories of and contestations around important concepts and ideas that define our contemporary moment, and to stimulate informed dialogue within our community. Presenting the lecture on the term "genocide" to the course and the wider campus community will be Omer Bartov, the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.
Omer Bartov's early research concerned the crimes of the German Wehrmacht, the links between total war and genocide, and representation of antisemitism in twentieth-century cinema. More recently, he has focused on interethnic relations and violence in Eastern Europe, population displacement in Europe and Palestine, and the first generation of Jews and Palestinians in Israel. His books include Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past (2022), and Genocide, The Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis (2023). Bartov is currently writing a book tentatively titled The Broken Promise: A Personal-Political History of Israel and Palestine. His novel, The Butterfly and the Axe, was published this year in the United States and Israel.
This event is cosponsored by the Politics Program, the Middle Eastern Studies Program, the Global and International Studies Program, the Human Rights Program, and the Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 – Friday, April 12, 2024
1:30–4 pm
Montgomery Place EstateRegister for timed entry here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/865614204387?aff=oddtdtcreator
Returning Home is the first small scale contemporary Native photography exhibition to take place in the Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College. The exhibition addresses long standing Indigenous child removal policies and practices of Canada and the United States, whose governments strategically implemented the kidnapping of Native children to be sent to Indian boarding schools during the 19th and 20th centuries to sever familial ties and dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and lifeways. By introducing the history of the United States’ settler colonial past and ongoing present alongside the works of four contemporary Native photographers—Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke(Crow))—and poet Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee), this exhibition provides narratives of resistance, resilience, dissent, subversion, memorialization, and what Anishinabe writer Gerald Vizenor calls “survivance,” that disrupt historic and contemporary notions that Native peoples are helpless victims who are unfit to raise their own children – often infantilized by a paternalistic US government through colonial welfare practices. This exhibition is an intervention in a house museum whose history is intertwined with the forced removal of the Mohican peoples in early colonial New York.
Returning Home aims to highlight Indigenous representation, narrative, survivance, futurism, and resilience through contemporary Native art. The show will include pieces from the Forge Project's collection, as well as a written commission from Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Candidate Bonney Hartley. An accompanying publication will provide in-depth contextualization of land dispossession in the US, forced removal of Native peoples in New York State, and the impact of Indian boarding schools.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6th & 7th, 1:00-5:00pm (timed entry every 15 minutes- register here)
April 10-12th, 1:30-4:00pm
Schedule of Events:
April 6th, 1:30pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (reservation required, doors open at 1:00pm)
April 6th, 4:00pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite - registration required
April 7th, 3:00pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the webinar here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.
Sponsored by Hudson Valley Greenway and the Mellon Foundation, as a part of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
MABU Weekly Meeting
Men of Color at Bard United
Thursday, April 11, 2024
5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Thursday, April 11, 2024
5–6 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 118Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 – Friday, April 12, 2024
1:30–4 pm
Montgomery Place EstateRegister for timed entry here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/865614204387?aff=oddtdtcreator
Returning Home is the first small scale contemporary Native photography exhibition to take place in the Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College. The exhibition addresses long standing Indigenous child removal policies and practices of Canada and the United States, whose governments strategically implemented the kidnapping of Native children to be sent to Indian boarding schools during the 19th and 20th centuries to sever familial ties and dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and lifeways. By introducing the history of the United States’ settler colonial past and ongoing present alongside the works of four contemporary Native photographers—Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke(Crow))—and poet Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee), this exhibition provides narratives of resistance, resilience, dissent, subversion, memorialization, and what Anishinabe writer Gerald Vizenor calls “survivance,” that disrupt historic and contemporary notions that Native peoples are helpless victims who are unfit to raise their own children – often infantilized by a paternalistic US government through colonial welfare practices. This exhibition is an intervention in a house museum whose history is intertwined with the forced removal of the Mohican peoples in early colonial New York.
Returning Home aims to highlight Indigenous representation, narrative, survivance, futurism, and resilience through contemporary Native art. The show will include pieces from the Forge Project's collection, as well as a written commission from Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Candidate Bonney Hartley. An accompanying publication will provide in-depth contextualization of land dispossession in the US, forced removal of Native peoples in New York State, and the impact of Indian boarding schools.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6th & 7th, 1:00-5:00pm (timed entry every 15 minutes- register here)
April 10-12th, 1:30-4:00pm
Schedule of Events:
April 6th, 1:30pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (reservation required, doors open at 1:00pm)
April 6th, 4:00pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite - registration required
April 7th, 3:00pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the webinar here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.
Sponsored by Hudson Valley Greenway and the Mellon Foundation, as a part of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
Workshop with Guest Composers Raven Chacon, Marshall Trammell, and John Dieterich
Thursday, April 11, 2024
12:30–1:30 pm
BitoPlease join American and Indigenous Studies and the Center for Indigenous Studies for a workshop with our guest composers and performers Raven Chacon, Marshall Trammell, and John Dieterich. Their group, White People Killed Them, is one of several imaginings of new designations, calamities, and celebrations. We encourage surprise inventions and innovations towards erecting, maintaining, and defending democratic spaces (beyond the limits of the band stand) in your community with other frontline warriors.
White People Killed Them will perform on Friday, April 12, at 7 pm in CCS Classroom 102.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Namwali Serpell: “Unnoticed and as Beautiful: The Native American Figure in Toni Morrison’s Literature”
Rethinking Place Morrison Lecture 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
3 pm
Olin AuditoriumScholars have been concerned either to criticize or to praise Morrison’s sparing inclusion of Native Americans in her novels. Are they beneath her notice? Or have they gone unnoticed by us? Following Morrison’s own methods in arguing that the “real or fabricated” “Africanist presence” in white American literature is crucial to writers’ “sense of Americanness,” we might pursue how the “Native American presence” works in her literature not only in historical and political terms, but also in aesthetic and cultural terms. This talk considers how, across her oeuvre and career, the Native American figure—meaning literary character; racial type; literary trope; and silhouette or profile—shapes her “sense of blackness.”
A reception catered by Samosa Shack Kingston to follow talk beginning at 4:30pm.
This event is the 2024 lecture of the Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Toni Morrison lecture series.Sponsored by: Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/namwali-serpell/.
Cured: A Film by Bennett Singer and Patrick Sammon
“Doctors called them sick. The remedy was rebellion.”
Thursday, April 11, 2024
6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaUntil 1973, every gay person was automatically classified as mentally ill and in need of a “cure.” The award-winning documentary Cured tells the story of the activists and allies who challenged this pathologizing diagnosis and brought about a pivotal turning point in the modern movement for LGBTQ+ equality, visibility, and dignity: the removal of homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association's manual of mental disorders. Join us for a screening of this documentary—which has been described as “riveting” (Queer Review), “timely and urgent” (Cinerama Film), and “one of the best documentaries of this or any year” (British Film Institute)—followed by a conversation with Bennett Singer, the film's Emmy-nominated codirector.
Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program; Human Rights Project.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Indigenous Student Association Meeting
Thursday, April 11, 2024
6–7 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203This club will be started to create representation for Indigenous students that are a part of Bard’s campus. Cultural representation has been taken away from us, and the spark of cultural appropriation hides the truth of who we are and what our traditions are. Bard has many organizations for other students of color on campus, each having their own unique identity. I want to give a place where there is representation for specifically Indigenous students on campus. This association is not only made for students with Native blood, but for those who want to help us break the generations worth of misinformation, to become educated, hopefully getting inspired to educate the rest of the Bard community. People not only should know the true history, but the culture of different Indigenous peoples. I want to give students confidence, to not be ashamed of their heritage, but instead, be proud of it.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
ISA - Dreamcatcher Workshop
Indigenous Student Association
Thursday, April 11, 2024
6:30–9:30 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomCome learn how to make dreamcatchers with the ISA members!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Neurodivergent Group
Friday, April 12, 2024
1–3 pm
Olin HallTwo hour Friday group meeting and activity session to support our neurodiverse students.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 – Friday, April 12, 2024
1:30–4 pm
Montgomery Place EstateRegister for timed entry here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/865614204387?aff=oddtdtcreator
Returning Home is the first small scale contemporary Native photography exhibition to take place in the Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College. The exhibition addresses long standing Indigenous child removal policies and practices of Canada and the United States, whose governments strategically implemented the kidnapping of Native children to be sent to Indian boarding schools during the 19th and 20th centuries to sever familial ties and dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and lifeways. By introducing the history of the United States’ settler colonial past and ongoing present alongside the works of four contemporary Native photographers—Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke(Crow))—and poet Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee), this exhibition provides narratives of resistance, resilience, dissent, subversion, memorialization, and what Anishinabe writer Gerald Vizenor calls “survivance,” that disrupt historic and contemporary notions that Native peoples are helpless victims who are unfit to raise their own children – often infantilized by a paternalistic US government through colonial welfare practices. This exhibition is an intervention in a house museum whose history is intertwined with the forced removal of the Mohican peoples in early colonial New York.
Returning Home aims to highlight Indigenous representation, narrative, survivance, futurism, and resilience through contemporary Native art. The show will include pieces from the Forge Project's collection, as well as a written commission from Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Candidate Bonney Hartley. An accompanying publication will provide in-depth contextualization of land dispossession in the US, forced removal of Native peoples in New York State, and the impact of Indian boarding schools.
All events require separate registration. Exhibition viewing is not included in event registration.
Exhibition Viewing Hours:
April 6th & 7th, 1:00-5:00pm (timed entry every 15 minutes- register here)
April 10-12th, 1:30-4:00pm
Schedule of Events:
April 6th, 1:30pm: Opening Remarks & Activation, poetry reading by Bonney Hartley (reservation required, doors open at 1:00pm)
April 6th, 4:00pm: Cara Romero in conversation with Suzanne Kite - registration required
April 7th, 3:00pm: Dana Claxton Artist Talk, on zoom, seating available at MP visitor's center. Register for the webinar here.
April 10th, 6:30pm: Cara Romero: Following the Light, Preston Cinema, Bard College. A short documentary on the work & practice of Cara Romero. No registration required.
Sponsored by Hudson Valley Greenway and the Mellon Foundation, as a part of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://rethinkingplace.bard.edu/returning-home/.
White People Killed Them
An electronic music performance
Friday, April 12, 2024
7 pm
CCS Classroom 102White People Killed Them is one of several imaginings of new designations, calamities, and celebrations by group members recorded in 2019 when we all happened to be in New Mexico. We encourage surprise inventions and innovations towards erecting, maintaining, and the defending of democratic spaces (beyond the limits of the band stand) in your community with other front line warriors. The name of the band is a group of words commonly paraphrased on many monuments across the United States.
CCS Classroom 102, April 12th, 7:00pm. Doors open at 6:30.
Limited entry is available on a first-come first-served basis, please arrive early.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
LASO - Una Noche en Saturno
Latin American Student Organization
Friday, April 12, 2024
9 pm – 1:30 am
Manor ParlorParty collab with Bell inspired by Rauw Alejandro's album!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Dean Aldebot Open Hours
Monday, April 15, 2024
1–3 pm
Kappa HouseDean Aldebot will be available at Kappa House Room 102 every Monday from 1–3 pm. Come connect! If these hours don't work for you, email [email protected] to schedule a meeting.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Black Student Organization Club Meeting
Monday, April 15, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeOur 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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CSA Market Day
Caribbean Student Association
Monday, April 15, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeJoin us!
About the CSA
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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Disability Access Services (DAS) and Title IX & Non-Discrimination Drop-In Session
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
12–2 pm
Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI)Drop-in session for questions and concerns regarding DAS/Title IX.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Study Group: A Place to Think!
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
2:30–4 pm
Room 402A structured, quiet study space opened to all students presented by Disability Access Services!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
5–6 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
OEI Community Club: Ready, Set, Bloom!
Office of Equity and Inclusion
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
3–5 pm
Kappa HouseJoin us to decorate your own pot, grow your own plant, and other DIY activities while enjoying some snacks!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
MABU Weekly Meeting
Men of Color at Bard United
Thursday, April 18, 2024
5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Thursday, April 18, 2024
5–6 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 118Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CASO+Vassar: Heritage Month Celebration
Central Asian Student Organization
Thursday, April 18, 2024
3–9 pm
Vassar CollegeThe ALANA Center at Vassar College is organizing heritage month celebration that CASO members are attending to showcase the beauty of central Asian culture.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Difference & Justice Spring into Action Mixer
Thursday, April 18, 2024
4–6 pm
The Walkway Outside of the Campus Center AND George Ball LouJoin us for our spring SmorgasBard event! We will have a spring roll making station, flower making craft station, lemonade stand, and more. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Neurodivergent Group
Friday, April 19, 2024
1–3 pm
Olin HallTwo hour Friday group meeting and activity session to support our neurodiverse students.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
OEI Community Club: Mixing Palettes and Mocktails
Office of Equity and Inclusion
Friday, April 19, 2024
4–6 pm
Kappa HouseThe PI team will be preparing mocktails that will inspire you to create different pieces of art. Come by for some paintings and activities!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Brothers@Bard Meeting
Friday, April 19, 2024
5–7 pm
Barringer HouseSafe space for men of color on campus. Biweekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
ISA - Bonfire with the Three Sisters
Indigenous Student Association
Friday, April 19, 2024
6–8 pm
Anna Jones Memorial Meditation Garden; in case of rain George Ball LoungeCome have some free Three Sisters soup and frybread! Enjoy some ceremonial songs and traditional Native American teachings!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Gilson Place - No Homework Zone
Friday, April 19, 2024
6–8 pm
Gilson PlaceNo Homework Zone, where there will be empanadas, jewelry making, and crafting!!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Trans Swim
Sunday, April 21, 2024
4–6 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, PoolThe Stevenson Athletics Center Pool is reserved exclusively for trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people to use for two hours. No reservation is required. If desired, there is a gender neutral changing room and shower on the ground floor of the gym.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
LASO - SALT Dinner
Latin American Student Organization
Sunday, April 21, 2024
6–8 pm
Kappa HouseWe will be catering homemade Cuban foods to celebrate and highlight Cuban Culture.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
International Student Organization: Food Fair
Sunday, April 21, 2024
8–11 pm
Kline CommonsThe ISO will be hosting its annual international food fair on April 21. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Dean Aldebot Open Hours
Monday, April 22, 2024
1–3 pm
Kappa HouseDean Aldebot will be available at Kappa House Room 102 every Monday from 1–3 pm. Come connect! If these hours don't work for you, email [email protected] to schedule a meeting.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Black Student Organization Club Meeting
Monday, April 22, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeOur 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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
OEI Community Club - Snowcone Storm
Monday, April 22, 2024
2–3:30 pm
Kappa HouseCome have some snowcones at Kappa house!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Exploring Indigenous Arts: Introductory Nahuatl Workshop with Luis Chavez
Monday, April 22, 2024
4 pm
Montgomery Place EstateLearn the basics of Nahuatl (Mexican Indigenous language) through the traditional Mexican game of loteria, a game of bingo using Nahuatl words with images.
Luis Chavez is a current postdoctoral fellow at Bard College, whose research and teaching interests include ethnic studies, music and sound studies, border studies, Chicanx studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, gender and sexuality, and performance studies. He comes to Bard from California State University School of Music, where he taught courses in music history and literature, world music, and Latin American music. He has also served as lecturer in the Department of American Indian Studies, College of Ethnic Studies, at San Francisco State University.
Join us at Bard College Montgomery Place Campus for unique opportunities to explore regional and indigenous identity through history, art, education, agriculture, foodways, and placemaking as part of the 2024 Being Human Festival sponsored by the National Humanities Center.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Disability Access Services (DAS) and Title IX & Non-Discrimination Drop-In Session
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
12–2 pm
Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI)Drop-in session for questions and concerns regarding DAS/Title IX.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Study Group: A Place to Think!
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
2:30–4 pm
Room 402A structured, quiet study space opened to all students presented by Disability Access Services!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
5–6 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Exploring Indigenous Arts: Indigenous Cooking Workshop and Conversation with Lucille Grignon
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
6 pm
Montgomery Place EstateLucille Grignon is a homesteader at Ancient Roots Homestead, which is located on the Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation. She has transitioned from teaching in a modern colonial classroom into working as an educator of Ancient Indigenous skills, ideas, and traditions guided by the ways of her ancestors.
Join us at Bard College Montgomery Place Campus for unique opportunities to explore regional and indigenous identity through history, art, education, agriculture, foodways, and placemaking as part of the 2024 Being Human Festival sponsored by the National Humanties Center.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
MABU Weekly Meeting
Men of Color at Bard United
Thursday, April 25, 2024
5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Thursday, April 25, 2024
5–6 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 118Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Antíkoni: A Symposium
The Inaugural Symposium of the Center for Indigenous Studies
Thursday, April 25, 2024 – Friday, April 26, 2024
The Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies will host its inaugural symposium on Thursday, April 25, and Friday, April 26, at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The symposium includes workshops, lectures, and discussions centered around Dr. Beth Piatote’s (Nez Perce enrolled Colville Confederated Tribes) brilliant play Antíkoni, an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone. Piatote will give her public keynote address “Antíkoni and the Question of Adaptation” on Thursday, April 25, 2:00–3:30 pm ET in Weis Cinema, located in the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. A closing public lecture “Between the Heart and Horizon Line: Culturally Responsive Care in Collection Management” will be delivered by Yale University’s Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf (Hiraacá, Nu’eta, and Sosore, ancestral Apsáalooke and Nʉmʉnʉʉ) on Friday, April 26, 4:30–5:30 pm ET in the Bito ’60 Auditorium, located in the Reem-Kayden Center, Room 103, at Bard College. All talks are open to the public and do not require registration.Sponsored by: Center for Indigenous Studies.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Exploring Indigenous Arts: Reading From The Beadworkers with Dr. Beth Piatote
Thursday, April 25, 2024
10:30 am
Montgomery Place EstateDr. Beth Piatote reads from her debut short story collection, The Beadworkers, which explores Native American life in the modern world. The stories find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return: a woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship; in 1890, two young men at college—one French and the other Lakota—each contemplate a death in the family; a Nez Perce-Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a reimagining of the Greek tragedy Antigone. The Beadworkers (Counterpoint, 2019) draws on indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful and sustaining vision of Native life.
Dr. Beth Piatote (Nez Perce enrolled Colville) is associate professor of English and comparative literature and director of the Arts Research Center at the University of California Berkeley.
Join us at Bard College Montgomery Place Campus for unique opportunities to explore regional and indigenous identity through history, art, education, agriculture, foodways, and placemaking as part of the 2024 Being Human Festival sponsored by the National Humanities Center.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Antíkoni and the Question of Adaptation
By Beth Piatote (Nez Perce, Colville Confederated Tribes) as a part of “Antíkoni: A Symposium.”
Thursday, April 25, 2024
2–3:30 pm
Weis CinemaThe timeless and profound themes expressed in Antigone, the great tragedy by Sophocles, has made it one of the most adapted plays in theater, speaking to political and ethical problems around the world. In my talk, I will describe my own engagement with the play in my revision, Antikoni, which centers a Nez Perce-Cayuse family debating the fate of ancestral remains, family loyalty, and what it means to live between spiritual law and the law of the State. I will explore the ways in which the play is an adaptation, but is also about adaptation--about Native people struggling to adapt and find a way through systems that are hostile to them, and the price that is paid along the way.Sponsored by: Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Antíkoni: A Staged Reading
Read by Kahelelani Mahone and Ciko Sidzumo
Thursday, April 25, 2024
4:30–5:30 pm
Blithewood ManorScenes from Antíkoni
Performed by Kahelelani Mahone and Ciko Sidzumo
Contextualization by Beth Piatote, Julie Burelle, and Laurie Arnold
Codirected by Jack Ferver, assistant professor of theater and performance, and Brandi Norton, curator of public programs at Bard Center for Indigenous StudiesSponsored by: Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Possession, Belongings, and Inheritance: Stockbridge-Munsee Community’s Approach to NAGPRA
By Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican), Tribal Repatriation specialist for the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
6–7 pm
Blithewood ManorIt is invaluable to Tribal citizens to welcome home lost or looted family heirlooms as part of collective cultural heritage. Bonney Hartley, repatriation representative for Stockbridge-Munsee Community, will share insights from the community’s repatriation efforts in the region and highlight ways that the Tribal Historic Preservation Program has approached matters of possession and belonging in claiming items under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The presentation will also offer recent insights and opportunities in light of the new NAGPRA regulations that took effect in January.Sponsored by: Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Indigenous Student Association Meeting
Thursday, April 25, 2024
6–7 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203This club will be started to create representation for Indigenous students that are a part of Bard’s campus. Cultural representation has been taken away from us, and the spark of cultural appropriation hides the truth of who we are and what our traditions are. Bard has many organizations for other students of color on campus, each having their own unique identity. I want to give a place where there is representation for specifically Indigenous students on campus. This association is not only made for students with Native blood, but for those who want to help us break the generations worth of misinformation, to become educated, hopefully getting inspired to educate the rest of the Bard community. People not only should know the true history, but the culture of different Indigenous peoples. I want to give students confidence, to not be ashamed of their heritage, but instead, be proud of it.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Neurodivergent Group
Friday, April 26, 2024
1–3 pm
Olin HallTwo hour Friday group meeting and activity session to support our neurodiverse students.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Antíkoni: A Symposium
The Inaugural Symposium of the Center for Indigenous Studies
Thursday, April 25, 2024 – Friday, April 26, 2024
The Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies will host its inaugural symposium on Thursday, April 25, and Friday, April 26, at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The symposium includes workshops, lectures, and discussions centered around Dr. Beth Piatote’s (Nez Perce enrolled Colville Confederated Tribes) brilliant play Antíkoni, an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone. Piatote will give her public keynote address “Antíkoni and the Question of Adaptation” on Thursday, April 25, 2:00–3:30 pm ET in Weis Cinema, located in the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. A closing public lecture “Between the Heart and Horizon Line: Culturally Responsive Care in Collection Management” will be delivered by Yale University’s Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf (Hiraacá, Nu’eta, and Sosore, ancestral Apsáalooke and Nʉmʉnʉʉ) on Friday, April 26, 4:30–5:30 pm ET in the Bito ’60 Auditorium, located in the Reem-Kayden Center, Room 103, at Bard College. All talks are open to the public and do not require registration.Sponsored by: Center for Indigenous Studies.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Exploring Indigenous Arts: Indigo Dip Dye Workshop
Friday, April 26, 2024
2–4 pm
Montgomery Place EstateJoin us for a community Indigo Dip Dye workshop using locally sourced natural dye materials. Attendees will dye materials that they can take home while gaining a deeper understanding of these Indigenous historical practices and uses of the dyed goods.
Join us at Bard College Montgomery Place Campus for unique opportunities to explore regional and indigenous identity through history, art, education, agriculture, foodways, and placemaking as part of the 2024 Being Human Festival sponsored by the National Humanities Center.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Gilson Place - Sazon Y Ritmo
Friday, April 26, 2024
3:30–5 pm
Gilson PlaceWe will be serving food from different Latin countries with music and games!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Between the Heart and Horizon Line: Culturally Responsive Care in Collection Management
Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf (Hiraacá, Nu’eta, and Sosore, ancestral Apsáalooke and Nʉmʉnʉʉ), Inaugural Assistant Curator of Native American Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and Collection Manager of the Native North American and Indigenous Collection, Yale Peabody Museum
Friday, April 26, 2024
4:30–5:30 pm
Bito ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center 103Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf is a Hiraacá (Hidatsa), Nu’eta (Mandan), and Sosore (Eastern Shoshone) mother, language and culture activist, curator, artist, and writer. She is a member of the Ih-dhi-shu-gah (Wide Ridge) Clan and is a child of the Ah-puh-gah-whi-gah (Low Cap) Clan, with close relations to her Apsáalooke (Crow) families. Her cultures, languages, and education in the arts, collection management, and language revitalization are integral to her journey beyond the impacts of being a fourth-generation Indian boarding school survivor. At the University of Oklahoma, she received her MA in Native American Studies focused on the Shoshonean Language Reunions and the cultural survivance of her Newe, Numu, and Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche) relations. Her PhD in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology focused on the impacts of colonization on intergenerational knowledge transmission, and cultural and language vitality. She continues to expand upon this research and connections made through her dissertation titled, Pursuing an Understanding of Relationship Making within Language Revitalization: Conversations with Indigenous Language Activists.
Dr. Young Wolf is a recipient of the Cobell Scholarship, the Plains Anthropological Society Native American Student Research Award, the University of Oklahoma Social Sciences Graduate Student Research Award, and is a member of the United Nations Global Indigenous Languages Caucus. She is a founding member alongside her elders who created the MHA Nation Language Department and the MHA Interpretive Center. In 2021, Dr. Young Wolf was selected to be the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral fellow in Native American Art and Curation and a Presidential Visiting fellow at Yale University. She is currently the inaugural Native North American Collection Manager and Assistant Curator of Native American Arts, a duel appointment at the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Peabody Museum. Dr. Young Wolf continues to prioritize Indigenous language and culture revitalization throughout her curatorial and collection management work which centers on culturally responsive care, decolonization, rematriation, survivance, and relationship (re)making.Sponsored by: Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Multicultural Community Brunch
Saturday, April 27, 2024
12 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomThis annual event, hosted by the Institute for International Liberal Education (IILE) in partnership with a multitude of Bard community organizations and departments, provides a space for people to learn about different cultures and connect with others who share their interests and values while enjoying food from around the world.
We encourage anyone who would like to wear clothing representing their culture for this event.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Dean of Graduate Studies; Dean of Student Affairs; Dean of the College; Health, Counseling, and Wellness; International Student and Scholar Services; Office of International Student and Scholar Services; Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Asian Student Organization: The Asian Gala
Saturday, April 27, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomCome join us, the Asian Student Organization, for a pan-Asian event with performances, food, and more!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
ASO Asian Gala Afterparty
Asian Student Organization
Saturday, April 27, 2024
10 pm – 2 am
SMOGASO Afterparty at SMOG. Come unwind and dance the night away to music from all around the globe!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Community Arts Collective Presents
Hudson Valley Youth Jazz Orchestra
Sunday, April 28, 2024
4–5 pm
Olin HallDirector Dan Shaut with Roland Vazquez Band
Featuring Tristen Napoli (tpt), Nathan Childers (sax), Jessica Jones (sax), Dan Shaut (sax), Elliott Steele (pno), Nick Edwards (bss), Pito Castillo (cga), and Roland Vazquez (dms).
Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month! Special Thanks to Local A.F.M. 238-291, La Voz, Radio Kingston, and Bridge Arts & Education for their generous support.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Dean Aldebot Open Hours
Monday, April 29, 2024
1–3 pm
Kappa HouseDean Aldebot will be available at Kappa House Room 102 every Monday from 1–3 pm. Come connect! If these hours don't work for you, email [email protected] to schedule a meeting.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Black Student Organization Club Meeting
Monday, April 29, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeOur 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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CSA Meeting
Caribbean Student Association
Monday, April 29, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeJoin us!
About the CSA
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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Disability Access Services (DAS) and Title IX & Non-Discrimination Drop-In Session
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
12–2 pm
Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI)Drop-in session for questions and concerns regarding DAS/Title IX.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Study Group: A Place to Think!
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
2:30–4 pm
Room 402A structured, quiet study space opened to all students presented by Disability Access Services!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
5–6 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214Join us! 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.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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