Saturday, June 25, 2022 – Sunday, November 27, 2022 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition.
Saturday, June 25, 2022 – Sunday, November 27, 2022 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.
Museum Hours Sun, 11am–5pm Mon, Closed Tue, Closed Wed, 11am–5pm Thu, 11am–5pm Fri, 11am–5pm Sat, 11am–5pmSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Saturday, June 25, 2022 – Sunday, October 16, 2022 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.
Museum Hours Sun, 11am–5pm Mon, Closed Tue, Closed Wed, 11am–5pm Thu, 11am–5pm Fri, 11am–5pm Sat, 11am–5pmSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Frontispiece Portraits in African American Literature (1834 to 1949)
Monday, August 22, 2022 – Sunday, October 30, 2022
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library An exhibition of frontispiece portraits of selected first edition and rare books from the private collection of journalist Alvin Patrick. This exhibit features the portraits of some of the greatest civil rights activists of the 19th and 20th centuries including, Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Library lobby and Sussman Room display cases.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7501, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, September 1, 2022 – Friday, December 16, 2022 5–9 pm
Learning Commons Come to the Learning Commons (behind Stone Row) to arrange a session with a friendly peer tutor or to learn about our study rooms in all subjects taught at the College.
You may also contact Margaux Suinat ’22 at [email protected]. Head over to our website for more information on tutoring, study rooms and workshops.Sponsored by: Learning Commons.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
TŌN spotlights four Czech composers whose music exemplifies that country’s great symphonic legacy. The program includes Dvořák’s monumentally powerful Seventh Symphony and Janáček’s patriotic, brass-filled Sinfonietta.
Leon Botsteinconductor
Josef Suk Scherzo fantastique
Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 7
Bohuslav Martinů The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
Known for “sublime dance theater of the highest caliber,” the Fisher Center’s first-ever choreographer in residence Pam Tanowitz “has long been one of the most formally brilliant choreographers around.” (The New York Times)
Join Pam Tanowitz (Four Quartets, Song of Songs) and her critically acclaimed ensemble, Pam Tanowitz Dance, for a behind-the-scenes look into their creative process featuring work-in-progress showings of three new works and the Fisher Center premiere screening of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a film created by Jeremy Jacob during the SummerScape 2021 premiere of Pam’s work of the same title.
There will be a discussion with choreographer, Pam Tanowitz, Fisher Center Artistic Director, Gideon Lester, and film director, Jeremy Jacob immediately following the Friday and Saturday performances.
Known for “sublime dance theater of the highest caliber,” the Fisher Center’s first-ever choreographer in residence Pam Tanowitz “has long been one of the most formally brilliant choreographers around.” (The New York Times)
Join Pam Tanowitz (Four Quartets, Song of Songs) and her critically acclaimed ensemble, Pam Tanowitz Dance, for a behind-the-scenes look into their creative process featuring work-in-progress showings of three new works and the Fisher Center premiere screening of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a film created by Jeremy Jacob during the SummerScape 2021 premiere of Pam’s work of the same title.
There will be a discussion with choreographer, Pam Tanowitz, Fisher Center Artistic Director, Gideon Lester, and film director, Jeremy Jacob immediately following the Friday and Saturday performances.
TŌN spotlights four Czech composers whose music exemplifies that country’s great symphonic legacy. The program includes Dvořák’s monumentally powerful Seventh Symphony and Janáček’s patriotic, brass-filled Sinfonietta.
Leon Botsteinconductor
Josef Suk Scherzo fantastique
Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 7
Bohuslav Martinů The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
TŌN spotlights four Czech composers whose music exemplifies that country’s great symphonic legacy. The program includes Dvořák’s monumentally powerful Seventh Symphony and Janáček’s patriotic, brass-filled Sinfonietta.
Leon Botsteinconductor
Josef Suk Scherzo fantastique
Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 7
Bohuslav Martinů The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
Known for “sublime dance theater of the highest caliber,” the Fisher Center’s first-ever choreographer in residence Pam Tanowitz “has long been one of the most formally brilliant choreographers around.” (The New York Times)
Join Pam Tanowitz (Four Quartets, Song of Songs) and her critically acclaimed ensemble, Pam Tanowitz Dance, for a behind-the-scenes look into their creative process featuring work-in-progress showings of three new works and the Fisher Center premiere screening of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a film created by Jeremy Jacob during the SummerScape 2021 premiere of Pam’s work of the same title.
There will be a discussion with choreographer, Pam Tanowitz, Fisher Center Artistic Director, Gideon Lester, and film director, Jeremy Jacob immediately following the Friday and Saturday performances.
Known for “sublime dance theater of the highest caliber,” the Fisher Center’s first-ever choreographer in residence Pam Tanowitz “has long been one of the most formally brilliant choreographers around.” (The New York Times)
Join Pam Tanowitz (Four Quartets, Song of Songs) and her critically acclaimed ensemble, Pam Tanowitz Dance, for a behind-the-scenes look into their creative process featuring work-in-progress showings of three new works and the Fisher Center premiere screening of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a film created by Jeremy Jacob during the SummerScape 2021 premiere of Pam’s work of the same title.
There will be a discussion with choreographer, Pam Tanowitz, Fisher Center Artistic Director, Gideon Lester, and film director, Jeremy Jacob immediately following the Friday and Saturday performances.
Conservatory students perform works for clarinet, piano, and violin by Haydn, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Chopin, Shostakovich, and Janáček
Monday, October 3, 2022 12–1 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space An hour-long program of short performances by Bard Conservatory students. Free and open to vaccinated members of the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Shut Up & Sproj provides you with a quiet, communal space to work on your Senior Project. We meet Mondays in Stevenson Library 402 and Fridays from 3:30–5:00 pm on Zoom. By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time. Note that "Senior Project work" is anything that moves your project forward.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-332-6159, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, October 3, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment—come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us for a vigil and a protest march for Armenian lives.
Monday, October 3, 2022 5:30–7:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents In solidarity with Armenia and the Armenian diaspora, and to bring awareness to the hundred-year-long systemic oppression faced by an indigenous group on their indigenous soil.
5:30 Poster Making
6:00 Vigil at the Bard Chapel
6:45 Solidarity March to BlithewoodSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Center for Spiritual Life Monday: Guided Meditation 6 pm-6:15: Introduction & dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation & chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Quiet contemplation Join for any length of time.
Meditation is followed by sangha community time with refreshments.
All are welcome!
First timers, experience meditators, Buddhists, seekers. We support each other quieting the mind and develop compassion, with others, ourselves, and the miraculous world around us.
Please email if you are interested in joining our sangha list for special events such as sutra studying, cultural events, dharma excursions, or extended meditation retreats.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Fiction Prize winner and writer in residence at Bard College reads from her recent work
Monday, October 3, 2022 6:30–8 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, October 3 at 6:30pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Bard Fiction Prize winner Lindsey Drager will read from her work. Introduced by Bard College literature professor and novelist Bradford Morrow, the reading is free and open to the student body.
“Lindsey Drager’s wonderfully innovative novel, The Archive of Alternate Endings, takes its readers on an elliptical, speculative, philosophically intrepid journey that tracks the evolution of the old folktale, Hansel and Gretel, between 1378 and 2365, even as it redefines and revises our sense of what narrative itself can achieve,” writes the Bard Fiction Prize committee. “As Halley’s Comet revisits the Earth every 75 years, like some cosmic metronome, we encounter the siblings Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Johannes Gutenberg and his sister, and twin space probes searching the galaxy for a sister planet to our own. As we do, we witness the many ways in which Hansel and Gretel themselves are transformed along with the human experience their tale portrays. Intimate in its understanding of the multiplicities of love, here is an elegantly succinct work of art that is flat-out epic in scope. And while one may look to Borges, Calvino, Winterson, even the Terrence Malik of Tree of Life for comparison, Drager’s vision is breathtakingly original and The Archive of Alternate Endings displays the confident technique and wild inventiveness of an already accomplished literary artist emerging into virtuosity.”
Lindsey Drager is the author of three novels: The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc 2015), The Lost Daughter Collective (Dzanc 2017), and The Archive of Alternate Endings (Dzanc 2019). Her books have won a John Gardner Fiction Award and a Shirley Jackson Award; been listed as a “Best Book of the Year” in The Guardian and NPR; and twice been named a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. A Spanish language edition of her second book was published this year in Spain, and an Italian edition of The Archive of Alternate Endings is forthcoming. A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient in Prose, she is currently the associate fiction editor of the literary journal West Branch and an assistant professor in the creative writing program at the University of Utah.
Bradford Morrow is the founding editor of Conjunctions. He is the author of ten books of fiction, including Trinity Fields, Giovanni’s Gift, The Forgers, and The Prague Sonata. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, an Academy Award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN/Nora Magid Award for excellence in editing a literary journal. A Bard Center Fellow and professor of literature at Bard College, he lives in New York City.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Are you hoping to work or intern abroad after graduation? Want to continue your education abroad?
Join Bard Abroad and the Bard CDO to learn more about opportunities within the Bard Network as well as the international job search through GoinGlobal, a powerful, subscription-only website with real-time job listings, country-specific career guides, and work visa guidance.
We will also discuss how to highlight experiences abroad in applications, from graduate school to resumes.Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Career Development Office; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Anna Jones Memorial Garden Tajikistan invaded Kyrgyzstan on September 16, 2022. As a result, 59 people were killed.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
RKC 111 Algebraic geometry is the study of ‘shapes’ cut out by polynomial equations. One of the major open problems facing mathematicians today is how to classify these shapes. More complicated shapes can be broken into basic building blocks - so to classify all varieties it suffices to classify the basic building blocks. In this talk, we’ll explain how insights in string theory have given mathematicians a promising way of classifying the building blocks using Mirror Symmetry. The key idea is that each building block should correspond to certain decorated polytopes. Given a building block, the question is then how to produce such a polytope: this is done by degenerating the equations cutting out the shape of the building block. We’ll discuss what’s known about this approach, and what’s left to do, along with explicit examples.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Sanjay Kak, The Archive of Now: Photography in Kashmir, 1986–2016
A Human Rights Project Event
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 5:30–7 pm
Olin, Room 102 Photography in Kashmir has emerged as a powerful witness to its troubled present. A new generation of photographers, rooted in photojournalism but escaping its limits when they can, have illuminated Kashmiri life in a period of upheaval. Over the last three decades their work has demonstrated the radical part that can be played by photographs in subverting established views of Kashmir—as a beautiful landscape without its people; as an innocent paradise; and more recently, of a paradise beset by mindless violence.
Witness brings together images by nine photographers from Kashmir, the oldest already a working professional in 1986, and the youngest not yet twenty in 2016. The images are by Meraj Uddin, Javeed Shah, Dar Yasin, Javed Dar, Altaf Qadri, Sumit Dayal, Showkat Nanda, Syed Shahriyar, and Azaan Shah.
The text emerged from conversations with documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak, and brings out the varied relationships that each contributor has to photography and to Kashmir, in the process raising questions about the place of artistic practice in zones of conflict.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Center for Human Rights and the Arts; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; OSUN.
For more information, call 845-758-7127, or e-mail [email protected].
Barringer House, Global Classroom Join the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence and the Center for Civic Engagement for an evening of discussion on clips from part two of the documentaryAnd She Could Be Next, which peels back the curtain on one of the most insidious threats to American democracy: voter suppression.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Cooperatives Between Worker Activism and Normalization: A Comparative Perspective
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 8–9:30 am
Online Event 8 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna
The OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative and the Democratizing Work Initiative present an online workshop on "Cooperatives Between Worker Activism and Normalization: A Comparative Perspective" with Sonia Maria Dias (WIEGO), Suroto Ph (AKSES, INKUR Federation), and Morshed Mannan (The New School NYC, European University Institute). Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen, Netherlands) and Flavia Maximo (University of Ouro Preto, Brazil) will serve as chairs.
This webinar brings together three speakers from three continents and with ample expertise about the cooperative sector and its specific challenges. Together with them, and in dialogue with the audience, we want to explore how cooperatives can contribute to the democratization, de-commodification and de-carbonization of work, and what kind of structural changes would allow more cooperatives to be successful.
Cooperatives are often seen as the democratic form of work, with workers not only sharing in governance structures, but actually owning the company. And yet, the form that cooperatives take in different countries is very distinct. In some parts of the world, they result from forms of worker activism, often in response to crisis, and are embedded in broader social struggles for social justice and the emancipation of workers. In other countries, they occupy a small but stable niche and struggle not to become normalized with regard to business practices and work relations. And in the digital sphere, the principle of cooperatives has been rediscovered in the "platform cooperativism“ movement, which sees growing interest in industries such as delivery or household services.
How much promise lies in the form of cooperatives for organizing work? Do they live up to their promise to give workers real voice in the workplace? How do the experiences in different countries compare, and what can they learn from each other? How could we ensure that more capitalist firms can turn to the cooperative form?
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Albee Basement Come by the Chaplaincy Office to knit or learn to knit. Everyone is welcome. Yarn and needles are provided. You can also join us with your own projects of crochet, needlepoint, cross stitch, etc.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Come study Pilates with Mayerli! She is an apprentice teacher who studied at “The Lab” in Chicago (2021). In this introduction mat class she will work on the basic fundamentals of Pilates. As the weeks progress she will layer on more difficult and challenging exercises. Develop a strong inner core while strengthening and lengthening other muscles. Come check out how Pilates can make you feel tall, strong, and connected!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Rhythm and the Tabla in North Indian Classical Music
Lecture Demonstration by Pandit Indranil Mallick
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 5:45–7 pm
Olin Hall Pandit or maestro Indranil Mallick is one of the finest contemporary exponents of the tabla, a treble and bass hand drum combination, originating in the Indian subcontinent that is perhaps the primary form of percussion in contemporary Hindustani classical music. The Global and International Studies Program at Bard is honored to present an interactive lecture demonstration by the maestro where he will introduce the main taals or rhythm cycles in the Hindustani classical tradition, the variants possible, and the implementation of these taals on the tabla.Sponsored by: Global and International Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Students interested in health and medicine careers, join us to hear how Bard can help support you in your field of interest. Bard faculty pre-health adviser and Bard CDO team will share an overview of resources, ways to gain experience and get involved, and academic course recommendations.
Students bring your questions!Sponsored by: Career Development Office.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability - October 2022 Virtual Open House
$65 application fee waivers available to event attendees! Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
During these open houses, prospective students have the opportunity to meet with current students, alumni and faculty from their program of interest. It's the perfect way to connect with the Bard GPS community, and get any questions answered about the student experience directly from those who know it best - the students and alumni of the programs.
What we cover:
Overview of graduate program offerings
Student experience
Alumni career outcomes
General admissions and financial aid information
A $65 application fee waiver is available at the end of the session to those who participate in the webinar.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Center for Spiritual Life Monday: Guided Meditation 6 pm-6:15: Introduction & dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation & chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Quiet contemplation Join for any length of time.
Meditation is followed by sangha community time with refreshments.
All are welcome!
First timers, experience meditators, Buddhists, seekers. We support each other quieting the mind and develop compassion, with others, ourselves, and the miraculous world around us.
Please email if you are interested in joining our sangha list for special events such as sutra studying, cultural events, dharma excursions, or extended meditation retreats.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 6, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Archives, Accessibility, and Translation: Dura-Europos and the Digital Future
Anne Hunnell Chen, Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture
Thursday, October 6, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium In the last decade, the explosion of digital surrogates for archival content online has been a huge step in the right direction in terms of providing more equitable access to information and collections. Yet major gaps and barriers still remain. Chief among those gaps is linguistic accessibility, especially where it pertains to disenfranchised stakeholder populations. Drawing on the work of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA), this talk will explore the ways in which Linked Open Useable Data (LOUD) holds promise for greater native-language discoverability, and thus accessibility, of archival content. Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin 107 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to learn about all that we do—competitive debate, public debates, debate outreach, international debates, prison debate, and more! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822 x4512, or e-mail [email protected].
American Avant-Garde Cinema 1940-1970: Alfred Leslie / Carolee Schneemann / Barbara Rubin
Thursday, October 6, 2022 7–10 pm
Avery Room 116 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
The Last Clean Shirt (Alfred Leslie, 1964, 40 mins, digital) Meat Joy (Carolee Schneemann, 1964, 11 mins, digital scan of 8mm) Christmas on Earth (Barbara Rubin, 1963, 30 mins, double projection)
Please note that tonight's screening includes sexually explicit material. Total running time approximately 78 mins.Sponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program.
For more information, call 646-729-1047, or e-mail [email protected].
In advance of Indigenous Peoples Day 2022, join Mohican veteran and retired Army Major Jo Ann Schedler for an informal conversation with students, staff, and faculty at Bard on unceded Mohican homeland on Mohican nationhood today, Mohican history in the Mahicantuck (Hudson Valley) and in Stockbridge, and Mohican political and military histories.
Jo Ann Schedler is an enrolled member of the Mohican Nation Stockbridge-Munsee Band born in 1946 on the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation in Wisconsin. She is a former member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Council. She is a direct descendent of Captain John Konkapot, who was the sachem when the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe accepted a mission in what is now Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Schedler received a degree in nursing (BSN) from Marquette University and masters of science in management (MSM) from Cardinal Stretch in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is an Army veteran with over 20 years of service. She has a great passion for Mohican and Munsee tribal history, especially military and Civil War histories. She is the author of a chapter in The Official National Park Service Handbook, American Indians and the Civil War entitled Wisconsin "American Indians in the Civil War."Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 An energizing dance fitness class featuring Latin and International music. Exercise in disguise! You'll burn lots of calories and have a great time doing it!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Shut Up & Sproj provides you with a quiet, communal space to work on your Senior Project. We meet Fridays from 3:30–5:00 pm on Zoom. By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time. Note that "Senior Project work" is anything that moves your project forward.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
The Body Is a Doorway: Ecological Embodiment and Healing beyond the Human
A reading and conversation on disabled ecologies and building alternative futures with author Sophie Strand ’16
Friday, October 7, 2022 4–5:30 pm
Bard Community Garden; Community Garden Our wounds don’t just show up in our bodies. They show up in our ecosystems. When we feel pain, we must ask where that pain is asking us to direct our gaze. What plant, landscape, ocean, mountain, or fungus resonates with our particular plight? How can we let personal illness galvanize us into greater connection with our ecosystem? What if the bodies of the disabled, survivors abuse, the neurodivergent, the chronically ill were not broken and in need of constant fixing and problematization? What if they were compasses that directed us out of anthropocentric narratives? In an age of mass extinction and ecological crisis, coming back to our bodies will not necessarily be pleasurable. But those people that live with conditions that give them non-normative physical experiences may have much to teach us about how our pain is a portal into greater participation with the “flesh of the world.”
Sophie Strand ’16 is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine will be published by Inner Traditions in fall 2022 and is available for preorder. Her ecofeminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions in spring 2023. Subscribe to her newsletter at sophiestrand.substack.com. And follow her work on Instagram: @cosmogyny and at sophiestrand.com.
Register HereSponsored by: Fisher Center; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 860-992-6472, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Celebrate the opening of the fifth annual China Now Music Festival with a program of symphonic and operatic works that evoke the streets and alleyways of the great city of Beijing, then and now. With guest performances by tenor Yi Li and soprano Menli Deng, suona player Yazhi Guo and pianist Xiaofu Ju.
Aaron Avshalomov Hutongs of Peking
Wenjing Guo Selections from the Opera Rickshaw Boy: Xiangzi and Huniu
Xiaogang Ye Symphony No.2, The Great Wall
Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
East of West, the Fifth Annual China Now Music Festival
Sunday, October 9, 2022 8–9:30 pm
Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center The opening concert of the 2022 the China Now Music Festival takes us to the streets, alleyways, and majestic outskirts of Beijing with a program featuring selections from Guo Wenjing’s opera Rickshaw Boy, Ye Xiaogang’s powerful Great Wall Symphony, and Russian-born Jewish American composer Aaron Avshalomov’s Hutongs of Peking. Jindong Cai conducts The Orchestra Now and guest soloists.
More information HERESponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Shut Up & Sproj provides you with a quiet, communal space to work on your Senior Project. We meet Mondays in Stevenson Library 402 and Fridays from 3:30–5:00 pm on Zoom. By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time. Note that "Senior Project work" is anything that moves your project forward.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-332-6159, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, October 10, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment—come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center for Spiritual Life Monday: Guided Meditation 6 pm-6:15: Introduction & dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation & chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Quiet contemplation Join for any length of time.
Meditation is followed by sangha community time with refreshments.
All are welcome!
First timers, experience meditators, Buddhists, seekers. We support each other quieting the mind and develop compassion, with others, ourselves, and the miraculous world around us.
Please email if you are interested in joining our sangha list for special events such as sutra studying, cultural events, dharma excursions, or extended meditation retreats.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Red Room 202 The tips and tricks of creating a LinkedIn page! Learn how to create an impressive LinkedIn profile. Find out how Linkedin can be a resource for you for networking, job searches, and more!Sponsored by: Career Development Office.
For more information, call 845-758-7539, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability - October 2022 Online Info Session
**$65 application fee waiver available to webinar participants!** Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
Learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.
WHAT WE COVER:
Overview of graduate program offerings
Alumni success and career outcomes
Admissions information
Prerequisite course information
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
Financial aid and scholarships
Tips for a standout application
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Fall BreakMonday, October 10, 2022 – Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Girls Write Kingston
Classes in Session!
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Albee Basement Come by the Chaplaincy Office to knit or learn to knit. Everyone is welcome. Yarn and needles are provided. You can also join us with your own projects of crochet, needlepoint, cross stitch, etc.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Come study Pilates with Mayerli! She is an apprentice teacher who studied at “The Lab” in Chicago (2021). In this introduction mat class she will work on the basic fundamentals of Pilates. As the weeks progress she will layer on more difficult and challenging exercises. Develop a strong inner core while strengthening and lengthening other muscles. Come check out how Pilates can make you feel tall, strong, and connected!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Global Debate Network: Introduction to International Student Debate
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 8:30–9:30 am
Online Event 8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna
The Global Debate Network welcomes interested OSUN students, faculty, and staff to join us and learn more about the art of argumentation and the international collegiate debate community. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
JET - Japanese Exchange Teaching - Bard Alumni/ae TALK series
Virtual info session with Bard alumna May Gryzbowski ’18
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 7–9 pm
Online Event Do you want to teach abroad? JET has hired Bardians in the past!
Bard alumna May Grzybowski ’18 will share information about the JET year-long, post-grad program and share why Bardians apply. She will give an overview of her experience with JET, information on how to apply, and the fall timelines for post-graduate positions in Japan.Sponsored by: Career Development Office.
Center for Spiritual Life Monday: Guided Meditation 6 pm-6:15: Introduction & dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation & chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Quiet contemplation Join for any length of time.
Meditation is followed by sangha community time with refreshments.
All are welcome!
First timers, experience meditators, Buddhists, seekers. We support each other quieting the mind and develop compassion, with others, ourselves, and the miraculous world around us.
Please email if you are interested in joining our sangha list for special events such as sutra studying, cultural events, dharma excursions, or extended meditation retreats.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 13, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin 107 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to learn about all that we do—competitive debate, public debates, debate outreach, international debates, prison debate, and more! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822 x4512, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, October 13, 2022 – Friday, October 14, 2022
Online Event In-person and online workshop open to the public!
Thursday, October 13th, 7 AM - 1:30 PM New York l 1-6:30 PM Vienna Friday, October 14th, 3:45-11:15 AM New York l 9:45-5:15 PM Vienna
Oyoun Kultur Neudenken Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, 12049 Berlin
Universities are often thought of as places of learning and places of research, but less often as places of solidarity. We believe that access programs for displaced learners create spaces of solidarity and community from which to think about opening up the university.
"Solidarity, Displacement, and the University," a two-part workshop sponsored by OSUN partner the Open Learning Initiative (OLIve) at CEU, explores what solidarity with those who have experienced displacement, including asylum seekers and refugees, might mean for teaching, research and the university generally. It does so from the level of the student, teacher, and institution. This entails thinking beyond the borders of the university, to communities, organizations and grassroots initiatives, and how those, in turn, feed back onto institution, teacher and student experiences.
On October 13th, participants will discuss their experiences, research, and ideas. In the October 14th session of the workshop participants will collectively decide on what type of intervention to make using the proceedings of the workshop, and in what form.
October 13th Displacement, Solidarity, Learning: Student Experiences Roundtable on Best Practices in University Admissions and Access Decolonizing Teaching
October 14th Creativity, University, Solidarity Roundtable on Solidarity and the University Medium-term Effects of Studying Within the Open Learning Initiative Two Approaches to "Teaching" Writing Open Discussion: What do We Want to Create?
Rage and Reason: Democracy Under the Tyranny of Social Media
In person registration has closed. Register for the webcast below!
Thursday, October 13, 2022 – Friday, October 14, 2022 10 am – 6 pm
Olin Hall Hannah Arendt, whose thinking is at the heart of our center, believed that persuasion was at the heart of civilized government. At the same time, however, Arendt well knew the limits of persuasion. When confronted by ingrained prejudices, ironclad ideologies, or faceless bureaucracies, reasoned persuasion stands little chance. The well-known "rage against the machine" is a rational response to a bureaucratic system of power that claims to be rational, natural, and unavoidable. The real source of rage, Arendt understood, is a sense of powerlessness born of "a much deeper hatred of bourgeois society." Arendt sees that in the face of such hypocritical quasi-rational structures of power, rage can often appear to be "the only way to set the scales of justice right again."
Rage can seem righteous just as today rage against immigrants, white people, and experts is justified by those crusaders who argue that in an unjust and hypocritical system, rage is necessary for radical political change. Such collective rage may inspire virtues of courage, loyalty, and meaning; but the virtues of rage come at a cost: It is the disintegration of the common sense and common viewpoints that unites us beyond our political, racial, class, and sexual identities.
Faith in a rational politics was shaken in the 1930s, but the rise of totalitarian governments led democracies to reject a politics of angry mobilization. We are witnessing, once again, the retreat of reason and the return of rage as a key driver of political and social relations. At a moment when materially comfortable societies are teetering and the visceral attraction of tribalism is rising all around us, we must ask how our liberal democracies can survive and thrive amidst intensifying partisanship and the decline of public reason. The flip-flopping, nonscientific nature of our collective responses to travel bans, vaccines, masks, and lockdowns make clear that public discourse is driven by emotions rather than reason.
Social Media is not to blame for the rage that is ravishing our society, but the algorithms that drive social media do allow emotional and angry opinions to spread with unprecedented vigor and vitality. It is easy to condemn social media for its filter bubbles, its spread of rumors and conspiracies, and its polarizing impact on our lives; social media is so successful in splintering our society, however, because the very foundations of liberal democracies are so tenuous. And the rage that social media thrives upon answers a real need for belonging and conflict and sacrifice at the heart of the human condition.
The Hannah Arendt Center Conference Rage and Reason responds to the undeniable fact that rage and emotions are increasingly a force in our political and cultural lives. We ask:
• How can democratic rage be harnessed in social and political movements? • Is rage essential to call out systemic and ingrained injustice? • How can a politics of rage acknowledge rational and expert authority? • If humans are tribal beings, how can they live in multicultural liberal societies? • Are experts and elites themselves simply one tribe defending their self-interests? • Must social media contribute to the fracturing of society into raging tribes? • Is there a common interest in society knowable through reason?
Above all, we ask, how can we uphold our liberal institutions and our common world in the midst of the polarization and fracturing of that world?
Campus Center, Red Room 202 Get professional photos taken for free and quick tips on your LinkedIn profile. Business casual or professional attire recommended.Sponsored by: Career Development Office.
For more information, call 845-758-7539, or e-mail [email protected].
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures will take place in Classroom 102 at CCS Bard, are free and open to the public, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
American Avant-Garde Film, 1940-1970: Kenneth Anger / Andy Warhol
Thursday, October 13, 2022 7–10 pm
Avery Room 116 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger, 1949, 7 mins) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger, 1965, 4 mins) Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1963, 30 mins) Blow Job (Andy Warhol, 1963, 40 mins, 18 fps) Screen Tests, Reel 25 (Andy Warhol, 1964-66, 10 mins, 18 fps) #1 Beverly Grant (Hair) (1964) #2 Chuck Wein (1965) #3 Peter Hujar (1964) #4 Ed Hood (1966) #5 Ivy Nicholson (1964) #6 Jane Holzer (1964) #7 Brooke Hayward (1964) #8 Sally Dennison (1964) #9 Susanne de Maria (1964) #10 Ann Buchanan (1964)
Approximate total running time 90 minsSponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program.
For more information, call 646-729-1047, or e-mail [email protected].
Painted Skin, A Ghost Story Chamber Opera 画皮 at Hudson Hall
Part of the Fifth Annual China Now Music Festival - East of West
Thursday, October 13, 2022 7–9:30 pm
Hudson Hall, 327 Warren St, Hudson, NY 12534 Painted Skin 画皮 is composer Hao Weiya’s modern operatic interpretation of a haunting story from Strange Tales of Liao Zhai* by Pu Songling (originally published in 1740).
The opera made its debut in 2018 at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center in Shanghai. For the 2022 China Now Music Festival, director Michael Hoffman and music director Jindong Cai have created a new production that transports this supernatural ghost story to modern America, and features a cast of three singers, including acclaimed NY-based Peking opera singer Qian Yi, accompanied by a 20-piece Chinese chamber orchestra.
An all new production directed by Michael Hoffman VAP ’15 and conducted by Jindong Cai.
More information HERESponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Hispanic Heritage Month: Poetry Night at the Library
Thursday, October 13, 2022 7–9 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Please join Stevenson Library and the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a night of Latin American poetry. At 7 pm, we'll stream Poet Laureate Ada Limón's inaugural reading from the Library of Congress (recorded September 29). Then at 8 pm, we'll have an open mic poetry reading. Read your favorite verse by a Latinx poet or share your own work. We'll have books on hand for inspiration. Happens on the first floor of Stevenson Library. Refreshments will be provided.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7064, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 An energizing dance fitness class featuring Latin and International music. Exercise in disguise! You'll burn lots of calories and have a great time doing it!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Shut Up & Sproj provides you with a quiet, communal space to work on your Senior Project. We meet Fridays from 3:30–5:00 pm on Zoom. By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time. Note that "Senior Project work" is anything that moves your project forward.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, October 13, 2022 – Friday, October 14, 2022
Online Event In-person and online workshop open to the public!
Thursday, October 13th, 7 AM - 1:30 PM New York l 1-6:30 PM Vienna Friday, October 14th, 3:45-11:15 AM New York l 9:45-5:15 PM Vienna
Oyoun Kultur Neudenken Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, 12049 Berlin
Universities are often thought of as places of learning and places of research, but less often as places of solidarity. We believe that access programs for displaced learners create spaces of solidarity and community from which to think about opening up the university.
"Solidarity, Displacement, and the University," a two-part workshop sponsored by OSUN partner the Open Learning Initiative (OLIve) at CEU, explores what solidarity with those who have experienced displacement, including asylum seekers and refugees, might mean for teaching, research and the university generally. It does so from the level of the student, teacher, and institution. This entails thinking beyond the borders of the university, to communities, organizations and grassroots initiatives, and how those, in turn, feed back onto institution, teacher and student experiences.
On October 13th, participants will discuss their experiences, research, and ideas. In the October 14th session of the workshop participants will collectively decide on what type of intervention to make using the proceedings of the workshop, and in what form.
October 13th Displacement, Solidarity, Learning: Student Experiences Roundtable on Best Practices in University Admissions and Access Decolonizing Teaching
October 14th Creativity, University, Solidarity Roundtable on Solidarity and the University Medium-term Effects of Studying Within the Open Learning Initiative Two Approaches to "Teaching" Writing Open Discussion: What do We Want to Create?
Rage and Reason: Democracy Under the Tyranny of Social Media
In person registration has closed. Register for the webcast below!
Thursday, October 13, 2022 – Friday, October 14, 2022 10 am – 6 pm
Olin Hall Hannah Arendt, whose thinking is at the heart of our center, believed that persuasion was at the heart of civilized government. At the same time, however, Arendt well knew the limits of persuasion. When confronted by ingrained prejudices, ironclad ideologies, or faceless bureaucracies, reasoned persuasion stands little chance. The well-known "rage against the machine" is a rational response to a bureaucratic system of power that claims to be rational, natural, and unavoidable. The real source of rage, Arendt understood, is a sense of powerlessness born of "a much deeper hatred of bourgeois society." Arendt sees that in the face of such hypocritical quasi-rational structures of power, rage can often appear to be "the only way to set the scales of justice right again."
Rage can seem righteous just as today rage against immigrants, white people, and experts is justified by those crusaders who argue that in an unjust and hypocritical system, rage is necessary for radical political change. Such collective rage may inspire virtues of courage, loyalty, and meaning; but the virtues of rage come at a cost: It is the disintegration of the common sense and common viewpoints that unites us beyond our political, racial, class, and sexual identities.
Faith in a rational politics was shaken in the 1930s, but the rise of totalitarian governments led democracies to reject a politics of angry mobilization. We are witnessing, once again, the retreat of reason and the return of rage as a key driver of political and social relations. At a moment when materially comfortable societies are teetering and the visceral attraction of tribalism is rising all around us, we must ask how our liberal democracies can survive and thrive amidst intensifying partisanship and the decline of public reason. The flip-flopping, nonscientific nature of our collective responses to travel bans, vaccines, masks, and lockdowns make clear that public discourse is driven by emotions rather than reason.
Social Media is not to blame for the rage that is ravishing our society, but the algorithms that drive social media do allow emotional and angry opinions to spread with unprecedented vigor and vitality. It is easy to condemn social media for its filter bubbles, its spread of rumors and conspiracies, and its polarizing impact on our lives; social media is so successful in splintering our society, however, because the very foundations of liberal democracies are so tenuous. And the rage that social media thrives upon answers a real need for belonging and conflict and sacrifice at the heart of the human condition.
The Hannah Arendt Center Conference Rage and Reason responds to the undeniable fact that rage and emotions are increasingly a force in our political and cultural lives. We ask:
• How can democratic rage be harnessed in social and political movements? • Is rage essential to call out systemic and ingrained injustice? • How can a politics of rage acknowledge rational and expert authority? • If humans are tribal beings, how can they live in multicultural liberal societies? • Are experts and elites themselves simply one tribe defending their self-interests? • Must social media contribute to the fracturing of society into raging tribes? • Is there a common interest in society knowable through reason?
Above all, we ask, how can we uphold our liberal institutions and our common world in the midst of the polarization and fracturing of that world?
Stevenson Library Come learn how to use this invaluable, free tool for keeping track of sources and managing citations. Happens in the library computer lab. For more information, call 845-758-7064, or e-mail [email protected].
Kappa House Come prepare and showcase your family/community-inspired Latinx cuisine! A limited budget will be made available for those who would like to prepare dishes for the event. Be on the lookout for a call for participants from the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence and the LASO! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's volleyball team hosts Skidmore and New Jersey City in a tri-match. Skidmore vs. Bard, 11 a.m. Skidmore vs. NJCU, 1 p.m. NJCU vs. Bard, 3 p.m. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lecture-Recital: "Cinderella No More," a program celebrating the viola with violist Timothy Ridout, artist-in-residence at the Birmingham Royal Conservatoire and colleagues
Saturday, October 15, 2022 11 am – 12:30 pm
Olin Hall "Cinderella No More," a lecture-recital will retrace the viola’s journey from its humble beginnings in the 19th century to its flourishing with Lionel Tertis (1976-1975) in the 20th century. The recital will include works by Flackton, Coates, Bowen, Reed, and Britten, and will feature renowned violist Timothy Ridout, artist in residence at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. He will be accompanied by viola student, Yujie Wang, and two Conservatoire colleagues: violist Louise Lansdown, head of strings, and pianist John Thwaites, head of keyboard. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
PAINTED SKIN: a Ghost Story Chamber Opera 画皮 at Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Part of the 5th Annual China Now Music Festival - East of West
Saturday, October 15, 2022 7:30–9 pm
Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center Painted Skin 画皮 is composer Hao Weiya’s modern operatic interpretation of a haunting story from Strange Tales of Liao Zhai* by Pu Songling (originally published in 1740). The opera made its debut in 2018 at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center in Shanghai. For the 2022 China Now Music Festival, director Michael Hoffman and music director Jindong Cai have created a new production that transports this supernatural ghost story to modern America, and features a cast of three singers, including acclaimed NY-based Peking opera singer Qian Yi, accompanied by a 20-piece Chinese chamber orchestra. An all new production directed by Michael Hoffman VAP '15 and conducted by Jindong Cai. more information HERE For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ticketing.jazz.org/13762/13767?_ga=2.235133569.1431828053.1662132791-961902091.1662132791.
Noise Catalogue, Featuring Percussion Alumni: Daniel Matei, Jon Collazo, Petra Elek, and Friends
Recent works by Dennis Matos, Matt Sargent, Madeline Hocking, and Daniel Matei.
Saturday, October 15, 2022 8–10 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Program Don’t be fooled by the beginning, Francis (2021) -- Dennis Matos (b.1996) Down the long tunnels at first, then under the mortal sky (2022) -- Daniel Matei (b.1994) Hajnali / Shift (world premiere) -- Madeline Hocking (b.1995) & Daniel Matei More Snow to Fall (2015) -- Matt Sargent (b.1984) Ablakomba, ablakomba… (world premiere) -- Daniel Matei Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City The Orchestra Now is thrilled to welcome back acclaimed conductor JoAnn Falletta, music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO), for her fourth appearance with TŌN. She is joined by violinist Nikki Chooi, concertmaster of the BPO, for Ravel’s rhapsodic Tzigane and Chausson’s mournful Poème.
JoAnn Fallettaconductor Nikki Chooiviolin
Roberto Sierra Fandangos Ernest Chausson Poème Maurice RavelTzigane Albert Roussel Bacchus and Ariane Suite No. 2 Paul Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Shut Up & Sproj provides you with a quiet, communal space to work on your Senior Project. We meet Mondays in Stevenson Library 402 and Fridays from 3:30–5:00 pm on Zoom. By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time. Note that "Senior Project work" is anything that moves your project forward.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-332-6159, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, October 17, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment—come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center for Spiritual Life Monday: Guided Meditation 6 pm-6:15: Introduction & dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation & chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Quiet contemplation Join for any length of time.
Meditation is followed by sangha community time with refreshments.
All are welcome!
First timers, experience meditators, Buddhists, seekers. We support each other quieting the mind and develop compassion, with others, ourselves, and the miraculous world around us.
Please email if you are interested in joining our sangha list for special events such as sutra studying, cultural events, dharma excursions, or extended meditation retreats.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space An hour-long program of short performances by Bard Conservatory students. Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Prisoners' Involvement and Power Relationships in Latin American Prisons
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 9–11:30 am
Online Event 9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna
OSUN, the Bard Prison Initiative, Incarceration Nations Network invites OSUN community members to the second session of the BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series. The session, “Prisoners' involvement and power relationships in Latin American prisons” will be led by Máximo Sozzo, Professor of Law and Society and Criminology at National University of Litoral in Argentina. He is also the director of the Program for University Education Inside Prisons and the Program on Crimes and Society at the National University of Litoral. He has published several books and articles on punishment and society and has recently edited the book Prison, Inmates and Governance in Latin America (Palgrave, 2022).
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures will take place in Classroom 102 at CCS Bard, are free and open to the public, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's volleyball team hosts Union College in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Albee Basement Come by the Chaplaincy Office to knit or learn to knit. Everyone is welcome. Yarn and needles are provided. You can also join us with your own projects of crochet, needlepoint, cross stitch, etc.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Come study Pilates with Mayerli! She is an apprentice teacher who studied at “The Lab” in Chicago (2021). In this introduction mat class she will work on the basic fundamentals of Pilates. As the weeks progress she will layer on more difficult and challenging exercises. Develop a strong inner core while strengthening and lengthening other muscles. Come check out how Pilates can make you feel tall, strong, and connected!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Reluctant Saint and the Total Ass: On Apuleius, Augustine, and Translation with Sarah Ruden
Sarah Ruden, University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 5:15–6:45 pm
Olin, Room 102 Celebrated and award-winning translator of ancient literature, Sarah Ruden, discusses her work on two authors from Roman North Africa: the "novelist" Apuleius and the "autobiographer" St. Augustine. The talk explores how the art of translation illuminates surprising overlap between apparently disparate texts: one farcical and irreverent, the other pious and philosophical.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center for Spiritual Life Monday: Guided Meditation 6 pm-6:15: Introduction & dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation & chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Quiet contemplation Join for any length of time.
Meditation is followed by sangha community time with refreshments.
All are welcome!
First timers, experience meditators, Buddhists, seekers. We support each other quieting the mind and develop compassion, with others, ourselves, and the miraculous world around us.
Please email if you are interested in joining our sangha list for special events such as sutra studying, cultural events, dharma excursions, or extended meditation retreats.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 20, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin 107 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to learn about all that we do—competitive debate, public debates, debate outreach, international debates, prison debate, and more! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822 x4512, or e-mail [email protected].
American Avant-Garde Film, 1940-1970: Films of the 1960s
Thursday, October 20, 2022 7–10 pm
Avery Room 116 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
Please note that tonight's screening includes sexually explicit material. Approximate total running time 110 mins.Sponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program.
For more information, call 646-729-1047, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 An energizing dance fitness class featuring Latin and International music. Exercise in disguise! You'll burn lots of calories and have a great time doing it!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Shut Up & Sproj provides you with a quiet, communal space to work on your Senior Project. We meet Fridays from 3:30–5:00 pm on Zoom. By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time. Note that "Senior Project work" is anything that moves your project forward.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, October 21, 2022 – Sunday, October 23, 2022
We look forward to welcoming parents, family members, and alumni/ae to campus for Family and Alumni/ae Weekend from Friday, October 21 – Sunday, October 23, 2022. The schedule is packed full of activities, showcasing just about every program on Bard’s 1,000-acre campus.
The DRE: Disturbance, Re-Animation, and Emergent Archives
A Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Conference
Friday, October 21, 2022 – Saturday, October 22, 2022
Please join us for the inaugural fall conference of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck, a Mellon Foundation Humanities for All Times project. This conference considers the topic of archives from a range of humanistic perspectives, with keynotes showcasing methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies and African and African American Studies, as well as offering the viewpoints of contemporary artists on these topics. Multimedia Northern Cheyenne artist Bently Spang will be opening the conference with a screening and talk on Thursday evening in Weis Cinema, followed by an opening reception at the Center for Experimental Humanities (New Annandale House). Keynotes by award-winning scholars Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes, presidential term chair in African American history, Rutgers University, and Dr. Elizabeth Ellis, assistant professor of history, Princeton University, and citizen, Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma, bracket a day of smaller sessions exploring and modeling ethical practices in the archive, open to students, faculty, and staff on Friday. Recipients of Rethinking Place student research funding will present on their work on Saturday morning, and the conference concludes with a talk open to the public by Oglala Lakota scholar and multimedia artist Kite (MFA ’15) at LUMA Theater at 2 pm on Saturday. The DRE is the first of three annual conferences supported by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.
Schedule Thursday, October 20, 2022 (Weis Cinema) Screening and presentation with Bently Spang
Friday, October 21, 2022 (RKC) 8:30 am: Coffee 9:00 am: Welcome and introductions 9:30 am: Opening keynote with Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes 10:30 am: Break 11:00 am: Concurrent workshops / screenings / presentations 12:45 pm: Lunch 2:00–3:45 pm: Concurrent workshops / screenings / presentations 3:45 pm: Break 4:00–5:00 pm: Closing keynote with Dr. Elizabeth Ellis
Saturday, October 22, 2022 (LUMA Theatre) Closing performance and reception with Suzanne Kite MFA ’15 (Registration info coming soon)
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Tai chi for Recovery is a mindful-moving meditation to mend mood. Learn to regulate emotions naturally with this short, easy-to-learn, slow-moving martial art form. Open to all. The guest instructor is from The Council on Addiction Prevention and Education of Dutchess County.
Space is limited. Registration recommended at [email protected].Sponsored by: Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Friday, October 21, 2022 – Sunday, October 23, 2022
We look forward to welcoming parents, family members, and alumni/ae to campus for Family and Alumni/ae Weekend from Friday, October 21 – Sunday, October 23, 2022. The schedule is packed full of activities, showcasing just about every program on Bard’s 1,000-acre campus.
The DRE: Disturbance, Re-Animation, and Emergent Archives
A Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Conference
Friday, October 21, 2022 – Saturday, October 22, 2022
Please join us for the inaugural fall conference of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck, a Mellon Foundation Humanities for All Times project. This conference considers the topic of archives from a range of humanistic perspectives, with keynotes showcasing methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies and African and African American Studies, as well as offering the viewpoints of contemporary artists on these topics. Multimedia Northern Cheyenne artist Bently Spang will be opening the conference with a screening and talk on Thursday evening in Weis Cinema, followed by an opening reception at the Center for Experimental Humanities (New Annandale House). Keynotes by award-winning scholars Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes, presidential term chair in African American history, Rutgers University, and Dr. Elizabeth Ellis, assistant professor of history, Princeton University, and citizen, Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma, bracket a day of smaller sessions exploring and modeling ethical practices in the archive, open to students, faculty, and staff on Friday. Recipients of Rethinking Place student research funding will present on their work on Saturday morning, and the conference concludes with a talk open to the public by Oglala Lakota scholar and multimedia artist Kite (MFA ’15) at LUMA Theater at 2 pm on Saturday. The DRE is the first of three annual conferences supported by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck.
Schedule Thursday, October 20, 2022 (Weis Cinema) Screening and presentation with Bently Spang
Friday, October 21, 2022 (RKC) 8:30 am: Coffee 9:00 am: Welcome and introductions 9:30 am: Opening keynote with Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes 10:30 am: Break 11:00 am: Concurrent workshops / screenings / presentations 12:45 pm: Lunch 2:00–3:45 pm: Concurrent workshops / screenings / presentations 3:45 pm: Break 4:00–5:00 pm: Closing keynote with Dr. Elizabeth Ellis
Saturday, October 22, 2022 (LUMA Theatre) Closing performance and reception with Suzanne Kite MFA ’15 (Registration info coming soon)
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The men's soccer team hosts RIT in a Liberty League match. It's Senior Day. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space This book launch honors the novel Eden Revisited, written by the late, distinguished alumnus László Z. Bitó ’60. Bitó, granted asylum from his native Hungary in 1956, went on to develop the gold standard drug for glaucoma as he pursued a celebrated scientific career at Columbia University. In later life, he devoted himself to writing and became a force in Hungarian intellectual life and philanthropy, and published numerous works. Eden Revisited is his first book to be published in English in over a decade.
The conference brings together preeminent scholars of religion who will speak to the novel’s themes: Bruce Chilton ’71, director of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard, which is copublishing the book with Natus Books, Alan Avery-Peck, Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, and Claudia Setzer, professor of religion at Manhattan College. Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, will introduce the panel. A discussion with audience members will follow the talks. This event will be livestreamed.
This event is part of Family and Alumni/ae Weekend at Bard College. Visit families.bard.edu for more information. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Makȟóčheowápi Akézaptaŋ (Fifteen Maps) explores the Hudson River site known as Cruger Island, which was “purchased” in the 19th century by John Cruger, who used it as a backdrop for stolen Mayan ruins he transported as casts from Honduras. By the 1960s, Cruger Island had become a place for archeological excavations that displaced Indigenous artifacts and remains now held by the New York State Museum. Confronting those histories, Kite interrogates these knowledge systems and explores how AI might function as a conduit for alternative ways of nonhuman knowing. In this experimental lecture, multimedia artist Kite will explore how artificial intelligence reproduces the logics of coloniality, flattening land, people, and lifeworlds into objects of knowledge—data points to be extracted.
Please join us for a post-lecture reception, held in the LUMA lobby.
Journey to the East with the Orchestra of New Asia CMS 东行乐记
Part of the Fifth Annual China Now Festival
Saturday, October 22, 2022 7:30–9:30 pm
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center The music of Alexander Tcherepnin and the art of Xu Beihong 徐悲鸿
The Fifth annual China Now Music Festival concludes with a program highlighting the aesthetic crosscurrents between East and West in the early-mid 20th century, including symphonic works in honor of the great painter Xu Beihong (1895-1953), and a rarely performed chamber opera by Russian composer Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977). Jindong Cai conducts the Orchestra of the New Asia CMS, with guest soloists including pianist Xu Fangfang, the daughter of Xu Beihong.
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra Leon Botstein, Music Director The Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Bard College Chamber Singers, Cappella Festiva, and James Bagwell, choral director
William Grant Still Fanfare for American War Heroes
Charles Ives Decoration Day Three Places in New England
Friday, October 21, 2022 – Sunday, October 23, 2022
We look forward to welcoming parents, family members, and alumni/ae to campus for Family and Alumni/ae Weekend from Friday, October 21 – Sunday, October 23, 2022. The schedule is packed full of activities, showcasing just about every program on Bard’s 1,000-acre campus.
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra Leon Botstein, Music Director The Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Bard College Chamber Singers, Cappella Festiva, and James Bagwell, choral director
William Grant Still Fanfare for American War Heroes
Charles Ives Decoration Day Three Places in New England
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Shut Up & Sproj provides you with a quiet, communal space to work on your Senior Project. We meet Mondays in Stevenson Library 402 and Fridays from 3:30–5:00 pm on Zoom. By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time. Note that "Senior Project work" is anything that moves your project forward.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-332-6159, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, October 24, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment—come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center for Spiritual Life Monday: Guided Meditation 6 pm-6:15: Introduction & dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation & chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Quiet contemplation Join for any length of time.
Meditation is followed by sangha community time with refreshments.
All are welcome!
First timers, experience meditators, Buddhists, seekers. We support each other quieting the mind and develop compassion, with others, ourselves, and the miraculous world around us.
Please email if you are interested in joining our sangha list for special events such as sutra studying, cultural events, dharma excursions, or extended meditation retreats.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Aspinwall 302 Please join us for our Literature Program Open House. The Open House will be an opportunity to meet Literature faculty, hear about next semester's courses, talk with Literature seniors and other students about their experiences, and celebrate the semester as a community.
Everyone—whether or not you've already taken a course in Literature—is welcome!Sponsored by: Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Albee Basement Come by the Chaplaincy Office to knit or learn to knit. Everyone is welcome. Yarn and needles are provided. You can also join us with your own projects of crochet, needlepoint, cross stitch, etc.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Come study Pilates with Mayerli! She is an apprentice teacher who studied at “The Lab” in Chicago (2021). In this introduction mat class she will work on the basic fundamentals of Pilates. As the weeks progress she will layer on more difficult and challenging exercises. Develop a strong inner core while strengthening and lengthening other muscles. Come check out how Pilates can make you feel tall, strong, and connected!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center for Spiritual Life Monday: Guided Meditation 6 pm-6:15: Introduction & dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation & chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Quiet contemplation Join for any length of time.
Meditation is followed by sangha community time with refreshments.
All are welcome!
First timers, experience meditators, Buddhists, seekers. We support each other quieting the mind and develop compassion, with others, ourselves, and the miraculous world around us.
Please email if you are interested in joining our sangha list for special events such as sutra studying, cultural events, dharma excursions, or extended meditation retreats.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 27, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin 107 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to learn about all that we do—competitive debate, public debates, debate outreach, international debates, prison debate, and more! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822 x4512, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event SAVE THE DATE! This fall OSUN will host two online information sessions on graduate programs offered by network member institutions and open to all individuals within the network.
These information sessions will take place: Thursday, October 27, 8-9 AM NY l 2-3 PM Vienna Wednesday, November 9, 8-9 AM NY l 2-3 PM Vienna
Sessions will be organized by breakout groups on different OSUN themes and feature presentations by program faculty.
Zoom link to come. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Professor Susannah Heschel is the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor and chair of the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College
Thursday, October 27, 2022 5:15–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102 Professor Susannah Heschel will deliver this year’s Jacob Neusner Memorial Lectures in Jewish and Religious Studies
Starting in the 1830s, Jews in Europe became prominent scholars of the Qur'an and early Islam. Emphasizing parallels between the Qur’an and rabbinic writings, they developed affirmations of Islam that differed considerably from their more negative views of Christianity. Their scholarship continued, albeit with some changes in tone, until the 1930s, and then migrated to other parts of the world. Theirs was a unique Orientalism that is recognized until today with having established the field of Islamic Studies and viewed Islam as a treasury of profound and helpful insights and as a signal of Judaism’s centrality in the construction of the West.
“White Jesus, Black Jesus, Christian Jesus, Jewish Jesus” Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 4:00pm Sixth Street Community Synagogue, 325 E. 6th Street, New York, New York
Was Jesus a Jew or a Christian? Theologians on both sides have depicted Jesus either as a pious Jew seeking to reform Judaism or as the first Christian who introduced unique ideas and a new way of being a religious person. The debate between Jewish and Christian theologians over the religious identity of Jesus grew in intensity throughout the course of the nineteenth century and played an important role in the Nazi period. My lecture will review both sides of the debate and ask where we stand in our contemporary debates, including over Jesus as a person of color. Does Christology change if Jesus was Jewish, Black, or Asian?
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Neusner Memorial Lecture fund; cosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Study of Religions, Jewish Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies programs.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
American Avant-Garde Film, 1940-1970: Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls
Thursday, October 27, 2022 7–10 pm
Avery Room 116 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol, 1966, 210 mins, double projection)Sponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program.
For more information, call 646-729-1047, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 An energizing dance fitness class featuring Latin and International music. Exercise in disguise! You'll burn lots of calories and have a great time doing it!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Shut Up & Sproj provides you with a quiet, communal space to work on your Senior Project. We meet Fridays from 3:30–5:00 pm on Zoom. By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time. Note that "Senior Project work" is anything that moves your project forward.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's soccer team hosts Skidmore in a Liberty League match. It's Senior Day. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Conductor and Music Director Leon Botstein highlights four German and Austrian composers of the early 20th century whose music was unfairly ignored or suppressed following World War II. TŌN is partnering with the Hugo Kauder Society to debut a new restoration of the Viennese composer’s First Symphony. Hear this program at the Fisher Center just days before TŌN performs it at Carnegie Hall.
Leon Botsteinconductor
Adolf Busch (arr. Peter Serkin) Variations on an Original Theme
Conductor and Music Director Leon Botstein highlights four German and Austrian composers of the early 20th century whose music was unfairly ignored or suppressed following World War II. TŌN is partnering with the Hugo Kauder Society to debut a new restoration of the Viennese composer’s First Symphony. Hear this program at the Fisher Center just days before TŌN performs it at Carnegie Hall.
Leon Botsteinconductor
Adolf Busch (arr. Peter Serkin) Variations on an Original Theme
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Shut Up & Sproj provides you with a quiet, communal space to work on your Senior Project. We meet Mondays in Stevenson Library 402 and Fridays from 3:30–5:00 pm on Zoom. By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time. Note that "Senior Project work" is anything that moves your project forward.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-332-6159, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, October 31, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment—come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Center for Spiritual Life Monday: Guided Meditation 6 pm-6:15: Introduction & dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation & chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Quiet contemplation Join for any length of time.
Meditation is followed by sangha community time with refreshments.
All are welcome!
First timers, experience meditators, Buddhists, seekers. We support each other quieting the mind and develop compassion, with others, ourselves, and the miraculous world around us.
Please email if you are interested in joining our sangha list for special events such as sutra studying, cultural events, dharma excursions, or extended meditation retreats.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space An hour-long performance by Bard Conservatory students. Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Olivier De Schutter will provide a first look at a UN report on the job guarantee being drafted in his role as the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpcOirqD8pHtd2kSEtWxmNTCZ_vlyazcfY .
Economic Democracy Keynote with UN Special Rapporteur Olivier de Schutter
Monday, October 31, 2022 12–1 pm
Online Event 1 PM New York l 7 PM Vienna
The OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative invites individuals at OSUN member institutions to attend the annual Economic Democracy Keynote with Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights & Professor of Law at UC Louvain and at SciencesPo.
De Schutter will provide a first look at the current draft of a UN report on the jobs guarantee.
Saturday, June 25, 2022 – Sunday, November 27, 2022 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition.
Saturday, June 25, 2022 – Sunday, November 27, 2022 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.
Museum Hours Sun, 11am–5pm Mon, Closed Tue, Closed Wed, 11am–5pm Thu, 11am–5pm Fri, 11am–5pm Sat, 11am–5pmSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Saturday, June 25, 2022 – Sunday, October 16, 2022 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.
Museum Hours Sun, 11am–5pm Mon, Closed Tue, Closed Wed, 11am–5pm Thu, 11am–5pm Fri, 11am–5pm Sat, 11am–5pmSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Frontispiece Portraits in African American Literature (1834 to 1949)
Monday, August 22, 2022 – Sunday, October 30, 2022
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library An exhibition of frontispiece portraits of selected first edition and rare books from the private collection of journalist Alvin Patrick. This exhibit features the portraits of some of the greatest civil rights activists of the 19th and 20th centuries including, Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Library lobby and Sussman Room display cases.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7501, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, September 1, 2022 – Friday, December 16, 2022 5–9 pm
Learning Commons Come to the Learning Commons (behind Stone Row) to arrange a session with a friendly peer tutor or to learn about our study rooms in all subjects taught at the College.
You may also contact Margaux Suinat ’22 at [email protected]. Head over to our website for more information on tutoring, study rooms and workshops.Sponsored by: Learning Commons.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
TŌN spotlights four Czech composers whose music exemplifies that country’s great symphonic legacy. The program includes Dvořák’s monumentally powerful Seventh Symphony and Janáček’s patriotic, brass-filled Sinfonietta.
Leon Botsteinconductor
Josef Suk Scherzo fantastique
Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 7
Bohuslav Martinů The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
Known for “sublime dance theater of the highest caliber,” the Fisher Center’s first-ever choreographer in residence Pam Tanowitz “has long been one of the most formally brilliant choreographers around.” (The New York Times)
Join Pam Tanowitz (Four Quartets, Song of Songs) and her critically acclaimed ensemble, Pam Tanowitz Dance, for a behind-the-scenes look into their creative process featuring work-in-progress showings of three new works and the Fisher Center premiere screening of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a film created by Jeremy Jacob during the SummerScape 2021 premiere of Pam’s work of the same title.
There will be a discussion with choreographer, Pam Tanowitz, Fisher Center Artistic Director, Gideon Lester, and film director, Jeremy Jacob immediately following the Friday and Saturday performances.
Known for “sublime dance theater of the highest caliber,” the Fisher Center’s first-ever choreographer in residence Pam Tanowitz “has long been one of the most formally brilliant choreographers around.” (The New York Times)
Join Pam Tanowitz (Four Quartets, Song of Songs) and her critically acclaimed ensemble, Pam Tanowitz Dance, for a behind-the-scenes look into their creative process featuring work-in-progress showings of three new works and the Fisher Center premiere screening of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a film created by Jeremy Jacob during the SummerScape 2021 premiere of Pam’s work of the same title.
There will be a discussion with choreographer, Pam Tanowitz, Fisher Center Artistic Director, Gideon Lester, and film director, Jeremy Jacob immediately following the Friday and Saturday performances.
TŌN spotlights four Czech composers whose music exemplifies that country’s great symphonic legacy. The program includes Dvořák’s monumentally powerful Seventh Symphony and Janáček’s patriotic, brass-filled Sinfonietta.
Leon Botsteinconductor
Josef Suk Scherzo fantastique
Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 7
Bohuslav Martinů The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
TŌN spotlights four Czech composers whose music exemplifies that country’s great symphonic legacy. The program includes Dvořák’s monumentally powerful Seventh Symphony and Janáček’s patriotic, brass-filled Sinfonietta.
Leon Botsteinconductor
Josef Suk Scherzo fantastique
Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 7
Bohuslav Martinů The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
Known for “sublime dance theater of the highest caliber,” the Fisher Center’s first-ever choreographer in residence Pam Tanowitz “has long been one of the most formally brilliant choreographers around.” (The New York Times)
Join Pam Tanowitz (Four Quartets, Song of Songs) and her critically acclaimed ensemble, Pam Tanowitz Dance, for a behind-the-scenes look into their creative process featuring work-in-progress showings of three new works and the Fisher Center premiere screening of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a film created by Jeremy Jacob during the SummerScape 2021 premiere of Pam’s work of the same title.
There will be a discussion with choreographer, Pam Tanowitz, Fisher Center Artistic Director, Gideon Lester, and film director, Jeremy Jacob immediately following the Friday and Saturday performances.
Known for “sublime dance theater of the highest caliber,” the Fisher Center’s first-ever choreographer in residence Pam Tanowitz “has long been one of the most formally brilliant choreographers around.” (The New York Times)
Join Pam Tanowitz (Four Quartets, Song of Songs) and her critically acclaimed ensemble, Pam Tanowitz Dance, for a behind-the-scenes look into their creative process featuring work-in-progress showings of three new works and the Fisher Center premiere screening of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a film created by Jeremy Jacob during the SummerScape 2021 premiere of Pam’s work of the same title.
There will be a discussion with choreographer, Pam Tanowitz, Fisher Center Artistic Director, Gideon Lester, and film director, Jeremy Jacob immediately following the Friday and Saturday performances.
Conservatory students perform works for clarinet, piano, and violin by Haydn, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Chopin, Shostakovich, and Janáček
Monday, October 3, 2022 12–1 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space An hour-long program of short performances by Bard Conservatory students. Free and open to vaccinated members of the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Shut Up & Sproj provides you with a quiet, communal space to work on your Senior Project. We meet Mondays in Stevenson Library 402 and Fridays from 3:30–5:00 pm on Zoom. By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time. Note that "Senior Project work" is anything that moves your project forward.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-332-6159, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, October 3, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment—come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us for a vigil and a protest march for Armenian lives.
Monday, October 3, 2022 5:30–7:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents In solidarity with Armenia and the Armenian diaspora, and to bring awareness to the hundred-year-long systemic oppression faced by an indigenous group on their indigenous soil.
5:30 Poster Making
6:00 Vigil at the Bard Chapel
6:45 Solidarity March to BlithewoodSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Center for Spiritual Life Monday: Guided Meditation 6 pm-6:15: Introduction & dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation & chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Quiet contemplation Join for any length of time.
Meditation is followed by sangha community time with refreshments.
All are welcome!
First timers, experience meditators, Buddhists, seekers. We support each other quieting the mind and develop compassion, with others, ourselves, and the miraculous world around us.
Please email if you are interested in joining our sangha list for special events such as sutra studying, cultural events, dharma excursions, or extended meditation retreats.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Fiction Prize winner and writer in residence at Bard College reads from her recent work
Monday, October 3, 2022 6:30–8 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, October 3 at 6:30pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Bard Fiction Prize winner Lindsey Drager will read from her work. Introduced by Bard College literature professor and novelist Bradford Morrow, the reading is free and open to the student body.
“Lindsey Drager’s wonderfully innovative novel, The Archive of Alternate Endings, takes its readers on an elliptical, speculative, philosophically intrepid journey that tracks the evolution of the old folktale, Hansel and Gretel, between 1378 and 2365, even as it redefines and revises our sense of what narrative itself can achieve,” writes the Bard Fiction Prize committee. “As Halley’s Comet revisits the Earth every 75 years, like some cosmic metronome, we encounter the siblings Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Johannes Gutenberg and his sister, and twin space probes searching the galaxy for a sister planet to our own. As we do, we witness the many ways in which Hansel and Gretel themselves are transformed along with the human experience their tale portrays. Intimate in its understanding of the multiplicities of love, here is an elegantly succinct work of art that is flat-out epic in scope. And while one may look to Borges, Calvino, Winterson, even the Terrence Malik of Tree of Life for comparison, Drager’s vision is breathtakingly original and The Archive of Alternate Endings displays the confident technique and wild inventiveness of an already accomplished literary artist emerging into virtuosity.”
Lindsey Drager is the author of three novels: The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc 2015), The Lost Daughter Collective (Dzanc 2017), and The Archive of Alternate Endings (Dzanc 2019). Her books have won a John Gardner Fiction Award and a Shirley Jackson Award; been listed as a “Best Book of the Year” in The Guardian and NPR; and twice been named a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. A Spanish language edition of her second book was published this year in Spain, and an Italian edition of The Archive of Alternate Endings is forthcoming. A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient in Prose, she is currently the associate fiction editor of the literary journal West Branch and an assistant professor in the creative writing program at the University of Utah.
Bradford Morrow is the founding editor of Conjunctions. He is the author of ten books of fiction, including Trinity Fields, Giovanni’s Gift, The Forgers, and The Prague Sonata. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, an Academy Award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN/Nora Magid Award for excellence in editing a literary journal. A Bard Center Fellow and professor of literature at Bard College, he lives in New York City.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Are you hoping to work or intern abroad after graduation? Want to continue your education abroad?
Join Bard Abroad and the Bard CDO to learn more about opportunities within the Bard Network as well as the international job search through GoinGlobal, a powerful, subscription-only website with real-time job listings, country-specific career guides, and work visa guidance.
We will also discuss how to highlight experiences abroad in applications, from graduate school to resumes.Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Career Development Office; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Anna Jones Memorial Garden Tajikistan invaded Kyrgyzstan on September 16, 2022. As a result, 59 people were killed.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
RKC 111 Algebraic geometry is the study of ‘shapes’ cut out by polynomial equations. One of the major open problems facing mathematicians today is how to classify these shapes. More complicated shapes can be broken into basic building blocks - so to classify all varieties it suffices to classify the basic building blocks. In this talk, we’ll explain how insights in string theory have given mathematicians a promising way of classifying the building blocks using Mirror Symmetry. The key idea is that each building block should correspond to certain decorated polytopes. Given a building block, the question is then how to produce such a polytope: this is done by degenerating the equations cutting out the shape of the building block. We’ll discuss what’s known about this approach, and what’s left to do, along with explicit examples.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Sanjay Kak, The Archive of Now: Photography in Kashmir, 1986–2016
A Human Rights Project Event
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 5:30–7 pm
Olin, Room 102 Photography in Kashmir has emerged as a powerful witness to its troubled present. A new generation of photographers, rooted in photojournalism but escaping its limits when they can, have illuminated Kashmiri life in a period of upheaval. Over the last three decades their work has demonstrated the radical part that can be played by photographs in subverting established views of Kashmir—as a beautiful landscape without its people; as an innocent paradise; and more recently, of a paradise beset by mindless violence.
Witness brings together images by nine photographers from Kashmir, the oldest already a working professional in 1986, and the youngest not yet twenty in 2016. The images are by Meraj Uddin, Javeed Shah, Dar Yasin, Javed Dar, Altaf Qadri, Sumit Dayal, Showkat Nanda, Syed Shahriyar, and Azaan Shah.
The text emerged from conversations with documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak, and brings out the varied relationships that each contributor has to photography and to Kashmir, in the process raising questions about the place of artistic practice in zones of conflict.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Center for Human Rights and the Arts; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; OSUN.
For more information, call 845-758-7127, or e-mail [email protected].
Barringer House, Global Classroom Join the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence and the Center for Civic Engagement for an evening of discussion on clips from part two of the documentaryAnd She Could Be Next, which peels back the curtain on one of the most insidious threats to American democracy: voter suppression.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Cooperatives Between Worker Activism and Normalization: A Comparative Perspective
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 8–9:30 am
Online Event 8 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna
The OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative and the Democratizing Work Initiative present an online workshop on "Cooperatives Between Worker Activism and Normalization: A Comparative Perspective" with Sonia Maria Dias (WIEGO), Suroto Ph (AKSES, INKUR Federation), and Morshed Mannan (The New School NYC, European University Institute). Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen, Netherlands) and Flavia Maximo (University of Ouro Preto, Brazil) will serve as chairs.
This webinar brings together three speakers from three continents and with ample expertise about the cooperative sector and its specific challenges. Together with them, and in dialogue with the audience, we want to explore how cooperatives can contribute to the democratization, de-commodification and de-carbonization of work, and what kind of structural changes would allow more cooperatives to be successful.
Cooperatives are often seen as the democratic form of work, with workers not only sharing in governance structures, but actually owning the company. And yet, the form that cooperatives take in different countries is very distinct. In some parts of the world, they result from forms of worker activism, often in response to crisis, and are embedded in broader social struggles for social justice and the emancipation of workers. In other countries, they occupy a small but stable niche and struggle not to become normalized with regard to business practices and work relations. And in the digital sphere, the principle of cooperatives has been rediscovered in the "platform cooperativism“ movement, which sees growing interest in industries such as delivery or household services.
How much promise lies in the form of cooperatives for organizing work? Do they live up to their promise to give workers real voice in the workplace? How do the experiences in different countries compare, and what can they learn from each other? How could we ensure that more capitalist firms can turn to the cooperative form?
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Albee Basement Come by the Chaplaincy Office to knit or learn to knit. Everyone is welcome. Yarn and needles are provided. You can also join us with your own projects of crochet, needlepoint, cross stitch, etc.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Come study Pilates with Mayerli! She is an apprentice teacher who studied at “The Lab” in Chicago (2021). In this introduction mat class she will work on the basic fundamentals of Pilates. As the weeks progress she will layer on more difficult and challenging exercises. Develop a strong inner core while strengthening and lengthening other muscles. Come check out how Pilates can make you feel tall, strong, and connected!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Rhythm and the Tabla in North Indian Classical Music
Lecture Demonstration by Pandit Indranil Mallick
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 5:45–7 pm
Olin Hall Pandit or maestro Indranil Mallick is one of the finest contemporary exponents of the tabla, a treble and bass hand drum combination, originating in the Indian subcontinent that is perhaps the primary form of percussion in contemporary Hindustani classical music. The Global and International Studies Program at Bard is honored to present an interactive lecture demonstration by the maestro where he will introduce the main taals or rhythm cycles in the Hindustani classical tradition, the variants possible, and the implementation of these taals on the tabla.Sponsored by: Global and International Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Students interested in health and medicine careers, join us to hear how Bard can help support you in your field of interest. Bard faculty pre-health adviser and Bard CDO team will share an overview of resources, ways to gain experience and get involved, and academic course recommendations.
Students bring your questions!Sponsored by: Career Development Office.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability - October 2022 Virtual Open House
$65 application fee waivers available to event attendees! Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
During these open houses, prospective students have the opportunity to meet with current students, alumni and faculty from their program of interest. It's the perfect way to connect with the Bard GPS community, and get any questions answered about the student experience directly from those who know it best - the students and alumni of the programs.
What we cover:
Overview of graduate program offerings
Student experience
Alumni career outcomes
General admissions and financial aid information
A $65 application fee waiver is available at the end of the session to those who participate in the webinar.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Center for Spiritual Life Monday: Guided Meditation 6 pm-6:15: Introduction & dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation & chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Quiet contemplation Join for any length of time.
Meditation is followed by sangha community time with refreshments.
All are welcome!
First timers, experience meditators, Buddhists, seekers. We support each other quieting the mind and develop compassion, with others, ourselves, and the miraculous world around us.
Please email if you are interested in joining our sangha list for special events such as sutra studying, cultural events, dharma excursions, or extended meditation retreats.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 6, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Archives, Accessibility, and Translation: Dura-Europos and the Digital Future
Anne Hunnell Chen, Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture
Thursday, October 6, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium In the last decade, the explosion of digital surrogates for archival content online has been a huge step in the right direction in terms of providing more equitable access to information and collections. Yet major gaps and barriers still remain. Chief among those gaps is linguistic accessibility, especially where it pertains to disenfranchised stakeholder populations. Drawing on the work of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA), this talk will explore the ways in which Linked Open Useable Data (LOUD) holds promise for greater native-language discoverability, and thus accessibility, of archival content. Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin 107 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to learn about all that we do—competitive debate, public debates, debate outreach, international debates, prison debate, and more! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822 x4512, or e-mail [email protected].
American Avant-Garde Cinema 1940-1970: Alfred Leslie / Carolee Schneemann / Barbara Rubin
Thursday, October 6, 2022 7–10 pm
Avery Room 116 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
The Last Clean Shirt (Alfred Leslie, 1964, 40 mins, digital) Meat Joy (Carolee Schneemann, 1964, 11 mins, digital scan of 8mm) Christmas on Earth (Barbara Rubin, 1963, 30 mins, double projection)
Please note that tonight's screening includes sexually explicit material. Total running time approximately 78 mins.Sponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program.
For more information, call 646-729-1047, or e-mail [email protected].
In advance of Indigenous Peoples Day 2022, join Mohican veteran and retired Army Major Jo Ann Schedler for an informal conversation with students, staff, and faculty at Bard on unceded Mohican homeland on Mohican nationhood today, Mohican history in the Mahicantuck (Hudson Valley) and in Stockbridge, and Mohican political and military histories.
Jo Ann Schedler is an enrolled member of the Mohican Nation Stockbridge-Munsee Band born in 1946 on the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation in Wisconsin. She is a former member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Council. She is a direct descendent of Captain John Konkapot, who was the sachem when the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe accepted a mission in what is now Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Schedler received a degree in nursing (BSN) from Marquette University and masters of science in management (MSM) from Cardinal Stretch in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is an Army veteran with over 20 years of service. She has a great passion for Mohican and Munsee tribal history, especially military and Civil War histories. She is the author of a chapter in The Official National Park Service Handbook, American Indians and the Civil War entitled Wisconsin "American Indians in the Civil War."Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 An energizing dance fitness class featuring Latin and International music. Exercise in disguise! You'll burn lots of calories and have a great time doing it!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Shut Up & Sproj provides you with a quiet, communal space to work on your Senior Project. We meet Fridays from 3:30–5:00 pm on Zoom. By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time. Note that "Senior Project work" is anything that moves your project forward.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
The Body Is a Doorway: Ecological Embodiment and Healing beyond the Human
A reading and conversation on disabled ecologies and building alternative futures with author Sophie Strand ’16
Friday, October 7, 2022 4–5:30 pm
Bard Community Garden; Community Garden Our wounds don’t just show up in our bodies. They show up in our ecosystems. When we feel pain, we must ask where that pain is asking us to direct our gaze. What plant, landscape, ocean, mountain, or fungus resonates with our particular plight? How can we let personal illness galvanize us into greater connection with our ecosystem? What if the bodies of the disabled, survivors abuse, the neurodivergent, the chronically ill were not broken and in need of constant fixing and problematization? What if they were compasses that directed us out of anthropocentric narratives? In an age of mass extinction and ecological crisis, coming back to our bodies will not necessarily be pleasurable. But those people that live with conditions that give them non-normative physical experiences may have much to teach us about how our pain is a portal into greater participation with the “flesh of the world.”
Sophie Strand ’16 is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine will be published by Inner Traditions in fall 2022 and is available for preorder. Her ecofeminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions in spring 2023. Subscribe to her newsletter at sophiestrand.substack.com. And follow her work on Instagram: @cosmogyny and at sophiestrand.com.
Register HereSponsored by: Fisher Center; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 860-992-6472, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Celebrate the opening of the fifth annual China Now Music Festival with a program of symphonic and operatic works that evoke the streets and alleyways of the great city of Beijing, then and now. With guest performances by tenor Yi Li and soprano Menli Deng, suona player Yazhi Guo and pianist Xiaofu Ju.
Aaron Avshalomov Hutongs of Peking
Wenjing Guo Selections from the Opera Rickshaw Boy: Xiangzi and Huniu
Xiaogang Ye Symphony No.2, The Great Wall
Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
East of West, the Fifth Annual China Now Music Festival
Sunday, October 9, 2022 8–9:30 pm
Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center The opening concert of the 2022 the China Now Music Festival takes us to the streets, alleyways, and majestic outskirts of Beijing with a program featuring selections from Guo Wenjing’s opera Rickshaw Boy, Ye Xiaogang’s powerful Great Wall Symphony, and Russian-born Jewish American composer Aaron Avshalomov’s Hutongs of Peking. Jindong Cai conducts The Orchestra Now and guest soloists.
More information HERESponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Shut Up & Sproj provides you with a quiet, communal space to work on your Senior Project. We meet Mondays in Stevenson Library 402 and Fridays from 3:30–5:00 pm on Zoom. By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time. Note that "Senior Project work" is anything that moves your project forward.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-332-6159, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, October 10, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment—come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center for Spiritual Life Monday: Guided Meditation 6 pm-6:15: Introduction & dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation & chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Quiet contemplation Join for any length of time.
Meditation is followed by sangha community time with refreshments.
All are welcome!
First timers, experience meditators, Buddhists, seekers. We support each other quieting the mind and develop compassion, with others, ourselves, and the miraculous world around us.
Please email if you are interested in joining our sangha list for special events such as sutra studying, cultural events, dharma excursions, or extended meditation retreats.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Red Room 202 The tips and tricks of creating a LinkedIn page! Learn how to create an impressive LinkedIn profile. Find out how Linkedin can be a resource for you for networking, job searches, and more!Sponsored by: Career Development Office.
For more information, call 845-758-7539, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability - October 2022 Online Info Session
**$65 application fee waiver available to webinar participants!** Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
Learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.
WHAT WE COVER:
Overview of graduate program offerings
Alumni success and career outcomes
Admissions information
Prerequisite course information
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
Financial aid and scholarships
Tips for a standout application
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Albee Basement Come by the Chaplaincy Office to knit or learn to knit. Everyone is welcome. Yarn and needles are provided. You can also join us with your own projects of crochet, needlepoint, cross stitch, etc.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Come study Pilates with Mayerli! She is an apprentice teacher who studied at “The Lab” in Chicago (2021). In this introduction mat class she will work on the basic fundamentals of Pilates. As the weeks progress she will layer on more difficult and challenging exercises. Develop a strong inner core while strengthening and lengthening other muscles. Come check out how Pilates can make you feel tall, strong, and connected!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Global Debate Network: Introduction to International Student Debate
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 8:30–9:30 am
Online Event 8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna
The Global Debate Network welcomes interested OSUN students, faculty, and staff to join us and learn more about the art of argumentation and the international collegiate debate community. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
JET - Japanese Exchange Teaching - Bard Alumni/ae TALK series
Virtual info session with Bard alumna May Gryzbowski ’18
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 7–9 pm
Online Event Do you want to teach abroad? JET has hired Bardians in the past!
Bard alumna May Grzybowski ’18 will share information about the JET year-long, post-grad program and share why Bardians apply. She will give an overview of her experience with JET, information on how to apply, and the fall timelines for post-graduate positions in Japan.Sponsored by: Career Development Office.
Center for Spiritual Life Monday: Guided Meditation 6 pm-6:15: Introduction & dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation & chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Quiet contemplation Join for any length of time.
Meditation is followed by sangha community time with refreshments.
All are welcome!
First timers, experience meditators, Buddhists, seekers. We support each other quieting the mind and develop compassion, with others, ourselves, and the miraculous world around us.
Please email if you are interested in joining our sangha list for special events such as sutra studying, cultural events, dharma excursions, or extended meditation retreats.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 13, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin 107 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to learn about all that we do—competitive debate, public debates, debate outreach, international debates, prison debate, and more! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822 x4512, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, October 13, 2022 – Friday, October 14, 2022
Online Event In-person and online workshop open to the public!
Thursday, October 13th, 7 AM - 1:30 PM New York l 1-6:30 PM Vienna Friday, October 14th, 3:45-11:15 AM New York l 9:45-5:15 PM Vienna
Oyoun Kultur Neudenken Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, 12049 Berlin
Universities are often thought of as places of learning and places of research, but less often as places of solidarity. We believe that access programs for displaced learners create spaces of solidarity and community from which to think about opening up the university.
"Solidarity, Displacement, and the University," a two-part workshop sponsored by OSUN partner the Open Learning Initiative (OLIve) at CEU, explores what solidarity with those who have experienced displacement, including asylum seekers and refugees, might mean for teaching, research and the university generally. It does so from the level of the student, teacher, and institution. This entails thinking beyond the borders of the university, to communities, organizations and grassroots initiatives, and how those, in turn, feed back onto institution, teacher and student experiences.
On October 13th, participants will discuss their experiences, research, and ideas. In the October 14th session of the workshop participants will collectively decide on what type of intervention to make using the proceedings of the workshop, and in what form.
October 13th Displacement, Solidarity, Learning: Student Experiences Roundtable on Best Practices in University Admissions and Access Decolonizing Teaching
October 14th Creativity, University, Solidarity Roundtable on Solidarity and the University Medium-term Effects of Studying Within the Open Learning Initiative Two Approaches to "Teaching" Writing Open Discussion: What do We Want to Create?
Rage and Reason: Democracy Under the Tyranny of Social Media
In person registration has closed. Register for the webcast below!
Thursday, October 13, 2022 – Friday, October 14, 2022 10 am – 6 pm
Olin Hall Hannah Arendt, whose thinking is at the heart of our center, believed that persuasion was at the heart of civilized government. At the same time, however, Arendt well knew the limits of persuasion. When confronted by ingrained prejudices, ironclad ideologies, or faceless bureaucracies, reasoned persuasion stands little chance. The well-known "rage against the machine" is a rational response to a bureaucratic system of power that claims to be rational, natural, and unavoidable. The real source of rage, Arendt understood, is a sense of powerlessness born of "a much deeper hatred of bourgeois society." Arendt sees that in the face of such hypocritical quasi-rational structures of power, rage can often appear to be "the only way to set the scales of justice right again."
Rage can seem righteous just as today rage against immigrants, white people, and experts is justified by those crusaders who argue that in an unjust and hypocritical system, rage is necessary for radical political change. Such collective rage may inspire virtues of courage, loyalty, and meaning; but the virtues of rage come at a cost: It is the disintegration of the common sense and common viewpoints that unites us beyond our political, racial, class, and sexual identities.
Faith in a rational politics was shaken in the 1930s, but the rise of totalitarian governments led democracies to reject a politics of angry mobilization. We are witnessing, once again, the retreat of reason and the return of rage as a key driver of political and social relations. At a moment when materially comfortable societies are teetering and the visceral attraction of tribalism is rising all around us, we must ask how our liberal democracies can survive and thrive amidst intensifying partisanship and the decline of public reason. The flip-flopping, nonscientific nature of our collective responses to travel bans, vaccines, masks, and lockdowns make clear that public discourse is driven by emotions rather than reason.
Social Media is not to blame for the rage that is ravishing our society, but the algorithms that drive social media do allow emotional and angry opinions to spread with unprecedented vigor and vitality. It is easy to condemn social media for its filter bubbles, its spread of rumors and conspiracies, and its polarizing impact on our lives; social media is so successful in splintering our society, however, because the very foundations of liberal democracies are so tenuous. And the rage that social media thrives upon answers a real need for belonging and conflict and sacrifice at the heart of the human condition.
The Hannah Arendt Center Conference Rage and Reason responds to the undeniable fact that rage and emotions are increasingly a force in our political and cultural lives. We ask:
• How can democratic rage be harnessed in social and political movements? • Is rage essential to call out systemic and ingrained injustice? • How can a politics of rage acknowledge rational and expert authority? • If humans are tribal beings, how can they live in multicultural liberal societies? • Are experts and elites themselves simply one tribe defending their self-interests? • Must social media contribute to the fracturing of society into raging tribes? • Is there a common interest in society knowable through reason?
Above all, we ask, how can we uphold our liberal institutions and our common world in the midst of the polarization and fracturing of that world?
Campus Center, Red Room 202 Get professional photos taken for free and quick tips on your LinkedIn profile. Business casual or professional attire recommended.Sponsored by: Career Development Office.
For more information, call 845-758-7539, or e-mail [email protected].
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures will take place in Classroom 102 at CCS Bard, are free and open to the public, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
American Avant-Garde Film, 1940-1970: Kenneth Anger / Andy Warhol
Thursday, October 13, 2022 7–10 pm
Avery Room 116 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger, 1949, 7 mins) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger, 1965, 4 mins) Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1963, 30 mins) Blow Job (Andy Warhol, 1963, 40 mins, 18 fps) Screen Tests, Reel 25 (Andy Warhol, 1964-66, 10 mins, 18 fps) #1 Beverly Grant (Hair) (1964) #2 Chuck Wein (1965) #3 Peter Hujar (1964) #4 Ed Hood (1966) #5 Ivy Nicholson (1964) #6 Jane Holzer (1964) #7 Brooke Hayward (1964) #8 Sally Dennison (1964) #9 Susanne de Maria (1964) #10 Ann Buchanan (1964)
Approximate total running time 90 minsSponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program.
For more information, call 646-729-1047, or e-mail [email protected].
Painted Skin, A Ghost Story Chamber Opera 画皮 at Hudson Hall
Part of the Fifth Annual China Now Music Festival - East of West
Thursday, October 13, 2022 7–9:30 pm
Hudson Hall, 327 Warren St, Hudson, NY 12534 Painted Skin 画皮 is composer Hao Weiya’s modern operatic interpretation of a haunting story from Strange Tales of Liao Zhai* by Pu Songling (originally published in 1740).
The opera made its debut in 2018 at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center in Shanghai. For the 2022 China Now Music Festival, director Michael Hoffman and music director Jindong Cai have created a new production that transports this supernatural ghost story to modern America, and features a cast of three singers, including acclaimed NY-based Peking opera singer Qian Yi, accompanied by a 20-piece Chinese chamber orchestra.
An all new production directed by Michael Hoffman VAP ’15 and conducted by Jindong Cai.
More information HERESponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Hispanic Heritage Month: Poetry Night at the Library
Thursday, October 13, 2022 7–9 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Please join Stevenson Library and the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a night of Latin American poetry. At 7 pm, we'll stream Poet Laureate Ada Limón's inaugural reading from the Library of Congress (recorded September 29). Then at 8 pm, we'll have an open mic poetry reading. Read your favorite verse by a Latinx poet or share your own work. We'll have books on hand for inspiration. Happens on the first floor of Stevenson Library. Refreshments will be provided.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7064, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 An energizing dance fitness class featuring Latin and International music. Exercise in disguise! You'll burn lots of calories and have a great time doing it!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Shut Up & Sproj provides you with a quiet, communal space to work on your Senior Project. We meet Fridays from 3:30–5:00 pm on Zoom. By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time. Note that "Senior Project work" is anything that moves your project forward.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, October 13, 2022 – Friday, October 14, 2022
Online Event In-person and online workshop open to the public!
Thursday, October 13th, 7 AM - 1:30 PM New York l 1-6:30 PM Vienna Friday, October 14th, 3:45-11:15 AM New York l 9:45-5:15 PM Vienna
Oyoun Kultur Neudenken Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, 12049 Berlin
Universities are often thought of as places of learning and places of research, but less often as places of solidarity. We believe that access programs for displaced learners create spaces of solidarity and community from which to think about opening up the university.
"Solidarity, Displacement, and the University," a two-part workshop sponsored by OSUN partner the Open Learning Initiative (OLIve) at CEU, explores what solidarity with those who have experienced displacement, including asylum seekers and refugees, might mean for teaching, research and the university generally. It does so from the level of the student, teacher, and institution. This entails thinking beyond the borders of the university, to communities, organizations and grassroots initiatives, and how those, in turn, feed back onto institution, teacher and student experiences.
On October 13th, participants will discuss their experiences, research, and ideas. In the October 14th session of the workshop participants will collectively decide on what type of intervention to make using the proceedings of the workshop, and in what form.
October 13th Displacement, Solidarity, Learning: Student Experiences Roundtable on Best Practices in University Admissions and Access Decolonizing Teaching
October 14th Creativity, University, Solidarity Roundtable on Solidarity and the University Medium-term Effects of Studying Within the Open Learning Initiative Two Approaches to "Teaching" Writing Open Discussion: What do We Want to Create?
Rage and Reason: Democracy Under the Tyranny of Social Media
In person registration has closed. Register for the webcast below!
Thursday, October 13, 2022 – Friday, October 14, 2022 10 am – 6 pm
Olin Hall Hannah Arendt, whose thinking is at the heart of our center, believed that persuasion was at the heart of civilized government. At the same time, however, Arendt well knew the limits of persuasion. When confronted by ingrained prejudices, ironclad ideologies, or faceless bureaucracies, reasoned persuasion stands little chance. The well-known "rage against the machine" is a rational response to a bureaucratic system of power that claims to be rational, natural, and unavoidable. The real source of rage, Arendt understood, is a sense of powerlessness born of "a much deeper hatred of bourgeois society." Arendt sees that in the face of such hypocritical quasi-rational structures of power, rage can often appear to be "the only way to set the scales of justice right again."
Rage can seem righteous just as today rage against immigrants, white people, and experts is justified by those crusaders who argue that in an unjust and hypocritical system, rage is necessary for radical political change. Such collective rage may inspire virtues of courage, loyalty, and meaning; but the virtues of rage come at a cost: It is the disintegration of the common sense and common viewpoints that unites us beyond our political, racial, class, and sexual identities.
Faith in a rational politics was shaken in the 1930s, but the rise of totalitarian governments led democracies to reject a politics of angry mobilization. We are witnessing, once again, the retreat of reason and the return of rage as a key driver of political and social relations. At a moment when materially comfortable societies are teetering and the visceral attraction of tribalism is rising all around us, we must ask how our liberal democracies can survive and thrive amidst intensifying partisanship and the decline of public reason. The flip-flopping, nonscientific nature of our collective responses to travel bans, vaccines, masks, and lockdowns make clear that public discourse is driven by emotions rather than reason.
Social Media is not to blame for the rage that is ravishing our society, but the algorithms that drive social media do allow emotional and angry opinions to spread with unprecedented vigor and vitality. It is easy to condemn social media for its filter bubbles, its spread of rumors and conspiracies, and its polarizing impact on our lives; social media is so successful in splintering our society, however, because the very foundations of liberal democracies are so tenuous. And the rage that social media thrives upon answers a real need for belonging and conflict and sacrifice at the heart of the human condition.
The Hannah Arendt Center Conference Rage and Reason responds to the undeniable fact that rage and emotions are increasingly a force in our political and cultural lives. We ask:
• How can democratic rage be harnessed in social and political movements? • Is rage essential to call out systemic and ingrained injustice? • How can a politics of rage acknowledge rational and expert authority? • If humans are tribal beings, how can they live in multicultural liberal societies? • Are experts and elites themselves simply one tribe defending their self-interests? • Must social media contribute to the fracturing of society into raging tribes? • Is there a common interest in society knowable through reason?
Above all, we ask, how can we uphold our liberal institutions and our common world in the midst of the polarization and fracturing of that world?
Stevenson Library Come learn how to use this invaluable, free tool for keeping track of sources and managing citations. Happens in the library computer lab. For more information, call 845-758-7064, or e-mail [email protected].
Kappa House Come prepare and showcase your family/community-inspired Latinx cuisine! A limited budget will be made available for those who would like to prepare dishes for the event. Be on the lookout for a call for participants from the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence and the LASO! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's volleyball team hosts Skidmore and New Jersey City in a tri-match. Skidmore vs. Bard, 11 a.m. Skidmore vs. NJCU, 1 p.m. NJCU vs. Bard, 3 p.m. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lecture-Recital: "Cinderella No More," a program celebrating the viola with violist Timothy Ridout, artist-in-residence at the Birmingham Royal Conservatoire and colleagues
Saturday, October 15, 2022 11 am – 12:30 pm
Olin Hall "Cinderella No More," a lecture-recital will retrace the viola’s journey from its humble beginnings in the 19th century to its flourishing with Lionel Tertis (1976-1975) in the 20th century. The recital will include works by Flackton, Coates, Bowen, Reed, and Britten, and will feature renowned violist Timothy Ridout, artist in residence at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. He will be accompanied by viola student, Yujie Wang, and two Conservatoire colleagues: violist Louise Lansdown, head of strings, and pianist John Thwaites, head of keyboard. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
PAINTED SKIN: a Ghost Story Chamber Opera 画皮 at Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Part of the 5th Annual China Now Music Festival - East of West
Saturday, October 15, 2022 7:30–9 pm
Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center Painted Skin 画皮 is composer Hao Weiya’s modern operatic interpretation of a haunting story from Strange Tales of Liao Zhai* by Pu Songling (originally published in 1740). The opera made its debut in 2018 at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center in Shanghai. For the 2022 China Now Music Festival, director Michael Hoffman and music director Jindong Cai have created a new production that transports this supernatural ghost story to modern America, and features a cast of three singers, including acclaimed NY-based Peking opera singer Qian Yi, accompanied by a 20-piece Chinese chamber orchestra. An all new production directed by Michael Hoffman VAP '15 and conducted by Jindong Cai. more information HERE For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ticketing.jazz.org/13762/13767?_ga=2.235133569.1431828053.1662132791-961902091.1662132791.
Noise Catalogue, Featuring Percussion Alumni: Daniel Matei, Jon Collazo, Petra Elek, and Friends
Recent works by Dennis Matos, Matt Sargent, Madeline Hocking, and Daniel Matei.
Saturday, October 15, 2022 8–10 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Program Don’t be fooled by the beginning, Francis (2021) -- Dennis Matos (b.1996) Down the long tunnels at first, then under the mortal sky (2022) -- Daniel Matei (b.1994) Hajnali / Shift (world premiere) -- Madeline Hocking (b.1995) & Daniel Matei More Snow to Fall (2015) -- Matt Sargent (b.1984) Ablakomba, ablakomba… (world premiere) -- Daniel Matei Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City The Orchestra Now is thrilled to welcome back acclaimed conductor JoAnn Falletta, music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO), for her fourth appearance with TŌN. She is joined by violinist Nikki Chooi, concertmaster of the BPO, for Ravel’s rhapsodic Tzigane and Chausson’s mournful Poème.
JoAnn Fallettaconductor Nikki Chooiviolin
Roberto Sierra Fandangos Ernest Chausson Poème Maurice RavelTzigane Albert Roussel Bacchus and Ariane Suite No. 2 Paul Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Shut Up & Sproj provides you with a quiet, communal space to work on your Senior Project. We meet Mondays in Stevenson Library 402 and Fridays from 3:30–5:00 pm on Zoom. By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time. Note that "Senior Project work" is anything that moves your project forward.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-332-6159, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, October 17, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment—come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center for Spiritual Life Monday: Guided Meditation 6 pm-6:15: Introduction & dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation & chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Quiet contemplation Join for any length of time.
Meditation is followed by sangha community time with refreshments.
All are welcome!
First timers, experience meditators, Buddhists, seekers. We support each other quieting the mind and develop compassion, with others, ourselves, and the miraculous world around us.
Please email if you are interested in joining our sangha list for special events such as sutra studying, cultural events, dharma excursions, or extended meditation retreats.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space An hour-long program of short performances by Bard Conservatory students. Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Prisoners' Involvement and Power Relationships in Latin American Prisons
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 9–11:30 am
Online Event 9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna
OSUN, the Bard Prison Initiative, Incarceration Nations Network invites OSUN community members to the second session of the BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series. The session, “Prisoners' involvement and power relationships in Latin American prisons” will be led by Máximo Sozzo, Professor of Law and Society and Criminology at National University of Litoral in Argentina. He is also the director of the Program for University Education Inside Prisons and the Program on Crimes and Society at the National University of Litoral. He has published several books and articles on punishment and society and has recently edited the book Prison, Inmates and Governance in Latin America (Palgrave, 2022).
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures will take place in Classroom 102 at CCS Bard, are free and open to the public, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's volleyball team hosts Union College in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Albee Basement Come by the Chaplaincy Office to knit or learn to knit. Everyone is welcome. Yarn and needles are provided. You can also join us with your own projects of crochet, needlepoint, cross stitch, etc.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Come study Pilates with Mayerli! She is an apprentice teacher who studied at “The Lab” in Chicago (2021). In this introduction mat class she will work on the basic fundamentals of Pilates. As the weeks progress she will layer on more difficult and challenging exercises. Develop a strong inner core while strengthening and lengthening other muscles. Come check out how Pilates can make you feel tall, strong, and connected!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Reluctant Saint and the Total Ass: On Apuleius, Augustine, and Translation with Sarah Ruden
Sarah Ruden, University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 5:15–6:45 pm
Olin, Room 102 Celebrated and award-winning translator of ancient literature, Sarah Ruden, discusses her work on two authors from Roman North Africa: the "novelist" Apuleius and the "autobiographer" St. Augustine. The talk explores how the art of translation illuminates surprising overlap between apparently disparate texts: one farcical and irreverent, the other pious and philosophical.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center for Spiritual Life Monday: Guided Meditation 6 pm-6:15: Introduction & dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation & chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Quiet contemplation Join for any length of time.
Meditation is followed by sangha community time with refreshments.
All are welcome!
First timers, experience meditators, Buddhists, seekers. We support each other quieting the mind and develop compassion, with others, ourselves, and the miraculous world around us.
Please email if you are interested in joining our sangha list for special events such as sutra studying, cultural events, dharma excursions, or extended meditation retreats.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 20, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin 107 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to learn about all that we do—competitive debate, public debates, debate outreach, international debates, prison debate, and more! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822 x4512, or e-mail [email protected].
American Avant-Garde Film, 1940-1970: Films of the 1960s
Thursday, October 20, 2022 7–10 pm
Avery Room 116 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
Please note that tonight's screening includes sexually explicit material. Approximate total running time 110 mins.Sponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program.
For more information, call 646-729-1047, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 An energizing dance fitness class featuring Latin and International music. Exercise in disguise! You'll burn lots of calories and have a great time doing it!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail
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