Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more.
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 9 am – 5 pm
Acupuncture is offered at the Center for Spiritual Life at discounted rates for students, faculty, and staff various days a week with two different practitioners. Please call, text, or email to schedule an appointment, or for more information see below. Some insurance policies cover acupuncture.
To schedule an appointment contact : Dr. Sarah Heslip, LAc DACM email [email protected] or text 413 842 7798 or Philip Brown, MA LAc email [email protected] or text 845-943-7644 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 1, 2024 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; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Open Office Hours With Campus Advocate Tam Cacchione
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 12–2 pm
Sottery Hall Bard College’s Campus Advocate Tamara (Tam) Cacchione will host regular office hours in Sottery 107 on Tuesdays from 12–2 pm.
Tam works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support(CVSS) in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can come to Sottery anytime between 12 and 2 pm.
If you would like to schedule a meeting in advance, you can reach out to Tam directly at [email protected] or to the Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination at [email protected] with your request. 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].
Online Event A J-1 Scholar Orientation is being offered on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 via zoom. All recently-arrived J-1 Scholars and department representatives are welcome to attend.
Health and Counseling Services This is a supportive and caring community where you can talk to other students who understand the experience of losing a loved one. The co-facilitators are Joshua Boettiger, Jewish Chaplain at Bard, and Sherry Ou-yang, Counselor at Bard.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Grand opening of the library's new accessible entrance!
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 3:30–5:30 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Join us to celebrate the opening of the newly redesigned, accessible lower level entrance at Stevenson Library! The lower level has been completely redesigned to accomodate a public, accessible, ground-level entrance from the north side of campus, and features new study and gathering space and a new location for course reserves.
The redesign was completed in collaboration with Disability Access Services, with support from the Bard Reading Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
Blithewood The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network is hosting an opening reception for "To Be Named: Palestine." Curated by Vivien Sansour and supported by Open Society University Network, this online exhibition features artists and filmmakers based in both Palestine and the Palestine Diaspora. The opening will include a short screening of several artists in conversation with each other. Refreshments provided.
As a multi-site, multidisciplinary exhibition, "To Be—Named" reflects on how names are created and used to shape, reshape, and sometimes mis-shape, our worlds and identities.
Artists include: Laura Menchaca and Khader H. Handal, Saida Hamad, Ayed Arafah, Samar Hazboun, Bisan Abueisha, @rnm.ayd, Shada Safadi
As a multisite, multidisciplinary exhibition, To Be—Named reflects upon how names are created and used to shape, reshape, and sometimes mis-shape, our worlds, and identities.
The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network is also supported by the Recovering Voices program at the Smithsonian Institution and the European Union funded CoLing project. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Blithewood Please join us on October 1 for the opening reception of To Be—Named: Palestine. Curated by Vivien Sansour, this online exhibition, Asameena / اسامينا, features artists and filmmakers based both in Palestine and the Palestine Diaspora. The opening will also include a short screening of several artists in conversation with each other. To Be—Named: Palestine was in collaboration with the Humanities and Practicing Arts Division at Al-Quds Bard College (AQB) in Palestine. Refreshments from Ziatün provided!
Artists include: Laura Menchaca Ruiz and Khader H. Handal, Saida Hamad, Ayed Arafah, Samar Hazboun, Bisan Abueisha, Raneem Ayyad, Shada Safadi. Assistant Curator: Melina Roise.
As a multi-site, multidisciplinary exhibition, To Be—Named reflects upon how names are created and used to shape, reshape, and sometimes mis-shape, our worlds, and identities.
The To Be—Named project is a partnership between the OSUN funded Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network, the Recovering Voices program at the Smithsonian Institution and the European Union funded CoLing project. Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 5–6 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: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Power Vinyasa focuses on building whole body strength and flexibility through a quick paced yoga flow. Incorporating lunges, squats, core work and balance postures, this challenging practice will make you sweat as you match breath and movement. Class will conclude with a wind-down to send you out the door feeling grounded. 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.
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 6–7 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: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
ANOTHER SURREALISM: The Translated Poems of Joyce Mansour and Meret Oppenheim
A Reading and Conversation with Translators C. Francis Fisher and Kathleen Heil, moderated by Prof. Éric Trudel
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 6–7:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202 C. Francis Fisher is the translator of Joyce Mansour’s In the Glittering Maw: Selected Poems (World Poetry, 2024); Kathleen Heil is the translator of Meret Oppenheim’s The Loveliest Vowel Empties (World Poetry, 2022). Joyce Mansour (1928-1986) and Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) were arguably two of the most important female surrealist figures of the 20th century. Fisher and Heil will be in conversation about their translations on Tuesday, October 1.
About the translators:
C. Francis Fisher is a poet and translator who received her MFA in poetry from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. She has been supported by scholarships from Breadloaf Writers Conference, Brooklyn Poets, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her first book of translations, In the Glittering Maw: Selected Poems of Joyce Mansour, appeared with World Poetry May ’24.
Kathleen Heil is an artist whose practice encompasses dance/performance and the writing and translating of poetry and prose. She is the author of the poetry collection You Can Have It All, forthcoming with Moist Books November 2024, and the translator of The Loveliest Vowel Empties, Meret Oppenheim’s collected poems (World Poetry, 2023). Her literary translations appear in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Threepenny Review, and other journals. Originally from New Orleans, she lives and works in Berlin.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative, French Studies, German Studies, Italian Studies, and Literature programs.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Come join us for open tango practice sessions! All levels welcome and encouraged to join. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Film Screening: Unlearning Imperial Plunder (I & II) by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 7–9 pm
Preston Theater Unlearning Imperial Plunder I Un-Documented is a film essay on the strong connection between the plundered objects in European museums and the calls of asylum seekers trying to enter the countries of their former European colonizers. The film treats these two subjects as ones of twinned migrations. The rights of the “undocumented” are inscribed in the plundered objects themselves: colonizers stole not just statues, but rights inscribed in objects. Yet, the statues still live—and can be reclaimed with the rights inscribed in them renewed.
Unlearning Imperial Plunder II The world like a jewel in the hand travels over open books, looted objects, and postcards to look for the imperial foundations of the world in which we live. Instead of accepting the verdict and treating these documents as sealed or objects as pieces of art and relics of “history,” the film presents them as invitations to resistance, reinterpretation, and reclamation of a world deemed “lost.” Narrated in the first person, the film refuses to succumb to imperial histories while focusing on the destruction of the Jewish Muslim world that existed in North Africa.
Join us at the Preston Theater for this film screening.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 8 pm – 12 am
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Election@Bard: Vice Presidential Debate Watch Party and Bingo
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 8:45–11 pm
Manor Parlor Join Election@Bard and Democracy Matters for a live viewing of the Vice Presidential Debate. With bingo and snacks! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 9 am – 5 pm
Acupuncture is offered at the Center for Spiritual Life at discounted rates for students, faculty, and staff various days a week with two different practitioners. Please call, text, or email to schedule an appointment, or for more information see below. Some insurance policies cover acupuncture.
To schedule an appointment contact : Dr. Sarah Heslip, LAc DACM email [email protected] or text 413 842 7798 or Philip Brown, MA LAc email [email protected] or text 845-943-7644 For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 8 pm – 12 am
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Late Drop Period Ends (last day to drop a class) Pass/Fail Grading Option Deadline (last day for students to petition faculty to take a class pass/fail)
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Bard College Campus Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
OSUN and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities invite the community to celebrate and learn from this year's winners of the MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship.
Network partner Al-Quds Bard Civic Engagement Program is the First Place Winner. Despite the difficulty of the political developments in Palestine, the College was determined to maintain a lively Civic Engagement Program, and after several pilot activities, took steps to respond to the crisis by developing a Student Network for Civic Engagement.
The Invisible University for Ukraine (IUFU) at Central European University (Austria) is the Second-Place Prize winner. IUFU is a student-led hybrid academic program in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
Awardees will participate in a virtual panel discussion about their programs, student leadership, and community partnerships. This event is free and open to the public. Learn more about each winner and honorable mention here.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger marks the first in-depth examination of artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s multifaceted practice (b. 1976, Singapore) in the United States. Widely considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the past 20 years, Ho creates complex and compelling video installations that probe reality, history, and fiction rooted in the culture of Southeast Asia. Time & the Tiger features five immersive film and multimedia installations spanning two decades that draw from historical events, documentary footage, art history, music videos, and mythical stories to investigate the construction of history, the narrative of myths, and the plurality of identities. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Remember to Dream revisits the range and breadth of Carrie Mae Weems’ prolific career through seldom displayed and lesser-known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice. Moving beyond iconic projects, Remember to Dream seeks to rebalance understanding of Weems’ artistic development over the past 30 years while locating her work in the context of her own lived experiences and commitment to activism. Ranging from large-scale installations to serial bodies of photography, the works in the exhibition provide a through-line from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, tracing significant moments of racial reckoning through Weems’ own lens. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Galleries Start Making Sense brings together highlights from the collections housed at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; the art collection, Special Collections, part of the CCS Bard library, and the CCS Bard archives. At a moment when the Center is poised to greatly expand its library, archives and classrooms with the new 6,000 sq foot Keith Haring Wing, doubling the size of the library and adding 75% more collection storage below ground (opening in 2025), Start Making Sense creates an open dialogue between artworks and the contexts (exhibitions, institutions, galleries, events, curators, and collectors) which literally “make sense” of the works on display. It does so in a playful dialogue between art objects, archives, ephemera, and rare books held at CCS Bard beginning with the Marieluise Hessel Collection and moving to more recent gifts from a broad range of collectors, curators, artists and others who have placed their gifts at the disposition of the students, faculty and outside researchers who form the CCS Bard community. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 12–1 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; 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].
HAC Student Fellows: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism Tabling
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 1:30–4:30 pm
Campus Center Stop by the Campus Center main lobby and engage with the Hannah Arendt Center's Student Fellows on our annual fall conference topic, tribalism and cosmopolitanism. We'll have give-aways like books by conference speakers and sweet treats like boba tea and apple cider donuts! Come learn about our student journalism contest where you can win cash prizes.
Save the date: The conference is October 17-18 at Olin Hall. Drop by for a speaker, a special event, or stay the whole day!
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Do you want to know your options for off campus employment opportunities? Plan to attend this information session with Maureen Aurigemma, associate director of the Career Development Office. For more information, call 845-758-7328, or e-mail [email protected].
Come Meet Dean Claudette Aldebot during Her Open Office Hours!
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 3–5 pm
Kappa House Come meet Dean of Inclusive Excellence Claudette Aldebot during her Open Office Hours! She is ready to partner and collaborate with all Bardians in our collective efforts towards inclusive excellence.
Dean Aldebot’s Open Office Hours are on Wednesdays from 3–5 pm in Kappa House, Room 102.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts Come learn and play squash with the head coach of the Bard Men's and Women's Squash Team. Whether you're looking to improve your game for your next league match or looking to learn a new sport, the class is for players of all levels. It'll be a fun mix of drills, games, and learning. Please bring non-marking shoes that haven't been worn outdoors. 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 2, 2024 5–6 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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Kline, College Room Many of us speak more Yiddish than we think! Everyone in the college community is invited to join an informal conversation in Yiddish. For more information, call 352-222-1349, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://flcl.bard.edu/language-lab/tables/.
Alexander Hamilton Society Chapter at Bard: Lecture on Gaza and Great Powers with Walter Russell Mead
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 5–7:30 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 120 Join the Alexander Hamilton Society and foreign policy scholar Walter Russell Mead for a discussion on the dynamics of Great Power Politics in relation to Gaza. Professor Mead will deliver an insightful lecture on the shifting international landscape, examining the influence of major global actors and the implications for the region. Food and drinks will be provided. We hope to see you there!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy) All are welcome to join our knitting group that meets weekly. For those who do not yet know how to knit, we will give you a starter kit that includes knitting needles and yarn, providing you with one-on-one instructions. We also provide help and support for any knitting projects that you are working on.
Come and have a relaxing hour of knitting and good fellowship!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 6–7 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; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON WEDNESDAY - 11/13. 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].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Holding discussions about the word of God and what it's like to be a Christian on campus. Join us in the Campus Center, Yellow Room 214. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House Each week we come together to write in community: sometimes with guided prompts, other times with group writing, and always with some unstructured free writing time. No prior experience necessary; all interested in creative writing are encouraged to participate!
To learn more about the Feeding the Crows literary magazine, email us at: [email protected]. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The Men's Soccer team compete in a conference match against Vassar. Wear Pink and donate to Miles of Hope Breast Cancer Foundation. Come out and support Men's Soccer! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Student Activities Board: Fall Fest Committee Meetings
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 7:30–8:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Help us plan Fall Fest! The Fall Fest Committee oversees the activities and options for Fall Fest (coming up on October 19th!), and is a great way to get to know the Student Activities Board. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more.
Thursday, October 3, 2024 9 am – 5 pm
Acupuncture is offered at the Center for Spiritual Life at discounted rates for students, faculty, and staff various days a week with two different practitioners. Please call, text, or email to schedule an appointment, or for more information see below. Some insurance policies cover acupuncture.
To schedule an appointment contact : Dr. Sarah Heslip, LAc DACM email [email protected] or text 413 842 7798 or Philip Brown, MA LAc email [email protected] or text 845-943-7644 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].
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Thursday, October 3, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Thursday, October 3, 2024 8 pm – 12 am
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger marks the first in-depth examination of artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s multifaceted practice (b. 1976, Singapore) in the United States. Widely considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the past 20 years, Ho creates complex and compelling video installations that probe reality, history, and fiction rooted in the culture of Southeast Asia. Time & the Tiger features five immersive film and multimedia installations spanning two decades that draw from historical events, documentary footage, art history, music videos, and mythical stories to investigate the construction of history, the narrative of myths, and the plurality of identities. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Remember to Dream revisits the range and breadth of Carrie Mae Weems’ prolific career through seldom displayed and lesser-known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice. Moving beyond iconic projects, Remember to Dream seeks to rebalance understanding of Weems’ artistic development over the past 30 years while locating her work in the context of her own lived experiences and commitment to activism. Ranging from large-scale installations to serial bodies of photography, the works in the exhibition provide a through-line from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, tracing significant moments of racial reckoning through Weems’ own lens. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Galleries Start Making Sense brings together highlights from the collections housed at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; the art collection, Special Collections, part of the CCS Bard library, and the CCS Bard archives. At a moment when the Center is poised to greatly expand its library, archives and classrooms with the new 6,000 sq foot Keith Haring Wing, doubling the size of the library and adding 75% more collection storage below ground (opening in 2025), Start Making Sense creates an open dialogue between artworks and the contexts (exhibitions, institutions, galleries, events, curators, and collectors) which literally “make sense” of the works on display. It does so in a playful dialogue between art objects, archives, ephemera, and rare books held at CCS Bard beginning with the Marieluise Hessel Collection and moving to more recent gifts from a broad range of collectors, curators, artists and others who have placed their gifts at the disposition of the students, faculty and outside researchers who form the CCS Bard community. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Center for Spiritual Life Beit Shalom-Salaam "Sacred Space" All are welcome at the Center for Spiritual Life for Rosh Hashanah Morning Services as we celebrate the Jewish New Year. (The ritual of tashlich will be held the same day at 3:00 pm at the waterfall).Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursdays from noon – 5 pm, running May 30 through October 31
Thursday, October 3, 2024 12–5 pm
Library Road in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Northeastern side of Kline Parking Lot Weekly selections of student produced and seasonally grown herbs, vegetables, mushrooms, honey, plant starts, flowers, and more. Local grass fed meat and eggs available from Triple A Angus and Lisa Benincasa from Shipping and Receiving, respectively.
Oh, and don't forget to bring your market bags! We accept cash and credit card payment methods!
Find us on Library Road on the east side of New Annandale Road (north end of Kline parking lot) between Gilson Place and Kappa House. For more information, call 518-653-6118, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 3, 2024 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. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French 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.
Thursday, October 3, 2024 1:30–2:30 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].
Info Session & Coffee Chat with JET– Japan Exchange & Teaching Program
Thursday, October 3, 2024 3:30–5:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Thursday, October 3, 2024 Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Coffee Chat with Jet Program Coordinator | 3:30-4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Info Session with Bard Alum May Grzybowski'18 | 4:30-5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Want to work abroad after Bard? Spend your post-graduate year doing something impactful! Join us to learn about the JET - Japanese Exchange & Teaching Program (One-Year)
Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Career Development Office.
For more information, call 845-758-7539, or e-mail [email protected].
Exploring Intergenerational Child-Rearing Practices in Central Asia: A Critical Psychology Approach
Presented by Elena Kim, Psychology
Thursday, October 3, 2024 4–5 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium This presentation is based on a qualitative study of nebere aluu, an intergenerational child-rearing practice (translated as taking a grandchild), historically observed in some Central Asian kinship systems. In nebere aluu, individuals are expected to voluntarily yield custody of their firstborns to their paternal grandparents who adopt and raise them as their own. Signifying an important life achievement, the practice contributes to grandparents’ social status. Scholarly discussions about nebere aluu, though rare, have emphasized its acceptance as an ethnic tradition and a cultural norm. Popular sources, also scarce, have tended to sensationalize or pathologize it, creating narratives which emphasize nebere aluu's adverse psychological and socialization effects on children so raised. Adopting the intellectual traditions of the Indigenous and Critical Psychologies which advocate for creating psychological knowledge as deeply rooted in the particularities of specific contexts and as reflective of the local voices, this study offers a shift towards an empirical exploration of nebere aluu through subjective experiences of adult individuals who were raised in such arrangements.
This presentation's analytic focus is on narratives of care and bonding. These narratives articulate competing discourses of generational continuity, ideological disruptions, loss and reconnection. Findings are discussed in terms of the visible and invisible power asymmetries that nebere aluu appears to perpetuate and linkages of the practice to the unique Central Asian condition characterized by the history of colonization, political volatility, economic instability and social insecurity.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Kline Commons Lawn Join us for an exciting outdoor event where local food partners, sustainable businesses, and Bard organizations will come together for an evening of connection and community. With live acoustic music, yard games, crafts, and over 20 local vendors, it's the perfect spot to explore, shop, and relax on the lawn. Expect a vibrant atmosphere, plenty of foot traffic, and a chance to learn and connect with the Bard community. Don't miss this opportunity to enjoy local flavors, meet new faces, and strengthen community ties.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 3, 2024 6–7 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].
Meditation Room, Center for Spiritual Life, basement of Resnick Village Dorm A Monday: Guided Meditation, 6-7 pm 6-6:15 dharma words 6:15-6:45 meditation 6:45-7 pm kinhin (walking meditation) and chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation, 6-7 pm One hour of stillness and contemplation, plus the opportunity to ask questions about your spiritual practice in an one-on-one meeting with Myoko Osho.
You may join the meditation sessions at any time. Afterwards join our sangha community get-together with refreshments. Contact us to receive announcements for special Buddhist community events throughout the semester.
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room We're having a kick off to celebrate the start of the semester with fun games and activities! Join us in the Campus Center Multipurpose room.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, come bake challah and help prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose, they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another with the openness and closeness that seem so natural in kitchens. All are welcome. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Humanities, Room 205 Interested in improving your public speaking skills, traveling to compete at other colleges, or getting involved in our events? All are welcome to join our regular weekly debate meetings! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Humanities, Room 201 The Sunrise Movement at Bard is having weekly meetings. Come by if you're interested in taking climate action! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
BRAVE Shows "And So I Stayed" for Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Thursday, October 3, 2024 7:30–9:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema A movie screening of "And So I Stayed" because October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Fisher Studio Arts Building Join us for figure drawing where we'll draw live models every week! No experience required. Find us in Room 149 at Fisher Studio Arts Building.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Friday, October 4, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger marks the first in-depth examination of artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s multifaceted practice (b. 1976, Singapore) in the United States. Widely considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the past 20 years, Ho creates complex and compelling video installations that probe reality, history, and fiction rooted in the culture of Southeast Asia. Time & the Tiger features five immersive film and multimedia installations spanning two decades that draw from historical events, documentary footage, art history, music videos, and mythical stories to investigate the construction of history, the narrative of myths, and the plurality of identities. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Remember to Dream revisits the range and breadth of Carrie Mae Weems’ prolific career through seldom displayed and lesser-known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice. Moving beyond iconic projects, Remember to Dream seeks to rebalance understanding of Weems’ artistic development over the past 30 years while locating her work in the context of her own lived experiences and commitment to activism. Ranging from large-scale installations to serial bodies of photography, the works in the exhibition provide a through-line from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, tracing significant moments of racial reckoning through Weems’ own lens. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Galleries Start Making Sense brings together highlights from the collections housed at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; the art collection, Special Collections, part of the CCS Bard library, and the CCS Bard archives. At a moment when the Center is poised to greatly expand its library, archives and classrooms with the new 6,000 sq foot Keith Haring Wing, doubling the size of the library and adding 75% more collection storage below ground (opening in 2025), Start Making Sense creates an open dialogue between artworks and the contexts (exhibitions, institutions, galleries, events, curators, and collectors) which literally “make sense” of the works on display. It does so in a playful dialogue between art objects, archives, ephemera, and rare books held at CCS Bard beginning with the Marieluise Hessel Collection and moving to more recent gifts from a broad range of collectors, curators, artists and others who have placed their gifts at the disposition of the students, faculty and outside researchers who form the CCS Bard community. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Sandy Zane ’80, owner of form & concept gallery in the Santa Fe Railyard Arts District and Jane Brien ’89, director of alumni/ae affairs, are your hosts for an opportunity to engage with the Bard community in a 400-year-old artistic enclave in the stunning high desert of New Mexico.
All Bardians are invited. The itinerary includes the Santa Fe Cities Party and Happy Hour, private tours, behind the scenes of museum collections, open artist studios, an artist reception and demonstrations of paper cutting techniques. Plus meals with fellow Bardians, free time and a trip to Taos if you want.
Please note: There is a $50 donation required to join the weekend's activities. Select food, drink, and entrance fees are included. If you only plan to attend the Santa Fe Cities Party, register here.Sponsored by: Office of Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Hudson, NY Catch the next generation of jazz stars playing free pop-up performances around town. Featuring Bard College Jazz musicians and local jazz artists.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CDO Applying for the Bard in Berlin Study Abroad Program and interested in the BCB Internship Program? Stop by the Career Development Office to spruce up your resume!
Applicants for the BCB Internship Program are required to either meet with the CDO or attend a drop in session. In order to apply for the BCB Internship Program, you must be applying for the Bard in Berlin Study Abroad Program.
Additional Drop In Hours: September 20, 10 am to 12 pm October 11, 2 pm to 4 pmSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Career Development Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Friday, October 4, 2024 10 am – 12 pm
Sawkill Coffee House
The Food Pantry @ Bard provides students, faculty and staff who may be experiencing food insecurity, with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Cafe Friday, October 4, 2024 Campus Center, DTR Table 11:00-2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Interested in working at the intersection of business operations & healthcare? Meet the Workforce Development Team! Learn about the PAID summer internship & opportunities.
Open to ALL students! For more information, call 845-758-7539, or e-mail [email protected].
HAC Student Fellows: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism Tabling
Friday, October 4, 2024 11 am – 2 pm
Kline Commons Stop by the Kline lobby and engage with the Hannah Arendt Center's Student Fellows on our annual fall conference topic, tribalism and cosmopolitanism. We'll have give-aways like books by conference speakers and sweet treats like boba tea and apple cider donuts! Come learn about our student journalism contest where you can win cash prizes.
Save the date: The conference is October 17-18 at Olin Hall. Drop by for a speaker, a special event, or stay the whole day!
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion known as the parsha, each week. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger and others in the Bard community for an informal Torah Study session each Friday—open to everyone of all religious backgrounds.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Our Virtual Reading Group continues its discussion of Hannah Arendt's Between Past and Future, which describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Through a series of eight exercises, Hannah Arendt shows how we can redistill the vital essence of these concepts and use them to regain a frame of reference for the future.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Don't worry if you miss a VRG meeting! We post them all on our YouTube channel the week after they're recorded. Or tune in to an edited version of the chapter readings plus bonus episodes on our podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
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. Join us for Persian language table on Fridays.
Sponsored by: Center for Foreign Languages and Cultures.
For more information, call 845-706-7744, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Meetings will be to determine student need, get training on tech and resources, and assist in lab testing.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Lobby Voting out of state? We got you! Come visit the Election@Bard table for help with your Absentee Ballot. Election day is right around the corner!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Student Activities.
New Annandale House Needle Felting with LEDs Friday, Oct 4 In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn the basics of needle felting, and how to construct simple circuits utilizing conductive thread. Bring your bright ideas that incorporate light-up elements (jack-o-lanterns, anyone?), and come take a stab at making something new! EH Program Coordinator, Anna, will lead this workshop. All materials provided. Please RSVP to [email protected], but drop-ins are welcome!Sponsored by: Center for Experimental Humanities.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Join the international student community for tea and conversation!Sponsored by: Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Zoom via the link Join Exhale to Inhale and Bard College for the Fall 2024 Term!
These 30-minute Exhale to Inhale Classes will offer time to check in with your stress levels, connect with your body, and make movement-based choices. Classes will include a brief centering and uplift weekly themes: Connect, Anchor, Experience, Restore, Empower, Resilience, Intention, Mindfulness, Courage, Curiosity, Self-acceptance, and Worthiness, to cultivate a focus throughout practice. You are welcome to join the class during any stage in the 12-week cycle throughout the Fall term and still feel supported and reap the benefits of this practice.
Campus Center, Red Room 203 BOTV biweekly club meetings @ CC Red Room.. Plan film, edit, and watch BOTV Content! We are not meeting on November 29th!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Bard Farm This three session workshop series, to be held at Bard Farm, will consist of practical, hands-on trainings in which participants will go through the process of harvesting, preparing and sharing farm-grown food using traditional, non-electric food preparation methods. Each session will end with a collective meal. The sessions, individually and as a whole, are intended to attune the participants with the earth and our human bodies, to understand where food is coming from and where it's going. Connected as a sacred gift, rather than in isolation, we will eat together.
Register here. It is preferred participants come to every session, as we will be building on our relationship and knowledge. There will be three sessions, October 4 and 11 from 3–6pm and November 3 from 2–6pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Info on how Bard investment and policy interacts with ongoing genocide, liberation, and current events. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Join the international student and scholar community for tea, cookies, and conversation. For more information, call 845-758-7328, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Come to Stevenson Library 402 to work quietly on your project in the company of other seniors. Research indicates that even the smallest sense of belonging to a community increases your performance. By making the commitment to show up for your project at the same time each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Various Campus Locations Join us to clean up campus on October 4 from 4–6pm. Plastic bags and gloves available at Kline check-in and Campus Center info desk. We pick up after ourselves, keep Kline durable dishes in Kline, compost our food scraps (and get outside in this beautiful fall weather!)
We're all in this together: let us know how you can help by adding your thoughts at the google form link.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
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. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Join us for an Open Mic Night every Friday. Open to all! 10/11, 10/25, 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/29, 12/6, 12/13 non-Friday dates 9/29, 10/19, 11/23Sponsored by: Student Activities.
We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Friday, October 4, 2024 8–10 pm
Sawkill Coffee House
The Food Pantry @ Bard provides students, faculty and staff who may be experiencing food insecurity, with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Manor Parlor Come get period resource supplies, do crafts, watch a movie, and enter raffles for prizes! For more information, call 781-910-3485, or e-mail [email protected].
Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Saturday, October 5, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger marks the first in-depth examination of artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s multifaceted practice (b. 1976, Singapore) in the United States. Widely considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the past 20 years, Ho creates complex and compelling video installations that probe reality, history, and fiction rooted in the culture of Southeast Asia. Time & the Tiger features five immersive film and multimedia installations spanning two decades that draw from historical events, documentary footage, art history, music videos, and mythical stories to investigate the construction of history, the narrative of myths, and the plurality of identities. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Remember to Dream revisits the range and breadth of Carrie Mae Weems’ prolific career through seldom displayed and lesser-known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice. Moving beyond iconic projects, Remember to Dream seeks to rebalance understanding of Weems’ artistic development over the past 30 years while locating her work in the context of her own lived experiences and commitment to activism. Ranging from large-scale installations to serial bodies of photography, the works in the exhibition provide a through-line from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, tracing significant moments of racial reckoning through Weems’ own lens. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Galleries Start Making Sense brings together highlights from the collections housed at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; the art collection, Special Collections, part of the CCS Bard library, and the CCS Bard archives. At a moment when the Center is poised to greatly expand its library, archives and classrooms with the new 6,000 sq foot Keith Haring Wing, doubling the size of the library and adding 75% more collection storage below ground (opening in 2025), Start Making Sense creates an open dialogue between artworks and the contexts (exhibitions, institutions, galleries, events, curators, and collectors) which literally “make sense” of the works on display. It does so in a playful dialogue between art objects, archives, ephemera, and rare books held at CCS Bard beginning with the Marieluise Hessel Collection and moving to more recent gifts from a broad range of collectors, curators, artists and others who have placed their gifts at the disposition of the students, faculty and outside researchers who form the CCS Bard community. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Sandy Zane ’80, owner of form & concept gallery in the Santa Fe Railyard Arts District and Jane Brien ’89, director of alumni/ae affairs, are your hosts for an opportunity to engage with the Bard community in a 400-year-old artistic enclave in the stunning high desert of New Mexico.
All Bardians are invited. The itinerary includes the Santa Fe Cities Party and Happy Hour, private tours, behind the scenes of museum collections, open artist studios, an artist reception and demonstrations of paper cutting techniques. Plus meals with fellow Bardians, free time and a trip to Taos if you want.
Please note: There is a $50 donation required to join the weekend's activities. Select food, drink, and entrance fees are included. If you only plan to attend the Santa Fe Cities Party, register here.Sponsored by: Office of Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Hudson, NY Catch the next generation of jazz stars playing free pop-up performances around town. Featuring Bard College Jazz musicians and local jazz artists.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Saturday, October 5, 2024 10 am – 12 pm
Sawkill Coffee House
The Food Pantry @ Bard provides students, faculty and staff who may be experiencing food insecurity, with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Farm This three session workshop series, to be held at Bard Farm, will consist of practical, hands-on trainings in which participants will go through the process of harvesting, preparing and sharing farm-grown food using traditional, non-electric food preparation methods. Each session will end with a collective meal. The sessions, individually and as a whole, are intended to attune the participants with the earth and our human bodies, to understand where food is coming from and where it's going. Connected as a sacred gift, rather than in isolation, we will eat together.
Register here. It is preferred participants come to every session, as we will be building on our relationship and knowledge. There will be three sessions, October 4 and 11 from 3–6pm and November 3 from 2–6pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Saturday, October 5, 2024 8–10 pm
Sawkill Coffee House
The Food Pantry @ Bard provides students, faculty and staff who may be experiencing food insecurity, with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The Men's Soccer team will play RIT in a conference match. Some youth Soccer Clubs will join the team for the lineup, national anthem, and they play during halftime. Come out and support Men's Soccer! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Women's Volleyball vs. St. Lawrence and Rutgers-Newark
Saturday, October 5, 2024 1 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym The Women's Volleyball team competes in a tri-match against St. Lawrence at 1 pm and Rutgers-Newark at 5 pm. Come out and support Women's Volleyball! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
With Bard Underground Music Prevails and Students for Justice in Palestine
Saturday, October 5, 2024 6–9 pm
SMOG Gathering of students coming together for music, art, and poetry in order to commune around the Palestinian cause. This will be a strictly sober event to commemorate Palestinian and Lebanese martyrs.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Carlos Chávez Suite de Caballos de Vapor (Horsepower Suite)
Manuel Ponce Chapultepec
Silvestre Revueltas La noche de los Mayas (The Night of the Mayas)
Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now perform works by three of the leading Mexican symphonic composers of the twentieth century. Manuel Ponce, known as the “father of Mexican Music” is represented by two pieces: the exuberant Ferial, depicting an afternoon fair in a small town, and the impressionistic Chapultepec, a colorful symphonic poem that takes audiences to the Mexico City suburb where the composer lived. Carlos Chávez’s boisterous Horsepower Suite reflects the interconnection of humans and industry, which the composer referred to as “struggle, effort, and creation.” And finally, the suite from Silvestre Revueltas’ score for the film La noche de los Mayas is a powerfully expressive work straight out of the Yucatan jungles.
Degree Recital: "Home" Colton Cook, baritone, with Nomin Samdan, piano
Saturday, October 5, 2024 7 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Featuring works by Beethoven, Glinka, Kohn, and Dvořák.
Free and open to the public. Click hereto watch the livestream on YouTube.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Sunday, October 6, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger marks the first in-depth examination of artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s multifaceted practice (b. 1976, Singapore) in the United States. Widely considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the past 20 years, Ho creates complex and compelling video installations that probe reality, history, and fiction rooted in the culture of Southeast Asia. Time & the Tiger features five immersive film and multimedia installations spanning two decades that draw from historical events, documentary footage, art history, music videos, and mythical stories to investigate the construction of history, the narrative of myths, and the plurality of identities. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Remember to Dream revisits the range and breadth of Carrie Mae Weems’ prolific career through seldom displayed and lesser-known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice. Moving beyond iconic projects, Remember to Dream seeks to rebalance understanding of Weems’ artistic development over the past 30 years while locating her work in the context of her own lived experiences and commitment to activism. Ranging from large-scale installations to serial bodies of photography, the works in the exhibition provide a through-line from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, tracing significant moments of racial reckoning through Weems’ own lens. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Galleries Start Making Sense brings together highlights from the collections housed at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; the art collection, Special Collections, part of the CCS Bard library, and the CCS Bard archives. At a moment when the Center is poised to greatly expand its library, archives and classrooms with the new 6,000 sq foot Keith Haring Wing, doubling the size of the library and adding 75% more collection storage below ground (opening in 2025), Start Making Sense creates an open dialogue between artworks and the contexts (exhibitions, institutions, galleries, events, curators, and collectors) which literally “make sense” of the works on display. It does so in a playful dialogue between art objects, archives, ephemera, and rare books held at CCS Bard beginning with the Marieluise Hessel Collection and moving to more recent gifts from a broad range of collectors, curators, artists and others who have placed their gifts at the disposition of the students, faculty and outside researchers who form the CCS Bard community. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Sandy Zane ’80, owner of form & concept gallery in the Santa Fe Railyard Arts District and Jane Brien ’89, director of alumni/ae affairs, are your hosts for an opportunity to engage with the Bard community in a 400-year-old artistic enclave in the stunning high desert of New Mexico.
All Bardians are invited. The itinerary includes the Santa Fe Cities Party and Happy Hour, private tours, behind the scenes of museum collections, open artist studios, an artist reception and demonstrations of paper cutting techniques. Plus meals with fellow Bardians, free time and a trip to Taos if you want.
Please note: There is a $50 donation required to join the weekend's activities. Select food, drink, and entrance fees are included. If you only plan to attend the Santa Fe Cities Party, register here.Sponsored by: Office of Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Hudson, NY Catch the next generation of jazz stars playing free pop-up performances around town. Featuring Bard College Jazz musicians and local jazz artists.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Sunday, October 6, 2024 10 am – 12 pm
Sawkill Coffee House
The Food Pantry @ Bard provides students, faculty and staff who may be experiencing food insecurity, with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Farm This three session workshop series, to be held at Bard Farm, will consist of practical, hands-on trainings in which participants will go through the process of harvesting, preparing and sharing farm-grown food using traditional, non-electric food preparation methods. Each session will end with a collective meal. The sessions, individually and as a whole, are intended to attune the participants with the earth and our human bodies, to understand where food is coming from and where it's going. Connected as a sacred gift, rather than in isolation, we will eat together.
Register here. It is preferred participants come to every session, as we will be building on our relationship and knowledge. There will be three sessions, October 4 and 11 from 3–6pm and November 3 from 2–6pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Sunday, October 6, 2024 8–10 pm
Sawkill Coffee House
The Food Pantry @ Bard provides students, faculty and staff who may be experiencing food insecurity, with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (1114 River Road) in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome!
Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at noon in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Carlos Chávez Suite de Caballos de Vapor (Horsepower Suite)
Manuel Ponce Chapultepec
Silvestre Revueltas La noche de los Mayas (The Night of the Mayas)
Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now perform works by three of the leading Mexican symphonic composers of the twentieth century. Manuel Ponce, known as the “father of Mexican Music” is represented by two pieces: the exuberant Ferial, depicting an afternoon fair in a small town, and the impressionistic Chapultepec, a colorful symphonic poem that takes audiences to the Mexico City suburb where the composer lived. Carlos Chávez’s boisterous Horsepower Suite reflects the interconnection of humans and industry, which the composer referred to as “struggle, effort, and creation.” And finally, the suite from Silvestre Revueltas’ score for the film La noche de los Mayas is a powerfully expressive work straight out of the Yucatan jungles.
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Join us to create costum dolls and sculpture with materials including needle felting, modeling clay, and sewing. Every Sunday at 2pm.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 443-707-6062, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The first concert of the Bard Chinese Ensemble's 24-25 season features concertos for pipa and guqin, with a program full of imaginative storytelling through the unique East/West sounds of this large mixed ensemble.
Bard Chapel; Chapel of the Holy Innocents Join us for a celebration of life and creation. Bring your dog, cat, bird, hamster, horse or any beloved pet. Photographs and favorite stuffed animals are also welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Monday, October 7, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Monday, October 7, 2024 8 pm – 12 am
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Meditation Room, Center for Spiritual Life, basement of Resnick Village Dorm A Monday: Guided Meditation, 6-7 pm 6-6:15 dharma words 6:15-6:45 meditation 6:45-7 pm kinhin (walking meditation) and chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation, 6-7 pm One hour of stillness and contemplation, plus the opportunity to ask questions about your spiritual practice in an one-on-one meeting with Myoko Osho.
You may join the meditation sessions at any time. Afterwards join our sangha community get-together with refreshments. Contact us to receive announcements for special Buddhist community events throughout the semester.
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Farm This three session workshop series, to be held at Bard Farm, will consist of practical, hands-on trainings in which participants will go through the process of harvesting, preparing and sharing farm-grown food using traditional, non-electric food preparation methods. Each session will end with a collective meal. The sessions, individually and as a whole, are intended to attune the participants with the earth and our human bodies, to understand where food is coming from and where it's going. Connected as a sacred gift, rather than in isolation, we will eat together.
Register here. It is preferred participants come to every session, as we will be building on our relationship and knowledge. There will be three sessions, October 4 and 11 from 3–6pm and November 3 from 2–6pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hannah Arendt on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: Selections from the Hannah Arendt Personal Library Collection
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Runs through Thursday, October 31, 2024
Stevenson Library Following Arendt’s passing in 1975, her extensive collection—comprising approximately 4,000 volumes, pamphlets, and ephemera—was relocated from her New York City apartment to Bard College. The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, in collaboration with the Stevenson Library, is presenting an exhibition featuring three display tables that showcase items from Hannah Arendt’s personal library. This exhibition coincides with the Hannah Arendt Center's annual fall conference, taking place on October 17 and 18 at Bard College's Olin Hall. The exhibition is divided into three sections, emphasizing Arendt’s own works as well as key texts related to this year’s conference theme: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism.
Curated by Jana Mader, Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center and Helene Tieger, Head of Archives & Special Collections.
A guided walking tour with Jana Mader on Friday, October 18th, beginning in the Olin Atrium at 2:15pm will lead participants to the exhibition at the Stevenson Library, and to Hannah Arendt's grave. This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with Arendt’s legacy through conversation, reflection, and a walk in the fresh air. Meet at the Registration Table.
The Hannah Arendt Center's 16th annual fall conference will bring notable speakers to Bard College in Annandale to discuss the implications of tribalist politics just weeks before the national US election. On October 17 and 18, Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Imagine a Pluralistic Politics will spark important conversations about the undeniable fact that tribalism is real, appealing, and dangerous, and explore how to make space for loyalty and meaning while fostering a more pluralistic politics.
Learn more about the conference and register (Bard students, faculty, and staff attend free) at hac.bard.edu/tribalism-2024.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Libraries at Bard College.
Kline Commons Are you interested in journalism, activism, or Latino immigrant issues? La Voz Magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 35,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz we strive to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers, and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz or help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
We invite students of all skills and talents to come by to our weekly meeting on Mondays from 12 pm to 1 pm in Kline Room (inside Kline), or via Zoom in case of bad weather.
Bard MA in Teaching Program Online Information Session for Seniors
Interested in teaching? Stay at Bard for another year (or two) and earn your MA degree and Teacher Certification.
Monday, October 7, 2024 12 pm
Online Event Join Cecilia Maple ’01, Director of MAT Admission and Student Affairs, to learn about the MAT's program options and structure, application process and deadlines, scholarship aid, job prospects, and more!
Can't make this day/ time? Would prefer to meet one-on-one? Just send us an email. For more information, call 845-594-3193, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/mat.
“It’s the Religion, Stupid”: Religious Dimensions in Current Crises
The Confrontation of Orthodoxies in Ukraine
Monday, October 7, 2024 12:30–2 pm
Bard Hall After the Cold War ended American politicians became fond of the mantra, “It's the Economy, Stupid.” They were not wrong, although other factors also have their sway. This autumn's series will consider global crises in which religion plays a central role, sometimes overrules self-interest, and needs to be understood for any address of the situation to be productive.
Presented by Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion and director of the Institute of Advanced Theology, each lecture will have a different topic on the following Mondays.
October 7: The Confrontation of Orthodoxies in Ukraine October 21: “From the River to the Sea” in Likud's Presentation November 4: “From the River to the Sea” in the Hamas CharterSponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, October 7, 2024 1:15–2:15 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: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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].
Bard MA in Teaching program (Bard MAT) Online Information Session for Seniors
Interested in Teaching? Stay at Bard for another year (or two) and earn your MA degree and Teacher Certification
Monday, October 7, 2024 6 pm
Online Event LEARN MORE! Join Cecilia Maple '01, Director of MAT Admission and Student Affairs, to learn about the MAT's program options and structure, application process and deadlines, scholarship aid, job prospects, and more!
Can't make this day/ time? Would prefer to meet one-on-one? Just send us an email. For more information, call 845-594-3193, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/mat.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Join members of the Bard Debate Union as we debate the question: "Should U.S. Progressives continue to work within the Democratic Party? Or should they venture out on their own?" Audience members will have the opportunity to voice their own opinions on the topic following the debate! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Public Debate: Should U.S. Progressives Continue to Work within the Democratic Party?
Monday, October 7, 2024 7–8 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema The Bard Debate Union presents a debate event that is open to the public. Audience members will be able to share their perspectives.
If you are interested in joining weekly meetings, write to [email protected]. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 9 am – 5 pm
Acupuncture is offered at the Center for Spiritual Life at discounted rates for students, faculty, and staff various days a week with two different practitioners. Please call, text, or email to schedule an appointment, or for more information see below. Some insurance policies cover acupuncture.
To schedule an appointment contact : Dr. Sarah Heslip, LAc DACM email [email protected] or text 413 842 7798 or Philip Brown, MA LAc email [email protected] or text 845-943-7644 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 8, 2024 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; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Open Office Hours With Campus Advocate Tam Cacchione
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 12–2 pm
Sottery Hall Bard College’s Campus Advocate Tamara (Tam) Cacchione will host regular office hours in Sottery 107 on Tuesdays from 12–2 pm.
Tam works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support(CVSS) in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can come to Sottery anytime between 12 and 2 pm.
If you would like to schedule a meeting in advance, you can reach out to Tam directly at [email protected] or to the Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination at [email protected] with your request. 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].
Health and Counseling Services This is a supportive and caring community where you can talk to other students who understand the experience of losing a loved one. The co-facilitators are Joshua Boettiger, Jewish Chaplain at Bard, and Sherry Ou-yang, Counselor at Bard.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 5–6 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: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Power Vinyasa focuses on building whole body strength and flexibility through a quick paced yoga flow. Incorporating lunges, squats, core work and balance postures, this challenging practice will make you sweat as you match breath and movement. Class will conclude with a wind-down to send you out the door feeling grounded. 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.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 6–7 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: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 8 pm – 12 am
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Farm This three session workshop series, to be held at Bard Farm, will consist of practical, hands-on trainings in which participants will go through the process of harvesting, preparing and sharing farm-grown food using traditional, non-electric food preparation methods. Each session will end with a collective meal. The sessions, individually and as a whole, are intended to attune the participants with the earth and our human bodies, to understand where food is coming from and where it's going. Connected as a sacred gift, rather than in isolation, we will eat together.
Register here. It is preferred participants come to every session, as we will be building on our relationship and knowledge. There will be three sessions, October 4 and 11 from 3–6pm and November 3 from 2–6pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hannah Arendt on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: Selections from the Hannah Arendt Personal Library Collection
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Runs through Thursday, October 31, 2024
Stevenson Library Following Arendt’s passing in 1975, her extensive collection—comprising approximately 4,000 volumes, pamphlets, and ephemera—was relocated from her New York City apartment to Bard College. The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, in collaboration with the Stevenson Library, is presenting an exhibition featuring three display tables that showcase items from Hannah Arendt’s personal library. This exhibition coincides with the Hannah Arendt Center's annual fall conference, taking place on October 17 and 18 at Bard College's Olin Hall. The exhibition is divided into three sections, emphasizing Arendt’s own works as well as key texts related to this year’s conference theme: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism.
Curated by Jana Mader, Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center and Helene Tieger, Head of Archives & Special Collections.
A guided walking tour with Jana Mader on Friday, October 18th, beginning in the Olin Atrium at 2:15pm will lead participants to the exhibition at the Stevenson Library, and to Hannah Arendt's grave. This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with Arendt’s legacy through conversation, reflection, and a walk in the fresh air. Meet at the Registration Table.
The Hannah Arendt Center's 16th annual fall conference will bring notable speakers to Bard College in Annandale to discuss the implications of tribalist politics just weeks before the national US election. On October 17 and 18, Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Imagine a Pluralistic Politics will spark important conversations about the undeniable fact that tribalism is real, appealing, and dangerous, and explore how to make space for loyalty and meaning while fostering a more pluralistic politics.
Learn more about the conference and register (Bard students, faculty, and staff attend free) at hac.bard.edu/tribalism-2024.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Libraries at Bard College.
HAC Student Fellows: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism Tabling
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 12–2 pm
Kline Commons Stop by the Kline lobby and engage with the Hannah Arendt Center's Student Fellows on our annual fall conference topic, tribalism and cosmopolitanism. We'll have give-aways like books by conference speakers and sweet treats like boba tea and apple cider donuts! Come learn about our student journalism contest where you can win cash prizes.
Save the date: The conference is October 17-18 at Olin Hall. Drop by for a speaker, a special event, or stay the whole day!
Campus Center, Lobby Sarahana Shrestha, State Assembly Candidate, visits campus to talk to students about local policies.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Five Centuries of Reductive Science vs. Artificial Intelligence: A Seminar Modeled After a Bard Common Course
George D. Rose, Bard class of ’63
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 3 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Since Galileo, the goal of scientific understanding is to explain complex phenomena with a compact description, a model. Yet today, artificial intelligence –specifically, machine-learning using neural nets– has engendered a radical departure from traditional approaches. Machine-learning using neural nets is not grounded in a unifying theory. There are no hypotheses being tested. Instead, the goal is to find parameters (often billions of them) that can capture the phenomenon under consideration and to then utilize the parameters predictively. This approach has met with stunning success in multiple venues, but it is no longer science as we have come to know it.
Where do we go from here? In this talk, George D. Rose will address this question using the protein folding problem as an example.Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The Women's Soccer team compete in a conference match against RPI. Wear Pink and donate to Miles of Hope Breast Cancer Foundation. Come out and support Women's Soccer! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Office of Equity and Inclusion Time Management and Reading Skills Peer Network
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 4–5 pm
Barringer House Join us for the Time Management and Reading Skills Peer Network! Freshmen are welcome to join us in learning new skills that might be effective in their academic journey.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 678-876-7492, or e-mail [email protected].
A Reading of Select Works in Honor of Margaret Creal
Read by Elizabeth Shafer
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 5 pm
Shafer House On Tuesday, October 8 at 5pm in the Shafer House, Elizabeth Shafer will read from two of Margaret Creal’s works: her 1957 novel, A Lesson in Love, and her 1994 short story, London Bridge is Falling Down. The reading will be followed by a reception with refreshments. All are welcome.
Margaret Creal Shafer was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, where she began her piano study at the Royal Conservatory of Music. She moved to the Hudson Valley with her husband, the late Fredrick Q. Shafer “Fritz,” former rector of St. Johns Church in Barrytown, and Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Bard College. She taught piano for over forty years and authored three books: two short-story collections, The Man Who Sold Prayers and Singing Sky, and a novel, A Lesson in Love, and was a devoted member of the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle and quintessential host. Her house is now the home of the Written Arts Program, a fitting tribute to an author and beloved community member.
Elizabeth Shafer is an artist, writer, and retired lawyer. She paints primarily in oils, but also works in pastels, printmaking, and encaustics. She had a solo exhibition of her art work at the Saugerties Public Library in 2019. Her chapbook, Wellsprings, was published in 2019. She was a Contributor in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in August 2015. She is involved in environmental issues and has been a Board Member since 1991 of the Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy. She lives with her husband, Stephen Shafer, on their sheep farm in Saugerties, N.Y. Margaret Creal was her beloved mother-in-law.Sponsored by: Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Please join us for our first Studio Art Visiting Lecture on Tuesday, October 8, at 5:40 pm in Weis Cinema in the Campus Center.
In a career spanning over 50 years, painter, printmaker, and sculptor Donna Dennis is best known for installations that include sculpture, sound and more recently video, inspired by American vernacular architecture both urban and rural. Solo exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, SculptureCenter, the Neuberger Museum, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, the Tate Gallery, and the Hirshhorn Museum. She has also collaborated with poets Anne Waldman, Kenward Elmslie, Ted Berrigan, and Daniel Wolff and performance artist/puppeteer Dan Hurlin. This past April, Bamberger Books published Dennis’s first book, Writing Toward Dawn: Selected Journals 1969–1982, and O’Flaherty’s on the Lower East side mounted a solo show of her early works.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: Unlearning at the Threshold of the Museum
Center for Human Rights and the Arts Talks Series
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 6–7:30 pm
RKC 103 In this lecture, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay invites the audience to stay at the threshold of the museum in order to recognize the impossibility of decolonizing museums without decolonizing the world. Refusing to study what was plundered as mere objects as museums command us to do, but rather as evidence of a destroyed world, Azoulay decenters the category of “restitution,” and proposes to understand plunder as communal remains. Azoulay weaves the plunder of objects stolen from Jews in Europe—and their partial restitution within the broader picture of European plunder from other places, among them from the world of her ancestors in the Maghreb, from Palestine, and West Africa, in an attempt to undo the exceptionalization of “the Jews” which continues to serve Euro-American imperial interests on a global scale.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Peeping at Shang Dynasty through Chinese Oracle-Bone Scripts
With Professor Huiwen Li
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 6–7:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 301 Join our Oracle-Bone Script Research and Calligraphy Interest Group! Uncover the oldest form of written Chinese, etched into ox bones and turtle shells over 3,000 years ago. Immerse yourself in the Late Shang dynasty, exploring divinations, rituals, and royal life. Learn to read these ancient characters and create stunning calligraphy. Embark on this journey to connect with history, language, culture, and art! Refreshments will be provided, and calligraphy supplies will be available later on.
Please RSVP at this link by October 2nd so that we can ensure enough refreshments for all!Sponsored by: Chinese Studies and the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability -- Online Info Session
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational sessions for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 7–8 pm
Online Event Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational sessions for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
Join us on Tuesday, October 8, 2024 at 7:00pm ET to 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. Register here!
WHAT WE COVER:
Overview of graduate program offerings
Alumni success and career outcomes
Admissions information
Financial aid and scholarships
Prerequisite course information
Tips for a standout application
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.
REGISTER HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Graduate Programs; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room The Bard Community Arts Collective, in partnership with Bard’s Theater & Performance Department and the Hannah Arendt Center for Democracy, seeks to energize and motivate voters through a revolutionary, audience-immersive civic theater round table event with multidisciplinary artist Aaron Landsman. Landsman's body of work leverages the collective power of community voices, civic engagement, urban design, and storytelling to galvanize audiences around new possible political and civic action. The goal is to inspire and activate voters on the Bard campus and in the surrounding community to engage with the democratic process, learn about the most pressing local and national issues, and grow as active and thoughtful Hudson Valley community members. The evening will also offer information on registration, voting and further ways to get involved
With Ashley Kelly Tata’s class on Theater and Democracy, which considers theater as a rehearsal for engaging in democratic processes, we will use embodiment as a tool for political action and learning. Furthermore, this project will introduce tools for creative civic organizing and action.
Additionally, this project will explore themes of democracy around the world, seeking to unify the many international perspectives and voices at Bard. Members of the general public in the surrounding community, with an emphasis on youth and new/young voters, are also invited. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more.
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 9 am – 5 pm
Acupuncture is offered at the Center for Spiritual Life at discounted rates for students, faculty, and staff various days a week with two different practitioners. Please call, text, or email to schedule an appointment, or for more information see below. Some insurance policies cover acupuncture.
To schedule an appointment contact : Dr. Sarah Heslip, LAc DACM email [email protected] or text 413 842 7798 or Philip Brown, MA LAc email [email protected] or text 845-943-7644 For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 8 pm – 12 am
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger marks the first in-depth examination of artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s multifaceted practice (b. 1976, Singapore) in the United States. Widely considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the past 20 years, Ho creates complex and compelling video installations that probe reality, history, and fiction rooted in the culture of Southeast Asia. Time & the Tiger features five immersive film and multimedia installations spanning two decades that draw from historical events, documentary footage, art history, music videos, and mythical stories to investigate the construction of history, the narrative of myths, and the plurality of identities. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Remember to Dream revisits the range and breadth of Carrie Mae Weems’ prolific career through seldom displayed and lesser-known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice. Moving beyond iconic projects, Remember to Dream seeks to rebalance understanding of Weems’ artistic development over the past 30 years while locating her work in the context of her own lived experiences and commitment to activism. Ranging from large-scale installations to serial bodies of photography, the works in the exhibition provide a through-line from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, tracing significant moments of racial reckoning through Weems’ own lens. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Galleries Start Making Sense brings together highlights from the collections housed at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; the art collection, Special Collections, part of the CCS Bard library, and the CCS Bard archives. At a moment when the Center is poised to greatly expand its library, archives and classrooms with the new 6,000 sq foot Keith Haring Wing, doubling the size of the library and adding 75% more collection storage below ground (opening in 2025), Start Making Sense creates an open dialogue between artworks and the contexts (exhibitions, institutions, galleries, events, curators, and collectors) which literally “make sense” of the works on display. It does so in a playful dialogue between art objects, archives, ephemera, and rare books held at CCS Bard beginning with the Marieluise Hessel Collection and moving to more recent gifts from a broad range of collectors, curators, artists and others who have placed their gifts at the disposition of the students, faculty and outside researchers who form the CCS Bard community. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 12–1 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; 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].
Come Meet Dean Claudette Aldebot during Her Open Office Hours!
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 3–5 pm
Kappa House Come meet Dean of Inclusive Excellence Claudette Aldebot during her Open Office Hours! She is ready to partner and collaborate with all Bardians in our collective efforts towards inclusive excellence.
Dean Aldebot’s Open Office Hours are on Wednesdays from 3–5 pm in Kappa House, Room 102.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts Come learn and play squash with the head coach of the Bard Men's and Women's Squash Team. Whether you're looking to improve your game for your next league match or looking to learn a new sport, the class is for players of all levels. It'll be a fun mix of drills, games, and learning. Please bring non-marking shoes that haven't been worn outdoors. 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 9, 2024 5–6 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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Kline, College Room Many of us speak more Yiddish than we think! Everyone in the college community is invited to join an informal conversation in Yiddish. For more information, call 352-222-1349, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://flcl.bard.edu/language-lab/tables/.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy) All are welcome to join our knitting group that meets weekly. For those who do not yet know how to knit, we will give you a starter kit that includes knitting needles and yarn, providing you with one-on-one instructions. We also provide help and support for any knitting projects that you are working on.
Come and have a relaxing hour of knitting and good fellowship!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 6–7 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; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON WEDNESDAY - 11/13. 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].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Holding discussions about the word of God and what it's like to be a Christian on campus. Join us in the Campus Center, Yellow Room 214. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House Each week we come together to write in community: sometimes with guided prompts, other times with group writing, and always with some unstructured free writing time. No prior experience necessary; all interested in creative writing are encouraged to participate!
To learn more about the Feeding the Crows literary magazine, email us at: [email protected]. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Student Activities Board: Fall Fest Committee Meetings
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 7:30–8:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Help us plan Fall Fest! The Fall Fest Committee oversees the activities and options for Fall Fest (coming up on October 19th!), and is a great way to get to know the Student Activities Board. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Farm This three session workshop series, to be held at Bard Farm, will consist of practical, hands-on trainings in which participants will go through the process of harvesting, preparing and sharing farm-grown food using traditional, non-electric food preparation methods. Each session will end with a collective meal. The sessions, individually and as a whole, are intended to attune the participants with the earth and our human bodies, to understand where food is coming from and where it's going. Connected as a sacred gift, rather than in isolation, we will eat together.
Register here. It is preferred participants come to every session, as we will be building on our relationship and knowledge. There will be three sessions, October 4 and 11 from 3–6pm and November 3 from 2–6pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hannah Arendt on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: Selections from the Hannah Arendt Personal Library Collection
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Runs through Thursday, October 31, 2024
Stevenson Library Following Arendt’s passing in 1975, her extensive collection—comprising approximately 4,000 volumes, pamphlets, and ephemera—was relocated from her New York City apartment to Bard College. The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, in collaboration with the Stevenson Library, is presenting an exhibition featuring three display tables that showcase items from Hannah Arendt’s personal library. This exhibition coincides with the Hannah Arendt Center's annual fall conference, taking place on October 17 and 18 at Bard College's Olin Hall. The exhibition is divided into three sections, emphasizing Arendt’s own works as well as key texts related to this year’s conference theme: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism.
Curated by Jana Mader, Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center and Helene Tieger, Head of Archives & Special Collections.
A guided walking tour with Jana Mader on Friday, October 18th, beginning in the Olin Atrium at 2:15pm will lead participants to the exhibition at the Stevenson Library, and to Hannah Arendt's grave. This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with Arendt’s legacy through conversation, reflection, and a walk in the fresh air. Meet at the Registration Table.
The Hannah Arendt Center's 16th annual fall conference will bring notable speakers to Bard College in Annandale to discuss the implications of tribalist politics just weeks before the national US election. On October 17 and 18, Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Imagine a Pluralistic Politics will spark important conversations about the undeniable fact that tribalism is real, appealing, and dangerous, and explore how to make space for loyalty and meaning while fostering a more pluralistic politics.
Learn more about the conference and register (Bard students, faculty, and staff attend free) at hac.bard.edu/tribalism-2024.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Libraries at Bard College.
Bard MA in Teaching program (Bard MAT) Online Information Session for Seniors
Interested in Teaching? Stay at Bard for another year (or two) and earn your MA degree and Teacher Certification
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 12 pm
Online Event LEARN MORE! Join Cecilia Maple '01, Director of MAT Admission and Student Affairs, to learn about the MAT's program options and structure, application process and deadlines, scholarship aid, job prospects, and more!
Can't make this day/ time? Would prefer to meet one-on-one? Just send us an email. For more information, call 845-594-3193, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/mat.
Position yourself for success on the job search & connect with hiring managers! Register to join us for conversations with recruiters at JLL & Bard Alumna, Elena Alschuler `06, Head of Sustainability for the Americas at LaSalle Investment Management. JLL is one of the world’s leading real estate companies.
Gain insight into positioning yourself for success in the job market
Learn how to leverage your education & expand your network
Hear about the paid internship & FT roles offered by JLL
Get advice from Bard alum about working in asset investment management
Preregistration is required.
Register HereSponsored by: Career Development Office; Office of Alumni/ae Affairs.
For more information, call 845-758-7539, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 Aruna D'Souza writes about modern and contemporary art, intersectional feminisms, and diasporic aesthetics. Her work appears regularly in 4Columns, the New York Times, and in numerous artists’ monographs and exhibition catalogues. Her book Whitewalling: Art, Race, and Protest in 3 Acts was named one of the best art books of 2018 by the New York Times. Recent editorial projects include Linda Nochlin’s Making It Modern: Essays on the Art of the Now and Lorraine O’Grady’s Writing in Space 1973-2018; she co-curated the retrospective “Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And” at the Brooklyn Museum in 2021. She is the recipient of the 2021 Rabkin Prize for art journalism and a 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant. She was appointed the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art in 2022, and the W.W. Corcoran Professor of Social Engagement at the Corcoran School of Art, George Washington University, in 2022-2023. Her most recent book, Imperfect Solidarities, was published in 2024. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events/600-aruna-d-souza.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Join us in a safe place to vent and discuss topics around men's mental health. This is a men of color curated/derived space but ALL are free to come and participate. Please come ready to be open and honest. If you are not comfortable with that, you're still welcome to come and get a feel for the space. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Abby de Uriarte ’13, Alex Luscher ’22, Samantha Rosenbaum ’13 and Catherine Susser, Office of Alumni/ae Affairs invite you to the Philadelphia Cities Party on Wednesday, October 9th 5:30–7:30 pm EST.
Since the Phillies will be playing a fourth game, we will be gathering indoors in a sectioned-off area where we will have an AYCE snack buffet, direct access to the bar, and TV screen!
Register HereSponsored by: Office of Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Bard MA in Teaching program (Bard MAT) Online Information Session for Seniors
Interested in Teaching? Stay at Bard for another year (or two) and earn your MA degree and Teacher Certification
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 6 pm
Online Event LEARN MORE! Join Cecilia Maple '01, Director of MAT Admission and Student Affairs, to learn about the MAT's program options and structure, application process and deadlines, scholarship aid, job prospects, and more!
Can't make this day/ time? Would prefer to meet one-on-one? Just send us an email. For more information, call 845-594-3193, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/mat.
Muslim Student Organization x Students for Justice in Palestine
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 7–8 pm
Anna Jones Memorial Garden Join us for a vigil and prayer showing solidarity with Palestinians and marking one year since the start of the genocide. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Election@Bard Presents Voting Declassified: Your Survival Guide to Voting in the 2024 Election
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 7:30–8:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 What is real and what is fake? Come join Election@Bard as we decode election misinformation, talk policy issues, and prepare for this year's presidential election. Food will be provided.
We can't wait to see you there! Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Student Activities.
Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more.
Thursday, October 10, 2024 9 am – 5 pm
Acupuncture is offered at the Center for Spiritual Life at discounted rates for students, faculty, and staff various days a week with two different practitioners. Please call, text, or email to schedule an appointment, or for more information see below. Some insurance policies cover acupuncture.
To schedule an appointment contact : Dr. Sarah Heslip, LAc DACM email [email protected] or text 413 842 7798 or Philip Brown, MA LAc email [email protected] or text 845-943-7644 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].
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Thursday, October 10, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Thursday, October 10, 2024 8 pm – 12 am
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger marks the first in-depth examination of artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s multifaceted practice (b. 1976, Singapore) in the United States. Widely considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the past 20 years, Ho creates complex and compelling video installations that probe reality, history, and fiction rooted in the culture of Southeast Asia. Time & the Tiger features five immersive film and multimedia installations spanning two decades that draw from historical events, documentary footage, art history, music videos, and mythical stories to investigate the construction of history, the narrative of myths, and the plurality of identities. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Remember to Dream revisits the range and breadth of Carrie Mae Weems’ prolific career through seldom displayed and lesser-known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice. Moving beyond iconic projects, Remember to Dream seeks to rebalance understanding of Weems’ artistic development over the past 30 years while locating her work in the context of her own lived experiences and commitment to activism. Ranging from large-scale installations to serial bodies of photography, the works in the exhibition provide a through-line from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, tracing significant moments of racial reckoning through Weems’ own lens. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Galleries Start Making Sense brings together highlights from the collections housed at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; the art collection, Special Collections, part of the CCS Bard library, and the CCS Bard archives. At a moment when the Center is poised to greatly expand its library, archives and classrooms with the new 6,000 sq foot Keith Haring Wing, doubling the size of the library and adding 75% more collection storage below ground (opening in 2025), Start Making Sense creates an open dialogue between artworks and the contexts (exhibitions, institutions, galleries, events, curators, and collectors) which literally “make sense” of the works on display. It does so in a playful dialogue between art objects, archives, ephemera, and rare books held at CCS Bard beginning with the Marieluise Hessel Collection and moving to more recent gifts from a broad range of collectors, curators, artists and others who have placed their gifts at the disposition of the students, faculty and outside researchers who form the CCS Bard community. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursdays from noon – 5 pm, running May 30 through October 31
Thursday, October 10, 2024 12–5 pm
Library Road in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Northeastern side of Kline Parking Lot Weekly selections of student produced and seasonally grown herbs, vegetables, mushrooms, honey, plant starts, flowers, and more. Local grass fed meat and eggs available from Triple A Angus and Lisa Benincasa from Shipping and Receiving, respectively.
Oh, and don't forget to bring your market bags! We accept cash and credit card payment methods!
Find us on Library Road on the east side of New Annandale Road (north end of Kline parking lot) between Gilson Place and Kappa House. For more information, call 518-653-6118, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 10, 2024 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. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French 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.
Thursday, October 10, 2024 1:30–2:30 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].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 10, 2024 6–7 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].
Meditation Room, Center for Spiritual Life, basement of Resnick Village Dorm A Monday: Guided Meditation, 6-7 pm 6-6:15 dharma words 6:15-6:45 meditation 6:45-7 pm kinhin (walking meditation) and chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation, 6-7 pm One hour of stillness and contemplation, plus the opportunity to ask questions about your spiritual practice in an one-on-one meeting with Myoko Osho.
You may join the meditation sessions at any time. Afterwards join our sangha community get-together with refreshments. Contact us to receive announcements for special Buddhist community events throughout the semester.
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, come bake challah and help prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose, they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another with the openness and closeness that seem so natural in kitchens. All are welcome. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Humanities, Room 205 Interested in improving your public speaking skills, traveling to compete at other colleges, or getting involved in our events? All are welcome to join our regular weekly debate meetings! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Humanities, Room 201 The Sunrise Movement at Bard is having weekly meetings. Come by if you're interested in taking climate action! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Fisher Studio Arts Building Join us for figure drawing where we'll draw live models every week! No experience required. Find us in Room 149 at Fisher Studio Arts Building.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Bard Farm This three session workshop series, to be held at Bard Farm, will consist of practical, hands-on trainings in which participants will go through the process of harvesting, preparing and sharing farm-grown food using traditional, non-electric food preparation methods. Each session will end with a collective meal. The sessions, individually and as a whole, are intended to attune the participants with the earth and our human bodies, to understand where food is coming from and where it's going. Connected as a sacred gift, rather than in isolation, we will eat together.
Register here. It is preferred participants come to every session, as we will be building on our relationship and knowledge. There will be three sessions, October 4 and 11 from 3–6pm and November 3 from 2–6pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hannah Arendt on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: Selections from the Hannah Arendt Personal Library Collection
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Runs through Thursday, October 31, 2024
Stevenson Library Following Arendt’s passing in 1975, her extensive collection—comprising approximately 4,000 volumes, pamphlets, and ephemera—was relocated from her New York City apartment to Bard College. The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, in collaboration with the Stevenson Library, is presenting an exhibition featuring three display tables that showcase items from Hannah Arendt’s personal library. This exhibition coincides with the Hannah Arendt Center's annual fall conference, taking place on October 17 and 18 at Bard College's Olin Hall. The exhibition is divided into three sections, emphasizing Arendt’s own works as well as key texts related to this year’s conference theme: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism.
Curated by Jana Mader, Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center and Helene Tieger, Head of Archives & Special Collections.
A guided walking tour with Jana Mader on Friday, October 18th, beginning in the Olin Atrium at 2:15pm will lead participants to the exhibition at the Stevenson Library, and to Hannah Arendt's grave. This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with Arendt’s legacy through conversation, reflection, and a walk in the fresh air. Meet at the Registration Table.
The Hannah Arendt Center's 16th annual fall conference will bring notable speakers to Bard College in Annandale to discuss the implications of tribalist politics just weeks before the national US election. On October 17 and 18, Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Imagine a Pluralistic Politics will spark important conversations about the undeniable fact that tribalism is real, appealing, and dangerous, and explore how to make space for loyalty and meaning while fostering a more pluralistic politics.
Learn more about the conference and register (Bard students, faculty, and staff attend free) at hac.bard.edu/tribalism-2024.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Libraries at Bard College.
Kline Commons Lawn Come join Election@Bard at Kline Commons Lawn to register to vote or for any of your election needs! We are happy to help and ready to answer your questions.
In case of changes in weather, we will move inside the Commons.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Student Activities.
Bard MA in Teaching program (Bard MAT) Online Information Session for Seniors
Interested in Teaching? Stay at Bard for another year (or two) and earn your MA degree and Teacher Certification
Thursday, October 10, 2024 12 pm
Online Event LEARN MORE! Join Cecilia Maple '01, Director of MAT Admission and Student Affairs, to learn about the MAT's program options and structure, application process and deadlines, scholarship aid, job prospects, and more!
Can't make this day/ time? Would prefer to meet one-on-one? Just send us an email. For more information, call 845-594-3193, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/mat.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Thursday, October 10th, 2024 Campus Center, George Ball Lounge 3:00–5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Get a FREE Professional Candid Photo to use for your LinkedIn Profile or Portfolio. Drop by the George Ball Lounge anytime between 3–5 pm.
We recommend wearing a nice sweater, t-shirt, or collared shirt if you don't have professional business attire to get the best results (Inspiration/Examples Shown)
For more information, call 845-758-7539, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard MA in Teaching program (Bard MAT) Online Information Session for Seniors
Interested in Teaching? Stay at Bard for another year (or two) and earn your MA degree and Teacher Certification
Thursday, October 10, 2024 6 pm
Online Event LEARN MORE! Join Cecilia Maple '01, Director of MAT Admission and Student Affairs, to learn about the MAT's program options and structure, application process and deadlines, scholarship aid, job prospects, and more!
Can't make this day/ time? Would prefer to meet one-on-one? Just send us an email. For more information, call 845-594-3193, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/mat.
Arthur Bressan Jr.'s Forbidden Letters (16mm, 1979, 74 mins)
Thursday, October 10, 2024 7–9 pm
Ottaway Theater Queer trans film archivist and historian Elizabeth Purchell presents a screening of Arthur Bressan Jr.'s Forbidden Letters (16mm, 1979, 74 mins). A landmark classic of x-rated gay adult cinema, Bressan's Forbidden Letters tells the story of a romance set in San Francisco at the height of gay liberation. Larry (Robert Adams) is trying to pass the time on the day his older lover Richard (Richard Locke) is set to be released from prison. Unable to clear his head through casual sex, he reads through his letters to Richard — letters he could never send out of fear that his outing would lead to a harsher sentence. As Richard’s release draws nearer, the question remains: will the spark still be there when he gets out?
Followed by a discussion on queer film preservation with Critic in Residence Ed Halter
**Please be advised that this film contains sexually graphic material.** For more information, call 845-758-7253, or e-mail [email protected].
Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Friday, October 11, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger marks the first in-depth examination of artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s multifaceted practice (b. 1976, Singapore) in the United States. Widely considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the past 20 years, Ho creates complex and compelling video installations that probe reality, history, and fiction rooted in the culture of Southeast Asia. Time & the Tiger features five immersive film and multimedia installations spanning two decades that draw from historical events, documentary footage, art history, music videos, and mythical stories to investigate the construction of history, the narrative of myths, and the plurality of identities. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Remember to Dream revisits the range and breadth of Carrie Mae Weems’ prolific career through seldom displayed and lesser-known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice. Moving beyond iconic projects, Remember to Dream seeks to rebalance understanding of Weems’ artistic development over the past 30 years while locating her work in the context of her own lived experiences and commitment to activism. Ranging from large-scale installations to serial bodies of photography, the works in the exhibition provide a through-line from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, tracing significant moments of racial reckoning through Weems’ own lens. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Galleries Start Making Sense brings together highlights from the collections housed at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; the art collection, Special Collections, part of the CCS Bard library, and the CCS Bard archives. At a moment when the Center is poised to greatly expand its library, archives and classrooms with the new 6,000 sq foot Keith Haring Wing, doubling the size of the library and adding 75% more collection storage below ground (opening in 2025), Start Making Sense creates an open dialogue between artworks and the contexts (exhibitions, institutions, galleries, events, curators, and collectors) which literally “make sense” of the works on display. It does so in a playful dialogue between art objects, archives, ephemera, and rare books held at CCS Bard beginning with the Marieluise Hessel Collection and moving to more recent gifts from a broad range of collectors, curators, artists and others who have placed their gifts at the disposition of the students, faculty and outside researchers who form the CCS Bard community. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Friday, October 11, 2024 10 am – 12 pm
Sawkill Coffee House
The Food Pantry @ Bard provides students, faculty and staff who may be experiencing food insecurity, with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. 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. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger and others in the Bard community for an informal Torah Study session each Friday—open to everyone of all religious backgrounds.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Our Virtual Reading Group continues its discussion of Hannah Arendt's Between Past and Future, which describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Through a series of eight exercises, Hannah Arendt shows how we can redistill the vital essence of these concepts and use them to regain a frame of reference for the future.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Don't worry if you miss a VRG meeting! We post them all on our YouTube channel the week after they're recorded. Or tune in to an edited version of the chapter readings plus bonus episodes on our podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
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. Join us for Persian language table on Fridays.
Sponsored by: Center for Foreign Languages and Cultures.
For more information, call 845-706-7744, or e-mail [email protected].
Zoom via the link Join Exhale to Inhale and Bard College for the Fall 2024 Term!
These 30-minute Exhale to Inhale Classes will offer time to check in with your stress levels, connect with your body, and make movement-based choices. Classes will include a brief centering and uplift weekly themes: Connect, Anchor, Experience, Restore, Empower, Resilience, Intention, Mindfulness, Courage, Curiosity, Self-acceptance, and Worthiness, to cultivate a focus throughout practice. You are welcome to join the class during any stage in the 12-week cycle throughout the Fall term and still feel supported and reap the benefits of this practice.
Campus Center, Red Room 203 BOTV biweekly club meetings @ CC Red Room.. Plan film, edit, and watch BOTV Content! We are not meeting on November 29th!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Bard Farm This three session workshop series, to be held at Bard Farm, will consist of practical, hands-on trainings in which participants will go through the process of harvesting, preparing and sharing farm-grown food using traditional, non-electric food preparation methods. Each session will end with a collective meal. The sessions, individually and as a whole, are intended to attune the participants with the earth and our human bodies, to understand where food is coming from and where it's going. Connected as a sacred gift, rather than in isolation, we will eat together.
Register here. It is preferred participants come to every session, as we will be building on our relationship and knowledge. There will be three sessions, October 4 and 11 from 3–6pm and November 3 from 2–6pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Come to Stevenson Library 402 to work quietly on your project in the company of other seniors. Research indicates that even the smallest sense of belonging to a community increases your performance. By making the commitment to show up for your project at the same time each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results over time.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, 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. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Join us for an Open Mic Night every Friday. Open to all! 10/11, 10/25, 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/29, 12/6, 12/13 non-Friday dates 9/29, 10/19, 11/23Sponsored by: Student Activities.
We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Friday, October 11, 2024 8–10 pm
Sawkill Coffee House
The Food Pantry @ Bard provides students, faculty and staff who may be experiencing food insecurity, with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hannah Arendt on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: Selections from the Hannah Arendt Personal Library Collection
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Runs through Thursday, October 31, 2024
Stevenson Library Following Arendt’s passing in 1975, her extensive collection—comprising approximately 4,000 volumes, pamphlets, and ephemera—was relocated from her New York City apartment to Bard College. The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, in collaboration with the Stevenson Library, is presenting an exhibition featuring three display tables that showcase items from Hannah Arendt’s personal library. This exhibition coincides with the Hannah Arendt Center's annual fall conference, taking place on October 17 and 18 at Bard College's Olin Hall. The exhibition is divided into three sections, emphasizing Arendt’s own works as well as key texts related to this year’s conference theme: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism.
Curated by Jana Mader, Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center and Helene Tieger, Head of Archives & Special Collections.
A guided walking tour with Jana Mader on Friday, October 18th, beginning in the Olin Atrium at 2:15pm will lead participants to the exhibition at the Stevenson Library, and to Hannah Arendt's grave. This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with Arendt’s legacy through conversation, reflection, and a walk in the fresh air. Meet at the Registration Table.
The Hannah Arendt Center's 16th annual fall conference will bring notable speakers to Bard College in Annandale to discuss the implications of tribalist politics just weeks before the national US election. On October 17 and 18, Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Imagine a Pluralistic Politics will spark important conversations about the undeniable fact that tribalism is real, appealing, and dangerous, and explore how to make space for loyalty and meaning while fostering a more pluralistic politics.
Learn more about the conference and register (Bard students, faculty, and staff attend free) at hac.bard.edu/tribalism-2024.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Libraries at Bard College.
CDO Applying for the Bard in Berlin Study Abroad Program and interested in the BCB Internship Program? Stop by the Career Development Office to spruce up your resume!
Applicants for the BCB Internship Program are required to either meet with the CDO or attend a drop in session. In order to apply for the BCB Internship Program, you must be applying for the Bard in Berlin Study Abroad Program.
Additional Drop In Hours: September 20, 10 am to 12 pm October 4, 10 am to 12 pmSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Career Development Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard MA in Teaching program (Bard MAT) Online Information Session for Seniors
Interested in Teaching? Stay at Bard for another year (or two) and earn your MA degree and Teacher Certification
Friday, October 11, 2024 12 pm
Online Event LEARN MORE! Join Cecilia Maple '01, Director of MAT Admission and Student Affairs, to learn about the MAT's program options and structure, application process and deadlines, scholarship aid, job prospects, and more!
Can't make this day/ time? Would prefer to meet one-on-one? Just send us an email. For more information, call 845-594-3193, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/mat.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics: Machines that Learn and the Magic of Magnetism from Networks
Hal Haggard, Physics Program
Friday, October 11, 2024 12 pm
Hegeman 107 This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffery E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” Professors Sven Anderson and Hal Haggard will introduce the basics of machine learning and some of the tools from physics that helped to turn this approach into a practical technology. We will touch on the promise and limitations of machine learning emerging today.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Get the tips and tricks for creating an impressive LinkedIn page! Find out how LinkedIn can be a resource for you to connect with alumni, job search, and more. For more information, call 845-663-6595, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, October 11, 2024 – Sunday, October 13, 2024 4–6 pm
Montgomery Place Estate Join us for a performance of Hamlet at Montgomery Place, put on by Bard students and alumna/e.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Bard Mural Initiative weekly meeting to discuss mural designs and projects across campus. All are welcome!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Office of Student Activities and Black Student Organization
Friday, October 11, 2024 9 pm – 1 am
Manor Join us for cookie decorating, plushie crocheting, Halloween coloring, seasonal snacks, and the chance to get thrifted clothes for costumes!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Join Cult Classics for weird, old, and bad movies Fridays at 10 pm! Weis Cinema EXEPT Dates 10/18 @ Preston Theatre and 11/22 @ Preston Theatre Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Saturday, October 12, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger marks the first in-depth examination of artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s multifaceted practice (b. 1976, Singapore) in the United States. Widely considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the past 20 years, Ho creates complex and compelling video installations that probe reality, history, and fiction rooted in the culture of Southeast Asia. Time & the Tiger features five immersive film and multimedia installations spanning two decades that draw from historical events, documentary footage, art history, music videos, and mythical stories to investigate the construction of history, the narrative of myths, and the plurality of identities. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Remember to Dream revisits the range and breadth of Carrie Mae Weems’ prolific career through seldom displayed and lesser-known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice. Moving beyond iconic projects, Remember to Dream seeks to rebalance understanding of Weems’ artistic development over the past 30 years while locating her work in the context of her own lived experiences and commitment to activism. Ranging from large-scale installations to serial bodies of photography, the works in the exhibition provide a through-line from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, tracing significant moments of racial reckoning through Weems’ own lens. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Galleries Start Making Sense brings together highlights from the collections housed at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; the art collection, Special Collections, part of the CCS Bard library, and the CCS Bard archives. At a moment when the Center is poised to greatly expand its library, archives and classrooms with the new 6,000 sq foot Keith Haring Wing, doubling the size of the library and adding 75% more collection storage below ground (opening in 2025), Start Making Sense creates an open dialogue between artworks and the contexts (exhibitions, institutions, galleries, events, curators, and collectors) which literally “make sense” of the works on display. It does so in a playful dialogue between art objects, archives, ephemera, and rare books held at CCS Bard beginning with the Marieluise Hessel Collection and moving to more recent gifts from a broad range of collectors, curators, artists and others who have placed their gifts at the disposition of the students, faculty and outside researchers who form the CCS Bard community. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Saturday, October 12, 2024 10 am – 12 pm
Sawkill Coffee House
The Food Pantry @ Bard provides students, faculty and staff who may be experiencing food insecurity, with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Farm This three session workshop series, to be held at Bard Farm, will consist of practical, hands-on trainings in which participants will go through the process of harvesting, preparing and sharing farm-grown food using traditional, non-electric food preparation methods. Each session will end with a collective meal. The sessions, individually and as a whole, are intended to attune the participants with the earth and our human bodies, to understand where food is coming from and where it's going. Connected as a sacred gift, rather than in isolation, we will eat together.
Register here. It is preferred participants come to every session, as we will be building on our relationship and knowledge. There will be three sessions, October 4 and 11 from 3–6pm and November 3 from 2–6pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Saturday, October 12, 2024 8–10 pm
Sawkill Coffee House
The Food Pantry @ Bard provides students, faculty and staff who may be experiencing food insecurity, with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hannah Arendt on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: Selections from the Hannah Arendt Personal Library Collection
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Runs through Thursday, October 31, 2024
Stevenson Library Following Arendt’s passing in 1975, her extensive collection—comprising approximately 4,000 volumes, pamphlets, and ephemera—was relocated from her New York City apartment to Bard College. The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, in collaboration with the Stevenson Library, is presenting an exhibition featuring three display tables that showcase items from Hannah Arendt’s personal library. This exhibition coincides with the Hannah Arendt Center's annual fall conference, taking place on October 17 and 18 at Bard College's Olin Hall. The exhibition is divided into three sections, emphasizing Arendt’s own works as well as key texts related to this year’s conference theme: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism.
Curated by Jana Mader, Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center and Helene Tieger, Head of Archives & Special Collections.
A guided walking tour with Jana Mader on Friday, October 18th, beginning in the Olin Atrium at 2:15pm will lead participants to the exhibition at the Stevenson Library, and to Hannah Arendt's grave. This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with Arendt’s legacy through conversation, reflection, and a walk in the fresh air. Meet at the Registration Table.
The Hannah Arendt Center's 16th annual fall conference will bring notable speakers to Bard College in Annandale to discuss the implications of tribalist politics just weeks before the national US election. On October 17 and 18, Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Imagine a Pluralistic Politics will spark important conversations about the undeniable fact that tribalism is real, appealing, and dangerous, and explore how to make space for loyalty and meaning while fostering a more pluralistic politics.
Learn more about the conference and register (Bard students, faculty, and staff attend free) at hac.bard.edu/tribalism-2024.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Libraries at Bard College.
Friday, October 11, 2024 – Sunday, October 13, 2024 4–6 pm
Montgomery Place Estate Join us for a performance of Hamlet at Montgomery Place, put on by Bard students and alumna/e.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Center for Spiritual Life Beit Shalom-Salaam "Sacred Space" Join us for an all-day gathering marking the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. Yom Kippur Services beginning at 10:00am. Come for any part of the day – we'll be there!
10 am–12 pm: Shacharit 2–3 pm: Text Study/Experience I: Rebbe Nachman on Hitbodedut 3–4 pm: Text Study/Experience II: A Look at the Haftarah (Isaiah 57:14–58–14) and other Yom Kippur texts 4:30–5 pm: Niggunim, chanting, Jewish Meditation 5–5:30 pm: Yizkor Memorial Service 5:30–6:15 pm: Mincha and Jonah Text Study 6:15–7 pm: Neilah Our break-the-fast meal will be at sundown (approximately 7 pm).Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The Women's Soccer team competes in a conference match against Union! Come out and support the Raptors! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Stevenson Athletic Center The Bard men's volleyball is hosting their alumni this weekend and will play in an alumni match! Come out and support the Raptors. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Sunday, October 13, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger marks the first in-depth examination of artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s multifaceted practice (b. 1976, Singapore) in the United States. Widely considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the past 20 years, Ho creates complex and compelling video installations that probe reality, history, and fiction rooted in the culture of Southeast Asia. Time & the Tiger features five immersive film and multimedia installations spanning two decades that draw from historical events, documentary footage, art history, music videos, and mythical stories to investigate the construction of history, the narrative of myths, and the plurality of identities. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Remember to Dream revisits the range and breadth of Carrie Mae Weems’ prolific career through seldom displayed and lesser-known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice. Moving beyond iconic projects, Remember to Dream seeks to rebalance understanding of Weems’ artistic development over the past 30 years while locating her work in the context of her own lived experiences and commitment to activism. Ranging from large-scale installations to serial bodies of photography, the works in the exhibition provide a through-line from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, tracing significant moments of racial reckoning through Weems’ own lens. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Galleries Start Making Sense brings together highlights from the collections housed at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; the art collection, Special Collections, part of the CCS Bard library, and the CCS Bard archives. At a moment when the Center is poised to greatly expand its library, archives and classrooms with the new 6,000 sq foot Keith Haring Wing, doubling the size of the library and adding 75% more collection storage below ground (opening in 2025), Start Making Sense creates an open dialogue between artworks and the contexts (exhibitions, institutions, galleries, events, curators, and collectors) which literally “make sense” of the works on display. It does so in a playful dialogue between art objects, archives, ephemera, and rare books held at CCS Bard beginning with the Marieluise Hessel Collection and moving to more recent gifts from a broad range of collectors, curators, artists and others who have placed their gifts at the disposition of the students, faculty and outside researchers who form the CCS Bard community. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Sunday, October 13, 2024 10 am – 12 pm
Sawkill Coffee House
The Food Pantry @ Bard provides students, faculty and staff who may be experiencing food insecurity, with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Farm This three session workshop series, to be held at Bard Farm, will consist of practical, hands-on trainings in which participants will go through the process of harvesting, preparing and sharing farm-grown food using traditional, non-electric food preparation methods. Each session will end with a collective meal. The sessions, individually and as a whole, are intended to attune the participants with the earth and our human bodies, to understand where food is coming from and where it's going. Connected as a sacred gift, rather than in isolation, we will eat together.
Register here. It is preferred participants come to every session, as we will be building on our relationship and knowledge. There will be three sessions, October 4 and 11 from 3–6pm and November 3 from 2–6pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Sunday, October 13, 2024 8–10 pm
Sawkill Coffee House
The Food Pantry @ Bard provides students, faculty and staff who may be experiencing food insecurity, with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (1114 River Road) in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome!
Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at noon in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Join us to create costum dolls and sculpture with materials including needle felting, modeling clay, and sewing. Every Sunday at 2pm.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 443-707-6062, or e-mail [email protected].
Hannah Arendt on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: Selections from the Hannah Arendt Personal Library Collection
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Runs through Thursday, October 31, 2024
Stevenson Library Following Arendt’s passing in 1975, her extensive collection—comprising approximately 4,000 volumes, pamphlets, and ephemera—was relocated from her New York City apartment to Bard College. The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, in collaboration with the Stevenson Library, is presenting an exhibition featuring three display tables that showcase items from Hannah Arendt’s personal library. This exhibition coincides with the Hannah Arendt Center's annual fall conference, taking place on October 17 and 18 at Bard College's Olin Hall. The exhibition is divided into three sections, emphasizing Arendt’s own works as well as key texts related to this year’s conference theme: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism.
Curated by Jana Mader, Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center and Helene Tieger, Head of Archives & Special Collections.
A guided walking tour with Jana Mader on Friday, October 18th, beginning in the Olin Atrium at 2:15pm will lead participants to the exhibition at the Stevenson Library, and to Hannah Arendt's grave. This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with Arendt’s legacy through conversation, reflection, and a walk in the fresh air. Meet at the Registration Table.
The Hannah Arendt Center's 16th annual fall conference will bring notable speakers to Bard College in Annandale to discuss the implications of tribalist politics just weeks before the national US election. On October 17 and 18, Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Imagine a Pluralistic Politics will spark important conversations about the undeniable fact that tribalism is real, appealing, and dangerous, and explore how to make space for loyalty and meaning while fostering a more pluralistic politics.
Learn more about the conference and register (Bard students, faculty, and staff attend free) at hac.bard.edu/tribalism-2024.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Libraries at Bard College.
Friday, October 11, 2024 – Sunday, October 13, 2024 4–6 pm
Montgomery Place Estate Join us for a performance of Hamlet at Montgomery Place, put on by Bard students and alumna/e.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Religious worship every second and fourth Sunday of the month. Join us from 9 to 10 am in the Chapel of the Holy Innocents. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Monday, October 14, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Monday, October 14, 2024 8 pm – 12 am
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
Meditation Room, Center for Spiritual Life, basement of Resnick Village Dorm A Monday: Guided Meditation, 6-7 pm 6-6:15 dharma words 6:15-6:45 meditation 6:45-7 pm kinhin (walking meditation) and chanting
Thursday: Silent Meditation, 6-7 pm One hour of stillness and contemplation, plus the opportunity to ask questions about your spiritual practice in an one-on-one meeting with Myoko Osho.
You may join the meditation sessions at any time. Afterwards join our sangha community get-together with refreshments. Contact us to receive announcements for special Buddhist community events throughout the semester.
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Farm This three session workshop series, to be held at Bard Farm, will consist of practical, hands-on trainings in which participants will go through the process of harvesting, preparing and sharing farm-grown food using traditional, non-electric food preparation methods. Each session will end with a collective meal. The sessions, individually and as a whole, are intended to attune the participants with the earth and our human bodies, to understand where food is coming from and where it's going. Connected as a sacred gift, rather than in isolation, we will eat together.
Register here. It is preferred participants come to every session, as we will be building on our relationship and knowledge. There will be three sessions, October 4 and 11 from 3–6pm and November 3 from 2–6pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hannah Arendt on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: Selections from the Hannah Arendt Personal Library Collection
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Runs through Thursday, October 31, 2024
Stevenson Library Following Arendt’s passing in 1975, her extensive collection—comprising approximately 4,000 volumes, pamphlets, and ephemera—was relocated from her New York City apartment to Bard College. The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, in collaboration with the Stevenson Library, is presenting an exhibition featuring three display tables that showcase items from Hannah Arendt’s personal library. This exhibition coincides with the Hannah Arendt Center's annual fall conference, taking place on October 17 and 18 at Bard College's Olin Hall. The exhibition is divided into three sections, emphasizing Arendt’s own works as well as key texts related to this year’s conference theme: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism.
Curated by Jana Mader, Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center and Helene Tieger, Head of Archives & Special Collections.
A guided walking tour with Jana Mader on Friday, October 18th, beginning in the Olin Atrium at 2:15pm will lead participants to the exhibition at the Stevenson Library, and to Hannah Arendt's grave. This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with Arendt’s legacy through conversation, reflection, and a walk in the fresh air. Meet at the Registration Table.
The Hannah Arendt Center's 16th annual fall conference will bring notable speakers to Bard College in Annandale to discuss the implications of tribalist politics just weeks before the national US election. On October 17 and 18, Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Imagine a Pluralistic Politics will spark important conversations about the undeniable fact that tribalism is real, appealing, and dangerous, and explore how to make space for loyalty and meaning while fostering a more pluralistic politics.
Learn more about the conference and register (Bard students, faculty, and staff attend free) at hac.bard.edu/tribalism-2024.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Libraries at Bard College.
Kline Commons Are you interested in journalism, activism, or Latino immigrant issues? La Voz Magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 35,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz we strive to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers, and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz or help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
We invite students of all skills and talents to come by to our weekly meeting on Mondays from 12 pm to 1 pm in Kline Room (inside Kline), or via Zoom in case of bad weather.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, October 14, 2024 1:15–2:15 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: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The Women's Soccer team competes in a non-conference match against CCNY! Come out and support the Raptors! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 9 am – 5 pm
Acupuncture is offered at the Center for Spiritual Life at discounted rates for students, faculty, and staff various days a week with two different practitioners. Please call, text, or email to schedule an appointment, or for more information see below. Some insurance policies cover acupuncture.
To schedule an appointment contact : Dr. Sarah Heslip, LAc DACM email [email protected] or text 413 842 7798 or Philip Brown, MA LAc email [email protected] or text 845-943-7644 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 15, 2024 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; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Open Office Hours With Campus Advocate Tam Cacchione
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 12–2 pm
Sottery Hall Bard College’s Campus Advocate Tamara (Tam) Cacchione will host regular office hours in Sottery 107 on Tuesdays from 12–2 pm.
Tam works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support(CVSS) in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can come to Sottery anytime between 12 and 2 pm.
If you would like to schedule a meeting in advance, you can reach out to Tam directly at [email protected] or to the Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination at [email protected] with your request. 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].
Health and Counseling Services This is a supportive and caring community where you can talk to other students who understand the experience of losing a loved one. The co-facilitators are Joshua Boettiger, Jewish Chaplain at Bard, and Sherry Ou-yang, Counselor at Bard.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 5–6 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: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Power Vinyasa focuses on building whole body strength and flexibility through a quick paced yoga flow. Incorporating lunges, squats, core work and balance postures, this challenging practice will make you sweat as you match breath and movement. Class will conclude with a wind-down to send you out the door feeling grounded. 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.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 6–7 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: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 8 pm – 12 am
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Farm This three session workshop series, to be held at Bard Farm, will consist of practical, hands-on trainings in which participants will go through the process of harvesting, preparing and sharing farm-grown food using traditional, non-electric food preparation methods. Each session will end with a collective meal. The sessions, individually and as a whole, are intended to attune the participants with the earth and our human bodies, to understand where food is coming from and where it's going. Connected as a sacred gift, rather than in isolation, we will eat together.
Register here. It is preferred participants come to every session, as we will be building on our relationship and knowledge. There will be three sessions, October 4 and 11 from 3–6pm and November 3 from 2–6pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hannah Arendt on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: Selections from the Hannah Arendt Personal Library Collection
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Runs through Thursday, October 31, 2024
Stevenson Library Following Arendt’s passing in 1975, her extensive collection—comprising approximately 4,000 volumes, pamphlets, and ephemera—was relocated from her New York City apartment to Bard College. The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, in collaboration with the Stevenson Library, is presenting an exhibition featuring three display tables that showcase items from Hannah Arendt’s personal library. This exhibition coincides with the Hannah Arendt Center's annual fall conference, taking place on October 17 and 18 at Bard College's Olin Hall. The exhibition is divided into three sections, emphasizing Arendt’s own works as well as key texts related to this year’s conference theme: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism.
Curated by Jana Mader, Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center and Helene Tieger, Head of Archives & Special Collections.
A guided walking tour with Jana Mader on Friday, October 18th, beginning in the Olin Atrium at 2:15pm will lead participants to the exhibition at the Stevenson Library, and to Hannah Arendt's grave. This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with Arendt’s legacy through conversation, reflection, and a walk in the fresh air. Meet at the Registration Table.
The Hannah Arendt Center's 16th annual fall conference will bring notable speakers to Bard College in Annandale to discuss the implications of tribalist politics just weeks before the national US election. On October 17 and 18, Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Imagine a Pluralistic Politics will spark important conversations about the undeniable fact that tribalism is real, appealing, and dangerous, and explore how to make space for loyalty and meaning while fostering a more pluralistic politics.
Learn more about the conference and register (Bard students, faculty, and staff attend free) at hac.bard.edu/tribalism-2024.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Libraries at Bard College.
Levy Graduate Programs in Economics Info Session Webinar
Learn more about applying to Levy with Thomas Masterson, graduate program director, and Tyler Emerson, outreach and recruitment liaison.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 12–1 pm
Online Event This information session with Graduate Program Director Thomas Masterson and Graduate Outreach and Recruitment Liaison Tyler Emerson provides an overview of the Levy academic programs, student life, admission requirements, enrollment steps, new scholarships, financial aid procedures, and immigration requirements for international students. Applicants who attend a virtual information session will have their application fees waived.
Staying on campus over fall break? Join Alexa Murphy, Jeremy Hall, and Jane Smith on Tuesday from 2–4 pm in the library computer lab (second floor). You will use reflective writing to move your project forward, pick up strategies for finding and accessing research material, and learn how to use Zotero to organize your research and generate citations.
Come to all or part of the session. There will be SNACKS!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Disegno: Selections from the R & Company Archives Collection
On view now through December 13 on the first floor of Stevenson Library.
Runs through Friday, December 13, 2024
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
What is design? As a noun, design can mean the plan to construct something, the composition of a physical or digital object, or the thing itself; as a verb, it is the action of materializing an idea with intent. Drawings are a crucial part of many creators’ practices, serving purposes as varied as the techniques employed in their making. While some designers don’t draw at all (and might conceptualize with models or build intuitively), others register each step of their progress.
This exhibit showcases highlights from our archives that illustrate the different functions and strategies drawings may serve, made by designers from distinct countries, periods, and backgrounds. By juxtaposing these works, this display reveals unexpected dialogues and comparisons between people who would otherwise not be in the same conversation, yet share a desire to materialize an idea by putting pen to paper.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 27, from 2–4pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 9 am – 5 pm
Acupuncture is offered at the Center for Spiritual Life at discounted rates for students, faculty, and staff various days a week with two different practitioners. Please call, text, or email to schedule an appointment, or for more information see below. Some insurance policies cover acupuncture.
To schedule an appointment contact : Dr. Sarah Heslip, LAc DACM email [email protected] or text 413 842 7798 or Philip Brown, MA LAc email [email protected] or text 845-943-7644 For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Learning Commons Tutoring and Bard Writing Support
The Learning Commons
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 4–8 pm
Learning Commons The Learning Commons is Bard's writing center and the community's source of all academic writing support. Among other things, we provide writing fellows, peer-to-peer senior project tutors, and one-on-one trained peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge. Our writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings and research-driven writing, using writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating questions as topics, developing your written arguments, and generally helping you take your writing to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up. We may be reached at x7812 or [email protected]. Visit our webpage at https://bard.edu/learningcommons
See you in the BLC! From Your Friends in the Learning Commons
For more information, call 845-758-7812, or e-mail [email protected].
Please note that we are closed on Oct 31, Nov 28, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 8 pm – 12 am
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger marks the first in-depth examination of artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s multifaceted practice (b. 1976, Singapore) in the United States. Widely considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the past 20 years, Ho creates complex and compelling video installations that probe reality, history, and fiction rooted in the culture of Southeast Asia. Time & the Tiger features five immersive film and multimedia installations spanning two decades that draw from historical events, documentary footage, art history, music videos, and mythical stories to investigate the construction of history, the narrative of myths, and the plurality of identities. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Remember to Dream revisits the range and breadth of Carrie Mae Weems’ prolific career through seldom displayed and lesser-known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice. Moving beyond iconic projects, Remember to Dream seeks to rebalance understanding of Weems’ artistic development over the past 30 years while locating her work in the context of her own lived experiences and commitment to activism. Ranging from large-scale installations to serial bodies of photography, the works in the exhibition provide a through-line from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, tracing significant moments of racial reckoning through Weems’ own lens. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Galleries Start Making Sense brings together highlights from the collections housed at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; the art collection, Special Collections, part of the CCS Bard library, and the CCS Bard archives. At a moment when the Center is poised to greatly expand its library, archives and classrooms with the new 6,000 sq foot Keith Haring Wing, doubling the size of the library and adding 75% more collection storage below ground (opening in 2025), Start Making Sense creates an open dialogue between artworks and the contexts (exhibitions, institutions, galleries, events, curators, and collectors) which literally “make sense” of the works on display. It does so in a playful dialogue between art objects, archives, ephemera, and rare books held at CCS Bard beginning with the Marieluise Hessel Collection and moving to more recent gifts from a broad range of collectors, curators, artists and others who have placed their gifts at the disposition of the students, faculty and outside researchers who form the CCS Bard community. For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 12–1 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; 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].
Come Meet Dean Claudette Aldebot during Her Open Office Hours!
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 3–5 pm
Kappa House Come meet Dean of Inclusive Excellence Claudette Aldebot during her Open Office Hours! She is ready to partner and collaborate with all Bardians in our collective efforts towards inclusive excellence.
Dean Aldebot’s Open Office Hours are on Wednesdays from 3–5 pm in Kappa House, Room 102.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts Come learn and play squash with the head coach of the Bard Men's and Women's Squash Team. Whether you're looking to improve your game for your next league match or looking to learn a new sport, the class is for players of all levels. It'll be a fun mix of drills, games, and learning. Please bring non-marking shoes that haven't been worn outdoors. 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 16, 2024 5–6 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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Kline, College Room Many of us speak more Yiddish than we think! Everyone in the college community is invited to join an informal conversation in Yiddish. For more information, call 352-222-1349, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://flcl.bard.edu/language-lab/tables/.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy) All are welcome to join our knitting group that meets weekly. For those who do not yet know how to knit, we will give you a starter kit that includes knitting needles and yarn, providing you with one-on-one instructions. We also provide help and support for any knitting projects that you are working on.
Come and have a relaxing hour of knitting and good fellowship!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 6–7 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; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].