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Jonathan Becker and Kathy Gaweda ’21 Talk to WAMC about Bard’s Voter Suppression Lawsuit and Longstanding Student Efforts to Establish an On-Campus Polling Location
“Our essential claim is that the space on campus, which is 2,200 square feet, is far safer than the current polling site, which is approximately 700 square feet,” said Center for Civic Engagement Director Jonathan Becker. “Now, we don’t only think this. The Town Board of Red Hook has asked the Board of Elections to move the polling site, and even the church, which hosts the polling site, has said that they do not believe that their site is safe.”
Bard College Joins Letter Opposing U.S. Department of Education Investigation of Princeton Based on the University’s Acknowledgment of Systemic Racism
Bard College President Leon Botstein joined a group of university and college presidents Thursday in signing a letter opposing the U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) investigation of Princeton University launched in response to Princeton’s public statement outlining steps the university will take “to address systemic racism at Princeton and beyond.” Read More >>Bard College’s Literary Magazine Conjunctions Wins Prestigious Whiting Literary Prize
Conjunctions, the celebrated literary magazine published by Bard College, has been awarded a 2020 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. Since 2018, a total of 13 literary magazines have won this prize for excellence in publishing, advocacy for writers, and a unique contribution to the strength of the overall literary community. Conjunctions has propelled literature forward for four decades by publishing groundbreaking fiction, poetry, plays, and creative nonfiction. Read More >>More Bard News
- The New England Independent Booksellers Association Has Awarded Its 2020 New England Book Award in Nonfiction to Phuc Tran ’95 for his Celebrated Memoir Sigh, Gone
- Aperture Profiles New Series of Photographs, Tokens from an Unled Life, by Gus Aronson ’20
- Journalist Natalia Drozdiak ’10 Looks at the Historical Context Behind the Growing Tensions Between the United States and Europe over Privacy Rules and Data Transfers
- Bard Economist Pavlina Tcherneva Discusses Capitalism, Socialism, and Saving the Middle Class on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show
- Interview: Artists Tschabalala Self ’12 and Somaya Critchlow on the Iconographic Significance of the Black Female Body in Contemporary Culture
- Glenn Alexander GCP ’20 has received a Project Inclusion Conducting Freeman Fellowship from the Chicago Sinfonietta
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Fisher Center Artists
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The Miracle of Heliane
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Our World: The Past Reflected in the Present
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Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
Friday, February 28, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2027Keep the Conversation Going with the Hannah Arendt Center
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The Virtual Reading Group. Join Founder and Academic Director Roger Berkowitz and Acting Assistant Director Samantha Hill on select Fridays as they lead a live, online group discussion in a thoughtful and spirited exploration of the works of Hannah Arendt. Learn more about the VRG >>
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Fisher Center Artists
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020Neil Gaiman (Bard Professor in the Arts) and Pam Tanowitz (Fisher Center Choreographer in Residence)
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#giveFCfive to support this free online programming. Central to the Fisher Center’s mission is long-term relationships with artists across disciplines. This week, we focus on two artists who are cornerstones of the Fisher Center’s identity. These archival recordings commemorate the first time we welcomed these artists to our stages.
Also in focus this week: the American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Leon Botstein. SummerScape 2019’s Opera marked the ASO’s 16th year appearing at the Fisher Center.
NEIL GAIMAN IN CONVERSATION WITH ART SPIEGELMAN
2014, Sosnoff TheaterProfessor Gaiman launched a public conversation series at the Fisher Center in 2014 with celebrated cartoonist Art Spiegelman. The two spoke about cartooning and writing, working across mediums, friendship, and identity. Since 2014, Gaiman has hosted six events on our stage. Join us virtually on May 2, when the seventh edition—a conversation with author N. K. Jemisin—live streams via UPSTREAMING.
PAM TANOWITZ DANCE
2015, Sosnoff Theater, SummerScapeFisher Center Choreographer in Residence Pam Tanowitz was first introduced to our audiences in SummerScape 2015. Her company presented a triple bill of works, including a SummerScape-commissioned solo for American Ballet Theater Principal Ashley Tuttle, set to music by Carlos Chávez—who happened to be the featured composer of the 2015 Bard Music Festival.
THE MIRACLE OF HELIANE
2019, Sosnoff Theater, SummerScapeFirst performed in the U.S. almost 100 years after its world premiere in Hamburg, this lushly orchestrated allegorical tale was staged by Christian Räth in 2019. Performed by a remarkable cast and the 80-member American Symphony Orchestra, this staging was a stellar example of Maestro Botstein’s commitment to reintroduce rarely seen operatic treasures to a contemporary audience.
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The Miracle of Heliane
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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2019, Sosnoff Theater, SummerScape
First performed in the U.S. almost 100 years after its world premiere in Hamburg, this lushly orchestrated allegorical tale was staged by Christian Räth in 2019. Performed by a remarkable cast and the 80-member American Symphony Orchestra, this staging was a stellar example of Maestro Botstein’s commitment to reintroduce rarely seen operatic treasures to a contemporary audience.
Our World: The Past Reflected in the Present
Wednesday, April 8, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020UPSTREAMING
#giveFCfive to support this free online programming. The best art reflects present day realities, lends us perspectives from the past, and helps us imagine futures. This week, we feature two Fisher Center commissions that helped us reconsider the present through chilling encounters with the past. Our first offering from the extensive archive of the Bard Music Festival looks toward the upcoming holiday weekend with a prayer of hope and liberation. Also this week: our first live webcast from the undergraduate Theater & Performance Program.
WILL RAWLS AND CLAUDIA RANKINE: WHAT REMAINS
2017, Sosnoff Backstage, Live Arts Bard Commission/World PremiereCommissioned for the 2017 Live Arts Bard Biennial: We’re Watching, this piece brought together poet Claudia Rankine and choreographer Will Rawls to stage an encounter in a space representing the entombed imagination. With resonant movement and language inspired by Rankine’s texts on racial violence in response to black citizens’ visibility and disappearances, the piece went on to be seen in five other cities.
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DAN HURLIN: DEMOLISHING EVERYTHING WITH AMAZING SPEED
2016, LUMA Theater, SummerScape Commission/World PremierePuppet artist Dan Hurlin created this surreal "puppet noir," based on four beautiful but disquieting plays by the Italian futurist artist Fortunato Depero. The plays, written in 1917, had never before been translated or staged in English. These astonishing plays (with original music by Dan Moses Schreier) celebrate the energy and possibility of technology, while revealing the chilling parallels between their time and ours.
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ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD: A PASSOVER PSALM, OP. 30 (1941)
2019, Sosnoff Theater, BMF 2019: Korngold and His WorldWith lyrics adapted from Hagaddah texts, Korngold’s Passover Psalm was written in exile during WWII at the height of his Hollywood career. The piece opened the 2019 Bard Music Festival, which focused on Korngold’s life and work, performed by The Orchestra Now under the direction of Maestro Leon Botstein and featuring soprano Marjorie Owens along with the Bard Festival Chorale.
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MAD FOREST
by Caryl Churchill, directed by Ashley TataLive Webscast: April 10, 2020
Romania. December 25th, 1989. A dictator is executed. A totalitarian regime topples. What happens next? Caryl Churchill’s 1990 play depicts life during and after a repressive dictatorship. Reimagined as a digital presentation by a professional creative team and student performers, this 30-year old work approached from a 2020 point of view powerfully resonates with our current global state.
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