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Opening on Friday, July 25 at Bard SummerScape: First Fully Staged American Production of Smetana’s Opera <em>Dalibor</em>, Now Starring John Matthew Myers and Cadie J. Bryan

Opening on Friday, July 25 at Bard SummerScape: First Fully Staged American Production of Smetana’s Opera Dalibor, Now Starring John Matthew Myers and Cadie J. Bryan

Starting on Friday, July 25 at the 2025 Bard SummerScape festival, the Fisher Center at Bard presents the first fully staged American production of Bedřich Smetana’s Dalibor.

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CCS Exhibition Stan Douglas: Ghostlight Featured in the New York Times

“The show at Bard—organized and cunningly paced by Lauren Cornell, the artistic director of the college’s Center for Curatorial Studies—captures Douglas’s commitment to art as a practice of reconstitution."

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Afghan Students at American University of Central Asia to Receive $500,000 in Financial Aid

“This generous contribution arrives at a time when many Afghan students are left vulnerable due to lost international funding,” said Jonathan Becker.

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Hua Hsu in the New Yorker: “What Happens After AI Destroys College Writing?”

As more students—and some professors—are findings ways to include AI in their work, Hsu discusses the various pedagogical approaches educators are using to either avoid or incorporate the influence of AI in their classrooms.

Upcoming Events

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Bard Summerscape 2025

June 27–August 17
“A hothouse for the creation of uncompromising, cross-disciplinary hits.”—New York Times
 
Bard SummerScape returns with opera, dance, Spiegeltent, and the 35th Bard Music Festival, Martinů and His World.

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