Online Event Culture is rooted in connection to land; like land, culture cannot be contained. I am inspired by generations of Lingít & Unangax̂ creative production and knowledge connected to the land I belong to. From this perspective I engage across cultures with contemporary conditions. My process of creation is a constant pursuit of freedom and vision for the present and future. Using Indigenous and non-Indigenous technologies and materials I resist romanticization, categorization and limitation. I use my work to explore adaptation, resilience, survival, active cultural amnesia, dream, memory, cultural resurgence, connection to and disconnection from the land.
Co-sponsored by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck, a Mellon Foundation Humanities for All Times projectSponsored by: OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Holly Melgard, "Repositioning Fetal Poetics: Choices Lost to a Post-Roe America"
Part of the Autonomies Series
Friday, December 2, 2022 4–6 pm
Weis Cinema, Campus Center A reading and talk about depleted agency in Melgard's book of poems Fetal Position, a formal exploration of nascent forms of labor in scenes of their emergence. Fetal Position is a poetic study of different forms of labor in scenes of their emergence such as the noise of being born and transmissions of inter-generational violence. Here, voices speak who Melgard herself is not - or not yet - but who the poet operates in relation to becoming (potential parent, aspiring full-time employee, deranged cat lady, a hurt person automated to reproduce harm), all of whom work to navigate futures in foreclosure.
Holly Melgard is a poet whose most recent book, Fetal Position (Roof 2021), was named by Jackie Ess as one of Artforum’s “Best Books of 2021.” It is her first book published with an outside editor after a decade of self-publishing on the experimental Troll Thread (TT) press, a born-digital, print-on-demand + free to download, collectively edited press, which she co-founded with Chris Sylvester, Divya Victor, and Joey Yearous-Algozin. On Troll Thread, she is known for having authored the Poems for Baby trilogy (2011), The Making of The Americans (2012), and Black Friday (2012), as well as co-authored with Yearous-Algozin White Trash (TT, 2014) and Liquidation (2017). Her Selected Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse) is forthcoming in spring 2023. With a PhD in Poetics from SUNY Buffalo, she currently lives in Brooklyn, designing books and teaching writing at NYU and CUNY.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Bard’s Conservatory Orchestra performs a symphonic concert of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, conducted by Leon Botstein. Join us for chance to revel in Tchaikovsky’s most festive and magical scores. Also featured on this program is Carpathian Rhapsody. Composed by Ukrainian composer and teacher Myroslav Skoryk, the piece will be performed by violinist and Bard Conservatory Faculty member Luosha Fang ’11.
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra Leon Botstein, music director
Sight & Sound: Vaughan Williams and Renaissance England
Presented by The Orchestra Now
Sunday, December 4, 2022 2–4 pm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City In the hit series Sight & Sound, conductor and music historian Leon Botstein explores the parallels between orchestral music and the visual arts. A discussion is accompanied by on-screen artworks and musical excerpts performed by The Orchestra Now, followed by a full performance and audience Q&A.
England was a thriving home for the arts under the volatile Tudor dynasty, where an international community of artists and merchants navigated the lofty demands of royal patrons including England’s first two reigning queens. In 1955, British documentarian John Taylor examined Elizabethan England against a regal score by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. These selections from that score, adapted by Muir Mathieson, focus on three major figures of the Tudor era: Sir Francis Drake, William Shakespeare, and the namesake herself, Queen Elizabeth I.
Leon Botsteinconductor
Vaughan Williams Three Portraits from The England of Elizabeth Artwork from the exhibition The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The Bard Chinese Ensemble welcomes Kunqu opera singer Michell Yang to perform music from Peony Pavilion and other Chinese opera. The program will also feature premieres of several new arrangements of Chinese music by director Chen Tao for the Ensemble’s unique mix of Chinese and Western instruments.
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
The Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck Members of the Bard Vocal Arts Program present a recital of vocal works exploring the meaning of American identity, and how the United States treats its citizens based on race and sexuality. The performance is meant to platform both the hardship and humanity seen in many cultural backgrounds, and seeks a common thread between them.
The program is based in music of composers mirroring the diversity of the group, including William Grant Still, Bright Sheng, Charles Ives, and Alex Weiser. It will feature chamber musicians from Bard Conservatory and Collaborative Piano Fellow Neilson Chen.
For more information, visit the project website.Sponsored by: Bard College Community Orchestra; Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Conducting Program; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Bard Conservatory Post-Graduate Piano Fellowship; Bard Conservatory Preparatory Division; Bard Graduate Programs; Music Program.
Olin, Room 102 In this performance, I try to summarize Proust's beloved In Search of Lost Time with my own words, as a story of another time which reveals itself contemporary.
Véronique Aubouy has directed numerous short fiction films and documentaries (Albertine a disparu, 2018; Micaëla Henich, 2017; Je suis Annemarie Schwarzenbach, 2015, among many others). Since October 1993, she has been working on Proust Lu, and films people from all walks of life as they read Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, page after page, in a large array of settings. The first six volumes have been recorded to date, for a total of 140 hours and more than 1300 readers. Since 2011, Abouy has performed various versions of “Proust in One Hour”, in French and in English, in France, Italy, the UK and the USA.Sponsored by: French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym The women's basketball team hosts Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
An eight-member group led by Prof. Matt Sargent, premieres a new piece by Annie Dodson ('23), along with ensemble works by Julius Eastman, Eve Beglarian, and Terry Riley.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 7:30–8:30 pm
Free and open to the publicSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Can the people govern? Are elections and representative democracy truly the best we can do? Citizens’ assemblies are a powerful way towards a more expansive and representative democracy that puts citizens at the center of governing. This form of deliberative democracy has helped citizens resolve public issues since Ancient Greece. So why haven’t you heard of them, and what do you need to know about them?
• Intro: What is a Citizens’ Assembly • Case studies from California, Chile, and Paris • How Citizen Assemblies can work for LA
Citizens’ assemblies are gaining traction in democracies around the world because of their effectiveness in rebuilding public trust, solving complex policy issues, and depolarizing communities. Similar to the way juries are convened to deliberate on matters of justice, citizens’ assemblies bring together a representative group of citizens to carefully consider important policy matters. Such deliberative processes generated successful policy breakthroughs on controversial topics such as climate change, transitioning to renewable energy, marriage equality, and reproductive freedom, as well as local policy areas like housing,city planning, flood mitigation, and transportation.
A citizens’ assembly is a representative cross-section of residents according to demographic criteria such as gender, race, ethnicity, and age. Assembly members meet to examine an important public issue in an environment designed to reduce the influence of political bias and instead put the focus on collaborative problem solving and evidence. They take testimony from experts and stakeholders and deliberate among themselves in a structured process, ensuring that all voices are heard.
This free event is for anyone who cares about the future of Los Angeles and democracy, and is curious to learn more about a breakthrough democratic process that is engaging citizens directly in government decision-making in cities around the world—from Petaluma, CA to Paris. The event will be recorded and available following the event. ASL interpreters, closed captions, and Spanish, Mandarin and Korean translators will be available at this event.
Guest Speakers:
Ieva Cesnulaityte | Founding Head of Research and Learning, DemocracyNext Twitter: @icesnulaityte Ieva Cesnulaityte is the Founding Head of Research and Learning at DemocracyNext. Previously she was a Policy Analyst at the OECD working of innovative citizen participation, co-authoring the OECD’s flagship report Catching the Deliberative Wave with Claudia Chwalisz, authoring the OECD’s Evaluation Guidelines for Representative Deliberative Processes, and editing a series on New Democratic Institutions for Participo. She also worked in Lithuania’s Prime Minister’s office, leading Lithuania’s participation in the Open Government Partnership Initiative.
Linn Davis | Program Co-Director, Healthy Democracy Twitter: @healthydem Linn co-leads program development and process design at Healthy Democracy, a US-based nonpartisan nonprofit that brings together everyday people – selected by democratic lottery – to tackle tough policy questions. He co-coordinates HD’s complex public processes and consults on deliberative democracy projects in the US and abroad.
Rahmin Sarabi || Co-Founder, Director, The American Public Trust Twitter: @rahmin Rahmin is the Co-Founder and Director of The American Public Trust, a non-partisan startup institution working to upgrade democracy across the US so it can bridge divides and help communities solve their most pressing challenges. His background includes for-profit and non-profit innovation, human-centered strategy, and facilitation for organizations such as Good Eggs, CivicMakers, and The Democracy R&D Network.
Leonora Camner | Democratic Lottery Advocate, co-director, Public Access Democracy Twitter: @camnerleonora Leonora Camner is a director of Public Access Democracy, a democratic lottery advocacy organization, and is on the steering committee of the Represent California project, a call for a state constitutional assembly. She is also the Executive Director of Abundant Housing LA, a pro-housing advocacy organization. In 2019, she led the effort for the Southern California Coastal Plan, a 1.4 million home goal concentrated in high-cost coastal areas.
Dawn Nakagawa | Executive Vice President, Berggruen Institute Twitter: @icesnulaityte Dawn is the Executive Vice President of the Berggruen Institute which was launched in 2010 with Dawn as its first employee. The mission of the organization is to deepen understanding of the great transformations of our time and develop social, economic, and political institutions adapted to them. In addition, Dawn is the co-director of the directs the Future of Democracy program in which she works to develop new mechanisms for engaging citizens in the democratic process and harnessing collective intelligence for better governance and more resilient democracy.
Tomás González | Founder, Tribu Tomás González is the Founder of Tribu, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization promoting deliberative democracy and fighting political capture through innovation. In partnership with Stanford University’s Deliberative Democracy Lab, he led the design and implementation of the first country-wide deliberative process (Lxs 400) through random selection ever done in Latin America, and is currently scaling the experience throughout the region. In partnership with the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, he also created the “Open Municipalities” initiative to promote open government standards in local governments in Chile and Latin America. He currently serves as part of the Advisory Council to the Governor of Santiago de Chile. Tomás graduated with distinction in Economics from the University of Chile.
Oliver Hall, "Reproductive Justice for Trans Communities: Barriers and Opportunities"
Part of the Autonomies Series
Thursday, December 8, 2022 6–8 pm
Weis Cinema, Campus Center Oliver Hall is Trans Health Director at Kentucky Health Justice Network’s Trans Health Advocacy Program.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Olin Hall Works will include the Mozart Solemn Vespers and excerpts from some of Mozart’s most iconic operas.
Bard College Chamber Singers Bard College Symphonic Chorus Members of the Vocal Arts Program Members of the Conservatory Piano Fellowship ProgramSponsored by: Music Program.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Students and faculty in the percussion studio perform contemporary works.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Students and faculty perform chamber works throughout the day.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Symphony Space in New York City TŌN Resident Conductor Zachary Schwartzman returns with the orchestra to Symphony Space for another free concert. The program comprises Schumann’s overture to the opera Genoveva, four symphonic interludes from Strauss’ opera Intermezzo, and Sibelius’ Second Symphony.
Zachary Schwartzmanconductor
SchumannGenoveva Overture R. Strauss Four Symphonic Interludes from Intermezzo Sibelius Symphony No. 2 For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
“The brilliance of SITI’s approach comes from the way the company enlists the audience’s imagination to help tell the tale.”—Columbus Dispatch
The Fisher Center presents a brand new Christmas Carol! This fresh version of Charles Dickens’ seasonal tale of hope and redemption comes from the SITI Company, one of this country’s most lauded theater ensembles, led by acclaimed director and Bard alum Anne Bogart ’74. Steeped in the intimacy and alchemy of Dickens’ magical words, this wondrous adaptation conjures the world of Scrooge and his adventure with the ghosts of the past, present, and future from a bare stage and the magic of our shared imagination. The performance of this seasonal ritual offers hope and redemption for us all and weaves a tale of gratitude, fairness, and justice for our own times.
“The brilliance of SITI’s approach comes from the way the company enlists the audience’s imagination to help tell the tale.”—Columbus Dispatch
The Fisher Center presents a brand new Christmas Carol! This fresh version of Charles Dickens’ seasonal tale of hope and redemption comes from the SITI Company, one of this country’s most lauded theater ensembles, led by acclaimed director and Bard alum Anne Bogart ’74. Steeped in the intimacy and alchemy of Dickens’ magical words, this wondrous adaptation conjures the world of Scrooge and his adventure with the ghosts of the past, present, and future from a bare stage and the magic of our shared imagination. The performance of this seasonal ritual offers hope and redemption for us all and weaves a tale of gratitude, fairness, and justice for our own times.
“The brilliance of SITI’s approach comes from the way the company enlists the audience’s imagination to help tell the tale.”—Columbus Dispatch
The Fisher Center presents a brand new Christmas Carol! This fresh version of Charles Dickens’ seasonal tale of hope and redemption comes from the SITI Company, one of this country’s most lauded theater ensembles, led by acclaimed director and Bard alum Anne Bogart ’74. Steeped in the intimacy and alchemy of Dickens’ magical words, this wondrous adaptation conjures the world of Scrooge and his adventure with the ghosts of the past, present, and future from a bare stage and the magic of our shared imagination. The performance of this seasonal ritual offers hope and redemption for us all and weaves a tale of gratitude, fairness, and justice for our own times.
Online Event Culture is rooted in connection to land; like land, culture cannot be contained. I am inspired by generations of Lingít & Unangax̂ creative production and knowledge connected to the land I belong to. From this perspective I engage across cultures with contemporary conditions. My process of creation is a constant pursuit of freedom and vision for the present and future. Using Indigenous and non-Indigenous technologies and materials I resist romanticization, categorization and limitation. I use my work to explore adaptation, resilience, survival, active cultural amnesia, dream, memory, cultural resurgence, connection to and disconnection from the land.
Co-sponsored by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck, a Mellon Foundation Humanities for All Times projectSponsored by: OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Holly Melgard, "Repositioning Fetal Poetics: Choices Lost to a Post-Roe America"
Part of the Autonomies Series
Friday, December 2, 2022 4–6 pm
Weis Cinema, Campus Center A reading and talk about depleted agency in Melgard's book of poems Fetal Position, a formal exploration of nascent forms of labor in scenes of their emergence. Fetal Position is a poetic study of different forms of labor in scenes of their emergence such as the noise of being born and transmissions of inter-generational violence. Here, voices speak who Melgard herself is not - or not yet - but who the poet operates in relation to becoming (potential parent, aspiring full-time employee, deranged cat lady, a hurt person automated to reproduce harm), all of whom work to navigate futures in foreclosure.
Holly Melgard is a poet whose most recent book, Fetal Position (Roof 2021), was named by Jackie Ess as one of Artforum’s “Best Books of 2021.” It is her first book published with an outside editor after a decade of self-publishing on the experimental Troll Thread (TT) press, a born-digital, print-on-demand + free to download, collectively edited press, which she co-founded with Chris Sylvester, Divya Victor, and Joey Yearous-Algozin. On Troll Thread, she is known for having authored the Poems for Baby trilogy (2011), The Making of The Americans (2012), and Black Friday (2012), as well as co-authored with Yearous-Algozin White Trash (TT, 2014) and Liquidation (2017). Her Selected Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse) is forthcoming in spring 2023. With a PhD in Poetics from SUNY Buffalo, she currently lives in Brooklyn, designing books and teaching writing at NYU and CUNY.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Bard’s Conservatory Orchestra performs a symphonic concert of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, conducted by Leon Botstein. Join us for chance to revel in Tchaikovsky’s most festive and magical scores. Also featured on this program is Carpathian Rhapsody. Composed by Ukrainian composer and teacher Myroslav Skoryk, the piece will be performed by violinist and Bard Conservatory Faculty member Luosha Fang ’11.
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra Leon Botstein, music director
Sight & Sound: Vaughan Williams and Renaissance England
Presented by The Orchestra Now
Sunday, December 4, 2022 2–4 pm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City In the hit series Sight & Sound, conductor and music historian Leon Botstein explores the parallels between orchestral music and the visual arts. A discussion is accompanied by on-screen artworks and musical excerpts performed by The Orchestra Now, followed by a full performance and audience Q&A.
England was a thriving home for the arts under the volatile Tudor dynasty, where an international community of artists and merchants navigated the lofty demands of royal patrons including England’s first two reigning queens. In 1955, British documentarian John Taylor examined Elizabethan England against a regal score by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. These selections from that score, adapted by Muir Mathieson, focus on three major figures of the Tudor era: Sir Francis Drake, William Shakespeare, and the namesake herself, Queen Elizabeth I.
Leon Botsteinconductor
Vaughan Williams Three Portraits from The England of Elizabeth Artwork from the exhibition The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The Bard Chinese Ensemble welcomes Kunqu opera singer Michell Yang to perform music from Peony Pavilion and other Chinese opera. The program will also feature premieres of several new arrangements of Chinese music by director Chen Tao for the Ensemble’s unique mix of Chinese and Western instruments.
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
The Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck Members of the Bard Vocal Arts Program present a recital of vocal works exploring the meaning of American identity, and how the United States treats its citizens based on race and sexuality. The performance is meant to platform both the hardship and humanity seen in many cultural backgrounds, and seeks a common thread between them.
The program is based in music of composers mirroring the diversity of the group, including William Grant Still, Bright Sheng, Charles Ives, and Alex Weiser. It will feature chamber musicians from Bard Conservatory and Collaborative Piano Fellow Neilson Chen.
For more information, visit the project website.Sponsored by: Bard College Community Orchestra; Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Conducting Program; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Bard Conservatory Post-Graduate Piano Fellowship; Bard Conservatory Preparatory Division; Bard Graduate Programs; Music Program.
Olin, Room 102 In this performance, I try to summarize Proust's beloved In Search of Lost Time with my own words, as a story of another time which reveals itself contemporary.
Véronique Aubouy has directed numerous short fiction films and documentaries (Albertine a disparu, 2018; Micaëla Henich, 2017; Je suis Annemarie Schwarzenbach, 2015, among many others). Since October 1993, she has been working on Proust Lu, and films people from all walks of life as they read Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, page after page, in a large array of settings. The first six volumes have been recorded to date, for a total of 140 hours and more than 1300 readers. Since 2011, Abouy has performed various versions of “Proust in One Hour”, in French and in English, in France, Italy, the UK and the USA.Sponsored by: French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym The women's basketball team hosts Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
An eight-member group led by Prof. Matt Sargent, premieres a new piece by Annie Dodson ('23), along with ensemble works by Julius Eastman, Eve Beglarian, and Terry Riley.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 7:30–8:30 pm
Free and open to the publicSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Can the people govern? Are elections and representative democracy truly the best we can do? Citizens’ assemblies are a powerful way towards a more expansive and representative democracy that puts citizens at the center of governing. This form of deliberative democracy has helped citizens resolve public issues since Ancient Greece. So why haven’t you heard of them, and what do you need to know about them?
• Intro: What is a Citizens’ Assembly • Case studies from California, Chile, and Paris • How Citizen Assemblies can work for LA
Citizens’ assemblies are gaining traction in democracies around the world because of their effectiveness in rebuilding public trust, solving complex policy issues, and depolarizing communities. Similar to the way juries are convened to deliberate on matters of justice, citizens’ assemblies bring together a representative group of citizens to carefully consider important policy matters. Such deliberative processes generated successful policy breakthroughs on controversial topics such as climate change, transitioning to renewable energy, marriage equality, and reproductive freedom, as well as local policy areas like housing,city planning, flood mitigation, and transportation.
A citizens’ assembly is a representative cross-section of residents according to demographic criteria such as gender, race, ethnicity, and age. Assembly members meet to examine an important public issue in an environment designed to reduce the influence of political bias and instead put the focus on collaborative problem solving and evidence. They take testimony from experts and stakeholders and deliberate among themselves in a structured process, ensuring that all voices are heard.
This free event is for anyone who cares about the future of Los Angeles and democracy, and is curious to learn more about a breakthrough democratic process that is engaging citizens directly in government decision-making in cities around the world—from Petaluma, CA to Paris. The event will be recorded and available following the event. ASL interpreters, closed captions, and Spanish, Mandarin and Korean translators will be available at this event.
Guest Speakers:
Ieva Cesnulaityte | Founding Head of Research and Learning, DemocracyNext Twitter: @icesnulaityte Ieva Cesnulaityte is the Founding Head of Research and Learning at DemocracyNext. Previously she was a Policy Analyst at the OECD working of innovative citizen participation, co-authoring the OECD’s flagship report Catching the Deliberative Wave with Claudia Chwalisz, authoring the OECD’s Evaluation Guidelines for Representative Deliberative Processes, and editing a series on New Democratic Institutions for Participo. She also worked in Lithuania’s Prime Minister’s office, leading Lithuania’s participation in the Open Government Partnership Initiative.
Linn Davis | Program Co-Director, Healthy Democracy Twitter: @healthydem Linn co-leads program development and process design at Healthy Democracy, a US-based nonpartisan nonprofit that brings together everyday people – selected by democratic lottery – to tackle tough policy questions. He co-coordinates HD’s complex public processes and consults on deliberative democracy projects in the US and abroad.
Rahmin Sarabi || Co-Founder, Director, The American Public Trust Twitter: @rahmin Rahmin is the Co-Founder and Director of The American Public Trust, a non-partisan startup institution working to upgrade democracy across the US so it can bridge divides and help communities solve their most pressing challenges. His background includes for-profit and non-profit innovation, human-centered strategy, and facilitation for organizations such as Good Eggs, CivicMakers, and The Democracy R&D Network.
Leonora Camner | Democratic Lottery Advocate, co-director, Public Access Democracy Twitter: @camnerleonora Leonora Camner is a director of Public Access Democracy, a democratic lottery advocacy organization, and is on the steering committee of the Represent California project, a call for a state constitutional assembly. She is also the Executive Director of Abundant Housing LA, a pro-housing advocacy organization. In 2019, she led the effort for the Southern California Coastal Plan, a 1.4 million home goal concentrated in high-cost coastal areas.
Dawn Nakagawa | Executive Vice President, Berggruen Institute Twitter: @icesnulaityte Dawn is the Executive Vice President of the Berggruen Institute which was launched in 2010 with Dawn as its first employee. The mission of the organization is to deepen understanding of the great transformations of our time and develop social, economic, and political institutions adapted to them. In addition, Dawn is the co-director of the directs the Future of Democracy program in which she works to develop new mechanisms for engaging citizens in the democratic process and harnessing collective intelligence for better governance and more resilient democracy.
Tomás González | Founder, Tribu Tomás González is the Founder of Tribu, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization promoting deliberative democracy and fighting political capture through innovation. In partnership with Stanford University’s Deliberative Democracy Lab, he led the design and implementation of the first country-wide deliberative process (Lxs 400) through random selection ever done in Latin America, and is currently scaling the experience throughout the region. In partnership with the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, he also created the “Open Municipalities” initiative to promote open government standards in local governments in Chile and Latin America. He currently serves as part of the Advisory Council to the Governor of Santiago de Chile. Tomás graduated with distinction in Economics from the University of Chile.
Oliver Hall, "Reproductive Justice for Trans Communities: Barriers and Opportunities"
Part of the Autonomies Series
Thursday, December 8, 2022 6–8 pm
Weis Cinema, Campus Center Oliver Hall is Trans Health Director at Kentucky Health Justice Network’s Trans Health Advocacy Program.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Olin Hall Works will include the Mozart Solemn Vespers and excerpts from some of Mozart’s most iconic operas.
Bard College Chamber Singers Bard College Symphonic Chorus Members of the Vocal Arts Program Members of the Conservatory Piano Fellowship ProgramSponsored by: Music Program.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Students and faculty in the percussion studio perform contemporary works.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Students and faculty perform chamber works throughout the day.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Symphony Space in New York City TŌN Resident Conductor Zachary Schwartzman returns with the orchestra to Symphony Space for another free concert. The program comprises Schumann’s overture to the opera Genoveva, four symphonic interludes from Strauss’ opera Intermezzo, and Sibelius’ Second Symphony.
Zachary Schwartzmanconductor
SchumannGenoveva Overture R. Strauss Four Symphonic Interludes from Intermezzo Sibelius Symphony No. 2 For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
“The brilliance of SITI’s approach comes from the way the company enlists the audience’s imagination to help tell the tale.”—Columbus Dispatch
The Fisher Center presents a brand new Christmas Carol! This fresh version of Charles Dickens’ seasonal tale of hope and redemption comes from the SITI Company, one of this country’s most lauded theater ensembles, led by acclaimed director and Bard alum Anne Bogart ’74. Steeped in the intimacy and alchemy of Dickens’ magical words, this wondrous adaptation conjures the world of Scrooge and his adventure with the ghosts of the past, present, and future from a bare stage and the magic of our shared imagination. The performance of this seasonal ritual offers hope and redemption for us all and weaves a tale of gratitude, fairness, and justice for our own times.
“The brilliance of SITI’s approach comes from the way the company enlists the audience’s imagination to help tell the tale.”—Columbus Dispatch
The Fisher Center presents a brand new Christmas Carol! This fresh version of Charles Dickens’ seasonal tale of hope and redemption comes from the SITI Company, one of this country’s most lauded theater ensembles, led by acclaimed director and Bard alum Anne Bogart ’74. Steeped in the intimacy and alchemy of Dickens’ magical words, this wondrous adaptation conjures the world of Scrooge and his adventure with the ghosts of the past, present, and future from a bare stage and the magic of our shared imagination. The performance of this seasonal ritual offers hope and redemption for us all and weaves a tale of gratitude, fairness, and justice for our own times.
“The brilliance of SITI’s approach comes from the way the company enlists the audience’s imagination to help tell the tale.”—Columbus Dispatch
The Fisher Center presents a brand new Christmas Carol! This fresh version of Charles Dickens’ seasonal tale of hope and redemption comes from the SITI Company, one of this country’s most lauded theater ensembles, led by acclaimed director and Bard alum Anne Bogart ’74. Steeped in the intimacy and alchemy of Dickens’ magical words, this wondrous adaptation conjures the world of Scrooge and his adventure with the ghosts of the past, present, and future from a bare stage and the magic of our shared imagination. The performance of this seasonal ritual offers hope and redemption for us all and weaves a tale of gratitude, fairness, and justice for our own times.
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