Saturday, June 25, 2022 – Sunday, November 27, 2022 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.
Museum Hours Sun, 11am–5pm Mon, Closed Tue, Closed Wed, 11am–5pm Thu, 11am–5pm Fri, 11am–5pm Sat, 11am–5pmSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Saturday, June 25, 2022 – Sunday, November 27, 2022 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition.
Saturday, June 25, 2022 – Sunday, October 16, 2022 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.
Museum Hours Sun, 11am–5pm Mon, Closed Tue, Closed Wed, 11am–5pm Thu, 11am–5pm Fri, 11am–5pm Sat, 11am–5pmSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's soccer team opens the 2022 season against Anna Maria College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Stevenson Athletic Center The women's volleyball team opens the 2022 season against William Paterson University. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Out of Place: Three Writers on Fiction, Language, Exile, and Utopia
Tuesday, September 6, 2022 5:30–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema This event brings together in person on the Bard campus in Annandale three esteemed writers—Nuruddin Farah, Ilija Trojanow, and Aleksandar Hemon—to read from and discuss their work. As suggested by the titles North of Dawn (Farah) and Nowhere Man (Hemon), all three writers are concerned in their work with questions of place and displacement, of cultural difference and shared humanity, and of what Trojanow in his recent work calls “utopian narratives.” Each also has deep personal and professional connections to more than one language, and together they comprise a knowledge of literatures that is truly stunning in its diversity, including works composed in Arabic, Bulgarian, German, Serbo-Croation, and Somali, among other languages. All three authors are also active in a plurality of genres and media, which taken together includes novels, short stories, criticism, plays, film and television scripts, and music. On this evening, they will read and discuss their work and explore common concerns and points of difference, and will invite the audience to join in the conversationSponsored by: Africana Studies Program; German Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Literature Program; OSUN; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7142, or e-mail [email protected].
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium "Each day we are sold different versions of yesterday, but rarely offered a different tomorrow. The apocalypse streams into every household at a flat rate. In an era of dystopian forebodings, the future can no longer be taken for granted, and optimism is under siege. It seems high time for a reboot of utopian literature, in which a space that is not, may yet come to be in the future. We are near forgetting that history is not a foregone conclusion, and that fatalism is the last refuge of the coward. How we shape the future lies in our own hands, but with the prerequisite that we are ready to think ahead, into the unknown and uncertain, imagining alternatives to given paradigms. If the seeds of human progress are indeed planted by ideas before they can blossom into transformations, utopian narratives are of existential importance." Our guest, Ilija Trojanow, has spent the past several years working on a utopian novel and exploring the history of Utopia. At a time when we reckon with our destruction of the natural world and of imagination, Trojanow's work encourages us to scrub clear our overclouded skies and to ask ourselves: what is literature if not unshackled fancy?Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; German Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Literature Program; OSUN; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7142, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Auditorium The Bard College Department of Athletics and Recreation is sponsoring a presentation entitled, "Supporting Holistic Mental Health on Campus," to be held at Olin Hall on Thursday, September 8, from 8–9 pm. All Bard students, staff and faculty are welcome.
The presentation will be given by Nathaan Demers, Psy.D., a clinical psychologist and former college student-athlete. In his current role as vice president of Clinical Programs & Strategic Partnerships at Grit Digital Health, his focus has been on working specifically in preventative behavioral health on college campuses. The team develops and implements digital tools that decrease stigma and connect individuals to the right behavioral health resources at the right time.
The presentation will highlight the holistic nature of mental wellbeing, especially for college students or anyone who will benefit from striving for balance and good health in their lives. The event will hopefully leave attendees with tools and strategies to support themselves and others when things don't go as planned.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's volleyball team hosts WPI and Ramapo in a tri-match. Ramapo vs. Bard, 10 a.m. Ramapo vs. WPI, 12 p.m. WPI vs. Bard, 2 p.m. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's tennis team plays it's first home match of the 2022 season against Russell Sage College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
TŌN begins its eighth season with Mahler’s heroic Fifth Symphony, plus two works featuring winners of the Bard College Conservatory 2022 Concerto Competition: George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lilacs and the virtuosic flute concerto of Joan Tower, who has taught composition at Bard for 50 years.
Leon Botsteinconductor Samantha Martin VAP ’22soprano Andrea Ábel ’23flute
TŌN begins its eighth season with Mahler’s heroic Fifth Symphony, plus two works featuring winners of the Bard College Conservatory 2022 Concerto Competition: George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lilacs and the virtuosic flute concerto of Joan Tower, who has taught composition at Bard for 50 years.
Leon Botsteinconductor Samantha Martin VAP ’22soprano Andrea Ábel ’23flute
TŌN begins its eighth season with Mahler’s heroic Fifth Symphony, plus two works featuring winners of the Bard College Conservatory 2022 Concerto Competition: George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lilacs and the virtuosic flute concerto of Joan Tower, who has taught composition at Bard for 50 years.
Leon Botsteinconductor Samantha Martin VAP ’22soprano Andrea Ábel ’23flute
Harvest Moon with La Voz magazine // La Luna de la Cosecha con la revista La Voz
Sunday, September 11, 2022 3–7 pm
Greig Farm 227 Pitcher Lane, Red Hook, NY 12571 After more than two years without seeing each other in person we invite you to this fundraising event with La Voz magazine, to celebrate our 18th anniversary with live music representing our beautiful Hispanic cultures of the Hudson Valley and food. Do we need to say more?
Sunday September 11, 2022, from 3 to 7pm Enjoy the beautiful views of Greig's farm in Red Hook, accompanied by the music of the Latin Jazz by Pablo Shine, the voice of Alessandra, Argentine chararera and merengue class with Dojo Dance Company, and other surprises, in addition to food for sale from local Hispanic restaurants. What else? Good company, good vibes, raffles and auctions. Looking forward to seeing you!
Después de más de dos años sin vernos en persona los invitamos a este evento de recaudación de fondos con la revista La Voz, para celebrar nuestro 18 aniversario con música en vivo representando nuestras hermosas culturas hispanas del valle de Hudson y con comida.¿Necesitamos decir más?
Domingo 11 de septiembre de 2022, de 3 a 7pm Disfruta de las hermosas vistas de la finca de Greig en Red Hook, acompañado de la música del Latin Jazz de Pablo Shine, la voz de Alessandra, clase y baile de chacarera argentina y merengue con Dojo Dance Company, y otras sorpresas, además de comida a la venta de restaurantes hispanos locales. ¿Qué más? Buena compañía, buena onda, rifas y subastas.¡Te esperamos!Sponsored by: La Voz.
For more information, call 303-746-6462, or e-mail [email protected].
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures will take place in Classroom 102 at CCS Bard, are free and open to the public, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Listening to the Visuality of Landscapes: Virginia Woolf and José Donoso
Andrés Ferrada, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Chile
Monday, September 12, 2022 5:30–7 pm
Olin, Room 203 Andrés Ferrada, professor of comparative literature at the Universidad de Playa Ancha in Chile, will speak about Virginia Woolf and her enduring influence on one of Latin America's most acclaimed novelists, Chilean writer José Donoso. Dr. Ferrada will explore the relationship between Woolf and Donoso, focusing on ways in which the two writers create visual and acoustic landscapes that blur the boundaries between the phenomenal world and the subject's interiorization of that world.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail [email protected].
The Bard Prison Initiative, in partnership with OSUN and Incarceration Nations Network, invites individuals at member institutions to the BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series starting in September 2022.
This lecture series is designed for a global community of practitioners in different higher education contexts in prisons and carceral spaces around the world. In ten virtual monthly sessions, different scholars will introduce attendees to several alternative experiences in prisons. The sessions will be an hour and a half long, and each session will end with Q&A. English-Spanish simultaneous interpretation will be available in all the sessions.
The first session, “Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World,” led by David Skarbek (Brown University & Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics), takes place on Tuesday, September 13th at 9 AM New York time.
Human Rights Project Events: Eyal Weizman, Five or Six Doors
Tuesday, September 13, 2022 5:30–7 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room During the pandemic, Forensic Architecture undertook a process of transformation. Rather than growing to meet the intensity of the challenges they faced, the agency instead decided to morph into an interlinking structure of smaller, situated, activist groups located in different parts of the world and working in solidarity with local political actors. This lecture will present some recent cases undertaken by these groups. Coincidentally, they had all to deal with doors: open when they needed to be closed, locked when they needed to be unlocked. These doors stand for the collapse of the social order which they promised to maintain, and point to systemic racism and the ghosts of our colonial past.
Eyal Weizman is a professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2010 he founded the research agency Forensic Architecture and has directed it ever since. Forensic Architecture is an interdisciplinary team of researchers that produce evidence for presentation in national and international courts, human rights forums, parliamentary inquiries, truth commissions, people’s tribunals, and also in art and cultural forums.Sponsored by: Architecture Program; Center for Curatorial Studies; Experimental Humanities Program; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-7127, or e-mail [email protected].
ABOUT THE EVENT: Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
Learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.
WHAT WE COVER:
Overview of graduate program offerings
Alumni/ae success and career outcomes
Admissions information
Prerequisite course information
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
Financial aid and scholarships
Tips for a standout application
DEGREE OPTIONS: MBA in Sustainability MEd in Environmental Education MS in Climate Science and Policy MS in Environmental Policy
Dual degree options include: MS/JD with Pace Law School MS/MAT with Bard’s Master of Arts in Teaching MEd/MAT with Bard’s Master of Arts in Teaching MS/MBA with Bard’s MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs: Master's International (before you serve) Coverdell Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar. Email the Bard GPS admissions team at [email protected] for additional information.
RSVP Here! Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Hate and Holocaust and Genocide Museums and Memorials
Thursday, September 15, 2022 3–4:30 pm
Online Event The Bard Center for the Study of Hate (BCSH) invites individuals at OSUN member institutions to a webinar with Tali Nates, Founder & Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre on “Hate and Holocaust and Genocide Museums and Memorials.”
During Spring 2022, students and/or faculty from the US, the UK, South Africa and Austria participated in the OSUN Network Collaborative Course on “Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Colonialism, Gender: Connecting the Conversations," discussing hate, anti-Semitism, genocide, memory and related topics.
The course's last instructional session was led by Nates, who spoke about how the Holocaust and genocides are best presented in museums and memorials. She not only “connected the conversations,” but emphasized how memory and denial were related to other factors, such as politics, and how her museum shows the Holocaust in the context of other genocides.
The Bard College Center for Civic Engagement and Opus 40 are pleased to cosponsor The Heart of Afghanistan ensemble
The Heart of Afghanistan features four brilliant Afghan musicians: famed singer and Afghan TV star Ahmad Fanoos on vocals and harmonium, his sons Elham Fanoos on piano and Mehran Fanoos on violin, and Hamid Habibzada on tabla. Unable to perform inside Afghanistan today, where the Taliban has banned all music, the group carries the flame of Afghanistan’s rich and complex musical heritage, from its pre-Islamic Buddhist period to the modern era. Included in the program will be traditional ghazals based on the Sufi-inspired poetry of Rumi (who was born in Afghanistan), Afghan folk music, and the iconic hits of legendary singer Ahmad Zahir (of the 60s and 70s, and still wildly popular today). Only recently reunited in the US, the ensemble will give a 360-degree view of Afghan culture through music, poetry, art, and cultural heritage.
In addition to The Heart of Afghanistan, the evening will include a few short performances by some of Bard's talented students from Afghanistan. Bard students will be raising funds to support projects in Afghanistan. Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/opus40/735927#Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Works for solo piano by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, and Schumann
Sunday, September 18, 2022 3–5 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Wayman Chin’s playing has been described as, “transcendental, long lines spun like glorious gold thread,” “ferociously concentrated, intense, focused, and musically astute” (Boston Herald), “vividly characterized and atmospheric,” (Stamford Mercury, U.K.), and “sheer magic….every note is colored.”(the Freeman, Philippines).
Pianist Wayman Chin has performed widely throughout the United States, Asia, and the United Kingdom. In the United States, his concerts include performances at Princeton University, the Curtis Institute of Music, Jordan Hall, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and the Old First Concert Series in San Francisco. Chin has appeared at Tsuen Wan Town Hall in Hong Kong, and in the Philippines, on the Sala Foundation concert series, at the residence of the United States Ambassador in Manila, and at Soochow University in Taipei.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, 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].
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Join us for a 30-minute screening, featuring segments from the documentary followed by panel discussions with Sarah Botstein, Christian Ayne Crouch, Thomas Keenan, Cecile E. Kuznitz, and Daniel Mendelsohn.
The event will be introduced by President Leon Botstein and followed by an audience Q&A session.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Montgomery Place Estate The women's and men's cross country teams host the Fred Pavlich Invitational at Montgomery Place. The men's event begins at 10 a.m., with the women's event to follow. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's volleyball team hosts St. Lawrence in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Master Class: Improvisation for musicians with Joshua Pantoja, horn
All musicians welcome!
Sunday, September 25, 2022 5:15–7:15 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Joshua Pantoja has been a horn player for the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra since 2004, horn professor at the Puerto Rico Music Conservatory. Faculty at Clazz International Music Festival IV edition in Arcidosso, Italy and Brass coach for the Puerto Rico Youth Symphony Orchestra. He is an active chamber music performer with Camerata Caribe, Café Corta'o Horn Quartet and Pantojazz Trío. Joshua is also a songwriter and the author of the book From Classical to Jazz an Improvisation Method.
Free and open to vaccinated members of the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Xiao Hong, Frontier Literature, and Literatures of East Asia
Miya Qiong Xie, Assistant Professor, The Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages Program, Dartmouth College
Monday, September 26, 2022 6–7 pm
Olin, Room 102 This talk is based on my first monograph, Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia. The book reconceptualizes the contested frontier of modern Manchuria in Northeast Asia as a critical site for making and unmaking multiple national literatures in modern East Asia. In this talk, I use the Chinese writer Xiao Hong’s The Field of Life and Death (1935), a canonical piece of Chinese nationalist literature, to illustrate my conceptions of frontier literature and literary territorialization. Depicting a Chinese Manchuria during the era of Japanese colonial Manchukuo, Xiao Hong’s work exemplifies the process of territory-making through literature. Meanwhile, it features aesthetic and stylistic choices that accommodate the colonial regime, thereby bringing the very translational elements that the author seeks to expel into its formation. By reading Xiao Hong’s work and other works by Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese writers comparatively along the national and imperial margin of modern Manchuria, my book demonstrates how East Asian literatures and cultures co-form in conflict, with mutual inclusion at the very site of exclusion. The book resonates with my broader commitment, as a scholar, to the exploration of how people from the peripheries – geographical or metaphorical – find voices, gain power, and establish connections through transcultural contestation and negotiation. Sponsored by: Chinese Studies Program; Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature.
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 Transformation of Du Fu in 21st-Century Chinese Poetry
Ao Wang, Associate Professor of Chinese, College of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102 Chinese modern-style poetry, as a genre, was invented in the early twentieth century as a vernacular form of free verse. It deviated radically from the tradition of classical poetry, composed in classical Chinese with strict formal regulations. The division between classical and modern-style poetry has long shadowed the development of modern Chinese poetry. In this talk, I discuss how contemporary Chinese poets are challenging this division by examining their engagement with the iconic classical poet Du Fu (712-770). The great Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu has been a perennial poetic model in Chinese culture for more than a millennium. To this day, he remains the most highly acclaimed, most extensively studied, and most widely quoted poet in China. Despite the fact that many modern Chinese poets of the 20th century were well-versed in his work, his impact on modern poetry has not received the attention it deserves, and modern poets’ tributes to him have been exceptions rather than a common practice. In the past two decades, more and more contemporary Chinese poets have written poems to reestablish their relationship with Du Fu. In so doing, they have transformed Du Fu into an enabling figure in their negotiation with the poetic tradition while responding to a highly ideological contemporary culture that has consistently manipulated Du Fu’s legacy.Sponsored by: Chinese Studies Program; Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Known for “sublime dance theater of the highest caliber,” the Fisher Center’s first-ever choreographer in residence Pam Tanowitz “has long been one of the most formally brilliant choreographers around.” (The New York Times)
Join Pam and her critically acclaimed ensemble, Pam Tanowitz Dance, for a behind-the-scenes look into their creative process featuring work-in-progress showings of two new works and the Fisher Center premiere screening of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a film created by Jeremy Jacob during the SummerScape 2021 premiere of Pam’s work of the same title.
Join us on Friday and Saturday for a discussion with Pam Tanowitz, Fisher Center Artistic Director, Gideon Lester, and film director, Jeremy Jacob immediately following the performance and screening.
Saturday, June 25, 2022 – Sunday, November 27, 2022 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.
Museum Hours Sun, 11am–5pm Mon, Closed Tue, Closed Wed, 11am–5pm Thu, 11am–5pm Fri, 11am–5pm Sat, 11am–5pmSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Saturday, June 25, 2022 – Sunday, November 27, 2022 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition.
Saturday, June 25, 2022 – Sunday, October 16, 2022 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.
Museum Hours Sun, 11am–5pm Mon, Closed Tue, Closed Wed, 11am–5pm Thu, 11am–5pm Fri, 11am–5pm Sat, 11am–5pmSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's soccer team opens the 2022 season against Anna Maria College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Stevenson Athletic Center The women's volleyball team opens the 2022 season against William Paterson University. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Out of Place: Three Writers on Fiction, Language, Exile, and Utopia
Tuesday, September 6, 2022 5:30–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema This event brings together in person on the Bard campus in Annandale three esteemed writers—Nuruddin Farah, Ilija Trojanow, and Aleksandar Hemon—to read from and discuss their work. As suggested by the titles North of Dawn (Farah) and Nowhere Man (Hemon), all three writers are concerned in their work with questions of place and displacement, of cultural difference and shared humanity, and of what Trojanow in his recent work calls “utopian narratives.” Each also has deep personal and professional connections to more than one language, and together they comprise a knowledge of literatures that is truly stunning in its diversity, including works composed in Arabic, Bulgarian, German, Serbo-Croation, and Somali, among other languages. All three authors are also active in a plurality of genres and media, which taken together includes novels, short stories, criticism, plays, film and television scripts, and music. On this evening, they will read and discuss their work and explore common concerns and points of difference, and will invite the audience to join in the conversationSponsored by: Africana Studies Program; German Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Literature Program; OSUN; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7142, or e-mail [email protected].
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium "Each day we are sold different versions of yesterday, but rarely offered a different tomorrow. The apocalypse streams into every household at a flat rate. In an era of dystopian forebodings, the future can no longer be taken for granted, and optimism is under siege. It seems high time for a reboot of utopian literature, in which a space that is not, may yet come to be in the future. We are near forgetting that history is not a foregone conclusion, and that fatalism is the last refuge of the coward. How we shape the future lies in our own hands, but with the prerequisite that we are ready to think ahead, into the unknown and uncertain, imagining alternatives to given paradigms. If the seeds of human progress are indeed planted by ideas before they can blossom into transformations, utopian narratives are of existential importance." Our guest, Ilija Trojanow, has spent the past several years working on a utopian novel and exploring the history of Utopia. At a time when we reckon with our destruction of the natural world and of imagination, Trojanow's work encourages us to scrub clear our overclouded skies and to ask ourselves: what is literature if not unshackled fancy?Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; German Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Literature Program; OSUN; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7142, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Auditorium The Bard College Department of Athletics and Recreation is sponsoring a presentation entitled, "Supporting Holistic Mental Health on Campus," to be held at Olin Hall on Thursday, September 8, from 8–9 pm. All Bard students, staff and faculty are welcome.
The presentation will be given by Nathaan Demers, Psy.D., a clinical psychologist and former college student-athlete. In his current role as vice president of Clinical Programs & Strategic Partnerships at Grit Digital Health, his focus has been on working specifically in preventative behavioral health on college campuses. The team develops and implements digital tools that decrease stigma and connect individuals to the right behavioral health resources at the right time.
The presentation will highlight the holistic nature of mental wellbeing, especially for college students or anyone who will benefit from striving for balance and good health in their lives. The event will hopefully leave attendees with tools and strategies to support themselves and others when things don't go as planned.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's volleyball team hosts WPI and Ramapo in a tri-match. Ramapo vs. Bard, 10 a.m. Ramapo vs. WPI, 12 p.m. WPI vs. Bard, 2 p.m. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's tennis team plays it's first home match of the 2022 season against Russell Sage College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
TŌN begins its eighth season with Mahler’s heroic Fifth Symphony, plus two works featuring winners of the Bard College Conservatory 2022 Concerto Competition: George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lilacs and the virtuosic flute concerto of Joan Tower, who has taught composition at Bard for 50 years.
Leon Botsteinconductor Samantha Martin VAP ’22soprano Andrea Ábel ’23flute
TŌN begins its eighth season with Mahler’s heroic Fifth Symphony, plus two works featuring winners of the Bard College Conservatory 2022 Concerto Competition: George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lilacs and the virtuosic flute concerto of Joan Tower, who has taught composition at Bard for 50 years.
Leon Botsteinconductor Samantha Martin VAP ’22soprano Andrea Ábel ’23flute
TŌN begins its eighth season with Mahler’s heroic Fifth Symphony, plus two works featuring winners of the Bard College Conservatory 2022 Concerto Competition: George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lilacs and the virtuosic flute concerto of Joan Tower, who has taught composition at Bard for 50 years.
Leon Botsteinconductor Samantha Martin VAP ’22soprano Andrea Ábel ’23flute
Harvest Moon with La Voz magazine // La Luna de la Cosecha con la revista La Voz
Sunday, September 11, 2022 3–7 pm
Greig Farm 227 Pitcher Lane, Red Hook, NY 12571 After more than two years without seeing each other in person we invite you to this fundraising event with La Voz magazine, to celebrate our 18th anniversary with live music representing our beautiful Hispanic cultures of the Hudson Valley and food. Do we need to say more?
Sunday September 11, 2022, from 3 to 7pm Enjoy the beautiful views of Greig's farm in Red Hook, accompanied by the music of the Latin Jazz by Pablo Shine, the voice of Alessandra, Argentine chararera and merengue class with Dojo Dance Company, and other surprises, in addition to food for sale from local Hispanic restaurants. What else? Good company, good vibes, raffles and auctions. Looking forward to seeing you!
Después de más de dos años sin vernos en persona los invitamos a este evento de recaudación de fondos con la revista La Voz, para celebrar nuestro 18 aniversario con música en vivo representando nuestras hermosas culturas hispanas del valle de Hudson y con comida.¿Necesitamos decir más?
Domingo 11 de septiembre de 2022, de 3 a 7pm Disfruta de las hermosas vistas de la finca de Greig en Red Hook, acompañado de la música del Latin Jazz de Pablo Shine, la voz de Alessandra, clase y baile de chacarera argentina y merengue con Dojo Dance Company, y otras sorpresas, además de comida a la venta de restaurantes hispanos locales. ¿Qué más? Buena compañía, buena onda, rifas y subastas.¡Te esperamos!Sponsored by: La Voz.
For more information, call 303-746-6462, or e-mail [email protected].
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures will take place in Classroom 102 at CCS Bard, are free and open to the public, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Listening to the Visuality of Landscapes: Virginia Woolf and José Donoso
Andrés Ferrada, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Chile
Monday, September 12, 2022 5:30–7 pm
Olin, Room 203 Andrés Ferrada, professor of comparative literature at the Universidad de Playa Ancha in Chile, will speak about Virginia Woolf and her enduring influence on one of Latin America's most acclaimed novelists, Chilean writer José Donoso. Dr. Ferrada will explore the relationship between Woolf and Donoso, focusing on ways in which the two writers create visual and acoustic landscapes that blur the boundaries between the phenomenal world and the subject's interiorization of that world.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail [email protected].
The Bard Prison Initiative, in partnership with OSUN and Incarceration Nations Network, invites individuals at member institutions to the BPI Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series starting in September 2022.
This lecture series is designed for a global community of practitioners in different higher education contexts in prisons and carceral spaces around the world. In ten virtual monthly sessions, different scholars will introduce attendees to several alternative experiences in prisons. The sessions will be an hour and a half long, and each session will end with Q&A. English-Spanish simultaneous interpretation will be available in all the sessions.
The first session, “Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World,” led by David Skarbek (Brown University & Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics), takes place on Tuesday, September 13th at 9 AM New York time.
Human Rights Project Events: Eyal Weizman, Five or Six Doors
Tuesday, September 13, 2022 5:30–7 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room During the pandemic, Forensic Architecture undertook a process of transformation. Rather than growing to meet the intensity of the challenges they faced, the agency instead decided to morph into an interlinking structure of smaller, situated, activist groups located in different parts of the world and working in solidarity with local political actors. This lecture will present some recent cases undertaken by these groups. Coincidentally, they had all to deal with doors: open when they needed to be closed, locked when they needed to be unlocked. These doors stand for the collapse of the social order which they promised to maintain, and point to systemic racism and the ghosts of our colonial past.
Eyal Weizman is a professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2010 he founded the research agency Forensic Architecture and has directed it ever since. Forensic Architecture is an interdisciplinary team of researchers that produce evidence for presentation in national and international courts, human rights forums, parliamentary inquiries, truth commissions, people’s tribunals, and also in art and cultural forums.Sponsored by: Architecture Program; Center for Curatorial Studies; Experimental Humanities Program; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-7127, or e-mail [email protected].
ABOUT THE EVENT: Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
Learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.
WHAT WE COVER:
Overview of graduate program offerings
Alumni/ae success and career outcomes
Admissions information
Prerequisite course information
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
Financial aid and scholarships
Tips for a standout application
DEGREE OPTIONS: MBA in Sustainability MEd in Environmental Education MS in Climate Science and Policy MS in Environmental Policy
Dual degree options include: MS/JD with Pace Law School MS/MAT with Bard’s Master of Arts in Teaching MEd/MAT with Bard’s Master of Arts in Teaching MS/MBA with Bard’s MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs: Master's International (before you serve) Coverdell Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar. Email the Bard GPS admissions team at [email protected] for additional information.
RSVP Here! Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Hate and Holocaust and Genocide Museums and Memorials
Thursday, September 15, 2022 3–4:30 pm
Online Event The Bard Center for the Study of Hate (BCSH) invites individuals at OSUN member institutions to a webinar with Tali Nates, Founder & Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre on “Hate and Holocaust and Genocide Museums and Memorials.”
During Spring 2022, students and/or faculty from the US, the UK, South Africa and Austria participated in the OSUN Network Collaborative Course on “Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Colonialism, Gender: Connecting the Conversations," discussing hate, anti-Semitism, genocide, memory and related topics.
The course's last instructional session was led by Nates, who spoke about how the Holocaust and genocides are best presented in museums and memorials. She not only “connected the conversations,” but emphasized how memory and denial were related to other factors, such as politics, and how her museum shows the Holocaust in the context of other genocides.
The Bard College Center for Civic Engagement and Opus 40 are pleased to cosponsor The Heart of Afghanistan ensemble
The Heart of Afghanistan features four brilliant Afghan musicians: famed singer and Afghan TV star Ahmad Fanoos on vocals and harmonium, his sons Elham Fanoos on piano and Mehran Fanoos on violin, and Hamid Habibzada on tabla. Unable to perform inside Afghanistan today, where the Taliban has banned all music, the group carries the flame of Afghanistan’s rich and complex musical heritage, from its pre-Islamic Buddhist period to the modern era. Included in the program will be traditional ghazals based on the Sufi-inspired poetry of Rumi (who was born in Afghanistan), Afghan folk music, and the iconic hits of legendary singer Ahmad Zahir (of the 60s and 70s, and still wildly popular today). Only recently reunited in the US, the ensemble will give a 360-degree view of Afghan culture through music, poetry, art, and cultural heritage.
In addition to The Heart of Afghanistan, the evening will include a few short performances by some of Bard's talented students from Afghanistan. Bard students will be raising funds to support projects in Afghanistan. Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/opus40/735927#Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Works for solo piano by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, and Schumann
Sunday, September 18, 2022 3–5 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Wayman Chin’s playing has been described as, “transcendental, long lines spun like glorious gold thread,” “ferociously concentrated, intense, focused, and musically astute” (Boston Herald), “vividly characterized and atmospheric,” (Stamford Mercury, U.K.), and “sheer magic….every note is colored.”(the Freeman, Philippines).
Pianist Wayman Chin has performed widely throughout the United States, Asia, and the United Kingdom. In the United States, his concerts include performances at Princeton University, the Curtis Institute of Music, Jordan Hall, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and the Old First Concert Series in San Francisco. Chin has appeared at Tsuen Wan Town Hall in Hong Kong, and in the Philippines, on the Sala Foundation concert series, at the residence of the United States Ambassador in Manila, and at Soochow University in Taipei.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, 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].
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Join us for a 30-minute screening, featuring segments from the documentary followed by panel discussions with Sarah Botstein, Christian Ayne Crouch, Thomas Keenan, Cecile E. Kuznitz, and Daniel Mendelsohn.
The event will be introduced by President Leon Botstein and followed by an audience Q&A session.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Montgomery Place Estate The women's and men's cross country teams host the Fred Pavlich Invitational at Montgomery Place. The men's event begins at 10 a.m., with the women's event to follow. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's volleyball team hosts St. Lawrence in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Master Class: Improvisation for musicians with Joshua Pantoja, horn
All musicians welcome!
Sunday, September 25, 2022 5:15–7:15 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Joshua Pantoja has been a horn player for the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra since 2004, horn professor at the Puerto Rico Music Conservatory. Faculty at Clazz International Music Festival IV edition in Arcidosso, Italy and Brass coach for the Puerto Rico Youth Symphony Orchestra. He is an active chamber music performer with Camerata Caribe, Café Corta'o Horn Quartet and Pantojazz Trío. Joshua is also a songwriter and the author of the book From Classical to Jazz an Improvisation Method.
Free and open to vaccinated members of the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Xiao Hong, Frontier Literature, and Literatures of East Asia
Miya Qiong Xie, Assistant Professor, The Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages Program, Dartmouth College
Monday, September 26, 2022 6–7 pm
Olin, Room 102 This talk is based on my first monograph, Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia. The book reconceptualizes the contested frontier of modern Manchuria in Northeast Asia as a critical site for making and unmaking multiple national literatures in modern East Asia. In this talk, I use the Chinese writer Xiao Hong’s The Field of Life and Death (1935), a canonical piece of Chinese nationalist literature, to illustrate my conceptions of frontier literature and literary territorialization. Depicting a Chinese Manchuria during the era of Japanese colonial Manchukuo, Xiao Hong’s work exemplifies the process of territory-making through literature. Meanwhile, it features aesthetic and stylistic choices that accommodate the colonial regime, thereby bringing the very translational elements that the author seeks to expel into its formation. By reading Xiao Hong’s work and other works by Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese writers comparatively along the national and imperial margin of modern Manchuria, my book demonstrates how East Asian literatures and cultures co-form in conflict, with mutual inclusion at the very site of exclusion. The book resonates with my broader commitment, as a scholar, to the exploration of how people from the peripheries – geographical or metaphorical – find voices, gain power, and establish connections through transcultural contestation and negotiation. Sponsored by: Chinese Studies Program; Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature.
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 Transformation of Du Fu in 21st-Century Chinese Poetry
Ao Wang, Associate Professor of Chinese, College of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102 Chinese modern-style poetry, as a genre, was invented in the early twentieth century as a vernacular form of free verse. It deviated radically from the tradition of classical poetry, composed in classical Chinese with strict formal regulations. The division between classical and modern-style poetry has long shadowed the development of modern Chinese poetry. In this talk, I discuss how contemporary Chinese poets are challenging this division by examining their engagement with the iconic classical poet Du Fu (712-770). The great Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu has been a perennial poetic model in Chinese culture for more than a millennium. To this day, he remains the most highly acclaimed, most extensively studied, and most widely quoted poet in China. Despite the fact that many modern Chinese poets of the 20th century were well-versed in his work, his impact on modern poetry has not received the attention it deserves, and modern poets’ tributes to him have been exceptions rather than a common practice. In the past two decades, more and more contemporary Chinese poets have written poems to reestablish their relationship with Du Fu. In so doing, they have transformed Du Fu into an enabling figure in their negotiation with the poetic tradition while responding to a highly ideological contemporary culture that has consistently manipulated Du Fu’s legacy.Sponsored by: Chinese Studies Program; Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Known for “sublime dance theater of the highest caliber,” the Fisher Center’s first-ever choreographer in residence Pam Tanowitz “has long been one of the most formally brilliant choreographers around.” (The New York Times)
Join Pam and her critically acclaimed ensemble, Pam Tanowitz Dance, for a behind-the-scenes look into their creative process featuring work-in-progress showings of two new works and the Fisher Center premiere screening of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a film created by Jeremy Jacob during the SummerScape 2021 premiere of Pam’s work of the same title.
Join us on Friday and Saturday for a discussion with Pam Tanowitz, Fisher Center Artistic Director, Gideon Lester, and film director, Jeremy Jacob immediately following the performance and screening.
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