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Chamber Music Marathon: Part I and II
Friday at 7 PM to 11 PM
Saturday at Noon to 5 PM

Marathon includes works by Bach, Bátok, Beethoven, Brahms, Donizetti, Ewald, Ibert, Piazzolla, Rossini, Rota, Schubert, Sperger, Tartaglia, Tchaikovsky, and premieres of Bard student compositions.

Friday, December 1, 2023 – Saturday, December 2, 2023

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Thirty-five Student and Faculty Chamber Ensembles perform throughout Friday evening beginning at 7 pm, and on Saturday afternoon beginning at noon.

Free and open to the public.

Friday live-stream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Welk9X9rqqM
Saturday live-stream link:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eDPTIqWLS0
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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BardMakers Art + Craft Fair

Friday, December 1, 2023
1–6 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Join us for the winter BardMakers Art + Craft Fair, featuring artists and creators from the student body, faculty, staff, and the local community. Shop for unique handmade items and support campus makers!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-416-2938, or e-mail [email protected].
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Men's and Women's Basketball vs RIT

Friday, December 1, 2023
5:30 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center
The Men's and Women's Basketball host RIT for their first Liberty League game of the season. The Women play at 5:30 pm and Men play at 7:30 pm. Come out and cheer! Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 1–6 pm BardMakers Art + Craft FairFriday, December 1, 2023, 1–6 pm
  • 5:30 pm Men's and Women's Basketball vs RITFriday, December 1, 2023, 5:30 pm
  • Chamber Music Marathon: Part I and IIFriday at 7 PM to 11 PMSaturday at Noon to 5 PMFriday, December 1, 2023 – Saturday, December 2, 2023

Chamber Music Marathon: Part I and II
Friday at 7 PM to 11 PM
Saturday at Noon to 5 PM

Marathon includes works by Bach, Bátok, Beethoven, Brahms, Donizetti, Ewald, Ibert, Piazzolla, Rossini, Rota, Schubert, Sperger, Tartaglia, Tchaikovsky, and premieres of Bard student compositions.

Friday, December 1, 2023 – Saturday, December 2, 2023

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Thirty-five Student and Faculty Chamber Ensembles perform throughout Friday evening beginning at 7 pm, and on Saturday afternoon beginning at noon.

Free and open to the public.

Friday live-stream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Welk9X9rqqM
Saturday live-stream link:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eDPTIqWLS0
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Men's and Women's Basketball vs. Ithaca

Saturday, December 2, 2023
2 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center
The Men's and Women's Basketball host Ithaca for a Liberty League game. The Women's team plays at 2 pm and Men's team plays at 4 pm. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 2 pm Men's and Women's Basketball vs. IthacaSaturday, December 2, 2023, 2 pm
  • Chamber Music Marathon: Part I and IIFriday at 7 PM to 11 PMSaturday at Noon to 5 PMFriday, December 1, 2023 – Saturday, December 2, 2023

Christian/Roman Catholic Mass

Sunday, December 3, 2023
12–2 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Roman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel
Sundays at noon

Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
 
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).  

For info contact: (fr.) Jim+   [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
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Bard Chinese Ensemble Winter Concert 2023

Shutong Li, conductor

Sunday, December 3, 2023
2–3:30 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Bard Chinese Ensemble performs a festive concert for the year’s end spotlighting diverse Chinese instruments. The program includes a guzheng trio, three concertos for pipa, guanzi, and guqin, plus large-scale Chinese orchestral masterworks performed by a mixed ensemble of Eastern and Western instruments. 

FREE and open to the public.

View the livestream at youtube.com/live/JQcoQmzh8us Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.barduschinamusic.org/events/chinese-ensemble-winter-2023.
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Festival of Lights

Our Annual Interfaith Service of Hope and Light in the Time of Darkness

Sunday, December 3, 2023
5–6 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
The Chaplains invite the Bard community to the annual Festival of Lights as we gather in candlelight to celebrate hope and light in the midst of troubling times and darkness. This service will feature prayers, meditations, and music to inspire us in the days ahead.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
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Chamber Recital: "Unstable Trio" Performs Works for Violin, Cello, and Piano by Laura Netzel, Chausson, and Mendelssohn

Sunday, December 3, 2023
7:30–9:30 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Chamber music with
Ya-Yin Yu, violin
Sarah Martin, cello
Shao-Chu Pan, piano

Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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  • 12–2 pm Christian/Roman Catholic MassSunday, December 3, 2023, 12–2 pm
  • 2–3:30 pm Bard Chinese Ensemble Winter Concert 2023Sunday, December 3, 2023, 2–3:30 pm
  • 5–6 pm Festival of LightsSunday, December 3, 2023, 5–6 pm
  • 7:30–9:30 pm Chamber Recital: "Unstable Trio" Performs Works for Violin, Cello, and Piano by Laura Netzel, Chausson, and MendelssohnSunday, December 3, 2023, 7:30–9:30 pm

Noon Concert: Conservatory Students Perform an Hour-Long Program of Short Works

Monday, December 4, 2023
12–1 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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CMIA - Between Worlds

Monday, December 4, 2023
7–10:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Passion (Jean-Luc Godard, 1982, France, 82 minutes, 35mm)
  • To the Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2012, USA, 110 minutes, 35mm)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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  • 12–1 pm Noon Concert: Conservatory Students Perform an Hour-Long Program of Short WorksMonday, December 4, 2023, 12–1 pm
  • 7–10:55 pm CMIA - Between WorldsMonday, December 4, 2023, 7–10:55 pm

Bard-CEU Dual MA in Global Studies & International Relations Webinar

Informational Session on the one-year MA between Bard and Central European University with representatives from both programs. 

Tuesday, December 5, 2023
9–10 am

Join us for an informational presentation and Q&A about the dual MA program between Bard MA in Global Studies and the CEU International Relations department. 

Registration in advance is required. Contact [email protected] for any questions. 
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Bard Philosophy Club Lecture on St. Anthony

Tuesday, December 5, 2023
5–6:30 pm

Olin Humanities, Room 307
Professor Ungvary will be speaking about the ancient Christian Saint St. Anthony and the birth of hegiography as a literary genre.Sponsored by: Student Activities.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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CMIA - Entering the Twenty-First Century

Tuesday, December 5, 2023
7–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999, France, 93 minutes, 35mm)
    In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000, Hong Kong, 98 minutes)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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  • 9–10 am Bard-CEU Dual MA in Global Studies & International Relations WebinarTuesday, December 5, 2023, 9–10 am
  • 5–6:30 pm Bard Philosophy Club Lecture on St. AnthonyTuesday, December 5, 2023, 5–6:30 pm
  • 7–11:55 pm CMIA - Entering the Twenty-First CenturyTuesday, December 5, 2023, 7–11:55 pm

Advising Day

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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“Working the Program”: Employment and Poverty Governance in Criminal Justice Treatment for Women

Levy Institute Research Program of Gender Equality and the Economy: A Speaker Series Featuring Allison McKim, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bard College

Wednesday, December 6, 2023
5–6 pm

Blithewood

The Gender Equality and the Economy Program of the Levy Economics Institute hosts a speaker series with practitioners and scholars across disciplines from around the globe to address the ever-relevant topic of “Gender Equality and the Economy.” Speakers will present their research and discuss differing approaches to economic analyses through a gender lens. The series highlights the importance of taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the implications of how gender and economic inequalities intersect in history, policy, and the everyday.

Join us for our third session with Allison McKim, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bard College, on Wednesday, December 6, from 5pm to 6pm in the Blithewood Conference Room, or on Zoom. Professor McKim's presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to ask questions. 

Light refreshments will be served. Register to attend via Zoom here.

Abstract:
Addiction treatment is central to criminal justice reform and increasingly important to policies aimed at poverty, child welfare, and social marginalization. Women are a particular focus of such policies. A larger portion of criminalized women face drug charges compared to men, and women are more likely to be investigated by child protection authorities and receive means-tested welfare benefits. This talk draws on ethnographic research in treatment programs specifically designed for women to examine how the rehabs understand and regulate women’s relationship to work, including both paid employment and unpaid care work in the family. I leverage a comparison between one rehab in the criminal justice system and one in the healthcare system to examine how race, class, and institutional context shape the gendered logics underlying their approaches to work. My research revealed that the carceral rehab de-emphasized the importance of paid work, even though both it and criminal justice authorities had work requirements. Moreover, it also discouraged gendered care work like mothering. Instead, the penal rehab demanded that women “work” on their selves. This was not the case at the healthcare rehab, which remained more supportive of and beholden to women’s ties with employers and families. The carceral rehab’s focus on changing selves rested on the idea that women’s disordered selves are the cause of their poverty, crime, drug use, and victimization. This resembles many other facets of social and penal policy that assume poor and racially marginalized groups need behavior modification rather than employment, education, or economic support.


Allison McKim is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Bard College where she specializes in gender, punishment and social control, criminology, deviance, drug policy, the welfare state, and ethnographic research methods. Her new book, Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration (Rutgers University Press), is an ethnographic comparison of two drug treatment programs for women, one in the criminal justice system and one outside of the penal state in the health care system. In them she found very different ways of defining and treating addiction. Professor McKim's book reveals that addiction treatment reinforces the race, gender, and class politics of mass incarceration. Her work has also appeared in the journals Gender & Society and Signs. At Bard since 2010.

To receive updates on this speaker series, please fill out this form, or visit the Speaker Series page which will be updated as new events in the series are scheduled.
Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute.

For more information, call 845-758-7714, or e-mail [email protected].
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Men's and Women's Basketball vs. Union (White Out)

Wednesday, December 6, 2023
5:30 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center
The Men's and Women's Basketball host Union for a Liberty League game. The Women's team plays at 5:30 pm and the Men's team plays at 7:30 pm. Come out and cheer! It is a white-out theme! Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
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Georgian Choir Fall Concert

Wednesday, December 6, 2023
7–8 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Stephen Whimple TŌN ’25, trombone, and Pei-Hsuan Shen, piano

Wednesday, December 6, 2023
7:30–9 pm

Olin Hall
TŌN trombonist Stephen Whimple performs a recital with pianist Pei-Hsuan Shen. 

Anthony Barfield: Soliloquy
Clara Schumann: Sechs Lieder, Op. 13
David Faleris: A Liminal Space
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 120, No. 2
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 5–6 pm “Working the Program”: Employment and Poverty Governance in Criminal Justice Treatment for WomenWednesday, December 6, 2023, 5–6 pm
  • 5:30 pm Men's and Women's Basketball vs. Union (White Out)Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 5:30 pm
  • 7–8 pm Georgian Choir Fall ConcertWednesday, December 6, 2023, 7–8 pm
  • 7:30–9 pm Stephen Whimple TŌN ’25, trombone, and Pei-Hsuan Shen, pianoWednesday, December 6, 2023, 7:30–9 pm
  • Advising DayWednesday, December 6, 2023

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Thursday, December 7, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 – Opening Reception

Thursday, December 7, 2023
5–7 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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BODY CONCEPTS

Thursday, December 7, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

The Bard College Dance Program presents BODY CONCEPTS.

Senior Projects in Dance by:
Hannah Herschend
Justine Florence

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/body-concepts/.
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Follow the Lieder: World Premieres of Ten New Songs 

Songs by Bard Student Composers Performed by Graduate Vocal Arts Program Singers and Collaborative Piano Fellows

Thursday, December 7, 2023
7:30–9 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Ten new songs will receive their world premieres, performed by singers in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and undergraduate vocal students in the college. As part of Follow the Lieder, a weekly seminar by faculty composer Missy Mazzoli, the Bard student composers worked with the singers to create songs specifically for their voices over the course of the semester. These new songs include settings of whaling ship logs, texts by Michelangelo and Virginia Woolf, poems by T.S. Eliot, and much more. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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  • 11 am – 5 pm From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023Thursday, December 7, 2023, 11 am – 5 pm
  • 5–7 pm From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 – Opening ReceptionThursday, December 7, 2023, 5–7 pm
  • 7:30–8:30 pm BODY CONCEPTSThursday, December 7, 2023, 7:30–8:30 pm
  • 7:30–9 pm Follow the Lieder: World Premieres of Ten New Songs Thursday, December 7, 2023, 7:30–9 pm

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Friday, December 8, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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BODY CONCEPTS

Friday, December 8, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

The Bard College Dance Program presents BODY CONCEPTS.

Senior Projects in Dance by:
Hannah Herschend
Justine Florence

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/body-concepts/.
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  • 11 am – 5 pm From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023Friday, December 8, 2023, 11 am – 5 pm
  • 7:30–8:30 pm BODY CONCEPTSFriday, December 8, 2023, 7:30–8:30 pm

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Saturday, December 9, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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Viola Recital: Elizabeth Chernyak

Program includes poems by Emma Lazrus and works by Bártok, Penderecki, Vieuxtemps, and more.

Saturday, December 9, 2023
1–2:30 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Women's Basketball vs. Pratt Institute

Saturday, December 9, 2023
2 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center
The Women's Basketball host Pratt Institute for a non-conference game at the Stevenson Athletic Center. Come out and cheer! Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
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BODY CONCEPTS

Saturday, December 9, 2023
2–3 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

The Bard College Dance Program presents BODY CONCEPTS.

Senior Projects in Dance by:
Hannah Herschend
Justine Florence

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/body-concepts/.
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Men's Basketball vs. Russell Sage (Faculty & Staff Appreciation Day)

Saturday, December 9, 2023
4 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center
The Men's Basketball hosts Russell Sage for a non-conference game at the Stevenson Athletic Center. The game will be celebrating Bard's Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
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What’s in A Key

Saturday, December 9, 2023
7–8 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

The Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, Music Director
Renée Anne Louprette GCP ’19, Organ Soloist

Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/whats-in-a-key/.
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BODY CONCEPTS

Saturday, December 9, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

The Bard College Dance Program presents BODY CONCEPTS.

Senior Projects in Dance by:
Hannah Herschend
Justine Florence

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/body-concepts/.
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  • 11 am – 5 pm From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023Saturday, December 9, 2023, 11 am – 5 pm
  • 1–2:30 pm Viola Recital: Elizabeth ChernyakSaturday, December 9, 2023, 1–2:30 pm
  • 2 pm Women's Basketball vs. Pratt InstituteSaturday, December 9, 2023, 2 pm
  • 2–3 pm BODY CONCEPTSSaturday, December 9, 2023, 2–3 pm
  • 4 pm Men's Basketball vs. Russell Sage (Faculty & Staff Appreciation Day)Saturday, December 9, 2023, 4 pm
  • 7–8 pm What’s in A KeySaturday, December 9, 2023, 7–8 pm
  • 7:30–8:30 pm BODY CONCEPTSSaturday, December 9, 2023, 7:30–8:30 pm

Christian/Roman Catholic Mass

Sunday, December 10, 2023
12–2 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Roman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel
Sundays at noon

Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
 
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).  

For info contact: (fr.) Jim+   [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
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From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Sunday, December 10, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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CONVERSATION: On France, Niger, Uranium, and Nuclear Power

Filmmaker Idrissou Mora-Kpai and Historian Carina Ray in Conversation on France, Niger, Uranium, and Nuclear Power

Sunday, December 10, 2023
1 pm

ZOOM
Mora-Kpai’s extraordinary “Arlit:  Deuxième Paris,” described as a “a case study in environmental racism set in a uranium mining town in the Sahara Desert of Niger” will serve as springboard for a timely discussion on the history of France-Niger relations, nuclear power, and everyday life in the former French colony. The coup d’état of 2023 invites reflection on the imbrications of past in present, touching on policy, economy, environment, public health, and politics from the perspective of lived experience in the mining town.
Carina E. Ray, A.M. and H.P. Bentley Chair in African History and Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan. Author, Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (Athens, OH, 2015); coeditor, Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Critical Reader (Ithaca, 2019).

Idrissou Mora-Kpai, Guggenheim Fellow for Film & Video (2023), fellow at The Africa Institute, Sharjah, UAE. Assistant Professor, Department of Media Arts, Sciences and Studies, Ithaca College. Recent works include “America Street” (2020) and “Indochina – Traces of a Mother” (2011). See, https://idrimora.com/.
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Center for Human Rights and the Arts; Dean of the College; French Studies Program; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Science, Technology, and Society Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Instrumental Arts Program Recital: John Woodward, double bass, with Elizabeth Chernyak, violin, Chris van Zyl, cello, Nomin Samdan, piano

Works by Bach, Bottesini, Rossini, and Tartaglia.

Sunday, December 10, 2023
7–8:30 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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  • 11 am – 5 pm From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023Sunday, December 10, 2023, 11 am – 5 pm
  • 12–2 pm Christian/Roman Catholic MassSunday, December 10, 2023, 12–2 pm
  • 1 pm CONVERSATION: On France, Niger, Uranium, and Nuclear PowerSunday, December 10, 2023, 1 pm
  • 7–8:30 pm Instrumental Arts Program Recital: John Woodward, double bass, with Elizabeth Chernyak, violin, Chris van Zyl, cello, Nomin Samdan, pianoSunday, December 10, 2023, 7–8:30 pm

Senior Projects Due

Monday, December 11, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Human Rights and Cross-Strait Relations

Monday, December 11, 2023
9 am – 6:15 pm

W15 Café (Waldstraße 15, 13 156 Berlin)
A collaboration between Bard College Berlin and the National Sun Yat-Sen University under the aegis of the Open Society University Network, this one-day workshop brings together academics, activists, students, and a UN representative, to discuss the current state of cross-strait relations and the role of the discourse around human rights in it, from a variety of perspectives. The questions it will consider include the meaning of democracy and human rights in the region, the problem of “cultural security,” as well as the role of the UN in addressing global threats.

Register for the workshop here.

Workshop program:
9:15 - Welcome and introductions: Chiahao Hsu 
9:30-11:00 - Brenda Vongova, United Nations: The Role of the UN in Addressing Global Threats (view a short preparatory reading for the talk here)
Coffee/tea break
11:30-13:00 - Bin Xu, Emory University, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Authoritarianism, Sovereignty, and the Culture of Democracy in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Lunch break
14:00-15:30 - Chiahao Hsu, National Sun Yat-Sen University: Human Rights with Chinese Characteristics
15:45-16:15 - Student presentations
Coffee/tea break
16:30-18:00 - Martin Dimitrov, Tulane University: Universal Human Rights as a Threat to Chinese Cultural Security
18:00 - Concluding remarks: Ewa Atanassow

Participants:
Bin Xu is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Emory University and currently a fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2023-2024). His research interests are situated in the intersection between politics and culture, broadly defined, with a regional focus on East Asia, especially China, and with a global and comparative perspective. He is the author of The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China (Stanford University Press, 2017); Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021); and The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022).

Brenda Vongova has been a United Nations international civil servant for over a decade. During this time, she has championed the UN values of peace, respect for human rights, and has been a vocal advocate for the universal ideals, principles and values enshrined in the UN Charter. Brenda Vongova currently serves in the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. Antonio Guterres. Prior to this post, she served in the Office of the former United Nations Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. BAN Ki-moon. Her expertise in handling political briefing materials was honed during her previous service in the Office of the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, who oversaw the UN’s diplomatic efforts to prevent and mitigate conflicts worldwide. Between 2008 and 2010, she served in the cabinets of several President of the United Nations General Assemblies.

Martin K. Dimitrov is Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. He is also an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard; Associate Editor for Asia of the journal Problems of Post-Communism; and Associate Editor for Social Science (China and Eurasia) of The Journal of Asian Studies. His books include Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China (Cambridge University Press, 2009); Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2013); The Politics of Socialist Consumption (Ciela Publishers, 2018); and Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Chiahao Hsu received his Ph.D. from National Sun Yat-Sen University (Poli. Sci.). He is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at Si-wan College, National Sun Yat-Sen University and the Deputy Director of Taiwan Education Center in the Philippines (under Ministry of Education, R.O.C.). His publications range widely from Tocqueville Studies (Political Theory), China Studies (Regional Studies), and Asia-Pacific Geopolitics (International Relations).

Ewa Atanassow is Professor of Politics at Bard College Berlin. Her teaching and research examine alternative conceptions of modernity, and the way key modern concepts—such as sovereignty, nationhood, democracy, globalization, post-coloniality—have been understood in different geo-political contexts. She is the author of Tocqueville's Dilemmas and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization (Princeton University Press, 2022), and the co-editor of When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice with Thomas Bartscherer and David Bateman (Cambridge University Press, 2023) among others.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin; OSUN.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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CMIA - Melancholia

Monday, December 11, 2023
7–10:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011, Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany, 130 minutes,
    35mm)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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Spontaneous Composition Concert

Monday, December 11, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 9 am – 6:15 pm Human Rights and Cross-Strait RelationsMonday, December 11, 2023, 9 am – 6:15 pm
  • 7–10:55 pm CMIA - MelancholiaMonday, December 11, 2023, 7–10:55 pm
  • 7:30–8:30 pm Spontaneous Composition ConcertMonday, December 11, 2023, 7:30–8:30 pm
  • Senior Projects DueMonday, December 11, 2023

SmorgasBard & Community Cookie Decorating

Tuesday, December 12, 2023
4:30–6:30 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Join us as students showcase their civic engagement projects and network with local community partners. You can also join in a community cookie decorating competition. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-416-2938, or e-mail [email protected].
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The Sun Ra Ensemble

Tuesday, December 12, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn

Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Singers

Tuesday, December 12, 2023
8–9 pm

Olin Hall
Mendelssohn's Magnificat & other works by siblings Fanny and Felix

Performed by:

Members of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program
Bard Conservatory Instrumentalists
Conservatory Piano Fellows
Bard Chamber Singers and Symphonic Chorus

James Bagwell, conductor

Admission: Free
 
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Conducting Program; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Bard Conservatory Post-Graduate Piano Fellowship; Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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  • 4:30–6:30 pm SmorgasBard & Community Cookie DecoratingTuesday, December 12, 2023, 4:30–6:30 pm
  • 7:30–8:30 pm The Sun Ra EnsembleTuesday, December 12, 2023, 7:30–8:30 pm
  • 8–9 pm Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix MendelssohnTuesday, December 12, 2023, 8–9 pm

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Wednesday, December 13, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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Rieko Aizawa Piano Studio Recital

Wednesday, December 13, 2023
12–2 pm

Olin Hall
Program includes movements from the following:

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Pour le Piano (1894-1901)

Ivy Jiayun Chen, piano

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Etudes, Opus 42 (1903)

Juliette Benveniste, piano

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Estampes (1903)

Georgi Chikolov, piano

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Sonatine (1903-1905)

Juliette Benveniste, piano

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Impromptus, D. 935, Op. 142 (1827)

Tianxiang Ni, piano

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Preludes and Fugues, Opus 35 (1832-1837)

Francis Chung-Yang Huang, piano
--intermission--
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat Major, Opus 31, No. 3

Georgi Chikolov, piano

Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Opus 110 (1821)
Tianxiang Ni, piano

Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Opus 1, No. 3
Isabel Chin Garita, violin
William Pilgrim, cello
Francis Chung-Yang Huang, piano

_Free and open to the public._Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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  • 11 am – 5 pm From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 11 am – 5 pm
  • 12–2 pm Rieko Aizawa Piano Studio RecitalWednesday, December 13, 2023, 12–2 pm

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Thursday, December 14, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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Registration for Spring Classes Opens

Thursday, December 14, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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  • 11 am – 5 pm From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023Thursday, December 14, 2023, 11 am – 5 pm
  • Registration for Spring Classes OpensThursday, December 14, 2023

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Friday, December 15, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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Capoeira Angola at Bard with Professor Tagan!

Friday, December 15, 2023
6–9 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
"Capoeira Angola is an Afro-Brazilian martial art and dance with a liberatory purpose and strong musical tradition at its core. In this introductory class to Capoeira Angola, we will go over the fundamentals of movement and music that define the art form. Alongside physical training, we will sing songs and play the musical instruments of Capoeira. In addition to being a dance and martial art, Capoeira Angola is also, and maybe most importantly, a "game." Come ready to play, in loose-fitting clothes that you feel comfortable moving in, and ready to enjoy yourself."

Taganyahu Swaby is a professor of Capoeira Angola and an eastern medicine practitioner. Tagan has practiced the artf orm for more than two decades. Originally from Jamaica, Tagan first began training Capoeira Angola in Bahia, Brazil, in 2000. He has trained extensively with masters including Mestre João Grande. Mestre Boca Do Rio, and Mestre Alberto “Chorão” Nunes. He received the title of Professor from his Master, Mestre Chorão, in 2018. Tagan founded the group Acupe Do Brooklyn (formerly Angoleiros Do Brooklyn) in 2010 and has created, directed, and participated in presentations for Brooklyn Museum, Bam Dance Africa, Odunde Festival in Philadelphia, and the Brooklyn African Street Festival. Originally trained as a visual artist, Tagan also explores and celebrates Capoeira Angola in his award-winning Portuguese-Language films Se Safando and Flavio, and Through Printmaking.Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822 x7970, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://dance.bard.edu.
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Faculty Recital: Vitrine with Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, Piano

Recent works by Temkin, Messiaen, and Nicholas Vines

Friday, December 15, 2023
8–10 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
PROGRAM
Dreamed Landscapes (2017-18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Daniel Temkin (b. 1986)

I. Starfield
II. Glaciers crumbling, assembling
III. Echoes of the Horizon

La Rousserolle Effarvatte, from Catalogue d’oiseaux (1956-58) . . . . . . . . . . . .Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Midnight: Music of the Ponds, Frog Chorus, Bittern—
3am: Reed Warbler (grand solo), Solemnity of the Night, Frogs, Noises in the Swamp—
6am: Pink and Mauve Sunrise (over the lily pond), Blackbird/Red-backed Shrike, Redstart—
8am: Yellow Iris, Pheasant, Reed Bunting, Green Woodpecker, Starling, Great Tit, White
Wagtail—
Noon: Grasshopper Warbler—
5pm: Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Foxglove, Great Reed Warbler, Coot, Waterlily, duet of
Reed Warblers—
6pm: Yellow Iris, Grasshopper Warbler, Coot, Sky Lark, Frogs, Water Rail—
9pm: Red and Violet Sunset (over the iris pond), Bittern, Nightengale—
Midnight: Solemnity of the Night, Nightengale, Bittern, Noises in the Swamp, Frogs—
3am: Reed Warbler (grand solo), Frog Chorus, Music of the Ponds, Bittern.

AntipodEntoMenagerie (2017-19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nicholas Vines (b. 1978)
Vitrine 1
I. Neon Cuckoo
II. Topless Cannibal
Vitrine 2
III. Cherrynose
IV. Gippsland Giant
V. Mud Dauber
Vitrine 3
VI. Milkweed
VII. Macrotona
VIII. Black Vine
IX. Kimberley Longlegs
Vitrine 4
X. Common Spittle
XI. Boisduval’s Autumn
Vitrine 5
XII. Harlequin

Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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  • 11 am – 5 pm From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023Friday, December 15, 2023, 11 am – 5 pm
  • 6–9 pm Capoeira Angola at Bard with Professor Tagan!Friday, December 15, 2023, 6–9 pm
  • 8–10 pm Faculty Recital: Vitrine with Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, PianoFriday, December 15, 2023, 8–10 pm

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Saturday, December 16, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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Poulenc Party: Celebrating the Songs of Francis Poulenc

Saturday, December 16, 2023
2–4 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Voice, piano, and conducting students of the Music Program and Conservatory of Music will gather with conviviality to present a mélange of songs by Francis Poulenc. 

Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Contemporary Jazz Composers Ensemble

Saturday, December 16, 2023
8–9 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 11 am – 5 pm From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023Saturday, December 16, 2023, 11 am – 5 pm
  • 2–4 pm Poulenc Party: Celebrating the Songs of Francis PoulencSaturday, December 16, 2023, 2–4 pm
  • 8–9 pm Contemporary Jazz Composers EnsembleSaturday, December 16, 2023, 8–9 pm

Christian/Roman Catholic Mass

Sunday, December 17, 2023
12–2 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Roman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel
Sundays at noon

Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
 
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).  

For info contact: (fr.) Jim+   [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
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From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Sunday, December 17, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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Da Capo Chamber Players

Sunday, December 17, 2023
5–6 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 11 am – 5 pm From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023Sunday, December 17, 2023, 11 am – 5 pm
  • 12–2 pm Christian/Roman Catholic MassSunday, December 17, 2023, 12–2 pm
  • 5–6 pm Da Capo Chamber PlayersSunday, December 17, 2023, 5–6 pm

Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams (all students and faculty remain on campus)

Monday, December 18, 2023 – Friday, December 22, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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  • Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams (all students and faculty remain on campus)Monday, December 18, 2023 – Friday, December 22, 2023

Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams (all students and faculty remain on campus)

Monday, December 18, 2023 – Friday, December 22, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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  • Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams (all students and faculty remain on campus)Monday, December 18, 2023 – Friday, December 22, 2023

Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams (all students and faculty remain on campus)

Monday, December 18, 2023 – Friday, December 22, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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  • Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams (all students and faculty remain on campus)Monday, December 18, 2023 – Friday, December 22, 2023

Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams (all students and faculty remain on campus)

Monday, December 18, 2023 – Friday, December 22, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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  • Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams (all students and faculty remain on campus)Monday, December 18, 2023 – Friday, December 22, 2023

Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams (all students and faculty remain on campus)

Monday, December 18, 2023 – Friday, December 22, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Last Day of fall Classes (fall semester ends)

Friday, December 22, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Chamber Music Marathon: Part I and II
Friday at 7 PM to 11 PM
Saturday at Noon to 5 PM

Marathon includes works by Bach, Bátok, Beethoven, Brahms, Donizetti, Ewald, Ibert, Piazzolla, Rossini, Rota, Schubert, Sperger, Tartaglia, Tchaikovsky, and premieres of Bard student compositions.

Friday, December 1, 2023 – Saturday, December 2, 2023

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Thirty-five Student and Faculty Chamber Ensembles perform throughout Friday evening beginning at 7 pm, and on Saturday afternoon beginning at noon.

Free and open to the public.

Friday live-stream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Welk9X9rqqM
Saturday live-stream link:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eDPTIqWLS0
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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BardMakers Art + Craft Fair

Friday, December 1, 2023
1–6 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Join us for the winter BardMakers Art + Craft Fair, featuring artists and creators from the student body, faculty, staff, and the local community. Shop for unique handmade items and support campus makers!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-416-2938, or e-mail [email protected].
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Men's and Women's Basketball vs RIT

Friday, December 1, 2023
5:30 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center
The Men's and Women's Basketball host RIT for their first Liberty League game of the season. The Women play at 5:30 pm and Men play at 7:30 pm. Come out and cheer! Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
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Chamber Music Marathon: Part I and II
Friday at 7 PM to 11 PM
Saturday at Noon to 5 PM

Marathon includes works by Bach, Bátok, Beethoven, Brahms, Donizetti, Ewald, Ibert, Piazzolla, Rossini, Rota, Schubert, Sperger, Tartaglia, Tchaikovsky, and premieres of Bard student compositions.

Friday, December 1, 2023 – Saturday, December 2, 2023

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Thirty-five Student and Faculty Chamber Ensembles perform throughout Friday evening beginning at 7 pm, and on Saturday afternoon beginning at noon.

Free and open to the public.

Friday live-stream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Welk9X9rqqM
Saturday live-stream link:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eDPTIqWLS0
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Men's and Women's Basketball vs. Ithaca

Saturday, December 2, 2023
2 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center
The Men's and Women's Basketball host Ithaca for a Liberty League game. The Women's team plays at 2 pm and Men's team plays at 4 pm. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
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Christian/Roman Catholic Mass

Sunday, December 3, 2023
12–2 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Roman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel
Sundays at noon

Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
 
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).  

For info contact: (fr.) Jim+   [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
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Bard Chinese Ensemble Winter Concert 2023

Shutong Li, conductor

Sunday, December 3, 2023
2–3:30 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Bard Chinese Ensemble performs a festive concert for the year’s end spotlighting diverse Chinese instruments. The program includes a guzheng trio, three concertos for pipa, guanzi, and guqin, plus large-scale Chinese orchestral masterworks performed by a mixed ensemble of Eastern and Western instruments. 

FREE and open to the public.

View the livestream at youtube.com/live/JQcoQmzh8us Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.barduschinamusic.org/events/chinese-ensemble-winter-2023.
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Festival of Lights

Our Annual Interfaith Service of Hope and Light in the Time of Darkness

Sunday, December 3, 2023
5–6 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
The Chaplains invite the Bard community to the annual Festival of Lights as we gather in candlelight to celebrate hope and light in the midst of troubling times and darkness. This service will feature prayers, meditations, and music to inspire us in the days ahead.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
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Chamber Recital: "Unstable Trio" Performs Works for Violin, Cello, and Piano by Laura Netzel, Chausson, and Mendelssohn

Sunday, December 3, 2023
7:30–9:30 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Chamber music with
Ya-Yin Yu, violin
Sarah Martin, cello
Shao-Chu Pan, piano

Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Noon Concert: Conservatory Students Perform an Hour-Long Program of Short Works

Monday, December 4, 2023
12–1 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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CMIA - Between Worlds

Monday, December 4, 2023
7–10:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Passion (Jean-Luc Godard, 1982, France, 82 minutes, 35mm)
  • To the Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2012, USA, 110 minutes, 35mm)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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Bard-CEU Dual MA in Global Studies & International Relations Webinar

Informational Session on the one-year MA between Bard and Central European University with representatives from both programs. 

Tuesday, December 5, 2023
9–10 am

Join us for an informational presentation and Q&A about the dual MA program between Bard MA in Global Studies and the CEU International Relations department. 

Registration in advance is required. Contact [email protected] for any questions. 
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Bard Philosophy Club Lecture on St. Anthony

Tuesday, December 5, 2023
5–6:30 pm

Olin Humanities, Room 307
Professor Ungvary will be speaking about the ancient Christian Saint St. Anthony and the birth of hegiography as a literary genre.Sponsored by: Student Activities.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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CMIA - Entering the Twenty-First Century

Tuesday, December 5, 2023
7–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999, France, 93 minutes, 35mm)
    In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000, Hong Kong, 98 minutes)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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Advising Day

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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“Working the Program”: Employment and Poverty Governance in Criminal Justice Treatment for Women

Levy Institute Research Program of Gender Equality and the Economy: A Speaker Series Featuring Allison McKim, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bard College

Wednesday, December 6, 2023
5–6 pm

Blithewood

The Gender Equality and the Economy Program of the Levy Economics Institute hosts a speaker series with practitioners and scholars across disciplines from around the globe to address the ever-relevant topic of “Gender Equality and the Economy.” Speakers will present their research and discuss differing approaches to economic analyses through a gender lens. The series highlights the importance of taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the implications of how gender and economic inequalities intersect in history, policy, and the everyday.

Join us for our third session with Allison McKim, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bard College, on Wednesday, December 6, from 5pm to 6pm in the Blithewood Conference Room, or on Zoom. Professor McKim's presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to ask questions. 

Light refreshments will be served. Register to attend via Zoom here.

Abstract:
Addiction treatment is central to criminal justice reform and increasingly important to policies aimed at poverty, child welfare, and social marginalization. Women are a particular focus of such policies. A larger portion of criminalized women face drug charges compared to men, and women are more likely to be investigated by child protection authorities and receive means-tested welfare benefits. This talk draws on ethnographic research in treatment programs specifically designed for women to examine how the rehabs understand and regulate women’s relationship to work, including both paid employment and unpaid care work in the family. I leverage a comparison between one rehab in the criminal justice system and one in the healthcare system to examine how race, class, and institutional context shape the gendered logics underlying their approaches to work. My research revealed that the carceral rehab de-emphasized the importance of paid work, even though both it and criminal justice authorities had work requirements. Moreover, it also discouraged gendered care work like mothering. Instead, the penal rehab demanded that women “work” on their selves. This was not the case at the healthcare rehab, which remained more supportive of and beholden to women’s ties with employers and families. The carceral rehab’s focus on changing selves rested on the idea that women’s disordered selves are the cause of their poverty, crime, drug use, and victimization. This resembles many other facets of social and penal policy that assume poor and racially marginalized groups need behavior modification rather than employment, education, or economic support.


Allison McKim is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Bard College where she specializes in gender, punishment and social control, criminology, deviance, drug policy, the welfare state, and ethnographic research methods. Her new book, Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration (Rutgers University Press), is an ethnographic comparison of two drug treatment programs for women, one in the criminal justice system and one outside of the penal state in the health care system. In them she found very different ways of defining and treating addiction. Professor McKim's book reveals that addiction treatment reinforces the race, gender, and class politics of mass incarceration. Her work has also appeared in the journals Gender & Society and Signs. At Bard since 2010.

To receive updates on this speaker series, please fill out this form, or visit the Speaker Series page which will be updated as new events in the series are scheduled.
Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute.

For more information, call 845-758-7714, or e-mail [email protected].
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Men's and Women's Basketball vs. Union (White Out)

Wednesday, December 6, 2023
5:30 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center
The Men's and Women's Basketball host Union for a Liberty League game. The Women's team plays at 5:30 pm and the Men's team plays at 7:30 pm. Come out and cheer! It is a white-out theme! Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
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Georgian Choir Fall Concert

Wednesday, December 6, 2023
7–8 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Stephen Whimple TŌN ’25, trombone, and Pei-Hsuan Shen, piano

Wednesday, December 6, 2023
7:30–9 pm

Olin Hall
TŌN trombonist Stephen Whimple performs a recital with pianist Pei-Hsuan Shen. 

Anthony Barfield: Soliloquy
Clara Schumann: Sechs Lieder, Op. 13
David Faleris: A Liminal Space
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 120, No. 2
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Thursday, December 7, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 – Opening Reception

Thursday, December 7, 2023
5–7 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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BODY CONCEPTS

Thursday, December 7, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

The Bard College Dance Program presents BODY CONCEPTS.

Senior Projects in Dance by:
Hannah Herschend
Justine Florence

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/body-concepts/.
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Follow the Lieder: World Premieres of Ten New Songs 

Songs by Bard Student Composers Performed by Graduate Vocal Arts Program Singers and Collaborative Piano Fellows

Thursday, December 7, 2023
7:30–9 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Ten new songs will receive their world premieres, performed by singers in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and undergraduate vocal students in the college. As part of Follow the Lieder, a weekly seminar by faculty composer Missy Mazzoli, the Bard student composers worked with the singers to create songs specifically for their voices over the course of the semester. These new songs include settings of whaling ship logs, texts by Michelangelo and Virginia Woolf, poems by T.S. Eliot, and much more. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Friday, December 8, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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BODY CONCEPTS

Friday, December 8, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

The Bard College Dance Program presents BODY CONCEPTS.

Senior Projects in Dance by:
Hannah Herschend
Justine Florence

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/body-concepts/.
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From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Saturday, December 9, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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Viola Recital: Elizabeth Chernyak

Program includes poems by Emma Lazrus and works by Bártok, Penderecki, Vieuxtemps, and more.

Saturday, December 9, 2023
1–2:30 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Women's Basketball vs. Pratt Institute

Saturday, December 9, 2023
2 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center
The Women's Basketball host Pratt Institute for a non-conference game at the Stevenson Athletic Center. Come out and cheer! Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
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BODY CONCEPTS

Saturday, December 9, 2023
2–3 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

The Bard College Dance Program presents BODY CONCEPTS.

Senior Projects in Dance by:
Hannah Herschend
Justine Florence

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/body-concepts/.
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Men's Basketball vs. Russell Sage (Faculty & Staff Appreciation Day)

Saturday, December 9, 2023
4 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center
The Men's Basketball hosts Russell Sage for a non-conference game at the Stevenson Athletic Center. The game will be celebrating Bard's Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 650-305-6073, or e-mail [email protected].
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What’s in A Key

Saturday, December 9, 2023
7–8 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

The Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, Music Director
Renée Anne Louprette GCP ’19, Organ Soloist

Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/whats-in-a-key/.
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BODY CONCEPTS

Saturday, December 9, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

The Bard College Dance Program presents BODY CONCEPTS.

Senior Projects in Dance by:
Hannah Herschend
Justine Florence

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/body-concepts/.
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Christian/Roman Catholic Mass

Sunday, December 10, 2023
12–2 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Roman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel
Sundays at noon

Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
 
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).  

For info contact: (fr.) Jim+   [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
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From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Sunday, December 10, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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CONVERSATION: On France, Niger, Uranium, and Nuclear Power

Filmmaker Idrissou Mora-Kpai and Historian Carina Ray in Conversation on France, Niger, Uranium, and Nuclear Power

Sunday, December 10, 2023
1 pm

ZOOM
Mora-Kpai’s extraordinary “Arlit:  Deuxième Paris,” described as a “a case study in environmental racism set in a uranium mining town in the Sahara Desert of Niger” will serve as springboard for a timely discussion on the history of France-Niger relations, nuclear power, and everyday life in the former French colony. The coup d’état of 2023 invites reflection on the imbrications of past in present, touching on policy, economy, environment, public health, and politics from the perspective of lived experience in the mining town.
Carina E. Ray, A.M. and H.P. Bentley Chair in African History and Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan. Author, Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (Athens, OH, 2015); coeditor, Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Critical Reader (Ithaca, 2019).

Idrissou Mora-Kpai, Guggenheim Fellow for Film & Video (2023), fellow at The Africa Institute, Sharjah, UAE. Assistant Professor, Department of Media Arts, Sciences and Studies, Ithaca College. Recent works include “America Street” (2020) and “Indochina – Traces of a Mother” (2011). See, https://idrimora.com/.
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Center for Human Rights and the Arts; Dean of the College; French Studies Program; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Science, Technology, and Society Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Instrumental Arts Program Recital: John Woodward, double bass, with Elizabeth Chernyak, violin, Chris van Zyl, cello, Nomin Samdan, piano

Works by Bach, Bottesini, Rossini, and Tartaglia.

Sunday, December 10, 2023
7–8:30 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Senior Projects Due

Monday, December 11, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Human Rights and Cross-Strait Relations

Monday, December 11, 2023
9 am – 6:15 pm

W15 Café (Waldstraße 15, 13 156 Berlin)
A collaboration between Bard College Berlin and the National Sun Yat-Sen University under the aegis of the Open Society University Network, this one-day workshop brings together academics, activists, students, and a UN representative, to discuss the current state of cross-strait relations and the role of the discourse around human rights in it, from a variety of perspectives. The questions it will consider include the meaning of democracy and human rights in the region, the problem of “cultural security,” as well as the role of the UN in addressing global threats.

Register for the workshop here.

Workshop program:
9:15 - Welcome and introductions: Chiahao Hsu 
9:30-11:00 - Brenda Vongova, United Nations: The Role of the UN in Addressing Global Threats (view a short preparatory reading for the talk here)
Coffee/tea break
11:30-13:00 - Bin Xu, Emory University, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Authoritarianism, Sovereignty, and the Culture of Democracy in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Lunch break
14:00-15:30 - Chiahao Hsu, National Sun Yat-Sen University: Human Rights with Chinese Characteristics
15:45-16:15 - Student presentations
Coffee/tea break
16:30-18:00 - Martin Dimitrov, Tulane University: Universal Human Rights as a Threat to Chinese Cultural Security
18:00 - Concluding remarks: Ewa Atanassow

Participants:
Bin Xu is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Emory University and currently a fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2023-2024). His research interests are situated in the intersection between politics and culture, broadly defined, with a regional focus on East Asia, especially China, and with a global and comparative perspective. He is the author of The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China (Stanford University Press, 2017); Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021); and The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022).

Brenda Vongova has been a United Nations international civil servant for over a decade. During this time, she has championed the UN values of peace, respect for human rights, and has been a vocal advocate for the universal ideals, principles and values enshrined in the UN Charter. Brenda Vongova currently serves in the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. Antonio Guterres. Prior to this post, she served in the Office of the former United Nations Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. BAN Ki-moon. Her expertise in handling political briefing materials was honed during her previous service in the Office of the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, who oversaw the UN’s diplomatic efforts to prevent and mitigate conflicts worldwide. Between 2008 and 2010, she served in the cabinets of several President of the United Nations General Assemblies.

Martin K. Dimitrov is Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. He is also an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard; Associate Editor for Asia of the journal Problems of Post-Communism; and Associate Editor for Social Science (China and Eurasia) of The Journal of Asian Studies. His books include Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China (Cambridge University Press, 2009); Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2013); The Politics of Socialist Consumption (Ciela Publishers, 2018); and Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Chiahao Hsu received his Ph.D. from National Sun Yat-Sen University (Poli. Sci.). He is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at Si-wan College, National Sun Yat-Sen University and the Deputy Director of Taiwan Education Center in the Philippines (under Ministry of Education, R.O.C.). His publications range widely from Tocqueville Studies (Political Theory), China Studies (Regional Studies), and Asia-Pacific Geopolitics (International Relations).

Ewa Atanassow is Professor of Politics at Bard College Berlin. Her teaching and research examine alternative conceptions of modernity, and the way key modern concepts—such as sovereignty, nationhood, democracy, globalization, post-coloniality—have been understood in different geo-political contexts. She is the author of Tocqueville's Dilemmas and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization (Princeton University Press, 2022), and the co-editor of When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice with Thomas Bartscherer and David Bateman (Cambridge University Press, 2023) among others.Sponsored by: Bard College Berlin; OSUN.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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CMIA - Melancholia

Monday, December 11, 2023
7–10:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011, Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany, 130 minutes,
    35mm)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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Spontaneous Composition Concert

Monday, December 11, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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SmorgasBard & Community Cookie Decorating

Tuesday, December 12, 2023
4:30–6:30 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Join us as students showcase their civic engagement projects and network with local community partners. You can also join in a community cookie decorating competition. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-416-2938, or e-mail [email protected].
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The Sun Ra Ensemble

Tuesday, December 12, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn

Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Singers

Tuesday, December 12, 2023
8–9 pm

Olin Hall
Mendelssohn's Magnificat & other works by siblings Fanny and Felix

Performed by:

Members of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program
Bard Conservatory Instrumentalists
Conservatory Piano Fellows
Bard Chamber Singers and Symphonic Chorus

James Bagwell, conductor

Admission: Free
 
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Conducting Program; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Bard Conservatory Post-Graduate Piano Fellowship; Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Wednesday, December 13, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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Rieko Aizawa Piano Studio Recital

Wednesday, December 13, 2023
12–2 pm

Olin Hall
Program includes movements from the following:

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Pour le Piano (1894-1901)

Ivy Jiayun Chen, piano

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Etudes, Opus 42 (1903)

Juliette Benveniste, piano

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Estampes (1903)

Georgi Chikolov, piano

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Sonatine (1903-1905)

Juliette Benveniste, piano

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Impromptus, D. 935, Op. 142 (1827)

Tianxiang Ni, piano

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Preludes and Fugues, Opus 35 (1832-1837)

Francis Chung-Yang Huang, piano
--intermission--
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat Major, Opus 31, No. 3

Georgi Chikolov, piano

Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Opus 110 (1821)
Tianxiang Ni, piano

Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Opus 1, No. 3
Isabel Chin Garita, violin
William Pilgrim, cello
Francis Chung-Yang Huang, piano

_Free and open to the public._Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Thursday, December 14, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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Registration for Spring Classes Opens

Thursday, December 14, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Friday, December 15, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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Capoeira Angola at Bard with Professor Tagan!

Friday, December 15, 2023
6–9 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
"Capoeira Angola is an Afro-Brazilian martial art and dance with a liberatory purpose and strong musical tradition at its core. In this introductory class to Capoeira Angola, we will go over the fundamentals of movement and music that define the art form. Alongside physical training, we will sing songs and play the musical instruments of Capoeira. In addition to being a dance and martial art, Capoeira Angola is also, and maybe most importantly, a "game." Come ready to play, in loose-fitting clothes that you feel comfortable moving in, and ready to enjoy yourself."

Taganyahu Swaby is a professor of Capoeira Angola and an eastern medicine practitioner. Tagan has practiced the artf orm for more than two decades. Originally from Jamaica, Tagan first began training Capoeira Angola in Bahia, Brazil, in 2000. He has trained extensively with masters including Mestre João Grande. Mestre Boca Do Rio, and Mestre Alberto “Chorão” Nunes. He received the title of Professor from his Master, Mestre Chorão, in 2018. Tagan founded the group Acupe Do Brooklyn (formerly Angoleiros Do Brooklyn) in 2010 and has created, directed, and participated in presentations for Brooklyn Museum, Bam Dance Africa, Odunde Festival in Philadelphia, and the Brooklyn African Street Festival. Originally trained as a visual artist, Tagan also explores and celebrates Capoeira Angola in his award-winning Portuguese-Language films Se Safando and Flavio, and Through Printmaking.Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822 x7970, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://dance.bard.edu.
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Faculty Recital: Vitrine with Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, Piano

Recent works by Temkin, Messiaen, and Nicholas Vines

Friday, December 15, 2023
8–10 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
PROGRAM
Dreamed Landscapes (2017-18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Daniel Temkin (b. 1986)

I. Starfield
II. Glaciers crumbling, assembling
III. Echoes of the Horizon

La Rousserolle Effarvatte, from Catalogue d’oiseaux (1956-58) . . . . . . . . . . . .Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Midnight: Music of the Ponds, Frog Chorus, Bittern—
3am: Reed Warbler (grand solo), Solemnity of the Night, Frogs, Noises in the Swamp—
6am: Pink and Mauve Sunrise (over the lily pond), Blackbird/Red-backed Shrike, Redstart—
8am: Yellow Iris, Pheasant, Reed Bunting, Green Woodpecker, Starling, Great Tit, White
Wagtail—
Noon: Grasshopper Warbler—
5pm: Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Foxglove, Great Reed Warbler, Coot, Waterlily, duet of
Reed Warblers—
6pm: Yellow Iris, Grasshopper Warbler, Coot, Sky Lark, Frogs, Water Rail—
9pm: Red and Violet Sunset (over the iris pond), Bittern, Nightengale—
Midnight: Solemnity of the Night, Nightengale, Bittern, Noises in the Swamp, Frogs—
3am: Reed Warbler (grand solo), Frog Chorus, Music of the Ponds, Bittern.

AntipodEntoMenagerie (2017-19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nicholas Vines (b. 1978)
Vitrine 1
I. Neon Cuckoo
II. Topless Cannibal
Vitrine 2
III. Cherrynose
IV. Gippsland Giant
V. Mud Dauber
Vitrine 3
VI. Milkweed
VII. Macrotona
VIII. Black Vine
IX. Kimberley Longlegs
Vitrine 4
X. Common Spittle
XI. Boisduval’s Autumn
Vitrine 5
XII. Harlequin

Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Saturday, December 16, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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Poulenc Party: Celebrating the Songs of Francis Poulenc

Saturday, December 16, 2023
2–4 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Voice, piano, and conducting students of the Music Program and Conservatory of Music will gather with conviviality to present a mélange of songs by Francis Poulenc. 

Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Contemporary Jazz Composers Ensemble

Saturday, December 16, 2023
8–9 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Christian/Roman Catholic Mass

Sunday, December 17, 2023
12–2 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Roman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel
Sundays at noon

Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
 
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).  

For info contact: (fr.) Jim+   [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
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From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023

Sunday, December 17, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

CCS Galleries
Exhibition on view: December 7–17, 2023, CCS Bard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 7, 2023, 5:00–7:00

From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2023 comprises three exhibitions curated in groups by the MA candidates of the Class of 2025. Works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection make up each of these shows, which unfold side by side in the inner CCS Bard Galleries, converted this year into one unifying space.

The first show, titled [      ], brings together artworks that explore artistic responses to the notion of containment: the various limits that shape material and emotional states. Next, Kin to these tremors focuses on the precariousness of human life, asking how agency, resistance, and dignity might look when bodies undergo strain or sickness, decay or even death. Exploring the various methods of representation that artists employ to navigate ongoing histories of marginalization, Hold the Applause investigates the artistic strategy of staging—and considers its capacity to resist societal narratives built around power and visibility.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Diedrick Brackens, Martin Creed, Lucky DeBellevue, Donna Dennis, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Vlatka Horvat, Maria Lassnig, Deana Lawson, An-My Lê, Rodney McMillian, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Adam Putnam, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, Jo Spence, Salman Toor, Rosemarie Trockel, and Kara Walker.
 
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Da Capo Chamber Players

Sunday, December 17, 2023
5–6 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.

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Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams (all students and faculty remain on campus)

Monday, December 18, 2023 – Friday, December 22, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

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Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams (all students and faculty remain on campus)

Monday, December 18, 2023 – Friday, December 22, 2023

Bard College Campus
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Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams (all students and faculty remain on campus)

Monday, December 18, 2023 – Friday, December 22, 2023

Bard College Campus
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Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams (all students and faculty remain on campus)

Monday, December 18, 2023 – Friday, December 22, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

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Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams (all students and faculty remain on campus)

Monday, December 18, 2023 – Friday, December 22, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

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Last Day of fall Classes (fall semester ends)

Friday, December 22, 2023

Bard College Campus
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