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Amor Mundi is the weekly publication of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Subscribe now to receive the Amor Mundi email in your inbox up to two times a week. You'll get the first look at original articles, essays, and journal features from Roger Berkowitz and other Arendtian thinkers. Read Amor Mundi now >>
The Virtual Reading Group. Join Founder and Academic Director Roger Berkowitz and Acting Assistant Director Samantha Hill on select Fridays as they lead a live, online group discussion in a thoughtful and spirited exploration of the works of Hannah Arendt. Learn more about the VRG >>
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Central to the Fisher Center’s mission is long-term relationships with artists across disciplines. This week, we focus on two artists who are cornerstones of the Fisher Center’s identity. These archival recordings commemorate the first time we welcomed these artists to our stages.
Also in focus this week: the American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Leon Botstein. SummerScape 2019’s Opera marked the ASO’s 16th year appearing at the Fisher Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-fc-artists.
First performed in the U.S. almost 100 years after its world premiere in Hamburg, this lushly orchestrated allegorical tale was staged by Christian Räth in 2019. Performed by a remarkable cast and the 80-member American Symphony Orchestra, this staging was a stellar example of Maestro Botstein’s commitment to reintroduce rarely seen operatic treasures to a contemporary audience.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Heliane/.
The best art reflects present day realities, lends us perspectives from the past, and helps us imagine futures. This week, we feature two Fisher Center commissions that helped us reconsider the present through chilling encounters with the past. Our first offering from the extensive archive of the Bard Music Festival looks toward the upcoming holiday weekend with a prayer of hope and liberation. Also this week: our first live webcast from the undergraduate Theater & Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-our-world.
Live Arts Bard (LAB) is the Fisher Center’s commissioning and residency program. Through LAB we support artistic innovation, and provide significant resources to artists across disciplines. LAB residencies vary in length from a week to several years. This week, we're streaming three LAB commissions, including Beth Gill: Catacomb (2016), Tere O'Connor: Long Run (2017), and Nature Theater of Oklahoma: Life & Times, Episode 8 (2015).
Also on this week: our second archival opera release, Rubenstein's Demon, from SummerScape 2018, featuring the American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Leon Botstein.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-live-arts-bard.
2018, Sosnoff Theater, SummerScape
Rubinstein’s operatic masterpiece is based on a poem depicting the isolation and despair of a fallen angel. Premiered to great acclaim in 1871, Demon received its first fully staged U.S. performances at Bard in 2018. With rich choral writing and a fiery libretto, the production was staged by Thaddeus Strassberger and featured an all-Russian cast, Pesvebi Georgian Dancers and The American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Botstein.
Read the Program
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Demon/.
This week we highlight the Live Arts Bard Biennial, a festival of commissioned works that temporarily reconfigures the Fisher Center as a site for innovative and interactive performances and installations. Each edition marks the culmination of a two-year cycle of exploration around a major question or challenge of the 21st century, with multi-faceted research and development by the curators, artists, students, and faculty across Bard College programs.
Our second offering from the archives of the Bard Music Festival features the Russian Moguchaya Kuchka (The Mighty Five), whose work, in the company of their friend Rimsky-Korsakov, opened the 2018 Festival, “Rimsky-Korsakov and His World.”
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-lab-biennial/.
Even while we remain distanced, people are finding new ways to stay connected and in conversation with one another.
This week on UPSTREAMING: our third archival release from SummerScape Opera, Die Liebe der Danae—a neglected treasure from Richard Strauss—featuring the American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Leon Botstein.
Next up: this Saturday at 7 pm ET, the Fisher Center teams up with our local independent bookstore, Oblong Books & Music, to present our first live streamed conversation, bringing together two titans of fantasy literature—Bard professor Neil Gaiman and N. K. Jemisin.
Also this week: we share the archival taping of Crybabies, our first live podcast event, featuring writer Susan Orlean, Sarah Thyre, Malcolm Gladwell, and Theda Hammel.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-together-apart/.
The Fisher Center has a long—and proud—association with director Daniel Fish.
In 2019, Fish directed the “unmissable, … sublime” production (Time Out New York) of Acquanetta, marking his first return to Bard since SummerScape 2015, when he debuted his production of Oklahoma!, which, then went on to Broadway and subsequently won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival.
Also this week: ETERNAL, a video installation that the New York Times calls “an intellectual pleasure” and “emotionally resonant,” presented for the first time in a virtual context.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-daniel-fish/.
Bard SummerScape Opera and the Bard Music Festival have become synonymous with a new kind of concert experience, one that provides a “rich web of context” (New York Times) for a full appreciation of each composer’s inspirations, significance, and legacy.
This week, UPSTREAMING illuminates the world of Russian composer Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915).
A highly gifted pianist and composer, Taneyev was a protégé and champion of Tchaikovsky’s, serving as soloist in early performances of the older composer’s piano concertos.
Taneyev was one of Russia’s most influential music theorists, teaching for nearly three decades at the Moscow Conservatory, where his students included Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, and Glière; Stravinsky later recalled how highly he valued Taneyev’s treatise on counterpoint, calling it “one of the best books of its kind.” Yet in striving to synthesize counterpoint with folksong, he developed a distinct compositional voice that looked forward to Stravinsky himself.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-sergey-taneyev/.
Bard SummerScape Opera and the Bard Music Festival have become synonymous with a new kind of concert experience, one that provides a “rich web of context” (New York Times) for a full appreciation of each composer’s inspirations, significance, and legacy.
This week, UPSTREAMING illuminates the work of German Romantic composer Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), featuring:
Carl Maria von Weber’s short life was marked by many lows—frequent illnesses, an arrest on embezzlement and other charges—but he also became one of the most influential composers of the early 19th century whose prodigious gifts as a composer, pianist, conductor, and writer bring to mind Mozart. The premiere of Der Freischütz in 1821, an opera that immediately captured the imagination of audiences in Europe and beyond, was a transformative event in the history of Romanticism and helped to usher in a new sensibility in music. He did not have a comparable success in the remaining five years of his life, although the overtures to his later Euryanthe and Oberon became repertory standards. In these operas, and in less familiar compositions, his masterful orchestration and compelling evocation of mood became models for composers from Meyerbeer to Wagner, Liszt, Berlioz, Glinka, and Hindemith.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-carl-maria-von-weber/.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMING
Join the creators and performers of the Bard Theater & Performance Program’s lauded virtual production of Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest for an in-depth look behind the scenes. This 90-minute webinar will feature three 30-minute segments, with Q&A, focusing on a different aspect of the project: technology, design, and rehearsal and performance.
This production, originally mounted for one live performance on April 10, 2020 via the Fisher Center’s UPSTREAMING, was recently remounted for three additional live performances online in a co-production with off-Broadway’s Theatre for a New Audience. Led by director Ashley Tata, 12 Bard students performed the work live from remote locations across the country, aided by a new modified version of Zoom developed by programmer Andy Carluccio. This unique blend of art and technology was crafted by a design team including Eamonn Farrell (video), Afsoon Pajoufar (sets), Asta Bennie Hostetter (costumes), Abigail Hoke-Brady (lighting), Paul Pinto (sound), Dan Safer (movement), with Vanessa Hart as Stage Manager.
The Fisher Center is a premier performing arts center located in New York's Hudson Valley. Embodying Bard College’s commitment to the arts as a cultural and educational necessity, the Fisher Center creates communities of professional artists, students, and audiences through exceptional performing arts experiences that challenge and inspire.
All performances of Mad Forest, and this webinar, are being presented for free due to the ongoing generosity of our patrons. To make a gift in support of the Fisher Center’s innovative programs, please click here. Sponsored by: Fisher Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/the-making-of-mad-forest/.
This engrossing program encompasses varied works exploring religion and spirituality through the lens of female composers: Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, staged at Bard in 2015, animates a moral drama about social justice and personal courage, while Lili Boulanger’s Psalm 130 “Du fond de l'abîme” (1917) offers a deeply personal requiem dedicated to her father. Lera Auerbach’s Violin Concerto No. 3, “De Profundis” (2015) with Vadim Repin rounds out the program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-The-Wreckers/.
As we find ourselves missing each other’s company under the dazzling glow of our beloved Spiegeltent, this series of DJ mixes from some of our regular favorites is designed to keep the party going in your own home, backyard, or car all summer long. A new mix will be released every other week, and the previous mixes will remain available for the whole summer.
July 1 • DJ Sammy Jo
July 1 • July 15 • DJ Tikka Masala
July 29 • DJ Amber Valentine
August 12 • DJ Jonjon Battles
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/SPT-from-home/.
This week’s offering from the archives of the Bard Music Festival celebrates the music of two seminal composers from south of the border: Carlos Chávez and Silvestre Revueltas. In times of political uncertainty, they fused the rich indigenous heritage of Mexico with modernist techniques and a political message, creating an art that was national, modern, and universal.
Featuring:
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/Mexican-Modernists/.
This week’s UPSTREAMING selection offers an exploration of French romanticism through the work of two composers—Emmanuel Chabrier and Hector Berlioz—who, while stylistically different, shared capacity for independent thought and innovation. The fully staged production of Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui from the 2012 Bard SummerScape is complemented by Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette from the 2017 Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/French-Romanticism/.
“Botstein and Bard SummerScape show courage, foresight and great imagination, honoring operas that larger institutions are content to ignore. —Time Out New York
UPSTREAMING: Opera at Bard presents the musical centerpiece of the 2017 Bard SummerScape: Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s 1882 rare opera Dimitrij. Supporting content includes a recording of Janáček's Sinfonietta as performed by the American Symphony Orchestra and discussions including a lively and illuminating conversation between ASO music director Leon Botstein and noted Dvořák specialist Michael Beckerman.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Dimitrij/.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Danae/.
Out of the Silence:
Watch the Composer Roundtable
Program Two offers a snapshot of contemporary music with works by three of today’s most compelling composers.
A former composer-in-residence of both the Atlanta and Detroit Symphonies, Alvin Singleton is blessed with a “unique musical vision” (ArtsATL), while Adolphus Hailstork, a student of Nadia Boulanger, has accrued a string of honors including Cultural Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia and Distinguished Alumni Award from Manhattan School of Music.
Both men were born in the early 1940s, four decades before Jessie Montgomery. “Turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life” (Washington Post), Montgomery’s music has been recognized with the ASCAP Foundation’s Leonard Bernstein Award, and her current commissions include works for the New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall.
Their compositions share the program with the Serenade for Strings by Antonín Dvořák, subject of the 1993 Bard Music Festival, who championed African-American and Native American music as the foundation for a homegrown U.S. musical style.
Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981)
Strum (2018)
Alvin Singleton (b. 1940)
After Choice (2009)
Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941)
Sonata da Chiesa (1990)
Exultate
O Magnum Mysterium
Adoro
Jubilate
Agnus Dei
Dona Nobis Pacem
Exultate
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
Serenade for Strings, Op. 22 (1875)
Moderato
Tempo di valse
Scherzo: Vivace
Larghetto
Finale: Allegro vivaceSponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/out-of-the-silence-2/.
Meshell Ndegeocello
“No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.”—James Baldwin
A project inspired by James Baldwin’s truth-telling treatise on justice in the United States, The Fire Next Time, and our endlessly changing world. Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a 21st-century ritual tool kit for justice. A call for revolution. A gift during turbulent times.
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy—but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” —James Baldwin
Each month, September–December 2020, we offer gifts—music, thoughts, meditations, and visual testimonies of resilience—inspired by James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time.
“This is my offering to you. This is a different experience so I hope you have an open mind or at least an open heart. I see James Baldwin as an Orisha, his writing as the living word. I wanted to pay homage to him and to the time and effort it took to sit, to physically and emotionally fill the page with a truth that made my own sorrow feel less lonely. He put me on a path of empathy and humility towards my parents. It humbled me towards my mother born in 1944 and my father born in 1939—a time I can’t imagine living in while black.” —Meshell
Check out "Songs of Protest & Healing: Meshell Ndegeocello on the Gospel of James Baldwin" on Tidal Magazine.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/chapter-and-verse/.
Out of the Silence:
Saturday, September 19, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMING
Program Three opens with the Adagio trágico by Roque Cordero, who infused twelve-tone writing with the folk rhythms of his native Panama.
In his Four Novelettes, Anglo-African late-Romantic composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor demonstrates graceful lyricism with a light, balletic touch that is almost reminiscent of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, subject of the festival’s 1998 season, whose soulful Serenade for Strings concludes the concert.
The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein, Andrés Rivas, and Zachary Schwartzman
Roque Cordero (1917–2008)
Adagio trágico (1955)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912)
Four Novelettes, Op. 52 (1903)
Allegro moderato
Larghetto
Andante con moto
Allegro molto
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93)
Serenade for Strings, Op. 48 (1880)
Pezzo in forma di sonatina: Andante non troppo—Allegro moderato
Valse: Moderato—Tempo di Valse
Élégie: Larghetto elegiaco
Finale (Tema Russo): Andante—Allegro con spiritoSponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/out-of-the-silence-3/.
Out of the Silence:
Saturday, September 26, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMING
The centerpiece of Program Four is the Symphonie concertante in G by Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
The son of a slave and a planter in French Guadeloupe, Chevalier de Saint-Georges was not only the first known classical composer of African ancestry, but also an accomplished violinist, champion fencer and colonel of the first all-Black military regiment in Europe.
Bookending his composition are orchestral arrangements of Solitude and Sophisticated Lady, two mid-century masterpieces by the inimitable Duke Ellington, and the Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta by Béla Bartók, subject of the 1995 festival.
The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein
Duke Ellington (1899–1974)
Solitude (1934; arr. Gould)
Sophisticated Lady (1933; arr. Gould)
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–99)
Symphonie concertante in G Major, Op. 13 (1782)
Allegro
Rondeau
Cyrus Beroukhim and Philip Payton, violins
Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945)
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (1936)
Andante tranquillo
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro molto
Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/out-of-the-silence-4/.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Online Event
Dr. Kiron Skinner, former director for policy planning at the US State Department and senior adviser to the Secretary of State, will join Walter Russell Mead to discuss what a second Trump administration's foreign policy priorities and challenges might be.
To join via Zoom:
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Passcode: 927841
Or iPhone one-tap :
US: +16465588656,,94762449321#,,,,,,0#,,927841# or +13126266799,,94762449321#,,,,,,0#,,927841#
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Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
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Webinar ID: 947 6244 9321
Passcode: 927841
International numbers available: https://bard.zoom.us/u/adOuzLm1yN
The Power of the Public Intellectual Series, moderated by Bard College Professor and Wall Street Journal “Global View” columnist Walter Russell Mead, is a series of virtual dialogues focused on the stakes and core issues of the 2020 US election. Professor Mead will be joined by distinguished policy experts, academics, and public servants to discuss the choice America will make this November. Over the course of several livestreamed events, the series will provide insight into both campaigns’ perspectives and the potential consequences, particularly for foreign policy, of either outcome.
Kiron Skinner, Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics at Carnegie Mellon University, was senior policy adviser to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Skinner also served as director of policy planning, one of the State Department’s most influential positions.. Skinner also serves as director of policy planning, one of the State Department’s most influential positions. Skinner is the founding director of Carnegie Mellon’s Institute for Politics and Strategy (IPS) and a renowned expert in foreign policy. She served on President Trump’s national security transition team in 2016.
Sponsored by: Open Society University Network.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Annandale House
Please come join us at the Kline Bus Stop in front of New Annandale House for our summer farm stand. We are at the intersection of Annandale Rd and Woods Ave. We accept cash and credit card payments and will be accepting online preorders for contactless pickup at our farm stand beginning the week of June 15.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ryoshino@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Online Event
Bill Porter was born in Van Nuys, California on October 3, 1943, and grew up in northern Idaho. After a tour of duty in the US Army in 1964–67, he attended college at UC Santa Barbara and majored in anthropology. In 1970, he entered graduate school at Columbia University and studied anthropology with a faculty that included Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict. While he was in New York, he became interested in Buddhism, and in 1972 he left America for a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan. After three years with the monks and nuns, he struck out on his own and supported himself by teaching English and later by working as a journalist at English-language radio stations in Taiwan and Hong Kong. During this time, he married a Chinese woman, with whom he has two children, and began working on translations of Chinese poetry and Buddhist texts. In 1993, he returned to America, and has lived ever since in Port Townsend, Washington. For the past 27 years, he has worked as an independent scholar. His translations, under the name Red Pine, have been honored with two NEA translation fellowships, a PEN translation award, the inaugural Asian Literature Award of the American Literary Translators Association, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and, more recently, the Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation, bestowed by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Between December 2019 and June 2020 he published a series of seven chapbooks with Empty Bowl Press in Anacortes, including Cathay Revisited, a present for Ezra Pound’s daughter and granddaughter.
Sponsored by: Hutcheson Memorial Fund, Interdisciplinary Study of Religions, Asian Studies, Written Arts, the Center for Civic Engagement and the Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail dtownsend@bard.edu.
Friday, October 2, 2020
Olin Humanities Building
We are excited to announce that both the October 2 and November 6 Bard College IWT Writer as Reader Workshops will be held online.
Writer as Reader workshops model writing practices that inspire students to read more carefully, to grasp the meaning in more complex texts, and to infer meaning from what they read. These workshops invite secondary and college teachers to consider “writing to read” as a central classroom practice, one that shows rather than tells students how writing clarifies the meaning of texts. Working with diverse writing-to-read strategies, workshop participants discover what they bring to the text, what is apparent in the text, what is inferred, and what questions the text poses.
1. Double Consciousness in Today’s America: Americanah as Social Science
2. Shakespeare on Stage and Page:
3. The Sonnet: Shakespeare, Contemporary Sonneteers, and the Development of Form
4. Memory, Inheritance, and the Social Construction of Self: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and “The Things They Carried”
5. COVID-19 and the U.S. Elections: Making Sense of an Epidemic via 2020 Communications
6. “I sell the shadow to support the substance”: Knowing and Learning in The Narrative of
Sojourner Truth and The House of Mirth
7. The Scarlet Letter in the Age of “Me Too”
8. Advocating Upheaval: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Jane Addams
9. The Least Dangerous Branch: the Supreme Court, Voting Rights, and Gun ControlSponsored by: Institute for Writing and Thinking.
For more information, call 845-752-4516, e-mail iwt@bard.edu, or visit http://writingandthinking.org/programs/october/.
Friday, October 2, 2020
Hegeman 107-Brody Labs
In December 2018, the Large Hadron Collider completed a three-year data collection run. Since then, particle physicists on the ATLAS and CMS experiments have been analyzing the largest ever dataset of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions. What will this new dataset reveal? In this talk, we will look beyond the current theory of the building blocks of the Standard Model and discuss what motivates our search for exotic new particles. Discovering these minuscule motes of matter could have a tremendous impact on our understanding of physics as a whole: from a better grasp of the Higgs boson and electroweak symmetry breaking, to unraveling the secrets of dark matter. The new dataset contains more than 20 times the number of top quarks seen before. We will highlight several searches and measurements that capitalize on this abundance. None of these investigations are possible without the particle detectors that make up the ATLAS experiment. We will conclude with remarks on the ongoing and upcoming detector upgrades and highlight our work improving these enormous experiments that observe the ephemeral particles of our universe.
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Friday, October 2, 2020
Online
2020 Protests in Perspective: A Webinar Series Sponsored by the Open Society University Network (OSUN) and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
The global wave of protests for racial justice did not occur in isolation or in a vacuum. Is this social movement like others in history? Or is it unique? What can be learned by looking at past protests with similar characteristics? This panel will consider the 2020 protests in light of the legacies of colonialism, self-determination, and previous struggles for universal human rights. Moderator: Neil Roberts (Williams College). Panelists: Adom Getachew (University of Chicago) and Michael Canham (Office of the Governor, Gauteng, South Africa).
Learn More
Register to join the webinar
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, October 4, 2020
Online Event
Join via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O
All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, scripture readings, and reflections on Sundays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O.
Monday, October 5, 2020
Online Event
Hannah Arendt Center is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join us at https://bard.zoom.us/j/94745912942 (click Read More for details).
This will be an evening talk between Bill T. Jones and our own Roger Berkowitz. Together, they will be examining the residual effects of the recent Floyd protests and exploring the racial imaginary in order to tease out a vision of the future.
BILL T. JONES (Artistic Director/Cofounder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts) is the Associate Artist of the 2020 Holland Festival and recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award; the 2013 National Medal of Arts; the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed FELA!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation CALLAWAY Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and the 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, Mr. Jones was recognized as Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named him “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure.”
Mr. Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982. He has created more than 140 works for his company. Mr. Jones is the Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing, presenting and educating. For more information visit newyorklivearts.org.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/94745912942.
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Online Event
Join via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/89305611991?pwd=cTRpejRTWDJ1K1Q3VlBLTElSUHhYZz09
Webinar ID: 893 0561 1991
Passcode: 140379
Please join us for a panel discussion with Dr. Laurel Mohrmann (Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine) and Dr. Polina Trachuk (NYU Langone), with Bard faculty, students, and community members who will share personal stories from the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sponsored by: Bard Cares Team.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/89305611991?pwd=cTRpejRTWDJ1K1Q3VlBLTElSUHhYZz09.
Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Online
<<<< RSVP HERE >>>>Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
ABOUT
Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information.
Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
Degree Options Include:
MS in Environmental Policy
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MBA in Sustainability
Dual Degree Options Include:
MS/JD with Pace Law School
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs Include:
Master's International (before you serve)
Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Caitlin O'Donnell at codonnel@bard.edu for further details.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/upcoming-events.
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Online Event
Born in the wake of the Second World War, the United Nations celebrates a milestone anniversary in 2020. How has the body evolved in 75 years? What will the next 25 years before its centennial look like? And amid enormous changes in the world, what does multilateralism look like in the 21st century?
Join us over Zoom on Wednesday, October 7, at 12pm EDT / 6pm Vienna, for one hour, as we talk to Natalie Samarasinghe, the chief of strategy on the UN's 75 anniversary and Minh-Thu Pham, the cofounder of New American Voices and the former executive director of global policy at the UN Foundation. This is part of BGIA's Chace Speaker Series, which brings expert voices on current events.
RSVP is required. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ebayrasli@bard.edu.
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Online Event
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Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail kboyle@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-a-career-in-sustainability-advice-from-climate-change-experts-registration-1202237.
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Annandale House
Please come join us at the Kline Bus Stop in front of New Annandale House for our summer farm stand. We are at the intersection of Annandale Rd and Woods Ave. We accept cash and credit card payments and will be accepting online preorders for contactless pickup at our farm stand beginning the week of June 15.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ryoshino@bard.edu.
Friday, October 9, 2020
Saw Kill
As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.
Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.
Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.
Open to everyone. Free training is available.
If interested, please contact:
Lindsey Drew
Bard Water Lab Manager
ldrew@bard.eduSponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, October 9, 2020
Online Event
The 2020 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to three physicists, Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel, for their discoveries of "the darkest secrets of the universe," - namely, the birth of black holes and the presence of a supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Bard physicists, Hal Haggard and Shuo Zhang, will present the stories behind this year's physics prize. In the first half of the discussion, Hal Haggard will introduce Roger Penrose's theoretical work on black hole formation as a robust prediction of General Relativity. In the second half, Shuo Zhang will introduce Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel's observational work on the discovery of a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U0My8E3b0lpueJlepEqDaszuOx8DS-Pg/view?usp=sharingSponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Sunday, October 11, 2020
Online Event
Join via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O
All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, scripture readings, and reflections on Sundays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O.
Monday, October 12, 2020
Online Event
This will be an evening talk between Kirk Johnson and his special guest Marie Stroughther, founder of African American Conservatives. Join via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/94378744455 Together, they will be examining the residual effects of the recent George Floyd protests and exploring the racial imaginary in order to tease out a vision of the future.
Kirk A. Johnson is the author of African American Tea Party Supporters: Explaining a Political Paradox. He teaches sociology and African American studies at the University of Mississippi, where he studies race and news media. His interest in politics and race dates to his work at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, where he testified before congressional committees on protecting at-risk populations from toxic pollutants, and as senior researcher on the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1965-1980." He is also founding editor of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Marie Stroughter is a Christian wife, homeschooling mother, pro-life advocate, seasoned social media and digital campaign strategist, Co-Founder of African-American Conservatives (AACONS), Digital Communications Director for the Republican Party of Texas, and an Advisory Board member for Black Voices for Trump. The opinions expressed here tonight are her own. Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Online Event
Attendees receive a $65 application fee waiver!
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Join us for an online Open House hosted by the Bard MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy.
Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
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Event Location: This event will be held via Zoom. Access details will be shared with attendees upon event registration.
Email Caitlin O'Donnell with any additional questions.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/open-house-4-8-20.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Annandale House
Please come join us at the Kline Bus Stop in front of New Annandale House for our summer farm stand. We are at the intersection of Annandale Rd and Woods Ave. We accept cash and credit card payments and will be accepting online preorders for contactless pickup at our farm stand beginning the week of June 15.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ryoshino@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Online
The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. How can we revitalize our democracy today? How can we make our representative democracies more participatory? Might “sortition”—a system whereby governmental representatives are chosen by lottery instead of by election—provide an answer?
Learn more about the Hannah Arendt Center Special Webinar here: Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/99620625005?pwd=VHpMYUJFM0FqVnBNbTcrbE5xYU9xZz09.
Friday, October 16, 2020
Online
We are pleased to present this special online event, In association with the Open Society University Network, as a prelude to our annual conference, which will take place April 15 & 16, 2021. To learn more about the conference, click here.
This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. Instead of assuming a defensive posture and taking up arms to defend the status quo, our conference asks: how can we revitalize our democracy?Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, October 16, 2020
Online Event
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail ebangood@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/cep/publicprograms/ncs/.
Friday, October 16, 2020
Online Event
This talk is copresented with the Africana Studies Program and Film and Electronic Arts Program.
Registration is required in advance. To receive the Zoom link, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speaker-series-jacolby-satterwhite-registration-121246424319
Each semester, CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives.Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Center for Curatorial Studies; Film and Electronic Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speaker-series-jacolby-satterwhite-registration-121246424319.
Friday, October 16, 2020
Online Event
In collaboration with PEN America and City of Asylum, join us on Friday, October 16 from 6-7PM EDT for a reading of contemporary Belarusian literature by PEN America members and friends, including Masha Gessen, Ayad Akhtar, Jennifer Egan, and Valzhyna Mort. Register hereSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ym8e75JBQOC9nYDk4aTOjQ.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ton-concertos-for-strings.
Saturday, October 17, 2020
CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Online Event
Join via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O
All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, scripture readings, and reflections on Sundays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O.
Sunday, October 18, 2020
CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
Monday, October 19, 2020
Online Event
In this special presentation, Heather Bruegl, Director of Cultural Affairs for the Stockbridge Munsee Community, will provide an overview of local history with an aim to restore Indigenous presence at Bard College. Her activation, issued from the community’s current home in Wisconsin, acknowledges the continuing Mohican and Munsee relationship to their homelands.
This event is part of a series of online public programs organized in conjunction with Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere. The series is co-curated Dr. Christian Ayne Crouch, Associate Professor of History, Bard College, and exhibition curator Lauren Cornell.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu.
Monday, October 19, 2020
Online Event
Protests to the Polls: Building the Movement to Win a New York that Works for Working People
Sochie Nnaemeka is the State Director of the New York Working Families Party. In this role, she leads the Party's legislative strategy, electoral and candidate operations, organizing and basebuilding, and political party business towards building a political home for progressive and working class New Yorkers. Since joining the NYWFP in January of 2020, Nnaemeka has steered the Party in endorsing and supporting dozens of candidates through the turmoil of COVID-19 and the subsequent economic and social fall-out. Under her leadership, WFP candidates won several major Congressional races (including Jamaal Bowman in NY-16 and Mondaire Jones in NY-17) and 33 legislative races in the June primary.
The daughter of Nigerian immigrant parents, Nnaemeka was born and raised in New York. She first began organizing in college, with a local union of cafeteria, custodial and clerical workers. Her time in the union halls of New Haven sparked an unwavering commitment to people-powered movements — leading to her first job as an organizer for the 2008 Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Following graduation, Nnaemeka worked alongside casino workers in Miami to form a new union. She later attended Georgetown Law, where she studied how labor law might better protect, serve, and embolden working people.
Nnaemeka led electoral campaigns for Unite Here in New Haven and helped found New Haven Rising, a membership-based organization that served as a progressive political home for working people across the city. In New Haven, Sochie brokered the first-in-the-nation community benefits agreement between a charter school company and municipality, leading to hundreds of union jobs, mandated employment requirements for women and people of color, and a prohibition of exclusive admission practices. She also integrated community organizing techniques in successful electoral campaigns on the federal, state, and local level, from Senator Chris Murphy’s 2012 campaign to Toni Harp’s triumphant race to become the first Black female mayor of New Haven.
Most recently, Sochie served as Director of Emerging Organizing and Leadership at the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD). At CPD, Sochie launched and supported new grassroots people’s organizations, including Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC) in Milwaukee and Detroit Action in Michigan. From Louisiana to Pennsylvania to Brooklyn, she mentored and coached new leaders—in particular young people, women, and people of color—as they cultivated memberships, built power, and transformed their communities.
Sochie lives with her partner and their toddler in Mt. Vernon, NY.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, October 19, 2020
Online Event
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail msargent@bard.edu.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/iris/.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Online Event
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Online Event
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Online
This event will take place at 3pm Vienna time.
The Val-Kill Partnership, in conjunction with COV-AID, sponsored by the Open Society University Network and The Talloires Network, present a virtual discussion series highlighting the importance of Eleanor Roosevelt's legacy in today's crisis.
Dr. Mandeep Rai is a global authority on values, working with companies, institutions, and individuals around the world. She has traveled to more than 150 countries and reported as a broadcast journalist for the BBC World Service and Reuters, among others. She began her career in private banking at JPMorgan, and later worked for the United Nations, the European Commission, and grassroots NGOs before setting up the UAE’s first media venture capital fund. Mandeep studied philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE), has an MSc in development from the London School of Economics, and completed an MBA at London Business School, with a year at Harvard Business School and MIT. She also holds a PhD in global values.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Online Event
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Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail kboyle@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-a-career-in-sustainability-advice-from-envir-ed-specialists-registration-120285289.
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Annandale House
Please come join us at the Kline Bus Stop in front of New Annandale House for our summer farm stand. We are at the intersection of Annandale Rd and Woods Ave. We accept cash and credit card payments and will be accepting online preorders for contactless pickup at our farm stand beginning the week of June 15.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ryoshino@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 22, 2020
CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Online Event
Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it?
Central and Eastern European states, however, have been aware of the threat for years. FPI Fellow Nina Jankowicz has advised these governments on the front lines of the information war. The lessons she learnt from that fight, and from her attempts to get the US Congress to act, make for essential reading.
How to Lose the Information War takes the reader on a journey through five Western governments' responses to Russian information warfare tactics—all of which have failed. She journeys into the campaigns the Russian operatives run, and shows how we can better understand the motivations behind these attacks and how to beat them. Above all, this book shows what is at stake: the future of civil discourse and democracy, and the value of truth itself.
Join us on Thursday, October 22, at 12pm EDT to discuss this important work and what we can expect leading up to the POTUS elections on November 3.
RSVP is required.Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ebayrasli@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Online Event
Access the event via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/85254136149?pwd=MWVXL1FRR3VtRHlxSjYrbFNKRGdjUT09
An online reading from Sze's forthcoming new and collected poems, The Glass Constellation. The reading will include an introductory poem from Compass Rose, a generous selection of poems from Sight Lines, as well as a few new poems. There will be a Q&A after the reading.
Born in New York City in 1950, Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor. He is the author of 10 books of poetry, including Sight Lines (Coper Canyon Press, 2019), which received the 2019 National Book Award in poetry; Compass Rose (Copper Canyon Press, 2014); and The Ginkgo Light (Copper Canyon Press, 2009). He is also a celebrated translator from the Chinese, and released The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese (Copper Canyon Press) in 2001.
This event is sponsored by The Hutcheson Memorial Fund, the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion, Asian Studies, the CCE, and the Written Arts Program. It is part of a series of talks about Buddhist Currents in American Poetry.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail dtownsend@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/85254136149?pwd=MWVXL1FRR3VtRHlxSjYrbFNKRGdjUT09.
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Online Event
What is the economic cost of hate? It’s hard to focus on solutions to a societal problem if we don’t think about its costs.
The Bard Center for the Study of Hate is fortunate to have received a grant from GS Humane Corp to create an “economic cost of hate index” (led by Bard College economics professor Michael Martell).
Lee Badgett, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is a key member of the team of experts we are consulting as we conceptualize and build this index.
Dr. Badgett’s new and highly acclaimed book The Economic Case for LGBT Equality: Why Fair and Equal Treatment Benefits Us All is one of the first and best sources about an important component of the economic cost of hate. It is both an essential contribution in its own right, and instructive as we think about how to measure the cost of other manifestations of hate.
Please join the Bard Center for the Study of Hate as it welcomes Dr. Badgett to talk about her new book.
TO REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR CLICK HERE.
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
For more information, call 718-503-4441, e-mail kstern@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aXoOXnlaR1imCZ_-7tf1Jw.
Friday, October 23, 2020
CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
For parents, Family and Alumni/ae Weekend is one of the most exciting events on the academic calendar. It happens in mid-October, after students have settled in for the semester. The Family and Alumni/ae Weekend schedule is packed full of activities, showcasing just about every program on Bard’s 1,000-acre campus.
For more information, call 845-758-7867.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ayad-akhtar.
Friday, October 23, 2020
Online Event
Registration is required in advance. To receive the Zoom link, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speaker-series-carmen-morsch-tickets-121399660653
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speaker-series-carmen-morsch-tickets-121399660653.
with Alys Moody, Harsha Ram, Stephen J. Ross,
Friday, October 23, 2020
Online Event
Modernist studies has been transformed in recent years by the claim that modernism is a global phenomenon. Alongside work linking British, Irish, North American, and European modernists to the rest of the world, we have seen controversial claims for modernism’s flourishing in non-Western locations, from Japan to Africa, from Turkey to the Caucasus, and from South-East Asia to Latin America. This uncoupling of modernism from a strictly Western teleology remains under-theorised, and under-sourced. How do we study modernism on a global scale? What implications for modernist scholarship does this disciplinary transformation bring, especially in relation to collaborative work? And what new ways of seeing and understanding modernism arise from adopting a global perspective?
This roundtable showcases the methods and findings of Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2020), a new anthology of source texts for global modernism. The book gathers texts by practitioners (writers, artists, critics, etc.) that reflect on the theory and practice of modernism around the world. In addition to celebrating (belatedly!) the publication of this volume last January, we will be discussing the collaborative nature of global modernist research and our “inductive” method of assembling and theorizing the anthology’s texts.
The roundtable brings together five editors of the anthology: experts in Russian and Georgian modernism (Harsha Ram), Turkish modernism (Kaitlin Staudt), and Latin American modernism (Camilla Sutherland) with the volume’s general editors, who will speak to modernism in sub-Saharan Africa (Alys Moody), and the Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora (Stephen Ross). We will discuss how global modernism troubles existing assumptions of modernist studies, and what the project of translating, editing, and circulating primary sources can contribute to this conversation. Following short position statements by each speaker, the roundtable will focus on discussion among presenters and with audience members.
This conversation, held under the shared auspices of the Literature Program at Bard College and Concordia University’s Centre for Expanded Poetics, is the first of a three-part series exploring global modernism, in celebration of the anthology. It will be followed by a discussion with poet-translators associated with the anthology on Thursday, 12 November, 6-7:30pm EST; and a workshop on pedagogy and global modernism on Friday, 4 December, 1:30-4:30pm EST.
To receive the Zoom invitation for this event, please email amoody@bard.edu. Invitations will be sent out on the morning of the event.
Speakers
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amoody@bard.edu.
Saturday, October 24, 2020
CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
For parents, Family and Alumni/ae Weekend is one of the most exciting events on the academic calendar. It happens in mid-October, after students have settled in for the semester. The Family and Alumni/ae Weekend schedule is packed full of activities, showcasing just about every program on Bard’s 1,000-acre campus.
For more information, call 845-758-7867.
Saturday, October 24 at 7:30 pm
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bcom-2020-10.
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Online Event
Join via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O
All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, scripture readings, and reflections on Sundays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O.
Sunday, October 25, 2020
CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
For parents, Family and Alumni/ae Weekend is one of the most exciting events on the academic calendar. It happens in mid-October, after students have settled in for the semester. The Family and Alumni/ae Weekend schedule is packed full of activities, showcasing just about every program on Bard’s 1,000-acre campus.
For more information, call 845-758-7867.
Saturday, October 24 at 7:30 pm
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bcom-2020-10.
Monday, October 26, 2020
Online Event
This will be an evening talk between the prolific Juliana Huxtable '10 and her special guest Kimberly Foster, founder and host of For Harriet. Together, they will be examining the residual effects of the recent George Floyd protests and exploring their own racial imaginary in order tease out a vision of the future.
Juliana Huxtable is an artist, writer, and dj/musician. Huxtable has exhibited and performed at a number of venues including Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Project Native Informant, Artists Space, the New Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, and the Musée d'Art Moderne. She is author of Mucus in My Pineal Gland and coauthor, with Hannah Black, of Life: A Novel. Her poetry and visual work were included in the 2015 Triennial at the New Museum. She is the recipient of the 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant and is a 2019 United States Artist Fellow.
Kimberly Foster is a writer, cultural critic and founder and editor-in-chief of For Harriet, a multi-platform digital community for Black women, and Black Girls Gather, a national live event series.
Founded in 2010, For Harriet is a leading voice for Black women’s journalism and storytelling. Kimberly began For Harriet while she was an undergraduate at Harvard University.
The site has been featured in the New York Times, ESSENCE, and Forbes and Huffington Post. Kimberly has written for The Guardian, Newsweek, Quartz, and Fortune, and appeared on OWN, Huffpost Live, NPR, MSNBC, BET.com, and many local radio stations across the country commenting on culture and current events.
Kimberly's video commentaries on current events and feminism have been viewed million of times.
In 2016, she was named to Forbes Magazine's 30 under 30 list. In 2017 ESSENCE named her one of 50 founders to watch. In 2019, her video appeared on OWN’s “Black Women OWN the Conversation.” She has also been recognized as a leading voice online by Teen Vogue and Huffington Post.
Kimberly has been invited to give talks at dozens of universities across the country including keynotes at Cornell University, Boston College, and Emory University. She holds a degree in African American Studies.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Online Event
A series on discourse and dialogue surrounding social justice topics of today with the goal of educating and providing tools for our students, staff, and faculty to effectively re-imagine inclusive spaces, and promote an environment for unlearning, learning, and healing for the Bard community.
Zoom credentials:
Webinar ID: 870 4821 3825
Passcode: 830848Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Dean of Student Affairs; Gender Equity/Title XI, The President's Office, Bard Athletics; Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail adunn@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Annandale House
Please come join us at the Kline Bus Stop in front of New Annandale House for our summer farm stand. We are at the intersection of Annandale Rd and Woods Ave. We accept cash and credit card payments and will be accepting online preorders for contactless pickup at our farm stand beginning the week of June 15.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ryoshino@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 29, 2020
CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Online
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Online Event
Jacqui Lewis is Senior Minister of Middle Collegiate Church, a multi-everything congregation in the East Village, NYC.
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Kenyon Victor Adams is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. His recent work explores the notion of fractured epistemologies, and seeks to reclaim or expand various ways of knowing through integrative artistic practices. Kenyon has contributed art and thought leadership at Yale School of Drama, Yale ISM Poetry Conference, Live IdeasFestival, the Langston Hughes Project, the National Arts Policy Roundtable, and the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He studied Religion and Literature at Yale Divinity School, and Theology of Contemporary Performance at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Kenyon served as Artist in Residence at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music for the 2015–16 academic year. His multi-media performance works have addressed issues of legibility, race, and American memory. Currently in production through New York Live Arts, Prayers of the People, directed by Bill T. Jones, is a performance work responding to the writings of Martin Luther King Jr. Kenyon is the Founding Arts Initiative Director at Grace Farms and the SANAA-designed River Building in New Canaan, Conn.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, October 30, 2020
CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
You have the option of streaming the 2018 World Premiere of Four Quartets, or, dive deeper with the All-Access Special Event on October 30, which includes exclusive, early access, live content (details below).
Streaming to the general public October 31–November 1
This ravishing union of dance, music, painting, and poetry is a vast and thrilling performance that has gained admiration from audiences at the Fisher Center, in London, and in Los Angeles.
PURCHASE • FOUR QUARTETS
What is it like to dance Four Quartets? Join us for a rare opportunity to experience this epic performance from the other side of the curtain—through conversations with Kathleen Chalfant, Pam Tanowitz, and the dancers of the company. Filmed remotely over the summer of 2020, There the Dance Is, leads us on a journey of reflection and revelation.
The virtual premiere of There the Dance Is will be preceded by a livestream conversation between Tanowitz and former New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay.
This exclusive experience includes:
PURCHASE • ALL-ACCESS
Sponsored by: Fisher Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/four-quartets-experience.
Friday, October 30, 2020
Online Event
Join via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89352702820?pwd=czdSa0M4bDRFSWo0K243d0pRd3VaUT09
Yazan Khalili will talk about “the total work of the cultural institution,” a concept developed during his time at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, asking how we can practice critique through the structures of the cultural production. He will also discuss Radio Alhara, the online communal radio that was established in Palestine at the beginning of the lockdown, and functions as an open platform for sharing sound in all its formats. He will think with us about communal media and collective practices, how to establish cultural structures, and infiltrate others.
Yazan Khalili lives and works in and out of Palestine. He is an architect, artist, and cultural producer. His works have been exhibited in several major exhibitions, including KW (Berlin, 2020), MoCA (Toronto, 2020), New Photography (MoMA, 2018), and Shanghai Biennial (2016). Khalili was the director of Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre between 2015 and 2019. He is one of the founders of Radio Alhara, Palestine. Currently, he is the cochair of the photography division of the MFA program at Bard College, a PhD candidate at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, and a guest researcher at the Rijksakademie.
Read more by Yazan Khalili in English here:
This event is cosponsored by the Human Rights Project.
Join Zoom MeetingSponsored by: Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail dramadan@bard.edu, or visit https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89352702820?pwd=czdSa0M4bDRFSWo0K243d0pRd3VaUT09.
Friday, October 30, 2020
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Praised for her “intoxicating” (New York Times) and “ravishing” (STRAD) performances of “silken finesse with gritty vibrancy” (Gramophone), violist Molly Carr enjoys a diverse musical career as recitalist, chamber musician, educator, and artistic director. She has been the recipient of numerous national and international prizes and awards, including the Primrose International Viola Competition, Chamber Music America, ProMusicis Foundation, Davidson Institute, Virtu Foundation, MAW Alumni Enterprise Awards, ASTA, and ARTS, among many others. Her performances have taken her across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and have been broadcast on CBS's Live from Lincoln Center, Good Morning America, and National Public Radio in the United States, as well as on Canadian, Bulgarian, Israeli, and Hungarian National Television and Radio. In October 2018, Ms. Carr was honored at the United Nations for her work with refugees around the globe through the Carr-Petrova Duo’s Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project; she was also chosen as one of America's leading “Creative Women”—subsequently appearing on the Sandi Klein show Conversations with Creative Women.
This recital will be prerecorded and streamed on October 30, 2020, at 7pm. We hope that you will join us. The program is attached.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, October 31, 2020
CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
You have the option of streaming the 2018 World Premiere of Four Quartets, or, dive deeper with the All-Access Special Event on October 30, which includes exclusive, early access, live content (details below).
Streaming to the general public October 31–November 1
This ravishing union of dance, music, painting, and poetry is a vast and thrilling performance that has gained admiration from audiences at the Fisher Center, in London, and in Los Angeles.
PURCHASE • FOUR QUARTETS
What is it like to dance Four Quartets? Join us for a rare opportunity to experience this epic performance from the other side of the curtain—through conversations with Kathleen Chalfant, Pam Tanowitz, and the dancers of the company. Filmed remotely over the summer of 2020, There the Dance Is, leads us on a journey of reflection and revelation.
The virtual premiere of There the Dance Is will be preceded by a livestream conversation between Tanowitz and former New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay.
This exclusive experience includes:
PURCHASE • ALL-ACCESS
Sponsored by: Fisher Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/four-quartets-experience.
Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
Keep the Conversation Going with the Hannah Arendt Center
Friday, February 28, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2027
Hannah Arendt CenterAmor Mundi is the weekly publication of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Subscribe now to receive the Amor Mundi email in your inbox up to two times a week. You'll get the first look at original articles, essays, and journal features from Roger Berkowitz and other Arendtian thinkers. Read Amor Mundi now >>
The Virtual Reading Group. Join Founder and Academic Director Roger Berkowitz and Acting Assistant Director Samantha Hill on select Fridays as they lead a live, online group discussion in a thoughtful and spirited exploration of the works of Hannah Arendt. Learn more about the VRG >>
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Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Save this event: Fisher Center Artists
Neil Gaiman (Bard Professor in the Arts) and Pam Tanowitz (Fisher Center Choreographer in Residence)
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGCentral to the Fisher Center’s mission is long-term relationships with artists across disciplines. This week, we focus on two artists who are cornerstones of the Fisher Center’s identity. These archival recordings commemorate the first time we welcomed these artists to our stages.
Also in focus this week: the American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Leon Botstein. SummerScape 2019’s Opera marked the ASO’s 16th year appearing at the Fisher Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-fc-artists.
The Miracle of Heliane
by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMING2019, Sosnoff Theater, SummerScape
First performed in the U.S. almost 100 years after its world premiere in Hamburg, this lushly orchestrated allegorical tale was staged by Christian Räth in 2019. Performed by a remarkable cast and the 80-member American Symphony Orchestra, this staging was a stellar example of Maestro Botstein’s commitment to reintroduce rarely seen operatic treasures to a contemporary audience.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Heliane/.
Our World: The Past Reflected in the Present
Wednesday, April 8, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGThe best art reflects present day realities, lends us perspectives from the past, and helps us imagine futures. This week, we feature two Fisher Center commissions that helped us reconsider the present through chilling encounters with the past. Our first offering from the extensive archive of the Bard Music Festival looks toward the upcoming holiday weekend with a prayer of hope and liberation. Also this week: our first live webcast from the undergraduate Theater & Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-our-world.
Live Arts Bard: Commissions and Residencies
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGLive Arts Bard (LAB) is the Fisher Center’s commissioning and residency program. Through LAB we support artistic innovation, and provide significant resources to artists across disciplines. LAB residencies vary in length from a week to several years. This week, we're streaming three LAB commissions, including Beth Gill: Catacomb (2016), Tere O'Connor: Long Run (2017), and Nature Theater of Oklahoma: Life & Times, Episode 8 (2015).
Also on this week: our second archival opera release, Rubenstein's Demon, from SummerScape 2018, featuring the American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Leon Botstein.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-live-arts-bard.
Demon
by Anton Rubinstein
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMING2018, Sosnoff Theater, SummerScape
Rubinstein’s operatic masterpiece is based on a poem depicting the isolation and despair of a fallen angel. Premiered to great acclaim in 1871, Demon received its first fully staged U.S. performances at Bard in 2018. With rich choral writing and a fiery libretto, the production was staged by Thaddeus Strassberger and featured an all-Russian cast, Pesvebi Georgian Dancers and The American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Botstein.
Read the Program
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Demon/.
Live Arts Bard Biennial
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGThis week we highlight the Live Arts Bard Biennial, a festival of commissioned works that temporarily reconfigures the Fisher Center as a site for innovative and interactive performances and installations. Each edition marks the culmination of a two-year cycle of exploration around a major question or challenge of the 21st century, with multi-faceted research and development by the curators, artists, students, and faculty across Bard College programs.
Our second offering from the archives of the Bard Music Festival features the Russian Moguchaya Kuchka (The Mighty Five), whose work, in the company of their friend Rimsky-Korsakov, opened the 2018 Festival, “Rimsky-Korsakov and His World.”
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-lab-biennial/.
Together, Apart
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGEven while we remain distanced, people are finding new ways to stay connected and in conversation with one another.
This week on UPSTREAMING: our third archival release from SummerScape Opera, Die Liebe der Danae—a neglected treasure from Richard Strauss—featuring the American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Leon Botstein.
Next up: this Saturday at 7 pm ET, the Fisher Center teams up with our local independent bookstore, Oblong Books & Music, to present our first live streamed conversation, bringing together two titans of fantasy literature—Bard professor Neil Gaiman and N. K. Jemisin.
Also this week: we share the archival taping of Crybabies, our first live podcast event, featuring writer Susan Orlean, Sarah Thyre, Malcolm Gladwell, and Theda Hammel.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-together-apart/.
Daniel Fish and the Fisher Center
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGThe Fisher Center has a long—and proud—association with director Daniel Fish.
In 2019, Fish directed the “unmissable, … sublime” production (Time Out New York) of Acquanetta, marking his first return to Bard since SummerScape 2015, when he debuted his production of Oklahoma!, which, then went on to Broadway and subsequently won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival.
Also this week: ETERNAL, a video installation that the New York Times calls “an intellectual pleasure” and “emotionally resonant,” presented for the first time in a virtual context.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-daniel-fish/.
Oresteia
Composer in Context: Sergey Taneyev
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGBard SummerScape Opera and the Bard Music Festival have become synonymous with a new kind of concert experience, one that provides a “rich web of context” (New York Times) for a full appreciation of each composer’s inspirations, significance, and legacy.
This week, UPSTREAMING illuminates the world of Russian composer Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915).
A highly gifted pianist and composer, Taneyev was a protégé and champion of Tchaikovsky’s, serving as soloist in early performances of the older composer’s piano concertos.
Taneyev was one of Russia’s most influential music theorists, teaching for nearly three decades at the Moscow Conservatory, where his students included Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, and Glière; Stravinsky later recalled how highly he valued Taneyev’s treatise on counterpoint, calling it “one of the best books of its kind.” Yet in striving to synthesize counterpoint with folksong, he developed a distinct compositional voice that looked forward to Stravinsky himself.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-sergey-taneyev/.
Euryanthe
Composer in Context: Carl Maria von Weber
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGBard SummerScape Opera and the Bard Music Festival have become synonymous with a new kind of concert experience, one that provides a “rich web of context” (New York Times) for a full appreciation of each composer’s inspirations, significance, and legacy.
This week, UPSTREAMING illuminates the work of German Romantic composer Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), featuring:
- 2014 Bard SummerScape Opera: Euryanthe
- The American Symphony Orchestra performing Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1 from the 2017 Bard Music Festival: Chopin and His World.
- Euryanthe video playlist, which includes: an opera talk with Maestro Botstein, a conversation with set designer Victoria Tzykun, and behind-the-scenes interviews with the producer, director, and cast of Euryanthe.
Carl Maria von Weber’s short life was marked by many lows—frequent illnesses, an arrest on embezzlement and other charges—but he also became one of the most influential composers of the early 19th century whose prodigious gifts as a composer, pianist, conductor, and writer bring to mind Mozart. The premiere of Der Freischütz in 1821, an opera that immediately captured the imagination of audiences in Europe and beyond, was a transformative event in the history of Romanticism and helped to usher in a new sensibility in music. He did not have a comparable success in the remaining five years of his life, although the overtures to his later Euryanthe and Oberon became repertory standards. In these operas, and in less familiar compositions, his masterful orchestration and compelling evocation of mood became models for composers from Meyerbeer to Wagner, Liszt, Berlioz, Glinka, and Hindemith.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-carl-maria-von-weber/.
The Making of Mad Forest
TECHNOLOGY • DESIGN • REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
3 pm
UPSTREAMING
Featuring members of the creative team, performers, and Fisher Center staff
Join the creators and performers of the Bard Theater & Performance Program’s lauded virtual production of Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest for an in-depth look behind the scenes. This 90-minute webinar will feature three 30-minute segments, with Q&A, focusing on a different aspect of the project: technology, design, and rehearsal and performance.
This production, originally mounted for one live performance on April 10, 2020 via the Fisher Center’s UPSTREAMING, was recently remounted for three additional live performances online in a co-production with off-Broadway’s Theatre for a New Audience. Led by director Ashley Tata, 12 Bard students performed the work live from remote locations across the country, aided by a new modified version of Zoom developed by programmer Andy Carluccio. This unique blend of art and technology was crafted by a design team including Eamonn Farrell (video), Afsoon Pajoufar (sets), Asta Bennie Hostetter (costumes), Abigail Hoke-Brady (lighting), Paul Pinto (sound), Dan Safer (movement), with Vanessa Hart as Stage Manager.
The Fisher Center is a premier performing arts center located in New York's Hudson Valley. Embodying Bard College’s commitment to the arts as a cultural and educational necessity, the Fisher Center creates communities of professional artists, students, and audiences through exceptional performing arts experiences that challenge and inspire.
All performances of Mad Forest, and this webinar, are being presented for free due to the ongoing generosity of our patrons. To make a gift in support of the Fisher Center’s innovative programs, please click here. Sponsored by: Fisher Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/the-making-of-mad-forest/.
The Wreckers
by Ethel Smyth
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGThis engrossing program encompasses varied works exploring religion and spirituality through the lens of female composers: Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, staged at Bard in 2015, animates a moral drama about social justice and personal courage, while Lili Boulanger’s Psalm 130 “Du fond de l'abîme” (1917) offers a deeply personal requiem dedicated to her father. Lera Auerbach’s Violin Concerto No. 3, “De Profundis” (2015) with Vadim Repin rounds out the program.
Featuring:
- SummerScape Opera: The Wreckers
- New Conversation: Leon Botstein with Thaddeus Strassberger
- BMF/TON Recordings: Spirituality Through the Lens of Female Composers
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-The-Wreckers/.
Spiegeltent From Home
Wednesday, July 1, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGAs we find ourselves missing each other’s company under the dazzling glow of our beloved Spiegeltent, this series of DJ mixes from some of our regular favorites is designed to keep the party going in your own home, backyard, or car all summer long. A new mix will be released every other week, and the previous mixes will remain available for the whole summer.
July 1 • DJ Sammy Jo
July 1 • July 15 • DJ Tikka Masala
July 29 • DJ Amber Valentine
August 12 • DJ Jonjon Battles
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/SPT-from-home/.
Mexican Modernists
Wednesday, July 8, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGThis week’s offering from the archives of the Bard Music Festival celebrates the music of two seminal composers from south of the border: Carlos Chávez and Silvestre Revueltas. In times of political uncertainty, they fused the rich indigenous heritage of Mexico with modernist techniques and a political message, creating an art that was national, modern, and universal.
Featuring:
- Music from the 2015 Bard Music Festival “Chávez and His World.”
- Virtual Tour of “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945,” with Barbara Haskell, curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
- A tribute to Bard professor and cellist Luis Garcia-Renart.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/Mexican-Modernists/.
French Romanticism
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGThis week’s UPSTREAMING selection offers an exploration of French romanticism through the work of two composers—Emmanuel Chabrier and Hector Berlioz—who, while stylistically different, shared capacity for independent thought and innovation. The fully staged production of Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui from the 2012 Bard SummerScape is complemented by Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette from the 2017 Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/French-Romanticism/.
Dimitrij
Wednesday, August 5, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMING“Botstein and Bard SummerScape show courage, foresight and great imagination, honoring operas that larger institutions are content to ignore. —Time Out New York
UPSTREAMING: Opera at Bard presents the musical centerpiece of the 2017 Bard SummerScape: Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s 1882 rare opera Dimitrij. Supporting content includes a recording of Janáček's Sinfonietta as performed by the American Symphony Orchestra and discussions including a lively and illuminating conversation between ASO music director Leon Botstein and noted Dvořák specialist Michael Beckerman.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Dimitrij/.
Composer in Focus: Richard Strauss
by Richard Strauss
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGOne of the most revered Romantic composers of the late 19th and early 20th century, Richard Strauss’s symphonic poems and operas remain an indispensable feature of the standard repertoire. This program—which includes the operatic rarity Die Liebe der Danae (The Love of Danae) from the 2011 Bard SummerScape along with various symphonic and choral works—explores the composer’s substantial melodic gifts and his mastery of instrumentation and expression.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Danae/.
Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Two
Saturday, September 12, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGWatch the Composer Roundtable
Program Two offers a snapshot of contemporary music with works by three of today’s most compelling composers.
A former composer-in-residence of both the Atlanta and Detroit Symphonies, Alvin Singleton is blessed with a “unique musical vision” (ArtsATL), while Adolphus Hailstork, a student of Nadia Boulanger, has accrued a string of honors including Cultural Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia and Distinguished Alumni Award from Manhattan School of Music.
Both men were born in the early 1940s, four decades before Jessie Montgomery. “Turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life” (Washington Post), Montgomery’s music has been recognized with the ASCAP Foundation’s Leonard Bernstein Award, and her current commissions include works for the New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall.
Their compositions share the program with the Serenade for Strings by Antonín Dvořák, subject of the 1993 Bard Music Festival, who championed African-American and Native American music as the foundation for a homegrown U.S. musical style.
Program
The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein, James Bagwell, Andrés Rivas, and Zachary SchwartzmanJessie Montgomery (b. 1981)
Strum (2018)
Alvin Singleton (b. 1940)
After Choice (2009)
Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941)
Sonata da Chiesa (1990)
Exultate
O Magnum Mysterium
Adoro
Jubilate
Agnus Dei
Dona Nobis Pacem
Exultate
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
Serenade for Strings, Op. 22 (1875)
Moderato
Tempo di valse
Scherzo: Vivace
Larghetto
Finale: Allegro vivaceSponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/out-of-the-silence-2/.
Meshell Ndegeocello
Chapter & Verse:
The Gospel of James Baldwin
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGInspired by the writing of James Baldwin
Created by Meshell Ndegeocello
In collaboration with Charlotte Brathwaite
Featuring the contributions of Staceyann Chin, Suné Woods, Nicholas Galanin, Paul Thompson '93, Justin Hicks, and more.
A Co-Production of Bismillah, LLC and Fisher Center at Bard
Co-Commissioned by Live Arts Bard, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre, and Festival de Marseille.
“No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.”—James Baldwin
A project inspired by James Baldwin’s truth-telling treatise on justice in the United States, The Fire Next Time, and our endlessly changing world. Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a 21st-century ritual tool kit for justice. A call for revolution. A gift during turbulent times.
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy—but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” —James Baldwin
Each month, September–December 2020, we offer gifts—music, thoughts, meditations, and visual testimonies of resilience—inspired by James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time.
“This is my offering to you. This is a different experience so I hope you have an open mind or at least an open heart. I see James Baldwin as an Orisha, his writing as the living word. I wanted to pay homage to him and to the time and effort it took to sit, to physically and emotionally fill the page with a truth that made my own sorrow feel less lonely. He put me on a path of empathy and humility towards my parents. It humbled me towards my mother born in 1944 and my father born in 1939—a time I can’t imagine living in while black.” —Meshell
Check out "Songs of Protest & Healing: Meshell Ndegeocello on the Gospel of James Baldwin" on Tidal Magazine.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/chapter-and-verse/.
Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Three
Saturday, September 19, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
5:30 pm
UPSTREAMINGProgram Three opens with the Adagio trágico by Roque Cordero, who infused twelve-tone writing with the folk rhythms of his native Panama.
In his Four Novelettes, Anglo-African late-Romantic composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor demonstrates graceful lyricism with a light, balletic touch that is almost reminiscent of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, subject of the festival’s 1998 season, whose soulful Serenade for Strings concludes the concert.
The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein, Andrés Rivas, and Zachary Schwartzman
Roque Cordero (1917–2008)
Adagio trágico (1955)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912)
Four Novelettes, Op. 52 (1903)
Allegro moderato
Larghetto
Andante con moto
Allegro molto
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93)
Serenade for Strings, Op. 48 (1880)
Pezzo in forma di sonatina: Andante non troppo—Allegro moderato
Valse: Moderato—Tempo di Valse
Élégie: Larghetto elegiaco
Finale (Tema Russo): Andante—Allegro con spiritoSponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/out-of-the-silence-3/.
Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Four
Saturday, September 26, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
5:30 pm
UPSTREAMINGThe centerpiece of Program Four is the Symphonie concertante in G by Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
The son of a slave and a planter in French Guadeloupe, Chevalier de Saint-Georges was not only the first known classical composer of African ancestry, but also an accomplished violinist, champion fencer and colonel of the first all-Black military regiment in Europe.
Bookending his composition are orchestral arrangements of Solitude and Sophisticated Lady, two mid-century masterpieces by the inimitable Duke Ellington, and the Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta by Béla Bartók, subject of the 1995 festival.
The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein
Duke Ellington (1899–1974)
Solitude (1934; arr. Gould)
Sophisticated Lady (1933; arr. Gould)
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–99)
Symphonie concertante in G Major, Op. 13 (1782)
Allegro
Rondeau
Cyrus Beroukhim and Philip Payton, violins
Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945)
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (1936)
Andante tranquillo
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro molto
Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/out-of-the-silence-4/.
OSUN 2020 U.S. Election Series: A Second Trump Administration? With Dr. Kiron Skinner
Thursday, October 1, 2020
12–1 pm
Online EventDr. Kiron Skinner, former director for policy planning at the US State Department and senior adviser to the Secretary of State, will join Walter Russell Mead to discuss what a second Trump administration's foreign policy priorities and challenges might be.
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The Power of the Public Intellectual Series, moderated by Bard College Professor and Wall Street Journal “Global View” columnist Walter Russell Mead, is a series of virtual dialogues focused on the stakes and core issues of the 2020 US election. Professor Mead will be joined by distinguished policy experts, academics, and public servants to discuss the choice America will make this November. Over the course of several livestreamed events, the series will provide insight into both campaigns’ perspectives and the potential consequences, particularly for foreign policy, of either outcome.
Kiron Skinner, Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics at Carnegie Mellon University, was senior policy adviser to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Skinner also served as director of policy planning, one of the State Department’s most influential positions.. Skinner also serves as director of policy planning, one of the State Department’s most influential positions. Skinner is the founding director of Carnegie Mellon’s Institute for Politics and Strategy (IPS) and a renowned expert in foreign policy. She served on President Trump’s national security transition team in 2016.
Sponsored by: Open Society University Network.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Farm Stand
Thursday, October 1, 2020
1–5 pm
Annandale HousePlease come join us at the Kline Bus Stop in front of New Annandale House for our summer farm stand. We are at the intersection of Annandale Rd and Woods Ave. We accept cash and credit card payments and will be accepting online preorders for contactless pickup at our farm stand beginning the week of June 15.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ryoshino@bard.edu.
The Joy and Curse of Translation
Bill Porter / Red Pine, Translator
Thursday, October 1, 2020
3–4:30 pm
Online EventNo one ever plans to be a translator, and no artist is more poorly equipped or trained. Nor do translators ever find out exactly what they’re doing—or even how—but, except for the fact that there’s no money it, why would they ever want to stop?
Bill Porter was born in Van Nuys, California on October 3, 1943, and grew up in northern Idaho. After a tour of duty in the US Army in 1964–67, he attended college at UC Santa Barbara and majored in anthropology. In 1970, he entered graduate school at Columbia University and studied anthropology with a faculty that included Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict. While he was in New York, he became interested in Buddhism, and in 1972 he left America for a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan. After three years with the monks and nuns, he struck out on his own and supported himself by teaching English and later by working as a journalist at English-language radio stations in Taiwan and Hong Kong. During this time, he married a Chinese woman, with whom he has two children, and began working on translations of Chinese poetry and Buddhist texts. In 1993, he returned to America, and has lived ever since in Port Townsend, Washington. For the past 27 years, he has worked as an independent scholar. His translations, under the name Red Pine, have been honored with two NEA translation fellowships, a PEN translation award, the inaugural Asian Literature Award of the American Literary Translators Association, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and, more recently, the Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation, bestowed by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Between December 2019 and June 2020 he published a series of seven chapbooks with Empty Bowl Press in Anacortes, including Cathay Revisited, a present for Ezra Pound’s daughter and granddaughter.
Join via Zoom
Meeting ID: 993 7562 8401 / Passcode: 998992Sponsored by: Hutcheson Memorial Fund, Interdisciplinary Study of Religions, Asian Studies, Written Arts, the Center for Civic Engagement and the Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail dtownsend@bard.edu.
IWT Writer as Reader Workshops - Online
Friday, October 2, 2020
9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Olin Humanities BuildingWe are excited to announce that both the October 2 and November 6 Bard College IWT Writer as Reader Workshops will be held online.
Writer as Reader workshops model writing practices that inspire students to read more carefully, to grasp the meaning in more complex texts, and to infer meaning from what they read. These workshops invite secondary and college teachers to consider “writing to read” as a central classroom practice, one that shows rather than tells students how writing clarifies the meaning of texts. Working with diverse writing-to-read strategies, workshop participants discover what they bring to the text, what is apparent in the text, what is inferred, and what questions the text poses.
1. Double Consciousness in Today’s America: Americanah as Social Science
2. Shakespeare on Stage and Page:
3. The Sonnet: Shakespeare, Contemporary Sonneteers, and the Development of Form
4. Memory, Inheritance, and the Social Construction of Self: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and “The Things They Carried”
5. COVID-19 and the U.S. Elections: Making Sense of an Epidemic via 2020 Communications
6. “I sell the shadow to support the substance”: Knowing and Learning in The Narrative of
Sojourner Truth and The House of Mirth
7. The Scarlet Letter in the Age of “Me Too”
8. Advocating Upheaval: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Jane Addams
9. The Least Dangerous Branch: the Supreme Court, Voting Rights, and Gun ControlSponsored by: Institute for Writing and Thinking.
For more information, call 845-752-4516, e-mail iwt@bard.edu, or visit http://writingandthinking.org/programs/october/.
Physics From the Top: Updates from the ATLAS Experiment
Tim Andeen, University of Texas, Austin
Friday, October 2, 2020
12–1 pm
Hegeman 107-Brody LabsIn December 2018, the Large Hadron Collider completed a three-year data collection run. Since then, particle physicists on the ATLAS and CMS experiments have been analyzing the largest ever dataset of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions. What will this new dataset reveal? In this talk, we will look beyond the current theory of the building blocks of the Standard Model and discuss what motivates our search for exotic new particles. Discovering these minuscule motes of matter could have a tremendous impact on our understanding of physics as a whole: from a better grasp of the Higgs boson and electroweak symmetry breaking, to unraveling the secrets of dark matter. The new dataset contains more than 20 times the number of top quarks seen before. We will highlight several searches and measurements that capitalize on this abundance. None of these investigations are possible without the particle detectors that make up the ATLAS experiment. We will conclude with remarks on the ongoing and upcoming detector upgrades and highlight our work improving these enormous experiments that observe the ephemeral particles of our universe.
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Protests in Perspective: On the Streets for Social Justice—Lessons from the Past
Friday, October 2, 2020
12–1:30 pm
Online2020 Protests in Perspective: A Webinar Series Sponsored by the Open Society University Network (OSUN) and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
The global wave of protests for racial justice did not occur in isolation or in a vacuum. Is this social movement like others in history? Or is it unique? What can be learned by looking at past protests with similar characteristics? This panel will consider the 2020 protests in light of the legacies of colonialism, self-determination, and previous struggles for universal human rights. Moderator: Neil Roberts (Williams College). Panelists: Adom Getachew (University of Chicago) and Michael Canham (Office of the Governor, Gauteng, South Africa).
Learn More
Register to join the webinar
To watch the livestream on YouTube, visit carnegiecouncil.org/live.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Chapel Service (Virtual)
Sunday, October 4, 2020
3–4 pm
Online EventJoin via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O
All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, scripture readings, and reflections on Sundays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O.
Bill T. Jones
Part of the Race and Revolution Lecture Series
Monday, October 5, 2020
6–8 pm
Online EventHannah Arendt Center is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join us at https://bard.zoom.us/j/94745912942 (click Read More for details).
This will be an evening talk between Bill T. Jones and our own Roger Berkowitz. Together, they will be examining the residual effects of the recent Floyd protests and exploring the racial imaginary in order to tease out a vision of the future.
BILL T. JONES (Artistic Director/Cofounder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts) is the Associate Artist of the 2020 Holland Festival and recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award; the 2013 National Medal of Arts; the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed FELA!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation CALLAWAY Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and the 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, Mr. Jones was recognized as Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named him “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure.”
Mr. Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982. He has created more than 140 works for his company. Mr. Jones is the Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing, presenting and educating. For more information visit newyorklivearts.org.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/94745912942.
COVID-19: Experiences from Life and the Field—A Panel Discussion
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
5–6:30 pm
Online EventJoin via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/89305611991?pwd=cTRpejRTWDJ1K1Q3VlBLTElSUHhYZz09
Webinar ID: 893 0561 1991
Passcode: 140379
Please join us for a panel discussion with Dr. Laurel Mohrmann (Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine) and Dr. Polina Trachuk (NYU Langone), with Bard faculty, students, and community members who will share personal stories from the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sponsored by: Bard Cares Team.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/89305611991?pwd=cTRpejRTWDJ1K1Q3VlBLTElSUHhYZz09.
Informational Webinar: Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability
Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
7–8 pm
Online<<<< RSVP HERE >>>>Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
ABOUT
Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information.
Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
- Overview of graduate program offerings
- Alumni success and career outcomes
- Admissions information
- Prerequisite course requirements
- Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
- Financial aid availability
- Tips for a standout application
Degree Options Include:
MS in Environmental Policy
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MBA in Sustainability
Dual Degree Options Include:
MS/JD with Pace Law School
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs Include:
Master's International (before you serve)
Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Caitlin O'Donnell at codonnel@bard.edu for further details.
<<<< RSVP HERE >>>>
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/upcoming-events.
The UN at 75
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
12–1 pm
Online EventBorn in the wake of the Second World War, the United Nations celebrates a milestone anniversary in 2020. How has the body evolved in 75 years? What will the next 25 years before its centennial look like? And amid enormous changes in the world, what does multilateralism look like in the 21st century?
Join us over Zoom on Wednesday, October 7, at 12pm EDT / 6pm Vienna, for one hour, as we talk to Natalie Samarasinghe, the chief of strategy on the UN's 75 anniversary and Minh-Thu Pham, the cofounder of New American Voices and the former executive director of global policy at the UN Foundation. This is part of BGIA's Chace Speaker Series, which brings expert voices on current events.
RSVP is required. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ebayrasli@bard.edu.
Building a Career in Sustainability: Advice From Climate Action Experts
Engage with sustainability consulting experts to learn how to launch your career in the field!
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
6:30–7:30 pm
Online Event>>>RSVP HERE<<<
About this Event:
Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability are pleased to host a webinar series providing aspiring change-makers access to sustainability experts to gain tips on launching their own careers in sustainability.
Climate Change Careers Expert Panel:
Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability are pleased to host a webinar series providing aspiring change-makers access to sustainability experts to gain tips on launching their own careers in sustainability.
Climate Change Careers Expert Panel:
- Josè Campos, Manager, New York Power Authority (moderator)
- Anton Seimon, Climatologist
- Jasmine Sanders, Executive Director, Our Climate
Climate change impacts all aspects of human existence and requires all types of skill sets, industries, and people to take up this work to create a sustainable future. Join this conversation to hear from experienced climate change professionals working across the industry on how they launched and grew their career, what tips they have for working in climate change, and what they look for in their new hires. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of panelists.
>>>RSVP HERE<<<
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail kboyle@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-a-career-in-sustainability-advice-from-climate-change-experts-registration-1202237.
Bard Farm Stand
Thursday, October 8, 2020
1–5 pm
Annandale HousePlease come join us at the Kline Bus Stop in front of New Annandale House for our summer farm stand. We are at the intersection of Annandale Rd and Woods Ave. We accept cash and credit card payments and will be accepting online preorders for contactless pickup at our farm stand beginning the week of June 15.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ryoshino@bard.edu.
Saw Kill Water Sampling
Friday, October 9, 2020
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Saw KillAs a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.
Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.
Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.
Open to everyone. Free training is available.
If interested, please contact:
Lindsey Drew
Bard Water Lab Manager
ldrew@bard.eduSponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics - Revealing the Darkest Secrets of the Universe
Friday, October 9, 2020
12–1 pm
Online EventThe 2020 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to three physicists, Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel, for their discoveries of "the darkest secrets of the universe," - namely, the birth of black holes and the presence of a supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Bard physicists, Hal Haggard and Shuo Zhang, will present the stories behind this year's physics prize. In the first half of the discussion, Hal Haggard will introduce Roger Penrose's theoretical work on black hole formation as a robust prediction of General Relativity. In the second half, Shuo Zhang will introduce Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel's observational work on the discovery of a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U0My8E3b0lpueJlepEqDaszuOx8DS-Pg/view?usp=sharingSponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Bard Chapel Service (Virtual)
Sunday, October 11, 2020
3–4 pm
Online EventJoin via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O
All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, scripture readings, and reflections on Sundays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O.
Kirk Johnson
Part of the Race and Revolution Lecture Series
Monday, October 12, 2020
6–8 pm
Online EventThis will be an evening talk between Kirk Johnson and his special guest Marie Stroughther, founder of African American Conservatives. Join via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/94378744455 Together, they will be examining the residual effects of the recent George Floyd protests and exploring the racial imaginary in order to tease out a vision of the future.
Kirk A. Johnson is the author of African American Tea Party Supporters: Explaining a Political Paradox. He teaches sociology and African American studies at the University of Mississippi, where he studies race and news media. His interest in politics and race dates to his work at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, where he testified before congressional committees on protecting at-risk populations from toxic pollutants, and as senior researcher on the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1965-1980." He is also founding editor of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Marie Stroughter is a Christian wife, homeschooling mother, pro-life advocate, seasoned social media and digital campaign strategist, Co-Founder of African-American Conservatives (AACONS), Digital Communications Director for the Republican Party of Texas, and an Advisory Board member for Black Voices for Trump. The opinions expressed here tonight are her own. Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Virtual Open House
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
7–8:30 pm
Online EventAttendees receive a $65 application fee waiver!
>>>RSVP HERE<<<
Join us for an online Open House hosted by the Bard MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy.
Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
- career outcomes -- how the MS degrees at CEP and MBA in Sustainability have led to impactful sustainability careers
- the program experience -- highlights on courses and key features at Bard (including the NYCLab course and the CEP internship)
- how to get the most of your graduate school journey -- career development + student engagement opportunities at Bard
- how to make your application stand out -- tips on perfecting your application materials, advice on getting through the graduate school admissions process
Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
- financial aid opportunities
- successfully completing program prerequisites
>>>RSVP HERE<<<
Event Location: This event will be held via Zoom. Access details will be shared with attendees upon event registration.
Email Caitlin O'Donnell with any additional questions.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/open-house-4-8-20.
Bard Farm Stand
Thursday, October 15, 2020
1–5 pm
Annandale HousePlease come join us at the Kline Bus Stop in front of New Annandale House for our summer farm stand. We are at the intersection of Annandale Rd and Woods Ave. We accept cash and credit card payments and will be accepting online preorders for contactless pickup at our farm stand beginning the week of June 15.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ryoshino@bard.edu.
Hannah Arendt Center Public Debate
Part of the Special Webinar: Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom
Thursday, October 15, 2020
7–9 pm
OnlinePlease join the Bard Debate Union, the Hannah Arendt Center, and the Center for Civic Engagement for a PUBLIC DEBATE on the question:
Should federal officeholders in the United States be determined through sortition instead of election?
Hannah Arendt writes: “Representative government is in crisis today, partly because it has lost, in the course of time, all institutions that permitted the citizens’ actual participation, and partly because it is now gravely affected by the disease from which the party system suffers: bureaucratization and the two parties’ tendency to represent nobody except the party machines.”Should federal officeholders in the United States be determined through sortition instead of election?
The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. How can we revitalize our democracy today? How can we make our representative democracies more participatory? Might “sortition”—a system whereby governmental representatives are chosen by lottery instead of by election—provide an answer?
Learn more about the Hannah Arendt Center Special Webinar here: Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/99620625005?pwd=VHpMYUJFM0FqVnBNbTcrbE5xYU9xZz09.
Special Webinar: Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom
Friday, October 16, 2020
9 am – 5 pm
OnlineWe are pleased to present this special online event, In association with the Open Society University Network, as a prelude to our annual conference, which will take place April 15 & 16, 2021. To learn more about the conference, click here.
This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. Instead of assuming a defensive posture and taking up arms to defend the status quo, our conference asks: how can we revitalize our democracy?Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
National Climate Seminar: Biden's First 100 Days on Climate
Friday, October 16, 2020
12–1 pm
Online EventJoin the National Climate Seminar on Friday, October 16th for a conversation with Bill Becker, Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. The topic: Biden's First 100 Days on Climate.
Click HERE to access the webinar.
About the National Climate Seminar:
The National Climate Seminar is a monthly, lunchtime webinar that features climate scientists, political leaders, and policy analysts, each exploring the politics and science driving critical climate change decisions. Join us each month at noon eastern for a chance to connect with experts on climate and clean energy solutions.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail ebangood@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/cep/publicprograms/ncs/.
Speaker Series: Jacolby Satterwhite
Friday, October 16, 2020
12–2 pm
Online EventThis talk is copresented with the Africana Studies Program and Film and Electronic Arts Program.
Registration is required in advance. To receive the Zoom link, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speaker-series-jacolby-satterwhite-registration-121246424319
Each semester, CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives.Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Center for Curatorial Studies; Film and Electronic Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speaker-series-jacolby-satterwhite-registration-121246424319.
A Reading in Solidarity with the Belarusian People
Friday, October 16, 2020
6–7 pm
Online EventOn August 9, 2020, Belarus erupted in protest following the results of a fraudulent presidential election. Among those facing intimidation from Belarusian authorities is Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author and president of PEN Belarus, who is a part of opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Coordinating Council.
In collaboration with PEN America and City of Asylum, join us on Friday, October 16 from 6-7PM EDT for a reading of contemporary Belarusian literature by PEN America members and friends, including Masha Gessen, Ayad Akhtar, Jennifer Egan, and Valzhyna Mort. Register here
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ym8e75JBQOC9nYDk4aTOjQ.
Concertos for Strings
Saturday, October 17, 2020
Online Event
Streaming online live from the Fisher Center at Bard, this concert features 20th-century concertos and other works for string orchestra by Polish composers Grażyna Bacewicz and Witold Lutosławski, Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů, and Brazilian composer M. Camargo Guarnieri.
The Orchestra Now
Zachary Schwartzman, conductor
Witold Lutosławski
Overture for Strings
Bohuslav Martinů
Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani
Grażyna Bacewicz
Concerto for String Orchestra
M. Camargo Guarnieri
Concerto for String Orchestra and Percussion
Estimated run time: 70 minutes
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ton-concertos-for-strings.
Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
Saturday, October 17, 2020
12–5 pm
CCS GalleriesThe Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
Bard Chapel Service (Virtual)
Sunday, October 18, 2020
3–4 pm
Online EventJoin via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O
All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, scripture readings, and reflections on Sundays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O.
Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
Sunday, October 18, 2020
12–5 pm
CCS GalleriesThe Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
Online Talk: Heather Bruegl
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
Monday, October 19, 2020
5–7 pm
Online EventIn this special presentation, Heather Bruegl, Director of Cultural Affairs for the Stockbridge Munsee Community, will provide an overview of local history with an aim to restore Indigenous presence at Bard College. Her activation, issued from the community’s current home in Wisconsin, acknowledges the continuing Mohican and Munsee relationship to their homelands.
This event is part of a series of online public programs organized in conjunction with Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere. The series is co-curated Dr. Christian Ayne Crouch, Associate Professor of History, Bard College, and exhibition curator Lauren Cornell.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu.
Sochie Nnaemeka
Part of the Race and Revolution Lecture Series
Monday, October 19, 2020
6–8 pm
Online EventProtests to the Polls: Building the Movement to Win a New York that Works for Working People
Sochie Nnaemeka is the State Director of the New York Working Families Party. In this role, she leads the Party's legislative strategy, electoral and candidate operations, organizing and basebuilding, and political party business towards building a political home for progressive and working class New Yorkers. Since joining the NYWFP in January of 2020, Nnaemeka has steered the Party in endorsing and supporting dozens of candidates through the turmoil of COVID-19 and the subsequent economic and social fall-out. Under her leadership, WFP candidates won several major Congressional races (including Jamaal Bowman in NY-16 and Mondaire Jones in NY-17) and 33 legislative races in the June primary.
The daughter of Nigerian immigrant parents, Nnaemeka was born and raised in New York. She first began organizing in college, with a local union of cafeteria, custodial and clerical workers. Her time in the union halls of New Haven sparked an unwavering commitment to people-powered movements — leading to her first job as an organizer for the 2008 Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Following graduation, Nnaemeka worked alongside casino workers in Miami to form a new union. She later attended Georgetown Law, where she studied how labor law might better protect, serve, and embolden working people.
Nnaemeka led electoral campaigns for Unite Here in New Haven and helped found New Haven Rising, a membership-based organization that served as a progressive political home for working people across the city. In New Haven, Sochie brokered the first-in-the-nation community benefits agreement between a charter school company and municipality, leading to hundreds of union jobs, mandated employment requirements for women and people of color, and a prohibition of exclusive admission practices. She also integrated community organizing techniques in successful electoral campaigns on the federal, state, and local level, from Senator Chris Murphy’s 2012 campaign to Toni Harp’s triumphant race to become the first Black female mayor of New Haven.
Most recently, Sochie served as Director of Emerging Organizing and Leadership at the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD). At CPD, Sochie launched and supported new grassroots people’s organizations, including Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC) in Milwaukee and Detroit Action in Michigan. From Louisiana to Pennsylvania to Brooklyn, she mentored and coached new leaders—in particular young people, women, and people of color—as they cultivated memberships, built power, and transformed their communities.
Sochie lives with her partner and their toddler in Mt. Vernon, NY.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Electroacoustic Ensemble presents: Opening the Virtual Space
Monday, October 19, 2020
8–9:30 pm
Online EventSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail msargent@bard.edu.
Iris
by Pietro Mascagni
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 – Thursday, December 31, 2020
UPSTREAMINGVideo: Archival Recording Coming Soon!
At once opulent and eerie, Pietro Mascagni’s Iris, composed in 1898 with libretto by Luigi Illica, received its North American premiere at Bard SummerScape in 2016. The American Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Leon Botstein performed with a brilliant cast of accomplished singers including the Australian tenor Gerard Schneider as a menacing and callous Osaka alongside the soprano Talise Travigne who movingly embodied the naivete and fragility of the eponymous character.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/iris/.
The 2020 U.S. Election Series: POTUS 46: Prospects for a Biden Administration's Foreign Policy
Ben Judah in conversation with Walter Russell Mead
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
12–1 pm
Online Event12-1pm NY | 6-7pm Vienna
Author and POLITICO contributing writer, Ben Judah, joins Walter Russell Mead to discuss how a Biden administration's foreign policy will diverge from Donald Trump's. Ben Judah is an author and journalist. He has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic and Foreign Policy. He is the author of Fragile Empire and This is London.
Join via Zoom
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.Author and POLITICO contributing writer, Ben Judah, joins Walter Russell Mead to discuss how a Biden administration's foreign policy will diverge from Donald Trump's. Ben Judah is an author and journalist. He has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic and Foreign Policy. He is the author of Fragile Empire and This is London.
Join via Zoom
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The Future of the Book, and of Libraries
A Two-Session Cyber Workshop with Paloma Celis Carbajal, Curator for Latin American, Iberian, and U.S. Latino Collections, New York Public Library (Session 1)
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
12:30–1:30 pm
Online EventSome five years ago, the New York Times reported that the book in print was far from dead, a plot twist to the numerous predictions that the 21st century would turn books into bytes only. However, the current pandemic could bring about another plot change given that most aspects of our lives have moved to the digital realm. We are all aware that the virtual plane is not equally accessible throughout the world. How are the current trends defining book production worldwide, but more specifically, in Latin America? How does its past and present inform us as to where it's heading? What is the role that libraries play, especially if these institutions have, as one of their goals, to document and preserve the intellectual production of our cultures? In these two sessions we will try to explore these questions together. Open to the wide Bard community.
Zoom Details:
Event: The Future of the Book, and of Libraries, with Paloma Celis Carbajal (NYPL)
Tuesday, October 20, 12:30pm–1:30pm; and Tuesday, October 27, 2:00–3:00pm
Join Zoom Meeting
https://bard.zoom.us/j/97663579921. Meeting ID: 976 6357 9921.
Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Experimental Humanities Program; LAIS Program.Zoom Details:
Event: The Future of the Book, and of Libraries, with Paloma Celis Carbajal (NYPL)
Tuesday, October 20, 12:30pm–1:30pm; and Tuesday, October 27, 2:00–3:00pm
Join Zoom Meeting
https://bard.zoom.us/j/97663579921. Meeting ID: 976 6357 9921.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Tomorrow Is Now: The Eleanor Roosevelt Conferences featuring Dr. Mandeep Rai
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
9–10 am
OnlineThis event will take place at 3pm Vienna time.
The Val-Kill Partnership, in conjunction with COV-AID, sponsored by the Open Society University Network and The Talloires Network, present a virtual discussion series highlighting the importance of Eleanor Roosevelt's legacy in today's crisis.
Dr. Mandeep Rai is a global authority on values, working with companies, institutions, and individuals around the world. She has traveled to more than 150 countries and reported as a broadcast journalist for the BBC World Service and Reuters, among others. She began her career in private banking at JPMorgan, and later worked for the United Nations, the European Commission, and grassroots NGOs before setting up the UAE’s first media venture capital fund. Mandeep studied philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE), has an MSc in development from the London School of Economics, and completed an MBA at London Business School, with a year at Harvard Business School and MIT. She also holds a PhD in global values.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Building a Career in Sustainability: Advice from Environmental Education Specialists
Engage with sustainability consulting experts to learn how to launch your career in the field!
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
6:30–7:30 pm
Online Event>>>RSVP HERE<<<
About this Event:
Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability are pleased to host a webinar series providing aspiring change-makers access to sustainability experts to gain tips on launching their own careers in sustainability.
Environmental Education Expert Panel: additional panelists will be announced when confirmed
Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability are pleased to host a webinar series providing aspiring change-makers access to sustainability experts to gain tips on launching their own careers in sustainability.
Environmental Education Expert Panel: additional panelists will be announced when confirmed
- Siira Rieschl, All Kids Are Scientists Program Coordinator at Impact NW (moderator)
- Scott Kellogg, Educational Director, Radix Ecological Sustainability Center
Many people passionate about environmental education exit the field early in their careers as they struggle to turn a passion into a meaningful career with advancement opportunities. Join us to learn how leading environmental educators launched and grew their career, what tips they have for working in environmental education, and what they look for in their new hires. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of panelists.
>>>RSVP HERE<<<
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail kboyle@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-a-career-in-sustainability-advice-from-envir-ed-specialists-registration-120285289.
Bard Farm Stand
Thursday, October 22, 2020
1–5 pm
Annandale HousePlease come join us at the Kline Bus Stop in front of New Annandale House for our summer farm stand. We are at the intersection of Annandale Rd and Woods Ave. We accept cash and credit card payments and will be accepting online preorders for contactless pickup at our farm stand beginning the week of June 15.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ryoshino@bard.edu.
Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
Thursday, October 22, 2020
12–5 pm
CCS GalleriesThe Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
How to Lose the Information War: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe
Thursday, October 22, 2020
12–1 pm
Online EventSince the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it?
Central and Eastern European states, however, have been aware of the threat for years. FPI Fellow Nina Jankowicz has advised these governments on the front lines of the information war. The lessons she learnt from that fight, and from her attempts to get the US Congress to act, make for essential reading.
How to Lose the Information War takes the reader on a journey through five Western governments' responses to Russian information warfare tactics—all of which have failed. She journeys into the campaigns the Russian operatives run, and shows how we can better understand the motivations behind these attacks and how to beat them. Above all, this book shows what is at stake: the future of civil discourse and democracy, and the value of truth itself.
Join us on Thursday, October 22, at 12pm EDT to discuss this important work and what we can expect leading up to the POTUS elections on November 3.
RSVP is required.Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ebayrasli@bard.edu.
The Glass Constellation
A Poetry Reading and Discussion with Arthur Sze
Thursday, October 22, 2020
3–4:30 pm
Online EventAccess the event via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/85254136149?pwd=MWVXL1FRR3VtRHlxSjYrbFNKRGdjUT09
An online reading from Sze's forthcoming new and collected poems, The Glass Constellation. The reading will include an introductory poem from Compass Rose, a generous selection of poems from Sight Lines, as well as a few new poems. There will be a Q&A after the reading.
Born in New York City in 1950, Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor. He is the author of 10 books of poetry, including Sight Lines (Coper Canyon Press, 2019), which received the 2019 National Book Award in poetry; Compass Rose (Copper Canyon Press, 2014); and The Ginkgo Light (Copper Canyon Press, 2009). He is also a celebrated translator from the Chinese, and released The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese (Copper Canyon Press) in 2001.
This event is sponsored by The Hutcheson Memorial Fund, the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion, Asian Studies, the CCE, and the Written Arts Program. It is part of a series of talks about Buddhist Currents in American Poetry.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail dtownsend@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/85254136149?pwd=MWVXL1FRR3VtRHlxSjYrbFNKRGdjUT09.
Lee Badgett: The Economic Case for LGBT Equality
A Bard Center for the Study of Hate Webinar
Thursday, October 22, 2020
3–4:30 pm
Online EventWhat is the economic cost of hate? It’s hard to focus on solutions to a societal problem if we don’t think about its costs.
The Bard Center for the Study of Hate is fortunate to have received a grant from GS Humane Corp to create an “economic cost of hate index” (led by Bard College economics professor Michael Martell).
Lee Badgett, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is a key member of the team of experts we are consulting as we conceptualize and build this index.
Dr. Badgett’s new and highly acclaimed book The Economic Case for LGBT Equality: Why Fair and Equal Treatment Benefits Us All is one of the first and best sources about an important component of the economic cost of hate. It is both an essential contribution in its own right, and instructive as we think about how to measure the cost of other manifestations of hate.
Please join the Bard Center for the Study of Hate as it welcomes Dr. Badgett to talk about her new book.
TO REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR CLICK HERE.
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
For more information, call 718-503-4441, e-mail kstern@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aXoOXnlaR1imCZ_-7tf1Jw.
Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
Friday, October 23, 2020
12–5 pm
CCS GalleriesThe Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
Moderation Papers Due
Friday, October 23, 2020
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Virtual Family & Alumni/ae Weekend
Friday, October 23, 2020 – Sunday, October 25, 2020
Online EventFor parents, Family and Alumni/ae Weekend is one of the most exciting events on the academic calendar. It happens in mid-October, after students have settled in for the semester. The Family and Alumni/ae Weekend schedule is packed full of activities, showcasing just about every program on Bard’s 1,000-acre campus.
See What's Happening
For more information, call 845-758-7867.
Homeland Elegies
A Conversation with Ayad Akhtar
Friday, October 23, 2020
UPSTREAMING
"Homeland Elegies is a very American novel. It’s a lover’s quarrel with this country, and . . . it has candor and seriousness to burn.” —New York Times
“Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable.” —Salman Rushdie
In this time of continued separation, we look to stories that can unite, ignite, and illuminate. The Fisher Center and the Bard College Written Arts Program are inviting our community, on- and off-campus, to join a “read-in” and subsequent conversation centered on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ayad Akhtar’s new novel.
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one—least of all himself—in the process.
Bard’s Director of Written Arts and MacArthur Fellow Dinaw Mengestu moderates a conversation with Akhtar, followed by a Q&A with the virtual audience.
Purchase your copy of Homeland Elegies from Oblong Books & Music via this link, and 10% of your purchase will come back to the Fisher Center to support our virtual programming.
Sponsored by: Fisher Center; Written Arts Program.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ayad-akhtar.
Speaker Series: Carmen Mörsch (online)
Friday, October 23, 2020
12–2 pm
Online EventRegistration is required in advance. To receive the Zoom link, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speaker-series-carmen-morsch-tickets-121399660653
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speaker-series-carmen-morsch-tickets-121399660653.
Editing Global Modernism: A Roundtable
with Alys Moody, Harsha Ram, Stephen J. Ross,
Kaitlin Staudt, and Camilla Sutherland
Friday, October 23, 2020
1:30–3 pm
Online EventModernist studies has been transformed in recent years by the claim that modernism is a global phenomenon. Alongside work linking British, Irish, North American, and European modernists to the rest of the world, we have seen controversial claims for modernism’s flourishing in non-Western locations, from Japan to Africa, from Turkey to the Caucasus, and from South-East Asia to Latin America. This uncoupling of modernism from a strictly Western teleology remains under-theorised, and under-sourced. How do we study modernism on a global scale? What implications for modernist scholarship does this disciplinary transformation bring, especially in relation to collaborative work? And what new ways of seeing and understanding modernism arise from adopting a global perspective?
This roundtable showcases the methods and findings of Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2020), a new anthology of source texts for global modernism. The book gathers texts by practitioners (writers, artists, critics, etc.) that reflect on the theory and practice of modernism around the world. In addition to celebrating (belatedly!) the publication of this volume last January, we will be discussing the collaborative nature of global modernist research and our “inductive” method of assembling and theorizing the anthology’s texts.
The roundtable brings together five editors of the anthology: experts in Russian and Georgian modernism (Harsha Ram), Turkish modernism (Kaitlin Staudt), and Latin American modernism (Camilla Sutherland) with the volume’s general editors, who will speak to modernism in sub-Saharan Africa (Alys Moody), and the Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora (Stephen Ross). We will discuss how global modernism troubles existing assumptions of modernist studies, and what the project of translating, editing, and circulating primary sources can contribute to this conversation. Following short position statements by each speaker, the roundtable will focus on discussion among presenters and with audience members.
This conversation, held under the shared auspices of the Literature Program at Bard College and Concordia University’s Centre for Expanded Poetics, is the first of a three-part series exploring global modernism, in celebration of the anthology. It will be followed by a discussion with poet-translators associated with the anthology on Thursday, 12 November, 6-7:30pm EST; and a workshop on pedagogy and global modernism on Friday, 4 December, 1:30-4:30pm EST.
To receive the Zoom invitation for this event, please email amoody@bard.edu. Invitations will be sent out on the morning of the event.
Speakers
- Alys Moody is Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College. She is the author of The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism (OUP, 2018) and is currently working on a second book, provisionally entitled, The Literature of World Hunger: Poverty, Global Modernism, and the Emergence of a World Literary System. She is one of the general editors of Global Modernists on Modernism, and section editor or co-editor of the sections on modernism in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, the Arab world, Japan, and the South Pacific.
- Harsha Ram is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. He is the author of The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire, and is currently completing his second book, The Scale of Culture: City, Nation, Empire and the Russian-Georgian Encounter. Harsha edited the section on modernism in the Caucasus.
- Stephen J. Ross is Assistant Professor of English at Concordia University. He is the author of Invisible Terrain: John Ashbery and the Aesthetics of Nature (OUP, 2017). He is one of the general editors of the anthology, and was section editor or co-editor of the sections on modernism in the Caribbean, the Arab world, and greater China.
- Kaitlin Staudt is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Auburn. She has published article in venues such as Feminist Modernist Studies and Middle Eastern Literatures, and is currently completing her first monograph, Move Forward and Ascend!: Temporality and The Politics of Form in the Turkish Modernist Novel and editing a cluster of essays on “Global Modernism’s Other Empires.” She edited the Turkish modernism section of this anthology.
- Camilla Sutherland is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. She is a contributor to the forthcoming Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Global Modernist Magazines and is currently working on a monograph entitled The Space of Latin American Women Modernists. Camilla edited the Latin American section of this anthology.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amoody@bard.edu.
Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
Saturday, October 24, 2020
12–5 pm
CCS GalleriesThe Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
Virtual Family & Alumni/ae Weekend
Friday, October 23, 2020 – Sunday, October 25, 2020
Online EventFor parents, Family and Alumni/ae Weekend is one of the most exciting events on the academic calendar. It happens in mid-October, after students have settled in for the semester. The Family and Alumni/ae Weekend schedule is packed full of activities, showcasing just about every program on Bard’s 1,000-acre campus.
See What's Happening
For more information, call 845-758-7867.
Bard College Conservatory of Music
Student and Faculty Showcase Weekend
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Online EventSaturday, October 24 at 7:30 pm
Bard College Conservatory Orchestra Leon Botstein, Music Director
Concert in honor of cellist and faculty member Luis Garcia-Renart (1936–2020)
Pablo Casals
Song of the Birds (El Cant dels Ocells)
La Sardana, Cello choir with faculty members Peter Wiley and Raman Ramakrishnan and students from the Music Program, Conservatory, and The Orchestra Now
Erica Lindsay
Adagio World Premiere
Conservatory Orchestra with Erica Kiesewetter, conductor
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons
Conservatory Orchestra
with faculty soloists Gil Shaham and Adele Anthony, violins
Sunday, October 25 at 3 pm
Bard College Conservatory Orchestra Leon Botstein, Music Director
W.A. Mozart
Serenade No. 6 in D major, KV 239 "Serenata notturna"
Gustav Mahler
Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
Introduction and Allegro, for string quartet and string orchestra in G major, Op.47
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bcom-2020-10.
Bard Chapel Service (Virtual)
Sunday, October 25, 2020
3–4 pm
Online EventJoin via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O
All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, scripture readings, and reflections on Sundays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1O.
Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
Sunday, October 25, 2020
12–5 pm
CCS GalleriesThe Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
Virtual Family & Alumni/ae Weekend
Friday, October 23, 2020 – Sunday, October 25, 2020
Online EventFor parents, Family and Alumni/ae Weekend is one of the most exciting events on the academic calendar. It happens in mid-October, after students have settled in for the semester. The Family and Alumni/ae Weekend schedule is packed full of activities, showcasing just about every program on Bard’s 1,000-acre campus.
See What's Happening
For more information, call 845-758-7867.
Bard College Conservatory of Music
Student and Faculty Showcase Weekend
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Online EventSaturday, October 24 at 7:30 pm
Bard College Conservatory Orchestra Leon Botstein, Music Director
Concert in honor of cellist and faculty member Luis Garcia-Renart (1936–2020)
Pablo Casals
Song of the Birds (El Cant dels Ocells)
La Sardana, Cello choir with faculty members Peter Wiley and Raman Ramakrishnan and students from the Music Program, Conservatory, and The Orchestra Now
Erica Lindsay
Adagio World Premiere
Conservatory Orchestra with Erica Kiesewetter, conductor
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons
Conservatory Orchestra
with faculty soloists Gil Shaham and Adele Anthony, violins
Sunday, October 25 at 3 pm
Bard College Conservatory Orchestra Leon Botstein, Music Director
W.A. Mozart
Serenade No. 6 in D major, KV 239 "Serenata notturna"
Gustav Mahler
Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
Introduction and Allegro, for string quartet and string orchestra in G major, Op.47
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bcom-2020-10.
Juliana Huxtable '10 and Kimberly N. Foster
Part of the Race and Revolution Lecture Series
Monday, October 26, 2020
6–8 pm
Online EventThis will be an evening talk between the prolific Juliana Huxtable '10 and her special guest Kimberly Foster, founder and host of For Harriet. Together, they will be examining the residual effects of the recent George Floyd protests and exploring their own racial imaginary in order tease out a vision of the future.
Juliana Huxtable is an artist, writer, and dj/musician. Huxtable has exhibited and performed at a number of venues including Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Project Native Informant, Artists Space, the New Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, and the Musée d'Art Moderne. She is author of Mucus in My Pineal Gland and coauthor, with Hannah Black, of Life: A Novel. Her poetry and visual work were included in the 2015 Triennial at the New Museum. She is the recipient of the 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant and is a 2019 United States Artist Fellow.
Kimberly Foster is a writer, cultural critic and founder and editor-in-chief of For Harriet, a multi-platform digital community for Black women, and Black Girls Gather, a national live event series.
Founded in 2010, For Harriet is a leading voice for Black women’s journalism and storytelling. Kimberly began For Harriet while she was an undergraduate at Harvard University.
The site has been featured in the New York Times, ESSENCE, and Forbes and Huffington Post. Kimberly has written for The Guardian, Newsweek, Quartz, and Fortune, and appeared on OWN, Huffpost Live, NPR, MSNBC, BET.com, and many local radio stations across the country commenting on culture and current events.
Kimberly's video commentaries on current events and feminism have been viewed million of times.
In 2016, she was named to Forbes Magazine's 30 under 30 list. In 2017 ESSENCE named her one of 50 founders to watch. In 2019, her video appeared on OWN’s “Black Women OWN the Conversation.” She has also been recognized as a leading voice online by Teen Vogue and Huffington Post.
Kimberly has been invited to give talks at dozens of universities across the country including keynotes at Cornell University, Boston College, and Emory University. She holds a degree in African American Studies.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Re-Imagining the World As We Know It
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
6–7:15 pm
Online EventA series on discourse and dialogue surrounding social justice topics of today with the goal of educating and providing tools for our students, staff, and faculty to effectively re-imagine inclusive spaces, and promote an environment for unlearning, learning, and healing for the Bard community.
Zoom credentials:
Webinar ID: 870 4821 3825
Passcode: 830848Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Dean of Student Affairs; Gender Equity/Title XI, The President's Office, Bard Athletics; Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail adunn@bard.edu.
Bard Farm Stand
Thursday, October 29, 2020
1–5 pm
Annandale HousePlease come join us at the Kline Bus Stop in front of New Annandale House for our summer farm stand. We are at the intersection of Annandale Rd and Woods Ave. We accept cash and credit card payments and will be accepting online preorders for contactless pickup at our farm stand beginning the week of June 15.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ryoshino@bard.edu.
Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
Thursday, October 29, 2020
12–5 pm
CCS GalleriesThe Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
The 2020 U.S. Election Series: Elections in the Information Age: Polls, Ballots, Media and Meddling
Mark Steitz in conversation with Walter Russell Mead
Thursday, October 29, 2020
12–1 pm
Online12-1pm NY | 6-7pm Vienna
Mark Steitz, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs and senior principal at TSD Communications, will join Walter Russell Mead to discuss current polling data for the 2020 election. Looking beyond horse race politics, they will consider what the information teaches us about American society as it exists today.
Zoom info: https://bard.zoom.us/j/85215800019?pwd=b0lzRHR4SGMwN3NmSnFFMGtFVFl4Zz09
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.Mark Steitz, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs and senior principal at TSD Communications, will join Walter Russell Mead to discuss current polling data for the 2020 election. Looking beyond horse race politics, they will consider what the information teaches us about American society as it exists today.
Zoom info: https://bard.zoom.us/j/85215800019?pwd=b0lzRHR4SGMwN3NmSnFFMGtFVFl4Zz09
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Rev. Jacqui Lewis and Kenyon Adams
Part of the Race and Revolution Lecture Series
Thursday, October 29, 2020
6–8 pm
Online EventJacqui Lewis is Senior Minister of Middle Collegiate Church, a multi-everything congregation in the East Village, NYC.
Kenyon Victor Adams is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. His recent work explores the notion of fractured epistemologies, and seeks to reclaim or expand various ways of knowing through integrative artistic practices. Kenyon has contributed art and thought leadership at Yale School of Drama, Yale ISM Poetry Conference, Live IdeasFestival, the Langston Hughes Project, the National Arts Policy Roundtable, and the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He studied Religion and Literature at Yale Divinity School, and Theology of Contemporary Performance at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Kenyon served as Artist in Residence at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music for the 2015–16 academic year. His multi-media performance works have addressed issues of legibility, race, and American memory. Currently in production through New York Live Arts, Prayers of the People, directed by Bill T. Jones, is a performance work responding to the writings of Martin Luther King Jr. Kenyon is the Founding Arts Initiative Director at Grace Farms and the SANAA-designed River Building in New Canaan, Conn.For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
Friday, October 30, 2020
12–5 pm
CCS GalleriesThe Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
The Four Quartets Experience
Friday, October 30, 2020 – Sunday, November 1, 2020
Online Event"The greatest creation of dance theater so far this century.”—The New York Times
The pandemic has postponed future engagements for now, and so we offer audiences around the world the chance to experience Four Quartets from home.You have the option of streaming the 2018 World Premiere of Four Quartets, or, dive deeper with the All-Access Special Event on October 30, which includes exclusive, early access, live content (details below).
1. Four Quartets: 2018 World Premiere
Streaming to the general public October 31–November 1This ravishing union of dance, music, painting, and poetry is a vast and thrilling performance that has gained admiration from audiences at the Fisher Center, in London, and in Los Angeles.
PURCHASE • FOUR QUARTETS
2. All-Access Special Event: There the Dance Is (In the steps of Pam Tanowitz’s Four Quartets) Film Premiere
Friday, October 30 at 7 pm EDTWhat is it like to dance Four Quartets? Join us for a rare opportunity to experience this epic performance from the other side of the curtain—through conversations with Kathleen Chalfant, Pam Tanowitz, and the dancers of the company. Filmed remotely over the summer of 2020, There the Dance Is, leads us on a journey of reflection and revelation.
The virtual premiere of There the Dance Is will be preceded by a livestream conversation between Tanowitz and former New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay.
This exclusive experience includes:
- A live-streamed conversation between Pam Tanowitz and Alastair Macaulay
- A virtual toast with the company
- A screening of There the Dance Is
- Advance access to the Four Quartets stream
- Advance access to the new Four Quartets audiobook featuring Kathleen Chalfant
PURCHASE • ALL-ACCESS
Sponsored by: Fisher Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/four-quartets-experience.
Towards Communal Media: A Conversation with Yazan Khalili
Friday, October 30, 2020
2–4 pm
Online EventJoin via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89352702820?pwd=czdSa0M4bDRFSWo0K243d0pRd3VaUT09
Yazan Khalili will talk about “the total work of the cultural institution,” a concept developed during his time at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, asking how we can practice critique through the structures of the cultural production. He will also discuss Radio Alhara, the online communal radio that was established in Palestine at the beginning of the lockdown, and functions as an open platform for sharing sound in all its formats. He will think with us about communal media and collective practices, how to establish cultural structures, and infiltrate others.
Yazan Khalili lives and works in and out of Palestine. He is an architect, artist, and cultural producer. His works have been exhibited in several major exhibitions, including KW (Berlin, 2020), MoCA (Toronto, 2020), New Photography (MoMA, 2018), and Shanghai Biennial (2016). Khalili was the director of Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre between 2015 and 2019. He is one of the founders of Radio Alhara, Palestine. Currently, he is the cochair of the photography division of the MFA program at Bard College, a PhD candidate at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, and a guest researcher at the Rijksakademie.
Read more by Yazan Khalili in English here:
and in Arabic here:
This event is cosponsored by the Human Rights Project.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 893 5270 2820
Passcode: Db8Q96
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail dramadan@bard.edu, or visit https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89352702820?pwd=czdSa0M4bDRFSWo0K243d0pRd3VaUT09.
Faculty Recital: Molly Carr, viola
American Visionaries: Works by Amy Beach, Beyonce, George Gershwin, Fernando Lascurain, and Florence Price
Friday, October 30, 2020
7–9 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingPraised for her “intoxicating” (New York Times) and “ravishing” (STRAD) performances of “silken finesse with gritty vibrancy” (Gramophone), violist Molly Carr enjoys a diverse musical career as recitalist, chamber musician, educator, and artistic director. She has been the recipient of numerous national and international prizes and awards, including the Primrose International Viola Competition, Chamber Music America, ProMusicis Foundation, Davidson Institute, Virtu Foundation, MAW Alumni Enterprise Awards, ASTA, and ARTS, among many others. Her performances have taken her across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and have been broadcast on CBS's Live from Lincoln Center, Good Morning America, and National Public Radio in the United States, as well as on Canadian, Bulgarian, Israeli, and Hungarian National Television and Radio. In October 2018, Ms. Carr was honored at the United Nations for her work with refugees around the globe through the Carr-Petrova Duo’s Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project; she was also chosen as one of America's leading “Creative Women”—subsequently appearing on the Sandi Klein show Conversations with Creative Women.
This recital will be prerecorded and streamed on October 30, 2020, at 7pm. We hope that you will join us. The program is attached.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
Saturday, October 31, 2020
12–5 pm
CCS GalleriesThe Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
The Four Quartets Experience
Friday, October 30, 2020 – Sunday, November 1, 2020
Online Event"The greatest creation of dance theater so far this century.”—The New York Times
The pandemic has postponed future engagements for now, and so we offer audiences around the world the chance to experience Four Quartets from home.You have the option of streaming the 2018 World Premiere of Four Quartets, or, dive deeper with the All-Access Special Event on October 30, which includes exclusive, early access, live content (details below).
1. Four Quartets: 2018 World Premiere
Streaming to the general public October 31–November 1This ravishing union of dance, music, painting, and poetry is a vast and thrilling performance that has gained admiration from audiences at the Fisher Center, in London, and in Los Angeles.
PURCHASE • FOUR QUARTETS
2. All-Access Special Event: There the Dance Is (In the steps of Pam Tanowitz’s Four Quartets) Film Premiere
Friday, October 30 at 7 pm EDTWhat is it like to dance Four Quartets? Join us for a rare opportunity to experience this epic performance from the other side of the curtain—through conversations with Kathleen Chalfant, Pam Tanowitz, and the dancers of the company. Filmed remotely over the summer of 2020, There the Dance Is, leads us on a journey of reflection and revelation.
The virtual premiere of There the Dance Is will be preceded by a livestream conversation between Tanowitz and former New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay.
This exclusive experience includes:
- A live-streamed conversation between Pam Tanowitz and Alastair Macaulay
- A virtual toast with the company
- A screening of There the Dance Is
- Advance access to the Four Quartets stream
- Advance access to the new Four Quartets audiobook featuring Kathleen Chalfant
PURCHASE • ALL-ACCESS
Sponsored by: Fisher Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/four-quartets-experience.
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Sunday, October 25, 2020
- 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
- 3 pm The Making of Mad Forest
- 3–4 pm Bard Chapel Service (Virtual)
- 5:30 pm Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Three - 5:30 pm Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Four - Virtual Family & Alumni/ae Weekend
- Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
- Fisher Center Artists
- Our World: The Past Reflected in the Present
- Live Arts Bard: Commissions and Residencies
- Live Arts Bard Biennial
- Together, Apart
- Daniel Fish and the Fisher Center
- Oresteia
- Euryanthe
- The Wreckers
- Spiegeltent From Home
- Mexican Modernists
- French Romanticism
- Demon
- The Miracle of Heliane
- Composer in Focus: Richard Strauss
- Dimitrij
- Meshell Ndegeocello
Chapter & Verse:
The Gospel of James Baldwin - Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Two - Bard College Conservatory of Music
- Iris
Monday, October 26, 2020
- 3 pm The Making of Mad Forest
- 5:30 pm Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Three - 5:30 pm Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Four - 6–8 pm Juliana Huxtable '10 and Kimberly N. Foster
- Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
- Fisher Center Artists
- Our World: The Past Reflected in the Present
- Live Arts Bard: Commissions and Residencies
- Live Arts Bard Biennial
- Together, Apart
- Daniel Fish and the Fisher Center
- Oresteia
- Euryanthe
- The Wreckers
- Spiegeltent From Home
- Mexican Modernists
- French Romanticism
- Demon
- The Miracle of Heliane
- Composer in Focus: Richard Strauss
- Dimitrij
- Meshell Ndegeocello
Chapter & Verse:
The Gospel of James Baldwin - Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Two - Iris
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
- 3 pm The Making of Mad Forest
- 5:30 pm Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Three - 5:30 pm Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Four - Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
- Fisher Center Artists
- Our World: The Past Reflected in the Present
- Live Arts Bard: Commissions and Residencies
- Live Arts Bard Biennial
- Together, Apart
- Daniel Fish and the Fisher Center
- Oresteia
- Euryanthe
- The Wreckers
- Spiegeltent From Home
- Mexican Modernists
- French Romanticism
- Demon
- The Miracle of Heliane
- Composer in Focus: Richard Strauss
- Dimitrij
- Meshell Ndegeocello
Chapter & Verse:
The Gospel of James Baldwin - Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Two - Iris
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
- 3 pm The Making of Mad Forest
- 5:30 pm Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Three - 5:30 pm Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Four - 6–7:15 pm Re-Imagining the World As We Know It
- Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
- Fisher Center Artists
- Our World: The Past Reflected in the Present
- Live Arts Bard: Commissions and Residencies
- Live Arts Bard Biennial
- Together, Apart
- Daniel Fish and the Fisher Center
- Oresteia
- Euryanthe
- The Wreckers
- Spiegeltent From Home
- Mexican Modernists
- French Romanticism
- Demon
- The Miracle of Heliane
- Composer in Focus: Richard Strauss
- Dimitrij
- Meshell Ndegeocello
Chapter & Verse:
The Gospel of James Baldwin - Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Two - Iris
Thursday, October 29, 2020
- 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
- 12–1 pm The 2020 U.S. Election Series: Elections in the Information Age: Polls, Ballots, Media and Meddling
- 1–5 pm Bard Farm Stand
- 3 pm The Making of Mad Forest
- 5:30 pm Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Three - 5:30 pm Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Four - 6–8 pm Rev. Jacqui Lewis and Kenyon Adams
- Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
- Fisher Center Artists
- Our World: The Past Reflected in the Present
- Live Arts Bard: Commissions and Residencies
- Live Arts Bard Biennial
- Together, Apart
- Daniel Fish and the Fisher Center
- Oresteia
- Euryanthe
- The Wreckers
- Spiegeltent From Home
- Mexican Modernists
- French Romanticism
- Demon
- The Miracle of Heliane
- Composer in Focus: Richard Strauss
- Dimitrij
- Meshell Ndegeocello
Chapter & Verse:
The Gospel of James Baldwin - Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Two - Iris
Friday, October 30, 2020
- 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
- 2–4 pm Towards Communal Media: A Conversation with Yazan Khalili
- 3 pm The Making of Mad Forest
- 5:30 pm Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Three - 5:30 pm Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Four - 7–9 pm Faculty Recital: Molly Carr, viola
- Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
- Fisher Center Artists
- Our World: The Past Reflected in the Present
- Live Arts Bard: Commissions and Residencies
- Live Arts Bard Biennial
- Together, Apart
- Daniel Fish and the Fisher Center
- Oresteia
- Euryanthe
- The Wreckers
- Spiegeltent From Home
- Mexican Modernists
- French Romanticism
- Demon
- The Miracle of Heliane
- Composer in Focus: Richard Strauss
- Dimitrij
- Meshell Ndegeocello
Chapter & Verse:
The Gospel of James Baldwin - Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Two - The Four Quartets Experience
- Iris
Saturday, October 31, 2020
- 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
- 3 pm The Making of Mad Forest
- 5:30 pm Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Three - 5:30 pm Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Four - Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
- Fisher Center Artists
- Our World: The Past Reflected in the Present
- Live Arts Bard: Commissions and Residencies
- Live Arts Bard Biennial
- Together, Apart
- Daniel Fish and the Fisher Center
- Oresteia
- Euryanthe
- The Wreckers
- Spiegeltent From Home
- Mexican Modernists
- French Romanticism
- Demon
- The Miracle of Heliane
- Composer in Focus: Richard Strauss
- Dimitrij
- Meshell Ndegeocello
Chapter & Verse:
The Gospel of James Baldwin - Out of the Silence:
A Celebration of Music
Program Two - The Four Quartets Experience
- Iris