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"Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7281.
Where No Wall Remains
Emilio Rojas
Decolonized Feast
Saturday, October 19 2–4 pm
Bard Farm
The Sioux Chef: The (R)evolution of Indigenous Food Systems of North America
Tuesday, October 29 at 5 pm
LUMA Theater, Fisher Center
Lana Tatour: Citizenship as Domination: Settler Colonialism and the Making of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
Monday, November 11 at 5 pm
Olin Hall room 202
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Monday, November 11 at 6 pm
Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists.
Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm
LUMA Theater
The Wall: A film on the effect of the Wall's Imposing Presence on Migrant Families
Thursday, November 14 at 7 pm
Preston Cinema
HT94 Installation Participation Call
Wednesday, November 20 4–8 pm
LUMA Theater lobby
Studio Arts Visiting Artist Lecture: Baseera Kahn
Tuesday, December 3 at 5pm
Fisher Studio Arts Seminar RoomSponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/liveartsbard2019/.
Friday, November 1, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Tommy Buser-Clancy
Friday, November 1, 2019
Hegeman 204A
Crystal Mason, a Black mother of three from Texas, thought she was performing her civic duty by filling out a provisional ballot in the 2016 election. She didn't know it would land her a five-year prison sentence, upending her family and the life she had built.
At the time, Crystal was on federal supervised release, a preliminary period of freedom for individuals who have served their full time of incarceration in federal prison. Nobody told her that the state considered her ineligible to vote. Yet the state of Texas contended that somehow, she should have known. Although the state didn’t even count her provisional ballot, it still intends to send her to prison for the crime of voting while the state considered her ineligible.
Join us for a presentation by Tommy Buser-Clancy, staff-attorney for Texas ACLU who, alongside the Texas Civil Rights Project, are fighting Crystal Mason’s case in the courts.Sponsored by: American Studies Program; Center for Civic Engagement; Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences; Political Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6051, or e-mail sgilhool@bard.edu.
Friday, October 4, 2019 – Saturday, November 2, 2019
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Five weekly lectures on the origins of prophecy deploy the earliest Hebrew Scriptures comparatively, in the context of studies of shamanism and related topics. The aim is to permit the texts to articulate how they envision events that run counter to the prevailing patterns of political and military power, and ultimately to intimate an alternative structure of reality itself.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7335, or e-mail iatatbard@gmail.com.
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 25, 2020
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, e-mail nelson@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Sunday, September 1, 2019 – Monday, May 25, 2020
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 18, 2020
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail Sankai@dharma.net, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 18, 2020
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail Sankai@dharma.net, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Austrian conductor Hans Graf leads TŌN in two pieces from his homeland: Schubert’s beloved Great Symphony, and the U.S. premiere of a set of tone poems based on characters from The Tempest.
Hans Graf, conductor
Egon Wellesz Prospero's Incantations, U.S. Premiere
Franz Schubert Symphony No. 9, The Great
Estimated run time: 2 hoursSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/schuberts-great/.
Saturday, November 2, 2019
The men's and women's cross country teams host the Liberty League Championships. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Concerto Competition
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Conservatory undergraduates and Graduate Vocal Arts Program singers compete to perform as soloists with The Orchestra Now, Conservatory Orchestra, and American Symphony Orchestra.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/BCOM-Concerto-Competition-Final-Round/.
Saturday, November 2, 2019
The men's soccer team hosts Skidmore in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, November 2, 2019
The women's volleyball team hosts a tri-match. The schedule is as follows:
University of St. Joseph vs. Bard, 3:30 p.m.
Mount St. Vincent vs. University of St. Joseph, 5:30 p.m.
Mount St. Vincent vs. Bard, 7:30 p.m.
Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Austrian conductor Hans Graf leads TŌN in two pieces from his homeland: Schubert’s beloved Great Symphony, and the U.S. premiere of a set of tone poems based on characters from The Tempest.
Hans Graf, conductor
Egon Wellesz Prospero's Incantations, U.S. Premiere
Franz Schubert Symphony No. 9, The Great
Estimated run time: 2 hoursSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/schuberts-great/.
Monday, November 4, 2019
CCS Bard Classroom 102
Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. Speaker Series talks are held within Classroom 102 at CCS Bard unless otherwise noted. All talks are free and open to the public.
This talk will reflect on the Museo Travesti [Transvestite Museum] in Lima, Peru, founded by the late philosopher, drag queen and queer activist Giuseppe Campuzano (GiuCamp) in 2003. This museum was an attempt at a queer counter-reading and promiscuos intersectional thinking of history, one that collected objects, images, texts and documents, press clippings, and appropriated artworks in order to propose experimental displays and publications that would fracture the heterosexual gaze and dominant narratives. Between performance and historical research, Campuzano proposed a critical reviewing of history from the strategic perspective of a fictional figure she called the ‘androgynous indigenous / mixed-race transvestite.’ López will share ideas related to his collaboration with Campuzano, her museological performative experiments, and her queer strategies of archiving, curating and historicizing.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events/427-miguel-a-lopez-the-transvestite-museum-and-the-histories-we-deserve.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
In 2019, scholar, writer and artist Frances Negrón-Muntaner conceived the award-winning art installation Valor y Cambio to explore what people in Puerto Rico valued and to introduce the concept of a community currency. The project exceeded all expectations by attracting thousands of participants and inspiring the creation of community currencies in Puerto Rico and the United States. In this talk, Negrón-Muntaner reflects on the origins and impact of the project, and introduces a new concept arising from it: decolonial joy. This is a specific form of joy that arises when participants envision and experience a time where neither colonialism nor coloniality rule their lives.Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Global and International Studies Program; LAIS Program; Political Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7201, or e-mail sstamato@bard.edu.
6:00pm Reception
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
THE PRESENCE OF THEIR ABSENCE is the amazing story of a Los Angeles man seeking his roots in the ashes of the Holocaust.
The film encourages discussion on the new oral tradition that belongs uniquely to adult children of Shoah survivors. Few of their stories have ever been told.
We follow Fred Zaidman on his journey to trace his inherited trauma. Armed with only scant clues from his late parents who had survived concentration camps in Poland and Germany, Fred ventures into the unknown to tell his story for this first time.
With helpers in Poland, at Yad Vashem in Israel, at Bergen-Belsen, Germany - and with an unlikely source – a Baptist minister in Atlanta who guides us through a cemetery in Poland - Fred finds his roots, unshackles his pain and reconstructs his future.
We feature a Death March survivor from Fred’s ancestral town, Fred’s brother Martin – one of 1000 children born in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp – and discover living relatives in Israel among findings of those who perished in Poland.
Yad Vashem has called The Presence of Their Absence “a film for the ages." We are honored to be at the forefront of this groundbreaking tradition and look forward to sharing Fred’s courageous story.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology; Jewish Studies Program; The Rhinebeck Reformed Church, and The Jewish Federation of Dutchess County.
For more information, call 845-758-7335, or e-mail chilton@bard.edu.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Online
<<<<< REGISTER HERE >>>>>
Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Bard College, will outline career strategies for both soon-to-be and recent college graduates, and for professionals looking to make a move. Goodstein will provide participants with a concrete job-search strategy, discuss what the current political climate means for careers in social and environmental sustainability, and also field questions in a live, interactive webinar.
Webinar link will be sent upon completion of registration.
<<<<< REGISTER HERE >>>>>Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail ebangood@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/how-to-get-a-job-in-sustainability-11-05-19-webinar.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
RKC 103
Maylis de Kerangal is the author of several novels and novellas in French, including La vie voyageuse (2003), Corniche Kennedy (2008), Naissance d’un pont (winner of the Prix Médicis 2010, and published in English as Birth of a Bridge), and, most recently, Un monde à portée de main (2018). In 2014, her fifth novel, Réparer les vivants, was published to wide acclaim, topped bestseller lists for months, and went on to win several prestigious prizes. Its American translation (The Heart, FSG 2016) was one of the Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Fiction Works of 2016 ; its UK translation (Mend the Living) was the winner of the Wellcome Book Prize. Un chemin de table (2016) is de Kerangal’s most recent book made available in English, under the title The Cook (2019).
Praise for Mend the Living
“I’ve seldom read a more moving book” —Lydia Kiesling, Guardian
“[an] extraordinary novel that etches itself in the mind” —Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
Praise for The Cook
“de Kerangal’s food writing is incantatory […] I was left hungry for more” —Moira Hodgson, Wall Street Journal
Cosponsored by Bard’s Division of Languages and Literature, and the Cultural Services of the French EmbassySponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7121, or e-mail trudel@bard.edu.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed and performed by Bard students, this concert gives participants a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fall-dance-2019/.
DNA Repair: Why Do We Care?
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Taking a Symptom Level Approach to Depression
Michael Mullarkey
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Preston Theater
Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail jdainerbest@bard.edu.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Olin, Room 102
In this talk, Yinon Cohen demonstrates that the strategies Israel has deployed to dispossess Palestinian land and settle Jews in the West Bank have been uncannily similar to those used in Israel proper. After briefly analyzing the Judaization of space from the Jordan Valley to the Mediterranean Sea, he focuses on territorial and demographic processes in the occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem) since 1967. He Shows how the settler population has flourished demographically and socioeconomically, thereby enhancing Israel’s colonial project in the West Bank.
Yinon Cohen is Yosef H. Yerushalmi Professor of Israeli and Jewish Studies in the department of sociology at Columbia University. Before moving to Columbia in 2007, he was a professor of sociology and labor studies at Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on labor markets, social demography, ethnic inequality, and immigration. His most recent publications are on Israel’s territorial and demographic politics (Public Culture, 2018), Ashkenazi-Mizrahi education gap among third-generation Israelis (Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2018), and rising inequality in fringe benefits in the US (Sociological Science 2018).
Sponsored by: Human Rights Program; Jewish Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail perlmann@levy.org.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Join us for a screening of the new feature documentary "Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook." This film tracks the partisan campaign to make it harder and more dangerous to vote. The film will be followed by a discussion on voting rights with leading experts in the field with special guests: Timothy Smith, Emmy Award-winning producer and former U.S. congressman John Faso.
WATCH THE TRAILER
Date: November 7th, 2019
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema [MAP]
This event is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, November 8, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed and performed by Bard students, this concert gives participants a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fall-dance-2019/.
Weekend Sustainability Leadership Workshop
C2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Training: Bard College, 11/8-11/0
Registration fee of $30 covers lodging and food. Free for Bard students. The conference begins at 5 PM Friday and ends noon Sunday. Bard College is 90 miles north of New York City, and is easily accessible by Amtrak from Penn Station in NYC.
APPLY NOW!
Weekend Sustainability Leadership Workshop:
The C2C Fellows Network at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy is a national program for undergraduates and recent graduates aspiring to leadership work in sustainable politics, NGO’s and business. C2C’s intensive skills-based weekend workshops include young people from across the country.
Led by Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of Bard’s Center for Environmental Policy, C2C trainings focus on key leadership skills: vision, courage, developing your network, telling your story, and raising funds.
Graduates of the workshops join a national network with access to continuing educational and professional opportunities, including dedicated scholarships to attend Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Masters of Science degrees in Environmental Policy and Climate Science and Policy and the Bard MBA in Sustainability.
C2C Fellows are leaders whose vision is to make a difference soon. Our mission is to accelerate their life’s work.
APPLY NOW
Questions? Please contact Eban Goodstein (ebangood@bard.edu)
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, November 8, 2019
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, November 8, 2019
Hegeman 107
Interactions between light and matter underlie a variety of everyday technologies. Typical examples include solar cells, where light is absorbed and converted to electronic energy, and LEDs, where the opposite occurs. By embedding semiconductors in between two mirrors, we can greatly enhance the light-matter interaction, giving rise to much more exotic effects than just absorption or emission. Under certain conditions these systems can form hybrid quantum states known as “polaritons,” which exhibit properties of both light and matter. In a different regime, off-resonant light can cause the electronic energy levels to shift with negligible absorption. Known as the optical Stark effect, this feature provides a way to precisely control the energy levels of semiconductors using only light. In this talk, I will introduce the closely-related physics that describes both polariton formation and the optical Stark effect. I will then discuss some interesting features of both of these phenomena in atomically-thin semiconductors. Finally, I will present resent results that combine both of these regimes by demonstrating the optical Stark shift of exciton-polaritons in atomically-thin semiconductors.
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Friday, November 8, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The men's basketball team opens the 2019-20 season with a game against Becker College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Friday, November 8, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Friday, November 8, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Weekend Sustainability Leadership Workshop
C2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Training: Bard College, 11/8-11/0
Registration fee of $30 covers lodging and food. Free for Bard students. The conference begins at 5 PM Friday and ends noon Sunday. Bard College is 90 miles north of New York City, and is easily accessible by Amtrak from Penn Station in NYC.
APPLY NOW!
Weekend Sustainability Leadership Workshop:
The C2C Fellows Network at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy is a national program for undergraduates and recent graduates aspiring to leadership work in sustainable politics, NGO’s and business. C2C’s intensive skills-based weekend workshops include young people from across the country.
Led by Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of Bard’s Center for Environmental Policy, C2C trainings focus on key leadership skills: vision, courage, developing your network, telling your story, and raising funds.
Graduates of the workshops join a national network with access to continuing educational and professional opportunities, including dedicated scholarships to attend Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Masters of Science degrees in Environmental Policy and Climate Science and Policy and the Bard MBA in Sustainability.
C2C Fellows are leaders whose vision is to make a difference soon. Our mission is to accelerate their life’s work.
APPLY NOW
Questions? Please contact Eban Goodstein (ebangood@bard.edu)
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed and performed by Bard students, this concert gives participants a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fall-dance-2019/.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed and performed by Bard students, this concert gives participants a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fall-dance-2019/.
The Bard College men's squash team hosts its annual Round Robin, inviting teams from all over the Northeast for two days of matches. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Rhinebeck
Free farmer's market in need of student volunteers! Come help facilitate events like pumpkin painting, cooking tutorials and more.
Free lunch provided with Bard ID.
Shuttle leaves Kline stop at 9:30 AM, with volunteer work from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/NoCostMarketSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sdeveer@bard.edu.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Olin Language Center, Room 115
Join us at Bard College in the Hudson Valley for an 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:
Event Location: This event will be held on Bard College's Hudson Valley campus located at 30 Campus Rd. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
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-11-09-19.
Monthly Meeting of the Citizens' Climate Lobby/
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Olin Language Center
Gather for a potluck and listen to the national CCL live call and then participate in the action-oriented meeting—we use five levers of change to get bipartisan climate legislation passed. Build the political will for a solution to the climate crisis.
For more information, call 845-464-8025, e-mail lauriehusted@gmail.com, or visit https://www.facebook.com/CCLMidHudsonNorth/.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
The men's and women's swimming teams host St. Lawrence University. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano
Craig Terry, piano
Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Bard College Conservatory of Music, and Stephanie Blythe present a cabaret-style musical journey of song, from opera to popular standards.
Featuring works by:
and many more!
Estimated run time is 1 hrs 35 minutes with one 15-minute intermission.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Stephanie Blythe.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/BCOM-Stephanie-Blythe/.
Weekend Sustainability Leadership Workshop
C2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Training: Bard College, 11/8-11/0
Registration fee of $30 covers lodging and food. Free for Bard students. The conference begins at 5 PM Friday and ends noon Sunday. Bard College is 90 miles north of New York City, and is easily accessible by Amtrak from Penn Station in NYC.
APPLY NOW!
Weekend Sustainability Leadership Workshop:
The C2C Fellows Network at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy is a national program for undergraduates and recent graduates aspiring to leadership work in sustainable politics, NGO’s and business. C2C’s intensive skills-based weekend workshops include young people from across the country.
Led by Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of Bard’s Center for Environmental Policy, C2C trainings focus on key leadership skills: vision, courage, developing your network, telling your story, and raising funds.
Graduates of the workshops join a national network with access to continuing educational and professional opportunities, including dedicated scholarships to attend Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Masters of Science degrees in Environmental Policy and Climate Science and Policy and the Bard MBA in Sustainability.
C2C Fellows are leaders whose vision is to make a difference soon. Our mission is to accelerate their life’s work.
APPLY NOW
Questions? Please contact Eban Goodstein (ebangood@bard.edu)
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The Bard College men's squash team hosts its annual Round Robin, inviting teams from all over the Northeast for two days of matches. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Sunday, November 10, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Monday, November 11, 2019
Campus Walk Above Kline
In a rare occurrence, the planet Mercury will pass in front of the Sun on the morning of November 11. However, this is not a celestial event that one can view by looking to the heavens with an unaided eye, since
a) Mercury is very small compared with the Sun, and
b) You shouldn't look directly at the Sun.
In order to view the transit (clouds permitting) the Physics Program will have a telescope with a solar filter set up on Campus Walk, just up the hill from Kline. Drop by anytime from 9:30am until the transit ends at 1pm to check out this planetary alignment for yourself.
Note the next chance to view a Mercury transit from Bard will be on May 7, 2049.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7584, or e-mail paucz@bard.edu.
Monday, November 11, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Refugees in America (Rutgers UP, 2019) chronicles the personal journeys of people who arrived to the US under the refugee resettlement program. Given the current administration's policy to drastically curtail refugee resettlement here in the US, which is now in turn decimating existing resettlement infrastructure across the country, this talk will connect the stories to national debates and policies about the resettlement program.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Lana Tatour
Monday, November 11, 2019
Olin, Room 202
In this talk, Lana Tatour of Columbia University will trace the making of the Israeli citizenship regime, focusing on the period between 1948 and 1952. During these formative years, the 1950 Law of Return, which governs Jewish entitlement to citizenship, and the 1952 Citizenship Law, which governs the status of ’48 Palestinians, were enacted. Situating the Israeli case within the broader history of citizenship-making in Anglophone settler colonial sites and drawing on analogies with Australia, the United States, and Canada, she is interested in what this formative period, in which the constitutional cornerstones of Israel’s citizenship regime came into being, can tell us about Palestinian citizenship in Israel and about the institution of citizenship in settler-colonial contexts more broadly. Drawing on original archival material, this talk argues that in Israel, as in other settler polities, citizenship has figured as an institution of domination, functioning as a mechanism of elimination, a site of subjectivation, and an instrument of race making. Racial subjects, space, and citizenship were constituted in relation to each other in intimate ways. Citizenship transformed space from Arab/Palestinian to Jewish, rendered settlers indigenous, and produced Palestinian natives as alien. Israel’s citizenship regime was predicated on the racial demarcation between Palestinians, whose citizenship was governed by the logic of naturalization, and Jewish settlers, viewed as natural and authentic subjects of citizenship. Presented in association with Live Arts Bard’s festival about borders, Where No Wall Remains.
Lana Tatour is Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. She is currently working on her book manuscript, Ambivalent Resistance: Palestinians in Israel and the Liberal Politics of Settler Colonialism and Human Rights. Tatour completed her Ph.D. in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom in 2017. Her doctoral research was awarded the Leigh Douglas Memorial runner-up prize for best Ph.D. dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (2018). She was previously a fellow at the University of New South Wales(UNSW) Faculty of Law, UNSW School of Social Sciences, the Australian Human Rights Centre, and the Palestinian American Research Center. Sponsored by: Global and International Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7201, or e-mail sstamato@bard.edu.
Jürgen Böttcher
Monday, November 11, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Discussion with German Studies students and eminent essayist Uwe Kolbe
Jürgen Böttcher’s striking documentary Die Mauer (The Wall, 1990) is praised as the unparalleled masterpiece on the fall of the Berlin Wall. The acclaimed filmmaker and painter explores the meaning of the Wall in the historical moment of its disappearance as the dividing line between East and West. The film portrays the Berlin Wall as a monument and canvas on which German histories are being projected. Böttcher’s film Die Mauer received the Golden Camera at the Berlin Film Festival and has been shown all over the world, including at MoMA, New York. The screening will also include a selection of rarely seen short films by Jürgen Böttcher.
Uwe Kolbe is an eminent poet, essayist, writer of prose, and translator. His first volume of poetry, Hineingeboren (Born Into), appeared in East Berlin in 1980. The increasingly critical nature of his writing led to a ban on publication in the GDR soon after. During the early 1980s, he edited the underground journal Mikado. Eventually, he was permitted to travel abroad and lived between Hamburg and East Berlin. Uwe Kolbe is author of 13 books of poetry and recipient of many prestigious prizes. He also was a writer in residence at the University of Texas Austin and at Oberlin College. His collection of essays, Vineta’s Archives (2012), received the distinguished Heinrich-Mann-Award by the Academy of Arts Berlin.Sponsored by: German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7363, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.
Monday, November 11, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
On Monday, November 11, at 6:30 p.m., in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Sigrid Nunez reads from her work. Presented by the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and the Written Arts Program, and introduced by MacArthur Fellow Dinaw Mengestu, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books by Sigrid Nunez will be available for sale, courtesy of Oblong Books & Music.
Sigrid Nunez was born and raised in New York City, the daughter of a German mother and a Panamanian-Chinese father. In 1972, after graduating from Barnard College, Nunez worked as an editorial assistant for Robert B. Silvers at the New York Review of Books. She then received her MFA from Columbia University and returned to NYRB, where she met the late Susan Sontag, who became the subject of her 2011 memoir, Sempre Susan. Nunez chronicled her childhood and adolescence in her first book, a hybrid novel, A Feather on the Breath of God (1995), both a critical and commercial success. Her novel For Rouenna (2001), which tells the story of a woman’s experiences in the Vietnam War, was seen by many as her “breakthrough work.” In her fiction, Nunez has experimented with a vast range of genres and themes, marked by a spare, intimate, confessional tone. While beloved by fellow novelists, Nunez kept a deliberate distance from the literary scene, but with the 2018 publication of “The Friend,” Nunez became an “overnight literary sensation,” winning the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction and drawing euphoric reviews that hailed the novel as “a subtle, unassuming masterpiece” (New York Times).
Sigrid Nunez is the author of eight books. Her work has appeared in anthologies including four Pushcart Prize volumes, four anthologies of Asian-American literature, and The Best American Short Stories 2019. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize in Literature. Her work has been translated into ten languages and is in the process of being translated into thirteen more. She lives in New York City.
“Nunez’s prose itself comforts us. Her confident and direct style uplifts—the music in her sentences, her deep and varied intelligence. She addresses important ideas unpretentiously and offers wisdom for any aspiring writer.” —New York Times Book Review
“Nunez has proved herself a master of psychological acuity.” —New Yorker
“A major talent . . . [Nunez’s] gift is wild and large.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Nunez’s piercing intelligence and post-feminist consciousness may well feel that writing the Great American novel is no longer a feasible or worthwhile goal—but damned if she hasn’t gone and done it anyway.” —Salon
“Nunez’s keen powers of observation make her a natural chronicler.” —New York Review of Books
“When the apocalypse comes, I want Nunez in my lifeboat.” —Vanity Fair
“One of the most dizzyingly accomplished of our writers.” —Gary ShteyngartSponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and the Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail nnyhan@bard.edu.
Monday, November 11, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
Monday, November 11, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Montgomery Place, Mansion
Panel Speakers
Session 1: Solar Energy
November 12, 3–5 p.m.
Emily Majer ’95, Town of Red Hook historian and deputy mayor, Village of Tivoli
Audrey Friedrichsen, land use and environmental advocacy attorney, Scenic Hudson
Jeff Irish, vice president, SunCommon
Moderated by Ben Hoen CEP ’06, research scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Session 2: Hydro Energy
December 3, 3–5 p.m.
Emily Majer ’95
Jan Borchert, head of hydro facility design and permitting, Current Hydro
Weston Davey, historic site restoration coordinator, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation
Moderated by Robyn Smyth, assistant professor of environmental and urban studies, Bard College
Programs are free to all Bard students and open to the public. Limited seating available; registration required. Email montgomeryplace@bard.edu to register or call 845-758-7505 for more information.
For more information, call 845-758-7505, e-mail montgomeryplace@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/montgomeryplace/.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Olin, Room 102
Tootie’s Last Suit is an awarding-winning documentary about the famed Mardi Gras Indian Chief of New Orleans, Allison Montana, a.k.a. Tootie, who died in 2005. The historical and biographical film explores the history and performative culture of Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the segregation that ensued around carnival. The film has received recognition from the Society for Visual Anthropology and a special honor from the Margaret Mead Film Foundation at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Lisa Katzman is highly-accomplished film director, whose films include Flamencos: Here at There (Aquí y Allí), 9/11’s Unsettled Dust and its sequel Hiding BP’s Oil (currently in post-production). She is currently working on a screenplay titled “Rachel and Gerard” with the director Charles Burnett, and an adaptation of Dorien Ross’ novel Returning to A. Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; American Studies Program; Film and Electronic Arts Program; Historical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-4600, or e-mail dthompso@bard.edu.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail ebangood@bard.edu, or visit https://bluejeans.com/858694001.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 – Thursday, November 14, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Help host an informal campus tour and peer-to-peer panel for local middle school students from 1:00-3:00!
Then, help facilitate science experiments. Meet outside Weis Cinema at 3:00.
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/HamptonBaysBardSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sdeveer@bard.edu.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
CCS Bard Classroom 102
Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. Speaker Series talks are held within Classroom 102 at CCS Bard unless otherwise noted. All talks are free and open to the public.
Venezuela is experiencing the most difficult times due to a political and social economic crisis that has affected all sectors of the country and the field of art has been one of the most hurt by the lack of cultural policies that contribute to the strengthening of cultural institutions. However, as strange as it may seem, there is a movement of sensitive people, non profit organizations and communities with a genuine interest in reinventing and circumventing the difficulties to ensure that artistic practices have a relevant space in Venezuelan society despite the opacity that run theses days in the country.
Ramírez will talk about innovative and creative ways to stand for the arts in dire moments. Also, Ramírez will present the project Tráfico Visual.com and will explain on how traficovisual.com has been changing in order to understand the needs of new audiences.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events/431-ileana-ramirez-romero.
A Lecture by Benedetta Zavatta
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Olin, Room 201
Benedetta Zavatta will be presenting Individuality and Beyond: Nietzsche Reads Emerson, her groundbreaking study of the influence of the American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson on the German Friedrich Nietzsche, recently published by Oxford University Press. Nietzsche read Emerson intensely from a young age and through to the end of his writing career. Referring to Emerson’s Essays, Nietzsche wrote that he had never “felt so at home in a book; felt so much, indeed, as if the home were my own.” In her study, Zavatta surveys all the evidence in Nietzsche’s published writing and in his archive—including correspondence, notes, and Nietzsche’s heavily annotated copies of Emerson—to develop a rich portrait of Nietzsche’s complex relationship to the American writer he once called his “twin soul.” Zavatta's book explores the profound influence that Emerson had on Nietzsche’s thinking about a wide range of topics, including individualism, perfectionism, morality, and freedom. It also provides a fresh reading of Emerson, who, seen from a Nietzschean perspective, comes to light as an incisive cultural critic and a decisive figure in the history of philosophy.
After the talk, poet Ann Lauterbach and philosopher Daniel Berthold will begin the discussion, responding to Benedetta Zavatta’s presentation and drawing on their own long-term engagements with Emerson and Nietzsche, respectively.
Benedetta Zavatta is Marie Curie Researcher at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (CNRS/ENS) in Paris. Daniel Berthold is Professor of Philosophy at Bard College. Ann Lauterbach is the David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.Sponsored by: German Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Philosophy Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7142, or e-mail bart@bard.edu.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/LAB-Intro-Panel/.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
These four works from the late 1920s, including the suite from Stravinsky’s ballet score The Fairy’s Kiss, give us insight into the evolving world of orchestral music 90 years ago.
Leon Botstein, conductor
Michael Nagy, baritone
Honegger Rugby*
Schoeck Buried Alive
Mitropoulos Concerto Grosso*
Stravinsky Divertimento, The Fairy's Kiss Suite
*First NY performances in over 50 years
Estimated run time: 2 hours 25 minutesSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/TON-20s/.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 – Thursday, November 14, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Help host an informal campus tour and peer-to-peer panel for local middle school students from 1:00-3:00!
Then, help facilitate science experiments. Meet outside Weis Cinema at 3:00.
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/HamptonBaysBardSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sdeveer@bard.edu.
Felicia Keesing
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Preston Theater
Listen to students and alums who have participated in summer internships discuss their experiences, and learn about opportunities for the coming year. There will be an opportunity for Q&A as well as hearing about different internship opportunities.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail jdainerbest@bard.edu.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Sponsored by: Bard Tango Program; Ethnomusicology.
For more information, call 503-901-0031, or e-mail cgoodstein@bard.edu.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Preston
The latest heinous acts of domestic terrorism and white supremacy put these incidents in the middle of the ongoing debate about immigration, border security, and national identity. In times of crisis, we need to know who the victims are, their challenges, and their dreams.
Please join us on Thursday, November 14, 2019, from 7pm to 9pm, at Preston Theater for the screening of The Wall: The Effects of Its Imposing Presence on Migrant Families, a firsthand look at the reality of the Hispanic population in the United States and the current undocumented immigration crisis, touching on topics such as the U.S.-Mexico border wall, the effects of family separation at the border, deportation, and DACA. Films to be shown include: Landfall by Stephanie Schiavenato (USA, 10 min., 2018); Erasing the Border by Laura Herrero Garvín (Mexico and USA, 12 min., 2018); What Would You Pack? by Sara Gozalo (USA, 3 min., 2018); Returned by Meredith Hoffman and Sarah Kuck (USA , 17 min., 2017); What Happens to a Dream Deferred by Scott Boehm and Peter Johnston (USA, 12 min., 2018).
In Spanish with English subtitles. Open to all.
Cosponsored by the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, the Spanish Studies Program, and the Human Rights Project. Presented in association with Live Arts Bard’s festival about borders, “Where No Wall Remains.”Sponsored by: Human Rights Program; LAIS Program; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7472, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Campus Center, Cafe
Come and hear these very talented Bardian singers!Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pamelapentony@gmail.com.
Abigail Stevens ’11
Friday, November 15, 2019
Hegeman 107
One of the best laboratories to study strong-field gravity is the inner 100s of kilometers around black holes and neutron stars in binary systems with low-mass stars like our Sun. The X-ray light curves of these binary systems show variability on timescales from milliseconds to months — the shorter (sub-second) variability can appear as quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), which may be produced by general relativistic effects. My research looks at QPOs from black holes and neutron stars (as well as coherent X-ray pulsations from neutron stars) by fitting the phase-resolved energy spectra of these signals to constrain their physical origin and track their evolution in time. In this talk, I will introduce why black holes and neutron stars are interesting and discuss state-of-the-art “spectral-timing” analysis techniques for understanding more about them. I will also highlight open-source astronomy research software and the importance of mental wellbeing among students and early-career researchers.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Friday, November 15, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Friday, November 15, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The Raptors host Bay Path University on the first day of the Raptors Tip-Off. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Friday, November 15, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
The Bard College women's squash team hosts its annual Round Robin, inviting teams from all over the Northeast for two days of matches. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
The Bard College women's squash team hosts its annual Round Robin, inviting teams from all over the Northeast for two days of matches. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Sunday, November 17, 2019
LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10038
During the Saturday or Sunday of each Residency Weekend, we invite visiting prospective MBA students to:
Location: LMHQ 150 Broadway NY, NY 10038Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/residency-visit-11-17-19.
Sunday, November 17, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
Bard wraps up the Raptors Tip-Off with a game against Mount Holyoke College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Sunday, November 17, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Students and faculty perform contemporary works for percussion.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7866, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Sunday, November 17, 2019
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Marin Marais – Alcyone (Excerpts)
J. S. Bach – Cantata 198: Trauer-Ode
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail rlouprette@bard.edu.
Sunday, November 17, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
The Institute for International Liberal Education (Bard Abroad) invites you to participate in International Education Week at Bard!
“International Education Week (IEW) is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences” (Dept. of State).
Make sure to like and follow Bard Abroad on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date with events!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7835, e-mail lcooke@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/bardabroad.
Monday, November 18, 2019
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Indulge in international cuisine, cultural dances, and more!Sponsored by: Institute for International Liberal Education; Office of International Student and Scholar Services.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ahanif@bard.edu.
Monday, November 18, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Genya Turovskaya MFA '05 was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and grew up in New York City. She is the author of The Breathing Body of This Thought (Black Square Editions) as well as numerous chapbooks. Her poetry and translations of contemporary Russian poets have appeared in A Public Space, Asymptote, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Fence, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Octopus, PEN Poetry, Sangam Poetry, Seedings, The Elephants, and other publications. She is the translator of Aleksandr Skidan's Red Shifting (Ugly Duckling Presse). She is the co-translator of Elena Fanailova's The Russian Version (Ugly Duckling Presse), which won the University of Rochester's Three Percent award for Best Translated Book of Poetry. She is also a co-translator of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko's Endarkenment: Selected Poems (Wesleyan). She holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She lives in New York City where she is a practicing psychotherapist.
John Yau is a poet, fiction writer, art critic, publisher of Black Square Editions, and freelance curator. He studied with Robert Kelly while at Bard and earned an MFA from Brooklyn College, where he studied with John Ashbery. Yau has received numerous awards including the Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the 2018 Jackson Poetry Prize, the American Poetry Review Jerome Shestack Award, and a 1988 New York Foundation for the Arts Award. Yau has published over fifty books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, including his most recent collection, Bijoux in the Dark (2018). He is on faculty at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.Sponsored by: John Ashbery Poetry Series.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, e-mail writtenarts@bard.edu, or visit https://writtenarts.bard.edu.
Jess Belardi Moderation concert
Monday, November 18, 2019
Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
The Institute for International Liberal Education (Bard Abroad) invites you to participate in International Education Week at Bard!
“International Education Week (IEW) is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences” (Dept. of State).
Make sure to like and follow Bard Abroad on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date with events!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7835, e-mail lcooke@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/bardabroad.
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Kline, Faculty Dining Room
Enjoy a night of Jamaican music, dance, and food.
This event is part of International Education Week 2019.Sponsored by: Office of International Student and Scholar Services.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ahanif@bard.edu.
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Olin, Room 204
Rumor has it that dictatorship and censorship were stimulating for poetry. This event will present the poetic writings by two authors, Wolfgang Hilbig (1941–2007) and Uwe Kolbe (b. 1957), whose work began under the conditions of a closed society, whose writings contributed to this society’s opening and continued to unfold and provoke after its collapse, marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall. This public reading of both writers’ imaginative work understands itself as an invitation for a discussion on literature and politics.
Uwe Kolbe is an eminent poet, essayist, writer of prose, and translator. His first volume of poetry, Hineingeboren (“Born Into”), appeared in East Berlin in 1980. The increasingly critical nature of his writing led to a ban on publication in the GDR soon after. During the early 1980s, he edited the underground journal Mikado. Eventually, he was permitted to travel abroad and lived between Hamburg and East Berlin. Kolbe is the author of 13 books of poetry and the recipient of many prestigious prizes. He also was a writer in residence at the University of Texas at Austin and at Oberlin College. His collection of essays, Vineta’s Archives (2012), received the distinguished Heinrich-Mann-Award from the Academy of Arts Berlin.
Presented with generous support of the S. Fischer Foundation.Sponsored by: German Studies Program; Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-7363, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
The Institute for International Liberal Education (Bard Abroad) invites you to participate in International Education Week at Bard!
“International Education Week (IEW) is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences” (Dept. of State).
Make sure to like and follow Bard Abroad on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date with events!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7835, e-mail lcooke@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/bardabroad.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Come learn about international opportunities throughout Bard's network! Opportunities include: Bard Abroad programs, tuition exchanges, language intensives, conferences, and more.Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7835, e-mail studyabroad@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/bardabroad.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Lobby
We invite you to play a crucial role in Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94), a participatory political art installation which will open November 21–24 during Where No Wall Remains, a four-day festival on borders and migration.
The installation features 3,117 handwritten toe tags, each representing someone who lost their life crossing the Arizona/Mexico border. Join us at any time between 4-8 pm to contribute to the completion of the toe tags, which will then be placed on the 20-foot-long map of the border installed on the Weis Atrium wall at the Fisher Center.
Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a prototype of a participatory political art installation organized by the Undocumented Migration Project that will launch in the fall of 2020 in 150 locations around the globe simultaneously. A 20-foot-long map of the Arizona/Mexico border is populated with 3,117 handwritten toe tags that contain information about those who have died while migrating including name (if known), age, sex, cause of death, condition of body, and location. Some tags contain QR and Augmented-Reality codes that link to content related to migrant stories and visuals connected to immigration that can be accessed via cellphone. HT94 is intended to memorialize and bear witness to the thousands who have died as a result of Prevention Through Deterrence.
The most crucial (and interactive) aspect of the installation are the audience members committing their time and energy to meticulously fill out the death details for all 3,117 toe tags and then being assisted in placing these tags in the exact locations on the map where those individuals were found. See more on the exhibition here.
“My idea is not to change people’s minds. It’s just to give them more information about this topic so they can make an informed decision and how to feel about it.” —Jason De León disussing the installation at Cypress College, CASponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ht94-install/.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
LMHQ NYC
Join us in New York City for an 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:
Event Location: This event will be held at LMHQ, 150 Broadway NY, NY Floor 20
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-11-20-19.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
The Institute for International Liberal Education (Bard Abroad) invites you to participate in International Education Week at Bard!
“International Education Week (IEW) is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences” (Dept. of State).
Make sure to like and follow Bard Abroad on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date with events!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7835, e-mail lcooke@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/bardabroad.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage
LAB Commission / World Premiere
The artist asks a friend to start an investigation and recounts in minute detail various aspects of her home and street in Bethlehem—a site marked by movement, migration, survival, and war.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/jacir/.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Fisher Center, Weiss Atrium
Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a prototype of a participatory political art installation organized by the Undocumented Migration Project that launches simultaneously in 150 locations around the globe in fall 2020. A 20-foot-long map of the Arizona/Mexico border is populated with 3,117 handwritten toe tags that contain information about those who have died while migrating, including name (if known), age, sex, cause of death, condition of body, and location. Some tags contain QR and augmented-reality codes that link to content related to migrant stories, and visuals connected to immigration that can be accessed via cell phone. HT94 is intended to memorialize and bear witness to the thousands who have died as a result of the U.S. Border Patrol’s immigration enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.”
The most crucial (and interactive) aspect of the installation is the act of audience members committing their time and energy to meticulously fill out the death details for all 3,117 toe tags, and then placing these tags in the exact locations on the map where those individuals were found.
See more on the exhibition here.
Este mapa contiene 3,117 etiquetas que representan a las personas que murieron al cruzar la frontera entre los Estados Unidos y México entre mediados de la década de 1990 y 2019. Las etiquetas marrón claro representan personas que han sido identificadas. Las etiquetas naranjas representan restos humanos no identificados. Estas etiquetas fueron completadas por estudiantes de Bard College y miembros de la comunidad en noviembre de 2019. Varios de las etiquetas este muro tienen códigos QR que se conectan al contenido en línea con respecto a los problemas de los migrantes a lo largo de la frontera sur de Estados Unidos.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ht94/.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Fisher Center, Weis Atrium & Bard Farm
LAB Commission / World Premiere
“The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” — Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is the first iteration of a multifaceted, interactive land art and community-based project, including a 72-foot-long line of indigenous crops (corn, beans, and squash, known as “the three sisters”) planted in the shape of the U.S.-Mexico border line on the Bard College Farm. It includes the harvesting, sharing, and clearing of crops and land; a mobile paleta cart-turned-drawing studio upon which persons of any background are invited to memorialize real or imagined borders; and the documentation and archive from various stages of the project. Continuing the legacy of Chicana feminist writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa, the work seeks to unearth histories of immigration, labor rights, borders, land sovereignty, and systemic oppression.
Guided Farm Walk Schedule (first come, first served)
Each walk will be approximately 45 minutes.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) was created in collaboration with the Bard Farm (Rebecca Yoshino, Farm Coordinator) and The Center for the Study of Land, Air and Water, with the participation of students Mary Elizabeth Klein Meghan Mercier, Kaitlyn McClelland, Gabrielle Reyes, Alexi Piirimae, Midori Barandiaran, and Austin Sumlin.
Return to Land Ritual Schedule (first come, first served)
This durational event will last approximately four hours.
m(Other)s: Hudson Valley is a series of video portraits of immigrant women, both documented and undocumented, holding their first-generation children. Inspired by the “hidden mother” photographs common from the advent of photography up until the 1920s—a standard practice requiring the mother to hold the child still while being covered and remaining invisible in the interest of foregrounding the child—these portraits seek to connect the political and social situation of women at the turn of the 20th century with the invisibility of the labor of immigrant women today.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/naturalized-borders/.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
LUMA Theater Balcony
The Reading Room is also on view through November 2019 at Wendy’s Subway, a non-profit library, writing space, and independent publisher in Brooklyn, New York.Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial; Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/reading-room-2019/.
Special Case Investigations in Virology:
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building, Room 210
Confucianism and Daoism, the two seemingly opposite but complementary Chinese philosophies, have molded Chinese music for more than two millennia. This lecture will explain how Confucian and Daoist metaphysics are the essence of Chinese literati music.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail uschinamusic@bard.edu, or visit https://barduschinamusic.org/events/great-music-is-simple.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Preston Theater
Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail jdainerbest@bard.edu.
Thursday, November 21, 2019 – Saturday, November 23, 2019
Murray's, Tivoli, NY
LAB Commission / World Premiere
In its first dinner performance in the United States, the Palestine Hosting Society presents an approach to “Palestinianess” that trespasses borders and geographies through a menu that brings together dishes from Palestinian cities and villages, refugee camps outside Palestine, and those that narrate intergenerational food habits and memory of the Palestinian diaspora, especially in the United States. Menu of Dis/appearance narrates stories about time, history, and parts of ourselves that we might have allowed to slip away.
Menu of Dis/appearance invites the audience on a journey through a selection of dishes that reflects the Palestine Hosting Society’s investigation and unearthing of traditional Palestinian cuisine. Some have been forgotten, their names rendered abstract to the current generation of Palestinians. Being denied a state of their own, Palestinians use food to express an identity that is constantly undermined. Life under occupation atrophied this connection to food, through imposing restrictive policies over food and water resources and inflicting control on wild plant foraging, as well as creating dissonance by showcasing Palestinian dishes as Israeli. Over the years, such measures created a kitchen that is dispossessed, making many traditional Palestinian dishes disappear, or be temporarily withdrawn.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard; Murray's, Tivoli.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/menu-of-disappearance/.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
The poet Robert Kelly offers his annual reading to honor the birthday of his wife, the renowned translator Charlotte Mandell, on Thursday, November 21, at 8:00 p.m. in Bard Hall. This event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
At Bard since 1961, Kelly is Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature, the founding director of the Writing Program of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, and a contributing editor of Conjunctions.
Poet, fiction writer, playwright, and more, he has published his Collected Essays, edited by Pierre Joris and Peter Cockelbergh (Contra Mundum); Oedipus after Colonus and Other Plays (Dr. Cicero Books); and Winter Music, texts to the photo work of Susan Quasha (T-space Editions). He was named Dutchess County’s first poet laureate in 2016.
His many, many other books include The Common Shore, The Loom, Kill the Messenger, Not This Island Music, The Flowers of Unceasing Coincidence, A Strange Market, Red Actions, The Time of Voice, The Garden of Distances, Lapis, Runes, Threads, May Day. Fiction: A Transparent Tree, Doctor of Silence, Cat Scratch Fever, The Queen of Terrors, and The Book from the Sky.
“In more than thirty-five collections of poetry, Kelly has utterly failed at one thing: to pigeonhole himself into predictability. Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960–1993 contains imagistic bits that seem like fragments of poetic tapestry, long surreal narratives, series poems, and sonorous chants. Whatever the form, they are marked by Kelly’s erudition, which covers Greek archaeology as readily as twentieth-century music, Sumerian gods as well as contemporary painting.” —BooklistSponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, e-mail ccape@bard.edu, or visit https://writtenarts.bard.edu.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The Institute for International Liberal Education (Bard Abroad) invites you to participate in International Education Week at Bard!
“International Education Week (IEW) is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences” (Dept. of State).
Make sure to like and follow Bard Abroad on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date with events!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7835, e-mail lcooke@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/bardabroad.
Thursday, November 21, 2019 – Saturday, November 23, 2019
Murray's, Tivoli, NY
LAB Commission / World Premiere
In its first dinner performance in the United States, the Palestine Hosting Society presents an approach to “Palestinianess” that trespasses borders and geographies through a menu that brings together dishes from Palestinian cities and villages, refugee camps outside Palestine, and those that narrate intergenerational food habits and memory of the Palestinian diaspora, especially in the United States. Menu of Dis/appearance narrates stories about time, history, and parts of ourselves that we might have allowed to slip away.
Menu of Dis/appearance invites the audience on a journey through a selection of dishes that reflects the Palestine Hosting Society’s investigation and unearthing of traditional Palestinian cuisine. Some have been forgotten, their names rendered abstract to the current generation of Palestinians. Being denied a state of their own, Palestinians use food to express an identity that is constantly undermined. Life under occupation atrophied this connection to food, through imposing restrictive policies over food and water resources and inflicting control on wild plant foraging, as well as creating dissonance by showcasing Palestinian dishes as Israeli. Over the years, such measures created a kitchen that is dispossessed, making many traditional Palestinian dishes disappear, or be temporarily withdrawn.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard; Murray's, Tivoli.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/menu-of-disappearance/.
Friday, November 22, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage
LAB Commission / World Premiere
The artist asks a friend to start an investigation and recounts in minute detail various aspects of her home and street in Bethlehem—a site marked by movement, migration, survival, and war.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/jacir/.
Friday, November 22, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Friday, November 22, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Friday, November 22, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Friday, November 22, 2019
Fisher Center, Weiss Atrium
Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a prototype of a participatory political art installation organized by the Undocumented Migration Project that launches simultaneously in 150 locations around the globe in fall 2020. A 20-foot-long map of the Arizona/Mexico border is populated with 3,117 handwritten toe tags that contain information about those who have died while migrating, including name (if known), age, sex, cause of death, condition of body, and location. Some tags contain QR and augmented-reality codes that link to content related to migrant stories, and visuals connected to immigration that can be accessed via cell phone. HT94 is intended to memorialize and bear witness to the thousands who have died as a result of the U.S. Border Patrol’s immigration enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.”
The most crucial (and interactive) aspect of the installation is the act of audience members committing their time and energy to meticulously fill out the death details for all 3,117 toe tags, and then placing these tags in the exact locations on the map where those individuals were found.
See more on the exhibition here.
Este mapa contiene 3,117 etiquetas que representan a las personas que murieron al cruzar la frontera entre los Estados Unidos y México entre mediados de la década de 1990 y 2019. Las etiquetas marrón claro representan personas que han sido identificadas. Las etiquetas naranjas representan restos humanos no identificados. Estas etiquetas fueron completadas por estudiantes de Bard College y miembros de la comunidad en noviembre de 2019. Varios de las etiquetas este muro tienen códigos QR que se conectan al contenido en línea con respecto a los problemas de los migrantes a lo largo de la frontera sur de Estados Unidos.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ht94/.
Friday, November 22, 2019
Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio
LAB Commission / World Premiere
At those terrifying frontiers where the existence and disappearance of people fade into each other (part 2) brings together a site-specific video and sound installation by Palestinian American artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and a new performance by Tashweesh with musician/performer Muqata’a. The combination of their different practices, in a joint performance using sound, music, and images, results in an exploration of the collision between returns, erasure, and disruption.
From the returns of the land and stubborn vegetation that does not die, to artifacts that are reactivated as living matter, figures that return in virtual form, and disruptive bodies that keep reappearing on borders, both the installation and performance address the intentional erosion of bodies, land, and structures in different forms, and also their reappearance in spaces where they “should not be.” These projects invite us to consider the forms of entanglement between the destruction of bodies and the erasure of images, and the conditions under which these same bodies and images might reappear.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/terrifying-frontiers/.
Friday, November 22, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
“The Catastrophe is a violent crisis during which the subject, experiencing the amorous situation as a definitive impasse, a trap from which he can never escape, sees himself doomed to total destruction.”
— Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
Night, from Lebanese choreographer Ali Chahrour, is a dance concert inspired by the dense archive of love and romance in classical Arabic poetry, and from contemporary stories of lovers and their cruel separations. The work references stories from the cultural memory of the Levant and Mesopotamia about the fate of lovers who challenged social and religious systems, and whose bodies were punished and sentenced to suffer the distance of separation as well as the hope of impossible reunions.
The performance records the vicissitudes of lovers and their resistance, leading up to the moment when they fall and fade away. The exhausted body succumbs, and with it falls every action and instrument/tool that the performers had carried throughout the show. The fall reveals the fragility of the lover/performer, and the frailty of methods and tools at his disposal. The stage becomes the battlefield after the battle, where the audience has just witnessed the death or, rather, the birth of its heroes.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/night/.
Friday, November 22, 2019
Fisher Center, Weis Atrium & Bard Farm
LAB Commission / World Premiere
“The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” — Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is the first iteration of a multifaceted, interactive land art and community-based project, including a 72-foot-long line of indigenous crops (corn, beans, and squash, known as “the three sisters”) planted in the shape of the U.S.-Mexico border line on the Bard College Farm. It includes the harvesting, sharing, and clearing of crops and land; a mobile paleta cart-turned-drawing studio upon which persons of any background are invited to memorialize real or imagined borders; and the documentation and archive from various stages of the project. Continuing the legacy of Chicana feminist writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa, the work seeks to unearth histories of immigration, labor rights, borders, land sovereignty, and systemic oppression.
Guided Farm Walk Schedule (first come, first served)
Each walk will be approximately 45 minutes.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) was created in collaboration with the Bard Farm (Rebecca Yoshino, Farm Coordinator) and The Center for the Study of Land, Air and Water, with the participation of students Mary Elizabeth Klein Meghan Mercier, Kaitlyn McClelland, Gabrielle Reyes, Alexi Piirimae, Midori Barandiaran, and Austin Sumlin.
Return to Land Ritual Schedule (first come, first served)
This durational event will last approximately four hours.
m(Other)s: Hudson Valley is a series of video portraits of immigrant women, both documented and undocumented, holding their first-generation children. Inspired by the “hidden mother” photographs common from the advent of photography up until the 1920s—a standard practice requiring the mother to hold the child still while being covered and remaining invisible in the interest of foregrounding the child—these portraits seek to connect the political and social situation of women at the turn of the 20th century with the invisibility of the labor of immigrant women today.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/naturalized-borders/.
Friday, November 22, 2019
LUMA Theater Balcony
The Reading Room is also on view through November 2019 at Wendy’s Subway, a non-profit library, writing space, and independent publisher in Brooklyn, New York.Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial; Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/reading-room-2019/.
Friday, November 22, 2019
Hegeman 107
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Jonah Knapp-Wilson Moderation Concert
Friday, November 22, 2019
Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
Thursday, November 21, 2019 – Saturday, November 23, 2019
Murray's, Tivoli, NY
LAB Commission / World Premiere
In its first dinner performance in the United States, the Palestine Hosting Society presents an approach to “Palestinianess” that trespasses borders and geographies through a menu that brings together dishes from Palestinian cities and villages, refugee camps outside Palestine, and those that narrate intergenerational food habits and memory of the Palestinian diaspora, especially in the United States. Menu of Dis/appearance narrates stories about time, history, and parts of ourselves that we might have allowed to slip away.
Menu of Dis/appearance invites the audience on a journey through a selection of dishes that reflects the Palestine Hosting Society’s investigation and unearthing of traditional Palestinian cuisine. Some have been forgotten, their names rendered abstract to the current generation of Palestinians. Being denied a state of their own, Palestinians use food to express an identity that is constantly undermined. Life under occupation atrophied this connection to food, through imposing restrictive policies over food and water resources and inflicting control on wild plant foraging, as well as creating dissonance by showcasing Palestinian dishes as Israeli. Over the years, such measures created a kitchen that is dispossessed, making many traditional Palestinian dishes disappear, or be temporarily withdrawn.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard; Murray's, Tivoli.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/menu-of-disappearance/.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage
LAB Commission / World Premiere
The artist asks a friend to start an investigation and recounts in minute detail various aspects of her home and street in Bethlehem—a site marked by movement, migration, survival, and war.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/jacir/.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Fisher Center, Weiss Atrium
Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a prototype of a participatory political art installation organized by the Undocumented Migration Project that launches simultaneously in 150 locations around the globe in fall 2020. A 20-foot-long map of the Arizona/Mexico border is populated with 3,117 handwritten toe tags that contain information about those who have died while migrating, including name (if known), age, sex, cause of death, condition of body, and location. Some tags contain QR and augmented-reality codes that link to content related to migrant stories, and visuals connected to immigration that can be accessed via cell phone. HT94 is intended to memorialize and bear witness to the thousands who have died as a result of the U.S. Border Patrol’s immigration enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.”
The most crucial (and interactive) aspect of the installation is the act of audience members committing their time and energy to meticulously fill out the death details for all 3,117 toe tags, and then placing these tags in the exact locations on the map where those individuals were found.
See more on the exhibition here.
Este mapa contiene 3,117 etiquetas que representan a las personas que murieron al cruzar la frontera entre los Estados Unidos y México entre mediados de la década de 1990 y 2019. Las etiquetas marrón claro representan personas que han sido identificadas. Las etiquetas naranjas representan restos humanos no identificados. Estas etiquetas fueron completadas por estudiantes de Bard College y miembros de la comunidad en noviembre de 2019. Varios de las etiquetas este muro tienen códigos QR que se conectan al contenido en línea con respecto a los problemas de los migrantes a lo largo de la frontera sur de Estados Unidos.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ht94/.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio
LAB Commission / World Premiere
At those terrifying frontiers where the existence and disappearance of people fade into each other (part 2) brings together a site-specific video and sound installation by Palestinian American artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and a new performance by Tashweesh with musician/performer Muqata’a. The combination of their different practices, in a joint performance using sound, music, and images, results in an exploration of the collision between returns, erasure, and disruption.
From the returns of the land and stubborn vegetation that does not die, to artifacts that are reactivated as living matter, figures that return in virtual form, and disruptive bodies that keep reappearing on borders, both the installation and performance address the intentional erosion of bodies, land, and structures in different forms, and also their reappearance in spaces where they “should not be.” These projects invite us to consider the forms of entanglement between the destruction of bodies and the erasure of images, and the conditions under which these same bodies and images might reappear.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/terrifying-frontiers/.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
“The Catastrophe is a violent crisis during which the subject, experiencing the amorous situation as a definitive impasse, a trap from which he can never escape, sees himself doomed to total destruction.”
— Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
Night, from Lebanese choreographer Ali Chahrour, is a dance concert inspired by the dense archive of love and romance in classical Arabic poetry, and from contemporary stories of lovers and their cruel separations. The work references stories from the cultural memory of the Levant and Mesopotamia about the fate of lovers who challenged social and religious systems, and whose bodies were punished and sentenced to suffer the distance of separation as well as the hope of impossible reunions.
The performance records the vicissitudes of lovers and their resistance, leading up to the moment when they fall and fade away. The exhausted body succumbs, and with it falls every action and instrument/tool that the performers had carried throughout the show. The fall reveals the fragility of the lover/performer, and the frailty of methods and tools at his disposal. The stage becomes the battlefield after the battle, where the audience has just witnessed the death or, rather, the birth of its heroes.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/night/.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Fisher Center, Weis Atrium & Bard Farm
LAB Commission / World Premiere
“The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” — Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is the first iteration of a multifaceted, interactive land art and community-based project, including a 72-foot-long line of indigenous crops (corn, beans, and squash, known as “the three sisters”) planted in the shape of the U.S.-Mexico border line on the Bard College Farm. It includes the harvesting, sharing, and clearing of crops and land; a mobile paleta cart-turned-drawing studio upon which persons of any background are invited to memorialize real or imagined borders; and the documentation and archive from various stages of the project. Continuing the legacy of Chicana feminist writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa, the work seeks to unearth histories of immigration, labor rights, borders, land sovereignty, and systemic oppression.
Guided Farm Walk Schedule (first come, first served)
Each walk will be approximately 45 minutes.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) was created in collaboration with the Bard Farm (Rebecca Yoshino, Farm Coordinator) and The Center for the Study of Land, Air and Water, with the participation of students Mary Elizabeth Klein Meghan Mercier, Kaitlyn McClelland, Gabrielle Reyes, Alexi Piirimae, Midori Barandiaran, and Austin Sumlin.
Return to Land Ritual Schedule (first come, first served)
This durational event will last approximately four hours.
m(Other)s: Hudson Valley is a series of video portraits of immigrant women, both documented and undocumented, holding their first-generation children. Inspired by the “hidden mother” photographs common from the advent of photography up until the 1920s—a standard practice requiring the mother to hold the child still while being covered and remaining invisible in the interest of foregrounding the child—these portraits seek to connect the political and social situation of women at the turn of the 20th century with the invisibility of the labor of immigrant women today.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/naturalized-borders/.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right
LAB Commission / World Premiere
After 30 years in the United States, it is the day of Fito’s naturalization ceremony. As he raises his hand for the Oath of Allegiance, he is transported to a composition of musical snapshots that make up his tapestry in this country. Some are jaded, some moot, some filled with bodies of water, some disheartening—but none ever debilitating enough to keep him from chasing his dream to be the first American citizen in his family. FITO is an interactive concert-play incorporating songs, stories, and spoken-word poems that meld to paint a soundscape of what it can take to be accepted in your own home, by your own people—or yourself.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fito/.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
LUMA Theater Balcony
The Reading Room is also on view through November 2019 at Wendy’s Subway, a non-profit library, writing space, and independent publisher in Brooklyn, New York.Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial; Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/reading-room-2019/.
Degree Recital: Zhen Liu, violin
Saturday, November 23, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7866, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage
LAB Commission / World Premiere
The artist asks a friend to start an investigation and recounts in minute detail various aspects of her home and street in Bethlehem—a site marked by movement, migration, survival, and war.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/jacir/.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Fisher Center, Weiss Atrium
Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a prototype of a participatory political art installation organized by the Undocumented Migration Project that launches simultaneously in 150 locations around the globe in fall 2020. A 20-foot-long map of the Arizona/Mexico border is populated with 3,117 handwritten toe tags that contain information about those who have died while migrating, including name (if known), age, sex, cause of death, condition of body, and location. Some tags contain QR and augmented-reality codes that link to content related to migrant stories, and visuals connected to immigration that can be accessed via cell phone. HT94 is intended to memorialize and bear witness to the thousands who have died as a result of the U.S. Border Patrol’s immigration enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.”
The most crucial (and interactive) aspect of the installation is the act of audience members committing their time and energy to meticulously fill out the death details for all 3,117 toe tags, and then placing these tags in the exact locations on the map where those individuals were found.
See more on the exhibition here.
Este mapa contiene 3,117 etiquetas que representan a las personas que murieron al cruzar la frontera entre los Estados Unidos y México entre mediados de la década de 1990 y 2019. Las etiquetas marrón claro representan personas que han sido identificadas. Las etiquetas naranjas representan restos humanos no identificados. Estas etiquetas fueron completadas por estudiantes de Bard College y miembros de la comunidad en noviembre de 2019. Varios de las etiquetas este muro tienen códigos QR que se conectan al contenido en línea con respecto a los problemas de los migrantes a lo largo de la frontera sur de Estados Unidos.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ht94/.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio
LAB Commission / World Premiere
At those terrifying frontiers where the existence and disappearance of people fade into each other (part 2) brings together a site-specific video and sound installation by Palestinian American artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and a new performance by Tashweesh with musician/performer Muqata’a. The combination of their different practices, in a joint performance using sound, music, and images, results in an exploration of the collision between returns, erasure, and disruption.
From the returns of the land and stubborn vegetation that does not die, to artifacts that are reactivated as living matter, figures that return in virtual form, and disruptive bodies that keep reappearing on borders, both the installation and performance address the intentional erosion of bodies, land, and structures in different forms, and also their reappearance in spaces where they “should not be.” These projects invite us to consider the forms of entanglement between the destruction of bodies and the erasure of images, and the conditions under which these same bodies and images might reappear.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/terrifying-frontiers/.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio
LAB Commission / World Premiere
At those terrifying frontiers where the existence and disappearance of people fade into each other (part 2) brings together a site-specific video and sound installation by Palestinian American artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and a new performance by Tashweesh with musician/performer Muqata’a. The combination of their different practices, in a joint performance using sound, music, and images, results in an exploration of the collision between returns, erasure, and disruption.
From the returns of the land and stubborn vegetation that does not die, to artifacts that are reactivated as living matter, figures that return in virtual form, and disruptive bodies that keep reappearing on borders, both the installation and performance address the intentional erosion of bodies, land, and structures in different forms, and also their reappearance in spaces where they “should not be.” These projects invite us to consider the forms of entanglement between the destruction of bodies and the erasure of images, and the conditions under which these same bodies and images might reappear.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/terrifying-frontiers/.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
“The Catastrophe is a violent crisis during which the subject, experiencing the amorous situation as a definitive impasse, a trap from which he can never escape, sees himself doomed to total destruction.”
— Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
Night, from Lebanese choreographer Ali Chahrour, is a dance concert inspired by the dense archive of love and romance in classical Arabic poetry, and from contemporary stories of lovers and their cruel separations. The work references stories from the cultural memory of the Levant and Mesopotamia about the fate of lovers who challenged social and religious systems, and whose bodies were punished and sentenced to suffer the distance of separation as well as the hope of impossible reunions.
The performance records the vicissitudes of lovers and their resistance, leading up to the moment when they fall and fade away. The exhausted body succumbs, and with it falls every action and instrument/tool that the performers had carried throughout the show. The fall reveals the fragility of the lover/performer, and the frailty of methods and tools at his disposal. The stage becomes the battlefield after the battle, where the audience has just witnessed the death or, rather, the birth of its heroes.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/night/.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Fisher Center, Weis Atrium & Bard Farm
LAB Commission / World Premiere
“The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” — Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is the first iteration of a multifaceted, interactive land art and community-based project, including a 72-foot-long line of indigenous crops (corn, beans, and squash, known as “the three sisters”) planted in the shape of the U.S.-Mexico border line on the Bard College Farm. It includes the harvesting, sharing, and clearing of crops and land; a mobile paleta cart-turned-drawing studio upon which persons of any background are invited to memorialize real or imagined borders; and the documentation and archive from various stages of the project. Continuing the legacy of Chicana feminist writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa, the work seeks to unearth histories of immigration, labor rights, borders, land sovereignty, and systemic oppression.
Guided Farm Walk Schedule (first come, first served)
Each walk will be approximately 45 minutes.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) was created in collaboration with the Bard Farm (Rebecca Yoshino, Farm Coordinator) and The Center for the Study of Land, Air and Water, with the participation of students Mary Elizabeth Klein Meghan Mercier, Kaitlyn McClelland, Gabrielle Reyes, Alexi Piirimae, Midori Barandiaran, and Austin Sumlin.
Return to Land Ritual Schedule (first come, first served)
This durational event will last approximately four hours.
m(Other)s: Hudson Valley is a series of video portraits of immigrant women, both documented and undocumented, holding their first-generation children. Inspired by the “hidden mother” photographs common from the advent of photography up until the 1920s—a standard practice requiring the mother to hold the child still while being covered and remaining invisible in the interest of foregrounding the child—these portraits seek to connect the political and social situation of women at the turn of the 20th century with the invisibility of the labor of immigrant women today.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/naturalized-borders/.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right
LAB Commission / World Premiere
After 30 years in the United States, it is the day of Fito’s naturalization ceremony. As he raises his hand for the Oath of Allegiance, he is transported to a composition of musical snapshots that make up his tapestry in this country. Some are jaded, some moot, some filled with bodies of water, some disheartening—but none ever debilitating enough to keep him from chasing his dream to be the first American citizen in his family. FITO is an interactive concert-play incorporating songs, stories, and spoken-word poems that meld to paint a soundscape of what it can take to be accepted in your own home, by your own people—or yourself.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fito/.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
LUMA Theater Balcony
The Reading Room is also on view through November 2019 at Wendy’s Subway, a non-profit library, writing space, and independent publisher in Brooklyn, New York.Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial; Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/reading-room-2019/.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
For Friends and for Fun
Zachary McIntyre, horn
Yun Chen, piano
Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 2 p.m.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
11 Pieces, Op. 35 (1908) Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)
6. Romance
7. Valse Triste
10. Nocturne
11. Intermezzo
Laudatio Bernhard Krol (1920-2013)
Sonata für Horn und Piano (1939) Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Mäßig bewegt
Ruhig bewegt
Lebhaft
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail uschinamusic@bard.edu, or visit https://barduschinamusic.org.
Monday, November 25, 2019
Arendt Center
Walter Benjamin’s project of founding a political metaphysics in secular times—and Hannah Arendt’s answer.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, November 25, 2019
Avery Studio X
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Blithewood, Levy Institute
Join faculty and students at the Levy Institute for an informal information session on the 3+2 and 4+1 programs.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
For more information, call 845-758-7776, e-mail levygrad@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/levygrad/news/.
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 – Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library"Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7281.
Save this event: Biennial Special Events
Where No Wall Remains
An International Festival About Borders
Saturday, October 19, 2019 – Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College CampusSpecial Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.Emilio Rojas
Decolonized Feast
Saturday, October 19 2–4 pm
Bard Farm
The Sioux Chef: The (R)evolution of Indigenous Food Systems of North America
Tuesday, October 29 at 5 pm
LUMA Theater, Fisher Center
Lana Tatour: Citizenship as Domination: Settler Colonialism and the Making of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
Monday, November 11 at 5 pm
Olin Hall room 202
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Monday, November 11 at 6 pm
Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists.
Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm
LUMA Theater
The Wall: A film on the effect of the Wall's Imposing Presence on Migrant Families
Thursday, November 14 at 7 pm
Preston Cinema
HT94 Installation Participation Call
Wednesday, November 20 4–8 pm
LUMA Theater lobby
Studio Arts Visiting Artist Lecture: Baseera Kahn
Tuesday, December 3 at 5pm
Fisher Studio Arts Seminar RoomSponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/liveartsbard2019/.
Conservatory Concerto Competition: Undergraduate Preliminary Round
Students in the Bard Conservatory audition for the Concerto Competition Final Round.
Friday, November 1, 2019
11 am – 3 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingFor more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Imprisoned for Voting?: The Crystal Mason Case and Voter Repression
Tommy Buser-Clancy
Staff-attorney, Texas ACLU
Friday, November 1, 2019
11:30 am – 1 pm
Hegeman 204ACrystal Mason, a Black mother of three from Texas, thought she was performing her civic duty by filling out a provisional ballot in the 2016 election. She didn't know it would land her a five-year prison sentence, upending her family and the life she had built.
At the time, Crystal was on federal supervised release, a preliminary period of freedom for individuals who have served their full time of incarceration in federal prison. Nobody told her that the state considered her ineligible to vote. Yet the state of Texas contended that somehow, she should have known. Although the state didn’t even count her provisional ballot, it still intends to send her to prison for the crime of voting while the state considered her ineligible.
Join us for a presentation by Tommy Buser-Clancy, staff-attorney for Texas ACLU who, alongside the Texas Civil Rights Project, are fighting Crystal Mason’s case in the courts.Sponsored by: American Studies Program; Center for Civic Engagement; Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences; Political Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6051, or e-mail sgilhool@bard.edu.
The Institute of Advanced Theology Pre-Advent Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton
Prophetic Thinking—Ancient Israel
Friday, October 4, 2019 – Saturday, November 2, 2019
12:30–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsFive weekly lectures on the origins of prophecy deploy the earliest Hebrew Scriptures comparatively, in the context of studies of shamanism and related topics. The aim is to permit the texts to articulate how they envision events that run counter to the prevailing patterns of political and military power, and ultimately to intimate an alternative structure of reality itself.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7335, or e-mail iatatbard@gmail.com.
Shabbat
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 25, 2020
6:30–8:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm AEvery Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, e-mail nelson@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Christian Services
Sunday, September 1, 2019 – Monday, May 25, 2020
3–5 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsYou are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Meditation Group
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 18, 2020
5–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm ATwice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail Sankai@dharma.net, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Meditation Group
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 18, 2020
5–7:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm ATwice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail Sankai@dharma.net, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Hans Graf Conducts Schubert
Saturday, November 2, 2019
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterAustrian conductor Hans Graf leads TŌN in two pieces from his homeland: Schubert’s beloved Great Symphony, and the U.S. premiere of a set of tone poems based on characters from The Tempest.
Hans Graf, conductor
Egon Wellesz Prospero's Incantations, U.S. Premiere
Franz Schubert Symphony No. 9, The Great
Estimated run time: 2 hoursSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/schuberts-great/.
Liberty League Men's & Women's Cross Country Championships
Saturday, November 2, 2019
10 am – 2 pm
The men's and women's cross country teams host the Liberty League Championships. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Concerto Competition
Final Round
Saturday, November 2, 2019
1 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterConservatory undergraduates and Graduate Vocal Arts Program singers compete to perform as soloists with The Orchestra Now, Conservatory Orchestra, and American Symphony Orchestra.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/BCOM-Concerto-Competition-Final-Round/.
Men's Soccer Match
Saturday, November 2, 2019
3–5 pm
The men's soccer team hosts Skidmore in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Women's Volleyball Matches
Saturday, November 2, 2019
3:30–9 pm
The women's volleyball team hosts a tri-match. The schedule is as follows:University of St. Joseph vs. Bard, 3:30 p.m.
Mount St. Vincent vs. University of St. Joseph, 5:30 p.m.
Mount St. Vincent vs. Bard, 7:30 p.m.
Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Hans Graf Conducts Schubert
Sunday, November 3, 2019
2 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterAustrian conductor Hans Graf leads TŌN in two pieces from his homeland: Schubert’s beloved Great Symphony, and the U.S. premiere of a set of tone poems based on characters from The Tempest.
Hans Graf, conductor
Egon Wellesz Prospero's Incantations, U.S. Premiere
Franz Schubert Symphony No. 9, The Great
Estimated run time: 2 hoursSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/schuberts-great/.
Speaker Series: Miguel A. López - "The Transvestite Museum and the Histories We Deserve"
Monday, November 4, 2019
2–4 pm
CCS Bard Classroom 102Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. Speaker Series talks are held within Classroom 102 at CCS Bard unless otherwise noted. All talks are free and open to the public.
This talk will reflect on the Museo Travesti [Transvestite Museum] in Lima, Peru, founded by the late philosopher, drag queen and queer activist Giuseppe Campuzano (GiuCamp) in 2003. This museum was an attempt at a queer counter-reading and promiscuos intersectional thinking of history, one that collected objects, images, texts and documents, press clippings, and appropriated artworks in order to propose experimental displays and publications that would fracture the heterosexual gaze and dominant narratives. Between performance and historical research, Campuzano proposed a critical reviewing of history from the strategic perspective of a fictional figure she called the ‘androgynous indigenous / mixed-race transvestite.’ López will share ideas related to his collaboration with Campuzano, her museological performative experiments, and her queer strategies of archiving, curating and historicizing.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events/427-miguel-a-lopez-the-transvestite-museum-and-the-histories-we-deserve.
Decolonial Joy: Theorizing from the Art of Valor y Cambio
Frances Negron-Muntaner, Columbia University
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
5–7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumIn 2019, scholar, writer and artist Frances Negrón-Muntaner conceived the award-winning art installation Valor y Cambio to explore what people in Puerto Rico valued and to introduce the concept of a community currency. The project exceeded all expectations by attracting thousands of participants and inspiring the creation of community currencies in Puerto Rico and the United States. In this talk, Negrón-Muntaner reflects on the origins and impact of the project, and introduces a new concept arising from it: decolonial joy. This is a specific form of joy that arises when participants envision and experience a time where neither colonialism nor coloniality rule their lives.Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Global and International Studies Program; LAIS Program; Political Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7201, or e-mail sstamato@bard.edu.
A Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Donna Kanter
6:00pm Reception
6:30pm Screening and Discussion
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
6:30–8 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaTHE PRESENCE OF THEIR ABSENCE is the amazing story of a Los Angeles man seeking his roots in the ashes of the Holocaust.
The film encourages discussion on the new oral tradition that belongs uniquely to adult children of Shoah survivors. Few of their stories have ever been told.
We follow Fred Zaidman on his journey to trace his inherited trauma. Armed with only scant clues from his late parents who had survived concentration camps in Poland and Germany, Fred ventures into the unknown to tell his story for this first time.
With helpers in Poland, at Yad Vashem in Israel, at Bergen-Belsen, Germany - and with an unlikely source – a Baptist minister in Atlanta who guides us through a cemetery in Poland - Fred finds his roots, unshackles his pain and reconstructs his future.
We feature a Death March survivor from Fred’s ancestral town, Fred’s brother Martin – one of 1000 children born in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp – and discover living relatives in Israel among findings of those who perished in Poland.
Yad Vashem has called The Presence of Their Absence “a film for the ages." We are honored to be at the forefront of this groundbreaking tradition and look forward to sharing Fred’s courageous story.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology; Jewish Studies Program; The Rhinebeck Reformed Church, and The Jewish Federation of Dutchess County.
For more information, call 845-758-7335, or e-mail chilton@bard.edu.
CMIA – Masterworks of Japanese Cinema
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
7–11:55 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Her Brother
(Kon Ichikawa, 1960, Japan, 98 minutes, 35mm)* - Flowing
(Mikio Naruse, 1956, Japan, 117 minutes, 35mm)*
*Imported archival prints courtesy of the Japan Foundation
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Webinar: How to Get a Job in Sustainability
Purpose-Driven Careers in Business, NGOs, and Government
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
7–8 pm
Online<<<<< REGISTER HERE >>>>>
Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Bard College, will outline career strategies for both soon-to-be and recent college graduates, and for professionals looking to make a move. Goodstein will provide participants with a concrete job-search strategy, discuss what the current political climate means for careers in social and environmental sustainability, and also field questions in a live, interactive webinar.
Webinar link will be sent upon completion of registration.
<<<<< REGISTER HERE >>>>>Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail ebangood@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/how-to-get-a-job-in-sustainability-11-05-19-webinar.
Celebrated French writer Maylis de Kerangal in conversation with Dinaw Mengestu (followed by a reading in French and English)
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
5–7 pm
RKC 103Maylis de Kerangal is the author of several novels and novellas in French, including La vie voyageuse (2003), Corniche Kennedy (2008), Naissance d’un pont (winner of the Prix Médicis 2010, and published in English as Birth of a Bridge), and, most recently, Un monde à portée de main (2018). In 2014, her fifth novel, Réparer les vivants, was published to wide acclaim, topped bestseller lists for months, and went on to win several prestigious prizes. Its American translation (The Heart, FSG 2016) was one of the Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Fiction Works of 2016 ; its UK translation (Mend the Living) was the winner of the Wellcome Book Prize. Un chemin de table (2016) is de Kerangal’s most recent book made available in English, under the title The Cook (2019).
Praise for Mend the Living
“I’ve seldom read a more moving book” —Lydia Kiesling, Guardian
“[an] extraordinary novel that etches itself in the mind” —Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
Praise for The Cook
“de Kerangal’s food writing is incantatory […] I was left hungry for more” —Moira Hodgson, Wall Street Journal
Cosponsored by Bard’s Division of Languages and Literature, and the Cultural Services of the French EmbassySponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7121, or e-mail trudel@bard.edu.
CMIA - Technicolor
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
7–8:40 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Chad Hanna
(Henry King, 1940, USA, 88 minutes, 35mm)*
*Studio vault print
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
CMIA - Cinematic Shakespeare
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
9–11:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Henry V
(Laurence Olivier, 1944, UK, 137 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Body Songs
Thursday, November 7, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterChoreographed and performed by Bard students, this concert gives participants a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fall-dance-2019/.
DNA Repair: Why Do We Care?
Paula Checchi, Marist College
Thursday, November 7, 2019
12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Taking a Symptom Level Approach to Depression
Michael Mullarkey
University of Texas-Austin
Thursday, November 7, 2019
4:45–6 pm
Preston TheaterSponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail jdainerbest@bard.edu.
Israel’s Occupation at 50: Territory and Demography in the West Bank
Yinon Cohen, Columbia University
Thursday, November 7, 2019
4:45–6 pm
Olin, Room 102In this talk, Yinon Cohen demonstrates that the strategies Israel has deployed to dispossess Palestinian land and settle Jews in the West Bank have been uncannily similar to those used in Israel proper. After briefly analyzing the Judaization of space from the Jordan Valley to the Mediterranean Sea, he focuses on territorial and demographic processes in the occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem) since 1967. He Shows how the settler population has flourished demographically and socioeconomically, thereby enhancing Israel’s colonial project in the West Bank.
Yinon Cohen is Yosef H. Yerushalmi Professor of Israeli and Jewish Studies in the department of sociology at Columbia University. Before moving to Columbia in 2007, he was a professor of sociology and labor studies at Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on labor markets, social demography, ethnic inequality, and immigration. His most recent publications are on Israel’s territorial and demographic politics (Public Culture, 2018), Ashkenazi-Mizrahi education gap among third-generation Israelis (Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2018), and rising inequality in fringe benefits in the US (Sociological Science 2018).
Sponsored by: Human Rights Program; Jewish Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail perlmann@levy.org.
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook - Documentary Screening & Discussion
Thursday, November 7, 2019
6–9 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaJoin us for a screening of the new feature documentary "Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook." This film tracks the partisan campaign to make it harder and more dangerous to vote. The film will be followed by a discussion on voting rights with leading experts in the field with special guests: Timothy Smith, Emmy Award-winning producer and former U.S. congressman John Faso.
WATCH THE TRAILER
Date: November 7th, 2019
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema [MAP]
This event is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Charles Spencer Moderation Concert
Thursday, November 7, 2019
7–9 pm
Blum HallSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Body Songs
Friday, November 8, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterChoreographed and performed by Bard students, this concert gives participants a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fall-dance-2019/.
C2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Training
Weekend Sustainability Leadership Workshop
Friday, November 8, 2019 – Sunday, November 10, 2019
Bard College CampusC2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Training: Bard College, 11/8-11/0
Registration fee of $30 covers lodging and food. Free for Bard students. The conference begins at 5 PM Friday and ends noon Sunday. Bard College is 90 miles north of New York City, and is easily accessible by Amtrak from Penn Station in NYC.
APPLY NOW!
Weekend Sustainability Leadership Workshop:
The C2C Fellows Network at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy is a national program for undergraduates and recent graduates aspiring to leadership work in sustainable politics, NGO’s and business. C2C’s intensive skills-based weekend workshops include young people from across the country.
Led by Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of Bard’s Center for Environmental Policy, C2C trainings focus on key leadership skills: vision, courage, developing your network, telling your story, and raising funds.
Graduates of the workshops join a national network with access to continuing educational and professional opportunities, including dedicated scholarships to attend Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Masters of Science degrees in Environmental Policy and Climate Science and Policy and the Bard MBA in Sustainability.
C2C Fellows are leaders whose vision is to make a difference soon. Our mission is to accelerate their life’s work.
APPLY NOW
Questions? Please contact Eban Goodstein (ebangood@bard.edu)
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saw Kill Water Sampling
Friday, November 8, 2019
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.
Controlling Hybrid States of Light and Matter in Atomically-thin Semiconductors
Trevor LaMountain, Northwestern University
Friday, November 8, 2019
12–1 pm
Hegeman 107Interactions between light and matter underlie a variety of everyday technologies. Typical examples include solar cells, where light is absorbed and converted to electronic energy, and LEDs, where the opposite occurs. By embedding semiconductors in between two mirrors, we can greatly enhance the light-matter interaction, giving rise to much more exotic effects than just absorption or emission. Under certain conditions these systems can form hybrid quantum states known as “polaritons,” which exhibit properties of both light and matter. In a different regime, off-resonant light can cause the electronic energy levels to shift with negligible absorption. Known as the optical Stark effect, this feature provides a way to precisely control the energy levels of semiconductors using only light. In this talk, I will introduce the closely-related physics that describes both polariton formation and the optical Stark effect. I will then discuss some interesting features of both of these phenomena in atomically-thin semiconductors. Finally, I will present resent results that combine both of these regimes by demonstrating the optical Stark shift of exciton-polaritons in atomically-thin semiconductors.
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Men's Basketball Season Opener
Friday, November 8, 2019
6–9 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe men's basketball team opens the 2019-20 season with a game against Becker College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
CMIA - Cinematic Shakespeare
Friday, November 8, 2019
6–7:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Othello
(Orson Welles, 1951, Italy/USA/Morocco, 90 minutes, 35mm)*
*Archival print courtesy of the Library of Congress
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
CMIA – Masterworks of Japanese Cinema
Friday, November 8, 2019
7:45–11:55 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Mother
(Mikio Naruse, 1952, Japan, 98 minutes, 35mm)*
*Imported archival print courtesy of the Japan Foundation - Ginza Cosmetics
(Mikio Naruse, 1952, Japan, 87 minutes, 16mm)*
*Imported archival print courtesy of the Japan Foundation
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
C2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Training
Weekend Sustainability Leadership Workshop
Friday, November 8, 2019 – Sunday, November 10, 2019
Bard College CampusC2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Training: Bard College, 11/8-11/0
Registration fee of $30 covers lodging and food. Free for Bard students. The conference begins at 5 PM Friday and ends noon Sunday. Bard College is 90 miles north of New York City, and is easily accessible by Amtrak from Penn Station in NYC.
APPLY NOW!
Weekend Sustainability Leadership Workshop:
The C2C Fellows Network at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy is a national program for undergraduates and recent graduates aspiring to leadership work in sustainable politics, NGO’s and business. C2C’s intensive skills-based weekend workshops include young people from across the country.
Led by Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of Bard’s Center for Environmental Policy, C2C trainings focus on key leadership skills: vision, courage, developing your network, telling your story, and raising funds.
Graduates of the workshops join a national network with access to continuing educational and professional opportunities, including dedicated scholarships to attend Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Masters of Science degrees in Environmental Policy and Climate Science and Policy and the Bard MBA in Sustainability.
C2C Fellows are leaders whose vision is to make a difference soon. Our mission is to accelerate their life’s work.
APPLY NOW
Questions? Please contact Eban Goodstein (ebangood@bard.edu)
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Body Songs
Saturday, November 9, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterChoreographed and performed by Bard students, this concert gives participants a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fall-dance-2019/.
Body Songs
Saturday, November 9, 2019
2 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterChoreographed and performed by Bard students, this concert gives participants a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fall-dance-2019/.
Men's Squash Round Robin
Saturday, November 9, 2019 – Sunday, November 10, 2019
Stevenson Athletic CenterThe Bard College men's squash team hosts its annual Round Robin, inviting teams from all over the Northeast for two days of matches. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
No Cost Market!
Saturday, November 9, 2019
9:30 am – 12 pm
RhinebeckFree farmer's market in need of student volunteers! Come help facilitate events like pumpkin painting, cooking tutorials and more.
Free lunch provided with Bard ID.
Shuttle leaves Kline stop at 9:30 AM, with volunteer work from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/NoCostMarketSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sdeveer@bard.edu.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Open House at Bard College
Attendees receive a $65 application fee waiver! RSVP: HERE
Saturday, November 9, 2019
11 am – 2 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115Join us at Bard College in the Hudson Valley for an 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:
- how to complete and submit your application
- financial aid opportunities
- successfully completing program prerequisites
Event Location: This event will be held on Bard College's Hudson Valley campus located at 30 Campus Rd. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
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-11-09-19.
Citizens' Climate Monthly Meeting
Monthly Meeting of the Citizens' Climate Lobby/
Citizens' Climate Education - Mid Hudson North Chapter
Saturday, November 9, 2019
12:45–2:30 pm
Olin Language CenterGather for a potluck and listen to the national CCL live call and then participate in the action-oriented meeting—we use five levers of change to get bipartisan climate legislation passed. Build the political will for a solution to the climate crisis.
For more information, call 845-464-8025, e-mail lauriehusted@gmail.com, or visit https://www.facebook.com/CCLMidHudsonNorth/.
Men's & Women's Swim Meet
Saturday, November 9, 2019
1–4 pm
The men's and women's swimming teams host St. Lawrence University. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Sing, Bard!
Saturday, November 9, 2019
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterStephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano
Craig Terry, piano
Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Bard College Conservatory of Music, and Stephanie Blythe present a cabaret-style musical journey of song, from opera to popular standards.
Featuring works by:
- Sammy Cahn
- Ira Gershwin
- Rodgers and Hart
- Irving Berlin
- Cole Porter
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Randy Newman
and many more!
Estimated run time is 1 hrs 35 minutes with one 15-minute intermission.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Stephanie Blythe.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/BCOM-Stephanie-Blythe/.
C2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Training
Weekend Sustainability Leadership Workshop
Friday, November 8, 2019 – Sunday, November 10, 2019
Bard College CampusC2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Training: Bard College, 11/8-11/0
Registration fee of $30 covers lodging and food. Free for Bard students. The conference begins at 5 PM Friday and ends noon Sunday. Bard College is 90 miles north of New York City, and is easily accessible by Amtrak from Penn Station in NYC.
APPLY NOW!
Weekend Sustainability Leadership Workshop:
The C2C Fellows Network at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy is a national program for undergraduates and recent graduates aspiring to leadership work in sustainable politics, NGO’s and business. C2C’s intensive skills-based weekend workshops include young people from across the country.
Led by Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of Bard’s Center for Environmental Policy, C2C trainings focus on key leadership skills: vision, courage, developing your network, telling your story, and raising funds.
Graduates of the workshops join a national network with access to continuing educational and professional opportunities, including dedicated scholarships to attend Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Masters of Science degrees in Environmental Policy and Climate Science and Policy and the Bard MBA in Sustainability.
C2C Fellows are leaders whose vision is to make a difference soon. Our mission is to accelerate their life’s work.
APPLY NOW
Questions? Please contact Eban Goodstein (ebangood@bard.edu)
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Men's Squash Round Robin
Saturday, November 9, 2019 – Sunday, November 10, 2019
Stevenson Athletic CenterThe Bard College men's squash team hosts its annual Round Robin, inviting teams from all over the Northeast for two days of matches. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Music Alive! Works by Bryce Dessner, Gabriela Lena Frank, György Kurtág, Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich, and Galina Ustvolskaya
24 Conservatory students perform works by contemporary composers curated by Asher B. Edelman Professor in the Arts Joan Tower and Artist in Residence Blair McMillen.
Sunday, November 10, 2019
3–5 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Mercury Transits the Sun
Monday, November 11, 2019
9:30 am – 1 pm
Campus Walk Above KlineIn a rare occurrence, the planet Mercury will pass in front of the Sun on the morning of November 11. However, this is not a celestial event that one can view by looking to the heavens with an unaided eye, since
a) Mercury is very small compared with the Sun, and
b) You shouldn't look directly at the Sun.
In order to view the transit (clouds permitting) the Physics Program will have a telescope with a solar filter set up on Campus Walk, just up the hill from Kline. Drop by anytime from 9:30am until the transit ends at 1pm to check out this planetary alignment for yourself.
Note the next chance to view a Mercury transit from Bard will be on May 7, 2049.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7584, or e-mail paucz@bard.edu.
Refugees in America
A book talk with Lee Bycel
Monday, November 11, 2019
4–5:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaRefugees in America (Rutgers UP, 2019) chronicles the personal journeys of people who arrived to the US under the refugee resettlement program. Given the current administration's policy to drastically curtail refugee resettlement here in the US, which is now in turn decimating existing resettlement infrastructure across the country, this talk will connect the stories to national debates and policies about the resettlement program.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Citizenship as Domination: Settler Colonialism and the Making of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
Lana Tatour
Columbia University, Center for Palestine Studies
Monday, November 11, 2019
5–7 pm
Olin, Room 202In this talk, Lana Tatour of Columbia University will trace the making of the Israeli citizenship regime, focusing on the period between 1948 and 1952. During these formative years, the 1950 Law of Return, which governs Jewish entitlement to citizenship, and the 1952 Citizenship Law, which governs the status of ’48 Palestinians, were enacted. Situating the Israeli case within the broader history of citizenship-making in Anglophone settler colonial sites and drawing on analogies with Australia, the United States, and Canada, she is interested in what this formative period, in which the constitutional cornerstones of Israel’s citizenship regime came into being, can tell us about Palestinian citizenship in Israel and about the institution of citizenship in settler-colonial contexts more broadly. Drawing on original archival material, this talk argues that in Israel, as in other settler polities, citizenship has figured as an institution of domination, functioning as a mechanism of elimination, a site of subjectivation, and an instrument of race making. Racial subjects, space, and citizenship were constituted in relation to each other in intimate ways. Citizenship transformed space from Arab/Palestinian to Jewish, rendered settlers indigenous, and produced Palestinian natives as alien. Israel’s citizenship regime was predicated on the racial demarcation between Palestinians, whose citizenship was governed by the logic of naturalization, and Jewish settlers, viewed as natural and authentic subjects of citizenship. Presented in association with Live Arts Bard’s festival about borders, Where No Wall Remains.
Lana Tatour is Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. She is currently working on her book manuscript, Ambivalent Resistance: Palestinians in Israel and the Liberal Politics of Settler Colonialism and Human Rights. Tatour completed her Ph.D. in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom in 2017. Her doctoral research was awarded the Leigh Douglas Memorial runner-up prize for best Ph.D. dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (2018). She was previously a fellow at the University of New South Wales(UNSW) Faculty of Law, UNSW School of Social Sciences, the Australian Human Rights Centre, and the Palestinian American Research Center. Sponsored by: Global and International Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7201, or e-mail sstamato@bard.edu.
After 30 Years—The Fall of the Berlin Wall Film Screening and Discussion
Jürgen Böttcher
Die Mauer / The Wall & short films
Monday, November 11, 2019
6–8 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaDiscussion with German Studies students and eminent essayist Uwe Kolbe
Jürgen Böttcher’s striking documentary Die Mauer (The Wall, 1990) is praised as the unparalleled masterpiece on the fall of the Berlin Wall. The acclaimed filmmaker and painter explores the meaning of the Wall in the historical moment of its disappearance as the dividing line between East and West. The film portrays the Berlin Wall as a monument and canvas on which German histories are being projected. Böttcher’s film Die Mauer received the Golden Camera at the Berlin Film Festival and has been shown all over the world, including at MoMA, New York. The screening will also include a selection of rarely seen short films by Jürgen Böttcher.
Uwe Kolbe is an eminent poet, essayist, writer of prose, and translator. His first volume of poetry, Hineingeboren (Born Into), appeared in East Berlin in 1980. The increasingly critical nature of his writing led to a ban on publication in the GDR soon after. During the early 1980s, he edited the underground journal Mikado. Eventually, he was permitted to travel abroad and lived between Hamburg and East Berlin. Uwe Kolbe is author of 13 books of poetry and recipient of many prestigious prizes. He also was a writer in residence at the University of Texas Austin and at Oberlin College. His collection of essays, Vineta’s Archives (2012), received the distinguished Heinrich-Mann-Award by the Academy of Arts Berlin.Sponsored by: German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7363, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.
A Reading by Sigrid Nunez
The National Book Award winner reads from her work
Monday, November 11, 2019
6:30–7:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumOn Monday, November 11, at 6:30 p.m., in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Sigrid Nunez reads from her work. Presented by the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and the Written Arts Program, and introduced by MacArthur Fellow Dinaw Mengestu, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books by Sigrid Nunez will be available for sale, courtesy of Oblong Books & Music.
Sigrid Nunez was born and raised in New York City, the daughter of a German mother and a Panamanian-Chinese father. In 1972, after graduating from Barnard College, Nunez worked as an editorial assistant for Robert B. Silvers at the New York Review of Books. She then received her MFA from Columbia University and returned to NYRB, where she met the late Susan Sontag, who became the subject of her 2011 memoir, Sempre Susan. Nunez chronicled her childhood and adolescence in her first book, a hybrid novel, A Feather on the Breath of God (1995), both a critical and commercial success. Her novel For Rouenna (2001), which tells the story of a woman’s experiences in the Vietnam War, was seen by many as her “breakthrough work.” In her fiction, Nunez has experimented with a vast range of genres and themes, marked by a spare, intimate, confessional tone. While beloved by fellow novelists, Nunez kept a deliberate distance from the literary scene, but with the 2018 publication of “The Friend,” Nunez became an “overnight literary sensation,” winning the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction and drawing euphoric reviews that hailed the novel as “a subtle, unassuming masterpiece” (New York Times).
Sigrid Nunez is the author of eight books. Her work has appeared in anthologies including four Pushcart Prize volumes, four anthologies of Asian-American literature, and The Best American Short Stories 2019. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize in Literature. Her work has been translated into ten languages and is in the process of being translated into thirteen more. She lives in New York City.
PRAISE FOR SIGRID NUNEZ
“Nunez’s prose itself comforts us. Her confident and direct style uplifts—the music in her sentences, her deep and varied intelligence. She addresses important ideas unpretentiously and offers wisdom for any aspiring writer.” —New York Times Book Review
“Nunez has proved herself a master of psychological acuity.” —New Yorker
“A major talent . . . [Nunez’s] gift is wild and large.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Nunez’s piercing intelligence and post-feminist consciousness may well feel that writing the Great American novel is no longer a feasible or worthwhile goal—but damned if she hasn’t gone and done it anyway.” —Salon
“Nunez’s keen powers of observation make her a natural chronicler.” —New York Review of Books
“When the apocalypse comes, I want Nunez in my lifeboat.” —Vanity Fair
“One of the most dizzyingly accomplished of our writers.” —Gary ShteyngartSponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and the Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail nnyhan@bard.edu.
Teddy McKrell Senior Concert
Monday, November 11, 2019
7:15–8:15 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
Ali Gilman Senior Concert
Monday, November 11, 2019
8:15–9:15 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
Noon Concert
Conservatory students perform an hour-long concert.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
12–1 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Montgomery Place Fall Salon Series: Renewable Energies: Balancing Outputs and Historic Landscapes
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
3–5 pm
Montgomery Place, MansionPanel Speakers
Session 1: Solar Energy
November 12, 3–5 p.m.
Emily Majer ’95, Town of Red Hook historian and deputy mayor, Village of Tivoli
Audrey Friedrichsen, land use and environmental advocacy attorney, Scenic Hudson
Jeff Irish, vice president, SunCommon
Moderated by Ben Hoen CEP ’06, research scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Session 2: Hydro Energy
December 3, 3–5 p.m.
Emily Majer ’95
Jan Borchert, head of hydro facility design and permitting, Current Hydro
Weston Davey, historic site restoration coordinator, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation
Moderated by Robyn Smyth, assistant professor of environmental and urban studies, Bard College
Programs are free to all Bard students and open to the public. Limited seating available; registration required. Email montgomeryplace@bard.edu to register or call 845-758-7505 for more information.
For more information, call 845-758-7505, e-mail montgomeryplace@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/montgomeryplace/.
A Special Screening of Tootie’s Last Suit and Conversation with the Director Lisa Katzman
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
5–7 pm
Olin, Room 102Tootie’s Last Suit is an awarding-winning documentary about the famed Mardi Gras Indian Chief of New Orleans, Allison Montana, a.k.a. Tootie, who died in 2005. The historical and biographical film explores the history and performative culture of Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the segregation that ensued around carnival. The film has received recognition from the Society for Visual Anthropology and a special honor from the Margaret Mead Film Foundation at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Lisa Katzman is highly-accomplished film director, whose films include Flamencos: Here at There (Aquí y Allí), 9/11’s Unsettled Dust and its sequel Hiding BP’s Oil (currently in post-production). She is currently working on a screenplay titled “Rachel and Gerard” with the director Charles Burnett, and an adaptation of Dorien Ross’ novel Returning to A. Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; American Studies Program; Film and Electronic Arts Program; Historical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-4600, or e-mail dthompso@bard.edu.
CMIA – Masterworks of Japanese Cinema
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
7–11:55 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Kanto Wanderer
(Seijun Suzuki, 1963, Japan, 93 minutes, 35mm)*
*Imported archival print courtesy of the Japan Foundation - Double Suicide
(Masahiro Shinoda, 1969, Japan, 142 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Isabella Argondizza Moderation Concert
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
7:15–8:15 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
Cassandra Whitehead Senior Concert
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
8–9 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
National Climate Seminar: Jobs, A Green New Deal, and Solving Climate by 2030
Joseph Kane | Senior Research Associate | The Brookings Institution
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
12–1 pm
The 2030 date to achieve the Paris Climate Accords is forcing all of us to rethink "Business As Usual." Join Joseph Kane, of The Brookings Institution, on Bard’s National Climate Seminar for a conversation on the economic impacts of sustainability and the Green New Deal on November 13th.
This webinar is part of a year-long project: Solve Climate By 2030 sponsored by The Bard Center for Environmental Policy The project takes as its starting point recent IPCC report that we have only ten years to forestall catastrophic climate change. Combining a national speaker network with a call for One-Night Teach-ins, the project culminates on April 7, 2020, in a national Power Dialog: 52 simultaneous, university hosted webinars, one in every state, DC and Puerto Rico. In these webinars, local climate solutions experts will suggest the top three ambitious but feasible state, urban, utility or business initiatives that need to occur in Tennessee and Idaho, Missouri and New Jersey, Florida, and Minnesota, if we aim to forestall catastrophic climate change. Following these state webinars, classes and other groups tuning in will have 45 minutes for “solutions sprints” designed to identify civic action opportunities for participants.
BARD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
The Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability offer masters programs in Environmental Policy, Climate Science and Policy, and Sustainable Business. The Bard Center for Environmental Policy’s career-focused, science-based, interdisciplinary master of science programs are located in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. The rigorous first-year coursework, followed by a required four-to-six-month immersive internship, culminates with a master’s Capstone Project and a 93 percent job placement rate within six months of graduation. Graduates are currently pursuing careers in many fields, such as alternative energy, international development, advocacy/lobbying, conservation, research, and strategic consulting. For more information: bard.edu/cep/.
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For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail ebangood@bard.edu, or visit https://bluejeans.com/858694001.
Hampton Bays Middle School Campus Tour and Peer to Peer Panel
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 – Thursday, November 14, 2019
1–4:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaHelp host an informal campus tour and peer-to-peer panel for local middle school students from 1:00-3:00!
Then, help facilitate science experiments. Meet outside Weis Cinema at 3:00.
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/HamptonBaysBardSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sdeveer@bard.edu.
Speaker Series: Ileana Ramírez Romero
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
5–7 pm
CCS Bard Classroom 102Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. Speaker Series talks are held within Classroom 102 at CCS Bard unless otherwise noted. All talks are free and open to the public.
Venezuela is experiencing the most difficult times due to a political and social economic crisis that has affected all sectors of the country and the field of art has been one of the most hurt by the lack of cultural policies that contribute to the strengthening of cultural institutions. However, as strange as it may seem, there is a movement of sensitive people, non profit organizations and communities with a genuine interest in reinventing and circumventing the difficulties to ensure that artistic practices have a relevant space in Venezuelan society despite the opacity that run theses days in the country.
Ramírez will talk about innovative and creative ways to stand for the arts in dire moments. Also, Ramírez will present the project Tráfico Visual.com and will explain on how traficovisual.com has been changing in order to understand the needs of new audiences.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events/431-ileana-ramirez-romero.
Nietzsche Reads Emerson
A Lecture by Benedetta Zavatta
and a conversation with
Daniel Berthold
and
Ann Lauterbach
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
6–7:30 pm
Olin, Room 201Benedetta Zavatta will be presenting Individuality and Beyond: Nietzsche Reads Emerson, her groundbreaking study of the influence of the American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson on the German Friedrich Nietzsche, recently published by Oxford University Press. Nietzsche read Emerson intensely from a young age and through to the end of his writing career. Referring to Emerson’s Essays, Nietzsche wrote that he had never “felt so at home in a book; felt so much, indeed, as if the home were my own.” In her study, Zavatta surveys all the evidence in Nietzsche’s published writing and in his archive—including correspondence, notes, and Nietzsche’s heavily annotated copies of Emerson—to develop a rich portrait of Nietzsche’s complex relationship to the American writer he once called his “twin soul.” Zavatta's book explores the profound influence that Emerson had on Nietzsche’s thinking about a wide range of topics, including individualism, perfectionism, morality, and freedom. It also provides a fresh reading of Emerson, who, seen from a Nietzschean perspective, comes to light as an incisive cultural critic and a decisive figure in the history of philosophy.
After the talk, poet Ann Lauterbach and philosopher Daniel Berthold will begin the discussion, responding to Benedetta Zavatta’s presentation and drawing on their own long-term engagements with Emerson and Nietzsche, respectively.
Benedetta Zavatta is Marie Curie Researcher at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (CNRS/ENS) in Paris. Daniel Berthold is Professor of Philosophy at Bard College. Ann Lauterbach is the David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.Sponsored by: German Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Philosophy Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7142, or e-mail bart@bard.edu.
Festival Introduction
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
6:30 pm
Fisher Center, Resnick Theater StudioFestival co-curators Tania El Khoury and Gideon Lester lead a panel discussion introducing the 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial: Where No Wall Remains.
Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/LAB-Intro-Panel/.
Stravinsky's The Fairy's Kiss
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
7 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterThese four works from the late 1920s, including the suite from Stravinsky’s ballet score The Fairy’s Kiss, give us insight into the evolving world of orchestral music 90 years ago.
Leon Botstein, conductor
Michael Nagy, baritone
Honegger Rugby*
Schoeck Buried Alive
Mitropoulos Concerto Grosso*
Stravinsky Divertimento, The Fairy's Kiss Suite
*First NY performances in over 50 years
Estimated run time: 2 hours 25 minutesSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/TON-20s/.
CMIA - The Magnificent Ambersons
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
7–8:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- The Magnificent Ambersons
(Orson Welles, 1942, USA, 81 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Sonny Capaccio Senior Concert
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
7:15–8:15 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
CMIA - John Ford Preservation Prints
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
8:45–10:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- The Long Voyage Home
(John Ford, 1940, USA, 105 minutes, 35mm)*
* Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive in association with the Library of Congress, with funding provided by The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and The Film Foundation
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Hampton Bays Middle School Campus Tour and Peer to Peer Panel
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 – Thursday, November 14, 2019
1–4:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaHelp host an informal campus tour and peer-to-peer panel for local middle school students from 1:00-3:00!
Then, help facilitate science experiments. Meet outside Weis Cinema at 3:00.
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/HamptonBaysBardSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sdeveer@bard.edu.
How to Plan a Meaningful Summer
Felicia Keesing
Biology Program
Thursday, November 14, 2019
12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Psychology Internship Panel
Thursday, November 14, 2019
4:45–6 pm
Preston TheaterListen to students and alums who have participated in summer internships discuss their experiences, and learn about opportunities for the coming year. There will be an opportunity for Q&A as well as hearing about different internship opportunities.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail jdainerbest@bard.edu.
The Bandoneon: An Evening of Music and Conversation
Performance with Master Bandoneonista Javier Sanchez, including Dialogue with Bard Professor Whitney Slaten
Thursday, November 14, 2019
6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomSponsored by: Bard Tango Program; Ethnomusicology.
For more information, call 503-901-0031, or e-mail cgoodstein@bard.edu.
Aviv Porath Concert
Thursday, November 14, 2019
7–8 pm
Blum HallSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
The Wall: The Effects of Its Imposing Presence on Migrant Families
A screening of contemporary short films made in Mexico and the United States
Thursday, November 14, 2019
7–9 pm
PrestonThe latest heinous acts of domestic terrorism and white supremacy put these incidents in the middle of the ongoing debate about immigration, border security, and national identity. In times of crisis, we need to know who the victims are, their challenges, and their dreams.
Please join us on Thursday, November 14, 2019, from 7pm to 9pm, at Preston Theater for the screening of The Wall: The Effects of Its Imposing Presence on Migrant Families, a firsthand look at the reality of the Hispanic population in the United States and the current undocumented immigration crisis, touching on topics such as the U.S.-Mexico border wall, the effects of family separation at the border, deportation, and DACA. Films to be shown include: Landfall by Stephanie Schiavenato (USA, 10 min., 2018); Erasing the Border by Laura Herrero Garvín (Mexico and USA, 12 min., 2018); What Would You Pack? by Sara Gozalo (USA, 3 min., 2018); Returned by Meredith Hoffman and Sarah Kuck (USA , 17 min., 2017); What Happens to a Dream Deferred by Scott Boehm and Peter Johnston (USA, 12 min., 2018).
In Spanish with English subtitles. Open to all.
Cosponsored by the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, the Spanish Studies Program, and the Human Rights Project. Presented in association with Live Arts Bard’s festival about borders, “Where No Wall Remains.”Sponsored by: Human Rights Program; LAIS Program; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7472, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Fall Jazz Vocal Concert
Thursday, November 14, 2019
8–10 pm
Campus Center, CafeCome and hear these very talented Bardian singers!Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pamelapentony@gmail.com.
Mapping Matter in Strong Gravity: Spectral-Timing of Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Abigail Stevens ’11
Michigan State University
Friday, November 15, 2019
12–1 pm
Hegeman 107One of the best laboratories to study strong-field gravity is the inner 100s of kilometers around black holes and neutron stars in binary systems with low-mass stars like our Sun. The X-ray light curves of these binary systems show variability on timescales from milliseconds to months — the shorter (sub-second) variability can appear as quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), which may be produced by general relativistic effects. My research looks at QPOs from black holes and neutron stars (as well as coherent X-ray pulsations from neutron stars) by fitting the phase-resolved energy spectra of these signals to constrain their physical origin and track their evolution in time. In this talk, I will introduce why black holes and neutron stars are interesting and discuss state-of-the-art “spectral-timing” analysis techniques for understanding more about them. I will also highlight open-source astronomy research software and the importance of mental wellbeing among students and early-career researchers.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
CMIA - John Ford Preservation Prints
Friday, November 15, 2019
6–11:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Steamboat ‘Round the Bend
(John Ford, 1935, USA, 82 minutes, 35mm)*
*Studio vault print - Rio Grande
(John Ford, 1950, USA, 1950, USA, 105 minutes, 35mm)*
*Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive in association with The Film Foundation
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Women's Basketball Season Opener
Friday, November 15, 2019
7–9 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe Raptors host Bay Path University on the first day of the Raptors Tip-Off. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Faculty-Student Piano Trio Recital: Martinu, Smetana, and Frank Bridge
With Zongheng Zhang, violin, Marka Gustavsson, viola, Nicholas Scheel, cello, and Helen Wu, piano
Friday, November 15, 2019
8–10 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Women's Squash Round Robin
Saturday, November 16, 2019 – Sunday, November 17, 2019
Stevenson Athletic CenterThe Bard College women's squash team hosts its annual Round Robin, inviting teams from all over the Northeast for two days of matches. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Women's Squash Round Robin
Saturday, November 16, 2019 – Sunday, November 17, 2019
Stevenson Athletic CenterThe Bard College women's squash team hosts its annual Round Robin, inviting teams from all over the Northeast for two days of matches. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Bard MBA in Sustainability: November Residency Visit
Join Us to experience the Bard MBA program in action!
Sunday, November 17, 2019
12–6 pm
LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10038Bard MBA November Residency Visit: RSVP HERE
During the Saturday or Sunday of each Residency Weekend, we invite visiting prospective MBA students to:
- sit in on a first or second year MBA class
- meet with Program Director Eban Goodstein + admissions staff
- have lunch with current MBA students
- participate in the Bard MBA Community Meeting
Location: LMHQ 150 Broadway NY, NY 10038Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/residency-visit-11-17-19.
Women's Basketball Game
Sunday, November 17, 2019
1–4 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymBard wraps up the Raptors Tip-Off with a game against Mount Holyoke College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Conservatory Percussion Ensembles perform works by Quinn Collins, Tan Dun, Anna Meadors, Steve Reich, and Alyssa Weinberg
Sunday, November 17, 2019
3–5 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingStudents and faculty perform contemporary works for percussion.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7866, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
The Baroque Ensemble, Chamber Singers, and the Graduate Vocal Arts Program
Sunday, November 17, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsMarin Marais – Alcyone (Excerpts)
J. S. Bach – Cantata 198: Trauer-Ode
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail rlouprette@bard.edu.
Restless Wind: Violin Recital with Zongheng Zhang
Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Rechtman, Sibelius
Sunday, November 17, 2019
7–9 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
International Education Week at Bard
Monday, November 18, 2019 – Friday, November 22, 2019
Bard College CampusThe Institute for International Liberal Education (Bard Abroad) invites you to participate in International Education Week at Bard!
“International Education Week (IEW) is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences” (Dept. of State).
Make sure to like and follow Bard Abroad on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date with events!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7835, e-mail lcooke@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/bardabroad.
Festival of Nations
Monday, November 18, 2019
5–7 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomIndulge in international cuisine, cultural dances, and more!Sponsored by: Institute for International Liberal Education; Office of International Student and Scholar Services.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ahanif@bard.edu.
A Reading by Genya Turovskaya MFA '05 and John Yau '72
Monday, November 18, 2019
6:30–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaGenya Turovskaya MFA '05 was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and grew up in New York City. She is the author of The Breathing Body of This Thought (Black Square Editions) as well as numerous chapbooks. Her poetry and translations of contemporary Russian poets have appeared in A Public Space, Asymptote, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Fence, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Octopus, PEN Poetry, Sangam Poetry, Seedings, The Elephants, and other publications. She is the translator of Aleksandr Skidan's Red Shifting (Ugly Duckling Presse). She is the co-translator of Elena Fanailova's The Russian Version (Ugly Duckling Presse), which won the University of Rochester's Three Percent award for Best Translated Book of Poetry. She is also a co-translator of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko's Endarkenment: Selected Poems (Wesleyan). She holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She lives in New York City where she is a practicing psychotherapist.
John Yau is a poet, fiction writer, art critic, publisher of Black Square Editions, and freelance curator. He studied with Robert Kelly while at Bard and earned an MFA from Brooklyn College, where he studied with John Ashbery. Yau has received numerous awards including the Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the 2018 Jackson Poetry Prize, the American Poetry Review Jerome Shestack Award, and a 1988 New York Foundation for the Arts Award. Yau has published over fifty books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, including his most recent collection, Bijoux in the Dark (2018). He is on faculty at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.Sponsored by: John Ashbery Poetry Series.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, e-mail writtenarts@bard.edu, or visit https://writtenarts.bard.edu.
Jess Belardi Moderation concert
Monday, November 18, 2019
8:30–9:30 pm
Blum HallSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
International Education Week at Bard
Monday, November 18, 2019 – Friday, November 22, 2019
Bard College CampusThe Institute for International Liberal Education (Bard Abroad) invites you to participate in International Education Week at Bard!
“International Education Week (IEW) is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences” (Dept. of State).
Make sure to like and follow Bard Abroad on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date with events!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7835, e-mail lcooke@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/bardabroad.
Jamaicans: Storytelling through Dance
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
6–8 pm
Kline, Faculty Dining RoomEnjoy a night of Jamaican music, dance, and food.
This event is part of International Education Week 2019.Sponsored by: Office of International Student and Scholar Services.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ahanif@bard.edu.
On the Politics of Our Times: A Poetic Dialog with Wolfgang Hilbig, presented by Uwe Kolbe
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
6–7:30 pm
Olin, Room 204Rumor has it that dictatorship and censorship were stimulating for poetry. This event will present the poetic writings by two authors, Wolfgang Hilbig (1941–2007) and Uwe Kolbe (b. 1957), whose work began under the conditions of a closed society, whose writings contributed to this society’s opening and continued to unfold and provoke after its collapse, marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall. This public reading of both writers’ imaginative work understands itself as an invitation for a discussion on literature and politics.
Uwe Kolbe is an eminent poet, essayist, writer of prose, and translator. His first volume of poetry, Hineingeboren (“Born Into”), appeared in East Berlin in 1980. The increasingly critical nature of his writing led to a ban on publication in the GDR soon after. During the early 1980s, he edited the underground journal Mikado. Eventually, he was permitted to travel abroad and lived between Hamburg and East Berlin. Kolbe is the author of 13 books of poetry and the recipient of many prestigious prizes. He also was a writer in residence at the University of Texas at Austin and at Oberlin College. His collection of essays, Vineta’s Archives (2012), received the distinguished Heinrich-Mann-Award from the Academy of Arts Berlin.
Presented with generous support of the S. Fischer Foundation.Sponsored by: German Studies Program; Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-7363, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.
Zeke Chabon Senior Concert I
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
8–10 pm
Blum HallSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
International Education Week at Bard
Monday, November 18, 2019 – Friday, November 22, 2019
Bard College CampusThe Institute for International Liberal Education (Bard Abroad) invites you to participate in International Education Week at Bard!
“International Education Week (IEW) is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences” (Dept. of State).
Make sure to like and follow Bard Abroad on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date with events!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7835, e-mail lcooke@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/bardabroad.
Bard Network Opportunities Fair
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeCome learn about international opportunities throughout Bard's network! Opportunities include: Bard Abroad programs, tuition exchanges, language intensives, conferences, and more.Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7835, e-mail studyabroad@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/bardabroad.
HT94 Installation Participation Call
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
4–8 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater LobbyWe invite you to play a crucial role in Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94), a participatory political art installation which will open November 21–24 during Where No Wall Remains, a four-day festival on borders and migration.
The installation features 3,117 handwritten toe tags, each representing someone who lost their life crossing the Arizona/Mexico border. Join us at any time between 4-8 pm to contribute to the completion of the toe tags, which will then be placed on the 20-foot-long map of the border installed on the Weis Atrium wall at the Fisher Center.
Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a prototype of a participatory political art installation organized by the Undocumented Migration Project that will launch in the fall of 2020 in 150 locations around the globe simultaneously. A 20-foot-long map of the Arizona/Mexico border is populated with 3,117 handwritten toe tags that contain information about those who have died while migrating including name (if known), age, sex, cause of death, condition of body, and location. Some tags contain QR and Augmented-Reality codes that link to content related to migrant stories and visuals connected to immigration that can be accessed via cellphone. HT94 is intended to memorialize and bear witness to the thousands who have died as a result of Prevention Through Deterrence.
The most crucial (and interactive) aspect of the installation are the audience members committing their time and energy to meticulously fill out the death details for all 3,117 toe tags and then being assisted in placing these tags in the exact locations on the map where those individuals were found. See more on the exhibition here.
“My idea is not to change people’s minds. It’s just to give them more information about this topic so they can make an informed decision and how to feel about it.” —Jason De León disussing the installation at Cypress College, CASponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ht94-install/.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Open House in New York City
Attendees receive a $65 application fee waiver! RSVP: HERE
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
6:30–8:30 pm
LMHQ NYCJoin us in New York City for an 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
Event Location: This event will be held at LMHQ, 150 Broadway NY, NY Floor 20
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-11-20-19.
Tim Trumpet Senior Concert I
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
8–10 pm
Blum HallSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
International Education Week at Bard
Monday, November 18, 2019 – Friday, November 22, 2019
Bard College CampusThe Institute for International Liberal Education (Bard Abroad) invites you to participate in International Education Week at Bard!
“International Education Week (IEW) is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences” (Dept. of State).
Make sure to like and follow Bard Abroad on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date with events!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7835, e-mail lcooke@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/bardabroad.
Emily Jacir
letter to a friend
Thursday, November 21, 2019
6–9 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff StageLAB Commission / World Premiere
The artist asks a friend to start an investigation and recounts in minute detail various aspects of her home and street in Bethlehem—a site marked by movement, migration, survival, and war.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/jacir/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Thursday, November 21, 2019
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Thursday, November 21, 2019
7 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Thursday, November 21, 2019
6 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Jason De León
Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94)
Thursday, November 21, 2019
6–9:30 pm
Fisher Center, Weiss AtriumHostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a prototype of a participatory political art installation organized by the Undocumented Migration Project that launches simultaneously in 150 locations around the globe in fall 2020. A 20-foot-long map of the Arizona/Mexico border is populated with 3,117 handwritten toe tags that contain information about those who have died while migrating, including name (if known), age, sex, cause of death, condition of body, and location. Some tags contain QR and augmented-reality codes that link to content related to migrant stories, and visuals connected to immigration that can be accessed via cell phone. HT94 is intended to memorialize and bear witness to the thousands who have died as a result of the U.S. Border Patrol’s immigration enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.”
The most crucial (and interactive) aspect of the installation is the act of audience members committing their time and energy to meticulously fill out the death details for all 3,117 toe tags, and then placing these tags in the exact locations on the map where those individuals were found.
See more on the exhibition here.
Este mapa contiene 3,117 etiquetas que representan a las personas que murieron al cruzar la frontera entre los Estados Unidos y México entre mediados de la década de 1990 y 2019. Las etiquetas marrón claro representan personas que han sido identificadas. Las etiquetas naranjas representan restos humanos no identificados. Estas etiquetas fueron completadas por estudiantes de Bard College y miembros de la comunidad en noviembre de 2019. Varios de las etiquetas este muro tienen códigos QR que se conectan al contenido en línea con respecto a los problemas de los migrantes a lo largo de la frontera sur de Estados Unidos.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ht94/.
Emilio Rojas
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) & m(Other)s: Hudson Valley
Thursday, November 21, 2019
6–9 pm
Fisher Center, Weis Atrium & Bard FarmLAB Commission / World Premiere
“The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” — Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria)
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is the first iteration of a multifaceted, interactive land art and community-based project, including a 72-foot-long line of indigenous crops (corn, beans, and squash, known as “the three sisters”) planted in the shape of the U.S.-Mexico border line on the Bard College Farm. It includes the harvesting, sharing, and clearing of crops and land; a mobile paleta cart-turned-drawing studio upon which persons of any background are invited to memorialize real or imagined borders; and the documentation and archive from various stages of the project. Continuing the legacy of Chicana feminist writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa, the work seeks to unearth histories of immigration, labor rights, borders, land sovereignty, and systemic oppression.
Guided Farm Walk Schedule (first come, first served)
- Thursday, Nov. 21 at 3:30 pm
- Friday, Nov. 22 at 3:30 pm
- Saturday, Nov. 23 at 1:30 pm
Each walk will be approximately 45 minutes.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) was created in collaboration with the Bard Farm (Rebecca Yoshino, Farm Coordinator) and The Center for the Study of Land, Air and Water, with the participation of students Mary Elizabeth Klein Meghan Mercier, Kaitlyn McClelland, Gabrielle Reyes, Alexi Piirimae, Midori Barandiaran, and Austin Sumlin.
Return to Land Ritual Schedule (first come, first served)
- Sunday, Nov. 24 at 2:30 pm
This durational event will last approximately four hours.
m(Other)s: Hudson Valley
m(Other)s: Hudson Valley is a series of video portraits of immigrant women, both documented and undocumented, holding their first-generation children. Inspired by the “hidden mother” photographs common from the advent of photography up until the 1920s—a standard practice requiring the mother to hold the child still while being covered and remaining invisible in the interest of foregrounding the child—these portraits seek to connect the political and social situation of women at the turn of the 20th century with the invisibility of the labor of immigrant women today.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/naturalized-borders/.
Reading Room
Thursday, November 21, 2019
6–9 pm
LUMA Theater BalconyOpen to the public, the Reading Room provides a space for individual and communal engagement with the discourse of Where No Wall Remains. A schedule of special events at the Reading Room, including public talks, readings, and screenings, can be found here.
This program is a part of the 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial: Where No Wall Remains.
The Reading Room is presented in association with Bard’s Center for Experimental Humanities.
The Reading Room is also on view through November 2019 at Wendy’s Subway, a non-profit library, writing space, and independent publisher in Brooklyn, New York.Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial; Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/reading-room-2019/.
Special Case Investigations in Virology:
Finding the Unexpected
Daryl Lamson, New York Department of Health
Thursday, November 21, 2019
12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Great Music is Simple: Confucianism and Daoism in Chinese Music
A talk by Dr. Mingmei Yip
Thursday, November 21, 2019
1–2:30 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building, Room 210Confucianism and Daoism, the two seemingly opposite but complementary Chinese philosophies, have molded Chinese music for more than two millennia. This lecture will explain how Confucian and Daoist metaphysics are the essence of Chinese literati music.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail uschinamusic@bard.edu, or visit https://barduschinamusic.org/events/great-music-is-simple.
Navigating the Graduate Application Process in Psychology at the New School for Social Research
Thursday, November 21, 2019
4:45–6 pm
Preston TheaterSponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail jdainerbest@bard.edu.
Mirna Bamieh / Palestine Hosting Society
Menu of Dis/appearance
Thursday, November 21, 2019 – Saturday, November 23, 2019
7:30 pm
Murray's, Tivoli, NYLAB Commission / World Premiere
In its first dinner performance in the United States, the Palestine Hosting Society presents an approach to “Palestinianess” that trespasses borders and geographies through a menu that brings together dishes from Palestinian cities and villages, refugee camps outside Palestine, and those that narrate intergenerational food habits and memory of the Palestinian diaspora, especially in the United States. Menu of Dis/appearance narrates stories about time, history, and parts of ourselves that we might have allowed to slip away.
Menu of Dis/appearance invites the audience on a journey through a selection of dishes that reflects the Palestine Hosting Society’s investigation and unearthing of traditional Palestinian cuisine. Some have been forgotten, their names rendered abstract to the current generation of Palestinians. Being denied a state of their own, Palestinians use food to express an identity that is constantly undermined. Life under occupation atrophied this connection to food, through imposing restrictive policies over food and water resources and inflicting control on wild plant foraging, as well as creating dissonance by showcasing Palestinian dishes as Israeli. Over the years, such measures created a kitchen that is dispossessed, making many traditional Palestinian dishes disappear, or be temporarily withdrawn.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard; Murray's, Tivoli.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/menu-of-disappearance/.
Lindsay Williams Senior Concert II
Thursday, November 21, 2019
7:30–9:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
A Reading by Robert Kelly
Thursday, November 21, 2019
8–9:30 pm
Bard Hall, Bard College CampusThe poet Robert Kelly offers his annual reading to honor the birthday of his wife, the renowned translator Charlotte Mandell, on Thursday, November 21, at 8:00 p.m. in Bard Hall. This event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
At Bard since 1961, Kelly is Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature, the founding director of the Writing Program of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, and a contributing editor of Conjunctions.
Poet, fiction writer, playwright, and more, he has published his Collected Essays, edited by Pierre Joris and Peter Cockelbergh (Contra Mundum); Oedipus after Colonus and Other Plays (Dr. Cicero Books); and Winter Music, texts to the photo work of Susan Quasha (T-space Editions). He was named Dutchess County’s first poet laureate in 2016.
His many, many other books include The Common Shore, The Loom, Kill the Messenger, Not This Island Music, The Flowers of Unceasing Coincidence, A Strange Market, Red Actions, The Time of Voice, The Garden of Distances, Lapis, Runes, Threads, May Day. Fiction: A Transparent Tree, Doctor of Silence, Cat Scratch Fever, The Queen of Terrors, and The Book from the Sky.
“In more than thirty-five collections of poetry, Kelly has utterly failed at one thing: to pigeonhole himself into predictability. Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960–1993 contains imagistic bits that seem like fragments of poetic tapestry, long surreal narratives, series poems, and sonorous chants. Whatever the form, they are marked by Kelly’s erudition, which covers Greek archaeology as readily as twentieth-century music, Sumerian gods as well as contemporary painting.” —BooklistSponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, e-mail ccape@bard.edu, or visit https://writtenarts.bard.edu.
Juan Carlos Cabrera Senior Concert I
Thursday, November 21, 2019
8:30–10:30 pm
Blum HallSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
International Education Week at Bard
Monday, November 18, 2019 – Friday, November 22, 2019
Bard College CampusThe Institute for International Liberal Education (Bard Abroad) invites you to participate in International Education Week at Bard!
“International Education Week (IEW) is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences” (Dept. of State).
Make sure to like and follow Bard Abroad on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date with events!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7835, e-mail lcooke@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/bardabroad.
Mirna Bamieh / Palestine Hosting Society
Menu of Dis/appearance
Thursday, November 21, 2019 – Saturday, November 23, 2019
7:30 pm
Murray's, Tivoli, NYLAB Commission / World Premiere
In its first dinner performance in the United States, the Palestine Hosting Society presents an approach to “Palestinianess” that trespasses borders and geographies through a menu that brings together dishes from Palestinian cities and villages, refugee camps outside Palestine, and those that narrate intergenerational food habits and memory of the Palestinian diaspora, especially in the United States. Menu of Dis/appearance narrates stories about time, history, and parts of ourselves that we might have allowed to slip away.
Menu of Dis/appearance invites the audience on a journey through a selection of dishes that reflects the Palestine Hosting Society’s investigation and unearthing of traditional Palestinian cuisine. Some have been forgotten, their names rendered abstract to the current generation of Palestinians. Being denied a state of their own, Palestinians use food to express an identity that is constantly undermined. Life under occupation atrophied this connection to food, through imposing restrictive policies over food and water resources and inflicting control on wild plant foraging, as well as creating dissonance by showcasing Palestinian dishes as Israeli. Over the years, such measures created a kitchen that is dispossessed, making many traditional Palestinian dishes disappear, or be temporarily withdrawn.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard; Murray's, Tivoli.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/menu-of-disappearance/.
Emily Jacir
letter to a friend
Friday, November 22, 2019
6–9:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff StageLAB Commission / World Premiere
The artist asks a friend to start an investigation and recounts in minute detail various aspects of her home and street in Bethlehem—a site marked by movement, migration, survival, and war.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/jacir/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Friday, November 22, 2019
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Friday, November 22, 2019
7 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Friday, November 22, 2019
6 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Jason De León
Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94)
Friday, November 22, 2019
6–9:30 pm
Fisher Center, Weiss AtriumHostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a prototype of a participatory political art installation organized by the Undocumented Migration Project that launches simultaneously in 150 locations around the globe in fall 2020. A 20-foot-long map of the Arizona/Mexico border is populated with 3,117 handwritten toe tags that contain information about those who have died while migrating, including name (if known), age, sex, cause of death, condition of body, and location. Some tags contain QR and augmented-reality codes that link to content related to migrant stories, and visuals connected to immigration that can be accessed via cell phone. HT94 is intended to memorialize and bear witness to the thousands who have died as a result of the U.S. Border Patrol’s immigration enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.”
The most crucial (and interactive) aspect of the installation is the act of audience members committing their time and energy to meticulously fill out the death details for all 3,117 toe tags, and then placing these tags in the exact locations on the map where those individuals were found.
See more on the exhibition here.
Este mapa contiene 3,117 etiquetas que representan a las personas que murieron al cruzar la frontera entre los Estados Unidos y México entre mediados de la década de 1990 y 2019. Las etiquetas marrón claro representan personas que han sido identificadas. Las etiquetas naranjas representan restos humanos no identificados. Estas etiquetas fueron completadas por estudiantes de Bard College y miembros de la comunidad en noviembre de 2019. Varios de las etiquetas este muro tienen códigos QR que se conectan al contenido en línea con respecto a los problemas de los migrantes a lo largo de la frontera sur de Estados Unidos.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ht94/.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme with Tashweesh
At those terrifying frontiers where the existence and disappearance of people fade into each other (part 2)
Friday, November 22, 2019
6:30 pm
Fisher Center, Resnick Theater StudioLAB Commission / World Premiere
At those terrifying frontiers where the existence and disappearance of people fade into each other (part 2) brings together a site-specific video and sound installation by Palestinian American artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and a new performance by Tashweesh with musician/performer Muqata’a. The combination of their different practices, in a joint performance using sound, music, and images, results in an exploration of the collision between returns, erasure, and disruption.
From the returns of the land and stubborn vegetation that does not die, to artifacts that are reactivated as living matter, figures that return in virtual form, and disruptive bodies that keep reappearing on borders, both the installation and performance address the intentional erosion of bodies, land, and structures in different forms, and also their reappearance in spaces where they “should not be.” These projects invite us to consider the forms of entanglement between the destruction of bodies and the erasure of images, and the conditions under which these same bodies and images might reappear.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/terrifying-frontiers/.
Ali Chahrour
Night
Friday, November 22, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
“The Catastrophe is a violent crisis during which the subject, experiencing the amorous situation as a definitive impasse, a trap from which he can never escape, sees himself doomed to total destruction.”
— Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
Night, from Lebanese choreographer Ali Chahrour, is a dance concert inspired by the dense archive of love and romance in classical Arabic poetry, and from contemporary stories of lovers and their cruel separations. The work references stories from the cultural memory of the Levant and Mesopotamia about the fate of lovers who challenged social and religious systems, and whose bodies were punished and sentenced to suffer the distance of separation as well as the hope of impossible reunions.
The performance records the vicissitudes of lovers and their resistance, leading up to the moment when they fall and fade away. The exhausted body succumbs, and with it falls every action and instrument/tool that the performers had carried throughout the show. The fall reveals the fragility of the lover/performer, and the frailty of methods and tools at his disposal. The stage becomes the battlefield after the battle, where the audience has just witnessed the death or, rather, the birth of its heroes.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/night/.
Emilio Rojas
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) & m(Other)s: Hudson Valley
Friday, November 22, 2019
6–9:30 pm
Fisher Center, Weis Atrium & Bard FarmLAB Commission / World Premiere
“The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” — Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria)
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is the first iteration of a multifaceted, interactive land art and community-based project, including a 72-foot-long line of indigenous crops (corn, beans, and squash, known as “the three sisters”) planted in the shape of the U.S.-Mexico border line on the Bard College Farm. It includes the harvesting, sharing, and clearing of crops and land; a mobile paleta cart-turned-drawing studio upon which persons of any background are invited to memorialize real or imagined borders; and the documentation and archive from various stages of the project. Continuing the legacy of Chicana feminist writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa, the work seeks to unearth histories of immigration, labor rights, borders, land sovereignty, and systemic oppression.
Guided Farm Walk Schedule (first come, first served)
- Thursday, Nov. 21 at 3:30 pm
- Friday, Nov. 22 at 3:30 pm
- Saturday, Nov. 23 at 1:30 pm
Each walk will be approximately 45 minutes.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) was created in collaboration with the Bard Farm (Rebecca Yoshino, Farm Coordinator) and The Center for the Study of Land, Air and Water, with the participation of students Mary Elizabeth Klein Meghan Mercier, Kaitlyn McClelland, Gabrielle Reyes, Alexi Piirimae, Midori Barandiaran, and Austin Sumlin.
Return to Land Ritual Schedule (first come, first served)
- Sunday, Nov. 24 at 2:30 pm
This durational event will last approximately four hours.
m(Other)s: Hudson Valley
m(Other)s: Hudson Valley is a series of video portraits of immigrant women, both documented and undocumented, holding their first-generation children. Inspired by the “hidden mother” photographs common from the advent of photography up until the 1920s—a standard practice requiring the mother to hold the child still while being covered and remaining invisible in the interest of foregrounding the child—these portraits seek to connect the political and social situation of women at the turn of the 20th century with the invisibility of the labor of immigrant women today.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/naturalized-borders/.
Reading Room
Friday, November 22, 2019
6–9:30 pm
LUMA Theater BalconyOpen to the public, the Reading Room provides a space for individual and communal engagement with the discourse of Where No Wall Remains. A schedule of special events at the Reading Room, including public talks, readings, and screenings, can be found here.
This program is a part of the 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial: Where No Wall Remains.
The Reading Room is presented in association with Bard’s Center for Experimental Humanities.
The Reading Room is also on view through November 2019 at Wendy’s Subway, a non-profit library, writing space, and independent publisher in Brooklyn, New York.Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial; Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/reading-room-2019/.
Solar Microgrid Applications for Emerging Economies
Megan Kerins, ’06, Rocky Mountain Institute
Friday, November 22, 2019
12–1 pm
Hegeman 107Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Jonah Knapp-Wilson Moderation Concert
Friday, November 22, 2019
7–9 pm
Blum HallSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
Mirna Bamieh / Palestine Hosting Society
Menu of Dis/appearance
Thursday, November 21, 2019 – Saturday, November 23, 2019
7:30 pm
Murray's, Tivoli, NYLAB Commission / World Premiere
In its first dinner performance in the United States, the Palestine Hosting Society presents an approach to “Palestinianess” that trespasses borders and geographies through a menu that brings together dishes from Palestinian cities and villages, refugee camps outside Palestine, and those that narrate intergenerational food habits and memory of the Palestinian diaspora, especially in the United States. Menu of Dis/appearance narrates stories about time, history, and parts of ourselves that we might have allowed to slip away.
Menu of Dis/appearance invites the audience on a journey through a selection of dishes that reflects the Palestine Hosting Society’s investigation and unearthing of traditional Palestinian cuisine. Some have been forgotten, their names rendered abstract to the current generation of Palestinians. Being denied a state of their own, Palestinians use food to express an identity that is constantly undermined. Life under occupation atrophied this connection to food, through imposing restrictive policies over food and water resources and inflicting control on wild plant foraging, as well as creating dissonance by showcasing Palestinian dishes as Israeli. Over the years, such measures created a kitchen that is dispossessed, making many traditional Palestinian dishes disappear, or be temporarily withdrawn.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard; Murray's, Tivoli.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/menu-of-disappearance/.
Emily Jacir
letter to a friend
Saturday, November 23, 2019
1–9:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff StageLAB Commission / World Premiere
The artist asks a friend to start an investigation and recounts in minute detail various aspects of her home and street in Bethlehem—a site marked by movement, migration, survival, and war.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/jacir/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Saturday, November 23, 2019
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Saturday, November 23, 2019
7 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Saturday, November 23, 2019
4:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Saturday, November 23, 2019
3:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Saturday, November 23, 2019
2:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Jason De León
Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94)
Saturday, November 23, 2019
1–9:30 pm
Fisher Center, Weiss AtriumHostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a prototype of a participatory political art installation organized by the Undocumented Migration Project that launches simultaneously in 150 locations around the globe in fall 2020. A 20-foot-long map of the Arizona/Mexico border is populated with 3,117 handwritten toe tags that contain information about those who have died while migrating, including name (if known), age, sex, cause of death, condition of body, and location. Some tags contain QR and augmented-reality codes that link to content related to migrant stories, and visuals connected to immigration that can be accessed via cell phone. HT94 is intended to memorialize and bear witness to the thousands who have died as a result of the U.S. Border Patrol’s immigration enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.”
The most crucial (and interactive) aspect of the installation is the act of audience members committing their time and energy to meticulously fill out the death details for all 3,117 toe tags, and then placing these tags in the exact locations on the map where those individuals were found.
See more on the exhibition here.
Este mapa contiene 3,117 etiquetas que representan a las personas que murieron al cruzar la frontera entre los Estados Unidos y México entre mediados de la década de 1990 y 2019. Las etiquetas marrón claro representan personas que han sido identificadas. Las etiquetas naranjas representan restos humanos no identificados. Estas etiquetas fueron completadas por estudiantes de Bard College y miembros de la comunidad en noviembre de 2019. Varios de las etiquetas este muro tienen códigos QR que se conectan al contenido en línea con respecto a los problemas de los migrantes a lo largo de la frontera sur de Estados Unidos.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ht94/.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme with Tashweesh
At those terrifying frontiers where the existence and disappearance of people fade into each other (part 2)
Saturday, November 23, 2019
4:30 pm
Fisher Center, Resnick Theater StudioLAB Commission / World Premiere
At those terrifying frontiers where the existence and disappearance of people fade into each other (part 2) brings together a site-specific video and sound installation by Palestinian American artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and a new performance by Tashweesh with musician/performer Muqata’a. The combination of their different practices, in a joint performance using sound, music, and images, results in an exploration of the collision between returns, erasure, and disruption.
From the returns of the land and stubborn vegetation that does not die, to artifacts that are reactivated as living matter, figures that return in virtual form, and disruptive bodies that keep reappearing on borders, both the installation and performance address the intentional erosion of bodies, land, and structures in different forms, and also their reappearance in spaces where they “should not be.” These projects invite us to consider the forms of entanglement between the destruction of bodies and the erasure of images, and the conditions under which these same bodies and images might reappear.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/terrifying-frontiers/.
Ali Chahrour
Night
Saturday, November 23, 2019
3 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
“The Catastrophe is a violent crisis during which the subject, experiencing the amorous situation as a definitive impasse, a trap from which he can never escape, sees himself doomed to total destruction.”
— Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
Night, from Lebanese choreographer Ali Chahrour, is a dance concert inspired by the dense archive of love and romance in classical Arabic poetry, and from contemporary stories of lovers and their cruel separations. The work references stories from the cultural memory of the Levant and Mesopotamia about the fate of lovers who challenged social and religious systems, and whose bodies were punished and sentenced to suffer the distance of separation as well as the hope of impossible reunions.
The performance records the vicissitudes of lovers and their resistance, leading up to the moment when they fall and fade away. The exhausted body succumbs, and with it falls every action and instrument/tool that the performers had carried throughout the show. The fall reveals the fragility of the lover/performer, and the frailty of methods and tools at his disposal. The stage becomes the battlefield after the battle, where the audience has just witnessed the death or, rather, the birth of its heroes.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/night/.
Emilio Rojas
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) & m(Other)s: Hudson Valley
Saturday, November 23, 2019
1–9:30 pm
Fisher Center, Weis Atrium & Bard FarmLAB Commission / World Premiere
“The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” — Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria)
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is the first iteration of a multifaceted, interactive land art and community-based project, including a 72-foot-long line of indigenous crops (corn, beans, and squash, known as “the three sisters”) planted in the shape of the U.S.-Mexico border line on the Bard College Farm. It includes the harvesting, sharing, and clearing of crops and land; a mobile paleta cart-turned-drawing studio upon which persons of any background are invited to memorialize real or imagined borders; and the documentation and archive from various stages of the project. Continuing the legacy of Chicana feminist writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa, the work seeks to unearth histories of immigration, labor rights, borders, land sovereignty, and systemic oppression.
Guided Farm Walk Schedule (first come, first served)
- Thursday, Nov. 21 at 3:30 pm
- Friday, Nov. 22 at 3:30 pm
- Saturday, Nov. 23 at 1:30 pm
Each walk will be approximately 45 minutes.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) was created in collaboration with the Bard Farm (Rebecca Yoshino, Farm Coordinator) and The Center for the Study of Land, Air and Water, with the participation of students Mary Elizabeth Klein Meghan Mercier, Kaitlyn McClelland, Gabrielle Reyes, Alexi Piirimae, Midori Barandiaran, and Austin Sumlin.
Return to Land Ritual Schedule (first come, first served)
- Sunday, Nov. 24 at 2:30 pm
This durational event will last approximately four hours.
m(Other)s: Hudson Valley
m(Other)s: Hudson Valley is a series of video portraits of immigrant women, both documented and undocumented, holding their first-generation children. Inspired by the “hidden mother” photographs common from the advent of photography up until the 1920s—a standard practice requiring the mother to hold the child still while being covered and remaining invisible in the interest of foregrounding the child—these portraits seek to connect the political and social situation of women at the turn of the 20th century with the invisibility of the labor of immigrant women today.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/naturalized-borders/.
Rudi Goblen
FITO
Saturday, November 23, 2019
9 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage RightLAB Commission / World Premiere
After 30 years in the United States, it is the day of Fito’s naturalization ceremony. As he raises his hand for the Oath of Allegiance, he is transported to a composition of musical snapshots that make up his tapestry in this country. Some are jaded, some moot, some filled with bodies of water, some disheartening—but none ever debilitating enough to keep him from chasing his dream to be the first American citizen in his family. FITO is an interactive concert-play incorporating songs, stories, and spoken-word poems that meld to paint a soundscape of what it can take to be accepted in your own home, by your own people—or yourself.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fito/.
Reading Room
Saturday, November 23, 2019
1–9:30 pm
LUMA Theater BalconyOpen to the public, the Reading Room provides a space for individual and communal engagement with the discourse of Where No Wall Remains. A schedule of special events at the Reading Room, including public talks, readings, and screenings, can be found here.
This program is a part of the 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial: Where No Wall Remains.
The Reading Room is presented in association with Bard’s Center for Experimental Humanities.
The Reading Room is also on view through November 2019 at Wendy’s Subway, a non-profit library, writing space, and independent publisher in Brooklyn, New York.Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial; Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/reading-room-2019/.
Degree Recital: Zhen Liu, violin
with Sophia Zhou, piano
Works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Ravel
Saturday, November 23, 2019
3–4:30 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7866, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Emily Jacir
letter to a friend
Sunday, November 24, 2019
1–8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff StageLAB Commission / World Premiere
The artist asks a friend to start an investigation and recounts in minute detail various aspects of her home and street in Bethlehem—a site marked by movement, migration, survival, and war.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/jacir/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Sunday, November 24, 2019
6:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Sunday, November 24, 2019
5:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Sunday, November 24, 2019
3 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Sunday, November 24, 2019
2 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate
Sunday, November 24, 2019
1 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff BackstageLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarization of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, marked by war, survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards colonial and national borders.
Audience members are invited to immerse themselves in one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is cocommissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
Jason De León
Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94)
Sunday, November 24, 2019
1–8 pm
Fisher Center, Weiss AtriumHostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a prototype of a participatory political art installation organized by the Undocumented Migration Project that launches simultaneously in 150 locations around the globe in fall 2020. A 20-foot-long map of the Arizona/Mexico border is populated with 3,117 handwritten toe tags that contain information about those who have died while migrating, including name (if known), age, sex, cause of death, condition of body, and location. Some tags contain QR and augmented-reality codes that link to content related to migrant stories, and visuals connected to immigration that can be accessed via cell phone. HT94 is intended to memorialize and bear witness to the thousands who have died as a result of the U.S. Border Patrol’s immigration enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.”
The most crucial (and interactive) aspect of the installation is the act of audience members committing their time and energy to meticulously fill out the death details for all 3,117 toe tags, and then placing these tags in the exact locations on the map where those individuals were found.
See more on the exhibition here.
Este mapa contiene 3,117 etiquetas que representan a las personas que murieron al cruzar la frontera entre los Estados Unidos y México entre mediados de la década de 1990 y 2019. Las etiquetas marrón claro representan personas que han sido identificadas. Las etiquetas naranjas representan restos humanos no identificados. Estas etiquetas fueron completadas por estudiantes de Bard College y miembros de la comunidad en noviembre de 2019. Varios de las etiquetas este muro tienen códigos QR que se conectan al contenido en línea con respecto a los problemas de los migrantes a lo largo de la frontera sur de Estados Unidos.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/ht94/.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme with Tashweesh
At those terrifying frontiers where the existence and disappearance of people fade into each other (part 2)
Sunday, November 24, 2019
6:30 pm
Fisher Center, Resnick Theater StudioLAB Commission / World Premiere
At those terrifying frontiers where the existence and disappearance of people fade into each other (part 2) brings together a site-specific video and sound installation by Palestinian American artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and a new performance by Tashweesh with musician/performer Muqata’a. The combination of their different practices, in a joint performance using sound, music, and images, results in an exploration of the collision between returns, erasure, and disruption.
From the returns of the land and stubborn vegetation that does not die, to artifacts that are reactivated as living matter, figures that return in virtual form, and disruptive bodies that keep reappearing on borders, both the installation and performance address the intentional erosion of bodies, land, and structures in different forms, and also their reappearance in spaces where they “should not be.” These projects invite us to consider the forms of entanglement between the destruction of bodies and the erasure of images, and the conditions under which these same bodies and images might reappear.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/terrifying-frontiers/.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme with Tashweesh
At those terrifying frontiers where the existence and disappearance of people fade into each other (part 2)
Sunday, November 24, 2019
2 pm
Fisher Center, Resnick Theater StudioLAB Commission / World Premiere
At those terrifying frontiers where the existence and disappearance of people fade into each other (part 2) brings together a site-specific video and sound installation by Palestinian American artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and a new performance by Tashweesh with musician/performer Muqata’a. The combination of their different practices, in a joint performance using sound, music, and images, results in an exploration of the collision between returns, erasure, and disruption.
From the returns of the land and stubborn vegetation that does not die, to artifacts that are reactivated as living matter, figures that return in virtual form, and disruptive bodies that keep reappearing on borders, both the installation and performance address the intentional erosion of bodies, land, and structures in different forms, and also their reappearance in spaces where they “should not be.” These projects invite us to consider the forms of entanglement between the destruction of bodies and the erasure of images, and the conditions under which these same bodies and images might reappear.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/terrifying-frontiers/.
Ali Chahrour
Night
Sunday, November 24, 2019
4 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterLAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
“The Catastrophe is a violent crisis during which the subject, experiencing the amorous situation as a definitive impasse, a trap from which he can never escape, sees himself doomed to total destruction.”
— Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
Night, from Lebanese choreographer Ali Chahrour, is a dance concert inspired by the dense archive of love and romance in classical Arabic poetry, and from contemporary stories of lovers and their cruel separations. The work references stories from the cultural memory of the Levant and Mesopotamia about the fate of lovers who challenged social and religious systems, and whose bodies were punished and sentenced to suffer the distance of separation as well as the hope of impossible reunions.
The performance records the vicissitudes of lovers and their resistance, leading up to the moment when they fall and fade away. The exhausted body succumbs, and with it falls every action and instrument/tool that the performers had carried throughout the show. The fall reveals the fragility of the lover/performer, and the frailty of methods and tools at his disposal. The stage becomes the battlefield after the battle, where the audience has just witnessed the death or, rather, the birth of its heroes.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/night/.
Emilio Rojas
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) & m(Other)s: Hudson Valley
Sunday, November 24, 2019
1–8 pm
Fisher Center, Weis Atrium & Bard FarmLAB Commission / World Premiere
“The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” — Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria)
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is the first iteration of a multifaceted, interactive land art and community-based project, including a 72-foot-long line of indigenous crops (corn, beans, and squash, known as “the three sisters”) planted in the shape of the U.S.-Mexico border line on the Bard College Farm. It includes the harvesting, sharing, and clearing of crops and land; a mobile paleta cart-turned-drawing studio upon which persons of any background are invited to memorialize real or imagined borders; and the documentation and archive from various stages of the project. Continuing the legacy of Chicana feminist writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa, the work seeks to unearth histories of immigration, labor rights, borders, land sovereignty, and systemic oppression.
Guided Farm Walk Schedule (first come, first served)
- Thursday, Nov. 21 at 3:30 pm
- Friday, Nov. 22 at 3:30 pm
- Saturday, Nov. 23 at 1:30 pm
Each walk will be approximately 45 minutes.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) was created in collaboration with the Bard Farm (Rebecca Yoshino, Farm Coordinator) and The Center for the Study of Land, Air and Water, with the participation of students Mary Elizabeth Klein Meghan Mercier, Kaitlyn McClelland, Gabrielle Reyes, Alexi Piirimae, Midori Barandiaran, and Austin Sumlin.
Return to Land Ritual Schedule (first come, first served)
- Sunday, Nov. 24 at 2:30 pm
This durational event will last approximately four hours.
m(Other)s: Hudson Valley
m(Other)s: Hudson Valley is a series of video portraits of immigrant women, both documented and undocumented, holding their first-generation children. Inspired by the “hidden mother” photographs common from the advent of photography up until the 1920s—a standard practice requiring the mother to hold the child still while being covered and remaining invisible in the interest of foregrounding the child—these portraits seek to connect the political and social situation of women at the turn of the 20th century with the invisibility of the labor of immigrant women today.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/naturalized-borders/.
Rudi Goblen
FITO
Sunday, November 24, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage RightLAB Commission / World Premiere
After 30 years in the United States, it is the day of Fito’s naturalization ceremony. As he raises his hand for the Oath of Allegiance, he is transported to a composition of musical snapshots that make up his tapestry in this country. Some are jaded, some moot, some filled with bodies of water, some disheartening—but none ever debilitating enough to keep him from chasing his dream to be the first American citizen in his family. FITO is an interactive concert-play incorporating songs, stories, and spoken-word poems that meld to paint a soundscape of what it can take to be accepted in your own home, by your own people—or yourself.Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fito/.
Reading Room
Sunday, November 24, 2019
1–8 pm
LUMA Theater BalconyOpen to the public, the Reading Room provides a space for individual and communal engagement with the discourse of Where No Wall Remains. A schedule of special events at the Reading Room, including public talks, readings, and screenings, can be found here.
This program is a part of the 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial: Where No Wall Remains.
The Reading Room is presented in association with Bard’s Center for Experimental Humanities.
The Reading Room is also on view through November 2019 at Wendy’s Subway, a non-profit library, writing space, and independent publisher in Brooklyn, New York.Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial; Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/reading-room-2019/.
Horn Recital: Zachary McIntyre with Yun Chen, piano
Works by Gliere, Hindemith, and Krol
Sunday, November 24, 2019
2–3 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsFor Friends and for Fun
Zachary McIntyre, horn
Yun Chen, piano
Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 2 p.m.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
11 Pieces, Op. 35 (1908) Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)
6. Romance
7. Valse Triste
10. Nocturne
11. Intermezzo
Laudatio Bernhard Krol (1920-2013)
Sonata für Horn und Piano (1939) Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Mäßig bewegt
Ruhig bewegt
Lebhaft
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Eastern Dawn: Chinese Ensemble
Concert featuring Chinese traditional instruments including guzheng, pipa, erhu, daruan, and zhongruan.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
7–9 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail uschinamusic@bard.edu, or visit https://barduschinamusic.org.
Twilight of the Gods: A Talk by Antonia Grunenberg
Monday, November 25, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Arendt CenterWalter Benjamin’s project of founding a political metaphysics in secular times—and Hannah Arendt’s answer.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Alexus Foster Senior Concert I
Monday, November 25, 2019
8–10 pm
Avery Studio XSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Levy Programs Open House
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
5–7 pm
Blithewood, Levy InstituteJoin faculty and students at the Levy Institute for an informal information session on the 3+2 and 4+1 programs.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
For more information, call 845-758-7776, e-mail levygrad@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/levygrad/news/.
Thanksgiving Recess (classes end at 5 p.m. on Wednesday)
Thursday, November 28, 2019 – Sunday, December 1, 2019
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thanksgiving Recess (classes end at 5 p.m. on Wednesday)
Thursday, November 28, 2019 – Sunday, December 1, 2019
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
- 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Bard Network Opportunities Fair
- 4–8 pm HT94 Installation Participation Call
- 6:30–8:30 pm Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Open House in New York City
- 8–10 pm Tim Trumpet Senior Concert I
- Biennial Special Events
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- International Education Week at Bard
Thursday, November 21, 2019
- 12–1 pm Special Case Investigations in Virology:
Finding the Unexpected - 1–2:30 pm Great Music is Simple: Confucianism and Daoism in Chinese Music
- 4:45–6 pm Navigating the Graduate Application Process in Psychology at the New School for Social Research
- 5–7:30 pm Meditation Group
- 6 pm Tania El Khoury
- 6–9 pm Emily Jacir
- 6–9:30 pm Jason De León
- 6–9 pm Emilio Rojas
- 6–9 pm Reading Room
- 7 pm Tania El Khoury
- 7:30 pm Mirna Bamieh / Palestine Hosting Society
- 7:30–9:30 pm Lindsay Williams Senior Concert II
- 8 pm Tania El Khoury
- 8–9:30 pm A Reading by Robert Kelly
- 8:30–10:30 pm Juan Carlos Cabrera Senior Concert I
- Biennial Special Events
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- International Education Week at Bard
Friday, November 22, 2019
- 12–1 pm Solar Microgrid Applications for Emerging Economies
- 6 pm Tania El Khoury
- 6–9:30 pm Emily Jacir
- 6–9:30 pm Jason De León
- 6–9:30 pm Emilio Rojas
- 6–9:30 pm Reading Room
- 6:30 pm Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme with Tashweesh
- 6:30–8:30 pm Shabbat
- 7 pm Tania El Khoury
- 7–9 pm Jonah Knapp-Wilson Moderation Concert
- 7:30 pm Mirna Bamieh / Palestine Hosting Society
- 7:30 pm Ali Chahrour
- 8 pm Tania El Khoury
- Biennial Special Events
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- International Education Week at Bard
Saturday, November 23, 2019
- 1–9:30 pm Emily Jacir
- 1–9:30 pm Jason De León
- 1–9:30 pm Emilio Rojas
- 1–9:30 pm Reading Room
- 2:30 pm Tania El Khoury
- 3 pm Ali Chahrour
- 3–4:30 pm Degree Recital: Zhen Liu, violin
with Sophia Zhou, piano - 3:30 pm Tania El Khoury
- 4:30 pm Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme with Tashweesh
- 4:30 pm Tania El Khoury
- 7 pm Tania El Khoury
- 7:30 pm Mirna Bamieh / Palestine Hosting Society
- 8 pm Tania El Khoury
- 9 pm Rudi Goblen
- Biennial Special Events
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Sunday, November 24, 2019
- 1 pm Tania El Khoury
- 1–8 pm Emily Jacir
- 1–8 pm Jason De León
- 1–8 pm Emilio Rojas
- 1–8 pm Reading Room
- 2 pm Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme with Tashweesh
- 2 pm Tania El Khoury
- 2–3 pm Horn Recital: Zachary McIntyre with Yun Chen, piano
- 3 pm Tania El Khoury
- 3–5 pm Christian Services
- 4 pm Ali Chahrour
- 5:30 pm Tania El Khoury
- 6:30 pm Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme with Tashweesh
- 6:30 pm Tania El Khoury
- 7–9 pm Eastern Dawn: Chinese Ensemble
- 7:30 pm Rudi Goblen
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Monday, November 25, 2019
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Friday, November 29, 2019