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Events for October 2023

Hudson Valley Ramble - Montgomery Place Innovators and Influencers: Downing, Davis, Gilson, and White: Walk/Hike
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Montgomery Place Estate, 10:30 am – 12 pm
Faculty Recital: Yi-Wen Jiang, violin, and Frank Corliss, piano, performing Schubert, Ravel, Paganini, Albéniz, and more
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2–4 pm
Montgomery Place Tour with the Cultural Landscape Foundation: What’s Out There Weekend: Rhinebeck and the Mid-Hudson Valley
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Blithewood, 2–3 pm
Bard East/West Ensemble with special guest Wu Man: CHINA NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL - THE BRIDGE OF MUSIC
Monday, October 2, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8–9:45 pm
Family and Alumni/ae Weekend
Friday, October 27, 2023 – Sunday, October 29, 2023
Fall Break
Monday, October 9, 2023 – Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Bard College Campus
Friendship and Politics
Thursday, October 12, 2023 – Friday, October 13, 2023
Olin Hall
Indigenous Research Methods & Practice: Refusal, Creation, and Intersectionality: Rethinking Place Conference 2023
Thursday, October 12, 2023 – Saturday, October 14, 2023
Canceled: Ulysses: Elevator Repair Service
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
A Reading with Isabella Hammad
Monday, October 2, 2023
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 6 pm
CMIA - Napoleon
Monday, October 2, 2023
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:55 pm
Last Tango in Ogygia: Human and Divine in Odyssey 5: Jenny Strauss Clay, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics Emerita at the University of Virginia
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 5–6:30 pm
„that’s how the foreign / forms conversations”: Uljana Wolf, Distinguished German Poet and Essayist
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Hegeman 204A, 6:30–8 pm
CMIA - Color
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:55 pm
Close Film Screening
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 7–9 pm
Bard East/West Ensemble with special guest Wu Man – NYC: China Now Music Festival – The Bridge of Music
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall Jazz at Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle, New York, NY , 7–8:45 pm
Men's Soccer vs. RPI (Breast Cancer Awareness - Kick it Pink)
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex, 7–9 pm
CMIA - Wendy and Lucy (Bard Filmmakers Event)
Friday, October 6, 2023
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 4–5:30 pm
The Orchestra Now Celebrates the Music of Chen Yi and Zhou Long: CHINA NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL: The Bridge of Music
Friday, October 6, 2023
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–8 pm
Men's Soccer vs. Union
Saturday, October 7, 2023
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex, 2–4 pm
Asia Society – Panel Discussion / Music Forum: Cultural Diplomacy in the U.S.-China Relationship: China Now Music Festival – The Bridge of Music
Saturday, October 7, 2023
Asia Society of New York, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, 3–5 pm
Faculty Recital: Luosha Fang ’11, violin, with Zhenni Li-Cohen, piano: Violin and piano duo performs Bach, Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky.
Saturday, October 7, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7–9 pm
The Orchestra Now Celebrates the Music of Chen Yi and Zhou Long – NYC: China Now Music Festival – The Bridge of Music
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall Jazz at Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle, New York, NY, 3–5 pm
EDI 2023 Keynote Address by Mark Paul: Freedom Is Not Enough–The Case for Economic Rights in the US
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Online Event, 12–1:30 pm
Women's Volleyball vs. Vassar
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Stevenson Athletic Center, 6–8 pm
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability - Online Info Session: A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Online Event, 7–8 pm
The Art of Friendship: A Student Exhibition & Community Dinner Party
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Bertelsmann Campus Center
Latinos in Local Politics
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room, 6–7:30 pm
Neil Gaiman: The Bard Lectures
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–8 pm
Voting Rights: What You Can Do to Combat Voter Suppression
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Online Event, 7–9 pm
Men's Soccer vs. Clarkson
Friday, October 13, 2023
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex, 4–6 pm
Neil Gaiman: The Bard Lectures
Friday, October 13, 2023
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–8 pm
Men's Soccer vs. St. Lawrence (Youth Soccer Day)
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex, 2–4 pm
In Recital: Jonathon Adams, baritone: With Rebecca Hass, mezzo-soprano, Robert Mealy, violin, and Avi Stein, harpsichord, and students and faculty of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program. 
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Olin Hall, 2–4 pm
Savage States: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow: The Inaugural Electa Quinney Lecture of Rethinking Place, Presented by Audra Simpson
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Olin Auditorium, 5 pm
Neil Gaiman: The Bard Lectures
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–8 pm
Live! On Stage: Jonathan Richman Featuring Tommy Larkins on Drums! / SMOG
Saturday, October 14, 2023
SMOG, 9–11 pm
The Blessing of the Animals
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 2–3 pm
Burning of Kingston, Chamber Music of the Revolutionary War Period
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Old Dutch Church, Kingston, 3–5 pm
Baroque Bowing Masterclass with Dongmyung Ahn: Baroque Violinist and Pedagogue
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Olin Hall, 5–7 pm
Part II - Faculty Recital: Luosha Fang ’11, violin and viola, with Shannon Lee, violin: Works for viola and violin by Martinů, Prokofiev, Saariaho, and Takemitsu.
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7–9 pm
Noon Concert: Conservatory Students Perform an Hour-Long Program of Piano Works
Monday, October 16, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 12–1 pm
Speaker Series: proppaNOW
Monday, October 16, 2023
CCS Bard, Classroom 102, 5–7 pm
Between Capture and Abandonment: Intermedial Liminality in Early South Korean Literature and Photography: Jae Won Edward Chung (Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, Asian Languages and Culture, Rutgers University)
Monday, October 16, 2023
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 6–7:30 pm
CMIA - Cameraperson
Monday, October 16, 2023
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7:30–9:05 pm
CMIA - On Germany
Monday, October 16, 2023
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 9:15–10:20 pm
Writing as Sowing, Reading as Eating: Installation & Food Gathering by Juliana Steiner
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Bard Farm, 5–8 pm
How to Commit Crimes Against Reality: Talk by New Red Order
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 6–8 pm
CMIA - 2001
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:55 pm
“We, the People”: Dyeing and Thinking with Cochineal: Artist Talk with Varunika Saraf (Zoom)
Thursday, October 19, 2023
https://bard.zoom.us/j/88987644342, 10:10–11:30 am
Bard GPS Online Info Session for International Applicants — October 2023: A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Online Event, 12–1 pm
Piano Master Class with Michael Brown, Pianist and Composer: Four Conservatory pianists perform works by Beethoven, Mozart, Ravel, and Schumann.
Friday, October 20, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 3–5 pm
Women's Tennis vs. Union
Friday, October 20, 2023
Stevenson Athletic Center, 4–6 pm
Women's Volleyball vs. Ithaca
Friday, October 20, 2023
Stevenson Athletic Center, 6–8 pm
Migration: by Chiori Miyagawa
Friday, October 20, 2023
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Migration: by Chiori Miyagawa
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 1–2 pm
Women's Volleyball vs. William Smith (Breast Cancer Awareness - Dig Pink)
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Stevenson Athletic Center, 2–4 pm
Women's Soccer vs. William Smith (Alumni and Senior Day)
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex, 3–5 pm
20th Anniversary Concert and Celebration
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Fisher Center, 5–6 pm
Migration: by Chiori Miyagawa
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Migration: by Chiori Miyagawa
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 2–3 pm
Bard Chinese Ensemble Fall Concert 2023: Shutong Li, conductor
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2–3:30 pm
Reflections from the Outstanding Jewish Pariah: Hannah Arendt on What Went Wrong with the Zionist Project
Monday, October 23, 2023
Arendt Center, 12–1:30 pm
Translation Made Me: What I Learned from Translating Maturana, Varela, Anzaldúa, Glissant, and Many Others: Keijiro Suga, University of Minnesota/Meiji University
Monday, October 23, 2023
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 5–6:30 pm
CMIA - Kieślowski
Monday, October 23, 2023
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:55 pm
Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: Lecture by Yuliya Yurchenko
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Avery Art Center; Ottaway Theater, 10:10–11:30 am
Nathan Thrall and Abed Salama, Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 5:15–6:45 pm
Women's Volleyball vs. SUNY Cobleskill (Senior Day)
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Stevenson Athletic Center, 7–9 pm
Men's Soccer vs. SUNY Cobleskill
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex, 7–9 pm
CMIA - The Sorrow and the Pity
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:55 pm
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability - Online Info Session: A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Online Event, 12–1 pm
Capoeira Angola at Bard with Professor Tagan! 
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room, 5–8 pm
Israel and Hamas: Hate, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and the Laws of War: Bard Center for the Study of Hate Program
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Olin Humanities, Room 205, 5–6:30 pm
Men's and Women's Swimming vs SUNY Postdam 
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Stevenson Athletic Center, 1–4 pm
Fall Harvest Festival in Celebration of Multidisciplinary Indigenous Art
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Montgomery Place Estate, 1–3 pm
Men's Soccer vs. Skidmore (Senior Day)
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex, 2–4 pm
Uncommon Connections: Joan Tower • Aaron Copland • Béla Bartók • Duke Ellington
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–8 pm
Uncommon Connections: Joan Tower • Aaron Copland • Béla Bartók • Duke Ellington
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 2–5 pm
Noon Concert: Conservatory Students Perform an Hour-Long Program of Short Works by Brahms, Mozart, Prokofiev, and Sibelius for piano, violin, and viola.
Monday, October 30, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 12–1 pm
Sex, Cancer, and Other Things My Mother Wishes I Never Had: Artist Presentation by Brian Lobel
Monday, October 30, 2023
Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio, 6–8 pm
CMIA - Romantic Melodrama
Monday, October 30, 2023
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–10:55 pm
CMIA - Avant-Garde Program
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:55 pm

Ongoing Events:

Leo Wang, Murder At Galehar: Studio Art Senior Thesis Exhibition
Thursday, April 6, 2023 – Monday, April 8, 2024
Indian Theater
Saturday, June 24, 2023 – Sunday, November 26, 2023
Erika Verzutti: New Moons
Saturday, June 24, 2023 – Sunday, October 15, 2023
To Be—Named Exhibition: Opening September 8 at Opalka Gallery, Albany, New York
Friday, September 1, 2023 – Saturday, October 14, 2023
Christian/Episcopal Service
Sunday, September 17, 2023 – Friday, May 17, 2024
The Aramaic Jesus: Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion and director of the Institute of Advanced Theology
Monday, October 30, 2023 – Monday, November 13, 2023


all events are subject to change
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