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Events for October 2024

Opening Reception for To Be– Named: Palestine
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Blithewood, 4:30–6:30 pm
ANOTHER SURREALISM: The Translated Poems of Joyce Mansour and Meret Oppenheim: A Reading and Conversation with Translators C. Francis Fisher and Kathleen Heil, moderated by Prof. Éric Trudel
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202, 6–7:30 pm
Film Screening: Unlearning Imperial Plunder (I & II) by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Preston Theater, 7–9 pm
Fall Break
Monday, October 14, 2024 – Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Bard College Campus
Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Imagine a Pluralist Politics?
Thursday, October 17, 2024 – Friday, October 18, 2024
Olin Hall
Family and Alumni/ae Weekend
Friday, October 25, 2024 – Sunday, October 27, 2024
Bard College Campus
Bard Southwest Arts Weekend and Cities Party
Friday, October 4, 2024 – Sunday, October 6, 2024
Hudson Jazz Festival: Featuring Bard faculty, students and alumni
Friday, October 4, 2024 – Sunday, October 6, 2024
Hudson, NY
HAC Student Fellows: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism Tabling
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, 1:30–4:30 pm
HAC Student Fellows: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism Tabling
Friday, October 4, 2024
Kline Commons, 11 am – 2 pm
Needle Felting with LEDs: Experimental Humanities Upcoming Hands-On Workshops
Friday, October 4, 2024
New Annandale House, 2:30–4:30 pm
"The Song Blanket" led by Rebecca Hass
Friday, October 4, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Música Mexicana
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–9:30 pm
Degree Recital: "Home" Colton Cook, baritone, with Nomin Samdan, piano
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Degree Recital: Lucina Yue, guzheng, with Neilson Chen, piano
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Olin Hall, 12 pm
Música Mexicana
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 2–4:30 pm
Bard Chinese Ensemble Fall Concert 2024: Shutong Li, conductor
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2–3:30 pm
“It’s the Religion, Stupid”: Religious Dimensions in Current Crises: The Confrontation of Orthodoxies in Ukraine
Monday, October 7, 2024
Bard Hall, 12:30–2 pm
Bard Debate Union: Public Debate
Monday, October 7, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 7–8:30 pm
The Hannah Arendt Center on WAMC's The Roundtable
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Online Event, 9–11 am
HAC Student Fellows: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism Tabling
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Kline Commons, 12–2 pm
A Reading of Select Works in Honor of Margaret Creal: Read by Elizabeth Shafer
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Shafer House, 5 pm
Studio Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Donna Dennis
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 5:30–7 pm
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability -- Online Info Session : Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational sessions for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Online Event, 7–8 pm
Speaker Series: Aruna D'Souza
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
CCS Bard, Classroom 102, 5–7 pm
Philadelphia Cities Party
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
5:30–7:30 pm
Levy Graduate Programs in Economics Info Session Webinar: Learn more about applying to Levy with Thomas Masterson, graduate program director, and Tyler Emerson, outreach and recruitment liaison.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Online Event, 12–1 pm
Student Journalism Contest (win cash prizes!): Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Thursday, October 17, 2024
10 am – 6:15 pm
Sebastian Junger on Tribalism and the Human Condition: Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Olin Hall, 10:30–2:45 am
Wine & Cheese Receptions at the Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism Conference: Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Olin Hall, 5:45–6:15 pm
Student Journalism Contest (win cash prizes!): Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Friday, October 18, 2024
9:30 am – 6 pm
Bloods, Crips, and Overcoming Tribalism in Los Angeles: Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Friday, October 18, 2024
Olin Hall, 12–1 pm
Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism in Israel and Palestine: Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Friday, October 18, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202, 1:30–2:15 pm
Hannah Arendt Walking Tour: Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Friday, October 18, 2024
Olin Humanities Building, 2:15 pm
HTML Like it's 2007: Experimental Humanities Upcoming Hands-On Workshops
Friday, October 18, 2024
New Annandale House, 2:30–4:30 pm
Wine & Cheese Receptions at the Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism Conference: Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference
Friday, October 18, 2024
Olin Hall, 5–6 pm
China Now Music Festival: Composing the Future
Friday, October 18, 2024
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–8 pm
Nikkya Hargrove ’05: "Mama: A Queer Black Woman's Story of a Family Lost and Found", in conversation with Jess Sposato ’02
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Bard NYC , 2–3:30 pm
Experimental Humanities Wants to Hear From You!
Monday, October 21, 2024
New Annandale House, 12–2 pm
“It’s the Religion, Stupid”: Religious Dimensions in Current Crises: “From the River to the Sea” in Likud’s Presentation
Monday, October 21, 2024
Bard Hall, 12:30–2 pm
A Reading by Joyce Carol Oates: The internationally renowned writer will read from her work.
Monday, October 21, 2024
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 4–5 pm
For Love of the World on Radio Kingston: with special guests Sierra Ford and Jonathan Becker
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
6–6:30 pm
Root Fractures: A Poetry and Multimedia Reading: with Diana Khoi Nguyen
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Blithewood, 6:30 pm
Maddy Dethloff, percussion: With performers Sam Bernhardt, Elizabeth Chernyak, Petra Elek, Tony Kirk, Oga L, and Jaelyn Quilizapa
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, 8 pm
Screening of 23 Mile: Followed by a Zoom visit with director Mitch McCabe
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Ottaway Theater in the Ottaway Film Center, 5–7 pm
Screening of Oceania: Journey to the Center: Director Natalie Zimmerman and producer Guetty Felin in attendance!
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Avery Art Center; Avery/Ottaway Theater, 7:30–9 pm
Queer Tango @ 20
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room, 1–3 pm
Writer As Reader: Discovering New Ways into the Text
Friday, October 25, 2024
9:30 am – 4 pm
Bard NYC: Study and Intern in NYC: Online Info Session
Friday, October 25, 2024
Online Event, 1–2 pm
The Dream
Friday, October 25, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
The Dream
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 2–3 pm
Hudson Valley Cities Party + CCE Mixer 2024: A Mixer for Civically Engaged Students and Alumni/ae
Saturday, October 26, 2024
5:30–7 pm
Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–8 pm
The Dream
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 2–3 pm
Debussy and Romeo & Juliet
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Peter Norton Symphony Space in NYC, 4–5:55 pm
The Dream
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 4–5 pm
The Mass Renunciations of US Citizenship at Tule Lake
Monday, October 28, 2024
5:30–7 pm
Student Journalism Contest (win cash prizes!): DEADLINE EXTENDED! Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Monday, October 28, 2024
Screenprinting V-O-T-E on T-Shirts with Studio Arts 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Lawn, 10:30 am – 1 pm
Focus on Lebanon: Nassim Abi Ghanem in Conversation with Michelle Murray
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 4–5:30 pm
“The Brilla Suite”: The Angelica Sanchez Quartet with: Angelica Sanchez, piano Adam O’Farrell, trumpet and amp, effects John Hebert, bass Rudy Royston, drums
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7:30–9:30 pm
One Year On: War, Genocide, and the Transformation of Palestinian, Israeli, and Regional Politics: Online Panel with Tareq Baconi, Aslı Ü. Bâli, and Shay Hazkani. Moderated by Ziad Abu-Rish.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Online Event, 10:30 am – 12 pm
Spatial Experiential Interactive Design Lab Kickoff
Thursday, October 31, 2024
New Annandale House, 5:30–8 pm

Ongoing Events:

Bard Farm Stand: Thursdays from noon – 5 pm, running May 30 through October 31
Thursday, May 30, 2024 – Thursday, October 31, 2024
Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger
Saturday, June 22, 2024 – Sunday, December 1, 2024
Carrie Mae Weems: Remember to Dream
Saturday, June 22, 2024 – Sunday, December 1, 2024
Start Making Sense
Saturday, June 22, 2024 – Sunday, October 20, 2024
Meditation
Monday, September 2, 2024 – Monday, December 16, 2024
Catholic Mass
Sunday, September 8, 2024 – Sunday, May 18, 2025
Christian/Episcopal Service
Sunday, September 8, 2024 – Sunday, May 18, 2025
Yiddish Language Table
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 – Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Hebrew Language Table
Monday, September 23, 2024 – Friday, May 30, 2025
The Virtual Reading Group: Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, October 4, 2024 – Friday, October 11, 2024
Hannah Arendt on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: Selections from the Hannah Arendt Personal Library Collection: Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Monday, October 7, 2024 – Thursday, October 31, 2024
Student Journalism Contest (win cash prizes!): DEADLINE EXTENDED! Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Thursday, October 17, 2024 – Monday, October 28, 2024
Ancram Center for the Arts Presents: A Concert Production of Centuries: by Kate Douglas, Matthew Dean Marsh, and Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez
Friday, October 25, 2024 – Sunday, November 3, 2024
The Virtual Reading Group: Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, October 25, 2024 – Friday, November 22, 2024


all events are subject to change
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