Events for October 2025
Inside Sustainability with Bard MBA: Live Podcast + Real Talk: Local Economies and a Sustainable NYC with Michael Shuman
Thursday, October 23, 2025
BPCM/Bard MBA in Sustainability, 7–9 pm
Thursday, October 23, 2025
BPCM/Bard MBA in Sustainability, 7–9 pm
JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times: A Common Inquiry hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
Thursday, October 16, 2025 – Friday, October 17, 2025
Olin Hall
Thursday, October 16, 2025 – Friday, October 17, 2025
Olin Hall
Family and Alumni/ae Weekend 2025
Friday, October 24, 2025 – Sunday, October 26, 2025
Bard College Campus
Friday, October 24, 2025 – Sunday, October 26, 2025
Bard College Campus
Hudson Hall Presents: Hudson Jazz Festival Sounds Around Town: Featuring Bard faculty, students and alumni/ae
Friday, October 3, 2025 – Sunday, October 5, 2025
Hudson, NY
Friday, October 3, 2025 – Sunday, October 5, 2025
Hudson, NY
The Bard College Theater & Performance Program Presents: Puntila and Matti, His Hired Man By Bertolt Brecht Based on stories by Hella Wuolijoki Translated by Ralph Manheim Directed by Rebecca Wright : Oct. 24th - 7:30pm Oct. 25th - 2pm & 7:30pm Oct. 26th - 4pm Fall 2025 Mainstage Production LUMA Theater www.fishercenter.bard.edu
Friday, October 24, 2025 – Sunday, October 26, 2025
LUMA Theater
Friday, October 24, 2025 – Sunday, October 26, 2025
LUMA Theater
Third Year Recital: Nóra Regina Graf, percussion: “Melancholy and Groove”
Friday, October 3, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2 pm
Friday, October 3, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2 pm
China Now Music Festival: Music in Motion: Bard East/West Ensemble Chamber Opera and Dance Concert Preview
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 3–5 pm
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 3–5 pm
A Reading with Maya Binyam: Winner of the 2025 Bard Fiction Prize
Monday, October 6, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 6 pm
Monday, October 6, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 6 pm
Bard MA in Teaching Program Virtual Info Session: Interested in teaching? Earn your MAT degree and teacher certification at Bard College!
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Online Event, 6 pm
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Online Event, 6 pm
In the News: The Battle for Free Speech: A conversation with Peter B. Kaufman, associate director of development at MIT Open Learning, and Dinaw Mengestu, director of the Written Arts Program.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, 6–7 pm
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, 6–7 pm
Bard MA in Teaching Program Virtual Info Session: Interested in teaching? Earn your MAT degree and teacher certification at Bard College!
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Online Event, 6 pm
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Online Event, 6 pm
Bard MA in Teaching Program Virtual Info Session : Interested in teaching? Earn your MAT degree and teacher certification at Bard College!
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Online Event, 12:30 pm
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Online Event, 12:30 pm
Authoritarianism and the Future of US Universities: Bard College President Botstein in Conversation with Martha Honey, Bard Lifetime Learning Institute
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Olin Hall, 3–4:30 pm
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Olin Hall, 3–4:30 pm
Levy Graduate Programs in Economics Info Session: Learn more about applying to Levy with Thomas Masterson, graduate program director, and Tyler Emerson, outreach and recruitment liaison.
Friday, October 10, 2025
Online Event, 9–10 am
Friday, October 10, 2025
Online Event, 9–10 am
Walking Through Walls: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics: A lecture by Paul Cadden-Zimansky, Physics Program
Friday, October 10, 2025
Brody Lab - Hegeman 107, 12 pm
Friday, October 10, 2025
Brody Lab - Hegeman 107, 12 pm
Bard MA in Teaching Program Virtual Info Session : Interested in teaching? Earn your MAT degree and teacher certification at Bard College!
Friday, October 10, 2025
Online Event, 12:30 pm
Friday, October 10, 2025
Online Event, 12:30 pm
Modes of Engagement: Collecting, Curating and Teaching with Contemporary Art Libraries and Archives
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Collection Teaching Gallery, CCS Bard, 11:30 am – 3:30 pm
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Collection Teaching Gallery, CCS Bard, 11:30 am – 3:30 pm
Creative Resistance to Empire: Presented by The Orchestra Now (TŌN) at Carnegie Hall in NYC
Monday, October 13, 2025
Carnegie Hall in NYC, 7–9:15 pm
Monday, October 13, 2025
Carnegie Hall in NYC, 7–9:15 pm
Operation Lightness with Teju Cole: A keynote for the 17th annual Hannah Arendt Center conference
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Olin Humanities Auditorium, 10:30 am
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Olin Humanities Auditorium, 10:30 am
Bard GPS - Online International Applicant Information Session
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Online Event, 12–1 pm
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Online Event, 12–1 pm
Poetry and Tragedy (featuring works by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris): A multi-media presentation for the Hannah Arendt Center's 17th annual fall conference
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Olin Humanities Auditorium, 2 pm
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Olin Humanities Auditorium, 2 pm
JOY Music Program: A live music program for the Hannah Arendt Center's 17th annual fall conference
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Olin Humanities Auditorium
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Olin Humanities Auditorium
Language Where Languages End: A discussion of music for the Hannah Arendt Center's 17th annual fall conference
Friday, October 17, 2025
Olin Humanities Auditorium, 10 am
Friday, October 17, 2025
Olin Humanities Auditorium, 10 am
In a dream you saw a way to survive with Bill T. Jones: A presentation for the 17th annual Hannah Arendt Center conference
Friday, October 17, 2025
Olin Humanities Auditorium, 11 am
Friday, October 17, 2025
Olin Humanities Auditorium, 11 am
Joy as an Act of Resistance: A breakout session for the Hannah Arendt Center's 17th annual fall conference
Friday, October 17, 2025
Olin Humanities, Room 202, 12:30–1:30 pm
Friday, October 17, 2025
Olin Humanities, Room 202, 12:30–1:30 pm
Walk to Hannah Arendt's Grave: A walking tour for the Hannah Arendt Center's 17th annual fall conference
Friday, October 17, 2025
Olin Hall, 12:30–1:30 pm
Friday, October 17, 2025
Olin Hall, 12:30–1:30 pm
Mrs Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library: A Staged Reading for the Hannah Arendt Center's 17th annual fall conference
Friday, October 17, 2025
Olin Hall, 6 pm
Friday, October 17, 2025
Olin Hall, 6 pm
Guest Artist Recital: Mira Armij Gill, piano
Friday, October 17, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Friday, October 17, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
JOY Music Program: A live music program for the Hannah Arendt Center's 17th annual fall conference
Friday, October 17, 2025
Olin Humanities Auditorium
Friday, October 17, 2025
Olin Humanities Auditorium
Public Programs at CCS Bard: Valences of “istilhām al-turāth”
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Classroom 102, 2–3:30 pm
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Classroom 102, 2–3:30 pm
Bard Chinese Ensemble Fall Concert 2025: Shutong Li, conductor
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2–3:30 pm
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2–3:30 pm
Sound Artist Lea Bertucci: Performs new music for live electronics and voice
Monday, October 20, 2025
Blum Hall, 7–8 pm
Monday, October 20, 2025
Blum Hall, 7–8 pm
Synthetic Media Roundtable: Generating Resistance, Persistence, and Presence in the Age of AI
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Stevenson Library, 4–5:30 pm
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Stevenson Library, 4–5:30 pm
TONIGHT: Annual Art History and Visual Culture Lecture Series: Replicating the Roman Empire: International Expositions, Triumphal Monuments, and Fascist Italy (1922-43)
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 5–7 pm
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 5–7 pm
Philip Roth: Stung by Life: A conversation with Steven J. Zipperstein, author of Philip Roth: Stung By Life, and Leon Botstein
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor, 4–6 pm
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor, 4–6 pm
A Baroque Dance Workshop: with Carlos Fittante
Friday, October 24, 2025
Fisher Center, Felicitas S. Thorne Dance Studio, 3–5 pm
Friday, October 24, 2025
Fisher Center, Felicitas S. Thorne Dance Studio, 3–5 pm
Celebrate the New Bard Sugar Shack!: A ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Bard Sugar Shack at Montgomery Place
Friday, October 24, 2025
Montgomery Place Visitor's Center, 3–3:30 pm
Friday, October 24, 2025
Montgomery Place Visitor's Center, 3–3:30 pm
Bardmaker Art + Craft Fair
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room, 12:30–3:30 pm
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room, 12:30–3:30 pm
Alumni/ae Weekend Sound Booth Pop-Up Exhibition
Saturday, October 25, 2025
New Annandale House, 12:30–3:30 pm
Saturday, October 25, 2025
New Annandale House, 12:30–3:30 pm
“Freedom and Democracy in Today's America”: President Leon Botstein in conversation with Malia Du Mont ’95
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Olin Hall, 3:45–4:45 pm
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Olin Hall, 3:45–4:45 pm
Hudson Valley Cities Party
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs, 5:30–7 pm
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs, 5:30–7 pm
Innovation and Legacy: An Anniversary Celebration with the Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–9 pm
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–9 pm
Puntila and Matti, His Hired Man
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Innovation and Legacy: An Anniversary Celebration with the Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 2–4 pm
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 2–4 pm
Faculty Spotlight Series: Kyle Gann, composition: Eleven Nocturnes for piano, performed by Emanuele Arciuli
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities: “Ancestral Voices Prophesying: Notes on Britten's War Requiem”
Monday, October 27, 2025
Olin Auditorium, 5–6:30 pm
Monday, October 27, 2025
Olin Auditorium, 5–6:30 pm
Joint Virtual Teaching Info Session : With Bard MA in Teaching and Sarah Lawrence's Art of Teaching programs
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Online Event, 12:45 pm
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Online Event, 12:45 pm
Ancestral Voices Prophesying: Notes on Britten's War Requiem
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Olin Auditorium, 5–6:30 pm
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Olin Auditorium, 5–6:30 pm
A Swedish Nuremberg?: Corporate Complicity in War Crimes in Sudan and the Trial of Two Oil Executives in Stockholm: John Ryle, Legrand Ramsey Professor of Anthropology, in conversation with Peter Rosenblum, Professor of International Law and Human Rights
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Olin Humanities, Room 203, 5:30–7 pm
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Olin Humanities, Room 203, 5:30–7 pm
Rose Salane Studio Art Visiting Artist Fall 2025
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 5:30–7 pm
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 5:30–7 pm
For Love of the World on Radio Kingston: Conversations with the Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Online Event, 6–6:30 pm
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Online Event, 6–6:30 pm
Guest Artist Masterclass: Mira Armij Gill, piano
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Arendtian Praxis in Gay Politics: with Blake Smith
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Olin Humanities, Room 201, 7–8:30 pm
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Olin Humanities, Room 201, 7–8:30 pm
Innovation and Legacy: An Anniversary Celebration with Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City, 7:30–9:30 pm
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City, 7:30–9:30 pm
Patricia Onoinwu Kaishian: Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature: Environmental Studies Presents: Reading Series from Bard Staff
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 5 pm
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 5 pm
Student Recital: Sophia Cornicello, piano: "Dreams of Spring"
Friday, October 31, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4 pm
Friday, October 31, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4 pm
We're Looking for your Feedback!: Take our JOY Conference Survey
Friday, October 31, 2025
Online Event
Friday, October 31, 2025
Online Event
Ongoing Events:
All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group
Saturday, June 21, 2025 – Sunday, October 19, 2025
Saturday, June 21, 2025 – Sunday, October 19, 2025
Stan Douglas: Ghostlight
Saturday, June 21, 2025 – Sunday, November 30, 2025
Saturday, June 21, 2025 – Sunday, November 30, 2025
Christian/Episcopal Sunday Service: Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown
Sunday, September 7, 2025 – Saturday, May 16, 2026
Sunday, September 7, 2025 – Saturday, May 16, 2026
Sunday Mass
Sunday, September 7, 2025 – Sunday, May 17, 2026
Sunday, September 7, 2025 – Sunday, May 17, 2026
Knitting our Community Together
Monday, September 8, 2025 – Monday, December 8, 2025
Monday, September 8, 2025 – Monday, December 8, 2025
The Hannah Arendt Center's Virtual Reading Group: Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, September 12, 2025 – Friday, October 3, 2025
Friday, September 12, 2025 – Friday, October 3, 2025
La Voz Reunion Semanal
Friday, September 12, 2025 – Thursday, December 18, 2025
Friday, September 12, 2025 – Thursday, December 18, 2025
China Now Music Festival: Music in Motion NYC
Sunday, September 28, 2025 – Sunday, October 5, 2025
Sunday, September 28, 2025 – Sunday, October 5, 2025
The Hannah Arendt Center's Virtual Reading Group: Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, October 24, 2025 – Friday, November 7, 2025
Friday, October 24, 2025 – Friday, November 7, 2025
all events are subject to change