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Events for December 2025

Noon Concert Series
Monday, December 1, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 12–1 pm
Inside Sustainability with the Bard MBA: Democratizing Innovation: Live Podcast and Real Talk
Thursday, December 18, 2025
BPCM/Bard MBA in Sustainability, 7–9 pm
Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams (all students and faculty remain on campus)
Monday, December 15, 2025 – Friday, December 19, 2025
Bard College Campus
The Bard Dance Program Presents: Permission to [______]
Thursday, December 11, 2025 – Saturday, December 13, 2025
LUMA Theater
Bard CEU Dual MA Information Session: Learn about the One Year Dual MA in Global Studies/International Relations
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Online Event, 9 am
Giving Tuesday
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Online Event
CLAC Senior Concert
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Resnick Theater Studio, 7:30–8:30 pm
Jacob Ferris Senior Project Recording
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Blum Hall, 8–9:30 pm
Commemorating Hannah Arendt — December 4, 1975: Fifty Years Later 
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Arendt Center, 3:30–5:30 pm
Monetary Policy Transmission to Consumption: Inequalities by Gender and Race
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Blithewood, 5–6 pm
Jazz Improvisation Ensemble 
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Blum N211, the Jazz Room, 5–6 pm
Storytellers Spotlight Series
Friday, December 5, 2025
Online Event, 10 am – 2:30 pm
Day With(out) Art 2025: Meet Us Where We’re At…
Friday, December 5, 2025
CCS Bard, Classroom 102, 11 am – 5 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, December 5, 2025
Online Event, 12–1 pm
Third Year Recital: Ivy Chen, piano
Friday, December 5, 2025
Olin Hall, 3–4 pm
Studio Recital: Harp Students of Mariko Anraku
Friday, December 5, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4 pm
CANCELED: Brass Quintet Recital
Friday, December 5, 2025
Olin Hall, 5 pm
Bard Holiday Party West
Friday, December 5, 2025
Paper Chase Press, 5–7 pm
Erica Kiesewetter Studio Recital  
Friday, December 5, 2025
Bard Hall, 7–8:30 pm
Kaz Borowicz moderation concert
Friday, December 5, 2025
Blum N211, the Jazz Room, 7:30–8:30 pm
Viola Studio Recital
Friday, December 5, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8 pm
Hide Tanning Workshop: With Wihanble S'a Center and Kristi Gansworth
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Massena Campus, 11 am – 4 pm
Wíhanble S’a Community Open House: Massena Campus
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Massena Campus, 2–5 pm
Quill Workshop: With Wihanble S'a Center and Mikayla Patton
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Massena Campus, 2–3 pm
Cosmologyscape Performance: With Wihanble S’a Center 
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Massena Campus, 4–5 pm
Degree Recital: Junyu Lin, violin
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Bard Chinese Ensemble Winter Concert 2025: Shutong Li, conductor
Sunday, December 7, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2–3:30 pm
Sight & Sound: Egypt in Music and Art: Presented by The Orchestra Now (TŌN) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC
Sunday, December 7, 2025
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, 2–4 pm
Third Year Recital: Sándor Burka, violin
Sunday, December 7, 2025
Olin Hall, 5–6 pm
Degree Recital: Ethan Young, cello
Sunday, December 7, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Percussion as Experimental Practice
Sunday, December 7, 2025
Blum Hall, 7–8:30 pm
Hispanic Studies Student Colloquium: Mapping the Future through Literature and Art   
Monday, December 8, 2025
Weis Cinema, Campus Center , 12:30 am – 2 pm
Written Arts Senior Colloquium Tapas Readings: Session II
Monday, December 8, 2025
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 5:10–6:30 pm
Mad About Madrigals: English and Italian Gems
Monday, December 8, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 6–7:30 pm
Jazz Vocal
Monday, December 8, 2025
Blum N211, the Jazz Room, 7–8:30 pm
Senior Projects Due
Monday, December 8, 2025
Bard College Campus
Follow the Lieder
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 6:30 pm
Bard GPS - Online Information Session
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Online Event, 7–8 pm
Electro-Acoustic Funk Ensemble
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Blum Hall, 7–8:30 pm
BeBop Masters
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Blum N211, the Jazz room, 8:45–10:30 pm
Nick Franceschi Senior Concert
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 9–10 pm
Bard Graduate Programs Tabling
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Lobby, 12–2 pm
Guest Artist Masterclass: Balázs Fülei
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1:30 pm
Hudson River Brass Quintet
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Olin Hall, 4 pm
You Are Democracy: Flourishing Community Meetings
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Powerhouse Arts 322 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215, 6:30–9 pm
The Georgian Choir Winter Concert 
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 7 pm
Guest Artist Recital: András Szalai, cimbalom, and Balázs Fülei, piano: "En Rêve – Liszt Inspirations"
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
'Marshall Trammell and Luis Chavez': Border/Lands/La Frontera
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Blum N211, the jazz room, 7–8:30 pm
Marshall Trammell: Border/Lands/La Frontera
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Blum N211, 7–8 pm
Danni Fu Senior Concert
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Bard Hall, 7:15–8:15 pm
John Coltrane Class
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Blum Hall, 7:30–9 pm
Advising Day
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Bard College Campus
Forge Project Talks: Joseph M. Pierce
Thursday, December 11, 2025
CCS Bard, Classroom 102, 5–7 pm
In Search of Melissa Shook ’63: A Conversation on Her Life and Art: With Fiona Laugharn ‘12 and Professor Laurie Dahlberg
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor, 5–6:30 pm
Permission to [______]
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Sun Ra Enesmble
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Blum Hall, 7:30–9 pm
James Wise Senior Concert
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Blum N211, the jazz room, 8–9 pm
Spontaneous Composition Ensemble   
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Blum Hall, 8:45–10 pm
Registration for Spring Classes Opens
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Bard College Campus
Day With(out) Art 2025: Meet Us Where We’re At… (copy)
Friday, December 12, 2025
CCS Bard, Classroom 102, 11 am – 5 pm
The Hannah Arendt Center's Virtual Reading Group: Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, December 12, 2025
Online Event, 1–2:30 pm
Songwriting Workshop  
Friday, December 12, 2025
Root Cellar, 7–8:30 pm
Fall Senior Dance Concert
Friday, December 12, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Perrine Cummings Senior Concert
Friday, December 12, 2025
Blum Hall, 9–10 pm
Fall Senior Dance Concert
Saturday, December 13, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 2–3 pm
Bard Conservatory Orchestra with violinist Gil Shaham: Conducted by Leon Botstein
Saturday, December 13, 2025
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–9 pm
Fall Senior Dance Concert
Saturday, December 13, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Degree Recital: Qizhi (Coco) An, guqin
Sunday, December 14, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1 pm
Gilbert Otten Moderation Concert
Sunday, December 14, 2025
Bard Hall, 3–4:30 pm
Third Year Recital: 4pm - Ziheng Xu, violin 5pm - Adriana Rivera Corujo, voice 
Sunday, December 14, 2025
Olin Hall, 4–6 pm
Composition Premiere Concert
Sunday, December 14, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8 pm
Studio Recital: Double Bass Students of Satoshi Okamoto
Monday, December 15, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 5:30 pm
Know Hope: Screening and Conversation with Artist Addam Yekutieli
Monday, December 15, 2025
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 6 pm
Film Screening & Artist Talk: Know Hope: The intersection of art and activism
Monday, December 15, 2025
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 6–9 pm
Bard College Gamelan Ensemble
Monday, December 15, 2025
Bard Hall, 6:30–7:30 pm
Jazz Standards Ensemble  
Monday, December 15, 2025
Blum N211, the Jazz Room, 7–8 pm
Rowan Robinson moderation concert
Monday, December 15, 2025
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 7–8:30 pm
Twenty! : All new pieces by student Performers, Conductors, and Singers
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Blum Hall, 9:30 am – 12 pm
Open Concert
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Bard Hall, 7–8:30 pm
Student Recital: Liliána Szokol, flute
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2 pm
Studio Recital: Piano Students of Rieko Aizawa
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Olin Hall, 6–9 pm
Poetry Into Song
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 12 pm
Crescent City Connections
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Turtle Bay, 6–8 pm
Last Day of fall Classes (fall semester ends) 
Friday, December 19, 2025
Bard College Campus
TŌN + All-City High School Orchestra: Presented by The Orchestra Now (TŌN) at Julia Richman Educational Complex, 317 E 67 St, NYC
Sunday, December 21, 2025
Julia Richman Educational Complex, 317 E 67 St, NYC, 3–4:40 pm

Ongoing Events:

Christian/Episcopal Sunday Service: Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown
Sunday, September 7, 2025 – Saturday, May 16, 2026
Sunday Mass
Sunday, September 7, 2025 – Sunday, May 17, 2026
Knitting our Community Together
Monday, September 8, 2025 – Monday, December 8, 2025
La Voz Reunion Semanal
Friday, September 12, 2025 – Thursday, December 18, 2025
From the Collection: First Year Curatorial Practice 2025
Thursday, December 4, 2025 – Sunday, December 14, 2025
 Esa otra mitad del cielo: Feminist Strategies in Post-1968 Mexican Art
Thursday, December 4, 2025 – Sunday, December 14, 2025


all events are subject to change