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Events for March 2025

SIGNS, GAMES, AND MESSAGES 2025: A KURTÁG FESTIVAL Program Two: Piano Marathon, Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos (Book 4, 5 and 6)
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2 pm
SIGNS, GAMES, AND MESSAGES 2025: A KURTÁG FESTIVAL Program Three: Literary Inspirations I: Lichtenberg, Joyce and Kurtág
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 7 pm
Spring Benefit: T?N + ABT Studio Company
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Food & Memory: Rethinking Place Third Annual Conference
Thursday, March 6, 2025 – Saturday, March 8, 2025
Race 2 Zero Waste: Week 4 of 8:   Win big at compost and learn more! Take our weekly quiz! 
Sunday, February 23, 2025 – Saturday, March 1, 2025
Achebe House
Race 2 Zero Waste: Week 5 of 8
Sunday, March 2, 2025 – Saturday, March 8, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center
Race 2 Zero Waste: Week 6 of 8: Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Achebe House
Race 2 Zero Waste: Week 7 of 8 : Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 16, 2025 – Saturday, March 22, 2025
Achebe House
Race 2 Zero Waste: Week 8 of 8: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 23, 2025 – Saturday, March 29, 2025
Achebe House
SIGNS, GAMES, AND MESSAGES 2025: A KURTÁG FESTIVAL Program Four: Literary Inspirations II: Beckett and Kurtág
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4 pm
A Reading by Kelly Link & Jedediah Berry: The award-winning writers will read from new work.
Monday, March 3, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 4–5 pm
CMIA - 2001
Monday, March 3, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7:30–10:30 pm
Macroeconomic Policies and Care: Exploring Intersections: Featuring Raquel Coello Cremades, UN Women Policy Advisor 
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Blithewood, 5–6 pm
Carolyn Lazard Artist Talk
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 5:30–7 pm
CMIA - The Popular Front
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–9 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.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Online Event, 9–10 am
Ash Wednesday Prayer Service and Imposition of Ashes
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 12–1:30 pm
Amar Kanwar: The Scene of Crime
Friday, March 7, 2025
Online Event, 12–1:30 pm
Senior Project Festival
Friday, March 7, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Senior Project Festival
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 2–3 pm
Senior Project Festival
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Senior Project Festival
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 2–3 pm
Bard Chinese Ensemble Spring Concert 2025: Shutong Li, conductor
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2–3:30 pm
Recital: Katherine and Elizabeth Chernyak
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Noon Concert Series: An hour-long program of short performances by Bard Conservatory students. 
Monday, March 10, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 12 pm
Photography Mentorship Program: Artist Lecture with Johan Orellana
Monday, March 10, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 5–8 pm
COUNTED OUT: Film screening and discussion
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 5:30–8 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, March 11, 2025
Online Event, 7–8 pm
CMIA - La Marseillaise and Rules of the Game
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–9 pm
CANCELED: Kendra Colton, soprano, and Kayo Iwama, piano: Works by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Fauré, Finzi, Andy Vores, Warlock, Quilter and Peter Childs.  
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Bard Graduate Program Fair 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, 12 pm – 2 am
Third Year Recitals: 7:00 PM - Nguyễn Thảo Nguyên (Bibi Nguyen), soprano 8:00 PM - Jane Sheehan, soprano
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Olin Hall, 7 pm
Tara Rodgers Artist Talk and Performance
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Bard Hall, 4 pm
CMIA - Kids
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7:30–9 pm
The Hannah Arendt Center's Virtual Reading Group: Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, March 14, 2025
Online Event, 1–2:30 pm
Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–8 pm
Building a Career in Sustainability: Ask the Waste Management Experts: Tackle the waste crisis and build a sustainable career with insights from experts in waste management and circularity.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Online Event, 7–8:30 pm
My Town at EMPAC RPI
Friday, March 21, 2025
7 pm
Joan Tower & Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Peter Norton Symphony Space in NYC, 4–6:05 pm
CMIA - Forms of Realism
Monday, March 24, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7:30–11:30 pm
Book Presentation: The Last Soviet Artist and Workshop Portrait-Interview: With artist Victoria Lomasko
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Olin Language Center, Room 115, 5 pm
For Love of the World on Radio Kingston: Conversations with the Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Online Event, 6–6:30 pm
CMIA - Renoir and the Second World War
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–9 pm
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability -- Virtual Open House: Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Online Event, 7–8:30 pm
De Gruyter-Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking: Neil Roberts to Keynote the 2025 Spring Conference on Hannah Arendt and Black Revolutionary Thought
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 5:30–7:15 pm
The Hannah Arendt Center's Virtual Reading Group: Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, March 28, 2025
Online Event, 1–2:30 pm
POSTPONED Third Year Recital: Christina Ng-Leyba, trombone : THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED. NEW DATE/TIME TO COME  Works by Galliard, Stojowski, and Guilmant.
Friday, March 28, 2025
Olin Hall, 1 pm
Third Year Recital: Wenjun (Jessy) Lu, pipa: Works by Yang Jieming, He Xie, and Wang Danhong.
Friday, March 28, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1 pm
AHS Discussion on American Foreign Policy with Matthew Nimetz
Friday, March 28, 2025
Reem-Kayden Center Room 102, 5–7 pm
Student Recital: Ethan Young, cello, with Neilson Chen, piano: Featuring works by Beethoven, Barber, and Myaskovsky.
Friday, March 28, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Songs for a Season: Kendra Colton, soprano, and Kayo Iwama, piano: Works by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Fauré, Finzi, Andy Vores, Warlock, Quilter and Peter Childs.  
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4 pm
West Point Band: American Tapestry
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–8 pm
Student Recital: Jing Yi Sutherland, cello, with Pei-Hsuan Shen, piano: Featuring works by Schumann and Beethoven.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Paths to Enlightenment: Beethoven’s Opp. 95, 96, and 97: All Beethoven program featuring Joseph Lin and Claire Bourg, violins; Natalie Loughran, viola; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; and Helen Huang, piano
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2 pm
Violin Masterclass: Joseph Lin
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4 pm
A Mountain Range at the Headwaters of the Amazon Transformed by a Century of Climate Change: New Visualizations Enabled by Mining Lost Aerial Photo Archives
Monday, March 31, 2025
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 2–3:30 pm
A Reading by Rick Moody
Monday, March 31, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 4–5 pm
On Writing Everything: Amitava Kumar's Takes on the World: A Reading and Conversation with Amitava Kumar
Monday, March 31, 2025
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 5:30 pm
CMIA - Avant-Garde Program
Monday, March 31, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7:30–11:55 pm

Ongoing Events:

Catholic Mass
Sunday, September 8, 2024 – Sunday, May 18, 2025
Christian/Episcopal Service
Sunday, September 8, 2024 – Sunday, May 18, 2025
Hebrew Language Table
Monday, September 23, 2024 – Friday, May 30, 2025
Knitting our Community Together
Monday, February 3, 2025 – Monday, May 12, 2025
New Kinds of Attention
Friday, February 7, 2025 – Friday, March 7, 2025
Guided Meditation: Mondays and Thursdays 6pm
Monday, February 10, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025
The Hannah Arendt Center's Virtual Reading Group: Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, February 28, 2025 – Friday, March 14, 2025
Food and Memory Exhibition: Featuring Stephanie Kyuyong Lee’s Hard Labor, Soft Space
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 – Friday, March 14, 2025
Spring Recess
Saturday, March 15, 2025 – Sunday, March 23, 2025
The Bible’s Social Gospel: Institute of Advanced Theology Spring Lecture Series
Monday, March 24, 2025 – Monday, April 21, 2025


all events are subject to change