Exploring Indigenous Arts: April 22–26
Monday, April 22, 2024 – Friday, April 26, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate, 10 am – 7 pm

Noon Concert: Conservatory Students Perform Works for Piano, Violin, and French Horn: Program includes Brahms, Ginastera, Strauss, and Dante Yenque
Monday, April 1, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 12–1 pm

Capoeira Angola with Professor Tagan
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room, 12–3 pm

Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition
Saturday, April 6, 2024 – Sunday, April 7, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate, 1–5 pm

Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 – Friday, April 12, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate, 1:30–4 pm

Working for the Climate: Meet & Greet
Monday, April 1, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, 5–6 pm

Planet Positive Supper: Free!
Monday, April 1, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, 6–7 pm

Play a Part in Climate Action
Monday, April 1, 2024
6 pm

CMIA - Pharaoh
Monday, April 1, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7:30–10 pm

Advising Days
Monday, April 29, 2024 – Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Bard College Campus

Urinetown: Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann Directed by Liz Peterson Music Direction by David Sytkowski
Friday, April 12, 2024 – Sunday, April 14, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Visiting Artist: María Verónica San Martín
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 – Friday, April 12, 2024
4/10 Weis Cinema; 4/11 + 4/12 Center for Experimental Humanities

Antíkoni: A Symposium: The Inaugural Symposium of the Center for Indigenous Studies
Thursday, April 25, 2024 – Friday, April 26, 2024

Presidential Primary Election Day: Vote Today, 6 am – 9 pm
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room, 6 am – 9 pm

CMIA - The Master and Margarita (Special Guest Event with Director Michael Lockshin)
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 5:30–9:30 pm

Studio Art Alumni/ae Panel
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
5:40 pm

Aster of Ceremonies: A Performance with JJJJJerome Ellis
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 6:30–8 pm

Planet Positive Postcards: Share Your Thoughts on Climate Action
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, 12–2 pm

Climate Night at Kline: Board Games, Poster, and Quilt-Making
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Kline Commons, 6–8 pm

Volunteer Trail Work: With Red Hook Trails
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Red Hook Park West, 3–5 pm

Rabbi Spinoza: Baruch Spinoza as a Jewish Bible Commentator: Professor Yitzhak Melamed, Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Olin 102, 5:30 pm

The Photography Program Presents: Genesis Báez
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Weis Cinema, 6–7:30 pm

Open Studios by First-Year Students in the MA in Human Rights and the Arts: Material Storytelling
Friday, April 5, 2024
Bard Massena Campus, Barrytown, 11 am – 1:30 pm

The Author as Stranger: Nietzsche and Camus: Daniel Berthold, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Bard College
Friday, April 5, 2024
Hegeman 204A, 12 pm

The Clothesline Project (Shirt Making)
Friday, April 5, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Red Room 203, 1–3 pm

Women's Lacrosse vs. RIT (Liberty League)
Friday, April 5, 2024
Stevenson Athletic Center, Soccer Field, 5–7 pm

Degree Recital: WOVEN DUO Esteban Ganem, percussion, and Viktória Sarkadi, piano: Working for percussion and piano by contemporary composers, including world premieres by Rea Ábel '23 and Esteban Ganem.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8–9:30 pm

Repair Cafe
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Red Hook Community Center, 59 Fisk Street , 10 am – 1 pm

Piano Master Class: Meng-Chieh Liu and Three Conservatory Pianists
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 12:30–2:30 pm

Women's Lacrosse vs. Rochester (Liberty League)
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Stevenson Athletic Center, Soccer Field, 1–3 pm

Spillover - 2024 Graduate Exhibitions Opening Reception: Opening Reception, Saturday, April 6, 1–4 pm
Saturday, April 6, 2024
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, 1–4 pm

“Once and still upon this land (For Montgomery Place)”: A Poetry Reading with Bonney Hartley: Part of “Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition”
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate, 1–2 pm

In Conversation: Cara Romero & Suzanne Kite: Part of “Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition”
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate, 4–5:30 pm

Beethoven’s 6th & The Rite of Spring
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–8 pm

Beethoven’s 6th & The Rite of Spring
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 2–3 pm

Dana Claxton: Artist Talk with Returning Home
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Online Event, 3 pm

Acosmism: Hassidism’s Gift to the Jews… and the World: Professor Yitzhak Melamed, Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Bard Graduate Center Lecture Hall, NYC, 4 pm

IAT Lecture Series: Divisions that Define Us: Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology
Monday, April 8, 2024
Bard Hall, 12–1:30 pm

Buddha's Birthday: Celebration
Monday, April 8, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, 2–9 pm

CMIA - Color and Camera Movement
Monday, April 8, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm

The Clothesline Project Exhibition
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Kline, College Room, 2:30–4:30 pm

CMIA - The Godfather
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm

Family Reception - The Bard Nursery School and Children’s Center Art Show
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Woods Studio, 3:30–4:30 pm

Women's Lacrosse vs. Vassar (Liberty League)
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Stevenson Athletic Center, Soccer Field, 5–7 pm

Blossoms from Ash: A Documentary on Rohingya Refugees
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Weis Cinema, 5 pm

The Diaries of Franz Kafka: Ross Benjamin, translator  Discussant: Jana Schmidt
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 5:30–7 pm

Cara Romero: Following the Light: A screening as a part of Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Preston, 6:30 pm

Pysanka Workshop with Sofika Zielyk
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Fisher Studio Arts, Room 140, 6:30–8:30 pm

Bard GPS April Informational Webinar: The Bard GPS team uses “Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!”
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Online Event, 7–8 pm

CMIA - The Cinema of Poetry
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm

Workshop with Guest Composers Raven Chacon, Marshall Trammell, and John Dieterich
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Bito, 12:30–1:30 pm

Unnoticed and as Beautiful: The Native American Figure in Toni Morrison’s Literature: Part of the Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Annual Toni Morrison Lecture Series
Thursday, April 11, 2024
3 pm

Namwali Serpell: “Unnoticed and as Beautiful: The Native American Figure in Toni Morrison’s Literature”: Rethinking Place Morrison Lecture 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Olin Auditorium, 3 pm

Cured: A Film by Bennett Singer and Patrick Sammon: “Doctors called them sick. The remedy was rebellion.”
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 6–7:30 pm

The Force of Breath: Workshop in Somatic Movement and Resilience
Friday, April 12, 2024
Thorne Studio, Fisher Center, 4:30–6:30 pm

White People Killed Them: An electronic music performance
Friday, April 12, 2024
CCS Classroom 102, 7 pm

Urinetown
Friday, April 12, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm

Women's Lacrosse vs. William Smith (Liberty League)
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Stevenson Athletic Center, Soccer Field, 1–3 pm

Urinetown
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 2–3 pm

Da Capo Chamber Players: New Works by Student Composers  featuring Curtis Macomber, violin; Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet; Chris Gross, cello: Chris Oldfather, piano with Catherine Boyack, flute, and Sky Metting, viola  
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 5–7 pm

Urinetown
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm

Chinese Music Conference and Yaji (Elegant Gathering): Presented by the US-China Music Institute, the Master of Arts in Chinese Music and Culture Program, and the Asian Studies Program at Bard College
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Bard Hall, 10:30 am – 4 pm

Urinetown
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 4–5 pm

Degree Recital: Yixin Wang, guzheng, with Nomin Samdan, piano
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7–8:30 pm

Noon Concert: Conservatory Graduate Students Perform Short Works by Oliveira, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Thomas, and More for Violin, Clarinet, Piano, Vibraphone, Guzheng, and Voice.: With a special US-China Music Institute guest musician, Jing Xia, performing two contemporary works for guzheng.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 12–1 pm

CMIA - Chiaroscuro
Monday, April 15, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm

Speaker Series: Jarrett Earnest
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
CCS Bard, Classroom 102, 5–7 pm

Myth and Fairy Tale in the Modern Novel: A Talk with Carol Goodman
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202, 5–6:30 pm

CMIA - The Godfather, Part II
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm

The Politics and Policing of Memory in Germany: Emily Dische-Becker '04
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
ZOOM, 10 am

Cocktails and Conversation with President Botstein, Los Angeles
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Fernberger Gallery , 6–8 pm

CMIA - Ludwig
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm

Music Alive! Dynamic Women, with composers Sarah Hennies, Missy Mazzoli, Jessie Montgomery, Erica Lindsay, Angelica Sanchez, and Joan Tower: Curated by Joan Tower.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7:30–9 pm

The Enduring Influence of the Blues: The Power of a Feeling: Black Music, Literature, and the Creation of an Aesthetic.  
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1:30–2:50 pm

What is Yiddish?: In Fall 2024, we will introduce a language class in Yiddish! But what is Yiddish?
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 2–3 pm

Once Were Maoists: Third World Currents in Fourth World Anti-Colonialism in Canada, 1967-1982: With Dr. Glen Coulthard (Yellowknives Dene), author of Red Skin, White Masks
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 5:30 pm

A Reading with Aaliyah Bilal
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Bard Hall, 6 pm

Social Philosophy Workshop: Explanation, Imagination, Transformation
Friday, April 19, 2024
Finberg House library, 10 am – 5 pm

Piano Trio Recital: Ya-Yin Yu, violin, Sarah Martin, cello, Shao-Chu Pan, piano
Friday, April 19, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1:30–2:30 pm

Chamber Music Marathon, Day One: Student Chamber Groups Perform   
Friday, April 19, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 5–9:30 pm

Cocktails and Conversation with President Botstein, San Francisco
Friday, April 19, 2024
7–9 pm

Bard Baroque Ensemble, Bard Chamber Singers, and Graduate Vocal Arts Program Present Vivaldi & Bach
Friday, April 19, 2024
Olin Hall, 7:30 pm

Social Philosophy Workshop: Explanation, Imagination, Transformation
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Finberg House library, 10 am – 5 pm

Chamber Music Marathon, Day Two: Student and Faculty Chamber Groups Perform Throughout the Afternoon
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 12–4 pm

Thesis Performance: Human Rights and the Arts
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Bard’s New Massena Campus, 10 am – 7 pm

Degree Recital: Elizabeth Liotta, double bass, with violin, piano and seven double-bassists: Works by Koussevitsky, Bottesini, Tabakov, and Roche.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1–2:30 pm

Entr’acte: Intergenerational Romanticism: A Graduate Conducting Degree Recital with the Orchestra Now
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 2–3 pm

Trans Swim
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Stevenson Athletic Center, Pool, 4–6 pm

Advanced Performance Studies Collaborative Piano Recital: Shao-Chu Pan, piano, with Nathan Francisco, cello: Works by Francis Poulenc and César Franck
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 5–6 pm

Neilson Chen & Friends Chamber Music Series: Two Sides of Opera: Nine Bard Conservatory Students and Alumni/ae Present Works by Beethoven, Bernstein, Bizet, Borne, Giacoma, Loveglio, and Verdi
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7–9 pm

IAT Lecture Series: Divisions that Define Us: Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology
Monday, April 22, 2024
Bard Hall, 12–1:30 pm

Exploring Indigenous Arts: Introductory Nahuatl Workshop with Luis Chavez
Monday, April 22, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate, 4 pm

CMIA - Color and Time
Monday, April 22, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm

CANCELED: A Reading by Elizabeth Hand: The acclaimed, genre-spanning writer reads from her work.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema

Speaker Series: Lowery Stokes Sims
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
CCS Bard, Classroom 102, 5–7 pm

Futuring Waters  : Jenny Marketou (New School)
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 5:10 pm

CMIA - Animation
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm

BardMaker Art + Craft Fair
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room, 3–6 pm

Exploring Indigenous Arts: Indigenous Cooking Workshop and Conversation with Lucille Grignon
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate, 6 pm

CMIA - Visconti and the Fin-de-siècle
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm

Building a Career in Sustainability: Advice from Land Trust Experts: Engage with land trust experts for advice and tips on launching your high impact career in the field.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Online Event, 7–8:30 pm

Exploring Indigenous Arts: Reading From The Beadworkers with Dr. Beth Piatote
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate, 10:30 am

Antíkoni and the Question of Adaptation: By Beth Piatote (Nez Perce, Colville Confederated Tribes) as a part of “Antíkoni: A Symposium.”
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Weis Cinema, 2–3:30 pm

Antíkoni: A Staged Reading: Read by Kahelelani Mahone and Ciko Sidzumo
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Blithewood Manor, 4:30–5:30 pm

A Reading with Terrance Hayes
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 6 pm

Possession, Belongings, and Inheritance: Stockbridge-Munsee Community’s Approach to NAGPRA: By Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican), Tribal Repatriation specialist for the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Blithewood Manor, 6–7 pm

Faculty Dance Concert
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm

IWT April Conference: Climate Change in the Classroom: Embracing New Paradigms
Friday, April 26, 2024
Olin Humanities Building, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm

Reframing the Migrant Crisis: Law, Labor, and the State of Asylum in Uncertain Times 
Friday, April 26, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 10 am – 7 pm

Degree Recital: Wenrui Shi, guqin, with Danni Chen, guqin, and Neilson Chen, piano
Friday, April 26, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1–2:30 pm

 Venki Ramakrishnan  To give a talk on his new book - "Why We Die":  This book looks at cutting-edge efforts to extend lifespans and the ethical costs of those attempts.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Olin Humanities Auditorium, 1–3 pm

Exploring Indigenous Arts: Indigo Dip Dye Workshop
Friday, April 26, 2024
Montgomery Place Estate, 2–4 pm

Between the Heart and Horizon Line: Culturally Responsive Care in Collection Management: Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf (Hiraacá, Nu’eta, and Sosore, ancestral Apsáalooke and Nʉmʉnʉʉ), Inaugural Assistant Curator of Native American Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and Collection Manager of the Native North American and Indigenous Collection, Yale Peabody Museum
Friday, April 26, 2024
Bito ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center 103, 4:30–5:30 pm

Degree Recital: Zeke Morgan, composer, presents his new opera, "Requiem"
Friday, April 26, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 5–6:30 pm

CMIA - The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Friday, April 26, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm

TMI Project Performance at Bard: TMI Project helps craft and amplify true stories that set us free.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Olin Hall , 7 pm

Faculty Dance Concert
Friday, April 26, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm

Degree Recital: "Road to Freedom" with Bryan Zhe Wang, guqin: With Lung Chan, zhongruan; Hiu-Man Chan, guanzi; Njya Lubang, double bass; and Neilson Chen, piano
Friday, April 26, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8–9 pm

Degree Recital: Christopher Nelson, violin, with pianists Neilson Chen and Yilin Li: Works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Alfred Schnittke, and Dmitri Shostakovich
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1–2:30 pm

Faculty Dance Concert
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 2–3 pm

Degree Recital: Emily Finke, soprano, Colby Bond, clarinet, and Viktoria Sarkadi, piano
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 5–6:30 pm

Faculty Dance Concert
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm

Degree Recital: Michał Cieślik, oboe: Works by Chopin, Bowen, Finzi, and Howells. Projections by Rhyane Batista.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8–9:30 pm

Degree Recital: Natalia Dziubelski, horn: Works by Abbott, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Strauss,
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1–2:30 pm

Bard Community Arts Collective Presents: Hudson Valley Youth Jazz Orchestra
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Olin Hall, 4–5 pm

Degree Recital: "LA BONNE CHANSON" with Sarah Nalty, soprano, and Gabriele Zemaityte, piano
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 5–6:30 pm

Degree Recital: "Mondsternlieder" with Abbegael Greene, soprano, and Nomin Samdan, piano
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8–9:30 pm

Noon Concert: Conservatory Students Perform Short Works for Cello, Piano, Violin, Voice, and Horn 
Monday, April 29, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 12–1 pm

Practicing Recovery: An Introduction to the Lifesaving Work of Alarm Phone: A presentation by Alarm Phone member Leil Mortada
Monday, April 29, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202, 6–7 pm

Bard Electric Guitar Ensemble Spring Concert
Monday, April 29, 2024
Blum Hall, 7:30–8:30 pm

CMIA - The Mirror
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm

Bard GPS: Virtual Open House: Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to connect with faculty and alumni.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
7 pm

Leo Wang, Murder At Galehar: Studio Art Senior Thesis Exhibition
Thursday, April 6, 2023 – Monday, April 8, 2024

Christian/Episcopal Service
Sunday, September 17, 2023 – Friday, May 17, 2024

Christian/Roman Catholic Mass
Sunday, January 28, 2024 – Sunday, May 19, 2024

Bard Inklings
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 – Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Meditation Group: Mondays and Thursdays 6–7 pm
Thursday, February 8, 2024 – Monday, May 20, 2024

Technology, Humanity, and the Future
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 – Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The Bard Nursery School and Children’s Center Art Show
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 – Sunday, April 14, 2024

Spillover: 2024 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions
Saturday, April 6, 2024 – Sunday, May 26, 2024

Material as Witness: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024 – Sunday, April 28, 2024