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Events for May 2018

Ruby Brooke: Look&Leave: Last day to view exhibition!
Saturday, April 28, 2018 – Thursday, May 3, 2018
Fisher Studio Arts Building, 9 am – 5 pm
Yashar Hashemi: Last Day to View Senior Thesis Exhibition!
Saturday, May 5, 2018 – Thursday, May 10, 2018
Fisher Studio Arts Building, 9 am – 5 pm
Nora Myers: The Unquiet Hand
Saturday, May 12, 2018 – Thursday, May 17, 2018
Fisher Studio Arts Building, 9 am – 5 pm
Bard MBA in Sustainability: May Residency Visit: Join Us to experience the Bard MBA program in action!
Saturday, May 19, 2018 – Sunday, May 20, 2018
LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10038, 12–6 pm
Things look different from the passenger seat: How will autonomous vehicles change our world?
Thursday, May 3, 2018 – Friday, May 4, 2018
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 5–6 pm
Visiting Artist Tonight! Luba Drozd
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Fisher Studio Arts Building, Seminar Room, 5–6 pm
Cassandra Whitehead Moderation Concert
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Bard Hall, 6 pm
2018 Bard Music Festival Gala: Please join us for a celebration of Rimsky-Korsakov and His World
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Bohemian National Hall; 321 East 73rd Street, New York, NY, 6 pm
Informational Webinar: Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!         
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Online, 7:30–8:30 pm
Evan Dibbs Senior Concert
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Blum Hall, 8 pm
Aleh Remezau and Guest Musicians from TŌN Present The Innocence in Maturity
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 8–9 pm
Advising Days
Monday, April 30, 2018 – Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Bard College Campus
Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams: All students and faculty remain on campus.
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 – Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Bard College Campus
Senior Projects Due (5:00 p.m.)
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Bard College Campus, 5 pm
Speakers Series: Cameron Rowland
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
CCS Bard, Classroom 102, 5–7 pm
CMIA - New Chinese Cinemas
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 6 pm
Zongheng Zhang and Friends in Recital: Works by Beethoven, Bolcom, Mozart, and Shostakovich
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 7–9 pm
H. Jon Benjamin’s Failure Is An Option: Presented in association with Oblong Books & Music  
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Olin Hall, 8 pm
Paul Duhe Senior Concert
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Blum Hall, 8:30–10 pm
Student Talks
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 12–1 pm
Do Workfare Programs Promote Climate Resilience and Food Security? Evidence from Indian Agriculture: Vis Taraz, Assistant Professor of Economics, Smith College
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Campus Center 2nd floor Yellow Room, 4–5 pm
Keith Haring Lecture in Art and Activism Given by Galit Eilat
Thursday, May 3, 2018
CCS Bard, Classroom 102, 5–7 pm
Things Look Different from the Passenger Seat: How Will Autonomous Vehicles Change Our World?: Dr. Jeremy Martin Senior Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists' Clean Vehicles Program
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 5–6 pm
Spring 2018 Mellon Lecture, Ether/Ore: An Atlas of Urban Media, by Shannon Mattern
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 5:15–7:30 pm
A Conversation with Meline Toumani
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Bard Hall (NYC), 6–7:30 pm
Alden Slack Senior Concert 2
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Blum Hall, 7 pm
Jazz Vocal Concert
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Down the Road Cafe, 8–10 pm
Jacob McConnaughy Moderation Concert
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Bard Hall, 8 pm
Richard Feynman’s Legacy and the Mentorship of John Wheeler: Paul H. Halpern, University of the Sciences
Friday, May 4, 2018
Hegeman 107, 12–1 pm
Franz Schubert and the Political Culture of Vienna: A talk by Professor Greg Moynahan on “The Political Culture of Schubert's Vienna: Metternich and Domestic Life,” followed by a performance of Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major, D 956, “Two Cellos”
Friday, May 4, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 4–6 pm
Senior Dance Concert
Friday, May 4, 2018
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30 pm
Baseball Doubleheader
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Honey Field, 12 pm
Senior Dance Concert
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 2 pm
Vocal Arts Graduate Degree Recital: Luke MacMillan, baritone, with collaborative pianist Hsin-Chiao Liao: Obsidian: Songs of War, Protest, and Exile
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 3–5 pm
Suzanne Bocanegra My Life as an Artist Lecture  with Anne Gridley, Frances McDormand, and Lili Taylor
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7 pm
Vocal Arts Graduate Degree Recital: Eric Finbarr Carey, tenor, with collaborative pianist Bethany Pietroniro
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 7–9 pm
Senior Dance Concert
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30 pm
Simon Paris Senior Concert
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Memorial Hall (Old Gym), 7:30 pm
Graduate Vocal Arts Program Degree Recital: Elaine Daiber, soprano: with collaborative pianist Florence Mak
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 3–5 pm
Senior Dance Concert
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 4 pm
Graduate Vocal Arts Program Degree Recital: Rachel Doehring, soprano: With collaborative pianist Szy-Ying Huang
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 7–9 pm
Written Arts Senior Project Readings 
Monday, May 7, 2018
Olin Humanities, Room 101, 5–7 pm
CMIA - Andrzej Wajda and the Cinemas of Central Europe
Monday, May 7, 2018
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 6–10:30 pm
The Bard College Community Orchestra
Monday, May 7, 2018
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 8 pm
Adam Szokolay Piano Recital: Works by Chopin, Debussy, Haydn, Liszt, and Rachmaninov: With cellist Christopher Beroes-Haigis
Monday, May 7, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 8:30–10 pm
Noon Concert
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 12 pm
Creative Activism in the Post Factual Age: A Talk by The Yes Men
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 6–7 pm
A Discussion with Evie Litwok: Queer, Jewish, and Imprisoned
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
RKC 103; Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 7:30–9 pm
Justin Geyer Senior Concert
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Blum Hall, 8:30 pm
National Climate Seminar: Will Western Forests (As We Know Them) Survive Climate Change?: Dr. Camille Stevens-Rumann, Colorado State University
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
https://bluejeans.com/465542196, 12–1 pm
Speakers Series: Shanay Jhaveri
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
CCS Bard, Classroom 102, 5–7 pm
Written Arts Senior Project Readings 
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 5–7 pm
Mass Incarceration: Seen and Unseen: Come listen to those who have been impacted by the criminal justice system firsthand and are involved in anti-mass incarceration work.
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 5–6:30 pm
Peter Serkin Piano Studio Recital: Seven pianists perform works by Chopin, Debussy, Knussen, Mozart, Schoenberg, and Wolpe.
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 5–7:30 pm
Ken Winfield Senior Concert
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Blum Hall, 8 pm
Georgian Choir: Spring concert
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Bard Hall, 7–9 pm
Ethan Isaac Senior Concert
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Blum Hall, 7 pm
John Esposito's American Popular Song Class Concert
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Blum N211 - the jazz room, 8–10 pm
Registration for Fall Classes Opens
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Bard College Campus
Philosophy Program Senior Project Conference
Friday, May 11, 2018
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 10 am – 4:30 pm
Magnetic Nanostructures for Data Storage and Biomedical Applications: Xuemei May Cheng | Bryn Mawr College
Friday, May 11, 2018
Hegeman 107, 12–1 pm
Advanced Contemporary Jazz Techniques Ensemble: In collaboration with the Bard Studio Arts Senior Show
Friday, May 11, 2018
UBS – 7401 Rt 9, Redhook, NY, 3–5 pm
Conservatory Degree Recital: Hanni Xie, violin: with collaborative piano fellow Hsin-Chiao Liao. 
Friday, May 11, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 5–7 pm
Advanced Contemporary Jazz Techniques Ensemble: In collaboration with the Bard Studio Arts Senior Show
Saturday, May 12, 2018
UBS – 7401 Rt 9, Redhook, NY, 3–5 pm
Da Capo Chamber Players: "Celebrate Bard Concert!" 
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 5–7 pm
Bard Gamelan
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Olin Hall, 8–9:30 pm
Conservatory Orchestra performs Strauss and Berlioz: Leon Botstein, music director
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 3 pm
Da Capo Chamber Players: PREMIERES of works by student composers!
Monday, May 14, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 5–7 pm
Written Arts Senior Project Readings 
Monday, May 14, 2018
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 5–7 pm
CMIA - Andrzej Wajda and the Cinemas of Central Europe
Monday, May 14, 2018
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 6 pm
Jewel Evans Music Video Screening
Monday, May 14, 2018
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 7 pm
Bard Electroacoustic Ensemble Spring Concert
Monday, May 14, 2018
7:30–9 pm
Marco Jaimes Senior Concert I
Monday, May 14, 2018
Bard Hall, 8–10 pm
A Conjunctions Reading by Rikki Ducornet and David Shields: A Conjunctions Cities Series reading, at University Book Store in Seattle
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, 7–9 pm
Bard College Symphonic Chorus and Bard College Chamber Singers, Conducted by James Bagwell: Franz Joseph Haydn, Lord Nelson Mass
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Olin Hall, 8–10 pm
Contemporary Jazz Composers Concert
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 8–10 pm
Waste Cluster II Final Project Presentations
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Fisher Seminar Room, 1:30–4:30 pm
Conservatory Degree Recital: Alexzandra Morris, viola: with collaborative piano fellow Samuel Oram
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Olin Hall, 7:30–9:30 pm
EUS Senior Project Presentations
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 1:30–5 pm
Jon Mildner Senior Concert II
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Parliament of Reality, 6–7 pm
Senior Project Poster Session: Join Science, Mathematics & Computer graduating seniors in presenting their senior projects.
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Reem-Kayden Center, 6:30–8 pm
Graduate Vocal Arts Program Student Recital: Works by Grieg, Harbison, Rossini, and more!
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 7:30–9 pm
Hank Zwaan Senior Concert II
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Blum Hall, 8–9:30 pm
Astronomy Night: Jupiter over Montgomery Place
Thursday, May 17, 2018
8:30–10 pm
EUS 203: Geographic Information Systems Student Presentations
Friday, May 18, 2018
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room, 10:30 am – 12 pm
Open Concert
Friday, May 18, 2018
Blum Hall, 5:30–7:30 pm
Conservatory Degree Recital: Daniel Castellanos, composer
Friday, May 18, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 7 pm
Requiem for Anna Politkovskaya: Libretto and music by Alexander Bakshi Puppets and direction by Amy Trompetter
Friday, May 18, 2018
7:30 pm
Requiem for Anna Politkovskaya: Libretto and music by Alexander Bakshi Puppets and direction by Amy Trompetter
Saturday, May 19, 2018
2 pm
Piano Recital: Yu-Yuan Huang, Conservatory Piano Fellow
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 2–4 pm
Graduate Vocal Arts Program Degree Recital: Angela Hendryx, soprano: with collaborative piano fellow Samuel Oram
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 3–5 pm
Graduate Vocal Arts Program Degree Recital: Natalie Trumm: with collaborative piano fellow Szu-Ying Huang
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 7–9 pm
Tony Kushner on Leonard Bernstein
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7:30 pm
Requiem for Anna Politkovskaya: Libretto and music by Alexander Bakshi Puppets and direction by Amy Trompetter
Saturday, May 19, 2018
7:30 pm
Requiem for Anna Politkovskaya: Libretto and music by Alexander Bakshi Puppets and direction by Amy Trompetter
Sunday, May 20, 2018
2 pm
Bard MBA Capstone Presentations and End of Year Party: Class of 2018
Sunday, May 20, 2018
LMHQ NYC, 150 Broadway, Floor 20, New York, NY 10038, 3–8:30 pm
Conservatory Degree Recital: Avery Morris, violin
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 7–9 pm
Requiem for Anna Politkovskaya: Libretto and music by Alexander Bakshi Puppets and direction by Amy Trompetter
Sunday, May 20, 2018
7:30 pm
EUS Student Practicum Presentations: Presentations for EUS Practicum: Montgomery Place and Landscape Design—Just What Is Landscape?
Monday, May 21, 2018
Montgomery Place Portico, 1:30–3:50 pm
Rufus Müller's Performance Class: “ NOT LOVE ACTUALLY!”
Monday, May 21, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building, 6–7 pm
Last Day of Classes
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Bard College Campus
Baccalaureate and Senior Dinner
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Bard College Campus
Commencement
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Bard College Campus

Ongoing Events:

Spring Thesis Exhibitions and Projects
Sunday, April 8, 2018 – Sunday, May 27, 2018
Warhol: Unidentified
Sunday, April 8, 2018 – Sunday, May 27, 2018
Montgomery Place Spring Salon Series: Montgomery Place: A Window on the World of Alexander Jackson Davis’ Architecture and Design
Saturday, April 14, 2018 – Saturday, May 5, 2018
Senior Project Exhibitions: Round 2
Saturday, May 5, 2018 – Saturday, May 19, 2018


all events are subject to change
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