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Events for May 2024

CMIA - Confronting the Catastrophe
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm
Senior Projects Due (5:00 pm)
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Bard College Campus
Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams: All students and faculty remain on campus
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 – Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Bard College Campus
Reunion 2024: Calling all classes ending in 4 and 9!
Friday, May 24, 2024 – Sunday, May 26, 2024
Fandango Veracruzano with Argelia Arreola: A Conversation and Movement Workshop
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 11:50 am – 1:10 pm
Degree Recital: Monika Dziubelski, flute
Friday, May 3, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 5–6:30 pm
Degree Recital: Katherine Chernyak, violin
Friday, May 3, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8–9:30 pm
Degree Recital: "Looking Back" Kamil Karpiak, oboe, with Shao-Chu Pan, piano, and a wind quintet.
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1–2:30 pm
Martha Redbone: American Roots and Rhythms
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Fisher Center, Stewart and Lynda Resnick Theater Studio, 2–3 pm
Violinist as Composer
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–8 pm
Gamelan Spring Concert
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Bard Hall, 7–8 pm
Degree Recital: "Tel Jour, Telle Nuit" Jun Mo Yang, tenor, and Nomin Samdan, piano
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8–9:30 pm
Viola Studio Recital
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Olin Hall, 12–2 pm
Bard Chinese Ensemble Year-End Concert 2024: Shutong Li, conductor
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1–2:30 pm
Violinist as Composer
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 2–3 pm
Degree Recital: "Lonely's Antonym" Taylor Mackenzie Adams, soprano, and Pei-Hsuan Shen, piano: Music of Alawi, Bach, Brediceanu, King, Price, Ragland, and More
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 5–6:30 pm
Degree Recital: Hannah Park-Kaufmann, piano
Monday, May 6, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4–5:30 pm
Degree Recital: Yilin Li, piano, with Chris Nelson, violin, Raman Ramakrishnan, cello, and Neilson Chen, piano performing works by Schubert and Beethoven
Monday, May 6, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7–8:30 pm
CMIA - Digital Color
Monday, May 6, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm
Chamber Music Marathon - Continued!: Three student groups will join faculty cellist Raman Ramakrishnon in works by Arensky, Rabl, and Schubert.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 11 am – 1 pm
CMIA - Thrillers and History
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm
Foragers: A Film by Jumana Manna: Introduced by Leil Mortada
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Outside Hegeman: Stone Row Quad, 7 pm
CMIA - Visconti's Legacies
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm
Degree Recital: “From Dreams to Life” with Mohammad AbdNikfarjam, clarinet
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 12:30–1:45 pm
Christian Service/Roman Catholic Mass
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 2 pm
Sitting for Stolen Sisters: An event for listening and commemoration of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Thursday, May 9, 2024
New Annandale House, Experimental Humanities, 2:30 pm
Flute Studio Recital
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 5:15–6:30 pm
Vocal Ensembles Concert: Featuring First-Year Graduate Students and Collaborative Piano Fellows and more!
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 6:30–7:30 pm
I Can’t Remember Anything Ever Having Ended: Senior Projects in Dance
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Registration for Fall Classes Opens at 8 a.m.
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Bard College Campus
Experimental Humanities Share Event
Friday, May 10, 2024
Reem-Kayden Center Lobby, 3:30–5 pm
Lecture and Performance: Dunhuang Academy Ancient Music Consort with Tan Dun, conductor: Five visiting Chinese musicians in the Dunhuang Academy Ancient Music Consort perform works from the Tang Dynasty and new music for the traditional Chinese instruments and a Bard Conservatory String Quartet.
Friday, May 10, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4 pm
CMIA - Visconti's Legacies, Part 2
Friday, May 10, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm
I Can’t Remember Anything Ever Having Ended: Senior Projects in Dance
Friday, May 10, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
I Can’t Remember Anything Ever Having Ended: Senior Projects in Dance
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 2–3 pm
Degree Recital: Lap Yin Lee, violin, with Nomin Samdan, piano: Works by Brahms, Prokofiev, Ravel, and Wieniawski.
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2–3:30 pm
Bard Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Tan Dun
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–8 pm
Photography Senior Show Reception: Natalia Gillespie, Campbell Brophy-Nash, and Ash Fitzgerald
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Woods Photography Building, 7–9 pm
CMIA - Casino
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–10:30 pm
I Can’t Remember Anything Ever Having Ended: Senior Projects in Dance
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Degree Recital: Wan-Ling Chen, piano, with Chris Nelson, violin, Liliana Szokol, flute, Natalia Dziubelski, horn, and Jaelyn Quilizapa, vibraphone: Works by Brahms, Skubala, and Vine.
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1:30–2:30 pm
Degree Recital: "The Art of Violin" Elizabeth Chernyak, violin
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 5–7 pm
Sweet Dreams: A social sculpture project by the ELAS studio arts class The Art of Life
Monday, May 13, 2024
The field in front of Kline Dining, 2:30–4:30 pm
Speaker Series: Steffi Hessler
Monday, May 13, 2024
CCS Bard, Classroom 102, 5–7 pm
Bard College Community Orchestra
Monday, May 13, 2024
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–8 pm
Bard College Community Orchestra  
Monday, May 13, 2024
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–8 pm
CMIA - Color and Structure
Monday, May 13, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm
Recital: Luca Sakon, violin, with Neilson Chen, piano
Monday, May 13, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8–9 pm
Latin Movie Screening: Our Lady of the Assasins / La virgen de los sicarios + Lecture from Colombian Film Director Germán Jaramillo @ Weis Cinema!
Monday, May 13, 2024
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 8–10 pm
Spring Member Social 
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
5:30–8 pm
CMIA - Twenty-First Century Cinema
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm
Degree Recital: Ana Aparicio, violin
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8–9:30 pm
Bard Chamber Singers & Symphonic Chorus Spring Concert: James Bagwell, conductor Lilly Cadow, conductor  James Fitzwilliam, piano Hanna Okalava, soprano  Bard Chamber Singers Bard Symphonic Chorus
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Olin Hall, 8–9 pm
“Just Between Us: The Audience as Confidant” with Members of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and Collaborative Piano Fellows: Arias and ensembles from operas of Handel and Mozart
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Olin Hall, 3–4:30 pm
Bard Sinfonietta: Student Composer Showcase: New works by eight student composers.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7–9 pm
Nicole Wallace & Lou Cornum: A Reading and Conversation
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Olin Hall, 3:30 pm
Rieko Aizawa Piano Studio Recital - Ten Pianists Showcase Works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Ginastera, and more
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Olin Hall, 7–9 pm
Degree Recital: Yuchen Zhao, violin
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7:30–8:30 pm
Poulenc Party- Take 2!: Grand celebration with students in the undergraduate and graduate voice programs, instrumental arts program, collaborative piano fellows, and graduate conductors program.
Friday, May 17, 2024
Olin Hall, 1–3 pm
Bard Alumni Ensemble Performs Works by Joan Tower, Tan Dun, Sarah Hennies, Nino Rota, and Guillaume Connesso
Friday, May 17, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8 pm
Degree Recital: Grace Molinaro, cello   Works by Rachmaninoff, Jessie Montgomery, Kathy Wonson Eddy, Akua Dixon, and more.
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1–2:30 pm
Recital: Mingyue Xia, violin, with Nomin Samdan, piano
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4–5:30 pm
Degree Recital: Jinou (Anastasia) Dong, pipa
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8–9:30 pm
¡Arsenio! in Kingston
Saturday, May 18, 2024
CPW, 25 Dederick St, Kingston NY, 12401, 8–9:30 pm
The First Family: Innocence, Awareness, Estrangement: Dr. Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology
Sunday, May 19, 2024
The Rhinebeck Reformed Church, 1–2:30 pm
Degree Recital: Maya Yokanovich, clarinet
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2–3:30 pm
Trans Swim
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Stevenson Athletic Center, Pool, 4–6 pm
Degree Recital: Alex Buckman, bassoon
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 5–6:30 pm
Recital: Eszter Pókai, clarinet, “Hungarian Melodies”
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Yardley Penthouse, 600 Palisade Ave., Union City, NJ 07087, 7–8:30 pm
Degree Recital: "To Bach and Beyond"  Leonard Gurevich, piano, and Friends
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8–9:30 pm
Degree Recital: Arnav Shirodkhar, percussion
Monday, May 20, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1–2:30 pm
Percussion Studio Concert--New Works by Living Composers
Monday, May 20, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7–9 pm
My Wife Is a Ghost: World Premiere of a New Opera by Bard Student Composers: Libretto by Susan Bywaters
Monday, May 20, 2024
Olin Hall, 7–8 pm
Guest Artist Recital: Anmari van der Westhuizen, cello, and Ahra Oh, piano, works by contemporary South African Composers: An Hour-long Lunchtime Concert 
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 12:30–1:30 pm
Degree Recital: Mindy Holthe, horn
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7–8:30 pm
Last Day of Spring Classes
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Bard College Campus
Degree Recital: Nguyen Hong Linh, piano, performs Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2–3 pm
Baccalaureate Service and Senior Dinner
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, 3:45–6 pm
Bard College Awards Ceremony
Friday, May 24, 2024
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 5–8 pm
Commencement
Saturday, May 25, 2024
Bard College Campus, 2:30–6 pm
Alumni/ae Memorial Service
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 9:30–10:30 am

Ongoing Events:

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
Spillover: 2024 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions
Saturday, April 6, 2024 – Sunday, May 26, 2024
Bard Farm Stand: Thursdays from noon – 5 pm, running May 30 through October 31
Thursday, May 30, 2024 – Thursday, October 31, 2024


all events are subject to change
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