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Events for September 2025

Opening Reception! Melissa Shook: Freedom to Create  : Curated by Fiona Laugharn ’12
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, 3–5 pm
CMIA - The Space of Viewing
Monday, September 1, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–10 pm
First Day of Fall Classes
Monday, September 1, 2025
Bard College Campus
Bard Southwest Arts Weekend and Santa Fe Cities Party
Friday, September 26, 2025 – Sunday, September 28, 2025
Nuckolls Brewing Co.
CMIA - Vertigo
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–9:45 pm
Faculty Spotlight Series: Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano, and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, piano: Johnny Mercer: Mister Inbetween
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7:30 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, September 5, 2025
Online Event, 12–1 pm
The Hannah Arendt Center's Virtual Reading Group: Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, September 5, 2025
Online Event, 1–2:30 pm
Faculty Spotlight Series: Tyler Duncan, baritone, and Erika Switzer, piano: Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4 pm
Faculty Spotlight Series: Rufus Müller, tenor, and Kayo Iwama, piano: Schubert’s Schwanengesang
Sunday, September 7, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4 pm
CMIA - Silent Art Films
Monday, September 8, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11 pm
A Night with the WNBA
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217, 7–10 pm
Bard GPS Online Information Session
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Online Event, 7–8 pm
CMIA - Solaris
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 9–11:55 pm
Red Cross Blood Drive   
Friday, September 12, 2025
Campus Center MPR, 11:30 am – 5:30 pm
Conversation on Stan Douglas’s Ghostlight
Friday, September 12, 2025
CCS Bard, Classroom 102, 2–4 pm
Rewriting "Hisstory": Jeff Kisseloff and Jonathan Brent in Conversation
Monday, September 15, 2025
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor, 4:30–6 pm
Thomas Chatterton Williams, Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse: Presented in partnership with Oblong Books
Monday, September 15, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 6:30 pm
CMIA - Montage
Monday, September 15, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11 pm
The Importance of Official Data in Assessing Economic Conditions: Lecture by Former BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Olin Hall, 5–6:30 pm
CMIA - Ivan the Terrible
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11 pm
Studio Models, Artistic Innovation, and the Moscow Avant-Garde
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 5:30–7 pm
Signed, Sealed, Still Debated: A Constitution Day Conversation
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Kingston Library, 61 Crown Street, Kingston, NY, 6–8 pm
Bard Alumni/ae Artists, Designers, and Photographers Mixer in NYC *NEW LOCATION
Thursday, September 18, 2025
The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Spaces, 6–8 pm
Aria's SPROJ Cast/Crew Call: Aria Ahmed's Senior Project Call for Cast and Crew
Friday, September 19, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Red Room 203, 4–6 pm
Mahler’s Third Symphony
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–9 pm
SUNday: Join the Movement for Clean Energy
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Kline Commons Lawn, 12–2 pm
Mahler’s Third Symphony
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 2–4 pm
Faculty Spotlight Series: Guest Artist Martha Guth, soprano, with Erika Switzer, piano; featuring Raman Ramakrishnan, cello: "Silent Awakenings"
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Democracy and the Solar Revolution: Climate Solutions Week
Monday, September 22, 2025
Olin Language Center, Room 208, 4–5 pm
A Reading with Billie Chernicoff and Lindsay Hill: The Return of Two Bardians
Monday, September 22, 2025
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 6 pm
CMIA - Film Sound
Monday, September 22, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11 pm
For Love of the World on Radio Kingston: Conversations with the Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Online Event, 6–6:30 pm
CMIA - Film and Dance
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–10:55 pm
Bard Center for the Study of Hate Webinar
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Online Event, 3–4 pm
Studio Art Department Faculty and Staff Exhibition
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Fisher Studio Arts Building, 5–7 pm
Zoé Samudzi: “Sibathontisele” at 15: Zimbabwean Ethnopolitics and the Work of Owen Maseko
Friday, September 26, 2025
Online Event, 12–1:30 pm
Pioneer Valley Cities Party
Saturday, September 27, 2025
White Lion Brewing Co., 3–5 pm
China Now Music Festival: Music in Motion: Three Generations of Composers from China
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 3–5 pm
Faculty Spotlight Series: Yi-Wen Jiang, violin, and Frank Corliss, piano
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Olin Hall, 2 pm
Fiscal Imagination: Rethinking Prosperity, Liberalism, and the American Economy
Monday, September 29, 2025
Olin Humanities, Room 205, 12–1:30 pm
Hannah Arendt Facing Tyranny Screening and Discussion: Featuring Leon Botstein and Roger Berkowitz with Chana Gazit and Jeff Bieber
Monday, September 29, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 6 pm
Hannah Arendt Facing Tyranny: Screening and Discussion: Featuring Leon Botstein and Roger Berkowitz with Chana Gazit and Jeff Bieber
Monday, September 29, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 6–8:30 pm
CMIA - Color
Monday, September 29, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:30 pm
Ravish Momin 
Monday, September 29, 2025
Blum Hall, 8–9:30 pm
CMIA - Theater and Film
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7–11:55 pm

Ongoing Events:

All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group
Saturday, June 21, 2025 – Sunday, October 19, 2025
Stan Douglas: Ghostlight
Saturday, June 21, 2025 – Sunday, November 30, 2025
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
The Hannah Arendt Center's Virtual Reading Group: Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, September 12, 2025 – Friday, October 3, 2025
La Voz Reunion Semanal
Friday, September 12, 2025 – Thursday, December 18, 2025
China Now Music Festival: Music in Motion NYC
Sunday, September 28, 2025 – Sunday, October 5, 2025


all events are subject to change