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January 2001
01-23-2001
THE CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES AT BARD COLLEGE WILL PRESENT THREE EXHIBITIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ART ON VIEW FROM FEBRUARY 11 TO 25
First-year graduate students curate the exhibitions I Need You To Be There, Angles of Incidence, and The Volatile Real
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01-23-2001
LITERARY CRITIC AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR EDWARD SAID TO SPEAK AT BARD COLLEGE ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Full Story
01-23-2001
HUDSON VALLEY AUTHOR DA CHEN WILL GIVE A READING AT BARD COLLEGE ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Full Story
01-22-2001
BRUCE CHILTON WILL DISCUSS HIS RECENT BOOK RABBI JESUS: AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Full Story
01-11-2001
PIANIST TODD CROW AND TROMBONIST RICHARD CLARK JOIN THE AMERICAN SYMPHONY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FOR THE BARD-VASSAR CONCERTS ON FEBRUARY 9 AND 10
Concerts will feature works by Ferdinand David, Mozart, and Schumann
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01-11-2001
ACCLAIMED GROUP, "MUSIC FROM CHINA," WILL GIVE A PUBLIC PERFORMANCE AT BARD COLLEGE ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Full Story
December 2000
12-24-2000
RABBI JESUS: AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY BY BARD PROFESSOR REV. DR. BRUCE CHILTON REVEALS A NEW JESUS FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM Full Story
12-01-2000
BARD COLLEGE COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY JOAN TOWER, PERFORMS CONCERT ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1
Works by Bartók, Fauré, Haydn, Beethoven, Ravel, and Copland will be performed
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November 2000
11-21-2000
"WORDS AND SILENCE," A POETRY PERFORMANCE BY CAROLINE BERGVALL, ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, IS NEXT EVENT IN THE JOHN ASHBERY POETRY SERIES AT BARD COLLEGE Full Story
11-17-2000
GALA MUSIC CONCERT AT BARD COLLEGE FEATURES PERFORMANCES BY THE VOCAL AND JAZZ ENSEMBLES AND THE HUDSON VALLEY GAMELAN Full Story
11-16-2000
BARD COLLEGE COMMUNITY CHORUS SEEKS SINGERS FOR PERFORMANCE OF THE FAURÉ REQUIEM IN MAY Full Story
11-15-2000
THE BARD COLLEGE VOCAL ENSEMBLE AND COMMUNITY CHORUS WILL PERFORM "FROM RENAISSANCE TO RED HOOK: CHORAL MUSIC FROM THE CLASSICAL TRADITION AND BEYOND" ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10 Full Story
11-07-2000
AUTHOR DIANE WILLIAMS WILL GIVE PUBLIC READING OF HER NEW WORK AT BARD COLLEGE ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Full Story
11-04-2000
BARD COLLEGE TO HOST TWO-DAY CONFERENCE IN CELEBRATION OF CHINUA ACHEBE'S 70th BIRTHDAY Participants Include K. A. Appiah, John Ashbery, Nuruddin Farah, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Nadine Gordimer, Michael Harper, Toni Morrison, Emmanuel Obiechina, Wole So Full Story
11-02-2000
THE MUSIC OF KYLE GANN WILL BE PERFORMED ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, AT BARD COLLEGE Concert will feature four world premieres of Gann's work
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October 2000
10-25-2000
BARD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY HOSTS NOVEMBER 2 ELECTION DIALOGUE ON ENVIRONMENT AND POLITICS Open Forum Series Continues with "Environment and Politics: What Kind of Environmental Protection Do You Get with Your Vote?"
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10-25-2000
TWO INTERGENERATIONAL SEMINARS WILL BE OFFERED AT BARD COLLEGE DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER Full Story
10-24-2000
HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT AT BARD COLLEGE PRESENTS A SERIES OF TALKS BY HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS, AUTHORS, AND JOURNALISTS DURING OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER Full Story
10-24-2000
FILM SERIES ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS WILL BE SHOWN AT BARD COLLEGE IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER Full Story
10-20-2000
FIVE BARD ALUMNI/AE POETS WILL READ AS PART OF THE JOHN ASHBERY POETRY SERIES ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27 Full Story
10-19-2000
WORKS BY RICHARD STRAUSS AND BRAHMS TO BE PERFORMED BY THE WOODSTOCK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, AT BARD COLLEGE Full Story
10-18-2000
DA CAPO CHAMBER PLAYERS AT BARD PRESENT LEAFY SPEAFING: A MUSICAL REMEMBRANCE OF STEPHEN ALBERT
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10-18-2000
BARD COLLEGE TO HOST OCTOBER 30 TALK EXPLORING ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION IN CHINA Chris Coggins, a Geographer Based at Simon’s Rock College of Bard, will present "The Tiger and the Pangolin," a Discussion and slide Show of Environmental Conservation Effo Full Story
10-17-2000
IMPACTS OF THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT WILL BE THE FOCUS ON NOVEMBER 7 OF
BARD-ROCKEFELLER INAUGURAL LECTURE Arnold J. Levine, a Pioneer in the Fight Against Cancer, will discuss "Cracking the Code of Life: Impacts of the Human Genome Project"
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10-10-2000
JULIA BUTTERFLY HILL, TREE-SITTING ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST, WILL SPEAK AT BARD COLLEGE ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31
"It is not a matter of whether or not we can make a difference, but that each and every one of us do make a difference."—Julia Butterfly Hill
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