Event Calendar

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | A Conversation with Maboula Soumahoro and her "Paris Noir" students on "Teaching, Researching, and Narrating the Hexagon and the Triangle from Bennington College, 2003-2017: Reflections on Diasporic Blackness." Refreshments will be served after the talk.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Sean Gordon's senior show will be a celebration of traditional West African music and dance, and of his time as a Bennington student through his original compositions for trumpet and piano. Come experience music from the birthplace of life!

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | A woman alone on stage on the phone. As senior work in music, Emma performs La Voix Humaine, a 1958 opera by Francis Poulenc based on a 1928 play by Jean Cocteau.

Come relax with some amazing dogs from Therapy Dogs of Vermont!

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Opening Reception for the Senior Exhibition.

The Garden stretches and swells. The silver tree sways. A forked tongue laps, flickering. Can you resist temptation?

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | "Radical Bodies," an exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, examines the artistic relationships between Halprin, Forti, and Rainer, shedding light on each artist’s contribution to dance history. The exhibition was co-curated by Wendy Perron ’69.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Students will read senior work. The bar will be open and drink tickets will be available to anyone over 21, one free drink per person. All are welcome.

Join Carolina Roque in her Senior Thesis Presentation where she will discuss the different ways six artists explore their cultural and social identities in their artworks, while critically debunking several stereotypes and addressing the complexity of Chicanx Art.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Join us in the fireplace room for songs about the body and the color orange. The show will feature the bold voices of Dana Foote and Molly Dore, and a band featuring Webb Crawford, Paris Parks, and Charlie Smith.

The French Language Table happens every Thursday at 12:15 PM.

Come relax with some amazing dogs from Therapy Dogs of Vermont!

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Students of Tom Bogdan's "Streetcorner Harmony" class perform highlights of their work from the spring semester.

To participate in the bird walk, meet at Jennings Music Library at 8:45 AM sharp!

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | As questions of planetary injury come to drive theoretical debates and reframe empirical studies, this conference inquires into the conditions of possibility for recognizing emergent scales and temporalities of earthly volatility.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Amy Moran-Thomas and Joseph Masco will speak as part of CAPA's Volatile Futures/Earthly Matters conference.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Alex Blanchette and Kristina Lyons will speak as part of CAPA's Volatile Futures/Earthly Matters conference.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Andrea Ballestero and Andrew Mathews will speak as part of CAPA's Volatile Futures/Earthly Matters conference.

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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | LOCATION CHANGED TO MARTHA HILL. New dance works by guest faculty and MFA Teaching Fellows Rebecca Brooks, Souleymane Badolo, Stuart Shugg, Yanan Yu.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Do you identify as masculine/masc? This is the space for YOU!

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Soaring in from the past like a bird, the flute lands and sings of the darkness of the modern age. Compositions by Messiaen, Bernstein, and Gordon illuminate beautiful and violent realities, inviting all to meditate on the present historical moment. With a cohort of piano, electronics, and percussion, the flute becomes the voice of our now.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Adriana Petryna and Nick Shapiro will speak as part of CAPA's Volatile Futures/Earthly Matters conference.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Juno Salazar Parreñas and Lucas Bessire will speak as part of CAPA's Volatile Futures/Earthly Matters conference.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | New dance works by MFA Teaching Fellows Rebecca Brooks, Stuart Shugg, Yanan Yu.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Immerse yourself in a site-specific performance on the third floor of Jennings. A revolving door installation where the audience moves freely through a set of rooms, with the choice to linger and revisit. Enter any time between 3:00 and 3:45 PM.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | In an old ballroom, with fields and mountains in the distance a piano accompanies Manuel De Falla's 7 Popular Spanish Songs. Then a quick walk to a roadside desert bar near some water. A band plays a few covers then leaves.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | An evening of brave, original theatre, written and performed by Jessie Berliner '17, Dado Čobo '17, Matt Kirby '17, Will Larsen '17, Asa Learmonth '17, Alec MacNeil '17, Morgan Morse '18, Joana Santos '18, and Margot Spanu '17.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | An evening of rapturous jangles, three guitars, bass, drums and lots of singin’!! Songs of sauntering, disturbance, and delight.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | A late spring afternoon of some original compositions. Starting in the carriage barn for piano, voice, and electronics, and ending with a stroll to the secret garden for a cello duet among the flowers.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Four narrators, 15 characters, one actor. Vermont's unsolved murder case of 1812 comes alive in this one-man, virtuosic tour-de-force.