Event Series

Bennington College continues its concert and music lecture series featuring influential and boundary-pushing guest performers and scholars. The heart of the Carriage Barn Music Series will be performances and research that highlight music and lives of Black, indigenous, people of color, queer, female-identified, and non-binary performers and artists.
The Cultural Studies and Language Series hosted by the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures at Bennington College offers interdisciplinary talks and events that enhance and expand the college’s understanding of languages and cultures outside of the classroom.
Supported by Cultural Studies and Languages; The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; and Albertine Cinémathèque, a program of FACE Foundation and Villa Albertine, with support from the CNC / Centre National du Cinema, and SACEM / Fonds Culturel Franco-Américain.
Literature Evenings are held several Wednesday evenings during the term, and feature readings by distinguished guest writers, students, and faculty. These events are open to the public unless noted otherwise.
Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Fridays 1:00-2:00 PM | Science Workshop is a weekly series of presentations and other events for students working in math and the sciences, as well as for the broader College community. Throughout the term we will host outside speakers and Bennington College faculty and students as they describe their research and its broader applications.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:00 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices.
Join Beyond Plastics for a free, virtual, two-part grassroots organizing training in February that will teach you practical and powerful ways to end plastic pollution and engage your larger community.
Critically acclaimed, award-winning authors and faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars will offer an evening reading series during the MFA program's winter 2023 residency.
Bennington College continues its concert and music lecture series featuring influential and boundary-pushing guest performers and scholars. The heart of the Carriage Barn Music Series will be performances and research that highlight music and lives of Black, indigenous, people of color, queer, female-identified, and non-binary performers and artists. The series will also include events that support the current curriculum of the Music discipline. These events are free and open to the public.
The Cultural Studies and Language Series hosted by the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures at Bennington College offers interdisciplinary talks and events that enhance and expand the college’s understanding of languages and cultures outside of the classroom.
Literature Evenings are held several Wednesday evenings during the term, and feature readings by distinguished guest writers, students, and faculty. These events are open to the public unless noted otherwise.
Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Fridays 1:00-2:00 PM | Science Workshop is a weekly series of presentations and other events for students working in math and the sciences, as well as for the broader College community. Throughout the term we will host outside speakers and Bennington College faculty and students as they describe their research and its broader applications.
The Society, Culture, and Thought Colloquium invites you to explore social questions and problems at the heart of contemporary debates.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Our newly titled The Patrick J. Leahy Public Policy Forum is dedicated this term to the legacy of Senator Leahy and what effects this had on our democracy. Patrick J. Leahy was a United States Senator from Vermont from 1975 to 2023, a career that put him front and center in American history for almost fifty years. This fall's series invites historians, politicians, and those who know Leahy best to discuss and analyze the key policies that have impacted history, our democracy, and the future of the United States.
Join Beyond Plastics for a free, virtual, two-part grassroots organizing training in September that will teach you practical and powerful ways to end plastic pollution and engage your larger community.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:00 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices.
Translators carry our precious stories and songs, poems and plays, across all sort of borders.They make it possible for us to share knowledge, to put our minds together across vast distances of time and place. They enable us to travel without leaving home.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Bennington College continues its virtual and remote concert and music lecture series featuring influential and boundary-pushing guest performers and scholars. The heart of the Carriage Barn Music Series will be performances and research that highlight music and lives of Black, indigenous, people of color, queer, female-identified, and non-binary performers and artists. The series will also include events that support the current curriculum of the Music discipline. These virtual events are free and open to the public.
CAMPUS COMMUNITY ONLY | The Cultural Studies and Language Series hosted by the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures at Bennington College offers interdisciplinary talks and events that enhance and expand the college’s understanding of languages and cultures outside of the classroom.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Literature Evenings are held several Wednesday evenings during the term, and feature readings by distinguished guest writers, students, and faculty.
Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Fridays 1:00-2:00 PM | Science Workshop is a weekly series of presentations and other events for students working in math and the sciences, as well as for the broader College community. Throughout the term we will host outside speakers and Bennington College faculty and students as they describe their research and its broader applications.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Society, Culture, and Thought Colloquium invites you to explore social questions and problems at the heart of contemporary debates.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:30 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices.
Translators carry our precious stories and songs, poems and plays, across all sort of borders.They make it possible for us to share knowledge, to put our minds together across vast distances of time and place. They enable us to travel without leaving home.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Bennington College continues its virtual and remote concert and music lecture series featuring influential and boundary-pushing guest performers and scholars. The heart of the Carriage Barn Music Series will be performances and research that highlight music and lives of Black, indigenous, people of color, queer, female-identified, and non-binary performers and artists. The series will also include events that support the current curriculum of the Music discipline. These virtual events are free and open to the public.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Cultural Studies and Language Series hosted by the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures at Bennington College offers interdisciplinary talks and events that enhance and expand the college’s understanding of languages and cultures outside of the classroom.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Literature Evenings are held several Wednesday evenings during the term, and feature readings by distinguished guest writers, students, and faculty.
Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Fridays 12:30-1:30 PM | Science Workshop is a weekly series of presentations and other events for students working in math and the sciences, as well as for the broader College community. Throughout the term we will host outside speakers and Bennington College faculty and students as they describe their research and its broader applications.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Society, Culture, and Thought Colloquium invites you to explore social questions and problems at the heart of contemporary debates.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:00 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices.
Open office hours for students with President Walker and members of the President's Cabinet.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Bennington College continues its virtual and remote concert and music lecture series featuring influential and boundary-pushing guest performers and scholars. The heart of the Carriage Barn Music Series will be performances and research that highlight music and lives of Black, indigenous, people of color, queer, female-identified, and non-binary performers and artists. The series will also include events that support the current curriculum of the Music discipline. These virtual events are free and open to the public.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Cultural Studies and Language Series hosted by the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures at Bennington College offers interdisciplinary talks and events that enhance and expand the college’s understanding of languages and cultures outside of the classroom.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Literature Evenings are held several Wednesday evenings during the term, and feature readings by distinguished guest writers, students, and faculty.
Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Society, Culture, and Thought Colloquium invites you to explore social questions and problems at the heart of contemporary debates.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:00 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Cultural Studies and Language Series hosted by the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures at Bennington College offers interdisciplinary talks and events that enhance and expand the college’s understanding of languages and cultures outside of the classroom.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Literature Evenings are held several Wednesday evenings during the term, and feature readings by distinguished guest writers, students, and faculty.
Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
CAPA has established the “January 6 Project” which examines the historical, cultural and political events that led to the attack on United States Capitol with the goal of understanding its causes, in all its forms, in order to shed light and expose truths for an informed citizenry to act to prevent this type of assault on democracy.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:00 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | "CAPA Conversations: Climate Change, Race, and Displacement" is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Cultural Studies and Language Series hosted by the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures at Bennington College offers interdisciplinary talks and events that enhance and expand the college’s understanding of languages and cultures outside of the classroom.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Literature Evenings are held several Wednesday evenings during the term, and feature readings by distinguished guest writers, students, and faculty.
Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:00 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices.
Bennington College continues its virtual and remote concert and music lecture series featuring influential and boundary-pushing guest performers and scholars. With an ambitious and adventurous line-up curated by Senem Pirler and Joseph Alpar, the heart of the Carriage Barn Music Series will be performances and research that highlight music and lives of Black, indigenous, people of color, queer, female-identified, and non-binary performers and artists. The series will also include events that support the current curriculum of the Music discipline. These virtual events are free and open to the public.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Literature Evenings are held several Wednesday evenings during the term, and feature readings by distinguished guest writers, students, and faculty.
Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:00 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices.
As part of Bennington's Balkan Music Ensemble course, this series presents a variety of talks, demonstrations and mini-concerts to enrich our understanding of music and culture in the region.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The concert series, which occurs each term in the Deane Carriage Barn, invites talented, innovative, and classically trained musicians to share their work with Bennington students, faculty, and town residents.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Cultural Studies and Language Series hosted by the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures at Bennington College offers interdisciplinary talks and events that enhance and expand the college’s understanding of languages and cultures outside of the classroom.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | This series is part of the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement and Education supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Comprised of Bennington, Bard, Sarah Lawrence, and Vassar Colleges, this consortium is committed to developing new, horizontal and more egalitarian models of global and transnational educational solidarity to address the refugee crisis and to educate our students to be engaged citizens in an increasingly complex and interconnected world.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Literature Evenings are held several Wednesday evenings during the term, and feature readings by distinguished guest writers, students, and faculty.
The Music and Migration Speaker Series is hosted by Bennington College as part of MHI 2109: Sounding Home: Music of Migration, Memory, and Exile with Joseph Alpar and Kerry Ryer-Parke. The series is sponsored by the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Music Sundays on B-Rad is a series of recordings, virtual class concerts, and events presented by Bennington College Radio and the Bennington College Music Program. Tune in every Sunday until the end of term as B-Rad releases a new radio podcast each week featuring music created at Bennington.
Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:30 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The concert series, which occurs each term in the Deane Carriage Barn, invites talented, innovative, and classically trained musicians to share their work with Bennington students, faculty, and town residents.
This series seeks to analyze the forces driving climate change and environmental injustice, and to explore potential pathways for building a more sustainable future. Co-sponsored by Environmental Studies and CAPA.




OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Cultural Studies and Language Series hosted by the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures at Bennington College offers interdisciplinary talks and events that enhance and expand the college’s understanding of languages and cultures outside of the classroom.
Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | This series invites guest speakers from the private and public sectors to address a range of important topics related to climate change. Facilitated by CAPA director Susan Sgorbati and Vermont State Senator Brian Campion.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:30 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The concert series, which occurs each term in the Deane Carriage Barn, invites talented, innovative, and classically trained musicians to share their work with Bennington students, faculty, and town residents.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Language Series hosted by the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures at Bennington College offers interdisciplinary talks and events that enhance and expand the college’s understanding of languages and cultures outside of the classroom.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Literature Evenings are held several Wednesday evenings during the term, and feature readings by distinguished guest writers, students, and faculty.

Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:30 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The concert series, which occurs each term in the Deane Carriage Barn, invites talented, innovative, and classically trained musicians to share their work with Bennington students, faculty, and town residents.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Is the American Democracy under siege? What are the signs that it is or isn’t? If it is, what signs should Americans be looking for? Can it survive? What is a true democracy and where does it exist in the world?
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Language Series hosted by the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures at Bennington College offers interdisciplinary talks and events that enhance and expand the college’s understanding of languages and cultures outside of the classroom.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Literature Evenings are held several Wednesday evenings during the term, and feature readings by distinguished guest writers, students, and faculty.
Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | This series invites guest speakers from the private and public sectors to address a range of important topics in the current national dialogue. Facilitated by CAPA director Susan Sgorbati and Vermont State Senator Brian Campion.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:30 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | A Summer Workshop for People Who Love to Play Chamber Music—July 18 to August 11, 2018
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The concert series, which occurs each term in the Deane Carriage Barn, invites talented, innovative, and classically trained musicians to share their work with Bennington students, faculty, and town residents.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | CAPA presents a speaker series on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education, which connects the academic study of refugees and displacement to the world of policy and practice.
The Language Series hosted by the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures at Bennington College offers interdisciplinary talks and events that enhance and expand the college’s understanding of languages and cultures outside of the classroom.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Literature Evenings are held several Wednesday evenings during the term, and feature readings by distinguished guest writers, students, and faculty.
Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:30 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The concert series, which occurs each term in the Deane Carriage Barn, invites talented, innovative, and classically trained musicians to share their work with Bennington students, faculty, and town residents.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Bring your lunch and join us in conversation each month on topics ranging from white privilege to storytelling as a means of creating community. This conversation series is just one component of the Becoming Engaged series, which is designed to bring people together for conversation, training, and reflection to in turn show up as active and engaged members of our communities. These events are free and open to the public.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | CAPA presents a speaker series on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education, which connects the academic study of refugees and displacement to the world of policy and practice.
The Language Series hosted by the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures at Bennington College offers interdisciplinary talks and events that enhance and expand the college’s understanding of languages and cultures outside of the classroom.
Jazz Religion is a not-for-credit course open to the Bennington College community based on Harvard’s Religious Literacy course. The course will explore and examine religion from a number of perspectives. These are stand-alone classes facilitated by Rabbi Michael Cohen.
Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | This series invites guest speakers from the private and public sectors to address a range of important topics in the current national dialogue. Facilitated by CAPA director Susan Sgorbati and Vermont State Senator Brian Campion.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:30 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. 
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Drama at Bennington presents Bennington Plays: A Festival of Original Work. All events take place in Margot Tenney Theater. Program A, featuring "Eyes They Close" and "When the Sun Falls" will be presented on Friday-Sunday, May 5, 6, and 7. Program B, featuring "La Vie en Rose" and "The Nicosia Sisters" will be presented Friday-Sunday, May 12, 13, and 14.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The concert series, which occurs each term in the Deane Carriage Barn, invites talented, innovative, and classically trained musicians to share their work with Bennington students, faculty, and town residents.
The Language Series hosted by the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures at Bennington College offers interdisciplinary talks and events that enhance and expand the college’s understanding of languages and cultures outside of the classroom.
Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | 7:00-8:30 PM | Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. 
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Event occurs November 12-14. Three generations of an Oklahoma family gather for the ultimate dysfunctional reunion. A darkly funny and viciously nihilistic dissection of the dissolution of the American family and the disillusion of the American dream. Mature content. Written by Tracy Letts. For tickets, please email tickets@bennington.edu.
The Calendar for Home and Away games for the Bennington Pioneer Club Soccer Team
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | A series of events presented each term by Bennington College and The Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures. All presentations/lectures are in English.
Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
Critical Conversations in Society, Culture, and Thought: Truth & Lies presents a lecture series to accompany the class.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | "Understanding PFOA" is a series bringing national voices to shed light on the science and policy of PFOA. These events are sponsored by Environmental Studies and CAPA.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Members of the community will discuss the work being done to create a healthy Bennington
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS) provides opportunities for extended engagement with visiting artists, curators, and historians and offering additional context for their public lectures through related readings and discussions.

This speaker series connects the academic study of refugees and displacement to the world of policy and practice.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Literature Evenings are held several Wednesday evenings during the term, and feature readings by distinguished guest writers, students, and faculty.
A series that explores ideas around peacebuilding in the present and past around the world.
A film series of five excellent films focusing on various aspects of our plastic pollution crisis and ways we can help solve it, that you can watch from the comfort and safety of your own home.
Bennington College Music presents our annual week of senior projects in music by members of the Class of 2022.
Women in Data Science (WiDS) elevates women in the field by providing inspiration, education, community, and support.
Critically acclaimed, award-winning authors and faculty of the Bennington College Writing Seminars will offer an evening reading series during the MFA program's summer residency.
Critically acclaimed, award-winning authors and faculty of the Bennington College Writing Seminars will offer an evening reading series during the MFA program's summer residency.
Critically acclaimed, award-winning authors and faculty of the Bennington College Writing Seminars will offer an evening reading series during the MFA program's winter residency.