Event Calendar
Pick a DateVermont Alumni Coop: Food Insecurity in Vermont Webinar
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Vermont Alumni Cooperative and faculty member Tatiana Abatemarco discuss food insecurity and rural food justice in Vermont.
Open Conversation with Literature Faculty about Fall 2021 Curriculum
Come to discuss course offerings, expectations around 4000-level classes and advanced work.
Artist Talk with Rajna Swaminathan
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Music Mondays presents an artist talk with mrudangam artist, composer, and scholar Rajna Swaminathan.
Enter Sleep Mode
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | This talk starts from the unorthodox idea that a study of technical interactions is not just about decoding platforms but also about studying service work—call center operators, wait staff, even sex workers. By investigating the dissociative and opaque performances in Julia Leigh’s film Sleeping Beauty (2011), Tung-Hui Hu shows that personhood today has become cybernetic: we increasingly communicate with others through scripted—even programmed—interactions while revealing little of ourselves. These dehumanizing changes are not all depressing, however, but represent an opportunity to reconceive what liveness, privacy, and humanness are today.
Date Change | Calida Garcia Rawles
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | This week's VALS guest is Calida Garcia Rawles. Merging sharp hyper-realism with poetic abstraction, Los Angeles-based Calida Garcia Rawles paints African-American women and men submerged in glistening water; bodies are swarmed by a flurry of bubbles, ripples, and refracted light. Please note that this event, originally scheduled for April 20, will be occurring on April 27.
Deadline for 2021 Academy of American Poets Prize
The 2021 Academy of American Poets Prize Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 28
COVID-19 Vaccine Information Open Hour with Drs. Tartaglia and Anselmo
Do you have questions about the COVID-19 vaccines? Feel free to drop in to the weekly Zoom call for evidence-based answers from the medical experts.
Literature Evening with Paul La Farge
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | A reading by Bennington faculty member Paul La Farge, author of The Night Ocean; The Artist of the Missing; Haussmann, or the Distinction; and Luminous Airplanes.
Bennington and Sarah Lawrence College 7x7 Student Reading
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Seven undergrad creative writers from Sarah Lawrence College and seven undergrad creative writers from Bennington College each publicly share five minutes of their own writing. Come hear some of the vibrant work being produced right now by students at these two colleges known for their creative writing.
Frames Photo Contest | Bloom
Current students are welcome to enter our new photo contest, Frames, with the theme of "Bloom."
We are Better Together Support Space
A space for students to connect with Kat Daley (MSW, Student Health Center) and Ali Tartaglia (Director for Student Health Promotions). Drop in and connect or stay the whole time!
"Welcome To Chechnya" Screening
A screening of "Welcome To Chechnya." Please see trigger warning.
Independent Works Club
Weekly club meeting to support independent projects within the drama community. We will read plays, workshop scenes, provide a space for developing advanced work, invite professors and peers for feedback sessions and showcases, and more!