Event Calendar
Pick a DateDigital Poetry in Spanish
CAMPUS COMMUNITY ONLY | Talk and Poetry Reading by Dr. Tina Escaja, Distinguished Professor of Spanish at The University of Vermont.
Senator Welch Town Hall Meeting
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Peter Welch, one of two United States senators representing the state of Vermont in Washington, D.C., will hold a public Town Hall Meeting at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, April 4 at Bennington College’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA). The event aims to build consensus and trust among people with different political perspectives.
VALS: Summer J. Hart
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Summer J. Hart is an interdisciplinary artist from Maine, living in the Hudson Valley, New York. Her written and visual artworks are influenced by folklore, superstition, divination, and forgotten territories reclaimed by nature. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Boomhouse (2023, The 3rd Thing Press) and the microchapbook, Augury of Ash (Post Ghost Press.)
Musician Presentation and Q&A: Virginia Kelsey
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Musician Virginia Kelsey will give a short vocal performance and teaching demonstration, followed by a Q&A, during Music Workshop.
Composing for Improvisers: Midterm Open Session
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Together with visiting faculty Kyoko Kitamura, members of Composing for Improvisers will discuss their process and perform.
Evening Prayer led by Vanessa Lyon
The Daily Evening Office according to the Book of Common Prayer (Episcopal) All are very welcome!
Paul Tran
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Paul Tran is the author of All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin, 2022), a poetry collection that investigates intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, and U.S. imperialism in order to radically alter our understanding of freedom, power, and control.
Paul Tran In Conversation with Michael Dumanis
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Join Michael Dumanis in a Q&A with visiting poet, Paul Tran.
The Beloved Poem: Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | What did I know, what did I know / of love’s austere and lonely offices? This craft talk will examine how Robert Hayden constructed this unforgettable poem, “Those Winter Sundays,” and how the poem patterns language not simply to express but to enact its content.
Woodworth Lecture in the Sciences: Science and the world of ideas: All I really need to know I learned at Bennington
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | David Houle '77, PhD, presents the Woodworth Lecture.
Dance@Bennington presents Dance in the Round
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Parijat Desai (Visiting Faculty in Dance) invites students, faculty, and staff for a session of Dance In The Round! No dance experience necessary!
David Houle, PhD: Measuring Evolution
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | A presentation by David Houle '77 on measurement theory.