Event Calendar

Black Studies Curriculum Interest Meeting

Curious about Black Studies at Bennington? Join us for a fast, open convo with faculty and students shaping the curriculum—your questions, ideas, and voice matter!

Ethnohistory, Language Variation, and Political Metaphors in Mayan Hieroglyphic Texts

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Rebecca Dinkel is a linguistic anthropologist & visiting faculty member at Bennington for Spring 2025.

Literature Book Party

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Please join us for a book party and signing with Bennington College literature faculty Mariam Rahmani, Farnoosh Fathi, and Stuart Nadler, featuring food, drink, and short readings from the writers—free and open to all!

Shala Miller

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Cleveland-born Shala Miller works across photography, film, writing, music, and performance as a means of meditating on the conjunction of desire, mourning, pain, and pleasure.

2000-level registration for Fall 2025 begins, 1:00pm (up to 4 credits)

The CAPA Advanced Work Showcase

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Charcuterie and Chat: The CAPA Advanced Work Showcase, Wednesday, May 14, 2025 6:30-7:30 PM, CAPA Faculty Lounge. Rodrigo Diaz, Karina Gonzales, Mia Jay-Patchirat, Lilly Kelly, Nat Maldonado.

Senior Projects Reading

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Please join us in celebrating the work of graduating Bennington students from the class of 2025 who have completed a senior project in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or literary criticism. Each student will read for five minutes from their senior thesis.

PLATFORMS: Bennington Soundstage—A Live Audio Drama Event

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Join us for late night treats in Margot Tenny—where we will all get comfy on sofas and cushions—and listen together to 2 new Podcasts by Platform members—Mila Matic and TOJ Marceau.

4000-level registration for Fall 2025 begins

Free Online Webinar: Microplastics’ Impact on the Brain & Heart

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Recent studies have found small fragments of plastics known as microplastics in the human brain and heart arteries. These studies have also shown a link between the presence of microplastics and adverse health outcomes. How do these tiny bits of plastic enter our bodies and make their way into our brains and our hearts? And what happens when they lodge there? Join Beyond Plastics, Physicians for Social Responsibility - NYS, and Environmental Advocates of New York for a free educational webinar on these questions.

Senior Works

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The BFA Dance Lab presents Senior Works, including projects by catherine bauermann, evie bondon, Aaliyah Fisher, Rylee Johnson, Sarah Ana Malone, Ella Sommer Martin, jolie padilla, Paige Sheldon, Ear(lisi)a Schumaker, and Ciani Monét.

Deadline: Students | Final day to change a FWT registration

2000-level registration for Fall 2025 continues, 1:00pm (up to 18 credits)

Advanced Work Student Talks - Round 2

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Join us for science workshop this week for students Emma Danylin, Aahir Mrittika, and Tusti will present on the advanced work they have been doing.

15 Days Til Graduation: Senior Night!

Seniors! Celebrate 15 Days til Graduation in style on May 16th from 5-7p in the Student Center. Crafts, tarot, and Dubai Chocolate Strawberry cups abound!

Spring Dance Series

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The BFA Dance Lab presents Spring Dance Series, including new choreographic works by Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Gary W Jeter II, Paul Matteson, Netta Yerushalmy, and Critical Dance Processes: Actions II, directed by Sidra Bell and kira shiina.

Multicultural Festival & Holi Celebration

This event at Lake Paran is in collaboration with the ECDC, Student Activists from UVM, and ISS, hopefully an attempt to bridge the college with the community and other migrants in the area. We will have food, games for kids, and are trying to gather resources to share with the community. Come eat, dance, & celebrate one another :)

Spring Dance Series

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The BFA Dance Lab presents Spring Dance Series, including new choreographic works by Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Gary W Jeter II, Paul Matteson, Netta Yerushalmy, and Critical Dance Processes: Actions II, directed by Sidra Bell and kira shiina.

Loom of Tongues #7: A bilingual miscellany of performances in Spanish and English by Bennington students

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Bennington students read, perform, and show a variety of creative works in progress that revolve around their unique and diverse responses, interventions, and approaches to the literary, artistic, cultural, and historical artifacts from the Spanish-speaking world.

Drama@Bennington Presents: NIGHT OF ETERNAL MADNESS

CAMPUS COMMUNITY ONLY | As the sun sinks to the horizon, the madness of the Yellow King begins to spread across Bennington College. A madness that will grow to consume the whole world if nothing is done to stop it. Join us for this campus-wide immersive theatrical scavenger hunt and encounter horrors from beyond our world! Conceived by Thorn Ansari in collaboration with Co Collaborator: Killion Knight and Producer: Lily Ercoline. Created with the Advanced Design and Collaboration Class. Please check in front of Commons on the Lawn facing the end of the world at 7:00 p.m.

Senior Works

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The BFA Dance Lab presents Senior Works, including projects by catherine bauermann, evie bondon, Aaliyah Fisher, Rylee Johnson, Sarah Ana Malone, Ella Sommer Martin, jolie padilla, Paige Sheldon, Ear(lisi)a Schumaker, and Ciani Monét.

Wonderland Tea Party

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Dive down the rabbit hole with Uptown Stories' Wonderland Tea Party! Participate in fun games led by our amazing teachers for the chance to win prizes, and enjoy delicious treats and beverages provided by local businesses.

Sage City Symphony's Spring performance with Michael Finckel, Conductor

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Sage City Symphony invites you to a spectacular afternoon of music this Sunday, May 18th at 4:00 PM at Bennington College, Greenwall Auditorium, Bennington, VT.

Dance@Bennigton Presents: The Campanulate Call of the Calendar’s Ceasing - Senior Work by Gerald L. R. Torn

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Campanulate Call of the Calendar's Ceasing is a performance of a theoretical ritual marking both the end of the academic year and my own graduation.