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Planned Parenthood - A.C.C.E.S.S Vending Machine Grand OpeningMonday, April 1, 2024Campus Center, Lobby |
Election@Bard - Election Day TablingTuesday, April 2, 2024outside of the Campus Center (from the Kline side, not the Campus Center Quad) |
Climate Week Postcard MakingWednesday, April 3, 2024Campus Center, Lobby |
QPOC Club Head MeetingThursday, April 4, 2024Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 |
Open Studios by First-Year Students in the MA in Human Rights and the ArtsMaterial StorytellingFriday, April 5, 2024Bard Massena Campus, Barrytown |
Trip to the O Zone!Come explore our local, low-waste market and community center!Saturday, April 6, 2024The O Zone, 148 Pitcher Lane, Red Hook, NY, 12571 |
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QPOC Club Head MeetingSunday, April 7, 2024Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 |
Student Labor Dialogue Weekly MeetingMonday, April 8, 2024Campus Center, Red Room 203 |
QPOC Weekly MeetingQueer People of ColorTuesday, April 9, 2024Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 |
Christian Club Weekly MeetingWednesday, April 10, 2024Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 |
QPOC Club Head MeetingThursday, April 11, 2024Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 |
Bard Warr;ors TablingFriday, April 12, 2024Campus Center, Lobby |
Bard Warr;ors - Club MeetingSaturday, April 13, 2024The Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.Sponsored by: Student Activities. |
QPOC Club Head MeetingSunday, April 14, 2024Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 |
Student Labor Dialogue Weekly MeetingMonday, April 15, 2024Campus Center, Red Room 203 |
QPOC Weekly MeetingQueer People of ColorTuesday, April 16, 2024Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 |
Christian Club Weekly MeetingWednesday, April 17, 2024Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 |
QPOC Club Head MeetingThursday, April 18, 2024Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 |
PJs and Popcorn Club Presents A Film ScreeningFriday, April 19, 2024Campus Center, Weis Cinema |
Bard Warr;ors - Club MeetingSaturday, April 20, 2024The Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.Sponsored by: Student Activities. |
QPOC Club Head MeetingSunday, April 21, 2024Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 |
Student Labor Dialogue Weekly MeetingMonday, April 22, 2024Campus Center, Red Room 203 |
QPOC Weekly MeetingQueer People of ColorTuesday, April 23, 2024Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 |
Christian Club Weekly MeetingWednesday, April 24, 2024Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 |
QPOC Club Head MeetingThursday, April 25, 2024Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 |
PJs and Popcorn Club Presents A Film ScreeningFriday, April 26, 2024Campus Center, Weis Cinema |
Bard Warr;ors - Club MeetingSaturday, April 27, 2024The Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.Sponsored by: Student Activities. |
QPOC Club Head MeetingSunday, April 28, 2024Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 |
Student Labor Dialogue Weekly MeetingMonday, April 29, 2024Campus Center, Red Room 203 |
QPOC Weekly MeetingQueer People of ColorTuesday, April 30, 2024Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 |
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Runs through Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Danielle's study sessions.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 1, 2024
Campus Center, Lobby
Join us for the grand opening of the A.C.C.E.S.S Vending Machine!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 1, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Bard Farm workers meeting.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 912-532-7720, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 1, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Join us!
About the CSA
The Caribbean Student Association (CSA) seeks to provide a sense of social solidarity and academic support among West Indian/Caribbean students at Bard, while promoting interactions with the Bard community as a whole. We hope to achieve this goal through (1) the education of Caribbean culture, society, and politics, (2) hosting events that celebrate the diversity which Caribbean students contribute to Bard and (3) raising awareness about issues past and present of importance to West Indians and the world. The CSA is inclusive to all Bard students, Caribbean or otherwise.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 1, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Weekly club meeting for the Student Labor Dialogue! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 1, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Bard Student Labor Dialogue weekly meeting. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 1, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Our mission is to stimulate members of the Bard College community to explore intellectual, political, cultural, and social issues that are of importance to the Black community and America as a whole. Black History and current race issues are articulated through dialogue, cultural performances, music, lectures, and art. Race and politics are issues that are often recognized on our campus in through our academic curriculum. However, we as an organization feel that it is necessary to find creative ways to take that experience beyond the classroom brining the links between race, politics, academics, and social life to fruition in the hopes that awareness will spark action and ignite change in our communities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 1, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Join us! Cosplay Club is a place where cosplayers, prop makers, costume makers, wig stylists, photographers, editors, and digital content creators alike can come together for a communal workspace!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 1, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Join us for a screening of a cult classic!
About Cult Classics Club
Come watch weird, old, bad, unique, fun movies with friends and other oddly-inclined individuals! Taking over Weiss and other cinemas on campus, Cult Classics Club hosts screenings that are open to all, and all requests are welcome! With ranging levels of engagement (conversations during movies is welcome) examples of films include Un Chen Andalou, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Dracula (1931), and interactive screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
outside of the Campus Center (from the Kline side, not the Campus Center Quad)
It is Election Day, and the presidential primaries are here! See Election@Bard with any questions about your registration status and ballot information!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
outside of the Kline
It is Election Day and the Presidential Primaries are here! See Election@Bard with any questions about your registration status and ballot information!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 201
Join us! BRAD Comedy is Bard College’s club for all things funny, silly, and goofy. We write sketches. We do improv. We dabble in stand up from time to time. And we create the beloved and critically acclaimed Bardvark satire newspaper. Come hangout sometime.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 305
Come hang out and write/read poetry with us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202
This meeting will go over Union goals and issues. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Campus Center, Lobby
The sustainable Drawing II class is hosting a pop-up postcard making event using upcycled and locally sourced materials. Postcards will be sent to the legislature supporting responsible plastic legislation!Sponsored by: Student Activities; Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
A space for students to commune with other Christians on campus. We will sometimes have discussions but also have time for homework and to just hang out!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Reem-Kayden Center
Bard CS Club weekly meeting is open to all students who are interested in technology and computer science.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202
Weekly meetings for Bard SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine).
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 203
Know a bunch of trivia or an ace in your academic or artistic field? Have a lot of useless knowledge that needs to be put to use somewhere? Come join the Bard Trivia Club (Quiz Bowl).
We’re a group of trivia nerds who meet weekly to play trivia packets in the style of National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT). Quiz Bowl games work in a way that there are four people per team and a moderator will ask questions based on a series of academic topics as well as pop culture.
We also hold multiple trivia nights throughout the semester with different themes, so don't worry, your useless knowledge will come into play with Bard Trivia Club! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Albee
We invite students of all skills and talents to attend our weekly meeting, on Thursday from 3–4 pm at the Albee Annex Basement. This meeting includes the office coordinator, editorial assistant, student editorial and office assistants, La Voz club volunteers, and other future volunteer contributors interested in learning about journalism in Spanish. Please let us know if you are planning to attend by emailing us at [email protected].
You can also join us via Zoom Meeting!
Meeting ID: 824 0064 5921
Passcode: 630280
One tap mobile+16469313860,,82400645921# US+16465588656,,82400645921# US (New York)
Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latine immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 35,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz, we strive to empower the Spanish-speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers, and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
Read more about La Voz online here: https://lavoz.bard.edu/
https://www.facebook.com/LaVozHudsonValley/
https://www.instagram.com/lavozhudsonvalley/
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82400645921?pwd=SmhmYzhTdkJjVHNCVGZueUwvL1A5Zz09s://.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Olin Language Center, Room 118
Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color, both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202
MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Gilson Place
Join us for a trivia night!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The Basketball game between Seniors and Faculty is coming back! Bring your friends to support the Seniors that you know or the professors and staff members that you know and like! Happens only once a year!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Bard Games meets in the George Ball Lounge to play board games like Catan, Wingspan, and Dune on Thursdays at 6 pm. It is an open space to meet friends, engage in the community, and have fun by playing some games together. We provide a safe space where all are welcome!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Fisher Arts Room 140
Join Bard Collage club for weekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Online Event
Town hall discussion about the changes that Residence Life & Housing is making for next year. Join us: https://meet.google.com/xuw-iezp-owh
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://meet.google.com/xuw-iezp-owh.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Gilson Place
Women of Color United (WOCU) seeks to provide an inclusive environment for members to exchange personal and collective experiences that occur on and off Bard’s campus. We seek to share with each other issues and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality surrounding the positions of women from diverse backgrounds. WOCU aims to facilitate conversations with the community on topics that are important to us and focus on self-care and self-love throughout the semester. We seek to uplift women and not degrade them, this is not a space for negative vibes. We aim to cultivate positive energy.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Fisher Studio Arts Building
The club's purpose is to allow people of all artistic backgrounds to experience drawing (or painting) from a live model. Students can come practice their artistic skill, or try it out for the first time. There will be one or more models present for several hours of drawing time. There may also be still-life set ups around the models who will change positions periodically.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Come and join Bard After Dark for Craft Night: Fusion BeadsSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 518-821-4429, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 5, 2024
Bard Massena Campus, Barrytown
First-year MA students at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts present works in progress developed in their core requirement in artmaking, taught by artist Robin Frohardt, with assistance from artist and CHRA alum Oscar Gardea. These works engage with the expressive potential of everyday objects, transforming found materials such as waste into artworks. Using puppetry, masks, shadows, and cardboard, the students demonstrate how simplicity and precarity in materials can offer powerful tools and forms of storytelling.
Transportation: Parking is available on the Massena campus for the duration of this event. For those without access to a car, the CHRA-Massena Shuttle will offer transportation to Bard students, staff, and faculty between Kline Bus Stop (Southbound) and the Massena Campus Roundabout, departing the Annandale campus at 9:40 am and 10:00 am and departing Massena campus at 1:30 pm and 1:50 pm. Any and all persons riding Bard Shuttles must be a Bard student, faculty, or staff member with a valid and legible Bard ID.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 5, 2024
Hegeman 106
Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Bard Farm
Join Rebecca at Bard Farm to learn how to grow edible mushrooms!
~Please be prepared to get dirty!~
Sign up here.Sponsored by: Bard Farm.
For more information, call 206-859-0424, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 5, 2024
Kappa House
Come join us to make letters of gratitude to your dear ones, and a chance to get prizes!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Campus Center, Lobby
The Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.
Event dates: 3/01, 3/08, 3/22, 3/29, 4/05, 4/12, 4/26, 5/03, 5/10.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 5, 2024
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Iftar with MSO.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Barringer House
Safe space for men of color on campus. Biweekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Blithewood
Affinity Weekend begins with Thee Cosmopolitan Zodiac Gala! Come dressed in your astrological best (formal wear) to this event kick-starting of a week of communal celebration! Located at the illustrious Blithewood Manor, we hope you join us for this honorary night and moment of campus camaraderie.
Unfortunately, Blithewood Manor as a venue can only sustain a total of 60 attendees, thus it is important that you RSVP as soon as you can. Once the limit has been reached, the form will close. If you come without RSVPing, you will be turned away at the door!
All reserved attendees will receive an email confirmation, along with personal invitations placed in their respective mailbox. Information regarding gala attire will be in the invitations.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Come and enjoy some popcorn and candy in your PJs while watching some favorite films. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 5, 2024
SMOG
Mina, Arisleida, and Kay: DJ set of garage, house, jungle, and techno!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Manor Parlor
Bard Rave Club wants you (to play music)! Come to our Open Aux Nite!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Hegeman 106
Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Iftar with MSO.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
The O Zone, 148 Pitcher Lane, Red Hook, NY, 12571
Join the Office of Sustainability for a ride to the O Zone to shop for low-waste bulk foods, household items, artwork, and more! Whether you come for the kombucha, to learn about community workshops and events, or to explore more of the beyond-Bard community, we hope you'll join us!
The Office of Sustainability is offering a van ride for the first 10 people who register via this link: https://forms.gle/JezgzELNA5pTxCZ49
Check out the Bard E3 instagram (@barde3bos) or the O Zone website (theozonehv.com) to learn more!
Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 607-760-6393, or e-mail [email protected].
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Campus Center, Lawn
Join QPOC and the Affinity Clubs for a field day on the quad!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
The Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Interested in recording, editing, or creating short form content? Creating videos inside and outside the Bard Community? Considering joining Bard on go!
Bard on Go is a short form media platform that seeks to create content that engages the student body in various ways using nothing more then a phone and mics! Whether it is following trends on social media, interviewing the student body on various questions, or being inspired by an event, we hope to foster a community of aspiring creators or anyone who simply wants be apart of the process / creating something to look back on years to come!
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Come play chess in a relaxing, friendly environment. Beginners are encouraged!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
Lost in the jungle, danger lurks in every area. Can you withstand the fury of the jungle or will you be EATEN ALIVE...
AFROPULSE x BSO x QPOC invites you to the Spring Equinox Ball 2024...
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
SMOG
FFO, DJIMissHerSoMuch, Yuurusu, and Yion.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Hegeman 106
Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Gilson Place
Celebrate with BSO, AfroPulse, and QPOC, bringing together the broader Bard community!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Stop by to make some dolls and sculptures with sowing, needle felting, etc. No experience required.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Gilson Place
Come plant and paint pots with us at Gilsion to welcome spring! You're welcome to take home your painted pot and plant with you. Homemade Thai boba provided!!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
The Affinity Weekend Planning Committee meets.
About QPOC
This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The perfect place for people who want to start or continue doing stand up comedy at bard! Weekly open mics for people to practice their material and hone their craft! Beginners welcome!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Ariana is reserving a space for their club meetingsSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Private Gathering Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 315-807-4407, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 8, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Weekly club meeting for the Student Labor Dialogue! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 8, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Bard Student Labor Dialogue weekly meeting. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 8, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Our mission is to stimulate members of the Bard College community to explore intellectual, political, cultural, and social issues that are of importance to the Black community and America as a whole. Black History and current race issues are articulated through dialogue, cultural performances, music, lectures, and art. Race and politics are issues that are often recognized on our campus in through our academic curriculum. However, we as an organization feel that it is necessary to find creative ways to take that experience beyond the classroom brining the links between race, politics, academics, and social life to fruition in the hopes that awareness will spark action and ignite change in our communities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 8, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Join us! Cosplay Club is a place where cosplayers, prop makers, costume makers, wig stylists, photographers, editors, and digital content creators alike can come together for a communal workspace!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 8, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 8, 2024
Main Campus Walk, meet outside of Hegeman
Come view the solar eclipse with the Physics Club through a telescope! Solar eclipse glasses will be provided.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 8, 2024
Manor
Dinner for the fasting Muslim students on campus.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 201
Join us! BRAD Comedy is Bard College’s club for all things funny, silly, and goofy. We write sketches. We do improv. We dabble in stand up from time to time. And we create the beloved and critically acclaimed Bardvark satire newspaper. Come hangout sometime.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Interviewing candidates for Teach for Kingston.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Interfaith Iftar Dinner! Celebration night before the celebration of Eid!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
SMOG
BUMP member biweekly meetings. April 9, April 23, and May 7.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
A space for students to commune with other Christians on campus. We will sometimes have discussions but also have time for homework and to just hang out!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Reem-Kayden Center
Bard CS Club weekly meeting is open to all students who are interested in technology and computer science.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202
Weekly meetings for Bard SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine).
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 203
Know a bunch of trivia or an ace in your academic or artistic field? Have a lot of useless knowledge that needs to be put to use somewhere? Come join the Bard Trivia Club (Quiz Bowl).
We’re a group of trivia nerds who meet weekly to play trivia packets in the style of National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT). Quiz Bowl games work in a way that there are four people per team and a moderator will ask questions based on a series of academic topics as well as pop culture.
We also hold multiple trivia nights throughout the semester with different themes, so don't worry, your useless knowledge will come into play with Bard Trivia Club! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Campus Center, Quad
Eid Celebration: Cricket game and raffles!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Interested in volunteering with Election@Bard? Join us for volunteer training in the Yellow Room, April 10 at 5:00 pm!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Join us! BOTV is a media club whose goal is to bring entertainment, creativity, and also a platform for social thought to Bard by utilizing video, the Internet, and photography. We record and publicize Bard events in addition to creating original content created by our staff and Bard students within the community for the enjoyment of the Bard Community. We also are here to provide pertinent news information ranging from the Bard Hub to global news. We also teach workshops to club members who want to gain experience using video-audio equipment. As well as host events throughout the semester for all of campus.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Albee
We invite students of all skills and talents to attend our weekly meeting, on Thursday from 3–4 pm at the Albee Annex Basement. This meeting includes the office coordinator, editorial assistant, student editorial and office assistants, La Voz club volunteers, and other future volunteer contributors interested in learning about journalism in Spanish. Please let us know if you are planning to attend by emailing us at [email protected].
You can also join us via Zoom Meeting!
Meeting ID: 824 0064 5921
Passcode: 630280
One tap mobile+16469313860,,82400645921# US+16465588656,,82400645921# US (New York)
Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latine immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 35,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz, we strive to empower the Spanish-speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers, and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
Read more about La Voz online here: https://lavoz.bard.edu/
https://www.facebook.com/LaVozHudsonValley/
https://www.instagram.com/lavozhudsonvalley/
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82400645921?pwd=SmhmYzhTdkJjVHNCVGZueUwvL1A5Zz09s://.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Olin Language Center, Room 118
Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color, both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202
MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Bard Games meets in the George Ball Lounge to play board games like Catan, Wingspan, and Dune on Thursdays at 6 pm. It is an open space to meet friends, engage in the community, and have fun by playing some games together. We provide a safe space where all are welcome!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Fisher Arts Room 140
Join Bard Collage club for weekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Gilson Place
Women of Color United (WOCU) seeks to provide an inclusive environment for members to exchange personal and collective experiences that occur on and off Bard’s campus. We seek to share with each other issues and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality surrounding the positions of women from diverse backgrounds. WOCU aims to facilitate conversations with the community on topics that are important to us and focus on self-care and self-love throughout the semester. We seek to uplift women and not degrade them, this is not a space for negative vibes. We aim to cultivate positive energy.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Fisher Studio Arts Building
The club's purpose is to allow people of all artistic backgrounds to experience drawing (or painting) from a live model. Students can come practice their artistic skill, or try it out for the first time. There will be one or more models present for several hours of drawing time. There may also be still-life set ups around the models who will change positions periodically.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Campus Center, Lobby
Monthly Dime Store tabling.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
This club will be started to create representation for Indigenous students that are a part of Bard’s campus. Cultural representation has been taken away from us, and the spark of cultural appropriation hides the truth of who we are and what our traditions are. Bard has many organizations for other students of color on campus, each having their own unique identity. I want to give a place where there is representation for specifically Indigenous students on campus. This association is not only made for students with Native blood, but for those who want to help us break the generations worth of misinformation, to become educated, hopefully getting inspired to educate the rest of the Bard community. People not only should know the true history, but the culture of different Indigenous peoples. I want to give students confidence, to not be ashamed of their heritage, but instead, be proud of it.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Come learn how to make dreamcatchers with the ISA members!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Come and join Bard After Dark for a Movie and Coloring Night.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 518-821-4428, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Private RehearsalSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 503-956-4805, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 12, 2024
Hegeman 106
Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Campus Center, Lobby
The Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.
Event dates: 3/01, 3/08, 3/22, 3/29, 4/05, 4/12, 4/26, 5/03, 5/10.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 12, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Come and enjoy some popcorn and candy in your PJs while watching some favorite films. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Bard Farm
Join Bard Bees to learn about bees and beekeeping, and get some hands on experience!
Click here to sign up.
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Campus Center, Quad
Come celebrate the end of Ramadan with MSO! Rain Location: Campus Center Yellow RoomSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Hudson, "Time & Space Limited"
Celebrate radical DIY filmmaking with an archival screening of videos from Joanie 4 Jackie, an underground movie network of girls and women in the 90s and early 2000s. Started by Miranda July in 1995, Joanie 4 Jackie imagined a revolution of girls and women making movies and sharing them with each other. Part of the legacy for Joanie 4 Jackie lives in the Bard film department and the program is now being revived. We are cracking open the archive and hopefully you’ll be inspired to add to it and submit to the next chain letter of lady made movies! Come check out experimental videos by Miranda July, Sativa Peterson, Myra Paci, Jenny Stark, and Wendy M Thompson. Curated by Zola Ross-Gray and Jackie Goss.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 12, 2024
SMOG
Ambient music performances with a DJ set!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Manor Parlor
Party collab with Bell inspired by Rauw Alejandro's album!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Hegeman 106
Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
The Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Interested in recording, editing, or creating short form content? Creating videos inside and outside the Bard Community? Considering joining Bard on go!
Bard on Go is a short form media platform that seeks to create content that engages the student body in various ways using nothing more then a phone and mics! Whether it is following trends on social media, interviewing the student body on various questions, or being inspired by an event, we hope to foster a community of aspiring creators or anyone who simply wants be apart of the process / creating something to look back on years to come!
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Come play chess in a relaxing, friendly environment. Beginners are encouraged!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Come join Spanish tutors to learn to dance cumbia and cuarteto from Argentina. All are welcome! We'll have a lot of fun!
For more information, call 845-891-0566, or e-mail [email protected].
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Join us for a screening of a cult classic!
About Cult Classics Club
Come watch weird, old, bad, unique, fun movies with friends and other oddly-inclined individuals! Taking over Weiss and other cinemas on campus, Cult Classics Club hosts screenings that are open to all, and all requests are welcome! With ranging levels of engagement (conversations during movies is welcome) examples of films include Un Chen Andalou, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Dracula (1931), and interactive screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Anna Jones Memorial Garden
Gathering for students. A bonfire to celebrate the beginning of spring.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Alumni/ae jazz-rock fusion band Pocket Merchant returns to SMOG to play songs from their upcoming debut album, supported by Bard bands Sketc, Oatmeal, and 22, closing up with a DJ set.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Hegeman 106
Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Stop by to make some dolls and sculptures with sowing, needle felting, etc. No experience required.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
The Affinity Weekend Planning Committee meets.
About QPOC
This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Ariana is reserving a space for their club meetingsSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Join Bard After Dark and make your own pressed flower lantern!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Weekly club meeting for the Student Labor Dialogue! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 15, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Bard Student Labor Dialogue weekly meeting. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Our mission is to stimulate members of the Bard College community to explore intellectual, political, cultural, and social issues that are of importance to the Black community and America as a whole. Black History and current race issues are articulated through dialogue, cultural performances, music, lectures, and art. Race and politics are issues that are often recognized on our campus in through our academic curriculum. However, we as an organization feel that it is necessary to find creative ways to take that experience beyond the classroom brining the links between race, politics, academics, and social life to fruition in the hopes that awareness will spark action and ignite change in our communities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Join us! Cosplay Club is a place where cosplayers, prop makers, costume makers, wig stylists, photographers, editors, and digital content creators alike can come together for a communal workspace!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Join us!
About the CSA
The Caribbean Student Association (CSA) seeks to provide a sense of social solidarity and academic support among West Indian/Caribbean students at Bard, while promoting interactions with the Bard community as a whole. We hope to achieve this goal through (1) the education of Caribbean culture, society, and politics, (2) hosting events that celebrate the diversity which Caribbean students contribute to Bard and (3) raising awareness about issues past and present of importance to West Indians and the world. The CSA is inclusive to all Bard students, Caribbean or otherwise.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 201
Join us! BRAD Comedy is Bard College’s club for all things funny, silly, and goofy. We write sketches. We do improv. We dabble in stand up from time to time. And we create the beloved and critically acclaimed Bardvark satire newspaper. Come hangout sometime.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Kappa House
Join us to decorate your own pot, grow your own plant, and other DIY activities while enjoying some snacks!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
If you're interested in volunteering with Election@Bard, please attend this meeting.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Biology Club is holding a CPR Event. First come, first served!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 470-321-8874, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 305
Come hang out and write/read poetry with us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
A space for students to commune with other Christians on campus. We will sometimes have discussions but also have time for homework and to just hang out!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Reem-Kayden Center
Bard CS Club weekly meeting is open to all students who are interested in technology and computer science.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202
Weekly meetings for Bard SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine).
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 203
Know a bunch of trivia or an ace in your academic or artistic field? Have a lot of useless knowledge that needs to be put to use somewhere? Come join the Bard Trivia Club (Quiz Bowl).
We’re a group of trivia nerds who meet weekly to play trivia packets in the style of National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT). Quiz Bowl games work in a way that there are four people per team and a moderator will ask questions based on a series of academic topics as well as pop culture.
We also hold multiple trivia nights throughout the semester with different themes, so don't worry, your useless knowledge will come into play with Bard Trivia Club! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Albee
We invite students of all skills and talents to attend our weekly meeting, on Thursday from 3–4 pm at the Albee Annex Basement. This meeting includes the office coordinator, editorial assistant, student editorial and office assistants, La Voz club volunteers, and other future volunteer contributors interested in learning about journalism in Spanish. Please let us know if you are planning to attend by emailing us at [email protected].
You can also join us via Zoom Meeting!
Meeting ID: 824 0064 5921
Passcode: 630280
One tap mobile+16469313860,,82400645921# US+16465588656,,82400645921# US (New York)
Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latine immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 35,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz, we strive to empower the Spanish-speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers, and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
Read more about La Voz online here: https://lavoz.bard.edu/
https://www.facebook.com/LaVozHudsonValley/
https://www.instagram.com/lavozhudsonvalley/
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82400645921?pwd=SmhmYzhTdkJjVHNCVGZueUwvL1A5Zz09s://.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Olin Language Center, Room 118
Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color, both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202
MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Bard Games meets in the George Ball Lounge to play board games like Catan, Wingspan, and Dune on Thursdays at 6 pm. It is an open space to meet friends, engage in the community, and have fun by playing some games together. We provide a safe space where all are welcome!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Fisher Arts Room 140
Join Bard Collage club for weekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Gilson Place
Women of Color United (WOCU) seeks to provide an inclusive environment for members to exchange personal and collective experiences that occur on and off Bard’s campus. We seek to share with each other issues and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality surrounding the positions of women from diverse backgrounds. WOCU aims to facilitate conversations with the community on topics that are important to us and focus on self-care and self-love throughout the semester. We seek to uplift women and not degrade them, this is not a space for negative vibes. We aim to cultivate positive energy.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Fisher Studio Arts Building
The club's purpose is to allow people of all artistic backgrounds to experience drawing (or painting) from a live model. Students can come practice their artistic skill, or try it out for the first time. There will be one or more models present for several hours of drawing time. There may also be still-life set ups around the models who will change positions periodically.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Vassar College
The ALANA Center at Vassar College is organizing heritage month celebration that CASO members are attending to showcase the beauty of central Asian culture.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Gilson Place
Heal & Paint is a chance for those who are stressed and overwhelmed to take a break and relax the mind as we express our artistic abilities. This will be a painting event along with music and vibes that will heal the mind and the soul. It is an opportunity for students to heal from their paths of life.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 205
A political education event.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Campus Center
Join Bard After Dark and make your own glass deco window sticker art!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Hegeman 106
Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Come and enjoy some popcorn and candy in your PJs while watching some favorite films. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Bard Farm
Healthy soil=a healthy planet! Are you interested in sustainable farming/gardening, but you're a beginner when it comes to growing your own food? Join us at the Bard Farm where we'll talk about all things soil and build some beds!
~Please be prepared to get dirty!~
Register here.Sponsored by: Bard Farm.
For more information, call 206-859-0424, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 19, 2024
Bard Massena Campus, Barrytown
The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 19, 2024
Kappa House
The PI team will be preparing mocktails that will inspire you to create different pieces of art. Come by for some paintings and activities!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Barringer House
Safe space for men of color on campus. Biweekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Gilson Place
No Homework Zone, where there will be empanadas, jewelry making, and crafting!!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Anna Jones Memorial Meditation Garden; in case of rain George Ball Lounge
Come have some free Three Sisters soup and frybread! Enjoy some ceremonial songs and traditional Native American teachings!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Olin Language Center, Room 118
Come to discuss basic, beginner knowledge of BDSM and also address any concerns around the community. Free condoms, lubes, and dental dams provided.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 19, 2024
SMOG
Join for us an indie rock performance!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Old Gym
A play written by Megan Lacy about puppets and murder and lesbians and the pain of growing up. A fun, silly time with folk songs and puppets!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 19, 2024 – Saturday, April 20, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
PC Event hosted by South Campus PC's Martha and Victoria to listen to the latest Taylor Swift album as soon as it is released. Aimed towards building community and bringing together people with similar interests. :)
For more information, call 740-213-4599, or e-mail [email protected].
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Hegeman 106
Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
The Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Interested in recording, editing, or creating short form content? Creating videos inside and outside the Bard Community? Considering joining Bard on go!
Bard on Go is a short form media platform that seeks to create content that engages the student body in various ways using nothing more then a phone and mics! Whether it is following trends on social media, interviewing the student body on various questions, or being inspired by an event, we hope to foster a community of aspiring creators or anyone who simply wants be apart of the process / creating something to look back on years to come!
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Come play chess in a relaxing, friendly environment. Beginners are encouraged!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Bard Massena Campus, Barrytown
The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Old Gym
A play written by Megan Lacy about puppets and murder and lesbians and the pain of growing up. A fun, silly time with folk songs and puppets!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 19, 2024 – Saturday, April 20, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
PC Event hosted by South Campus PC's Martha and Victoria to listen to the latest Taylor Swift album as soon as it is released. Aimed towards building community and bringing together people with similar interests. :)
For more information, call 740-213-4599, or e-mail [email protected].
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Off Campus
Join VSO on a trip to NYC. We will have a taste of delicious Vietnamese food for lunch at one of the most authentic and highly-rated Vietnamese restaurant in town, visit the MET Museum to learn more about South East Asian art, and hang out in Chinatown!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Blum Courtyard
Live music with CHOP BLOCK.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Join the Classics Club in a movie screening in Weis Cinema. All are welcome.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Preston Theater
Screening Czech movies for students.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
SMOG
Join us in a performance from an emerging band from Vermont!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Parliament of Reality
A musical event with a light installation, live performances by Bard musicians.
*In the case of rain, the event will be held at Manor.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Hegeman 106
Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Stop by to make some dolls and sculptures with sowing, needle felting, etc. No experience required.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Ariana is reserving a space for their club meetingsSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Bard Massena Campus, Barrytown
The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Bard’s New Massena Campus
Thesis performance for students graduating in Human Rights and Arts.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-366-0761, or e-mail [email protected].
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Stevenson Athletic Center, Pool
The Stevenson Athletics Center Pool is reserved exclusively for trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people to use for two hours. No reservation is required. If desired, there is a gender neutral changing room and shower on the ground floor of the gym.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Kappa House
We will be catering homemade Cuban foods to celebrate and highlight Cuban Culture.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Kline Commons
The ISO will be hosting its annual international food fair on April 21. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 22, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Weekly club meeting for the Student Labor Dialogue! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 22, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Bard Student Labor Dialogue weekly meeting. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Our mission is to stimulate members of the Bard College community to explore intellectual, political, cultural, and social issues that are of importance to the Black community and America as a whole. Black History and current race issues are articulated through dialogue, cultural performances, music, lectures, and art. Race and politics are issues that are often recognized on our campus in through our academic curriculum. However, we as an organization feel that it is necessary to find creative ways to take that experience beyond the classroom brining the links between race, politics, academics, and social life to fruition in the hopes that awareness will spark action and ignite change in our communities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Join us! Cosplay Club is a place where cosplayers, prop makers, costume makers, wig stylists, photographers, editors, and digital content creators alike can come together for a communal workspace!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Bard Massena Campus, Barrytown
The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
EVENT CANCELED
Novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Hand will read from new work at Bard College on Monday, April 22 at 4:00 pm in Weis Cinema, located in the Bertelsmann Campus Center. Hand is the author of over 20 genre-spanning, award-winning novels and collections of short fiction. Her most recent novel, A Haunting on the Hill, is an homage to Shirley Jackson’s classic The Haunting of Hill House and was commissioned by Jackson’s family. The reading, which is being presented as part of Bradford Morrow’s course on innovative contemporary fiction, is free and open to the public.
A longtime critic and reviewer, Hand’s writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Boston Review, Salon, the Los Angeles Times, and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, among other outlets. Her noir novels featuring post-punk photographer and provocateur Cass Neary have been translated into myriad languages and are being developed for a TV series. Hand has been an instructor at writing workshops across the US and abroad, including Oxford and Pakistan, and is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. She divides her time between the Maine coast and North London, and is at work on Unspeakable Things, which is loosely inspired by Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.
Praise for Elizabeth Hand
“Hand has a gift for the sensuous, evocative detail, and her descriptions are often simultaneously seductive and spooky.” —The New Yorker
“A Haunting on the Hill is a love letter to Hill House and a very impressive tribute to Shirley Jackson. It is also a tremendous addition to Hand’s already outstanding, multi-genre oeuvre.” —Gabino Iglesias, NPR
“Only the brilliant Elizabeth Hand could so expertly honor Jackson’s rage, wit, and vision with a 21st century twist. The old place is as creepy, disorienting, and menacing as ever.” —Paul Tremblay
“To describe Elizabeth Hand as a mystery writer is to not have read another Elizabeth Hand book. Over decades, she has proved that she’s eclectic, genre-bending, and comfortable in fantasy and mystery, crime, myth, magic—and more.” —The Washington Post
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Kappa House
Come have some snowcones at Kappa house!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Tabling for upcoming deadline for Fantastic Tales magazine. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 201
Join us! BRAD Comedy is Bard College’s club for all things funny, silly, and goofy. We write sketches. We do improv. We dabble in stand up from time to time. And we create the beloved and critically acclaimed Bardvark satire newspaper. Come hangout sometime.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Bard Massena Campus, Barrytown
The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
SMOG
BUMP member biweekly meetings. April 23 and May 7.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
A space for students to commune with other Christians on campus. We will sometimes have discussions but also have time for homework and to just hang out!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Reem-Kayden Center
Bard CS Club weekly meeting is open to all students who are interested in technology and computer science.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202
Weekly meetings for Bard SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine).
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 203
Know a bunch of trivia or an ace in your academic or artistic field? Have a lot of useless knowledge that needs to be put to use somewhere? Come join the Bard Trivia Club (Quiz Bowl).
We’re a group of trivia nerds who meet weekly to play trivia packets in the style of National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT). Quiz Bowl games work in a way that there are four people per team and a moderator will ask questions based on a series of academic topics as well as pop culture.
We also hold multiple trivia nights throughout the semester with different themes, so don't worry, your useless knowledge will come into play with Bard Trivia Club! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Bard Massena Campus, Barrytown
The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
How Do I Moderate? Find an Adviser? Declare a Secondary Focus?: An Academic Info Session
with the faculty Student Affairs Committee
Wednesday, April 24, 5–6 pm, RKC 103 (Bito Auditorium)
Do you have questions about the moderation process? Curious about the newly-developed Second Foci and what they might involve? Wondering what Senior Projects typically look like in each division? Want to know how to make the most of meetings with your adviser?
All students (and especially first-year and transfer students) are welcome to join us – the Student Affairs Committee – for an informational session that will discuss all of these topics. We will also leave time so that students can ask questions on all things related to academic life at Bard.
The Student Affairs Committee– Nayland Blake, Adhaar Desai, Yarran Hominh, Kerri-Ann Norton, David Shein, and Hannah Zipple– consists of members of all four divisions at Bard as well as representatives from the Dean of Studies and Dean of Students offices. For more information about this event, please contact Adhaar Desai ([email protected]).
For more information, call 845-758-7045, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Join us! BOTV is a media club whose goal is to bring entertainment, creativity, and also a platform for social thought to Bard by utilizing video, the Internet, and photography. We record and publicize Bard events in addition to creating original content created by our staff and Bard students within the community for the enjoyment of the Bard Community. We also are here to provide pertinent news information ranging from the Bard Hub to global news. We also teach workshops to club members who want to gain experience using video-audio equipment. As well as host events throughout the semester for all of campus.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Albee
We invite students of all skills and talents to attend our weekly meeting, on Thursday from 3–4 pm at the Albee Annex Basement. This meeting includes the office coordinator, editorial assistant, student editorial and office assistants, La Voz club volunteers, and other future volunteer contributors interested in learning about journalism in Spanish. Please let us know if you are planning to attend by emailing us at [email protected].
You can also join us via Zoom Meeting!
Meeting ID: 824 0064 5921
Passcode: 630280
One tap mobile+16469313860,,82400645921# US+16465588656,,82400645921# US (New York)
Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latine immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 35,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz, we strive to empower the Spanish-speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers, and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
Read more about La Voz online here: https://lavoz.bard.edu/
https://www.facebook.com/LaVozHudsonValley/
https://www.instagram.com/lavozhudsonvalley/
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82400645921?pwd=SmhmYzhTdkJjVHNCVGZueUwvL1A5Zz09s://.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Olin Language Center, Room 118
Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color, both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202
MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Bard Games meets in the George Ball Lounge to play board games like Catan, Wingspan, and Dune on Thursdays at 6 pm. It is an open space to meet friends, engage in the community, and have fun by playing some games together. We provide a safe space where all are welcome!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Fisher Arts Room 140
Join Bard Collage club for weekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Gilson Place
Women of Color United (WOCU) seeks to provide an inclusive environment for members to exchange personal and collective experiences that occur on and off Bard’s campus. We seek to share with each other issues and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality surrounding the positions of women from diverse backgrounds. WOCU aims to facilitate conversations with the community on topics that are important to us and focus on self-care and self-love throughout the semester. We seek to uplift women and not degrade them, this is not a space for negative vibes. We aim to cultivate positive energy.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Fisher Studio Arts Building
The club's purpose is to allow people of all artistic backgrounds to experience drawing (or painting) from a live model. Students can come practice their artistic skill, or try it out for the first time. There will be one or more models present for several hours of drawing time. There may also be still-life set ups around the models who will change positions periodically.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Bard Massena Campus, Barrytown
The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Campus Center, Lobby
Applications for the speaker slots for the 2025 TEDxBard College Conference are now open. If you have any questions, please come by!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
This club will be started to create representation for Indigenous students that are a part of Bard’s campus. Cultural representation has been taken away from us, and the spark of cultural appropriation hides the truth of who we are and what our traditions are. Bard has many organizations for other students of color on campus, each having their own unique identity. I want to give a place where there is representation for specifically Indigenous students on campus. This association is not only made for students with Native blood, but for those who want to help us break the generations worth of misinformation, to become educated, hopefully getting inspired to educate the rest of the Bard community. People not only should know the true history, but the culture of different Indigenous peoples. I want to give students confidence, to not be ashamed of their heritage, but instead, be proud of it.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Come watch a cute Japanese cartoon with us.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
A space where students can enjoy coffee or tea while others perform their artistic talents, along with pastries and vibes!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Come join Bard After Dark for a Movie Night!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Hegeman 106
Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Come and enjoy some popcorn and candy in your PJs while watching some favorite films. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Bard Massena Campus, Barrytown
The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 26, 2024
Gilson Place
We will be serving food from different Latin countries with music and games!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Campus Center, Lobby
The Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.
Event dates: 3/01, 3/08, 3/22, 3/29, 4/05, 4/12, 4/26, 5/03, 5/10.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 26, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Bring your friends to sip, stitch, and unwind. There will be beginner crochet kits for everyone, along with bubble tea and snacks.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, April 26, 2024
SMOG
New Jersey trinity rock-bands! Plus, The Torniquet!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 26, 2024
Manor
Formal for raising awareness and money for Morgan's message. This event is hosted by women's lacrosse and women's soccer. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Hegeman 106
Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
The Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Interested in recording, editing, or creating short form content? Creating videos inside and outside the Bard Community? Considering joining Bard on go!
Bard on Go is a short form media platform that seeks to create content that engages the student body in various ways using nothing more then a phone and mics! Whether it is following trends on social media, interviewing the student body on various questions, or being inspired by an event, we hope to foster a community of aspiring creators or anyone who simply wants be apart of the process / creating something to look back on years to come!
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Come play chess in a relaxing, friendly environment. Beginners are encouraged!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Bard Massena Campus, Barrytown
The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Saturday, April 27, 2024
We are taking a trip to the animal sanctuary in Catskill.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 305
Come to our simulation about the Papua New Guinea crisis. Learn about Model UN, practice debate, public speaking and research, and voice your opinion. No experience necessary. Food will be provided.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Come join us, the Asian Student Organization, for a pan-Asian event with performances, food, and more!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Root Cellar
Evening of student cover bands. Dress punk or prom, or both.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
SMOG
ASO Afterparty at SMOG. Come unwind and dance the night away to music from all around the globe!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Manor
The theme of this event is trashy y2k. Everyone is welcomed! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Hegeman 106
Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Stop by to make some dolls and sculptures with sowing, needle felting, etc. No experience required.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Ariana is reserving a space for their club meetingsSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Bard Massena Campus, Barrytown
The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 102
Semesterly communal Ringo Bingo in anticipation of Ringo Starr’s two upcoming releases. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
Come have fun with good music! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Olin Auditorium
A fun night of singing and friendship -- a "not my type" cast event where members can sing some of their favoirte musicals!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Sunday, April 28, 2024
SMOG
Super-sick rock set at SMOG!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 29, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Weekly club meeting for the Student Labor Dialogue! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 29, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Bard Student Labor Dialogue weekly meeting. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 29, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Our mission is to stimulate members of the Bard College community to explore intellectual, political, cultural, and social issues that are of importance to the Black community and America as a whole. Black History and current race issues are articulated through dialogue, cultural performances, music, lectures, and art. Race and politics are issues that are often recognized on our campus in through our academic curriculum. However, we as an organization feel that it is necessary to find creative ways to take that experience beyond the classroom brining the links between race, politics, academics, and social life to fruition in the hopes that awareness will spark action and ignite change in our communities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 29, 2024
Campus Center, Red Room 203
Join us! Cosplay Club is a place where cosplayers, prop makers, costume makers, wig stylists, photographers, editors, and digital content creators alike can come together for a communal workspace!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 29, 2024
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center in room A333
Come learn and practice how to edit videos on Premiere Pro!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 29, 2024
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Join us!
About the CSA
The Caribbean Student Association (CSA) seeks to provide a sense of social solidarity and academic support among West Indian/Caribbean students at Bard, while promoting interactions with the Bard community as a whole. We hope to achieve this goal through (1) the education of Caribbean culture, society, and politics, (2) hosting events that celebrate the diversity which Caribbean students contribute to Bard and (3) raising awareness about issues past and present of importance to West Indians and the world. The CSA is inclusive to all Bard students, Caribbean or otherwise.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214
Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 201
Join us! BRAD Comedy is Bard College’s club for all things funny, silly, and goofy. We write sketches. We do improv. We dabble in stand up from time to time. And we create the beloved and critically acclaimed Bardvark satire newspaper. Come hangout sometime.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Private Student Meeting - Study Sessions
Private
Runs through Tuesday, May 21, 2024
12–2 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeDanielle's study sessions.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Planned Parenthood - A.C.C.E.S.S Vending Machine Grand Opening
Monday, April 1, 2024
3:30–5:30 pm
Campus Center, LobbyJoin us for the grand opening of the A.C.C.E.S.S Vending Machine!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Farm: Workers Meeting
Monday, April 1, 2024
3:30–4:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214Bard Farm workers meeting.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 912-532-7720, or e-mail [email protected].
CSA Meeting
Caribbean Student Association
Monday, April 1, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeJoin us!
About the CSA
The Caribbean Student Association (CSA) seeks to provide a sense of social solidarity and academic support among West Indian/Caribbean students at Bard, while promoting interactions with the Bard community as a whole. We hope to achieve this goal through (1) the education of Caribbean culture, society, and politics, (2) hosting events that celebrate the diversity which Caribbean students contribute to Bard and (3) raising awareness about issues past and present of importance to West Indians and the world. The CSA is inclusive to all Bard students, Caribbean or otherwise.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Student Labor Dialogue Weekly Meeting
Monday, April 1, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Weekly club meeting for the Student Labor Dialogue! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Student Labor Dialogue Weekly Meeting
Monday, April 1, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Bard Student Labor Dialogue weekly meeting. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Black Student Organization Club Meeting
Monday, April 1, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeOur mission is to stimulate members of the Bard College community to explore intellectual, political, cultural, and social issues that are of importance to the Black community and America as a whole. Black History and current race issues are articulated through dialogue, cultural performances, music, lectures, and art. Race and politics are issues that are often recognized on our campus in through our academic curriculum. However, we as an organization feel that it is necessary to find creative ways to take that experience beyond the classroom brining the links between race, politics, academics, and social life to fruition in the hopes that awareness will spark action and ignite change in our communities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Cosplay Club Meeting
Monday, April 1, 2024
7–9 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Join us! Cosplay Club is a place where cosplayers, prop makers, costume makers, wig stylists, photographers, editors, and digital content creators alike can come together for a communal workspace!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Cult Classics Club: Movie Screening
Monday, April 1, 2024
8–11 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaJoin us for a screening of a cult classic!
About Cult Classics Club
Come watch weird, old, bad, unique, fun movies with friends and other oddly-inclined individuals! Taking over Weiss and other cinemas on campus, Cult Classics Club hosts screenings that are open to all, and all requests are welcome! With ranging levels of engagement (conversations during movies is welcome) examples of films include Un Chen Andalou, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Dracula (1931), and interactive screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Election@Bard - Election Day Tabling
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
9 am – 5 pm
outside of the Campus Center (from the Kline side, not the Campus Center Quad)It is Election Day, and the presidential primaries are here! See Election@Bard with any questions about your registration status and ballot information!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Election @Bard - Election Day Tabling
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
12–5 pm
outside of the KlineIt is Election Day and the Presidential Primaries are here! See Election@Bard with any questions about your registration status and ballot information!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
5–6 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
BRAD Comedy Weekly Meeting
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
7–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 201Join us! BRAD Comedy is Bard College’s club for all things funny, silly, and goofy. We write sketches. We do improv. We dabble in stand up from time to time. And we create the beloved and critically acclaimed Bardvark satire newspaper. Come hangout sometime.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Poetry Club Meeting
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
7–8 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 305Come hang out and write/read poetry with us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Disabled Student Union Monthly Meeting
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
7–8 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202This meeting will go over Union goals and issues. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Climate Week Postcard Making
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
12–2 pm
Campus Center, LobbyThe sustainable Drawing II class is hosting a pop-up postcard making event using upcycled and locally sourced materials. Postcards will be sent to the legislature supporting responsible plastic legislation!Sponsored by: Student Activities; Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Christian Club Weekly Meeting
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214A space for students to commune with other Christians on campus. We will sometimes have discussions but also have time for homework and to just hang out!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Computer Science Club Weekly Meeting
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
7–8 pm
Reem-Kayden CenterBard CS Club weekly meeting is open to all students who are interested in technology and computer science.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
SJP Weekly Meeting
Students for Justice in Palestine
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
7–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202Weekly meetings for Bard SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine).
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Quiz Bowl Weekly Meeting
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
7–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 203Know a bunch of trivia or an ace in your academic or artistic field? Have a lot of useless knowledge that needs to be put to use somewhere? Come join the Bard Trivia Club (Quiz Bowl).
We’re a group of trivia nerds who meet weekly to play trivia packets in the style of National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT). Quiz Bowl games work in a way that there are four people per team and a moderator will ask questions based on a series of academic topics as well as pop culture.
We also hold multiple trivia nights throughout the semester with different themes, so don't worry, your useless knowledge will come into play with Bard Trivia Club! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Club Head Meeting
Thursday, April 4, 2024
12–2 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
La Voz Weekly Meeting
Thursday, April 4, 2024
3–4 pm
AlbeeWe invite students of all skills and talents to attend our weekly meeting, on Thursday from 3–4 pm at the Albee Annex Basement. This meeting includes the office coordinator, editorial assistant, student editorial and office assistants, La Voz club volunteers, and other future volunteer contributors interested in learning about journalism in Spanish. Please let us know if you are planning to attend by emailing us at [email protected].
You can also join us via Zoom Meeting!
Meeting ID: 824 0064 5921
Passcode: 630280
One tap mobile+16469313860,,82400645921# US+16465588656,,82400645921# US (New York)
Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latine immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 35,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz, we strive to empower the Spanish-speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers, and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
Read more about La Voz online here: https://lavoz.bard.edu/
https://www.facebook.com/LaVozHudsonValley/
https://www.instagram.com/lavozhudsonvalley/
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82400645921?pwd=SmhmYzhTdkJjVHNCVGZueUwvL1A5Zz09s://.
Dime Store Meeting
Thursday, April 4, 2024
3:30–4:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Thursday, April 4, 2024
5–6 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 118Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color, both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
MABU Weekly Meeting
Men of Color at Bard United
Thursday, April 4, 2024
5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
LASO - Slang Trivia
Latin American Student Organization
Thursday, April 4, 2024
5:30–7 pm
Gilson PlaceJoin us for a trivia night!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Seniors VS Faculty/Staff Basketball Game
Thursday, April 4, 2024
6–8 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe Basketball game between Seniors and Faculty is coming back! Bring your friends to support the Seniors that you know or the professors and staff members that you know and like! Happens only once a year!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Games Sessions
Thursday, April 4, 2024
6–10 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeBard Games meets in the George Ball Lounge to play board games like Catan, Wingspan, and Dune on Thursdays at 6 pm. It is an open space to meet friends, engage in the community, and have fun by playing some games together. We provide a safe space where all are welcome!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Collage Weekly Meeting
Thursday, April 4, 2024
6–7:30 pm
Fisher Arts Room 140Join Bard Collage club for weekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
BSG: Housing Town Hall
Bard Student Government
Thursday, April 4, 2024
6:30–7:30 pm
Online EventTown hall discussion about the changes that Residence Life & Housing is making for next year. Join us: https://meet.google.com/xuw-iezp-owh
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://meet.google.com/xuw-iezp-owh.
WOCU Weekly Meeting
Women of Color United
Thursday, April 4, 2024
7:30–9:30 pm
Gilson PlaceWomen of Color United (WOCU) seeks to provide an inclusive environment for members to exchange personal and collective experiences that occur on and off Bard’s campus. We seek to share with each other issues and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality surrounding the positions of women from diverse backgrounds. WOCU aims to facilitate conversations with the community on topics that are important to us and focus on self-care and self-love throughout the semester. We seek to uplift women and not degrade them, this is not a space for negative vibes. We aim to cultivate positive energy.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Figure Drawing Club Weekly Meeting
Thursday, April 4, 2024
8–9 pm
Fisher Studio Arts BuildingThe club's purpose is to allow people of all artistic backgrounds to experience drawing (or painting) from a live model. Students can come practice their artistic skill, or try it out for the first time. There will be one or more models present for several hours of drawing time. There may also be still-life set ups around the models who will change positions periodically.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard After Dark – Craft Night: Fusion Beads
Thursday, April 4, 2024
8–10 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214Come and join Bard After Dark for Craft Night: Fusion BeadsSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 518-821-4429, or e-mail [email protected].
Open Studios by First-Year Students in the MA in Human Rights and the Arts
Material Storytelling
Friday, April 5, 2024
11 am – 1:30 pm
Bard Massena Campus, BarrytownFirst-year MA students at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts present works in progress developed in their core requirement in artmaking, taught by artist Robin Frohardt, with assistance from artist and CHRA alum Oscar Gardea. These works engage with the expressive potential of everyday objects, transforming found materials such as waste into artworks. Using puppetry, masks, shadows, and cardboard, the students demonstrate how simplicity and precarity in materials can offer powerful tools and forms of storytelling.
Transportation: Parking is available on the Massena campus for the duration of this event. For those without access to a car, the CHRA-Massena Shuttle will offer transportation to Bard students, staff, and faculty between Kline Bus Stop (Southbound) and the Massena Campus Roundabout, departing the Annandale campus at 9:40 am and 10:00 am and departing Massena campus at 1:30 pm and 1:50 pm. Any and all persons riding Bard Shuttles must be a Bard student, faculty, or staff member with a valid and legible Bard ID.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Film Making at Bard
Film Making @ Bard: Weekly Meeting
Friday, April 5, 2024
12–5 pm
Hegeman 106Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Mushroom Log Inoculating!
Bard Farm Spring Workshop Series
Friday, April 5, 2024
1–3 pm
Bard FarmJoin Rebecca at Bard Farm to learn how to grow edible mushrooms!
~Please be prepared to get dirty!~
Sign up here.Sponsored by: Bard Farm.
For more information, call 206-859-0424, or e-mail [email protected].
OEI Community Club - Letter-Making
Friday, April 5, 2024
2–4 pm
Kappa HouseCome join us to make letters of gratitude to your dear ones, and a chance to get prizes!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Warr;ors Tabling
Friday, April 5, 2024
4–6 pm
Campus Center, LobbyThe Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.
Event dates: 3/01, 3/08, 3/22, 3/29, 4/05, 4/12, 4/26, 5/03, 5/10.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Muslim Student Organization - Ramadan Iftar
Friday, April 5, 2024
5–9 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsIftar with MSO.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Brothers@Bard Meeting
Friday, April 5, 2024
5–7 pm
Barringer HouseSafe space for men of color on campus. Biweekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Affinity Weekend: Thee Cosmopolitan Zodiac Gala
BSO (Black Student Organization) x QPOC (Queer People of Color) x Afropulse
Friday, April 5, 2024
6:30–9 pm
BlithewoodAffinity Weekend begins with Thee Cosmopolitan Zodiac Gala! Come dressed in your astrological best (formal wear) to this event kick-starting of a week of communal celebration! Located at the illustrious Blithewood Manor, we hope you join us for this honorary night and moment of campus camaraderie.
Unfortunately, Blithewood Manor as a venue can only sustain a total of 60 attendees, thus it is important that you RSVP as soon as you can. Once the limit has been reached, the form will close. If you come without RSVPing, you will be turned away at the door!
All reserved attendees will receive an email confirmation, along with personal invitations placed in their respective mailbox. Information regarding gala attire will be in the invitations.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
PJs and Popcorn Club Presents A Film Screening
Friday, April 5, 2024
7–10:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaCome and enjoy some popcorn and candy in your PJs while watching some favorite films. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Affinity Weekend: 1-800 HOUSE PARTY
SMOG x QPOC (Queer People of Color) x BSO (Black Student Organization) x Afropulse
Friday, April 5, 2024
9 pm – 2 am
SMOGMina, Arisleida, and Kay: DJ set of garage, house, jungle, and techno!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Rave Club: Open Aux Nite
Friday, April 5, 2024
9 pm – 1 am
Manor ParlorBard Rave Club wants you (to play music)! Come to our Open Aux Nite!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Film Making at Bard
Film Making @ Bard: Weekly Meeting
Saturday, April 6, 2024
12–5 pm
Hegeman 106Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Muslim Student Organization - Ramadan Iftar
Saturday, April 6, 2024
5–9 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsIftar with MSO.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Trip to the O Zone!
Come explore our local, low-waste market and community center!
Saturday, April 6, 2024
10:30–11:30 am
The O Zone, 148 Pitcher Lane, Red Hook, NY, 12571Join the Office of Sustainability for a ride to the O Zone to shop for low-waste bulk foods, household items, artwork, and more! Whether you come for the kombucha, to learn about community workshops and events, or to explore more of the beyond-Bard community, we hope you'll join us!
The Office of Sustainability is offering a van ride for the first 10 people who register via this link: https://forms.gle/JezgzELNA5pTxCZ49
Check out the Bard E3 instagram (@barde3bos) or the O Zone website (theozonehv.com) to learn more!
Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 607-760-6393, or e-mail [email protected].
QPOC - Field Day
Queer People of Color
Saturday, April 6, 2024
11 am – 3:30 pm
Campus Center, LawnJoin QPOC and the Affinity Clubs for a field day on the quad!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Warr;ors - Club Meeting
Saturday, April 6, 2024
3–4 pm
The Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.Sponsored by: Student Activities.For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard on Go Weekly Meeting
Saturday, April 6, 2024
3–4:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Interested in recording, editing, or creating short form content? Creating videos inside and outside the Bard Community? Considering joining Bard on go!
Bard on Go is a short form media platform that seeks to create content that engages the student body in various ways using nothing more then a phone and mics! Whether it is following trends on social media, interviewing the student body on various questions, or being inspired by an event, we hope to foster a community of aspiring creators or anyone who simply wants be apart of the process / creating something to look back on years to come!
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Chess Club Meeting
Saturday, April 6, 2024
3–5 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeCome play chess in a relaxing, friendly environment. Beginners are encouraged!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Afropulse x BSO x QPOC - Spring Equinox Vogue Ball
Black Student Organization, Queer People of Color
Saturday, April 6, 2024
9 pm – 2 am
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymLost in the jungle, danger lurks in every area. Can you withstand the fury of the jungle or will you be EATEN ALIVE...
AFROPULSE x BSO x QPOC invites you to the Spring Equinox Ball 2024...
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Rave Club - Rave Night at SMOG
Saturday, April 6, 2024
9 pm – 2 am
SMOGFFO, DJIMissHerSoMuch, Yuurusu, and Yion.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Club Head Meeting
Sunday, April 7, 2024
12–2 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Film Making at Bard
Film Making @ Bard: Weekly Meeting
Sunday, April 7, 2024
12–5 pm
Hegeman 106Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC - Affinity Weekend Brunch
Queer People of Color
Sunday, April 7, 2024
11 am – 2:45 pm
Gilson PlaceCelebrate with BSO, AfroPulse, and QPOC, bringing together the broader Bard community!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Art Dolls/Soft Sculpture - Weekly Meeting
Sunday, April 7, 2024
2–4 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Stop by to make some dolls and sculptures with sowing, needle felting, etc. No experience required.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Gilson Place - Plant & Paint!
Sunday, April 7, 2024
2:30–5 pm
Gilson PlaceCome plant and paint pots with us at Gilsion to welcome spring! You're welcome to take home your painted pot and plant with you. Homemade Thai boba provided!!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC: Affinity Weekend Planning Committee
Queer People of Color
Sunday, April 7, 2024
4–8 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214The Affinity Weekend Planning Committee meets.
About QPOC
This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Stand Up Open Mic Club - Club Meeting
Sunday, April 7, 2024
5–7 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaThe perfect place for people who want to start or continue doing stand up comedy at bard! Weekly open mics for people to practice their material and hone their craft! Beginners welcome!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Needlecraft Club Weekly Meeting
Sunday, April 7, 2024
7–10 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeAriana is reserving a space for their club meetingsSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Private Student Event - Max Wysocki's Private Gathering
Private
Sunday, April 7, 2024
9 pm – 12 am
Campus Center, Weis CinemaPrivate Gathering Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 315-807-4407, or e-mail [email protected].
Student Labor Dialogue Weekly Meeting
Monday, April 8, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Weekly club meeting for the Student Labor Dialogue! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Student Labor Dialogue Weekly Meeting
Monday, April 8, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Bard Student Labor Dialogue weekly meeting. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Black Student Organization Club Meeting
Monday, April 8, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeOur mission is to stimulate members of the Bard College community to explore intellectual, political, cultural, and social issues that are of importance to the Black community and America as a whole. Black History and current race issues are articulated through dialogue, cultural performances, music, lectures, and art. Race and politics are issues that are often recognized on our campus in through our academic curriculum. However, we as an organization feel that it is necessary to find creative ways to take that experience beyond the classroom brining the links between race, politics, academics, and social life to fruition in the hopes that awareness will spark action and ignite change in our communities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Cosplay Club Meeting
Monday, April 8, 2024
7–9 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Join us! Cosplay Club is a place where cosplayers, prop makers, costume makers, wig stylists, photographers, editors, and digital content creators alike can come together for a communal workspace!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The Scale Project - Biweekly Meeting
Monday, April 8, 2024
12–1 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Physics Club - Solar Eclipse
Monday, April 8, 2024
1:30–3:30 pm
Main Campus Walk, meet outside of HegemanCome view the solar eclipse with the Physics Club through a telescope! Solar eclipse glasses will be provided.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
MSO x ISO Iftar Dinner
Muslim Student Organization and International Student Organization
Monday, April 8, 2024
8–10 pm
ManorDinner for the fasting Muslim students on campus.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
5–6 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
BRAD Comedy Weekly Meeting
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
7–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 201Join us! BRAD Comedy is Bard College’s club for all things funny, silly, and goofy. We write sketches. We do improv. We dabble in stand up from time to time. And we create the beloved and critically acclaimed Bardvark satire newspaper. Come hangout sometime.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
TLS Project: Candidate Interview
Trustee Leadership Scolars
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
5–6 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeInterviewing candidates for Teach for Kingston.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
MSO: The Chaplancy Iftar
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
7–9 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeInterfaith Iftar Dinner! Celebration night before the celebration of Eid!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
BUMP Biweekly Club Meeting
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
7:30–9 pm
SMOGBUMP member biweekly meetings. April 9, April 23, and May 7.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Christian Club Weekly Meeting
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214A space for students to commune with other Christians on campus. We will sometimes have discussions but also have time for homework and to just hang out!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Computer Science Club Weekly Meeting
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
7–8 pm
Reem-Kayden CenterBard CS Club weekly meeting is open to all students who are interested in technology and computer science.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
SJP Weekly Meeting
Students for Justice in Palestine
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
7–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202Weekly meetings for Bard SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine).
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Quiz Bowl Weekly Meeting
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
7–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 203Know a bunch of trivia or an ace in your academic or artistic field? Have a lot of useless knowledge that needs to be put to use somewhere? Come join the Bard Trivia Club (Quiz Bowl).
We’re a group of trivia nerds who meet weekly to play trivia packets in the style of National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT). Quiz Bowl games work in a way that there are four people per team and a moderator will ask questions based on a series of academic topics as well as pop culture.
We also hold multiple trivia nights throughout the semester with different themes, so don't worry, your useless knowledge will come into play with Bard Trivia Club! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
MSO & ISO: Eid Mubarak Celebration
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
10 am – 4 pm
Campus Center, QuadEid Celebration: Cricket game and raffles!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Election@Bard Second Volunteer Training Session
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
5–7 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214Interested in volunteering with Election@Bard? Join us for volunteer training in the Yellow Room, April 10 at 5:00 pm!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard On Television Bi-Monthly Club Meeting!
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
8–9 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214Join us! BOTV is a media club whose goal is to bring entertainment, creativity, and also a platform for social thought to Bard by utilizing video, the Internet, and photography. We record and publicize Bard events in addition to creating original content created by our staff and Bard students within the community for the enjoyment of the Bard Community. We also are here to provide pertinent news information ranging from the Bard Hub to global news. We also teach workshops to club members who want to gain experience using video-audio equipment. As well as host events throughout the semester for all of campus.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Club Head Meeting
Thursday, April 11, 2024
12–2 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
La Voz Weekly Meeting
Thursday, April 11, 2024
3–4 pm
AlbeeWe invite students of all skills and talents to attend our weekly meeting, on Thursday from 3–4 pm at the Albee Annex Basement. This meeting includes the office coordinator, editorial assistant, student editorial and office assistants, La Voz club volunteers, and other future volunteer contributors interested in learning about journalism in Spanish. Please let us know if you are planning to attend by emailing us at [email protected].
You can also join us via Zoom Meeting!
Meeting ID: 824 0064 5921
Passcode: 630280
One tap mobile+16469313860,,82400645921# US+16465588656,,82400645921# US (New York)
Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latine immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 35,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz, we strive to empower the Spanish-speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers, and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
Read more about La Voz online here: https://lavoz.bard.edu/
https://www.facebook.com/LaVozHudsonValley/
https://www.instagram.com/lavozhudsonvalley/
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82400645921?pwd=SmhmYzhTdkJjVHNCVGZueUwvL1A5Zz09s://.
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Thursday, April 11, 2024
5–6 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 118Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color, both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
MABU Weekly Meeting
Men of Color at Bard United
Thursday, April 11, 2024
5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Games Sessions
Thursday, April 11, 2024
6–10 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeBard Games meets in the George Ball Lounge to play board games like Catan, Wingspan, and Dune on Thursdays at 6 pm. It is an open space to meet friends, engage in the community, and have fun by playing some games together. We provide a safe space where all are welcome!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Collage Weekly Meeting
Thursday, April 11, 2024
6–7:30 pm
Fisher Arts Room 140Join Bard Collage club for weekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
WOCU Weekly Meeting
Women of Color United
Thursday, April 11, 2024
7:30–9:30 pm
Gilson PlaceWomen of Color United (WOCU) seeks to provide an inclusive environment for members to exchange personal and collective experiences that occur on and off Bard’s campus. We seek to share with each other issues and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality surrounding the positions of women from diverse backgrounds. WOCU aims to facilitate conversations with the community on topics that are important to us and focus on self-care and self-love throughout the semester. We seek to uplift women and not degrade them, this is not a space for negative vibes. We aim to cultivate positive energy.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Figure Drawing Club Weekly Meeting
Thursday, April 11, 2024
8–9 pm
Fisher Studio Arts BuildingThe club's purpose is to allow people of all artistic backgrounds to experience drawing (or painting) from a live model. Students can come practice their artistic skill, or try it out for the first time. There will be one or more models present for several hours of drawing time. There may also be still-life set ups around the models who will change positions periodically.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Dime Store April Tabling
Thursday, April 11, 2024
5–6 pm
Campus Center, LobbyMonthly Dime Store tabling.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Indigenous Student Association Meeting
Thursday, April 11, 2024
6–7 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203This club will be started to create representation for Indigenous students that are a part of Bard’s campus. Cultural representation has been taken away from us, and the spark of cultural appropriation hides the truth of who we are and what our traditions are. Bard has many organizations for other students of color on campus, each having their own unique identity. I want to give a place where there is representation for specifically Indigenous students on campus. This association is not only made for students with Native blood, but for those who want to help us break the generations worth of misinformation, to become educated, hopefully getting inspired to educate the rest of the Bard community. People not only should know the true history, but the culture of different Indigenous peoples. I want to give students confidence, to not be ashamed of their heritage, but instead, be proud of it.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Cured: A Film by Bennett Singer and Patrick Sammon
“Doctors called them sick. The remedy was rebellion.”
Thursday, April 11, 2024
6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaUntil 1973, every gay person was automatically classified as mentally ill and in need of a “cure.” The award-winning documentary Cured tells the story of the activists and allies who challenged this pathologizing diagnosis and brought about a pivotal turning point in the modern movement for LGBTQ+ equality, visibility, and dignity: the removal of homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association's manual of mental disorders. Join us for a screening of this documentary—which has been described as “riveting” (Queer Review), “timely and urgent” (Cinerama Film), and “one of the best documentaries of this or any year” (British Film Institute)—followed by a conversation with Bennett Singer, the film's Emmy-nominated codirector.
Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program; Human Rights Project.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
ISA - Dreamcatcher Workshop
Indigenous Student Association
Thursday, April 11, 2024
6:30–9:30 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomCome learn how to make dreamcatchers with the ISA members!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard After Dark: Movie and Coloring Night
Thursday, April 11, 2024
8–10 pm
Come and join Bard After Dark for a Movie and Coloring Night.Sponsored by: Student Activities.For more information, call 518-821-4428, or e-mail [email protected].
Cult Classic Club: Private Rehearsal
Thursday, April 11, 2024
9–11 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaPrivate RehearsalSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 503-956-4805, or e-mail [email protected].
Film Making at Bard
Film Making @ Bard: Weekly Meeting
Friday, April 12, 2024
12–5 pm
Hegeman 106Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Warr;ors Tabling
Friday, April 12, 2024
4–6 pm
Campus Center, LobbyThe Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.
Event dates: 3/01, 3/08, 3/22, 3/29, 4/05, 4/12, 4/26, 5/03, 5/10.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
PJs and Popcorn Club Presents A Film Screening
Friday, April 12, 2024
7–10:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaCome and enjoy some popcorn and candy in your PJs while watching some favorite films. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Farm and Bard Bees: Beekeeping!
Friday, April 12, 2024
2–3 pm
Bard FarmJoin Bard Bees to learn about bees and beekeeping, and get some hands on experience!
Click here to sign up.
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
MSO: Eid Celebration
Muslim Students Organization
Friday, April 12, 2024
3–5:30 pm
Campus Center, QuadCome celebrate the end of Ramadan with MSO! Rain Location: Campus Center Yellow RoomSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Student Event: Joanie 4 Jackie Archival Film Screening
Friday, April 12, 2024
6:30–9 pm
Hudson, "Time & Space Limited"Celebrate radical DIY filmmaking with an archival screening of videos from Joanie 4 Jackie, an underground movie network of girls and women in the 90s and early 2000s. Started by Miranda July in 1995, Joanie 4 Jackie imagined a revolution of girls and women making movies and sharing them with each other. Part of the legacy for Joanie 4 Jackie lives in the Bard film department and the program is now being revived. We are cracking open the archive and hopefully you’ll be inspired to add to it and submit to the next chain letter of lady made movies! Come check out experimental videos by Miranda July, Sativa Peterson, Myra Paci, Jenny Stark, and Wendy M Thompson. Curated by Zola Ross-Gray and Jackie Goss.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
SMOG - Laraaji with DJ Cassius
Friday, April 12, 2024
7–11 pm
SMOGAmbient music performances with a DJ set!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
LASO - Una Noche en Saturno
Latin American Student Organization
Friday, April 12, 2024
9 pm – 1:30 am
Manor ParlorParty collab with Bell inspired by Rauw Alejandro's album!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Film Making at Bard
Film Making @ Bard: Weekly Meeting
Saturday, April 13, 2024
12–5 pm
Hegeman 106Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Warr;ors - Club Meeting
Saturday, April 13, 2024
3–4 pm
The Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.Sponsored by: Student Activities.For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard on Go Weekly Meeting
Saturday, April 13, 2024
3–4:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Interested in recording, editing, or creating short form content? Creating videos inside and outside the Bard Community? Considering joining Bard on go!
Bard on Go is a short form media platform that seeks to create content that engages the student body in various ways using nothing more then a phone and mics! Whether it is following trends on social media, interviewing the student body on various questions, or being inspired by an event, we hope to foster a community of aspiring creators or anyone who simply wants be apart of the process / creating something to look back on years to come!
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Chess Club Meeting
Saturday, April 13, 2024
3–5 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeCome play chess in a relaxing, friendly environment. Beginners are encouraged!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Noche de Bailanta Argentina
Argentine dancing night
Saturday, April 13, 2024
8–10 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomCome join Spanish tutors to learn to dance cumbia and cuarteto from Argentina. All are welcome! We'll have a lot of fun!
For more information, call 845-891-0566, or e-mail [email protected].
Cult Classics Club: Movie Screening
Saturday, April 13, 2024
8 pm – 1 am
Campus Center, Weis CinemaJoin us for a screening of a cult classic!
About Cult Classics Club
Come watch weird, old, bad, unique, fun movies with friends and other oddly-inclined individuals! Taking over Weiss and other cinemas on campus, Cult Classics Club hosts screenings that are open to all, and all requests are welcome! With ranging levels of engagement (conversations during movies is welcome) examples of films include Un Chen Andalou, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Dracula (1931), and interactive screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Republic of Chill: Bonfire Night
Saturday, April 13, 2024
9 pm – 1:30 am
Anna Jones Memorial GardenGathering for students. A bonfire to celebrate the beginning of spring.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
SMOG Show: Pocket Merchant, Sketc, Oatmeal, and 22
Saturday, April 13, 2024
9 pm – 12:30 am
Alumni/ae jazz-rock fusion band Pocket Merchant returns to SMOG to play songs from their upcoming debut album, supported by Bard bands Sketc, Oatmeal, and 22, closing up with a DJ set.Sponsored by: Student Activities.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
QPOC Club Head Meeting
Sunday, April 14, 2024
12–2 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Film Making at Bard
Film Making @ Bard: Weekly Meeting
Sunday, April 14, 2024
12–5 pm
Hegeman 106Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Art Dolls/Soft Sculpture - Weekly Meeting
Sunday, April 14, 2024
2–4 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Stop by to make some dolls and sculptures with sowing, needle felting, etc. No experience required.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC: Affinity Weekend Planning Committee
Queer People of Color
Sunday, April 14, 2024
4–8 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214The Affinity Weekend Planning Committee meets.
About QPOC
This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Needlecraft Club Weekly Meeting
Sunday, April 14, 2024
7–10 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeAriana is reserving a space for their club meetingsSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard After Dark - Craft Day: Pressed Flower Lanterns
Bard After Dark
Sunday, April 14, 2024
2–4 pm
Join Bard After Dark and make your own pressed flower lantern!Sponsored by: Student Activities.For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Student Labor Dialogue Weekly Meeting
Monday, April 15, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Weekly club meeting for the Student Labor Dialogue! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Student Labor Dialogue Weekly Meeting
Monday, April 15, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Bard Student Labor Dialogue weekly meeting. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Black Student Organization Club Meeting
Monday, April 15, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeOur mission is to stimulate members of the Bard College community to explore intellectual, political, cultural, and social issues that are of importance to the Black community and America as a whole. Black History and current race issues are articulated through dialogue, cultural performances, music, lectures, and art. Race and politics are issues that are often recognized on our campus in through our academic curriculum. However, we as an organization feel that it is necessary to find creative ways to take that experience beyond the classroom brining the links between race, politics, academics, and social life to fruition in the hopes that awareness will spark action and ignite change in our communities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Cosplay Club Meeting
Monday, April 15, 2024
7–9 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Join us! Cosplay Club is a place where cosplayers, prop makers, costume makers, wig stylists, photographers, editors, and digital content creators alike can come together for a communal workspace!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CSA Market Day
Caribbean Student Association
Monday, April 15, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeJoin us!
About the CSA
The Caribbean Student Association (CSA) seeks to provide a sense of social solidarity and academic support among West Indian/Caribbean students at Bard, while promoting interactions with the Bard community as a whole. We hope to achieve this goal through (1) the education of Caribbean culture, society, and politics, (2) hosting events that celebrate the diversity which Caribbean students contribute to Bard and (3) raising awareness about issues past and present of importance to West Indians and the world. The CSA is inclusive to all Bard students, Caribbean or otherwise.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
5–6 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
BRAD Comedy Weekly Meeting
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
7–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 201Join us! BRAD Comedy is Bard College’s club for all things funny, silly, and goofy. We write sketches. We do improv. We dabble in stand up from time to time. And we create the beloved and critically acclaimed Bardvark satire newspaper. Come hangout sometime.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
OEI Community Club: Ready, Set, Bloom!
Office of Equity and Inclusion
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
3–5 pm
Kappa HouseJoin us to decorate your own pot, grow your own plant, and other DIY activities while enjoying some snacks!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Volunteer Training: Election@Bard
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
5:30–7 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeIf you're interested in volunteering with Election@Bard, please attend this meeting.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Biology Club: CPR Event
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
5:40 pm – 7:40 am
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomBiology Club is holding a CPR Event. First come, first served!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 470-321-8874, or e-mail [email protected].
Poetry Club Meeting
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
7–8 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 305Come hang out and write/read poetry with us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Christian Club Weekly Meeting
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214A space for students to commune with other Christians on campus. We will sometimes have discussions but also have time for homework and to just hang out!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Computer Science Club Weekly Meeting
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
7–8 pm
Reem-Kayden CenterBard CS Club weekly meeting is open to all students who are interested in technology and computer science.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
SJP Weekly Meeting
Students for Justice in Palestine
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
7–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202Weekly meetings for Bard SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine).
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Quiz Bowl Weekly Meeting
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
7–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 203Know a bunch of trivia or an ace in your academic or artistic field? Have a lot of useless knowledge that needs to be put to use somewhere? Come join the Bard Trivia Club (Quiz Bowl).
We’re a group of trivia nerds who meet weekly to play trivia packets in the style of National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT). Quiz Bowl games work in a way that there are four people per team and a moderator will ask questions based on a series of academic topics as well as pop culture.
We also hold multiple trivia nights throughout the semester with different themes, so don't worry, your useless knowledge will come into play with Bard Trivia Club! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Club Head Meeting
Thursday, April 18, 2024
12–2 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
La Voz Weekly Meeting
Thursday, April 18, 2024
3–4 pm
AlbeeWe invite students of all skills and talents to attend our weekly meeting, on Thursday from 3–4 pm at the Albee Annex Basement. This meeting includes the office coordinator, editorial assistant, student editorial and office assistants, La Voz club volunteers, and other future volunteer contributors interested in learning about journalism in Spanish. Please let us know if you are planning to attend by emailing us at [email protected].
You can also join us via Zoom Meeting!
Meeting ID: 824 0064 5921
Passcode: 630280
One tap mobile+16469313860,,82400645921# US+16465588656,,82400645921# US (New York)
Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latine immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 35,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz, we strive to empower the Spanish-speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers, and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
Read more about La Voz online here: https://lavoz.bard.edu/
https://www.facebook.com/LaVozHudsonValley/
https://www.instagram.com/lavozhudsonvalley/
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82400645921?pwd=SmhmYzhTdkJjVHNCVGZueUwvL1A5Zz09s://.
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Thursday, April 18, 2024
5–6 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 118Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color, both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
MABU Weekly Meeting
Men of Color at Bard United
Thursday, April 18, 2024
5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Games Sessions
Thursday, April 18, 2024
6–10 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeBard Games meets in the George Ball Lounge to play board games like Catan, Wingspan, and Dune on Thursdays at 6 pm. It is an open space to meet friends, engage in the community, and have fun by playing some games together. We provide a safe space where all are welcome!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Collage Weekly Meeting
Thursday, April 18, 2024
6–7:30 pm
Fisher Arts Room 140Join Bard Collage club for weekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
WOCU Weekly Meeting
Women of Color United
Thursday, April 18, 2024
7:30–9:30 pm
Gilson PlaceWomen of Color United (WOCU) seeks to provide an inclusive environment for members to exchange personal and collective experiences that occur on and off Bard’s campus. We seek to share with each other issues and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality surrounding the positions of women from diverse backgrounds. WOCU aims to facilitate conversations with the community on topics that are important to us and focus on self-care and self-love throughout the semester. We seek to uplift women and not degrade them, this is not a space for negative vibes. We aim to cultivate positive energy.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Figure Drawing Club Weekly Meeting
Thursday, April 18, 2024
8–9 pm
Fisher Studio Arts BuildingThe club's purpose is to allow people of all artistic backgrounds to experience drawing (or painting) from a live model. Students can come practice their artistic skill, or try it out for the first time. There will be one or more models present for several hours of drawing time. There may also be still-life set ups around the models who will change positions periodically.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CASO+Vassar: Heritage Month Celebration
Central Asian Student Organization
Thursday, April 18, 2024
3–9 pm
Vassar CollegeThe ALANA Center at Vassar College is organizing heritage month celebration that CASO members are attending to showcase the beauty of central Asian culture.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Dime Store Meeting
Thursday, April 18, 2024
3:30–4:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Community Project: Heal & Paint - Painting Our Hearts Out
Thursday, April 18, 2024
4:30–7 pm
Gilson PlaceHeal & Paint is a chance for those who are stressed and overwhelmed to take a break and relax the mind as we express our artistic abilities. This will be a painting event along with music and vibes that will heal the mind and the soul. It is an opportunity for students to heal from their paths of life.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard For the Many x SJP - Money, Power, Labor
Student for Justice in Palestine
Thursday, April 18, 2024
6–8 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 205A political education event.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard After Dark - Craft Night: Glass Deco Window Sticker Art
Bard After Dark
Thursday, April 18, 2024
8–10 pm
Campus CenterJoin Bard After Dark and make your own glass deco window sticker art!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Film Making at Bard
Film Making @ Bard: Weekly Meeting
Friday, April 19, 2024
12–5 pm
Hegeman 106Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
PJs and Popcorn Club Presents A Film Screening
Friday, April 19, 2024
7–10:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaCome and enjoy some popcorn and candy in your PJs while watching some favorite films. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Pedon (AKA Soil) Preparation Party!
Bard Farm Spring Workshop #2
Friday, April 19, 2024
2–3 pm
Bard FarmHealthy soil=a healthy planet! Are you interested in sustainable farming/gardening, but you're a beginner when it comes to growing your own food? Join us at the Bard Farm where we'll talk about all things soil and build some beds!
~Please be prepared to get dirty!~
Register here.Sponsored by: Bard Farm.
For more information, call 206-859-0424, or e-mail [email protected].
Material as Witness: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
3–7 pm
Bard Massena Campus, BarrytownThe MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
OEI Community Club: Mixing Palettes and Mocktails
Office of Equity and Inclusion
Friday, April 19, 2024
4–6 pm
Kappa HouseThe PI team will be preparing mocktails that will inspire you to create different pieces of art. Come by for some paintings and activities!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Brothers@Bard Meeting
Friday, April 19, 2024
5–7 pm
Barringer HouseSafe space for men of color on campus. Biweekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Gilson Place - No Homework Zone
Friday, April 19, 2024
6–8 pm
Gilson PlaceNo Homework Zone, where there will be empanadas, jewelry making, and crafting!!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
ISA - Bonfire with the Three Sisters
Indigenous Student Association
Friday, April 19, 2024
6–8 pm
Anna Jones Memorial Meditation Garden; in case of rain George Ball LoungeCome have some free Three Sisters soup and frybread! Enjoy some ceremonial songs and traditional Native American teachings!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The Dime Store - BDSM Talk
Friday, April 19, 2024
6:30–8:30 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 118Come to discuss basic, beginner knowledge of BDSM and also address any concerns around the community. Free condoms, lubes, and dental dams provided.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
SMOG - Slow Hallows with Computerwife and The Cradle
Friday, April 19, 2024
7:30 pm – 1:30 am
SMOGJoin for us an indie rock performance!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Student SPROJ - Clyde Must Die
Friday, April 19, 2024
7:30–10 pm
Old GymA play written by Megan Lacy about puppets and murder and lesbians and the pain of growing up. A fun, silly time with folk songs and puppets!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department Listening Party
Friday, April 19, 2024 – Saturday, April 20, 2024
11 pm – 3 am
Campus Center, George Ball LoungePC Event hosted by South Campus PC's Martha and Victoria to listen to the latest Taylor Swift album as soon as it is released. Aimed towards building community and bringing together people with similar interests. :)
For more information, call 740-213-4599, or e-mail [email protected].
Film Making at Bard
Film Making @ Bard: Weekly Meeting
Saturday, April 20, 2024
12–5 pm
Hegeman 106Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Warr;ors - Club Meeting
Saturday, April 20, 2024
3–4 pm
The Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.Sponsored by: Student Activities.For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard on Go Weekly Meeting
Saturday, April 20, 2024
3–4:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Interested in recording, editing, or creating short form content? Creating videos inside and outside the Bard Community? Considering joining Bard on go!
Bard on Go is a short form media platform that seeks to create content that engages the student body in various ways using nothing more then a phone and mics! Whether it is following trends on social media, interviewing the student body on various questions, or being inspired by an event, we hope to foster a community of aspiring creators or anyone who simply wants be apart of the process / creating something to look back on years to come!
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Chess Club Meeting
Saturday, April 20, 2024
3–5 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeCome play chess in a relaxing, friendly environment. Beginners are encouraged!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Material as Witness: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2024
Saturday, April 20, 2024
3–7 pm
Bard Massena Campus, BarrytownThe MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Student SPROJ - Clyde Must Die
Saturday, April 20, 2024
7:30–10 pm
Old GymA play written by Megan Lacy about puppets and murder and lesbians and the pain of growing up. A fun, silly time with folk songs and puppets!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department Listening Party
Friday, April 19, 2024 – Saturday, April 20, 2024
11 pm – 3 am
Campus Center, George Ball LoungePC Event hosted by South Campus PC's Martha and Victoria to listen to the latest Taylor Swift album as soon as it is released. Aimed towards building community and bringing together people with similar interests. :)
For more information, call 740-213-4599, or e-mail [email protected].
VSO: New York City Trip
Vietnamese Student Organization
Saturday, April 20, 2024
7:30 am – 9:30 pm
Off CampusJoin VSO on a trip to NYC. We will have a taste of delicious Vietnamese food for lunch at one of the most authentic and highly-rated Vietnamese restaurant in town, visit the MET Museum to learn more about South East Asian art, and hang out in Chinatown!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CHOP BLOCK - Live Music
Saturday, April 20, 2024
1–4:30 pm
Blum CourtyardLive music with CHOP BLOCK.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Classics Club: Movie Screening
Saturday, April 20, 2024
7–9 pm
Join the Classics Club in a movie screening in Weis Cinema. All are welcome.Sponsored by: Student Activities.For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Student Event - Czech Movie Screening
Saturday, April 20, 2024
8–10 pm
Preston TheaterScreening Czech movies for students.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
SMOG - Dear Nora with Ruth Garbus Trio and The Living Roomers
Saturday, April 20, 2024
8:30 pm – 1:30 am
SMOGJoin us in a performance from an emerging band from Vermont!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The Republic of Chill - Musical Light Installation Event
Saturday, April 20, 2024
9 pm – 2 am
Parliament of RealityA musical event with a light installation, live performances by Bard musicians.
*In the case of rain, the event will be held at Manor.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Club Head Meeting
Sunday, April 21, 2024
12–2 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Film Making at Bard
Film Making @ Bard: Weekly Meeting
Sunday, April 21, 2024
12–5 pm
Hegeman 106Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Art Dolls/Soft Sculpture - Weekly Meeting
Sunday, April 21, 2024
2–4 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Stop by to make some dolls and sculptures with sowing, needle felting, etc. No experience required.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Needlecraft Club Weekly Meeting
Sunday, April 21, 2024
7–10 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeAriana is reserving a space for their club meetingsSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Material as Witness: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2024
Sunday, April 21, 2024
3–7 pm
Bard Massena Campus, BarrytownThe MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Thesis Performance: Human Rights and the Arts
Sunday, April 21, 2024
10 am – 7 pm
Bard’s New Massena CampusThesis performance for students graduating in Human Rights and Arts.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-366-0761, or e-mail [email protected].
Trans Swim
Sunday, April 21, 2024
4–6 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, PoolThe Stevenson Athletics Center Pool is reserved exclusively for trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people to use for two hours. No reservation is required. If desired, there is a gender neutral changing room and shower on the ground floor of the gym.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
LASO - SALT Dinner
Latin American Student Organization
Sunday, April 21, 2024
6–8 pm
Kappa HouseWe will be catering homemade Cuban foods to celebrate and highlight Cuban Culture.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
International Student Organization: Food Fair
Sunday, April 21, 2024
8–11 pm
Kline CommonsThe ISO will be hosting its annual international food fair on April 21. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Student Labor Dialogue Weekly Meeting
Monday, April 22, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Weekly club meeting for the Student Labor Dialogue! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Student Labor Dialogue Weekly Meeting
Monday, April 22, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Bard Student Labor Dialogue weekly meeting. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Black Student Organization Club Meeting
Monday, April 22, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeOur mission is to stimulate members of the Bard College community to explore intellectual, political, cultural, and social issues that are of importance to the Black community and America as a whole. Black History and current race issues are articulated through dialogue, cultural performances, music, lectures, and art. Race and politics are issues that are often recognized on our campus in through our academic curriculum. However, we as an organization feel that it is necessary to find creative ways to take that experience beyond the classroom brining the links between race, politics, academics, and social life to fruition in the hopes that awareness will spark action and ignite change in our communities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Cosplay Club Meeting
Monday, April 22, 2024
7–9 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Join us! Cosplay Club is a place where cosplayers, prop makers, costume makers, wig stylists, photographers, editors, and digital content creators alike can come together for a communal workspace!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Material as Witness: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024
3–7 pm
Bard Massena Campus, BarrytownThe MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
CANCELED: A Reading by Elizabeth Hand
The acclaimed, genre-spanning writer reads from her work.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Campus Center, Weis CinemaEVENT CANCELED
Novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Hand will read from new work at Bard College on Monday, April 22 at 4:00 pm in Weis Cinema, located in the Bertelsmann Campus Center. Hand is the author of over 20 genre-spanning, award-winning novels and collections of short fiction. Her most recent novel, A Haunting on the Hill, is an homage to Shirley Jackson’s classic The Haunting of Hill House and was commissioned by Jackson’s family. The reading, which is being presented as part of Bradford Morrow’s course on innovative contemporary fiction, is free and open to the public.
A longtime critic and reviewer, Hand’s writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Boston Review, Salon, the Los Angeles Times, and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, among other outlets. Her noir novels featuring post-punk photographer and provocateur Cass Neary have been translated into myriad languages and are being developed for a TV series. Hand has been an instructor at writing workshops across the US and abroad, including Oxford and Pakistan, and is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. She divides her time between the Maine coast and North London, and is at work on Unspeakable Things, which is loosely inspired by Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.
Praise for Elizabeth Hand
“Hand has a gift for the sensuous, evocative detail, and her descriptions are often simultaneously seductive and spooky.” —The New Yorker
“A Haunting on the Hill is a love letter to Hill House and a very impressive tribute to Shirley Jackson. It is also a tremendous addition to Hand’s already outstanding, multi-genre oeuvre.” —Gabino Iglesias, NPR
“Only the brilliant Elizabeth Hand could so expertly honor Jackson’s rage, wit, and vision with a 21st century twist. The old place is as creepy, disorienting, and menacing as ever.” —Paul Tremblay
“To describe Elizabeth Hand as a mystery writer is to not have read another Elizabeth Hand book. Over decades, she has proved that she’s eclectic, genre-bending, and comfortable in fantasy and mystery, crime, myth, magic—and more.” —The Washington Post
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The Scale Project - Biweekly Meeting
Monday, April 22, 2024
12–1 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
OEI Community Club - Snowcone Storm
Monday, April 22, 2024
2–3:30 pm
Kappa HouseCome have some snowcones at Kappa house!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Fantastic Tales - Deadline Tabling
Monday, April 22, 2024
5–7 pm
Tabling for upcoming deadline for Fantastic Tales magazine. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
5–6 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
BRAD Comedy Weekly Meeting
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
7–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 201Join us! BRAD Comedy is Bard College’s club for all things funny, silly, and goofy. We write sketches. We do improv. We dabble in stand up from time to time. And we create the beloved and critically acclaimed Bardvark satire newspaper. Come hangout sometime.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Material as Witness: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
3–7 pm
Bard Massena Campus, BarrytownThe MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
BUMP Biweekly Club Meeting
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
7:30–9 pm
SMOGBUMP member biweekly meetings. April 23 and May 7.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Christian Club Weekly Meeting
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214A space for students to commune with other Christians on campus. We will sometimes have discussions but also have time for homework and to just hang out!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Computer Science Club Weekly Meeting
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
7–8 pm
Reem-Kayden CenterBard CS Club weekly meeting is open to all students who are interested in technology and computer science.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
SJP Weekly Meeting
Students for Justice in Palestine
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
7–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202Weekly meetings for Bard SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine).
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Quiz Bowl Weekly Meeting
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
7–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 203Know a bunch of trivia or an ace in your academic or artistic field? Have a lot of useless knowledge that needs to be put to use somewhere? Come join the Bard Trivia Club (Quiz Bowl).
We’re a group of trivia nerds who meet weekly to play trivia packets in the style of National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT). Quiz Bowl games work in a way that there are four people per team and a moderator will ask questions based on a series of academic topics as well as pop culture.
We also hold multiple trivia nights throughout the semester with different themes, so don't worry, your useless knowledge will come into play with Bard Trivia Club! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Material as Witness: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
3–7 pm
Bard Massena Campus, BarrytownThe MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
How Do I Moderate? Find an Adviser? Declare a Secondary Focus?: An Academic Info Session
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
5–6 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumHow Do I Moderate? Find an Adviser? Declare a Secondary Focus?: An Academic Info Session
with the faculty Student Affairs Committee
Wednesday, April 24, 5–6 pm, RKC 103 (Bito Auditorium)
Do you have questions about the moderation process? Curious about the newly-developed Second Foci and what they might involve? Wondering what Senior Projects typically look like in each division? Want to know how to make the most of meetings with your adviser?
All students (and especially first-year and transfer students) are welcome to join us – the Student Affairs Committee – for an informational session that will discuss all of these topics. We will also leave time so that students can ask questions on all things related to academic life at Bard.
The Student Affairs Committee– Nayland Blake, Adhaar Desai, Yarran Hominh, Kerri-Ann Norton, David Shein, and Hannah Zipple– consists of members of all four divisions at Bard as well as representatives from the Dean of Studies and Dean of Students offices. For more information about this event, please contact Adhaar Desai ([email protected]).
For more information, call 845-758-7045, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard On Television Bi-Monthly Club Meeting!
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
8–9 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214Join us! BOTV is a media club whose goal is to bring entertainment, creativity, and also a platform for social thought to Bard by utilizing video, the Internet, and photography. We record and publicize Bard events in addition to creating original content created by our staff and Bard students within the community for the enjoyment of the Bard Community. We also are here to provide pertinent news information ranging from the Bard Hub to global news. We also teach workshops to club members who want to gain experience using video-audio equipment. As well as host events throughout the semester for all of campus.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Club Head Meeting
Thursday, April 25, 2024
12–2 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
La Voz Weekly Meeting
Thursday, April 25, 2024
3–4 pm
AlbeeWe invite students of all skills and talents to attend our weekly meeting, on Thursday from 3–4 pm at the Albee Annex Basement. This meeting includes the office coordinator, editorial assistant, student editorial and office assistants, La Voz club volunteers, and other future volunteer contributors interested in learning about journalism in Spanish. Please let us know if you are planning to attend by emailing us at [email protected].
You can also join us via Zoom Meeting!
Meeting ID: 824 0064 5921
Passcode: 630280
One tap mobile+16469313860,,82400645921# US+16465588656,,82400645921# US (New York)
Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latine immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 35,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz, we strive to empower the Spanish-speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers, and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
Read more about La Voz online here: https://lavoz.bard.edu/
https://www.facebook.com/LaVozHudsonValley/
https://www.instagram.com/lavozhudsonvalley/
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82400645921?pwd=SmhmYzhTdkJjVHNCVGZueUwvL1A5Zz09s://.
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Thursday, April 25, 2024
5–6 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 118Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color, both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
MABU Weekly Meeting
Men of Color at Bard United
Thursday, April 25, 2024
5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202MABU is hosting weekly meetings.
About MABU
Spearheading with the Reading Initiative, Men At Bard United seeks to create jumping points of connections amongst men of color at Bard in all years through bond-like activities and collaboration with clubs throughout the term.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Games Sessions
Thursday, April 25, 2024
6–10 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeBard Games meets in the George Ball Lounge to play board games like Catan, Wingspan, and Dune on Thursdays at 6 pm. It is an open space to meet friends, engage in the community, and have fun by playing some games together. We provide a safe space where all are welcome!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Collage Weekly Meeting
Thursday, April 25, 2024
6–7:30 pm
Fisher Arts Room 140Join Bard Collage club for weekly meetings.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
WOCU Weekly Meeting
Women of Color United
Thursday, April 25, 2024
7:30–9:30 pm
Gilson PlaceWomen of Color United (WOCU) seeks to provide an inclusive environment for members to exchange personal and collective experiences that occur on and off Bard’s campus. We seek to share with each other issues and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality surrounding the positions of women from diverse backgrounds. WOCU aims to facilitate conversations with the community on topics that are important to us and focus on self-care and self-love throughout the semester. We seek to uplift women and not degrade them, this is not a space for negative vibes. We aim to cultivate positive energy.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Figure Drawing Club Weekly Meeting
Thursday, April 25, 2024
8–9 pm
Fisher Studio Arts BuildingThe club's purpose is to allow people of all artistic backgrounds to experience drawing (or painting) from a live model. Students can come practice their artistic skill, or try it out for the first time. There will be one or more models present for several hours of drawing time. There may also be still-life set ups around the models who will change positions periodically.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Material as Witness: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
3–7 pm
Bard Massena Campus, BarrytownThe MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
TEDxBard College Tabling Event
Thursday, April 25, 2024
4–6 pm
Campus Center, LobbyApplications for the speaker slots for the 2025 TEDxBard College Conference are now open. If you have any questions, please come by!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Indigenous Student Association Meeting
Thursday, April 25, 2024
6–7 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203This club will be started to create representation for Indigenous students that are a part of Bard’s campus. Cultural representation has been taken away from us, and the spark of cultural appropriation hides the truth of who we are and what our traditions are. Bard has many organizations for other students of color on campus, each having their own unique identity. I want to give a place where there is representation for specifically Indigenous students on campus. This association is not only made for students with Native blood, but for those who want to help us break the generations worth of misinformation, to become educated, hopefully getting inspired to educate the rest of the Bard community. People not only should know the true history, but the culture of different Indigenous peoples. I want to give students confidence, to not be ashamed of their heritage, but instead, be proud of it.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
PC Event - Movie Screening
Thursday, April 25, 2024
6–9 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaCome watch a cute Japanese cartoon with us.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Community Project - Coffeehouse
Thursday, April 25, 2024
7–9:30 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomA space where students can enjoy coffee or tea while others perform their artistic talents, along with pastries and vibes!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard After Dark - Movie Night
Bard After Dark
Thursday, April 25, 2024
9–11 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaCome join Bard After Dark for a Movie Night!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Film Making at Bard
Film Making @ Bard: Weekly Meeting
Friday, April 26, 2024
12–5 pm
Hegeman 106Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
PJs and Popcorn Club Presents A Film Screening
Friday, April 26, 2024
7–10:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaCome and enjoy some popcorn and candy in your PJs while watching some favorite films. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Material as Witness: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2024
Friday, April 26, 2024
3–7 pm
Bard Massena Campus, BarrytownThe MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Gilson Place - Sazon Y Ritmo
Friday, April 26, 2024
3:30–5 pm
Gilson PlaceWe will be serving food from different Latin countries with music and games!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Warr;ors Tabling
Friday, April 26, 2024
4–6 pm
Campus Center, LobbyThe Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.
Event dates: 3/01, 3/08, 3/22, 3/29, 4/05, 4/12, 4/26, 5/03, 5/10.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Student Government - Bubble Tea & Blissful Stitches
Friday, April 26, 2024
5–7 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Bring your friends to sip, stitch, and unwind. There will be beginner crochet kits for everyone, along with bubble tea and snacks.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Smog Show: Tulo Vera, Street Flinstone, Pathetica, The Tourniquet
Friday, April 26, 2024
9 pm – 2 am
SMOGNew Jersey trinity rock-bands! Plus, The Torniquet!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Morgan's Message Formal
Women's Lacrosse and Women's Soccer
Friday, April 26, 2024
10 pm – 1 am
ManorFormal for raising awareness and money for Morgan's message. This event is hosted by women's lacrosse and women's soccer. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Film Making at Bard
Film Making @ Bard: Weekly Meeting
Saturday, April 27, 2024
12–5 pm
Hegeman 106Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Warr;ors - Club Meeting
Saturday, April 27, 2024
3–4 pm
The Warr;ors is a student-led organization whose mission is to foster an environment that gives students a platform to advocate for and raise awareness about mental health. By hosting engaging events and open discussions, sharing resources and developing a visual presence on campus, the Warr;ors are able to cultivate a community where students are unashamed and supported when it comes to getting the help they need. Working to end the taboo stigma surrounding mental health and reinforcing the idea that no one is ever alone.Sponsored by: Student Activities.For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard on Go Weekly Meeting
Saturday, April 27, 2024
3–4:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Interested in recording, editing, or creating short form content? Creating videos inside and outside the Bard Community? Considering joining Bard on go!
Bard on Go is a short form media platform that seeks to create content that engages the student body in various ways using nothing more then a phone and mics! Whether it is following trends on social media, interviewing the student body on various questions, or being inspired by an event, we hope to foster a community of aspiring creators or anyone who simply wants be apart of the process / creating something to look back on years to come!
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Chess Club Meeting
Saturday, April 27, 2024
3–5 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeCome play chess in a relaxing, friendly environment. Beginners are encouraged!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Material as Witness: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2024
Saturday, April 27, 2024
3–7 pm
Bard Massena Campus, BarrytownThe MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Herbivores - Trip to Catskill Animal Sanctuary
Saturday, April 27, 2024
12:20–2:45 pm
We are taking a trip to the animal sanctuary in Catskill.For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Model United Nations Crisis Simulation
Saturday, April 27, 2024
3–6 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 305Come to our simulation about the Papua New Guinea crisis. Learn about Model UN, practice debate, public speaking and research, and voice your opinion. No experience necessary. Food will be provided.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Asian Student Organization: The Asian Gala
Saturday, April 27, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomCome join us, the Asian Student Organization, for a pan-Asian event with performances, food, and more!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Root Cellar - Punk Rock Prom
Saturday, April 27, 2024
8 pm – 1 am
Root CellarEvening of student cover bands. Dress punk or prom, or both.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
ASO Asian Gala Afterparty
Asian Student Organization
Saturday, April 27, 2024
10 pm – 2 am
SMOGASO Afterparty at SMOG. Come unwind and dance the night away to music from all around the globe!
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Student Event - Sarah and Lucia's Birthday Party
Saturday, April 27, 2024
10 pm – 1:30 am
ManorThe theme of this event is trashy y2k. Everyone is welcomed! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Club Head Meeting
Sunday, April 28, 2024
12–2 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214QPOC club head meeting. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Film Making at Bard
Film Making @ Bard: Weekly Meeting
Sunday, April 28, 2024
12–5 pm
Hegeman 106Film Making at Bard weekly meeting and filmingSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Art Dolls/Soft Sculpture - Weekly Meeting
Sunday, April 28, 2024
2–4 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Stop by to make some dolls and sculptures with sowing, needle felting, etc. No experience required.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Needlecraft Club Weekly Meeting
Sunday, April 28, 2024
7–10 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeAriana is reserving a space for their club meetingsSponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Material as Witness: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2024
Sunday, April 28, 2024
3–7 pm
Bard Massena Campus, BarrytownThe MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material as Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2024.
Material as Witness is taking place April 19–28 at Massena Campus, with one installation performance at Blithewood Lawn. The exhibition features installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Accessing Massena Campus
Massena Campus is located at 30 Seminary Dr, Barrytown, NY 12507, and has available parking. In addition, shuttle service from and back to South Kline Shuttle Stop will depart Annandale at 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, and 6 pm (with the last return from Massena at 7:15 pm).
Installations & Reading Room Schedule
Massena Campus & Blithewood Lawn, Bard College, April 19–28, 3:00–7:00 pm
Performance Schedule
Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
By Ciko Sidzumo
5–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
The Narratives of the Moths
By Laila Sharif
3–7 pm (durational, no need for reservations.)
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
By Raneem Ayyad
3:45 pm, 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm (20 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/meet-sun
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
By Aya Rebai
3:30 pm, 5:30 pm (25 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/AI-potatoes
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
By Luka Gotsiridze
6 pm (35 minutes) Booking: bit.ly/vitom-vitom
Shroud[ed]: MH17
By Nestor Rotsen
Saturday 27 only, 8:30 pm, (35 minutes, no need for reservations.)
Thesis Project Abstracts
Camera as Kalashnikov: The Ideology and Visual Aesthetics of Palestinian Armed Resistance (1968–1982)
Mayss Al Alami
Camera as Kalashnikov is a written thesis that explores the films of the Palestinian revolution between 1968 and 1982, with a particular focus on films by the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). The thesis investigates what the visual aesthetics of armed resistance in the films tell us about the political ideology of the revolution. It approaches the films within two primary contexts: the regional and global efforts to displace, disarm, and pacify the Palestinian resistance after the 1967 Naksa, and its exilic condition in Jordan and Lebanon. Through close readings of selected scenes, Camera as Kalashnikov is inspired by the films’ visual materiality to explore the recurrent figure of the Kalashnikov as a complex device that links the filmic struggle for self-representation with the militant struggle for liberation in exile.
Designed by Our Hands
Anas Al-Khatib
Designed by Our Hands is an architectural design manual and research article investigating the space-making agency in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. Through tracing the spatial transformations of four generations of toilets, the booklet documents the histories of construction practices, tools, and technologies in the camp. This work also offers a design toolkit by refugees for other refugees.
The “Banality” of Photographs: Critical Analysis of Photographic Practices in Russian Turkestan
Guzal Alimova
This written thesis explores the images of women from the Turkestan Album (1871–1872) and Hugues Krafft’s A Travers le Turkestan Russe (1902). In doing so, it challenges the hegemonic knowledge production on the presentation of images produced in unequal power relations. By looking at photographs of Turkestani women produced during the reign of the Russian Empire, it addresses the question of agency, marginal resistance, exploitation of body and mind, and the exotification of culture and religion. The research responds to the lack of adequate attention in existing Central Asian postcolonial studies to engage with the nuances and complexities embedded within photographs, calling for a more critical and subject-oriented analysis of visual representations in the region’s historical and contemporary contexts.
Where Do We Meet the Sun?
Raneem Ayyad
Where Do We Meet The Sun? is an interactive installation and research article investigating the interconnectedness of vitamin D deficiency and urban planning in the city of Al-Zarqa in Jordan where the artist grew up. The audience is invited to explore the everyday life of three women living in residential apartments by following the voice in mundane domestic objects. The project is based on one-to-one collaborations with three housewives through a participant observation method called “follow the mop,” in which the artist joins everyday cleaning chores while recording brief encounters with sunlight. Where Do We Meet The Sun examines natural light as a medium of regulation, gender discrimination, and illness enforced by the neoliberal mass-produced housing.
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom]
Luka Gotsiridze
ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity. The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.
In Search of Adonis_XXX
Immanuel J.
In Search of Adonis_XXX is a multichannel video installation depicting imagery from Immanuel J.’s inquiry of Black gay male sexuality in the digital age. J. took on a hypermasculine queer digital persona on the social media platform X. The installation reconstructs visual and sonic motifs of their time spent in erotic chat rooms and on social media to ponder the relationship between Black Gay men’s sexual fantasies and power. During an epidemic of increasing isolation and loneliness, these queer erotic spaces and subversive sexual bonding rituals provide reprieve to the throes of racial capitalism and the toll it takes on the Black body. By leaning into the cannibalistic consumption of Black flesh, these men dawn personas informed by the pain of state-sanctioned violence. Adonis_XXX tells the story of the pleasure found within Black (dis)empowerment.
No One Has Stayed and No One Has Left
K.
This multimedia installation delves into domestic and international reverberations from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It follows the war-induced migration from Russia and explores an insurgent border between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Through engaging with text, images, and film, the audience is invited to reflect on the dialectical relationship between mobility and immobility, voice and silence, complicity and dissent in the context of war, imperialism, and state violence.
Cultural Politics and National Imaginaries in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Mariia Pankova
This written thesis examines how the formation of Kyrgyz national identity has been shaped by the intersection of cultural institutions, visual culture, and grassroots artistic initiatives. The research focuses on transformations of national discourse since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores Soviet legacies in mediating the national imaginary through structures of knowledge and cultural production. By examining visual symbols appropriated in the project of national storytelling, the research draws connections between the creation of national myths and their physical manifestation in material culture. This project documents recent artistic and activist interventions in public institutions that aim to question the dominant discourses shaping national identity.
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes
Aya Rebai
Who Needs AI, We Need Potatoes is an interactive performance installation set in a mobile farmstand with homegrown sentient plants. This multi-sensory experience is based on research on biohacking, object-oriented ontology and speculative design. The audience is invited to encounter different smart beings and to reflect on the role of new technology in disrupting the Anthropocene. This live art project comments on human exceptionalism and its overlook on the more-than-human world.
Behind the Tanks: The Politics and Aesthetics of Water Tanks in Palestine
Jina Rishmawi
This written thesis investigates the cultural and political meanings behind water tanks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. It explores the centrality of a discourse around water—”making the desert bloom”—to the Zionist project, and the importance of struggles over access to water supplies in the period after 1948. The water tanks that are a ubiquitous feature of the built environment in Palestine emerge as both a symbol of occupation and as a physical key to deciphering its logic and tactics. Water tanks have become slow, violent tools that generate and expose deep problems in the urban landscape of the occupied territories. At the same time, they symbolize the possibilities of resistance in the most basic elements of everyday life in Palestine.
The Narratives of the Moths
Laila Sharif
The Narratives of The Moths is an interactive installation inspired by the ongoing struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo activist group from Argentina, who are searching for their “lost” grandchildren and the truth about the fate of their forcibly “disappeared” children. The work uses the centuries-old mindful practice of folding origami paper sculptures, to create space for collective memory and grief for victims of state-terror. The artist invites the audience to join her at a work table, folding origami from archival documents from Argentina and daily news of violence from around the globe. The archive is based on research linked to the use of DNA as a tool to identify the victims of forced disappearance.
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha
Ciko Sidzumo
The Sanguinary Cradle: Cutha is an audio installation and movement-based performance exploring menstrual pain and intergenerational somatic relief techniques. The piece is informed by activism on period poverty in the Global South as well as findings from clinical trials and dance research on the mitigation of menstrual pain. During the performance, the audience is invited to engage in exercises of collective somatic care based on the artist’s own exploration of her body in pain through the use of breath-work, vocal dexterity, Trauma Release Exercise, and undulation. Beyond the performance, the installation space is open to the public as a space for reflection, grounding, and introspective movement.
Shroud[ed]: MH17
Nestor Rotsen
Shroud[ed]: MH17 is a multimedia project centered on the terrorist attack on Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Beginning with 30 photographs taken during field research in Southeast Asia, the work unfolds into an investigative installation, to be concluded with a fashion performance showcasing 30 garments based on the victims’ stories. The project explores the repercussions of the Russian regime’s imperialist desires, the profound impact of the loss of 298 victims from 10 different countries, and the important recognition that the Russian war crimes in Ukraine started way before the 2022 invasion.
For more info, please visit: https://chra.bard.edu/event/material-as-witness/Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
RingoRama
The Ringo Starr Appreciation Society
Sunday, April 28, 2024
6:30–10 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102Semesterly communal Ringo Bingo in anticipation of Ringo Starr’s two upcoming releases. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Mental Health Sub Committee - Ecstatic Dance
Sunday, April 28, 2024
7–8 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymCome have fun with good music! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard Muscial Theater Club - The Cabaret
Sunday, April 28, 2024
7–9 pm
Olin AuditoriumA fun night of singing and friendship -- a "not my type" cast event where members can sing some of their favoirte musicals!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
SMOG Show: Moderate Rock, Dog Date, Moxie Pocket, Cavity
Sunday, April 28, 2024
8 pm – 2 am
SMOGSuper-sick rock set at SMOG!
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Student Labor Dialogue Weekly Meeting
Monday, April 29, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Weekly club meeting for the Student Labor Dialogue! Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Student Labor Dialogue Weekly Meeting
Monday, April 29, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Bard Student Labor Dialogue weekly meeting. Join us!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Black Student Organization Club Meeting
Monday, April 29, 2024
6–8 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeOur mission is to stimulate members of the Bard College community to explore intellectual, political, cultural, and social issues that are of importance to the Black community and America as a whole. Black History and current race issues are articulated through dialogue, cultural performances, music, lectures, and art. Race and politics are issues that are often recognized on our campus in through our academic curriculum. However, we as an organization feel that it is necessary to find creative ways to take that experience beyond the classroom brining the links between race, politics, academics, and social life to fruition in the hopes that awareness will spark action and ignite change in our communities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Cosplay Club Meeting
Monday, April 29, 2024
7–9 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203Join us! Cosplay Club is a place where cosplayers, prop makers, costume makers, wig stylists, photographers, editors, and digital content creators alike can come together for a communal workspace!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
BOTV Editing Workshop
Bard On Television
Monday, April 29, 2024
5–7 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center in room A333Come learn and practice how to edit videos on Premiere Pro!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CSA Meeting
Caribbean Student Association
Monday, April 29, 2024
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeJoin us!
About the CSA
The Caribbean Student Association (CSA) seeks to provide a sense of social solidarity and academic support among West Indian/Caribbean students at Bard, while promoting interactions with the Bard community as a whole. We hope to achieve this goal through (1) the education of Caribbean culture, society, and politics, (2) hosting events that celebrate the diversity which Caribbean students contribute to Bard and (3) raising awareness about issues past and present of importance to West Indians and the world. The CSA is inclusive to all Bard students, Caribbean or otherwise.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
QPOC Weekly Meeting
Queer People of Color
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
5–6 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214Join us! This club is a space created to center the lives and experiences of the Queer and gender-nonconforming people of color both on Bard's campus and beyond. It's a place for conversation and action. It's a place that recognizes and affirms the lives of those whose lives are too often forgotten and erased. Though it was made intentionally to elevate the voices of QTPOC, allies and accomplices are welcome, but only with the understanding that your voices will not be centered and that you are there to learn and support.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
BRAD Comedy Weekly Meeting
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
7–9 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 201Join us! BRAD Comedy is Bard College’s club for all things funny, silly, and goofy. We write sketches. We do improv. We dabble in stand up from time to time. And we create the beloved and critically acclaimed Bardvark satire newspaper. Come hangout sometime.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.