Past Events

seven dancers bend backwards on a dark stage
Apr. 21 – Apr. 22, 2023

Featuring choreography by Yoshito Sakuraba and Julian Llanos, Polka by acclaimed modern dance choreographer Mark Morris, excerpts from the classical ballet Don Quixote, student works, and more. Reserve free tickets. 

 

Embroidered sampler with figures of Adam and Eve standing on either side of a tall tree with a snake wrapped around it; under the tree are the words, “Jane Pownall, Her Work, Aged 13, 1830.”
Apr. 20, 2023, 6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.

Learn about historic embroidery methods, techniques, and materials by making your own stitched embroidery pattern at a fun night of creation at the Loeb.

Campus community only, please.

side-by-side headshots of Monica Macer and Anthony Sparks
Apr. 20, 2023, 5:00–6:00 p.m.

Monica Macer ’93 and Anthony Sparks P’26 will discuss their paths as showrunners, screenwriters, and executive producers, insights into the TV writing process, and more!

Campus community only, please.

Three musicians playing piano, violin and a horn
Apr. 20, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

Lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program.

A collage-like artwork depicting a figure from the shoulders up who is wearing a headdress made of two large flowers.
Apr. 20, 2023, 10:30 a.m. plus evening reception

Chelle Barbour’s multidisciplinary art practice reimagines the body of the Black female through the lens of Afro-Surrealism. Barbour’s morning talk will be followed by an evening reception.

A seated performer wearing robes strums a stringed instrument.

Mr. Junya Koikawa, a performer of Taishu Engeki (a Japanese performing art with Kabuki origins), will play Tsugaru-shamisen, a traditional Japanese musical instrument.

An abstract mixed-media artwork on display in a gallery.
Apr. 19, 2023, 5:00 p.m.

Dona Nelson’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Centre Pompidou, among others.

James R. Jones, from the waist up, wearing a jacket and tie.
Apr. 19, 2023, 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Dr. James R. Jones, Director of the Center on Politics and Race in America at Rutgers University–Newark, will discuss how white supremacy diffuses from Congress through law, politics, and everyday social life.

a woman singing onstage with her arms held up.
Apr. 18, 2023, 6:00 p.m.

A Holocaust Remembrance Day presentation featuring a short film clip, a musical performance, and a discussion with the subjects and makers of a documentary about local musicians and Holocaust survivors in the Hudson Valley.

Cover of a book designed to look like grid of spiral notebooks with the title “Letters to a Writer of Color,” Edited by Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro,” and a blurb from Laila Lalami that says, “Electric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the periphery…a guide, a comfort, and a call all at once.”
Apr. 18, 2023, 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.

Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro, editors of the new essay collection Letters to a Writer of Color, will talk about race and craft with a multidisciplinary panel of Vassar faculty.

Apr. 15, 2023, 1:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.

Eden Bartholomew, Raffaella Zanetti, Madeleine Donat

Wang Yi’an before cutting off his queue. Beijing, 1912
Apr. 14, 2023, 5:00–7:00 p.m.

Art historian Wu Hung, who has published widely on both traditional and contemporary Chinese art, will speak about Chinese portrait photography.

Three students playing tuba, trombone and trumpet
Apr. 13, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

Lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. 

photo of a woman's face
Apr. 13, 2023, 5:30–7:00 p.m.

Alexis Dudden, Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, will lecture on “Japan’s Controversial Territorial Claims Against China, Taiwan, Russia, and the Koreas.” 

Headshot of Diane Robinson '91

Robinson’s film, The Young Vote, follows a diverse group of students and activists during the 2020 election to show young people’s perceptions of voting and civic engagement.