Past Events

Music Professor Brian Mann teaching students

Brian Mann and Friends: An afternoon of jazz featuring Brian Mann, piano, Pat O'Leary, double bass, Craig Wuepper, drums, with special guests appearances by faculty and friends.

This event will be live streamed

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Very limited seating—campus guests only. 
A staged reading followed by a reception.
Congratulations to the 2022 award recipients: Gabriella Kimbrough ’22, for her play True Crime, and Louis Blachman ’23, for his play Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

 

Steerman Festival
Mar. 24 – Apr. 3, 2022

Two weeks of productions of new plays written by Drama Department students. Campus community only, please.

Painting of a woman holding up a camouflage-pattern coat by Susan Lichtman
Mar. 23, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

Lichtman, a figurative painter of domestic spaces, will discuss her work. She is the Charles Bloom Professor of the Arts of Design at Brandeis University.

Mar. 22 – May 11, 2022

A rotating exhibit at the Palmer Gallery featuring student work from classes in Drawing Iⅈ Painting Iⅈ Photography; Printmaking; Sculpture Iⅈ and Video. 

Actress Selina Jones as Medea in the Khameleon Productions film of Euripides's Medea
Mar. 21, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

Shivaike Shah, Visiting Artist and Producer/Founder of Khameleon Productions (UK), will discuss the making of Khameleon’s upcoming short film on the figure of Medea, based on Khameleon’s stage production of Euripides’s Medea at Oxford in 2018, which reimagined the ancient Greek tragedy with an all-global majority cast and crew. Campus community only, please.

poster for stargazing event at the Ecological Preserve
Mar. 3, 2022, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Hang out with Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association astronomers and their telescopes as they showcase stars, constellations, asterisms, and more interesting items in the sky! Please register for this event.

Ash Wednesday Service, an ecumenical service, including the imposition of ashes, all Vassar community members welcome. Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 5:00 p.m. EST, Vassar Chapel, sponsored by: Religious and Spiritual Life and Contemplative Practices in partnership with the Vassar Catholic Community, Vassar Christian Fellowship, and Episcopal Church at Vassar College.
Mar. 2, 2022, 5:00 p.m.

An ecumenical service, including the imposition of ashes, hosted by the campus’s Roman Catholic and Protestant communities. Campus community only, please.

poster for anti-racism workshop Day 2
Mar. 1, 2022, 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

This workshop centers the experience of all students, faculty, and administrators. Facilitated by the National Coalition Building Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit leadership training organization. Campus community only, please.

Anti-racism, Sharing Lived Experiences. Facing Fears. Acting in Alliance image
Feb. 28, 2022, 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

This workshop centers the experience of Vassar’s BIPOC students, faculty, and administrators. Facilitated by the National Coalition Building Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit leadership training organization. Campus community only, please.

Music Spring 22 thumb with video overlay

Works by Mahler, Wagner, Bruckner, Creston, and Tommy Peterson. Featuring Brad Ward, Tom Hutchinson, and Paul Bellino, tenor trombone, and Nick Schwartz and Jack Schatz, bass trombone.

This event will be live streamed