Past Events
A 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Café.
The Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre will premiere a new full-company work by Bessie Award-winning choreographer Soleymane Badolo, plus an exciting new dance by Hip-Hop Instructor Julian Llanos, and more! There is a waiting list for tickets. Please arrive at Keynon Hall at 6:30 p.m. to join the list and we will do our best to accommodate.
An Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Amherst College will discuss “The Functional Unity of Propaganda: Bald-faced propaganda and epistemic infringement.”
The 2024 Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Pauline Newman ’47 Distinguished Lecture by Beronda Montgomery, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Grinnell College, who studies how individuals perceive, respond to, and are impacted by environments in which they exist.
The 2023-2024 Asprey Center for Collaborative Approaches to Science Book Club selection is Lessons from Plants by Beronda L. Montgomery, Professor of Biology and Academic Dean at Grinnell College. Join us April 9th for a talk and dinner with the author.
Campus community only, please.
Visiting Ribicoff Professor Sean Sawyer will give a lecture on Olana, the masterwork of Frederic Church (1826-1900), America’s most famous artist of the mid-19th century.
A piano recital featuring works by Schumann, Debussy, a complete Mozart piano concerto with the Hudson Valley String Quartet, and more.
Featuring the premiere of Katerina Gimon’s My Own Design and music of Susan Brumfield, Florence Price, Felix Mendelssohn, and others. Christine Howlett, conductor
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
A community event sponsored by the Town of Poughkeepsie Parks and Recreation Department on Joss Beach. Face painting, DJ, obstacle course, and more!
An afternoon featuring works by Louis Ganne, Gabriel Fauré, and Katherine Hoover.
Playwrights Liz Duffy Adams and Madeleine George will discuss “Women Rewriting the Canon: Adaptation as Intervention in Contemporary Playwriting” with Drama faculty members. Short performances will precede the discussion.
Students from Vassar’s Music Department perform songs of transformation and becoming, drawn from Broadway, the Great American Songbook, and contemporary pop.
A 20–30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Café.
A lecture by author Andrea Timár, Associate Professor at the Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
Campus community only, please.
Exhibition curators Jessica D. Brier and Mary-Kay Lombino, joined by Loeb Director T. Barton Thurber and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Luísa Valle, will lead an exhibition tour focusing on highlights from McKenna’s prolific career.
A lecture by Dr. Alex Barron, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Smith College, who has designed climate policies in Congress and worked with the Obama and Biden Administrations.
Come outside in the warm spring weather to play some Ultimate! Learn to throw a frisbee from players on professional NYC teams, and come pick up a FREE frisbee.
Campus community only, please.
A senior project in drama directed by Kendall Wienecke ’24. Performances March 28, 29, 30. In The Martel Theater. Open to the Public, reservations required.
This event helps fund a medical clinic that serves 3000+ residents from 50 villages in the mountains of northwest Haiti. Open to the public, tickets required.
This lecture by Dr. Heba Gowayed, Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College (CUNY), will explore the marketplace between migrants, smugglers, and states.