Past Events
MODfest 2024
Join Batya Levine and their musical ensemble for an evening of harmony, rhythm, and heart-opening communal song. Through their kavanah (intention) and songful weaving, Batya invites everyone to raise their voices in this participatory concert—rooted in traditional Jewish texts and sounds, contemporary melodies, and the transcendent power of nigun—wordless spiritual song.
In celebration of the first day of Black History Month, the Jeh Vincent Johnson ALANA Cultural Center welcomes all to join us in gathering at the Garden to Celebrate Black Lives on the morning of the BHM Kickoff. Please RSVP to confirm you attendance.
Professor Miles P. Grier (Queens College, CUNY and CUNY Graduate Center) offers a lecture based on his research on the transatlantic performance history of Shakespeare’s Othello, Shakespeare and early modern science, and Black Atlantic responses from Wheatley to Toni Morrison.
Campus community only, please.
Artist Fred Tomaselli is known around the world for intricate, engulfing images of earthly and cosmic realms made by suspending collage and painted imagery as well as an array of real-world materials in thick layers of clear, epoxy resin.
MODfest 2024
A concert and conversation with the creators and performers of Shanghai Sonatas—a new musical theater work, based on first-person accounts, which tells the true story of daily life for musicians from Europe during World War II who used their optimism, humor, and musical talents to survive, forging friendships with their Chinese neighbors who helped save their lives. Moderated by Associate Professor and Chair of Music Justin Patch.
MODfest 2024
Music in this film is used to subtly define and separate the two identities of the main character, and throughout the film there is a strong recurring theme of boundaries between one thing and another, and the strange intersections between them. With introduction by Assistant Professor of Music Táhirih Motazedian.
MODfest 2024
Inspired by playwright Solomon Hess’s lifelong immersion in the world of lacrosse and recent experience training and competing internationally with the U.S. Junior Indoor Team, The Game tells the story of two friends’ complicated relationship with the sport of lacrosse and with each other.
MODfest 2024
Join us for a conversation with the newest president of Toussaint L’Ouverture College, the only HBCU in the Northeast, founded 150 years ago in Poughkeepsie. Once a failed initiative and footnote in the long history of educational inequities experienced by young Black men and women, Toussaint L’Ouverture College has come to life in the mind of artist Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, who will moderate this speculative discussion.
MODfest 2024
Challenging the separation between performers and spectators, Reciprocal Visions re-situates who is viewing whom in the dance performance space. Dancers, as forms of embodied art, are themselves responsive to their environment in ways similar to how audiences react to the performance.
Do you know someone who has been meaning to visit the Loeb but hasn’t made it happen yet? Or someone who thinks art isn’t for them, and you’d like to convince them otherwise? Please join us for a new tradition, Bring a Friend Day, and enjoy a day full of activities—together. The day’s offerings include art-making, engaging mini-tours, light refreshments, and a pop-up installation of art made by students from Poughkeepsie City Schools through the Saturday Morning Lights program.
The “Paracas Textile” is a pre-Columbian weaving held in the Brooklyn Museum. Each painting corresponds to one figure depicted in the artifact’s border, including warriors, shamans, flora, and fauna from the Paracas culture.
Open Auditions for students of any major interested in participating in the Drama Department productions of Skin by Naomi Iizuka and Hurricane Diane by Madeleine George.
Students only, please.
Registered students and alum and parent mentors will gather for the 10th annual Sophomore Career Connections Program featuring keynote Ilyse Hogue ’91. Learn more about the program.
OCEL is accepting donations from now until December 14 for its 33rd Annual Toy Drive for the Rural & Migrant Ministry’s Christmas Store. Drop off your contribution at the OCEL office in Main Building, N-165.
A special dance performance presenting works by VRDT, Battery Dance, and original works created for Dancing to Connect, a collaboration between Vassar and Poughkeepsie High School students.
Campus community only, please.
Sponsored by the Vassar College men's and women’s fencing teams in Walker Field House Bay 1. Walk-ins welcome, open to the public.
The Environmental Cooperative and the Preserve at Vassar will lead a short walk to harvest Japanese Knotweed before creating environmentally friendly, sustainable, and giftable wind chimes made from the plant material!
This student-produced exhibition features field research conducted by Art History and Earth Science students in Iceland this semester. Light refreshments will be provided.
As the holidays approach, the Vassar College Store on Raymond Avenue is offering special discounts. Check out the full calendar of sales!
Annual Advent service with readings, choral anthems, congregational carols and candle lighting ceremony.