Past Events

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Join us to learn more about Poughkeepsie Day School (PDS), our new GROW program, and our recently confirmed International Baccalaureate® candidacy. The event includes a campus tour and a general discussion component. A completed inquiry form is required for attendance.

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Mar. 2, 2025, 3:00 p.m.

Sugar Hill Salon is one of the first chamber music artistic collectives that centers on black and brown woodwind artistry in classical music. Amir Farsi, flute, Tamara Winston, oboe, Ian Tyson, clarinet, Alexander Davis, bassoon.

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Mar. 1, 2025, 7:30 p.m.

Featuring student winners of the soloist competition. Eduardo Navega, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

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If you are interested in political science, international studies, or law, please join us to gain insights about what it means to be a woman navigating these fields. Our panel of distinguished professionals will share their career pathways, advice, and resources.

Campus community only, please.

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Feb. 27, 8:00–10:00 p.m. – Mar. 1, 2025

A play by Robert O’Hara. Guest Director, Taylor Reynolds. Barbecue is about a dysfunctional family staging an intervention. Campus guests only, please. Reservations required.

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Nicole Holliday, Acting Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley, will present her latest research on how tone-detection systems and digital voice assistants like Siri and Alexa reinforce linguistic and racial bias.

This event is open to the public.

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Professor Paulina Bren will engage in an on-stage conversation with Sarah Koenig—journalist, producer, and award-winning host and co-creator of the podcast Serial—asking questions about her journalism career, Serial, and insights about making a true crime podcast. Open to the public. Please reserve your tickets.

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Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale University and one of the nation’s leading urban ethnographers, discusses his book The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life. Open to the public.

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Feb. 25, 2025, 6:00 p.m.

A dynamic, interactive experience that blends performance art, game-show fun, a thought-provoking lecture, and a captivating film screening—all aimed at exploring the horror and danger of nuclear weapons and nuclear war. Open to the public.

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At a time of both urgent need for algorithmic literacy and heightened social division, it is vital to understand the politicized grammar with which we talk and think about AI. This talk by Gerald Sim will focus on visual media whose power derives from being uniquely vivid, engaging, and visceral.

Campus community only, please.

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Feb. 23, 2025, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

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 our second annual Bring a Friend Day, and enjoy a day full of activities—together. The day’s offerings include art-making, engaging mini-tours, and light refreshments.

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Feb. 23, 2025, 3:00 p.m.

Music by Percy Grainger, Arturo Márquez, and Aaron Copland. James Osborn, conductor.

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

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Feb. 22, 2025, Panel discussion at 2:00 p.m. in Taylor 102; Reception follows in the Loeb atrium and galleries

Gathering historic and contemporary art in various media, the exhibition invites viewers to explore how the Hudson Valley has been pictured as a place both proximate to the city and its opposite—a “great green hope” as much fantasy as reality. Artists Tanya Marcuse, Qiana Mestrich, and Lisa Sanditz will discuss how their work responds to the Hudson Valley landscape in myth and reality. 

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Adrian Morjean, bassoon, Alex Davis, bassoon, Joshua Hodge, bassoon, Brad Balliett, bassoon & contrabassoon, Mark Risinger, bass, Richard Wilson, piano.

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Feb. 21, 2025, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Discover the power of storytelling with the TMI Project!