Screening in Honor of the 30th Annual Day With(out) Art: Still Beginning

Sunday, December 1, 2019
2–4 pm

CCS Bard, Classroom 102

From Visual AIDS:
“The seven short videos range in subject from anti-stigma work in New Orleans to public sex culture in Chicago, highlighting pioneering AIDS activism and staging intergenerational conversations. Recalling Gregg Bordowitz’s reminder that “THE AIDS CRISIS IS STILL BEGINNING,”* the video program resists narratives of resolution or conclusion, considering the continued urgency of HIV/AIDS in the contemporary moment while revisiting resonant cultural histories from the past three decades. 
 
Visual AIDS is a New York–based nonprofit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. In 1989, Visual AIDS organized the first Day Without Art, a call to the art world for mourning and action in response to the AIDS crisis. For Day With(out) Art’s 30th year, over 100 institutions worldwide will screen STILL BEGINNING, recognizing the important and necessary work of artists, activists, and cultural workers who have responded to AIDS while emphasizing the persistent presence of the epidemic.

This year’s program will be screened at CCS Bard on December 1 at 2:00pm, and December 4 at 12:00pm, both in Classroom 102. Free admission. Seating is first-come, first-served.

*Gregg Bordowitz, The AIDS Crisis Is Still Beginning (2019) was recently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. Hear Bordowitz discuss the work here.
 Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events.

Tomato Tomahto, Potato Potahto
 

British and American Art Song from the Middle Ages to Now

Monday, December 2, 2019
6–8 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
The student singers and pianists of Professor Rufus Müller’s Performance Class, and players from Bard Conservatory, present a collection of songs from Britain and North America, from medieval monody to lush romantic to soulful contemporary, including Bard’s very own Kyle Gann.  Come and be soothed before the final onslaught of the semester!Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail muller@bard.edu.

Aconi Kaminoff Moderation Concert

Tuesday, December 3, 2019
8:30–9:30 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Screening in Honor of the 30th Annual Day With(out) Art: Still Beginning

Wednesday, December 4, 2019
12–2 pm

CCS Bard, Classroom 102

From Visual AIDS:
“The seven short videos range in subject from anti-stigma work in New Orleans to public sex culture in Chicago, highlighting pioneering AIDS activism and staging intergenerational conversations. Recalling Gregg Bordowitz’s reminder that “THE AIDS CRISIS IS STILL BEGINNING,”* the video program resists narratives of resolution or conclusion, considering the continued urgency of HIV/AIDS in the contemporary moment while revisiting resonant cultural histories from the past three decades. 
 
Visual AIDS is a New York–based nonprofit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. In 1989, Visual AIDS organized the first Day Without Art, a call to the art world for mourning and action in response to the AIDS crisis. For Day With(out) Art’s 30th year, over 100 institutions worldwide will screen STILL BEGINNING, recognizing the important and necessary work of artists, activists, and cultural workers who have responded to AIDS while emphasizing the persistent presence of the epidemic.

This year’s program will be screened at CCS Bard on December 1 at 2:00pm, and December 4 at 12:00pm, both in Classroom 102. Free admission. Seating is first-come, first-served.

*Gregg Bordowitz, The AIDS Crisis Is Still Beginning (2019) was recently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. Hear Bordowitz discuss the work here.
 Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events.

Music Theory Study Room

A peer-led study space for music theory and music analysis. 

Wednesday, December 4, 2019
5–8 pm

Olin, Room 104
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail blc@bard.edu.

Jennie Brent Senior Concert I

Wednesday, December 4, 2019
5:30–7:30 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Tony Henry Senior Concert

Wednesday, December 4, 2019
7–9 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Falsetto

Wednesday, December 4, 2019
7:30–9:30 pm

EMPAC/RPI CURTIS R. PRIEM EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER at Rensselaer
Bard College Electronic Music faculty Sarah Hennies performs an evening of her work for solo percussion and electronics featuring her works Falsetto and Fleas. Through slowly evolving textures, Hennies’s music opens up a space where small changes become events. Her music often explores the act of performance, whether through showing the amount of energy it takes to maintain a constant appearance in front of others, the exhaustion of maintaining a sound once it has been established, or the vulnerability of having one’s every small move amplified through observation.

Working with both traditional orchestral percussion instruments and found objects, Hennies challenges rigid definitions by relating the structure of her work to themes of queer and trans identity, love and intimacy. Hennies has mentioned in interviews that percussionists are unique in that they don’t have a specific instrument. Their identity and role changes constantly with the context of different pieces and even within a single piece. The standard definition of a musician identified by their instrument does not hold.

In Hennies’s performance, listeners and performers are encouraged to enter a shared space that reflects everyday life. Her music begins to expose the exhaustion and virtuosity of maintaining even simple actions. A gentle sound, such as the ringing of a small bell, is sustained beyond virtuosity to expose the exhaustion of maintaining even simple actions that are thought of as societal norms. As these sounds are challenged by the addition of other actions, Hennies’s performance becomes more and more mesmerizing: an act of determination.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail shennies@bard.edu.

Patrick Toohey Moderation Concert

Wednesday, December 4, 2019
8–9 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Latin American and Iberian Studies Program Open House

Thursday, December 5, 2019
5–6:30 pm

Hopson Cottage
Please join us for our Latin American and Iberian Studies Open House. The Open House will be an opportunity to meet LAIS faculty, hear about next semester’s courses, talk with LAIS seniors and other students about their experiences, and celebrate the end of the semester as a community. Snacks and refreshments will be served.
 Sponsored by: LAIS Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6050, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.

Max Satow Senior Concert I

Thursday, December 5, 2019
8–10 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Maeve Schallert Senior Concert I

Friday, December 6, 2019
5–7 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Lillya Galechyan Senior II Concert

Friday, December 6, 2019
6–8 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Faculty and Student Pianists Perform Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-Jésus
 

20 Pianists of the Bard Conservatory and Music Program, including faculty members Blair McMillen and  Isabelle O'Connell, perform Messiaen's epic cycle of piano works. 
Opening Remarks by Christopher Gibbs, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music.
 

Sunday, December 8, 2019
3–5 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.

Lecture: Walid Raad

This lecture is presented by the Photography Program and the Human Rights Project.

Monday, December 9, 2019
6–8 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Walid Raad: “In part, an artist and a Professor of Art in (the still-charging-tuition, and the school should stop doing so now before yet more debt burdens more students, who are not the ones who mismanaged the school’s finances—its Board of Trustees and administrators did so for decades [check out the lawsuit against the Board]) The Cooper Union. The list of exhibitions (good, bad, and mediocre ones), awards and grants (merited, not merited, grateful for, rejected and/or returned), education (some of it thought-provoking; some of it less so), and publications (I am fond of some of my books, but more so of the books of Jalal Toufic. You can find his here: jalaltoufic.com) can be found somewhere online.”

This lecture is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Human Rights Project; Photography Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail bfalk@bard.edu.

Sam Gohl Senior Concert

 

Monday, December 9, 2019
7–8 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Edgar Guzman Senior Concert

Monday, December 9, 2019
7–9 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Bard College Community Orchestra 

Monday, December 9, 2019
8–10 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage
Featuring soloists Marka Gustavsson, Bard Music Program faculty, and Viktor Toth ’16, The Orchestra Now, in Max Bruch’s Concerto for Viola, Clarinet, and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 88.

Conductors: Zachary Schwartzman and Erica KiesewetterSponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail garmbrus@bard.edu.

Rapheal Lelan-Cox Senior Concert I

Monday, December 9, 2019
9–10:30 pm

Manor House
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

FEST Artist Workshop and Information Session

Tuesday, December 10, 2019
7:30–9:30 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Calling all…
Artists, performers, musicians, poets, writers, dancers, actors, photographers, filmmakers, collaborators. 
Come get to know the new and improved FEST!
Talk with our new (amazing) board members!!
Food and drink will be provided.Sponsored by: FEST.

For more information, call 773-610-7234, or e-mail eg3152@bard.edu.

Alicia Rodriguez Senior Concert I

 

Tuesday, December 10, 2019
8–10 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Music Theory Study Room

A peer-led study space for music theory and music analysis. 

Wednesday, December 11, 2019
5–8 pm

Olin, Room 104
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail blc@bard.edu.

Kat Davila Senior Concert I

Wednesday, December 11, 2019
8–10 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Yidao Ho  Senior Concert I

 

Wednesday, December 11, 2019
8–10 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

The Georgian Choir Winter Concert

Thursday, December 12, 2019
7–9 pm

Olin Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail clinich@bard.edu.

Emma Nicole Houton Senior Concert I

Thursday, December 12, 2019
8–10 pm

Old Gym
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Da Capo Chamber Players Presents Premieres of Student Composers

Friday, December 13, 2019
5–7 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail newflute@earthlink.net.

Nick Fopeano Senior Concert I

Friday, December 13, 2019
8–10 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Gamelan Concert 

Sunday, December 15, 2019
3–5 pm

Olin Hall
Sponsored by: Division of the Arts; Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Electroacoustic Ensemble Concert

Monday, December 16, 2019
7–8 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sargent@bard.edu.

1619: A Commemoration in Sound

Monday, December 16, 2019
7:30 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Featuring 

Dr. Whitney Slaten
T.K. Blue Quintet
Souleymane Badolo / Kongo Ba Téria
and the art of James Ransome

1619: A Commemoration in Sound is a remembrance event to mark the 400th anniversary of the first arrival of enslaved people from Africa in the North American British Colonies—the beginning of slavery in what would become the United States of America. 

African descendants’ virtuosic negotiations with Western tonality and forms, as well as cosmopolitan explorations of different sounds, aesthetics, and cultures, have shaped vital contributions to the art, music, and dance of America. Dr. Whitney Slaten, Assistant Professor of Music, brings together virtuosic jazz artist T.K. Blue, choreographer and Visiting Artist in Dance Souleymane Badolo, and lauded illustrator and Dutchess County resident James Ransome for an exploration of history, memory, legacy, and gestures between the U.S. and Africa. 

Presented in partnership with the Difference and Media Project, the Office of Inclusive Excellence, and the Ethnomusicology Area, with support from The Music Program, Historical Studies, Art History, Africana Studies, American Studies, The Arts Division, the Center for Civic Engagement, and the Center for Experimental Humanities.Sponsored by: Fisher Center.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/1619-Commemoration/.

Meghan Mercier Senior Concert I

 

Monday, December 16, 2019
8–10 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.

Bard College Community Jazz Orchestra

Monday, December 16, 2019
8–10 pm

Blum N211
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Contemporary Jazz Composers Concert

Tuesday, December 17, 2019
8:30–10:30 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail lindsay@bard.edu.

Music Theory Study Room

A peer-led study space for music theory and music analysis. 

Wednesday, December 18, 2019
5–8 pm

Olin, Room 104
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail blc@bard.edu.

Open Concert

Wednesday, December 18, 2019
8–9 pm

Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.