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Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Mass., sponsors the annual Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, a series of events celebrating Women’s History Month in March. Held on campus and at venues throughout Berkshire County, this year's festival features more than 50 events including readings, lectures, workshops, performances, and film screenings. Read More

SummerScape features eight weeks of music, theater, opera, film, dance and cabaret centered on the 26th Bard Music Festival, which focuses on the Mexican composer Carlos Chavez.

Roy DeCarava, "one of the most intriguing and poetic of American photographers," captured black life during the latter half of the 20th century and has left a powerful legacy.

Multidisciplinary artist and Bard College Berlin professor David Levine has been commissioned to produce reenactments of famous film scenes set in Central Park as part of a Creative Time series.

"The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College is pretty marvelous—complete with a Frank Gehry center and two theaters hosting dance, performance art, plays and music," write Cindy Augustine and Tolly Wright.

As a part of this Time LightBox series, color photography pioneer Stephen Shore discusses a photograph he made at age 12.

The Fisher Center presents "breathtaking visionary" Cynthia Hopkins in her newest work, A Living Documentary. The performance takes place on February 20 and 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the LUMA Theater. A Living Documentary is a hilarious and searing reflection on the trials and tribulations of earning a living as a professional theater artist in the 21st century. Intertwining elements of musical comedy, documentary, and fiction, the show intersperses autobiographical storytelling with portrayals of semi-fictional comedic characters, all the while asking myriad questions about the realities of artistic life in New York City.

The work of James Benning and Peter Hutton exhibited in Nature Is a Discipline reveals the transition from celluloid film to digital technology.

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents Sō Percussion and Grey McMurray in Where (we) Live. The performance takes place on February 14 and 15 in the LUMA Theater. In the second performance of Branches—a multiyear partnership between the Fisher Center, The Bard College Conservatory of Music, and the John Cage Trust to highlight Sō Percussion’s integration into the artistic and academic community of Bard College—this “ambitious, beguiling show” (New York Times) blends music, video, and storytelling in a theatrical creation that reflects on notions of community and home. The performances, directed by Ain Gordon, feature guitarist Grey McMurray, choreographer Emily Johnson, and guest artists Aron Sanchez and Caroline Wallner. Additional program information can be found at fishercenter.bard.edu.

Jazz musician and Bard MFA music/sound faculty Matana Roberts's Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee is "a 12-part cycle of personal, socio-historical and psychic inquisition."

CCS Bard alumna Ruba Katrib, curator at SculptureCenter in New York, discusses her journey from artist to curator and how women in the arts can support each other.