Family + Alumni/ae Weekend Schedule

Join families of current students, faculty, and alumni/ae for refreshments. 
Lobby, Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation

Visit the registration desk to check in, receive a schedule of events, sign up to attend classes and tours, and get general information about Bard and the campus. If you arrive after 6 pm, you can check in on Saturday between 8:30 am and noon.
Lobby, Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation

One of the most successful extracurricular research experiences for students at Bard is the Bard Summer Research Institute (BSRI), which supports campus-based projects in empirical and quantitative fields including biology, chemistry and biochemistry, computer science, environmental studies, mathematics, physics, and psychology. Students typically spend eight weeks in residence, undertaking individual research projects and being mentored by Bard faculty. Join BSRI students as they present their research and discuss their work.
Lobby, Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation

Replica of a Chip: The Weaving Technology of Marilou Schultz
Replica of a Chip traces the full arc of Schultz’s artistic practice, demonstrating how she has consistently pushed the boundaries of experimentation within Navajo weaving, first through teaching herself new weaving styles, dyes, and techniques and later, using it as a means to reflect on the digital technologies shaping contemporary culture and society—from early computer microprocessors to stock market tickers and other digital data.

Uman: In Between
In Between provides a glimpse into two decades of art by Uman (b. 1980, Somalia), highlighting key moments and innovations in the trajectory of this prolific and pathbreaking artist. Uman’s distinct visual vocabulary first emerges in early paintings, collages, and drawings, then expands into large-scale and densely layered compositions. Always, her process is one of constant working and reworking to enliven a primary set of signs, symbols, colors and textures.
​​​​​​Hessel Museum of Art. Center for Curatorial Studies

Come raise a glass and toast another wonderful growing season at the Bard Farm’s annual harvest party! Enjoy live music, apple cider pressing, activities, snacks, and more.
Bard College Farm Barn

Come for a tour of the Bard College Cemetery. Alumni/ae docents will tell you the stories of some of the cemetery’s illustrious inhabitants, which include members of the Bard family, political philosopher Hannah Arendt, empath Jean Grey, filmmaker Adolfas Mekas, novelist Philip Roth, and many more. Thematic libations and treats provided. Timed admission slots available at registration. Registration required.
Meet at Lych Gate, Bard Cemetery

Join faculty, staff and students for light refreshments to celebrate the 11th year of the auction to support the Fund for Visual Learning (FVL). Faculty, student, and staff works will be available for purchase online and on site at the opening.

The Fund for Visual Learning began in 2014 to lower the financial barriers to students in need, by underwriting the cost of materials for their Studio Arts Program classes and projects. To date, FVL has supported more than 800 students in their classes; and Senior Project exhibitions. More information can be found at bardfvl.com
Fisher Studio Arts Building

Enjoy dinner with other Bard families and alumni/ae. $17 per person; students may use their meal plan cards. Tickets can be purchased at registration or at the door.
Kline Dining Commons

Join librarian Jeremy Hall '98 to learn more about the spooky ghosts that haunt the library and campus! Hear about local legends and lore! Sponsored by the Bard Library and Bard Houses program. Space is limited. Registration is required.
Meet at Lychgate, Bard Cemetery

The Jewish Student Organization invites families and alumni/ae to a Bard Shabbat experience in the Beit Shalom-Salaam House of Peace meeting room. All are welcome to attend an informal Shabbat (Sabbath) service followed by kiddush and a vegetarian dinner with students, faculty, and staff. Advance reservations required. RSVP to [email protected] by October 16.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Residence Hall A

Support your Bard Raptors during Family and Alumni/ae Weekend as the College celebrates the fall season! Bard's Raptors Rally is an annual campus celebration hosted by Bard Athletics to bring the community together. This event recognizes student-athletes and features student club performances, interactive games, and snacks. We are particularly excited to welcome alumni/ae athletes back to campus for this event!
Gym, Stevenson Athletic Center

The Bard Theater and Performance Program presents R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Capek, translated by Claudia Novack, Directed by Dara Malina.
Set Design by Aoshuang Zhang
Costume Design by Karen Boyer
Lighting Design by Daisy Long
Sound Design by Evdoxia Ragkou
This performance (and others throughout the weekend) are free for Bard students, $20 for Bard family members with an option to pay it forward with a $40 ticket; select seats will be discounted for Bard alumni/ae using the BARDALUM promo code. For tickets, visit: fishercenter.bard.edu/series/rossums-universal-robots/


LUMA Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

The Bard Family Leadership Council (FLC) is a volunteer body of current Bard parents and parents of Bard alumni/ae who understand the unique experience that Bard College provides to its students. FLC members serve as ambassadors to Bard College and strengthen the institution through sharing their professional expertise, their wide range of interests with the Bard community and other families, and giving annually to the College. For more information, please contact Mackie Siebens ’12, assistant director of development, family programs, at 845-758-7316 or [email protected].
Room 101, Campus Center North​​​​​​​

Start your day off with a bird walk in the beautiful Tivoli Bays, where you are likely to see a variety of feathered friends: hawks, eagles, wood ducks, and more. Bird enthusiast and member of the Bard College Alumni/ae Association Board of Governors Juliette Zicot ’23 will be your guide. Bring your binoculars, notebook, and hiking boots or waterproof footwear; it may be muddy. Space is limited; registration required.
Meet at the lower-level entrance to the Fisher Center

If you missed registration on Friday, please stop by to check in and sign up to attend a class or take a tour.
Lobby, Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by Frank Gehry, is a premier professional performing arts center and hub for research and education that serves artists at all stages of their careers. In addition to producing original work across genres, the Fisher Center provides an artistic home for the Dance and Theater & Performance Programs, as well as Bard’s student orchestras. Space is limited; sign up at registration.
Sosnoff Theater lobby, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

Join the Center for Civic Engagement’s showcase of Bard student community engagement pathways highlighting regional, national, and international opportunities.
Schwab ’52 Atrium, Franklin W. Olin Humanities Building

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by Frank Gehry, is a premier professional performing arts center and hub for research and education that serves artists at all stages of their careers. In addition to producing original work across genres, the Fisher Center provides an artistic home for the Dance and Theater & Performance Programs, as well as Bard’s student orchestras. Space is limited; sign up at registration.
Sosnoff Theater lobby, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

Step inside Bard’s newest creative space! Join members from Bard’s Theater & Performance and Dance programs for an open studio in the new Maya Lin–designed Performing Arts LAB. Meet Fisher Center LAB resident choreographer Pam Tanowitz, see artists at work, and get a behind-the-scenes look at the creative energy shaping Bard’s newest performing arts space.
Performing Arts Lab

Enjoy brunch with other Bard families and alumni/ae. $17 per person; students may use their meal plan cards. Tickets can be purchased at registration or at the door.
Kline Dining Commons

Drop into the Ralph Ellison Center's open hours to learn more about this meaningful new addition to the Bard College campus. Ralph Ellison taught at Bard College beginning around 1958 and the College established the Ralph Ellison Center after receiving the rights and resources from the Ralph and Fanny Ellison Trust. The center serves as a campus hub and gathering space for writers, artists, and student scholars focusing on multi-modal artistic expression and public dialogue.
The Ralph Ellison Center, Campus Center North

Please join Bard alumni/ae, members of Bard's squash teams, community members, and athletics staff for some fun competition at the squash courts in the Stevenson Athletic Center. Sign up as a team of three or an individual to be placed on a team. If you have questions about the event, please contact Jack Smith '16, Head Men's and Women's Squash Coach at [email protected]. 
Squash Courts, Stevenson Athletic Center

The art gallery is open. Faculty, student, and staff works will be available for purchase online and on site at the opening.

The Fund for Visual Learning began in 2014 to lower the financial barriers to students in need, by underwriting the cost of materials for their Studio Arts Program classes and projects. To date, FVL has supported more than 800 students in their classes; and Senior Project exhibitions. More information can be found at bardfvl.com
Fisher Studio Arts Building

All registrants will be emailed a link on Thursday, October 22 to sign up for classes. Two classes per person will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you miss online registration, you will be able to sign up in person at registration.

All alumni/ae are invited to join members of the Alumni/ae Association Board of Governors for the annual fall meeting. Alumni/ae guests interested in the work of the board are welcome to stay for the whole meeting. At 10:00 am coffee and bagels will be served for board members and alumni/ae guests. The meeting will start promptly at 10:30 am.
Levy Conference Room, Levy Economics Institute, Blithewood Mansion

Visit this historic Hudson River mansion, now home to the Levy Economics Institute, and explore its collection of German and Austrian paintings from the turn of the 20th century. The paintings were a bequest to Bard College from Dr. Edith Neumann.
Blithewood Mansion

Join the Center for Civic Engagement’s showcase of Bard student community engagement pathways highlighting regional, national, and international opportunities.
Schwab ’52 Atrium, Franklin W. Olin Humanities Building

Curious about attention? Join members of staff at the Stevenson Library to discover different forms of attention beyond the traditional association with focus. Learn more about how to reclaim your attention in an increasingly digital age. You'll be able to try out a few fun activities exploring your attention and discuss some of our upcoming events and programs.
Stevenson Library

Join the Bard Office of Sustainability for a walking tour of North Campus and an introduction to the sustainability initiatives on campus, focused on geothermal, green construction practices, solar energy, farming, and environmental stewardship. The tour will start and end at Campus Center North (lower-level), looping past the new Residence Halls, the Bard College Farm, the new Performance Arts Lab, and Robbins Field meadow. Please wear comfortable walking shoes— the tour is a 3/4 mile loop, will traverse grass and gravel areas, and will last 45-60 minutes. Space is limited; sign up at registration.
Meet at the Lower Level, Campus Center North

You are invited to stroll through the historic Blithewood Garden and take in the views of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains. A member of the Horticulture and Arboretum staff will be on-hand to answer your garden questions.
Blithewood Garden

Enjoy a concert performed by Bard faculty. The faculty will play two sets, the first from 11:00 - 11:45 and the second 12:00 -12:45. Jessica Jones, sax; John Esposito, piano; Rich Syracuse, bass; Peter O’Brien, drums.
Bard Hall

Nearly 70 varieties of apples are grown at Bard’s Montgomery Place Campus, and you can sample some of them at our pop-up tasting, thanks to the generous donation from Doug and Talea Fincke at Montgomery Place Orchards. Hosted by the Office of Sustainability and staffed by BardE3 students.
Schwab ’52 Atrium, Franklin W. Olin Humanities Building

All registrants will be emailed a link on Thursday, October 22 to sign up for classes. Two classes per person will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you miss online registration, you may be able to sign up in-person at registration. 

“Empathic Communication and Resilience” is the name that Paul Marienthal, dean for social action and director of the Trustee Leader Scholar (TLS) program, gives to communication that promotes honest and positive connections between people. Getting things right when important relationships are at stake requires specific skills and practices. This workshop is an introduction to the interpersonal communication work done in the TLS program.
Room 213, Bertelsmann Campus Center

An overview of study away opportunities. Learn about Bard’s programs in New York City, Berlin, and Bishkek; study abroad programs via myriad tuition exchanges; and options for foreign language study abroad. 
Olin Hall, Franklin W. Olin Humanities Building
 

Enjoy a tour of campus led by one of our student tour guides. The tour begins with an information session by an admission counselor and ends with a Q&A session. Space is limited; sign up at registration.
Meet at Hopson Cottage

Enjoy a tour of the Montgomery Place grounds, a 380-acre estate and National Historic Landmark adjacent to the main Bard College campus, overlooking the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains and located on the ancestral homelands of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians. Renowned architects, landscape designers, and horticulturists worked to create the mansion, farm, orchards, farmhouse, and other aspects of the site. Montgomery Place was owned by the Livingston family from 1802 until the 1980s. The estate was transferred to Historic Hudson Valley in 1986; Bard College acquired the property in 2016. Space is limited; sign up at registration.
Meet on the Visitors Center porch, Montgomery Place Campus

Gallery tours will also be offered at the top of each hour from 12 pm to 4 pm. The museum closes promptly at 5 pm. Space is limited; sign up at registration.
​​​​​Hessel Museum of Art. Center for Curatorial Studies

Join us for the fourth annual Bard Makers Art and Craft Fair. Shop unique handmade wares and discover the diversity of creativity among Bard students and alumni/ae. Get some early holiday shopping done!
Multipurpose Room, Bertelsmann Campus Center

Visit our Portable Exhibition Booth at the Center for Experimental Humanities. The booth—designed, built, and managed by Bard students and faculty—will host a pop-up exhibition focused on the environmental impacts of AI. Curated by EH Media Corps member, Inju Keum.
New Annandale House

Visiting alumni/ae are invited to a special chili bar lunch featuring Bard College Farm produce. Soft drinks, beer, hard cider, coffee, and local apple crisp are included. Tickets are $35 each and can be purchased through the registration form. Advanced registration required.
Lobby, Blithewood Mansion

Join members of the Bard Debate Union for a roundtable discussion on current affairs, the state of debate in society, and how young people can find their voices in the contemporary political landscape. 
Room 102, Franklin W. Olin Humanities Building
 

Enjoy a concert performed by the Advanced Contemporary Improv student ensemble. Nico Bald, piano; Kaz Borowicz, trumpet & guitar; Isaac Chan, guitar; Jamie Hart, bass; Erin Hobson, guitar; Miriam Kagan-Dubroff, alto sax; Jack Kaminski, piano; Micah Kelleher, drums; Jack Martin, trombone; Duncan Smith, guitar; Jascha Stern – violin
Bard Hall

Join Bard's Acting President, Jonathan Becker; Director of Athletics and Recreation, Stefanie Carrington; Vice President for Development and Alumni/ae Affairs, Debra Pemstein; and members of Bard's Family Leadership Council to cheer on the men's soccer team as they prepare to play RIT at home at Bard's Ferrari Soccer and Lacrosse Complex. Drinks and light bites will be served.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer and Lacrosse Complex, Stevenson Athletic Center

Curious about attention? Join members of staff at the Stevenson Library to discover different forms of attention beyond the traditional association with focus. Learn more about how to reclaim your attention in an increasingly digital age. You'll be able to try out a few fun activities exploring your attention and discuss some of our upcoming events and programs.
Stevenson Library

Come visit the Bard Sugar Shack at Montgomery Place! The Bard Sugar Shack is a Bard Farm Project, used to make Apple and Maple Syrups every year. Paul Marienthal, the dean for social action and director of the TLS program will be there to talk about building the structure with students last year. Students will be there to talk about how they work at the Bard farm and with local farmers. We will have local apples to process and enjoy, come on by!
South end of the Visitors Center parking lot, Montgomery Place Campus

When is a hat more than a covering for the head? Come to the mansion at Montgomery Place to learn about our new course initiative, Material Culture Studies at Montgomery Place. We'll discuss this new phase in the long history of MP as an exciting extension of Bard's educational mission. Students will model the methods of material culture in brief presentations of several collection objects. Space is limited, sign up at registration.
Montgomery Place Mansion, Montgomery Place Campus

The Raptors men’s soccer team plays RIT at home.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer and Lacrosse Complex, Stevenson Athletic Center

Enjoy a tour of the Montgomery Place grounds, a 380-acre estate and National Historic Landmark adjacent to the main Bard College campus, overlooking the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains and located on the ancestral homelands of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians. Renowned architects, landscape designers, and horticulturists worked to create the mansion, farm, orchards, farmhouse, and other aspects of the site. Montgomery Place was owned by the Livingston family from 1802 until the 1980s. The estate was transferred to Historic Hudson Valley in 1986; Bard College acquired the property in 2016. Space is limited; sign up at registration.
Meet on the Visitors Center porch, Montgomery Place Campus

Join Acting President, Jonathan Becker; Associate Vice President for Academic Initiatives and Associate Dean of Bard College, Nicholas Lewis; and Associate Dean of the College, Associate Professor of Biology, Director of Matriculation Experience, and current Bard parent, Brooke Jude for a Q&A about all things Bard. 
Olin Hall, Franklin W. Olin Humanities Building

 

The Office of Student Activities invites you to the pumpkin patch. Come paint a pumpkin around the campfire while savoring local cider donuts and cider with families and alumni/ae.
Anna Jones Memorial Garden
 

Enjoy dinner with other Bard families and alumni/ae. $17 per person; students may use their meal plan cards. Tickets can be purchased at registration or at the door.
Kline Dining Commons

The Bard College Conservatory Orchestra performance will feature jazz pianist, Marcus Roberts, and his trio performing James Johnson's, Yamekraw. The program also includes Beethoven Symphony No. 4 and Elgar Symphony 1. 

You may purchase tickets for the Fisher Center performances online at /fishercenter.bard.edu/series/bard-conservatory-orchestra-conducted-by-leon-botstein/ or by calling 845-758-7900, or in person at the box office in the Sosnoff Theater lobby, Monday-Friday, 10 am – 5 pm, and one hour prior to performance. Tickets are free for Bard students and individual tickets are available for purchase for $10.
Sosnoff Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

See schedule for Friday, 7:30 pm.
LUMA Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

Enjoy brunch with other Bard families and alumni/ae. $17 per person; students may use their meal plan cards. Purchase tickets at registration or at the door.
Kline Dining Commons

The art gallery is open. For more information, see schedule for Friday, 5 pm.
Fisher Studio Arts Building

Join Bard community members for apple gleaning at Greig Farm, three miles from the Bard campus. All apples collected will be donated to Red Hook Responds, a nonprofit that organizes volunteers in our local communities to support those in need. Make sure to wear clothing and durable shoes that you won’t mind getting a little dirty! Please arrange your own transportation. If you have any questions, please reach out to the BardEATS team via email: [email protected]. All are welcome!
Greig Farm, 227 Pitcher Lane, Red Hook, New York 12571

For details, see the schedule for Saturday at 7 pm.
Sosnoff Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

For details, see the schedule for Friday, 7:30 pm.
LUMA Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts