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October

Featured Events (column 1)

  • Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

    Monday, October 1, 2012
    6:30 PM | CAPA Symposium

    Vermont Public Television and Bennington College are pleased to premiere the new movie by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.


  • Visual Arts Lecture Series: Joanne Greenbaum

    Tuesday, October 2, 2012
    7:30 PM | Tishman Lecture Hall

    Joanne Greenbaum’s playful abstractions approach painting with a sense of liberation. Primarily concerned with the formalism of plastic arts, her canvases don’t follow proscribed formulas of conventional painting, but rather continuously test and expand the possibilities by which painting can evolve.

  • Carriage Barn Series: Matthew Shipp Trio

    Tuesday, October 2, 2012
    8:00 PM | Deane Carriage Barn

    Matthew Shipp Trio with Whit Dickey and Michael Bisio. "The combination of the intellectual and the emotional is seamless and creates a transcendent whole that goes beyond jazz to evoke a universe of distinctive musical possibility."

  • Social Science Colloquium: Out of the Studio, Into the Streets—Kimball Gallagher

    Monday, October 8, 2012
    7:00 PM | CAPA Symposium

    Kimball Gallagher, a Juilliard-trained classical pianist and Deputy Director of Cultures in Harmony, an organization that brings Western classical musicians to locations in the developing world for music instruction, concertizing, and cultural exchange, will talk about music and cultural diplomacy.


  • Visual Arts Lecture Series: Jason Middlebrook

    Tuesday, October 9, 2012
    7:30 PM | Tishman Lecture Hall

    Jason Middlebrook’s exhibitions normally involve multiple media like drawing, painting, sculpture and installation. Wood planks stand-in for stretched canvas for his mandala-like compositions. His work, quite literally, runs either with or against the grain.


  • Carriage Barn Series: Janine Nichols and Semi-Free

    Tuesday, October 9, 2012
    8:00 PM | Deane Carriage Barn

    Music as slow motion thrill ride featuring singer/writer/rhythm guitarist Janine Nichols; guitarist Brandon Ross, and violinist Charlie Burnham.

  • Dead Man's Cell Phone

    Saturday & Sunday, October 13 & 14, 2012
    8:00 PM | Margot Tenney Theater

    While at a café, a man dies. But his cell phone will not stop ringing. The woman at the next table, Jean, picks up the cell phone and ends up stuck in the middle of all his troubles. This is a student directing project by Ashley Connell.

  • Social Science Colloquium: Out of the Studio, Into the Streets—Paul Rapp

    Monday, October 15, 2012
    7:00 PM | CAPA Symposium

    Paul Rapp, intellectual property attorney, instructor at Albany Law School, and former rock guitarist, will discuss the practice of music in the digital age.


  • Carriage Barn Series: Kenji Bunch

    Tuesday, October 16, 2012
    8:00 PM | Deane Carriage Barn

    Kenji Bunch has emerged as one of the most engaging, influential, and prolific American composers of his generation. A versatile musician with a deep interest in vernacular American music and improvisation, he also plays bluegrass fiddle in addition to the violin and his own works on the viola.


  • Adams–Tillim Lecture: Pat Adams

    Tuesday, October 23, 2012
    7:30 PM | Tishman Lecture Hall

    Up to Now: Reading Affect—alienating ourselves through external forces. Pat Adams, former visual arts faculty member and for whom—along with Sidney Tillim—this lecture is named, has stayed true to her visual and spiritual focus without diverging from Modernist abstraction. Her paintings fuse the inward realm of feeling with the external realm of cause and effect.


  • Carriage Barn Series: Michael Wimberly and Guests

    Tuesday, October 23, 2012
    8:30 PM | Deane Carriage Barn

    Faculty member, composer, percussionist, and music producer Michael Wimberly’s compositions appear in repertoires at Joffrey Ballet, Alvin Ailey, Forces of Nature, Ballet Noir, BalEthinic, and the National Song and Dance Company of Mozambique.

  • Postponed—date tbd
    Poetry at Bennington Presents: Mark Doty

    Wednesday, October 31, 2012
    7:00 PM | Tishman Lecture Hall

    National Book Award-winning poet Mark Doty will present and discuss his work as part of the Poetry at Bennington reading and lecture series.

november

Featured Events (column 2)

  • Social Science Colloquium: Out of the Studio, Into the Streets—Linda Richards

    Monday, November 5, 2012
    7:00 PM | CAPA Symposium

    Linda Richards from Clearwater, an environmental organization devoted to cleaning and protecting the Hudson River, will discuss “the power of song.” an integral element in the organization’s strategy since its inception.

  • Linda Matalon: Middle Falls

    Tuesday, November 6, 2012
    7:30 PM | Tishman Lecture Hall

    Linda Matalon is a second-generation Post-Minimalist. She operates at a remove from the style's originators, but remains a true believer, expanding and refining a known vocabulary with her own expressive needs, approach to materials and assured touch. Usdan Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. The exhibition continues through November 30.

  • Martha Hill Dance Concert

    Friday, November 9, 2012
    8:00 PM | Martha Hill Dance Theater/VAPA

    An evening of dance.

  • Social Science Colloquium: Out of the Studio, Into the Streets—Marie Racine Montilla

    Monday, November 12, 2012
    7:00 PM | CAPA Symposium

    Marie Racine Montilla, will address music as an agent of social change. A classically trained violinist, she now runs an El Sistema-inspired (the Venezuelan movement for social change), project in the Haitian community in Boston.

  • Visual Arts Lecture Series: Graham Shane

    Tuesday, November 13, 2012
    7:30 PM | Tishman Lecture Hall

    Graham Shane received his Architectural Diploma from the Architectural Association (London) and his Master of Architecture (Urban Design) and Doctor of Philosophy in Architectural and Urban History from Cornell University. He specializes in Urban Design and has lectured widely in Europe and Asia.

  • Former Senator Russ Feingold Community Discussion

    Wednesday, November 14, 2012
    8:00 PM | Student Center

    Russ Feingold, co-chair for the 2012 Obama/Biden campaign, co-sponsor of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (commonly known as the “McCain–Feingold Act”), former member of the Judiciary, Foreign Relations, Budget, and Intelligence Committees, and author of While America Sleeps about the failings of America domestically and abroad since 9/11, will host a community discussion. Members of the local community as well as the College are welcome. Admission is free.

  • The School for Lies

    Friday, Saturday, Sunday, November 16, 17, 18, 2012
    8:00 PM | Lester Martin Theater

    Rambunctious, sexy, snide, witty—and it rhymes! The School for Lies is playwright David Ives' hip and hilarious adaptation of Moliere's 17th century comic masterpiece The Misanthrope. The play skewers hypocrisy in the arenas of love, law, and art, while paying sly homage to Richard Wilbur's great English verse translation. Directed by faculty member Kathleen Dimmick.For tickets call the Box Office at 440-4572 or tickets@bennington.edu

  • Ruth D. Ewing Social Science Lecture: Joanne Pottlitzer

    Monday, November 26, 2012
    7:00 PM | CAPA Symposium

    Joanne Pottlitzer is a freelance playwright and theater producer/director, painter, writer, teacher, founder of Theatre of Latin America, Inc., and the winner of two Obie and three Fulbright Awards among many others.

December

Featured Events (column 3)

  • WIP Dance Concert

    Thursday, December 6, 2012
    7:00 PM | Dance Studio E303/VAPA

    Student Works in Progress


  • Jazz Ensemble Concert

    Thursday, December 6, 2012
    9:00 PM | DownCaf

    Bennington College's 8-member Jazz Ensemble will present an end-of-term concert in an intimate jazz-club atmosphere, performing classic jazz works by Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, and others.

  • Studio Dance Concert

    Monday, December 10, 2012
    7:00 PM | Dance Studio E303/VAPA

    An evening of dance

  • Sage City Symphony

    Sunday, December 2, 2012
    4:00 PM | Greenwall Auditorium/VAPA

    Tzigane for Solo Violin and Orchestra, by Maurice Ravel, Kaori Washiyama, soloist