Event Calendar

Combined Men's and Women's classes. Open to Bennington College students, faculty and staff.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Guitarist-composer Mary Halvorson, who has been called "NYC's least predictable improviser," and "the most forward thinking guitarist working right now," teams up with Grammy-nominated bassist-composer Stephan Crump.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Eve Sussman is a Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker who works independently and collectively with her partner Simon Lee and Rufus Corporation, founded in 2003.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation will host their next PFOA Community Meeting at 6pm on Wednesday, September 28 in Tishman.

The winning plays from Dorset Theatre Festival’s Jean E. Miller Young Playwrights Competition, which is supported by Bennington College faculty, students, and alumni, will be performed by Bennington students on Wednesday, September 28, 6:30 p.m., at the Manchester Community Library.

Join us for an informational workshop on planning for your child's college education, facilitated by Director of Financial Aid Heather Clifford.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Act 77 is a new Vermont law that relates to personal learning plans and proficiency-based standards in Vermont's schools. The VT Department of Education and teachers and staff from SVSU will be present to discuss these new educational initiatives.

Society, Culture, & Thought at Bennington College will host discussion and reception to celebrate the release of Losing Afghanistan: An Obituary for the Intervention (Stanford UP). Noah will ​discuss the research that informed this book, as well as where his work is headed now. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and light dessert will be served.

The Center for the Advancement of Public Action, in collaboration with Mirka Prazak and Susan Sgorbati, will host a think tank on building an undergraduate curriculum in peacebuilding for Bennington College. A panel discussion open to the public will be held on Saturday, October 1 and will include presentations by students on their projects in Sanski Most, Bosnia at the Center for Peacebuilding this past summer.

On tour from Minneapolis - THE NAKED I: SELF-DEFINED - the 4th in a series of NAKED I plays - explores queer and transgender experiences through monologues, short scenes, spoken word poems, and more. The production had its world premiere in February 2016 in Minneapolis, MN, and is now touring the country. Don't miss this one-time-only event!

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Horse’s Mouth and opener the DuPont Brothers to the Masonic Hall at 504 Main Street in Bennington, VT. This Special Fall concert is in Partnership with Bennington College's Program Activity Council, Free Shuttle for Students Leaving the Flagpole at 7:30pm

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Kerry Ryer-Parke, Bruce Williamson, and Mowgli Giannitti ’16 will perform jazz standards from Milton Avery’s era at the Bennington Museum as part of the “Music at the Museum” series. Tune in on October 2 at 2:00 PM.