Event Calendar

CALLING ALL BENNINGTON STUDENTS!
dancers, jugglers, unicycle riders, fire eaters, drummers, horn players, botanists, mathematicians...COME OUT and join the parade!

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

Deborah Howe, Collections Conservator at Dartmouth College Library, and Lizzie Curran '10, Bennington alumna and Master Book Conservator, will meet for lunch and conversation with students who have an interest in archival materials/maintenance, book arts, letterpress, and book conservation as professions.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Computer Science faculty candidate Patrick Donnelly will be giving a presentation titled " Teaching a Computer to Recognize Musical Instruments "

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | A film screening of the Netflix Original documentary 13th will begin at 7:00 PM and will be followed by a panel and discussion at 8:45 PM.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Deborah Howe, Collections Conservator at Darmouth College Library, & Lizzie Curran, Bennington alumna and Master Book Conservator, will give a presentation on the revival and restoration of books from the middle ages and the multi-disciplinary approach to book construction and paper arts.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Visiting faculty member Sergei Tcherepnin presents his eclectic work in performance, composition, and sound installation.

The Alliance for Community Transformations, a community organization focused on reducing substance abuse and empowering youth in Bennington, is having its annual retreat and invites any interested Bennington students to attend!

Donika Kelly is a poet and a scholar. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Bestiary is her debut collection and is the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | (4th Concert of Series) - Pianists Christopher Lewis and Yoshiko Sato continue their concert series devoted to performances of the complete Piano Sonatas of Ludwig Van Beethoven.

The Editions/Artist' Book Fair will be open from 11:00 AM—7:00 PM November 3—6 at 269 11th Avenue, New York NY and will feature work by Bennington faculty.

The Student Gift Committee will be hosting an open meeting November 3rd at 1:00 in Down Commons.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Please join us on November 3rd for a discussion and reception to celebrate the release of Making the Mark: Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting (Ohio University Press). Mirka will discuss the research that informed this book, its place in current debates, and where her work is headed now.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Are you registered to vote in Vermont? Want to know more about the candidates running for Governor? Tune in at the Student Center!

Students from Glocalization 101, along with some faculty members, will host pop-up conversations. Each one will take 15 minutes, with three total. Come join us and Ella, Crina, Noah, Lopa, Erika, and Mariko to talk about this election!

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | These discussions are aimed at understanding masculinity from a male-identified perspective. In addition to exploring the connections between masculinity and themes of violence and power, this will also be a space for introspection on how concepts and expectations of 'manliness' and 'masculinity' shape our relationships, aspirations, fears, achievements, and identity. As the term progresses, we will discuss shared readings and host film screenings on these topics.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Japanese students will demonstrate, and participants will experience: tea ceremony, brush pen calligraphy, origami, and kimono try on

Join Sally Dean for a community workshop on the Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT).

Maboula Soumahoro will speak on Europe and America in the black literary imagination as part of Festival Albertine, a celebration of French and American culture.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Alumni artists will be in residence at Bennington College as part of a new program funded by a grant from an anonymous foundation.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Rokhaya Diallo is a writer, journalist, film dIrector, and activist. Her film "Steps to Liberty" will be shown at 7:00 at Tishman and will be followed by a conversation on race and multiculturalism through a transatlantic lens with Maboula Soumahoro.