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August: Osage County—Fall 2016
August: Osage County--Final performance
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | TIME CHANGE, EVENT NOW BEGINS AT 7:30 PM
Event occurs from November. 12-14. | Three generations of an Oklahoma family gather for the ultimate dysfunctional reunion. A darkly funny and viciously nihilistic dissection of the dissolution of the American family and the disillusion of the American dream. Mature content.
Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS)—Fall 2016
Bob Nickas Conversation on Curatorial Practice
Bob Nickas is a critic and curator based in New York. He has organized more than eighty exhibitions since 1984 and served on the teams responsible for Aperto at the Venice Biennale in 1993 and the 2003 Biennale de Lyon. In addition to his VALS lecture, he will meet with a smaller group of students from 1-2pm to discuss his curatorial practice.
Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS)—Fall 2016
Bob Nickas: "100 Paintings in 100 Years"
A critic and independent curator based in New York, Bob Nickas has organized more than ninety exhibitions since 1984, and earned a reputation for an individual style that transgresses the accepted.
[Time Change] Music Festival
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | TIME CHANGE Come join Music Festival at Bennington College! Music Festival is a showing of a range of student work in music performances that run the gamut from student compositions to a class re-orchestration of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. Come see what your musical peers have been up to for the past term!
Love Trumps Hate March!
Come march with us Wednesday, November 16, at 1pm. We are meeting in the Walmart parking lot (near Merchants Bank) and marching to Main Street. March for love; march for equality; march for human rights!
Reading: Idra Novey
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Idra Novey is the author of the debut novel Ways to Disappear, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the Brooklyn Eagles Prize. This Fall she is the Visiting Distinguished Writer in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at LIU Brooklyn.
Of Chemophobes & Controversies: Chemistry in the Age of PFOA
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Bennington College faculty member John Bullock will be presenting a workshop.
Conceptions of Masculinity Discussion
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.