Event Calendar
Pick a DateCollective Affinities
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | "Collective Affinities" presents personal collections created and held by Bennington College faculty, staff, and alums, with contents ranging from leather luggage to subway tickets, cat whiskers to nutcrackers, and belly-dancing records to pulp-fiction paperbacks. Image: Detail of belly-dancing records collected by Brenda Corman Alpar, ’62, and her son, Joseph Alpar, Bennington music faculty
Fall Saturday Visit
Info session, student-led campus tour, meal in the dining hall, and optional interviews designed for high school and transfer students interested in Bennington College.
Belly Dance Workshop and Conversation with Brenda “Alexandra” Alpar
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Brenda Corman Alpar '62 will give a belly dance workshop featuring basic steps, veil work, cane dance, zill (finger cymbal) playing, and characteristic costumes, while sharing her experience as a professional dancer, musician, and teacher in the vibrant Middle Eastern music and dance scene of New York City in the 1970s.
Drama at Bennington Presents: The House of Bernarda Alba - Student Production
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Drama at Bennington Presents: The House of Bernarda Alba - Student Production, November 1st and 2nd, 8:00 - 9:15 pm, VAPA Lester Martin Theater. Written by Federico García Lorca, The House of Bernarda Alba tells the story of Bernarda Alba and her five daughters who, after the death of Bernarda's second husband, start an eight year mourning locked inside her house. This student production is directed by Lorena Fernandez '25 and José Rubén Ruiz '26, who also adapted the text based on Caridad Svich's translation. To get tickets, email tickets@bennington.edu.