The Arts

Past Events

May 2, 2025, 7:30 p.m.

Featuring student winners of the soloist competition. Eduardo Navega, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Music by Dmitri Shostakovich, George Gershwin, Matthew Mauro, and H. Owen Reed. James Osborn, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Adult woman and child stand with their backs to the viewer, looking at modern paintings in an art gallery.

Join us for free drop-in family programs on select Sundays this spring. Each date will feature different hands-on art activities inspired by art on view. Activities can be modified for all ages, but are best suited for children 5 and up.

Apr. 26, 2025, 7:30 p.m.

A Night at the Opera. Choruses from operas by Monteverdi, Gluck, Verdi, Offenbach, and others. Drew Minter, conductor.

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Apr. 24, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

Join us for our 20–30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director. Bridge for Laboratory Sciences

Photo of painted rocks.

Come celebrate Earth Day by contributing to our community rock garden! No artistic skills necessary—we are just painting for fun. All ages welcome.

Illustration of a tree in black on white background.

Sondheim’s classic American musical inspired by traditional fairy tales. Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine. This production is a senior project led by Annie Brewer, Liam Oley, and Abby Wilson.

Five dancers dressed in grey and black, facing to their left with one arm overhead and the other arm across their bodies.

Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre presents a series of three Spring Concerts on April 17 at 7 p.m., and April 19th at 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The programs feature hip-hop, ballet, modern and contemporary choreography including works by Merce Cunningham and George Balanchine as well as new pieces by faculty and students.

Apr. 17, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

Join us for our 20-30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director.

Apr. 12, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

Perspectives of Love: a Senior Recital by Talia Mayo, soprano. An afternoon reflection on how love changes over time featuring works by Gioachino Rossini, Gabriel Fauré, Adam Guettel, Jason Robert Brown, and more.

Rehearsal image focused on one singer with others in the background.
Apr. 12, 2025, 4:00 p.m.

A Musical Repast. What is better than food and music? Music about food! Songs about eating by Orlando Gibbons, Clément Jannequin and others. Drew Minter, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

The three artists posing with their instruments.

Fauré Piano Quartet #2 and the Dohnányi Serenade: Faculty members Marka Young, violin, and Marija Ilić, piano, perform two great works that bridged the gap between Romanticism and Modernity. With Lauren Byrne, viola, and Jeanne Fox, cello.

Apr. 5, 2025, 7:00 p.m.

Awake, Arise, Dance! Music by Gustav Holst, Gabriel Fauré, Mark Patterson, Lisa Young, Sheena Phillips, and others. Susan Bialek, conductor. Please note a change: This concert will start at 7:00 p.m.

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

A string and wind ensemble performing, seated.
Apr. 3, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

Join us for our 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director. Bridge for Laboratory Sciences.

And orange circle graphic with the words "Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play by Anne Washburn" overlayed.

Anne Washburn’s imaginative dark comedy—a play with music featuring songs by Washburn and Michael Friedman—propels us forward nearly a century, following a new civilization stumbling into its future. Reservations required.

Campus community only, please.

Adult woman and child stand with their backs to the viewer, looking at modern paintings in an art gallery.
Mar. 30, 2025, 1:00–3:00 p.m.

Join the Loeb for free drop-in family programs on select Sundays this spring. Each date will feature different hands-on art activities inspired by art on view. Activities can be modified for all ages, but are best suited for children 5 and up. 

 

Artwork, tissue on paper, featuring a panda

The exhibit offers children the chance to be recognized as artists with their own points of view and the desire to express themselves. The show also highlights the positive difference art teachers can make in the lives of their students; they can encourage students to take pride in their work, as well as inspire a lifelong interest in art.

Adult woman and child stand with their backs to the viewer, looking at modern paintings in an art gallery.
Mar. 9, 2025, 2:00–4:00 p.m.

Join the Loeb for FREE drop-in family programs on select Sundays this spring. Each date will feature different hands-on art activities inspired by art on view. Activities can be modified for all ages, but are best suited for children 5 and up. 

A collage in four quadrents, each with a headshot
Mar. 2, 2025, 3:00 p.m.

Sugar Hill Salon is one of the first chamber music artistic collectives that centers on black and brown woodwind artistry in classical music. Amir Farsi, flute, Tamara Winston, oboe, Ian Tyson, clarinet, Alexander Davis, bassoon.

A violinist playing in a rehearsal
Mar. 1, 2025, 7:30 p.m.

Featuring student winners of the soloist competition. Eduardo Navega, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

A decorative background image with the words, "Barbecue by Robert O’Hara" overlayed on the image.
Feb. 27, 8:00–10:00 p.m. – Mar. 1, 2025

A play by Robert O’Hara. Guest Director, Taylor Reynolds. Barbecue is about a dysfunctional family staging an intervention. Campus guests only, please. Reservations required.

Image of a gas mask respirator with a text overlay that reads: "BE SERIOUSLY SCARED!" A Shot Across The Bow Toward Nuclear Disarmament.
Feb. 25, 2025, 6:00 p.m.

A dynamic, interactive experience that blends performance art, game-show fun, a thought-provoking lecture, and a captivating film screening—all aimed at exploring the horror and danger of nuclear weapons and nuclear war. Open to the public.

A photographic portrait of Gerald Sim.

At a time of both urgent need for algorithmic literacy and heightened social division, it is vital to understand the politicized grammar with which we talk and think about AI. This talk by Gerald Sim will focus on visual media whose power derives from being uniquely vivid, engaging, and visceral.

Campus community only, please.

Closeup of performer playing French horn
Feb. 23, 2025, 3:00 p.m.

Music by Percy Grainger, Arturo Márquez, and Aaron Copland. James Osborn, conductor.

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live