Celebrate Spice Week at the Greenhouse by making a custom tea blend! This event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Anton Treuer illuminates the contemporary realities of Indigenous peoples and the larger forces shaping how Americans understand race, identity, culture, and one another.

This event is free and open to the public.

Prof. Katie Acosta discusses how queer stepfamilies navigated both the legal landscape and the challenges of “plural parenting” in the context of marriage equality litigation.

Public health programs often launch with energy and fade when the funding ends. Shoba Ramanadhan, ScD, will discuss how partnering with community-based organizations can help communities sustain effective programs and address health inequities.

This event is free and open to the public.

James Osborn, conductor.

This event is free and open to the public.

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

An amalgam of American choral music from Billings to Bobby McFerrin. Drew Minter, conductor.

This event is free and open to the public.

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

Make a Circle is a powerful, award-winning documentary that honors the vital work of early educators and offers an inspiring blueprint for transforming our child care system. Join us for a special screening and community discussion led by local experts at Vassar College to explore how we can build a stronger future together. Learn what’s happening to improve our community of care right here in Dutchess County. Update: This event has been canceled.

A new public lecture series dedicated to the role truth and objectivity play in promoting an informed citizenry. Please join us for a conversation with Emmy winning journalist Natasha Bertrand ’14. Registration Required.

This event is free and open to the public.

Join us for our 20–30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program.

This event is free and open to the public.

By John Kander and Fred Ebb

Open to the public, reservations required.

Join us for a lecture delivered by Rebecca Nedostup, Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Brown University.

In this talk, Charles Yuan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will show how the basic programming abstractions upon which many quantum algorithms rely can fail to work correctly or efficiently on a quantum computer.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Play of Opposites: Works of Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, and Dutilleux that explore notions of musical opposition. Thomas Sauer, piano.

This event is free and open to the public.

Skylark presents Sleepy Hollow, a haunting musical retelling of Washington Irving’s Hudson Valley ghost story featuring narration and cello improvisation.

This event is free and open to the public.

Celebrate Halloween with unusual plants, taxidermy, a hands-on activity, seasonal treats, and a costume contest.

This event is free and open to the public.

Join us at the Olmsted Greenhouse for a calm doodling session with Vassar’s Counseling Center! No artistic skills necessary—we are just doodling for fun and to calm the mind. All ages welcome.

This event is free and open to the public.

National Book Award finalist, Michael L. Printz Award recipient, Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe New Talent Award winner, and New York Times best-selling author Nicola Yoon talks with the audience at Vassar College.

This event is free and open to the public.

Andrea Fraser is an artist and professor at the University of California Los Angeles. Her work investigates the social, financial, and affective economies of cultural institutions, fields, and groups.

The event is free and open to the public.

Director Cinqué Lee joins Professor Mia Mask for a discussion following a screening of his film A Rare Grand Alignment.

This event is free and open to the public.

Falguni Sheth examines how racialization shapes South Asian American identity through narratives of “good” and “bad” immigrants.

Campus community only, please.