News and Events

Upcoming Events

Painting of Simon Tosky

Open World: The Paintings of Simon Tosky

Oct 25 through Nov 19

Vassar College Bowl Night

Zoom College Bowl during National Chemistry Week 2021

Oct 27, 7:00 p.m.

Desmond Richardson

Desmond Richardson will speak about his career as a dancer, choreographer, and director of Complexions Contemporary Ballet Company

Oct 27, 6:00 p.m.

Claire Messud

Acclaimed novelist and essayist Claire Messud to deliver the 2021 William Gifford Lecture

Nov 2, 6:00 p.m.

Pascale Sablan

“I Was Asked to Stand”: A lecture by Pascale Sablan

Nov 3, 6:00 p.m.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with English Professor Amitava Kumar

Nov 8, 8:00 p.m.

Willem van Mieris (Dutch, 1662–1747), Portrait of Dina Margareta de Bye, 1705, oil on panel, 12 3/4 × 10 1/2 in. (32.4 × 26.7 cm), The Leiden Collection, New York. Photograph courtesy of The Leiden Collection.

A Taste for Change: Towards an Early Modern Aesthetics of Transformation, a virtual lecture by Claudia Swan

Nov 10, 4:00 p.m.

Rachel Elfenbein ’01 to discuss her book Engendering Revolution: Women, Unpaid Labor, and Maternalism in Bolivarian Venezuela

Rachel Elfenbein ’01 to discuss her book Engendering Revolution: Women, Unpaid Labor, and Maternalism in Bolivarian Venezuela

Nov 16, 5:00 p.m.

Peter Gil-Sheridan Photo

New Off-Broadway play by Vassar Drama Professor Peter Gil-Sheridan

Feb 22 through Apr 2

Ongoing Events

Open auditions! Seeking actors and musicians for two upcoming productions

Oct 7 through Nov 5

Qigong Zoom Class

Sep 20 through Dec 6

Annual playwriting competition open to all juniors and seniors

Sep 20 through Jan 21

The Vassar College Music Department invites the community to return to Skinner Hall for its Fall 2021 Concert Series

Aug 29 through Dec 5