Upcoming Events

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Oct. 5, 2024, 12:00–3:00 p.m.

ALANA Fest makes visible, celebrates, and builds community with students of color at Vassar. This event featuring local food vendors, performances, tabling/interactive activities, and more! Free and open to all. Please RSVP.

Two people blowing into a wind instrument on stage during a concert.
Oct. 5, 2024, 8:00 p.m.

Eduardo Navega, conductor.

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

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Oct. 6, 2024, 3:00 p.m.

A recital of music in, or in opposition to, the key of C. Thomas Sauer, piano.

Shahla Ujayli wearing a black long sleeved shirt and double strand of pearls with bookshelves in the background.
Oct. 8, 2024, 5:30–7:00 p.m.

A book talk with award-winning Syrian writer Shahla Ujayli and translator Michelle Hartman.

Campus community only, please.

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New York City-based artist Paul Pfeiffer has been working in video, photography, installation, and sculpture since the late 1990s. Known for his innovative and sculptural manipulation of digital media, Pfeiffer recasts the visual language of mass media spectacle to examine how images shape our awareness of ourselves and the world.

Graphic with a pie chart with numeric symbols and text that reads: Investment Basics Seminar presented by JP Morgan.
Oct. 10, 2024, 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

This seminar will cover what investing is, what steps to take, how to build a portfolio, and goal based investing.

Campus community only, please. RSVP required.

A blurry frame from the film "Power" by Yance Ford. It shows a group of police officers in helmets, holding batons and marching in a line.

The Film Department will be hosting a screening of Yance Ford’s new film Power, which traces the accumulation of money, the consolidation of political power, and the nearly unrestricted bipartisan support that has created the institution of policing as we know it. Followed by a Q&A with the director moderated by Professor Mia Mask.

Campus community only, please.

Ongoing Events

The Marilyn Swartz Seven ’69 Award was established by friends and classmates of the late Ms. Seven to support an annual playwriting competition open to all Vassar juniors and seniors from any discipline.