Past Events
Christine Howlett, Susan Bialek, conductors.
This event is free and open to the public.
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
A staged reading of the play celebrating its 95th year. Directed by Majka Kiely-Miller ’27. The great American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder wrote a holiday masterpiece: the moving, funny, sometimes sorrowful, ingeniously theatrical one-act play The Long Christmas Dinner.
This event is free and open to the public. Reservations required.
Film Screening and Discussion with Choreographer and Filmmaker Tamar Rogoff.
The Mid-Hudson Valley TechMeet is an annual event that brings Computer Science and other STEM students from the region together to showcase their work in a poster session.
Professional Noh artist Mayo Miwa introduces Japanese Noh theatre—one of Japan’s oldest surviving performing arts traditions—in a lecture and live performance.
Campus community only, please.
Explore language and identity through a documentary screening and discussion with filmmaker Jan Müller and featured participant Brock Schreiber.
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.
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.
The C. Mildred Thompson Lecture: “The Space-Time of Wartime Displacement in Modern China and Taiwan”
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.