Join us for Poughkeepsie Farm Project’s 3rd Annual Harvest Fest, our biggest celebration of the year! The Fest is a family-friendly music festival featuring food trucks, maker market, kids activities, craft beer & wine, and community on the farm! Funds raised help feed Poughkeepsie families. RAIN OR SHINE!

A Screening of Jennifer Reeves’ The Gloria of Your Imagination followed by a Q&A with the director.

The Asian Studies Program Annual Gandhi Lecture. Jyotsna Vaid ’76 will discuss the remarkable life of her late sister, the renowned LGBTQ+ activist Urvashi Vaid ’79.

This event is open to the public.

Ukrainian born artist Larissa Tokmakova’s latest paintings will be on view at the Palmer Gallery from October 16 to November 23.

This talk draws on Philip V. McHarris’s book Beyond Policing to examine the failures of policing as a framework for safety and the ways Black communities have long enacted practices of care, protection, and refusal beyond the state.

The Engaged Pluralism Open House is a campus-wide celebration where students, staff, faculty, administrators, and organizations share passions, talents, and creative practices to spark curiosity, conversation, and community.

Campus community only, please.

A new schedule for this concert will be announced at a later date.

Join us for free drop-in family programs on select Sundays. 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.

Eduardo Navega, conductor

This event is open to the public.

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

Acorn cookies?! Sumac tea?! Both are delicious! Come on out and have a taste at the Vassar Arboretum’s pop-up event showcasing the various kinds of food that come from trees.

Tita Chico ’91, University of Maryland Professor of English, will discuss the literary history of 18th-century technology.

Elana Herzog is an installation artist and sculptor who uses material culture to consider aspects of ephemerality, entropy, pleasure, and pain, focusing on the global migration of culture and technology as seen through the lens of textiles. Herzog will give a talk on her work titled “Being Always in Relation.”

This event is open to the public.

A recital of works by Mozart, Chopin, Robert Schumann, György Ligeti, Unsuk Chin and Hans Abrahamsen evoking experiences of day and night. Performed by Thomas Sauer, piano, Adjunct Artist in Music.

This event is open to the public.

ALANA Fest is one of the Jeh Vincent Johnson ALANA Cultural Center’s core events, and it makes visible, celebrates, and builds community with students of color at Vassar.

This event is open to the public.

A recital of idiosyncratic songs by David Alpher, exploring his settings of uniquely American poetry from the Transcendentalists to the Beat Generation. Courtenay Budd, soprano, Sharon Harms, soprano, Robert Osborne, bass-baritone, and David Alpher, composer/piano.

This event is open to the public.

Sherrilyn Ifill ’84 discusses reimagining a new American democracy, and the role of the legal profession in defending civil rights for this year’s Norman E. Hodges Biennial Lecture.

The Jeff “Siege” Siegel Quartet presents original compositions celebrating 21 years together, highlighted by four European tours, a tour of Africa, and performances throughout the northeastern U.S.

This event is open to the public.

The Office of Community-Engaged Learning (OCEL) Community Fellows Symposium is a gathering that celebrates and uplifts the collaborative work of our Community Fellows and their partner organizations.

Vassar welcomes family members back to campus for a weekend of panels, performances, outdoor fun, art sales, and lots more!

With music of Schubert, Marais and Bartok-Arma, this concert celebrates the conjunction of theme and variation in printmaking and music. Susan Rotholz, flute, Anna Polonsky, piano.

This event is open to the public.