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Ethnohistory, Language Variation, and Political Metaphors in Mayan Hieroglyphic Texts

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Rebecca Dinkel is a linguistic anthropologist & visiting faculty member at Bennington for Spring 2025.

Literature Book Party

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Please join us for a book party and signing with 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ literature faculty Mariam Rahmani, Farnoosh Fathi, and Stuart Nadler, featuring food, drink, and short readings from the writers—free and open to all!

Shala Miller

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Cleveland-born Shala Miller works across photography, film, writing, music, and performance as a means of meditating on the conjunction of desire, mourning, pain, and pleasure.

2000-level registration for Fall 2025 begins, 1:00pm (up to 4 credits)

Senior Reading

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Please join us in celebrating the work of graduating Bennington students from the class of 2025 who have completed a senior project in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or literary criticism. Each student will read for five minutes from their senior thesis.

4000-level registration for Fall 2025 begins

Free Online Webinar: Microplastics’ Impact on the Brain & Heart

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Recent studies have found small fragments of plastics known as microplastics in the human brain and heart arteries. These studies have also shown a link between the presence of microplastics and adverse health outcomes. How do these tiny bits of plastic enter our bodies and make their way into our brains and our hearts? And what happens when they lodge there? Join Beyond Plastics, Physicians for Social Responsibility - NYS, and Environmental Advocates of New York for a free educational webinar on these questions.

Senior Works

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The BFA Dance Lab presents Senior Works, including projects by catherine bauermann, evie bondon, Aaliyah Fisher, Rylee Johnson, Sarah Ana Malone, Ella Sommer Martin, jolie padilla, Paige Sheldon, Ear(lisi)a Schumaker, and Ciani Monét.

Deadline: Students | Final day to change a FWT registration

2000-level registration for Fall 2025 continues, 1:00pm (up to 18 credits)

Spring Dance Series

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The BFA Dance Lab presents Spring Dance Series, including new choreographic works by Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Gary W Jeter II, Paul Matteson, Netta Yerushalmy, and Critical Dance Processes: Actions II, directed by Sidra Bell and kira shiina.

Spring Dance Series

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The BFA Dance Lab presents Spring Dance Series, including new choreographic works by Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Gary W Jeter II, Paul Matteson, Netta Yerushalmy, and Critical Dance Processes: Actions II, directed by Sidra Bell and kira shiina.

Loom of Tongues #7: A bilingual miscellany of performances in Spanish and English by Lena Retamoso Urbano, visiting faculty member, and Bennington students

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Bennington students read, perform, and show a variety of creative works in progress that revolve around their unique and diverse responses, interventions, and approaches to the literary, artistic, cultural, and historical artifacts from the Spanish-speaking world.

Drama@Bennington Presents: NIGHT OF ETERNAL MADNESS

CAMPUS COMMUNITY ONLY | As the sun sinks to the horizon, the madness of the Yellow King begins to spread across 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ. A madness that will grow to consume the whole world if nothing is done to stop it. Join us for this campus-wide immersive theatrical scavenger hunt and encounter horrors from beyond our world! Conceived by Thorn Ansari in collaboration with Co Collaborator: Killion Knight and Producer: Lily Ercoline. Created with the Advanced Design and Collaboration Class. Please check in front of Commons on the Lawn facing the end of the world at 7:00 p.m.

Senior Works

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The BFA Dance Lab presents Senior Works, including projects by catherine bauermann, evie bondon, Aaliyah Fisher, Rylee Johnson, Sarah Ana Malone, Ella Sommer Martin, jolie padilla, Paige Sheldon, Ear(lisi)a Schumaker, and Ciani Monét.

Wonderland Tea Party

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Dive down the rabbit hole with Uptown Stories' Wonderland Tea Party! Participate in fun games led by our amazing teachers for the chance to win prizes, and enjoy delicious treats and beverages provided by local businesses.