	Thursday, May 21, 2026 Chance Encounters with John Cage: Ed McKeon on Curatorial Composing Online Event; Zoom 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join us for a discussion on "curatorial composing," focusing on works by John Cage, Heiner Goebbels, Pauline Oliveros, and others. “Curatorial composing” is curatorial producer and researcher Ed McKeon’s term for the way John Cage shifts attention from musical works to musical encounters, and the consequences that follow. Rather than follow the hierarchical flow of composer, then performer, then listener, curatorial composition distributes the responsibility from that model to a situation in which all are equally present and responsible for the meaning of an encounter. This means that these compositions are neither anchored in historical time nor suited to “Historically Informed Performance” in the sense of a reconstruction. These pieces (and we as listener-observers) are always undergoing change. Curatorial composing is post-canonic. It invites us to experience and understand historical time and historical significance differently. Exemplified in many ways by Cage, this approach means that musical composition need no longer be limited to organizing sound, but can extend to text, typography, movement, visual elements ,etc. Contrary to visual art histories in which visual art loses its “medium specificity” to become “post-conceptual,” Cage shows that music can occur in and across any medium. Cage was not alone in this. We’ll chat about the work of Heiner Goebbels, and perhaps as well about Pauline Oliveros and Jani Christou, among others. Curatorial composing marks a shift in historical ontology, and of how we might understand historical time (and the relation of "history" and "temporality"). Please register in advance on Zoom for the free event.
	Sunday, April 19, 2026 The Antipodes Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 The Bard Theater & Performance Program presents The Antipodes, written by Annie Baker and directed by Jonathan Rosenberg.
	Saturday, April 18, 2026 The Antipodes Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 The Bard Theater & Performance Program presents The Antipodes, written by Annie Baker and directed by Jonathan Rosenberg.
	Saturday, April 18, 2026 The Antipodes Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 The Bard Theater & Performance Program presents The Antipodes, written by Annie Baker and directed by Jonathan Rosenberg.
	Friday, April 17, 2026 The Antipodes Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 The Bard Theater & Performance Program presents The Antipodes, written by Annie Baker and directed by Jonathan Rosenberg.
	Saturday, March 7, 2026 2026 Senior Project Festival Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 A weekend of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program.
	Saturday, March 7, 2026 2026 Senior Project Festival Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST/GMT-5 A weekend of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program.
	Friday, March 6, 2026 2026 Senior Project Festival Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 A weekend of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program.
	Friday, March 6, 2026 – Saturday, March 7, 2026 The Bard Theater & Performance Program Presents: SPROJ 2026 Senior Project LUMA Festival LUMA Theater Project presentations from: William Axelrod, Rose Albert, Ethan Malpica-Santiago, Frances Ronning, Eric Wang, Lucy Gerston, and Azalea Rusillon. March 6th: 7:30pm; March 7th - 1:00pm & 6:00pm at the LUMA Theater, Fisher Center at Bard. Free and open to the Bard community.