FROM JANE BRIEN '89:
Long hot days are here in Annandale; the community garden is bursting with vegetables and flowers for the picking, the falls are inviting, and the campus is bustling with activity. The lights are up in the Fisher Center and the mirrors are shining at the Spiegeltent. Summerscape opened with the Trisha Brown Dance Company and an unannounced performance by Tivoli resident Natalie Merchant at the Spiegeltent. Now we have a whole summer of events to look forward to including the 21st annual Bard Music Festival. The Thursday Night Live (TNL) series at the Spiegeltent is back for for the second summer, from July 15th through August 19th hosted by Raissa St. Pierre '87. It's free to all alumni/ae (who R.S.V.P. here) and offers the six Thursdays that run the gamut of musical styles. One of the most exciting is August 12th and the United States premiere performance by Khaira Arby and her band from Timbuktu, Mali. If you are anywhere nearby, don't miss it. There also a couple of Bard alums on the roster including art rocker, Chris Cochrane '82 with his new trio on July 22nd, and Seth Travins '97 with The Minivans on July 29th.
The MFA students have returned like migrating birds and can be found congregating in the Fisher Arts building courtyard for coffee and quesadillas served up in an underground impromptu cafe started by an entrepreneurial undergrad art major. The MAT continues at a pace with their challenging year-round program educating future teachers. There are numerous summer camps on campus and everywhere are the sounds of children running and shouting.
And DON'T MISS the current CCS exhibitions, Philippe Parreno and At Home/Not at Home, and check out the recent review in the New York Times, "Art? Life? Must We Choose?"
I hope to see you here this summer,
Jane
aka Jane Brien '89
Director of Alumni/ae Affairs
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