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A zig-zag of letters pave the way into the Hessel Museum at the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies. These letters present a poem, an art installation, or, as CCS director Tom Eccles suggests, a metaphor for the art of curating.
The poem is composed of a stainless steel alphabet embedded in the broad concrete sidewalk leading up to and entering the building,
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When you need Internet access on the Bard campus, you can always connect through the Bard Unsecured Network, which does not require a password. In this age of reduced privacy and stories of hacking, is the unsecured network at Bard safe to use?
In the past, we have all heard horror stories of working on an unsecured,
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It’s Fun
Class managers usually work in pairs and have very well-defined responsibilities. Barbara Schoenberg, a veteran class manager says, “The most fun is getting to work with another person and getting to know them.”
“People are kind of afraid of it,” Maddy Watterson says. But once they do it,
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On the evening of November 15th, Bard LLI honored its producers and presenters plus guests, at a tribute reception at Blithewood mansion, the 19th century landmark on the Hudson that now houses the Levy Economics Institute. As Curriculum Chair Anne Sunners explained, “We’re here to honor the producers and presenters who make LLI so satisfying and so successful.”
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Bard College Asher B. Edelman Professor in the Arts Joan Tower has been honored with one of the music industry’s most prestigious awards: Musical America’s Composer of the Year. “Trained in an era when academic modernism reigned, she developed from a composer of intensely wrought chamber works into a creator of dramatic orchestral music that can only be described as,
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by Cathy Reinis
LLI members are welcome to become members of the Stevenson Library at Bard and can borrow library materials, according to Betsey Cawley, Library Director. Membership lasts through the academic year.
On October 8, the Around Bard class visited the Stevenson Library and explored the many collections in the library’s holdings,
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Off-Friday Classes add Variety to Bard LLI
by Carmela Gersbeck
If sitting in a classroom doesn’t appeal to you or you want to add some variety to your LLI experience, consider taking one of the many off-Friday classes. They were a success in the fall semester,
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By Felice Gelman
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hos·pi·tal·i·ty
/ˌhäspəˈtalədē
noun
1. friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers…
When you roll up to LLI on a Friday morning, rubbing the sleep out of your eyes, or you walk out of your third-period class thinking of nothing but lunch,
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