December 2018
Sunday 2 Dec
Wall to Wall Chamber Music and Chamber Choir (Student Ensembles)
Performing Arts Center Reisinger Auditorium
/ Sunday
Tuesday 4 Dec
Music Tuesday: The Ying Quartet and Martin Goldray
Performing Arts Center Reisinger Auditorium
/ Tuesday
The Ying Quartet is the first visiting ensemble of the Jean Wentworth Music Residency, established by the Wentworth family in memory of revered concert pianist and music faculty member emerita Jean Wentworth.
Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico (Book Discussion)
Titsworth Marjorie Leff Miller ’53 Lecture Hall
/ Tuesday
Alyshia Galvez will discuss her new book, Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico.
Diane Seuss Craft of Poetry: Le Freak, C'est Chic: Freaking the Sonnet
Heimbold Visual Arts Center Donnelley Film Theatre
/ Tuesday
How might formal improvisation serve as an act of both homage and individuation, as a touchstone that holds us up as we travel deeper and deeper into our freakish originality?
Women's Basketball vs Mount Saint Vincent
Campbell Sports Center Full Gym
/ Tuesday
Wednesday 5 Dec
The Legacies and Practices of Surrealism in Contemporary American Poetry: A Lecture by Dr. Cassandra Cleghorn
Library Meeting Room aka Pillow Room
/ Wednesday
The focus of this session will be the making of readings and new work: we will analyze and appreciate select contemporary U.S. "surrealist" poems, and we will generate new writing of our own.
Diane Seuss Poetry Reading
Slonim Living Room / Stone Room
/ Wednesday
Diane Seuss's most recent collection, Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, was released in 2018 by Graywolf Press.
Thursday 6 Dec
Barbara Walters Gallery Exhibition: Jenny Perlin
Heimbold Visual Arts Center Barbara Walters Gallery
/ Thursday
Jenny Perlin is an artist working in Brooklyn. Her practice in 16mm film, video and drawing works with and against the documentary tradition, incorporating innovative stylistic techniques to emphasize issues of truth, misunderstanding, and personal history.
Men's Basketball vs St. Joseph's College Brooklyn
Campbell Sports Center Full Gym
/ Thursday
Friday 7 Dec
Open Concert
Marshall Field Room 1
/ Friday
A music program showcase highlighting student performers. Refreshments to follow.
Sunday 9 Dec
Senior Recital: David Gobris
Performing Arts Center Reisinger Auditorium
/ Sunday
A show by senior David Gobris incorporating music, dance, imagery, poetry, and recorded electronics.
Monday 10 Dec
American Religious Mythmaking: A Symposium
Bates Meeting Room
/ Monday
A day-long series of events presented by the students of Religion 3064.
Wednesday 12 Dec
Pre-College Summer Programs Online Information Session
Off Campus Online
/ Wednesday
Learn more about Sarah Lawrence College's summer programs for pre-college students!
Thursday 13 Dec
Garth Risk Hallberg, Craft of Fiction
Heimbold Visual Arts Center Donnelley Film Theatre
/ Thursday
Author Garth Risk Hallberg is a faculty member in the MFA Writing Program at Sarah Lawrence College.
Nauman’s Skin: A Lecture by Jeremy Melius
Heimbold Visual Arts Center 208
/ Thursday
On the occasion of a major new retrospective of his work, this lecture seeks to account for two of American artist Bruce Nauman’s earliest and most abiding preoccupations: the vulnerable surfaces of the human body, and the potential, by turns grim and exhilarating, for modern technologies to serve as "extensions of man."
Graduate Studies Info Session in NYC
Off Campus The 23rd Street Center: 116 W. 23rd Street, 5th fl
/ Thursday
Please join us for an Information Session to learn more about our graduate programs and life as a graduate student at Sarah Lawrence College. Meet the Director of Graduate Admissions at:
31st Semi-Annual Science Poster Session
Campbell Sports Center Full Gym
/ Thursday
The 30th semi-annual Science & Mathematics Poster Session, hosted by the Division of Science and Mathematics.
The Writing Institute's Student Reading & End-of-Year Potluck
Wrexham Living Room
/ Thursday
Join the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and its community of writers for a student reading and end-of-year potluck celebration!
Saturday 15 Dec
Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Presents: The Blacker ~ The Bärry
Performing Arts Center Frances Ann Cannon Theatre
/ Saturday
An irreverent exploration playfully examining the life-altering space between artists, activists, politicians, leaders, heroes and saints.
Sunday 16 Dec
Sarah Lawrence College Dance Presents: Winter Performances, Program A
Performing Arts Center Bessie Schonberg Dance Studio
/ Sunday
Featuring choreographic works by Allie Zenwirth, Amanda Hameline, Hank Bamberger, Ingrid Dehler-Seter, Koko Tete-Rosenthal, and Shaelyn Casey.
Sarah Lawrence College Dance Presents: Winter Performances, Program B
Performing Arts Center Bessie Schonberg Dance Studio
/ Sunday
Featuring choreographic works by Julie Mondrick, Kate Shugar, Katie Labadie, Lu Shirley Dai, Marie Zvosec, Nadia Hannan, and Sarae Garcia.
Monday 17 Dec
Sarah Lawrence College Music Presents: Jazz Instrumental Concert
Marshall Field Room 1
/ Monday