Bard College Bard College A private college in the public interest. Academics at Bard Bard by the Numbers Civic Engagement Whats New at Bard The Fisher Center at Bard Announces Summerscape 2025 Bringing Opera Dance Spiegeltent and the 35th Bard Music Festival Martinu and His World to the Idyllic Hudson River Valley June 27 August 17 This year across multidisciplinary programming in dance opera and music classical compositional legacies are explored in exhilarating new ways and brought into revelatory discussion with the contemporary world. Bard College Conservatory of Music Presents Signs Games Messages 2025 A Kurtag Festival The threeday festival February 29March 2 celebrating the music and artistry of renowned Hungarian composer Gyrgy Kurtagis free and open to the public and will take place on Bards campus in Annandale. Bard College Hosts Third Annual Rethinking Place BardonMahicantuck Conference on Food Memory March 68 Food Memory will aim to explore food systems agricultural practices and culinary histories as a point of entry into placemaking past present and future.