Past Events

Image with text that reads: Founder's Day 2023. Lost At Sea. Pirates, Mermaids, Sirens. April 29
Apr. 29, 2023, Noon–Midnight

An annual festival featuring food, rides, music, fireworks, and more! This year’s theme is “Lost at Sea: Pirates, Mermaids, Sirens.”

Campus community only, please.

An overhead view of four dancers in a huddle.
Apr. 28, 2023, 7:00 p.m.

Choreographed by Vassar seniors Lily Gee, Danielle Lomi, Olivia Gotsch, and Zoe Muller.

Image of a conductor and orchestra
Apr. 28, 2023, 8:00 p.m.

Eduardo Navega, conductor.

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

The silhouette of a figure wearing a fez and raising his arms.
Apr. 27, 2023, 7:00–9:00 p.m.

In this Concert entitled Wajd—the ecstatic, blissful state induced by poetry and music—the Tarab Ensemble will perform selections of the Arabic Sufi repertoire.

Three figure dancing and the words "The Impossibly Microcinema...dreams and nightmares...jazz and animation"
Apr. 27 – Apr. 29, 2023

A free community film screening festival at the Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory located at 8 North Cherry Street.

three musicians playing horns
Apr. 27, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

Lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program.

Apr. 26, 2023, 5:00–7:00 p.m.

At this community event, enjoy dinner, move between stations, and learn about the complicated history behind the tradition of Founder’s Day.

Campus community only, please.

Image with text that reads: Experimental Theater of Vassar Collage, Mad Forest, A play from Romania, by Caryl Churchill, Directed by Christopher Grabowski. Presented through Concord Theatricals
Apr. 26 – Apr. 28, 2023

This timely drama resulted from a trip to Romania. Developed with students from London’s Central School of Drama, this is an incisive portrait of society in turmoil that focuses on two families to reveal what life is like under a totalitarian regime and what results when the regime collapses. Directed by Christopher Grabowski. Free and open to the public, reservations required.