Bennington College News

Math majors turn away; music fans tune in. The Vermont Arts Exchange and local musicians have a fun formula for a good cause this weekend: 4 + 7 = 1. Led by the great singer/songwriter Bernice Lewis, the VAE will host "7 Women, 4 Ukuleles and 1 Great Cause," a special concert to benefit VAE friend Carol Adinolfi, in support of her journey to ... (more)

Don't look now, but Bennington's downtown might be in for a lesson in economic development, provided by at least three local institutions of higher learning.

Feist with Timber Timbre, 8 p.m. Friday, Flynn Center, Burlington. $40.75 in advance, $44 day of show.

Luke Mogelson was not exactly a model student at Sonoma Valley High School. He would have been a member of the class of 2001, but he didn't graduate.

Bennington College will play host as Sage City Symphony presents its final concert of the season -- featuring Bennington graduate Alice Tolan-Mee singing soprano on two works by Mozart -- on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 13, at 4 p.m., in Greenwall Auditorium in the VAPA Building.

Today, at five the doors of the Great Hall at Cooper Union will open, and there will be a memorial service for Barney Rosset, the legendary publisher of Evergreen Review and Grove Press.

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as part of a creative residency by Bennington College's Susan Sgorbati, will host a free talk from neuroscientist Marco Iacoboni, "Mirror Neurons and Our Capacity for Empathy," on Wednesday, May 9, at 7 p.m. As with the earlier talk, Sgorbati will ... (more)

The Vermont Arts Exchange and Bennington College will open an exhibit "Afterimage," in VAE's Mill Gallery through May 31.

Bennington College will host its annual Sunfest all-day music festival -- featuring a number of student bands and touring acts, including "Quintron and Miss Pussy Cat" , O'Death, and headliners "The What Cheer? Brigade" -- on Saturday, May 5, starting at noon.