Tournées Film Festival features offbeat love
Although the average movie-goer might be intimidated by the idea of six French films, the organizers of the Tournées Film Festival: Love in the 21st Century are making it accessible…
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Burning Man festival contrasts artistic ideology at Vassar
Burning Man is a yearly festival held in the temporary Black Rock City in the desert of Northwestern Nevada. It is also the world’s most radical arts exhibition. I arrived…
Great concerts, food abound at Coachella
90,000 people attended the Coachella music and arts festival, weekend two, in Indio, California. The vast festival covered several acres of land, hosting five main stages and multiple smaller ones.…
College comedy groups organize first annual festival
On Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12, Vassar hosted its first College Comedy Festival, also known as ComFest. The two-day event featured 24 acts, including both college and professional…
Arts Mid-Hudson breathes new life into urban spaces
Art can fill the empty spaces of a city and make people pay attention to things they might have once passed by without a glance. Arts Mid-Hudson is a local…
Film Festival displays language and culture of Spain
Over the last month, the Hispanic Studies Department hosted weekly film screenings of Spanish movies with the aim of deepening students’ familiarity with the culture of Spain and enhancing their…
Capella Festiva unites Vassar, East Coast choirs in song
The first ever Capella Festiva Treble Choir festival, a musical afternoon initiated by a local organization in Poughkeepsie that sponsors an adult and treble choir, will take place in The…
Food and festivities help connect campus with outside community
Shops, student organizations and restaurants crowded Raymond Avenue last Saturday, September 21 as part of the 14th annual Arlington Street Fair. The fair also coincided with Vassar’s Freshmen Families weekend,…