The Fisher Center at Bard presents a momentous 20th Anniversary Community Celebration—a day of events and activities for all ages—on Saturday, July 15.

The 20th Anniversary Community Celebration gives the public an opportunity to discover the Fisher Center like never before, with interactive behind-the-scenes tours; Kingston’s own DJ Ali bringing her KinderDisco! to the Spiegeltent; Latin Grammy Award-winning, all-female mariachi sensations Flor de Toloache filling the lawn with enlightened interpretations of traditional mariachi music; and, to conclude, an evening dance party in the Spiegeltent with DJ MK Ultra of WKZE Radio.

Programming includes: Admission for all activities is free. Reservations for a Day Pass Ticket are recommended. Day Pass Tickets grant access to the site, where visitors can choose the events they’d like to attend. Reservations can be made here.

The community celebration continues the Fisher Center’s 20th Anniversary Season: Breaking Ground. Bard SummerScape, the institution’s seven-week annual arts festival, kicks off next week with the world premiere of Illinois (June 23–July 2), a full-length music-theater work based on the  2005 concept album of the same name by Grammy- and Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. Illinois is directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner and frequent Stevens collaborator Justin Peck, with music and lyrics by Stevens and a story by Peck and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury.

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The Fisher Center’s 20th Anniversary Season is dedicated to the founders of the Fisher Center who have cultivated extraordinary artistic experiences—past, present, and future. We honor the memory of Richard B. Fisher, a true champion of the arts and Bard College, and his visionary leadership.

The Fisher Center is generously supported by Jeanne Donovan Fisher, the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation, Felicitas S. Thorne, the Advisory Boards of the Fisher Center at Bard and Bard Music Festival, Fisher Center and Bard Music Festival members, the Ettinger Foundation, the Thendara Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. Fisher Center LAB has received funding from members of the Live Arts Bard Creative Council, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, and the Fisher Center’s Artistic Innovation Fund, with lead support from Rebecca Gold and S. Asher Gelman ’06 through the March Forth Foundation.

The SummerScape Spiegeltent is by Mirror Palace BVBA via West Coast Spiegeltents.

Yamaha Piano is provided by Yamaha Artist Services New York.

About the Fisher Center at Bard

The Fisher Center develops, produces, and presents performing arts across disciplines through new productions and context-rich programs that challenge and inspire. As a premier professional performing arts center and a hub for research and education, the Fisher Center supports artists, students, and audiences in the development and examination of artistic ideas, offering perspectives from the past and present as well as visions of the future. The Fisher Center demonstrates Bard’s commitment to the performing arts as a cultural and educational necessity. Home is the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by Frank Gehry and located on the campus of Bard College in New York’s Hudson Valley. The Fisher Center offers outstanding programs to many communities, including the students and faculty of Bard College, and audiences in the Hudson Valley, New York City, across the country, and around the world. Building on a 163-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders.
The Center presents more than 200 world-class events and welcomes 50,000 visitors each year. The Fisher Center supports artists at all stages of their careers and employs more than 300 professional artists annually. The Fisher Center is a powerful catalyst for art-making regionally, nationally, and worldwide. Every year it produces 8 to 10 major new works in various disciplines. Over the past five years, its commissioned productions have been seen in more than 100 communities around the world. During the 2018–2019 season, six Fisher Center productions toured nationally and internationally. In 2019, the Fisher Center won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical for Daniel Fish’s production of Oklahoma!, which began its life in 2007 as an undergraduate production at Bard and was produced professionally in the Fisher Center’s SummerScape Festival in 2015 before transferring to New York City.

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