Students at Bard College Berlin are encouraged to create their own Student Organizations.
Student Involvement Fair
Whether through Civic Engagement projects or common interests, students are supported by the College to be creative in their co-curricular work.
Student Clubs
At the start of each semester there is the ‘Student Involvement Fair’ where students can learn about ways to get involved on campus, including joining clubs and student organizations. This event typically occurs on the first Thursday of the semester during lunch time. Students interested in starting a new student club or organization should come speak with the Student Life Manager.
Over the years, many groups have started and done amazing things; some examples include our Student Parliament; the Politics, Rhetoric, and Debate Club; and numerous other art, theater, academic, outdoor and popular interest clubs.
Student Clubs
Student Clubs - Spring 2022
Bard Beefcakes of Berlin
If you want to get beefed up like muscularly this semester, join our club. It’s for all levels, especially if you get intimidated by the idea of the gym/the residents of spok. Basically we just go to spok, spot, and share workout plans/celebrate PR‘s/give tips& correct form, ect.
BCB Art Collective
We want to provide an open space for students to submit their art in a zine format. Hopefully anyone would be allowed to submit something! Our goal for this semester would be to publish an edition of the zine.
BCB Meditation Club
We'd like to provide a space for BCB students to meditate together on campus. This might be for those who are new to meditating, since we'll be working with teachers from the Berlin community, but it can also be for those who have some grounding in meditation and want to practice in a group. We would ideally secure a space a few nights a week for regular meditation sittings of different styles according to our ability and the community's needs.
Card College Berlin
Our mission for Card College Berlin is to bring our community together to learn and play interactive and offline card games. We aim to create a space that relieves stress and provides a common interest. This semester we want to host consistent meetings, and teach people a variety of card games, while learning new ones form each other. We also aim to have at least one card torment after our first couple of meetings. Anyone interested and willing to learn a new card game and play for a couple of fun rounds is welcome to join.
Film Club
BCB Film Club creates a space for that particular social trance, the curated departure from the everyday, which is born when the lights are flicked off and a community of spectators become immersed in a movie. By sharing our favorite films in weekly screenings, we hope to create the opportunity for the BCB community to explore the world of cinema, exchange thoughts with peers, love a film, hate a film, be unable to get a film out of ones head, engage casually or come religiously to every screening.
Hiking Club
This club is about getting people into nature, getting people active, and building community. We hope to expand beyond our typical engagement, to reach new and old students at BCB. We also hope to organize a few full day hikes that are open to anyone in the community, including staff. The club is open to anyone, and is a safe space for LGBTQIA+ students :)
In The Elevator
This club is the editing and management team of In The Elevator magazine, a literary magazine that anyone on campus is allowed to submit to, so long as they follow the challenge for every new edition.
LGBCBTQ+
This club aims at uniting BCB's queer community through various events that will engage both them and the wider community. Through creating a safe space for queer people to come together, we hope to learn and explore the depths of queerness. We're also committed to educating and expand our community to BCB and beyond.
Life Drawing
Once a week we meet to practice our figure drawing skills, connect with other creative individuals, and destress from a busy school week in a chill and open environment. Every week we have different models and everybody is welcome to join. No drawing skills required.
rakish*art, a protest-art club
an inclusive protest-art club willing to organize public art fairs to express social and political frustrations. people who want to resist against authoritarianism could participate in this club yet there are no specific requirements to join.
Sang-soo Hong's full filmography
It's a film club where we'll watch all movies made by the Korean director Hong Sang-soo. We'll be meeting once a week and watching two of his movies. All fans of cinema and especially those of poetry of everyday life or of domestic realism in movie should join the club.
The Holy Bone Performance Collective
The Holy Bone Performance Collective is a group of Bard College Berlin students who have an interest in contemporary performance, theater, and experimentation. As a group, we will both research and practice small pieces of performance. The group will focus heavily on the Lehrstücke of Bertolt Brecht in the beginning, while collaborating to create their own pieces toward the end of the semester. When the opportunity arises, the group will organize trips to performances in Berlin at venues such as the Volksbühne, the Schaubühne, and/or HKW.
The Stitch Up
This club plans to work to produce knitted and crocheted practical items of clothing (e.g. hats and scarves) to donate to Helfen Wollen, a Berlin volunteer group who work with both homeless charities and ambulance crews in Berlin to distribute these items to unhoused people around the city, as well as distributing them directly. It has been running for 10 years and relies entirely on donations and volunteers. The main goal of this semester is that everyone involved is able to learn the skills needed to create one practical item of clothing, and to then create at least one item, with all items being donated over the semester. Depending on the pandemic there may also be opportunities late in the semester to help Helfen Wollen with their processing, packing and distribution of donations off-campus. This club is open to everyone with all levels of craft capabilities; from complete beginners to more advanced knitters and crocheters. If you have your own tools and supplies please feel free to bring and use them, and if you lack supplies please don't worry, as we have some which we can use. The most important thing we are looking for is the patience to learn a new skill, and a willingness to help people in Berlin! P.S This semester this club has been selected as part of the Civic Engagement fellowship programme, meaning we now have extra support and funding from the school to help better organise our sessions and supplies, so stay tuned!
Members of the StuPa lead a discussion on the liberal arts and BCB's curriculum
The Student Parliament
What is Student Parliament (StuPa)?
We are the student representation for all things from academics to housing at Bard College Berlin. We facilitate general assemblies, collect student input on campus building projects, and review student services to guarantee the best possible experience for our peers and ourselves here on campus and in Berlin. You can contact us generally at: [email protected]
The Student Parliament
Your Student Parliament of Spring 2022
Representatives Co-Chairs: George (Ruben) Chinchaladze, Vasko Popchevaliev Academic Senate: Deborah Oliveira, Jasmine Ahmed Studies Committee: Teagan (Tay) Mitchell, Eve Sanchez Communications Representative: Daria Khomiakova DEI Representative: Chibuzo (Chichi) Ezekwenna SLC Representatives: Mouadh Elarbi, Kai Bradley Gutiérrez de Terán SL Representative: Ana Mihajlovska
For More Information
For more information about the structure and responsibilities of the Student Parliament, please see our constitution.