…because it seems like EVERY SINGLE CU STUDENT IS. Enjoy that barbecue, whether you get it now or at midnight! Photo by AB

It may not be summer yet—finals and the weather are conspiring against us, it seems—but that doesn’t mean you can’t find a veritable summer’s day of free food this afternoon and evening. At 5:00pm, the annual CU Carnaval barbecue takes over South Lawn. Expect free eats and lots of samba–Facebook event here. And what’s a […]

Ben&Jerry’s is available for gratuitous consumption this evening courtesy of CCSC tonight at 8pm at the Lerner Piano Lounge. Get an extra scoop if you show up in PJs! Donations will also be collected for Save the Children. There will also be free food at Quarto Literary Magazine’s launch party and reading at 8:30pm in […]

Happy Barnard Spirit Day! Highlights include an I <3 BC t-shirt sale ($8 each), a barbecue, cotton candy, and a Biggest Barnard Fan trivia contest for non-Barnardians. Beacon of Campus Spirit Hannah Goldstein reports tons of people are out and about, enjoying the festivities despite bouts of rain. Don’t spend all your spirited energies at […]

Be sure to join the Urban Research Workshop tonight for a screening of Dislocation, a documentary by Freakonomics contributor Sudhir Venkatesh; the film will be followed by talks given by Venkatesh and other prominent figures in public housing. The screening features free pizza and starts at 5:30 pm in Broadway Room in Lerner. Image via […]

The show must go on! The gloomy weather may have forced the event from its original location at Lehman Lawn, but today’s WBAR-B-Q was not to be canceled. Here are some photos from the über-mellow, free food-filled hipstery musical experience in Barnard’s LeFrak Gymnasium. Photos by Abigail Feinberg

If inflatable obstacle courses, free shotglasses, and three wild and crazy musical acts weren’t enough for you, well, you’re in luck! On today’s program: 11:30am-1:30pm Holi on the Plaza Ancel Plaza (just outside EC & SIPA) Join the Hindu Students Organization in celebrating this festival of colors. There will be 1500 pounds of colored paint for spraying […]

The festivities continue tomorrow at 12 p.m. in LeFrak Gymnasium in Barnard Hall for WBAR Barnard College Radio’s 17th Annual WBAR-B-Q! Originally, the WBAR-B-Q was meant to take place on Lehman Lawn but has moved inside due to ominous weather reports.  This free event lasts until 10 p.m. so make sure to stop by for […]

NOM^3, a student group working to start up a student-run food truck, will be supplying delicious free food on South Lawn from noon 1 p.m to 3 p.m. today as part of an ESC/CCSC Pre-Bacchanal event. Go get a baguette! Update, 12:40: At the table now, there are pear and ricotta baguettes, kabobs, carrot cake, […]

In Lerner Broadway Lounge now. Apparently it’s El Vacilon, a party that provides you chips and salsa, music, and salsa lessons. So many kinds of salsa, so much fun!

The Muslim Students Association is having its annual Spring Picnic at Lehman Lawn (The one right by the gates with the pink tree) at Barnard today starting at 2:15 PM (aka right now). Run over for free hot dogs, burgers, chicken, watermelon, and other free barbecue-oriented goodies. Reported activities include cricket, skip-it, board games, and […]

Free ice cream Occasion: Square Dance with BC ’13 Where: LeFrak Gym When: 7:00pm-8:30pm . Free Magnolia cupcakes (for the first 100 people) Occasion: Screening of “Invisible Children: Rough Cut” + Q&A with an ex-child soldier and the filmmakers Where: 202 Altschul (Barnard) When: 7:30 pm-9:00 pm . Free cookies, brownies and fruit Occasion: Voices: […]

As promised, the finalized Chewbacchanal schedule: Friday, April 23 Party with Chewbacca Revson Lawn, 12-3pm (next to Ancel Plaza on the bridge over Amsterdam) Free food, giveaways, music, photo ops with Chewy and life-size checkers! Saturday, April 24 Chewbacca’s Hope For Haiti Fundraiser 12-3pm, South Lawns Free food, giveaways, music, giant inflatable obstacle course and […]

Lots o’ free food coming atcha tonight. At 8pm in the Dodge Room at Earl Hall, Fatima Tsiouris (from the Mailman School of Public Health) will speak on “the burden of HIV/AIDS on women and children: transmission and treatment.” Thai food and snacks will be in abundance. Facebook event here. From there, dash over to […]

It’s true! Lee himself will be speaking about his new book, answering questions and signing copies at an event tonight at Faculty House at 6 – that’s soon! Hurry up and register here for great hair, hors d’oeuvres and “light refreshments.” Photo via Columbia