Join us in Gambier Oct. 17 - 19 for Family Weekend 2025. The weekend includes sessions with experts, opportunities to socialize with other Kenyon families, special exhibits and more. We look forward to seeing you on the Hill!
Family Weekend events are being added regularly to the schedule below.
Thursday, Oct. 16
8 p.m. “THE PORTABLE DOROTHY PARKER”
Kenyon College Dance, Drama & Cinema Club (KCDC) presents a production of "THE PORTABLE DOROTHY PARKER." Seating is first come, first serve. View more information. Bolton Theater
Friday, Oct. 17
8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Registration Center Open
Stop by to receive your name badge, parking pass and additional information about the weekend, including information about our event app. Alumni and Parent Welcome Center, 101 Scott Ln.
4:15 - 6 p.m. Summer Research Poster Session & Resource Fair
Scholars from Kenyon’s summer research programs and other students will present their research and creative work. Members of Kenyon’s staff representing several campus offices will be present to meet parents and families to share how their offices work with students and answer questions. Toan Track, Lowry Center
5:30 p.m. Family Weekend Shabbat
Come join Kenyon College Hillel for a Family Weekend Shabbat. We will celebrate Family Weekend as a community with foods of fall and all are welcome to join! Lawn in front of Rothenberg Hillel House, 103 West Brooklyn St.
7 p.m. Kenyon Women's Volleyball vs. Capital University
Lowry Center
7:30 - 9 p.m. Gund Concert Series: Mbira Music from Zimbabwe: Vitalis “Samaita” Botsa and Erica Azim
Brandi Recital Hall (Storer Hall)
8 p.m. “THE PORTABLE DOROTHY PARKER”
Kenyon College Dance, Drama & Cinema Club (KCDC) presents a production of "THE PORTABLE DOROTHY PARKER." Seating is first come, first serve. View more information. Bolton Theater
9 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. Bring Your Parents Night
For one night only, parents and other adult family members are invited to get a taste of the new student-run bar Flats, which is usually a student-only space. Don’t miss this opportunity to socialize with your students over cocktails and mocktails of all sorts. Enjoy beer on tap, seltzers, ciders and bar food. Flats
Saturday, Oct. 18
8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Registration Center Open
Stop by to receive your name badge, parking pass and additional information about the weekend, including information about our event app. Alumni and Parent Welcome Center, 101 Scott Ln.
8:30 - 10 a.m. Leadership Breakfast
Invitation only, pre-registration required.
10 - 10:30 a.m. Football Team Walk
Meet at the Middle Path Gates to cheer on the football team as they make their traditional walk to the field prior to playing Wabash at 1 p.m. Start at Middle Path Gates, end at the Lowry Center
10 - 10:45 a.m. Session on What to Expect Next in Your Student’s Kenyon Journey
(As well as tips for how to help your student connect to campus and excel academically!) Learn about what comes next in your student's college journey — from navigating finals, to their first extended time off over the winter break. We will also provide tips for how to help your student continue to connect to campus and resources to help them excel in the classroom. After the brief presentation, Director of First Year Experience Don Miller and Dean of Students Brian Janssen will be available for informal conversations and questions. Alumni Dining Room, Peirce Hall
10:45 -11:45 a.m Student and Academic Affairs Meet & Greet
Families are invited to drop in for an informal conversation with Kenyon’s Student Affairs, Academic Affairs and First-Year Programs teams. Learn more about the programs, activities and new initiatives supporting your student’s experience at Kenyon. Administrators from across these divisions will be on hand to answer questions, share updates and connect with families. Peirce Lounge, Peirce Hall
12 - 4 p.m. Fall Harvest Festival
Come to the Brown Family Environmental Center for our annual Fall Harvest Festival!
This FREE family event includes hayrides, live music, food trucks, children’s activities, farm animals, a campfire, pumpkin decorating, a cider press, an art exhibit by plein air painters and so much more! Brown Family Environmental Center
1 p.m. Kenyon Football vs. Wabash College
McBride Field
1:30 p.m. Kenyon Men’s Soccer vs. John Carroll University
Mavec Field
2 p.m. Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Kenyon Jazz Ensemble Family Weekend Joint Concert
Under the direction of Professor of Music Dane Heuchemer and Professor of Music Ted Buehrer. Rosse Hall
4:00 p.m. Pep Band Performance
Steps of Rosse Hall
7 - 9 p.m. DIRT: Immersion, Interaction, Intervention — a night of art installations at the Kenyon Farm
Experience the Kenyon Farm through immersive works of light, sound, projection and sculpture created by students in Kenyon College’s Installation Art course. The installations reveal the farm as a living landscape of layered histories, shifting ecologies and human presence, both cultivated and wild. Visitors are invited to explore, interact and notice what grows, what fades and what endures. A campfire with apple cider and s’mores will be available throughout the evening. 20245 Zion Road, Gambier
8 p.m. “THE PORTABLE DOROTHY PARKER”
Kenyon College Dance, Drama & Cinema Club (KCDC) presents a production of "THE PORTABLE DOROTHY PARKER." Seating is first come, first serve. View more information. Bolton Theater
Sunday, Oct. 19
10:30 a.m. Harcourt Parish Services
Church of the Holy Spirit, 102 College Park St.
Open Daily
- Kenyon College Bookstore: 8 a.m. - 11 p.m.
- Chalmers Library: Thursday from 7 a.m. - midnight., Friday 7 a.m. - 9 p.m. and Saturday 7 a.m. - 9 p.m.
- Brown Family Environmental Center (BFEC): Self-guided tours of the hiking trails and wildlife gardens, dawn to dusk.
- Gund Gallery: Thursday from 11 a.m. - 7 p.m., Friday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
- Kokosing Nature Preserve is a conservation burial ground located at 10620 Quarry Chapel Road. The preserve is open every day from dawn to dusk and offers a beautiful park-like setting with mowed walking paths. Learn more at kenyon.edu/knp.
- If you can't make it to campus, many of our athletic events will be livestreamed.