From the Director's Diary - You’re Invited to the FEAST at Reunion 2026

This summer, the table is set—and your seat is waiting back in Yellow Springs.

July 16–19, the Antioch College community will gather once again for Reunion 2026: Antioch Feast. It’s more than a weekend—it’s an invitation to reconnect, reflect, and rediscover what it means to be an Antiochian. At its heart, this year’s Reunion is built around a simple but powerful idea: to gather around the table in celebration; sharing food and ideas in the same place that helped shape us all those years ago.

This year’s theme draws inspiration from the College’s microfarm, where soil, seeds, and stewardship come together as a living metaphor for community. It’s a reminder that what we cultivate—on the land and with each other—matters. Food brings people together. Whether your cafeteria was a “quonseteria,” you called caf food “chunks,” had “Pizza with Bob,” or preferred late night bagels at the C-Shop, we’ve all had the experience of memorable conversations over shared meals with Antiochians.

This summer you’ll have the chance to rekindle friendships with classmates you haven’t seen in decades. You might sit down at a table with strangers who quickly become something else entirely. Perhaps you’ll realize the ideas, values, and questions that brought you to Antioch are still alive—and still evolving.

For 2026 we’re especially excited to honor the milestone years, the Class of 1976’s 50th Reunion and the Class of 2001’s 25th Reunion, alongside many others celebrating across the decades. But no matter your class year—or even if you didn’t finish your degree—if Antioch is part of your story, you belong at this table.

The schedule this year is filled with campus tours, presentations, social hours, panels, award ceremonies, interactive workshops, and the College Address. There will be a bonfire, folk dance, wine tasting, community art fair, and Cabaret Horace, and, of course, DIV Dance! We’ll also be livestreaming additional events this year, so more people can join in the festivities from afar.

This Reunion, you can expect delicious meals, long conversations, spontaneous moments of joy, and the kind of connections that only happen when people with a common spirit gather in the same (special) place. Whether you come with friends, family, or on your own, you’ll find a place here. Because this isn’t just an event—it’s a community in motion.

This July, come back to Yellow Springs. Bring your stories, your curiosity, your appetite—for food, for conversation, and connection with each other. Pull up a chair, fill up your glass, and dig into this celebration of the Antiochian spirit.